A ROYAL BIRTHDAY TREAT
On April 21st, members of the ‘special relationship’ also enjoyed a special celebration marking Queen Elizabeth‘s 90th birthday. West Village favorite, Li-Lac Chocolates, was chosen to be […]
History of D’Agostino’s
By Caroline Benveniste On the awning of its store on Greenwich Street between Bethune and W. 12th, D’Agostino’s boasts that it has been “Family Owned […]
Doris Diether: The Lady Who Wouldn’t Let the Music Stop
By Brian Pape If you’ve lived in Greenwich Village as long as Doris Diether has, you’ve seen a lot of strange things. But Doris […]
Unlocking the Potential of a Notorious Women’s Prison: Jail to Become Hub for Social Justice
By Leslie Adatto In a rare twist of poetic justice in NYC real estate, a women’s prison that, as recently as five years ago, earned […]
Traces of History: From Greenwich Village to Saugerties, New York
I have been living in Greenwich Village since 1971 on the fourth floor of a five floor walk-up tenement built by Alexander Mactier in 1851; […]
In and Out
Recently Opened Asian kitchen MIGHTY bowl, 120 MacDougal Street: This newly opened, reasonably priced spot, already has a number of extremely positive Yelp reviews for its rice […]
New York is at a Crossroads
By Lynn Ellsworth New York is at a crossroads. Big Real Estate wants to remake our city in the style of Dubai. Their goal: Drown […]
Fracking at Your Neighborhood Nuclear Power Plant
By Reverend Donna Schaper There are 30 million people near enough to the Indian Point Power Plant to be affected by any difficulty or disaster […]
Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Everyone laughs at the boss’s jokes. ………. You’re middle-aged when you bring a chair to the beach. ………. Blood is thicker […]
Surrealism in the Subway
By Alec Pruchnicki With police profiling many young black and Hispanic males as criminals, at least before the recent decrease in stop and frisk searches, […]
Chekhov: Then or Now?
By Thomas Hoover “(We) revere the past, hate the present, and fear the future.” Was that Anton Chekhov a century ago, or was it on […]
THEATRE REVIEW Nothing Sacred: Sense and Sensibility
By Eric Uhlfelder There’s rarely anything sacred in Bedlam Productions. Director Eric Tucker has taken theatre away from its traditional focus on dialogue and stage, […]
A Final Pitch for Bernie—Vote April 19th
By Arthur Z. Schwartz For six months I have been writing for the WestView News that “presumed” Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, was anything but a […]
INHERITED CONTEMPT
INHERITED CONTEMPT: Jake Croman, the son of Steve Croman—who is perhaps the worst landlord in New York—was caught in a tirade against an Uber driver. […]
Memory: Six Degrees of Seventh Avenue South
By Allyn Freeman Fifty years ago this month, I moved into a top floor studio in an elevator building at 51 Seventh Avenue South near […]
Single Payer Myths
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Having been involved in the single payer movement for over 25 years, I have often had to answer mistakes, myths, and […]
Two for Jane
By Barry Benepe Major changes are coming to the five blocks of Jane Street. On February 12, building applications were filed to rebuild two existing […]
A Grand Champion in the West Village
By Leslie Adatto Shelley Barclay and Mona Stiles are owners of 4-year-old Homer, a PBGV (Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen). They live on Bethune Street. On […]