Planned Parenthood Happy Hour Benefit
Planned Parenthood of New York City and Left Bank invites you to the Planned Parenthood Happy Hour Benefit. Monday, March 3, 7pm to 9pm. Join […]
New Film Czar in Fun City (Part Two): An Interview with NYC Commissioner of Media and Entertainment Julie Menin
By Annunziata Gianzero Part One of this article, which appeared in last month’s issue of WestView (https://westviewnews.org/2017/02/started-fun-city-part-one/), recounted the beginnings of the NYC Film Commission […]
Emergency!
Learning About Our Need for a Full-Service Hospital the Hard Way By Robert Widmann I was getting ready for bed and had just sat down […]
How Do Hospitals Really Work?
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Arthur Schwartz’s harrowing account of his heart attack in last month’s issue of WestView accurately portrayed many aspects of what a […]
Facing Death –Thinking About Hospital Closings
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I woke up on the last Saturday in January feeling awful. As I have told WestView readers before, once you survive […]
Fate Wrote the Front Page
By George Capsis “I have no front page article,” I offered our Production Committee, just days away from closing the February issue. I had hoped […]
Beth Israel From The Inside
By Arthur Z. Schwartz It has been two days since I was wheeled in here (Beth Israel), thinking that I was about to die. However, […]
WestView Anticipates Diller Island Flaw
By George Capsis In February of 2015, WestView’s Architecture Editor, Brian J. Pape, signaled the arbitrary complexity and prohibitive cost of casting 300 reinforced concrete […]
Demand Your Hospital Now
Pier 40 Has Been Offered to Locate the New West Village Hospital (You need to say you want it!) By George Capsis “I am not […]
We Have Our Hospital
By George Capsis “Offices would be something that would generate revenue,” offered Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT) Director, Madelyn Wils in talking about what to […]
Let’s Build Our Own Hospital and Show Politicians How Democracy Works
By Dr. David Kaufman As our nation heads toward the abyss, led by—pushed by—a pathologic narcissist, who is protected and supported by billionaire oligarchs and […]
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WE LOST
On December 1st, with Council Member Corey Johnson and Mayor Bill de Blasio among the many speakers in attendance, the long awaited AIDS Memorial, across […]
Collective Rage Seeks a Voice
By Erik Bottcher The November 8th election results have spurred New Yorkers to action like no event in recent memory. On Sunday, November 20th, hundreds […]
How to Speak to Trump
They turned people away at the “I Can’t Believe Trump Won” Meeting (a nightmare from which you can’t awaken). It was a rolling offering of […]
When You Close a Hospital You Kill a Medical Community
By George Capsis “The recent article in WestView News about the closing of Beth Israel really needed the entire paper, cover-to-cover, to uncover what’s really […]
Mount Sinai Ends Expected Half-Billion Dollar Loss By Closing Beth Israel
By George Capsis On a dark, chilly, rainy Thursday October 27th evening in the large shabby 1927 Mason Hall, now part of Baruch College on […]
Closing a Hospital Ends a Medical Community
By M. Zakir Sabry, MD For a good four-plus years, I avoided the West Village, the same way I avoided the ICU room at the […]
D’Agostino Rescued by Catsimatidis
Opens Line of Credit and Reserves an Option to Merge In a last minute save, John Catsimatidis opens a line of credit to the failing […]