Then&Now: Children’s Aid Society on Sullivan Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Although deeply rooted in Greenwich Village, CAS’s roots go deeper and wider than that. Looking back at some early […]
The Ghost of Professional Journalism
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP When I bought the former home of Walter Williams in 2000, totally unaware of its illustrious past, the purchase […]
Sarah Jessica Parker Asked
By Brian J. Pape In and Out, by Caroline Benveniste (WestView News, July 2020), reported the flurry of re-openings of restaurants with outdoor seating that […]
Hudson River Café Pier 45 Expands Private Spaces
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Years of debate went into how our westside riverfront should be designed. Many of our readers will recall when […]
Historic Maps of Manhattan: 1865
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Last month’s WestView News articles about NYC’s Gansevoort Market Waterfront and the 1811 Street Grid stirred several responses from […]
Then&Now: Gansevoort Market Waterfront
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP THEN:: #1: Robert Moses’ Westside (aka Lincoln) Highway construction was built from 1929-1937, when the Hudson River docks […]
Kushner Real Estate in the Village: Another Slumlord
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP You may have heard that Steve Croman, the notoriously abusive slumlord owner of many Village apartments, is back at […]
The Novogratz Waverly Place Preservation Project
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Bob and Cortney Novogratz are back in Greenwich Village working on a truly preservationist project at 114 Waverly Place […]
Then&Now: An Overlooked Christopher Street Gay Scene
By Brian J Pape, AIA The June 1969 rebellion against police harassment by the patrons of the Stonewall Inn, at the eastern end of Christopher […]
The Bicycle Thief
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Ever since the pandemic created stay-at-home recommendations and closed shops, theaters, gyms and restaurants, looking for recreation can become […]
During the Pandemic Construction Shut-Down, Some Spots are Active
By Brian J Pape, AIA When the city DOB shut down construction in March, only a few “Essential Construction” projects were exempt. In the Village […]
Trump Soho Troubles
By Brian J Pape, AIA From almost every vantage point in the West Village, the 46-story former Trump Soho Hotel (now, the Dominick) tower at […]
Michael Sorkin, Greenwich Village Creative, Dies
By Brian J Pape, AIA Michael David Sorkin, Greenwich Village author, teacher, humanist, and one of the most distinctive voices for social justice and sustainability […]
A New Hospital at St. Vincent’s Triangle Park?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Not long ago, Saint Vincent’s Hospital was one of the oldest and most revered hospitals in the city. Today, the need […]
How High Can 200 Amsterdam Go?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Many WestView readers have commented on the Clarkson Towers project as being much too big, and impossibly tall, when […]
Enviable Open Space
Just south of James J. Walker Park in the West Village is an open space that has been eyed enviously by many affordable and […]
Then&Now: West 10th Views from 7th Avenue South
By Brian J. Pape, AIA THEN: Ever since the City used Eminent Domain to cut Seventh Avenue South diagonally through Greenwich Village’s established blocks in […]
New York Transit Museum: Buried Treasures?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA After having visited the two New York Transit Museum galleries of rotating exhibits and retail stores in Manhattan, where the […]