By Mike Reyes Since its founding in 1984, The Criterion Collection has prided itself on curating a collection of “important classic and contemporary films” for the masses. And in the streaming age, The Criterion Channel is a subscription that aims to provide such movies for people who are a little lighter on shelf space, but
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Expert advice on Coronavirus
The spread of the Coronavirus has most certainly changed our lives—so the experts of Northwell Health are here to give you some valuable advice on how to stay calm, stay informed and stay well. Graphics courtesy of Northwell Health with information provided by the CDC. You just finished reading a story from WestView
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How to get movies on your cable TV during a pandemic
By Anthony Paradiso and Roger Paradiso George called me and complained, “we are trapped in our homes and we are clicking faster and faster through those 150 channels with increasing speed. If I could just see a really nice film from beginning to end the way I did in the Del Mar on 137th Street
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New York City Rent Reform
By Shaynon Gramling Licensed Real Estate Salesperson The real estate industry in New York City has experienced a major overhaul during the past year. It all began with a proposed bill to add protections for tenants in the city. This was due to the fact that some landlords were abusing laws that allowed them to
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Problems Getting Your Medications? A Doctor’s View
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Most people are aware of the continually rising prices for medications. Besides the practices and prices imposed by the pharmaceutical companies, there are also limitations by insurance companies which often pay some of the costs, and there is a new player in the field: Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs). A recent WestView
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What Is Money?
By Sue Peters By law, every time a private commercial bank lends to a borrower, all the bank is doing is creating a deposit in the borrower’s account. The bank never takes funds from one account and lends it out to a borrower. The bank always creates the deposit in the borrower’s account. It’s called
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How Do You Feel?
By Christina Raccuia Such a simple question. However, it is often difficult to answer with anything other than “excellent” or “pretty good.” What is it about emotions that often makes people uncomfortable? Well, we are not always encouraged to get in touch with our emotions. We strive to turn a happy face to the world,
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Do You Own Your Art? Do You Own Yourself?
Freedom in the 21st Century of Social Media By Roger Paradiso We have all heard about copyright infringement and the new human right on the table called data rights. Part two of this series with Ruth Vitale and her team at CreativeFuture will go into these issues for us. With the advent of the internet
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The Most Famous Night of Passion
John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe Perhaps no name other than Jessica Berk captures so much recognition for Village dwellers in and around 95 Christopher Street. Jessica grew up at 95 and walked about for decades, clad in black, with a cane and a tiny dog, fearlessly disciplining vagrants and police officers in a high nasal monotone
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Demand Wartime Therapeutic Prophylaxis Disinfection!
By Dusty Berke This goes out as a plea to our government to test Wartime Therapeutic Prophylaxis Disinfection against COVID-19. This medicine was mandated by the Surgeon General during the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic. Visit westviewnews.org to sign and share the petition to demand the United States government test wartime therapeutics against covid-19. The medicine
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Easter, Passover, and the Virtual Village
By Donna Schaper By the time you read this, our devastating plague will be worse than it already is, or declining, or whatever the bug decides it should be. It is worth reading about the 10 Plagues of Egypt in Exodus 7:14–12:36, where blood, frogs, lice, snails, livestock, boils, hail, locust, darkness, and finally the
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“Accentuate the Positive” —
Abstracted from A Scientist’s View of Almost Everything By Mark M. Green Harvard University Medical School’s psychology professor Nancy Etcoff discovered that for patients undergoing the same medical procedure, gall bladder surgery, those with a room with a pretty view of a park used less pain medication, had shorter hospital stays, and complained less
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The Doctor is In
By Dr. Susan Eldrich Every day there are more COVID-19 cases identified in New York State. NYC has especially been affected, most likely due to our population density and tourism. Numbers of cases continue to grow, with peak numbers estimated to be weeks away. Most patients testing positive have viral symptoms of achiness, headache, cough,
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Let Us Unite Against the Pandemic by Keeping Apart
By John Kaliabakos According to the CDC, on the last day of February, 15 Americans had tested positive for COVID-19. A month later, that number had grown exponentially to over 150,000 infected nationwide, one-third of whom were in New York City. The number of cases is expected to overwhelm our already strained healthcare system within weeks.
