The Voice of the West Village WestView News VOLUME 14, NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2018 $1.00 Duty to Warn: How Big Business Northwell Runs the Healthcare Industry Opens Suite of By Gary G. Kohls, MD the World. Around the time that the book was published, I was a small-town family practitioner still trying mightily to follow PART ONE—In this two-part series, Dr. Kohls explores the Hippocratic Oath, which I took back in 1968. I was also Doctor Offices how the intersection of big business and the pharmaceuti- still trying to honor my patient’s inalienable right to be fully cal, vaccine and medical device corporations have come to informed about the risks and benefits of any drug I was con- rule the healthcare industry. Part two of the series will ap- sidering prescribing before he or she consented to the prescrip- pear in the November issue of WestView. tion. It was time-consuming to follow those ethical principles. “Corporations should not be involved in any aspect of the Korten followed up with a sequel in 1999, titled “The democratic process. They should not be involved in educa- Post-Corporate World. Here is an excerpt that nicely sum- tion at any level. They should not be involved in healthcare. marizes what he was warning his readers about: They should not be involved in the administration of social “’When Corporations Rule the World’ told the new story as I had services. They should not be involved in the administration come to understand it: “Our relentless pursuit of economic growth of justice. WHY? Because they are incapable of understand- is accelerating the break-down of the planet’s life support systems, ing and conforming to higher human aspirations and needs. intensifying resource competition, widening the gap between rich Better to leave these areas to government, and to non-profit and poor, and undermining the values and relationships of fam- organizations, both of which are administered by humans in ily and community. The growing concentration of power in global In a move to return the range of care once offered by the human interest… The corporation is sociopathic in its corporations and financial institutions is stripping governments— St. Vincent’s, West Villagers are now being offered the disregard for human goals and values; in fact, its behavior democratic and otherwise—of their ability to set economic, social, skills of highly qualified physicians, each expert in the fits the World Health Organization’s criteria for defining the and environmental priorities in the larger common interest. major disciplines of ambulatory medicine, in offices just across the avenue from the Northwell urgent care psychopath.” – Wade Rowland, Author of Greed, Inc. “Driven by a single-minded dedication to generating ever center. The entrance to this two floor suite of offices Why Corporations Rule the World greater profits for the benefit of their investors, global corpo- is where the emergency room entrance was once rations and financial institutions have turned their economic located. Photo credit © Joel Gordon 2018—All rights I have a heavily-underlined book in my library that was writ- power into political power. They now dominate the decision reserved. ten in 1995 by David C. Korten, titled When Corporations Rule continued on page 12

that too? The crowd was silent as “Mandy,” the woman in the Eyes Wide Shut mask, continued to speak. “It is an Prostitution 101 epidemic… No girl should have to sell herself to make “Working” college students now includes that better life a reality.” I wondered, why was there no prostitution to pay cost of attending NYU one in the administration able to offer this junior student a scholarship? By Roger Paradiso I filmed the demonstration. When Mandy finished speaking, the crowd broke out in applause for the courage I was an innocent man on September 1, 2015. That’s of this young lady. It was at that point I decided to do a when I attended the demonstration of Faculty and Stu- film about this decadence and my (our) loss of innocence dents against NYU, the corporate university. I was in- in the failing Empire of 21st century America. I watched nocent until a masked woman, who turned out to be an “Mandy,” the anonymous sex worker student, walk off NYU student, stood up and spoke. Her opening words into the blazing sun. I decided then that the film would be seemed to drift from the PA system to my mind. Was I called The Lost Village. really hearing what I thought I was hearing? She said, “By I turned to my cameraperson, Liz, a young lady just out the time I started working as a Dominatrix, I had less than of college. I asked her if she had ever heard of prostitution two weeks to make rent. I made the money in two days.” THE LOST VILLAGE student in the mask reveals she worked as on campus. She told me she was making a short film about I took a step back and sized up the crowd. Did they hear a prostitute to pay tuition. Photo courtesy of Roger Paradiso. continued on page 14

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Publisher circulating that since the WFP convention could Executive Editor Praise for Dr. Grange I went to file a complaint today and found George Capsis not endorse a candidate in the Assembly race To the Editor: that the city no longer takes complaints for (Glick had no opposition in the September 13th Managing Editor Thank you for the profile of Dr. Carmen stickers on private property. The DoS needs Kim Plosia primary and would not be on the ballot), a chal- Grange in the September issue. She was to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Associate Editors lenge was still possible on the WFP line. Andrew Buemi, Justin Matthews, my doctor for many years and I liked her I’m hoping that you will share this infor- Anne Olshansky and had well-placed confidence in her Even Ms. Glick expressed “surprise” in re- mation with your readers and perhaps even Art Director judgment (I’m normally a difficult patient!) sponse to press queries about Nixon challeng- join me in an effort raise awareness of the Kim Plosia — Barbara Chacour ing her on the WFP line. I did try to get a growing illegal advertising issue, and hold Advertising Manager and Designer confirmation from the WFP, but was told that DoS accountable for enforcement. Stephanie Phelan In Defense of Female nothing was set until after the primary. I did — Peter Yorgin Photo Editor Postal Workers not knowingly mislead my readers. I apologize Peter: Darielle Smolian if I was mistaken. Thank you for reporting a sticker villain. We To the Editor: My column is political opinion commentary, propose the following as remedy: Traffic Manager Liza Whiting You wrote “But now, we seem to have a dif- not a news column. I did write, “We will con- ferent postal gal delivering the mail each tinue to cover after the September Primary.” To Councilman and City Council Speaker, Photographers day, and the only thing they have in com- In politics, things change all the time. My Corey Johnson: Maggie Berkvist Joel Gordon mon is their weight.” Wow. Really? Well, criticism of Assemblywoman Glick remains. We have run several articles from irate maybe they’ll stop mis-delivering your Her role as chief enforcer of the rule of the cor- readers on the callous and indiscriminate use Comptroller mail when you stop publicly calling them rupt and convicted Speaker Sheldon Silver is of advertising stickers on lamp posts and let- Jolanta Meckauskaite fat. I’m pretty sure you graduated from ju- a matter of record. The Daily News wrote, ter boxes and we suggest a city regulation. If Architecture Editor nior high decades ago. Stop it and grow up. “Glick was lucky she also did not go to jail.” a person discovers an offending sticker he may Brian Pape I was with you with Christine Quinn, Glick’s dismal legislative record for issues that capture an image of it with his cell phone and Film, Media and Music Editor though. But that was a while ago. affect her constituents, other than women’s email it to the proper city office with time and Jim Fouratt — Eric Gilliland health, made me welcome this possibility. location—and that offender will be subject to In “Have You Heard” I did endorse Ms. a fine. Food Editor David Porat Oops! WFP Supports Glick Nixon’s candidacy. I hoped Nixon would win —George Capsis and the issue would be moot. As she didn’t win, Distribution Manager To the Editor: I suggest strongly that the WFP consider, if Timothy Jambeck Pension Funds Invested in It was recently brought to our attention that Nixon is willing, to put an active, progressive Kindness and Decency Regular Contributors Jim Fouratt mislead your readers with a false female voice in Albany, rather than support an Barry Benepe, Caroline Benveniste, claim that the Working Families Party (WFP) elected official who did little to change the cor- The following letter by WestView contributor Charles Caruso, Jim Fouratt, is not supporting Assemblywoman Debo- rupt State Assembly or stand up to bully Cuo- Carol Yost was recently published in the Daily John Gilman, Mark. M. Green, Robert Heide, Thomas Lamia, Keith Michael, rah Glick for re-election. Glick is a longtime mo. I also suggest that Monica Klein, of Seneca News’ Voice of the People section. Michael D. Minichiello, Penny Mintz, WFP champion and we are working hard to Strategies (a feminist, political PR and market- Brian J. Pape, Joy Pape, Alec Pruchnicki, make sure she is reelected. We respectfully ask ing consultancy), look a little more closely at Ms. To the Editor: Christina Raccuia, Catherine Revland, Joseph Salas, Martica Sawin, Donna that you publish a clarification in light of the Glick’s actual record. Glick is no Bella Abzug! I am a retiree from New York City agencies, Schaper, Arthur Z. Schwartz, Gary To- false claim in Fouratt’s August column. — Jim Fouratt having worked more than 25 years, first for mei, Joseph Turco, Esq., Stanley Wlodyka The reason there is a WFP placeholder the HPD, then HRA. I retired at the begin- We endeavor to publish all letters received, on the ballot has nothing to do with our Department of Sanitation ning of 2013, and am now 73 years old. including those with which we disagree. strong support for Assemblywoman Glick; Enforcement Needed I disagree in the strongest possible terms The opinions put forth by contributors it is merely a precaution related to the Gov- with Richard Brower, who accused Mayor to WestView do not necessarily reflect the ernor’s race. The WFP has put everything Dear Mr. Capsis: de Blasio and Controller Scott Stringer of views of the publisher or editor. on the line for Cynthia Nixon because I’ve seen several articles and letters in “politicizing” our pensions by divesting from WestView welcomes your correspondence, comments, and corrections: we believe in her—and from the start, we WestView discussing the problem of illegal fossil-fuel companies and investing instead www.westviewnews.org thought she could win. The WFP place- advertising and graffiti in the area. In one in clean-energy firms; and also by divesting Contact Us holder in Assembly District 66 is merely letter, Chief Christopher Klingler, Head of from private prisons that may serve ICE by (212) 924-5718 a precaution that we take in almost every Enforcement at the Department of Sani- holding immigrants. This is exactly how I [email protected] contested primary. The WFP created a tation (DoS), responds and includes infor- want my pension funds invested. placeholder due to a technicality created by mation on how to make a complaint and I don’t want to get money from firms that New York’s byzantine election law, which that the department will take action. pollute and poison our air, water and land, and would allow our Gubernatorial candidate I have been fighting illegal locksmith and contribute to climate change. I don’t want to to leave the ballot if she chose to do so. gate stickers for years and helped lead the be supported by money invested in prisons Once again, the WFP fully supports As- effort to make them illegal back in 2004. that profit from the broken lives of immi- semblywoman Glick for re-election and is Many people worked hard to get all of the grants who came to my country fleeing in des- campaigning hard for her. Please let us know stakeholders in city government together to peration from starvation and life-threatening when this clarification will be published. craft the law and how to enforce it. Once circumstances in their homelands. I am de- — Bill Lipton, Executive Director, NY-WFP the law was in place, the head of DoS at cidedly not wealthy and depend upon my the time, Commissioner Doherty employed pension, but I want to be able to hold my Jim Fouratt responds: a one-time sting operation to identify the head up about where my money is coming WFP’s Bill Lipton writes a rejection of the idea perpetrators, fine them, and break the cycle from. The heartlessness of the author was of Cynthia Nixon as a candidate for the State of illegal locksmith/gate stickers. It was very chilling. I applaud de Blasio and Stringer Assembly seat held by Deborah Glick. I assume effective and didn’t require many resources. for trying, in this way, to base our pension that is his personal opinion. When I wrote that if Sadly, now in 2018 the problem is back, funds on kindness and decency. If they had MIA SAYS: It is easier to hate than to love, Nixon should fail in her attempt to be the Demo- way city-wide. Unfortunately, DoS does not not, I’d have joined my colleagues out in making love more precious and longer last- cratic candidate for Governor that she should be a enforce the law unless a 311 complaint is the street with a sign. ing. Photo by Dusty Berke. candidate for State Assembly, there was a rumor made, in spite of how visible the problem is. — Carol F. Yost www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 3 BRIEFLY NOTED

The Villager Sold to Brooklyn Publisher true of power tools: a hand drill can be used Yet even as recently as when I was a boy, either way, but try using a power saw, much it was generally believed, in the West in any In a joint announcement the current owners of The Villager, Les and Jenn Goodstien, less a chain saw, backwards. For yet one case, that natural lefties should be forced announced the sale of the nearly century old Village newspaper to Schneps Com- more, I have owned a twenty-two rifle since to become righties. Fortunately for me, my munications, “the largest publisher of community papers” in the New York area with I was twelve years old, and during my army parents left me alone. But given that the headquarters in Brooklyn. stint fired thirty and fifty caliber weapons disadvantages of being left-hand have, over The new owners print 300,000 copies of their several publications each week and of various sorts. They are all designed so the ages, out-weighed the advantages—af- claim 2.5 million page views per month. that the hot shell is ejected straight into the ter all, in Robin Hood’s day it didn’t mat- I last wrote for The Villager when it was owned by Tom and Elizabeth Butson be- face of the left-handed shooter. They have ter that lefties were closer to first base while tween 1992 to 2000 when Tom died prematurely at 68. When my wife, Andromache to be used right-handed. batting—left-handedness ought to have (Maggie) discovered that Elizabeth was Greek, we had them for dinner. And the handicap continues into the disappeared in the ordinary course of evolu- Tom was an old Times editor and formerly the Managing Editor of the Toronto most mundane of matters: Try opening tion. But so far as we can judge, there have Star. Tom just loved the business and was perhaps compelled to do The Villager to your fly, or turning the pages of a book with always been roughly ten percent of lefties in keep his passion for news alive. your left hand. the population. There must be some advan- Recently, Elizabeth Butson spoke before the New York Publishers Association in How did this strange dichotomy come tages for a social group to have some lefties offering a $1000 award in her husband’s name for investigative journalism. about? It is generally believed that while around, but what they are, nobody knows. George Capsis righties are “left-brained”, lefties tend to —James Lincoln Collier use both sides of the brain, which, accord- ing to one source, “could allow them to Autumn in the Village La Propreté de Paris these wastes every Saturday. One can bring visualize problems more broadly and with Mary Chandrahasan wrote an inspired left over worn out T-shirts and socks, vegeta- more complexity”. This is not to say that Autumn in New York. I love the song, and piece in the September issue of WestView ble and fruit peelings, and return home with lefties are “smarter”, but that they are bet- love that time of the year, especially in the on Designing Waste Strategies for NYC. fresh produce. Information can be found at ter at certain intellectual tasks than right- West Village. She did overlook, however, that the City 212-788-7964; [email protected]; or ies. The same source says that “a higher The many pocket parks that have popped does not collect commercial and industrial GrowNYC.org/Clothing. percentage of mathematicians and scien- up in the last few years go through a major wastes such as food, medicine, drug, hos- —Barry Benepe tists are left-handed, and the same is true replanting, as do the stoops of the brown- pital and chemical wastes. Those are col- for artists. However, lefties seem to be stones. Restaurants change their flower lected privately. Where do they go? China Left—Right or Wrong? more likely to suffer from schizophrenia, boxes and there is a flurry of pre-Hallow- has recently rejected recycled plastic wastes autism, and bi-polar disorder.” een decorating. from the US partly because of food con- When I was a kid growing up, I thought being Nonetheless, there are certain oddities in You begin to smell the fireplaces again as tamination and the Trump tariffs. left-handed made me special. I couldn’t have the historical record of left-handedness. For a cozy aroma fills the air. You start to see said how I was special. In most things I was one, in recent decades a startling number of some remarkable sweaters and great hats. an ordinary kid of the time. I played sports ad- American presidents have been left-hand- But let’s go back to those parks. There are equately, but I was no star. I played in school ed—Ford, Reagan, the first Bush, and Clin- so many now, most of which are lovingly marching bands, again adequately, but I was no ton. Al Gore is left-handed, and so are other cared for by the residents who live around Louis Armstrong. I did enough of my school- would-be presidents such as Bill Bradley, them. What a treat it is to sit on a bench work to be shoved along from grade to grade, Bob Dole, and Michael Bloomberg. Says one with a cup of hot coffee; I get mine at Cafe but I was never going to be valedictorian. But researcher, “The chance is less than one in a Panino Mucho Gusto and take in the new it seemed to me that I was special because I thousand” that this is a statistical accident. continued on page 6 was left-handed. I’ve recently looked into the whole matter of handedness a bit. It turns out that experts who have studied the matter have Fallen Heroes Remembered concluded that most lefties see themselves as special, for better or worse. And in fact, there are a considerable num- bers of ways in which it is for the worse. It is often claimed that lefties have certain advan- tages as pitchers and batters. And it is true that left-handed batters are a couple of steps closer to first base than righties, which some- THOSE WHO WANT TO DISPOSE OF THEIR times enables them to beat out a ground ball WASTE the green way can bring their com- that righties can’t. But lefties can’t play half postable waste and fabrics every Saturday the positions in the field—second base, third morning to the Abingdon Square Greenmar- base, shortstop, and catcher. Again, it is sup- ket. Photo by Barry Benepe. posed that lefties have an advantage at ten- Paris, on the other hand, collects both nis. But in fact, that is only because inexperi- residential and commercial waste under enced players forget that the lefty’s forehand the banner of “La Propreté de Paris” (The is where his backhand ought to be. Experi- Cleanliness of Paris). I have seen uni- enced players have no trouble adjusting. formed public servants moving containers But whatever advantages lefties may close to building walls to prevent them have in sports they are hindered in all sorts from blocking sidewalks. Their equipment of ways that righties never think about. is clean, green, sleek, modern and quiet, For example, many if not most musical small enough to move easily through its instruments must be played right-handed. narrow streets and passages. The trombone can be played either way, New York is also making gains in recy- but it is very difficult to play the trumpet cling clothing and organic wastes at build- left-handed. The same is true of clarinets, SQUAD 18 SALUTES at the time the first tower fell on 9/11. The FDNY broadcasts across their intercom for all of the firehouses on duty to salute at the times the ings, curbsides and farmers markets. Our saxophones, and other woodwinds—there towers fell. Photo by Katherine Sharp. own Abingdon Square Greenmarket accepts is only one way to play them. This is also 4 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org Graffiti Art and Sometimes You Need HipHop Architecture Neighbors How the Charles Street Block Association got started

By George Capsis the question was, “What do they do besides planting trees?” I don’t think that question Sometime around the spring of 1971 I be- ever got answered; there was even an article came aware of a program that the City was once entitled “After the Trees What?” offering, which was that if you paid for a Well, there was something we had to tree the City would plant it right in front do and that was to raise money to buy the of your building for free. Wow, that was, at trees. So, we had block fairs which were that time, a very generous and irresistible rustic and quaint (we had one guy who be- offer—especially for me, a newly mort- came famous for offering turtle races). gaged, impoverished home owner. We even had political tussling between Charles Street, except for a small patch a hard-nosed lawyer and big shot consul- between 7th Avenue and West 4th Street, tant over becoming president (and petty was barren all the way from Greenwich embezzlement when buying the plants) in Avenue to the West Side Highway—not what was, and maybe still is, the rattling one tree, not one patch of flowering plants, of egos. just a random collection of sidewalks from But block associations can and should the gray slate of the 1860s to the cracked do good things because the block is the concert of later eras. extension of our apartments—mentally, But, oh, oh my, planting just one tree to we carry the graffiti on the lamp post into grow all alone seemed somehow wrong. our living rooms. So, I found myself talking to my next-door So, if you think we should select better neighbor, John McAlister, over the rear plants, if you think we should remove ad garden fence, asking him, “What do you stickers, if you think a lecture on the his- think about starting a block association tory of Charles Street would be fun, then and getting all the homeowners to plant a you ought to join the block association and SHOWCASING SPACES, BUILDINGS AND ENVIRONMENTS THAT EMBODY THE CREATIVE tree?” With John’s quick “Yes” the Charles speak... ENERGY OF HIP-HOP EXPRESSION: The AIANY gallery’s Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture features images like this of Olalekan Jeyifous’ Shanty Mega-Structures Street Block association was started. Oh, if I remember correctly, we now in Lagos, Nigeria. The Exhibition Curation & Design is by Sekou Cooke and Graffiti by Chino. Block associations were new then and have over 120 trees! Image courtesy of AIANY Center for Architecture.

