New York, New York
By Joe Albanese Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you. Bookends by Simon & Garfunkle […]
Walk About New York
In a Greenwich Village guidebook written in the 1880’s, the author decried the row of ugly new brownstone townhouses on Charles and Perry and the […]
Remembrance of Involuntary Servitudes Past, By An American Veteran -of-Conscience
Prisoner Number 78612 By Robert Reiss Below, WestView News publishes a noteworthy contribution to the literature of writings by the incarcerated. Written by Robert Reiss, […]
The Movie Palace, Now History
By Joe Albanese There are songs that sound like moviesThere are themes that fill the screenThere are lines I say that sound as if they’re […]
Life Is Not So Short
By Joe Albanese “Life is not so short. But that there is always time enough for courtesy” Ralph Waldo Emerson “You’re acting all American, American, […]
Don’t Touch That Dial!
By Joe Albanese Miss Caswell: “Tell me this, do they have auditions for television?” Addison DeWitt: “That, uh, is all television is, my dear, nothing […]
New York City Continues To Demolish Parks To Save Them
By Eric Uhlfelder Any day now bulldozers and chainsaws will visit Wagner Park to flatten it. This remarkable 3.5-acre space, named after the former head […]
Elizabeth Street Garden or Gramercy Park South?
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Supporters of the Elizabeth Street Garden who are willing to block construction of needed housing on part of that site have […]
Army Corps Proposal For City Sea Wall
By: Samantha Maldonado-and Stephon Johnson © A Dope Artist Picture this: a concrete wall obscures Christopher Street Pier when looking west over the Hudson River. […]
The Boy from Brooklyn
-By Joseph Barbella I was in high school when I finally got the courage to get on the train. I knew if my mom found […]
Peace and Tranquillity Now At Pearl Harbor
-By Lachlan Wills December 7, 1941, was described by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy.” “The United […]
A University Reunion
-By Gordon Hughes Somehow, I was convinced by my old fraternity brothers that heading up a reunion committee for the founding brothers of the Zeta […]
Gansevoort’s RH Guesthouse
-By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP 53–61 Gansevoort Street was constructed in 1887, at the time of the widening of Gansevoort Street, during one […]
Friendship in War: A Lesson to Follow Today
By Anastasia Kaliabakos The first time I learned about World War I was in my 6th grade history class. It was difficult for me […]
Return to Gansevoort
-By Alec Pruchnicki Last Sunday, Village Preservation, the most active neighborhood preservation organization in The Village, had its opening program for Village Voices. This is […]
When Kopper’s Chocolate Sweetened Greenwich Village
-By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP ““The appetizing aroma of chocolate that is being melted pervades the factory of the Kopper Company at 18 Waverly […]
Writing and Framing the Village
By Fr. Graeme Napier, Rector, St. John’s in the Village Greenwich Village has a historic and enduring place in the world of the arts. Music […]
Village Diary: Pier 33+1/3 RPM
By Pago Habitans A few days after I met Mary Sullivan in Abingdon Square, I was sitting on the steps outside the Whitney Museum. I […]