The Greening of the West Village: THE GREEN PIER
March 2010
PIER 40 THIS SPRING? The Hudson River Park Advisory Board is holding a meeting at Village Community School on March 22 to follow up on the community’s interest to establish the first indoor/outdoor year-round Green Market in New York.
Quinn–Green Market No Solution To Money Needs
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn responds to WestView open letter
Dear Publishers of Westview,
Your letter raises a number of interesting arguments for what has created high rents for small businesses in the West Village and elsewhere in New York. I must start by saying that I completely disagree with your theory that protections for [...]
CB2 Passes Resolution Strongly Opposing Proposed MTA Bus Service Cuts
By Shirley Secunda
On February 18th, Community Board No. 2 Manhattan unanimously passed a resolution in strong opposition to the draconian service reductions that MTA-NYC Transit has proposed, particularly in regard to the buses that serve our community and are often the only feasible mode of transportation for our most vulnerable populations, such as seniors, disabled [...]
West Village Sushi Delivery Workers Strike
By Nancy Matsumoto
Former deliverymen at two different 8th Ave. and Hudson St. sushi restaurants are locked in battle with their one-time employers, spearheading regular picket lines in front of both establishments to protest what they claim are owners’ illegal and unfair practices and seek reinstatement to their jobs.
Tian Wen Ye, formerly of Kawa Sushi (24 [...]
Dear Westview
Dear WestView:
There are a couple of big problems out there that I admit to having trouble understanding. It’s too bad they’re also fundamental parts of our society, simply called “health care” and “the economy.” I am sure you have heard of these problems. Often WestView writes how these affect our little [...]
Hospitals In Distress: Can we afford another closure?
By Dr. Jeffrey Low
More of our city’s hospitals are falling into financial distress and facing unprecedented downsizing and complete closure in some cases. Last year my own neighborhood hospital where I was born closed its doors. The impact on the community has been significant and continues to affect many residents that it used [...]
St. Vincent’s: What Happened To You?
By Eileen Stukane
A few days before Christmas my 17-year-old daughter fainted in Beads of Paradise where she was holiday shopping. Rushed to St. Vincent’s Emergency Room, she was tended to by Dr. Jerry Bader, the same ER pediatrician who had prevented her from being severely burned at age 10 by acid a [...]
West Village Original: David Rothenberg
By Michael D. Minichiello
David Rothenberg created the Fortune Society in 1967 to life the hidden bars of prejudice for young offenders leaving prison. Photo: Amanda MorganThis month’s West Village Original is David Rothenberg, who has lived in the city since 1959 and in the West Village since 1964. While producing an Off-Broadway play about prison [...]
A Rebirth of an Old Idea: How It Got to Where It Is
An Idea is Born
Greenmarket was hatched in the minds and hearts of Bob Lewis and myself two years before it opened. A confluence of forces led us in this direction. As urban planners we were alarmed at the rapid disappearance of fertile farm land in the region. In just 14 years, the mid Hudson region’s [...]
Following Public Outrage, Equinox Billboards Come Down But Swift City Action against Illegal Signs Is the Exception, Not the Rule
By Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for
Historic Preservation
Shortly after Christmas, Equinox Fitness Center shocked its neighbors by erecting multi-story billboards covering both sides of its building at Greenwich Ave. and 12 St. The giant billboards were erected without any of the required permits from the Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation [...]
Chianti – Not a Poor Relation
By Christian Botta
Chianti is a kind of stealth wine. It hides in plain sight, cloaked by its outdated reputation as a rustic, cheap bottle clad in straw. While its upscale cousins, Brunello di Mantalcino and the Super Tuscans, grab all the headlines, Chianti quietly goes about its business, satisfying wine lovers who want to put [...]
Using the Web for Your Pet
By Mark G. Burns, DVM
Veterinary Editor
In the last 12 to15 years, veterinarians have come to use and rely on several websites for medical searches, literature reviews, and interactive consults with their colleagues when confronted with challenging cases. These sites are often available by subscription, and only to for veterinarians. However, the internet has [...]
I Don’t Know Anything about Medicine but I Know What I Like
By James Lincoln Collier
I was beginning to wonder about old Doc Suture—his idea of a check-up was to look in one ear and if he didn’t see daylight, pronounce me fit—when he announced he was retiring. “You’ll like the new guy I’ve lined up. Smart as a whip. The advances they’ve made [...]
Tekserve: Making Apple Edible
By Scott Langer
The stark Bauhaus-like glass box Apple store on 14 St. and Ninth Ave. emits
an aura of uncompromising technical precision. As you enter you are met by
a smiling greeter who soliticiously asks your reason for entering what is,
most certainly, an orthodox Apple sanctuary. The vestibule of the Tekserve
shop is lined by a [...]
Sex and Sinclair Lewis: Tales From a Greenwich Village Girlhood
Semantics
By Barbara Riddle
It was something to do with words, how they could trip you up and confuse you if you weren’t careful. It was a night course my father was taking at New York University, and he was very excited about it. The main implication for me, a ninth grader, was that I [...]
“The White Ribbon”
By Adam Schartoff
The White Ribbon is the latest film directed by Michael Haneke, one of Europe’s most highly regarded directors. The film has already won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, an honor that has even impressed the typically nonplussed Haneke. As of this week the movie has also won the Golden Globe [...]
Disappointing Year in Albany
Fiscal Problems Unaddressed
Senate Squabbles for a Month
By Henry J. Stern
If one writes too frequently of shortcomings, one can get the reputation of a Cassandra, Eeyore, Chicken Little, or boy who cried “Wolf.” But what if the bearer of bad (or mediocre) tidings is accurate, like the soothsayer in Julius Caesar? Rule 29-T covers [...]
Science from Away: Cooperation
By Mark M. Green
Our bodies work using principles of cooperativity. How else could the trillions of cells we are made of work together for a common purpose to keep us alive and keep us on our chosen path? Much of the organic matter of which we are made comes in the form of polymers: proteins, [...]
Come High Water
FEMA Tells Coastal Villagers New Cost of Living
City Sets Hurricane Evacuation Zones, Shelters
By John Tebbel
WestView first received the news of the coming flood from our readers.
“The condo I’m involved with [on the corner of West St.] has just raised maintenance by 20 per cent. The reason: FEMA has just done a new 100-year flood risk [...]
Garbo and I
By Andrew Vélez
What had we shared? Three encounters. The first was in the mid-1960s when a festival of her movies was being shown at a theatre on 60 St. and Third Avenue. It was there that I saw Queen Christina for what was maybe the second time, but the first time in a [...]
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