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  • Collective Conviction Is a Brand of Truth

    Web Admin 01/09/2020     Briefly Noted, Editorials

    Absolutely nothing gets people so instantaneously and uncontrollably angry as when somebody blandly recites a “conspiracy theory” as if it were true. Of course many of these recitations come from people who only watch FOX News and unquestionably believe in the Deep State, so we can understand the uncontrolled rejection. A conspiracy fissure opened in

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  • Palestinian Human Rights

    Web Admin 01/09/2020     Briefly Noted

    In the past several years support for the human rights of Palestinians has grown substantially, especially on US college campuses. Israel is being criticized and even boycotted for its violation of international law in its treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in which it surrounds a prison of 1.6 million people, half of them children,

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  • American Greed, Starring Steve Croman

    Web Admin 01/09/2020     Briefly Noted

    Steve Croman appeared on national television last year and again on repeat television in late 2019, but probably not in the way he might’ve hoped. The long-running syndicated television show American Greed examined the con game the “Madoff of Landlords” was playing when he was charged in a broad case that included, among other things,

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  • 561 Greenwich Street and 100 Vandam Street Add to “Hudson Square”

    Web Admin 01/09/2020     Briefly Noted

    In a survey of potential Westside construction projects conducted by WestView News last year, 561 Greenwich Street was called out as a site ready for development due to its surface parking lot and one-story “taxpayer.” A rendering for 561 Greenwich Street by COOKFOX Architects was released recently when Hines and Trinity Church Wall Street filed permits for the ٢٦٠,٠٠٠-square-foot, nineteen-story building

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  • 16 East 16th Street: An Illusion of Stone and Old Lace

    Web Admin 01/09/2020     Briefly Noted

    VIEW FROM 16TH STREET. Image courtesy of BKSK Architects. After reading a two-part series I wrote on the redesign of the former Tammany Hall overlooking Union Square (WestView News, April and May 2015), Harry Kendall, a principal architect for BKSK Architects, showed me designs for a partially rebuilt facade of an historic R. H. Robertson

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  • The West 13th Street Alliance’s Fall Community Programming Offerings

    Web Admin 10/05/2019     Briefly Noted, Calendar, Neighborhood, News

    This past summer, the West 13th Street Alliance held several events to bring neighborhood residents together, including Bird Bingo and a series of historical and cultural lectures. The Alliance’s Community Programming initiative is dedicated to creating opportunities for the kind of connection and community that are essential to health and wellbeing. One new offering for

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  • Vintage Greenwich Village

    Web Admin 10/05/2019     Briefly Noted, Photos

    Suzanne Poli’s timeless black-and-white “Snowscene” on Christopher Street looking towards McNulty‘s (Rare Teas and Coffees since 1895) in winter snow depicts a time almost gone…etched in memory…Greenwich Village is “Where America Begins” and is the great architect of the American mind and culture. Aren’t we fortunate to live here…

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  • AIDS Prophylactic Touted as Cure

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Articles, Briefly Noted, Editorials

    By George Capsis One of the newest members of the WestView family is Kambiz Shekdar whose business card offers he is a Ph.D. and as such worked at the Rockefeller Institute on an invention which then evolved into the creation of the Research Foundation to Cure AIDS of which Kambiz is the President. His foundation

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  • Chinese Intern at Westview

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Articles, Briefly Noted, Neighborhood, Photos

    CHINESE INTERN AT WESTVIEW: As part of a collaboration with the Foundation for Global Education, Publisher George Capsis and Chinese intern Shen Xiaowen host 40 Chinese professors at St. John’s with Father Graeme to review Shen’s experience as an intern. “We learned more about controlled news in China than Chen learned about a free community

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  • Wooden Wonder

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Briefly Noted, Photos, Poetry

    By Roberta Curley If I could see posterity,  I’d relinquish my identity,  cork cerebral cacophony,  and roll via schooner on a glass river to eternity  my Hudson escape dismisses reality,  deflects clouds capping crew,  dredges silty ripples and dissolves shore  Photo credit: Roberta Curley. 

