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D.O.E. now says adult league can use schoolyard BY YANNIC RACK

n a disappointing turn for a group of local residents, an adult sports league has not suspended its weekend kickball games at two schools on the Lower East Side. The Villager reported in August that, according to

a Department of Education spokesperson, ZogSports, a co-ed social sports league that operates across the city’s boroughs, had its permit revoked for kickball games at P.S. 142, at 100 Attorney St., and Lower East Side Preparatory and Marta Valle high schools, at 145 SPORTS LEAGUE, continued on p. 21

BY ZACH WILLIAMS

lected officials last week announced a new coalition to promote affordable housing and put Airbnb under increased scrutiny. They said at a Sept. 12 City Hall steps press conference that Airbnb promotes illegal

hotels and enables unscrupulous building owners to flout a 2010 law banning apartment sublets of less than 30 days. The new organization, Share Better, will also advertise extensively to counter Airbnb’s own recent ad blitz. The San Francisco-based “home-sharing” AIRBNB, continued on p. 10

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Dozens of pols join coalition, look to burst Airbnb’s balloon

The Children’s Magical Garden wrapped up its first free summer camp with a big party on Aug. 31. More than 20 youths enjoyed yoga, arts projects, nature appreciation and more. A number of local gardens, plus the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, will host events Saturday in connection with Sunday’s People’s Climate March.

Climate march is hot ticket BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

he People’s Climate March, expected by organizers to be the largest climate march in history, is set to kick off in New York City on Sun., Sept. 21. There will be related solidarity events around the world. More than 1,000 businesses, unions, faith groups, schools, social justice groups, environmental groups and others are all working together on the event. The march’s focus

will be environmental justice and equality — representing communities that are being hit the hardest by climate change. It’s perfect timing since world leaders are coming to New York City this month for a United Nations summit on the climate crisis. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution. “With our future on the

line and the whole world watching, we’ll take a stand to bend the course of history,” the march’s organizers said. “We’ll take to the streets to demand the world we know is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities.” Marchers will assemble CLIMATE, continued on p. 10

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terrific, and should just hurry along. While waiting, he penned the beautiful tune. How about when Clapton stole Pattie right away from George Harrison — and yet George still stayed friends with him, seemingly with no hard feelings? “It’s like a bird,” Shaw explained. “If it’s gone and doesn’t come back, you’ve gotta let it go.”

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DOT MEANS WAR! Paul Garrin, of name.space, is fighting back. The city has recently been selling off .nyc addresses, even though Garrin repeatedly has explained that he created the .nyc top-level domain name — and .sex, .chat, .art and many, many more — as early as 1996. He’s been operating all of them on “alternate root,” outside of the main Internet that we all use, because the powers that be, a.k.a. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), won’t let him into the “main root.” Now that the options of Internet suffix possibilities are finally being expanded, the East Village tech pioneer isn’t willing to give up what’s his. And why should he? He’s working to raise $75,000 for his lawsuit in federal court against ICANN. As part of his plan to sell .nyc addresses, profits would be funneled back into social-justice causes, like equipping schools with laptops or buying back the old P.S. 64 / CHARAS and restoring it as a community center. (Oh well, it may be too late for that last one, unfortunately.) You can help Garrin by donating at rally.org/namespace.

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“SHAM DORM!” Speaking of the old P.S. 64, at 605 E. Ninth St., which Gregg Singer is bent on turning into a college dorm, preservationist Andrew Berman gave us his stinging response to the city’s recent approval of the project’s application plan. “We are deeply disappointed that the Department of Buildings has decided to allow this sham dorm arrangement to move ahead,” Berman said. “It does not conform with D.O.B.’s own rules, which were promulgated to try to prevent exactly the kind of fraud being perpetuated here. We are working with our allies in the community and elected officials to do everything we can to ensure that this does not come to fruition.” OCCUPY PORTLAND! Michael Ellick, the minister of Judson Church, gave his last sermon on Washington Square South on Sunday. He’s heading off to Portland, Oregon. Known as the “Priest of Occupy Wall Street,” Ellick was the leader of Occupy Faith NYC, a coalition of progressive New York City houses of worship supporting O.W.S. Judson congregants held a farewell party for him, at which warm memories of his times with the church were shared.

