Letters to the Editor

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LETTERS to the EDITOR March 2026

LETTERS Glue Traps Glue traps are as cruel as they are ineffective. New York City can choose smarter, more humane policy by banning them. These devices cause slow deaths. Mice, rats, birds, and other small animals become stuck and die from exhaustion, dehydration, or injuries sustained while struggling to escape. Glue traps are indiscriminate—and...

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Letters to the Editor—January 2026

In his recent Village View article, The New Emerald City (published September 2025) Siggy Raible writes, “another bugaboo about fossil fuels, plastics are derived from oil.” New York has a plastic pollution crisis.

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Letters to the Editor – September 2025

Letters to the Editor Selfishness vs. Housing. Again? First of all, thank you for continuing to report on the closure of the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center. I recall the man, presiding over the fading Italian presence south of Houston, and he deserves better than this long impasse between developers and bureaucrats. So do young people and other...

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Letters to the Editor-June 2025

Letters to the Editor-June 2025 Can Artists Survive in NYC? As an artist who is starting to dig deeper into the business side of the art world, I was drawn to Phyllis Eckhaus’ reporting in the May issue (p.21) on an April symposium Arts for Living: Can Artists Survive in NYC? She noted that speakers at the symposium emphasized “the paucity of...

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Letters to the Editor April 2025

Letters to the Editor Gansevoort Market Your March issue is bursting with great articles and Brian Pape’s “Honoring the Gansevoort Market” is heart-stoppingly monumental in its portrayal of a neighborhood to be celebrated, embraced, respected! It must be read by anyone who’ll have influence on the city’s decision. Who could read Brian’s article...

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Letters to the Editor March 2025

Letters to the Editor David’s Watch Repair We all fought so hard to keep David the watchmaker among us but today, when I passed by to wave hello at his relocated corner in the tailor shop on Hudson St., he was gone and I was told he had retired. Over more years than I can count, he preformed minor first aid such as replacing batteries and straps,...

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Letters to the Editor

In the September 2024 issue you talked about the Elisabeth St. Garden (officially deeded ‘recreational space’) and the proposed destruction of it. My first thought was a free association — the destruction of giant religious effigies on a cliffside in the Near East­. Boom boom boom — gone forever and civilization’s loss.

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LETTERS to the EDITOR

LETTERS to the EDITOR What is a Crime? I appreciate the civil character of your articles and the ability to express various opinions. In responding to Alec Pruchnicki’s Nov. 2024 article The Real Crime is Homelessness, I appreciate his position and conviction on the subject. However, it is confusing to understand how the “real crime is...

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LETTERS to the EDITOR

LETTERS to the EDITOR Lincoln Market a Welcome Addition to the Neighborhood In response to the recent article about the new Lincoln Market on the SW corner of West 13th Street, which concluded with a request for feedback, I offer the following observation. As a resident of West 13th Street and a member of the McBurney “Y,” the “take” has been...

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May Letters to the Editor

May 2024 Letters to the Editor Kudos Thank you for all of your work preparing The Village View! I thoroughly enjoy reading each publication and make a point to distribute them within my building. There is truly no replacement for your hyperlocal journalism and the connections to the community you are creating and fostering. Please keep up the...

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April 2024 Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor - April 2024 MOONSTRUCK MEMORIES Roger Paradiso's story about Norman Jewison and the Academy Award winning film Moonstruck brought back memories. He may not know it but the connection between Greenwich Village and the film is deeper than the locations he mentions. My talent agency Artists Agency Inc., based in NYC,...

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March 2024 Letters to the Editor

E. BOTTCHER COLUMN, FEBRUARY 2024

“Slow Your Roll”? That’s your solution?
“…make biking safer” with a public awareness campaign? What a joke. Protected bike lanes? — so seniors and disabled now have to stand in the middle of the street/avenue to see if the bus is coming or to avoid bikers speeding in the protected lane as we cross the street?

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December Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: I always enjoy Joy Pape’s writing, but I was particularly moved by her recent article about Lloyd and his dear pet friends. It so sensitively described the journey through love and loss that so many of us choose to take because the rewards so outweigh the pain. Also, each article particularly about pets and their human companions...

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September Letters to the Editor

It is such a pleasure each month to open my VillageView and see what surprises D. Silverman has for us. He lightens the dark and casts shadows on the light and pulls us into discovery of our treasured Village

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Welcoming Words

I believe many people are interested in more deeply understanding and celebrating who and what the Village was and is now as well as what we are becoming. It appears to me that VV is already adding its own resources to that possibility.

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PRAISE FOR VILLAGE VIEW!

A pal just snail mailed me both February and March issues of The Village View. Love the name and positioning of the paper! Content is really strong and helpful to our community.

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E-BIKE FEARS

I am over 90, in good health, and I love living in Greenwich Village. For over 50 years, I have enjoyed walking the sidewalks of the Village. But I am resigned to the fact that I will not die a natural death. No, I will have been mowed down by an e-bike. They own the sidewalks. They have missed me by inches. It’s only a matter of time.

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notary service CHANGE

Many legal documents including wills, powers of attorney, contracts, leases, court documents, deed transfers and many more require that they be notarized. Notarization involves verifying a signer’s identity, their willingness to sign without intimidation and their awareness of the document’s contents. Getting legal documents notarized is an important process for those reasons.

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SENIOR ID TO PURCHASE ALCOHOL?

On Friday, March 10, I took a bottle of wine to the checkout counter and I was refused service. They asked for a Drivers License for ID. I don’t have a Drivers License. I showed them my Reduced Fare MTA MetroCard Photo ID Pass but that wasn’t good enough. I showed them my Medicare Social Security card and that wasn’t good enough either. Because of a new system they claim they needed to scan a Drivers License which shows my birth age. I told them my birth date but that wasn’t good enough.

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When the NYCDOT and the Bike Lobby Marry

COUNTER-POINT OPINION RE: When the NYCDOT and the Bike Lobby Marry, advertisement on page 24 of the March 2023 edition. Dear Editors, I appreciate how our community media provide a forum for diverse ideas or opinions, as Village View is doing. The advertisement by Kimon Retzos is a case in point. I wish to express my counter-points. Greenwich...

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A Native’s View

A Native's View Dear Editor: Let there be no doubt about it. Greenwich Village is a unique place in this dysfunctional world. It has always stood apart—and been quietly envied. If "individualism" ever had a designated spot on Earth, it is Greenwich Village. I write these words from afar, but only in a geographic sense. 153 West 11th Street is...

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14th Street busway

In your last issue you published two letters on the subject of the 14th St. Busway, one of them from me.

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Jefferson Finds a Home

Thank you for your wonderful coverage of Maggie Berkvist. I want to update your readers on her cat, Jefferson. After I heard of Maggie’s death from one of her Bank Street neighbors, my husband, Geoffrey Knox, and I adopted him on December 13th via Micheline Gaulin of Left Bank. He is a most wonderful cat and has quickly gotten used to our house...

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Praise for New Paper!

I so welcome your new newspaper because the last two issues of WestView News were such a deviation from the one I had enjoyed for ten years

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