Olivia Brescia: Independent NYC Designer with an Eye for Nature
Olivia Brescia: Independent NYC Designer with an Eye for Nature By Natasha Lancaster In the heart...
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Year: 2024
West Fourth Street and Charles Street
Keeping track of our current street names and directions can be challenging, even after living here awhile. Learning the history of our streets can deepen our appreciation of how we got here, even if it doesn’t help us navigate around the city,
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Preserving the Heart of Our Neighborhoods: Highlights from Village Preservation
Preserving the Heart of Our Neighborhoods: Highlights from Village Preservation This fall has...
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Fred Bass Way
Fred Bass (1928-2018) began working, when he was 13 years-old, at the Strand Bookstore founded in 1927 by his father, Benjamin Bass. Benjamin was an emigrant from Lithuania who came to the United States when he was 17. Strand is named after a street in London. The new store was able to survive the Depression by Bass’ use of extensive networks of contacts. Furthermore, his landlord was the last of the city’s noted Stuyvesant family, which carried the store through its lean years when Bass could not pay his rent—although he later paid back the debt.
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Yamandu Costa, Brazilian Guitar Virtuoso, Defies Logic with Masterclass Performance at Joe’s Pub
Yamandu Costa did it again. He is an enigma. Simply extraordinary. The Brazilian virtuoso World Class seven-string guitarist’s November 17th incendiary one-man tour de force sold out at Joe’s Pub in the East Village. This incredible performance almost defies logic. Here is a man with nothing but one single classical guitar spellbinding audiences with his mind-boggling playing, producing a wall of sound from a single instrument reminiscent of a symphony orchestra.
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Upcoming Events at the Jefferson Market Library
The end of the year is fast approaching, but at Jefferson Market Library we still have a couple of exciting tricks up our sleeve for 2024. One upcoming event we are very excited to share is A Look Back on The East Village Eye Magazine on Thursday, December 12 at 6 p.m. Do you remember the East Village Eye? And did you know that The New York Public Library (at 42nd Street) recently made its complete archives available to the public?
Read MoreFail Up for Peace of Mind
I like to read or listen to inspirational words to start my day. Today I listened to Oprah Winfrey’s, The Path Made Clear. She talked about how when climbing a mountain, there are valleys on the way. She used the words “Fail Up”
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A Journey Through New York’s Downtown Cinemas
Short Films, Meaningful Stories A Journey Through New York’s Downtown Cinemas By Michael Jacobsohn...
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Seven Holiday Household Cleaning Tips for the Very, Very Lazy
We all have them: household projects that never seem to get done no matter who we have left to blame. Procrastination may be the curse of the disorganized life but at least it gives you plenty of time to be disappointed.
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Great Trees of New York City
In a city of millions of trees, only a few are recognized as “Great Trees of New York City.” They are selected from nominations in each borough based on unusual size, species, form or historical association. Our neighborhood is home to five of the newly named Great Trees. Here’s what we learned at New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
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The Last Holiday Season at the Elizabeth Street Garden?
The Elizabeth Street Garden (ESG) held a pet costume party on October 27. There was a constant coming and going of people paying their respects to the garden. At the time, we believed that this would be our last visit before eviction.
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Kathleen Squires, Journalist
After decades as an award-winning freelance food and travel writer, Kathleen Squires, 58, has recently joined The New York Times as a staff writer for Wirecutter, where she is covering all things kitchen and food.
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Gardening for Coping and Community
Voltaire’s sage advice for coping with an onslaught of 18th century horrors—from earthquakes and war to inquisitors and the public burning of heretics—has resonated through the centuries. And two West Villagers agree, tackling garden projects as a strategy of both sustenance and community.
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City Plans for Meatpacking District Development May Include 60-Story Tower
According to a communication by State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the city’s recently announced plans for its “Gansevoort Square” development in the Meatpacking District will include an approximately 60-story building on the site of the city-owned Gansevoort Meat Market Center, south of Little West 12th Street between Washington and West streets (north of the Whitney Museum).
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Mayor Adams Announces “Gansevoort Square”
During the Halloween festivities, trick or treating, and parade, Mayor Adams issued a press release about the city’s plans to redevelop “Gansevoort Square.”
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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.