Not Easy Being (Mrs.) Green
Ever since the Duane Reade branch at the corner of Bank and Hudson closed last August, the neighborhood has been has waiting – and waiting, […]
DEBORAH GLICK MUST GO!
After Pier 40 Air Rights Debacle and Lies . As the Pier 40 air rights drama unfolds, there will be many fingers pointed. The saga […]
THE NIGGER IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Jim Collier is a straight talking man so when a few months ago he wanted to use the word “nigger” in an article to shock us […]
The Headline Offends Me
I am certain this phrase has been said openly and boldly in living rooms and private clubs, on golf courses, in bars, and during production […]
Soccer and Trader Joe’s
“My father was an immigrant who worked at a mill and I ended up as an Army Colonel with 30 years’ experience and now my […]
What is FAR?
Bulk Bulk regulations are the combination of controls (lot size, floor area ratio, lot coverage, open space, yards, height and setback) that determine the maximum […]
Stonewall Riots and the March “Never to Forget”
Stonewall Uprising, the 90-minute PBS documentaryproduced and directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner depicts the moment in history when the LGBT revolution made its […]
What’s Coming at the HealthPlex
When the stand alone emergency center known as the Lenox Hill Healthplex, in the renovated O’Toole building of St. Vincent’s Hospital, opens at the end […]
Brunch at the Brevoort:
Sinclair Lewis in the Village When Sinclair Lewis accepted his Nobel Prize in 1930, the first American novelist to receive the honor, he disparaged his […]
John F. Twomey 1948- 2014
John F.Twomey, a 44 year resident of Greenwich Village passed away on March 27th after a brief illness. John was born in Salem MA and […]
What if Nobody Taught us Failure
Eighty years ago, I stood over my toy block building on the floor of the Kindergarten class of PS 192 in the south wing of […]
The Mayor vs. The Horses
Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to ban the 68 horse and carriages from Central Park where they have been carrying paying passengers since 1858. He […]
Learning from the Corporate World
As the new head of CECP, I am blessed to lead a non-profit organization founded by legendary actor (and salad dressing maker) Paul Newman and […]
A City Vanishes
Can de Blasio return it? “Huge tax breaks up to half a billion dollars a year were being given to developers to build luxury buildings,” […]
A Kaleidoscope of the 1970s
By 1969, we were wondering what the decade of the l970s would bring. As it turned out, the Seventies was a time of changes and […]
‘THE VILLAGE GATE’ REDUX
On February 16th,a crowd of music groupies from ‘the good old days’ gathered at Le Poisson Rouge(formerly the Village Gate) on Bleecker Street,to hear a […]
Trading Tradition for Cash
“A 15-story apartment house behind St. Luke’s!” I repeated, stunned at the thought of the nice clerical caretakers of our historic 1821 church exhibiting Rudin-like […]
Presidents Day 2014
Late February 1860. Nearly two weeks before, Abraham Lincoln had turned 51 years old. He had been thinking back to the time of George Washington […]