Busy VID Monthly Meeting
Approximately 40-50 members of the Village Independent Democrats (VID) met on Thursday, December 12 in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. There were brief reports […]
Conyers Builds Single Payer Support
On Friday December 6, Representative John Conyers (Michigan) came to New York City to build a support for HR 676, his bill to establish a […]
Westview Over Ten Years: Healthcare Over Ten Years
Over the last ten years, there have been numerous technical advances in medicine that have improved healthcare and quality of life. These are usually well […]
My Village, My Self
One beautiful spring morning in 2002, as I meandered along Charles Street towards the Hudson, I had the uncanny sensation that a map of my […]
Out Shout
A Column of Political Commentary By Arthur Z. Schwartz A City Ready To Heal,Hudson River Park Air Rights, Hope for Public School Parents, Peace offering […]
NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee wants a union
NYU has been in the news regarding labor.Inside Higher Ed of December 12 reports: “Earlier this week, members of the GSOC (Graduate Student Organizing Committee) […]
NY Mag reports opposition to NYU expansion
The New York Magazine of December 13th reports that there is extensive opposition to the plan developed by NYU to turn Greenwich Village into a […]
Theatre Threads
By Irv Bauer October 30, 2013 – After Midnight – Conceived by Jack Viertel and based on Duke Ellington’s music and Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. […]
Abu Dhabi and Beyond
By Maria Hadjidemetriou Abu Dhabi and beyond My love for architecture draws me to The United Arab Emirates. My last visit there was in 2004 […]
The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle
Download a FREE copy of the novel The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle from December 6-10, 2013 This unique […]
Air Rights: A Gift from the Gods
Our Hudson River Waterfront is on the verge of being overshadowed by oversized development enabled by the same agency which created such an exceptionally beautiful […]
Brownstone Makeover on Charles Street
Winter is coming! Fuel prices are up! My place is cold and drafty! Help! For over a century, one of the most popular types of […]
Rent Control Terror
Inher90th year, my mother became an activist. She had been a singer, and with my dad had owned the Waverly Lounge in the Earle Hotel […]
Skydiving
Early December. A birder’s doldrums. There aren’t actually many birds around Hudson River Park this morning, but the anticipation of a late migrant snuffling in […]
The Ink Pot
Until the early 1920s, the buildings around Sheridan Square were a lot shorter than they are today. With the exception of the eight-story building at […]
POONING HI-HATS
When I was a boy of ten or twelve, we used to take pleasure in throwing stones. Sometimes we threw stones at trees; sometimes we […]
Remembering Richard Barr in the Village and on Broadway
A new book has arrived entitled Richard Barr – the Playwrights Producer written by David Crespy, a Professor of Theater at the University of Missouri […]
American Jazz and Blues Get Persian
What happens when one blends exquisite Persian verses from masters like Rumi, Hafez, or Omar Khayyam to the rhythm and sultry sounds of American jazz, […]