Tyler Redmond, will have Annual Membership is still (only) $20; For informa- prepared the soil so all you tion, have to do is plant. Be sure Please call 212.366.1451. to bring your own garden- ing tools (a spoon and fork BBC NEWS AND VIEWS will work too!) and bring a November 2014 friend as well!

The next meeting is Wednesday, November 12. At 7:00 Big Apple Beautifiers PM, BBCer (and producer) Patsy Powers will screen Sunday, November 16, “Some Things Need To Be Said,” a documentary of 9AM-11:45AM. Meet at “Hakata Tonton” (61 Grove the late, great painter (and our neighbor!) Jack Levine. Street_-“Polish the Big Apple Create a Happy Heart” The New York Times, in its 2010 obituary of Levine, de- Purpose: Street cleanup to create a totally new, safe scribed him as follows: “Jack Levine [was] an unrepen- environment in your neighborhood. It’s pick up and tant and much-admired realist artist whose crowded sweep, and remove sticky gum from the ground. Cre- history paintings skewered plutocrats, crooked politi- ate a possibility of building a prototype of zero-gar- cians and human folly. . . .” Join us at 6:30PM for re- bage-emission society by practicing 4Rs (Refuse, Re- freshments, then stay to watch this terrific film. duce, Reuse, Recycle) Light lunch will be provided for the volunteers. 2014 BBC Holiday Party Change of date, please note: This year’s BBC Holi- NABE NOTES day Party (it’s never Washington Square Music Festival; free holiday con- too early to mark your cert, Friday, November 14, 8:00PM St. Joseph’s Church calendars to make sure in the Village, 371 Sixth Avenue at Washington Place. you’re in town for the The Festival Orchestra, Lutz Rath, conductor, featur- best holiday party for ing Erika Sato, violin, and David Oei, piano kids and grown-ups, not just in the Village, Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow St.) pres- but in all of New York ents Caffe Vivaldi at Renee Weiler Concert Series: It City!) is NOW set for gives Greenwich House Music School immense plea- Saturday, December sure to announce the new concert series “Caffe Vivaldi 6:00PM at Greenwich at the Renee Weiler,” and a newly formed partnership House Music School (46 between Caffe Vivaldi and Greenwich House Music Barrow St.) 6-9 pm. Mark your calendars! School. The intimate 100 seat Renee Weiler Concert Hall is located on the 2nd floor of our school, at 46 Bar- BBC Fall Planting row Street. Our fall planting is Saturday, November 15. Meet at Over the last twenty years, Caffe Vivaldi has been 10:00 AM on Commerce St., at the driveway to the a cultural institution for New Yorkers and creative peo- 81 Bedford St. garage. We have lots of bulbs—yellow ple from all over the world. Founded by Ishrat Ansari, daffodils and colored tulips—to plant. Our gardener, Vivaldi features live music seven days a week and has — Page 2 — played host to talent across the art world, including new book “Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger”, Andy Warhol, , , Bette Midler, spanning the twenty years from the culture wars to the , Marcus Mumford, John Cusack, and war on terror. She will focus in particular on the impor- Joseph Brodsky. tance of neighborhood to that pioneering group born The partnership between GHMS and Caffe Viv- in 1992 from the queer arts and activist scene of the aldi began in response to the venue’s growing need East Village. for a bigger space than the current 50 seat restaurant. “Point of View ”: A book talk with By partnering with Greenwich House Music School, Janko Puls, Monday, November 17, 6:30PM - 8:00 Ansari will be able to book artists with a larger fan PM. Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, near West 12th base, and satisfy many more music lovers, while still Street, Free; reservations required. Collected in the new retaining the original spirit of the Caffe. “In Greenwich book “Point of View New York City”, these images House Music School, Caffe Vivaldi has found a worthy form the map of “The City” that photographer Puhls partner in keeping live performances alive in the West has created from his explorations. From this he offers Village,” Ansari said. an illustrated lecture that will describe his creative pro- Hillary Gardner and Joe Alterman Trio, Thurs- cess and invite the audience to join in the riddle game day November 13, 8:00PM - 11:00PM. Tickets: Regular, he has created through his photography. $15, Front Row, $20 Karavika & Neel Murgai Ensemble, Friday Gotham Center for New York City History: All November 21, 7:00PM - 11:00 PM. Tickets: Regular, events are free and open to the public. Seating, $15, Front Row, $20. For more information, please however, is “first come, first served.”All events go to our website, www. greenwichhouse.org, or call take place at The Graduate Center, City Univer- 