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Cooper Sq. at ‘tipping point’ ‘It’ll never happen
again,’ bar owner
as 1825 building faces demo tells protesters
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Preservation advocates gathered
in front of 35 Cooper Square on
Friday afternoon demanding that the
Landmarks Preservation Commission
protect the early-19th-century, Federal-
style building by giving it landmark
designation.
L.P.C., however, has said the build-
ing has been too altered by the addition
of a brownstone coating to its facade
to qualify as architecturally eligible for
historic designation.
For the past decade, the building
was the location of Cooper 35 Asian
Pub — a bar popular with New York
University and Cooper Union students.
Last November, 35 Cooper Square and
its adjoining space at the corner of E.
Sixth St. were purchased for $8.5 mil-
lion by Bhatia Development, an orga-
nization that intends to demolish the
building. Indeed, the Asian Pub served
its last drink on Saturday night Jan. 22
and closed for good.
Last Friday’s rally, led by David
Mulkins, chairperson of the Bowery
Alliance of Neighbors, or BAN, included
Assemblymember Deborah Glick and
state Senator Tom Duane, as well as pres-
ervation leaders Simeon Bankoff, execu-
tive director of the Historic Districts
Council, and Andrew Berman, execu-
tive director of the Greenwich Village
Society for Historic Preservation.
“This is one of the most signifi-
cant buildings on this street,” said
Mulkins. “If we lose this building,
Cooper Square loses a much earlier
sense of its history,” he added. Mulkins
referred to the recently built 20-story
Cooper Square Hotel across E. Sixth
St. from the site, saying, “If we have
this kind of out-of-scale, out-of-context
development, we will destroy the sense
of place that we get in these historic
neighborhoods.” He noted that the
Bowery was one of the world’s most
renowned neighborhoods.
“The Bowery that has been known
over the centuries is vanishing before our
eyes,” Bankoff said. “At this point we
have to say, Stop.
“The Landmarks Preservation
Commission said this building can-
clean,
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East and West Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Noho, Little Italy and Chinatown
BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL
Members of a group
accusing the Continental
bar of a racist door policy
gathered outside the Third
Ave. watering hole again
last Saturday night. Despite
bitter-cold weather, how-
ever, there were signs of a
thaw in relations between
the ANSWER (Act Now to
Stop War and End Racism)
Coalition, the protest’s orga-
nizer, and the bar’s owner,
who goes by Trigger Smith,
U.F.T. prez, C.B. 1:
New projects must
factor in students
BY ALINE REYNOLDS
United Federation of
Teachers President Michael
Mulgrew is just as fed up
with the city’s Department
of Education as some
Downtown education activ-
ists are. School overcrowd-
ing, standardized testing and
Photo by J.B. Nicholas student teacher evaluations
Gal Friday helps Ray party were among the union presi-
dent’s main talking points at
a special forum Community
Gal Friday gave Ray (standing behind the counter) of Ray’s Candy Store Board 1 held last Wednesday
on Avenue A a special treat Tuesday night at his 78th birthday party. She evening at the Museum of
shimmied on his countertop, and stripped down to a fringed G-string and Jewish Heritage, in Battery
black pasties with tassels — which she twirled expertly. “Oh, beautiful!” Park City. D.O.E., Mulgrew
Ray said, then twirled her a delicious vanilla egg cream. Speaking of
hot, Ray’s latest offering — beignets — are selling like hotcakes, well,
mini-hotcakes. “I want to make funnel cake next,” he said.
not be designated because it has been East Village preservationist, carried a
altered,” he went on. “Of course it was poster reminding passersby that the
altered, it’s more than 100 years old.” poet Diane diPrima and the singer Liza
Demonstrators waved signs saying, Minnelli once lived in the building.
“Build Memories, Not Luxury Hotels,” Jim Power, 62, “The Mosaic Man,”
and displayed photos showing the who transformed lampposts all over the
neighborhood as it was at the turn of
the last century. Carolyn Ratcliffe, an Continued on page 4
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but is known to most as just
Trigger.
Trigger joined the dem-
onstrators on the sidewalk
for most of their 90-min-
ute protest. At first dancing
along to their chants, he
also spent a half-hour talk-
ing with a woman who said
she was previously denied
entry to the bar.
The protests grew from
an incident last June when
Continued on page 2
said, has created and perpet-
uated many of the problems
that are plaguing public
schools in Lower Manhattan
and around the city.
“We cannot allow this
really unscrupulous, disgust-
ing behavior to stop us from
being a part of the work that
might help us help children
in the long run,” Mulgrew
told the local parents and
activists at the forum.
Mulgrew became union
president in August 2009.
He previously taught English
Continued on page 10
EDITORIAL,
LETTERS
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Bar owner, protesters start dialogue on door policy
Continued from page 1
four young black women claim they were
denied access. On that summer night, one
of the women, Shaniqua Pippen, 25 from
Brooklyn, pressed one of the bar’s bouncers,
who was black, for an explanation.
“Do we need to be regulars or do we just
need to be white?” Pippen asked, claiming
the bouncer replied, “Your people don’t
know how to act.”
Posts on several Web sites have also com-
plained about blacks and others arbitrarily
being denied entry to the Continental. A
Facebook page, “Boycott Continental Bar in
NYC,” has gained almost a dozen members
in the past week alone. One hundred forty-
two members have so far joined that social
network site’s wall.
Revelers entering the bar Saturday night
did not appear to be dissuaded by the 20
demonstrators holding signs and chanting. A
small police presence observed events from
a distance.
Shortly after the protest began, Trigger
appeared wearing his trademark peaked
bamboo hat. He approached several of the
protesters, inviting them inside to talk.
“We’re not going to meet with him in his
bar,” said protest organizer Jinnette Caceres
of the ANSWER Coalition. “He wouldn’t
meet with us in our office because he wants
a sense of power and entitlement. He wants
to meet with us now because he’s feeling the
pressure.”
“Early on, I was willing to meet,” Trigger
told this newspaper. “People of all color are
welcome here, but there’s a vibe, a style and
dress that’s not welcome here.”
As Trigger continued imploring the pro-
testers to come in and talk, some cautiously
began to engage him in conversation.
“We have a dress code and a door policy,”
Trigger told one woman.
She, in turn, asked him to explain, “Who
do you turn away?”
“Jersey Shore types,” Trigger replied. Yet,
on the Continental’s Web site is a link offer-
ing directions to the bar; topping the list are
directions from the Holland and Lincoln
tunnels, both of which connect New Jersey
to Manhattan.
One young woman eventually engaged
Trigger in a serious and lengthy dialogue.
Ashley Diaz, 22 from Brooklyn, was one of
four friends who, with Pippen, tried to enter
the bar last June but claim they were denied
entry by the bouncers.
“We were four females — nothing over
the top — and we got refused,” Diaz said.
“If you come here any night of the week
and don’t see black and Asian women here,
I’d be shocked,” Trigger told Diaz. “The only
thing I can say is maybe someone was drunk.
Why would I turn away paying customers?”
Diaz assured Trigger that no one in her
group was drunk.
Photo by Jefferson Siegel
The Continental’s Trigger, left, talked with Ashley Diaz, 22, who says she was
denied entry to the bar last June.
“I’m going to talk to the bouncers. I’m a long time ago.”
sorry for that, I truly am,” he told Diaz. After an hour and a half in the cold and
As Caceres and Diaz continued to press snow, the gap between both sides appeared
Trigger on his alleged door policy, he again to have narrowed. Trigger watched the pro-
sought to defend his motives. test disperse.
“I’ve dated women of all colors,” he said. “Hopefully, we’ll meet and everything
“I’ve donated money to Obama’s campaign. I will defuse,” he offered.
had a party here celebrating Obama. ANSWER had already made a list of
“I’m sorry you didn’t get in,” Trigger demands, including requesting the bar hold
again told Diaz, “It’ll never happen again.” multicultural theme nights, offer diversity train-
“Your conversation makes a lot of sense,” ing to managers and staff, and post a statement
Diaz replied, “but this could have been done of nondiscrimination on the bar’s Web site.
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FROM THE VILLAGE TO CAIRO: As the world
anxiously watches the situation in Egypt unfold, in
Washington Square, there’s confidence that opposition
leader Mohamed ElBaradei will help play a positive
role in the outcome. ElBaradei taught as an adjunct law
professor at New York University School of Law from
1981 to 1987. He received his Ph.D. in international
law from N.Y.U. in 1974, going on to win the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2005. Washington Square News, N.Y.U.’s
undergraduate newspaper, quotes university president
John Sexton saying of ElBaradei, “We have great faith
in his character, intelligence, integrity and leader-
ship. We all fervently hope for a peaceful conclusion
to events now transpiring in Egypt, and we have little
doubt that Mohamed ElBaradei will be instrumental in
achieving such an outcome.” Sexton was dean of the law
school when ElBaradei was an adjunct. W.S.N. quotes
Richard Revesz, the law school’s current dean, saying of Photos by Milo Hess
ElBaradei, “We hope he will now be able to contribute to
On Saturday, about 500 Egyptian and Egyptian-American demonstrators rallied across from the United Nations,
peaceful democratization in Egypt.”
denouncing President Mubarak’s regime and calling for him to resign immediately. Some painted small Egyptian
flags or the word “Egypt” — in red, white and black — on their faces.
ALMOST A WITNESS TO HISTORY: Knowing that
West Village political and gay activist Allen Roskoff was To commemorate the anniversary, bookbook will be CORRECTION: Our article last week on the Feast of San
recently planning to visit Egypt, friends wondered how offering 20 percent off all store merchandise (includ- Gennaro indicated that one of the conditions the event’s orga-
he was faring there as the popular uprising against Hosni ing their well-known remainders) for the whole month nizers agreed to was to move the sound stage around to differ-
Mubarak broke out last week. It turns out, however, that of February. At 266 Bleecker St. between Sixth and ent spots during the 11-day street festival. In fact, according to
Roskoff won’t have any epic stories of being caught up in Seventh Aves., bookbook features general literature, art Community Board 2’s resolution, the organizers have agreed to
the dramatic events. “I couldn’t get into Egypt,” he told us in and drama books, New York books, cookbooks, poetry, rotate the sound stage’s location each year, so as not to annually
an e-mail. “We are in Eilat and have to return home without children’s books and an entire wall of bargain books. inconvenience the same residents with amplified sound.
Egypt.” Eilat, a port city and resort in southern Israel, is right
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neighborhood with tile mosaics, urged dem-
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dates back to 1825.
Duane, whose district includes the build-
ing, said, “There is so little left of our beloved
Village, of the history we’re proud of. To risk
losing a piece of that, even just one building,
is tragic.”
Last fall, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez
also sent a letter to Tierney urging landmark
protection for the building, located on a site
once owned by a member of the Stuyvesant
family.
The original address of 35 Cooper Square
was 391 Bowery, according to a research paper
that Sally Young, a BAN member, sent to L.P.C.
The original two-and-a-half-story building, with
a gambrel roof, twin dormers and large end
chimneys, had a ground-floor storefront with
a brick arch and decorative cast-iron pilasters
added around 1876. The crushed-brownstone
stucco covering the Flemish-bond brick facade
was likely added around the same time.
Owned by the Stuyvesant family, it was first
occupied by a John Snider. By 1867, Herbert
Marshall sold liquor out of the ground floor,
continuing until 1876. In 1900 the building
apparently operated as a hotel. In the second
half of the 20th century, a painter, J. Forrest
Vey, whose works are in the Whitney Museum
of American Art, lived in the building. In the
1960’s, tenants like diPrima and Minnelli began
renting upstairs rooms in the building. Poet
diPrima and her then husband, Alan Marlowe,
ran a few seasons of the New York Poets Theatre
from 35 Cooper Square. Claude Brown, author
of “Manchild in the Promised Land,” also lived
there. In 1970, Stanley Sobossek, a painter, ran
a bar on the ground floor.
In 1976, a woman named Hesae owned a
restaurant known by that name at 35 Cooper
Square until 1990. She returned around
2000 and ran Cooper 35 Asian Pub until last
Saturday.
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Accused gay basher says, ‘I’m bi’ City settles in ‘false’ porn busts
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE
A 45-year-old man charged with
attempted robbery and third-degree assault
as a hate crime in 2010 incidents in two
West Village gay bars said that while he
was admittedly involved in a bar fight, he
never used antigay or racial slurs.
“I just wanted to tell my side of the
story,” said Frederick Giunta in a phone
interview. “I think it’s only fair because I
am facing a lot of time in this case.”
Giunta, who said he is bisexual, arrived
in the West Village around 1 p.m. last
Oct. 11. He told police he was there to
see a friend. He then visited a series of
gay bars and drank at each one. By the
time he reached Julius’ on W. 10th St.
at about 5:40 p.m., he was “really, really
intoxicated,” Giunta said.
He allegedly fought with another patron
and an employee there after an argument.
During the incident, he is alleged to have
used antigay and racial slurs.
“[The bartender] then jumps over the
bar, grabs me,” Giunta said. “As they are
escorting me out to the door, I’m sure I
might have said something, but nothing
hateful at all. It’s blown out of propor-
tion... . I had no intent to do what they
are saying I was doing.”
Giunta acknowledged he was involved
in the fight, but called it a “bar scuffle.”
“There was one punch that was thrown
that I could admit to,” he said. “I never
used words of hate.”
Just prior to going to Julius’, Giunta
is alleged to have attempted to steal a
wallet from someone near Ty’s Bar on
Christopher St.
He denied doing that.
The third-degree assault as a hate
crime charge is significant in Giunta’s
case. If he is convicted, that E felony will
be sentenced as if it is a D felony, and his
possible maximum time in prison will go
from four years to seven years.
Giunta was already on parole on an
earlier larceny charge. In that case, he
was diverted to drug and alcohol treat-
ment instead of prison. Since he was
rearrested, he would likely have to serve
at least two years in prison on the larceny
charge.
In addition, he has served three short
prison terms for drug sales and another
larceny since 1991. None were violent
crimes.
Giunta could not make his $25,000
bail, so he has been held in the Manhattan
Detention Center since his Oct. 15 arrest.
He spoke to this reporter by phone after
his wife, Judy, approached Gay City News,
the East Villager’s sister paper, offering an
interview with him.
“A lot of these things are just fabricat-
ed,” Giunta said. “I was actually flirting
with the bartender... . I’m a very caring,
kind person.”
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE
New York City has settled lawsuits with
four men who sued in federal court after they
were arrested for prostitution by vice officers
in a Manhattan porn shop and a spa.
The city, however, will continue fighting
the federal case brought by Robert Pinter,
the gay man who blew the whistle on the
vice squad busts and the only man among all
those arrested to go public.
Three of the men were arrested in Unicorn
DVD, located at 27th St. and Eighth Ave. in
Chelsea, while the fourth, a straight man,
was arrested at a W. 34th St. spa after he
went there to apply for a driver’s job.
One of the men arrested in Unicorn DVD
received $25,001 in his settlement. The
other three received $40,001 each.
Their attorney, Michael Spiegel, got “rea-
sonable attorneys’ fees, expenses and costs,”
according to filings on pacer.gov, the federal
courts Web site.
All the arrests, which are seen as false
arrests in the gay community, were made in
2008 by Manhattan South Vice Enforcement
Squad officers.
Altogether, vice officers arrested 30 men
in six porn shops. Another 11 men and one
woman were busted for prostitution in two
spas. The same vice officers made most of
the arrests.
Five of the men, including Pinter, brought
four federal lawsuits. Another man sued in
state court.
Some of the men who were arrested
told Gay City News, the East Villager’s sis-
ter newspaper, they were approached by a
younger man who aggressively flirted with
them. It was only after they agreed to a
consensual sex act that the young man, who
turned out to be an undercover officer, said
he would pay for the sex. Some men said
they refused the money or, as in Pinter’s case,
said nothing and they were arrested.
The city’s Law Department and the Police
Department’s Legal Unit cited the prostitu-
tion arrests in separate nuisance abatement
lawsuits they brought against the porn shops
and spas.
Pinter declined to comment, as did
Spiegel.
In an e-mail, a Law Department spokes-
person wrote, “Since some elements of the
settlements of these cases remain unresolved,
we are unable to comment at this time.” The
Police Department did not respond to an
e-mail seeking comment.
The city has aggressively litigated Pinter’s
case from the start, but then the facts in his
case are different from the other cases. Pinter
initially pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
He later had that plea vacated and the charg-
es dismissed. The other men contested their
cases, and their charges were dismissed.
Pinter has been a vocal critic of the Police
Department’s handling of these arrests. He
has organized multiple protests and held
meetings with city officials.

