Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee?
Playwright Edward Albee (1912-2016) was abandoned by his parents soon after birth, and was adopted by a wealthy family in the Vaudeville business who lived in Larchmont, New York.
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Year: 2024
Bleecker Street Beat – Zuri
Seven years ago, walking west along Bleecker Street headed to the Abingdon Square Greenmarket, I passed a small store with two colorful dresses pinned by wooden clothespins to a line hanging in the window. It was Zuri, an African centered clothing and crafts shop.
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Jefferson Market Library Arts Programming
The Arts are often at the center of it all in the Village and the programming at Jefferson Market Library is no exception. This May, we will be reaping the rewards of the hours of hard work our patrons have been putting in through our watercolor and choir programs.
Read MoreThe human cost of losing a full-service hospital in Manhattan south of 30th Street
On January 16, 2024, Geroge Faust, a decades-long resident of Morton Street/West Village Houses, called 311 following a painful fall. The ambulance took him to the Beth Israel Hospital Emergency Room on East 16th Street where X-rays were taken and something was inserted to inflate his lung. The staff then informed him that Beth Israel did not have sufficient personnel to handle a “trauma patient.”
Read MoreSoft Pillow, Clear Conscience—Clear Your Conscience to Get Some Sleep
You may have had a situation that didn’t feel right to you. You had to make a decision and may have even lost sleep over it. Others most likely have had different opinions, but in your gut or in your heart you knew what was right for you.
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Jefferson Market Library Updates
As you may be aware, in the storied basement reference room of the Jefferson Market Library, we are proud to house a sizeable collection of reference books, including things you may think of as relics from the past, but which we consider absolute must-haves: almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, and the like. What we’re most known for within this reference room is what we like to call the Greenwich Village Collection:
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Before Central Park: The Story of Seneca Village
The Central Park Conservancy works to preserve and celebrate Central Park as a sanctuary from the pace and pressures of city life, enhancing the enjoyment and wellbeing of all.
Read MoreMcConnell Steps Down, Let’s Sing!
McConnell Steps Down, Let’s Sing! By Alec Pruchnicki (Sung to the tune of The Patriot Game) Come all of you people, and list while I sing For the fear for one’s country is a terrible thing It revs up paranoia with the speed of a...
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Who’s winning this battle?
Who’s winning this battle? This majestic oak tree was planted by the city at some untold age years ago, and as it grew to fill its tree pit, the gnarly roots, or ‘feet’ if you will, wrapped its ‘toes’ over the sidewalk edge.
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Boris & Horton, The First “Dog Café”
What a delight to drop in to the newly reopened “dog café” on a rainy afternoon. The place was full of dogs and their owners, all merrily socializing with one another. We’ve seen people at restaurants with their pets in tow but never with the freedom that we saw at Boris & Horton. After a two-week closure, as reported by Tehsin Pala in the local paper Our Town, Boris & Horton reopened with community support in fund-raising and with a new business model.
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The Honor of Co-named Streets-Bella Abzug Way
Bella Abzug Way is located at the west corner where Bank Avenue terminates at Greenwich Avenue, directly across from the NYC AIDS Memorial Park.
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The Wedding Signer
I am a priest of the “old” religion, a nature based spiritual practice that honors the earth as the great mother. Years ago I held regular worship services, and taught classes and workshops, often in natural settings. Nature is my church, where I go for physical and spiritual strengthening. Recent science proves that being in nature benefits us on a fundamental level. Nature empowers us and what we do when in her presence.
Read MoreCity Fails to Finish Its Work
There’s good news tonight! Finally fed up with largely unwarranted criticism over its failure to do much of anything to improve the lot of its citizens, the City of New York has at last issued a schedule of construction projects, along with projections of when these various projects will be completed and how the new landscape will supplant the old.
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My New Life Partner
It Was All Meant to Be in The West Village. I met Howard 20 years ago when the Queens native was starting his second company in the Connecticut suburbs where he lived and worked. We connected over shared philosophy and he hired me to work for his new health media business.
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America at 250
- Stash, The Amazing Cardigan Welsh Corgi of the West Village
We met Emily and Stash at a party on Weehawken Street years ago. We became instant friends with Emily and fell in love with Stash. How can you not fall in love with Stash? Here’s our recent interview with his owner, Emily.