After 29 years of dedicated cheerful superintendent service
After 29 years of dedicated cheerful superintendent service at 71 W. 12th St., Pedro Rivera is retiring. The W. 12th St. Block Association and residents […]
Guy Wiggins, Third Generation Painter, Scholar and Diplomat, Dies at 100
By Michael Astor Guy Wiggins, a third generation painter who traveled the world as a soldier, scholar and diplomat before devoting himself to an art […]
Autumn Report from a Maine Island During the Pandemic
By Hannah Reimann October 22, 2020 The eagles have flown to warmer climes to hunt, the pogies are no longer splashing in the cove, a […]
Dirty Hands and a Relaxed Mind
By Melissa Lim 2020 for me would read something like this; January, February, Corona, December. I relocated here from London in June 2019, so just […]
What Leadership Can Do
By Eric Uhlfelder One reason our country is in such turmoil is because our leaders, starting with but not limited to the president, do not […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE D’Agostino’s resident artist, Sam Mercado, was back—creating one of his timely murals And our neighbors kept calm and carried on… in […]
Remembering the First Village Halloween Parade with Founder Ralph Lee
By Anthony Paradiso During any other year Villagers would be preparing to line up to take part in the Village Halloween Parade. But this year, […]
The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Mary Trump, the President’s niece, recently described her uncle as the most dangerous man alive. She may have been too kind. […]
Confession of an E-Bike Convert
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Way back in May 2020 I had my tried-and-true bike stolen out from under me, so to speak. I […]
Abortion Rites and Abortion Rights
By Donna Schaper Father James Martin, a liberal Jesuit priest, closed the Democratic convention with a prayer in which he asked God to “Open our […]
Fond Memories of Greenwich Village
By Susan Schwartzman As a young girl in my tweens, my mother took me to visit my great aunt, who lived in a tiny, cluttered […]
Notes From Away: Update and Reality Check
By Tom Lamia In September I wrote of Gender Politics as shorthand to describe the Maine U.S. Senate race between Susan Collins and Sara Gideon. […]
A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo And so it goes, day after day, the coronavirus cases increase, the deaths mount, people grieve, workers lose their jobs, the food […]
IN AND OUT
What struck me most this month was all the construction going on around outdoor dining. Now that outdoor dining will continue year-round, restaurants are scrambling […]
Greenwich Village Legends
Richard Feynman: Physicist, Raconteur, Musician, Humorist By Bruce Poli This is a new monthly column highlighting the giants of American culture who have lived or […]
The Day the Village Stood Still: The COVID 2020 Election
By Roger Paradiso There will be a reckoning on November 3rd in the Village. As we approach that date the mom-and-pop shops in the neighborhood […]
The First Man Cured of AIDS Has Died of Cancer
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Timothy Ray Brown was reported as the first person cured of AIDS. His case provided clinical proof that AIDS can indeed […]
“Time is on the Side of Change” —RBG
By Penny Mintz With the COVID pandemic still raging, the need for universal health care has became obvious. Your COVID illness is, after all, a […]