Why I Have Great Expectations for Eric Adams
By Arthur Schwartz For the last seven years New York City has suffered through one of the most ineffectual Mayors in its history. That even […]
By Arthur Schwartz For the last seven years New York City has suffered through one of the most ineffectual Mayors in its history. That even […]
By Arthur Schwartz The primary for City Council in Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen is largely over. Although Erik Bottcher did not get a […]
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I’m running for City Council this month. I should be touting myself. But this is the Gay Pride Issue, and I […]
By Penny Mintz NYCHA buildings all over the city, including the Fulton Houses in West Chelsea, are in dire need of repairs. That’s a well-known […]
Arthur Schwartz New York’s Legendary Progressive Leader By Bruce Poli He was born in the Bronx and has lived in the West Village for 40 […]
On Saturday, March 27, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer paid a visit to the West Village. Standing with Arthur Schwartz, candidate for City Council, Borough […]
By Arthur Schwartz I am going to start by using numbers, not rhetoric. Forty percent of all commutes to work are done by subway or […]
By Arthur Schwartz On January 14, at 2:30 a.m., I got a needle full of the Moderna vaccine stuck into my arm. It wasn’t easy […]
by Arthur Schwartz* Just before Westview went to press, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced that she was leaving the de Blasio Administration in December. She […]
Maybe Beth Israel Hospital won’t be closing! By Arthur Schwartz In April, as I was about to sue—again—to stop the new hospital, I got a […]
By Arthur Schwartz Back in mid-June, with NYC still in lockdown, and with crowds of demonstrators marching down 14th Street and smashing windows, Bill de […]
BECAUSE OUR CITY NEEDS VISION By Arthur Schwartz Our City is a mess! Our Community is a mess! WestView readers for the past ten years […]
By Arthur Schwartz An eight-story (or higher) office tower on Pier 40? A million-square-foot Google hub across the street? In case you blinked, that’s what […]
By Arthur Schwartz Late last year, as The Villager passed from one chain of community newspapers to another, Schneps Publications, one had to wonder about […]
By Arthur Schwartz Did you know that the polls were opened for voting on November 5 (and on our first five Early Voting Days, which […]
By Arthur Schwartz Polly Trottenberg, New York City’s most arrogant Department of Transportation Commissioner since Robert Moses, stood on 14th Street on the morning of […]
We need to start having more awkward conversations before it gets worse By Arthur Schwartz Pittsburgh in 2018; another attack that year in Los Angeles; […]
Community Newspaper Eviscerated By Arthur Schwartz For all the intrusion of the internet into how we get our news, and the availability of 24 hour […]