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  • Hospital Room in the West Village

    Web Admin 07/13/2019     Briefly Noted, Medical, Neighborhood, News

    We have been told that the Lenox Hill Nortwell Health Center on 7th Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets has four hospital beds to complement its state of the art Emergency Room. On June 23rd, I unfortunately got an inside tour while recovering from an allergic reaction to something I ate. I was treated in

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  • The View From the Kitchen

    Web Admin 05/04/2019     Architecture, Art & Architecture, Arts and Culture, Briefly Noted, Food

    By Isa Covo This month my intention was to write about iconic American songstresses. The idea came to me as I was listening to Billy Holiday, and then the fire at Notre Dame de Paris happened.  From the time I heard the news, I was glued to the television and saw the spire fall, the

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  • New Technology is Not Always Progress

    Web Admin 05/04/2019     Articles, Briefly Noted, Technology

    By Bill Pullano The latest innovation of Fifth Generation (5G) networking wireless connectivity will soon be mainstream. Some claim 5G will be revolutionary, making all of our lives better by enabling many of the formerly mundane objects found throughout our homes and apartments to seamlessly connect to the internet, further enhancing our world through the

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  • My Time at The New School—1958

    Web Admin 05/04/2019     Articles, Arts and Culture, Briefly Noted, History

    By Les Plosia If The New School is anything like it used to be, count me a big fan. Then in my upper 20s, I would tool south in my MG convertible on the West Side Highway two evenings a week from my junior editing job at Prentice-Hall publishing house on the New Jersey side

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  • Constantinople Meets Rome

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, People, Photos

    John Catsimatidis, owner of the Gristede’s supermarket chain, with his wife Margo, greet Cardinal Dolan in their Park Avenue apartment to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Catsimatides has been invited to do a monthly column in WestView News based on his weekly radio series. When asked if he leaned right or left Catsimatidis responded—“in the middle, the truth.” WestView’s

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  • Drug Dealing—A Washington Square Park Industry

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

    Oh wow, we did a short piece on large population of drug dealers in Washington Square Park last month and received some daring photos of their congregating every afternoon for what we guess is the pay off. Seems one guy is the boss and gives out the cash. It is disturbing to see how well

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  • An Open Letter to Corey Johnson

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Letters

    Corey, greetings Great news to know you’re going to be ‘getting us moving’ so to speak! And as long as you’re looking at future plans, may I put in a word on behalf of the ‘senior riders’: Do you think we could get the bus shelters back? For instance, there used to be one here

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  • Spring Gardening

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Letters

    This morning I met with my old pal Susan Sipos, of Distinctive Gardens, to inspect our co-op’s backyard garden. She comes to visit us about this time every year. We walk through several levels of the backyard and inspect the damages that have been caused by the ravages of winter. We are lucky to have

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  • The Community Starts on Your Block

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Letters

    Think about it—a city block in New York can have a larger population than a small town in Kansas, and problems can start right at your door. Yesterday, as I walked up Charles Street to West 4th Street, I discovered to my disgust that somebody had painted his name in comic book script across a

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  • Right Wing Graffiti in The Village

    Web Admin 03/08/2019     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood, Photos

    The graffiti noted in Action Not “Art” in the September issue of WestView has sparked a backlash. There has been isolated “Deport Cuomo” and “InfoWar.com” graffiti around the West Village lately. The most recent addition is on the northwest corner of Hudson and Charles Streets. A neatly-lettered sidewalk chalk marking for the right wing InfoWars

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  • El Chapo for President

    Web Admin 03/08/2019     Briefly Noted

    Oh my—on TV last night it showed our Mayor, Bill de Blasio, sitting in a booth in a Greek dinner in Nebraska with the Governor. Nobody even knew who de Blasio was—not even the waitress. I mean El Chapo has more name recognition. So suddenly everybody has now become an expert and says he has

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  • Hoylman—Legalize Prostitution

    Web Admin 03/08/2019     Briefly Noted

    State Senator Hoylman offers “It’s unacceptable that in 2019, New York is still incarcerating and prosecuting sex workers. What our current laws treat as a crime is, for many marginalized New Yorkers, a tenuous lifeline and a livelihood. Criminalization renders them vulnerable. It disproportionately impacts LGBTQI+ New Yorkers, immigrants, and people of color, and furthers

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  • Spring Can’t Come Soon Enough

    Web Admin 03/08/2019     Briefly Noted

    Every year about this time, right after the Super Bowl (which was a snooze this year), I tell my wife this gloom and doom of winter is just awful and will be until we see the first crocuses bloom. I go into a morose state. I am just not fun to be around. And I

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  • Dress Code

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood, People

    There really is a distinct difference between West Village garb and that of the folks who live north of 14th Street. Recently, I went north to attend a birthday party for a dear friend and, on another night, for dinner at a fancy Upper East Side restaurant. That’s when it hit me—the dress code and

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  • Why Do I Still Do the Paper?

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood, People

    We were driving in an Uber to East Wiliston to my son’s house for Christmas dinner when we discovered that our 33 year-old driver used to work for Trader Joe’s and regretted quitting after he felt he had been downgraded when his job function was eliminated, but now he had a wife and tiny son

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  • Bruce Boyce, Artist, Gardener, and Neighbor, Dies at 76

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, People

    Bruce Wesley Boyce transformed his small corner of the West Village into a destination for those in the know. Thanks to Mr. Boyce’s efforts, locals and tourists alike stop in front of the wrought iron gates at 65-67 Jane Street between Hudson and Greenwich to take photos or steal glimpses of the elaborate garden installations,

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  • WestView Provides Spark!

