The Paper of Record for East and West Villages, Lower East Side, Soho, Noho, Little Italy and Chinatown
April 30, 2015 • FREE Volume 5 • Number 5
Outspoken critic of Li’s leadership of C.B. 3 is booted from E.V. board BY LESLEY SUSSMAN
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n harshly worded language, recently ousted Community Board 3 board member Ayo Harrington lashed out Tuesday night against Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, charging that Brewer’s refusal to reappoint her
as a member of the board was “shameful and disappointing.” Harrington’s comments were made before the full board at its meeting at P.S. 20 on Essex St. just a few days after Harrington — a fierce critic of C.B. 3 Chairperson Gigi Li — was informed by C.B. 3, continued on p. 23
BY JUDITH MAHONEY PASTERNAK
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he legendary Judith Malina, co-founder of the Living Theatre, died April 10 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was 88. Diminutive in stature, immense in her influence,
a passionately committed pacifist and anarchist who respected no rules, but cherished everything and everyone human, Malina spent a lifetime smashing convention and breaking new ground on the world’s stage and in her personal — but never private — life. The theater company she MALINA, continued on p. 15
PHOTO BY JASON B. NICHOLAS
Living Theatre’s renowned Judith Malina is dead at 88 Police investigated at the scene of Saturday’s fatal police-involved shooting on E. Sixth St. See page 12.
The view from my window BY YVONNE COLLERY
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hen I look out my window, I see what isn’t there. I see an absence of life, a sobering, empty brown dirt plot that screams with recent memories of lives changed and others that were stamped out in an instant. I heard the sound of the explosion when it happened. It was like the soundtrack from a Hieronymus Bosch painting. I heard screams that came after a bang that
you can’t describe. They came bubbling up from the depths of hell amid the sound of thick plate glass shattering at a decibel level that was impossible to comprehend. I also see the streetscape that was ripped from us seemingly in an instant, or as if time seemed to have stood still like an eternity, take your pick. These moments seemed to loop around; an infinity squeezed inside of a mere instant. I see the people that I al-
ways saw standing in front of the buildings who are not there anymore. There’s the lovely smiling face of Moises Locon, who always exchanged a pleasant word with me, “When will it stop snowing?” “Will winter ever end?” When I see the view out my window, which was the last place Moises Locon ever saw, I think of him and all the others. When I look out my winWINDOW, continued on p. 10
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