As Village View was on its way to the printer Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Pearlman lifted the Temporary Restraining Order which had kept Beth Israel Hospital open since February 2024. He then dismissed the lawsuit by an array of community groups, and found that although the Department of Health’s approval of the closure was flawed, he would not say it was “arbitrary and capricious.”
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For years, Hudson Square has faced a daily ritual that residents and businesses know all too well. Starting around 3 PM, half of our neighborhood’s streets grind to a halt as vehicles queue for their turn to enter New Jersey through the Holland Tunnel.
Read MoreThe upcoming fifth anniversary of the official start of the COVID pandemic prompts us to reflect on the fall and rise of the ever-resilient Big Apple. This parody poem is a verbal snapshot of New York City during the eerie early days of the cataclysm, shortly after the close of schools and non-essential businesses.
Read MoreThe easy availability of so much ‘health’ information can often lead to trouble. Meaning it can lead to a lot of worry and fear, including self-diagnosing something that is most likely incorrect.
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On January 18, the Peoples Voice Café and producer Chris Owens presented a concert honoring Martin Luther King at the Judson Memorial Church. Chris premiered his newest musical work, Difficult Days, two days before King’s birthday and the inauguration of President Trump.
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The Yotam Silberstein Trio performed two deeply immersive sets at Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village on January 13. Three men emerged from behind the stark Art Deco backdrop and walked onto Zinc Bar’s new well-illuminated stage.
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John Scofield, has been a living legend and an iconoclast of jazz guitar for over 50 years. No doubt, I would easily place John in the all-time Top 5 in jazz, if not Top 4.
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Inside the Washington Square Diner, I had the pleasure to virtually meet and have an amazing You Tube interview with the Russian phenomenon guitarist Max Ostro. Simply put, he is one of the best guitarists in the world, and he has developed a new fusion-style to shredding (a style of playing superfast melodic guitar lines) that must be seen to be believed.
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Recently, I saw A Complete Unknown at the AMC multiplex theater on 19th Street and Broadway. The matinee ticket price of $13 was welcoming, and it was a joy to watch the film in their spacious theater.
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Pape Joins Art By Architects Show Art by Architects, in its fifth exhibit at the Center for...
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We meet many of the Village pets (mostly dogs) you read about while out and about—but it’s not so easy to meet cats. So, on a cold day we were excited to meet Morgan and her lovely cat, Betty, on Pier 45 looking over the Hudson River.
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I’m still a little surprised when people ask me, “Really? You go out birding in the winter? Aren’t you cold?” I guess it might be counterintuitive, but winter is a GREAT time to look for birds.
Read MoreIn the September 2024 issue you talked about the Elisabeth St. Garden (officially deeded ‘recreational space’) and the proposed destruction of it. My first thought was a free association — the destruction of giant religious effigies on a cliffside in the Near East. Boom boom boom — gone forever and civilization’s loss.
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If someone had told me as a middle-schooler, hunched over a backgammon board with six of my best friends, that this game would shape my life’s trajectory, I might have laughed. Yet today, in the heart of New York City, I lead a vibrant community of backgammon enthusiasts who are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest games. In fact, I am the founder of the NYC Backgammon Club.
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Doris Diether was a friend to so many of us in the Village. We always remember her on her birthday, January 10. This year we received an email from Hellen and Harvey Osgood, also Characters of The Village, who wrote,“ we’re thinking of Doris and we wanted to share this day with you both. You loved Doris as we did and we know that you hold her in your hearts as we do.”
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