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  • Wear Your Mask!

    NYC COVID-19 Vaccine Finder

    Karen Rempel 01/11/2021     EXTRA, Featured

    The City of New York has published a COVID-19 Vaccine Finder here. The Finder does not work with Internet Explorer, so you’ll need to use a different web browser. Wear Your Mask You will not be admitted to the site without one. Do I need to take precautions even after I’m vaccinated? Yes! Even after you

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  • City Winery Opens on Pier 57 Amidst Shutdown

    Web Admin 01/03/2021     Featured

    By Brian J Pape, AIA The new flagship location for City Winery, designed by Brooklyn-based Christopher Warnick Architecture, has opened on Pier 57 near West 15th Street. Unfortunately, the pandemic shutdown of indoor dining means it is mostly off-limits to the public, except for the main entry with a wine shop and the winery itself.

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  • Working to Save West Village Restaurants

    Web Admin 01/02/2021     Featured

    By Maggie Berkvist Back in early December, a number of us signed a petition to Senators Schumer and Maloney at saverestaurants.com/take-action/ However, it was pretty clear, even before the stimulus package was passed, that it was not going to begin to cover the financial needs of our area’s bars and restaurants. Which is why—since they

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  • 2020—The Return of the Depression?

    Web Admin 01/02/2021     Featured

    By George Capsis If you go online right now you can find half a dozen articles on the precipitous drop in the New York City real-estate market brought about by the pandemic. In reading them I encounter terms that are very familiar to me, which I discovered when apartment-hunting with my mother during the depths

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  • The Day the Village Stood Still: “Gimme Shelter”

    Web Admin 12/03/2020     Featured

    By Roger Paradiso “It becomes a choice of risking your life or your business. In most cases people are risking their lives to keep their businesses from failing.”  —Vittorio, La Lanterna di Vittorio on MacDougal Street  “Ooh, a storm is threatening My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna

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  • Candidates Debate for Corey Johnson’s Seat

    Web Admin 12/03/2020     Featured

    By Penny Mintz “All politics is local,” Tip O’Neill once said. That was one thing he got right. The impact of government on our daily life—police, sanitation, education, fire protection, the licensing of businesses, safety regulations, mass transit—is determined almost entirely at the city and state levels. Local government could not be more important. So,

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  • Graffiti in the ‘Hood: An Interview With the NYPD 6th Precinct

    Web Admin 12/03/2020     Featured

    By Brian Pape AIA  Graffiti is nothing new to New York City, or other cities around the world. But we wanted to know more about the recent activity in the West Village that we reported last month. WestView News followed up by asking the 6th Precinct of the New York Police Department to help us

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  • The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan: The Making of a Classic

    Web Admin 11/01/2020     Featured

    In the Author’s Own Words “My intent was to write a story that would become a true legend, so it was important for me to present Holly Claus’s story as a legend, a fantasy that would become part of the culture…a tradition…a classic…I want Holly’s story to endure for generations.” -Brittney Ryan, storyteller-author.   There

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  • Obscene Graffiti Scars Village

    Web Admin 10/31/2020     Featured, Neighborhood

    By George Capsis In 1917 the City ruthlessly cut through the handsome historic townhouses of the Village to run the 7th Avenue subway through it and left ugly towering blackened backyard raw brick walls. A few months ago, after the Black Lives Matter incident, huge crude nonsensical graffiti messages appeared like “MAGIC TRICK” with the

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  • Village Voters Show Enthusiasm, Patience, Hope in First Day of Early Voting

    Web Admin 10/29/2020     Featured, Technology

    By Bob Cooley In what leaders and many citizens have called “a fight for the soul of our nation,”West Villagers and New Yorkers turned out in massive numbers during the initial day of first-ever early presidential voting in the state.  1,211 West Village residents turned out to cast their early vote at the community space

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  • Publisher George Capsis is pleased as punch

    Crowdfunding Campaign Update

    Web Admin 10/03/2020     Featured

    Dear readers, neighbors, friends, and supporters, We asked you to help because our beloved local newspaper is in danger of folding forever. You answered with a surge of donations, messages, and even ad requests! George and the folks at WestView News are overwhelmed by your love and support for the paper. You donated over $17,000

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  • Deborah Glick Hasn’t Debated Her Opponent

    Web Admin 10/03/2020     Featured

    By Frank Quinn As we reported last month, WestView News invited both candidates for the District 66 State Assembly seat to debate the issues with us. The challenger, Tamara Lashchyk, accepted our invitation but the incumbent, Deborah Glick, did not. As a result, instead of a debate we are providing an interview with Tamara Lashchyk.

