The Name is Capsis, George Capsis.
Dad, I enjoyed the Iran article. I thought I was reading Ian Fleming. How did it go with the 2 blondes? —Doric Capsis
Aids Memorial Park Correction
Please note that the West 12th St. Block Association did NOT express concern about tourist buses being attracted to the new park as claimed in […]
City Finds It Cheaper to Keep Tenants in Rent Stabilized Apartments
On Monday, September 28th Mayor De Blasio announced he was allocating $12.3 million to hire lawyers to fight off landlord evictions and avoid an increase […]
Deborah Glick Loses Big Downtown
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Sometimes following District Leader races is like reading tea leaves. The races are for insiders to evaluate and understand. But […]
New Planters Brighten the 6th Precinct
By Stephanie Phelan If you’ve passed by the 6th Precinct over the last few years, you’ve seen the disgraceful deterioration of the long horizontal planters […]
Using the Images of War to View Compassion
A Review of WitteVeen’s When We Were soldiers… once and young installation at Brooklyn Navy Yard One Sunday afternoon my Uncle Max offered that he […]
Larry Selman Memorialized in Street Co-naming
On Tues, Oct 6th at 6:30 pm, a “Larry Selman Way” sign will be installed at the corner of Bedford and Grove Street in the […]
That Funny Building on 7th Avenue
Suppose you found yourself as the head of a hospital that had 61,000 employees, 13,000 nurses and 10,000 physicians and you had a name […]
VID Meets in September
On Thursday September 17th, the Village Independent Democrats met in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. There were short reports on a variety of Democratic […]
Machito, the Mayor of Christopher Street
By Roberto Novo Little by little, the West Village is losing its soul but thanks to Roberto Novo, owner of Roberto Novo Salon, and his […]
The Shame of Donald Trump
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I was in Toronto when the photograph of the Syrian child, Aylan Kurdi, who washed up on the shore of Greece, […]
A Note on the Death of Herman Gerson
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Herman Gerson, father of former City Council Member Alan Gerson, died on August 19 at 103. He is someone whom we […]
Mother of Mercy, Is This the End of Little Italy?
By Alec Pruchnicki While walking through the San Gennaro feast on Little Italy’s Mulberry Street this year, as I have for 45 years, I […]
Greenwich House Music School to Host International Piano Competition Winners
By Joseph Salas Select winners of the Stecher and Horowitz New York International Piano Competition will return to Greenwich House Music School’s Renee Weiler Concert […]
A New Chef and a New Beginning
By David Porat Nighthawks on Christopher was previously reviewed and was in search of an identity, which has been found with a new Chef and […]
New Chef at Nighthawks
By George Capsis At 18, Fikret Uslu took a summer job washing dishes in a local restaurant in his native town in Turkey. When he […]