Reflections on The Bitter End
By Anthony Paradiso The Bitter End club at 147 Bleecker Street, in the heart of the Village, has survived the test of time. Many stars, […]
Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady Now Showing at the Cherry Lane Theatre
By Robert Heide The word from here to WestView readers, and to theatergoers in general, is that they ought to make a beeline to the […]
World Refugee Day Finds New Meaning
On a recent June afternoon, the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, located on 5th Avenue, between West 11th and West 12th […]
Life on the Street in the Words of Writers
By Barry Benepe Walking is both the expression of freedom and an embrace of space. An automobile driver is imprisoned in a mobile metal box. […]
Landlords and Tenants Agree: London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Was Preventable
By Joseph Turco, Esq. Greenwich Village/Westbeth artist Joyce Rezendes, who resided in London in the late 1960s, often compares its Kensington district to Greenwich Village. […]
Man of Mystery: Sam Kramer, Master Jeweler
By Barbara Riddle For years, I tried to pull the name out of the mists of time—the name of the avant-garde goldsmith on West 8th […]
Kill The Zombie Park Already Part II: The Fake Alternative
By Alec Pruchnicki It’s much easier to think of an alternative to a controversial project than to complete the years of hard work necessary to […]
Where Did My Neighbors Go?
By Mary Alice Kellogg Invasion of the Body Snatchers resulted from author Jack Finney’s imagination, but I’m living it in real time, as individuals, couples, […]
Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Exhibit at the World Trade Center Oculus
By Ellis Nassour Breathtaking photos featuring sections of Michelangelo’s ceiling and wall frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel are on display through July 23rd […]
Are We Alone? Ruminations about Extraterrestrial Life (Part Two)
By Josef Eisinger© In Part One of this article, I posed the question: Is our story of life on Earth unique or did life also […]
2017 TD Five Boro Bike Tour
By Eric Uhlfelder At least it didn’t rain this year! There was the occasional mist and it was cold up on the BQE and the […]
St. Luke Asks: Who Do We Let In?
By George Capsis I received a carefully-worded invitation from Wellspring Consulting, a firm that “provides strategic planning for nonprofit organizations,” to attend a meeting to […]
Post No Bills Except Ours—NYPD
A few weeks ago, I was walking home from Cinema Village on 12th Street after viewing The Lost Village—a film cataloguing how our old, familiar […]
MoMA Lost My Art
By Martica Sawin In 1979, MoMA curator Kynaston McShine was walking along SoHo’s West Broadway when he noticed a display of exquisitely-decorated artificial cakes in […]
11 Jane Street and Other Sorrows—What Are We Losing Here?
By Robert Widmann As parking garages go, this one was something of a sweetheart, like an old love you could count on—never overbearing, always sort-of […]
We Cannot Save What We Have Already Lost
By George Capsis The evening of May 24th, I met the Peruvian-born, and very young (age 28) and handsome (he is an underwear model, artist, […]
Parks and Gardens of the West Village: Exploring the Church of St. Luke in the Fields and Jane Street Gardens
By Justin Matthews The West Village contains a variety of parks and gardens, several of which, along with hosting native bird species, preserve or complement […]
The Cyber Hand in Your Pocket
By George Capsis I recently opened this email…“CHASE FRAUD PROTECTION SERVICES: Please tell us if you, or somebody you authorized, charged your card for: Navy […]