By Brian J. Pape, AIA From October 1, 2018 to January 12, 2019, the AIANY gallery will open a free Sounds of the Great Religions There is a keenly watched legal battle being exhibit entitled Close to the Edge: The waged over creative expression, as noted in Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, featur- WestView News March and April 2018 ar- ing the work of students, academics, and ticles by Catherine Revland, The 5Pointz practitioners at the center of an emerg- Decision. The Visual Artists Rights Act of ing cultural movement. Over the last five 1990 (VARA) has been litigated in a jury decades, since Black and Latino youth of trial for the first time, ending February New York’s South Bronx neighborhood 2018 with a $6.7 million damages award to established hip-hop, their primary means 21 artists, now under appeal. of expression—deejaying, emceeing, b- It may take many years to work out an boying, and graffiti—have become globally interpretation of what was meant in prac- recognized creative practices in their own tical application of its terms, but from a right, and each has significantly impacted basic property rights aspect, is this verdict the urban built environment. saying that others can control how you use Hip-Hop Architecture displays spaces, your property if you allow an application of buildings, and environments that embody paint on your walls? the creative energy of these means of hip- Now, some of the same artists that were hop expression. involved with the 5Pointz case have a new Architecture must be recognized as val- patron, the CitizenM New York Bow- id creative art requiring legal protection, just ery Hotel (now that’s a mouthful!) at 189 as the graffiti artists are fighting for their Bowery, right at the terminus of Spring art. Photographing and coopting images of Street. The international hotel chain opens art for other commercial uses is being debat- on the Bowery in October as “affordable ed in the courts. Until the built creations of luxury in a prime location” with a stylish, architects get copyright and publicity rights artsy emphasis. as other artists, all art is diminished. As reported in a New York Times article by Lauren Hard on Sep. 17, this CitizenM Brian J. Pape is an architectural consultant THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH recreated their will house the Museum of Street Art in private practice, serves on the Community outstanding concert from Carnegie Hall at St. Veronica, lead by Archbishop (MOSA) in its 20-story stairwell, featur- Board Two, is Co-chair of the American Demetrios standing next to WestView publisher George Capsis and Father Santiago Rubio, who has invited this concert series to the shuttered church. ing the works of 20 “aerosol artists” from Institute of Architects NY Design for Aging Photo by Dimitrios Panagos. the 5Pointz group (although the hotel’s Committee, and is WestView News’s Archi- website makes no mention of it yet). tectural Editor. www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 5

L-Train Shutdown Representing buyers, sellers, “Mitigation” Back In Court investors and landlords Greenwich Village • West Village • Chelsea • to take busses from Williamsburg Brooklyn to Manhattan, to get to work, rather than All over Manhattan and Brooklyn take the G Train north to Long Island City or South to downtown Brooklyn. Bank St Townhouse - Triplex - RENTED 114 Mercer SoHo - Huge loft - SOLD The hocus-pocus was apparent earlier West 11th St Townhouse - RENTED 50 Greenpoint Ave Condo - SOLD this year when the Coalition filed suit in 80 Charles Street - 1 Bed - RENTED 150 East 93rd St Coop - IN CONTRACT Federal Court to stop the payment of Fed- 425 Park Ave South 3D & 18D - SOLD 320 West 115th Street - SOLD eral money towards the project and suc- 56 Jane Street - 1 Bed/2 Baths - SOLD 2 Horatio Street - 1 Bed - SOLD ceeded in getting the Federal Transporta- tion Department to require, for the first time, an environmental assessment of the Fall Listings MTA/DOT plan. That assessment was 115 East 9th Street - $515K 43 Charles Street - done, and 309 residents attended a pub- 127 East 26th Brownstone - $3,999,000 1 Bed $6,500/month lic hearing, or submitted testimony, every single one involved a negative assessment 165 Perry Street Loft - $1.1M 2 Bed $9,995/month BIG RIG ON WEST 12TH STREET on Septem- of the proposal. But the Feds bought the ber 27. A view of the next two years? Photo MTA/DOT line that there were only two by Marguerite Martin. The fall market is here, email me to sign up for my fun and informative newsletter. options: repair the tunnel and “do nothing.” By Arthur Z. Schwartz Talented residents, from the Village and the Lower East Side have worked hard The Mitigation Plan spawned by the up- to develop responsible alternatives to the coming April 2019 shutdown of the L Train, DOT/MTA’s plans, which promise not to Scotty Elyanow is back in court. As Westview went to press, move commuters for 17 hours a day, and Licensed Associate RE Broker the 14th Street Coalition, joined by a dozen cause traffic bottlenecks, pollution, noise m 917.678.6010 | [email protected] block associations and condominium cor- and vibrations in our historic community. www.westvillagebroker.com porations, with new support from residents Their proposals have been met with hos- @villagescotty Real estate agents affiliated with The Corcoran Group are of East 14th Street and the Delancey Street tility, and with no desire for compromise. independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of The Corcoran Group. The Corcoran Group is a licensed real area, filed an Order to Show cause to a) stop That is why the residents are back in Court. estate broker located at 660 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10065. the 24 hours per day “preparatory” construc- Not doing anything will wind up with a tion work going on between Avenues A and situation which now faces residents of far east B, with no limits on noise or dust; b) stop the 14th Street: 24 hour per day construction; NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) saws, jackhammers, clouds of dust, and not a from proceeding with its plans for protected noise or air pollution enforcement official in bike lanes on 12th and 13th Street (work site. People on the East Side are already get- which could begin during the first week of ting sick. West siders and Lower East Siders August) and to widen the 14th Street side- have joined them in Court, in a suit brought walks into one lane of traffic on both the in part under the State Environmental Qual- north and south sides of 14th Street, and ity Review Act (SEQRA), and in part just route non-bus traffic across residential blocks alleging that the threatened governmental like 13th and 12th Street, and c) from run- action is arbitrary and capricious. ning 70 diesel buses an hours from Brooklyn One of the best examples are the bike to 14th Street, via the Williamsburg Bridge, lanes DOT wants to install on 12th and 13th Delancey Street, Allen Street/1st Avenue. Street, six months before the L-Train shut- In Brooklyn, residents and businesses down. Their plan, which would run the lanes have already resigned themselves to what on the north side, with a five-foot-wide bar- has been labeled the L-Pocalypse, a shut- rier strip, would leave vehicles about 10 feet of down which will make it super hard for width to proceed. Any vehicle that stops will Brooklyn residents to get to work in Man- cause a trafficjam. Oil deliveries will not be hattan, and which will destroy bars and res- doable on the north side, nor will Access-a- taurants in communities like Williamsburg. Ride drop offs. And when a nine-foot-wide For most of the last year, residents of Lower garbage truck or an eight-foot-wide speed- Manhattan have been organizing to ad- ing ambulance tries to go through a 10-foot- dress our own version of the L-Pocalypse. wide corridor (which is now 16 feet wide), NYC Transportation Commissioner Polly watch out. Most scary of all is the fact that Trottenberg, whose penchant for bike lanes 12th Street is a main ambulance route from and other narrowing of streets has led to Northwell Health to Beth Israel Hospital, an actual decrease in the speed of cars and and an important route for the fire trucks buses in Manhattan, has decided that she stationed on West 10th Street. wants 14th Street closed to cars, a plan she This time, a judge, and not an unknown hatched with the bike-riding Advocacy Federal bureaucrat, will determine whether group Transportation Alternatives. And she DOT and MTA took a hard-enough look— and the NYC Transit Authority has decided required by SEQRA—at the Mitigation that massive crowds are going to swarm 14th Plan. The community has a good case. Street 17 hours per day, demanding a con- tinuous stream of diesel buses busy running Arthur Z. Schwartz is counsel to the 14th on 14th Street. They have also decided that Street Coalition and the lead attorney in the tens of thousands of Brooklynites are going new lawsuit. 6 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org

Court to Beth Israel: “Maybe I Won’t Allow You To Close” Briefly Notedcontinued from page 3 colors of the changing leaves and the new By Arthur Z. Schwartz ment in the Public Health Law that the 17, Judge Shlomo Hagler, after hearing plants like hardy mums, millet, ornamental application be subjected to public review. one additional argument, ruled, from the grasses, croton, and of course, pumpkins— Sometimes the wheels of The segmentation, which was tolerated by bench that the lawsuit should proceed. He lots and lots of pumpkins. Justice grind slowly. the Health Department (which is clearly set a date in November for an argument My co-op has a back yard—I am very complicit), also gave the Health Depart- on the merits. lucky—and in it we have a maple tree that Back in November 2017, Westview Pub- ment cover not to review the project under During the argument the Mt. Sinai- turns amazing colors in the fall. We are lisher George Capsis and I, plus the politi- the State Environmental Quality Review Beth Israel lawyers (who were supported fortunate to have Susan Sipos, who runs cal group known as Progressive Action of Act, also known as SEQRA. That law re- by the State Attorney General, arguing on Gardens of Distinction, work on our yard Lower Manhattan, filed a lawsuit to reverse quires a public assessment of the environ- behalf of the Health Commissioner) said and also care for many of the wonderful the partial closure of Beth Israel Hospital mental impacts of large actions receiving to the judge that the new hospital was pocket parks around our neighborhood. (which involved the loss of its heart sur- either government funds or government now going to have 200 beds. The judge Susan tells me she has seen a remarkable gery unit, its maternity unit, and its pediat- approval. An affect of public health is an looked at me and said: “You said it was increase in the number of green initiatives ric surgery unit) and to stop the hospital’s environmental impact. 70.” My response was “If its 200, that’s a taking place in our Village over the past five future shutdown. Up until that point Beth The numbers had shown that Beth Israel big step in the right direction.” The judge years. Susan also commented that the work Israel, the closest hospital to our part of consistently has 3-400 beds filled, that it won’t delay the argument, but he said to on these parks and green spaces has most town, had avoided any sort of comprehen- had 25% of the admissions in Lower Man- the hospital’s lawyers: “I advise you to talk. often been done by the residents: “It’s the sive review of its plan to shut the 800-bed hattan, and that its Emergency Room saw I use Beth Israel Hospital and I know how residents who start and even do the work hospital, located at 1st Avenue and 16th 90,000 people a year—even after it had an- important it is to the community. The fact on these spaces, but the city is also pro- Street. The plan of the parent hospital, nounced its shutdown plans. Ambulances that your hospital has partly closed doesn’t viding help in the greening process in the Mount Sinai, is to open a 70-bed “mini- dispatched by the Northwell Health ER mean that I can’t order you to keep the city.” It should be noted that Susan, besides hospital,” on the corner of 14th Street and in the West Village head first to Beth Is- remainder open.” taking care of our co-op, also takes care of 2nd Avenue. rael. More than a thousand babies were be- Subsequently, the lawyers called and said the Abingdon Square Park, St. Luke’s, as Mount Sinai-Beth Israel had attempted ing delivered there each year prior to the that their representation of 200 beds was an well as the Jane Street Garden, the Jeffer- to get away with this by “segmenting” its Maternity Ward’s closure. The loss of this error, but that they are open to negotiation. son Market Garden and many other pri- applications to the State Health Depart- hospital, even as word of its demise kept Talks could begin soon. vate yards and muses in the Village. ment (called Certificate of Need applica- people away, is incalculable. Now, I love the spring tulips on Park tions of CONs) and by falsely stating in After we filed suit the dismantling Arthur Z. Schwartz is the Democratic Avenue and I love the blossoming trees those applications that the cost of each stopped. No CONs were filed for the District Leader for Greenwich Village and in Army Plaza, but to me there is nothing change they sought approval for was $500. next year, while we argued in five separate President of the public interest law firm like Autumn in New York, especially in the By stating that the change had a net cost motions over whether the lawsuit should Advocates for Justice, which is handling the West Village. of $500, the hospital avoided a require- properly proceed. Finally, on September Beth Israel case. —Gordon Hughes

Humberto Gonzalez-Bernal Comes Home! JOIN US FOR A By Arthur Z. Schwartz push him out the door. Humberto’s friend, Judith Tweena, had fought with NYU Medical Center back in June to admit him in order to deal with a serious infection, got him in to Village Care Nursing home to recover, and facilitated his stay for a month Safety Day Block Party is a temporary apartment while his apart- ment was cleaned so as to lessen the chance of new infections. HOSTED BY I got the cleaning job. I got the landlord THE FDNY & NYPD to paint, and plaster, and fix holes in the floor which let mice and other vermin up LGBTQ OUTREACH UNITS from the basement into Humberto’s first Emcees: Tym Moss and Brooke Guinan floor apartment. I worked with others, in- cluding his neighbor, Giselle Malifatano, Sunday, October 7th 2018 and my wife, Kelly Craig, to replace his 11AM – 4PM bed, remove old furniture and a non-func- th West 13 Street between tional stove (which attracted mice), install th 7 Ave and Greenwich Ave better lighting, and scrub the place from Celebrate National Coming Out top to bottom. On September 23rd I picked up Hum- Day, Ally Week, LGBTQ History A LITTLE BIT OF HORATIO STREET RETURNS: Month & Learn about Public Safety! Dog next door says “welcome home.” berto in Brooklyn and brought him home. Photo by Giselle Malifatano. He was ecstatic. The first thing he asked u FDNY Forcible Entry hands on to was “where are my guitars?” All eight help you break down that closet door! u FDNY and NYPD mascots In the August issue of WestView I wrote were neatly lined up in his closet. As per and photo opportunities about heroic efforts to save the life of his usual he left his door open, and neigh- u Live comedy, music, and drag 87-year-old Humberto Gonzalez-Bernal, bors came in and hugged him. “Humberto, u Fire Truck, Ambulance a 59-year resident of Horatio Street. Hum- you’re back.” And then Giselle came home, and NYPD Bomb Squad For accessibility information, please berto came to Horatio Street from Cuba in and her dog went running out of her door contact Sgt. Martindale 72 hours prior to u NYPD K-9 unit 1959, just before the revolution (which he and right into Humberto’s arms. A little bit the event to request a specific u And more! accommodation at (212) 614-6748 or supported; he still idolizes Fidel). He made of Horatio Street had come home. [email protected] his living as a cabaret guitarist, and carpen- ter, but after many years he had fallen on Arthur Z. Schwartz is the Village Demo- @FDNY @NYPDcommaffairs #FDNYPD #FDNYSmart hard times, with a landlord who wanted to cratic District Leader. www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 7 Dine in Lefkada Tonight Mediterranean Cuisine—Made with Love: From the Greek Island of Mary Lefkada to Manhattan’s Westside Market, by Maria Zoitas

By Caroline Benveniste in 1977 he opened the original Westside Vetri Market on Broadway and 110th Street. With the dwindling number of supermar- John returned to Lefkada to find a wife, kets in the Village, it’s lucky that Villagers and there met a woman named Maria NYRS, Licensed Associate have access to a Westside Market on West whom he married. Maria had cooked for Real Estate Broker 14th Street and 7th Avenue. But to call it a her family in Greece, and continued cook- supermarket is unfair: when you shop there, ing when she arrived in New York. She [email protected] you can of course find all the supermarket and John raised a family, but in the early 917-969-0048 staples, but if you spend time combing the 90’s, when the children were older, Ma- aisles, something I do a lot, you can find ria decided that she wanted to find a job, many hidden and not so hidden gems. The but not a 9-5 office job. One day she went produce section is large and in addition to into Balducci’s (which used to be on 6th conventional and organic fruits and veg- Avenue and 9th Street, where Citarella etables, there is a nice assortment of wild is now) and saw that they had a counter mushrooms. There is a gigantic cheese sec- with lots of prepared foods, and she real- Exclusive at 78 Charles Street Sold & Closed tion with some hard-to-find Greek cheeses ized they could do the same at Westside for $80,000 Over the Asking Price! like Manouri. The olive selection is spec- Market. Since she knew that Americans tacular, and the Super Colossal Kalamata liked cheesecake, she decided to start with As a Greenwich Village resident with over 28 that. Her husband was initially against the years of real estate experience, I have sold idea – he thought that people came to su- over 100+ Townhouses, Co-ops, Condos, permarkets to buy food to cook with, not Condops, as well as luxury rentals. to buy cooked food. But Maria kept push- ing and he grudgingly went along and fea- Let me help do the same for you! tured the cheesecakes which turned out to be a great hit. Maria then added spanako- Please feel free to contact me to set up pita (Greek spinach pie), and a selection an appointment. of Greek dips like taramosalata (made with fish roe). She had been making the All information is from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, prior sale or withdrawal without notice. food in her own kitchen, but since it was All rights to content, photographs and graphics reserved to Broker. Equal Housing Opportunity Broker. selling so well John set up a small primi- tive kitchen in the basement of the store, and they hired a friend of theirs from Lefkada who added soups to the line-up. Soon John had to build a large kitchen in wrong with it, and then tinker with it until it Her cookbook will be released on Oc- the basement, and the offerings explod- tasted the way she wanted it to. tober 16th, but Westside Market custom- ed. With a kitchen staff in place, Maria Maria persevered, and after three years, ers can purchase a copy now in the stores would teach everyone how to prepare the the book is done. Maria spent time on at a special price. It may seem strange that BY POPULAR DEMAND: After Maria’s West- food and oversee everything. Lefkada with a photographer, so that the Maria decided to write a cookbook when side Market customers clamored for her In 2004, the Columbia-area store had to book is filled with beautiful pictures of the she knows that what has made her “Maria’s recipes, she obliged with this beautifully- close temporarily while the building it oc- island and of the food. There are over 175 Homemade” offerings successful is that illustrated, 400-page cookbook. Photo cupied was demolished and replaced with recipes, most of them Greek, but others people don’t cook much anymore. But she courtesy of Westside Market. a larger building. Right around that time, not, like Lasagna and Jerk Chicken with feels it is important for people to cook as Westside Market opened another store Coconut Rice and Peas and, of course, the food is something that brings families to- olives are the best I’ve found in New York. on 7th Avenue between 14th and 15th Cheesecake (which has apparently sold gether, and she hopes that her cookbook There are beers from all over, with a focus Streets, replacing a sad Gristedes that had over a million slices since its arrival in will do just that. on craft breweries. But what really sets been there for a while. I was quite excited the store). I was surprised to see a recipe And unlike other supermarkets that are Westside Market apart is the expansive when I saw the signage go up, as I had fond for Melomakarona (spiced Greek cook- struggling, Westside Market is doing well prepared food section. Ironically, however, memories of the Morningside Heights ies) which are a favorite of mine, but not and expanding. There are currently five lo- it was almost by accident that Westside store from my days in graduate school at known to most Americans. I complained cations in Manhattan with more coming Market started carrying prepared foods. Columbia in the 80’s. This store, like the to Maria that I had never seen them for soon. It is still very much a family business: I learned the history of the store from others, has its own kitchen where all the sale at Westside Market, and she point- two of Maria and John’s children oversee Maria Zoitas, the wife of John Zoitas, food is prepared. By now Maria was travel- ed them out to me at the Morningside the stores as well as a son-in-law and a founder of Westside Market, whom I met ling around to all the stores to inspect the Heights store (and gave me a box to take nephew. And they are all passionate about at their Morningside Heights store. John kitchens and make sure that the food was home), but unfortunately I have still not food, something which is obvious when you immigrated in the 1960’s to the United being cooked correctly. found them at the Chelsea store. shop there. States from Lefkada, a Greek island in With everyone enjoying Maria’s food so the Ionian Sea on the west side of the much, customers often asked her why she country. In Lefkada he worked at his fam- didn’t write a cookbook. However, as Ma- VIEWS BY SUZE ily’s oil press, but left there when he was ria explained, the problem was that she did 50 + years in Greenwich Village still quite young and travelled to a num- not really have recipes, or rather, they were See Views by Suze ber of countries looking for work, until in her head, so creating a cookbook with the at Bonsignour Café he finally landed in New York. There, he store’s recipes would be a large project. She Jane Street first worked in a coffee shop and later in did have 20 Greek recipes from her mother, a grocery store in Morningside Heights and other items that she cooked at the store and Eighth Avenue near Columbia University. Eventually he came from friends’ recipes or other recipes 917-686-6542 was able to open his own store on Madi- she would find in books, but usually she [email protected] son Street in Morningside Heights, and would read a recipe, figure out what was East Village Mural 8 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org WEST VILLAGE IMAGES BY JOEL GORDON Greenwich House Pottery Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns It is believed that the custom of making jack-o-lanterns at Halloween began Expansion Plans in Ireland, and was named after the phenomenon of a strange light flickering over peat bogs. It has also been suggested that the jack-o-lanterns originally repre- sented Christian souls in purgatory, as Halloween is the eve of All Saints’ Day. Fire Up the Neighbors “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” depicts the Headless Horseman with a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern in place of his severed head. Below six images of Halloween. By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner space and the height is within the allow- NDNY Architecture + Design able zoning and building restrictions. Some of the neighbors are understand- NIMBY or ‘Not In My Backyard’ is a term ably upset about the proposed insertion. you hear quite often in conjunction with The 23’-0” building will land in the donut developments in the West Village. With and all but eliminate the light and views to residential properties in close proximity to the rear of the properties on Jones Street. commercial, retail and institutional estab- Not only will the noise and associated con- lishments, the chances that a new develop- struction inconveniences be a bother, but ment infringes on the light and air quali- the most lasting effect will be the loss of ties of an existing building are rather high. property value. According to the owners of The most controversial examples of vocal the Jones Street townhouses abutting the opposition to new construction have been open space, the Pottery Studio informed NYU’s mega-development at 181 Mercer them of their impending plans only a week Street and the conversion of St. Vincent’s before the Community Board hearing. properties from medical facilities to high- While the opposition has been vocal and end condos and townhouses. These ex- the Community Board unanimously reject- amples have shown how acrimonious the process of building or expanding in historic districts can be. In the end, some compro- mises on design were needed to appease the opposition. The Greenwich House Pottery finds it- self in a similar predicament. Established in 1908 at its current residence at 16 Jones Street, the mission of the School was, and still is, to teach and promote ceramics and support artists. The facility is laid out in an L-configuration with an inner courtyard that is surrounded by residential proper- ties. Since the early 2000’s, the student body has grown from around 200 to about 500 students now. Some of its members are elderly and the multi-story establishment is not particularly easy to traverse for the less mobile members. In order to cater to the expanding populace and provide eleva-

