the villager, oct. 17, 2013

Carters come back to 6th St.,site of historic Habitat project

D.O.T. green-lights‘slow zone’ to calmEast Village traffi c We turnWe turnWe turn

80!By LiNCOLN aNDERSON

That was fast! The city’s Department of Transportation has

approved the implementa-tion of a “Tompkins Square/Alphabet City Slow Zone” next year.

And, the year after that, the West Village’s streets, as

well, are reportedly set to get the lower speed limits and other traffi c-calming mea-sures that create the so-called slow zones.

Community Board 3 mem-ber Chad Marlow, who original-ly proposed the idea to D.O.T., broke the news last Fri., Oct. 11.

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Former President Jimmy Cart-er and his wife, Rosalynn, brought their Southern charm

to the East Village last Thursday to commemorate 30 years of Habitat for Humanity service.

Housing has been a priority for Jimmy Carter, who has dedicated his post-presidential career to en-

suring this basic right for thousands of families in need.

The couple celebrated the 30th Annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project last week with a return visit to a building called Mascot Flats, at 742 E. Sixth St., between Avenues C and D, which was the project’s first site. Before holding a press conference, the Carters met with 12 of the original

tenants who still live in the 19-unit building, in the apartment of Don Kao.

In 1984, the Carters embarked on a renovation of the six-story build-ing with local homesteaders and Habitat for Humanity. Built in 1902, the East Village tenement no longer had a roof, and fi t in well amid the

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A (family) tree grows in Greenwich VillageBy BOB KRaSNER

Every couple has a story, but some of those tales last

longer than others. The 70-year marriage of Frank and Natalie Rosenberg is notable not just for its lon-gevity (though, really, there should be a prize for that) but for the legacy that they will leave behind.

On Sept. 15, family and friends danced the night

away at the Manhattan Penthouse, at 80 Fifth Ave., in celebration of a union that was set in motion back in 1920, when Frank was born in Corona, Queens, the youngest of seven. Natalie followed fi ve years later in Brooklyn.

They married when she was just 18 and went about creating a family. Two sons, Marty and Hal, and one daughter, Sara.

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FuN wiTH FumETTi: Celebrating the work of John Holmstrom and the legacy of Punk magazine — plus the recent acquisition of the Punk magazine archive by Yale University — Boo-Hooray is staging a show of the original artwork from Punk’s “Mutant Monster Beach Party.” Known as a fumetti, the comic starred the faces of the CBGB / Max’s Kansas City punk scene in a “cinematic narrative,” with photos shot out at Coney Island. Holmstrom directed the action and drew on the photos — voice bubbles, Debbie Har-ry “walking on a cloud,” etc. — which were shot by Roberta Bayley. Appearances are also made by Legs McNeil, Joey Ramone, Andy Warhol, Chris Stein, Arturo Vega, Bob Gruen, John Cale, David Johansen and Joan Jett. In the end, it didn’t sell that well, but it was obviously a lot of fun to make. At the opening re-ception last Friday night at Boo-Hooray, at 265 Canal St., people were talking about the new CBGB movie. “I thought it was fun,” said the photographer Godlis, who documented the punk scene during its heyday. “There’ll be another, better CBGB movie down the line — and this is the one that’s out now. It’s just a movie. I endorse it — even though I’m not in it. Ro-berta Bayley should have been in it.” Everyone then left the gallery with Holmstrom to go watch “CBGB,” even though it seemed like most people had already seen it a couple of times already.

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John Holmstrom in front of “an outtake” of Debbie Harry on the beach at Coney island.

Rock photographer Bob Gruen, left, and Supla of Brothers of Brazil, from São Paulo, enjoyed the “mutant monster Beach Party” show. Supla played at The Box last Sunday night. His music is called punkanova, as in punk mixed with bossa nova.

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blown-out, abandoned buildings in the neighborhood in the ’80s when it was in-fested with drugs and crime.

The Carters were reflective as the two reminisced about the experience, and the powerful affects of helping people build their own homes. Jimmy Carter, 89, re-called jogging over to look at the site and finding it a “horrible mess.” While he has worked as a Habitat volunteer for 30 years, and been to about 85 different building sites, he dubbed Mascot Flats his most memorable.

“You could stand on the second floor, if you could get up there, and you could look up and see the sky,” he recalled. “The garbage was more than knee deep. And there were fires where people were living, and cooking up food and dope.”

He Carter also mentioned that the buildings’ 370 windows were all broken and without frames.

“That’s what we had to start with, and it took us two years to finish it,” he said.

In a follow-up phone interview, Ann Rupel, 60, an original homesteader and president of the co-op board at Mascot Flats, claimed each tenant was required

to devote 1,000 hours of manual labor — half on the building’s construction, and the rest on another project.

“We managed to put 1,000 hours on that building,” she said. “So did a lot of people.”

Rosalynn Carter, 86, was introduced by her husband as, “the boss of my work camp…who has been bossing me around

now for 67 years.” He noted she was ini-tially reluctant to swing a hammer at the site.

“Before we got here, I told Jimmy that I was not going to do any hammering,” she recalled. “The only thing I’d ever done was put a nail in the wall to hang a pic-ture up.”

The former first lady spent her first day at Mascot Flats pulling linoleum up off the floor with some other wom-en. Later that day, a man brought them some flooring with instructions from the former president to nail it in. Her earlier protest was for naught, and with a laugh, she exclaimed, “After 30 years, I’ve become a very accomplished car-penter.”

The Carters also spoke of how build-ing homes across the world — Habitat for Humanity is in 75 countries — is a stabi-lizing force for families.

“We’ve seen their lives transform,” Jimmy Carter said. Under the program, a house — which is built and purchased by the families — becomes a point of pride, and a vehicle for change. Improvements in education, healthcare and safety are much more obtainable in a better home environment, they said.

“It’s almost always emotional when you meet someone who’s never had a home, or who’s never ever dreamed of having a home,” Rosalynn said. “Then you give them a home, and we always cry when we give them the keys.”

She referenced an original tenant named Jessica who was a dishwasher when they first met her at Mascot Flats.

“Next time we came back, she was an apprentice in the carpenters union, she had learned a trade,” Rosalynn said.

Habitat for Humanity also fosters new work experiences. For example, in a project in Nicaragua, participants made bricks and tiles for the houses, and then profited from doing the same thing for other villages.

The Carters’ international work has included the Philippines with 14,000 vol-unteers at their largest site yet. They built 293 homes in only five days. Also, the Carters have been in Haiti, where they constructed 300 homes in what had been the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake.

“The homes are now beautiful,” the former president said. “It’s an oasis in the middle of a still-devastated country.”

“It’s been a labor of love for us, as you can tell. We’re very proud to be here,” he added.

Kao, a medical research writer, and Rupel, a musician who is also an origi-nal Mascot Flats resident, both addressed the crowd and expressed their gratitude to the Carters. Each raised a child in the building.

Kao, 62, is the director of Project Reach, a youth program, and disclosed he has been living with AIDS for almost 30 years. The building has been instrumental in his life. When he was sick, he needed someone to carry him three flights up to his apartment.

“All of that couldn’t have happened, and I couldn’t have been here today, in part, without that building behind me,” he said. “It allowed me to care of myself, take care of my health and run an organi-zation.”

Meanwhile, Kao added that “prices have skyrocketed” in the neighborhood, and that the property next door “sold for almost $2 million and set the price for all around.” He said he had the Carters to thank for his being able to remain in the neighborhood.

This naturally led to the topic of gen-trification when it came time for reporter questions. When asked about it, Jimmy Carter said, “It cuts both ways.” Howev-er, he did say gentrification — in the sense that he understood the word — was good. He noted that the second year Habitat for

Carters come back to site of historic Habitat project

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at the press con-ference on E. Sixth St. during which they talked about the mascot Flats project 30 years ago, which really brought widespread notice to Habitat for Humanity for the first time.

Jimmy Carter heading to his black S.u.V. after the press conference.

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Humanity was at Mascot Flats, people in the neighborhood cleaned up empty lots and planted community gardens there.

“Once you build some decent homes that people actually own, it gentrifi es ev-ery neighborhood,” he said.

He noted he has not returned to a for-mer work site where upkeep is an issue.

“People are so proud of their own homes that they bought, and worked on for hundreds of hours, and paid for full price to let anybody do any damage to it,” he said.

The apartments at Mascot Flats were not given away. As Jimmy Carter stated, Habitat for Humanity only gives away “love and compassion.” He thought the people who fi rst moved in paid $30,000 for an apartment, which they could have turned around and sold for almost six times the price.

“We put a restraint on the homes here as they sold, so Habitat would have par-tial ownership, and could use that money to build more homes,” he said.

However, another original tenant, “Doc” Aroyo, recalled that the purchase price for his apartment was $50,000, though the mortgage was interest-free.

When asked about the national mort-gage crisis, the former president advocat-ed for regulations to control banks.

“We do need a very strict law to be passed to prevent that profi ting off of in-nocent borrowers who are given a loan that the bank knows they can’t repay, just

so the bank can make a profi t by reselling the mortgages,” he said. According to him, these protections were partially in place through a law passed a few years ago, but Congress is blocking the law from imple-mentation by withholding funds.

“The average person making a loan to buy a house doesn’t have any lobbyist in Washington to protect his or her in-terests,” he said. “But the rich folks that are benefi ting from this, they have lobby-ists to protect their interests, and I think this changed dramatically in the last 30 years,” he said. Carter said he also feels there has been a lowering of expectations in the States, and a “stalemate” in social mobility.

As for Congress, and its current stand-still, he had a few words of advice and a recommendation that its members all go work for a day on a Habitat site, where cooperation is key.

“We respect authority, and when we have a building superintendent or house leader, everybody that works on the Habitat site pays attention to in-structions for the well-being of every-body,” he stated. “And secondly, there’s no distinction whether you’re Christian, Muslim or Jew, Democrat or Republican, man or a woman — you’re all working for the same goal.”

The Carter Project was also in Oakland, San Jose and Denver last week. The rest of the sites include Queens, Staten Island and Union Beach, N.J. There were 1,000 volunteers in New York to renovate and repair 15 homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy last year.

mascot Flats tenants accepted a plaque from Habitat for Humanity commemorating the renova-tion project 30 years ago. at right in front row is ann Rupel and in the middle row center is Don Kao, both original homesteaders from when the building was renovated by Habitat for Humanity in 1984.

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Frank went from being a salesman to own-ing his own printing business. Meanwhile, Natalie went from being a teacher and then a guidance counselor to her calling as a psy-chotherapist.

The family expanded as the kids got mar-ried and found their way. Marty and the Rosenbergs’ son-in-law Ken Abbott (Sara’s husband) joined Frank in the printing busi-ness, where they developed one of the first typesetting programs for the Mac computer. Called “Ready Set Go,” it is still being used today.

Sara is a social worker. Hal is a psycho-therapist. Marty left the printing business to become a science teacher. Formerly the head of the science department at Edgemont High School, Marty was once voted the best sci-ence teacher in New York State.

The kids had kids of their own, providing the Rosenbergs with grandchildren. Then grandchildren had kids, and now the infants Kyle and Alice have the distinction of know-ing their great-grandparents.

The couple have lived in their two-bed-room apartment in Greenwich Village since

1968. They’ve watched their neighborhood “change gradually,” they said, and have al-ways loved the Village.

They note that the area has become “big-ger and denser” and that “the A&P be-came the Food Emporium and now, a Hal-loween shop.”

The Rosenbergs’ bridge club is still on ev-ery Monday, and each day at 5 o’clock, one can find them at home sharing a cocktail with their friends.

Another great grandchild is due in December. But age has forced some changes —

93-year-old Frank no longer walks to work. And they’ve transitioned from the nightclub to the health club.

Natalie laughingly noted, “We used to go to Reno Sweeney’s, but now we go to aero-bics at the 14th Street Y.”

Front row, from left, Rachel makings, Laura Lynch, Kyle Lynch, Natalie Rosenberg, Frank Rosenberg, Jeanette Rosenberg, alice Rosenberg, Sara (Rosenberg) abbott. Back row, from left, Phil makings, Karen menzie, Eric menzie, Nancy Kramer, Hal Rosenberg, adam Rosenberg, marty Rosenberg, Ken abbott.

Natalie and Frank Rosenberg in their Greenwich Village apartment. They are willing to share their home generously on special occasions, such as the time they let about 100 guests attend a gay wedding in their living room.

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L.E.S. drug ring busted

Following a nearly two-year investigation by narcotics officers, including one who was deep undercover, police busted a Lower East Side drug ring that allegedly pushed crack cocaine to public housing residents, Manhat-tan District Attorney Cy Vance announced on Oct. 15.

Eleven members of the group were charged with major drug felonies, after the investiga-tion — which was also aided by the D.A.’s Office — revealed the inner workings of the operation. The ring centered on sales of both small and large amounts of crack to people around Jacob Riis Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development between E. Eighth and E. 13th Sts. along Avenue D.

The group’s alleged leader, Dwayne Mitch-ell, 35, stands accused of buying huge, whole-sale quantities of crack from a supplier, Sabed Rahman, 29, who was also arrested. The two men reportedly had regular meetings to ex-change the drugs and stacks of cash, includ-ing some meetings at a Midtown Starbucks, the D.A. said.

Mitchell and Rahman are both charged with first-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, second-degree conspiracy, crimi-nal sale of a controlled substance at or near school grounds and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. In ad-dition, Mitchell is charged with second- and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled sub-stance, and third-degree money laundering.

The nine other people arrested, ranging in age from 29 to 44, were all charged with second-degree conspiracy, while four were hit with additional drug sale and possession charges.

According to court documents, the group did its business through a network of cell phone calls, using code words like “chick-en,” “donuts” and “food” to refer to drugs or money. Statements from the alleged crack ring’s members also reportedly show that they spent massive amounts of cash on Mer-cedes-Benz luxury cars and other pricey sta-tus symbols.

“Drug dealers have no place in public housing,” said Vance. “For years, these crimi-nals are alleged to have run a large-scale drug operation out of the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, a pocket of our city al-ready struggling against crime and violence. Thanks to the heroic work of an undercover officer who managed to infiltrate this orga-nization at its highest level, the drug dealing stops today.”

Dirty dancing

Police arrested Jaime Vitagliano, 32, after she allegedly stole a man’s wallet and cell phone while dancing with him at a nightclub

in the Meatpacking District early on Sun., Oct. 13.

The man, 23, told cops that he and Vitaglia-no were getting hot and heavy on the dance floor at Tenjune, a club on Little W. 12th St., around 3:15 a.m., when he felt her put her hands into his pants pockets. And instead of a happy ending, he got a sad surprise when he realized what she was really up to, after which Vitagliano reportedly ran out of the club and jumped into a cab near the entrance.

But the man followed in pursuit, flagged down a couple of officers and pointed her out before she could slip away. Vitagliano was charged with robbery, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

iD wasn’t ‘standard’

Police arrested Ashley Bete, 37, when she was caught carrying a fake identification cards after a disgruntled exchange at a bar in the Standard Hotel early on Sat., Oct. 12.

Employees called police around 2 a.m., af-ter Bete apparently refused to pay her $169 bill at the Standard Biergarten, which sits be-low the Highline on Washington St., between Little W. 12th and W. 13th Sts. questioned, Bete allegedly gave the officers both a fake driver’s license and a fake Social Security card. She was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.

all the wrong stuff

Police arrested Jimmy Hall, 50, in a West Village subway station for alleged weapon and drug-related offenses on the morning of Oct. 9.