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Urban Renewal Area at its Tues., Jan. 25, full
board meeting, Community Board 3 also voted
on the Astor Place/Cooper Square reconstruc-
tion design, as well as a plan to convert a lot
for use by the Guggenheim Museum.
C.B. 3 gave its approval to the proposed
reconstruction of Astor Place and Cooper
Square, on the condition that public seating in
new open plaza spaces to be created between
E. Seventh and E. Fifth Sts. on Cooper Square’s
west side be eliminated where it would be
accessible to the public 24 hours a day.
The board said seating in “Village
Square,” a new plaza to be created south
of Peter Cooper Park, should be locked or
removed at night, so as not to disturb seniors
in the nearby JASA/Green Residence on
Cooper Square’s east side.
“Village Square” is planned as part of
the larger reconstruction of Astor Place
and Cooper Square, to be done by the city’s
Department of Design and Construction,
with assistance from the Department of
Transportation and Parks Department.
The city’s plan calls for almost 8,000 square
feet of new planting area, which would include
64 new trees, in addition to the creation or
expansion of several plazas. “Village Plaza”
would be used primarily for daytime events
and provide opportunities for programming
by local artists. The plan was endorsed by
Community Board 2 the previous week.
Also approved at the C.B. 3 meeting was
the temporary use of an empty lot at 33 E.
First St. by the Guggenheim Museum for
various cultural programs. Work on the site
would begin in April and is expected to be
completed by August.
The project drew praise from Robert Graf,
president of the First St. Block Association,
who said the empty lot was a haven for
rodents after dark.
“It’s a rat warren and a plague to this block,”
he said. “We’re delighted the Guggenheim will
excavate the lot and leave a paved surface that
will be used for future cultural events.”
The Guggenheim project would operate
free of charge from early August 2011 until
November 2011, and will then be operated by
the next-door First Street Green Co-Op, which
will sponsor subsequent cultural events there.
Susan Stetzer, C.B. 3 district manag-
er, also praised the lot’s cleanup by the
Guggenheim.
“I’ve been working on the rat problem there
a long time,” she said. “After the Guggenheim
leaves, the lot will be rat-proofed.”
On another matter, Stetzer said there recently
had been an increase of fires in the East Village,
and she wanted more details about why.
“I’ve asked the Fire Department to give us
a list — what were the causes,” she said. “A lot
of these fires might have been preventable, and
I want to see if there’s been a common thread
so we can launch an educational program.”