GREENWICH HOUSE POTTERY STUDIO EXPANSION PROPOSAL Image credit: Ogawa Depardon Architects.

ed the development, the project has passed Landmarks approval and is now under review at the Department of Buildings. Con- struction is anticipated to begin in late fall of 2018. While the developing team has no obligations to involve the affected neighbors in the design VIEW OF BACKYARD LOOKING WEST AND ROOF PLAN. process, it is usually in their best Image credit: June 2018 Landmarks Preservation Com- interest to inform them of the mission presentation material. project, the reasons for it, how it benefits the community and tor access to all floors, the Pottery Studio what steps they plan to undertake to miti- has undertaken an expansion that covers gate construction disturbances and debris. the only open space that the facility has, This is usually the path of least acrimony. In thereby affecting the light and air quality this case, Greenwich House Pottery gets full Other examples can be found on my website www.joelgordon.com. of adjacent properties. The community fa- marks for looking out for their students, but Photo credit © Joel Gordon 2018—All rights reserved. cility has the right to expand into its green missed the mark on their neighborly grade. www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 9 Notes from Away: Judicial Notice By Tom Lamia open a branch office for the firm. It was there that the scales fell from my principled Like you, perhaps, I spent time recently eyes. Lawyers and lawyering in the nation’s watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hear- capital means one must work within the ings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. machinery of electoral politics to succeed. I have views on this sort of thing that are High-minded intentions to serve all per- deeply associated with my past life as a law- sons and all causes wilt before the reality yer. I went to Harvard Law School, graduat- that the town is riddled with rivalries, am- ing in the mid-1960s, a classmate and friend bitions, grudges and back-scratching fa- of Stephen Breyer. That experience and my vor trading. Attracting clients and serving ten years of law practice in Washington, D.C. them well is a sophisticated political game. have given me a certain perspective on these But, I did not appreciate how much the hearings. Of course, I know that Washing- process for nomination and confirmation ton, D.C. is a politically partisan place. Still, of Supreme Court justices had been in- I was uncomfortable with the highly partisan fected by this game. environment at the hearings. Judge Kavanaugh is certainly an able, A principle that was important to lawyer- well-trained Washington lawyer. I find ing in the eyes of my law school professors that to be part of the problem, because that “I love your paper—where can I find it?” was that every person deserved legal repre- is all that he is or ever was. Listening to IN YOUR MAILBOX! sentation by competent counsel. A related his testimony at the hearings, I marveled at principle was that lawyers had a professional the skill in obfuscation that went into his ___ Yes, love your paper, but I am broke—send it free. duty to represent unpopular persons and answers. Senators of both parties shared ___ Yes, love the paper—here is $12 for a one year subscription. unpopular causes. This duty is one of legal that skill. They were all playing from the ___ Yes, love the paper—here is $24 for two years. ethics, generally, and of the responsibility of Washington lawyer’s handbook. The sena- MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO WESTVIEW NEWS the lawyer as an officer of the court, specifi- tors were pursuing their party’s electoral Name______Address______cally. That is what I was taught and that is goals, so the efforts of several to entrap or ______email address______what I believed (and still do). To the extent lavish false praise on the nominee can be ___Yes, love the free concerts for seniors—here is my $______check payable to that I thought about the reasons behind explained as part of the game, but it does The West Village Fund these principles back in that distant time, I not make them a positive or productive MAIL TO: 69 CHARLES STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014 accepted them as necessary to our system of part of the process. As for the witness, his justice, a system that prides itself on fair and tortuous efforts to transform penetrating equal treatment of all who come within it. questions into softballs by burying them in In my early years of law practice, in Los “context” could be accepted, to a degree, by Angeles, I was with a respected law firm the burden of partisanship he carries as the founded by three Harvard lawyers on their champion of his party, but it is no way to return from World War II military service. get at relevance or clear statement. The senior partners at the firm insisted that Even so, I cannot escape the disappoint- each of us, no matter how junior, actively ment I feel for the effect this partisanship participate in at least one outside civic ac- had on the selection and confirmation pro- tivity. No effort was made to direct our en- cess. At one point in the hearing, one of the ergies to points on the political spectrum. Republican senators, Cruz perhaps, sought The activities pursued showed no pattern to resurrect Judge Kavanaugh from harm or bias. Mine were the Constitutional that might have been done by Democrats’ Rights Foundation and an African Law references to Kavanaugh’s employment in outreach group (I spent two years teaching partisan positions for all but four of the law in Africa). I do not recall any partisan thirteen years following his judicial clerk- political issue arising in these activities. ships before becoming a judge. Senator My firm did have a political alignment, Cruz pointed out that Justice Breyer had arguably, in that we represented only the been Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary management side in our core labor relations Committee, a partisan appointment before practice. I do also recall an occasion when his confirmation, and no issue was made an important client, Union Oil Company, of that. Justice Breyer’s service as Chief mildly complained about a cover photo in Counsel was for one year, in 1980, fourteen the LA County Bar Bulletin of a drilling rig years before his confirmation to the Court off Santa Barbara, for which one of my part- in 1994. Breyer was a professor at Harvard ners was given photo credit. This created a for 29 years and a federal Circuit Court stir within the partnership, but no apology Judge for 13 years before being nominated. was given and we did not lose the client. My Those were not partisan positions. public profile in politics was as a speaker I didn’t like either side of the argument, for Alan Cranston and Tom Braden, both as it was unfair to both Kavanaugh and Democrats running for statewide office in Breyer. There was a time when experience BEER BATTERED FISH & CHIPS 1968. Both lost. Within the firm, my choice as a lawyer for a prestigious and respected of candidates and my efforts on their behalf congressional committee or for an Inde- 466 Hudson Street were casually derided as quixotic, but not re- pendent Counsel appointed by Congress garded as contrary to the firm’s image or its was considered a high qualification for a 212-741-6479 client retention or recruitment efforts. judicial appointment. Now, apparently, it is Oscarsplacewestvillage.com I went to Washington, D.C. in 1980 to a negative. 10 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org Then Now: good design = great sales & The Greenwich Village Theater Whether you’re selling your product or your services, we can help you with stunning logos, ads, collateral and publications By Brian J. Pape, AIA and a well-designed, easy-to-navigate website.

View the website at phelandesignworks.com Greenwich Village and the area of Sheridan Square was a pop- 1919. The play’s character of Mr. Brown decides that “the ular tourist destination during the 1910s and 1920s, helped by only problem with bohemia is that the bohemians don’t [email protected] • 212-620-0652 the development of the West Side subway line in 1918. know how to make a profit from it.” The Greenwich Village Theatre was originally built for The Greenwich Village Follies, with scenes and songs the Greenwich Village Players, who, like the Washington that also parodied Greenwich Village life and current events, Square Players, were amateur players. opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre in 1919. Following Sinclair Lewis satirized prominent Greenwich Village the success of the Follies, the show moved to the Schubert figures (who he clearly thought were taking themselves Theatre on Broadway a month after it had opened down- too seriously) and the influx of tourists in Hobohemia, a town. Nevertheless, the theater was so influential, that it short story that he adapted into a play for the theater in helped form the reputation of the area as a creative enclave.

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THEN: GREENWICH VILLAGE THEATRE AT 7TH AVENUE AND CHRISTOPHER STREET. In the background of this 1928 photo, the Greenwich Village Theatre is seen beyond the Christopher Street Park trees and the foreground excavation for the 14-story apartment building erected at 10 Sheridan Square in 1928-29 by the architect Emory Roth who used a Neo- Romanesque design. The Sheridan Viewing Garden would be added to the left. Here, the fly loft structure is seen—nearly as tall as the tenement building to the left of it. Credit: NYPL Digital Collections.

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By Alec Pruchnicki ors, either directly or as an unindicted co- conspirator, Republicans in Congress can Get it through your heads. They’re dusting again block any further action. off the hot seat for me! Lee J. Cobb as Johnny But, the New York State Attorney Gen- Friendly in On the Waterfront. eral does not have these limitations. She can, and will be, criticized by the Presi- The panic that President Trump is exhib- dent and his allies, but can’t be fired. She iting as his minions flip on him (Flynn, can investigate criminal activity on the part Cohen, Manafort and others) reminds me of President Trump, his family, minions, of the fictional corrupt union official at the and companies, and not just impeachable end of On the Waterfront. But, how can we offenses, civil violations, or unindicted co- help to dust off the political hot seat for the conspirator improprieties. Violations of President? state laws are not subject to the same presi- The federal and state primary elections dential pardon power that exists on the are finished. The next Election Day in No- federal level. Federal justice department vember will give us an opportunity to take guidelines limiting the ability to subpoena Democratic control of the House of Rep- the President don’t apply on the state level, resentatives (and maybe the Senate?) and although the issue might end up in the elect a new slate of state officials, probably Supreme Court with a sitting Brett “the including Leticia James as Attorney Gen- President is above the law“ Kavanaugh or eral. How will this fit into the movement someone like him involved. to resist the actions of the Trump admin- These, and other strengths, which exist istration? on the state level, might reinforce the de- The Attorney General, whether Un- cisions of the Attorney General, but what derwood now or James in the future, has can citizens do to support these actions? unique weapons available. Although a When attacks on the Attorney General of Democratic House might impeach Trump, New York, and possibly other states, oc- any Republican, at any governmental level, tion is orders of magnitude more serious, the Republicans in the Senate could block cur, the public will have to back her up by who sides with the president. out in the open, and undermines the very an actual conviction. If special counsel whatever means necessary. This might in- There is a lot of possible corruption in workings of our Democracy. Let the At- Mueller (assuming he isn’t fired) brings out clude demonstrations in the streets, peti- Albany that should be investigated by the torney General resist Trump in the courts, a report indicating that President Trump tions, letter writing, supporting amicus le- Attorney General. But, the corruption in while the rest of us resist in the streets and committed high crimes and misdemean- gal briefs, and direct political action against Washington under the Trump administra- voting booths. Why You Didn’t See Penny Mintz on the Ballot By Penny Mintz in their petitions. These disappointed can- since 1992 courts have ruled that the BOE Two days after the Appellate Division didates petitioned the courts for redress so must look at the whole petition when there decision, Arthur filed his brief. A week af- If you are one of the 1,900 people, during often that New York became the election is a deficiency or omission. Unless there is ter that, we drove up to Albany. All seven those brutally hot days at the end of June litigation capital of the country. Half of all a reasonable probability of confusion or de- of the judges on the Court of Appeals lis- and the beginning of July, who signed a peti- election law cases were New York cases. ception, the petitions are valid. ten to and interrupt arguments to ask ques- tion to get me—Penny Mintz—on the bal- No issue of fraud was raised in my case. Unfortunately, State Supreme Court tions and make comments. It’s what they lot as candidate for Member of the Demo- Certainly, there was no confusion about Justice Carol Edmead said that she was call a “hot bench.” Arthur did a great job cratic Party State Committee, you may have my gender. I personally garnered 450 of constrained by the 1984 Court of Ap- in the hot seat. Unfortunately, we went noticed that my name did not appear. the signatures, and another 250 supporters peals ruling, and affirmed the BOE deci- down—five to two. The affirming judges My petitions were filed on time. The sig- signed in my presence. More signed at my sion. Then she turned to me and apolo- wrote no opinion. Once again, the dissent natures were not challenged. For eight days son’s request. He said it was his “mother” gized. Undeterred, however, Arthur filed was brilliant. the Board of Elections (BOE) reported who was running. None of those 700-plus an appeal. As election cases are expedited, Judge Rowan Wilson wrote that the that I was a candidate for female member signers were confused. As for the others Arthur was arguing before five justices 1984 decision was “inconsistent with the of the state committee. Then, on August who signed, they saw my name; Penny is in the Appellate Division one week later. legislative command” in the 1996 Ballot 1st, the BOE suddenly removed my name simply not a gender-neutral name. Three justices affirmed without comment. Access Law amendments. The Election from the ballot because the petitions did The BOE decision was based on language The two dissenting judges wrote that the Law was amended precisely, Judge Wil- not identify me as female. in Article 2 of the Election Law. Article 2 1,900 signers who wanted my name on son wrote, to end the sort of ballot chal- Article 6 of the Election Law sets forth governs the purpose and formation of state the ballot “should not have their selection lenge that disqualified me and had given the rules governing petitioning. The law committees. One section says that the peti- invalidated where there was no likelihood New York the dubious distinction of being states specifically that these rules are to be tions of male and female committee mem- that any of them thought [Penny Mintz] home to half the nation’s election-law liti- liberally construed. As long as there is no bers “shall list candidates for such positions was a man or was running for the male gation. He concluded that “absent a serious fraud or confusion, the intent of the en- separately by sex.” In 1984 the Court of Ap- slot.” This sounded fair to me. Neverthe- concern with fraud, persons wishing to run rolled voters to designate a candidate must peals, the highest court in the state, ruled less, we had lost. So, Arthur appealed to for office should not be shut out of elec- be given effect. The voters’ intent is not that Article 2 must be strictly construed. the highest state court—the Court of Ap- tions by court-sanctioned strict adherence supposed to be frustrated by technical ob- My attorney, Arthur Schwartz, challenged peals in Albany. to technical requirements. No such con- jections. Mandates for liberal construction the BOE ruling in my case and argued that I was an appellate attorney for over 15 cerns exist here.” Bravo, but, alas, a Pyrrhic were added to the law in 1992 and 1996 be- the 1984 ruling does not reflect the 1992 years and only got to the Court of Appeals victory. cause, over the years, too many candidates and 1996 legislative changes that required three times. It’s a big deal to argue there. It And that, in a nutshell, is why my name had been disqualified due to technical flaws more liberal application of the rules. Indeed, took me weeks to write my papers. wasn’t on the ballot. 12 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org

