Are You Having a Heart Attack?
By Justin Matthews & Andreea Ioana Pantor (With contributions by Dr. David Kaufman, MD) If, while reading this, you develop persistent pain in your chest, neck, […]
I Met Croman
By George Capsis “Croman’s going to court tomorrow. Want to come?” offered Nelly Godfrey of the now City Marshall-padlocked Christopher Street restaurant, Lima’s Taste, victim […]
Meeting Asks Where You Want Hospital
By George Capsis Doctor Kenneth Davis, who heads Mount Sinai Hospital, has agreed to a public meeting Thursday, October 27th at the Mount Sinai Beth […]
West Village Gets Top Diagnostic Center
By George Capsis It was two o’clock in the morning when Maggie discovered, that with blood thinners to avoid a blockage in a newly-implanted heart […]
Offending a Cog in the Political Machine
By Jim Fouratt, Candidate for New York District 66 State Assembly I had worked as an elections poll clerk for a number of years at […]
Schwartz Hands Off Glick Fight to Fouratt
Campaign Intensity Medically Forces Schwartz to Support Activist Jim Fouratt By Jim Fouratt When Arthur Z. Schwartz had to withdraw from the New York District […]
YOU CAN’T VOTE FOR ARTHUR SCHWARTZ
The needs of my children have prevented me from doing what I have increasingly felt needs doing and that is giving our community a new, […]
Report from the Democratic Convention
A Week of Principle, Passion and Fear—Bernie and Obama Say Goodbye, Hillary Takes the Stage By Arthur Z. Schwartz Politics doesn’t often move me to […]
Saving Lives Is Not a Business Decision
A POWERFUL VOICE RETURNS Thirty years ago a young David Kaufman walked into St. Vincent’s as an intern and ended as an intense, informed and […]
You Are Only Homeless if You Want a Home: Of New York’s 60,000 Homeless, Some Prefer the Streets
By George Capsis On June 5th, the Swiss voted down a proposal to give everybody $2,555 a month as basic income—a law espoused and pushed […]
You Can Return a Hospital to the West Village
By George Capsis We print 12,000 copies of WestView News each month and Steve and Tim trundle them around the West Village and try and […]
Garage to Wall of Glass Gives Jane Streeters Pause
By Alexander Tobias Redevelopment plans for 11-19 Jane Street—presently a two-story parking garage that’s been serving the community for nearly a century—were unveiled at Community […]
St. Vincent’s Dr. Kaufman Heralds New Hospital
By David L. Kaufman, M.D. Sinai’s acquisition of Beth Israel has given us the sad opportunity to once again witness history repeating itself. It will […]
City Sells 50% Interest in Federal Supported Housing
By George Capsis While I was interviewing a 77-year-old senior on how he survived on a social security check of $800 dollars he offered […]
Sarah Jessica Rings the Bell
By George Capsis When nearly 200 graying West Villagers along with just about every local politician shows up—as they did on Sunday, March 13th to […]
A Smiling New British NYU President Invites the Community to Be Nice
By George Capsis “Can I speak to George?” came a phone voice on a bright Thursday April 17th morning. When I confessed that “George was […]
Diller Island Clears Hurdles
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The last regulatory agency approvals have been granted this week to a planned recreational pier in the Hudson River […]
Supermarket for the Gentrified Poor
By George Capsis On March 8th, I received an e-mail from local resident Kay Frost, which triggered an extraordinary series of events that is still […]