212.242.4700. sity of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St. For more information, call 212-817-8471. The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St.) presents “Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daugh- ME, MY MOUTH & I, written and performed by Joy ter to Hollywood Legend,” Thursday, November 6, Behar, Novem- 2014, 6:30PM - 8:00PM. Skylight Room. Anna May ber 6-December Wong remains the ultimate Asian-American film star, 21. As a beloved having appeared in over fifty films with such legends figure on stage as Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Joan Crawford, Marlene and screen, Behar Dietrich, and many others. Despite being forced to takes her audi- play degrading roles, Wong’s global fame crystallized ences on a journey the image of the Asian woman in the first half of the in this exciting twentieth century. Join Graham Russell Gao Hodges show—from her for a brief introduction to her life, focusing on her stage rollicking child- and vaudeville career, and her innumerable friend- hood in Brooklyn ships among New York’s intellectual and artistic com- to center stage as munities. one of America’s “ A Vast and Fiendish Plot” : The Confederate Attack premier talk show on New York City, Wednesday, November 19, 2014, hosts and comedi- 6:30PM - 8:00PM, Martin E. Segal Theater. One hun- ans. Tickets now dred and fifty years ago, Manhattan was almost wiped on sale: Online at from the map in what could have been the worst ter- cherrylanetheatre. rorist attack in world history when eight Confeder- org. Or call OVATIONTIX: 212-352-3101. (Group tick- ate officers failed miserably to burn down the city on ets by phone only.) November 25, 1864. Had they scouted better targets, or made better use of the chemical weapons they car- The Society for Historic Preser- ried, firefighters would have been overwhelmed and vation (GVSHP) announces its November 2014 pro- hundreds of thousands would have burned to death. grams: “Greenwich Village in the 1960s:Eating Fire, a Come hear the true story of how New York ignored book talk wth Kelly Cogswell, Wednesday, November clear warnings from the federal government about the 12, 6:30:PM - 8:00 PM. Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy impending attack, and how local, state, and national Street (Between Hudson Street and Seventh Avenue politicians may have aided the Confederates in the at- South), Free; reservations required. A twenty year tack. resident of 1st Street, Kelly Cogswell will present her — Page 3 — same luck in selling the property—Sutherland un- Neighborhood Notes & Notables loaded it in less than 24 hours (there’s a pun to be made here)—and the home that was priced at $22 million has reappeared for $2 million less.

The (fifth floor walkup) loft at 46 Carmine Street where Jackson Pollock resided in the 1940s has found a buy- The newest art piece to emerge from The Water er; its celebrity past helped Million Dollar Listing star Tank Project, a public art initiative that celebrates Luis Ortiz sell it for more than the asking price to “a artists while calling attention to the global water young Russian woman with a passion for painting,” crisis, has arrived on the roof of TF Cornerstone’s according to the Daily News. The apartment went for 95 Horatio Street. “Cannonball” by Estonian artist $1.46 million, as a nod to 46 being Pollock’s favorite Anton Vill is one of 100 artworks being mounted number. A Google search for “Jackson Pollock 46 lucky onto rooftop water tanks throughout the city. number” turned up a bunch of results about this apart- ment sale and not much else, so... guess we’re just go- Owning a West Village townhouse seems great ing to have to take the broker’s word for it. “Jackson Pollock would be so excited to get this [specific] num- but there are drawbacks. Sometimes your West ber if he were around today,” Ortiz said. If you know Village townhouse is the townhouse that was anything about Jackson Pollock, it’s hard to imagine prominently featured in Sex and the City and Sarah that being true. He’d probably be excited about the Jessica Parker keeps showing up and taking pic- one and a half million dollars, though. from Curbed. tures of herself playing with shoes on your stoop. The owners of 66 Perry Street, which was used in the show and in the movie have grown so tired of tourists and Sex and the City fans that they in- stalled a metal chain across their steps along with a “no trespassing” sign. That didn’t stop Parker who staged a photo shoot on the steps earlier this month to promote her shoe line. “I heard about the shoot. They didn’t get the permission from the owner,” Gerry Banu, president of the Perry Street block association told the Post. “The situation with ‘SATC’ visitors is still very intense.”