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Planning czar lays out affordable housing plan BY GERARD FLYNN

whole new era of affordable housing and a different city landscape is coming, Carl Weisbrod, Mayor de Blasio’s planning czar, declared during a breakfast at N.Y.U. Law School. Real estate industry insiders made up the bulk of attendees at the Sept. 5 breakfast. The City Planning Commission chairperson was speaking four months after the mayor announced his ambitious affordable housing plan in heavily gentrified Fort Greene, pledging 200,000 units would be built or preserved at a cost of $41 billion over the next 10 years. “In order to even have a shot at 200,000 units of housing, we have to become a denser city,” Weisbrod, the former head of Trinity Real Estate, told the packed room. And to achieve that taller, denser city, a “delicate balance” would be required, he said, with the public sector footing the bulk of the funds, even as communities in neighborhoods like East New York worry that higher-density housing, upon which the mayor’s plan hinges, might bring dramatic gentrification. Weisbrod said developers would no longer have the option of building affordable housing in exchange for a floor-area bonus, which they had under the voluntary “inclusionary zoning” program. Since its implementation in 1987, I.Z. delivered less than 5,000 units. Under the de Blasio administration’s new mandatory inclusionary zoning, or M.I.Z., program, the city would demand affordable housing be in-

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cluded in future rezonings. With M.I.Z., “You can’t build one unit unless you build your share of affordable housing,” Weisbrod said. “There will be a minimum that the developer has to do without subsidy. “I understand that neighborhoods are wary of density,” he added. “We all know that. Neighborhoods fear change and are concerned about gentrification.” At the same time, he added, “Density has many pluses.” “Density provides better demand for retail,” he explained. “And most of the neighborhoods we are

looking at are underserved for retail and want retail, and the only way to get more retail is if there are more customers. “The question for us is how do we achieve a consensus and receptivity to density in neighborhoods that are understandably wary about it?” That task, he said, must begin by “engaging in ground-up development. That is, we are not going to impose development from above and say, This is what you are going to get whether you like it or not,” he said. “We are going to work with neighborhoods that we think can appropriately absorb greater density.” What Weisbrod called mandatory inclusionary zoning’s “first test” — a 1,700-unit project on the Astoria waterfront with a mandatory affordable housing component — is already in its early stages. But as the Wall Street Journal recently reported, the plan, which the planning chief expects to go through changes on its ULURP rounds, is already running into problems with the local community, concerned that another “hipsterization” is coming. Despite Weisbrod’s many fans and former colleagues in the audience, not everyone was pleased at what they were hearing by morning’s end. Judy Richeimer, a tour guide who said she has been hearing it from foreigners about a gentrifying city losing its spirit, asked Weisbrod what the mayor’s plan might do about imposing a cap on commercial rents. Like many other progressives, she said she feels that the poor can hardly have a “meaningful experience” if businesses affordable to them can’t cut it. The answer she sought wasn’t forthcoming.

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Dig it! ’60s ﬂashback at garden The 6th and B Community Garden was rocking at its recent ’60s sing-along party / fundraiser. The mini-Woodstock — thankfully, without the rain and mud — hosted a sea of tie-dyed clothing, accented by gray hair, long beards and peace and love. The group X-Tine and the City Timbres led the crowd through classic faves, like the Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love,” the Turtles’ “Happy Together” and the Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.” Above, gardeners got their groove on. EastVillagerNews.com

