YULIYA RICKY HOPE MCKENZIE STEPHANIE SARA KATIE ANDREW Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
A Happy Surprise….. Our stretch of Bleecker Street looking more truly festive than it has in many a moon. Photos by Maggie Berkvist.
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo What season is this? I shall tell you in case you have not noticed, it is COVID-19 season. That is almost all we talk about: what variant is more prevalent, which one is more contagious, which is more deadly, are vaccines effective since there are breakthrough infections? And on and on. Well,
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IN AND OUT
While there was a healthy number of openings, and no permanent closings we are aware of, December saw many restaurants close temporarily due to rising COVID cases in the city. Some were short staffed due to COVID, and others closed after exposures to customers who later developed COVID symptoms. Some restaurants planned re-openings after the
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. The Chit Book System
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Then&Now: Village Community School
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Then: Looking west along West 10th Street, the original Village Community School (VCS) at 272 West 10th Street, between Greenwich Street and Washington Street, and its previous expansion to the west, occupies the entire block front, including the playground space at the near corner. VCS is a private
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Bird of the Year 2021
By Keith Michael It’s a wrap on 2021 and time for the 16th Annual West Village Bird of the Year Awards: The Millies! After the virtual 2020 Zoom ceremony, we are thrilled to be back in person at the traditional LIVE location on this selfie-ready corner of West 4th and West 12th Streets where my
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Weekly Livestream with Civic and Community Leaders
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Days before his 94th birthday on December 20, 2021, WestView News publisher George Capsis was my first guest on a new weekly meet & greet interview series simulcast on YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. As a community leader for much of his almost 100 years on earth to date, George has many
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Notes From Away: Travel Troubles
By Tom Lamia In my life so far I have done a lot of traveling and a lot of relocating. None of it troubled me as I enjoyed it for the color and variety it brought to my life. In the present moment, however, travel of any amount gives me the jitters. To be completely
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George as Mentor
Dear George, WestView readers know how fortunate we have been all these years to be the readers for George Capsis, editor, whose passion has been to run a newspaper…but they may not know about your talent and generosity as a mentor. In 2013 I wrote a thank you letter to you about how your advice
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Style on the Street: Getting “RED”Y for the Holidays!
ANITA JOHN GILMAN & ROBERT HEIDE SANTA’S ‘LIL HELPER LILI MR. SNOWMAN SAM Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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Maggie B’s Quick Click
HEIGH-HO, HEIGH-HO, IT’S OFF TO PLAY WE GO—at the Bank Street playground. Photo by Maggie Berkvist.
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A View From the Kitchen
By Isa Covo No question, winter is upon us here in New York. The little huts which are the extension of restaurants, even when equipped with heaters, do not seem that appealing for a night out with friends. It is best to stay home and watch a movie, read a book, and brush up on
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IN AND OUT
The theme this month seemed to be Italian restaurants, mostly of the kind making fresh pasta. A number of international imports also are making an appearance in the Village. We did not notice any new closings this month. Open West Village residents were sad when Aria (117 Perry Street between Hudson and Greenwich Streets), an
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. Girls having Fun My
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LIFETALK with Roberta Russell: Change Your Patterns That Don’t Work
By Roberta Russell Of late, I have been a steady patron of social media sites. The results of this widely diversified search for would-be mates, after being widowed, pales by comparison with the amazing run of extraordinary people I knew during my 12 single years between marriages, and especially during my 27-year intense and loving
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Hush, a Thrush
By Keith Michael Charles Lane, 11:28 am. Weather cloudy. 59 degrees. Quite frankly, I’m on my way to Hudson River Park, hoping to take a good photograph of a neighborhood bird for my December (this) WestView article. The inspiration for my monthly recounting of an instant of West Village or greater NYC avian life always
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Notes From Away: An Embarrassment of Riches
By Tom Lamia In order to keep up with events here in Maine I read one of the major statewide newspapers, The Portland Press Herald, where I find a full range of news affecting residents of the state. I also read my local weekly, The Lincoln County News, in which the character and exploits of
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LETTER
VID Statement on Vaccination Requirements Several neighborhood businesses have window signs which thwart public health measures to contain the pandemic. They contend that the regulations infringe upon civil liberties and equate mask and vaccination requirements with biases. No one in a free society has the right to endanger others. These businesses are contributing to the
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Style on the Street: The Many Layers of Fall
JAY ALEKSANDRA AHMED JULS JULIANA KATELYN JOSE & DOMENIC LESLEY Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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Maggie B’s Quick Click
LIVE! Opening night on October 14 at the SIGN OF THE TIMES Exhibit by Westbeth’s resident artists, now running Wednesday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m., until November 13th. Photo by Maggie Berkvist.