Children’s Aid parents might try to buy building
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Community Board 2 has unanimously
called on the Children’s Aid Society to
condition the sale of its Greenwich Village
buildings so that any new owner would
preserve the society’s early-childhood and
community programs on Sullivan St. at least
until June 2012.
The Jan. 29 resolution, which closely
resembles a proposal by SAVE (Save a
Village Education), a group of parents
involved in the society’s preschool program,
also urges Children’s Aid to make a com-
mitment to keep current teachers and staff
in place on Sullivan St. until June 2012.
Saving the highly esteemed program is
especially urgent for parents of more than
400 children, ages 2 to 4, who attend the
society’s nursery classes in the Village —
the largest nursery school in Manhattan
— because school contracts and deposit
requirements must be made by Feb. 18.
Meanwhile, a Feb. 1 hearing on a law-
suit filed by the mother of a 2-year-old in
the program demanding that Children’s Aid
guarantee that the preschool would remain
open on Sullivan St. through June 2013 has
been canceled.
The hearing in the suit by Viviane
Bromberg, represented by her lawyer, Luke
McGrath, who is also her husband, was
canceled to give attorneys on both sides
more time to discuss a possible settlement.
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St. for good after the property is sold,”
said Keen Berger, chairperson of the C.B. 2
Social Services and Education Committee.
At a Jan. 18 committee meeting, a
Children’s Aid executive told parents and
community board members that she could
not speak about plans to sell the property
because of the pending lawsuit.
‘It would be like the
YMCA packing up and
leaving.’
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The society, which opened its Sullivan
St. center in 1892 and started its early-
childhood center there more than 20 years
ago, was founded more than 150 years ago
to serve the city’s poor children.
On Nov. 30, Richard Buery, Jr., C.A.S.
executive director, told parents the society
was considering selling its property at 219
Sullivan St. and at 175-177 Sullivan St. and
closing the programs by June 2012 because
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with the society mission to serve children
in poverty.
On Dec. 16, the C.A.S. board of trustees
confirmed its intention to sell the Village
property, known as the Philip Coltoff
Center. Although the society said it would
maintain its programs in the Village until
June 2012, it added that the programs
might move to “a comparable location” in
Manhattan if the Village center were sold
earlier than expected.
But Heather Campbell, a member of
SAVE with two children in the Coltoff
center, told the Jan. 18 committee meeting,
“We don’t know if they might move the
school to 34th St. and Fifth Ave.; it would
be a hardship for many parents who have
children in other Village schools. ‘A com-
parable location’ is a big caveat,” Campbell
said.
“It would be like the YMCA saying
it would be packing up and leaving the
neighborhood,” said Robert E. Lee, a SAVE
member and parent of a child at the
Sullivan St. center.
Campbell said SAVE is working to put
a bid together to buy the property from
Children’s Aid. But the group wants the
society to give it a preference — in case the
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asking the society to help finance commu-
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it down to make way for a condo,” said
Alexandra Van Schie, a member of the
early-childhood center’s parents com-
mittee.
Berger reminded the Jan. 18 meeting
that the Village, whose schools are severe-
ly overcrowded, needs more educational
opportunities for a booming population of
school-age children.
C.A.S. has 75 other centers in the five
boroughs, including one on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan.
“There’s not much poverty on the Upper
East Side,” said one neighbor who attended
the committee meeting. “I think the deci-
sion to sell the Sullivan St. property is
based on the fact that it has the highest real
estate value,” the neighbor said.
The society spokesperson said at the Jan.
18 committee meeting that Children’s Aid
had not yet secured a broker, or signed a
contract with a buyer.
The community board resolution con-
cludes with the recommendation that the
society find a buyer who would continue all
existing education and community-based pro-
grams. The resolution calls on the society’s
board of trustees to join with Community
Board 2 members, neighborhood leaders
and elected officials to “work to maintain
the educational services now provided by
Children’s Aid Society for current and future
children of our community.”
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U.F.T. prez, C.B. 1: Projects must factor in kids

Continued from page 1
for several years at a public high school in
Brooklyn and has a master’s degree in special
education from CUNY’s College of Staten
Island.
C.B. 1 Chairperson Julie Menin reiterated
her criticism of D.O.E. for failing to plan ahead
to avoid overcrowding in Lower Manhattan’s
K-to-12 schools.
“We’ve organized this town hall because of
the number of important issues that have arisen
in our district recently,” Menin said, citing the
rise in population and other factors that have
contributed to school overcrowding in the area.
Schools are bursting at the seams all around
the city, according to Mulgrew, who said he
hears “nothing but frustration and anger” from
the public school teachers he represents.
“Congratulations. You’re the epicenter of
overcrowding,” Mulgrew told the audience.
The problem, Mulgrew explained, lies
in the fact that the city lacks a systematic
urban planning process. New York doesn’t
require developers, for example, to outline
potential impacts their projects could have
on local neighborhoods, such as creating a
population boom.
C.B. 1 passed a resolution last March urg-
ing the city’s Charter Revision Commission to
enforce standards for developers seeking to build
in a community, such as taking into account the
effects a proposed development would have on
schools and other local infrastructure.
Instead, Menin said, new developments in
the area are routinely approved without atten-
tion to school capacity. The city, she said, has
“an attendant duty to provide the estimated
number of school seats” that will be needed as
a result of approving Downtown construction
projects.
Mulgrew said he would be pushing the City
Council to pass legislation to modify the plan-
ning process pertaining to new developments.
“We’re always looking for better ideas, to
figure out how to move education forward,” he
said. “We can no longer go to the D.O.E. for
that. That’s really sad.”
Mulgrew accused D.O.E. of misleading
the Downtown community by making false
promises about new classroom space that was
supposed to be reserved for neighborhood
children.
Lower Manhattan parents were dismayed
by D.O.E.’s recent decision to designate two
unused classroom floors at 26 Broadway for
an unscreened, nonselective Upper East Side
high school, rather than open up a second
Millennium High School there. The depart-
ment also allocated six vacant classrooms at the
Tweed Courthouse, on Chambers St., to a char-
ter school rather than to a district elementary
school the community said it badly needs.
Menin pointed out that, even with the new
schools that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s
Overcrowding Task Force helped found, the
Lower Manhattan area faces severe seat short-
ages in the coming years. The Tweed Courthouse
and 26 Broadway, she said, are education spaces
the community cannot afford to lose.
“It broke my heart that we lost the space at
26 Broadway,” said Erica Weldon, a Millennium
High School parent.
Menin told her and the other distraught par-
ents to rest assured that the community board
would not remain “silent” on D.O.E.’s recent
decisions.
Mulgrew said D.O.E. should focus on finding
district seats for all public school students before
worrying about screened versus unscreened
schools. The U.F.T. president took a more neutral
stance on charter schools. While the fundamen-
tal concept of charter schools is sound, he said,
many of them are not working, and some are
wrongly casting aside special-needs students who
underperform on standardized tests.
“You can’t just open charter schools and not
give them support and help in instruction,” said
Mulgrew.
Growing class sizes have become wide-
spread across the city, Mulgrew reported, and
the U.F.T. has taken legal action to try to miti-
gate the problem. The union sued D.O.E. early
last year for failing to allocate more than $760
million that the department secured from the
state since 2007 purportedly to reduce class
sizes. The case is currently pending in State
Supreme Court.
“The class size at every grade in every level
has increased dramatically since the money was
sent here,” Mulgrew said. “It’s inexcusable.”
Mulgrew also noted that larger classes are
making it more difficult for public school teach-
ers to do their jobs effectively. D.O.E. did away
with its Teaching and Learning Division, there-
by no longer offering teachers the structure and
support they need.
“Teaching and learning in the classroom is
the fundamental main piece we should all be
concentrating on,” said Mulgrew. “It saddens
me — it makes me feel the administration is
getting to the point where it’s pathetic.”
Paul Hovitz, chairperson of the C.B. 1
Youth and Education Committee, remarked
that teachers spend “inordinate” amounts of
time on test preparation.
“How can we re-create a well-balanced edu-
cation for our children?” he asked Mulgrew.
The solution, in part, Mulgrew said, is
to modify the city’s student progress report
system, which now hinges on English and
math test score results. Harvard University
recently audited the state’s system, he said,
and concluded that the progress reports are
useless.
Mulgrew worked with David Steiner, com-
missioner of the state Education Department,
to craft the state’s application for the federal
Race to the Top program, with the aim of using
the funds to focus on a more well-rounded cur-
riculum, rather than merely teach to standard-
ized tests.
Mulgrew said “real learning” doesn’t happen
when teachers simply try and drill students to
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DNA test for a mystery man

