Navigating the PeopleWay
By Paul Steely White With a 15-month suspension of L Train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan and along 14th Street coming in 2019, the City […]
Notes and Perspectives From Away: First Visit: South Bristol, Maine (1968)
By Tom Lamia My association with the State of Maine began as a chapter in a courtship that led to marriage. In early 1968, after […]
Surviving the Subterranean World that Connects the West Village
By John H. Johnson It’s a nightmare in the tunnels beneath New York City’s streets! That is, if you’re a telephone line or cable trying […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? It turned out to be a month when those observing the world around them became as interesting as the […]
In and Out
This month saw fewer closings than February. Plus, two long-awaited restaurants finally opened—Greenwich Steakhouse and Hot N Juicy Crawfish. One Italian restaurant opened and an […]
In Polarized Times, Greenwich Village Stage Dedicates Itself to Inclusion
By Joe Salas Now entering its third season, Uncharted, at Greenwich House Music School, has emerged, not only as one of New York’s most exciting […]
Historic Landmark Preservation in 2017: Out of Date at 50?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA New York City at the Forefront How is the maturing Historic Landmark Preservation Movement, which led the cause before the […]
West Village Houses: The Real Story Behind “Jane Jacobs Homes”
By Brian J. Pape, AIA When activists like Jane Jacobs and Rachele Wall first conceived the West Village Houses in the early 1960s, they envisioned […]
What Is Your Favorite Restaurant?
For those of you who regularly dine out, you have your absolute number one favorite spot where you love the food and maybe the modest […]
Landlords: From Best to Worst (and So Much in Between)
By Joseph Turco, Esq. We are now familiar with the City’s annual “Ten Worst Landlords” List, of infamous criminals, miscreants, con men, and non-human creatures […]
Reinvented Italian Sushi
By David Porat Raw fish is popular beyond Japanese sushi, and in fact, has a somewhat Italian identity—sometimes referred to as “crudo” in Italian. In […]
PeopleWay
This letter forms part of a dialogue involving the future of 14th Street in relation to the L Train shutdown planned for at least 18 […]
WestView Online Access
Dear Editors: I just read the letter in February’s WestView News about print editions unfortunately ending up in the trash. I’d love to be signed […]
Briefly Noted: Court Date Set for Save Gansevoort Lawsuit
Readers of WestView News are by now aware that the neighborhood group, Save Gansevoort, has been working for more than a year to challenge a […]
West Village Original: Edith Stephen
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is dancer and filmmaker Edith Stephen, who was born in Salamanca, New York, in 1919 and […]
One of the City’s Worst Landlords Targets Morton Street Senior
By Arthur Z. Schwartz This one may get me sued for libel, but here goes. Michael Sloan owns a number of buildings in the West […]
Notes and Perspectives From Away: New on Charles Street
By Tom Lamia Last month, I wrote of being “from away”—a Maine expression used for those “outside” of the local culture. In New York, the […]
Erwin H. Lerner Obituary
By Ede Rothaus Erwin Lerner, a well-known Greenwich Village playwright, died at his Morton Street home on February 8th at age 81. Born in the […]