Affordable Housing Lottery Assistance
Dear editors, Responding to inquiries about my January 2020 article “Clarkson Towers Promise Affordable & Senior Units” and how one can enter the lottery for […]
Transportation Alternative?
Dear editors: 6,000 pedestrians are killed each year in America by motor vehicles, not including other vehicle deaths or injuries. Although most of the deaths […]
Seventy-Six Eighth Avenue Development Revealed
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, Architecture Editor The busy southeast corner of Eighth Avenue and West 14th Street will get a substantial improvement over the […]
Friendly Ideas for Hudson River Park
Dear editors: The August article (Why) Build a Full-Size Field on Gansevoort Park? about the excellent public presentation July 24 of Hudson River Park’s plans […]
Israel-Palestine
Dear editors: Hate has no place here. An article on Israel-Palestine in the April issue is a political diatribe one expects from the alt-right or […]
Diller Island Update
At last year’s State of the State, Cuomo allocated $50 million in funds for the waterfront park, which has been under segment-by-segment construction for more […]
“The Last One Left”
Hi George, This letter is in response to Brian Pape’s Then & Now article “The Last One Left,” WestView Feb. 2019 issue. Although we could […]
Village Development Controversies Heat Up
By Brian J. Pape, AIA This past month, several Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) decisions have neighbors upset. What drove the LPC to make these choices? […]