Cool Whites, On Warm Nights
An August tradition for New Yorkers is to bail Gotham’s heat for the beach until September. So we came up with a handful of wines […]
Brush-up on the Bard: Jefferson Market Library Offers Shakespeare Class
By Cecilia Rubino If Shakespeare had been born “just a few centuries later, he would have been an American,” wrote the novelist Willa Cather in […]
Into the Mouths of Babes
Chicks and ducklings and goslings better scurry. And Millie and I better get out of this downpour in a hurry. Millie’s fluttery pendulum swings from […]
Walk About New York: How Bank Street got its Name
Although Greenwich Village’s Bank Street does not border the bank of the Hudson River, its name is connected with water. The origin of the name […]
392 West Street, Then & Now
With the summer breeze finally here, a stop along the Greenwich Village waterfront to reminisce about its past seems in order. The building at 392 […]
Tree Pits as Pop Up Park
Visual Continuity Ties a Block Together . When I moved Greenwich Village In 1989, I joined the East 11th Street Block Association located between 5th […]
LETTER FROM LATVIA
Riga – European Capital of Culture 2014 This year, Riga is not only the capital of Latvia—one of three Baltic states in northeastern Europe—but also […]
Come Up and See My Collection Sometime…
The habit of collecting things undoubtedly goes back to the time when our ancestors spoke in grunts and wandered the plains of Africa gathering nuts […]
Music! Music! Music! – Village Music Stores
The main kind of music associated with Greenwich Village has come to be the American folk songs most particularly those that became popular in the […]
German Diez, Chairman of the Piano Department at Greenwich House Music School Dies at 90
Photo Credit: Samantha Soule New York, New York (July 9, 2014) – the community of Greenwich House mourns the loss of its beloved teacher, Maestro […]
Barbara Huff Obit
World traveling children’s book editor, author, poet and QEII frequent-voyager, Barbara Huff, died peacefully on April 21. Huff grew up in Westwood, a suburb of […]
Oldest Building in West Village May Disappear, or Vanishing Village Virtues
This month, Suri Bieler, the owner of 121 Charles Street, has put this beloved property on the market for a jaw-dropping $20,000,000.This anachronistic dollhouse looks […]
VID Endorses
On Thursday July 10th the Village Independent Democrats (VID) held their monthly meeting at St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. The meeting started with reports […]
New Medical Portal Opens
The Lenox Hill Healthplex, the only free standing emergency room in Manhattan, has opened in the former O’Toole building of St. Vincent’s Hospital on 7th […]
Human Expiration Date
Medical science is great at keeping us alive. Nursing homes are full of people that do no more than take their meds, eat, excrete and […]
West Village Morning
10 am Wednesday morning, late June. Nice day and no work, a day off in the middle of the week…just fantastic. I exit the Morton […]
That Word
Dear George Capsis, James Lincoln Collier’s piece shocked precisely because he used the word in one of the few contexts where using it matters: To […]
The CSA Gives a Secret Reception
ATTENTION: If you are a paid-up member of the Charles Street Block Association or would like to join it, there is an August reception at […]