Neighborhood Improvement District: Progress and Questions
While the financial problems of the Hudson River Park and Pier 40 are ongoing, the move to establish a Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) to raise […]
WestView Letter November 2012: Right change?
Right change? Dear Editor, On October 18, I was accused of stealing by Empire Cake (formerly Lulu’s) on 8th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. […]
Chris Hedges Is Voting Green – and So Am I
On Monday, October 29, the airwaves were full of news of the storm – imminent – it’s close to noon and NBC news is showing […]
$100 Million For The View
Oh wow! Billionaire John Paulson, whose Fifth Avenue apartment overlooks Central Park, has donated $100 million to The Central Park Conservancy. The Conservancy provides 80% […]
The First Halloween Parade
In October 1974, my daughter Athena came home from PS 41 with her pal Heather Lee to ask if I was willing to let people […]
The Greatest Hotel In Paris
Paris doesn’t change much, not the way New York changes, where people who have been in the city for just two years are already nostalgic […]
WestView Letter November 2012: To the Editor,
To the Editor, Henry Stern raises a great question (Oct. 12 p1) but then only addresses individual misconduct by politicians. I think the greater source […]
WestView Letter November 2012: Letter from Athens
Letter from Athens Yiorgos Haris is a cardiologist with a private practice in Faliro, an affluent suburb of Athens, mainly inhabited by descendants of refugees […]
Legendary Visionary Puts Hudson Park In Focus
Barry Benepe, the creator of the Union Square Farmers’ Market, takes a hard look In the September issue of WestView, Alec Pruchnicki wrote a superb […]
The Education of Frederick Douglass
The discovery of the African Burial Ground is being called the most historically important urban archeological find in U.S. history, not only because of its […]
Why Many Politicians Disappoint The Public
By Henry Stern One of the perennial questions citizens ask about government is: why is it so corrupt? People who read newspapers, listen to the […]
Let The Children Play
A gentle voice is silenced Jim Brennan, a long-time West Village activist and staunch defender of Seravalli Playground, died August 26, 2012, in the emergency […]
PIER 40 PLAYERS VOTE TO REPEAL GRAVITY
I discovered, when I pushed open the shabby doors of the Pier 40 lobby, that the elevators were not working. A couple of maintenance guys […]
NY’s First Use of New Voting Machines in a Presidential Election
An Election Integrity Activist Looks Back and Ahead Some voters will use New York’s new voting machines for first time this November. Will their votes […]
Speaker Quinn Will Decide if Rezoning Preserves or Undermines Character of Hudson Square and the South Village
By Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation A rezoning application currently undergoing public review for the Hudson Square neighborhood […]
The Razed Rhinelander Estate
Gracious early 19th century residential life around Washington Square is often most closely associated with “the Row,” the block of Greek Revival homes on the […]
Lee Lorenz – Prodigy Then Legend
It is not widely known, even by regular readers of The New Yorker, that many if not most of the ideas for the celebrated cartoons […]
After a Blue Moon
The September full moon is crawling down the sky, subtly changing from blue-white to beige to buttered toast to a smear of raspberry jam now […]