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Sex-assault attempt
Police are looking for a suspect wanted
for an attempted sexual assault on a
12-year-old girl in a stairwell of her
Hester St. home around 6 p.m. Mon., Jan.
24. The victim was walking to her apart-
ment when she heard someone banging on
the building’s outside door. She admitted
the suspect, described as a white male,
between ages 25 and 30, about 5 feet
9 inches tall and 175 pounds, wearing
a blue jacket, brown trousers and gray
hat, who followed her to the third-floor
stairwell where he attempted to sexually
molest her, police said. The girl fled and
was unhurt, police said.
A bit possessive
A man who made what was believed
to be an admiring “Damn” to a woman
walking past him on W. 14th St. at Sixth
Ave. at 9:37 p.m. Sat., Jan. 22, infuriated
her companion, who pulled a 12-inch knife
and slashed the victim on the left fore-
arm, police said. The victim was taken to
Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The
suspect, Craig Hutter, 37, was charged
with felony assault.
Joint was his downfall
A man smoking marijuana on the
southwest corner of MacDougal and W.
Fourth Sts. around 11:30 p.m. Thurs.,
Jan. 27, swallowed the joint when a police
officer approached him. Police found the
suspect had a Clonazepam pill — a potent
tranquilizer and secondary epilepsy treat-
ment — in his pocket, as well as a fake
Pennsylvania driver’s license. The suspect,
Stephen McCarron, 19, was charged with
Photo by Jefferson Siegel
James O’Donnell, dubbed the “International
Man of Mystery” by the tabloids, appeared
in Manhattan Supreme Court last Thurs.,
Jan. 27. O’Donnell was arrested early
last year on St. Mark’s Place when
police found a knife in his belt and a gun
with a silencer in his backpack. Police
subsequently found more weapons in a
storage locker. Prosecutors are unsure
if James O’Donnell is even the man’s
real name. O’Donnell was brought back
to court again last week for a judge to
rule on taking a DNA swab. DNA was
found on the weapons from the storage
Photo by Jefferson Siegel
locker, and prosecutors want to compare
The judge said the order would take
it to O’Donnell’s. Judge Bart Stone asked
O’Donnell’s attorney, Howard Simmons, effect in five days. With DNA identifica-
tion taking 30 days, the judge scheduled
if O’Donnell would provide a swab volun-
the next hearing on the matter for early
tarily or if the court would have to use a
March. O’Donnell remains in custody.
force order. Without waiting for his attor-
ney to reply, O’Donnell spoke out, with a
Jefferson Siegel
slight Irish accent, “Use a force order.”
possession of a forged instrument.
Fatal on L line
Stick to decaf Brendan Mahoney, 24, of Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, was killed around 5:30 a.m. Sun.,
Police arrested Palash D’Cruze, 37, Jan. 30, when an L train crushed him after
around 1:45 a.m. Sun., Jan. 23, inside Caffe he went onto the tracks to retrieve something
Reggio, 119 MacDougal St., and charged — keys, according to one report — that he
him with criminal mischief after he picked had dropped from the Halsey St. platform in
up a chair and smashed the establishment’s Brooklyn. Mahoney, a writer and reviewer
front plate-glass window. for Tiny Mix Tapes, a music Web site, had
been spending the hours prior to his death
at Mars Bar, at First St. at Second Ave.,
and left after 2 a.m., according to friends.
Fake credit cards He was formerly an administrative assis-
tant with the Reynolds Program in Social
Police arrested Marvins Pierre-Louis, Entrepreneurship at New York University.
20, around 5 p.m. Tues., Jan. 25, after he
tried to buy an iPad with a phony credit
card. The suspect was found to be in pos-
session of a total of four phony credit Schools-protest arrests
cards, police said.
Police arrested 24 demonstrators who
blocked Chambers St. in front of Department of
Education headquarters in the Tweed Courthouse
Car hits senior at 4:30 p.m. Mon., Jan. 31, during a protest
against the planned closing of 25 failing schools.
A northbound taxi made a right turn City Councilmembers Charles Barron and
from Pike St. onto East Broadway at 9:39 Jumaane Williams, both of Brooklyn, were
a.m. Fri., Jan. 28, and struck a woman, among those arrested and taken to the
84, as she was crossing from the southeast Seventh Precinct, where they were issued
corner to the north side of East Broadway. summonses and released. The arrests came
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital after an earlier rally at Tweed by hundreds

Officer comforted dying man

Monday, Police Officer Quathisha Epps, 37, arrived at Manhattan Supreme Court to
in critical condition. Police said both the
victim and the cab driver had a green light
at the time of the accident and there was no
of students from the schools targeted for
closing. Demonstrators carried signs saying,
“Fix schools, don’t close them.”
testify in a murder case in which she responded — both as a neighbor and an officer. criminality suspected.
One night two summers ago, she told the court, she heard gunfire outside her Eldridge
St. apartment. According to a New York Post article by Laura Italiano, Epps placed
the baby she was nursing in his crib, then told her three other kids to get into the
Student loses bag
bathtub. Then, she ran downstairs — barefoot and in her nightgown, carrying towels —
Eldridge St. murder trial
to give a last moment’s comfort to Vincent Cruz, 17, who had been shot through the A student at Metropolitan College, at 431
neck and would bleed to death in her arms. She said that, as she pressed the towels The trial of Ricardo Martinez, 25, for the Canal St. at Varick St., told police that she
to his wounds, “I told him, ‘I’m here with you. … You’re very loved. Just hold on for murder of Vincent Cruz on June 24, 2008, left her bag at her desk around 4 p.m. Mon.,
me.’ ” As she cradled him, Epps called 911, while stretching out her leg to hold her on Eldridge St. near Rivington St. began Jan. 24, when she went to the bathroom and
toe against a knife on the ground — a piece of evidence. The next day, according to Mon., Jan. 31. The victim, age 17, was shot returned a few minutes later to discover the
the Post, Epps realized she knew Cruz, who seven years earlier had tutored her son, in the head a block from 40 Rivington St., bag was gone, along with her Ecuadorian ID,
then 3, in preschool. “This is a case that never leaves me,” said Epps, a community where he lived. The shooting was over an 80 euros and $80 in U.S. currency.
affairs officer at East Harlem’s P.S.A. 5. Ricardo Martinez is accused of shooting Cruz argument about stolen property, according
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Photos by Clayton Patterson

The revolution will be televised

Three episodes of “Brick City,” the new
CLAYTON’S PAGE Sundance Channel show, screened at the
School of Visual Art’s E. 23rd St. theater on
Sunday. The documentary series chronicles current-day Newark and its daunting challenges.
Clockwise, from above, Marc Levin, “Brick City”’s director and producer, with Caroline
Kennedy; Newark Mayor Cory Booker, right, with Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy;
Deshaun “Jiwe” Morris, a Newark Bloods gang member, author and antiviolence advocate,
left, with Mark Benjamin, an executive producer of “Brick City.” Also attending was former
Newark Mayor James Sharpe, who was freed from jail last April after serving 18 months for
fraud involving the sale of city-owned property. Last May, in The Villager, documentarian
Clayton Patterson wrote about “Brick City” and the Newark Bloods’ and Crips’ foiled effort 6RFFHULQWKH
to have a unity basketball game. “This is one of the few TV shows that they could take and
it could be a movie,” Patterson said. The footage is real, not fictionalized, he assured. “If you 6SULQJ 6XPPHU
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14 Februar y 3 - 9, 2011
EDITORIAL
Fight of San Gennaro
Tempers have been flaring in Little Italy and Nolita
over the long-running Feast of San Gennaro. This
85-year-old street festival — one of the country’s most
well known — currently stretches along Mulberry St.
between Canal and Houston Sts.
At the neighborhood’s north end — in what not long
ago was redubbed Nolita — residents and new fashion
boutique owners have organized and are calling for the
festival to be cut off at Kenmare St., reducing it by about
half. They argue that the neighborhood’s population is no
longer heavily Italian, and that the festival has become
“generic,” and is an “11-day barricade,” preventing
people from getting to their stores.
What’s more, the annual September feast coincides
with Fashion Week and Fashion’s Night Out, boutique
owners add, further negatively impacting their busi-
nesses. Neighbors also complain of public drunkenness
associated with the festival.
In response, members of the festival’s nonprofit
board, Figli di San Gennaro — many of them proud, life-
long Little Italy residents — counter that the “newcom-
ers” have no right to say the festival should be cut back.
The organizers note the feast draws about 1 million
people a year, many of them tourists, which generates
millions of dollars for businesses, hotels and restaurants.
The religious-based festival also features two three-to-
four-hour street processions and a special Mass.
When the Feast of San Gennaro started back in 1926
it was a much humbler affair. It was a one-day, religious-
based event, centered on Mulberry St. between Grand and
Hester Sts., where Neapolitan immigrant families owning
coffeehouses brought tables out onto the sidewalk in honor
of their patron saint’s day. The feast has since burgeoned to
11 days and seven blocks, and is now run by Mort & Ray
Productions, one of the city’s major street-fair operators.
Trying to mediate the conflicting interests, Community
Board 2’s Street Activities & Film Permits Committee did
a good job of reaching some sort of compromise for this
year’s festival in September. Past attractions that drew the
most complaints won’t be included in this year’s festival,
notably, karaoke and “Dunk the Clown” — the latter featur-
ing a loudmouthed insult clown who would have made Don
Rickles blush. Rock and hip-hop music CD’s and mafia
T-shirts also won’t be sold. Clearly, the organizers have
shown they are willing to work with the community.
We did hear, though, that Figli di San Gennaro was
almost ready to give up the block between Prince and
Houston Sts. this year — so there may be room in the
future for negotiating cutting back the festival somewhat.
Two weeks ago, C.B. 2 voted on its advisory resolu-
tion giving conditional approval to a permit for the feast.
However, the community board strongly urged the city to
consider stopping the festival at Kenmare St., “so as not
to disturb the emerging business community in Nolita... .”
C.B. 2 also pointedly noted that Figli di San Gennaro and
the Mayor’s Street Activity Permit Office should “expect
that C.B. 2 will continue to negotiate further reductions of
[the feast’s] scale and duration for subsequent years.”
Merchants toward the festival’s north end do say that
the vendors booths outside their shops and eateries are
not of particularly high quality, so the argument can be
made that the feast is already overextended, and should
be cut back at its uptown end: Quality over quantity.
It sounds like this year’s festival will still run from
Canal St. to Houston St. (Figli di San Gennaro members
say they already have sanitation contracts in place for the
whole stretch.) But future years will likely see changes.
We’re confident that, with C.B. 2’s good help, the right
compromise will be reached.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Festival critics are snobs
To The Editor:
Re “Effort to shorten San Gennaro Fest falls short” (news
article, Jan. 27):
The San Gennaro Feast was forced to accept vendors
of other backgrounds than Italian and Italian foods and
merchandise by the city of New York. That decision was
out of our hands. As for public drunkenness, there is abso-
lutely no alcohol sold at any of the stands during the feast.
Restaurants with liquor permits are allowed to sell alcohol
within the confines of their stands, which they pay hand-
somely for. If any of these patrons happen to act stupidly and
raucously once they leave these establishments, how is San
Gennaro responsible for that?
I’m sure Nicolas Dutko from Tartinery has seen more
than a fair share of stupid behavior from drunken patrons
who got that way after drinking at his establishment. Is he
going to blame San Gennaro for that during May, June, July
and August when the bars and restaurants along Mulberry
St. are jampacked? For Mr. Dutko to say that “the people
are very rude that come” to the feast is showing his stupid-
ity and his biased attitude. How in the name of God can
anyone make a public statement like that? Who is he to
paint everyone who visits the feast with the same brush? Are
all those hundreds of thousands of people rude, yet all the
people patronizing his establishment perfectly mannerly and
respectful of others? Who is he kidding?
Many of us have dealt with snobs like this who think
they are better than the rest of us. That attitude alone speaks
volumes about how delusional they are regarding their own
importance. And by the way, why is he in business if not to
make money? Why is it O.K. for him but not for the vendors
of the San Gennaro Feast? As for the boutiques who blame
the feast for their lack of business and customers during San
Gennaro, how do they explain their empty stores throughout
the rest of the year? Why are their businesses empty for 351
days when there is no feast?
Julie Dickson from Fox & Boy hair salon speaks about the
feast and “the dangerous element it attracts.” Really, Julie, you’re
embarrassing yourself. San Gennaro is one of the most well-
known and beloved feasts that exists today. It is a secret to no
one that it takes over Mulberry St. for 11 days every September.
Rather than have these elitist snobs move in, then try to force us
to change for them, why can’t they be good neighbors and respect
an 85-year-old neighborhood tradition that they knew existed
before they ever moved their families and/or their businesses to
the area? I, for one, am a lifelong Little Italy resident.
One more thing I’m curious about: Are any of these bou-
tiques participating in the upcoming February Fashion Week
EVAN FORSCH
since there is no feast around to get in their way? Just asking.
Emily DePalo
DePalo is a board member, Figli di San Gennaro
The Feast of ‘San Generic’
To The Editor:
Re “Effort to shorten San Gennaro Fest falls short” (news
article, Jan. 27):
They say the feast is for everyone. That’s the problem. A
generic street fair should not get a permit for 11 days. If they
made it authentic and local, they might get more support. I
haven’t heard Italian spoken in Little Italy since I was a kid.
Davide Gentile
Church was a spiritual oasis
To The Editor:
Re “Lady of Vilna appeal goes to state’s highest court”
(news article, Jan. 27):
I am the vice chairperson of the Save Our Lady of Vilnius
Committee. I am a second-generation Lithuanian-American whose
grandparents were among Our Lady of Vilnius’s first parishioners.
It is the mission of the committee to revive the parish. It is our
hope that the litigation will lead to a dialogue that, unfortunately,
was not initiated by the archdiocese when discussions about clos-
ing the parish were begun with the Lithuanian clergy.
Back in 2006 when parishioners were first told about the
possibility of closing the church, The Villager published a
moving and accurate portrait of the parish, “Lady of Vilnius
and ‘Pretzels’ and ‘Provolone’ may lose home” (news article,
Aug. 23, 2006).
In their press releases, the Archdiocese of New York has
presented Our Lady of Vilnius as a Lithuanian cause. They
refer only to the Lithuanian parishioners, and vaguely direct
them to the archdioceses of Brooklyn and Newark to worship.
They fail to mention those who worshiped there, not because
they were Lithuanian, but because they found a community
that helped them feel closer to God, feel fortified in their daily
lives by His presence and by the support of each other.
The parish was a spiritual oasis and an anodyne to the
Catholics and local working-class residents that have not yet been
gentrified out of their lifelong homes or workplaces. Our Lady
Continued on page 23