Murray’s Cheese Bar will host a series of special dinners and brunches with visiting cheesemon- gers starting November 10. The first is a meal with The stunning West Village townhouse that Kief- Jasper Hill Farm, featuring five cheese-focused er Sutherland flipped for a $9.3 million profit courses and beer pairings. Tickets are $90. in 2012 is on the market. The Greenwich Street townhouse’s current owners aren’t having the — Page 4 — to intervene. The letter stated that Greenwich House was willing to address concerns that the church may Resources & Information have, including a rent hike, in order to renew the lease. “However,” the letter states, “it is our understand- According to the Villager, local senior are panicking ing that Father Walter has instructed the senior cen- amid rumors that Our Lady of Pompeii Church will ter to begin looking immediately for alternative space, not renew the lease of Greenwich House’s Senior Cen- which suggests he doubts the senior center will be al- ter. Located in the basement of the church on 25 Car- lowed to remain. mine St., the center has been a fixture in the Village for “We have heard from many constituents who rely decades. It provides 1,400 meals a week and a whole upon the center and are confused and upset that the host of activities and day trips for the elderly. church would suggest evicting such a treasured and The New York Post reported that the church’s Fa- longstanding community institution,” the letter to ther Walter Tonelotto, who is realatively new to the Dolan continues. “We respectfully urge you to work Village is behind the decision not to renew the lease: he with Father Walter to ensure that the senior center op- wants to rent out the basement to film crews instead. erated by Greenwich House remains at Our Lady of State Senator Brad Hoylman said he spoke to Tonelot- Pompeii Church and that the specter of eviction be re- to, and that the father told him he could see another moved entirely from these negotiations.” use for the space since it is not currently at maximum usage. Hoylman said, “I don’t think the senior center The letter is co-signed by Congressmember Jerr- is the type of facility that lends itself to a cost-benefit old Nadler, Borough President Gale Brewer, state analysis.” Senator Dan Squadron, Assemblymember Deborah In an effort to salvage the center’s current space, Glick, and City Councilmembers Corey Johnson and Hoylman has spearheaded a joint letter co-signed by a Margaret Chin. number of elected officials imploring Cardinal Dolan

It was still daylight when the show was over. 41111111111115 There were the wide open spaces of Central Park with Old News trees in the distance where redskind might be lurking. 41111111111115 Vincent and Joey had no pony, but they had imagina- Vincent and Joey on Trail of Wily Redskins tion, so they started in search of the Indians anyway. Have a Wonderful Time but Get Lost in Park With infinte craft they reached Mc Governs Pass, where once the British bivouacked for the night, with an Indian seeing them. There, flat on their stomachs, with ears ocasionally pressed tot he grond to detect the footsteps of lurking foes, they squirmed forward. Then it got dark and Vincent could not find Joey. Regardless of marauding redskins who might in the fastness of the forest grab a little boy and scalp him, Vincent searched everywhere for his little brother. He was still looking for him when he wandered into Fifth Avenue at 63rd Street, where he was found by Miss Louise Pick of 205 East 69th Street, who took hi to the East 67th Street Polive Statiuon. Someone called Vin- cent’s father on the telephone while the boy was telling his adventure and of how, maybe, an Inidan had for Joey. Before the tale was finished his father John, his mother, Rose, and Joey appeared. “I was looking all over for you.” said Vincent, Vicent Albanese, 8 years old, of 16 Barrow Street, went “and a lady brought me here.” with his brother , Joey, 7, to Central Park yesterday to “I was looking all over for you,” answered Joey, see Tom Mix, the wild rider of Hollywood, and Tony, “and a lady took me home.” his wonder pony, who were there in real chaps and horsehide to show little New York boys just how life is from The New York Times, April 7, 1925 lived in the wide open spaces of movieland.