New Partnership Brings Digital Photography to Seniors
By Joe Salas Beginning on January 9, 2018, Greenwich House, in partnership with Lifetime Arts, will add Photography 101 to its roster of senior citizen […]
A True Win-Win Solution
By Joseph Reiver The City is moving forward with plans to destroy the Elizabeth Street Garden. It has selected Pennrose Properties, LLC as the developer […]
Primer for 14th Street L Train Closure
By Brian J. Pape, AIA In April 2019, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to fully close the L Train tunnels for 15 […]
West Village Coffee Joints
By Gordon T. Hughes, Jr. There is a famous scene with Jill Clayburgh and Woody Allen in Annie Hall where the two are sitting on […]
Beasts of the Village
By Gordon T. Hughes, Jr. You know it’s one of the highlights of our West Village scene. We see this remarkable parade taking place on […]
Village Hawk
Street photographer Steven Greenbaum recently snapped a shot of a hawk perched above the Bleecker Playground, at Bleecker and West 11th Streets. He then sent […]
Jim Fouratt’s Have You Heard? JANUARY 2018
I am happy to say that there is some good news to report in the new year. Our district’s City Councilperson, Corey Johnson, according to […]
Thank You, WestView
Dear George, I am so sorry to learn of the death of your cousin John. It looks like pioneers run in your family. What you […]
Replacing the ‘MF’ Word
By E.N.J. Carter Sundays on the corner of Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue were a spectacle most churchgoers tried to ignore in the early 1970s. […]
The Next Concert Could Be Yours
In my now 90 years, I found myself doing something I have never done before—sponsoring a classical music concert. It was easier than I thought. […]
Readers’ Clicks
Today, nobody leaves the apartment without his/her cell phone. So, when you see something attention-grabbing, snap a shot and send it to WestView with a […]
A City Law to Save Newspapers
By George Capsis OH WOW! I got a notice that a Queens City Councilman, Rory Lancman, was coming to the Village for a public meeting […]
We Need Our Own Andrew Carnegie
By George Capsis On December 23rd, WestView gave another concert, our second at St. Veronica. Despite the rain, you came and again in great numbers […]
Victimized by the Sixth Precinct
Dear Editors: Now I’ve seen it all. After being falsely arrested, threatened, cursed, and spat upon, I was finally ‘EDP’d’ to Bellevue. This is particularly […]
In & Out
On November 30th, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the threshold on the Commercial Rent Tax (CRT) would be raised from $250,000 to $500,000 starting […]
West Village: A Food Desert?
By Barry Benepe Writing in the September 2017 issue of WestView, Robert Widmann bemoans the loss of food markets in the West Village. (See the […]
Corrections
Within the November 2017 issue of WestView, Gordon Hughes incorrectly spelled the name of an ad executive in the article entitled “A Short, Comical History […]