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  • New York Spirit! Villagers Are Saving WestView News

    gcapsis 09/17/2020     EXTRA, Featured, Neighborhood

    Dear readers, neighbors, friends, and supporters, We asked you to help because our beloved local newspaper is in danger of folding forever. You answered with a surge of donations, messages, and even ad requests! George and the folks at WestView News are overwhelmed by your love and support for the paper. We’ve raised almost $15,000

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  • Goodnight Newsroom

    Web Admin 09/02/2020     Featured

    The office where the New York Daily News Produced Itself Has Permanently Closed After 101 years By Amanda Mikelberg I’d been given a company thermos, when I started as an overnight web producer in the New York Daily News newsroom at 4 New York Plaza in 2011, that is now an artifact from a lost

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  • WestView News Publisher George Capsis

    Help Save the Voice of the West Village

    gcapsis 09/01/2020     EXTRA, Featured, Neighborhood

    Dear readers, neighbors, friends, and supporters, We are asking for your help because our beloved local newspaper is in danger of folding forever. With ad revenues sinking as our local businesses struggle to survive in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, WestView News can no longer make payroll and pay printing costs. We have distributed

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  • Historic Maps of Manhattan: 1865

    Web Admin 08/06/2020     Featured

    By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Last month’s WestView News articles about NYC’s Gansevoort Market Waterfront and the 1811 Street Grid stirred several responses from readers, who sent their map copies or suggestions of archives of maps, for which we are grateful. I was asked to provide a follow-up with maps (of which there are

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  • NYU Langone Health Opens New Outpatient Center in Greenwich Village

    Web Admin 08/05/2020     Featured

    By Deborah Haffeman Greenwich Village has a new healthcare provider in town. NYU Langone Health has opened a multispecialty outpatient care center, located at 555 LaGuardia Place, for adult and pediatric patients. NYU Langone Medical Associates—Washington Square spans approximately 10,000 square feet, which includes 26 exam rooms and a dedicated pediatric floor.  Village residents can

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  • Turkish President Recreates Ancient Conquest

    Web Admin 08/05/2020     Featured

    By George Capsis I was a bit surprised at my own shock and, yes, anger when I read in the New York Times that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced that the Turkish government would again take over the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia—also called Church of the Holy Wisdom—and use it as a mosque. Turkish newspapers showed crowds cheering at regaining something they

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  • George Capsis, Editor of WestView News

    Publisher’s Apology to Our Readers

    gcapsis 07/09/2020     Featured, Letters, Neighborhood

    Dear Readers of WestView News, I received three letters from our treasured readers regarding the poem “Code Blue.” I apologize to our community for offending and frightening some of you by publishing this poem.  I am sorry to say that the poem slipped through the cracks three times, and was placed in the paper because

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  • 1811 Street Grid Conceived in West Village

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED AP Ironically, the plan for the geometric and regular Manhattan street grid was conceived within the very irregular and eccentric streets of the West Village, at 329 Bleecker Street, corner of Christopher Street, in the office of John Randal Jr., who was 20 years old when he began his

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  • Defund the Police—Movement or Folly?

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By Frank Quinn On May 14th the City Council published its report on Mayor de Blasio’s FY21 Executive Budget, announcing that “the NYPD budget has increased a minimal .07 percent.” On June 12th Council Speaker Corey Johnson joined seven other council members calling for a $1 billon cut to the NYPD budget. The eight members released

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  • Pandemic, Pride and Prejudice Shape a Cause

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By Kambiz Shekdar We are witnessing an awakening against ancient and profound prejudices as the world issues a collective outcry of #BLACKLIVESMATTER. The call is reverberating across the LGBTQ community and is pouring out as a single voice denouncing all prejudice. George Capsis, the publisher of this paper recounts a telling story: in 1967, he joined

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  • Village Residents Join in City-Wide Protests for Historic Social Change

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By Bob Cooley What started as a reaction to the murder of George Floyd, an African American man killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, quickly became the tipping point for residents, students, and activists of all ages and races who were protesting the long history of systemic inequality and police brutality against African Americans,

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  • VOTER REGISTRATION BOOTH at Occupy City Hall.

    “Why We Occupy City Hall”: Calls for a Billion Dollar Reallocation of NYPD Funding

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By Drew Davis The City Hall Occupation as of Friday, June 26, at the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall 456 subway stop. The vast majority of protestors were masked and socially distanced. Between June 23rd and 24th, City Hall Park transformed from a quiet green space into an occupation for racial justice. I headed in to

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  • Cops That Hear Are Cheaper

    Web Admin 07/04/2020     Featured

    By George Capsis I read with a flick of surprise that Cory Johnson—now city council speaker and a pretty good bet as our next mayor—had joined with seven other council members in support of a bill to cut $1 billion from the police budget. A day or two later I got an email from somebody who wanted to

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  • Still Off the Table: Father’s Day Dinner Amid COVID-19

