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.
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.
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.
The Covid-19 pandemic had a traumatic medical, political, and economic effect on the world with a 1-2% mortality rate. But there are diseases around the world right now, and potential diseases in the future, which could be much more deadly. Here are just a few.
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a bill designed to give qualified non-profits the opportunity to bid on a multi-family apartment building of four or more rental units when a landlord decides to sell.
A battle for Maine’s Senate seat and with it a possible U.S. Senate majority for the Democrats in 2027 has grown from a seed to a forest since a September 2025 New Yorker article launched Graham Platner’s career in politics.
The first Congressmember that I remember interacting with was the Congressmember who represented Greenwich Village. Her district ran all the way up the West Side up to Columbia University where I was a student.
Still clad in a Knicks jersey from the championship parade earlier in the day, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a roaring crowd in Brooklyn’s Kings Theater on June 18 that his election the previous November was just the beginning.
I’m a fan of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In this sci-fi coming-of-age thriller set in a 1980s small-town America, teenagers face their fears of growing up and transitioning to an adult world with all of its peculiarities.
The Writers Guild of America recently surprised the industry with a new tentative minimum bargaining agreement with the studios, or the AMPTP.