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ou might as well just call it Zephyr Village. In the Sept. 9 Democratic primary for governor, upstart candidate Zephyr Teachout scored her highest margin of victory anywhere in the state in Greenwich Village’s 66th Assembly District, taking 68 percent of the vote. According to New York City Board of Election results, in the 66th A.D., Teachout won 4156 votes to Andrew Cuomo’s 1885, and Randy Credico’s 109. The 66th A.D. includes the West Village, Noho, Soho, Hudson Square and Tribeca. Teachout’s second-highest total came in high-voting northern Brooklyn’s 52nd Assembly District — covering the liberal enclaves of Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Gowanus — where she garnered 64 percent of the primary total, with 6783 votes to 3664 for Cuomo. Teachout did extremely well on Manhattan’s West Side, in general. She won the 75th Assembly District, just north of the 66th A.D. — which includes Chelsea, the Flatiron District, part of Hells Kitchen and Central Park South. She brought home 3010 votes to Cuomo’s 2602, good for 53 percent of the total. Ninety-four registered Democrats backed Credico. In the 67th A.D., covering the heart of the Upper West Side, Teachout notched another 53 percent win, with 4073 votes to Cuomo’s 3540. Credico took 119 votes. In the adjacent Assembly district to the north, the 69th — covering more of the Upper West Side, Morningside Heights and the Columbia University area — Teachout won again, with 56 percent of the vote. However, back in Lower Manhattan, Cuomo pulled off a 58 percent win in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s 64th A.D., covering the Financial District, Battery Park City, the South St. Seaport, Chinatown, Little Italy and most of the Lower East Side. But just to north of there, in the 74th A.D. — including the East Village, Stuyvesant Town, Gramercy and Kips Bay — Teachout ran virtually neck and neck with Cuomo; the governor won 49 percent, to Teachout’s 48.7 percent and Credico’s 2.2 percent. In Uptown districts it was a different story as Cuomo repeatedly trounced Teachout. In the 70th A.D., including Harlem, the governor secured 70 percent of votes cast. In the 68th district, covering East Harlem, Cuomo won 73 percent of the votership. In northern Manhattan’s 71st and 72nd Assembly districts, including Washington Heights and Inwood, Cuomo also won big. He convincingly won the 65th A.D.

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— which covers the eastern part of the Upper East Side — but the race for the rest of the Upper East Side was surprisingly close: Cuomo won 2594 votes (51 percent) while Teachout got 2354 (47 percent) in the 73rd A.D., which includes tony Fifth, Park, Madison and Lexington Aves. Credico got 1.5 percent (76 votes). Meanwhile, Tim Wu, Teachout’s running mate, also fared very well in the Village and Chelsea. The lieutenant governor candidate, who coined the term “’Net neutrality,” formerly lived in the Village and currently lives in Chelsea. In the Village’s 66th A.D., Wu did even better than Teachout, winning 70 percent of ballots cast, taking 4236 votes to Kathy Hochul’s 1812. In Chelsea’s 75th A.D., his home district, the Columbia law professor won 3,308 votes to Hochul’s 2,228, chalking up a 60 percent win. In vote-heavy northern Brooklyn’s 52nd A.D., Wu racked up 68 percent of the turnout, garnering 7065 ballots cast to his opponent’s 3262.

Ayo Harrington, co-president of Coalition for a District Alternative, the East Village political club, said it came as no surprise that Teachout ran so strongly. “She did very well,” Harrington said. “She got a lot of votes at all of the poll sites I checked. In the days prior to the election, everybody was saying, ‘I gotta vote tomorrow because I’m going to vote Zephyr Teachout.’ ” For his part, Speaker Silver was glad that his district delivered for the governor. “I am not surprised Governor Cuomo won my assembly district,” Silver told The Villager. “Over the past four years, Governor Cuomo has achieved an enormous amount for our community, our city and our state. Working with the governor we have raised the minimum wage, made our tax code fairer, improved our economy and strengthened and protected affordable housing. I look forward to continuing to work with him to improve the lives of all New Yorkers.” EastVillagerNews.com

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Former City Council candidate Pete Gleason voted in Tribeca on Sept. 9. “We need a magnifying glass to put our elected officials under scrutiny,” he said. “I believe a Zephyr / Wu win will restore integrity in our government.” Teachout trounced Cuomo 55 to 9 and Wu bested Hochul 49 to 14 at the Tribeca poll. EastVillagerNews.com

Don’t change Orchard St. too much, BID is told BY ZACH WILLIAMS

plan to improve the safety, traffic and appearance of Orchard St. received support from a Community Board 3 committee on Sept. 4. Presented by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District, proposed changes to the streetscape would increase consistency among curbside amenities, such as trees, bike racks and benches, among other proposals. However, the C.B. 3 Transportation Committee urged the BID to protect the historic street’s character. Additionally, the committee made its support for the plan conditional upon further study of the traffic implications of a proposed pedestrian plaza on Broome St. meant to prevent drivers from bypassing Allen St. via Orchard St. on their way to the Williamsburg Bridge. “I would caution you against sanitizing Orchard St. too much. It’s part of its charm,” Karen Blatt, the committee’s chairperson, told Tim Laughlin, the BID’s executive director, who presented the plan. Laughlin said that some improve-

A concept drawing showing the “grove concept” in place on Orchard St.