Officers said they found Hall around 6 a.m., as he was lying on the floor of a south-bound E train at the W. Fourth St. subway stop, obstructing the path of commuters try-ing to enter and exit the train. When he was approached and questioned, Hall reportedly refused to provide his name of identification and tried to walk away, so he was stopped and searched.

Officers said they found Hall was carrying a razor blade, two alleged crack cocaine rocks, a glass pipe with alleged crack residue and two forged MetroCards. Hall was also said to have resisted arrest by flailing his body and arms while cops were trying to handcuff him, as he reportedly said, “Oh no, I’m not gettin’ arrested.”

Hall was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a forged instrument and resisting arrest.

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Ruth maleczech, 74, a founder of avant-garde troupe

By aLBERT amaTEau

Ruth Maleczech, a co-founder of Mabou Mines, the renowned ex-perimental theater group based

in the P.S. 122 arts complex in the East Village, and a leading performer in the company, died peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 30. She was 74.

She had stage-four breast cancer and had moved a few weeks ago from her longtime home on Bank St. in the West Village to a ground-fl oor apartment in Brooklyn to be near her son, Lute Breuer, according to her daughter, Clove Galilee.

“Ruth was our mentor and our moth-er,” Galilee said. “She was an uncompro-mising artist who devoted over 50 years of her life to the theater as a performer, director and mentor.”

Together with her partner, Lee Breuer, the director Joanne Akalaitis, the com-poser Philip Glass and the actor David Warrilow, Maleczech was a founding

member in 1970 of the avant-garde the-ater troupe that took its name from a site in Nova Scotia that Glass was thinking of buying. The name appealed to the found-ers because “it sounded like a band.”

Maleczech, who at the time of her death was working with her daughter on “Imagining the Imaginary Invalid,” a new version of Moliere’s “Imaginary Invalid,” directed more than a dozen Mabou Mines productions, including “Imagination Dead Imagine” by Samuel Beckett in 1984 and “A Song for New York” in 2007, a response to the World Trade Center attack.

Mabou Mines productions are mount-ed on various Off and Off Off Broadway stages, but the company’s home base since the early 1980s has been in the city-owned P.S. 122 complex on First Ave. at E. Ninth St. The city is currently renovat-ing the former school building.

The company’s fi rst permanent stage was at La MaMa E.T.C. on E. Fourth St. after Ellen Stewart, La MaMa’s artistic director, saw Mabou Mines’ four-hour-long “The Red Horse Animation.” Later, Joe Papp invited the company to play at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

Maleczech performed in more than 20 Mabou Mines productions between 1970 and 2009, many directed by her partner and co-founder Lee Breuer. In 2007 she played Lucia Joyce, James Joyce’s daugh-ter, in a play directed by Sharon Fog-arty, artistic co-director of Mabou Mines. Maleczech also created roles in many oth-er Off Broadway and regional theaters.

Fogarty, who was artistic director of the Daedelus Theater Company in resi-dence at the Clemente Soto Velez Cul-tural Center on Suffolk St. on the Lower East Side, also worked on Mabou Mines productions in the 1990s.

“At one point, Ruth said, ‘You know business, right?’ The next thing I knew, I was company manager,” Fogarty re-called. “That’s the kind of company it was. You could fi nd yourself doing things you didn’t think you could.”

However, Fogarty found that man-aging the Mabou Mines company and directing the Daedelus Company at the same time became unsustainable, and Maleczech and Breuer invited her to di-rect all her projects at Mabou Mines.

“Ruth turned to me and said, ‘So what do you want to make?’ It was an intimidating question, but I’d just read a biography of Nora Joyce, James Joyce’s wife, so I suggest-ed a piece about Lucia, their daughter. They went for it because of the Beckett connec-tion. Lucia was in love with Beckett,” For-garty recalled. Since the mid-1980s, Beckett has been a Mabou Mines favorite.

Shakespeare is another challenge that the company and Maleczech have taken on. “Lear,” a female version of “King Lear,” was developed in the late 1980s with the men’s roles played by women

and the women’s roles played by men. Maleczech played a matriarchal Lear in mid-20th-century American South. The fi nished production in 1990 received un-favorable notices by mainstream media. But the late Ross Wetzsteon, the Village Voice theater critic, hailed the produc-tion, and Maleczech’s performance in particular, as a cultural landmark.

Maleczech remained faithful to the avant-garde vision and took bad notices with pride. She preferred to consider herself a performer and theater-maker rather than an actor. She joined Actors’ Equity in 1989 only in order to play in Jean Genet’s “The Screens” at the Guth-rie Theater in Minneapolis.

In a written tribute, her daughter and son said, “Despite her success and re-nown in the world of experimental the-ater, Ruth remained an approachable artist who deeply appreciated the work of others. She made herself accessible, encouraging, mentoring and guiding countless theater artists in the ways of Downtown theater, helping them navi-gate and carve out a place in the New York scene.”

Her daughter, a director and choreog-rapher, recalled growing up on Avenue A and later on St. Mark’s Place where the family lived before moving to Bank St.

Ruth Sophia Reinprecht was born in Cleveland, the daughter of Yugoslav immigrants, and was raised in Phoenix, Ariz., where her father, a steelworker, had moved the family because of his health. Ruth changed her name in 1969 to a variant of her mother’s maiden name. Ruth took her fi rst steps on stage in a school play at the age of eight. When she was 16 she went to Los Angeles where she enrolled in the theater department at U.C.L.A. She then went to San Francisco, an important new theater center, where she studied with Herbert Blau at the Actor’s Workshop, and then with Ron-nie Davis at what became the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe. There she met the troupe’s founding director, Lee Breuer, and became his partner.

The couple went to Paris where for about six years they earned a living dub-bing fi lms. More importantly for Malec-zech, they met Jerzy Grotowsky, the Polish director and theorist whose ideas greatly infl uenced her. Maleczech also went to East Berlin to observe rehears-als and attend performances of Berthold Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble.

Mabou Mines hopes next year to mount “Imagining the Imaginary Inval-id,” which Maleczech and her daughter had been developing. A memorial for Ruth Maleczech is planned for a date to be announced.

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Ruth maleczech in a photo posted on the mabou mines Facebook page.


We parents of the Village, lower Manhattan, and southern Chelsea would like to say:

Thank you Assemblymember Deborah Glickfor supporting the city's children and families. Deborah Glick:Found 75 Morton Street and pushed state to sell and city to purchase it for a school-

Supported & advised grassroots parent effort against overcrowding, resulting in school space at Foundling School, Hudson Square, & NYU, as well as 75 Morton

Held Town Hall hearing on renewal of Mayoral Control of schools; voted againstMayoral Control after hearing parent opposition

Gave testimony, wrote to state officials, and published editorials opposing charterco-location; excessive testing; & diversion of funds from class size reduction

Arranged parent meetings with prominent city and state officials to protest overcrowding

Opposed NYU expansion and reduction of playgrounds

Joined parents protesting proposed teacher layoffs

Opposed selling off public park land to private residential developers defending the preservation of our open spaces and Villagers' right to our share of tax-funded park dollars to preserve our public infrastructure.

Irene Kaufman co-founder, Public School Parent Advocacy Committee; BP Stringer School Overcrowding Task Force; former Pier 40 parent: Greenwich Village Girls Basketball, Pier 40 Greenwich Village Little League

Shino Tanikawa president, Community Education Council District 2; former officer, D2 Presidents Council; former PTA PS 3 and Clinton School for Writers and Artists; co-founder, Public School Parent Advocacy Committee; CB2-CEC2 75 Morton Task Force

Tina Schiller Former PS 234 Overcrowding Committee; PS 234 SLT

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Senators stymie women’s agenda

To The Editor:What has happened to Governor Cuomo’s

10-Point Women’s Agenda? It still seems to be languishing in our state Senate. It didn’t pass, despite a majority of Democrats, because the In-dependent Democratic Caucus (I.D.C.), headed by Senator Jeff Klein teamed up with Republican Dean Skelos, who squashed women’s reproduc-tive health.

As we all know, in the last week of the regu-lar legislative session, the Assembly passed the omnibus 10-Point Women’s Equality Act (A 8070) and the Senate introduced the 10 points as sepa-rate bills, but passed only nine — omitting repro-ductive health. This means that, so far, there is no “same as” legislation that can advance to the governor’s desk and become law.

There is still time to get the Senate to pass the omnibus bill or the Assembly to pass the 10 sepa-rate bills…but the clock is running out on these bills. The deadline is Dec. 31, 2013.

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By LiNCOLN aNDERSON

In an age of shrinking print me-dia, community weeklies are still holding their own. Especially now, it’s important to be a known entity, and The Villager definitely is one.

The Villager has a tremendous 80-year tradition of community journalism, which we have endeav-ored to highlight in this week’s spe-cial anniversary section — though, in truth, I feel like it really needs to be a book if not an encyclopedia.

Looking through all the old back issues, one can see how many sto-ries remain the same — the need for parks and schools, concerns over various quality-of-life issues and, yes, over New York University’s expansion. In The Villager’s early years, every time N.Y.U. purchased another townhouse on Washington Square it was duly noted.

I still can’t believe it, but a few years ago, I actually read most of The Villager back issues — not necessar-

ily every page in-depth, but scanning — a lot on microfilm, starting back with April 13, 1933. Obviously, that was a time before computers and Facebook, before TV even.

For the past decade, the Internet has been revolutionizing journal-ism — and our lives. Today, we have smartphones more powerful than huge computers in the ’80s.

When The Villager began in the Great Depression, Walter Bryan, the paper’s co-founder, made it a cause to turn out as many residents as possible for big sings in Wash-ington Square. The Villager pro-moted contests for the neighbor-hood’s best window flowerboxes.

In the 1950s and ’60s, the paper took on a more political edge as reform Democrats came to power through the Village Independent Democrat club. One of them, Ed Koch, became New York’s mayor.

Mike Armstrong kept the paper humming along for 15 years, up through the early ’90s, when Tom and Elizabeth Butson took it over. Tom had been a top New York Times editor, and it was honor to work with him and Elizabeth.

I also learned a lot from my for-mer colleague Albert Amateau. A former editor dubbed him the “Dean of Community Journalism,” and the title was so apt.

John W. Sutter then took over the paper, and I enjoyed working with him as we would break down the latest N.Y.U. plan or Pier 40 request for proposals (R.F.P.). John firmly believed in the mission of commu-nity journalism.

Jennifer Goodstein, our new publisher, brings great enthusiasm and a real commitment to improv-

ing the company’s business side. She understands The Villager’s history and tradition. Yet, she also wants to push the paper in new directions.

Our commitment to our core mission — reporting the news, cov-ering the community and the arts, writing independent editorials — remains steadfast.

We’ve covered, and been impact-ed by, major stories: 9/11, the 2004 Republican National Convention, Hurricane Sandy. Unforgettable.

I’m very proud that The Villager has won the Dorman Award — as New York State’s best community weekly — three times since 2001.

Incredible — 80! Who knows what the future holds, regarding local stories and journalism itself? All we know is that, with the help of our readers, we’ll keep doing our best to cover what matters — and also what intrigues and enter-tains — and keep striving to put out a paper that people want to read, and to support. Here’s to 100!

Anderson is Editor in Chief of The Villager

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Have they killed the american Dream?!

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Secret vote on the Soho BiD was some tricky businessTALKING POINTBy SEaN SwEENEy

With no public announcement or fanfare, after three years of delays and hunkersliding on

the issue, this past week City Council-member Margaret Chin suddenly and unexpectedly persuaded her Council colleagues to approve a controversial business improvement district on Broad-way in Soho — less than a month after her re-election in a hard-fought Council race.

The speed and secrecy Chin employed to get the long-delayed Broadway Soho BID approved so immediately after her primary election represents, to many, a low point in political cynicism and vindictiveness, even by New York City standards.

The contentious BID proposal was delayed for three years due to vigor-ous opposition from residents and small businesses, who asserted that a BID was unnecessary, as well as an additional tax they could ill afford.

After all, retail business and rents are booming in Soho, especially along the Broadway corridor, which commands some of the highest retail rents in the city. Why is an added tax needed to “im-prove” it?

Moreover, the tax to fund the BID’s effort at cleaning the litter left behind by the throngs who shop at the ground-floor retail chains will substantially be paid for by rent increases levied on the independent, small, creative businesses on the upper floors — hardly fair.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick and state Senator Daniel Squadron, agreeing with a unanimous commu-nity board vote and several news-paper editorial boards, did not sup-port the BID, while Chin remained its biggest booster.

Yet, paradoxically, Chin and the BID steering committee, led by real estate giant and prominent Chin campaign contributor Newmark & Co., have not publicized passage of the BID that they have been cham-pioning since 2010, keeping the public in the dark.

In another odd — and undisclosed — development, on Sept. 3, just one week before her primary election, Chin drew up an unsigned memorandum of understanding between herself, the BID committee and a few undisclosed residents. The document partially in-

corporated many of the demands Soho activists had pushed for — presumably to be used later as Chin’s defense that the Soho community wants and ac-cepts her BID. For the record, nothing has changed: Many Soho residents and businesses continue to oppose this real estate-driven scheme.

Furthermore, since Chin was trounced in Soho in the primary election, some believe the speed with which she re-quested the BID vote after years of de-lay was retribution for her defeat at the polls there.

In short, it appears that Chin couldn’t wait to pass her pet project soon enough after her election, so she took precious time off her campaign to ensure that the BID would be approved immediately after her primary victory, despite daw-dling on it for three years. Clearly, she wanted passage of the BID but cynically sat on it until after she was re-elected, fearing the BID’s passage would hurt her at the polls. Seeing how Soho vot-ers rejected her at the polls, this was her swift vengeance.

Many of the points that Soho activ-ists fought for were incorporated into the memorandum of understanding, and this, they believe, is a victory and vindication of their hard-fought efforts, despite their belief that the BID is still not needed.

For example, the Broadway Soho BID will have a 50 / 50 representation of resi-dents and business owners on the BID board of directors — the first for a BID in New York City. Generally, only one resi-dent is permitted on a BID board.

Another point residents fought for was equalizing the BID tax that co-op and condo residents would pay. Origi-nally, condo owners were to be charged $1 a year, but co-op residents would be assessed hundreds of dollars.

Also, initial incentives for attracting

yet more tourists to Soho were dropped from the BID’s mission. Instead, the BID’s services will now basically be re-stricted to sanitation and security.

In addition, the overall tax assess-ment on businesses was reduced from $750,000 to $550,000.

Pete Davies of the Broadway Resi-dents Coalition said, “Our goal has always been to solve the problems that big retail brought to Broadway in Soho. Many in the neighborhood have worked long and hard to make the Soho BID proposal a more fair plan. When the government grants a BID the authority to tax, that ac-tion carries great responsibility. Those behind the BID have made many promises for Broadway and now they have their work cut out for them.”

After delaying a vote for years, the Council’s Finance Committee, last Wednesday morning, sudden-ly voted on the BID — apparently

with no notification whatsoever to any landlord or stakeholder. From there, the bill immediately went right to the City Council that very same afternoon, where it was approved.

After the city’s glacial pace on the BID the last three years, why was this done

in such secrecy, with no transparency and, basically, behind closed doors, with the public kept in the dark? A Council holding a public meeting where the pub-lic is not invited nor informed is in sharp contrast to the numerous meetings on the BID over the past three to four years.

