Remembrances of The Lost Village: Doris Deither the fighter
By Roger Paradiso Starting October 19th with THE LOST VILLAGE premiere at the legendary Cinema Village Theaters, we did community panel discussions after each screening. […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter
As I write this I am into day two of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah. I have been coming to Sundance since […]
City Council Announces Legal Action for Public Review of Two Bridges Proposal
By Brian J. Pape, AIA In the Two Bridges area of the Lower East Side, on the East River just north of the Manhattan Bridge, […]
Life on Earth in Perspective
By Josef Eisinger © In 1930, during the early days of radio broadcasting, Albert Einstein admonished a radio audience in Berlin not to consume the […]
Wintry Mix
By Keith Michael “Baby, it’s cold outside.” I’ve used that as a title before, but it’s apropos this morning. I’m holding the front door open […]
Can the Village Help Save Democracy?
By John Bredin There are few places in America, or the world, with the active civic life of Greenwich Village. Where else would a 90-year-old […]
The Motivation for Political Paintings
By Phil Levine When I turned 40 years old (34 years ago) and living in Denver, I had this conversation with myself. “Philip, you think […]
West Village Images by Joel Gordon: Art Illusions and Fantasies
Photographic series of digital computer art, illusions or fantasy featuring close up details taken from architecture and design elements of buildings. Other examples can be […]
Villagers Speak as Cornelia Street Café Curtain Comes Down
Gone But Not Forgotten: A Tearful Farewell to a Venerated West Village Institution Bittersweet though it was, I’m deeply grateful for the experience of participating […]
A Sad Farewell to Beloved Cornelia Street Café
by Karen Rempel On January 1, 2019, hundreds of patrons and performers from every decade of the Cornelia Street Café’s 41 years of creative explosion […]
Everything Old Is New Again on Bleecker St.
By Gordon T. Hughes Peter Allen co-wrote a song titled “Everything Old Is New Again.” The song was a hit and used in a show […]
The Strand Bookstore Landmarking Debate
By Carol Yost There has been a proposal to landmark some buildings near where the 14th Street Tech Hub is going to be. The Greenwich Village […]
L Train Not Shutting Down—But Will 14th Street?
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Back in 2016 the MTA did an Environmental Assessment of its now abandoned plan to shut the L Train down for […]
L Train—14th Street Project Update and Aftermath
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP After months of valiant and sustained efforts to save their neighborhoods from an ill-advised MTA/DOT scheme for an L […]
The Michael Smith Book
By Robert Heide Michael Smith, who for many years wrote a column for the Village Voice called Theatre Journal and was chief drama critic at […]
Slogging Through Winter, Part Two
By Jane Heil Usyk I’ve already pushed through December and January. Now there are only three months left to go until beautiful (or mostly beautiful) […]
Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso It’s impossible to carry a pizza home with dignity. Tom Brady is Jack Kennedy. He’s a winner, rich and famous, Irish from […]