An author comes clean about her mother’s hoarding
INTERVIEW
BY WICKHAM BOYLE
Jessie Sholl is a hyper-clean, nearly elfin, 41-year-old
woman who for nearly a decade has lived in the West Village
between great bookstores: Three Lives and Bonnie Slotnick
Cookbooks. I met her at a dinner party, also in the West
Village, and when I saw that her book was about to debut, I
asked if she would indulge me in an interview to discuss this
very brave memoir. She suggested Joe on Waverly.
So in the penultimate week of 2010, I peddled my trusty
1968 Raleigh up Sixth Ave. to hear how Ms. Sholl found the
courage and words to pen this beautiful memoir, billed as the
first by the child of a compulsive hoarder.
W.B.: This book is so kind and loving toward your
mother, yet I was in a rage at her by the time you and your
long-suffering husband were infected with scabies for the
second time. How did you find that enlightened approach?
J.S.: The biggest thing that helped me was that the more
research I did into the condition of hoarding, the more I
came to recognize it as a disease. When I saw it as an illness
I didn’t give her a free pass, but, because she has a mental
illness, it put her behavior into a different context.
Also, when I began to talk to her in depth about the
book — to which she gave her blessing — I began to see
the depth of her horrific upbringing. And of course my own
therapy helped.
I didn’t want to write a “bad mommy” or “Oh, poor me,”
self-pitying memoir. So deciding on this direction gave me
the push to regard the good things I got from her as well
as the fear, filth and shame. I am a minimalist about hav-
ing stuff. I consider myself a purger. I go overboard about
cleaning when people are coming over, but — unfortunately
— not always. I don’t want folks to think, “Oh, look at those
dirty glasses on the table, she is on the slide to become just
like her mother.”
You also describe in detail many things that happened in
your childhood. For me, as the adult child of an alcoholic
and a chronic suicide attempter, I know that denial is and
was my drug of choice. This means I have intense, but
spotty memories of childhood. I could not provide an arc
the way you do. Did you always have this clarity of memory
or did it come as you wrote?
I decided I wanted to write about this. I told my husband,
the wonderful writer David Farley, stories for years, and he
encouraged me to write them down. I talked with my agent
and I wrote a proposal and she was a huge help at putting
the tales in order. Everyone would be surprised at how many
memories emerge once you begin writing. It may not be
linear at first, but you can reorder and create a timeline after
the fact. Writing this was very important to me and it was
always my hope that it would be a way for others to unlock
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Yes, I have to say that many of my friends or colleagues
have said, “Oh, my Mom was a hoarder,” or an aunt was,
so I hope it is freeing in that sense to be able to talk about
it. No one is just a hoarder. This condition announces many
other problems. Hoarding is a kind of blindness. A “nor-
mal” person knows to call a repairperson if the refrigerator
breaks. But a hoarder has deep shame about the state of
their home, and thus doesn’t call, and this only exacerbates
the mess. Many hoarders live in great danger, amid health
challenges and the very real possibility that fires will start
and the firefighters will be unable to find their way through
the mess. There is also a version of hoarding that involves
adopting and often mistreating animals. People have homes
or apartments filled with filthy animals, who are in great
distress. My husband and I adopted a small dog that we
named Abraham Lincoln, and it felt good to save someone
from that life.
How did you come to this project, and are there any
things you wanted to write but discarded as too difficult
either for you or your family? You don’t have to disclose
what, but just if that was the case?
I started as a fiction writer and got my M.F.A. at The New
School, and I had been working on a novel for young adults.
I began writing health articles as a “day job” and this gave
me an entree to think about my own past and to research.
I had this “Ah ha” moment as I was doing research when I
saw that my mother’s hoarding was also an extreme type of
brain malfunction, and I started researching it. When I saw
that it was a disease and talked to my mother about the book
project, it freed me to be able to use any story, all the stories,
as a way to tell where I came from, but also to free others
who have held onto this dirty secret.
“Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her
Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding,” by Jessie Sholl, Gallery
Books. For more information, visit www.jessie-sholl.com .
During my formative years, my family ran a print shop in the
Far West Village, when operations like Superior Ink actually
manufactured ink on the premises and weren’t condomini-
ums. I saw firsthand how much work it takes to make a small
business successful and how few resources exist to assist
mom-and-pop operations. Unfortunately, this fact remains
as true today as it did then. The city invites small businesses
to open their doors but then does little to help them be suc-
cessful. It’s hard enough to make it in New York City as it
is; so imagine the effect when a 3,500-person operation, like
St. Vincent’s, suddenly shuts its doors. The wake of such a
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Edgar Tafel, 98; Worked with Wright
OBITUARY
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Edgar Tafel, who apprenticed with Frank
Lloyd Wright and designed St. John’s in
the Village Episcopal Church and First
Presbyterian Church Community House,
died Jan. 18 in his Greenwich Village home
at age 98.
Tafel was a resident of E. 11th St.
between Fifth Ave. and University Place,
where he worked and lived for more than 40
years. He was a member of the committee
for the 1970 redesign of Washington Square
Park, said Norman Rosenfeld, a friend and
neighbor who also served on the Washington
Square architectural committee with him.
Born March 12, 1912, to Russian immi-
grants, Edgar A. Tafel graduated from
Manhattan’s Walden School and attended New Edgar Tafel.
York University, but left at 20 to study archi-
tecture at Taliesin, Wright’s Wisconsin colony. Fifth Ave. He later designed St. John’s in the
As a Wright apprentice, he worked on Village, on Waverly Place at W. 11th St.
Fallingwater, the private house cantilevered Another project of his was the Protestant
over Bear Run Creek in Pennsylvania, and chapel, since demolished, at Kennedy
the Johnson Wax Building, since demolished, International Airport, and the fine-arts
in Racine, Wis., as well as Wingspread, building and a residential complex at State
home of Herbert F. Johnson, the company’s University of New York, Geneseo.
president, near Racine. Tafel authored “Apprentice to Genius:
Although a senior apprentice to Wright, Years With Frank Lloyd Wright,” published
Tafel resisted the master designer’s autocrat- in 1979, and also “About Wright: An Album
ic rule and left in 1941 to work in a Chicago of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank
architectural firm. During World War II he Lloyd Wright,” published in 1993.
served in Army photo intelligence in India. His first marriage ended in divorce and
Tafel returned to Manhattan after the war, his second wife died in 1951, according to
qualified as an architect and designed 80 Robert Silman, an architectural engineer
houses, 35 religious buildings and three col- and close friend of Tafel. A cousin, Joan
lege campuses, among many other projects. Scott, survives. A memorial will be held on
In 1960 he designed the First Presbyterian Feb. 17 at the Center for Architecture, 536
Community House, on W. 12th St. near LaGuardia Place.
Photo by Aline Reynolds
‘Blackout’ response to girl’s letter
Two weeks ago, Martha Eckl-Lindenberg, above left, a third-grader at P.S. 364 (The
Earth School), at Sixth St. and Avenue B, wrote and hand-delivered a letter to the office of
Cathie Black, the Department of Education’s new schools chancellor, inviting her to an anti-
charter school rally held last Thursday at City Hall. The letter read:
“New York City public school students, parents and teachers cordial-
ly invite you to hear our objections to the D.O.E.’s disastrous policies that are
destroying our schools. Come to hear our Real Reforms that can actually improve learning
in our schools!”
Black never wrote back to or contacted Eckl-Lindenberg or her school to inform them
that she was not going to attend.
 Februar y 3 - 9, 2011 17

EASTVILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Tennessee, TNC and a famous BOB
Theater thrives, thanks to the late Ellen Stewart
BY TRAV S.D.
I started out the new year with a veritable junket of
show going, most of which pleased my cantankerous taste
buds. The sole exception was “Gob Squad’s Kitchen” —
an empty interaction between a handful of hipster improv
comedians and the static mid-60s films by Andy Warhol’s
Factory. If there was an idea to be found in this tedious
exercise, I’ll eat my Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat. Other than
that, though, I pretty much hit the jackpot — catching
“Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell” at P.S. 122 (featur-
ing a surprise visit from David Strathairn); “Too Late!” in
the Under the Radar Festival; “Green Eyes,” an obscure,
late Tennessee Williams one-act presented in a midtown
hotel room; Theater for the New City’s “Age Out” (about
some unhappy waitstaff); and “The Continuing Story of
Carla Rhodes” — an autobiographical rock opera pre-
sented monthly at Arlene’s Grocery by a multitalented
ventriloquist. All recommended. Either someone has put
mood enhancers in my Yoo-hoo or I’m walking under a
lucky constellation.

The major news to report this month is the sad pass-

ing of Ellen Stewart, founder and artistic director of La
MaMa E.T.C. The theatre she founded turns 50 years
old this year, and the Off Off Broadway movement she
helped launch is stronger than ever. Indeed, most of the
showfolk who generally wind up in this column owe
something to her. She will be missed, but her legacy is
ubiquitous. Several shows happening at her theatre this
month strike me as particularly exciting. February 3-13,
award-winning puppeteer Theodora Skipitares presents
her own version of Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata,” mixed
with “actual present-day accounts of sex strikes.” Why,
it’s un-American! In addition to masks and body suits
inspired by ancient Roman circus comedians, the produc-
tion boasts the music of way out experimentalist Sxip
Shirey. Also of note is “Purge.” The American premiere
of a #1 best seller in Finland, it tells the story of a couple
of Estonian women forced to make choices as the country
makes the tough transition from totalitarian communism
to criminal capitalism. Finnish-Estonian playwright Sofi
Oksanen was “Estonia’s Person of the Year” in 2009 and is
hailed in her country as one of the most important voices
of her generation. The show promises to be an important
cultural event. It runs February 11-20. Also this month at
La MaMa, the movement ensemble Witness Relocation
presents the premiere of a new work featuring text by
playwright Chuck Mee. The content is unclear but the
personnel is impressive. The show runs from February 17
through 27. For info on these and all shows at La MaMa,
go to lamama.org.
Meanwhile, across the street at Horse Trade Theater
Group, it is time once again for that company’s annual
and (aptly named at the moment) Frigid New York
Festival (February 23–March 6). Smaller in scale than
most of the summer theatre festivals, Frigid New York
substitutes quantity for quality, priding itself on a
well-run machine featuring 30-odd shows at its three-
space the Kraine, the Red Room and Under St. Marks.
Standouts this year to these jaded old eyes include: “The
Bitter Poet: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Black Box
Performance Spaces” starring the hilarious leather-clad
Downtown performance veteran Kevin Draine; “My Pal
Izzy: The Early Life and Music of Irving Berlin”; “Hi,
How Can I Help You?” — which shows how a house of
Getting Ready to “Purge”: Jillian Lindig (top) and Larisa Polonsky (bottom).
domination copes with the Great Recession; “Yippie!”
(about the eponymous radical political party which once
ran a pig for President); and “You Shouldn’t Be Here” by
self-described “mock star” Killy Dwyer. For a full sched-
ule and ticket info, go to FRIGIDnewyork.info.
We seem to be somewhat in the midst of a Tennessee
Williams revival at the moment, as directors and pro-
ducers exhume countless obscure works ignominiously
scorned in the genius playwright’s lifetime. Not only has
there been the above-mentioned production of “Green
Eyes” by director Travis Chamberlain, but last year
saw an entire festival of such works by Target Margin,
as well as a series of revivals by White Horse Theatre
Company, and the film version of “The Loss of a
Teardrop Diamond.” And, now, of all people, Elizabeth
LeCompte will be directing the late Williams play
“Vieux Carrè” with her company the Wooster Group,
running through February. In the this production, this
most experimental of ensembles will be taking on an
autobiographical work of American realism, concerning
Williams’ earliest days as a writer in the New Orleans
French Quarter. It’s not the first time the Wooster Group
has dared to monkey with a Great American Playwright.
They’ve done it with Eugene O’Neill more than once, so
the answer to the obvious question “Is nothing sacred?”
has already been answered and it’s a flat no. Tickets and
info may be obtained at thewoostergroup.org.
In the vaudeville/ burlesque category this month:
“Female female-impersonator” World Famous *BOB*
will be reviving “One Man Show: The True Story of Miss
World Famous *BOB*” at Wild Project, 195 East 3rd
Street February 3-5. I caught this show on its original run
Photo by Kirsten Kay Thoen
at Joe’s Pub a few months back, and can testify that it mixes
Bob’s patented exhibitionism with revelations of a deeper
sort. Find out more at thewildproject.com.
At Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center,
February 4-20 Flux Theatre Ensemble will be presenting
Liz Duffy Adams’ “Dog Act.” While that may sound like
a mere circus or vaudeville turn featuring trained poodles,
we learn from the release that it’s really one of those post-
apocalyptic things, one in which a character undergoes “a
voluntary species downgrade.” But, really, aren’t we all
doing that at this stage in evolutionary history? Tix and info
at fluxtheatre.org.
February 6 through March 6, the Irish Repertory
Theatre Company will be presenting “My Scandalous
Life” — a play about Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s
lover who indirectly brought about the celebrated author’s
downfall. Normally history remembers “Bosie” (his nick-
name) as a superficial, unfeeling character, but the blurbs
about the current show seem to indicate that (in this play
at least) there was more to him than that. How true it is, I
can’t say, but at least it will be something new! More info:
irishrep.org.
Lastly, Theater for the New City’s 8th Annual Love ‘N’
Courage benefit will take place at the National Arts Club
on February 28. This year’s guest of honor will be the lovely
Marian Seldes, with a wealth of presenting stars from both
the Uptown and Downtown theatre scenes, including Eli
Wallach and Anne Jackson, Tammy Grimes, Jean-Claude
Van Itallie, and many others. A great way to close out an
action-packed month, even though this Valentine’s Day-
themed event will be two weeks too late for Cupid. See
you next month!
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Four women wrote this

13th effort by Wide Eyed Productions features best of 388
THEATER
A GIRL WROTE IT
Four one-act plays by women
A Wide Eyed Productions presentation by Horse Trade Theater
Group
February 3-20
At The Red Room (85 E. 4th St. btw. Second Ave & Bowery. Third
floor; no wheelchair access)
For tickets ($18, $15 for students), call 212-868-4444
Visit wideeyedproductions.com and horsetrade.info

BY JERRY TALLMER
Just call them A, B, C, D. That’s what the playwright
calls them — or, rather, that’s what her play calls them.
When the lights go up, all four are discovered in a sterile-
looking sort of waiting room/classroom. The younger of the
two couples, A (male) and B (female), sit with arms around
one another. Not so with the older, more uptight couple.
D (male) paces the room impatiently while C (female), his
wife, just sits and broods.
All four are waiting to be individually red-lighted or
green-lighted as a consequence of certain computer-generat-
ed intelligence tests. A deus ex machina simply identified as
“Efficient Woman” is on hand to elucidate the results.
The play is “Selection” — as in Darwin’s “natural selec-
tion” — and it is the one I liked best of the four one-acts
by four women presented together under the rubric “A Girl
Wrote It.” The playwright is Kris Montgomery of Shelton,
Connecticut — whose day job, as it happens, is installing
computer software.
When the results for A, B, C, and D come in, the green
light flashes three times, the red light flashes once. Now
what? Who gets the intelligence test’s thumbs up to bring
that baby into the brave new world of the day after tomor-
row — and who does not?
The admirably concise “Selection” contains overtones
not only of Aldous Huxley and Orwell, but of early and late
Albee (“The Sandbox,” “The American Dream,” “The Play
About the Baby”) as well as of a scary futuristic Ira Levin
novel called “This Perfect Day” (1970) — right down to ID
touch pads at every turn.
“This play,” says Montgomery, “has been done a number
of places, starting in 1999, and then thrown away, It was
rediscovered last fall by my 16-year-old daughter Erin — the
“The Return of Toodles Von Flooz” — featuring Lisa Mamazza, Colin McFadden & Brianne Mai.
The play is “Selection” — as in
Darwin’s “natural selection” — and
it is the one I liked best of the four
one-acts by four women presented
together under the rubric “A Girl
Wrote It.” The playwright is Kris
Montgomery of Shelton, Connecticut
— whose day job, as it happens, is
installing computer software.
Photo by Kristin Skye Hoffmann
youngest of my three daughters — when she was looking for
a one-act play she could direct next year in school. Then I
got a notice from the Dramatists Guild about this company,
Wide Eyed Productions, that was looking for one-act scripts
by women.”
Plays have to get conceived and brought to birth, just
like human babies. This one, says its mother — whose three
flesh-and-blood daughters are, as it happens, adopted —
was spurred into life “by discussions I used to have with
friends about whether some people ought to have to get a
license to give birth to a child. Alcoholics, welfare moth-
ers, low-IQ’s, et cetera. That’s not exactly genocide, but a
gray area.”
From this play, her play, “Selection”:
EFFICIENT WOMAN: This is interesting. The com-
puter print out says that this is one of the highest greens
we’ve ever had.
A: Meaning?
EFFICIENT WOMAN: They almost passed the red
[this particular green’s partner] just because the green
was so high.
B: So, why don’t they do that? We want to have kids
together.
EFFICIENT WOMAN: They didn’t do it because if
they start making exceptions, the whole system falls
apart.

