Year: 2023

IT’S ALL MY FAULT: A Holiday Letter

To old friends, new friends, passing acquaintances, and those I’m desperately avoiding … Though you’d think I’d be eager to hear about your family’s exploits over this past year, I’m certain I’d rather have a month of botched colonoscopies.

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Getting Smashed

The first Saturday of November, GrowNYC held its annual Pumpkin Smash at Abingdon Square Greenmarket to promote collecting food-scraps for composting.

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The Great Bitter End

The Bitter End, which prides itself as being “New York City’s Oldest Rock Club” continues to be a beacon of light in Greenwich Village for emerging band talent.

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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.

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Meet the Masters of Puppets

This year it was truly a unique honor and pleasure to take part in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade’s 50th Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday, October 31

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December Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: I always enjoy Joy Pape’s writing, but I was particularly moved by her recent article about Lloyd and his dear pet friends. It so sensitively described the journey through love and loss that so many of us choose to...

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Village Pet Pages

  • The Story of Grover, A Rescued Beagle
    One early morning, I passed a man walking his dog on Christopher Street, picking up trash on the sidewalk and throwing it in the trash bins. It seemed they were street cleaning together. I thanked him for doing this for our community and he said, “Why not take care of where we live?” I was touched and thought our community should know more about Elliott and Grover. Here’s what he had to say. —Joy Pape

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