PALM’s Focus: Housing and Health Insurance
By Penny Mintz Now that the primary elections are over, Progressive Action of Lower Manhattan (PALM), a chapter of the statewide New York Progressive Action […]
Beth Israel Hospital Has Been Saved
By Siggy Raible It’s mid-August and we Manhattanites with no summer retreat are living in the city during the dog days of summer…you know, “those […]
Why I Have Great Expectations for Eric Adams
By Arthur Schwartz For the last seven years New York City has suffered through one of the most ineffectual Mayors in its history. That even […]
Greenwich House Proposals for Senior Center Sites and Services
By Darren Bloch The past 14 months have been difficult for our entire Greenwich House community, and particularly for neighbors who have relied on our […]
The City’s Oldest Homeless Organization, The Bowery Mission, Addresses Issues of Increasing Homelessness
By Anthony Paradiso The Bowery Mission’s flagship location is in the East Village and is one of eight campuses interspersed throughout New York City’s five […]
The Children’s Free Opera
By Michael Feldman Recently, Terry Stoller, writing for the Westbeth, “Profiles in Art” series, interviewed me about my life’s work, which naturally centered on St […]
Salvador Peter Tomas Sang His Farewell Aria at 101
By J. Taylor Basker Operas often have tragic endings. Some of their greatest music has been written for characters who are dying. Death is seen […]
Barry, Barry Sad
By Keith Michael The beginning of August was a bad time for rare birds in New York City. Early Friday morning August 6th, Barry, the […]
The Best Secret About Property Insurance Claims That You Need to Know
By Brian Evans, CEO Eastern Public, LLC, http://www.EasternPublic.com When the little newspaper that could suffered water damage, first from a suddenly leaky sink drain, and […]
An Extraordinary Life
By Randee Mia Berman It’s nearly impossible to wrap up a life in 100 words. Ilona Royce Smithkin was, in a word, extraordILONAry. Ilona was […]
2021: The Year Summer Returned to The West Village
By Kieran Loughney The summer of 2020 never really happened in New York. With concerts cancelled, theatres shuttered, business conducted remotely and travel deferred, the […]
Why Exposing the Truth About 9/11 is Still So Important
By Craig McKee It’s hard to believe it has already been 20 years since the world was stunned by what we were told was a […]
The Tallest Buildings in the World
By Eric Uhlfelder Twenty years ago he was in Hong Kong working on the AIG tower. He was having dinner with colleagues when he had […]
9/11 on 9/12/21 at Westbeth
By J. Taylor Basker To commemorate 9/11, there will be an event on 9/12 at Westbeth Artists Housing. A poem written by Griselda Steiner will […]
Refugees in Our Own City
By Jeff Hodges On the night of September 10, 2001, I was shooting the Marc Jacobs Spring Collection at Pier 54. Actually, I was shooting […]
LETTERS
Open Restaurants I’m reading the August Issue of WestView and am really upset by the headlines: Open Restaurants: An Assault on Quality of Life, and […]
Mia Says
Mia Says: One step does more to complete a journey than the most detailed map. Photo by Dusty Berke.
Generation Z’s View of a Post 9/11 America
By Anastasia Kaliabakos When I was sixteen years old, I traveled on my first international flight on a trip to Italy. I had been to […]