Has D’Agostino Taken Too Long To Turn Around?
Will using limited cash to buy fast turnover items reverse negative cash flow? By George Capsis Not once, but three times, did I receive photos […]
111 Leroy Development Reduced by Half
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Facing backlash from Community Board 2 (CB 2) on earlier plans that called for a larger building and an […]
Night Shift
By Keith Michael The stratospheric twittering of Chimney Swifts scribbles through the air, several octaves above the clicks, whirrs, and drones of summer air conditioners […]
Seniors Feeling Great!
By Joy Pape There’s been a lot of talk about seniors in WestView News. This is great news! In preparing for this column, I asked […]
We need new editors
“Sorry, George but as I learn more and more about how difficult it will be to teach troubled students, I realize they have to be […]
Thomas Peter Martinelli
By Katherine Martinelli Thomas Peter Martinelli (Tom), a native New Yorker and long-time Village resident, died of a heart attack on May 28, 2016 in […]
Maggie B’s Photo of the Month
SUCH A PERFECT PLACE FOR A NAP: So warm, so peaceful! With the beautiful Jefferson Market Garden flowering around him, one could hardly blame this […]
155 West 11th: Welcoming the Sky
By Barry Benepe In the September 2015 issue of WestView, I described “the building that wasn’t there,” 35XV, designed by FXFOWLE. Eight years ago, the […]
Diversity Matters. Don’t Just Hashtag It.
By Annunziata Gianzero Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. Oscars so white. Equal work for equal pay. Hashtag it all you want. Or post your […]
Stuart Davis In Full Swing
“In order to make a visual image you have to have something going on.” —Stuart Davis By Martica Sawin There could not be a more […]
The Diversity of Contemporary Ceramics is Celebrated at Greenwich House Pottery’s Ceramics Now
By Nikki Shaner-Bradford Long before gaining its contemporary status as a medium for art and personal expression, pottery was considered an artisanal skill. This is […]
How A White Community Should Look at the Racial Divide
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Hand in hand with the scary speech of Donald Trump at the recent Republican Convention was a two-week period which saw […]
Performance Treadmill (Part Three)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia What are you putting off till you have a better body, or a better job? What beliefs have you constructed around […]
Science From Away: What are scientists doing?
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) There are scientific journals and there are scientific journals. The latter are really only two, Science and Nature that are […]
The Physics of Everyday Things
By Trush Majmudar Physics and mathematics have been used successfully to describe the world around us. When we think of physics, we usually think either […]
Boomers— A Unique West Village Jazz Club
By Mel Watkins During the late 1960s and early 70s, just as the Civil Rights Movement gave way to the Black Power Movement, jazz thrived […]
Turning off the Music
By Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D. Just imagine the West Village without its music—the jazz clubs, Washington Square Park musicians, the folk houses, open mikes. It would […]
Grab & Go
In July 2016, Tsyen Shen, a Chinese filmmaker based in New York, filmed in the Village the first five episodes of “Grab & Go,” a […]