Vast Emptiness II: Few Boarded-Up and Vacant Stores Gain New Occupants
By Erwin H. Lerner Questions remain: Why are so many choice retail spaces vacant for months, or years? Why do landlords demand double or triple […]
Science from Away: A Science Story
Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) In 1936, as tensions leading to the second world war were ratcheting up, a small company located in Philadelphia, Rohm […]
Coming of Age in Havana
By Robert A. Moore Photography of many aspects of Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion popular all over Cuba, is strictly prohibited. But my friend Lazaro, who […]
Untitled With A Name
By John Barrera When I heard the restaurant at the new Whitney Museum was called “Untitled,” my first thought was that they must not have […]
The New Chelsea Market Baskets
By Caroline Benveniste Walking through bustling Chelsea Market today it is hard to remember a time when it did not exist. In the early 1990’s, […]
Jefferson Market University to Screen “Greatest Movie Ever Made”
Sunday October 18, 1:30 By Norman MacAfee Last year, the progressive Vatican of Pope Francis named Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
October 2015 The Stonewall Rebellion took place in Greenwich Village in 1969. Hollywood director Roland Emmerich and Broadway Playwright Jon Robin Baitz have released […]
West Village Connections to Kim Hunter and The Seventh Victim
The scheduled October resurrection of historic Chumley’s bar at 86 Bedford St. (WestView News, September) reminds me of its portrayal in the classic Val Lewton-produced […]
Review of Davis’s Best Seller Under the Mink
By Jim Fouratt Lisa E. Davis, forty year+ Villager and retired College Professor, has rebirthed her underground bestselling novel Under the Mink. It went out […]
Adding More Joy On Christopher Street
By Stanley Fine Here’s a West Village secret. Right next door to the well-known and recently landmarked Stonewall Inn is another a local bar, with […]
The African Grove Theatre; A Treasured Part of Village History
By Carol F. Yost Most probably the earliest real African American theater was located in the Village area. Founded in 1821, six years before slavery […]
Buddy Kent, aka Bubbles Kent, Exotic Dancer
By Lisa E. Davis In the 1930s, when she was Malvina Schwartz of East New York, Brooklyn, she rode the train in to the Village […]
Being Instead of Doing
By Christina Winholt Raccuia It’s easy to get caught up in the everyday rush of life. Life is speeding up, and often with that, inner […]
YEARS OF HARASSMENT EVOKE COLLECTIVE PROTEST
Nelida Godfrey, owner of Taste of Lima, lives and runs her restaurant in a building owned by Steven Croman—who has a reputation as one of […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (NYFF53) Spent 10 days and nights watching movies, attending talks and public conversations and then thought what do I want […]