In August, at a debate between Chin and Jenifer Rajkumar hosted by The Vil-lager and Downtown Express, Chin was asked during the “lightning round” — “Broadway Soho BID, yes or no?” After several seconds of delay, Chin respond-ed, “It’s passing.”

Also, the recent M.O.U. was involved in was devoid of the names of residents who Chin claims support the proposal and who will serve on the BID’s board of directors. It appears the Council was given a tabula rasa, a blank document, to approve. In other words: Pass the bill based on a blank M.O.U., the signatories of which we shall provide later.

Last week, we asked Chin’s Office to supply the names of the residents whom she claims will serve on the board of directors, but got no response as of this week.

It doesn’t bode well for Soho’s accep-tance of the plan.

Sweeney is director, Soho Alliance

The speed and secrecy with which the long-

delayed BID was approved represents,

to many, a low point in political cynicism and

vindictiveness.

Local residents who oppose the Broadway Soho BiD hope it doesn’t do anything further to “put Soho on the map” for tourists.

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That morning, Margaret Forgione, the agen-cy’s Manhattan borough commissioner, wrote to Marlow announcing that D.O.T. has green-lighted the idea and that it would be put into effect by next year.

“For each slow zone application,” Forgione wrote, “D.O.T. considers a myriad of factors, including, but not limited to: crash rate (relative to the rest of the borough), size of the zone, zone boundaries, transit density, community sup-port, and institutions of priority within the zone (schools, daycare, senior centers, etc.). Upon re-viewing your application, we are happy to report your zone was selected for implementation.”

Marlow is also the founder of the Tompkins Square Park & Playgrounds Parents’ Association.

The Villager broke the story about Marlow’s slow-zone proposal a little over half a year ago, back in April, when the newspaper printed a talking point by him about it.

Per Marlow’s talking point: “The slow zone program, in short, takes a well-defined, rela-tively compact area, and reduces its speed lim-it from 30 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour, with further reductions to 15 miles per hour near schools. These newly reduced speed lim-its are then promoted and enforced through the use of traffic-calming measures, such as specialized signage at zone entry points, paint-ed speed limit information on streets and the selective use of speed humps (relatively flat, elongated speed bumps that are designed to be traversed at 15 to 20 miles per hour).”

Shortly after receiving Forgione’s letter last Friday, Marlow told The Villager, “I am beyond grateful to the Department of Transportation for approving the Tompkins Square / Alphabet

City Slow Zone. I am equally filled with grati-tude for all of the community groups, elected officials and members of Community Board 3 whose support for the proposal was instrumen-tal in making it a reality. Most of all, I find my-self thinking of my father, Richard Marlow, and how something positive has finally come out of the years of terrible pain and suffering he en-dured after being hit by a speeding, drunk driv-er in 1995. I dedicate this effort to his memory.”

According to StreetsBlog, there were 74 ap-plications for slow zones. Fifteen were select-ed, to be rolled out over the course of the next three years.

“In what is an especially high honor,” Mar-low said, “the Tompkins Square / Alphabet City Slow Zone is in the highest priority group, and is set for being rolled out in 2014.”

According to StreetsBlog, also set for 2014 rollout are slow zones in Norwood in the Bronx, Clinton Hill / Bedford Stuyvesant and Browns-ville in Brooklyn, and Jackson Heights, Queens

Neighborhoods earmarked for slow zones in 2015 include Sunnyside Gardens / Woodside and Sunnyside in Queens; Crown Heights, Brooklyn; Parkchester in the Bronx; and the West Village.

In addition, traffic-calming measures are scheduled the year after that for Midland Beach in Staten Island; Brooklyn Heights and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn; Westchester Square in the Bronx; and Hudson Heights in Manhattan.

As for whether slow zones will be fast-tracked or parked in a new administration, it’s likely the former, since the predictive next mayor Bill de Blasio is a fan.

“De Blasio loves slow zones,” Marlow said. “He called for tripling the number of them during the campaign.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

what about park air rights?

To The Editor:Re: “10 years later: Meatpacking Dis-

trict would have been minced meat with-out landmarking” (news article, Andrew Berman):

The Meatpacking District’s low-rise character alone makes the landmarking an utter triumph for all involved. Berman makes a salient point in regard to accept-ing what preserved areas become, so long as they are preserved, and remain open to the sky. It is crucial. Often the conversa-tion and opposition revolve around try-ing to prevent, across the board, what will be presumed to happen to an unprotected area, rather than the far more important

“getting the protections in place.” Things will change, and they must be allowed to, but preventing overdevelopment in this manner automatically prevents a huge swath of negative possibilities. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation is nothing short of heroic.

On the Hudson River waterfront, I con-tinue to believe we must convince Gover-nor Cuomo to reject signing S5824. Giving away air rights is no different than losing a landmarking battle or a variance fight. It is exactly the same as putting housing on the pier, something we all (almost all) opposed. It is asking developers to come in and rescue the park. It is giving them what they want, in the end. No difference if it’s on the pier, in the park or on West St. We lose.

Patrick Shields

Dog shooting gnaws at him

To The Editor:Re “Word up! Artists reopen gallery in

‘novel’ fashion” (news article, Oct. 3):I can’t believe anybody would willingly

share the same oxygen as the dog-killer Tom Otterness. He adopted an innocent shelter dog, tied it to a fence and shot it dead for “art.”

Alexandra Dixon

Back in the saddle again

To The Editor:Regarding the bike ad that ran under

“First, Citi Bike; Next…Citi Arch?” (news brief, Oct. 3):

Times have changed. The uncredited man on the bicycle used to be one of the most recognized faces in the world: Gary Cooper, two-time Oscar winner and the most represented actor on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Mov-ies of All Time. He’d be recognized if he were riding a horse.

Bill Doody

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Join in! The tradition continues, but with a new lookBy JENNiFER GOODSTEiN

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A well-worn phrase, but one that rings true as we celebrate The

Villager’s 80th anniversary. Combing through the newspaper’s archives, we see headlines from the past eight decades that could be ripped from today’s paper. The Villager has reported on world-class artists, colorful politi-cal figures, brilliant scholars, celebrated war heroes and ordinary citizens, including those who protest every few years against changes to Washington Square Park, city planning board decisions, schools, wars, rent increas-es…well, you get the picture. We have a rich history of serving a community committed to preserving the dynamic and unique land-scape we simply call “The Village.”

In the age of Twitter, blogs, Facebook and other media — which deliver news in 100-calorie snack-pack portions — we en-joy the luxury of producing a weekly paper. Having the time to investigate stories and deliver fully fleshed-out reports makes The Villager stand out from the competition. In step with 80 years of tradition, we promise to continue delivering the thoughtful and thought-provoking news that is important to our readers — residents and businesses alike — both in print and online.

Our dedicated readers may have noticed our new look, logo and even a new (old) Scoopy. Our creative team and Editor in

Chief Lincoln Anderson drew inspiration from the past to move us toward a more por-table style that crosses print, online and mo-bile platforms. We want our content to look great regardless of how it is delivered to the reader. O.K., maybe the more things change, the more things change.

The Villager Web site and its social media are abuzz during the week between print editions as a virtual town square for readers to share their thoughts and opinions about the latest breaking news. If you have not checked out TheVillager.com, please do so. Feel free to join in the discussions, debates and (for all the Scoopy fans) gossip.

To our subscribers, thank you for support-ing The Villager over the years. Your sub-scriptions help keep the paper alive. Your news tips, opinion pieces and talking points add color to the paper and help reflect the concerns of those living in the Village. We hope you enjoy the new look of the paper!

To new readers, welcome. You are liv-ing and working in one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the world. If you want to keep up on local issues, news and goings-on, please look for our subscription ad on Page 63. Join in, become part of community. Yes, shameless promotion, but we know we are THAT good. Come on, join in, because being part of a neighborhood matters!

Goodstein is publisher, NYC Community Me-dia (The Villager, Downtown Express, Gay City News, Chelsea Now and East Villager) Publisher Jennifer Goodstein.

The Villager’s look has gone through changes before as seen in these front pages from summer 1989. in June, the Village Reform Democrats Club — formed as a breakaway “pro-Koch” faction of the Village independent Democrats — refused to endorse Ed Koch for mayor, partly over the city’s plan to dock a prison barge, the Bibby Venture, at Pier 40, and also because they felt a “need for V.R.D.C. to better reflect the needs of its Village constituents.” meanwhile, in July, police cleared the massive Tent City out of Tompkins Square Park.


New York University, an institution both in and of the city, is committed to giving back to New York.

Our work in the classroom and in the community is only possible thanks to the leadership and vision of so many others.

NYU wishes to salute

Thank you for 80 years of passionate, dedicated stewardship over the neighborhoods which we call home.


Through changes, Bryans’ baby is still going strongBy aLBERT amaTEau

The Villager began 80 years ago on April 13, 1933, four years after Wall St. crashed and a few years into the

Great Depression.Through the lean years and the New Deal,

through the years of World War II, the week-ly newspaper chronicled the struggle to save The Village and Washington Square Park.

The rise of political reform, the preserva-tion of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, the dawning of gay and lesbian consciousness, the transformation of the waterfront, the ep-och-changing terror of Sept, 11, 2001, the har-rowing paralysis of Superstrom Sandy — all have been in the pages of The Villager from a neighborhood point of view.

The Villager changed along with the times, often a step ahead and occasionally a step behind.

The first front page had a drawing from 1916 “Bruno’s Garret — Which is no More,” a two-story rooming house on a West Village corner. Nostalgia was a given for The Villag-er’s founders, Walter Gregory Bryan and his sister, Isabel Bryan.

Walter Bryan, who started his newspaper career in 1883 as a carrier boy for the Fulton, Missouri, Sun, went on to work as a reporter for the Kansas City Times, served as business manager of the St. Louis Star and then pro-motion director of the Chicago Tribune. He organized The Bryan Organization, a news-paper marketing firm in 1912 and at the same time joined the Hearst Organization as pub-lisher of the Atlanta Georgian and then the New York American.

Walter was a joiner and an organizer — a Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the American Order of Pioneers and an organizer and associate director of the New York State Boone Family Association — who traced their ancestry to Daniel Boone.

His sister, Isabel, was a publicity and ad-vertising manager for several companies. After a stint as head of the English depart-ment at William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri, she eventually became the office manager for the Bryan Organization. She was known as one of the best woman copy editors of her day.

The lead article on the paper’s first front page was about the annual meeting of the Washington Square Association in the Fifth Ave. Hotel. Two items noted the legalization of 3.2 beer, the first crack in Prohibition: Peter Gilmore celebrated the opening of his play in the Cherry Lane Theater with a beer party during intermission; and “Hoppy News” was a headline on The Villager’s editorial page.

Another item said the night court session of the Jefferson Market Courthouse disap-pointed spectators who expected to be enter-tained by a parade of beer drunks: “For the

first time in months only six cases were taken to hospitals for over-indulgence and these were found to be suffering from ‘smoke’ or third-rail whiskey” — whatever that is.

Also in the debut edition, a short circuit under the seats damaged a southbound streetcar on Sixth Ave. at Waverly Place but the 30 passengers boarded the next car with-out delay. A street car on the Eighth St. cross-town line collided with a cab at Christopher and West Sts. but no injuries were mentioned. Two New York University undergraduate magazines suspended publication “because of recent financial difficulties.”

A year later, Walter wrote that the paper was intended to catch the voice and the spirit of the Village. He implied that the paper was responsible for people recognizing the Village as “a community of both color and conserva-tism … of substance and charm, happy home life … high educational, artistic and musical standards … of alert business development, in short, an unusually desirable section in which to study, play, live and make a living.”

Governor Herbert Lehman, former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Greenwich House founder and Director Mary K. Simkhovitch were among those who sent anniversary greetings.

Walter died in 1941 and Isabel carried on until her death in 1957. Her sister, Merle Bry-an Williamson, took over at the age of 83.

William Honan, a former New York Times reporter and New Yorker writer, was on The Villager staff from 1957 until 1960. In an inter-view a few years ago, Honan recalled Merle Williamson as a gallant woman who knew nothing about newspapers.

“She ran a Holiday Inn in Missouri and be-came The Villager publisher on sheer cour-age,” he said.

Up to that time, The Villager took the po-litical path of least resistance and supported the powers that were — namely the Tamawa Democratic Club and its leader Carmine De-Sapio, said Honan.

But in 1959, Honan convinced Jim Bledsoe, the assistant publisher, to back the reformers, including Mayor Robert Wagner, ex-Gov-ernor Lehman and ex-Governor W. Averill Harriman, and oppose DeSapio, Tammany Hall’s reigning chief and the Village’s Demo-cratic district leader.

“We went to Merle and told her what we wanted to do,” Honan said. “She was 85 years old but she was from Missouri where the Prendergast machine ran Kansas City. She said, ‘Well boys, you better do it right. If you don’t, you’ll be stretched out in a church and people will be saying how natural you look.’ If her sister were still running the paper, it would never have happened,” Honan said.

After Merle died in 1961, her son, Bill Wil-liamson, took over and Jim Bledsoe remained assistant publisher for several years.

In the 1970s, the finances of The Villager were uncertain, and various investors — “angels” is a better word to describe them — helped the paper survive. Bill Bowser, a West Village activist who died in 2001, wrote for the paper about Village history and neigh-borhood news under three bylines: William Bowser, William Patton and David Linder.

Royce Rowe, who worked for ABC News, took the helm of a foundering ship in 1973,

according to Miriam Bockman, a former Vil-lage resident and Greenwich Village Demo-cratic district leader.

“I came to help Royce out a couple days a week, but there were so few of us and so much to do that it became full time,” Bock-man said in an interview five years ago. “We were on University Place in the Albert Hotel building. It was picturesque but the place was terrible. The roach problem was significant. If Scoopy the cat were still around then he would have had a field day eating insects.”

Rowe’s partner in The Villager was Martin Shaer, who owned real estate on Grove and Hudson Sts., according to Robert S. Trentlyon, the publisher at that time of the Chelsea Clin-ton News and The Westsider. Trentlyon ac-quired The Villager and ran it for a year or two.

Michael Armstrong, publisher of the Brooklyn Phoenix, came into the picture next.

“I bought it in 1977 from Royce Rowe,” said Armstrong. “It had about five owners in the 1970s before I came in,” he said.

Under Armstrong’s tenure, The Villager editorial office moved several times before settling in the East Village. In those days the Villager gave Off Off Broadway theater awards, arts coverage was The Villager hall-mark and the East Village was the cultural center of the readership.

“We moved from 13th St. just off Fifth Ave. to Seventh Ave. South above Sweet Basil’s, which had been the old Tamawa Democratic Club,” Armstrong recalled. “Then we moved to E. Fourth St. near LaMaMa’s theater.”

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The front page of The Villager’s inaugural issue featured lots of stories but no reporters’ bylines.


But in January 1992, the economic climate was too tough and Armstrong closed the paper.

Nevertheless, six months later, Tom But-son, a retired New York Times assistant news editor, and his wife, Elizabeth Margaritis Butson, a former marketing vice president at Philip Morris, bought the paper and re-sumed publishing, saving it from vanishing from existence.

In the next seven years, the Butsons trans-formed a moribund paper into a thriving community weekly, Tom Butson as editor and Elizabeth Butson as publisher.

At age 19, Tom Butson had left his native New Zealand, where he was working as a re-porter for The Truth, a weekly paper he later described as “a political scandal sheet.” He looked for newspaper work in London but learned that the Thompson papers in Canada were hiring, so there he went to work for the Thompson paper in Guelph, Ontario. By the time he was 28 he was assistant managing editor of the Toronto Star.