Continued on page 19
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“Medea” for the Hudson Shakespeare
Company was rehearsed “for a really long
time,” but got “only four performances —
all outdoors, all free — which seemed a
pity to me.”
Perhaps it could be done again, and
better, and indoors. “If I do it again,” she
said to her buddies, “will you guys stick
with me?”
Yes, they said, yes.
After much search, she found “a very
nice man named Richmond Shepard,” who
made his East 26th Street theater available
to her without a deposit — and a second
“Medea,” again starring Amy Lee Pearsall,
was on its wide-eyed way.
“Everybody lent us stuff, and somehow
we even managed to come out in the black.
This is now our 13th production and our
second evening of one-acts. In all 12 of those
shows, we had never done anything written
by a woman, and I thought that was crazy.
“We did a call for scripts by a woman,
posted it all over the place. Received 388
submissions, and I read all 388.” This was
chopped down to 50, and then to the four at
Red Room: “Clementine,” by Lynda Green;
“Plight of the Apothecary” by Elizabeth
Birkenmeier; “The Return of Toodles Von
Flooz,” by Lisa Ferber; and “Selection,” by
Kris Montgomery.
A, B, C, D. Red light, green light. Stop
and Go in The Red Room. Keep your eyes
wide open.

Photo by Kristin Skye Hoffmann

“Selection” features, L to R: Tom Carman, Lucy McRae & Mim Granahan.

Four women wrote this Von Flooz.”

Continued from page 18 Directing is Hoffmann’s passion, start-
ing back at the University of Northern
A: Isn’t that what the Nazis did? Colorado, from where she and a number of
You’re trying to get rid of a whole group
of people.
B: This is genocide.
EFFICIENT WOMAN: No, it isn’t.
No one’s being killed here. We just
“Everybody lent us stuff,
don’t let everyone reproduce. There’s a
big difference….
and somehow we even
All the above — indeed, all of “Selection”
managed to come out in
— represents, to Montgomery “a kind of
argument with myself — and it’s my hope
the black. This is now our
that it will elicit discussion and/or argu-
ment elsewhere.”
13th production and our
Montgomery, who says she was born in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, “somewhere in the
second evening of one-
last century,” and that she is “married to a
acts. In all 12 of those Will Pittsburgh
woman named Lisa,” has an acting/singing
career alongside playwriting. She has widely
toured as the Eva Peron of “Evita,” and —
shows, we had never done Turn Back The
in nice happenstance parallel to her present
Red Room connection — plays keyboard
anything written by a Pack or will
and sings with a band called Those 4 Girls.
Which takes us to another Kris — or,
woman, and I thought that The Packers
to be more exact, Kristin Skye Hoffmann ESTABLISHED SINCE 1880
was crazy.”
— the co-founder (with Liz White and
Sky Seals) of Wide Eyed Productions. It is
Famous Dylan Thomas Watering Hole Make Swiss
Hoffmann who had the idea of putting four
Cheese out of
White horse Tavern
short plays together under the heading “A theater-minded pals came straight to New
Girl Wrote It,” and is the director of one of York to try to do their thing. Wide-eyed is
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often then they do. But for now, you’ll just
have to be satisfied with the fact that this
is a semi-annual event — and the fact that
February 2011 means you’ll have the oppor-
tunity to attend Third Street Music School
Settlement’s “String ‘Stravaganza.” More than
150 violinists, violists, cellists and bass players
will perform a concert comprised of diverse
selections from “The O’Connor Method — A
New American School of String Playing.” Give
these young musical artists credit for their
ambition: The program begins with the most
difficult composition, calling on all students
who have mastered it to stand up and play
together. That piece is followed by the second-
hardest piece with more students joining the
first group of players, and so on until the
program has progressed to the easiest pieces
and the group of players has grown to include
students from 4 to 18 years old.
The performers will be joined by mas-
ter violinist and creator of The O’Connor
Method, Mark O’Connor. That method,
according to Third Street, “exposes students
to a variety of North American fiddle and
violin styles, including traditional tunes and
O’Connor originals. The method attempts to
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accompanied by the school’s most
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is, providing examples in composition, litera-
ture and teaching.” Will the students become
the master, or at least give him a run for his
money? The latter is a sure bet. The former
is anybody’s guess. Find out for yourself on
Sat., Feb. 5, 10am, at St. Mark’s Church-in-
the-Bowery (10th St. & 2nd Ave.). FREE.
For more info, call 212-777-3240 or visit
thirdstreetmusicschool.org.
GENTRIFUSION
Red Fern Theatre Company’s latest project
charged several playwrights with the task of
exploring the “different truths” surrounding
the gentrification of New York’s neighbor-
hoods. The short plays of “Gentrifusion,”
we’re assured, will reach beyond the cli-
chéd ideas of gentrification to explore how
imposed changes on the place where you live
both improves and diminishes the commu-
nity. What they’ve found out already is that
“both long-time residents and the new crop
of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different
measures and different ways.” The roster of
short plays are supported by projections cre-
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filmmaker Dennis Ho (dwho.com). Through
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Lecture series to make seldom-visited spaces accessible
BY ALINE REYNOLDS
“Revitalization” has become the buzzword to describe
post-9/11 Lower Manhattan. Amid the mushrooming high-
rises and rapidly evolving technology, one Downtown arts
organization is directing the spotlight on the area’s rich
cultural history.
In a series of lectures this winter and spring (organized by
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; lmcc.net), humani-
ties scholars will present histories of Lower Manhattan that
slipped out of the pubic consciousness or were overlooked
from the get-go. The lectures, based on archival research
and local lore, span architecture, urban development, social
justice and the environment.
“Looking back on the artistic historical material allows us
to appreciate different historical layers present in our neigh-
borhood and think about our changing neighborhood today,”
said Erin Donnelly, curator of the lecture series and a special
projects consultant at the L.M.C.C. — a nonprofit organiza-
tion that secures grants, artist-residencies and other services
for artists.
Another purpose of the annual
lecture series “Access Restricted”
is to make accessible Downtown
spaces that are rarely visited by
the public. Venues used during this
year’s series include the Woolworth
Building, 7 World Trade Center and
195 Broadway (the former AT&T
building).
“Lower Manhattan Revealed,” the name Donnelly
chose for the 2011 program, “had a nice ring to it —
thinking about this year being 2011, a year when our
district is being memorialized, and its future being dis-
cussed.” Another purpose of the annual lecture series
“Access Restricted” is to make accessible Downtown
spaces that are rarely visited by the public. Venues used
during this year’s series include the Woolworth Building, 7
World Trade Center and 195 Broadway (the former AT&T
building).
Next Wednesday, architecture and urban studies writer
Jeff Byles will interview architecture professor Michael
Sorkin (director of City College’s graduate urban design
program) about the building boom that has occurred
Downtown in the past decade. The discussion will also
be about “rethinking open and green spaces…and what it
means to reclaim the city from an environmental perspec-
tive,” according to Donnelly.
On March 9, John Kuo Wei Tchen — co-founder of the
Museum of Chinese in the America (at 215 Centre Street;
mocanyc.org) and an associate professor of social and cul-
tural analysis at New York University — will be speaking
about the history of the South Street Seaport. The lecture
will take place in the attic of the Seaport Museum, the site
of the former Fulton Ferry Hotel.
Nineteenth-century Downtown, stretching from
Chinatown to the South Street Seaport, was lined with
lively outdoor markets that bustled with activity. “It was
L.M.C.C.’s lecture series gives you access to restricted Downtown spaces.
much more intermingled in terms of different groups of
people, different classes and all that,” he said. “For me,
it’s an important example of the way in which the port
itself created a port culture.” Tchen hopes to attract some
longtime Seaport residents to the L.M.C.C. lecture who
will be willing to share their perspectives on how the area
has changed, and talk about aspects of its history that
have gone under the radar (although he wouldn’t com-
ment on the forthcoming redevelopment of the Seaport).
Tchen has also extensively researched the history of
Chinatown. When he founded the Museum of Chinese in
America (on East Broadway in 1980), Tchen uncovered
cabinets and other relics of the past in dumpsters sur-
rounding Chatham Square. “[The stores] had 99-year
leases, they were coming to expiration, and their histories
were just being dumped,” he said. “This kind of shocked
me.” Artistic and historic community groups must be
formed in Chinatown and elsewhere, Tchen said, in order
to establish cultural diversity and help preserve the neigh-
borhood’s’’ unique histories.
Tchen believes that business improvement districts
(BIDs), such as the one proposed for Chinatown, are too
narrowly defined and often lead to cultural homogenization
rather than diversity. “Culture doesn’t emerge from monocul-
ture,” he said. “It emerges from these vital mixes.”
On March 23, art critic Douglas Crimp will be showing
four 1970s films shot in Tribeca and on the Lower East
Side, that demonstrate how filmmakers utilize the city as
performance stages and templates for their work. Crimp
writes for a variety of international and scholarly journals,
and teaches art history at the University of Rochester.
Crimp selected the films he thought were the most
resonant with and representative of the era. The L.M.C.C.
event, he said, is an opportunity to show a new generation
of NYC artists a sampling of lesser-known artworks of the
period. “It’s an example of how artists were able to use
this neighborhood while it was undergoing transforma-
tion,” he said. Today’s generation of artists, Crimp said,
can be inspired by 20th-century filmmaking. “There’s a
way in which contemporary art is not only attentive to its
Februar y 3 - 9, 2011 21
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present moment, but to earlier art.”
Artists continue to use the metropolis as a performance
stage – for example, choreographer Trisha Brown, Crimp
noted, is recreating Roof Piece, a dance from 1971, on
rooftops in Chelsea and the Meatpacking District this
spring.
Crimp plans to give a brief introduction about the
exhibition he co-curated at the Reina Sofia in Madrid last
summer, which serves as a wider context for the films he’ll
be presenting at the March 23 screening. The exhibition,
entitled “Mixed Use, Manhattan” focused on how artists
from the 1970s to the present experiment with urban
space. He will also offer the L.M.C.C. audience a tour of
the Cunard Building at 25 Broadway, a landmark building
from the 1920s that was the original U.S. headquarters of
the Cunard Line, an Anglo-American shipping company
that dominated the seas in the early 20th century.
“Lower Manhattan Revealed” will close with an April
13 lecture given by Native American scholar and curator
David Oestreicher at Pershing Hall on Governor’s Island.
Oestreicher will talk about the history of the Lenape, a
Delaware Indian tribe that was reportedly the earliest
group to inhabit Lower New York.
L.M.C.C. created “Access Restricted” in 2006 to satisfy
the curiosity of those wishing to penetrate Downtown’s
untold history. Participants of the series’ first season
got a special tour of the old City Hall subway station,
which is now closed off to the public, and the Surrogate’s
Courthouse and the New York Hall of Records on
Chambers Street.
This year, Art International Radio, a Downtown-based
online radio station, is partnering with the L.M.C.C. to
audio-record the events and store them in their online
cultural archive.
The events are free, but RSVP is required since space
is limited. For more information, visit lmcc.net or call
Marisa Olsen, external affairs coordinator, at 212-219-
9401, ext. 105. The first “Access Restricted” recording is
scheduled to launch on A.I.R.’s website (artonair.com)
on February 7.
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A valentine for Village businesses
Continued from page 15
closure has been harsh and swift.
The closing of St. Vincent’s has been a
devastating blow to the Village and just as
devastating for the businesses that depend-
ed on St. Vincent’s for survival. Many busi-
nesses have already closed, while others are
struggling to survive. To help confront this
problem, my office invited the Greenwich
Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce,
Community Board 2, Congressmember
Jerrold Nadler, Borough President Scott
Stringer, state Senator Tom Duane and
Council Speaker Christine Quinn to par-
ticipate in a Valentine’s-themed shopping
extravaganza on this Sat., Feb. 12, enti-
tled, “Love the Village,” with the goal
of supporting businesses that have been
adversely impacted. The event will kick
off at 10 a.m. on the northwest corner of
Seventh Ave. and Greenwich Ave., across
the street from Roasting Plant Coffee. On
the weekend before Valentine’s Day, we
want to show local businesses how big our
hearts in the Village really are.
“Love the Village” will be a daylong
shopping extravaganza that will encour-
age the public to engage with businesses
in the immediate vicinity of St. Vincent’s.
Participants will be given a map of busi-
nesses on Greenwich Ave., Sixth Ave. and
Seventh Ave. and, after shopping at these
businesses, they will have an opportunity
to exchange their receipts (that value at
least $10) for raffle tickets on the first
floor of the Lesbian and Gay Center, at
208 W. 13th St. between Seventh Ave. and
Greenwich Ave. between 10 a.m. and 3
p.m. Multiple raffles will be held through-
out the day with the chance to win prizes
donated by local businesses. To show
Valentine’s Day appreciation, giveaways
will include locally designed “Love the
Village” T-shirts for the first 100 people to
participate.
Although a one-day event may not save
a business that is teetering on the edge, it
may help introduce people to businesses
that they might pass every day without ever
entering. If we do want our neighborhood
to be more Jane Jacobs than Marc Jacobs,
a good first step is by stepping foot inside
an independently owned local business. I
look forward to seeing all of you on Feb.
12. Now, more than ever, we need to come
together as a community and help those
businesses that are in need.
Glick is assemblymember for the 66th
District.
‘Vote for Lyn’; Help club win $50K
The Lower Eastside Girls Club is in the
running for a $50,000 award if it wins the
DVF Foundation’s “People’s Voice” online
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Dawson nominated the club for the competi-
tion. Four other organizations are also on the
ballot — though these are national groups,
unlike the girls club, based in New York’s
own East Village. Voters can also enter their
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is required.)
To vote for the girls club, go to www.
girlsclub/vote, and click on the “Vote for
Lyn” button above the YouTube video of Lyn
Pentecost, the girls club’s director.
The DVF Awards were created in 2010
by von Furstenberg and the Diller-von
Furstenberg Family Foundation to recognize
and support women who are using their
L.E.S. Girls Club members want your
resources, commitment and visibility to trans-
vote.
form the lives of other women. Honorees
receive $50,000 in support of the nonprofit, Avenue D clubhouse and for their con-
501c-3 organization with whom they are tinued employment of local teenagers,
affiliated to further their work. The last day Pentecost said.
of voting is Feb. 15. “It’s really a vote for localization and a
If the girls club wins, the money will sustainable community,” she said. “It’s about
go toward construction of their new keeping it all in the neighborhood.”

