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The Voice of the West Village WestView News VOLUME 15, NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 2019 $1.00 Enraged Stalker AIDS Prophylactic Touted as Cure By George Capsis intense assessment against the marketing Makes the News of the most popular drug to protect people One of the newest members of the West- from AIDS called Truvada—marketing he By George Capsis View family is Kambiz Shekdar whose busi- believes is being used to bypass the doctor's Late in the evening of Wednesday, August ness card offers he is a Ph.D. and as such office and instill a delusional sense of secu- 14, we received an email from a 53-year-old worked at the Rockefeller Institute on an rity. Shockingly these ads are produced by woman who had been punched in the face invention which then evolved into the cre- AIDS organizations which, according to by a bare-chested African American man, at ation of the Research Foundation to Cure Kambiz, are paid millions to offer them to approximately 8.40 p.m. while walking her AIDS of which Kambiz is the President. unsuspecting adolescents. dog on 14th Street, between 7th and 8th His foundation paid the sum of $1 for all of Kambiz is insisting on offering in his ar- Avenues. Her complaint was that the six of- the rights to the invention in order to devel- ticle a number of ads to illustrate how this ficers who responded to the 911 calls made op and share a not-for-profit cure for AIDS. drug is being touted as a cure-all for AIDS by witnesses to the attack were unsympa- Kambiz is handsome, compact and in- (just pop it in your mouth like candy). thetic and abrupt, refusing to take a report of tense and being born in Iran he speaks Kambiz sees his column this month as "the the incident or a description of the assailant with accented precision and early on made head of an octopus." Subsequent issues will from the several eyewitnesses to the attack, it very clear he wanted to write for West- tackle its tentacles. ASSAULT VICTIM BERNADETTE DONO. who advised the responding officers that the View and not just an article or two but a Photo courtesy of Bernadette Dono. continued on page 5 monthly column. He gradually shared an Please see page 3 for Kambiz' column. Last year, WestView News published sev- eral articles about caregiving and the concept Senior Shares for the Village of Senior Share housing. In the West Village we are also witnessing a housing crisis. Single By Hannah Reimann people, couples and families who have lived here for years are often forced out of their According to the Institute on Aging, the homes due to rent hikes, just like neighbor- number of seniors across the country will hood businesses that have closed. Matching grow by more than 40 million, doubling people of any age under 65 who need hous- between 2015 and 2050 and the population ing with seniors who need care could create older than 85 will come close to tripling. By win-win situations with proper screening. 2030, more than 28 states will witness a fifth More and more Village single seniors are of their populations being older than 65. trapped in rent-controlled apartments that The fastest growing age group of elders is they cannot afford to leave. They have no 85+. In 2010 the number had grown to 5.5 desire to move out even if they desperately million from 100,000 in 1900. By 2050, need care. They love the Village and can- the number of people age 85+ will reach 19 not imagine living anywhere else. There million, 5% of the total population. Of the are also wealthy and middle-income emp- older adults living outside nursing homes ty-nester elders who have larger places. In in 2010, nearly one-third lived alone. some cases, their adult children move back There are many more staggering statistics in to care for them. In others, their adult and all point to the same concern: As a so- children live far away and cannot become Schiller Institute NYC Chorus presents ciety we need to implement solutions before HANNAH REIMANN AND HER FATHER, DR. PETER REIMANN. A still photo from her docu - live-in caregivers for them. the conditions catch up with all of us and mentary film, My Father’s House, A Journey of Love and9/11 Memory MEMORIAL https://terranova.org/ CONCERTSuccessful home share programs like that cripple families financially. The workforce film-catalog/my-fathers-house-a-journey-of-love-and-memory/25 years. Photo courtesy of of The New York Foundation for Senior to help seniors needs to be refashioned. Hannah Reimann. Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, 4:00 - 6:00 PM continued on page 5 St. Veronica Creative Cultural Center 149 Christopher St., New York, NY Dangerous Ads Smalls Jazz Club 9/11 Memorial Facebook is placing After 25 years, a local jazz pharmaceutical ads targeting institution is not merely Concert vulnerable populations, raising surviving—it's thriving! Schiller Institute NYC Chorus important questions. at St. Veronica Cultural Center SEE PAGE 3 SEE PAGE 28 Sunday, September 8 at 4:00 pm Benjamin West, Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis 1768 “Even a song of lament on the lips of the beloved is glorious...” from Friedrich Schiller’s Nänie Tickets $20, $40, $100. Beethoven Sonata no. 17, ‘The Tempest’ Call 347-657-3704. Johannes Brahms Nänie Discounts for students, seniors, Franz Schubert Mass in G groups & early ticket pur- chases/ complimentary tickets J.S. Bach Jesu, meine Freude for 9/11 First Responders. selection of African-American Spirituals Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/911concert2019 · www.sinycchorus.com schillerchorusnyc @schillerchorusnyc @schillerchorus Schiller Institute NYC Chorus 2 WestView News September 2019 www.westviewnews.org WestView WestViews Published by WestView, Inc. by and for the residents of the West Village. Correspondence, Commentary, Corrections Publisher Praise for sevoort Peninsula, noted that several key thing I had read or heard about the war- Executive Editor issues are yet unresolved. Since it may be time history of the building now known as George Capsis WestView Contributors several more weeks before we hear of the Westbeth. Although I was intrigued, the Managing Editor Re: August WestView News: next stage of planning, I offer these friend- deadline loomed and the article I was writ- Art Director ing was already too long. I responded with Kim Plosia Keith Michael is always amazing and he ly suggestions for consideration. outdid even himself with the August ar- thanks and a suggestion that we collaborate Advertising Manager and Designer on a follow-up article, but when I phoned Stephanie Phelan ticle on the tern—the information, the • Resiliency, I believe, is still a huge con- photography, the prose! Also enjoyed new cern, since a “Sandy-type” flood surge him several months later his number was Traffic Manager no longer in service. Nevertheless, I did go Liza Whiting contributor Annunziata Gianzaro on olive would ruin this beautiful park. Just as oil; hope for more from her. Keep it up all. the city has decided to build up the on Amazon, pored over the sources he rec- Photo Editor —Barbara Chacour playing fields at the East River Gre- ommended, and what I learned about those Darielle Smolian enway, why not slope up the edges to years continued to intrigue me. Photographers Shakespeare a height that gives the park a better This summer, alarmed over current Maggie Berkvist chance of surviving? events that seemed to be repeating the Chris Manis and Company • The case for the U-14 regulation field, history of 80 years ago, I pulled out my Associate Editors I love Caroline Benveniste’s column. This given in public testimony, was over- Bell Labs research file and started read- Gwen Hoffnagle, Justin Matthews, is a question for her. What ever happened whelmingly urgent. Depending on the ing. When I came upon Garrett’s e-mail Anne Olshansky, Carol Yost to the Shakespeare and Company book- placement of the U-14, perhaps the I got goosebumps. Clicking on my search Comptroller store that was supposed to open at 450 ‘pine grove’ could be elongated as a buf- engine, I learned that Charles Geoffrey Jolanta Meckauskaite Sixth Avenue, in the old Jefferson Market fer to hide the fencing from the street, Blythe Garrett had spent his last years in Architecture Editor space? the Promenade might be relocated to East Hampton, where he died in 2017. Brian Pape —Christine Tralongo the north side, and the “River Gym” I also discovered that he was not just “a Fashion Editor could be moved south adjacent to the member of the technical staff ” at Bell Karen Rempel Christine, sand area? Labs Murray Hill, as he had so modestly Thanks for writing to us. I was also won- • On the south side where the sandlot informed me, but director of the company Film, Media and Music Editor for twenty years. Jim Fouratt dering what had happened. I just called the is shown, some of stone rip-rap slopes Lexington Avenue branch of Shakespeare and could be replaced with broad steps, some It’s time to tell his story. Beginning Food Editor Company, and someone there told me that wood, some stone, like the landscape with the October issue, a series of articles David Porat things had been delayed, but that they expected consultant masterfully did at Chicago’s will commemorate the many extraordi- Regular Contributors to be opening in the old Jefferson Market space Navy Pier, to give a more direct connec- nary people who lived or worked in our J.

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