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo November is here. The festive season is here, and there are signs that this year there is hope for celebration. Indeed, the restaurants are open and doing good business, so are the cinemas, but with some restrictions, and now many theaters are open and almost all sold out. On the streets of
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IN AND OUT
This month we saw a large number of openings, many of them on formerly deserted Bleecker Street. And the momentum continues, with many stores planning a late fall or winter opening, with increased activity on Greenwich Avenue. We also noticed that wine bars serving natural wines are taking over the Village, so raise a glass
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. Incident at Stone Lodge
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Emergency Room Debacle in the Age of Lies
By Roberta Russell On Friday, October 1st, I pushed my blue metal shopping cart in front of me, carrying 250 dollars-worth of carefully boxed, fake greenery, bought to cover a prison-like chain linked fence, recently installed by my landlord to enclose my expansive penthouse terrace. The fake vine looked tacky and did not restore the
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LETTERS
Thanks for the Memory… Good Morning Dad, 45 years ago on this date, you took me to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Reds in the 1976 World Series. Thank you, it is a fond memory. —Doric Homelessness Dear Editor, In the article, “When No Place Is Home” in the October issue,
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Style on the Street: Keeping it Classic
ELAYNA VERA SAMIYA ANNIKA GRACE LAUREN ELENA MEGAN Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. Jai Alai: the world’s
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Online Dating in Your Seventies and Older
By Roberta Russell Of those who have lovers, long-term marriages, and other trusting bonds, half will ultimately be abandoned—by chance or by intention. One partner either dies first (usually), or leaves the other. As the growing population ages, friends and family perish and depart. Life is a veil of tears. The Covid quarantine also separates
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo I sit here, a bit perplexed by what has been happening recently in the country and abroad, so I made a list. It is probably incomplete, so perhaps you can help. There was: Afghanistan The diplomatic situation with our ally France The Recount The opposition to the For the People Act The
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
TO AUTUMN Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
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IN AND OUT
While Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Key to NYC vaccination mandate for indoor dining, entertainment and fitness would start on August 17th, enforcement did not begin until September 13th. Most Village restaurants are now asking for proof of vaccination, but Pasticceria Rocco at 243 Bleecker Street posted a defiant sign in their window
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GREENWICH VILLAGE LEGENDS: Tim McDarrah: Village Romantic, Writer, Editor, and Tour Guide
By Bruce Poli There are few people in Greenwich Village who actually embody its character. Promote it. Expand it and share the real Village history that tour guides and tourists love to stereotype with fiction (Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick, Dylan Thomas died at the White Horse Tavern). There was no fake news,
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Here’s to the Ladies
By Keith Michael Inexplicably to me, most self-identifying birders are men, and there’s a tendency for those men to focus their binoculars and cameras on the flashier male birds. For the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards, a Female Bird Prize was added as a new category to help spread the love to the ladies. Birds, and
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LETTERS
New York City is Not Paris Dear WV News, I’ve been following WestView’s coverage of the outdoor-dining conflict and I’ve been somewhat amused by the evocation of Paris as something the Village should emulate. But I’ve actually been doing it from Paris, where I recently moved after having been a West Villager for four decades.
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Mia Says
Mia Says: The path to wisdom is to edit and re-edit our thoughts. Photo by Dusty Berke.