But Essentia is no different in its corporate structure or LOYALTY PROGRAM • GIFT CARDS Duty to Warn continued from page 1 methods than any other giant, for-profit medical corpora- FREE DELIVERY processes of governments and are rewriting the rules of world tion. The nature of all corporations is to grow, decrease commerce through international trade and investment agree- the cost of doing business, resist unionization of its em- ments to allow themselves to expand their profits without re- ployees, and overcome the competition—actually trying gard to the social and environmental consequences borne by the to become a monopoly in their area of business. larger society. Continuing with business as usual will almost Essentia’s website claims it is an “an integrated health certainly lead to economic, social, and environmental collapse. system… combin[ing] the strengths and talents of 14,700 GREENWICH VILLAGE “To a considerable extent, the problem originates with the employees, including more than 1,900 physicians and ad- United States. Its representatives are the primary marketeers of 512 HUDSON STREET • NYC 10014 vanced practitioners, who serve our patients and communi- the false promises of consumerism and the foremost advocates of WWW.SEAGRAPEWINES.COM • 212-463-7688 ties through the mission of being called to make a healthy the market deregulation, free trade, and privatization policies difference in people’s lives… which includes many Catho- that are advancing the global consolidation of corporate power lic facilities [and] is guided by the values of Quality, Hospi- and the corresponding corruption of democratic institutions. tality, Respect, Joy, Justice, Stewardship, and Teamwork.” “Resolving the crisis depends on civil societies, mobilizing to It hadn’t been many years after my graduation from the reclaim the power that corporations and global financial markets University of Minnesota Medical School that I became have usurped. Our best hope for the future lies with locally owned uncomfortable with the politics of the American Medical INCOME TAX and managed economies that rely predominantly on local resources Association and even my Minnesota Academy of Fam- PREPARATION to meet the livelihood needs of their members in ways that main- ily Practice, which, despite their flowery proclamations of in the privacy of your own home... tain a balance with the earth. Such a shift in institutional struc- being highly ethical organizations where the patient came very reasonable rates tures and priorities may open the way to eliminating deprivation first—I later came to understand were mainly lobbying and extreme inequality from the human experience. Instituting groups for whatever legislation or new technology was Call Peter White true citizen democracy and releasing presently unrealized poten- considered profitable for the industry. 212.924.0389 tial for individual and collective growth and creativity.” But it took me awhile before I became aware of how much Big Pharma corporations were in control of the medical In 2005, Wade Rowland wrote a book titled Greed, Inc. profession. I guess my first clue was the prevalence of the Why Corporations Rule our World. Other similarly-themed salesmen and saleswomen (we called them “drug reps”) from books on my library shelves that warned about the evils of every conceivable pharmaceutical or medical device company global capitalism include Antony Sutton’s Wall Street and that was targeting me to prescribe their latest, patent-pro- the Rise of Hitler (1976) and William Greider’s Who Will tected and therefore most expensive drug or product. Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (1992). The drug reps always managed to act very friendly—as I am saddened to admit that I was late in understanding do all successful salespersons—to all the clinic staff mem- that what these authors were warning their readers about: bers. The reps were always well-dressed, attractive, and the evils of global capitalism also applies to the medical, always came bearing gifts of food and free drug samples psychiatric, pediatric, family practice, pharmaceutical, vac- as an incentive for me to hand them out to some of my cine, medical device industries, and beyond, each of which patients, who would then be expected to come back for a once was physician-controlled and therefore altruistically follow-up office visit and a potential prescription for life, adhered to the “first do no harm” oath—the Hippocratic which the patient would hopefully (for the drug company) MULLIGAN Oath pledge that all physicians take when they graduate be perpetually refilling. I later tumbled to the fact that the PLUMBING & HEATING from medical school. Times have changed, and not for the drug rep would be getting a cut of the profits for as long Since 1920—Three Generations of Mulligans betterment of either our profession or our patients. as the patient continued to take the drug, which explained We Get Better and Better! Three decades into my practice of medicine (about the the enthusiasm of the reps. The best drug reps made better time that Korten wrote his book), my small rural north- money than most of the physician-targets that they were ern Minnesota family practice clinic was acquired by a seducing to prescribe their corporation’s drugs. Of course, regional hospital that was also acquiring other clinics in Fast, Competent, Affordable the CEOs were making tens of millions of dollars off the the area. Over the years, the acquiring group turned into a Bathroom and Kitchen Renovations same sales, and I was contributing to their schemes. consortium of clinics and hospitals that eventually became The drug rep would also often leave me with official- (212) 929-1809 Essentia Health of Duluth, Minnesota. looking medical journal articles that supposedly provided 14 A Morton Street, New York • Fax (212) 929-2007 Essentia would eventually become a medical corporate “evidence” of the wonders of the new drug. Of course, I power-house with scores of locations in Minnesota, Wis- rarely had the time to actually read the hand-outs with any consin, North Dakota, and even Idaho. thoroughness or skepticism. It was only much later that I Today, Essentia competes on its western border with an discovered that many of these articles were ghost-written by even larger corporate power-house, Dakota-based Sanford paid writers from Big Pharma and/or published in obscure Health, the largest employer in North and South Dakota. journals that were often illegitimate or even non-existent. Sanford is larger than Essentia in that it owns 45 hospitals I could tell a hundred similar stories about the cunning and 289 clinics in nine states and three countries. It has over of the huge multinational medical/pharmaceutical/vaccine 28,000 employees, including over 1,300 physicians in more corporations that “rule the healthcare world,” and that would than 80 specialty areas of medicine. It monopolizes the prac- explain why I have lost any pride that I once had in my once tice of medicine in many of the states where it has hospitals. honorable profession and now am embarrassed by my pro- Just before my small clinic was acquired by the cor- fession’s gradual acquiescence to greedy global corporations porate entity that was to become Essentia Health, I was that meet the definition of sociopathic entities. The spokes- still trying hard to honor the Hippocratic Oath and the persons for Big Pharma and Big Vaccine can’t help being Principle of Informed Consent, but my clinic’s business serial liars when they try to sell physicians on the so-called manager couldn’t help but complain about my spending “benefits” of their unaffordable patented and over-prescribed “too much time” with each patient. (And my family was products that are so heavily advertised on TV that patients also understandably complaining about how late I arrived come in demanding to have the newest relatively untested home after finishing my charting.) My patients didn’t drug or vaccine or other product prescribed for them—as complain, however, and that was what counted to me. But, long as they don’t have to pay for it out of pocket. partially because of the increasing pressure to conform to a business-oriented drive for increased “efficiency” and Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician from Duluth, MN. “productivity” (meaning spending less time with each pa- Since his retirement from his holistic mental health practice, tient and therefore making more money), I chose to leave he has been writing his weekly Duty to Warn column for the that practice before the acquisition occurred. I don’t think Duluth Reader, northeast Minnesota’s alternative news- that I would have tolerated working for a corporation. weekly magazine. www.westviewnews.org March 2018 WestView News 13 Politics and Civics at the Jefferson Market University By Nancy Aravecz NPR. Registration for Famighetti’s course begins Saturday, September 22. In anticipation of this Later in the season, a five-session, sem- November’s midterm inar-style political philosophy class on the elections, the Jeffer- origin and meaning of tyranny in the 21st son Market Library is century. “The Birth of the Tyrant” is be- offering three courses ing offered in the third floor Mae West on political themes Community Room on Thursday evenings that will be free and from 6:00-7:30pm, October 18-Novem- open to the public. ber 15. This course draws from theoreti- These classes are cal accounts of tyranny by Plato, Hannah geared toward help- Arendt, and others in order to understand Dina Andriotis, Chris Tsiamis, and Nikitas Andriotis (from left to right). ing members of the what leads a society to embrace a tyran- 77 Christopher Street Greenwich Village community and beyond nical leader, and how citizens of a society brush up on American civics, politics, law, ensconced in tyranny can resist the totali- Between Seventh Avenue and Bleecker Street and history. tarian actions of such a leader. This class is Pharmacy Hours: First up is a six-session, lecture-based taught by Erik Zimmerman, a PhD can- Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM course on the Constitution of the United didate in philosophy at The New School. States. “Ruling Ourselves” is taught by Zimmerman teaches courses in gender and Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Christine Curtis, a graduate of Stanford sexuality studies and philosophy, and serves Sunday 10:00 AM- 5:00 PM Law School who has extensive experience as an editor at Routledge Press. He is a working in all three branches of the U.S. regular contributor to publications such as Telephone: 212-255-2525 • Fax: 212-255-2524 government, including writing, interpret- Into and Out Magazine. Registration for email: [email protected] ing, and enforcing laws. Curtis’ class takes this class starts Thursday, October 11. www.newyorkchemists.com a methodical, step-by-step approach to the To register for any of the above classes, basics of the Constitution, including histo- prospective students may sign up online, in ry, context, and landmark Supreme Court person at the library’s second floor circula- cases. The class will run on Thursday eve- tion desk, or call Jefferson Market at (212) nings from October 4 through November 243-4334. 8, 6:00-7:30pm in the library’s Willa Cath- In addition to the classes being offered, er Room on the first floor. Sign up for this Jefferson Market’s popular Current Events class begins on Thursday, September 20. Cafe program is expanding to meet twice S Next, Jefferson Market is offering “De- a month ahead of the midterm elections. M E mocracy and Voting Rights in the United Held from 6:00-7:30 on the first two Tues- A ER States: A Contested History” on Saturday days of the month (through November), RE T H afternoons October 6 through November this lively, informal, political discussion D R 10, 3:00-4:30pm, also in the Willa Cather group meets regularly to talk about current TA room. This course will interrogate the his- events and issues related to the upcoming IG S tory of democratic participation in the elections. Moderated by a trained facilita- U.S., with an emphasis on disparities in ac- tor, Current Events Cafe is an opportunity B cess to the ballot, racial discrimination, and for Villagers to exercise their right to free violence, which continue to exclude voters speech, to process the news cycle by think- from the franchise. This class is taught by ing out loud, and to hear their neighbors’ Christopher Famighetti, a PhD candidate perspectives on critical issues in America in Public and Urban Policy at The New today. Also: refreshments are served! No School. Famighetti’s studies focus on the registration is required, and participants intersections of democracy, race, and polit- are encouraged to bring a topic they wish ical power. He has worked as a Policy and to discuss, and a strong opinion! 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West View Youth 9-18.indd 1 9/18/18 11:09 AM 14 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org Reefer Madness Tech Tips & Tricks By Lorraine Gibney ational drugs by passing the Marijuana Tax Act that placed a tax on the sale of canna- On Sunday, August 12, 2018, the West Vil- bis. According to professionals in the field, lage Wellness Social met in the Westbeth marijuana was a gateway drug that led us- Community Room on Bank Street. I acci- ers to harder and more potentially harmful dently walked into the health social looking drugs. Of course, the ongoing debate over for Ilsa Gilbert for a scheduled interview; marijuana use and abuse is plentiful, and of- however, Ms. Gilbert and I remained in ten discussed. In the 1950s and 1960s, the our seats, and enjoyed the music, lecture, FDA made Marijuana use illegal. and food. Eve Zanni (singer) and Isaac Raz Cannabinoids, the compounds in canna- performed a few musical scores for the audi- bis, interact with a part of the body called ence, and their performance was excellent. the endocannabinoid system, a complex Ms. Zanni’s voice was reminiscent of Bette signaling network that is responsible for Midler’s; she is beautiful inside, and out. performing different tasks in an effort to In addition, Mr. Isaac Raz, the pianist, was maintain homeostasis. Scientists, past and fantastic; his piano virtuoso caught the at- present, have identified the endocannabi- tention of the audience. Twenty to twenty- noid receptors CB1 and CB2, present in five minutes into the social, Michael Em- the nervous and immune systems. When brey, the Host and Directories prepared the cannabinoid receptors are activated in the onlookers for the main topic of the event: human body, complex compounds found in Let’s Talk About Hemp & CBD Oil. marijuana and hemp help the body recuper- The music stopped. Mr. Embrey intro- ate from pain. BEWARE THE "SCAREWARE" SCAM: Malware is so easy to Enter, and so hard to Delete. duced Ilana Aminov from the Grove Street Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants Photo by Darielle Smolian. Pharmacy. Her lecture was dedicated to the in the family Cannabaceae. The number of benefits of Hemp and CBD Oil, and every- species in this category is disputed; however By Peter Rooney Operating System comes with Windows thing one needs to know about the proper- in botany, three are recognizable: Canna- Defender. For extra security against viruses, ties of these plants, and the effects they have bis Sativa, Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Topic of the month: Safety there are both free and for-purchase software on the human body. Ruderalis. Both marijuana and hemp plants There are many scams online, but perhaps the available. Top-rated free software programs On June of 2018, the country’s Food and contain three long serrated leaves. The dif- most insidious is the “Scareware” scam: “Your include Avast and AVG. Here’s a review you Drug Administration approved the pre- ferences between Cannabis and Hemp vary; computer has been infected, but we can help.” might find helpful in choosing anti-virus scription use of Epidiolex, a purified form however, the most noticeable difference is software: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ of CBD oil for treating two types of epi- that Marijuana contains THC., the chemi- How it works: A window pops up about best-antivirus,review-2588-5.html. lepsy ( Johnson, 2018). CBD is one of the cal that makes it illegal. a legitimate-sounding antivirus software (Regardless of a high rating given to many complex compounds found in can- The complexity of Marijuana and Hemp program like “Security Tool,” and alerts Kaspersky software, the Moscow-based nabinoids, in the cannabis plant. Over the are multifaceted. Since the resurgence and you that your machine has been infected company has been linked to stealing sen- years, marijuana and hemp has been used interest in the medicinal purposes of can- with a dangerous bug. You’re prompted sitive information from American intelli- for recreational, and medicinal purposes nabinoid plants, people have fastidiously to click on a link that will run a scan. Of gence sites.) all over the world. In colonial America, the formed research groups, and ways to bet- course, the virus is found—and for a fee, One tip: don’t try to run two anti-virus largest crop grown was hemp; it was easy to ter understand the pros and cons of Mari- typically about $50, the company promises software programs on the same computer. grow, and could be used in multiple ways by juana and Hemp. These elementals have to clean up your computer. It can be like two scorpions in a bottle. early settlers. been used by patients with the supervision If you are someone who wishes to pro- In 1937, the FDA placed a ban on recre- continued on page 17 What’s really going on: When you click tect online privacy, you have many options. on the link, the bogus company installs The Google Chrome browser now comes malware—malicious software—on your with an “incognito option” as does the computer. No surprise, there will be no Mozilla Firefox Focus browser. This means Prostitution continued from page 1 million members of whom 1.4 million are cleanup. But the thieves have your credit it deletes your browsing history, cookies it. How did I not know this was going on in sugar babies in college. I tried very hard to card number, you’re out on money, and and site data, as well as information you colleges all over the country and the world? find “Mandy.” She has disappeared into the your computer is left on life support. might have entered in online forms. How- Perhaps, in our current mass media world, darkness of NYU’s shadow. I did interview There are many online sites where you ever, your activity might still be visible to there is no time to cover something other two former student sex workers for the film can find out more about the myriad internet websites you visit, your employer, and your than Trump? Instead, this story of student who were from other colleges. The woman scams or “cyberattacks.” One worthwhile, Internet Service Provider (ISP). There are prostitution was spoken about in the bars sex worker requested anonymity. The male “Have You Been Hacked? Recognizing and other browsers out there which are more and rathskellers of Greenwich Village and spoke in dark lighting. Their words clearly Preventing Cyber Attacks,” can be found at comprehensive, such as the Tor Onion other towns. It was embedded in code on speak to a broken system that goes beyond www.lifewire.com/cyber-attacks-4147067. Router (TOR). TOR is free software that the internet. The code words were “dat- the “Beltway” bickering we see every eve- It being hurricane season, you should also directs Internet traffic through more than ing,” “escorts,” “sugar daddies,” and “sugar ning on cable news. It goes right to our be aware of fake charity sites, exploiting disas- 7,000 relays worldwide. TOR conceals babies.” Liz hooked me up with a spokes- hearts and souls. We have a spiritual cancer ter victims. Quoting an AARP article, “After your identity and encrypts your query. person for the “Seeking Arrangements” and it is life threatening. every natural disaster and manmade catastro- For more information on privacy, search dating site in Las Vegas which had been Last evening, I went on the internet and phe, we see an outpouring of generosity … for the article “How to increase your pri- ranked number one for many years. Brook found dozens of sites imitating Seeking along with the inevitable scams and frauds.” vacy online,” at www.TheVerge.com. Urick, a nice young lady and the spokes- Arrangements. My God, this is an epi- AARP offers a guide on how to recognize person for Seeking Arrangements, said demic. Why aren’t we speaking about this those scams. Before donating to a charity, This article is part of a monthly column to me “NYU has more sugar babies than decadence. What price tuition? take time to authenticate it. In addition to by the New York Amateur Computer Club any other school and it is partially because the Wise Giving Alliance, charity names and (NYACC), one of the oldest computer clubs in there is an outrageous enrollment fee. Editors note: The Lost Village will be play- reputations can be vetted at Charity Naviga- the world, and is intended to help you turn Sugar daddies are…gentlemen…willing to ing at the Cinema Village in the heart of the tor, Charity Watch, and GuideStar. You can your computer into a friend. Each month, pass along their success.” And sugar babies Village from October 19th through October also contact the agency in your state that NYACC explores a technical topic and at- “are ambitious women who are in college.” 25th. Tickets are on sale at the box office or regulates charities. Be suspicious of charities tempts to answer readers’ questions about She says in the film that the site contin- on their website. Roger Paradiso is the Di- not listed or with questionable track records. computers. See more and contact NYACC ues to gain in popularity nationally with 5 rector and Producer of The Lost Village. As far as defense goes, Microsoft’s latest directly at www.nyacc.org. t

Students Turn Tricks for Tuition! THE LOST VILLAGE by Roger Paradiso

A provocative film about how The Village is losing it’s historic character as a sanctuary for artists, and is now ruled by real estate interests. WestView News is sponsoring the panels that will be given after the screenings. Jim Fouratt will be the moderator, and panelists will include George Capsis, (Publisher of WestView News), Lincoln Anderson (Editor-in-Chief of The Villager and Villager Express), Mark Crispin Miller and Andrew Ross (Professors at NYU), Reverend Ed Chinery (Resistance Cinema at The Church of the Ascension) and Senior Minister Donna Schaper of Judson Memorial Church. For screening times and a schedule of panelists, go to thelostvillagefilm.com After watching the film and listening to the panelists, Villagers who attend will be free to audition for a role in the sequel, and a video clip will be available on westviewnews.org.

Premiere at Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street October 19-25 Tickets at $12, $8 for seniors and students

Tickets can be purcased at The Cinema Village Box Office, or by going to https://www.cinemavillage.com/meet-and-greet/the-lost-village-q-a.html 16 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org

