Against a minimalist stage where movement and light carried as much meaning as words, eight dancers from Taiwan’s Hung Dance transformed long pheasant feathers into extensions of their bodies, creating an unforgettable visual meditation on freedom, identity, and transformation.
Read MoreSunday, July 19 was the day that Spain took down the defending FIFA World Cup champions, Argentina 1-0 in the final of the 2026 World Cup at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Read MoreMy parents loved visiting us in The Village. They saw its evolution first hand as honorary residents since 1998 when I first moved here. My dad loved the small community feel of the low-rise building and the tree-lined cobblestone streets. I’m grateful to have memories of him here too.
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On Friday, July 3 at 8 p.m., I watched from my window as a windy mist turned suddenly into a ten minute raging thunderstorm with heavy rain falling sideways from the west.
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Construction is topped out on 550 West 21st Street, a 23-story residential building, designed by Thomas Juul Hansen and developed by Legion Investment Group and AVRS Partners LP, according to the YIMBY website.
Read MoreConstruction is officially underway to transform the former Bayview Correctional Facility at 550 West 20th Street into the Chelsea Beacon, a new mixed use building. COOKFOX Architects’ design includes housing, an interior courtyard and a 9,300-square-foot community facility with youth-oriented programming.
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The Central Park Conservancy has just given permission to Donald Trump to build his future presidential library across the southeast corner of Central Park. Imagine ever reading such words?
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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.
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