Characters of the Village
Neighborhood
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Forty Stories of Problems at Planned 388 Hudson Tower Project
The Mamdani administration appears poised to move ahead with a 400-foot tall tower on public land at 388 Hudson Street (at Clarkson Street) originally planned by the Adams administration. The proposed project is riddled with serious problems — including design, demolition, and choice of developer. If not changed now, it will become a permanent reality in our neighborhood.
Food
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The Pint Sized Palate – A Kid’s Take on New York Food – Little Owl
Little Owl is in the heart of the vintage West Village. It’s next to the Friends apartment, half a block from Grove Court, and a block away from the narrowest (9.5 feet) townhouse in New York where someone famous lived.
Arts
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Inside Kristina Wong’s Food Bank Influencer
Kristina Wong’s one-woman show Food Bank Influencer unfolds as a deliberately chaotic, funny, and ultimately incisive narrative about hunger, dignity, and the limits of charity in America.
Business
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My View Around the Village
What do you do when you are thrown out of your shop because of high rents? If you are Jim Drougas of Unoppressve Non-Imperialist Bargain Books you buy and stock a bookmobile.
Nature
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The One That I Want
I’m greedy. Even while doing a happy dance for the arrival of spring birds, I don’t want the winter birds to leave. And even though, in three short weeks between January 31 and February 20, I added four new birds to my West Village Bird List—I still want more.
Parks
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A Defiant Community Returns a Flag to Sacred Ground
Village community members and city leaders came together on a freezing February afternoon to re-raise the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument after a directive from the Trump administration caused it to be taken down a few days prior.
Culture
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Greenwich Village for Freedom
In February 2025, while sitting in Westbeth Artist Housing, a month after the re-inauguration of Trump’s regime with endless executive orders, threats, unhinged rants and the reality of the demise of our democracy, I was both in a rage and a panic. Who is doing something about this?
About Us
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The Village View Turns One!
In December, 2022 a group of former staffers from another Village monthly banded together to launch Village View as a new voice for Greenwich Village—West to East.
Scenes From the Street
- The Story of Thackery Binx
My boyfriend, being a big fan of the 1993 Hocus Pocus film, named her Thackery Binx. Well…she did bear the name Suba for the first couple weeks as she was first found in a Subaru, but why keep the trauma all her life?