a protein such as Backyard Jerk Chicken or classes on leather, soap, candle and journal- the service was friendly, and a duo plays live Berber Grilled Meat. making in the back of the store. There will jazz on certain nights of the week. But the also be a lounge and bar there. In addition place rarely seems busy enough to support IN to leather goods, the store will carry sneak- the level of rent that such a space would and ers and clothing from other brands. Umami normally command. Thoughts?” Our co- OUT Burger and Umami Shoppu closed, but now op board always went there for dinner after by Caroline Benveniste we have Umami Sushi (50 Greenwich Av- our annual meetings, and I was impressed enue between Charles and Perry Streets) by the cocktails that were so large they were Retail may be struggling, but some brands where Lumpia Shack Snackbar used to be. served in two parts. No one knows if it will have decided that the way forward is to im- The diminutive spot offers not only sushi re-open, but given that the tax bill is just un- prove customer experience, and one approach (from a Blue Ribbon Sushi Izakaya alum) der $200,000, it would seem unlikely at this is to add food and drinks to the mix. Another but also the obligatory Poke Bowl, Kushi juncture. Ms. Mi’s Hot Pot (6 West 14th trendlet we continue to observe is the prolifer- Yaki (skewers), Tempura, Hibachi Teriyaki Street near 5th Avenue) has suddenly shut- ation of Asian restaurant openings in the Vil- and more. Vitsoe (17 West 8th Street be- tered, and the Papyrus (678 Hudson Street lage. The item that received the most press this Shake Shack Innovation Kitchen: 225 Var- tween MacDougal Street and 5th Avenue), between 13th and 14th Street) location in month was the possible closing of Café Loup. ick Street at Clarkson Street. I am not a big a British furniture company that is based on the Meatpacking District is also gone. Eve fan of Shake Shack, but I was intrigued by the idea of good design has as its main of- Salon, a waxing and nail spot that had Chelsea Market and Gan- the concept of the Innovation Kitchen. The fering the 606 Universal Shelving System. started as Dyanna Spa on Bleecker Street sevoort Market Update company has moved their corporate offices The attractive, spare space makes for a nice in the early 1980’s, but moved to West In Chelsea Market, The Green Table, and their test kitchen into this building, and contrast to the many derelict storefronts on 8th Street 30 years ago when the Bleecker one of the original tenants has closed, but the restaurant on the first floor will feature the street. There are subscription services Street rents started rising is now leaving the team has now moved to the old Rana new products that the chain is testing. Cur- for everything now, so why not mani-pedis? 8th Street. A sign in the window explains space with a new restaurant called Cleaver rently, three offerings that are only avail- Glosslab (1 Jane Street at Greenwich Av- “With the ending of our lease and rising Counter. It is open for breakfast, lunch, able here are Chick’n Bites, (really chicken enue) offers a membership for $89/month rents, we are forced to close this location.” dinner and weekend brunch, and serves nuggets), Hot Chick’n and a Black Sesame which entitles you to unlimited manicures, An’s TaeKwonDo (162 7th Avenue South, wine and beer as well as their signature Shake. Apparently there will soon be a way pedicures, polish changes and touch-ups near Perry Street) has closed after almost pot pie and grass-fed burgers. Very Fresh for diners to vote on the new items and de- (and includes regular polish, gel and gel re- exactly a year in business. When it opened, Noodles moved from a small stand in the pending on the results, they will either be moval). Toriko NY (76 Carmine St., between the owner’s son explained to me that chil- back of the market to an adjacent larger offered or not at the other Shake Shack lo- Varick and Bedford Streets) is the first New dren would only be admitted after they had space. In Gansevoort Market, La Nueva cations. All ordering is done via computer York City location for this yakitori (chick- been evaluated and deemed respectful and Colombia just opened, serving traditional monitors, and the store texts you an alert en skewer) restaurant from Japan. Usually attentive. Perhaps the West Village did not Colombian food like Arroz con Pollo and when your food is ready to be picked up. in Japan, yakitori is bar food, but here it is have enough of those children? In any case, Salchipapas. Gansevoort Steakhouse ap- somewhat fancier, with a 10-course omak- I will miss the gigantic and amusing inflat- pears to have closed, and Ms. Bubble, a ase available. With the opening of Toriko, able tai kwon do figure that sometimes ap- bubble tea spot is revamping their menu. Llamita next door and Shake Shack In- peared on the sidewalk in front of the store. novation Kitchen across Varick, this area is Toosh, a shoe store at 263 Bleecker Street is Open becoming more lively. I had been following closing. Star Struck Vintage Clothing (47 TOP OPENINGS: the pre-opening construction at LROOM Greenwich Avenue between Charles and Café (41 West 14th Street between 5th Perry Streets) closed after 38 years. Accord- and 6th Avenues) for a while, but I had no ing the The Villager, the owners are looking idea that it would feature the most unusual- forward to retirement. This little stretch of looking desserts I had seen in a while. Items Greenwich Avenue is looking sad, with the that look exactly like lemons, peaches and recently shuttered Utility Canvas next door. flowers are in fact elaborate cakes. The space is very pink with lots of flowers, and seems Coming Soon RH (Restoration Hardware) 9 9th Avenue somewhat out of place on this utilitarian Daily Provisions, Danny Meyer’s casual at 13th Street: Pastis closed in 2014, and stretch of 14th Street. But perhaps change café and take-out spot is opening a second soon after construction started at this site. is coming—a few stores west, teazzi Tea location at 29 Bedford Street (near Down- Now, over four years later, RH has opened Shop (47 West 14th Street between 5th ing Street) in the former Ditch Plains a new 6-storey flagship here. The store is and 6th Avenues) has also opened. It is a Space. The original location is next door to quite opulent, with a glass elevator in the Taiwanese tea franchise and this is their first the recently re-opened Union Square Café. center and comfortable and stylish furni- location in the US. They feature standard I have particularly enjoyed their crullers and ture on every floor. Hanging from the ceil- tea, as well as bubble and fruit tea. look forward to trying them in the new ven- ing is an art installation of 120 hand-blown ue. An entity called 7 Cornelia Hospitality Berber Street Food: 35 Carmine Street crystal pendants meant to look like rain- Closed is applying for a liquor license at 7 Cornelia between Bedford and Bleecker Streets. drops. There is a coffee and wine bar on Café Loup (105 West 13th Street between Street, the old Chomp Chomp space. Ac- This “Afro-fusion” restaurant is run by the third floor as well as a restaurant on the 6th and 7th Avenues) has a sign in the win- cording to the SLA application, the restau- Chef Diana Tandia who is from Maurita- roof, run by Brendan Sodikoff, the famous dow from the New York State Department rant will offer pan Asian fare, and “informal nia. She moved to New York in 2001 for Chicago chef who also owns 4 Charles of Taxation and Finance explaining that the Australian style dining” as well as cocktails college, and then attended culinary school. Prime Rib. There is also a lovely outdoor property has been seized for non-payment and single origin teas. Hemp Garden (257 Before opening her own restaurant she terrace on the roof with comfortable out- of New York State taxes. This has been Bleecker Street at Cornelia Street), a CBD worked at some high-end restaurants such door furniture and wonderful city views. widely reported in many news outlets (the café will open in the old Sugar and Plumm as Daniel and Gramercy Tavern. The food The Flatiron location of RH, which was New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Space. CBD is marijuana’s legal, non-psy- is from many countries in Africa such as renovated a few years ago, has closed. Magazine) because it was a hangout of sorts choactive chemical compound and has been Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Ghana and for literary folks. In June, I received an email used increasingly for pain relief and for its Nigeria, and at least one dish hails from Also Open from a friend of mine who presciently asked: alleged anti-anxiety properties. France (the Colonial Quiche Lorraine). Slightly Alabama (350 Bleecker Street at “I have had several meals lately at Cafe Hair Repair Bar by Giojé has signage up The house specialties include Djolof Fried West 10th Street), a leather goods brand, Loup on West 13th Street. (I’m old enough at 265 Bleecker Street (between Cornelia Rice and the Berber Feast, a lamb dish is the second of the stores to open in the to remember when it was located on East and Morton Streets), a location that used served with couscous and vegetables. Like properties that Brookfield purchased on 13th Street, between Fifth and University, to house a costume jewelry store called So many fast-casual restaurants, there is a Bleecker Street. Brookfield has envisioned but I doubt anyone who works there today Good Jewelry. The new business is a hair “bowl” option where a diner chooses a base using the spaces for more than retail, and to was affiliated with the place back then.) The salon with the tagline “Repair First, Style (rice, grain or greens), two vegetables, and that end, the owner, Dana Glaeser, will hold food was good and was reasonably priced, continued on page 18 www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 17

From the Blue Zone to the Big Apple: 9-11 Tiles Gains Gallery Ikaria Comes to New York By Lisa Bernhard National Geographic that identified five places in the world where people live healthier, lon- On November 3rd and 4th, Ikarian chef ger lives than average: Ikaria (Greece), Oki- Eleni Karimalis and her winemaker husband nawa ( Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Nicoya (Costa George will talk about their philosophy of Rica) and the Seventh Day Adventists in healthy living and lead hands-on cooking Loma Linda (California). He delineated classes of their favorite plant-based dishes at these regions around the world with a blue Miette Culinary Studio in Little Italy. Eleni circle and called them “Blue Zones.” Some

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CUISINE FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE: Lathenia is a traditional Ikarian pizza made without cheese. Photo courtesy of Eleni and George Karimalis. and George, who were featured on Diane of the common denominators that support Kochilas’ My Greek Table (“Flavors of Lon- longevity are an emphasis on plant-based gevity—Ikaria”) PBS show last year, are do- cooking, strong social ties, and a glass of wine ing a U.S. tour this fall, and Miette Culinary with friends or with food. In 2012 he wrote Studio is their New York City stop. an article in the New York Times Magazine The classes ($125 per person) are from that focused entirely on Ikaria (“The Island 12noon to 4pm, with different menus for Where People Forget to Die). It is one of the each day. They will teach a selection of veg- magazine’s more popular pieces. etarian and vegan dishes that support vitality Started in 2001 by Paul Vandewoude, for- and longevity including Soufiko, an Ikarian merly the head chef at the legendary West medley of sautéed vegetables, and Lathenia, Village eatery Tartine, Miette’s emphasis is a traditional Ikarian pizza made with olives on passion in cooking and the community and no cheese (Saturday). On Sunday they it creates. This class presents a small taste will teach Pittarakia, tiny vegetable pies made of Ikaria, but a big lesson in how to eat well with fresh filo and stuffed with seasonal and live the healthiest life possible. greens, roasted pumpkin with garlic dip, and a baked chickpea dish. Freshly baked sour- Miette Culinary Studio is at 132 Mulberry dough bread and a natural breakfast spread Street (suite 2D), between Grand and Hes- will be featured on the menu both days. ter Streets. www.mietteculinarystudio.com, In 2005, Dan Buettner wrote an article in or 212-460-9322.

catered by Michael Stewart of Tavern Reefer continued from page 14 on Jane. The afternoon was unexpected; of certified physicians for problems such as: however, perfect. The next venue for the chronic pain, epilepsy, for anti-inflammato- West Village Wellness Social will meet on ry purposes, cancer, etc. October 9th, 2018 from 2-4 p.m. in the At 3:30, the social group ended, Ms. Westbeth Community Room at West- Aminor opened the lecture for questions beth, 55 Bethune Street, New York, New and answers for the last thirty-minutes, York 10014. Contact: Michael Embrey at followed by a beautiful display of food 1-212-645-4333. 18 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org

In and Out continued from page 16 Second.” Maison de Makoto (74 7th Avenue South at Yes, Virginia… Barrow Street) closed in record time, and now, a Mediter- ranean restaurant called Fava Bistro Moderne will open in the space. One of the owners and general manager Jab- ber Bawa showed me around. The former earth tone inte- rior is more cheerful with lots of blue everywhere. There is also an upstairs space that can be rented for private events.

Other Chef Ainat Admony has been busy: she recently opened couscous restaurant Kish Kash on Hudson Street near Bar- row Street, and has now reopened Balaboosta, her Nolita restaurant which she closed in May in her Bar Bolonat space (611 Hudson Street at 12th Street). I had always preferred Bar Bolonat to Balaboosta, so I am not necessarily happy about the switch, but according to the Jewish monthly magazine The Forward, Admony said “I’m closer to Bala- boosta. My book is Balaboosta.” (She has a cookbook called Balaboosta). She also said: “I like the West Village location much better than Nolita, and I’m happy to be back in the neighborhood where I started with Taïm (her mini-chain of falafel stands).” According to the New York Times, La Cave (99 Bank Street at Greenwich Street), a lounge serv- ing wine, small plates and desserts will open under Har- old Moore’s restaurant Bistro Pierre Lapin. Human’s Best Friend (15 Seventh Avenue at 12th Street) is a pop-up that has opened in the long-empty retail in the Rudin’s Green- wich Lane development (formerly St. Vincent’s Hospital). It is, according to the literature, “an immersive experience.” Dog owners can bring their dogs, and 12 dog rescue agen- cies rotate through with adoptable dogs. A portion of the ticket price will benefit the participating rescue organiza- tions. The pop-up will run through November 12th, and THIS PHOTOGENIC RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH is a harbinger of the fall. Photo by Keith Michael. is open Wednesdays through Fridays. Lumos Kitchen (38 Carmine Street, east of Varick Street), a French-Chinese By Keith Michael diet of protein to go with the liquid carbs. Sapsuckers have spot which had opened in July of this year, now has pieces of relatively short tongues for a woodpecker, as they use their paper taped to the windows, and the phone has been discon- …there is a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. tongues primarily to lick rather than to stick into deep nected. Shoegasm, a shoe store at 71 8th Avenue (between holes or to scavenge for scurrying ants like a Flicker (the 13th and 14th Streets) had been threatening to close for How do I know this? Because I’m looking at one right now inner architecture of a Flicker’s skull is remarkable for how over a year. Now, they have finally shuttered that location “doing its sapsucker thing” on the trunk of a ginkgo tree at it accommodates its prodigiously long tongue). and moved to 333 7th Avenue near 29th Street. the end of my block. But I can’t “prove” that I’m seeing one, Millie’s nose has been tracing the contours around every because every time I raise my camera to try to get photo- stone in the crosswalk. If one could map the terrain of the It’s hard to keep up with all the activity in the neighborhood, graphic evidence (for WestView), the woodpecker scuttles smells that she perceives, what a technicolor fiesta of aro- so if you notice anything, please let us know at wvnewsinout@ around to the back of the trunk, and now it flies off in a matic topography would unfold! gmail.com Photos by Darielle Smolian bounding blur—on to its next pecking spree. A weak meep meep meep drifts from a tree across the Like a statue, Millie stands next to me considering street. Ah, there it is again—the call of a little tin horn. whether to take the next momentous step down to the Camera poised. Inching down the tree trunk headfirst cobblestones to explore the smells left behind by others. emerges a spunky little Red-breasted Nuthatch. Snap. USPS Stamp I think that she may be getting corgi-arthritis, because at Snap. Snap. Unlike the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, this one time, what was literally a hop, skip and a jump off the buoyant fellow’s name suits him just fine. He does, in fact, curb now seems to take an eternity of decision-making. have a reddish breast instead of the white shirtfront of our Once in the street, I need to keep a vigilant eye out for the more common White-breasted Nuthatch, and they are impatience of oncoming cars or bouncing bicyclists while known for stashing pine nuts in the grooves of rough tree Millie plots her meandering course. bark, perhaps caching them “to hatch” later. These peri- The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is both very poorly and patetic scavengers only pass through our neighborhood in very well named. When one first sees its black and white the spring and fall, to and from their breeding territories striped stocky shape propped on the side of a tree (if you’ve further north. already been able to discern this crafty camouflage against An unexpected cold wind swirls around a corner. Millie the bark in the first place), the last thing one would notice shakes her new seasonal coat as leaves whirl down the street. is that it might have the faintest wash of yellow across its Ah, summer is only a memory. It is already the fall. belly. I never caught even a hint of yellow on this indi- vidual. Red-capped, or Red-chinned Sapsucker might be My appreciation to Walter H. Laufer for this article’s title re- more appropriate, though this would lead to confusion ferring to “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” an editorial SEPTEMBER WAS ALL WESTBETH ALL THE TIME! The with other woodpeckers with similar markings, so Yellow- by Francis Pharcellus Church in the September 21, 1897 New United States Postal Service unveiled the latest com- bellied it is. York Sun in response to a letter written by eight-year-old Vir- memorative stamp in their Music Icons series on Sep- Sapsucker is the apt part of its moniker. Even though it ginia O’Hanlon. If you are not familiar with this timeless edi- tember 7th. The stamp features a photograph of John is a bird that pecks wood, part of its idiosyncratic feeding torial, DO look it up. Lennon taken by rock n’ roll photographer and Westbeth strategy is to drill horizontal rows of holes in the bark of resident Bob Gruen. Other residents fondly recalled days a tree, then return to those “wells” to suck up the sap that For more information about New York City WILD! nature gone by when it wasn’t out of the ordinary to catch a flows into them from the tree’s inner layers. 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BRInG THIs CARd In And RECEIVE $10 off O n A n Y P u RCHAs E O f $25 OR m ORE THIS PILE OF POSTCARDS may have helped NY State Senate challenger Rachel May win her primary by 606 votes. Photo by Sarah O'Neill. Mon - Fri 8aM - 8pM • Sat 9aM - 6pM • Sun 10aM - 5pM By Sarah O’Neill ers, who often commented on the cards they Store HourS: had received, and always mentioned, with awe, 346 Bleecker St • Greenwich VillaGe, nY 10014 • VillaGeapothecarY.com When Alessandra Biaggi whupped en- the fact that they were handwritten. And fi- trenched incumbent and former IDC nally, when a postcard arrived in my own mail- 212.807.7566 leader, Jeff Klein, as five other challengers box, I felt that the circle had been completed, for New York State Senate also triumphed, and it gave me a burst of energy.” cheers likely erupted in 50 states. Colleen Kaplin Kapklein in Biaggi’s From late July to early September, the district reported, “My husband was imme- Postcards to Voters (PTV) volunteer army, diately persuaded to vote for Biaggi after now over 20,000 strong across the U.S., had receiving a handwritten (informative and an education on eight New York primary rainbow-colored) postcard. I think it proved races, in bios and guidelines, from their his wife wasn’t the only one on board for an leader Tony the Democrat. So, on Septem- upstart candidate. And made clear the pro- ber 13th, people all over the country were gressive stances she took, in a nutshell.” tuning in for New York’s election results, Caroline Stern said that out canvassing, which included a record turnout. That it one person told her yes, she would vote for was a Thursday instead of a Tuesday did not Biaggi, exclaiming something like: “She sent matter. PTV volunteers were on the edges me a postcard, with a real stamp!” Stern con- of their seats because they had sent over tinued, “There was a lot more to the con- 283,000 handwritten, hopeful postcards to versation, but it was wonderful…to have New York, asking Democrats to vote for someone genuinely touched to have received eight true blue primary challengers. a handwritten, hand-stamped piece of mail.” “Never before have I watched another Rebecca Lish, who worked hard organiz- state’s primary with such rapt attention!” and ing, canvassing, and phone banking for the “Look at me, caring for NY state election primary was skeptical about the postcards at results” were two of many comments flying first but found people liked them. And Lish onto the PTV Facebook page that evening. recognized the value for writers: “Postcard- On New York’s receiving end, the candi- ing parties may function like quilting bees; dates were hearing about the thousands of like-minded people working together to- handwritten postcards arriving in their dis- ward a common goal reinforce one another’s tricts. One of candidate Rachel May’s vol- efforts and forge bonds that can strengthen unteers in Syracuse, Melissa Fierke, texted group identity, which is key to coordinated her, “BTW—people are talking about the action. For the makers, postcards build soli- postcards. They are saying they helped…” darity.” Volunteers are lifted up, working to- Fierke said people she knew got them and gether to move the needle as a giant team, as loved them. “They were awesome! They witnessed daily on the PTV Facebook page: felt very personal, you know, like they were https://www.facebook.com/TonyTheDem- actually postcards—to you! It’s always ex- ocrat.org/ citing to get a postcard.” Please join the team to help with the mid- After her win, May wrote, “It felt like the terms, ASAP, at PostcardsToVoters.org! All energy of the campaign was being multiplied you need to get started are four postcards, and magically enhanced…there were the vot- four stamps, and a pen. With hope… 20 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org West Village History My Father and The Irish Hooligans

attempted to discipline her younger sib- lings; however, she was soft on the young- est. In her opinion, life had become hard enough in New York. Most families in the West Village were poor, or working class. In later years, Greenwich Village became a hub for artisans, nonconformists, political erudites. My family consisted of blue collar workers, barely scraping by, and struggling to make ends meet. In Grammar school, Francis attended the Guardian Angel School. His level of aca- TwoTwo BooksBooks ofof One-LinersOne-Liners demic proclivities was scarce if none. Fran- PARENTLESS IN THE WEST VILLAGE: cis was more interested in baseball. He was byby CharlesCharles Caruso,Caruso, Growing up in the West Village under a a diehard Yankees fan. His diminutive stat- AuthorAuthor ofof “Caruso’s Quips” Quips” different type of supervision, Francis David ure was a hinderance; however, that never Gibney (above) learned how to become a prevented him from betting on his ability hustler at a very young age. Photo cour- CarusoCaruso spent spent decades decades inin the media, at at Newsweek Newsweek and and The The New New York York to hit the spaulding at great distances on Post, winning three Associated Press feature-writing prizes. tesy of Lorraine Gibney. Post, winning three Associated Press feature-writing prizes. Perry Street or other stick ball games be- He has gotten a strong response to these books and the lines he By Lorraine Gibney tween locals. Heputs has on gotten Facebook a strong each responseday. to these books and the lines he Perry Street was a popular thorough- puts on Facebook each day. The question he is most asked is: How do you write these things? Children need supervision to become fare. On this block lived the infamous Joe TheHe questionhas no good he answer.is most “They asked just is: come,” How dohe yousays write“after athese lot things? law abiding citizens. Since my father was Banano, the Italian mobster. Mr. Banano Heof has observation no good andanswer. reading. “They They just arrive come,” suddenly he says and “after need a verylot parentless, he learned to run the streets of was a local of Perry Street, and very gener- oflittle observation editing.” and reading. They arrive suddenly and need very the West Village with unsavory characters. ous to the local boys for a price. My father little editing.” He was a citizen of his time and place, un- was prohibited to speak, or hang out with Readers seem to like them and find them interesting and der a different type of supervision. any undesirables. Nevertheless, his curios- Readerssometimes seem amusing. to like them and find them interesting and Francis, nicknamed “Shorty”, was an elf- ity and stubbornness got the best of him. sometimes amusing. like little character. As the youngest of the Francis and his nephew Francis “Brother” 212-924-2550 Gibney children, Frankie learned how to Schaffer learned to drink beer, and run become a hustler very young. Mimicking with the Westies. male radio icons, Frankie developed a taste The Westies were a gang of Irish Hooli- for gambling and liquor. His repertoire for gans. Francis Schaffer Jr. had an affinity for gambling was betting, craps, and cards. His beer, guns, and gambling. He was a long- winnings were given to his older sister, and shoreman on the docks of New York City. Counselor At Law guardian. The gap in age between the old- These characters are part of the Village’s Disability Law est and youngest was significant. Elizabeth rich history and my own. Max Leifer P.C. Caruso’s Quips By Charles Caruso MaxMax D. LeiferLeifer PCPC is is an an established established law law firm firm with over 40 years experience in Personal Injury, with over 40 years experience in Personal Injury, Thought on 9/11 - Politics plus religion equals blood. Negligence,Negligence, Social SecuritySecurity Disabilty,Disability, Long TermTerm Disability,Disability, There’s a little click in the air when early afternoon turns late. Commercial and Union Appeals. Commercial and Union Appeals. The first letter of the Times logo looks like Trump in profile.

