The Literary Heritage of Greenwich Village, Part 1
By Alan Wexler While wandering through the narrow and winding streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, it’s difficult not to stumble upon connections […]
Phone Scams Rampant
By Maggie Berkvist “THIS IS A CALL CONCERNING A LEGAL CASE FILED AGAINST YOUR NAME WITH THE UNITED STATES TREASURY. THIS IS OFFICER (mumble mumble) […]
Dames at Sea—Before and After
By Robert Heide A new Broadway production of Dames at Sea opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on Thursday, October 22. This is a milestone […]
No to Gansevoort Market Development
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Hundreds of Northwest Village residents came out to PS3on October 15 to express opposition to a proposal to build condos on […]
West Village Needs a Hospital
CONDOS TO SHADOW VILLAGE: In a deal struck by the City, two real estate investment firms will build five buildings facing Pier 40 starting at […]
The Greatest Tragedy in City Development
By George Capsis Wikipedia recounts the facts that add up to the greatest tragedy in city development. “What is now Hudson River Park emerged from […]
Glick Pleads to Stop Pier 55 Environmental Assault
By George Capsis Deborah Glick, who represents us in the State Assembly, is concerned about the environmental trauma that will be caused by driving […]
Deal Allows 70% Increase At $1,363 a Foot, $100 Million Purchase Price a Token
By Andrew Berman It’s extremely concerning that the troubling and problematic process of selling air rights from the Hudson River Park to massively increase […]
Inside the Gotham Liquidation
By Michael Feldman Sato Moughalian is angry. Her fifteen year tenure as principal flute, personnel manager, consultant and advocate for the Gotham Chamber Opera Company […]
Greenwich Village Film Festival
By Robert Moore Presenting a unique short film about Greenwich Village is a tall order but last night the Greenwich Village Film Festival did exactly […]
Scenes Through the Cinema Lens Returns to the Tribeca Performing Arts Center
By Krin Gabbard Ever since spring 2007 I’ve been showing clips from great movies and performance films at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. At first […]
Kenneth Joseph Poli, 94
Editor of Popular Photography and Leica Photography Introduced the Value of Photographic Images to the Public and Popular Imagination By Bruce Poli Ken […]
Mother of Mercy, Is This the End of Little Italy?
By Alec Pruchnicki While walking through the San Gennaro feast on Little Italy’s Mulberry Street this year, as I have for 45 years, I […]
New Chef at Nighthawks
By George Capsis At 18, Fikret Uslu took a summer job washing dishes in a local restaurant in his native town in Turkey. When he […]
Vast Emptiness II: Few Boarded-Up and Vacant Stores Gain New Occupants
By Erwin H. Lerner Questions remain: Why are so many choice retail spaces vacant for months, or years? Why do landlords demand double or triple […]
Jefferson Market University to Screen “Greatest Movie Ever Made”
Sunday October 18, 1:30 By Norman MacAfee Last year, the progressive Vatican of Pope Francis named Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew […]
West Village Connections to Kim Hunter and The Seventh Victim
The scheduled October resurrection of historic Chumley’s bar at 86 Bedford St. (WestView News, September) reminds me of its portrayal in the classic Val Lewton-produced […]
Review of Davis’s Best Seller Under the Mink
By Jim Fouratt Lisa E. Davis, forty year+ Villager and retired College Professor, has rebirthed her underground bestselling novel Under the Mink. It went out […]