The year 2026 will be the most monumental year in the history of man, but only if aliens make their presence known somewhere other than the parking lots of Home Depot or Menard’s. So, in the spirit of clairvoyant foretelling non-AI-written predictiveness, let’s all take a long leap off a short pirouette…
Street trees have a hard time surviving in the harsh urban settings of New York City, and Greenwich Village is no exception. In fact, it may be worse here due to the narrowness of many sidewalks and the small tree pits saved for their roots to grow.
On July 7, 2025 I was ecstatic to turn 80. I had survived almost dying of amoebic dysentery in the Peace Corps in the 60s.
1. Go to the gym three or four times a week.
2. Use as many machines as I do towels.
On December 7, at 11:02 p.m., my mom, Dr. Roselind Shirley Schwartz passed. She was 103 years, 7 months and 14 days old. She spent 15 of those years as a Villager, living on West 11th Street, working at her second career as a travel agent, arriving at age 70 and leaving at 85, still going strong.
Several holiday seasons ago, an opportunity arose to have my antiques store appear on a nationally syndicated morning television show.
British-Caribbean artist Zak Ové’s monumental Afrofuturist sculpture The Mothership Connection was installed in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District as part of a major public art activation led by NALA Projects and The Meatpacking Business Improvement District, marking the sculpture’s New York City debut.
We received a letter in response to the Village View’s November article The Transformation of Sixth Avenue at 14th Street, and our question about Macy’s origins.
Jim Meadows Cartoons
Photographer Whitney Browne describes her book Candy Store as an homage to the disappearing New York City owner-operated storefront, but her artful and idiosyncratic little volume is so much weirder and more wonderful than that.