He ran photos by Elizabeth Margaritis — who at the time was working as a photojour-nalist — in the paper, and they married in 1967. He joined the Times in 1968, working on the Week in Review section of the Sunday

paper and as assistant news editor of the dai-ly main news section. Three years after pur-chasing The Villager, the Butsons acquired a second local paper, Downtown Express, cov-ering Tribeca and Lower Manhattan.

Tom Butson’s declining health prompted the sale in 1999 of The Villager and Down-

town Express, the latter at the time a bi-monthly, to John W. Sutter, who had recently sold a chain of Long Island newspapers he had been running for 10 years. In 1995 Sutter had moved to Tribeca.

The Villager’s Sept. 11, 2001, issue was a few days late, but its coverage of the

World Trade Center attack and the impact on the community was complete. In 2002, The Villager won 13 editorial awards for 2001 from the New York Press Association, including seven first-place prizes, as well as the Stuart Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence, the association’s top prize hon-oring the state’s best community weekly paper. The Villager also won the Dorman Award in 2004 and 2005.

In mid-2002, Sutter acquired LGNY, a bi-weekly newspaper covering the gay commu-nity, relaunching it as the weekly Gay City News. In late 2006, Sutter started another weekly paper, Chelsea Now, covering the thriving Chelsea area.

In August 2012, Jennifer Goodstein ac-quired Community Media from Sutter, re-naming it NYC Community Media. Good-stein previously worked at MetLife where she led e-business strategy and IT invest-ments online service. Under Goodstein — who has brought her computer savvy, mar-keting skills and business expertise to the company — NYC Community Media con-tinues going strong.

All four of the news group’s papers con-tinue to win awards in NYPA’s Better News-paper Contest at the press organization’s an-nual spring convention.

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Newspapers are living things and those who love them measure suc-cess by endurance. Over 80 years,

through cultural, political and economic upheavals in its community — not to men-tion the leadership of a few dozen different editors and publishers over the decades — The Villager continues to be an important in-stitution in one of the city’s most distinctive communities.

The leading Page One stories in the very first edition produced by Walter and Isabel Bryan on April 13, 1933, included a report about the arrival of George Bernard Shaw in New York (“He poses for photographs but has little to say to reporters”) and a report of the annual meeting of the Washington Square Association at the Fifth Avenue Ho-tel (“The Associaiton plays a highly impor-tant part in all civic matters pertaining to the district…”). Other headlines were “Held in Robbing (Gene) Tunney’s Pal,” “Street Car and Taxi Crash” and “Illness May Prevent ‘Jimmy’s’ [Walker] Wedding.”

Walter and Isabel Bryan probably turned over in their proverbial graves many times during the 15 years of our stewardship. At the time we took charge of The Villager in 1977, the genteel community they had so lovingly covered was altered — not so completely in physical terms, but certainly in demographic and cultural terms. As I have explored the streets of the Village and environs over recent years, I see continuing change that is every bit as overwhelming as that which occurred since we left The Villager ourselves. I’m sure Editor Lincoln Anderson will probably be able to say the same thing himself in another 10 years.

As Villager editor and publisher between 1977 and 1992, I also represented community weeklies in New York City as regional direc-tor of the 200-member New York Press Asso-ciation. We were proud to match up our Vil-lager newspaper against publications from

all across the state, as we often won best-in-state awards year after year for coverage of local government, education, arts, business and individual writing honors.

One reason we were so good was that we had plenty of raw material to work with. We covered a historic community with a strong sense of its past and a determination to pre-serve the best of it against inappropriate devel-opment or over-commercialization. Tensions between residential and commercial interests, a sometime-callous (or indifferent) municipal government, huge institutional forces, and the insatiable appetite of people to live and play in the Village, regularly presented new, fresh op-portunities to bring out the best in reporters. So did an active political scene, thanks to the Vil-lage Independent Democrats and the upstart Village Reform Democratic Club — and the

clientele of the Lion’s Head.Issues included zoning changes, sidewalk

cafe permits, landmarks challenges, various N.Y.U. expansions, and countless quality-of-life concerns. We saw and reported the trans-formation of commercial streets, e.g. Chris-topher St., Eighth St., University Place, Sixth Ave., Broadway, Third Ave., just to name some. We covered the demise of Westway in our early years, reported on the gentrification of the West Village and turmoil at Westbeth, and chronicled the argument over whether to permit removal of those curious elevated rail tracks that have since become the High Line park. The West Village owes a debt of gratitude to real estate entrepreneur Bill Gottleib, who fathered more restaurants than anyone we know, and whose unique busi-ness practices resulted in the preservation of

many buildings that might have been lost.The legalization of loft living to provide

working space for artists led to the trans-formation of Soho, proof of how some un-intended consequences have a bitter bite. And we reported on the insatiable push that brought artists and outliers into conflict with developers and gentrifiers that moved our coverage area into the East Village. Wonder if anyone remembers Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden? Or if any “survivors” of the Tompkins Square Park riots still live in the East Village?

Among the most severe tragedies reflect-ed in our Villager pages was an emerging awareness of the scourge of AIDS and H.I.V. The difference in Village life before and after

Congratulations!to The Villager

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Congratulations to The Villager

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Former President Jimmy Carter visiting the Lower East Side in 1984 for a project with Habitat for Humanity, which renovated abandoned buildings on E. Sixth St.

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AIDS could be compared to the difference in city life before and after 9/11. Not only did the Village become a center of commerce for the gay and lesbian community as its mem-bers emerged from the shadows of city life after Stonewall, it also became ground zero for advocacy for gay (and then lesbian) rights and the source of support for those afflicted by the disease and public education about it.

The Villager had several homes over the years of our tenure. Finding ourselves in an office building on Fifth Ave. at the start, we quickly relocated to a more appropriate, accessible second-floor space over Sweet Basil’s on Seventh Ave. South. In the mid-’80s, rising rents and an expanding coverage to the east brought us to a storefront on E. Fourth St., a location that was particularly compatible with our expanded coverage of Off and Off Off Broadway and experimental theater.

Speaking of that coverage, we took great pride in our annual Villager Theater Awards, the inspiration of our prescient theater edi-tor, John Patterson. The ’80s was a time of great ferment in the artistic community with dozens of productions taking place every year in some of the most raw spaces. “Exper-imental” was definitely the word for many of the short-run presentations, but much worthy work went unheralded in the me-dia, so we began to cover the scene. And we created the Village Theater Awards to honor the best of it, an awards program that was as much a celebration of the scene. Thank you, Art D’Lugoff and the Village Gate, for pro-viding us a home for these celebrations for four straight years.

As for some of our special Villager mo-ments, we fondly remember the first years of the Village Halloween Parade, when cel-ebrants wound their way through neigh-borhood streets west of Fifth Ave., and The Villager staff contingent was one of the most exuberant. Then there was the 50th anni-versary of the founding of The Villager, cel-ebrated at the Salmagundi Club with Mayor Ed Koch there to participate in the fete. Years later, people still talked about our Year-End Open House where Councilman at Large Henry Stern worked the crowd to sell his N.Y.C.-branded neckties. (I think I still have mine somewhere).

Elections are about making choices and choosing sides. We endorsed someone in vir-tually every race, but the choice that stands in my memory is that of Reverend Jesse Jack-son in the New York presidential primary. My favorite photo of all time shows Jackson carrying a framed copy of the editorial in a pre-Election Day parade, And yes, he won the primary.

Early in our tenure, The Villager staff rose to an unusual challenge as we went “daily” when a bitter strike shut down the citywide

newspapers in August 1978. We published four days a week for several weeks until oth-er strike newspapers came in to fill the void. It was wonderful to see us virtually alone on Village-area newsstands, selling out most days. Interestingly, that experience was a precursor to today’s intense Internet publish-ing schedule, as reporters and photographers came back to the office after covering a meet-ing, wrote their stories, and saw them in print on the stands 12 hours later.

There were some special Village people we covered. Vesuvio Bakery’s Tony Dapolito, as chairperson of Community Board 2, was pe-rennially our number one news source and pro bono journalism instructor, patiently ex-plaining the civic lay of the land to successive generations of Villager reporters. There was Ruth Wittenberg, the venerable West Village landmark activist, who, in the midst of con-tentious approval process for the replace-ment building for the infamous Weather Underground site, converted tension to hu-mor by describing it a building with “a little indiscretion.” Ellen Stewart, the trailblazing LaMaMa theatrical entrepreneur, made us so welcome when we moved The Villager edi-torial offices to E. Fourth St.

Newspapers are a business, too, and ad-vertisers are the lifeblood of publishers. We are grateful for the consistent support of some of the most community-minded busi-nesses from our times, including Crossroads Wine & Liquor, Mad Monk, Jefferson Market, Balducci’s, Sazarac House, Art Kaiser, Sweet Basil, Minetta Tavern, Garvin’s, Garber’s Hardware, Caring Community, Greenwich House and, of course, many others. Thank you, Sally Markman and George Fiala, for working this side of the street for many years.

An editor’s job is to take the available words and photos and turn them into a pack-age that readers want to receive week after

week. We did that year after year thanks to creative and energetic writers, many of whom were learning the craft of journal-ism and experiencing their first published work. Dozens of professional awards over

the years testify to their outstanding skills. Photographers Jeannie Black and Bill Biggart (who tragically lost his life while reporting at the World Trade Center site) were among those who consistently provided us with first-class photography to document the news. Other great photography came from Brian O’Donoghue and Stacy Rosenstock. Connecting the past to the present was the faithful volunteer work of Evelyn Patterson, whose “Way Back When” tidbits from earlier Villagers were part of every week’s edition. And, of course, there was Frank Cass, who regularly serviced our 80 newsstand outlets with the latest weekly edition. It would be appropriate to list the names of all my edi-torial colleagues here, but there’s not enough space. Some of them were: Chris Archer, Rob DeRocker, Mike Tomasky, Marianne Baker, John Patterson, Jeff Trachtman, Jon Ciner, Eileen Blair, Eric Goldstein, Andrew Jacobs, Betsy Herzog, Ken Godwin, Lillie Wright, Jim Sheehan, Steve Hart and… .

Armstrong and his community newspaper publishing company acquired The Villager in 1977 and sold it in 1992 to three of the company’s shareholders, Thomas and Elizabeth Butson and Nancy Flowers.

aiDS, Off Broadway plays, awards and ‘going daily’

ELIZABETH BUTSON PUBLISHER 1991 -99

JOHN SUTTERPUBLISHER 1999-2012

SINCE 1933 THE VILLAGER HAS COVERED

PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY

SO UNIQUE.

ON ITS 80TH BIRTHDAY THE VILLAGER CONTINUES TO BE A STRONG INDEPENDENT

VOICE IN THE VILLAGE AND ITS SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS.

OUR BEST WISHES TO THE NEW PUBLISHER JENN GOODSTEIN AND THE VILLAGER STAFF

Even after westway’s defeat, Villagers still had plenty to protest about on the waterfront. in 1989, above, they rallied against a plan for PaTH train ventilation towers on the waterfront south of Christopher St. From left, Bill Hine (back row, fourth from left), Larry Selman, Ben Green, repre-senting assemblymember Bill Passannante, miriam Lee of the Village Homeowners’ association, Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin, then a mayoral candidate, Bob Oliver (partially obscured by raised hand) of the Federation to Preserve the Greenwich Village waterfront & Great Port, Judy Seigel of the morton Street Block association, Vern Fry and artie Strickler.

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above, in april 1934, a ceremony was held for the children’s garden in Tompkins Square Park. Below, in 1986, adam Purple walked on the former site of his Garden of Eden after the city razed it for affordable housing. The green oasis covered 15,000 square feet between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts. near Stanton St. with planting beds in Zen-like concentric circles, it featured corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, asparagus, raspberries and 45 trees. “it was a work of art — an earthwork, a work of art that was also ecologically based,” Purple told amy Brost in a 2006 interview. Now in his early 80s, Purple mentors young activists at the Time’s up! bike garage in williamsburg.

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The Villager on its 80th anniversary

Assemblyman Shelly SilverIf you need assistance or have questions about community issues or legislation, please contact my office at (212) 312-1420 or email [email protected].

Through the eras, The Villager has always been thereBy JOHN w. SuTTER

It’s been just over a year since I sold The Villager and its sister newspapers to NYC Community Me-dia. After 25 years of publishing newspapers — I

owned another Long Island group for 12 years before The Villager and Co. — I am still totally immersed in the news as a voracious reader.

To the best of my recollection, I was the ninth owner of The Villager, although there may have been another owner or two in the turbulent 1970s: Isabel and Wal-ter Bryan (1933-41); then Isabel Bryan alone (1941-57); followed by Isabel’s sister Merle Bryan Williamson (1957-61); her son, Bill Williamson (1961-73); then Royce Rowe, Bob Trentlyon, Martin Shaer (all in the mid-’70s); Michael Armstrong (1977-91); Tom and Eliz-abeth Butson (1992-99), myself (1999-2012); and now Jennifer Goodstein (2012 to present).

“The paper was often a step ahead of its reader-ship, occasionally a step behind,” as Al Amateau, one of The Villager’s great writers, neatly summed up the changing epochs and leadership of The Villager over the years. The Villager has had a colorful history and weathered many storms. It was founded in the depths of the Depression, went under at least twice, was res-urrected by Tom and Elizabeth Butson, and survived 9/11, the Great Recession and Hurricane Sandy.

But it has always faithfully documented the life and pulse of our cherished neighborhoods.

Nothing made me happier when I was running The Villager than to have readers come up to me and tell me how important the paper was to them. It was par-ticularly satisfying when people who had lived in the Village for decades would tell me that they thought they knew the Village until they started reading The Villager.

I’d like to send a special shout-out to three people: Bill Honan, Lincoln Anderson and Jerry Tallmer. Bill Honan, who edited the paper in the late 1950s, took on Camine DeSapio and the Tammany machine and went on to help Ed Koch get elected mayor. Bill, who had a distinguished career at the New York Times, put The Villager firmly on the path of hard-hitting and quality journalism.

To Lincoln Anderson, who has edited The Villager since late 1999, I cherished working with you. Lincoln has the pulse of our neighborhoods, a vast trove of sources, and a love and a passion for community jour-nalism. I eagerly await his stories every week.

And to Jerry Tallmer, who helped found the Village Voice and has been covering the arts in our great city for over a half century, you write like an angel.

My heartfelt congratulations to The Villager on its 80th anniversary. It is our hometown paper in the big city.John w. Sutter.


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’30s1933: The Villager is born with a “guaran-

teed circulation of 25,000.” An early issue is the spotty service on “Sixth Ave. surface line,” apparently streetcars, and the slacker drivers who only want to get back to “the barn.”

1935: Parks Commissioner Robert Moses proposes a $2 million redesign of Washing-ton Square Park that would close it to traf-fi c and reroute buses around the square. A rectangular refl ecting pool would replace the park’s historic fountain. The Washington Square Association and residents of hotels and upscale apartment buildings oppose the plan, not wanting buses to run near their homes. A Save the Square Committee is formed to ensure no “radical changes” are made to the park. Noise is a problem, espe-cially roller skaters and barking dogs in the evening. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia imple-ments a noise-abatement program. It works. Organ grinders are also targeted.

1936: Scoopy makes his appearance, and starts his column. Scoopy mania sweeps the Village. A competition elicits many ideas for names — Peter, Gossip, Furbelow, Catapault (“if it is lively”), Villy, Villa, Newsy, Lino (as in linotype), Copycat, or Copy for short, Ex-try, Dead Line — but Scoopy wins.

