I’m Mad and I Won’t Take It Anymore
By George Capsis I sat in the car on 6th Avenue while Dusty ran into the mobile phone store. All I had to look at […]
Pick Your Term
By Roberta Curley I was just beginning to accept the fact that I’m considered a SENIOR. Then again, maybe it’s a mistake. Could they be […]
Exploring Writing and Drawing at the Jefferson Market Library
The Jefferson Market Library—a New York Public Library branch, located at 425 6th Avenue (at West 10th Street)—offers courses on a wide variety of topics […]
Preserving Village History: Transcribing the Writings of Vincent Livelli
By Annie Basulto Vincent Livelli was excited to make his first appearance in public in a few years. On January 27th, we launched The […]
Why Do You Get Angry? Therapists Reveal Mechanisms of Rage
By John Bredin It has long puzzled me why, despite its ability to transform lives for the better, psychotherapy isn’t featured more in American media. […]
Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso You can’t pray for yourself if you don’t believe in God. But you can pray for others. God will understand. Get mad, not […]
Not Me. Yes, You!
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We never think it will happen to us, but it […]
Joffrey Ballet: Nut All What It’s Cracked Up To Be!
By Allegra T. Jacobs The Russians have not only interfered in last year’s election, but they may also be undermining one of our most valued […]
Favorite Books from Three Lives & Company
By Toby Cox Greetings from Three Lives & Company! We’ve said goodbye to 2016, but we’d like to share our favorite reads of the year. […]
A Choreographed Life
“This is Vija Vetra and I invite you to my 94th birthday party at the Greek restaurant Nisi.” Twenty or more fellow Latvians also honored […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
March 2017 Ah, too many quality films, too little print space. Please catch up with me on the WestView website: westviewnews.org. Let’s Go to the […]
Facing Death –Thinking About Hospital Closings
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I woke up on the last Saturday in January feeling awful. As I have told WestView readers before, once you survive […]
In and Out
Open Woof World (91 Christopher Street, near Bleecker Street): This shop hopes to capitalize on the large number of pets and pet parents in the […]
Fate Wrote the Front Page
By George Capsis “I have no front page article,” I offered our Production Committee, just days away from closing the February issue. I had hoped […]
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, […]
WestView Anticipates Diller Island Flaw
By George Capsis In February of 2015, WestView’s Architecture Editor, Brian J. Pape, signaled the arbitrary complexity and prohibitive cost of casting 300 reinforced concrete […]
PeopleWay Only Moves the Problem
Dear Editors: I read an article by Paul Steely White in the January 2017 issue of WestView about 14th Street, which promoted closing the street […]
St. Vincent’s Closing
This letter is part of an ongoing conversation around the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) and the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital. The […]