NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON

The Village View | May 2026 villageview.nyc BY NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON THE LOSS OF A FAVORITE RESTAURANT is not as hard as the loss of a favorite friend, but there is a moving on and closing a door, and it is difficult. I was sad enough last summer when Elephant and Castle on Greenwich Avenue closed. For five decades, I regularly ate brunch and dinner there, sometimes with family and friends, sometimes alone. I was acquainted with a few waiters with whom I would chat. Only in t

RETIRING FROM TEACHING by Nancy Davidoff Kelton- April 2026 issue I stopped teaching in 2024. I began in 1971 when I graduated from college. My first job was at a public school on New York’s Lower Eastside as an Above Quota Teacher, an in-house substitute. I covered for absent teachers before outside subs were called. Many of the students acted out. Getting outside subs at our school was difficult. Few subs came back a second time. As the AQT, I brought YERTLE THE TURTLE,

February 2026 By Nancy Davidoff Kelton To my hairdresser – Since my first appointment when you didn’t laugh or say “dream on” when I asked you to make me look like Michelle Pfeiffer, you have been shaping my hair very well, making it easy to comb out after shampooing or swimming without using a dryer. I also appreciate that even though you do a lot of hair coloring you have strongly advised me to avoid touching up the grey because it is growing in beautifully. I think so too