Published: September 19, 2013 Publication: The Villager By Arthur Z. Schwartz We live in a magnificent part of a magical city. It’s not just the smaller scale, or the trees, or the narrow streets. It’s the people. My neighbors are what makes our neighborhood magical. Twenty-three years ago, at age 37, I got involved in the affairs of this neighborhood after sitting on the sidelines for the previous decade. I haven’t stopped since then. I have worked hard to make it a better p

Published: September 12, 2013 Publication: The Villager By Lincoln Anderson Christine Quinn’s dream of becoming mayor ended at the Dream Hotel in Chelsea on Tuesday night. About an hour and a half after the polls closed — and after President Obama’s speech on Syria was shown live on the flat-screens arrayed around the room — early results of the Democratic primary election began to display on the TV’s. Within an hour, Quinn would take the stage to congratulate “Bill Thompson

Published: September 1 , 2013 Publication: WestView News By Arthur Z. Schwartz My Humble Heartfelt Recommendations for the September 10 Primary The September 10th Primary will result in the largest change in City Governance since 2001, when in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, New York elected Michael Bloomberg as Mayor. As someone who has been active in the Village politics for over 20 years, and as a player in the Labor and Public Interest Legal Communities, I know