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COSTAS KONDYLIS, 78, passed away Aug. 17, his two daughters Alexia and Katherine by his side; his wife preceded him in death. Services will be held in October. Image credit: Brian Pape via HotelManagement.net newsletter. By Brian J. Pape, AIA chitect, to design high-profile condominium apartments” to focus on design as a feature of Costas Kondylis was the creative force be- luxury, designing for the best interior layout and hind so many built works it is hard to cata- views. “I believe in skyscrapers. It’s the most en- logue them. For West Villagers, the J.D. vironmental form of urban development.” Carlisle Development’s One Morton Square, Critics called his designs traditional and completed in 2004, is our most prominent formulaic products of compromises made to example. As you may recall, it was flooded satisfy developers, some of the “most difficult during Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge, over- men in the city.” But Kondylis didn’t mind; FREE Village area house calls whelming West Street barriers and causing he explained, “my concern is to create value lobby and lower level damage that later was for the developer because they’re my clients.” 212-633-2317 sumptuously repaired. The One Morton ad- “He designs an attractive, buildable, dress, aka 100 Morton Street, is actually a functional building...it’s certainly a reflec- luxury condominium complex, but was built tion of enormous dedication and a love, a as a multi-part development that also includ- passion, for what a superb architect is ca- ed luxury townhouses on Morton Street and pable of,” said real estate developer Larry a market rate rental building, aka 600 Wash- Silverstein of Kondylis in Building Stories. ington Apartments, with separate entrances Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey consid- on Washington Street. ered Kondylis to have been “what every man Kondylis was born in Central Africa’s Con- should strive to be: humble, hardworking, go, but his family returned to his parents’ native and a great listener always avoiding an argu- Greece when he was a teenager. He received a ment. I certainly wanted to be more like him Master’s in Architecture from the University of after every exchange, even when we were not Geneva, Switzerland, and another from Co- on the same side,” Bailey told TRD. lumbia University, New York City, in 1967. During the last few years, Kondylis’ firm was After completing his studies Kondylis ap- working on master plans for projects in Saudi prenticed, and then continued working for Arabia, Vietnam, and Algeria, among others. leading firms, before launching his own firm, Mr. Kondylis’ numerous awards and Costas Kondylis and Partners, in 1989. The recent honors include: Lifetime Achieve- firm dissolved in 2009 during the Great Re- ment Award for Design Excellence, New cession, like so many others had to do, with York Society of Architects (1997); Leader the departure of three partners. He started of Industry Award, the Concrete Indus- another venture, Kondylis Design, saying, try Board (1997); and the Service Award, “My partners and I, we grew in a different ORT (1995). He lectured as visiting critic direction because I was always the concep- at the Columbia University School of Ar- tual designer of the firm and they were more chitecture and at the New York University executive architects. They thought I was do- Master’s Degree in Real Estate Program. ing too much abroad, and they were right.” In a 2010 interview Kondylis expressed a Building Stories, an excellent 2012 video desire to work until age 85 or longer, and said, documentary produced by The Real Deal “I’d like to be like Philip Johnson—he passed (TRD), presents Kondylis’ personal account away when he was 92 but he still had his wits. of his life and career as well as interviews with In terms of architectural judgment, I think I’m architects and other real estate professionals. at the top of my time. I see so clearly now.” Known for his realistic deadlines and ability to “I have captured spirit in steel and glass. finish within budget, Mr. Kondylis stealthily It’s a spirit that comes in a creative time secured a significant swath of the New York where I first dream of a project,” Kondylis City skyline, rivaling any other architect. said. “That spirit is the spark. It’s the hu- Describing his take on his career, Kondylis man spirit. It’s the one thing that lingers on said, “I was one of the first, if not the first ar- when everything else disappears.” 22 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org Documenting the Village and Beyond A Review of Berenice Abbot: A Life in Photography. WW Norton, 2018. Author, Julia Van Haaften.

By Lisa E Davis, PhD photographer of the twentieth century,” ac- New York, then Berenice’s photos of Green- cording to her biographer. wich Village: To-day and Yesterday (Harper, Browsing the shelves of that Left Bank Few people could have risen to the chal- 1949). She taught photography at the New bookstore, in sight of the Seine and Notre lenge this book represents. Van Haaften’s School, because she needed the money. Dame, which preserves the name of expatri- long career as curator of the New York Both she and Elizabeth collaborated close- ate American Sylvia Beach’s original Shake- Public Library’s photography collection, ly with the New York Photo League (1936- speare and Company (1919-1941), I found a and her revolutionary digital initiatives at 51)—that subversive cradle of American real treasure. A slender volume whose spine both the Library and the Museum of the documentary photography—in classes read Abbott New York in the Thirties stared City of New York, helped to prepare her. and lectures. During the 1950s, Berenice, up at me. Not Berenice Abbott? I mused Previous publications about the history of with her friend Lisette Model and anyone and took the book off the shelf. photography, about Berenice and innova- else who was anyone in the photography Berenice’s book had been photographs tions in the photographic art, set the stage world, frequented Helen Gee’s Limelight of Changing New York from 1939, a proj- for this undertaking. Coffeehouse and Photography Gallery, 91 ect of the New Deal Federal Arts Project Still, it was a formidable task to trace Seventh Avenue South. It was a Village (FAP, 1935-39)—where artists and civili- the diverse career and long life of Berenice institution ahead of its time, and the first zation counted. But here was a re-edition Abbott (1898-1991). The same energy and HOME OF BERENICE ABBOTT AND ELIZA- photo gallery in the country. from 1973, with original photos—compli- determination that kept Berenice going to BETH MCCAUSLAND. 50 Commerce Street. But Berenice’s career was drifting north. Photo courtesy of NYPL DIgital Photogra- ments of the Museum of the City of New the end had rescued her early on from a A job with the Physical Science Study phy collection. York—and unabridged photo captions by sad broken home and had brought her— Committee out of MIT—producing in- Bernice’s lover and companion of thirty when she was still Bernice—to the State sharing with friends and considered jour- novative photographs to illustrate science years, art critic Elizabeth McCausland. University in Columbus, Ohio. There she nalism as a career. texts—gave her financial stability. And They had lived at 50 Commerce Street, met people who swept her along with them But by 1920, she listed herself as “artist,” it was on the way to her new property in a few buildings over from the Cherry Lane to the “Center of Everything”—the chap- and for all artists the next destination in Maine, which became her residence of Theater. I rushed to the cash register and ter title in this book—for Berenice’s years the 1920s was Paris—which was, accord- choice, more exclusively after Elizabeth’s paid the nominal fee for New York in the in the Greenwich Village of yesteryear. It ing to one contemporary, “lousy with art.” death (1965). Berenice managed to sur- Thirties before Shakespeare and Company was a time for “New Women,” the Prov- But then, as now, art was not a big money- vive long enough to receive well-deserved changed its mind. incetown Playhouse and Eugene O’Neill, maker. Berenice bought a one-way ticket to honors and to see collecting and marketing Another delectable surprise appeared Djuna Barnes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, France, and struggled at first until she was photographs become a big business. She just a few months ago. It is Julia Van Haaf- hard drinking at bars beneath the Sixth lucky enough to sign on as assistant in the (and Atget) benefited enormously and, at ten’s carefully crafted history of the long Avenue El train, and permission to be a photography studio of an old friend from last, made a little money. and complex life of Berenice Abbott—“the lesbian. From MacDougal to Greenwich New York—Man Ray. She learned her Van Haaften knew Berenice personally most aesthetically versatile and hard-nosed Ave. to West 10th, Bernice stayed afloat craft well and became the photographer of in the last years of her life, which perhaps choice for many of the Paris artistic crowd. contributes to the intimate tone of this bi- Her portrait of James Joyce—whose Ulysses ography. She tells the stories of Paris, the Sylvia Beach of the original Shakespeare Village and beyond in such detail and with NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARD 2 PRESENT and Company had published in 1922—was such authority that we feel we have walked one of those classics that provided Berenice beside the protagonists through it all, a bit of money and prestige throughout her shared their confidences and travails. And career. But Berenice’s big discovery in Paris because the author knows the mechanics of was the aging photographer Eugene At- early photographic art so well, she can pass get—and the world of fin-de-siècle Paris them on to a new generation. he had laboriously documented. Looking back a century—long before At this point in Julia Van Haaften’s nar- the digital vogue, even before hand-held rative, I take down my copy of The World cameras—Van Haaften offers a realistic of Atget (1979 edition), with a lengthy in- glimpse into the strength, fortitude, and troduction by his youthful admirer Ber- daring it took to cling to the side of a Man- enice Abbott—who returned to New York hattan skyscraper for a lengthy exposure. after his death with literally thousands of “It wasn’t like today,” as Berenice said many his prints and glass plate negatives. They years ago (1980), “when every other person would be a source of inspiration and in- is a photographer.” come for decades. And there can be little See the Jefferson Market Library col- ThE 28Th ANnuAL doubt that Atget taught her, by example, lection for this remarkable book with its how to see a city—and to photograph it. 90 rare photographs, and look online in By 1929, it was time for Berenice to go the NYPL digital photography collection. ChILdRen’S home—“the American who came from Berenice’s legacy and Julia Van Haaften’s HAlLowEeN pARadE Paris,” friends would later call her. She be- tribute is the history of photography and gan photographing New York City in the yes, it was in Greenwich Village she be- OCTOBER 31, 2018, 3-6PM wake of the Great Depression, and galler- came inspired. Parents and children will gather at 3:00 pm ies organized shows around her work and at the fountain in Washington Square Park. Atget’s. Times were hard, but Berenice’s Dr. Davis is a long time Greenwich Village Free trick-or-treat bags, performances, games, luck changed when she met her life-part- resident living on Charles St. Ms.Davis has and rides will await the children after ner Elizabeth McCausland and got a job written two very accessible books on Green- the parade on West 3rd Street between LaGuardia Place and Mercer Street. with the New Deal’s Federal Art Project. wich Village history; “Under the Mink” a A year later, in 1936, Berenice and Eliza- novel about the mafia, drag (both male and beth moved in together, from midtown to female), nightclubs, sapphic relationships and 50 Commerce Street, because Village rents tourists. Her most recent is “Undercover Girl:

Design based on original artwork by Kathryn Faughnan were lower. Artists lived there. The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI First came the publication of Changing Bring Down the Communist Party.” www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 23 The Poetry Jukebox and Greenwich Avenue, across from the garden by the Jefferson Market Library), was all about, but I just kept walking by. What I found out when I finally stopped to take a look was that it was an installation that allowed passersby the opportunity to hear 20 famous poets, who all once called the Village home, read their own work. It’s quite an experience to hear a poet’s voice coming out of that pipe. Heading the list is Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was named after a former local landmark. Across the street from where St. Vincent’s Hospital once stood, where the AIDS Me- morial Park is now, there was a plaque stat- ing that her middle name honored St. Vin- cent’s Hospital (which has recently been MEDICAL DERMATOLOGY | COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY converted into condominiums) for saving THIS BRIGHT YELLOW PIPE resembling MOHS SURGERY | LASER SURGERY part of a ship that got misplaced is really her uncle’s life before she was born. an audio device that plays recordings of Typically there’s some unusual artwork American poets mostly reading their own there, sponsored by a city agency. This case Bay Ridge West Village poetry. Push the top button to hear one of was no different. The Poetry Jukebox is spon- 7901 4th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209 67 Perry Street, NY NY 10014 the recordings. Photo by Carol Yost. sored by the NYC Dept. of Transportation, 718-491-5800 (t) 212-675-5847 (t) The Village Alliance and Czech Tourism. 718748-2151 (f) 212-675-7976 (f) By Carol Yost Below are some poems you can enjoy: Edna St. Vincent Millay—­­ Love is Not All I kept wondering what the heck that odd Emma Lazarus—The New Colossus yellow pipe, seemingly coming up out of Allen Ginsberg—Howl Ronald R. Brancaccio, M.D | Peter Saitta, D.O. the sidewalk, on Ruth E Wittenberg Plaza Hart Crane—The Brooklyn Bridge Sherry H. Hsiung, M.D. | Lisa Gruson,M.D. | Anna Karp, D.O. (the triangular traffic island at 6th Avenue James Baldwin—Sonny Blues

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We accept most private HONORING A LEGEND: On September 20th, a ceremony honoring Merce Cun- ningham took place at Westbeth Artists Housing. Cunningham occupied the 11th insurances floor of the former Bell Laboratories building for decades, choreographing over 80 and private pay. dances during his time there. In attendance was world-renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who recalled fondly the countless hours he spent at Westbeth bringing Cunningham’s visions to life. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, of the Historic [email protected] Landmarks Preservation Center and a New York City landmark in her own right, unveiled a plaque recognizing Merce Cunningham by the entrance of Westbeth on Bethune Street. Photos by Stanley Wlodyka. 24 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org Free Wi-Fi Kiosks in the Village By Brian J. Pape, AIA tions, fun facts about New York City, and • Through the tablet on the kiosk, more. Each kiosk is built to withstand ex- people can access City and nonprofit Have you ever needed a map to show you treme heat and cold, rain, snow, flooding, services and get maps and directions. where you were and where you needed earthquakes, vandalism and theft, while The LinkNYC website counts 1,736 Wi- to go in the Village? Have you wondered conforming to ADA (Americans with Dis- Fi kiosks installed in NYC as of September what we should do now that all the street abilities Act) standards. 2018. In the West Village the placement payphones are gone? Have you wondered is puzzling but it is a strong start. Four are what the new sidewalk kiosks sprouting up Key features of the kiosks are: clustered at the West 14th Street and 8th all over the city are supposed to be for? • Use your personal device to connect Avenue intersection, with several more go- The answers to these questions are to LinkNYC’s super-fast, free Wi-Fi, ing east on 14th Street. Going south on here. In 2014 the de Blasio administra- or charge your device in a power-only Hudson Street, we see two near the Seravalli tion issued a competitive RFP (request for USB port. Playground (Horatio Street), and one each proposal) to repurpose the payphone in- • Make free phone calls to anywhere at Grove Street, Barrow Street, and Leroy frastructure with free Wi-Fi, phone calls in the U.S. using the Vonage app on Street. On 6th Avenue there are kiosks at and advertising. the tablet or the tactile keypad and Downing Street, West 4th Street, Waverly This was an idea that many of us at West- microphone. (Plug in your personal Place, Jefferson Market, West 12th Street, View News had been promoting for years, headphones for more privacy.) and West13th Street. Broadway has a few given the difficulty of navigating the West • Access city services, maps and direc- but, otherwise, that’s all for now. When I Village’s streets, and our desire to provide tions from the tablet. contacted Link they said many more ki- visitors with helpful information. • Use the dedicated red 911 button in osks will be coming—wherever payphones The CityBridge proposal for LinkNYC the event of an emergency. used to be—so, if there were payphones on was chosen for its innovative and communi- • Link’s ADA-compliant design leaves Charles Street or elsewhere in the Village, ty-first approach and was awarded the first a bit more room on the sidewalk than we’ll probably see kiosks there soon. 12-year franchise. New Yorkers and visitors older kiosks while using the tactile Give the kiosks a try and provide them can make free phone calls to anywhere in keypad and microphone. with your feedback, and let WestView News the U.S. through each of Link’s tablets, in- • Public service announcements and know what you think. WESTVIEW NEWS HAS BEEN PROMOTING cluding access to 311, 911 and 411. advertising are viewed on two 55” information kiosks for years, and now the LinkNYC is programmed to provide HD display panels. Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP city has repurposed the payphone infra- structure with free Wi-Fi, phone calls, and useful information on-the-go, including • Each Link gigabit is powered by an all- Green Architect & Historic Specialist advertising in new kiosks built to withstand local bus arrival times, wayfinding tips new, purpose-built fiber optic network 917-334-3293 extreme heat and cold. Photo by Brian J. around major events, information about that delivers speeds up to 100 times West View News Architectural Editor Pape, AIA, LEED-AP. the nearest voting poll site during elec- faster than average public Wi-Fi. (westviewnews.org)

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Sundays in October Saturday October 13, 7 pm 11 am Choral Eucharist followed by Lunch then 3 pm Concert fea- Reckless Daughter in Word and Song turing the same composer (or musical genre) in both Eucharist and cocert. The Choral Eucharist, to which those of all faiths and none are welcome, is sung by the professional Choir of St John’s. Eucharist and lunch are free, but booking for lunch advised. Book for the concerts ($10-$20, but free to seniors and children) online or pay on the door.

Sunday October 7: Mostly Mozart At 11am: Missa Brevis in D, Ave Verum Corpus, and hymns by Haydn. Book launch & author signing of the paperback edition of David Yaffe’s Lunch. At 3pm: Everett Suttle (tenor) performs Mozart, Brahms, Bizet, ‘Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell’ featuring a concert per- Tchaikovsky, and Roland Hayes. formance of Mitchell’s music by Hannah Reimann. $25.Thursday Sep- tember 20, 7 pm Sunday October 14: Steal Away At 11am: Wade in the water, Steal away to Jesus, and other spirituals. Lunch. At 3pm: The Schiller Institute NYC Chorale performs spirituals Monday October 15, 7:30 pm arranged by African-American composers. Chant Workshop Sunday October 21: Back to Bach Learn to sing Gregorian chant At 11am: Suscepit Israel (from Magnificat), So nur den Geist, and Bach (plainsong) with Professor chorales. Lunch. At 3pm: Tali Roth (classical guitar) performs Bach’s Lute Lawrence Harris of the Gregori- Suite and other works. an Institute of Canada. Ideal for choral directors, clergy, singers Sunday October 28: Ode to Joy in church choirs, and those interested in medieval music. Free. Register by email to chantproject@ At 11am: music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Lunch. At 3pm: Maryam Kheirbek (piano) performs piano works by Beethoven and Chopin. stjvny.org or 212 243 6192.