    Still Off the Table: Dinner With My Father Amid COVID-19

    Web Admin 06/28/2020     Featured

    Barbara Thau and her father Roland Thau at Sevilla in the West Village.  Photo taken by a waiter at Sevilla. By Barbara Thau I dreamed that I was on the Second Avenue bus headed downtown to meet my 86-year-old father for dinner.  At least I was trying to get on the bus. It was evening. It

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  • Reality Check—COVID: Into the Middle Innings

    Web Admin 06/02/2020     Featured

    By Jesse Robert Lovejoy  For a starting pitcher, the most dangerous inning is the first. He isn’t really warmed up, and he doesn’t know what’s working that day. If his fastball has life and his command is good, he can settle in, begin to mix in the curve, and cruise the first two times through

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  • The Day the Village Stood Still: Mayday

    Web Admin 06/02/2020     Featured

    By Roger Paradiso I remember they used to play this con game, Three-card Monte. They played it over by the subway kiosk on Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street. You just need a cardboard box. Pull out the cards, shuffle the deck, and play Three-card Monte. Nobody ever won that game, right? I don’t know

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  • Pride in the Time of Corona

    Web Admin 06/02/2020     Featured

    By Chauncey Dandridge One of the things heavily lamented by members of the LGBTQ community currently, is that this will be the first time in fifty years that there will actually be no organized Pride March conjured up to light up The Big Apple in rainbow colors. Considering that last year, New York City celebrated

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  • Pandemic May Shutter Small, Local Biotech Addressing COVID-19

    Web Admin 06/02/2020     Featured

    By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. and Christian Kopfli We have heard about restaurants and their struggles in this pandemic, but few have heard about an atypical group of promising biotech companies that are private and in jeopardy. The unique biotechnologies these companies offer to help address COVID may perish as collateral damage.  We are two of

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  • Village Stage for Outrage

    Web Admin 06/02/2020     Featured

      On the evening of Saturday, May 30th, The Village became the stage for what appeared to be a well-orchestrated demonstration against police for the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd, ending with the skilled firebombing of several police vehicles. Covered by WestView News photographer Chris Manis, he was struck by what appeared to be a

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  • West Village Voices: One Life During A Pandemic

    Web Admin 05/03/2020     Featured

    By Drew Davis Every day we expect the news to provide a bird’s-eye view of New York City. But our city is a big place, and broad headlines often beg a simple question: what does this mean for someone like me, an individual among millions? To find out, I discussed the news and Greenwich Village

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  • The Major Misstep in the Fight Against AIDS that Must Be Avoided to Beat COVID-19

    Web Admin 05/03/2020     Featured

    By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Our goal with any infectious disease must be to end it. In the case of HIV/AIDS, we missed game-changing opportunities and it continues to fester among us. Here, I provide the recipe to eradicate SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 for good. The early days of HIV/AIDS witnessed an unprecedented feat in science and medicine: Never

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  • A New Hospital at St. Vincent’s Triangle Park?

    Web Admin 05/03/2020     Featured

    By Brian J. Pape, AIA Not long ago, Saint Vincent’s Hospital was one of the oldest and most revered hospitals in the city. Today, the need for a full-service hospital (ever since Saint Vincent’s closed in 2010 due to mismanagement and bankruptcy), is as great as ever, as demonstrated by the circumstances of the COVID–19 pandemic.

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  • The Day the Village Stood Still

    Web Admin 05/03/2020     Featured

    By Roger Paradiso Easter in the Village During a Pandemic: Part Two I came to the Village this past Easter Sunday, April 12th, to witness the devastating effects of the COVID-19 virus. I will leave it to the historians and media hosts to decide the true story of this virus and how it has put

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  • Coronavirus: From Common Cold to Global Pandemic

    Web Admin 05/03/2020     Featured

    By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Perhaps no one could have imagined that a new cousin of the same virus that causes the common cold could emerge to cause a global pandemic, but that is our reality today. Here, I provide a basic-level scenic tour of the science behind SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and its

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  • The Day the Village Stood Still

    Web Admin 04/02/2020     Featured

    By Roger and Anthony Paradiso   “The closest thing it’s analogous to is when you know the order’s been signed for war and you’re waiting for the next shoe to drop. Is it a draft? Is it a bombing on the homeland? We’ve been isolated from so many things just by oceans and borders that

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  • Build a Hospital Before the Next Pandemic

    Web Admin 04/02/2020     Featured

      VIRUS DEATHS DEMANDS RESTORATION OF VILLAGE HOSPITAL. The number of West Village virus deaths has caused WestView publisher, George Capsis, to demand the restoration of a Village hospital to be paid for from the two trillion dollars the Federal government has committed to restore financial normalcy. Appropriately the new hospital will face St. Vincent

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