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, People

    WestView has built my confidence, inspiring me and my poetic abilities. I know I would not have had the courage nor inclination to ‘compete’ with myself had George not suggested I ‘kernalize’, which I still struggle with. He ’stretches’ not only me, but everyone associated with the paper. WestView granted me, a homespun neophyte poet

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  • Mt. Sinai Pulls Back Beth Israel Plans

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood

    Early last month Mt. Sinai Hospital informed the judge in the ongoing lawsuit to close Beth Israel (Progressive Action of Lower Manhattan v. Mt. Sinai Hospital) that Mt. Sinai was revising its plan to build a 70 bed new hospital at the corner of 14th Street and 2nd Avenue. That plan has already been revised

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  • Jessica Moves

    Web Admin 01/07/2019     Briefly Noted, People

    Long-time West Village fixture, Jessica Berk, moved out of 95 Christopher Street at the end of October (part of a 6 figure deal with her landlord to turn over a rent-controlled 2 bedroom apartment) and has purchased a new home: a 2-bedroom condo in Atlantic City! Her dog is about to join her as she

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  • A Manhattan Moment at the Post Office

    Web Admin 01/06/2019     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood

    Our neighborhood post office branch on Hudson Street is the focal point of community activity. It is the crossroads of our neighborhood, like the Village well in olden days. It is especially busy at Christmas time. I went in and approached the counter. The woman looked up and smiled and asked if she could help

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  • Film Explores Diversity from the Inside Out

    Web admin 12/06/2018     Arts and Culture, Briefly Noted

    A recent study by Business Insider—called by some the largest business news site on the internet—identified the ten most serious problems according to millennials. They include: lack of economic opportunity; safety, security and general wellbeing; education; food and water security; government accountability and transparency; poverty; inequality in terms of income as well as race and

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  • Jane Street Garden Fence Finally Installed: Fence Me In (Not Out)

    Web admin 12/06/2018     Briefly Noted

    Who remembers the old cowboy ballad, Don’t Fence Me In? Thanks to a generous grant provided to the Parks Department by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson at the request of the Jane Street Block Association, the high rickety chain-link fence has been replaced by an attractive lower steel picket fence similar to the one surrounding Abingdon

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  • The Cher Show with Stephanie Block

    Web admin 12/06/2018     Briefly Noted

    This is not a review of The Cher Show. In all transparency, I am lucky enough to be a part, a very small part, of the team that is bringing this show to Broadway. The show had a very nice run in Chicago this past summer. If you were lucky enough to see it there

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  • Mimi Shoup Miller

    Web admin 12/05/2018     Briefly Noted

    It is with great sorrow that I announce the passing of a life-long Villager, a member of our Bell Committee and my dear friend for 50 years. Mimi Shoup Miller was a committed supporter; if she believed in you, she gave generously—her enthusiasm and her time, and she was known fondly as “the Mayor of Greenwich

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  • The West Village’s Historic Lintels

    Web admin 11/08/2018     Art & Architecture, Briefly Noted, Neighborhood

    Lintels, did you ever notice our West Village Lintels? You might ask, what are lintels? Well they should not be confused with lentils as in your soup. No, they are, according to Webster’s Dictionary, “the horizontal piece over a door or window”. Well, I never really did notice these lintels until our historic 1853 co-op

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  • Does Rudin Want Your Fruit Vendor to Move?

    Web admin 11/08/2018     Briefly Noted, Neighborhood, Opinion

    As you walk around the streets of the West Village, you see more and more closed storefronts standing empty indefinitely. Not many businesses can say that they have been open in this neighborhood since 1991, but the Fruit Cart Vendor on the corner of 12th Street and 7th Avenue can. The third owner of the

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  • Autumn in the Village

    Web admin 10/22/2018     Briefly Noted

    Autumn in New York. I love the song, and love that time of the year, especially in the West Village. The many pocket parks that have popped up in the last few years go through a major replanting, as do the stoops of the brownstones. Restaurants change their flower boxes and there is a flurry

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  • La Propreté de Paris

    Web admin 10/22/2018     Briefly Noted

    Mary Chandrahasan wrote an inspired piece in the September issue of WestView on Designing Waste Strategies for NYC. She did overlook, however, that the City does not collect commercial and industrial wastes such as food, medicine, drug, hospital and chemical wastes. Those are collected privately. Where do they go? China has recently rejected recycled plastic wastes from

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