The Real Terror
One phrase Obama did not repeat was if a person is willing to give his life, there is no protection. And the fact that this […]
VID Meeting
The Village Independent Democrats (VID) held its monthly meeting on Thursday, December 10th. Nadine Hoffmann, President of VID, started the proceedings by giving her President’s […]
VID November Actions
On Thursday, November 12th the Village Independent Democrats had their monthly meeting in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. The meeting was chaired by long […]
Bird in the Hood
A short story. I was walking to see someone on 10th Street midday and ran into a group of photographers encircled around something—not sure what […]
Briefly Noted: Democratic Clubs Get Together for $15 Minimum Wage
The monthly routine for the Village Independent Democrats and the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club changed in October as they held a joint meeting and forum […]
Briefly Noted: Transit Funding
For a couple of weeks in early October, the Transport Workers Union (TWU), which I am co-General Counsel of, took out a series of […]
Briefly Noted: Developments Related To My Arrest
On October 15, the District Attorney appeared with me and my lawyer, James Roth, in Supreme Court, a date set for the grand larceny charges […]
Briefly Noted: Let’s Go Out! Released
By Westview Editors Westview News would like to congratulate our own Keith Michael on the release of his new book Let’s Go Out! A Birder’s […]
Stanford White’s Gravestone
Following up my article on the history of the Jefferson Market branch library as a courthouse (WVN, Dec. 2014), and the arraignment there of Harry […]
City Finds It Cheaper to Keep Tenants in Rent Stabilized Apartments
On Monday, September 28th Mayor De Blasio announced he was allocating $12.3 million to hire lawyers to fight off landlord evictions and avoid an increase […]
New Planters Brighten the 6th Precinct
By Stephanie Phelan If you’ve passed by the 6th Precinct over the last few years, you’ve seen the disgraceful deterioration of the long horizontal planters […]
Using the Images of War to View Compassion
A Review of WitteVeen’s When We Were soldiers… once and young installation at Brooklyn Navy Yard One Sunday afternoon my Uncle Max offered that he […]
Larry Selman Memorialized in Street Co-naming
On Tues, Oct 6th at 6:30 pm, a “Larry Selman Way” sign will be installed at the corner of Bedford and Grove Street in the […]
That Funny Building on 7th Avenue
Suppose you found yourself as the head of a hospital that had 61,000 employees, 13,000 nurses and 10,000 physicians and you had a name […]
VID Meets in September
On Thursday September 17th, the Village Independent Democrats met in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. There were short reports on a variety of Democratic […]
Machito, the Mayor of Christopher Street
By Roberto Novo Little by little, the West Village is losing its soul but thanks to Roberto Novo, owner of Roberto Novo Salon, and his […]
The Shame of Donald Trump
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I was in Toronto when the photograph of the Syrian child, Aylan Kurdi, who washed up on the shore of Greece, […]
A Note on the Death of Herman Gerson
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Herman Gerson, father of former City Council Member Alan Gerson, died on August 19 at 103. He is someone whom we […]