1937: Sixth Ave. trolleys are removed, to The Villager’s relief. One thousand people attend the newspaper’s third anniversary at Wannamaker’s department store on Broadway.

1938: Construction starts on the Sixth Ave. I.N.D. subway through the Village.

1939: Hundreds gather to watch the last train trips on the Sixth Ave. El, slated to be torn down. The Villager subsequently launches a campaign to name the inter-section of Sixth and Greenwich Aves. and Eighth St. “Village Square,” but it never catches on.

’40s1941: Walter Bryan, co-founder of The

Villager, dies. The Washington Square Association protests a plan for four play-grounds in the square, feeling they “will be a detriment to peace” and reduce prop-erty values.

1942: America enters World War II. Twen-ty-two historic buildings, said to be “among the nation’s most valuable landmarks,” are reported to be on a list of buildings that have been photographed and recorded and could be rebuilt if bombed.

1945: World War II ends. General Dwight D. Eisenhower rides victoriously under the Washington Square Arch while touring the city.

1946: Protests over plans by the Board of Education to demolish the historic Sulli-van-MacDougal Gardens for a new trades high school.

1947: Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village open. New York University announc-es plans for a new four-and-a-half-story law center on Washington Square South. Twelve thousand sign a petition against the project.

1949: The Whitney Museum announces it will leave W. Eighth St. for Uptown.

’50s1951: N.Y.U. Law School building is com-

pleted. Residents don’t think it’s so bad.1953: Washington Square Southeast Slum

Clearance Report is made public. Renew-al area targets area between Washington Square South, Mercer and Houston Sts. and Broadway. Patchin Place is picked for new P.S. 41, but dropped quickly after opposition.

1954: Board of Estimate approves slum-clearance project. Wannamaker’s closes.

1955: Plans are announced to bisect Wash-ington Square Park with a depressed, four-lane roadway to link Fifth Ave. with a proposed widened West Broadway. The Washington Square Association favors the plan. N.Y.U. gets three future superblocks designated south of the square. A congressional committee deems the university’s plan legal.

1956: A $13.75 million urban renewal proj-ect for the Cooper Square area is announced by Planning Czar Moses for the area between East Houston St., St. Mark’s Place, Third Ave. and the Bowery. The 21-acre project is sup-posed to look like Stuyvesant Town.

1957: Construction begins on Pier 40 at West Houston St., a $12 million project. Joining the community’s protest, Tammany’s Carmine DeSapio, the powerful district leader, calls for the park to be closed to traffi c.

1958: The Villager runs a front-page edito-rial against a road through the park. Thirty-thousand Villagers sign a petition to close the park to traffi c.

1959: The idea is raised to convert the old Jeffer-son Market Courthouse on Sixth Ave. to a library.

’60s1962: The Lower Manhattan Expressway

Project is proposed. Devised by Moses, the $140 million, 2.4-mile roadway along Broome St. to link the Manhattan and Wil-liamsburg bridges to the Holland Tunnel would displace 2,300 families in Little Italy and cut off Chinatown. City agrees to com-munity alternative plan for Cooper Square.

1963: Loft law introduced to protect loft dwellers.

1964: Landmarks preservation legislation for the city is proposed. Residents protest loud coffee houses on MacDougal St.

1965: Eight years after it was built, Pier 40 is no longer in use for shipping as the city’s maritime industry has dried up. Dis-trict Leaders Ed Koch and Carol Greitzer support using the pier as a recreation site for half the year. The Greenwich Village Historic District’s proposed boundaries are released. N.Y.U. announces plans to build the 12-story Bobst Library on Washington Square South, designed by Philip Johnson. “Tall cube would keep sun from Wash. Sq.,” a Villager headline reads. N.Y.U. wants a 40-foot strip of West Broadway to make the building wider.

1966: Koch writes talking point in The Vil-lager raising fears N.Y.U. will ring the square with a “12-story master plan.”

1967: “Selfi sh” hippies are accused of add-ing to the East Village’s litter problem.

1968: The city approves a zoning variance to create 360 units of artists’ housing at West-

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’70s1970: Weathermen’s “bomb factory” on W.

11th St. blows up. More than 1,000 youths rally in the Village to protest a “police step-up in the harassment of homosexuals.” May-or John Lindsay’s plan for “festival piers” is shot down by West Siders.

1971: A fl oating methadone clinic at the Christopher St. Pier provokes the commu-nity’s ire.

1973: Koch runs for mayor. Community Board 2 vetoes a dog run at Houston and Mercer Sts. and bedlam breaks out at meet-ing. Women’s House of Detention is razed.

1974: West Village Houses open as an afford-able Mitchell-Lama co-op. There are too few takers, so the buildings later became rental.

1977: Koch inaugurated as mayor.1978: Printing unions of city’s dailies go on

two-week strike. Villager goes daily to meet readers’ need for news.

’80s1980: C.B. 2 O.K.’s Mercer-Houston Dog

Run. Westway project, a four-mile, $1.2 mil-lion, sunken, six-lane highway in a tunnel along the West Side waterfront, is still alive.

1982: Ruling that Westway planners didn’t investigate landfi ll’s harmful effect on striped bass is death blow for reviled project. Eighth St. residents say they’re bothered by late-night shows of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

1984: Operation Pressure Point, a police initiative using community help, targets East Side drug dealing, which has grown out of control with open-air markets.

1985: The Third Ave. Tenants, Artists and Businessmen’s Association protested N.Y.U.’s planned high-rise dorms on two lots at Ninth and 12th Sts. Future Council-member Margarita Lopez arrested at protest after chaining herself to a crane.

1987: Greenwich Village neighbors mourned the death of Lisa Steinberg, 6, a P.S. 41 student who was beaten to death by her adoptive parents.

1988: Department of Corrections plans to moor a 400-man, $19 million prison barge at Pier 40.

’90s1991: Two months before his election to

the City Council, Tom Duane announces he is H.I.V. positive. Duane said he wanted to set an example that people with H.I.V. could be productive and be good citizens.

1994: Squatters fought plans by Lower East Side Coalition Housing Development Inc. to rehab fi ve abandoned buildings on E. 13th St. “They treat the whole neighborhood like a radical Romper Room,” a member of the housing group sneered of the squatters.

1995: Squatters evicted from three city-owned buildings on E. 13th St.

1996: Reconstruction project begins on Route 9A and adjacent bikeway along the Lower West Side waterfront. Abe Lebewohl, owner of 2nd Ave. Deli, is shot and killed

near the deli in a case still unsolved.1997: Greenwich Village Little League and

Downtown United Soccer Club sue the state to get fi elds on Pier 40. East Village poet Al-len Ginsberg, a Beat icon, dies.

1998: C.B. 2 approves the Hudson River Park Act, creating the 5-mile-long waterfront park.

’00s2001: World Trade Center is destroyed by

terrorists, killing more than 2,750 people.2002: City sells remaining 13 squatter

buildings in the East Village, for $1 apiece, to the squatters.

2003: Mayor Bloomberg bans smoking in bars. Hudson River Park’s fi rst section, in Greenwich Village, opens. Also in Hudson River Park, plans for the world’s largest oceanarium, among others, pitched for Pier 40 meet community opposition, and are then dropped amid a weak economy. As an in-terim measure, a huge artifi cial-turf playing fi eld is created in the pier’s courtyard. Par-ents and kids love it — and a youth sports mecca is born. Gansevoort Market Historic District is designated.

2006: Christine Quinn becomes the fi rst female and fi rst openly gay City Council speaker. Washington Square renovation plan is approved — fountain to be moved 23 feet east to align with arch.

2008: Bloomberg, with Quinn’s help, engi-neers the legislative extension of term limits. A plan for a “Vegas on the Hudson” destina-tion-entertainment complex — with Cirque du Soleil and the Tribeca Film Festival — at

Pier 40 sparks opposition. The idea fi nally sinks after the Hudson River Park Trust won’t extend the pier’s lease term.

’10s2010: With $1 billion debt, St. Vincent’s

Hospital closes. The Villager drops “Koch on Film” column over ongoing dispute over his ticket reimbursements.

2012: City Council O.K.’s N.Y.U. 2031 plan to add 2 million square feet of development to two university-owned South Village su-perblocks. Community groups sue to stop the project. Study commissioned by youth sports leagues shows residential is most lu-crative use with lowest impact for Pier 40. Hudson River Park Trust claims impartial-ity on the matter. Superstorm Sandy blacks out Downtown Manhattan for several days and infl icts major damage after the E. 14th St. Con Ed plant is fl ooded.

2013: Koch dies at age 88. C.B. 2 O.K.’s conservancy for Washington Square. Youth leagues’ pitch for luxury high-rise towers near Pier 40 sinks due to lack of political sup-port. State Legislature approves sale of Hud-son River Park air rights across the highway. Quinn receives the endorsement of the city’s major daily newspapers in her historic bid for mayor, and is seen as prohibitive favorite. Yet Bill de Blasio, with “tale of two cities” cam-paign, wins Democratic mayoral primary. Corey Johnson beats Yetta Kurland in a nasty primary to succeed Quinn in the Council. Washington Square renovation’s last phase slated to fi nish by year’s end.


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From politicians to punks, people love The Villager!

The Villager is one of our city’s crown jewels. Its hyperlocal news and arts coverage and independent-minded editorials are an antidote to a lot of the homogenized media elsewhere in New York. And where would any of us be without a weekly dose of Scoopy’s?

Brad HoylmanState senator, former chairperson of Com-

munity Board 2

I love The Villager. I read it online. Even the Pet Set — it’s hilarious.

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nee for Manhattan borough president

I really love The Villager. And my wife loves it as much as me — she’s always picking it up.

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The Villager has an especial-ly deep-rooted awareness of our community that helps it tell our local stories right, quickly and well! No newcomer or corporate me-dia can compete with such an in-

dispensable East Village treasure! Many thanks and congratulations on your 80th!

Ayo HarringtonCommunity Board 3 member, president of the All

the Way East Fourth St. Block Association, co-pres-ident Coalition for a District Alternative (CoDA), member of Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS), former member of the social-justice, a cap-pella singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock

The Voice has turned into such a piece of s--- that The Villager is like Hemingway. And Scoopy is a pretty good little gossip column. It’s about real Village people. The Voice started thinking of themselves as a national paper and they lost touch with New York, and The Villager has always been New York.

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Thank You Villager!!Judson Memorial Church owes many debts to The Villager for all of its 80

years. You have joined us in the battle to keep the village a village and the city a city. You understand the ravages of

gentrification as well as we do. You published my piece on NYU: Too Big Not

to Fail." You joined us in the funeral procession (thank you, Lincoln) for Harry Ketoukas when we let his empty rolling

cart, decorated with Christmas lights, lead us. You published my embroidered

obituary of Harry, one of the last octogenarians with purple hair and

sparkling eyes left on our fair streets. In addition to seeing a good story when you see it, you tell us about the people with the cats and the evictions and the great senses of humor. You know how

important a chess club is to a block. You did remarkable journalism (in a tough

situation where most of the information was hidden or oblique) around the last Washington Square Park Renovation. You know a community leader when you see one and you have made sure everybody knows Doris. Best of all,

and I say this as the other "Mom and Pop" Independent book seller, with a Baptist and United Church of Christ

franchise behind it, you answer my calls and return my emails. It is good to do

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Best WishesBest Wishesto our favorite hometown paper in a big city.

Mary and Bob Pascale

The Villager is not only an outstanding source of local news coverage, it is also a formidable advocacy tool for local activ-ists. When I needed citywide and national press attention to shame the Parks Depart-ment into taking the Tompkins Square Park playground rat problem seriously, my press outreach started with The Vil-

lager. When I wanted to raise funds for a seriously injured local resident, The Vil-lager helped me reach out to the commu-nity. To kick off my effort to protect East Village pedestrians from speeding motor vehicles by creating a Slow Zone, I wrote a Villager talking point. And when I needed to communicate to the crusties community that they needed to rein in their unlawful behavior or risk a potential crackdown, The Villager enabled me to send that mes-sage, again through a talking point. I could not have succeeded in each of these efforts without the help of The Villager.

Chad Marlow(holding $18,000 crowdsourced check for injured florist)Founding member of Tompkins Square Park

& Playground Parents’ Association (TSP3A), Community Board 3 member

The Villager has provided substantive, bot-tom-up, community-based journalism for our communities on the West Side. Who doesn’t open up to Scoopy’s every week to get the lat-est local fl avor on the Lower West Side? I wish everyone on the team a happy 80th birthday and many, many more to come. Congratula-tions to Jennifer, Lincoln, Scott, Paul, Troy and the rest of the NYC Community Media family.

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By CaROL GREiTZER

Well, we’re all getting older. But while some of us gripe with our peers about our ailments, the newest octogenarian, The Villager, keeps go-

ing, as sprightly and energetic as ever. For this article, The Villager asked me about cars parked

in Washington Square Park. I don’t remember such park-ing, though, of course I do remember cars driving through the park, and Fifth Ave. double-decker buses using the park as a turnaround.

And I particularly remember the night (about 11:45, 1962 or ’63) when Ed Koch and I symbolically pushed the last bus out of the park. Perhaps The Villager has the photo in its archive. I can’t find it, though I know it exists. Getting the buses out of the park was probably the last chapter in the fight to keep the park closed to traffic — a fight whose many battles made the front pages of The Villlager quite often back then.

All of which leads me to set the record straight on one aspect of that fight. I’ve noticed lately that people — elected officials included — attribute the leadership to Jane Jacobs. Jane, of course, participated in that effort, as did most activists in the community. But though she was undoubtedly the leader in the fight to keep Robert Moses from designating (and ultimately bulldozing) part of the West Village as a Title I urban renewal area, and though she was the acknowledged leader and inspiration

in the campaign to stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway (a.k.a. the Broome St. Expressway,) from being built, she was not the leader in the Washington Square fight. That title indisputably belongs to Shirley Hayes, a park mother who, with Edith Lyons, back in the ’50s organized other mothers and started the loud — and, yes, sometimes stri-dent — protestations about the cars, the fumes, the dan-

gers of allowing cars and buses in the middle of a heavily used park. Once this campaign began to steamroll and look as if it had a chance to succeed, several other people (mostly men) formed their own group so as to present a more “respectable” approach to city officials, in contrast to Shirley’s stridency, which was what aroused their inter-est in the first place!

My goal is to make sure Shirley’s role is not forgotten. She didn’t raise money; you won’t see her name inscribed on some piece of park furniture, but she did something of major impact. Without her leadership and persistence, Washington Square Park would not be the place it is today. At the very least, there should be a plaque recognizing her efforts, like the plaque on the fence at Jackson Square ac-knowledging the Armani contribution to improvements at that park.

In the end, many Village groups united in obtaining park improvements, as chronicled over the years in The Villager’s coverage of park news, right up to the recent Oct. 3, 2013, issue, which featured an article on the park’s new conservancy. Perhaps an authentic history of the park could be compiled from the clips of these 80 years of your coverage. Or would you rather hold out for 100 years?

In reflecting on these past events it occurs to me that we’ve evolved, but not necessarily for the better. Back then, with three distinct political forces — an active Republican club, Carmine DeSapio’s Tamawa Club and the emerg-

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ing Village Independent Democrats — we managed to get together, albeit heatedly, on community issues. Now, there are four women, well-intentioned though they may be, who appear to be in charge of the park, working officially with a park employee.

