Why 12 Years a Slave Isn’t Exactly History to Me
It felt and still feels like recent history to me, not like something from the long-ago past. I’ve seen 12 Years a Slave three times […]
Billionaires Behaving Badly: Connecting the Dots to the Hudson River Park Board
For many a West Village resident, the most hair-raising revelation in Kevin Roose’s New YorkMagazineexpose, “The One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw […]
Air Rights from Hudson River Park Even More Vast Than Previously Disclosed
Advocates Call for Measures to Limit Use, and Prevent Overdevelopment At a Community Board 2 public hearing in February, Hudson River Park Trust President Madelyn […]
Bedrock
Manhattan, you were there. Family, friends, lovers, a husband, pets, apartments, and dreams have all fled like seasons, but you were there. You, more idea […]
Post Attacks Charles Street Ship Owner
“Take a look at this,” said Jorge, with a triumphant smile on his face as he dropped the Post on my desk. The headline read, […]
Testimony of David D. Turner before the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the construction of a residential tower at 100 Barrow Street
February 4, 2014 In their presentation, the applicant goes out of its way to remind us “there will be no demolition.” But there are many […]
How the Landmarks Preservation Commission Works
As Mayor de Blasio continues the process of appointing new leadership at each city agency, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will likely see its longtime […]
Café au Go Go Revisited
Fifty years ago, Café au Go Go, an incubator of talent that ranged from rock, jazz, folk and stand-up comedy with performers such as Jimi […]
Test Your West Village IQ: Did You Know These Ten Little-Known Facts?
1. A Confounding Epidemic (Off the Grid) Once a marsh, and then farmlands, the West Village really only took off as a neighborhood in the […]
Affordable Housing Debate Rages
Affordable housing seems to be what everyone wants, but fewer and fewer are able to find it in NYC. The Village Independent Democrats screened the […]
Is This The End Of Affordable Housing In NYC?
In a city constantly in motion, the financial capital of the world, the art center of the world, the real estate center of the world, […]
Universal Healthcare: A Modest Proposal
The benefits of, and need for, a universal single payer healthcare system in the United States has been discussed previously (WestView, June 2013). Yet, what […]
POST OFFICE
AT LAST: As of January 18th, almost three months to the dayafter a speeding BMW hit the back of a taxi, sending it crashing into […]
Capsis Bench
“I HAVE TO SIT DOWN NOW”: The bench dedicated to Andromache (Maggie) Capsis moves closer to reality as architect Brian Pape readies a proposal for […]
New developments at historic Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Since 1822, the Church of St. Luke in the Fields has been the steward of an historic block on Hudson Street. We have long cherished […]
Judge Rules Against NYU Expansion Plan
Decision in lawsuit blocks major portion of massive building project On January 7th, Judge Donna Mills ruled against NYU’s massive 20-year expansion plan in the […]
Mayor De Blasio’s Plan to Increase Taxes on High-Earners
In the recent mayoral campaign, then-candidate Bill de Blasio’s signature proposal was to address New York’s “tale of two cities” – the extremely rich versus […]
For Pete Seeger
The next time any of us walk West in the Village and come to the banks of the Hudson River, we can see that it […]