The Double-Cross Continues at Elizabeth Street Gardens
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The bureaucracy moves slowly, even when it’s moving in the wrong direction. Green space, once developed with buildings, changes […]
Restoration of the Last of Three Sister Hotels
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The last of the three remaining historic seaman’s hotels along the Hudson River shoreline is slated for restoration, […]
Village Activist Doris Diether Dies at 92
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP My dear friend Doris Diether passed away peacefully at home Thursday morning, September 16th. Doris was a person who […]
She Paints While Dancing
Body Medium: Annika Rhea’s energetic collaboration of dance, live music, paint & audience By Hannah Reimann “The audience is part of the energy,” Annika told […]
Autumn in New York
By Robert Heide with John Gilman One of the favorite theater musicals of all time for many people including myself is The Fantasticks, which opened […]
The Village Trip Festival 2021
By Roger Paradiso The Village Trip Festival comes back for its third year on Saturday, September 18th, through Sunday, September 26th, with a variety of […]
St. John’s Lutheran Church: The Progressive Anchor of Greenwich Village Turns 200
By Bruce Poli In the long and varied history of New York City, no institutions have had more influence than churches. And there’s a good […]
Greenwich House Proposals for Senior Center Sites and Services
By Darren Bloch The past 14 months have been difficult for our entire Greenwich House community, and particularly for neighbors who have relied on our […]
The City’s Oldest Homeless Organization, The Bowery Mission, Addresses Issues of Increasing Homelessness
By Anthony Paradiso The Bowery Mission’s flagship location is in the East Village and is one of eight campuses interspersed throughout New York City’s five […]
An Extraordinary Life
By Randee Mia Berman It’s nearly impossible to wrap up a life in 100 words. Ilona Royce Smithkin was, in a word, extraordILONAry. Ilona was […]
2021: The Year Summer Returned to The West Village
By Kieran Loughney The summer of 2020 never really happened in New York. With concerts cancelled, theatres shuttered, business conducted remotely and travel deferred, the […]
REVIEW: Ferrara’s Film The Projectionist, on Nicolas Nicolaou, Owner of Cinema Village
By Anthony Paradiso “I don’t believe in [using] tricks to get people in the theater,” Nicolaou said. “[I believe in] good projection, a comfortable place, […]
The West Bank Meets the West Village
By J. Taylor Basker Westbeth Artists Housing is located at the convergence of West and Bank Streets on the west bank of Manhattan. Here, technology […]
BikeThief Strikes Again
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP On a clear Wednesday afternoon, outside my apartment, I locked my ebike with a U-bolt lock. When I came […]
Beth Israel Hospital Staying Open—What Should It Look Like?
By Arthur Z. Schwartz The fight to save Beth Israel Hospital—which has now been won—is about to enter a new phase: the decision about what […]
A West Villager Travels Uptown
By Gordon Hughes For the past 22 years I have lived a wonderful life in the relaxed pace of the West Village. If you are a […]
CB2 Discusses Washington Square Park
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Washington Square Park (WSP) and Community Board 2 (CB2) meetings are manifestations of the agora, literally meaning “gathering place” […]