Parks Are Good, Housing is Better
By Alec Pruchnicki The Medicaid-supported Robert Lott Assisted Living Facility, where I have my medical practice, often gets pleas from applicants who need low-income housing […]
Planning for Added Hospital Floors: A Cautionary Tale
Hey, we can always build more floors… Mount Sinai spokespersons offered dotted lines above the proposed 14th Street 70-bed hospital to indicate that they were […]
Weak Enforcement Lets Hospital Call the Shots
By George Capsis Just before we went to press, Carol Yost, who is very good at catching stuff, sent me an email from Anthony Feliciano, […]
A Taste of Fame
By George Capsis Silence. My phone was dead—completely dead, not a sound. I decided to continue working with that background irritation. Then I thought: What […]
A Community Transforming: City Planning Approves St. John’s Terminal with Changes— South Village Landmarked
By Arthur Z. Schwartz This community needs affordable housing. This community needs places where seniors can live with some amenities. This community needs athletic fields, […]
Who Decides to Preserve Our Landmarks?
By George Capsis The West Village has the largest collection of historical buildings in Manhattan. However, exploding real estate prices tempt monied buyers to circumvent […]
The Most Vulnerable Among Us
By Mary Ann Miller His name is Steve Croman and he is a predator landlord. His prey are the most vulnerable among us: the elderly, […]
West Village Original: Scott Morfee
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is Scott Morfee, the founding producer of Barrow Street Theater (BST) at Greenwich House. Born in […]
Visit the Sea at Our Door
By Cathy Drew For three decades, The River Project has operated an active marine science field station in Hudson River Park, first at Pier 26, […]
Science from Away: A Short Science Story about Viruses and Cancer
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Cancer patients in the 1800s were observed, too often to be chance, to be relieved of their cancerous tumors when […]
Kudos For Dr. Alec
By Nadine Hoffmann Our own Dr. Alec, a.k.a. Alec Pruchnicki, received a well-deserved award, along with lots of praise and love, for his years of […]
Bird’s Eye View
By Keith Michael Millie is sitting this one out (or sleeping it off—dreaming of hallways without vacuum cleaners or exterminators, streets without fluttering plastic bags, […]
Horses and Speakeasies
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The famous Chumley’s has slowly crawled back to business after nine years in limbo, a phoenix rising from the rubble […]
Chumley’s—A History (Continued)
By Caroline Benveniste We ended our March 2016 WestView article on Chumley’s with: “Only time will tell whether or not there is a spring opening […]
Mrs. Green’s Has Empty Shelves and No Catsimatidis
By George Capsis Oh, wow! Mrs. Green’s, just like D’Agostino, has caught the empty shelf disease, and it could be fatal! My pal Joe Fedele, […]
Comparing Supermarket Prices in the West Village
Reported by: Caroline Benveniste and Maggie Berkvist The chart below provides a price comparison across six supermarkets in the West Village—Brooklyn Fare, D’Agostino, Trader Joe’s, […]
Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buy of the Month
By Joy Pape November is New York’s local harvest month, which focuses on seasonal vegetables. Many of these vegetables are my favorites and also my […]