highest court” (news article, Jan. 27): inals’ in Soho, lawyer says” (news article,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR It’s religion. People should respect

Continued from page 14
of Vilnius was the “old country” to my family.
My father and aunts were working too hard to
commute to Mass there every week, but it was
where they would have been if they could man-
age it. It was a place to go for important feasts
and momentous events like baptisms and funer-
als. It was our St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Our Lady of Vilnius was not an exclusively
Lithuanian parish. The Villager’s inaugural
article spoke of “Pretzels” and “Provolone,”
not “Kugelis” and “Cepelinai.” I am urg-
ing anyone who loved this place to jump
onboard — all of you Hallorans and Dolans
with no Lithuanian heritage, all of you Piros,
Passarellis, Tangredis and DeLorenzos with
Lithuanian grandmothers, all of you who
were strengthened for your workday by Father
Sawicki’s noon Mass, all of you sitting in your
cars waiting to get into the tunnel who are
heartened by the sight of Our Lady of Vilnius
as a symbol of God and old New York — we
are trying to reconstitute this place so that it
continues to inspire.
Christina Nakraseive
Praying for a miracle
To The Editor:
Re “Lady of Vilna appeal goes to state’s
highest court” (news article, Jan. 27):
I hold fond memories of Our Lady of
Vilnius Church. I was baptized there and regu-
larly attended Sunday Mass. It is a beacon for
the faithful. It feels good to see the church as I
come home each day. However, I am inevitably
reminded of the callous manner in which its
doors were suddenly shut, without consid-
eration for Father Eugene Sawicki and the
church family; without notice, without a care.
Many of Our Lady of Vilnius’s displaced
congregation regard its closing as a heart-
less undertaking. Throughout the past four
years, the Lithuanian supporters remained
undaunted in their goal to worship at Our
Lady of Vilnius Church, albeit, outside on
the church steps. In rain, snow and sunshine,
they practice the Roman Catholic faith with
song, candles, words of scripture and prayer.
The service always culminates with delicious
Lithuanian homemade food and inspirational
discussion. The spirit of the faithful remains,
to love and serve the Lord.
There is still a strong parish here, and the
parishioners remain steadfast with their goal
of reclaiming their church. Miraculously, St.
Brigid’s Church was saved. The hope is that
a similar miracle can happen here, too.
Linda L. Sousa
Teen torn by church’s loss
To The Editor:
Re “Lady of Vilna appeal goes to state’s
that. The church should be considered a
landmark, not only because it’s been here
a long time, but because it’s here to serve
people of faith. People now and in the
future could learn to respect the efforts
of a dedicated community in their effort
to preserve their church and to practice
their faith.
I was baptized at Our Lady of Vilnius
Church 14 years ago. I don’t want to only
keep the church’s “memory” in my mind,
I want to see the structure and its beauty
— not only on the outside, but inside, as
well. I yearn to enter Our Lady of Vilnius
because I would be surrounded by histori-
cal, sacred walls. People who have a say-
so in these matters should respect that.
Lauren J. Sousa
Missing Grandpa Bruno
To The Editor:
Re “Olindo Bruno, 88; Worked in the
garment industry” (obituary, Jan. 20):
Thank you for writing this about my
grandfather. We miss you very much, Pop!
Rest in peace.
Anthony Bruno
Soho’s zoning is failing
To The Editor:
Re “Non-artist residents feel like ‘crim-
Jan. 27):
The real issue as I see it is live-work
space for actual working artists. Soho
inspires the heart of the artist in many
ways. The low roofline and the large
windows create a neighborhood awash in
light. The legacy of art in Soho is impres-
sive, to say the least.
Yet it seems as if the link between civic
and artistic is not as strong as it needs to
be to meet the real needs of living, work-
ing artists. Not many career artists can
afford the space rates, and so they are
forced to move their studios elsewhere.
Sadly, it is clear from this article that
many of the live-work spaces that were
once set aside for artists are not housing
artists at all. With all the creativity at
hand in Soho, it amazes me that a more
effective plan has not been generated to
assure the continued existence of artists
and their neighbors in Soho. Since suc-
cessful art district plans have been devel-
oped in other neighborhoods in other cit-
ies, one must wonder why it is that Soho
cannot get it straight.
Lawrence White
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