Adding More Joy On Christopher Street
By Stanley Fine Here’s a West Village secret. Right next door to the well-known and recently landmarked Stonewall Inn is another a local bar, with […]
The African Grove Theatre; A Treasured Part of Village History
By Carol F. Yost Most probably the earliest real African American theater was located in the Village area. Founded in 1821, six years before slavery […]
Buddy Kent, aka Bubbles Kent, Exotic Dancer
By Lisa E. Davis In the 1930s, when she was Malvina Schwartz of East New York, Brooklyn, she rode the train in to the Village […]
Being Instead of Doing
By Christina Winholt Raccuia It’s easy to get caught up in the everyday rush of life. Life is speeding up, and often with that, inner […]
YEARS OF HARASSMENT EVOKE COLLECTIVE PROTEST
Nelida Godfrey, owner of Taste of Lima, lives and runs her restaurant in a building owned by Steven Croman—who has a reputation as one of […]
Rudin Family Turns Back on AIDS Memorial Organizers
By Jim Fouratt The Park at 7th Ave South and Greenwich Avenue that was to have been the AIDS Memorial Park across the Street from […]
The Shah is Falling
By George Capsis “You gotta go to Iran for Campbell’s Soup” was the demand by a Chase guy who I never thought of as out-ranking […]
Mrs. Greens: Organic Veggies and Picket Lines
By Arthur Z. Schwartz We are about to learn in the West Village that wholesome food doesn’t automatically come with wholesome treatment of employees. Mrs. […]
Vast Emptiness: Boarded-Up and Vacant Greenwich Village Stores
By Erwin H. Lerner The frightful sight of many boarded-up, former retail stores in our area caught my eye, and stimulated the notion of writing […]
Ceramicist Marianne Yoors Pioneers Event to Benefit Jefferson Market Garden
By M. L. Lamason “It’s the earth and out of that earth something beautiful is made.” Marianne Yoors, ceramicist and longtime Village resident, was talking […]
Westbeth Artist at Trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann
By Edward Eichel Early In 2015 the BBC released The Eichmann Show, a movie about the filming of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the […]
Churches Like Newspapers Go On-line: Serving a Dwindling Attendance, Father Walter Offers the Church of the Internet
By George Capsis On the very day I had a meeting with Roy Leavitt, the Executive Director of Greenwich House, the news broke that Our […]
Here Comes Pope Francis: Observations of a West Village Catholic
By George Goss Sadly, the West Village is not part of Pope Francis’ whirlwind Manhattan visit later this month. There’s always the option, however, for […]
It Takes a Team to Treat a Patient
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD One of the very first things I learned in medical school, when I started to take care of patients in Jacobi […]
Broadway Savings: 22 Shows Participate in 2-for-1 Tickets Sale, September 7–20
By Ellis Nassour Tickets are on sale now for NYC & Company’s fourth Broadway Week and 2-for-1 promotion (selling, as the name implies, 2 tickets […]
Curtain Rises on First Downtown Arts Center in Thirty-five Years
By Ellis Nassour New York’s newest cultural initiative and arts complex in thirty-five years, the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture at 18 Bleecker Street, […]
Operating as a Single Hand, Beth Israel Takeover Interrupts Seasoned Medical Teams
By Bill Dienstag, PA-C A 46-year-old man with tearing chest pain and a history of hypertension stumbles into the ER at Beth Israel Medical Center. […]
Saving Your Life is Not Good Business “Urgent Care” Accepts that Heart Attack Victims are Expendable
By George Capsis This is an open letter to the advertising department at Lennox Hill Hospital and North Shore LIJ. A forty-six-year-old man with tearing […]