An Excerpt from Robert Heide 25 Plays
The following piece is a slightly edited excerpt from one of the dozen new essays written by Robert Heide and included in his new book, […]
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 […]
My Brief Encounter with Jeanne Moreau
By Allyn Freeman It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1963. I waited in the Cannes airport to board a late afternoon flight to Paris […]
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 […]
An Exceptional (Concert) Musical Undertaking
By Michael Feldman What you will hear on February 10th is some of the most glorious music ever written, but also the emergence of a […]
The Fight of Her Life
By Reverend Michel Faulkner Growing up in the Bronx as the fourth youngest of 11 children wasn’t easy. When Vicky was three, she and her […]
Reflections on the Breathless Pace of Technology
By Josef Eisinger© To estimate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life developing on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, one must review the history […]
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 […]
An Historic Moment
By Cynthia Chaffee & Mary Ann Miller On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 60 Centre Street, an historic consent decree was reached between the New […]
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 […]
Corey Johnson Could Be Chuck Schumer!
Oh wow! The Times keeps calling Corey Johnson, the new Speaker of the City Council, the second-most powerful man in City government. I asked Erik […]
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 […]
No Wonder WNYC is a Nonprofit
By George Capsis Oh my, there is nothing so heart-rending as discovering that an old friend has been deceiving you for years and is not […]
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 […]
Memory As a Bureaucratic Tool
When Corey Johnson was first running for City Council, he came to 69 Charles Street and asked if WestView would support him. I explained that […]