ments were underway, such as in- proposed plaza on Broome St. would stallation of new trees. However, require an additional design proimplementing much of the project cess, he added. depends on acquiring further fundThe project’s overarching theme is ing, as well as additional design and “celebrating the past and looking to cooperation with city agencies. TheT:8.75”the future in a way that stays true to

the Lower East Side,” he added. Inviting local artists to participate is one way that the street could better reflect the surrounding neighborhood, suggested committee member Morris Faitelewicz, who specifically mentioned Jim “Mosaic Man” Power as a candidate for such outreach. Chad Marlow, another committee member, said the loss of community-oriented businesses along the street has diminished some of its uniqueness in recent years. However, the street must remain relevant in the coming years, he added. “And this may be it if it’s done in the right way,” he said during the meeting. According to the 47-page “Orchard Streetscape Manual,” developed in cooperation with the Pilot Projects Design collective, the “grove concept” guided the design process. By placing street furniture and bike facilities together in various combinations, traffic is calmed and pedestrians and cyclists can enjoy additional space within a grove. Under the plan, groves would be placed at every corner of Orchard St. between Canal and E. Houston Sts. “It is a variant of what a slow zone does,” Laughlin explained.

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Dozens of pols join coalition, look to burst Airbnb’s balloon AIRBNB, continued from p. 1

company meanwhile denied wrongdoing and dismissed the new organization as beholden to city hotel interests. The new group did not specify how many affordable housing units have been lost due to Airbnb’s activities. Councilmember Corey Johnson said, though, that action must be taken to protect the city’s remaining rent-regulated units. “We all are in favor of the share economy, but what about the fair economy?” he said. “It’s got to be fair to rent-stabilized tenants. Rent-stabilized tenants are becoming an endangered species and if we don’t step up as elected officials — as advocates — we are going to lose them.” Assemblymember Dick Gottfried — who co-sponsored the 2010 law with state Senator Liz Krueger, who was also at the event — said Airbnb ads present an image far from the reality of its roughly 20,000 New York City listings. “We see all these cheery ads about nice people renting out rooms, but the illegal hotel law is aimed at something different,” Gottfried said. “When people rent out their apartment again and again it makes life a nightmare for the neighbors in the building.” Nearly two-thirds of rentals listed on Airbnb were for an entire apartment, according to the coalition, with 12 percent of hosts accounting for 30 percent of the company’s New York City listings. State Senator Brad Hoylman, Councilmembers Rosie Mendez and Margaret Chin, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, Borough President Gale Brewer and Public Advocate Letitia James are also among the around 30 local politicians affiliated with Share Better, according to the coalition. Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), Cooper Square Committee and the Urban Justice Center are among nearly three dozen advocacy and neighborhood groups involved with the effort. Mayor de Blasio has yet to make a definitive statement on the issue,

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though city records indicate he received donations for his mayoral campaign from Airbnb’s founders. By staying with an Airbnb host, guests are at risk because emergency egress, fire sprinklers and other mandated safety measures only apply to official hotels, according to the coalition. “We are urging the mayor to hire more inspectors,” James said. She added that efforts are also underway to urge the M.T.A. not to allow Airbnb to advertise on public transportation while state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman continues an investigation into the company’s business practices in the city. Horror stories on the coalition’s Web site include a New York City host who returned to find used condoms and feces in an apartment. According to Tom Cayler, a Hell’s Kitchen tenant and member of the West Side Neighborhood Alliance, one Airbnb host threatened his child after he complained. Airbnb representatives were in the audience at the press conference. Speaking afterward, they charged that the mainstream hotel industry is funding the coalition out of economic self-interest. According to media reports, the coalition is using the services of Neal Kwatra, the founder of Metropolitan Public Strategies. Kwatra previously was Schneiderman’s chief of staff and political director of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, the hotel workers union. In a Sept. 12 statement, Airbnb said it opposes illegal hotels and seeks to promote affordable housing. More than 2,000 questionable listings have been removed from its Web site, the statement said. According to Airbnb, 87 percent of its hosts live in the home they share, renting to guests on average about four nights per month. The number of the city’s Airbnb listings is too small to affect the city’s rent-regulated housing stock, according to the statement. “Some in the hotel industry will do everything they can to stop the sharing economy,” the statement said.

The route of the Sept. 21 climate march.