Friday October 26, 7:30 pm Grey Rock Benefit Concert Concert with Pablo Aslan & Nick Farago to benefit “Grey Rock” by The Remote Theater Project, a collaboration between Palestinian actors, writer/director Amir Nizar Zuabi, and US designers. Grey Rock premieres in January at La MaMa Theater. Includes video presenta- tion and reception. $20.

Everett Suttle Tali Roth Maryam Kheirbek Saturday, October 27, 7:30PM Amber Plus: I Friday October 12, 7:30 pm Soprano Amber Evans teams up with different instrumentalist in a A Date with Mozart mini-series within our concert series. Here with Thomas Feng (piano) she Soprano Katrin Bulke performs famous opera scenes accompanied by performing Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, Tippett’s The Heart’s pianist Juan Lazero (piano). with Darrell Lauer (tenor) and Keith Milkie Assurance, and Lachenmann’s Got Lost. Admission $20, $10 for students, (baritone) at this evening full of love. Wine reception follows. $20. free.to seniors and children. music• at St. Veronica Saturday November 3, 7:00 pm

Felix Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture, Op 26 “Fingal’s Cave” Antonin Dvorak:Czech Suite Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op 90 ”Italian” The Music at St. Veronica’s Orchestra, Benjamin Grow, Conductor This Concert is Free to Seniors! But we ask non-seniors to pay $20, and we ask all, if you can, to make a contribution of any amount so we can continue to make these concerts free to seniors. PLEASE: Respect our older audience and leave babies and youngsters under 7 at home. The Church of St. Veronica, 149 Christopher Street www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 27

hotcakes for only a dollar. When a table- top Mickey Mouse radio, made by the Em- Mickey Mouse Turns 90 erson Radio and Phonograph Corporation this year of 2018 there will be Mickey pa- projects—including the artful Silly Sym- of New York, was introduced it became a rades and continuous celebrations at Disney phony sound cartoons, some of which won must-have item for American families who World, Disneyland, and all the other Disney Academy Awards, and the later full-length could also listen to a Mickey Mouse pro- Parks around the world. During the writ- animated feature films likeSnow White, gram on-the-air. Later, other Disney char- ing of three books written for the Disney Pinocchio and Bambi. There were watches acters joined the Kamen sales parade—in- Company, Disneyana—Classic Collectibles and clocks, Mickey and Minnie and Snow cluding Donald and Daisy Duck, Pluto the 1928-1958, The Mickey Mouse Watch—From White dolls, boxed games, storybooks, Big Pup, Goofy, the Three Little Pigs and the the Beginning of Time, and Mickey’s official Little Books, coloring and comic books, Big Bad Wolf, Clara Cluck, the wise Little biography Mickey Mouse, The Evolution, The painted bisque figurines, film and slide pro- Hen, Clarabelle the Cow, Horace Horsec- Legend, The Phenomenon!, co-author John jectors, sleds and ice skates, roller skates, ollar, Ferdinand the Bull, Elmer Elephant, Gilman and I would often joke about the pencil boxes, lunchboxes, toothbrushes and Toby Tortoise, Snow White and all seven notion that in the near future an animated toothpaste, clothing, hats, sweaters, scarves, Dwarfs, and countless others. image of Mickey Mouse would show up shoes, litho-on-tin wind-up toys, and oth- on our computers saying to all of us, in his er toys galore. There were also images of FUNNY MONEY usual high-pitched-happy-squeaky-falsetto Mickey Mouse featured on Post Toasties Ted Hake, of Hake’s Americana and Col- voice, something like “Hi folks! We’re go- cereal boxes, which children were encour- lectibles auction house (https://www. ing to war.” The idea is: who would dare to aged to cut out and make toys of, as well hakes.com/), the premier source since 1967 IT WAS THE MOUSE WHO TOOK THE SPOT- criticize or go against a President Mickey? as hard candies, chocolate bars, bread, jam, for pop culture collectibles, recently sold LIGHT BACK THEN AND FOREVERMORE: The lyrics for one particular Mickey Mouse milk, soda, cookie jars, and even cookies a pair of mint condition large size 1930s Mickey Mouse—The Evolution, The Legend, song, entitled What! No Mickey Mouse? What in the shape of Mickey or Minnie Mouse. cloth-stuffed Mickey and Minnie dolls The Phenomenon! By Robert Heide and Kind of a Party is This? (written by Irving Herman “Kay” Kamen, the merchandising for a world record price of $151,534. Mel John GIlman. Caesar in 1932 to coincide with Franklin genius behind all of this, was contracted by Birnkrant’s spectacular collection of pre- Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign— Walt Disney and his brother Roy in 1933 war Disneyana (melbirnkrant.com), the By Robert Heide whose main political theme song was Happy to become the sole licensing representative subject of a hilarious and highly entertain- Days are Here Again) suggested that Mickey of the Disney company (Kamen’s cut, after ing Kenneth Anger film entitled Mouse MICKEY FOR PRESIDENT: could be our next president. The lyrics in- the first several thousand dollars, was 50 Heaven, is artfully assembled in an upstate On November 18, 1928, the black and cluded these lines: “Vote for Mickey Mouse percent), and in that first year—consid- 19th-century schoolhouse where he also white Walt Disney “talking” cartoon Steam- and make him our next President. Your lions ered by many historians as the worst year resides with his wife Eunice. Recently, he boat Willie opened at the Colony Theater in roar, your tigers snore, I’ve heard them roar of the Great Depression—Kamen saved told me that sometimes he wishes he could New York. Although there had been other and snore before, but Mickey Mouse makes several businesses from going bankrupt, wave a wand and make everything worth- cartoon stars that preceded Mickey, such as me laugh and how. To Congress he is sure to including the Ingersoll Clock Company in less; he also said that he was so familiar Felix “the Cat,” it was the Mouse who took say, meow, meow, okay, okay, how dry I am, Waterbury, Connecticut, which he licensed with Mickey Mouse that he would not the spotlight back then and forevermore. have one on me. And then he’ll cry, give me to put the image of Mickey Mouse on its be surprised if he saw him in the flesh for Mickey squeaked, whistled, danced and, my ax, I’ll cut your tax. He’ll show us what surplus World War I watches. Likewise, real. Now that Mickey is 90 one may ask, yes, spoke as amazed audiences roared with can be done when he’s in Washington.” the Lionel Toy Train Corporation (which “Will he make it to 100?” But think again, laughter, applause, and cheers. The high- had one of its factories in my hometown of Mickey is forever ageless. pitched voice of Mickey was provided by MERCHANDISING MICKEY: Irvington, New Jersey) also avoided bank- Disney himself and, following Steamboat, When working on our first book on Mick- ruptcy by signing up with Kamen’s com- Robert Heide’s most recently published book, Mickey went on to star in 120 animated ey, we soon discovered that it was going pany to create and manufacture a wind-up entitled Robert Heide 25 Plays, is available shorts. Somewhat modeled after Charlie to be a study of the merchandising of an railroad handcar which had Mickey and at Three Lives Bookstore, Drama Bookshop, Chaplin, the Mouse was immediately an unimaginable variety of products that ul- Minnie figures pumping away in a see-saw the Whitney Museum, and on Amazon. His international sensation, as was his gal pal timately provided Walt Disney’s film com- motion as the car ran down a track. During co-authored books with John Gilman are also Minnie who tagged along for the ride. In pany all the money it needed for its creative the 1934 Christmas season this sold like available on Amazon. Hudson River Park Gets a Much-Needed Facelift

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more than the use of their thumbs, they jazz vocalist extraordinaire Eve Zanni. were also playing jazz standards, some of From there on out, things took off, and as which were published 65 years before they is typical of life, but especially of life in New were born. That’s an entire retired person! York, one thing led to another; recently, jazz If Max Dolgin is any indication, jazz classes was Max’s ticket to a land that, for almost should be mandatory for every boy and girl 60 years, scarce few Americans could claim in America. The drummer of the quintet, to have walked upon: Cuba. Traveling with Max, is a well-spoken and intelligent young the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance, Max and band- man who is bursting with noble ambitions mates played in clubs and a school in Havana. for a tomorrow that is brighter than all the Apparently, he was able to paradiddle into yesterdays. It takes a village to raise a child, the hearts of the locals, recalling one man and even better if it’s the West Village. who raised a fist of solidarity when he found Born and bred in an apartment on 14th out that Max was an American. That may Street, he started hitting the skins when have been a one time deal, however, as the he was just four years old. Asked whether current administration in the White House he worries that drums are too loud of an has started to reverse the Obama era easing instrument to be played in a NYC apart- of travel restrictions to the Caribbean island. ment, he jokes that he doesn’t worry about Though he may not find himself in Cuba the neighbors because “I’ve been here lon- in the foreseeable future, Max is excited about A TRUE NATIVE WEST VILLAGER: 15-year-old Max Dolgin is a product of his environment: ger than a lot of them; they can’t really say the future he can envision. In particular, he is smart, socially conscious, and talented with a jazzy flavor. Photo by Stanley Wlodyka. that much—I have seniority.” confident in the future of jazz amongst young The privilege of growing up in New York, audiences, pointing to the jazz influences on By Stanley Wlodyka the opening to live up to the concept. So, a city that can boast of having the best of any Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar’s she recruited a quintet of high school jazz and everything in terms of culture (museums, critically acclaimed album To Pimp a Butter- Last month’s Westbeth Gallery show “A musicians to highlight that; though this was theater, concerts, fashion), is not lost on him. fly. Max is also doing his part to promote the Diamond Jubilee” featured seven artists over a show about productivity at an advanced He revels in the excitement: “The possibility genre; if anyone expresses a desire to see live 75 years of age who exhibited a wide variety age, it was also a show about how the artist of one thing [just] appearing and really chang- jazz, he sends them straight to 55 Bar, at 55 of artwork: masks, puppets, paintings, pho- embarks on a lifelong journey. ing me is so likely.” One of those life chang- Christopher Street in the West Village. “You tographs, and even politically charged em- It was the novelty of all novelties. Not ing happenstances came when, as a child, Max can walk in there and, for $12, you can see broidery. Judy Lawne, a photographer who only were these youngins doing something was taught at PS 41, the Greenwich Village someone who you’ve never heard of and he’s came up with the idea for the show, wanted that didn’t require screens and did require School for five years by Westbeth’s resident going to blow your mind away!”

wig. I wore the same shirt to Andy’s 90th Starmaker—The Interview Covers birthday party at the Whitney last month. My partner, Robert Heide, whose play The By John Gilman York transgender, transsexual, intersexual, Bed was filmed by Warhol in Richard Ber- and assorted drag queen performers led by nstein’s Bowery loft way back in 1965, was It’s a time-honored tradition for writers nightlife superstar Amanda Lepore. All interviewed for the Bernstein book and had to have a big kick off “launch” for their were outrageously dressed (or undressed) the official invitation; he also wore his War- books—maybe a book-signing, a cocktail and voguing to the hilt. The invitations had hol 90th birthday outfit of a seersucker suit party, or an exhibit. In the case of Rizzoli’s indicated that a megastar dress code was re- and a Campbell’s Soup Can T-shirt. Wear- Richard Bernstein: Starmaker—Andy War- quired and most everyone acquiesced. Pres- ing these outfits again seemed only right. hol’s Cover Artist, published last month, it ent were: “Divine” decadence, Bianca Jagger They had landed us in the New Yorker’s was extravagantly all three. Kicking off New sequin capes, Liz Taylor Cleopatra eyes, August 27th “Talk of the Town” coverage of York’s Fashion Week, an opening night heart-shaped sunglasses, Halston and Gucci the Whitney party, which for a brief fifteen party to honor the book was thrown on designer outfits, Pat Ast caftans, East West minutes (or perhaps more like a week) made September 5th by the Alcone Company at leather, Helmut Berger in drag, Elsa Peretti us famous. the glamorous Public Hotel at 215 Chrystie cuffs, body glitter and ultrasuede, diamonds, By contrast, and a welcome relief it was, Street (just below Houston Street). jockstraps, stilettos and kept boys, Gabriella the following night we attended a sedate Upon entering, guests (which includ- Crespi chic, Diana Vreeland lacquered hair champagne book-signing at Bookmarc on FAYE DUNAWAY—star of Network, Bonnie ed Mick Jagger, Liza Minelli and Grace and Diana Ross’ frizzy manes, lamé bus-boy Bleecker Street. The next night, we got back & Clyde and Chinatown—original air brush Jones) were handed gift bags with per- short shorts, and an overall look inspired up on the rowdy horse and attended the star- portrait cover art by Richard Bernstein for fume and cosmetics. Multiple six-foot high by Fiorucci. As it turned out, the glittery studded opening night retrospective at the Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine at Deitch cardboard cutouts of Andy Warhol ringed event was as close to Studio 54 flamboyance Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (at 76 Grand Street in Gallery in Soho. the space, creating the impression that the as anything could possibly get, but perhaps Soho) that exhibited the original mechani- artist was actually there. Champagne and without as much cocaine. cal art for Bernstein’s air-brushed Interview color) and a late 1960’s poster of the Warhol mixed drinks flowed freely, flashing mirror Practically everybody from the East Vil- covers of Faye Dunaway, Bette Midler, Ryan superstar Candy Darling (a startling display balls revolved, neon lights glared brilliantly, lage was there and, surprisingly, a sprinkling and Tatum O’Neal, Lauren Hutton, Joe of contradictory feminine facial beauty and the earsplitting disco music blared even of 1980s celebrities—including Carmen D’Allesandro, Jessica Lang, Fran Lebowitz, masculine sexual organs). Written by broth- louder than in disco’s heyday in the 70s and D’Allesio, Diana Brill, and Pat Cleveland. Joan Rivers, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Wonder, ers Roger and Mauricio Padilha, the over- 80s, and a floor show on a raised stage fea- Arriving at the party we encountered our and other famous faces. Of the 189 covers sized art book with Grace Jones gracing the tured a half naked man in gold lamé shorts friend, the society pianist Peter Mintun Bernstein created from 1972 to 1989, there cover includes the story of the artist’s glamor- prancing about with Pat Ast and buxom (wearing a three-piece white linen “Mark are 69 on display in the spectacular show that ous life, which tragically ended after a descent Divine look-alikes. Twain” suit), seated just out of earshot of runs until October 27th. In addition to the into heroin addiction and death from AIDS To one side of the seething dance floor a the deafening music. I wore my vintage brilliant Interview covers, the show and the at the Chelsea Hotel. The writers follow their velvet rope separated a crush of flashbulb- Interview cover T-shirt, printed for Andy book features other art created by Bernstein: three-pronged New York book launch with popping paparazzi from a large, colorfully Warhol’s 80th birthday with an image of nude portraits of all five of the Beatles (in yet another series of events next month at the bedecked flock of gender-bending New Mark Jacobs wearing an Andy Warhol black and white, as well as in full psychedelic Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 29 Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter October is New York Film Festival month. few more killers.” I thought that those after one of his best women friends bears and, with a velocity of complicated talent The festival has just begun as you read this. words, if I heard them correctly, would his child. (The two of them share parenting and humanity, fills every moment when she As soon as director Kent Jones announced put forward a very dangerous statement in separate homes and with separate lives.) is on screen wrestling with rock and roll’s this year’s programming a collective sigh of in theaters around the world, considering The author is handsome and keeps his demanding demons. Her performance relief was heard from critics and NYC film the current Fox News culture. I wrote to AIDS diagnosis secret. He is also looking demands recognition—be it the Spirit or lovers all over town. This year NYFF turns Kent Jones and asked for a response to my just for sex, but falls in love. The student the Oscar attention—and may require away from premiering major Hollywood concern. He wrote back, with a detailed has fallen in love as well, and follows the Glenn Close to share the center spot for studio releases and returns to collecting justification, saying (thoughtfully) that he author to Paris where he discovers the facts this year’s best acting Oscar. Ok, maybe the best of narrative and documentary disagreed with me—a challenging response about the real life of the author... Sounds this film is too punk for Oscar—but Moss films from around the world.The Main which, in essence, expressed his belief that like a pulp fiction? Well, no,Sorry Angel is deserves to gain a nomination. Not since Slate (historically, the foundation of the the film reveals how desperate Bannon is, actually a universal story of attraction and the late, great Kim Stanley, have I seen NYFF) has a red-hot lineup that includes which will cause him to do anything to get desire, complicated by reality, that could just see such a fierce and total commitment Barry Jenkins’ post-Moonlight feature attention. Kent’s full response was detailed as easily be an opposite-sex couple’s story. It to a role by an actress. (Actually, Charlize If Beale Street Could Talk—his adaption and nuanced. He reminded me that in the is a story of lust, love, and friendship. Go, if Theron approaches her work in a similar of James Baldwin’s book about life in film Morris says to Bannon, (I think these you have ever shared these emotions. manner.) Warning: do not be late and miss Harlem in the early ‘70. The consistently are the words) “I think you are crazy and the first 20 minutes. Cinematographer provocative Claire Denis’ latest is High you frighten me.” HER SMELL Sean Price Williams takes us on a visual Light. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning is his I remember my response to New director Alex Ross Perry ride that feels like we are on a roller coaster latest exploration of modern life in China. Yorker Editor David Remnick’s canceling Perry is part of the new New York narrative with a broken safety strap. He creates a Christian Petzold’s Transit is a heart- Bannon’s appearance at the New filmmaking generation now based mostly free-fall energy overload, capturing to stopping look at desperation in the face Yorker Festival because of a threatened in Brooklyn. He is much revered as a perfection the intensity of punks on fire. I of love in his flawless adaption of Anna withdrawal of other participants if Bannon storyteller in that well-educated millennial felt as if, suddenly, I had been taken from Seghers’ novel Transit Visa. The film plays participated: as a reader I would have circle. His previous work, and this current my seat in the theater and strapped onto with time and place, making a transit visa a Harley and propelled into the dark side as important for refugees fleeing violence of Grrr music angst! Don’t miss this one— today as it was for Jews fleeing ethnic because, I suggest, soon everyone under 35 cleansing 75 years ago. And finally, yes, who loves indie film and music will have a there is the new Coen Brothers collection very strong opinion on the merits of Her of “western stories” strung together in The Smell. Repeat: Moss is amazing… Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The documentary offerings include FAHRENHEIT 11/9 James Longley’s Angles Are Made of director Michael Moore Light. Longley brings a visual artist’s eye Currently in theaters is Moore’s response, to the craft of filmmaking, as he did inIraq in a way, to the Steve Bannon in American in Fragments, and finds a rich humanity Dharma. Moore tries to wake up America inside a country ravaged by war. as to just what went wrong. Like a modern- But at least one film NYFF has day John the Baptist, Moore really wants programmed, Errol Morris’ American us to know how we got Donald Trump as Dharma, has exploded a firestorm of president. (He was not surprised.) He sets controversy. It focuses on Steven K. out to challenge the current blame game. Bannon, Trump’s campaign director and Fahrenheit 11/9 lifts the rock and looks at former White House chief strategist. ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT: The children of Kabul are rarely seen, unless as victims of what squirms out. Moore takes a hard look As Breitbart News editor-in-chief he war in this documentary by James Longley. Image courtesy of TIFF. at how the Clintons made the Democratic popularized the use of the term “alt-right,” Party become Republican “light” and masking its real meaning: white supremacy. preferred to have David Remnick confront release, focuses on contemporary stories how white supremacists and Fox News In the film, Bannon takes full credit Bannon. Complicated issues concerning of women and how they love. He could convinced middle and broke Americans for Trump’s win and claims he heavily freedom of speech in the age of social be thought of as the George Cukor that Trump was their champion. Moore influenced the selection of the majority of media, fake news, and software that can of indie film. The only real difference zeros in on the town he grew up in—Flint Trump’s cabinet choices. When Bannon distort and change the intent of a speaker between the two is that Perry is very Michigan. He takes no prisoners but leaves left the White House staff his influence or creative work are complex and require much a heterosexual, and thus his gaze only scorched earth and deception on all remained. He mentored Stephen Miller— discussion. is tinctured—I suspect by his mother’s sides exposed. Oddly enough, both he and author of Trump’s immigration policy. Here are a couple of NYFF films I have generation’s fighting for female liberation Bannon agree on something: there will be Note: the Secretary of the Treasury, seen that I recommend highly: and creative expression. Rumors were that a revolution here in America. Who will billionaire Steven Mnuchin, and his Her Smell was a fictionalized telling about win? Bannon thinks he knows for sure, and family were the largest financial supporters SORRY ANGEL Ms. Kurt Cobain. But Elisabeth Moss Moore tosses it back on to the American of Breitbart News director Christophe Honore explores the myths of both bad boy and people. Trust me; neither will be a trip to Oscar winner (Fog of War) Errol Morris’ (France) bad girl contemporary rock stars, mining Disneyland. reputation as a documentary filmmaker It’s 1993, Paris: AIDS is filling the hospitals not only the public Courtney, but others is based on a body of work that has been and Act Up is in the street. The time is just also. Her Smell is not specifically about FLASH: The Metrograph will present a recognized and awarded around the world. before the introduction of new medications Courtney; it is also about Axel. But their year-long retrospective of guitar legend and His choice of subjects has made him which will prevent death and prolong life. stories are such a public memory that Beefheart aficionado Gary Lucas’ many controversial; in the past, he seemed to We meet a 22-year-old student who lives they haunt Her Smell. In the same way film scores (performed live) accompanying fetishize both ordinary people and those with his girlfriend in Brittany. She goes that cloves of garlic are hung and worn classic films, both silent and sound, with power. to sleep sexually unfulfilled while he goes to protect from black magic and all kinds beginning Fri. Oct. 19th 2018 with his At the press screening of American cruising for anonymous, casual gay sex. By of physical and emotional plagues that Spanish “Dracula” project. Wow—this is Dharma I was literally jolted out of my seat chance, he meets a visiting author on a book attempt to invade, apparently, the souls good news! when I thought I heard Bannon say, “There tour and they (as the saying goes) “hook and psyches of superstars strung out on will be a revolution; all we need now is a up.” The author has become a single parent themselves, Elizabeth Moss is amazing contact: [email protected] 30 WestView News October 2018 www.westviewnews.org

