We Need a Hospital! Dear George, Good to see you’re still fighting the good fight. I refer, of course, to your front-page article in January’s WestView News … “Our Kids Need A Hospital.” I have been hemming and hawing about the need for a hospital to serve Greenwich Village, the West Village and points south
Google Excludes Xavier Mission’s “Grab and Go” from Community Grants Through WestView, I wish to thank Xavier Mission at St. Francis Xavier Church on West 16th Street for nutritious “Grab and Go” brown bags distributed every Sunday between 12:40 and 1:30 p.m. The volunteers are tireless and respectful. However, I wish to ask the recipients
WestView News Fighting the Good Fight! Dear George, So when your guy approached me about an ad in your paper for my new gallery, I was a little reluctant. I hate to spend $ unless it is on beer, or donating to progressive political candidates. But when I realized I had gone to PS 41
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
Delivery Delay WestView News continues to excel with the writing of its contributors. Brian Pape’s piece in the May issue on Michael Sorkin, an outstanding exponent of sound city planning, was exemplary on two counts. It celebrated the contributions of a talented mind, and also showed the deep and informed knowledge of Brian who has
WestView Triumph Dear George and WestView, The May 1st issue is a wonderful gift from you George, and your writers, to our West Village community. I have always loved reading WestView, but this was something more—a healing balm knowing our community will go on, and a testimony to all you and WestView provide for our
Thank you very much for including my article “Who is William Sydney Porter?” in your wonderful newspaper. I am so grateful and happy that you printed it in its entirety. I really appreciate it. All the best to you. —Richard Eric Weigle President of Grove St. Block Association and Organizer of The Greenwich Village Film
April’s dark headlines left me bewildered. The Village Is Closed This was imaginatively shocking. Underneath it roared another war title: COVID-19 — The Battle in our Backyard. There isn’t much sweetness in the news now. Yet in April’s issue, alongside articles listing the closure of nearly every cozy restaurant and trendy store which define the
Once coronavirus became locally infamous, I got tired real fast perusing neighbors’ comments in NextDoor about good books to read during quarantine. I refer to the really smart people who write about, for example, what erudite books to read during coronavirus. Don’t get me wrong, I am not being sarcastic. I honor those elites with
Dear Editor, In the April issue of WestView I opened up my heart for everyone to see and wrote about my father who is the kidnapped love child of John F. Kennedy and Marylin Monroe. I was surprised at the lack of response. Yes, it is hard to believe and it has been many years
Dear George: I applaud your demand that we must restore a hospital in lower Manhattan BEFORE the next pandemic. The beauty of your suggested visionary design by Anath Sampathkumar would help us who mourn still for old St. Vincents! —Jacqui Taylor Basker
The Chinese have a famous saying “Welcome Crises.” After spending five days distributing our “collectible” (my idea) April issue focused on COVID, it occurred to me that this is a critical moment for all of us both collectively and individually… I’ve said from the beginning (2016) “Trump is Democracy’s Greatest Gift.” Little did I know
Dear WestView News, Robert Heide’s meditation on dark houses, his wonderful, colorful account of the famous couple in limbo, and his beautiful review of Girl from the North Country picked me up so much it made me realize how much I needed picking up. I’ve been dying to see Girl from the North Country since
I was glad to see that Northwell is serving the New York community well during the pandemic. I am also glad to see that they have gotten some press on CBS’s 60 Minutes. What would be really amazing is if Northwell built a new hospital center somewhere downtown that would help serve the entire lower
Dear George, I want to commend you, the WestView staff, and all the contributors for a stellar issue. Wow! A scant two weeks after New York City was put on Pause, you provided excellent coverage on hospital status, village resources that are still open, personal responses to the crisis, practical advice, and so much more.
Well why haven’t you sent a letter to the Editor? The best part of getting this paper out is to hear from you. Send us your comments or write an article—we will print it ! —George Capsis
Dear Representative Maloney, I sat in the front row, just to the left of center facing you, when you spoke at a recent meeting of the Village Independent Democrats in order to secure the group’s endorsement of your campaign for re-election. Afterwards you took my hand warmly and said you liked my long necklace of
I wrote the Letter to the Editor, below, that you published in the February 2017 issue. Your February 2020 issue has a long article on page 8 about the hazard caused by the lights of the W Hotel sign across the river in Hoboken. Something must be done to stop this unnecessary light pollution affecting