Village Trivia
I came across this innocuous padlock on the guardrail of a pedestrian bridge in the Village, but it seemed strangely out of place. Why is it there? Who would put it there? Do you know what it is, and where it is?
Category: Lifestyle
Springtime is a Great Time to Dive into Village History
Village Preservation recently released a raft of wonderful new resources that highlight and bring to life the Village’s rich history.
Jefferson Market Library
Jefferson Market Library history buffs and long-time residents will know that our building exists today due to the hard work of neighborhood activists who fought to have the old, abandoned courthouse saved from demolition and converted to a library.
Forgetting to Be Yourself
Though we might not recognize it, in these and many other moments in daily life we relax into our true nature and are freed from the exhausting job of defending or promoting our conditioned self. One might even call this falling effortlessly into the reality of one expansive mind a form of “everyday enlightenment.”
My Mother’s Hands
My mother had beautiful hands. “A pianist’s hands” is how she’d have described them on someone else. And though she had played the piano as a young woman, as an adult, her fingers were more likely to be working the keys of a typewriter.
Theater Etiquette (or Death of a Smartphone Salesman)
Recent performances of Adam Brody’s brilliant The Fear of 13 have faced another real fear: poorly behaved Broadway audiences.
Good-Bye to Japonica
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.
Carol Greitzer, Trailblazing NYC Political Reformer and Women’s Advocate, Dies at 101
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.
Living at the Docks: A Real West Side Story
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.
Fee Fi Faux: 10 Imagined Village Destinations
East and West Villagers are routinely smitten by the latest must-see venues: beautiful people, places and things that are beyond mere nouns. Where’s the experience of cutting-edge end retail design? The upscale dives, the delightful deliriums, the decorum-less dioramas?
- The Story of Rupert & Lulu
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.