Alert: Mad Anti-Immigrant Paint-Thrower on the Loose in the Village
In March on Washington Street near Westbeth someone threw red paint over the sign in my car rear window that said “Welcome Refugees and Immigrants—Arab-American […]
Caffe Reggio: 92-year-old Café in the Heart of the West Village
By Anthony Paradiso Caffe Reggio is a 92-year-old coffee shop nestled right in the heart of the West Village at 119 MacDougal Street between Thompson […]
Restoration Hardware Transforms Historic Market District Wagon Shed
By Martica Sawin No doubt many West Villagers received, along with the Saturday, March 16th, New York Times, a glossy 360-page publication whose cover featured the former […]
New York City: A Tale of Two Cities – Billionaire’s Row and Habitat’s Habitat
By Siggy Raible Last week I spent some time visiting with a good friend; she’s 96 years strong, lives alone in her rent-stabilized apartment in […]
Israel-Palestine
By Carol Yost When Israel became a nation in 1948, just a few years after the unspeakable Holocaust was finally over, it seemed to many […]
Frank Romano: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
By J. Taylor Basker Frank Romano, part-time resident of Greenwich Village, peace activist and professor of law in France, was arrested and deported from Israel […]
Should Abner Be Deported?
By Stanley Wlodyka In the waiting area of the offices of Judson Memorial Church by Washington Square Park, a boy of around three or four […]
If I Were Pope
By Donna Schaper I would pray, papally, about what it means to be a Christian. I would take all of my fears of fraud with […]
Keeping Ancient Greek and Latin Alive
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Latin and Greek are dying. These beautiful languages, once studied by the most elite and forward-thinking scholars, have been pushed into the […]
Two by Two
By Keith Michael Honking and braying, a Canada Goose family flies across the promenade in front of us onto the lawn. Millie seems nonplussed as […]
DOT Finally Comes to the Table!
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Flash: After nearly a year of refusing to have face to face negotiations with the 14th Street Coalition, which has led […]
Congestion Pricing & Access-a-Ride: Tech Breakthroughs
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Have you adjusted to the “Sharing Economy” yet? In NYC, the Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) is supposed to […]
Food Scrap Collection
By Ede Rothaus As one of the most environmentally aware neighborhoods in New York City, the West Village continues to further its efforts to ‘reuse […]
Jackson Square Park Reopens After Extensive Renovation
By Michael D. Minichiello On April 2nd at 11:00 a.m., City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and others will preside over a newly renovated Jackson Square […]
MTA Taking the Piss on L-Train
By Stanley Wlodyka MTA employees were caught urinating in public while conducting work on the L Train on 14th Street near Third Avenue on Sunday, […]
Hey Mt. Sinai: What’s the Plan?
By Penny Mintz At several public meetings in 2016 and 2017, Mt. Sinai/Beth Israel announced its plan to shutter Beth Israel Hospital and replace it […]
Corey Johnson’s Vision for City May Need Glasses
By J. Taylor Basker Corey Johnson, City Council Leader, delivered his State of the City speech presenting his proposal ‘A Case for Municipal Control and […]
Do Not Legalize Sex Work!
By Carol Yost Two op eds about the current state of affairs in the field of sex work appeared recently, a week apart, in the […]