You have probably walked by this place a thousand times. On the corner of Hudson at Jane, it’s hard to miss. There is a large front patio with people eating nachos, or guacamole, and drinking bright-colored cocktails. I never knew what Móle was, but today I would finally find out!
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New York City served up so many celebratory spectacles this summer that detoured me from my usual thither and yon devoted birding outings. Did those stop me from seeing birds? Nope.
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Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange is a rollercoaster ride through New York City cultural history, focusing especially on the years 1920 through 1925, highlights how “then” often looks like a funhouse mirror reflection of “now.”
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This month’s “Character” is a voice for what made the Meatpacking District so special in so many ways. Village View sat down with Vincent Inconiglios at his Gansevoort Street loft studio.
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Planning a festival to take place in America’s big birthday year was always going to be a bit of a challenge. July 4 will be long passed by the time The Village Trip (TVT) kicks off on September 25 and, of course, many people had mixed feelings about celebrating at all this year.
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It was stunning to learn that the Greenwich House Music School building on Barrow Street is up for sale. Founded in 1905 by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, the school offers classes in a variety of instruments including piano, guitar and violin; classes in voice and composition; as well as rehearsal and performance space and grants to emerging musical artists.
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I cut my teeth in politics in the 1960s. That’s when the Democratic Party, led by President Lyndon Johnson was, to my young cohorts, the epitome of evil.
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After 35 years of Deborah Glick holding the Assembly District seat which covers Greenwich Village (west of First Avenue), Noho, Soho, Hudson Square and Tribeca, we have a new nominee in the State Assembly ─ David Siffert. (Note: Siffert has to win in the November election to be formally crowned.
Read MoreOn a rainy Saturday night in Greenwich Village, an unplanned detour led to one of the most memorable jazz performances of the spring.
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Recently, I experienced the loss of my 18-year-old dog, Rosie. For nearly two decades, she was woven into the rhythm of my daily life — present through ordinary days, major milestones, moments of joy, and periods of hardship.
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It was a bizarre scene on Saturday, May 30, after a Village View fan alerted me of a fallen tree on West 11th between 6th and 7th avenues.
Read MoreWell, the other day I was sitting outside my favorite bakery/coffee shop on LaGuardia Place (a three-block stretch in Greenwich Village) with nothing much to do when I picked up a free copy of a local weekly newspaper. I read about the happenings in the Village and with time on my hands worked on the puzzles included with the paper.
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The local pantry at 12 West 11th Street, operated by Ascension Outreach, Inc., continues to serve after more than three decades!
Read MoreBrain Bleeds By Jan Crawford Twelve years ago since blood twice stunned my brain into an absence of being for days emerging into lights too bright A skull no longer entirely mine in a strange world of busy voices Weeks later...
Read MoreWhile the DGA went down to the wire in negotiations with the film producers AKA streamers, it is important to recognize the decline of all the influencers in our current motion picture and television industry.
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