n Sunday October 28, 11 am-3 pm: OCTOBER Halloween Dog Costume Party Have your furry best friend compete for a best EVENTS costume prize at Washington Square Park, by Stephanie Phelan of Arch Plaza. westvillageword.com n Monday October 29, 6 pm: Village Macabre Walking Tour with Joyce Gold Spooky New York stories and loca- tions. RSVP to GVSHP.org for meeting wv location. w n October 31. 3-6 pm: Children’s for Halloween Parade Parents and WestView News children should gather at 3 pm at the Washington Square Park fountain. Free trick-or-treat bags, performances, hames © Stephanie Phelan 2013 and rides after the parade. CITYWIDE n Wednesday October 31, 7 pm: The SPECIAL EVENTS Village Halloween Parade If you’re in n Monday October 1-Sunday Octo- costume and want to join the parade, enter ber 7: Alandalus Festival— Where at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street. If you Cultures Meet A book talk with author want to watch the parade, it goes up Sixth Ed Morales, lecture /recital with percus- Avenue from Spring Street to 18th Street. sionist Samuel Torres, the music of Manuel FRINGE POLITICS de Falla, photography of Manuel Bello, FILM Alex Jones is the subject of the satire Information Wars, part of the Flamenco-Jazz concert with pianist Andrés n Monday October 1, 6 pm: The Fringe Festival NYC, taking place in locations around Marquez, a screening of Three Tales of Julio Cassandra Crossing A 1976 film about The West Village from October 12-28. Cortázar followed by talk with film director passengers on a European train who have Paco Millan, : a concert for kids Atlántica been exposed to a deadly disease. Starring Street. Free. gorian chant. Free. Register by email with singer Lara Bello and a Multi-Faith Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gard- n Monday October 29, 6 pm: The to [email protected] or 212 243 Service at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 81 ner, and OJ Simpson. Jefferson Market Thief of Bagdad An Arabian fantasy 6192. St. John’s in the Village, 220 West Christopher Street. For a list of times and Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. film at Jefferson Market Library, 425 11th Street. tickets, go to www.festivalandalus.com n Thursday October 4, 2 pm: The Sixth Avenue. Free. n Sunday October 21, 11 am: Music n October 12-28: Fringe NYC The city’s Godfather Part III The continuation of at the Eucharist A eucharist address largest live performance festival, features Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece will MUSIC followed by Bach Cello Suite No. 1, per- alternate theater, comedy, music, dance be shown at Hudson Park Library, 66 n Sunday October 7, 11 am: Music formed by guitar. Eucharists and lunch are and more. The FringeNYC hub is at 685 Leroy Street. Free. at the Eucharist Songs by Mozart, Bi- free. Book for the concerts through stjvny. Washington Street (at Charles Street) where n Sunday October 7, 2:30 pm: The zet, and others, as well as a eucharist ad- org. St. John’s in the Village, 220 West audiences meet up and then are escorted to Black Monk This film depicts a filmmak- 11th Street. Tickets $20, $10 for seniors the performance venue, which will be within dress; lunch to follow. Free. Book for the er struggling with sanity who encounters a and students. a six-block radius. For a listing of shows and concerts through stjvny.org. St. John’s in legendary monk and uncovers the meaning n Friday October 26, 7:30 pm: Gray schedules, go to www.FringeNYC.org. the Village, 220 West 11th Street. Tickets of life and a lost love. Jefferson Market Li- $20, $10 for seniors and students. Rock Benefit Concert Concert to n Sunday October 7, 11 am-4 pm: brary, Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth n Sunday October 7, 3 pm: Everett benefit by The Remote Theater FDNY and NYPD LGBTQ Safety Grey Rock Avenue. Free. Suttle Project. Concert Includes video presenta- Day Block Party A celebration of The tenor will perform Mozart, n Thursday October 11, 2 pm: tion and reception. $20. St. John’s in the National Coming Out Day, Ally Week Brahms, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, and Roland Libeled Lady A 1936 screwball comedy Village, 220 West 11th Street. and LGBTQ history, with tips on safety Hayes. Tickets $10-$20; go to stjvny. starring Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spen- n Saturday October 27, 7:30 pm: given by NYPD and NYFD. There will be org to purchase.St. John’s in the Village, cer Tracy and Jean Harlow, at Hudson Park Amber Plus: I Soprano Amber Evans live comedy, music, and drag. West 13th 220 West 11th Street. Library, 66 Leroy Street. Free. n Friday October 12, 7:30 pm: A Date teams up with different instrumentalist Street between Seventh and Greenwich n Thursday October 18, 2 pm: Run with Mozart in a mini-series within our concert series. Avenues. Soprano Katrin Bulke Silent, Run Deep Clark Gable and n Sunday October 28, 10 am-3 performs famous opera scenes accompanied Admission $20, $10 for students, free. Burt Lancaster butt heads about sinking a pm: Children’s Halloween Festival by pianist Juan Lazero, with Darrell Lauer to seniors and children. St. John’s in the Japanese ship in this film at Hudson Park Kids arrive wearing amazingly creative (tenor) and Keith Milkie (baritone). Wine Village, 220 West 11th Street. Library, 66 Leroy Street. Free. n Sunday October 28, 11 am: costumes for a a parade starting at 10 reception follows. $20. St. John’s in the n October 19-25: The Lost Music at the Eucharist am.Bleecker Playground, Bleecker and Village, 220 West 11th Street.Tickets $20, Piano works by Village A film about the changes to our Bank Streets. $10 for seniors and students. Beethoven and Chopin, and a eucharist ad- historic neighborhood will be premiering n Saturday October 13, 7 pm: dress. Eucharists and lunch are free. Book at Cinema Village. Each screening will Reckless Daughter in Word and for the concerts through stjvny.org.St. John’s DOGGIE DIVAS be accompanied by panelists well known Song Book launch and author signing in the Village, 220 West 11th Street. Tickets Dogs get to celebrate Halloween too! as neighborhood advocates, For screen- of the paperback edition of David Yaffe’s $20, $10 for seniors and students. Dress up your dog for the Halloween ing times and a schedule of panelists, go Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Dog Costume Party at Washington to thelostvillagefilm.com. Tickets $12; Mitchell featuring a concert performance THEATER Square Park on October 28. to purchase, go to cinemavillage.com. of Mitchell’s music by Hannah Reimann. n October 6, 7 pm: The Laramie Proj- Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street. $25. St. John’s in the Village, 220 West ect On the 20th anniversary of the abduc- n Saturday October 20, 2 pm: Won’t 11th Street. tion and murder of Matthew Shepard, You Be My Neighbor? A documentary n October 14, 11 am: Music at the Theatre at St. John’s will present a staged about Mr. Rogers at Hudson Park Library, Eucharist—Steal Away African- reading of this play by Moises Kaufman. 66 Leroy Street. Free. American Spirituals, and a eucharist St. John’s, 81 Christopher Street. Free. n Thursday October 25, 2 pm: Aveng- address exploring the spiritual, historical, n October 17-28: H.P Lovecraft ers: Infinity War A 2018 superhero film and cultural context of the music. Eu- Festival—Arkham A performance by starring Robert Downey, Jr. at Hudson charists and lunch are free. Book for the the award-winning Radiotheatre at St. Park Library, 66 Leroy Street. Free. concerts through stjvny.org. St. John’s in Johns Lutheran Church, 81 Christopher n Saturday October 27, 2 pm: A the Village, 220 West 11th Street. Street. A tour of the Arkham Asylum and Quiet Place A 2018 American horror n Monday October 15, 7:30 pm: its inmates. Tickets $24, senior discount thriller at Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Chant Workshop Learn to sing Gre- available. For a full schedule of perfor- www.westviewnews.org October 2018 WestView News 31 mances, go to radiociyznyc.com. n Friday October 5, 1 pm: Introduc- n Through October 27: Christopher day Eucharist. St. John’s in The Village, n Tuesday October 9, 6:30 pm: Draw- tion to MS Excel 2010 A computer Myers Applique tapestries, delicate em- 224 Waverly Place. ing the Village Subways A book and art class at Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy broideries, and a series of model boats drawn n Health and Wellness First and talk about the book One Track Mind, beau- Street. Free. from stories of refugee youth, are featured at Third Wednesdays of Every Month, tifully illustrated with pen-and-ink draw- n Saturdays October 6, 20, 27, No- Fort Gansevoort, 5 Ninth Avenue. 5:30-7:30 pm: Northwell Health Care- ings detailing the typography, terra-cotta vember 3 and 10, 3 pm: Democracy n Through December 8: NeoReal- givers Support Group 200 West 13th mosaics, faiences, and tile patterns adorning and Voting Rights in the United States: ismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932– Street. Free. our subway stations. The New School’s Au- A Contested History A five session 1960 Photography portraying life in n Literature Second Wednesday of ditorium, Room A106, Alvin Johnson/J.M. course on the history of democratic partici- Italy before, during, and after World War Every Month: Marcel Proust’s 147th Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. pation in the United States, with an empha- II, at Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Birthday Lectures, book talks, concerts, sis on disparities in access to the ballot, racial Square East. Suggested admission $5. films and readings, all about Proust at Jeffer- LITERATURE discrimination, and violence. Required reg- son Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. n Saturday October 13, 10:30 am: istration begins September 22.Register on- ONGOING EVENTS n Arts First Wednesday of Ev- Nutshell Ian McEwan’s book will be dis- line, by phone (212) 243-4334, or in person OF NOTE ery Month: Bailout Theater Free cussed at Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy at the second floor circulation desk. Jefferson n Kids Tuesdays at 11:15 am: Baby potluck-style meal served at 7:15pm, Street. Free. Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. Storytime Books, songs, rhymes, and followed by a free music, dance, or spo- n Saturday October 13, 1 pm: n Thursdays October 18, 25, No- playtime for children 0-18 months. Jeffer- ken word performance on the Meeting A Thought for Bleak Times A lecture vember 1, 8 and 15, The Birth of the son Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Room or in The Lofat Judson Memorial on Albert Camus’ key notations at Hudson Tyrant What leads a society to embrace n Discussion Every other Tuesday, 6 Church, 55 Washington Square South. Park Library, 66 Leroy Street. Free. a tyrannical leader and how citizens pm: Current Events Café n Learning Second Thursday of n Tuesday October 16, 6 pm: Writing can resist totalitarian actions. Required Participants vote on the news topics to be Every Month 7 pm: New York Ama- a Culture Three books about different registration begins October 11. Regis- discussed, and present their own views as teur Computer Club (NYACC) meets cultures will be discussed: Twilight Express ter online, by phone (212) 243-4334, or well as listen to others’. Refreshments will at NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly by Faith L. Justice, On the Way to Red in person at the second floor circulation be served. Jefferson Market Library, 425 Place. Please see NYACC.ORG for Square by Julieta Rodrigues, and The Scribe desk. Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Sixth Avenue. Free. details. Free. of Siena by Melodie Winawer. Jefferson Avenue. Free. n Nature Tuesdays through n Learning Thursdays, 2:30 pm Tech Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. n Friday October 19, 1 pm: How to October, Dusk to 9:30 pm: Stargazing Support A workshop where partici- n Wednesday October 17, 6 pm: How Secure Your Privacy While Using the Peer through high-powered telescopes pro- pants discuss issues, share tips, troubleshoot to Build a Great Mystery Novel The Internet A computer class at Hudson vided by Amateur Astronomers Association problems, and learn about how the internet basics for beginners, a refresher course for Park Library, 66 Leroy Street. Free. of New York to see rare celestial sights. On works. All experience levels are welcome. the pros. Authors will speak about three n Friday October 26, 1 pm: Pivot the High Line at West 12th Street. n Fitness Thursdays at 3:30 pm: major aspects of writing mysteries. Jefferson Tables An Excel Genius computer Yoga St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. class at Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street., First come, first served.Free . n Thursday October 25, 4:30 pm: The Street. Free. n Kids Thursday, 4 pm: Toddler Sto- Group Mary McCarthy’s book will be rytime Interactive stories, action songs, discussed at Jefferson Market Library, 425 SENIORS n Thursday October 4, 2-3 pm: finger plays and more at Hudson Park Sixth Avenue. Free. #RENTFREEZENYC An event at Library, 66 Leroy Street. n VILLAGE HISTORY Greenwich House Senior Center on the Games Thursdays, 5 pm: Jigsaw n Monday October 22, 2 pm: Explore Square. For seniors over 62 years old who Puzzle Night Hudson Park Library, 66 Local Literary Landmarks A walking have a housing income of $50,000 or less, Leroy Street. n tour starting at Hudson Park Library, 66 live in a rent regulated apartment, and Games Thursdays at 5 pm: Chess Leroy Street. Free. spend more than 1/3 of their income on and Games Chess, Checkers, Battleship n Tuesday October 23, 6:30 pm: Caf- rent—help in learning how to freeze their and other classic board and strategy games. fé Cino – Off-Off Broadway Celebrate rent. Documentation required; for further Beginners welcome. Hudson Park Library, and learn about this pre-Stonewall café details, call 212-777-3555 ext. 106. 66 Leroy Street. People can bring their theater, the first important venue to regu- own games or use what’s available at the larly stage Off-Off-Broadway productions, COMMUNITY MEETING library. Chess lessons for new learners also and was critical in the development of gay n Wednesday , October 24, 7:30 pm: available. Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy theater. Judson Memorial Church. Enter 6th Precinct Community Council Street. Free. at 239 Thompson Street. Meeting A dialogue between the 6th n Learning Fridays in September at n Wednesday October 24, 6 pm: Precinct and the community discussing is- 10 am: We Speak New York A half TAPESTRIES OF LIFE Such Interesting People Live on sues facing the neighborhood. Our Lady of hour TV show created to help people prac- Christopher Myers’ tapestries and Christopher Street An exploration Pompeii, Father Demo Hall, Bleecker and tice English. Each story is about everyday embroideries are in a show at Fort of the downtown underground. Kem- Carmine Streets. All are welcome. situations. Intermediate Level English for Gansevoort through October 27. brew McLeod will read a short excerpt Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Hud- MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, Above, General, a work of appliquéd from his new book The Downtown Pop son Park Library, 66 Hudson Street. Free. EXHIBITS fabric. Image provided by the artist Underground: New York City and the n Kids Fridays at 3:30 pm: Board n and Fort Gansvoort. Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY October 5-27: Body:Unseen/Re- Games For ages 4 and up at Jefferson claimed Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock An exhibit of art all along 14th Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. ’n’ Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolution- Street, coinciding with a group exhibit, n Nature Tuesdays and Thursdays, n Swap Book and Jigsaw Puzzle ized Culture. Jefferson Market Library, Art in Odd Places at Westbeth Gallery, 55 Through November, 2-5 pm: Project Swap Saturdays at 11 am, Hudson Park Bethune Street. 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. Wetlab Educational programs at The River Library, 66 Leroy Street. n Through October 7: Paper Trail Project, Pier 40, Houston and West Street. LEARNING Works on paper at Allouche Gallery, 82 n Crafts Wednesdays, 12 pm: Knit- •••••••••••••••• n Thursdays October 4, 11, 18, 25 Gansevoort Street. ting Circle All created items will benefit Please contact n and November 1, 6 pm: Ruling Our- Through October 17: Transcen- a local charity—some experience necessary. Stephanie Phelan at selves: The Constitution of the United dence Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s cut Hudson Park Library. 66 Leroy Street. [email protected] if you States A five-session course focusing on paper/silkscreen works are on exhibit at Ivy n Kids Wednesdays at 4 pm: St. have any new events or the purpose of the Constitution and how it Brown Gallery, 675 Hudson Street. John’s Choristers Free Musical Edu- protects our nation. Required registration n Through October 28: Millennium cation Training in music fundamentals have further information on begins September 20. Register online, by Mambo A solo exhibit of Cristina and vocal technique for children 8 and something I’ve listed here or on phone (212) 243-4334, or in person at the Tufiño’s ceramic sculptures at The Jane up. The program is open to kids from westvillageword.com. second floor circulation desk. Jefferson Mar- Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pot- all over the city. As part of the program, •••••••••••• ket Library, 425 Sixth Avenue. Free. tery, 16 Jones Street. they get to sing once a month at a Sun- •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Modernism lives in Tribeca.

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