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January 1, 2014

Interfaith Medical Center, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, will stay open for another month, at least

WestView News has learned that Interfaith Medical Center, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, will stay open for another month, at least. On December 23, a judge ruled that […]

January 1, 2014

Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter

Top Films of 2013 It has been a very good year to see quality, challenging, and entertaining movies in a variety of distribution platforms including […]

January 1, 2014

Whooshing Lou Reed into the Night

On December 16 2013 under a full moon, in about 30 degrees wind, at 6:30 PM, about 250 people were already waiting in line at […]

January 1, 2014

What Some of Your Neighbors Think of WestView – Sarah Jessica Parker

There was a moment, a day in a year, long ago and unrecalled, when my acquaintance with WestView News blossomed into a relationship. The house […]

January 1, 2014

Busy VID Monthly Meeting

Approximately 40-50 members of the Village Independent Democrats (VID) met on Thursday, December 12 in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. There were brief reports […]

January 1, 2014

Conyers Builds Single Payer Support

On Friday December 6, Representative John Conyers (Michigan) came to New York City to build a support for HR 676, his bill to establish a […]

January 1, 2014

Westview Over Ten Years: Healthcare Over Ten Years

Over the last ten years, there have been numerous technical advances in medicine that have improved healthcare and quality of life. These are usually well […]

January 1, 2014

My Village, My Self

One beautiful spring morning in 2002, as I meandered along Charles Street towards the Hudson, I had the uncanny sensation that a map of my […]

January 1, 2014

Out Shout

A Column of Political Commentary By Arthur Z. Schwartz A City Ready To Heal,Hudson River Park Air Rights, Hope for Public School Parents, Peace offering […]

January 1, 2014

NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee wants a union

NYU has been in the news regarding labor.Inside Higher Ed of December 12 reports: “Earlier this week, members of the GSOC (Graduate Student Organizing Committee) […]

January 1, 2014

NY Mag reports opposition to NYU expansion

The New York Magazine of December 13th reports that there is extensive opposition to the plan developed by NYU to turn Greenwich Village into a […]

December 19, 2013

Theatre Threads

By Irv Bauer October 30, 2013 – After Midnight – Conceived by Jack Viertel and based on Duke Ellington’s music and Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. […]

December 11, 2013

Abu Dhabi and Beyond

By Maria Hadjidemetriou Abu Dhabi and beyond My love for architecture draws me to The United Arab Emirates. My last visit there was in 2004 […]

December 1, 2013

Curtain Up On New Rite Aid

“Where shall we walk today?” was my daily question to Maggie who, after lung surgery, couldn’t walk more than a block or two, and one […]

December 1, 2013

De Blasio Looks Beyond Charter Schools with New Education Policies

Bill de Blasio’s stance on charter schools may feel like a bitter pill to swallow for charter advocates,after Bloomberg championed charters for the last 12 […]

December 1, 2013

Dear Santa, Please Bring Me a Dreidel

When I was the10-year-old child of itinerant bohemian parents in the West Village, being Jewish to me was Kathe Kollewitz lithographs of thin women and […]

December 1, 2013

The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle

Download a FREE copy of the novel The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle from December 6-10, 2013 This unique […]

December 1, 2013

Air Rights: A Gift from the Gods

Our Hudson River Waterfront is on the verge of being overshadowed by oversized development enabled by the same agency which created such an exceptionally beautiful […]

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