CRIME AND REDEMPTION
For you, one of my very few really meticulous readers, you will of course remember from the last issue the theft of a double impatient […]
Block Melange
More than forty years ago the city invited building owners to buy and install trees and as a very proud new owner, I planted the […]
How to Buy a Hospital
This morning before I could read it in the Times I heard on WNYC that NYU Langone was getting a billion dollars to build a […]
“They were just out for publicity”
Global news floats on a rolling Internet sea and twice WestView made 100,000 hits- once last August when I supposedly slapped a State Senator for […]
What is the Value of a College Degree?
A degree is generally valuable in several ways including but not limited to the economic. There are additional important benefits to be gained in the […]
Chikungunya Fever
The day after this Science from Away column was submitted to the editor of the WestView for publication in the August issue, an article appeared […]
Science from Away: Very Short Science Stories
Scientists at the University of Alabama campus in Birmingham in their study of a tiny (1 millimeter) nematode, C. elegans, a worm which has long […]
The Pain of Progress
In a tiny house still part of Bedford Street, Edna St. Vincent Millay could stand in her living room, spread her arms and touch both […]
Headline Hate
George Capsis, publisher of this paper, is easy to get in touch with. His phone number can be found on the WestView website. On July […]
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Debra Glick Comes Knocking by Alexander Meadows Last Summer I started a brief run for City Council and spent time meeting with elected officials, including […]
WRITING FICTION WITH FORENSIC TOOLS
On 9-11, forensic dentist, Dr. Stanley Woods-Frankel got a call from the police to help identify the mutilated and burned bodies at Ground Zero. Brutal […]
WASHINGTON SQUARE CONSERVING BEAUTY
Why does Washington Square Park need a conservancy? How does the park benefit? Or the rest of us for that matter? I met one sunny […]
WASHINGTON SQUARE RIBBON CUTTING
READY, SET, CUT: “It looks better than ever,” was the verdict of Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, speaking at the June 10th ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating […]
Suddenly Poor and Homeless at 70
How terribly strange to be 70, the song goes. Even stranger, to be 70, and homeless. Truth be known, most of us are hanging by […]
Oral History at the Jefferson Market Library
More than 100 longtime community members recently shared their stories as part of The Jefferson Market Library’s Greenwich Village Oral History Project. This project has […]
Needles to the Sky
At one time (over 100 years ago), any building taller than the walk-up height of seven stories might have been called a skyscraper. Since the […]
TEICH TOYS & BOOKS
573 Hudson Street (near 11th Street) http://www.teichdesign.com Interview with owner Allison McGowan: This spacious store which opened on June 7 is family owned. (Teich– pronounced […]
Walk About New York
In a Greenwich Village guidebook written in the 1880’s, the author decried the row of ugly new brownstone townhouses on Charles and Perry and the […]