A Teen’s View: 6th Precinct Community Council Meeting
By Sophia Astor During the past few months I’ve been getting to know Washington Square Park by speaking with its effortlessly cool skaters, rat-faced social […]
Livable Streets V: A Burst Into Freedom—A Radical Proposal
By Barry Benepe In the past installments I have looked at our streets and our privilege to walk on them primarily as a source of […]
Help Restore Jane Laundromat
Jane Laundromat (50 8th Avenue between Jane & Horatio), with its Happy Buddha logo familiar to neighbors, is closed temporarily due to a fire that […]
Open Restaurants or Open Sidewalks, the Follow-up: What’s for Dessert?
By Sid E. Walker This article is a follow-up to last month’s above-the-fold feature, “Open Restaurants or Open Sidewalks—What’s on The Menu?” If you missed […]
Where Have All the Theaters Gone?
Show opens MAY 25- JUNE 4 (Every evening at 8pm, except closed May 31) By Dan Bianchi When I had first moved into the downtown […]
The Right Pick
By Teddy Capsis and Gabriela Beavers Welcome to The Right Pick, your guide to confronting the city’s most overwhelming predicament: “Where should we go to […]
LATE BREAKING NEWS…
As we were going to press, WestView News learned of one of the most egregious abuses of tenant rights we have ever heard—displaced tenant Deborah […]
Buggy Whips vs Batteries
By Gordon Hughes I was having lunch the other day in the Village with two friends, good friends, for whom I have great respect. They […]
Opening the New Rooftop Park at Pier 57
By Brian J Pape, AIA The roof of Pier 57 is New York City’s largest public rooftop park, and is now open to the general […]
Publisher with Commitment
Our esteemed publisher, George Capsis, was recently the focus of a feature in the Greek newspaper, The National Herald. Many thanks to the publishers for […]
Washington Square Park SOS Instagram Keeps Tabs on Police and Predators
By Sophia Astor For most people who use Instagram, the perfect place to take selfies or post photos of the city’s golden youth sporting alternative […]
The Board Meeting at St. Vincent’s
By Roger Paradiso “This was a well-thought-out plan,” said Tom Shanahan, a lawyer for a group of former St. Vincent doctors and nurses suing St. […]
Greenwich Village Little League’s 2022 Opening Day
By Anthony Paradiso The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing and so is the Greenwich Village Little League’s spring season! Last year […]
A Rabbi for the Village and for All Time: Irving J. Block
Carol F. Yost Rabbi Irving J. Block (1923-2002) thought it was important that he had been born on St. Patrick’s Day, his brother Allen was […]
Yoga Therapy—What It Is & How to Get Started
By Dana Jean Costantino Yoga and Therapy are two practices for the mind and body that are ever more important these days. We all seem […]
Beth Soll & Company to Premiere Four Dances and a New Film at Westbeth
Beth Soll & Company May 7 and May 8 at 8pm Westbeth Center for the Arts, 55 Bethune Street Tickets $18 Ticket link: sollearthlydances.brownpapertickets.com When […]
A Pre-War Building in the West Village
By Gordon Hughes It’s very prestigious for people on the Upper East Side or for that matter Upper West Side to say they live in […]
LOCAL STREETSCAPES: NYU’s Mercer Street ‘Zipper” Building
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP First came the 20-year New York University (NYU) plan, then came the lawsuits. By the summer of 2015, NYU […]