Arthur (Art) Levin (b. 1936) has served as a Village Preservation Trustee since the 1990s, including as President from 2012 to 2022, overseeing a period of great organizational growth. He was the longtime director of the Center for Medical Consumers, working to expand access information about healthcare for New Yorkers. Art grew up on the Upper West Side and lived on West 11th Street beginning in 1969. This oral history explores his experience with progressive politics, spearheading social programs, and community organizing over fifty years, as well as how the Village changed in that time. He also discussed his experience with the explosion of the Weather Underground bomb factory next door to his house in 1970.