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.
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Now upon finding out a few weeks ago from Jeffrey, the owner of Japonica, that my favorite Japanese restaurant was closing at the end of April, I am sadder still. Japonica on University Place, like Elephant and Castle, has been a go-to restaurant since it opened 48 years ago.
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A new Integral Yoga Institute is rising like a phoenix under the direction of Sosie Hublitz, the new CFO and general manager. I had a wonderful conversation with Hublitz who is running this reboot.
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Carol Greitzer, a trailblazing City Council member who fought for women’s rights and played a key role in dismantling the entrenched Tammany Hall political machine in New York, died on April 3. She was 101.
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Dog runs are rarely easy. There’s often not quite enough space and finding a surface that works for everyone is a genuine challenge. It’s a dilemma familiar to dog owners and NYC Parks alike.
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If you walk past Jeju Noodle Bar, you might not notice it on the northeast corner of Christopher and Greenwich streets. Also, the shades are always down, and it looks very private.
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Ali, the smile-beaming mayor of West 4th Street, has been behind the counter since 2007. He knows everyone’s stories and treats the deli like an extension of the living room. Here are my favorite parts of our conversation:
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For the last 19 years, Record Store Day has been a day where staff, artists and customers come together once-a-year to celebrate the unique culture of independent record stores.
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One of the most popular games for bird watchers is known as First of Season: the first bird of a species that arrives during spring migration. This is a natural extension of the ongoing game many birders play of keeping lists of the bird species that they have seen.
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We like making movies together. We like to go to Hudson Hound with our family friends, the Gropper and Rogers family, on Friday evenings, and we go to Sofia’s Bagels on Sunday mornings.
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Sometimes we meet ‘real’ New Yorkers, born and raised here. Some of them have stories of ancestors who moved here to start their families. This is one such story of those living near the docks along the West Side of Manhattan, as told by Eric, who prefers to be anonymous.
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We have several interesting races coming up in June’s Democratic primary. Within the Village View readership area, there will be a new City Council member (which looks like it will be Carl Wilson), a new Assembly member (replacing Deborah Glick) and a new state senator (replacing Brian Kavanaugh).
Read MoreVillage Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman and District 2 City Councilmember Harvey Epstein called on Mayor Mamdani to right a towering wrong ─ namely the 30 story, 538 foot tall building approved for 5 West 13th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue.
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In towns and cities across the country, concerned citizens have taken action to protect undocumented aliens ─ and indeed all residents ─ against rampaging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Read MoreI have a decades-long relationship with 14th Street. In the 1980s, it was a bustling boulevard of electronics shops, wig stores, inexpensive clothing and luggage, and old-school mom-and-pop businesses.
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