Author: kim
SCENE FROM THE STREET
The private yacht Night Howl was birthed recently at the Waterfront Plaza Marina of Brookfield Place, west end of Fulton Street, presenting a most unusual site. There, perched on top of the third deck, obviously designed and built to fit the tight, unique space, was a personal helicopter, ready for a quick escape?
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Police Officer James P. Leahy Street
Police Officer James P. Leahy Street is located on West 10th Street between Bleecker Street and Hudson Street in the West Village. It was awarded in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks and in honor of Police Officer James P. Leahy (b. 1962), who died on Sept. 11, 2001, during fire and rescue operations following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
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The Jefferson Market Library Archives
Did you know that at Jefferson Market Library, we have a zine, and we publish new issues quarterly? If you didn’t know, and you’re asking yourself right now, “what the heck is a zine?” well, Merriam-Webster defines it as a “magazine, especially a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.” Our zine is completely made up of the work of our Village library users, along with some library features, highlighting items of special interest from our archive.
Read MoreMission Creep at Village Preservation: The City of No
Village Preservation (VP) (previously known as The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation) has had some spectacular initial successes since its founding in 1980. The protection of large parts of Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District by the establishment of historic districts has often defeated a ravenous real estate industry.
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FILM REVIEW II – Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll
Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n Roll is an authorized documentary film from 2021 by Curt Hahn that presents the extraordinary true story of Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, the Godfather of Rock ’n Roll and convicted murderer, who sang his way out of prison not once, but twice! This same documentary film under the new title Lead Belly: Life, Legend, Legacy gets an IMDB rating of 8.1/10.
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FILM REVIEW – Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll
Lead Belly did not necessarily invent Rock and Roll, but according to the film’s producer Alvin Singh II, he was a major influencer to a multitude of accomplished musicians. These include The Beatles, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Weavers, Janis Joplin, Little Richard, and many more.
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Where Did the Sidewalk Go?
The city administration has gotten serious about protecting the clear pedestrian pathways on our city sidewalks. The new permanent outdoor dining regulations clearly stipulate what width must be maintained without any obstructions, even temporary ones like sandwich advertising boards, chairs, tables, or planters. Slowly, the city’s businesses are adapting to the rules.
Read MoreLet Good Enough Free You From Perfection!
Have you ever wanted to do something but you feel stuck? Paralyzed? You just can’t move forward on it or finish it but you don’t understand why? It could it be you want to do it perfectly.
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How Can One Be Accepted as An American?
Immigration is a hot topic these days, dominating both the news and the presidential election. A survey conducted by Gallup News in February 2024 asked Americans, “What is the most important problem facing this country today?” and they found that the number one answer was immigration.
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Corruption and the Supreme Court
This is not my first offering on the oddities I see taking hold of one of the three legs of our Constitutional form of government. Today my puzzling is over failures by two Supreme Court justices to disclose substantial gifts on their annual ethics reports and failures to recuse themselves from cases in which they appeared to have a conflict of interest.
Read MoreJudge Allows Congestion Pricing Petition to Proceed
In early June, Governor Hochul announced a “pause” in the Congestion Pricing Program scheduled to proceed on June 31. As we discuss in this issue, this move eliminated $16.5 billion dollars from the Capital Budget of the MTA for the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year, which the MTA used to immediately stop work on all subway accessibility projects other than those funded prior to 2024.
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Beatnik Walking Tour Illuminates Greenwich Village’s Place in Art/Literary History
On the first day of Autumn, I joined the Beatnik Greenwich Village Walking Tour, which was put on by the Village Trip Festival. This year’s tour was guided by Marc Catapano, who has had a long career in media which includes producing for MTV and scriptwriting for Nickelodeon. There was no script for this walking tour because it was as exciting as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Let’s dive in and find out how it went!
Read MoreWhy Celebrate Columbus Day?
After Columbus “discovered” America bad effects started immediately. European diseases decimated native populations but that was inadvertent. What wasn’t inadvertent was the imposition of slavery on the native population when the hunt for Asian spices and gold didn’t pan out. Whether Columbus himself was the instigator or whether he allowed those under him to perpetrate it, the responsibility fell on his shoulders and he failed miserably. The imposition of slavery was soon followed by the imposition of Catholicism and the Spanish language which managed to destroy much of native culture not already destroyed by disease.
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Halloween Suggestion Box of Horrors
IT’S ALL MY FAULT Halloween Suggestion Box of Horrors By Duane Scott Cerny This is the final...
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- Giving and Receiving
In December 2001, when my husband, John, and I brought a pair of black-headed caiques into our lives, we had no experience as bird owners.