A major problem with conservancies is that there are no ground rules. Conser-vancies pop up suddenly, but with some connection to the Parks Department com-missioner; they are said not to be really in charge — yet they have a status denied to other park users. There are hundreds, even thousands of people who feel passionate-ly about this park, but now are confused about their role and the conservancy role. If there’s a problem, who does one go to? The conservancy? The community board? The Parks Department? Our elected officials?

It doesn’t have to be this way. Other cit-ies enjoy a closer relationship between the public and park managers. Many cities have monthly meetings where people can tell park officials how they feel. Baltimore has a public advisory council; Minneapolis has direct election of park commissioners;

Chicago is currently querying citizens as to what they like and don’t like about their parks and how they want park funds to be spent. Chicago, incidentally, pays for parks in a unique way, one we might learn from. There is a Chicago Park District, an inde-pendent taxing authority that raises mon-ey exclusively for parks. Chicago is said to spend more per capita on parks than any other city in this country. New York City, by contrast, spends less than one half of 1 percent of the budget on parks, even while acquiring more acreage to manage.

Bill de Blasio, who seems likely to be-come our next mayor, has said that he wants to empower individuals and to in-volve communities. The Villager can cele-brate the start of its ninth decade by asking our next mayor whether he might imple-ment these and similar ideas to give all park users more of a say about their parks.

So happy birthday! Let’s blow out the candles and make a wish.

Greitzer was a New York City councilmem-ber from 1969-91, representing the Village and other Downtown areas. Prior to that she was the Village’s Democratic district co-leader with Ed Koch.

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By ROyCE ROwE

I guess I can take credit, or blame, for saving The Villager from extinction. I bought the paper in about 1973 or 1974 from owners Ed McDougall and Jack Raymond. Ed was

an executive at the American Banker magazine, and Jack was a former New York Times reporter who had gone into public rela-tions. They had bought The Villager in about 1970, and found they couldn’t devote enough time or money to make it a success.

I had been urged to buy the paper by a friend who worked

for the Dow Jones News Service while I worked for the Wall Street Journal. By this time I had gone to work at WNBC-TV, and was the producer of weekend news programs. Working weekends at NBC left me free to work at The Villager on Mon-days and Tuesdays. After I had made a deal with McDougall and Raymond, my potential partner backed out.

I foolishly went ahead, however, hoping to fi nd other part-ners, and also hoping to fi nd people so fi lled with community spirit that they would help put out a useful neighborhood weekly for little or no monetary compensation. By far the biggest “volunteer” was William Bowser, who later became

well-known for creating the garden across from St. Vincent’s Hospital where the old Loew’s Sheridan Theater had stood. Bill wrote an enormous number of well-informed pieces un-der his own name, and a series of pieces about neighborhood history under the pseudonym William Patton.

On the business side, a young lady, Francene Turken, worked diligently selling advertising, receiving only a small commission. I was able to pay a small, but regular wage to Miriam Bockman, who took charge of advertising and production.

We were able to breathe enough life into the paper to increase the pages, but at considerable expense. We were never suc-cessful in attracting large advertisers like supermarkets, which could buy one or two full pages a week. We did get an occasion-al full page from Greenwich Savings Bank. The Villager was becoming an editorial success, but remained a business failure.

At some point I sold the paper outright to Martin Shaer, a real estate broker who managed some sizeable apartment buildings on Hudson St. Marty made a good effort, but couldn’t make a go of it either, and after about a year defaulted on the debt he owed me, and said I could take the paper back. I still needed a partner, so offered Marty 20 percent of a restructured owner-ship, and sought other partners who could put in new money, including Jack Meserole, a book designer who lived on 11th St., and Tom Barbour, an actor who lived on Perry St. We struggled on for another year, but still couldn’t stem the losses.

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“It was an ant with a crumb twice its size in its jaws slowly making its way over the twigs. It occurred to me that if I was that little ant, the shrubbery would look like a great forest, and so with my face close to the ground, I tried to view the scene as my minute energetic acquaintance was observ-ing it. In a moment the twigs became great fallen trunks, the dried spruce shrubs turned to gigantic trees with twisted branches and I was looking into a forest out of the depths of which a band of Nibelungs laden with gold and silver treasure, and even Wotan himself, might have come.”

Edward C. Caswell, “Artist Draws the Nar-rowest City Dwelling,” The Villager (1933)

Before the West Village became one of America’s financially richest zip codes, a neighborhood of noisy outdoor eateries, Madison Ave. shops and streets cordoned off by TV crews, it was a quiet place to live, a culturally rich community, one that Ed-ward C. Caswell (1879-1963) delightfully illustrated for decades.

Throughout the 1930s and ’40s, Cas-well’s drawings appeared regularly on The Villager’s front page.

It was in the bound volumes of old is-sues at The Villager’s Canal St. office where, last year, I had my first glimpse of the range of Caswell’s fascinations.

Caswell wrote an occasional column for the paper as well. And he was a book il-lustrator, traveling to Europe in the 1920s, capturing Florence, Amsterdam and Buda-pest with pencil and pen and ink.

I was intrigued when some of these illus-trations popped up in the local flea market. My favorite are the artist’s portraits of the West Village streets, of the interiors and exteriors of the homes of its residents, like poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who lived in New York’s narrowest house, a Dutch house — once “a maltster’s, a cobbler’s and a candy factory.”

There is scant information about Cas-well’s life. Why? I wondered.

Looking through the microfilm at N.Y.U.’s Bobst Library for his many cov-ers of The Villager, it was clear to me that Caswell’s drawings were personal. He put his “face close to the ground,” knew the people, the art clubs and studios, the lanes and gardens he drew.

In 2006, Peter Duveen organized a show of the artist’s life and work at the Museum of Brooklyn Art and Culture in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Duveen noted that Caswell’s career “embraced newspaper work, adver-tising art and book illustration.” He told me Caswell started out at a studio in the Ovington Building on Fulton St. before moving to the Chelsea Hotel in the 1930s.

Duveen also said Caswell helped estab-lish the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition.

The Villager, in fact, features Caswell’s drawing of the outdoor art exhibition on its May 4, 1933, front page with an ac-companying story saying that it was the show’s third year, and that it was the first such event of its type in America. It was the Depression and the article notes the umbrella organizing group was the Art-ists’ Aid Committee. Five hundred artists displayed their work to 20,000 visitors.

Duveen asked if I’d be on the lookout in the Bobst microfilm for Caswell images of Bank St. where Duveen grew up — near the townhouse of “Auntie Mame,” i.e., Mrs. Tanner, playwright Patrick Dennis’s real aunt who lived at 72 Bank and in-spired the character. Unfortunately, I could find no Auntie Mame in the Caswell trove.

Caswell wrote of the struggle of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose house was on Bed-ford and Commerce Sts. near the Cherry Lane Theatre, to have the city rename Com-merce St. “Cherry Lane.” The city refused.

Caswell also mentions in his column that actor John Barrymore once lived in the little Dutch house, and that Millay wrote her opera with Deems Taylor, “The King’s Henchman,” in the top-floor stu-dio. When Caswell visited in the 1930s, the 8-foot-wide house was home to Mrs. Robert W. Lewis. He wrote that it was decorated with “rich and mellow” an-tique mahogany furniture and near the fireplace was a Victorian chair that “[G]randfather Lewis took around the Horn during the gold rush of 1850.”

New York’s narrowest house bears a red plaque with the dates Millay lived there (1923-24) and her famous quote, “My candle burns at both ends.” Across the street is 81 Bedford St. where late C.I.A. Director Richard Helms conducted his MKULTRA mind control experiments (no red plaque there).

Cover illustrator Caswell kept ‘close to the ground’

a self-portrait by Edward C. Caswell.


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Caswell’s drawing of Jefferson market Courthouse, from The Villager’s august 1933 front page.

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When The Villager was founded in 1933, during the Great Depres-sion, it promised to be an inde-

pendent voice in the community. The Vil-lager has an impressive track record. It is well and alive and winning top journalism awards.

The past 50 years have been challenging to the newspaper business. Many famous newspapers have disappeared and others through unavoidable mergers lost their in-dependence. The Villager also had its share of ups and downs. After a strong run for 20 years, the Williamson family sold its interest in The Villager. Some rocky years followed.

In 1992, Tom and I were asked to take over The Villager. I was the publisher and Tom was the editor. This was a labor of love for us. Tom had already been diagnosed with can-cer and we had both opted for early retire-ment. Taking over The Villager was hardly a retirement project. It was a journalist’s dream come true.

It gives me great pleasure to see The Villager grow and continue its excellent coverage of events in our community. There is no other com-munity in the city that has so much going on, all the time! Politics, education, music, innovative theater and dance, local sports, community gar-

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And yes, there are more opinions per square inch in the Village than any other place in the world. The Villager cov-ers it all with a strong, independent and balanced voice. Its commitment to high journalistic standards is recognized.

Every year, The Villager receives presti-gious editorial awards from the New York Press Association in a statewide competition that covers more than 200 papers.

My warmest congratulations to its new publisher, Jenn Goodstein, for this very spe-cial 80th birthday. And my heartfelt thanks to the small, enthusiastic core group that helped us relaunch The Villager, starting in 1992.

Thank you, Michael Haberman, Lincoln Anderson, Josh Rogers, Claude Solnik, Al Amateau, Traci Kampel, Ed Lewis, Doris Diether, Loren Granville and Colin Gregory. You are the best.

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By REED iDE

M ost people living in Greenwich Village have no idea that just a few short decades ago a 12-story

fortress-like prison for women dominated the skyline and the ambience of the neigh-borhood’s heart. Massive in its architecture, the prison controlled the street life around it. Women in their cells would sit near their barred windows and call down to their hus-bands, boyfriends or pimps on the sidewalks below. The language was always loud, often angry and colorful. Depending on their point of view, and the proximity of their apart-ments to the prison, residents either found this an enormous public entertainment or an equally large public nuisance.

The building served as a women’s prison from 1932 until it was closed in 1971. Forty years ago this month, Mayor John Lind-say appeared at the spot where W. 10th St., Greenwich Ave., Christopher St. and Sixth Ave. all converge. On that brisk October Tuesday in 1973, wielding a sledgehammer, he struck a fateful and fatal blow to the infa-mous Women’s House of Detention. By the spring of the following year the building was

but a memory. A colorful, often disturbing era passed into the history books, where, as much of the minutiae of the past, it lies, for the most part forgotten. It was, however, one

of the more important events in the shaping of our contemporary Village streetscape.

The building’s demise did not come eas-ily. In the months before Lindsay’s swing of the hammer, Greenwich Village was in a bit of an uproar over its fate. The great major-ity of people were squarely in favor of de-molition. But a vocal minority persisted in keeping the debate alive as they struggled to save the building for conversion to senior citizen housing. Hearings before the Land-marks Commission and the city’s Board of Estimate, and the Village’s own Community Board 2 took on circus-like atmospheres as irate citizens opposed to demolition shouted their way to publicity, venting their anger in ways that often led to removal and even ar-rests. As editor of The Villager, I watched it all unfold, and wrote about most of it.

A few weeks ago, I sat in the Jefferson Market Garden that occupies the site of the old House of Detention. It was the day be-fore the equinox. The sun was bright over-head; the thermometer hovered around 80. From my bench next to the rose garden I looked across the central lawn to the small greenhouse. Just beyond that, in my mind’s eye, I could see the short alley that led to the prison’s side entrance.

In my memory’s ear, I could hear Lucille Chasin, telling the city’s Landmarks Com-mission that the building is, “part of the cityscape, not a weed to be removed from a garden at the whim of ladies in sneakers.”

I could hear Dorothy Ryan: “It would seem that the ‘haves’ of Greenwich Village continuously dictate to the ‘have-nots’ what they should not have! … This building can be put to good use for desperately needed facili-ties for our senior citizens”

Sitting there, I remembered another sunny

warm day at summer’s end in 1973. It was late in the afternoon, the Friday of Labor Day weekend. I was walking home from the Vil-lager office. As I passed that short side en-trance alley by the prison, I noticed that the chain-link gate was open. A car was parked in the alley. The side door was open. I walked in, and with no one to stop me I entered the abandoned prison. Whoever belonged to the parked car was nowhere in sight. A row of office rooms stretched across the front of the building. In one, intake records were strewn on the floor. I picked one up. A young woman of 27. Divorced. Two children. At-tempted suicide. “Very composed,” wrote the psychologist in the space for his remarks. “States she will return to prostitution for it’s the only way she knows to make money in the amount she wants.”

Fragments of other human beings lay there on the dusty floor of the deserted de-tention house. “Tense, angry, feels unjustly arrested … frightened about being called down to diagnostic … inflicted cuts on her wrists on two occasions … charged with felo-nious assault over fight with her girlfriend.” The awesome oppression and hostility, still palpable in the building, startled me.

On the second floor, at the end of a long dark corridor, I found the prison chapel, its heavy velvet drapes masking the reality of the barred windows. Scraps of hymnbooks littered the floor. Near them, a paperbound book of the prophet Isaiah, opened to Chap-ter 43. Underlined in red were the words, “Fear not for I have redeemed thee. I have called you by name; you are mine.”

On the third floor was the laundry room. Ironing boards lined one entire wall, while great huge washing machines and large pressers occupied the rest of the room. On upper floors, the cells were still furnished. They measured just 4 feet by 8 feet. As con-ditions worsened, many cells were used to house two women. Those contained their bunk beds, mute testimony to the manner in which the city treated persons awaiting trial, not yet convicted of any crime.

Another floor revealed the kitchen with its great gas stoves and three walk-in refrigera-tors. Administrative memoranda lined the corridors of floors. “All inmates admitted with head or body lice are to receive their first treatment in the receiving room.” … “Ef-fective August 1, 1970 any inmate receiving an infraction will automatically lose her com-missary privileges.”

Small wooden tables and mirrors in one room told of the beauty salon it once was. An X-ray table still stood in one upper-floor room, and dentist chairs and chemistry lab equipment quietly disintegrated in others.

In one room, 10 or more file cabinets stood, unlocked, open to anyone (like myself) who

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This photo from 1938 shows how the women’s House of Detention once towered over the inter-section of Greenwich and Sixth aves., which also featured the Sixth ave. El.

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happened by. Abandoned, they contained the detailed records of women incarcerated there, who — let us remember — were not yet convicted of any crime. Intimate details of their lives — unprotected, unrespected, just left behind as collateral damage in the slow death of the building.

On the top floor of the House of Deten-tion were rooms used for recreation, and off those rooms were four rooftop terraces, also for recreation. But even in recreation the in-mates were unable to escape the excruciat-ing regimentation of prison life. A sign hung on the wall of one of the rooms: “Attention ladies. Slow records will be played if you do not dance. Dancing will end slow records.”

With my handful of administrative memo-randa, religious booklets, inmate records and other materials I had found, I made my way from the roof to the ground floor. I was eager for sunshine, fresh air and freedom. But the Women’s House of Detention had one more thing to show me.

I arrived on the first floor and headed to-ward the side entrance door. I arrived there to discover, much to my horror, that the heavy metal door was closed – and LOCKED! I was alone inside the prison fortress.

All these years later, I remember thinking, “Rats.” Not as in, Damn it all I’m in a mess now. But rather as in furry creatures that would nibble at my fingers if I were to spend the night in this horrible place.

Checking the two main doors to the outside proved futile. I went from office to office on the Greenwich Ave. side of the building. Each of them had a window. But each window had a mesh cage bolted to the outside of the window frame to contain in-dividual air conditioners. It was well past 5 p.m. Today, I can still conjure up those first rumblings of panic. The shadows seemed to grow. The air became more chill. Those rats became more real!

