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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
July 9, 2015 • $1.00 Volume 85 • Number 6
One if by Land, Two if by Sea — and three if facade is torn down! BY YANNIC RACK
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illage residents were concerned and outraged this past week about the removal of a historic facade on Barrow St. But the restaurant owners responsible for it remained unapologetic. The owners of One if by Land, Two if by Sea, the
restaurant that has occupied 17 Barrow St. since 1973, removed the white plaster archway framing its entrance last Thurs., July 2, but quickly faced a backlash from local residents. In addition, the Landmarks Preservation Commission slapped them with a violation.
Bharucha and board allies are gone, but Cooper Union probe, tuition suit remain BY ZACH WILLIAMS
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he Cooper Union made headlines in recent weeks with the resignation of President Jamshed Bharucha and other school officials who pushed for the adoption of tuition at the 155-year-old East Village university.
Bharucha announced the move in a June 10 e-mail to the campus community. He offered no rationale for the decision except to write that he would serve as a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Pressure had continued to COOPER continued on p. 12
PHOTO BY JOHN PENLEY
FACADE continued on p. 30
On Tuesday, MoveOn.org delivered more than half a million petitions to the South Carolina State House calling for the Confederate flag’s removal from all government places. MoveOn’s Karen Hunter, at podium, created the petition.
A former E.V. photog gets wrapped up in S.C. flag flap BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n the wake of the June 17 mass shooting that left nine black Charleston church members dead, there were immediate, widespread cries to remove the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina’s state capitol grounds at Columbia. The shooter had posted photos of himself with the flag beforehand on a racist Web site. The South Carolina state Senate has since voted to bag the flag but its House
has yet to weigh in. Governor Nikki Haley also favors canning the banner. Photojournalist John Penley, a former longtime East Village resident and activist who now lives in his home state of North Carolina, covered the July 4 “Take Down the Flag” rally at Columbia. One of his photos shows a man being arrested by a group of state troopers; he had burned a small paper Confederate flag on state house grounds. “You can’t burn anything
there, but you can smoke a cigarette,” Penley said, adding that some folks are considering returning and smoking cigarettes made of Confederate flag rolling paper. “I’ll be back there on the 18th when the Klan shows up,” Penley told The Villager. “It should be crazy. That’s the North Carolina Klan. They’re the most active Klan in the country right now. “There’s a big debate going FLAG continued on p. 10
Garner video guy busted in E. Village..............page 4 Big stir over Waverly Pl. closure plan.............page 6 Man pinned by tour bus on Sixth Ave.............page 8 Hit the pools!.............................page 25
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