A New Middle School for the West Village
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner NDNY Architecture + Design Middle School 297 NYC moved into its new location at 75 Morton Street this fall. The school […]
St. John’s Gets Another Do-Over: The Saga of 550 Washington Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP If you don’t have your scorecard handy, you’re going to miss some plays with this development along West Street […]
Andy Warhol: Endangered Species (At the Ukrainian Museum)
By Robert Heide At 222 East 6th Street (just off the Bowery) the ultra-modernistic Ukrainian Museum—which features multiplex galleries and a charming gift shop selling […]
Prostitution 101
“Working” college students now includes prostitution to pay cost of attending NYU By Roger Paradiso I was an innocent man on September 1, 2015. That’s […]
Northwell Opens Suite of Doctor Offices
In a move to return the range of care once offered by St. Vincent’s, West Villagers are now being offered the skills of highly qualified […]
L-Train Shutdown “Mitigation” Back In Court
By Arthur Z. Schwartz The Mitigation Plan spawned by the upcoming April 2019 shutdown of the L Train, is back in court. As Westview went […]
Court to Beth Israel: “Maybe I Won’t Allow You To Close”
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Sometimes the wheels of Justice grind slowly. Back in November 2017, Westview Publisher George Capsis and I, plus the political group […]
Greenwich House Pottery Expansion Plans Fire Up the Neighbors
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner NDNY Architecture + Design NIMBY or ‘Not In My Backyard’ is a term you hear quite often in conjunction with developments […]
Why You Didn’t See Penny Mintz on the Ballot
By Penny Mintz If you are one of the 1,900 people, during those brutally hot days at the end of June and the beginning of […]
IN AND OUT
Retail may be struggling, but some brands have decided that the way forward is to improve customer experience, and one approach is to add food […]
From the Blue Zone to the Big Apple: Ikaria Comes to New York
By Lisa Bernhard On November 3rd and 4th, Ikarian chef Eleni Karimalis and her winemaker husband George will talk about their philosophy of healthy living […]
9-11 Tiles Gains Gallery
Unique Mobile Gallery: The commemorative tiles created shortly after 9-11 and displayed at the juncture of Greenwich and 7th Avenue gained a mobile gallery with over […]
Beth Israel From The Inside
By Arthur Z. Schwartz It has been two days since I was wheeled in here (Beth Israel), thinking that I was about to die. However, […]
Another Sad Store Closing: Leo Design to Shutter After 22 Years in the Village
By Caroline Benveniste Every month, we report openings and closings in the neighborhood, and recently, I have received letters from readers alerting me to some […]
Rent Hike Closes Da Silvano, Let’s Save Caffe Vivaldi
On December 20th, the West Village lost another institution to the greed of area building owners. Da Silvano, one of the best Italian restaurants in […]
Killer Construction Firm Says “No” to Sentence Following Death
On April 6, 2015, Carlos Moncayo, an undocumented Ecuadorian immigrant, was buried alive when a 14-foot trench collapsed at the construction site on 9th Avenue, […]
Waste Transfer Station Coming to West 13th St. Soon?
On December 24th, the New York Times Metro section featured an article about neighborhood outrage at an NYC Department of Sanitation Waste Transfer Station located […]
Audience Stampedes at Union Square Theatre
Fear of terrorism has us all quite skittish but, on December 18th, this fear became more palpable at the Regal Union Square Cinema. During a […]