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, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Bette Midler, spanning the twenty years from the culture wars to the Ethan Hawke, 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 New York City”: 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 Greenwich Village 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.