The Roofs of Paris – Penny Jones reminisces with Jim Collier
Dear Editor, I too stayed in the Henry IV hotel in Paris – up two flights to the lobby, and then three more to our […]
Durst Leaves Friends Group
Billionaire Developer Resigns To Pursue Alternate Pier 40 Plan Douglas Durst is no stranger to controversy or success. His family (Douglas is the third generation […]
Which Way Did Our Ancestors Walk
Historian Catherine Revland asks if some ancient migration was West to East In his book, Songlines, Bruce Chatwin visited remote groups of Australian aborigines that […]
Quinn Crosses a Line
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn just exhibited another example of her blatant misuse of power in furtherance of her own ambitions. Quinn’s Tammany […]
HRPT Reports The Lights Are Out, Not That Your Car Has Flooded
When Sandy hit on the evening of Monday, October 29 we were watching TV. Something which has never happened before occurred – the upper right […]
Random Thoughts from the Front Lines
This has been an interesting few months, so it’s hard to know where to start. Let’s begin with the New York Times article by Anemona […]
St. Vincent’s Hospital Chapel
Walking with my dog Mr. Butter, I came upon this willful destruction of the St. Vincent’s Hospital chapel. It was particularly poignant as I thought […]
Money Dictates Pier 40 Solution
If you want to know how and who will save the Hudson River Park, look to money. More and more, it is the people with […]
Stephan Weiss Depicted Energy
I spoke to Stephan Weiss on the phone shortly before he died and asked him if the Charles Street Association could have its December holiday […]
Legendary Visionary Puts Hudson Park In Focus
Barry Benepe, the creator of the Union Square Farmers’ Market, takes a hard look In the September issue of WestView, Alec Pruchnicki wrote a superb […]
The Education of Frederick Douglass
The discovery of the African Burial Ground is being called the most historically important urban archeological find in U.S. history, not only because of its […]
Why Many Politicians Disappoint The Public
By Henry Stern One of the perennial questions citizens ask about government is: why is it so corrupt? People who read newspapers, listen to the […]
Pier 40—Taking Advantage of a Crisis
Old Senate Adage—“Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” Oh, wow, I pick up the Saturday August 18th Times and bang there’s a big […]
A French Novelist in the West Village
Whenever I meet my neighbors on the street or at the Abingdon Farmer’s Market on Saturdays, it doesn’t take more than a handful of syllables […]
The Guest at the Dinner Table: A Detective Story
Little has been written about the history of people of African descent in Lower Manhattan, even though their numbers were so large that our neighborhood […]
Any Hope for a New Hospital?
As a physician, I sometimes have to give my patients and their families bad news. I try to do it as gently, but accurately, as […]
Bloomberg Backs Illegal Apartments Why Not A Hospital
“Come to the meeting” e-mailed Arthur Schwartz who heads the Advisory Committee of the Hudson River Park Trust. I drove 100 miles from Bridgehampton, parked […]
Learning to Love the Tourists
It was a hot late afternoon on the 14th June and excitement was in the air. Cop cars and TV news trucks were parked up […]