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How We Manage Through Crisis
An Inside Peek at LifeThyme Natural Market By Jason Bander First, we want to thank you for reading this publication. We are grateful for any and all of you who’ve tendered your earnings and savings with us; we exist because of you. Our foremost goal is to ensure your health and wellbeing. We take our
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Opinion: COVID-19, Me and We
Let Us All Be There for Each Other By Hannah Reimann My awareness and interest in understanding the Novel Coronavirus came about in an unpredictable way. I had a minor eye problem that kept me indoors with a hot compress and not working for two days on March 1st and 2nd, under strict doctor’s orders.
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Practical Guide for Coronavirus and AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. The rise of the COVID-19 coronavirus is concerning for the HIV/AIDS community. Whichever way you slice it, HIV/AIDS is a serious kick to the immune system—and New York City is home to one of the largest populations of HIV/AIDS patients in the America. The speaker of our city council is openly
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
A VERY SPECIAL TRIP. Once upon a time, in the early 1960s, when I was a brand new immigrant, I lucked out—big time. I got a job at the New York Times working on the picture desk of the Sunday Book Review—where, in those distant days, we used paintings to illustrate the fiction reviews. Which
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BOOK REVIEW: Call Sign Chaos; Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis and Bing West Random House, New York; 2019; 300 pages By Herbert W. Stupp With purported “tell all” books emerging from most every White House, it is natural to wonder if the book penned by President Trump’s first Defense Secretary would offer a take on his former boss and presidential decision-making. But in
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News and Upcoming Community Events from the West 13th Street Alliance
By the West 13th Street Alliance The Alliance began 2020 with a well-attended lecture titled The Underwater Life of the Hudson River and Beyond with West 13th Street resident John Delaney, Director of Communications, New York Aquarium. Feedback from audience members was positive, including such comments as, “Loved that this event was right near my
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New York is Not Alone in Attempting the Impossible
By Donna Schaper The most wonderful thing about Mayor de Blasio’s Safe Haven plan—to dramatically reduce street homelessness in NYC—is its boldness. Most of us don’t even think it can be reduced, much less have a plan for doing so. The most awful thing about the situation is that many New Yorkers are so far
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Unfinished: Croman’s Trail Since Jail
By Cynthia Chaffee and Mary Ann Miller According to Joseph Turco’s January 9th, 2020 article in WestView News, referring to the American Greed episode aired last year “starring” Steve Croman, we tend to agree. There is so much more for the program to cover about convicted felon Croman; we hope they will do a sequel as so
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Money Mad Mickey Mouse
In our recent visit to the 65th anniversary of the Winter Antiques Show (now just called ‘The Winter Show’) at the splendid Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, we were not really planning on buying anything, just looking. In one booth we were attracted to a beautiful standing lamp with a brilliant colored Tiffany glass
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Charlie Caruso’s Quips
This is the 2020 decade. Will we see a better world? Don’t count on it. Breakfast is best. No surprises as reliable as sunrise. The football playoffs are at the end of the season when everyone is totally bored with sports. Does anyone ever call the numbers on the TV screen? Why do TV studio
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Co-op Boards Adapt to Present-Day Demands
By Gordon Hughes A few months ago I read, with interest, an article in the New York Times real estate section regarding the changing face of co-op boards. There was time when the co-op board meeting was as much a social gathering of tenants as it was a business meeting. Today, however, the expectations and
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Sinus Health
By Jason Bander, General Manager, Owner Lifethyme Natural Market Sinus infections are one of the most dastardly of illnesses. They punish us with horrible headaches (in the frontal lobe), inflamed nasal passages, teary, achy eyes and if really bad, pain throughout the facial cavities. The Drip Often sinus infections start with those gnarly, annoying post-nasal
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The Tech Giants: Google, Facebook and Their Sinister Ways
How You Can Survive in this Orwellian Quagmire of Greed, Selfies, Posts and Porn By Roger Paradiso There are many people fighting for our rights and lives in this internet jungle. I spoke to Ruth Vitale, a former founder and co-president of Paramount Classics and President of Fine Line Features when independent film thrived. In
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The Other Side of Bail Reform
By Philip Yee Recently, legislation was passed to make it easier for you to stay out of jail while waiting for trial if you could not make bail. Here, a retired sergeant of 33 years of service with the NYPD speaks about the intended results. Bail reform is not working, as several high-profile assaults by released
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Extracting AIDS from Our Minds And Bodies: “I’m Not POZ!”
