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The Nicest Jewel Thief Drops In... by George Capsis Day The Voice of the West Village WestView News VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2019 $1.00 The Nicest Jewel Thief Drops In... By George Capsis day. She calls across the street to our jewel thief for some inconsequential reason, as Carol Yost sent an article from the Post Dusty is wont to do, and he springs for- about an international jewel thief who ward with a soft smile as if he were talk- lived, until he was arrested on October ing to old friends and we sort-of become 24th, in a “$10 million dollar townhouse instant old friends. on West 4th Street.” Wait—West 4th is But more coincidence—my acupunctur- just up the corner from 69 Charles; so I e- ist and massage-giver Michael Kahn lives mail our photographer, Joel, to take a pic- right across the street and knows Damir ture and he instantly and expectedly emails and his wife very well. He told us that back with, “what’s the address?” I tell him Damir had once spent an hour help- to check with the NYPD press office. ing him carry a very heavy leather couch Then, I get a call from a very agitated down four flights of stairs. Pulling so much woman with a hard New York accent, weight around the landings caused Damir wanting to know if I am George Capsis of considerable agony and by the time they’d WestView and do I intend to do a story finished he was soaking in perspiration. “I about her husband—whom I immediately kept offering a tip or to take him out for assumed was the jewel thief (she had dis- dinner but he became hurt and flustered covered Joel taking shots and demanded and refused,” offered Michael. I asked, answers and an intimidated Joel quickly “Did he appear rich?” Michael replied, proffered my name as a shield). She had “No, he said his wife had all the money.” heard I was “a nice guy,” and she had two JEWEL THIEF ON WEST 4TH: International jewel thief Damir Pejcinovic was arrested by the Michael also told us that Damir is Alba- FBI on October 24, 2018 from his brownstone on West 4th Street. Neighbors knew him as “a kids, and it was not true, and her husband nian. His last name is Pejcinovic (and all very nice guy.” Photo credits: (left) NYPD, (right) © Joel Gordon 2019 - All rights reserved. had a lawyer and was going to sue. I ex- the other members of his gang have simi- plained that we were just a small commu- Dusty comes in and I begin telling her ing the kitchen of 69 Charles Street—our larly unpronounceable names). nity paper and the Post had already done the story and she jumps. “That’s the hair headquarters).” But now, Damir is in jail in Brooklyn. the story, and she came back with “not ev- salon on West 4th, the guy we met after a OK, it all starts to come together... Dusty Michael gave us his downstairs neighbor’s erybody reads the Post.” rafter fell on him. He’s been here (mean- and I were walking on West 4th Street one continued on page 3 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Seeks to Eliminate Serious Conflicts of Interest By Carol Yost profit companies that manufacture doctors’ tering and possibly other institutions. Bi- tering employees representing it on corpo- tools of trade—medicines and medical ases could also arise from this compensation rate boards are prohibited from accepting In an article on Friday, January 11th, pub- equipment—and provide healthcare. when these doctors conduct medical studies any personal compensation for this, such as lished in collaboration with the nonprofit High-level executives at the cancer cen- and write articles for medical journals. stock options in these companies. journalism publication ProPublica, the ter—all doctors in their own right—had Now these top executives are barred A 2014 study found that about 40 per- New York Times reported that the nonprofit also been serving on the corporate boards from serving on corporate boards of the cent of the largest publicly traded drug Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, of drug and healthcare companies which drug and healthcare companies. They also, companies had leaders of academic medi- after being dogged by scandal, is officially in some cases had paid them hundreds of along with leading researchers, will be lim- cal centers on their boards. taking steps to eliminate possible conflicts thousands of dollars for their “service.” ited in the ways they can profit from work Sloan-Kettering’s chief medical officer, of interest. Earlier reports by the Times and These companies clearly hoped, not just for developed by the cancer center. In addi- Dr. José Baselga, resigned days after it was ProPublica had generated the scandal