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While I Speak to You
Village resident Leslie Breeding was born in New Orleans in 1954, and has lived in New York since moving to the city in 1977 to write for CBS News. She is a senior news examiner for the NLRB and lectures on law and labor history at Baruch College. Her poems [...]
Wine Basics 101
By Christian Botta
The innocent wine obsessive sometimes needs a bit of help to make things go smoothly. Let’s call them Wine Basics – the little things that can enhance the wine experience.
Let’s start with glassware. Wine glasses should be fun and functional. They need not be terribly expensive but some are. Most important is that [...]
Janet – A Witness to Local History
By Armanda Squadrilli
Ever since I’ve lived at 350 Bleecker, I’ve known Janet Preen Tidwell to be the first resident there. For the first few months, she didn’t even know if there was anyone else in the building as she didn’t see another soul. That was 1962, and she inhabited a lovely, step-down alcove studio [...]
Helping Small Business
By NYC Council Speaker
Christine C. Quinn
Last month, during my State of the City speech, I outlined a new plan to help strengthen our economy, create more jobs and get us moving on the path to full recovery.
Included in this plan are several new initiatives aimed at helping small businesses across the five boroughs. Specifically,
we [...]
Film – Red Riding Trilogy
By Adam Schartoff
Red Riding Trilogy
In The Year of Our Lord 1974
(director: Julian Jarrold)
In The Year of Our Lord 1980
(director: James Marsh)
In The Year of Our Lord 1983
(director: Anand Tucker)
What I love about British filmmaking is its commitment to story and character. Naturally, they will churn out the occasional blockbuster but the legacy of [...]
Greenwich House
By Lawrence Lee
Few organizations in the West Village can claim as long a history as Greenwich House. Founded in 1902 on Thanksgiving Day, Greenwich House has been “helping individuals lead more fulfilling lives” for more than 100 years. Throughout its history though, Greenwich House has always been at the forefront of social services, publishing the [...]
New and Local
By David Porat
In what was the Public Space of the Chelsea Market, there is now an Emporium setting with newcomers to the market and an additional entrance on 15th St. New arrivals include:
Jacques Torres Chocolate – The Brooklyn-based chocolatier’s new retail location offers a broad assortment of chocolates, cookies, hot chocolate and more.
[...]
What Will Happen to St. Vincent’s?
By Andrew Berman
Many people over the last several weeks have asked me, “What does the recent news of St. Vincent’s possible bankruptcy mean for the plans for their new hospital tower and the Rudin condo developments?”
The simple answer is nobody knows for sure. The bigger question of course is will the hospital even continue [...]
Job Hunting, 2010
By Ken Ross
Like much else in this high-velocity culture of change, job hunting isn’t what it used to be (just a short while ago!)
As a career counselor, I ‘m seeing major shifts in the job market and in the way we need to look for work. Our career identities are in transition, as we [...]
iPad
By Scott Langer
Appleheads are excited by every new gadget Mac offers and in turn become their best salesmen. I had a roommate who unnaturally used to go into these ten-minute demonstrations of anything Apple. It drove me insane, I thought the guy worked for Apple or something. “Look at this app, it turns your phone [...]
Far West Village Rezoning To Finally Move Ahead, As Developers Seek to Get In Under the Wire
By Andrew Berman
On February 11th, the Department of City Planning made a long-overdue presentation of its plans for a rezoning of a 6-block slice of the Far West Village between Washington and Greenwich, West 10th and West 12th Streets. The plan was for changes which the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and several [...]
A Statement from the Rev. Caroline M. Stacey, Rector The Episcopal Church of St. Luke in the Fields
The current crisis surrounding the future of St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers has been characterized by conflict and controversy over a set of complex and difficult issues: urban development vs. historic preservation; for-profit medicine vs. nonprofit, faith-based health care; and the myriad issues surrounding health care reform that currently occupies much of our national debate. [...]
Full StoryThe Bistrot Sans Espoir
James Lincoln Collier
Like most boys of my generation, I worshipped at the shrine of Mantle and Kiner. But I came from a bookish family and nestled in my pantheon of heroes was a roster of writers, among them Hemingway, Waugh, and Orwell. Not that, in early adolescence, I had read much of their [...]
West Village Original: Everett Quinton
By Michael D. Minichiello
This month’s West Village Original is actor and director Everett Quinton, who has lived on Morton Street since 1975. That same year he met Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company on Sheridan Square, and they became life partners and collaborators until Mr. Ludlam’s death in 1987. Today, Quinton still acts [...]
Science from Away: Healthy Choice?
By Mark M. Green
Sitting the wrong way, bang – it hits – spasm in my lower back – the familiar dread – intense pain – walking bent over like a crab – in pain for a week – probably more. Next day, desperate, I am on the table at the deep muscle Hoshino massage, a [...]
Greenwich Village Guide-Book Survivors
By Robert Heide with John Gilman
In 1994 Jim Fitzgerald, an executive editor at St. Martin’s Press, decided it was a good time to publish a book on Greenwich Village. At first we wanted to do a historical and personal memory account of our lives in the Village, which we saw as probably the most [...]
Feds Nail Seabrook For Seven Fat Years, Monserrate Expelled
By Henry J. Stern
Yesterday was a red letter day in both political corruption and criminal behavior. We observed the indictment of Councilman Larry Seabrook for a multitude of crimes over seven years, and the expulsion from the Senate of Hiram Monserrate. Both are noteworthy events.
The Seabrook prosecutor is the United States Attorney [...]
A Green Market Could Open The Door
By Arthur Z. Schwartz
For years we have thought and argued, demonstrated, met, calculated, and consulted consultants about what to do about Pier 40. At least 6 developers have spent upwards of a million dollars each developing plans and responding to RFPs, hoping to grab onto the last major piece of real estate located in [...]
Give It A Name
By George Capsis
Thirty years ago, in a presentation I attended in Warsaw, Andre Targowski, a young University math professor who had been given the task of creating the first computer network for Poland, paused, and said something I have never forgotten…
“If you want to make an imaginative concept a reality — give it a name.”
When [...]
The Green Pier Will Grow A Solution
WestView publisher, George Capsis responds to Quinn letter
We, of course, thank Chris Quinn and her staff for responding to our open letter, even if she does not agree with us that returning over a million rent-regulated apartments to a free market would level out residential and commercial rents and perhaps make the West Village affordable [...]
