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September 1, 2014

WestView Letter September 2014: Editor’s Note: We asked reader Karen Sunde for more information regarding the seating on Pier 45 and received this from her husband:

Editor’s Note: We asked reader Karen Sunde for more information regarding the seating on Pier 45 and received this from her husband: Originally, the shaded […]

September 1, 2014

WestView Letter September 2014: The residents of the 66th district need to cast their vote for me on November 4th because the system in Albany is rigged, and Deborah Glick is part of the broken system. New York can have a government that works for all of us, not one that works only for the wealthy and well connected. It is clear to me that this culture of intimidation, back room deals, and working for your largest donors is the biggest problem facing our democracy.

The residents of the 66th district need to cast their vote for me on November 4th because the system in Albany is rigged, and Deborah […]

September 1, 2014

WestView Letter September 2014: Frustration with the double-decker tour buses

Frustration with the double-decker tour buses Dear Editors: I would like to share my frustration with the double-decker tour buses that have seemed to take […]

September 1, 2014

Tips for Eating Alone

Ahhh, the joys and perils of eating alone. I have written about excuses that keep us from taking care of our health. Eating, what we […]

September 1, 2014

Village Corner Honors Officer

It may have happened a long time ago, but Officer Brian Murray has not been forgotten, and on October 1st at 11 am the Southwest […]

August 1, 2014

Teachout Backs Village Hospital

Cuomo, like his father talks too much, maybe it’s the Italian in him, but once he opens his mouth he talks too long and it […]

August 1, 2014

I Apologize

“The books have been challenged by some groups for profane and derogatory language. The brothers defend their accurate depiction of the attitudes and social mores […]

August 1, 2014

Not Easy Being (Mrs.) Green

Ever since the Duane Reade branch at the corner of Bank and Hudson closed last August, the neighborhood has been has waiting – and waiting, […]

August 1, 2014

The P Word

There is a racist poem entitled, “Niggers in the White House,” in the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library at Dickinson State University. The poem, which was […]

August 1, 2014

End of the Line

By late fall, the High Line will have traversed 1.45 miles to reach its final destination on grade at 34th Street west of Eleventh Avenue, […]

August 1, 2014

West Village Original: Keen Berger

This month’s West Village Original is author and educator Kathleen Stassen Berger, born in Minnesota in 1942 while her father was Governor. For over three […]

August 1, 2014

Guide to Asphalt Beaches

Leslie Adatto: her first book and her perspective on New Yorkers An interview with the author Four years ago Leslie Adatto moved to NYC from […]

August 1, 2014

The Book Cover versus the Read or the Website versus the Restaurant

Chapter One is a new restaurant on Greenwich Ave opened by a few Irish guys as their first venture into the hospitality business. They have […]

August 1, 2014

Cool Whites, On Warm Nights

An August tradition for New Yorkers is to bail Gotham’s heat for the beach until September. So we came up with a handful of wines […]

August 1, 2014

Brush-up on the Bard: Jefferson Market Library Offers Shakespeare Class

By Cecilia Rubino If Shakespeare had been born “just a few centuries later, he would have been an American,” wrote the novelist Willa Cather in […]

August 1, 2014

Into the Mouths of Babes

Chicks and ducklings and goslings better scurry. And Millie and I better get out of this downpour in a hurry. Millie’s fluttery pendulum swings from […]

August 1, 2014

Walk About New York: How Bank Street got its Name

Although Greenwich Village’s Bank Street does not border the bank of the Hudson River, its name is connected with water. The origin of the name […]

August 1, 2014

392 West Street, Then & Now

With the summer breeze finally here, a stop along the Greenwich Village waterfront to reminisce about its past seems in order. The building at 392 […]

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