Climate march is hot ticket CLIMATE, continued from p. 1

along Central Park West between 59th and 86th Sts., and the march will begin at 11:30 a.m. The procession will leave Columbus Circle and head east on 59th St.;

then turn onto Sixth Ave. and go south to 42nd St.; then turn right onto 42nd St. and go west to 11th Ave.; then turn left on 11th Ave. and go south to 34th St. The march will end in the streets between 34th and 38th Sts.

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POLICE BLOTTER Smuggled cigs seized Police executed a search warrant at a Village computer service center just past noon on Fri., Sept. 12. During two hours of searching the business, at 200 W. 14th St., they found smuggled cigarettes and K2 synthetic marijuana, as well as some real pot. In all, police seized about $200 in various denominations, documents, marijuana, K2 and 28 packs of cigarettes bearing out-of-state tax stamps. Sherief Alashwal, 34, and Oadi Alsaede, 21, were arrested and charged with violating tax law, a misdemeanor.

He posted their sex video A woman discovered her boyfriend had recorded them having sex in their residence at 9 Barrow St. and had uploaded it to the Internet. The woman, 29, told police on Sept. 4 that she learned about the video and immediately decided to ditch her 30-year-old beau and move out. Later, she confronted him via e-mail, asking why he provided the video to an amateur porn site. Police say the man admitted via e-mail to his actions. Five days later, police arrested Carlo Dellaverson and charged him with unlawful surveillance, a felony.

Yoga teacher stalked At about 5:30 a.m. on Mon., Sept. 15, a female yoga teacher exited the subway at W. 14th St. and Sixth Ave., bought coffee and headed toward her yoga studio at 434 Sixth Ave. On her way, at 10th St. and Sixth Ave., a man motioned to her to come over. “Hey you! Come over here,” he said, according to a police report. The woman sped up her pace and hurried all the way into the second-floor studio. But the man was not far behind as she heard him walking up the stairs before he began banging on the locked studio door for about 20 minutes. “Let me in! I want to take yoga classes,” he said, according to police. She called the cops, saying she was afraid and that the man was not a yoga student of hers. Upon arrival in the building, police saw Shannon Gibbons, walking down the stairs and arrested him for stalking, a misdemeanor.

Spits on officer A police officer was walking down the street when he was approached by two men at about 2 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 13. One asked him for money and then, when the officer refused, said, “All right, you’re not gonna give me my money? Fine!” before

spitting in the officer’s face. The man ran away, but the cop gave chase and arrested Moussa Camara, 22 in front of 120 MacDougal St. Camara was charged with harassment.

Hot wheels Police spotted a stolen car opposite 91 Christopher St. on Fri., Sept. 12, around 3:50 a.m. Sitting inside of the 2014 black Toyota Camry was Latee Brockington, 24, according to the police report. The vehicle had been stolen from another precinct two days earlier. Brockington was charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

False threat, real arrest A man threatened another man to move his car out of his way at a gas station at Eighth Ave. and W. 13th St. at about 4:45 a.m. on Sat., Sept. 13. “Move your car m----- f-----, or I’ll shoot you. I have a gun,” the first man threatened. The other driver alerted police, who arrested Ross Shelley, 28, and charged him with menacing. No gun was found on Shelley, police said.

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Valiant vendor is honored PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY

At Saturday’s Vendy Awards on Governors Island, which recognizes the city’s top food-cart and food-truck vendors, Baare Batchiri — with his wife, left — received the Heroic Vendor Award. It was the first time a nonfood vendor has won the honor. In June, Batchiri — who sells cell-phone accessories in Soho on Broadway just south of Houston St. — was randomly stabbed by Richard Pearson, the “Soho Wild Man.” Pearson grabbed a scissors off the African immigrant’s table, then plunged them into the vendor’s chest, narrowly missing his heart. Despite being grievously wounded, Batchiri chased Pearson into the subway, where he pointed him out to police officers, who made the arrest. Pearson is facing attempted-murder charges.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Doesn’t sound kosher To The Editor: Re “Katz’s reportedly sells its development rights, but deli will be staying” (news article, Sept. 4): They really will stay in business during construction? Will they build an underground entrance and beam the tourists into Katz’s? Will your pastrami come with mustard, coleslaw and dust? Will all of Houston St. become a bigger parking lot during construction? Affordable housing — really affordable — would be nice. Foreign investors money-launder-

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ing through luxury housing is a no-no. Shame on you, Jake Dell. Judith Chazen Walsh

