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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks

    Web admin November 4, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

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  • Cobblestone Repairs

    Web admin November 4, 2017     Neighborhood, Photos

    The extensive cobblestone repairs on West 12th Street, between 8th Avenue and West 4th Street, took an evening respite on October 20, 2017. Anyone living in or traveling through the West Village has no doubt seen this pipe replacement work in progress on many streets for several months. The cobblestones will return to their proper

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  • Selected, Trained, and Motivated to Vanquish the Opposition

    Web admin October 8, 2017     People, Photos

    Teddy Capsis (Number 91) lunges onto the field for one of his best games of the new season on September 9, 2017. Teddy ended the game against Bucknell with one sack, one forced fumble, and one quarterback hurry, helping Holy Cross to snag a 20-0 win. The photo above is featured on the current Holy

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  • Remembering and Trying to Sustain the Church of St. Veronica

    Web admin October 8, 2017     Arts and Culture, Neighborhood, Photos

    On July 23, 2017, the last mass was held at the Church of St. Veronica (149 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets). The church was built in the 1890s and completed in 1903 by Irish longshoremen and platform workers who labored on the nearby docks. The Gothic Revival church was built with an unusual

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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks

    Web admin October 8, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

    Weekends in the Chic West Village While the local IN crowd was OUT—at beaches and ball games, wherever—those of us left behind enjoyed the low-key charms around the corner. For instance…

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  • GOTTLIEB ON CHARLES

    Web admin September 4, 2017     Art & Architecture, Neighborhood, Photos

    The billion-dollar Gottlieb real estate empire, legally wrested by nephew Neil Bender, may see this seven-story condo block on Charles and Hudson Streets. In August, it was turned down by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. In the rendering above, the building is shown with the new Charles Street Block Association planters but not with the

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  • UGLY INSPIRES BEAUTY

    Web admin September 4, 2017     Neighborhood, Photos

    In an effort to prevent police officers from parking their private cars in front of the Bomb Squad on Charles Street, the New York Police Department offered large, ugly concrete blocks. This inspired WestView Publisher George Capsis to ask the paper’s Architecture Editor, Brian J. Pape, to design a planter cover, which was generously sponsored

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  • Happy Birthday, Ruth Berk!

    Web admin September 4, 2017     People, Photos

    Longtime Village resident Ruth Berk celebrated a glorious 94th birthday, Greek style, at Nisi Restaurant on Bleecker Street. Her guardian, Arthur Schwartz, threw the bash, which was attended by WestView’s own George Capsis, who brought Berk a silver double-heart necklace. She has been through a lot these past few years, as neighbors will recall, so

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  • Alien Skills

    Web admin September 4, 2017     Neighborhood, People, Photos

    This conscientious scavenger of Asian ancestry gathers deposit bounty by using a bamboo pole over her shoulder.

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  • Yes, Labor Day HAS Arrived!

    Web admin September 4, 2017     Photos

     D’Agostino resident artist offers imaginative Labor Day window display evoking Roosevelt-era labor posters.

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  • Temporary Closing of Gourmet Garage

    Web admin August 3, 2017     Neighborhood, Photos, Real Estate/Renting

    Gourmet Garage, located at 117 7th Avenue South (between West 10th and Christopher Streets), has announced a mid-August temporary closing. The building owner needs to install columns to reinforce the building in order to add additional floors for new residential apartments. (The accompanying rendering illustrates the design proposal by Cruzen Samton Architects.) The New York

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  • Sitting in the Sun

    Web admin August 3, 2017     Neighborhood, Photos

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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks

    Web admin July 5, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, People, Photos

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  • Civility Amidst PRIDE Celebration

    Web admin July 5, 2017     Neighborhood, People, Photos

    On PRIDE Sunday, June 25th, amidst the very popular Annual PRIDE Block Party—which extends from Abingdon Park to 14th Street—a fire broke out. The weather was perfection and the festive, rainbow-attired crowd was in a great mood. The streets were jammed with revelers—a few obviously inebriated. Suddenly, a whiff of smoke blew by as sirens

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  • Remembering Victims of the Pulse Tragedy

    Web admin July 5, 2017     People, Photos

    Forty-nine people and the perpetrator, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, were killed with an assault rifle one year ago at the Pulse gay bar and disco in Orlando, Florida in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. On June 12th, 50 people in white gathered on Christopher Street to mark the anniversary—an event organized by Gays

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  • World Refugee Day Finds New Meaning

    Web admin July 5, 2017     Articles, Neighborhood, Photos

    On a recent June afternoon, the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, located on 5th Avenue, between West 11th and West 12th Streets, invited passersby onto its shaded lawn for a celebration of World Refugee Day. With live world music and free food from Eat Offbeat, the event commemorated the contributions and

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  • Family Pride

    Web admin July 5, 2017     People, Photos

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  • WHAT DID YOU LOSE? 

    admin June 4, 2017     Medical, Neighborhood, Photos

    Makers of The Lost Village Query Publisher Director Roger Paradiso questioned, on camera, WestView Publisher George Capsis as to what he has lost in the rapidly changing West Village. Capsis recounted an early morning walk to St. Vincent’s Emergency Room with his wife who was experiencing an uncontrollable nosebleed induced by blood thinners. During that

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  • DIGGING THE BEAT

    admin June 4, 2017     Photos

    After watching students from the American Tap Dance Foundation in their annual show on May 21st, these two youngsters were quick to get into the groove on the Christopher Street Pier. 

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  • MAGGIE B QUICK CLICKS

    admin June 4, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

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  • A QUARTER OF A CENTURY

    admin June 4, 2017     People, Photos

    Ariadne and Doric Capsis are joined by their daughter Sophia and son Theodore for a 25th Anniversary photo.

