The West Village is undergoing a pizza renaissance. For a while, between Brunetti’s at Horatio and Hudson, and Bleecker Street Pizza on 7th near Bleecker, and John’s (which doesn’t sell slices) there wasn’t much choice. (I should note that I am a big fan of Little Italy Pizza on University, but that’s a shlep for lots of people living further West.)
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What occurs when an immovable object meets an irresistible force? Or when the kinetic alchemy of some random meeting between a 3x Grammy Award-nominated jazz pianist and a 6x Downbeat Magazine Award-winning tenor saxophonist happens on stage?
Read MorePolitics is a nasty business. Nasty people often gravitate into the business of politics. Power is the business of politics. Electioneering is the door opener to gaining that power. The next seven months will be decisive as never before of whether the U.S. Constitution will survive an all-out attack by the people it was designed to protect. The nasty business of politics will determine the result.
Read MoreWhy is it that we can get medical care for our body but not as easily for our mouth (teeth and gums)? I don’t think it’s the medical practitioners but most likely the insurance companies, and why I don’t know.
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“Peoples’ Movements” is a special art exhibition running through April 15th at the Tenri Cultural Institute located at 43A West 13th Street in the heart of Greenwich Village.
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On Saturday March 2, the hallways of the Japanese American United Church in Chelsea buzzed excitedly as hundreds of community members attended the Annual Day of Remembrance to memorialize the incarceration at Japanese internment camps and prevent its recurrence.
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Father Ed is Associate Director at Church of the Ascension on 11th Street and Fifth Avenue. I met him years ago when my film, The Lost Village, played at the Resistance Cinema located in the Parish Hall. This was a couple of years before Covid. And it’s all gone downhill since then with lots of artists and people hurting.
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Jack Kerouac was an artist and that is a tough bag to carry around in any time period. His father came from Quebec but Jack was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In the 1940s he moved to Greenwich Village, his spiritual home for his artistic life. He had many hangouts like Café Wha, Café Regina, the Kettle of Fish, and places he “crashed”—mostly apartments of women he had affairs with or his friends.
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Isn’t it ironic that Artificial Intelligence has arrived in our world at a time when very little real intelligence can be found? Like, anywhere.
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We met Ivy Diaz last year as we were interviewing Kenia Hernandez for our March 2023 Village View Character of the Village. Ivy is Kenia’s manager and helped to make sure Kenia had all she needed for the interview.
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For the large, irregularly shaped, spring-fed, pond, Collect Pond was the English name, derived from the Dutch Kalck, meaning chalk or lime, probably referring to oysters, according to oldstreets.com. The pond was an important source of drinking water in colonial times, but as humans tend to foul their own nests, it became progressively more polluted.
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There’s a gem of a record store called Record Runner located at 5 Jones Street between Bleecker and West 4th streets. The original store was opened on Cornelia Street in 1979 by John Pita. In 1984, Pita opened the second Record Runner location on Jones Street, which is the only one that exists today.
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It was over a year ago, the night of February 2, 2023, when Flaco, a charismatic Eurasian Eagle Owl, escaped from the Central Park Zoo after his aviary was vandalized and he first stepped through, after 12 years in captivity, to the wide, wild world of New York City. Since his recent, unfortunate demise, presumably from crashing into an Upper West Side backyard window, reams have been written about him city-wide, nationally, and internationally. Where to begin?
Read MoreIn 2020 we as a nation faced the most difficult of times. We battled a 1-in-a-100-year pandemic as countries closed off borders, travel was restricted and much of the world wore face masks to protect themselves and loved ones from infection. More than a million Americans perished and we, the dedicated doctors, fought for your and our own survival.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2022, the first bus of people seeking asylum at the southern border arrived in our city. What was initiated as a callous and cruel political ploy by Republican governors has become an ongoing crisis as our city attempts to provide shelter and support to tens of thousands of newly arrived New Yorkers, with little support from state or federal partners.
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