Students care the most To The Editor: Re “Cooper protest continues as new tuition kicks in, new security comes on” (news article, Sept. 4): Cooper students have been amazing throughout this mess. They know and care more about

Peter Cooper’s vision and trust than the administration that is (over)paid to act as the trust’s steward. And while school spokesman Harmon continues to hype the Pell Grant family numbers, the board of trustees own April 21, 2013, meeting notes quote school president Bharucha reassuring them that the added grants are only a temporary measure to bolster applications: “The president explained that the additional need- and merit-based aid in the model reduces over time.” Scott Lerman

N.Y. not on his agenda To The Editor: Re “The revolution will be televised” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Sept. 4): In case you didn’t get it yet after all these years, the whole Yippie propaganda strategy was about media hype. Also, I hate gentrified New York and would have to move back and possibly be homeless to do this, and too many of my old friends from the L.E.S. are dead, so I find the city very depressing and expensive. Besides, I already told The Villager that I was going to NOLA and then back to Mexico to photograph Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Zapatistas. F N.Y.C. John Penley EastVillagerNews.com

There’s only one way to save our small businesses TALKING POINT BY SHARON WOOLUMS

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oday Villagers walk past closed neighborhood businesses once filled with customers; Union Square Cafe, The Back Fence, Pearl Paint, even Gray’s Papaya — we all had our favorites — gone but not forgotten and greatly missed. We’ve all wondered, “Will the Village as we know it become extinct before anything is done about it?” Finally, after so many long-established small businesses were forced to close and jobs were lost, solutions are coming. When the new progressive City Council returns, two different solutions will be considered: The first, introduced in June by Bronx Councilmember Annabel Palma, the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, gives small business owners — our city’s major job creators and our economy’s backbone — rights equal to landlords in negotiating lease-renewal terms. After bargaining in good faith, if agreement on lease terms can’t be reached, it goes to mediation; if that fails, arbitration. No tax dollars would be needed. Originally introduced by Councilmember Ruth Messinger in 1986, the S.B.J.S.A. has never had a vote by the full City Council in more than 30 years. Even with the sponsorship of the former chairperson of the Small Business Committee, David Yassky, the entire committee and 32 co-sponsors, the bill was denied a hearing by the Speaker’s Office for more than four years. The second potential solution was detailed by Robert Cornegy, Jr., chairperson of the Small Business Committee, in a recent Gotham Gazette column. Cornegy wrote that he is “working on legislation using subsidies to pay landlords to not rentgouge… . I hope that we can create an effective incentive for commercial landlords that will give businesses greater predictability and allow them to benefit from the positive changes they help to create,” he said. Since the Giuliani administration, and continuing under Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio, the starting point for most economic policy decisions begins with giving real estate developers tax incentives or subsidies for doing projects claiming to create jobs or benefiting a community. In Cornegy’s proposal, landlords would be given tax breaks for not doing something — for not rent-gouging long established businesses, forcing them to close. What do small business advocates say is the better solution? Long recognized as the city’s top

Earlier this year, Villagers were once again feeling agita at the possibility of yet another possible closure, when Caffé Dante — which has been on MacDougal St. since 1915 and is one of the Village’s oldest cafes — was shuttered. But Mario Flotta, above, who has owned the place since 1970, assured it was not closing. “We’re renovating and adding to the menu,” he said, promising to reopen in two to three weeks — and so he did.

authority on the issue, Sung Soo Kim, known as the “Godfather of Small Businesses,” in 1984 founded the Korean American Small Business Service Center, which assists more than 17,000 businesses. Kim was the first chairperson of Mayor Dinkins’s and Giuliani’s Small Business Advisory Committee and a co-founder of the Small Business Congress, a 112-member advocacy group. In 1991, he created the first Small Business Bill of Rights in New York City. “There is only one real solution to saving our city’s small businesses, the S.B.J.S.A.,” Kim stated. “Our City Council must give job creators — our small businesses — rights to negotiate fair lease terms with landlords, giving them reasonable return for their hard work and investment. If business owners make a reasonable profit and have some control over future costs, they can plan growth, which will create jobs and pay higher wages. Without this right to negotiate equally, where only landlords’ profits count, and only the landlords have all the rights, a take-itor-leave-it commercial marketplace, the future of every small business and their employees is solely in the hands of a small group of landlords. “It’s getting worse every year as landlords get greedier demanding

