West Village Original: Three Lives & Company
This month West Village Originals is doing something different: focusing on a long-time neighborhood business instead of a particular resident. Of course, the venerable bookstore […]
Don’t Get Me Started
It’s summer. I wrote this right before the Summer Solstice but now that you’re holding WestView in your hands, yes, summer has officially commenced. (Just […]
THEATER THREADS
“The Village Bike” – at the Lucille Lortel Theatre It has been called The Lucille Lortel Theatre for a long time, yet in my head […]
New to eat on the west side of Hudson Street
Some less typical eateries have sprung up in the last few months on the west side of Hudson. They are not completely new, in that […]
DOWN THE SHORE EVERYTHING’S ALL RIGHT
After the particularly cold, long and dismal winter, into the chilly spring weather of 2014, summer is here at last and it is time to […]
DO NOT GO GENTLY DYLAN THOMAS
Remember my poetry not the White Horse nights . If you live long enough you become a witness to some small bits of history and […]
William Pedersen, a Profile of the Man and Architecture
My love for architecture started in college while I was studying fashion, when I looked at structures such as angles and curves as a form […]
VID Covers Lots of Grounds
During its monthly general meeting on Thursday, June 12th at St. John’s Church on Christopher Street, the Village Independent Democrats (VID) heard from a wide […]
Dear Editor,
In the June issue of WVN I wrote that a friend who lives in the West 50’s in Manhattan fell and hit her head in […]
Good Morning Greenwich Village!
The Village is a fascinating neighborhood. It is certainly the center of efforts to preserve some of the lifestyle which made NYC such a vibrant […]
PLEA TO A FLOWER THIEF
It was dancer and urban gardener, Peter Davis, who discovered the “Double Impatient”. We are all familiar with the ever-rushing to bloom “Impatient” (hence its […]
TRIUMPH OF A SALES MAVEN
I belong to that vast group that will not, no, cannot, buy anything unless it is on sale. You see, you have to be careful; […]
When Wonder Bread Was 11 Cents
I was born on December 20th 1927, on 103rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan and except for a very brief move to Astoria, around […]
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 […]
Answer to High Cost of Hospitals Opens
Walk-in Walk-out Urgent Care Center Opens . Lenox Hill HealthPlex is a freestanding, 24-hour, emergency department which is similar to hospital-based emergency departments in terms […]
WestView on the Radio
On The Big Broadcast, Sunday evening this past June 15, at 10:05 PM, the radio host, Rich Conaty gave a terrific plug for WestView News […]
What’s Your Excuse?
Every one of us knows something we should be doing to be healthier, but we make some excuse not to do it. The excuse I […]
We All Have Stories
My sister, Sarah, sat in my living room on Barrow Street, absolutely tickled as she read WestView News. “This is the best paper I’ve ever […]