Mom’s Lessons on Love
By Nancy Davidoff Kelton It takes a village to raise a child. It took me forever to appreciate my mother. Now years after her death, […]
Charlie Caruso’s Quips
Mighty man with all his nukes has been crowned by a corona before he could put up his dukes. The man in the seat gets […]
A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo How many weeks has it been? Five, six, more, does it matter? Each day blends into the other. What if we wake […]
Ilona Royce-Smithkin Turns 100
By Carol London Ilona Royce-Smithkin lived above The Beatrice Inn on West 12th Street for fifty years and celebrated her 100th birthday on March 27th […]
The Performance: A Tale of Bohemia and the Mob
By Bennett Kremen In the mid 1950s, when just seventeen, I took a midnight bus from Chicago through the cornfields of Indiana and the mountains […]
Villagers Can Help Prevent Burglaries in Their Neighborhood
By Frank Quinn Crime across the city is trending downward over the last month, due to the coronavirus outbreak, and the West Village is experiencing […]
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 […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON? Only three months ago, on February 1st, I had taken the shot below and suggested to George running it with […]
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
By Catherine Revland The final article in the series “You Must Remember This,” about World War II and its relevance to our time. This month […]
A Classic Plague That Changed the Course of History: Looking to Antiquity for a Remedy in the Age of COVID-19
By Anastasia Kaliabakos In 430 B.C., a devastating plague ravaged Athens. This disease is said to have originated in Sub-Saharan Africa, south of modern-day Ethiopia. […]
Literature and Inequality
By Daniel Shaviro Jewish immigrant families from a century ago, such as my grandparents on both sides, often had a distinct set of intellectual and […]
West Village Voices: One Life During A Pandemic
By Drew Davis Every day we expect the news to provide a bird’s-eye view of New York City. But our city is a big place, […]
Super Hero V: Epidemic of Cooperation—The Three Cs of Isolation
By Robert Kroll We’re sheltering-in-place, aka SIPing, in Northern California. We were there on a business trip in early March, and two days later Governor […]
What’s the Future of Our Health Care?
By Penny Mintz In this country people are responsible for the cost of their health care. Generally, if you have a catastrophic medical condition you […]
Airports Are Petri Dishes for Virus
By J. Taylor Basker Two of my friends returned recently from countries embattled in the fight against the Coronavirus, but there was no health check […]
Flying Rome–NYC–Rome During the Crisis: My Personal Experience
By Mary Hudson I became aware of the dangerous new COVID-19 virus around the middle of February. The whole world was slowly gearing up to deal with […]
Staying Emotionally Connected: Corey Johnson and Westbeth Artists
By J. Taylor Basker Despite Coronavirus isolation, attempts to prevent voting and misinformation for citizens, Democracy can still work! Residents at Westbeth Artists Housing held […]
Victoria Ann Ottomanelli
For Vicki, it was all about family Victoria Ann Ottomanelli, age 72, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on March 26, 2020 after a […]