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Why do we say “I’m HIV-positive” or “I’m POZ,” but not “I’m gonorrhea-positive,” or more affectionately, I’m GONO-POZ?” Since this issue of my monthly column about the twists and turns on the path to finding a cure for AIDS comes out weeks before Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d write about some
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JANE LOWRY (1937 – 2019)
Jane Lowry, an actress whose 30-year career began at New York City’s legendary Caffe Cino and went on to include Broadway, film, television, and repertory theater, died November 15 after a brief illness. She was 82 years old. Although Ms. Lowry made her Broadway debut early on, the bulk of her career and her most
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Jerry Herman(1931-2019)
By Robert Heide In the mid-1950’s I was attending prep school—the Carteret School for Boys in West Orange, New Jersey—which was set on a hilltop with a spectacular view of Manhattan. There I met Todd Newberry, the son of the man who owned the J. J. Newberry dime store chain. Another student chum of mine
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James Fitzgerald — 1948-2019
West Village Resident and Top New York Editor By Robert Heide and John Gilman We first met Jim Fitzgerald in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in 1983 through our book agent Lois de LaHaba. Previous to this, the first book we had written was entitled Dime-Store Dream Parade—Popular Culture 1925-1955 an illustrated coffee table
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Culinary Arts and Community Service at Manhattan School For Career Development (751M)
By the 751M PTA Manhattan School for Career Development (751M), or MSCD, is a multi-site District 75 school that serves over 200 students throughout Manhattan. Its main site is its high school, or “Academy” program, located in the East Village. Its “Prep,” or middle school, which opened in September 2018 in the West Village, is
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Exciting Upcoming Community Events from the West 13th Street Alliance
By the West 13th Street Alliance Thank you, neighborhood residents and WestView readers, from the board of directors of the West 13th Street Alliance. Your frequent attendance and lively participation in the Alliance’s Community Events in 2019 humbles and pleases us that we are serving you and inspires us to plan even more! But first,
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Writing Through Icons: Franz Kafka & Jean Seberg
Authors Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson converse about writing through the personas of Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg in their books Kafka At Rudolf Steiner’s and Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg By Amy Geduldig To engage in conversation and explore some aspect of the vast world of literature brings readers together in the
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Westbeth Resident’s New Award-Winning Film to Screen at The National WWII Museum
On February 3, 2020, the National WWll Museum in New Orleans, will present a screening of the short film, Minor Accident of War, written and narrated by 95-year-old WWll veteran Edward Field and based on his wartime experience as a navigator. Field, who lives in Westbeth, was a First lieutenant in the 8th Air Force.
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Dollars and Sense in NYC
By Brian J Pape, AIA Back in 2014, Jonathan Miller started to observe a U.S. housing market pattern of wildly overpriced luxury housing listings that rarely sold; he dubbed it “aspirational pricing.” Much has been publicized about the rush to develop high-end apartments in the heady days after the Great Recession broke, producing the tallest
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Christina Courtin & The Knights at Joe’s Pub
By Hannah Reimann Singer-songwriter Christina Courtin and The Knights, an adventurous musical ensemble of classically trained instrumentalists, played their Joe’s Pub debut on Mozart’s 264th birthday, January 27, 2020. Four of the Knights fittingly dedicated the first movement of Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 to the composer as a prelude to a
