Village’s Political Activism Lives on with Young Voices
By Andrew Buemi As the reality of the next four years under the most un-presidential and autocratic leader our nation has ever seen sets in, […]
Johannes Brahms: The Working Musician (Part One)
By Styra Avins The author’s original essay, edited herein, was published in the May 2014 issue of Allegro to commemorate the 181st birthday of Johannes […]
Overwhelming Structure Headed For Jane Street: LPC Futzes Around With Window & Door Design
By Robert Widmann For decades, a very ugly Jane Street garage, blackened with urban soot, has sat cloaked in the unconscious acceptance of industrial buildings—that […]
Choosing Your Perfect Pet at Meet the Breeds®
By Leslie Adatto With more than 200 recognized breeds, how do you choose which dog to adopt? Hound or sporting? Terrier or shepherd? Large or […]
Art by Whitney Museum Staff Shown in the Westbeth Gallery
By Martica Sawin On the evening of January 5, 2017, a youthful energy emanated from the brightly lit Westbeth Gallery as scores of visitors sipped […]
Remembering One of the Village’s—and WestView’s—Greatest: Nat Hentoff
“My name is Nat Hentoff.” “I know that voice,” I said to myself as I broke into a WNYC announcement of the death of Nat […]
Don’t Mourn, Satirize
By Dr. Alec Pruchnicki, MD “Fred Trump was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” My response to Trump’s recent election […]
Bob Smith Starts a New Shakespeare Series
By Ann Marie Todes “With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come!” Seventy-five-year-old Bob Smith leans forward, smiling, his sparkling green eyes set to a […]
Home Care Starts With Love (Part One)
By Gregory Solometo Since founding a concierge home care agency (Alliance Homecare) ten years ago after caring for my grandmother with Alzheimer’s, I’ve learned a […]
The Friars of Waverly Place
By Joseph Turco, Esq. Due to the way architectural heritage and preservation have developed in the West Village, it is not difficult to picture certain […]
Coffee with Antonia
By Antonia Maxwell Ereñu I am away from my Spanish café, now in the West Village, where my essence has been drawn by some sweet […]
State Cuts Hospital Beds, But Not Need
By George Capsis The four crowded, money-losing, and City-owned Brooklyn hospitals that serve that community’s very poorest are projected to lose $2 billion over the […]
Stonewall Visitor Center Proposal Offer
By Brian J. Pape At a recent Design Justice charrette held at the Center for Architecture, participants offered a challenge for the National Parks Service’s […]
It All Started With Fun City (Part One)
By Annunziata Gianzero Although the birth of the American film industry was marked by the unveiling of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscopes at 1155 Broadway in NYC […]
Back to the Future on Charles Street
By David A. Porat Visiting 4 Charles Prime Rib is like stepping back in time, to a small old-fashioned watering hole with good food and […]
Is This Your Cat?
By Susan Muska When Christy Speicher saw a large calico cat sheltering in the courtyard behind her West 10th Street apartment building in January, she […]
The Times Reads WestView
This is another “Oh wow!” moment. Recently, we have had some of our WestView articles picked up by the New York Times and I’ve thought, […]
Landlords Can Only Afford the Scaffolding, Not the Repair
By George Capsis On his first trip to America, Greek journalist John Capsis asked his cousin George what all those black patches were on every […]