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January 30, 2014
SCENE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Pier 40 has been really “Suped”-up with a giant white tent and a mini football gridiron on its roof for Super Bowl superparties and broadcasting. Most of the action there will be happening Saturday.
Saving the special To The Editor: Re “St. Luke in Fields wants to add tower on the block” (news article, Jan. 16): I moved to New York City 27 years ago from Northampton, Mass., to teach at the Little Red Schoolhouse. I immediately fell in love with the West Village. It was an ongoing, long-distance love affair (from the Lower East Side) that finally culminated seven years ago with me becoming a Barrow St. resident. When I tell people where I live, inevitably there is a pause, and eyes go wide as they say, “Ooh, I love the West Village.” We all do. We love the West Village for its intimate scale, its charm, its connection with a rich history. As a resident I am sometimes bemused at the endless walking tours that can clog the sidewalks. Sometimes, though, I’ll slow down and listen; listen to the
stories, the historical details, the architectural facts, and I’ll see in the eyes of the visitors to the neighborhood the delight in this jewel in which we get to live. As I walk the streets I can feel works of literature come to life — novels and short stories
by Edith Wharton, Caleb Carr, E.L. Doctorow, Jack Finney, Mark Helprin’s “A Winter’s Tale,” and on and on. This neighborhood is special and unique, like none other in the city. And it is special because of its character, its human scale,
its connection to the past. We are extremely fortunate to get to live here where the city is quieter, older, more intimate and humane. But along with our great fortune, we carry the responsibility LETTERS, continued on p. 10
EVAN FORSCH
TheVillager.com