Fate of 1824 South Village House With Hidden Gay Activist Past Hangs in the Balance
In early July, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) uncovered a plan by a developer to demolish a rare surviving 1824 house in […]
City Council Approves Massive NYU Expansion Plan; Deal Brokered by Councilmember Chin and Speaker Quinn
On Tuesday, July 17th, the City Council’s Land Use Committee voted 19 to 1 to approve a slightly revised version of NYU’s massive proposed Village […]
Retirement Security for All New Yorkers
The following is the first of 12 articles by noted New School professors and lecturers in anticipation of the opening of their new building on […]
Science From-away: Global Warming
The other night, July 10, I watched a segment of the “News Hour” on the public television station, Channel 13 in New York City, which […]
Bike Share: Extending Our Reach
New York City is about to embark on one of the most ambitious bike share programs in the world this month. Some 10,000 bicycles will […]
Developer Witkoff Calls This An ‘Alternation’? What If Witkoff Were Your Tailor?
You take your pants to the tailor. He tells you he’ll let out an inch. A week later he hands you back a floral moo-moo […]
St. Luke’s at Caramoor
“It’s like being in a time warp,” I exclaim. I’m chatting with a well-coiffed group during intermission of the opening concert of the Caramoor Festival […]
West Village Original: Stephanie Phelan
This month’s West Village Original is WestView’s former Creative Director Stephanie Phelan, a neighborhood resident for 33 years. Throughout a varied career that has encompassed […]
Then and Now
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Finding a 10-story, full block building is not a common occurrence in the Village, but on the lot bounded […]
A Postcard from Provence
Here I sit looking over the Luberon yet another glorious day, my eyes scan the valley and onto the hills on the south side. This […]
Play Pretend
SnackBar Long before modern chefs began puttering about in their kitchen laboratories concocting faux caviar and the like, ancient Buddhist monks were already performing a […]
Notes from a Retired Bachelor
Surely it doesn’t get any better than being actively single in New York City, the most colorful and diverse city on earth, for I used […]
99 Bank
Following the July 12th Community Board 2 recommendation to the State Liquor Authority that Alicia Nosenzo and Harold Dieterle be granted a license for “The […]
WestView News Cash Gift
Marc Levy, the most read French novelist, made a cash gift to WestView News. “I read it all the way through – it is remarkable […]
Celebrities and Money Speak
Loyal readers of WestView will, I hope, recall an open letter I sent to Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker some months ago just before […]
Has The New York Times Lost Its Objectivity
I never went to journalism school but I have always had this belief that journalism has to be objective, that you had to suppress your […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL : Movies That Matter August 2012
August and the summer spectacle film release deluge. I don’t usually write about such films in Reel Deal, but sometimes merit checkmates snobbism. So yes, […]
WestView Letter August 2012: Dear Editor
Dear Editor ‘Going Continental’ by Christie Grotheim (WestView News July 2012). Villager Grotheim writes enthusiastically about the joys she and her husband Niklas Andersson expect […]