Recently, I experienced the loss of my 18-year-old dog, Rosie. For nearly two decades, she was woven into the rhythm of my daily life — present through ordinary days, major milestones, moments of joy, and periods of hardship.
It was a bizarre scene on Saturday, May 30, after a Village View fan alerted me of a fallen tree on West 11th between 6th and 7th avenues.
Well, the other day I was sitting outside my favorite bakery/coffee shop on LaGuardia Place (a three-block stretch in Greenwich Village) with nothing much to do when I picked up a free copy of a local weekly newspaper. I read about the happenings in the Village and with time on my hands worked on the puzzles included with the paper.
I joined more than two million people in lower Manhattan to celebrate the Knicks. Not because I follow basketball but because I wanted to feel what the city was feeling.
Recently, 277 Canal Street, at Broadway, has been presented by the owners and consultants in public hearings before the Community Board 2 (CB2) and the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC).
The news of the world becomes more disturbing, shocking and, let’s be honest, downright odd with the passing of every numbing hour.
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?
Village Preservation recently released a raft of wonderful new resources that highlight and bring to life the Village’s rich history.
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.
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.”