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  • Royal Lineage in the West Village

    admin May 3, 2017     Art & Architecture, People, Photos

    This month, we revisit and expand upon the fascinating royal background of our WestView contributor, Antonia Maxwell. (See her piece, “Coffee with Antonia,” in the February 2017 issue of WestView.) Born in Argentina, Antonia descends from the Habsburg-Lothringen line on her mother’s side—one of the most influential royal 
families in Europe. Throughout history, European thrones

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  • CONTRIBUTORS’ MEETING INNOVATION

    admin May 3, 2017     Neighborhood, People, Photos

    Filmmaker Annunziata Gianzero joins the WestView News April contributors’ meeting from California by Skype as the paper moves towards a revamped online edition.

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  • PLANES OF LIGHT AND COLOR

    admin May 3, 2017     Art & Architecture, Photos

    These elements, in both Cezanne’s Montagne Sainte Victoire and COOKFOX’s 2633 Broadway (a 31-story building), reflect and intersect the sky in a transcendental array of pale pastel hues. These colors join the solid to the ephemeral, eliminating boundaries and edges.

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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks: Street Smarts

    admin May 3, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

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  • Meet the Fishes

    admin May 3, 2017     Photos, Science/Nature

    The River Project’s annual open house events invite the community to meet the fishes, crabs, and other neighborhood creatures at our Wetlab on Pier 40 on Tuesday, May 23rd from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Meet the Fishes welcomes people to experience our unique flow-through aquarium system that contains Hudson River water from under the

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  • CELEBRATING THE VILLAGE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS (VID) AWARDS

    admin May 3, 2017     People, Photos, Politics

    WestView Publisher George Capsis (second from left) is pictured at the festivities with New York City Public Advocate Letitia James; VID President Erik Coler; and New York State Senator Brad Hoylman (left to right).

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  • Honoring a Valued 6th Precinct Officer

    admin May 3, 2017     Neighborhood, People, Photos

    On March 30th, Community Affairs Officer Martin Baranski retired from the 6th Precinct after 31 years of service, six of which were served as Community Affairs Officer. He was honored with a walk-out celebration, which was only slightly dampened by the rain. The festivities consisted of an NYPD color guard and a line of officers on

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  • HOSPITAL RESPONDS TO EXPLOSIVE GROWTH

    admin April 4, 2017     Medical, Opinion, Photos

    Chief Operating Officer Robert Guimento (left) began his presentation of the “new” New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital by documenting the boom in Lower Manhattan apartment construction and population growth; the latter has more than doubled in the past 15 years. During their meeting, WestView Publisher George Capsis explored the possibility of adding a Cath Lab

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  • THE CONTEMPT OF NEGLECT

    admin April 4, 2017     Neighborhood, Photos

    This decades-old fence bulging into the path of Charles Street pedestrians is a relic of famed real estate scavenger William Gottlieb’s “never fix anything” dictum and will soon disappear into seven-story condo cash.

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  • Look At My Art! Look At Me!

    admin April 4, 2017     Neighborhood, Opinion, Photos

    Philosopher Susanne Langer explained that art was a language, and she was right. If I listen to the introduction to a classical music piece from Paris on my satellite radio, I can just about get the drift in French and catch the composer’s name. When the music comes on, and I am at home with

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  • WHO NEEDS THE MALDIVES?

    admin April 4, 2017     Opinion, Photos

    Now that it rains in the desert, SoCal is experiencing a super bloom. Pictured above are California Poppy, Lupine, and Canterbury Bells flowers.

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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks

    admin April 4, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

    DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? It turned out to be a month when those observing the world around them became as interesting as the objects of their scrutiny-whether it was Jefferson excited by the falling snow (#1), attendees at the Whitney (#2) and Westbeth (#3) art exhibitions, or the little girl fascinated by the

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  • Sophia Wins Platinum

    admin April 3, 2017     People, Photos

    On Sunday, March 19th, at Harborfields High School, a regional dance competition was hosted by Energy, a dance talent competition organization. Sophia Capsis competed in the Solo Senior Power Jazz category. She earned the Platinum Award and finished in first place amongst a field of over 10 dancers. The Power category is for the most

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  • Music of the Youth

    admin March 5, 2017     Arts and Culture, Letters, Opinion, Photos

    Dear George, The February WestView article on “Johannes Brahms: The Working Musician” compelled me to forward my enclosed graphical commentary on the current, sad state of classical music, especially for the young audience. Incidentally, Styra Avin’s daughter, Allison Eisenger, was taught piano by my wife, Judy. As an aside: Paul Hindemith, a prolific 20th century

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  • Hate in West Village

    admin March 5, 2017     Photos, Politics

    We received a call from Dr. Steven Schwartz, PhD who asked that we print this anti-Semitic scrawl with his name defiantly displayed. Trump hate has made it to the Village.

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  • Lenox Health Greenwich Village Receives Service Award

    admin March 5, 2017     Medical, Photos

    The New York City Council, with a proclamation, honored Lenox Health Greenwich Village staff for treating roughly one third of the victims of the September 17, 2016 Chelsea bombing, for a range of injuries. The proclamation commends the efforts of key stakeholders, on behalf of the victims. This occasion also reinforces the value of having

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  • Maggie B’s Quick Clicks

    admin March 5, 2017     Monthly Columns, Neighborhood, Photos

    NOT EXACTLY YOUR RUN-OF-THE-MILL FEBRUARY: To refresh your memory, after a warm start and a record breaking 60-plus degrees on the 8th, on the 9th the temperature dropped to more typical teens, and nine inches of snow fell in Central Park, which meant—whoopee!—City schools were closed! But by the 19th—whoopee! again—it felt like spring at the

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