The reader might well ask at this point, “Why didn’t you simply raise the window and shout to a pedestrian to flag down a police car, or call the police?” All these years later I lack the definitive answer to that ques-tion. The truth, I believe, comes in two parts. First, at the age of 25, I think I absolutely dreaded having the story circulated around Greenwich Village that the youthful, yea even callow, editor of The Villager had so foolishly entered that building without tell-ing a single soul what he was doing — had not even put a note on the windshield of the car parked by the side entrance! The embar-rassment, I am sure, would have seemed too much to bear at the time.

Second, I may well have not wanted to have anyone, especially anyone official, know I was removing material from the prison. I was indeed taking out individual

records of former inmates. And I was re-moving administrative material and profes-sional evaluations as well. Abandoned prop-erty? Perhaps. Perhaps not. During my walk through the building I had already begun to structure an article for the newspaper (an ar-ticle I actually did write and publish the fol-lowing week), and that article depended on the materials I had gathered.

At any rate, I continued, in my callow way, what must seem a Quixotic quest. I re-turned to the offices and opened a window in one of them to see how the mesh cage was attached to the building. Firmly bolted. I looked at several more, until I came upon one that was extensively rusted on the bot-tom. Alas, a workshop was not at hand. No pliers, no hacksaws were in evidence. Somewhere on that floor, I did manage to find a short length of pipe. I returned to the rusted cage. Using the pipe, I pounded and pried at the mesh, which slowly gave way to my efforts. I was able to break through enough to begin to roll back the mesh, cre-ating a small opening in the bottom of the cage. Hope is made from such moments! I have no idea today how long I worked thus. I remember it as interminable. Visions of those rats were my constant motivation. There did come a moment, finally, when I believed I had created a large enough open-ing in the bottom of the cage to be able to lower myself through.

And then, good reader, what do you think I did? I called out to a passerby! Man? Woman? I don’t remember. A startled per-son for sure. I handed them the papers I had collected and then lowered myself through the bottom of the cage, reached for the scaf-folding pipe in front of me, and jumped to the ground. The back of my shirt tore on the ragged cage, and my back was scratched in a few places. But I was otherwise unharmed. And free! Shaken, but free.

Across 10th St. two men, Don Taylor and Bob McGrath, owned the Patchin Place Emporium. They were friends of the news-paper, two people I could confide in who would not tell my story like town criers. I made my way to their shop. They got me cleaned up and even sewed up the long tear in my shirt. They lived upstairs from the shop and had also created a wonderful roof-top deck and garden. Better yet, I am happy to say they were both great believers in the healing power of gin. They closed the shop, and took gin bottle, tonic and ice bucket to the roof. There my holiday weekend got its proper beginning.

Today, whenever I walk past or in the Jef-ferson Market Garden, I think of what once was there. I know that most people see only a beautiful oasis there. All the women impris-oned behind those bars during the 40-year life of the building experienced brokenness, despair, folly and desperation in their lives.

They suffered. They failed. And sometimes they triumphed. Always, they had — some-where inside them — hope. For me, this wonderful space today remembers those women by being a garden of hope.

Ide was editor of The Villager in 1973 and 1974. He now enjoys a lakeside retirement in Massachusetts where he continues to write travel articles, and is a substitute teacher in local schools.

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By TRaV S.D.

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If you’re at all like me, this Halloween season you’ll be asking the question: What are the best ape-related classic

studio era horror films for me to watch, not including “King Kong” or its sequels “Son of Kong” and “Mighty Joe Young” — which are GIANT ape movies, a different species of horror film altogether?Not to worry! I got your answer

right here!

muRDERS iN THE RuE mORGuE (1932)

Yes, It’s “based on the Poe story” but, on the other hand, no, not really. The only thing the film shares in com-mon with the original story is the event of a body being stuffed up a chimney by an ape. The movie version concerns Bela Lugosi as one “Dr. Mirakle,” who appalls the people of Paris by exhibit-ing a “gorilla” — which is alternately portrayed by an actual chimpanzee and a guy in a gorilla suit, often in differ-ent angles during the same scene. Even worse, Dr. Mirakle preaches the heinous doctrine of evolution! And did you no-tice how he happens to resemble an ape? Worse than all of this, he is performing an evil experiment, kidnapping maid-ens and injecting them with ape blood, which kills them. Then he very shock-ingly dumps them into the river. The crimes are eventually solved by a medi-cal student with a microscope. The next victim, in an amazing coincidence, was to have been his girlfriend. The movie is as beautiful to look at as the other Uni-

versal horror films of the time, if you can forgive the absolutely daffy element of how the ape itself is represented.

THE GORiLLa (1939)

This one is more of a comedy/horror film/murder mystery. Seems largely a parody of the old dark house mystery, “The Bat.” The all-star cast features the Ritz Brothers (as detectives), Bela Lu-gosi, Patsy Kelly (as a perpetually fret-ting maid) and the omnipresent Lionel Atwill. And a guy in a gorilla suit.

THE aPE (1940)

A low-grade cheapie — one of the very few times that Boris Karloff sank as low as Lugosi was capable of falling. In this one, Karloff plays a doctor who

disguises himself as an ape — the better to kill people and take their spinal fluid in order to create a cure for “paralysis.” Oh, there is a set-up. He has been work-ing on this cure for 25 years, after fail-ing to cure his own wife. Now he lives next door to a young girl he would like to cure. And an ape has conveniently es-caped from a nearby circus. Karloff kills him and apparently makes a costume of its dead body. Anything for science! Just generally tedious and bad.

THE aPE maN (1943)

Directed by the wonderful William Beaudine, this is merely the penultimate level of badness — Ed Wood being the gold standard. We begin in medias res: a sister (who happens to be a ghost hunt-er) finds her long missing brother (Bela Lugosi), whose research has caused him

to become an ape creature. He is now searching for the antidote. We next pro-ceed to watch the half-man/half-ape Lu-gosi, who, with the aid of a supernatural-ly well-behaved full ape assistant, must steal the “spinal fluid” from still living victims for his antidote — a process fatal to the victim. The other characters are the requisite policemen and reporters, Lu-gosi’s colleague and his wife. The movie is surprisingly dull for such a delicious set-up. And, truth to tell, what would be so bad about being a half-man/half-ape, anyway? So bad you’d kill for the antidote? Why not just come out in the open, gaining fame for your discovery in the process, and get the entire scien-tific community to work on the antidote while you accept lucrative banana en-dorsements? Ah, but this is the world of fantasy. There is also a funny coda. This

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mysterious man who periodically pops up through the story tells us in the end, that he is the screenwriter!

RETuRN OF THE aPE maN (1944)

Was the first one such a smash hit they needed a sequel? This movie has noth-ing to do with the original, however. Bela Lugosi and John Carradine are scientists working on the problem of suspended animation. They get it to work on a home-less man they have frozen. Realizing that it works, they launch an arctic expedition to find intact frozen cavemen — and, as-toundingly, they find one! They bring the caveman back to the lab and thaw him out. But the caveman can’t talk to relay what he knows. Lugosi decides to trans-plant part of a modern brain into his head. Carradine refuses to participate — it will be murder to do so. Lugosi tricks him (with an electric floor plate that par-alyzes him but somehow allows him to talk) and takes his brain. The caveman runs amok in the city and commits some murders. Authorities chase him back to lab. Caveman kills Lugosi, but then dies in fire. He should have stayed in bed!

BRiDE OF THE GORiLLa (1952)

Despite the unprepossessing title, which we used to make fun of when we were kids, this is, I have to say, objectively the BEST of all the ape horror movies. It was written and directed by Curt Siod-mak, who wrote the classic “The Wolf Man” and numerous other major horror titles. It’s a pretty solid story; only the ti-

tle is unfortunate. Siodmak’s original title was “The Face in the Water” — which is unmemorable, but at least doesn’t cheap-en the story. The same sexual themes at the back of most horror films (nearly all of them, now that I think of it) are fore-grounded in this film. Raymond Burr is a fairly brutish plantation overseer in South America. He bemoans the fact that he doesn’t have slaves to do his work. He is indifferent to the death of one of his workers. He knocks up a native girl and ignores the situation. Then he kills the boss so he can take his wife. The mother of the pregnant girl puts a spell on him

to turn him into a creature, the titular gorilla. Much like Jekyll & Hyde or The Wolfman, he begins to transform, and he keeps hearing “the call of the wild.” By the end of the film, he is ready to abandon his bride and take to the jungle complete-ly. But the misguided girl follows him. In the end, the local sheriff (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and a doctor shoot Burr as he is carrying the bride through the treetops. The film is marred by its low budget. The gorilla outfit is just yet another Halloween party grade costume. But the spine of this story is quite good. I’m waiting for the re-make starring Benecio Del Toro!

BELa LuGOSi mEETS a BROOKLyN GORiLLa (1952)

Dare I say, William Beaudine’s mas-terpiece? I’m guessing the inspiration was the runaway smash hit, “Bride of the Gorilla.” Jerry Lewis impersonator Sammy Petrillo and his partner Duke Mitchell are stranded on a desert is-land with a bunch of natives and Bela Lugosi, who plans to turn them into gorillas. At one point, Mitchell does transform. Petrillo is able to recog-nize him when he manages to sing his signature song (“Indeed I Do.”). Any-way, it’s all okay. It turns out to have all been a dream. When last we leave the boys (a comedy team that never made another film), they are doing their act in a jungle-themed night-club.

Dishonorable mention: GORiLLa aT LaRGE (1954)

Featuring what is undoubtedly the most prestigious cast ever assem-bled for a gorilla movie, “Gorilla At Large” boasts Lee J. Cobb, Ann Ban-croft, Cameron Mitchell, Raymond Burr and Lee Marvin. It’s also the first, last and only one in 3-D. But don’t ex-pect a lot of thrills and chills. This is one of those movies that makes you sit through seeming hours of boring melodrama about a love triangle (and an equally dull murder mystery) be-fore giving you the good stuff. Only at the film’s climax are we finally re-warded with the spectacle of Goliath the Gorilla climbing to the top of the roller coaster with the screaming Ann Bancroft slung over his shoulder.

When Goliath falls to his death, so too apparently does this minor subgenre. The next time we get a whiff of scary apes in the movies, about 15 years later, they will vastly outnumber the humans — and the costumes will be considerably better.

Trav S.D. has been producing the Amer-ican Vaudeville Theatre since 1995, and periodically trots it out in new incarna-tions. Stay in the loop at travsd.word-press.com, and also catch up with him at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al. His books include “No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous” and “Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and its Legacies from Nickelode-ons to YouTube.”

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This 1952 stinker put the brakes on the cel-luloid presence of comedy team mitchell & Petrillo (NOT to be confused with martin & Lewis).

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By SCOTT STiFFLER

Someone once said,” observes art-ist Richard Baumann, “that land-scape painting is all about loss and

memory.”A project that began in 1993, it took only

two decades for many of the West Village and Lower Manhattan shops depicted in Baumann’s oil paintings to go from neighbor-hood anchors to relics of a bygone era.

These days, visiting Joe’s Candy Store can only be accomplished by peering into the front window of the 14th Street Fram-ing Gallery. That’s where Baumann’s work is on display, through October 31.

Be warned, though. The artist’s moody, time capsule take on his subject matter is awash in longing for a New York that lies just beyond our grasp — and the fact that the ex-hibit’s shelf life will soon expire puts an ad-ditional coat of melancholy on the experience.

This is just one of the sad ironies reso-nating throughout Baumann’s thought-provoking collection of establishments

that — were it not for unmistakable cues like urban stoops — might be found on the main drag of any small town in the early decades of the previous century. What’s more, the framed paintings of storefronts you’re mulling over happen to be hanging in the front window of…a store that spe-cializes in framing things.

Some works on display were created on the very same block as the host venue, in a room with floor-to-ceiling windows that served as a painters’ studio since the 1950s.

Baumann occupied it for 25 years, until “the lease went very high and I moved to a studio in Long Island City.”

Most of the six stores featured in his cur-rent exhibit aren’t around anymore — casu-alties of changing tastes, migrating popula-tions and the same skyrocketing rents that chased Baumann out of Manhattan.

It’s not as if he didn’t see it coming. “When I had my first solo show in SoHo,” he recalls, “an art critic said that I was paint-ing just ahead of the wrecking ball.”

Like Harry Chong Laundry (which opened for business on Charles Street and Waverly Place in 1945 and closed in 2006), Joe’s Candy Store only exists in the memo-ries of its customers, the vapor trails of a Google search and, thankfully, in a Bau-mann painting. Prince Street’s Vesuvio Bak-ery (whose iconic storefront is still there) closed in 2009, a mere decade short of its century mark.

It’s hard to imagine anyone mounting a similar exhibit 20 years from now, in which lovingly rendered Citibank branches and 7-Eleven franchises evoke the same affec-tionate sense of belonging that Baumann brings to paintings like “Lower East Side Printshop.” But for 2013 toddlers who have little else to look up to, the corporate kudzu of today could very well become tomor-row’s nostalgia. Of course, they’d have to go away in order to be missed — but if a Duane Reade were replaced by a mom and pop shop, one hopes Baumann would be there, brush in hand, to document it.

Window, Shop: Artist Paints a Vanishing Village

Baumann’s storefronts are lovingly rendered time capsules

ARTRiCHaRD BaumaNN: SHOP FRONT PaiNTiNGSThrough October 31

In the window of 14th Street Framing Gallery

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“mulberry Street” (14x16 inches) — on view through Oct. 31, at The 14th St. Framing Gallery.

“Vesuvio Bakery” (18x20 inches).

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By STEPHaNiE BuHmaNN

This group show chronicles the emer-gence and development of black per-formance art over three generations. To

fully shed light on the rich and complex his-tory of this subject, it surveys the scene from the 1960s to the present. Benjamin Patterson, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi and Coco Fusco are among the artists featured. In ad-dition, a series of performances by participat-ing artists accompanies the exhibition (some of them co-organized with Performa 13, New York’s Nov. 1-24 performance art biennial).

Part I of “Radical Presence,” which traces

the historical path of black performance in the second half of the 20th century, is on view through Dec. 7 (at Grey Art Gallery). Part II, which includes an array of videos and perfor-mance-based photography and documenta-tion, takes place Nov. 14-March 9, 2014 (at The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W. 125th St.).

A ‘Radical Presence’ to be Reckoned With

Group show chronicles five decades of black performance art

ARTRaDiCaL PRESENCE: BLaCK PERFORmaNCE iN CONTEmPORaRy aRTThrough December 7

At NYU’s Grey Art Gallery

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Lorraine O’Grady: untitled (mlle. Bourgeoise Noire and her master of Ceremonies enter the New museum). 1980-83, printed 2009. Gelatin silver print. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.

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BELL, BOOK & CaNDLE

Old rivalries, new crushes and crossed wires all come to a boil — when a nice, single witch finds her cauldron (and love life) bubbling with trouble. Bond Street’s Gene Frankel Theatre is a fitting location for “Bell, Book & Candle” — the 1950s ro-mantic comedy set in Greenwich Village. Kate Middleton and Brett Bolton star in this Ground UP Productions revival, which finds mostly good-intentioned witch Gil-lian thrown for a loop when her publisher neighbor gets serious with (of all people!) her college nemesis. Casting a spell will make Shep fall in love with her — although doing so means she’ll lose her powers. True love triumphs, of course, but only after a series of misunderstandings, betrayals and revelations (involving, among other things, an agitated cat and Gillian’s scheming brother).

