Courageous or Crazy? Two Men Cross the Atlantic in a Rowboat
It took an arduous search with a blueprint map in hand, in the “potter’s field” section of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery. But I finally I found […]
Submissions Open: Greenwich Village Film Festival
In 1989 in Woody Allen’s film Crimes and Misdemeanors, Cliff Stern (Allen) takes his niece Jenny to the Bleecker Street Cinema, a legendary landmark of […]
Governor Cuomo Is Stealing From Our Kids
It was hard not to write this month about Rudy Giuliani and his ongoing rant about President Obama not loving America, and about his attempt […]
WestView Letter March 2015: The Little Paper That Could
The Little Paper That Could Dear Mr. Capsis, As a former West Village (Charles Street) resident, I first encountered your little newspaper on the doorsteps […]
WestView Letter March 2015: Cuomo Lets PR Firm Speak for Him
Cuomo Lets PR Firm Speak for Him West View asked Governor Cuomo who asked him to allocate $17 million of state tax payer funds to […]
WestView Letter March 2015: Bicycle Menace!
Bicycle Menace! Ask any neighbor and they will be happy to tell you the difficulty negotiating the Village at the peril of being run over […]
WestView Letter March 2015: Size Matters
Size Matters Dear George, Have you noticed what’s been happening at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site? The new Rubin condo buildings just keep getting […]
WestView Letter March 2015: Dual Congregations at Village Presbyterian
Dual Congregations at Village Presbyterian The article on the Village Presbyterian Church, (Feb. 2015) as interesting as it might have been, has two inexcusable flaws. […]
Briefly Noted: Westview Scoops the Times?
Arthur Schwartz reports that a noteworthy Times writer was ready to report about the life and death of former NYC Ballet member Edwina Fontaine and […]
Briefly Noted – VID: Johnson Details First Year
The Village Independent Democrats held their monthly meeting on Thursday, February 12 at St. John’s Lutheran Church on Christopher Street. There were reports on a […]
Update on the Whereabouts of Mrs. Green
Residents around Abingdon Square are no longer amused by the cheerful “Mrs. Green’s Is Coming Soon!” announcement on the hoarding around 99 Bank Street. More […]
New Laws for New Problems
Clicking my way through the dial after discovering nothing on 13 or 21, I stumbled on a City Hall hearing about exempting builders from real […]
Science from Away: Single Sentence Science Stories
Research from the United Kingdom revealed that watching someone scratch an itch fires up itch related areas of the observer’s brain—a contagious itch, the researchers […]
Reform the Rent Guidelines Board
New York City’s 2.5 million rent-stabilized tenants have their eyes on Albany. And for good reason: our longstanding rent-stabilization laws are once again up for […]
Rents Jump Income Drops
“My landlord wants me out by March 5” were the chilling words in Carol Yost’s e-mail after decades in a $500 a month rent controlled […]
Nobody in Charge
Bang! Right after de Blasio suggested building 11,250 affordable apartments over the Sunny Side railroad yards in Queens a Cuomo spokesman said—whoa not so fast […]
Hudson River Park—Where Have All the Voices Gone
There is no question that the creation of Pier 55 was one of the most secretly managed modifications of public space ever accomplished in NYC. […]
Brooklyn, I’m Not Mad, Just Don’t Ask Me To Visit.
A few years back I became very resentful of the Brooklyn Renaissance. Besides losing friends to cheaper rents and bigger spaces, it seemed like all […]