Vija Vetra Turns 100
It was after seeing a local production of Swan Lake that she decided she wanted to study dance professionally. But her family was against it. So she ran away to Vienna to live with her aunt.
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Year: 2023
I so welcome your new newspaper
I so welcome your new newspaper because the last two issues of WestView News were such a deviation from the one I had enjoyed for ten years
Read MoreJefferson Finds a Home
Thank you for your wonderful coverage of Maggie Berkvist. I want to update your readers on her cat, Jefferson. After I heard of Maggie’s death from one of her Bank Street neighbors, my husband, Geoffrey Knox, and I adopted him...
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Some Comments for Our Readers from Arthur Schwartz
Local papers are so, so, so important. Think about the George Santos mess. A local paper in Nassau County, the North Shore Leader, actually uncovered some of Santos’ lies well before the election
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Will the State Allow NY Eye and Ear to Be Destroyed?
With virtually no input from the skilled and learned stakeholders with years of dedicated affiliation to the Infirmary, they began a process of gutting the Institution
Read MorePraise for New Paper!
I so welcome your new newspaper because the last two issues of WestView News were such a deviation from the one I had enjoyed for ten years
Read MoreBusway not the cause of the empty storefronts.
Dear Editor, Interesting reporting in the January issue regarding the restrictions on vehicular traffic on 14th Street. According to the article on page 11, we are led to believe that the “14th Street Busway”...
Read MoreTo the Editor
To the Editor In your January issue, Arthur Z. Schwartz tries to persuade us that the 14th Street Busway “has turned 14th Street into a desolate street.” His entire evidence for this theory consists of four photographs of vacant...
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Curbside Dining: Bringing Life to the Street
By Barry Benepe How many remember the late Whitney North “Mike” Seymour, Jr. who lived...
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Free Buses Coming?
Just last month Village View ran a front page article calling for free buses in NYC.Weeks later...
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50+ Women Deciding to Live Alone
Few people consider the benefits of living alone as we women are programmed early on to be homemakers as well as having a career and raising children. Basically, we are expected to be self-sacrificing and not to consider what we really want. However, living alone have a host of advantages that can lead to an incredibly liberating and enriching life.
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Bleecker Street Gift Guide
By SHANNON MCNAMARA Bleecker Street is one of my favorite streets in the West Village, mainly...
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Endangered Species of the West Village
The Village Mom and Pop shops are an endangered species. We have lost many of them over the last...
Read MoreThe NEW WestView??? Pizzagate Exposed
Wow. You people are pathetic. This “New” Westview “team” wants to kill a voice in the village, Dusty Berke, so badly that you make a whole new newspaper helmed by Arthur Schwartz to do it???
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A University Reunion
By Gordon Hughes Somehow, I was convinced by old fraternity brothers that heading up a reunion...
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America at 250
- Driving With Your Pet
We were recently car shopping and were pleasantly surprised to see how pet friendly car companies have become. This led us to check information at the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and The Center for Pet Safety (CPS).