The Washington Square Music Festival: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence
By Peggy Friedman, Executive Director Sixty years of free music concerts is an anniversary worth celebrating! On Tuesday June 5 at 8 pm the Washington […]
A Village Summer Without Helen Ann Lally — and YNO
By Paul Critchlow Summer has finally arrived in the West Village, but for many residents, no season will be the same without Helen Ann Lally. […]
Don’t Just Sit There, Resist – Part III: How Will Dems F_ _k It Up This Time?
By Alec Pruchnicki Do not divide your forces in the face of a superior enemy — Military axiom Although the Republicans completely control many state […]
Come for the Art, Stay for the Apartment
By Katie Keith When Leslie Lalehzar overheard a woman inquiring why all the galleries in Chelsea were closed, she kindly informed her it was because […]
West Village Houses Rally for Preservation
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The WestView News April, 2017 issue began a series on West Village Houses, an affordable housing cooperative under the […]
Ruth Berk, Village Cabaret Singer and Owner, Dies at 94
Funeral – Sunday June 10 – 11AM – Greenwich Village Funeral Home Ruth Berk, who would have turned 95 in August, passed this morning at […]
The Spirit of WestView
By Barry Benepe I wrote my first article for WestView just over ten years ago in March 2008. It explored the need to calm traffic […]
Lady in the Black Bag
Anybody who lives near Charles Street is familiar with a large, black bag forever hooked onto the door of the Charles Street Synagogue. But not […]
No Plants for Kiddies
One of the charming innovations introduced by Charles Street Association President, Margie Dienstag, was to invite the block’s children to plant, but this year the […]
Grand Jury Should Investigate World Trade Center Explosions On 9/11
By Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry According to its report, the 9/11 Commission had a “sweeping” mandate to investigate the terrorist attacks of September 11, […]
Does a Conspiracy Theory Hide a Conspiracy?
By George Capsis Dusty won’t even look at the headlines of the Times let alone read it. She scans the alternate media on her iPhone […]
Larcenous Landlords Use the Law to Oust Tenants
By George Capsis Oh wow. On March 22nd the Times did a massive article (like 4 pages) on the emerging breed of amoral landlords that […]
New Models for Senior Share Living in the Village
By The Compassionate Caregiver What if we all could have the opportunity to live the last years of our lives in peace, comfort and tranquility, […]
Sounds of the Great Religions
By George Capsis The dramatic, almost theatrical interior space of St. Veronica invites imaginative uses and we came up with The Sounds of the Great […]
Sullivan’s Only Manhattan Masterpiece
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Louis Sullivan’s 1897 Bayard-Condict Building was New York’s first fully steel-framed skyscraper, overcoming official suspicions. A Pioneering Creation for […]
Louis Sullivan: An Original American Architect
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP What differentiates the icons of architecture from the hundreds of other talented practitioners that we never hear about? Sometimes […]
Renovating in the Big Apple—Thinking Outside the Box
By Ananth Sampathkumar and Mary Chandrahasan, Partners/NDNY Architecture + Design PLLC Renovating your new home or commercial space can be a daunting task, even for […]
Celebrating the Legacy of Joe Cino’s Legendary Caffe Cino Coffee House Theater
By Robert Heide On Sunday, April 22nd at 6 p.m., 50 years after the closing of the legendary coffee house theater Caffe Cino on Cornelia […]