Vigil Exhaustion
By Reverend Donna Schaper Norman Lear, who is about to turn 93, was asked how he made it so long and so well. He responded, […]
REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s AUGUST 2016 Ah, August! Time to take a break either in the city or at home—relax, catch up, see a movie or two, […]
Saving Lives Is Not a Business Decision
A POWERFUL VOICE RETURNS Thirty years ago a young David Kaufman walked into St. Vincent’s as an intern and ended as an intense, informed and […]
You Are Only Homeless if You Want a Home: Of New York’s 60,000 Homeless, Some Prefer the Streets
By George Capsis On June 5th, the Swiss voted down a proposal to give everybody $2,555 a month as basic income—a law espoused and pushed […]
Cure for Political Myopia
By George Capsis A reasonably prosperous Mount Sinai discovered, after they took over failing Beth Israel in 2013, that they lost $90.7 million in 2014 […]
30 Ways to Decrease Gun Deaths in America
By Emil William Chynn, MD, MBA Let me start by establishing my credibility to both sides of the debate. As a teenager, I was a […]
Does a Downtowner Have to Die?
I just read your articles in WestView about the planned closure of Beth Israel hospital. Great work! I’ve lived in the West Village for over […]
A Hospital on the Westside! Absolutely!
Thank you for your articles about the hospital issue. I could not agree more! When I read the articles in the West View News, I […]
Locals Support Hospital
I support your effort to gain a Houston Street Hospital! —Frank Seiler, Esq What if a Tragedy Happened Here? What if the Orlando shootings happened […]
Building Torn Down on West 11th
As a long time Village resident I know you will recognize the little house in the photo attached. I lifted the photo from Google Earth, […]
What Shall We Name Our New Hospital?
Minutes before we closed the July issue, I got an unexpected e-mail from Doctor Kaufman (who now lives and works in Portola Valley) with an […]
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Annual 2016 Awards
Text and photo © Jill Lynne 2016. On a lovely summer eve, hundreds of supporters still chose to pack The New School auditorium for the […]
Union Calls for Skills Testing
As you are lifted into an ambulance you hope that the emergency medical worker who puts an oxygen mask over your nose knows what he […]
VID Remains Active During Summer
The Village Independent Democrats held their monthly meeting on Thursday, June 9 at St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. Erik Coler, standing in for club […]
MARCHERS WITH A MESSAGE
To show their solidarity and strength after the massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando, the Gay Pride paraders were determined to make this year’s […]
Why I Am Withdrawing From the Primary Against Glick
By Arthur Z. Schwartz There have been few moments in my life which have been more gratifying than the first day of petitioning to get […]
At Sixteen I Was Offered Drugs: A Teenager’s First Encounter
By Ralph Godfrey The hardest years of a person’s life are arguably the mid and late teens. When young men/women enter the high school realm, […]
Real Estate Assault on 11 Jane. Neighbors Knocked for a Loop.
By Robert Widmann When the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation website published the plans and renderings for the luxury condo building being proposed for […]