SCENE FROM THE STREET
The six-story, 63’ tall undulating red brick façade, at the intersection of Hudson and Charles Streets in the West Village, is finishing up.
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Year: 2023
Elizabeth Street Gardens: A Double-Cross Revisited
Neighbors of the Elizabeth Street Garden continue to express their concern that years of promises and years of being ignored have brought about this fiasco of controversy.
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The SAG-AFTRA Members Are Voting
The Directors Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes captured many hearts this year. The Directors cracked the door open by being the first to settle both money (residuals) and Artificial Intelligence issues.
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Starbucks Workers Across New York City Walk Out in “Red Cup Rebellion”
Nearly three years after the start of the Starbucks union campaign, frustrations are at a boiling point at unionized Starbucks stores across the U.S. On November 16, for the second year in a row, workers walked off the job in what they deemed the “Red Cup Rebellion.”
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New Minimum Wage for Delivery Workers Upheld By Appeals Court
Under the new minimum pay law, passed by the NYC Council and signed into law last spring by Mayor Eric Adams, tech companies must pay delivery workers in the city at least $17.96 per hour plus tips, with another increase to at least $19.96 an hour by 2025
Read MoreExcerpts from a Letter to Village View from Concerned Employees of Beth Israel Hospital
“Mount Sinai intentionally bled Beth Israel dry as an excuse to sell…valuable land and reward…their overpaid, bloated cadre of administrators. To be clear, Mount Sinai’s desire to close Beth Israel is entirely driven by corporate avarice, rather than the health care needs of the community.”
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This Is A Crisis!
There is an expedited effort by Mount Sinai to close Beth Israel, the last major full-service hospital south of 30th Street and 1st Avenue.
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MY INSATIABLE LUST FOR LISTS
There are seven days of the week and seven colors in a rainbow, and seven is routinely blamed for a certain yearly itch, though Tinder, Grindr, and other r sounds are equally responsible
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A Day at the Beach
On October 2nd the Hudson River Park Trust opened the long awaited park and beach at Gansevoort Peninsula, just below 14th Street on the Hudson River.
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Without Exception
The gruesome and barbaric terrorist attack on Israel by the forces of Hamas was met with horror around the globe.
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T’must be sumpin’ in the water! A boy balladeer works the Village
In 1895, a slight 17-year-old English orphan-boy, sailed into New York harbor to work aboard the four-masted Bidston Hill. Instead, he deserted ship to cast his lot with the Americans. After tramping about for a short spell, he sought out fortune
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Village Preservation to Fight Plan to Turn SoHo Building Into Luxury Housing
Mayor de Blasio, Council Members Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, and most members of the City Council championed the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan in 2021 promising it would promote affordable housing development and wouldn’t destroy existing affordable rent-regulated housing. Sad to say, their predictions have turned out to be far from true — as Village Preservation warned.
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Humanimal | Diabesity
Last month we wrote about types of diabetes, risk factors and symptoms in humans as well as cats and dogs. This month we’re following up on how to diagnose, prevent and treat diabetes.
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Astro-Zodial – NOVEMBER 2023, Scorpio/Sagittarius
VV’s Astro-Zodial Elucidictions NOVEMBER 2023, Scorpio/Sagittarius Peering into the Hudson-crystal...
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VILLAGE PET PAGES- Lexi, Rochelle and Lola
VILLAGE PET PAGES By Joy and Brian Pape Lexi, Rochelle and Lola One morning, walking on Hudson...
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- The Story of Rupert & Lulu
Rupert Pupkin and Lulu Bean both hail from the great state of Texas, arriving one year apart via a rescue group called Peyton’s Safe Haven. They’re Heelers born to herd, manage, supervise, and occasionally micromanage ─ and they take this responsibility very, very seriously.