New Laws for New Problems
Clicking my way through the dial after discovering nothing on 13 or 21, I stumbled on a City Hall hearing about exempting builders from real […]
Science from Away: Single Sentence Science Stories
Research from the United Kingdom revealed that watching someone scratch an itch fires up itch related areas of the observer’s brain—a contagious itch, the researchers […]
Reform the Rent Guidelines Board
New York City’s 2.5 million rent-stabilized tenants have their eyes on Albany. And for good reason: our longstanding rent-stabilization laws are once again up for […]
Rents Jump Income Drops
“My landlord wants me out by March 5” were the chilling words in Carol Yost’s e-mail after decades in a $500 a month rent controlled […]
Nobody in Charge
Bang! Right after de Blasio suggested building 11,250 affordable apartments over the Sunny Side railroad yards in Queens a Cuomo spokesman said—whoa not so fast […]
Hudson River Park—Where Have All the Voices Gone
There is no question that the creation of Pier 55 was one of the most secretly managed modifications of public space ever accomplished in NYC. […]
Brooklyn, I’m Not Mad, Just Don’t Ask Me To Visit.
A few years back I became very resentful of the Brooklyn Renaissance. Besides losing friends to cheaper rents and bigger spaces, it seemed like all […]
John Barrera’s Weight Loss Journey
John Barrera, graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and our Food Editor, wants to lose 60 pounds. We introduced him to WestView News contributor, […]
Mushrooms Too Pricy, Repair Pier 40 Instead
Last month we reported that the “Diller Island” project will initially cost taxpayers $35 million to build two bridges out to the island, and in […]
Mekas Committed to Preserving History at the Anthology
Jonas Mekas is committed to making the Anthology Film Archives an archive of International importance. Mekas was born in Lithuania, fled the Nazi invasion as […]
Welcome A “Board”
Dr. Jonathan Keith, a sometime contributor to this paper, passed his oral board examination for the American Board of Plastic Surgery in December. Big whoop […]
Extreme Wealth Continues to Grow out of Control, While Inequality Worsens for the Rest of Us.
When I saw an arresting graphic on Bill Moyer’s show indicating that only 40 individuals owned as much as half the US population, I knew […]
How Much is a Life Worth
I feel for Douglas Durst. He not only grew up with a mentally disturbed and obviously psychopathic brother—who probably killed three people and now most […]
Ruth Berk Is Free! (Almost)
Ruth Berk, the 91-year-old Christopher Street resident, and a historic part of the Village—she ended a career as an opera singer to open the Waverly […]
West Village Original: James Stewart Polshek
This month’s West Village Original is architect James Stewart Polshek, born in Akron, Ohio in 1930. Among the many projects he has designed—both nationally and […]
Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year
2015 is the Year of the Sheep, and Chinese New Year is Thursday, February 19ththis year. The 16th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade in […]
Science from Away: Fountain of Youth?
Paul Bert, who died in 1886 in Hanoi at the age of 53, was a Frenchman who wore many hats, varying from politician to scientist. […]
Rare Bird
The birders are coming, the birders are coming! Tall birders, round birders, old birders learning new tricks. Birders knee-high-to-a-mailbox, with binoculars already weighing them down. […]