The Story Emerges
By Tom Lamia Life everywhere has resembled a bad novel these past two years. Bad, but with all the ingredients needed for commercial appeal: good […]
“The Lost Village” Exposes The Evil Takeover of Greenwich Village by NYU and Large Corporations
By Carol Yost The Lost Village is our very own Greenwich Village: Roger Paradiso’s film chronicles how greed and lust for power have transformed the […]
Remembrances from The Lost Village: Death of The Living Theater
By Roger Paradiso If there is one interview that haunts me from my film The Lost Village it was the one with Judith Malina. Judith […]
Autograph Hound
By Alan Perna I was standing on 6th Avenue and 48th Street in front of a rehearsal studio, when I saw a taxi go by. […]
Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade, Theatre At St. Clement’s
By Eric Uhlfelder A play remembering the 1968 presidential campaign, how the country has changed and how it hasn’t. Wandering several blocks west of Times […]
Northwell Opens Suite of Doctor Offices
In a move to return the range of care once offered by St. Vincent’s, West Villagers are now being offered the skills of highly qualified […]
Fallen heroes Remembered
SQUAD 18 SALUTES at the time the first tower fell on 9/11. The FDNY broadcasts across their intercom for all of the firehouses on duty to salute […]
Graffiti Art and HipHop Architecture
By Brian J. Pape, AIA There is a keenly watched legal battle being waged over creative expression, as noted in WestView News March and April […]
Sometimes You Need Neighbors
How the Charles Street Block Association got started By George Capsis Sometime around the spring of 1971 I became aware of a program that the […]
L-Train Shutdown “Mitigation” Back In Court
By Arthur Z. Schwartz The Mitigation Plan spawned by the upcoming April 2019 shutdown of the L Train, is back in court. As Westview went […]
Court to Beth Israel: “Maybe I Won’t Allow You To Close”
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Sometimes the wheels of Justice grind slowly. Back in November 2017, Westview Publisher George Capsis and I, plus the political group […]
Humberto Gonzalez-Bernal Comes Home!
By Arthur Z. Schwartz In the August issue of WestView I wrote about heroic efforts to save the life of 87-year-old Humberto Gonzalez-Bernal, a 59-year […]
Dine in Lefkada Tonight
Mediterranean Cuisine—Made with Love: From the Greek Island of Lefkada to Manhattan’s Westside Market, by Maria Zoitas By Caroline Benveniste With the dwindling number of […]
Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns
West Village Images by Joel Gordon It is believed that the custom of making jack-o-lanterns at Halloween began in Ireland, and was named after the phenomenon […]
Greenwich House Pottery Expansion Plans Fire Up the Neighbors
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner NDNY Architecture + Design NIMBY or ‘Not In My Backyard’ is a term you hear quite often in conjunction with developments […]
Don’t Just Sit There, Resist-Part VI: What’s Next?
By Alec Pruchnicki Get it through your heads. They’re dusting off the hot seat for me! Lee J. Cobb as Johnny Friendly in On the […]
Why You Didn’t See Penny Mintz on the Ballot
By Penny Mintz If you are one of the 1,900 people, during those brutally hot days at the end of June and the beginning of […]