West Village Original: SuZen
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is photographer SuZen, born in Beth Israel Hospital and raised in Brooklyn. Her artwork has grown […]
The Legacy of Lisa Steinberg:
The Children’s Safety Project at Greenwich House Hosts Benefit Luncheon for New York City Children Who Are Victims of Abuse By Joe Salas A Fist Killed Lisa […]
Doris Diether: The Lady Who Wouldn’t Let the Music Stop
By Brian Pape If you’ve lived in Greenwich Village as long as Doris Diether has, you’ve seen a lot of strange things. But Doris […]
Unlocking the Potential of a Notorious Women’s Prison: Jail to Become Hub for Social Justice
By Leslie Adatto In a rare twist of poetic justice in NYC real estate, a women’s prison that, as recently as five years ago, earned […]
Traces of History: From Greenwich Village to Saugerties, New York
I have been living in Greenwich Village since 1971 on the fourth floor of a five floor walk-up tenement built by Alexander Mactier in 1851; […]
In and Out
Recently Opened Asian kitchen MIGHTY bowl, 120 MacDougal Street: This newly opened, reasonably priced spot, already has a number of extremely positive Yelp reviews for its rice […]
New York is at a Crossroads
By Lynn Ellsworth New York is at a crossroads. Big Real Estate wants to remake our city in the style of Dubai. Their goal: Drown […]
Arthur Schwartz to Silver Judge: NO LENIENCY!
April 28, 2016 Dear Judge Caproni: The undersigned is an attorney who has spent 38 years representing working people in employment and occupational safety matters, […]
Science from Away: Carbon—The Source of Climate Change
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) Carbon is a great element. It loves to bond with itself leading to all that fat around our midsections. Carbon […]
Fracking at Your Neighborhood Nuclear Power Plant
By Reverend Donna Schaper There are 30 million people near enough to the Indian Point Power Plant to be affected by any difficulty or disaster […]
Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Everyone laughs at the boss’s jokes. ………. You’re middle-aged when you bring a chair to the beach. ………. Blood is thicker […]
Surrealism in the Subway
By Alec Pruchnicki With police profiling many young black and Hispanic males as criminals, at least before the recent decrease in stop and frisk searches, […]
Performance Treadmill (Part One)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Every day, we are bombarded with images, which send a clear message that “Thin is in,” and that looks matter. With […]
Instagram Moments of My Travels
By David Porat I am reporting now from Guangzhou, my fourth stop on my quick round-the-world trek. This trip is part buying trip and part […]
Chekhov: Then or Now?
By Thomas Hoover “(We) revere the past, hate the present, and fear the future.” Was that Anton Chekhov a century ago, or was it on […]
THEATRE REVIEW Nothing Sacred: Sense and Sensibility
By Eric Uhlfelder There’s rarely anything sacred in Bedlam Productions. Director Eric Tucker has taken theatre away from its traditional focus on dialogue and stage, […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
NYC is about to become Movie Theatre Capital of the World for the public to see a movie. In addition to the soon to be […]