by medical advice (if at all), but for immense tion, they are prohibited from investing in reported that he had neglected to disclose uncovering the ways staff members of the profits from business facilitated by these start-up companies that Memorial Sloan- millions of dollars in payments from drug hospital had made lucrative deals with for- doctors’ recommendations to Sloan-Ket- Kettering has helped to found. Sloan-Ket- continued on page 5 Cornelia St. Café History in Focus Mendelssohn WestView received an The recent rush of and Dvorak unprecedented four ar- analytical devices allows ticles on the closing of the us to put history in sharp WestView concerts continue beloved Cornelia St. Café. focus. at St. John’s in the Village Saturday, February 23 at 3 p.m. SEE PAGE 24 SEE PAGE 29 2 WestView News February 2019 www.westviewnews.org WestView WestViews Published by WestView, Inc. by and for the residents of the West Village. Correspondence, Commentary, Corrections Publisher Buyer Beware haven’t had one since 1976 when I moved I hope it goes away. I’m sure I’m not the Executive Editor Dear in. Again, it’s a repair that does not merit a only resident who hates it! George Capsis WestView News: Andrew Cook’s letter in January should charge or rent increase at any time or under — Linda Mann Managing Editor encourage everyone to do some research any circumstances, tenant or no tenant. Kim Plosia Dear Linda, before they need health care—i.e., locate Secondly, a new stove or refrigerator, if Thankfully not everyone shares your opinion... Associate Editors the landlord provides it, gives him/her the Andrew Buemi, Justin Matthews, the nearest facilities their providers cover, The good news is it’s a bus and it can travel. Anne Olshansky know their hours, and find out if they are right to tack on a rent increase of $5 per Everyone I talk to is happy to hear the tiles month per appliance, figured into all rent Art Director an urgent care center or an emergency de- have returned and we just got a great write Kim Plosia partment (which costs more). increases, until the end of time. I’m going up in the NY Post! to provide my own new stove and refrig- Advertising Manager and Designer I recently came close to being misled; in The origin of the Tiles goes back to Lor- Stephanie Phelan November, I had a splinter in my foot, in erator, which I have a legal right to do. He rie Veasy’s paint your own pottery shop, Our won’t be able to charge anything. Photo Editor a spot I couldn’t see or reach. I visited an Name is Mudd on Greenwich Ave. and Perry Darielle Smolian urgent care center my insurance recom- The only way the landlord could possi- which originated the idea of having Villagers mended. The doctor who examined me bly raise my rent to $3,000, which he stated express their emotions about the most trau- Traffic Manager he would do in the eviction papers he filed Liza Whiting said I needed an x-ray and biopsy, and tried matic incident in New York history, 9/11. to send me to another facility. I confirmed three years ago (actually the landlord’s son, The tiles were painted by Villagers, children Photographers with my provider that that place was out of although he claimed to be landlord), would in public school and by tourists and everyday Maggie Berkvist be in a three-step process: Joel Gordon network, and went instead to a care cen- well wishers from around the world to express ter in midtown I had already checked out. 1) He gets me evicted on some grounds their emotions. Comptroller The doctor used a needle and tweezers to or other. The surviving tiles are fragile and need Jolanta Meckauskaite remove the splinter. Since I hadn’t met my 2) He then gets an automatic 20% va- protection. The 9/11 mobile gallery allows the Architecture Editor deductible, I was happy to pay the reason- cancy increase, called by critics a vacancy community as well as tourists to see some of Brian Pape able bill, and my foot is fine. bonus. At my current rent, it would be ex- these historic tiles at the location where they actly $122.058 per month tacked on to that Film, Media and Music Editor I was lucky to know about the facility I were first created. Jim Fouratt finally went to, and equally lucky to be in rent. That’s a total of exactly $732.348, The 9/11 Tiles for America collection are minimal discomfort. Had I been in greater rounded to $732.49. Now, to a lot of peo- an important part of West Village history and Food Editor ple that’s still a low rent for a Chelsea stu- David Porat distress, I might not have double-checked, although a retired library bus may not be the and I might have been stuck with substan- dio.
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