A.G. Schneiderman Announces Unprecedented Consent Decree With NYC Landlord Steven Croman
The New York State Office of the Attorney General (OAG) published the following press release on December 20, 2017. It has been edited by WestView […]
My Uncle the Atheist (In Memory of Oscar Riddle, 1877-1968)
By Barbara Riddle Is there a gene for skepticism, for extreme independence of thought, or intellectual bravery? I ask because of an incident in my […]
A True Win-Win Solution
By Joseph Reiver The City is moving forward with plans to destroy the Elizabeth Street Garden. It has selected Pennrose Properties, LLC as the developer […]
Primer for 14th Street L Train Closure
By Brian J. Pape, AIA In April 2019, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to fully close the L Train tunnels for 15 […]
Net Neutrality in the West Village
By W. Russell Neuman ‘Net neutrality,’ whatever that might mean, sure sounds like a reasonable idea. It’s got to be better than whatever the alternative […]
Continuing the Fight for Health Centers in Lower Manhattan
By Penny Mintz The Progressive Action for Lower Manhattan (PALM), which is a chapter of the New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) serving Manhattan below […]
Journey to Forgiveness
By Gayle Kirschenbaum Did you ever feel like you were born into the wrong family? I did. From head to toe, there wasn’t anything right […]
West Village Coffee Joints
By Gordon T. Hughes, Jr. There is a famous scene with Jill Clayburgh and Woody Allen in Annie Hall where the two are sitting on […]
Beasts of the Village
By Gordon T. Hughes, Jr. You know it’s one of the highlights of our West Village scene. We see this remarkable parade taking place on […]
My Brief Encounter with Jeanne Moreau
By Allyn Freeman It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1963. I waited in the Cannes airport to board a late afternoon flight to Paris […]
An Exceptional (Concert) Musical Undertaking
By Michael Feldman What you will hear on February 10th is some of the most glorious music ever written, but also the emergence of a […]
The Fight of Her Life
By Reverend Michel Faulkner Growing up in the Bronx as the fourth youngest of 11 children wasn’t easy. When Vicky was three, she and her […]
Reflections on the Breathless Pace of Technology
By Josef Eisinger© To estimate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life developing on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, one must review the history […]
An Historic Moment
By Cynthia Chaffee & Mary Ann Miller On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 60 Centre Street, an historic consent decree was reached between the New […]
Replacing the ‘MF’ Word
By E.N.J. Carter Sundays on the corner of Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue were a spectacle most churchgoers tried to ignore in the early 1970s. […]
A City Law to Save Newspapers
By George Capsis OH WOW! I got a notice that a Queens City Councilman, Rory Lancman, was coming to the Village for a public meeting […]
No Wonder WNYC is a Nonprofit
By George Capsis Oh my, there is nothing so heart-rending as discovering that an old friend has been deceiving you for years and is not […]
We Need Our Own Andrew Carnegie
By George Capsis On December 23rd, WestView gave another concert, our second at St. Veronica. Despite the rain, you came and again in great numbers […]