Through Oct. 26, at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond St., btw. Lafayette & Bowery). Per-formances are Wed.-Sat. at 7pm, Mon. at 7pm and Sat./Sun. at 2pm. For tickets ($25, $18 for students/seniors), call 800-838-3006 or visit groundupproduductions.org.

CHaRLES BuSCH: RiDiN’ HiGH

The Lady in Question has declared her upcoming run at 54 Below to be a boa-free zone. Otherwise, anything goes — including we’re assured, “laughter, music, tears and sequins.” That, filtered through the sassy lips and ample pipes of Tony-nominated

play wright and drag legend Charles Busch, makes “Ridin’ High” a must-see for lovers of tall tales, tough gals and tunes from the American Songbook.

Armed with more zingers than a chorus boy can shake his stick at, Busch will dish on certain actresses he’s known and tell an-ecdotes about his long career. He’ll also be doing a parody of 1940s film noirs and a new monologue for Miriam Passman — the inspiration for his Broadway play, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Songs from the camp icon, whose approach is far more affection-ate than ironic, include an Irving Berlin num-ber, a Sinatra classic and a few choices likely inspired by recent time spent taking his act on the road (“Route 66,” “Kansas City”). Ac-companist Tom Judson, who toured with Busch, tickles the ivories.

“Ridin’ High” happens Thurs., Oct. 17, 24 & Nov. 7, 14. At 54 Below (254 W. 54th St., btw. Broadway & Eighth Ave.). Doors open at 8:45pm, show at 9:30pm. Cover Charge: $35-45. Food/Beverage minimum: $25. Tickets on the day of performance, after 4pm, available only by calling 646-476-3551. For reservations, visit 54below.com. Also visit charlesbusch.com.

Love, after a very long spell: Kate middleton and Brett Bolton, in Ground uP Productions’ “Bell, Book & Candle.”

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By LiNCOLN aNDERSON

To preserve their garden, members of La Plaza Cultural decided it was time to get down and dirty on Saturday.

Dozens in the garden, at E. Ninth St. and Avenue C, were scooping and hauling new soil, or related tasks, as part of the aptly named “Day of the Dirt.”

In all, 50 cubic yards — equal to 50 tons — of fresh dirt had been dumped in the gar-den in a huge mound the previous day, and they then spread it all around on Saturday. Bill LoSasso, a Community Board 3 member and the garden’s executive director, said the community garden had been losing soil, and Superstorm Sandy only added to the prob-lem. In short, there were concerns that the storm’s surge waters might have contami-nated the soil.

Marga Snyder noted there had been “a lot of talk in the street” about the garden’s soil, so they “had to set the record straight.”

But testing by GreenThumb subsequently found very low levels of toxins, on par with what would be expected in any Manhattan plot, including low amounts of led and alu-minum and very low PCB’s. Nevertheless, LoSasso said, children play in the garden and they wanted to ensure its safety. Hence, the “Day of the Dirt.”

Gardeners also installed semipermeable liners under their plots.

Everyone was working diligently, then around 1 p.m. paused briefl y to dig into something else — pizza — before returning to scooping, toting and spreading the new soil.

“The larger thing was preserving the gar-den after Sandy,” LoSasso said. “We lost like 25 trees — so there is this physical and psy-chological reset. They fought in the ’90s to keep these spaces. We’re really the stewards of this neighborhood now. It’s really our re-sponsibility to restore it, to preserve it — now and into the future.”

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Bill LoSasso and Carolyn Ratcliffe scooped fresh soil into a wheelbarrow so it could be spread out around La Plaza Cultural on Saturday.

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LeSLie daVeNPort LLca domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/29/13. Office loca-tion: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Les-lie Davenport, 173 E. 101st St., NY, NY 10029. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/10 - 11/14/2013

SoLe Hub, LLca domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/11/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 75 Broad St., Ste. 3010, NY, NY 10004. General Purposes.

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comPaNYNAME: 111 POWERS LLC.Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/18/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 530 Laguardia Place, New York, New York 10012. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/10 - 11/14/2013

Notice of formatioN of ridGe adViSorY, LLcArticles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/10/2013. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/10 - 11/14/2013

Notice of formatioN of uNioN SQuare doWNtoWN LLc

Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/17/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Chadbourne & Parke, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rm. 3248, NY, NY 10112. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formatioN of uNcoNVeNtioNaL food aNd beVeraGe

LLcArt. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/21/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Pavel Kolarov, 315 E. 80th St., Apt. 6H, NY, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful activities

Vil: 10/10 - 11/14/2013

Notice of formatioN of GLobeY WorLd ProductioNS LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/19/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 357 W. 22nd St., #1, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of tLdH co, LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/16/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Leon Wagner, 600 Madison Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/10- 11/14/2013

aV HoLdiNGS GP LLca domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/2/13. Office loca-tion: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 61 W. 8th St., NY, NY 10011. General Purposes.

Vil: 09/12 - 10/17/2013

Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of iLLumiNarium

exPerieNceS LLcApp. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/5/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE address of LLC: 2711 Center-ville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilming-ton, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of formatioN of eNY ii deVeLoP-

meNt LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o BRP Companies, 767 Third Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of brP eNY ii LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o BRP Companies, 767 Third Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil: 10/10- 11/14/2013

Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of 30 Park PLace

HoteL JuNior mezz LLc

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/14/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, Attn: Cor-poration Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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HoteL SeNior mezz LLc

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/14/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, Attn: Cor-poration Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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retaiL LLcAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/14/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, Attn: Cor-poration Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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rrG mezz LLcAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/14/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, Attn: Cor-poration Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of formatioN of Go rockWeLL LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1010 Ave. of the Americas, 4th Fl., NY, NY 10018. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Gotham Organization, Inc., Attn: Christopher Jaskiewicz at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/03- 11/07/2013

Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of Samba cHaP-

ter tWo, LLcAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/25/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 03/21/13. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Samba Brands Management, 17 E. 16th St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with State of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Not. of frmN of 1114 aVeNue of america

L.P.Cert. of L.P. f w/ Secy of STA of NY (SSNY) 07/31/13. OFC LCTN: NY Cty. SSNY is DA upon whom PROC AGA it may be served. SSNY shall mail a CY: C/O 1114 Avenue of America L.P. - 1500 Broadway 22nd Fl, NY, NY 10036. The Prin. bus. add.:1500 Broad-way 22nd Fl, NY, NY 10036. PUR: any lawful act or ACTY.

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Notice of formatioN of madeLiN adeNa

SmitH LLcArts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/2013. Office loca-tion, County of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act.

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comPaNYNAME: TAMARES DEVELOP-MENT I MANAGER LLCArticles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/25/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o BraunsteinTurkish LLP, 7600 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 402, Woodbury, New York 11797. Purpose: For any lawful pur-pose.

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Notice of formatioN of Sem kidS deSiGN

LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Mamiye Brothers, Inc., 1385 Broadway, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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comPaNY. NAME: GIO COACHING & CONSULTING LLCArticles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/30/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 408 East 92nd Street, #1403, New York, New York 10128. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of PLateau data

SerViceS, LLcAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/9/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/30/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the reg-istered agent. Address to be maintained in DE: c/o Nation-al Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of eVaJom Pro-

ductioNS LLcAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/10/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 7/8/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paracorp Incorporated, 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr., #200, Sacramento, CA 95833-3509. Address to be maintained in DE: 2140 S. Dupont Hwy., Camden, DE 19934. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formatioN of 149W119tH, LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/2/03. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Charles D. Ruben-stein, 192 Lexington Avenue, Suite 901, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/03- 11/07/2013

Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of reicHmaNN

SeVeNtH, LLcAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/23/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus.addr.: 999 Waterside Dr., Ste. 2300, Norfolk, VA 23510. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/03 - 11/07/2013

Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of ridGeWood cLub SeVeNtH, LLc

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/23/13. Office location: NY County.Princ. bus. addr.: 999 Waterside Dr., Ste. 2300, Norfolk, VA 23510. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of WeStWood

SeVeNtH, LLcAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/23/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus.addr.: 999 Waterside Dr., Ste. 2300, Norfolk, VA 23510. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of creStVieW

PartNerS iii co-iNVeS-torS, L.P.

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/23/13. Office location: NY County.Princ. bus. addr.: 667 Madison Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10065. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 8/23/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Cor-poration System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. CI addr. of LP: c/o Maples Corporate Services Ltd., PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cay-man, KY1-1104, CI. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Registrar of Exempted LPs, Ground Fl., Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman, CI. Purpose: all law-ful purposes.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of creStVieW PartNerS iii (te), L.P.

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/30/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus.addr.: 667 Madison Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10065. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 5/8/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Cor-poration System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. CI addr. of LP: c/o Maples Corporate Services Ltd., PO Box 309, UglandHouse, Grand Cay-man, KY1-1104, CI. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Registrar of Exempted LPs, Ground Fl., Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman, CI. Purpose: all law-ful purposes.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of rPai fordHam

PLace office, L.L.c.Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/6/13. Office loca-tion: NY County.Princ. bus. addr.: 2021 Spring Rd., Ste. 200, Oak Brook, IL 60523. LLC formed in DE on 8/29/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/03- 11/07/2013

aLPHatecH oNe, LLca domestic LLC, currently known as ALPHATECH TWO, LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/4/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY is desig-nated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Trief & Olk, Esqs., 150 E. 58th St., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10155. General Purposes.

Vil: 09/26 - 10/31/2013

Limited LiabiLitY comPaNY

Notice of Formation of Lim-ited Liability Company (LLC)Name: Toby’s Coffee 5th Ave. LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 08/06/2013 Office location: County of New York. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 125 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Vil: 09/26 - 10/31/2013

Park SLoPe aSSoci-ateS LLc

Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 12/22/1997. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig-nated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 303 East 57th St, Ste 45E, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any law-ful act or activity.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of 250 boWerY

Star, LLcAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/30/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/13/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, Div. or Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of 545 edGecombe

bcr, LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/18/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 20803 Biscayne Blvd., Ste. 301, Aventura, FL 33180. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Real estate.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of bre NoN-core

1 oWNer a LLcAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/28/13. Princ. office of LLC: 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of fairfax merrifieLd

aSSociateS ii L.L.c.Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of 470 4tH aVeNue

iNVeStorS LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Adam America LLC, 370 Lexington Ave., Ste. 607, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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comPaNY. Name: 153-35 78tH aVeNue LLc

Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/18/07. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 128 Willis Court, Woodmere, New York 11598-1448. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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ViViaN muLLer, LLca domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/22/13. Office loca-tion: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 210 West 89th St., Ste. 12J, NY, NY 10024. General Purposes.

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Notice of formatioN of ViSkoVic LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o The LLC, 302 Fifth Avenue, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: practice the profes-sion of law.

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Notice of formatioN of caPSuLe LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/30/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 80 Eighth Avenue, Suite 202, NY, NY 10011. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of NYot 25 Limited LLcArts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/9/13. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: Patrice Stavile, Esq., c/o M1 Real Estate, 600 Fifth Ave., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10020, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of QuaLifica-tioN of mSb adViSorS

LPAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/13. NYS fict. name: MSB Advisors (New York). Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 9/10/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal busi-ness addr.: c/o MSB Advisors GP LLC, 95 Charles St., #3, NY, NY 10014, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl.ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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QuaLificatioN of aNcHoraGe iLLiQuid oPPortuNitieS iV, L.P.

Authority filed with the Sect. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/06/13. Office Loc: NY County. LP formed in DE on 8/5/13. SSNY has been des-ignated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 210, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE address of LP: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 210, Wilmington, 19809. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. avail from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of uPPer eaSt Side

LeNder LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/09/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of SuNNYSide-bar-

Nett aSSociateS, LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/30/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY, NY 10010. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to the LLC, c/o Phipps Houses at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: To own and develop real property.

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Not. of frmN of actiVitY LLc

Art. of Org. f w/ Secy of STA of NY (SSNY) 08/16/13. OFC LCTN: NY Cty. SSNY is DA upon whom PROC AGA it may be served. SSNY shall mail a CY: C/O Activity LLC- 1500 Broadway 22nd Fl, NY, NY 10036. The Prin. bus. add. :1500 Broadway 22nd Fl, NY, NY 10036. PUR: any lawful act or ACTY.

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tHe WorkiNG Water-froNt, LLc

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/09/2013. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Jennifer Valentine, 307 E. 76th St. #14, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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rVz StrateGic adVi-SorS LLc

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/16/13. Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC ATTN: Frederick Van Zijl 179 E 64th St New York, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Frederick Van Zijl 179 E 64th St New York, NY 10065.

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Notice of formatioN of beNJamiN k LLc

Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/26/13. Office location: NEW YORK COUNTY. SSNY des-ignated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. P.O. address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC served upon him is: 580 5th Ave., Ste. 1140, NY, NY 10036. The principal business address of the LLC is 580 5th Ave., Ste. 1140, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of formatioN of 76 LeffertS PLace

LLcArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/29/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 9728 3rd Avenue, Ste. 133, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

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Notice of formatioN of 2357 84tH Street

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in the end, Neon outshines Black in Sol Lain opener

By DaNiEL JEaN-LOuBiN

A s the Sol Lain flag football league opened another season, Lower East Side athletes gathered on Sat., Oct.

5, at Edward Garcia Field for a defensive slugfest of a game between the Black team and the Neon team.

The Sol Lain Flag Football League was cre-ated by community leader Edward Garcia as a way to help at-risk local youth.

“Eddie tried to offer a positive influence to the lives of the kids in the neighborhood,” said Marilu Garcia, his sister.

Today, the co-ed league fields four teams, with about 50 kids total, ages 10 to 15.

The first half of the game began with the Black team marching down the field and scoring on their opening drive with a touch-down pass to one of their shifty wide receiv-ers to make it 6-0.

The ensuing kickoff to Neon, however, did not produce the same result, as they failed to gain any kind of yardage and were forced to

punt after three downs. With the ball back in the Black team’s

hands, and with great field position, Black looked primed to tally another score, thanks in part to a big gain by their speedy running back. At the goal line, though, Neon made two key stops on a pair of pass plays, and on third down, a seeming touchdown was called back by the referee due to an offensive

holding penalty. The Black team could not convert and gave up possession.

On Neon’s next possession, an under-thrown pass was intercepted by Black’s quarterback, who also plays cornerback on defense. But on the game’s very next play, Black’s Q.B., under pressure, threw a floater up into double coverage that was picked off and run back for the game-tying touchdown

to end the half knotted at 6-6.After a deep touchdown pass for the Black

team opened up the second half to make it 12-6, both sides’ offensive struggles contin-ued for most of the rest of the game.

With about seven minutes remaining, Neon called a timeout and huddled up on third down with about two yards to go. Once the play was set up by their coach, Brian Gonzalez, both teams settled into position. The timeout proved to be a wise one since Neon was not only able to get the first down but also score on a well-designed run play. The score was now 12-12.

It remained that way till the end of regula-tion. Then, in sudden-victory overtime, a bad snap by Black resulted in a punt to Neon. On the punt return, the Neon team was able make it to about midfield before being stopped. Two quick midrange passes drove Neon into the red zone, and they scored on a designed quarterback run to win the game 18-12.

Not only was it a terrific game, but Marilu Garcia was equally impressed by the co-ed league’s great turnout that afternoon.

“It’s unbelievable,” she said. “Through sports they learn discipline and commitment to teamwork.”

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