ever-more exorbitant rents to gain unreasonable profits,” Kim continued. “Twenty-three percent of my Korean members were forced to close in 2013. As an immigrant business organization, I must say our City Council and mayor are sending the message that New York City is no longer the gateway to the American Dream, especially for immigrant owners.” Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, quoted in a Sept. 3 New York Post article, “City Council lease proposal will hurt landlords and city,” clearly stated the landlords’ position on the S.B.J.S.A. “This is the kind of bill that would send a terrible message to the business community about having arm’slength transactions between two parties,” he said. “City Council attorneys have suggested in the past, and we still believe, it is not within the scope of the powers of the City of New York, and if it moves ahead, it will be subject to legal challenges.” The article ended with the recommendation to reject the S.B.J.S.A. before it bursts the city’s economic bubble. However, Kim responded, “The S.B.J.S.A. will make for better communications between a landlord and business tenant, not less. Years ago, when a lease expired, landlords and

tenants met face to face, bargaining in good faith to arrive at fair lease terms which allowed both parties a reasonable profit. Now, little or no bargaining between the landlord and tenant occurs. Business owners receive letters from the landlord’s attorney to accept the terms demanded by the landlord or vacate the premise by the end of the month. They have no certainty of new lease terms, or if the landlord will even want them to stay in business.” Behind closed doors at City Hall, the S.B.J.S.A.’s legality was questioned, though this was never done publicly. That the bill simply could not work was allegedly “proven” by a “legal review panel” in 2010. Assisted by this so-called “legal roadblock,” a vote on the bill was stopped by friends of the real estate lobby. In fact, in 1945, the state Legislature passed a strict commercial rent-control law that remained in effect until 1963. This law protected businesses from real estate speculators, greedy landlords and forced closings. New York’s highest courts upheld the law every time as constitutional, and no landlord ever claimed he went out of business during the entire 18 years as a result of being regulated and forced to accept a reasonable return. Now, with no rights or protections, 185,000 small businesses are at risk and their employees’ jobs in jeopardy. The longer a mom-and-pop store has been in business, the more successful it is, the more money has been put into it, the more at risk it is of being exploited and virtually robbed by landlords. Rent-gouging, extortion, “cash under the table” deals, shorter leases that prevent growth, all result in forced layoffs, higher prices for customers. Small businesses are destroyed as a handful of landlords become super-wealthy. If elected officials really meant it when they say, “Our small businesses are the backbone of our economy, the engines that create jobs,” then why the silence? Over the past 20 years, our Democratic City Council has used government to maximize and protect the real estate industry’s profits — a partnership producing huge profits for the Council’s major campaign contributor. As small businesses grew weaker each year, their problems were ignored. The real estate industry, having more influence at City Hall, grew stronger as they received every possible tax break and subsidy. Refusing to appoint a small business owner or advocate to any agency establishing economic policy for small businesses, Mayor de Blasio, though progressive on social issues, clearly is not concerned about small businesses and jobs. More than SMALL BUSINESS, continued on p. 27 September 18, 2014

Cooper alum now practices art of the knockout SPORTS BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

ne can expect to find alumni of The Cooper Union in the arts, design and engineering fields. But in the ring in an Ultimate Fighting competition, meting out and absorbing vicious punishment? In the case of Angela Hill, 29, a graduate of the elite East Village school, the answer is yes. And Hill’s now set to become a household name as a member of the first-ever all-female cast of “The Ultimate Fighter Season 20.” The series debuted on Wed., Sept. 10, on Fox Sports 1. Set in Las Vegas, the show will introduce the newest women’s weight class. The winner will be crowned the first-ever U.F.C. strawweight champion (115 pounds). Hill got into Muay Thai, a Thai martial art form, four years ago. “I still consider myself an artist,” she said in an interview last week. “I was really into animation — motion graphics — after school, and I started working in a couple of studios. That’s when I got interested in Muay Thai; you sit around in an office for

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Angela Hill’s best weapons are her roundhouse kick and overhead right punch.

12 hours, you get antsy.” Hill is married, to another artist. “We both draw and paint and sketch,” she said. “But I feel, in terms of making money, this is what I want to do,” she said of mixed martial arts fighting. “For fighters, the window / timeframe is brief. Art you can do till you die.” Asked what her best move is, Hill said, “probably my roundhouse — my kick. I don’t do them often, but I have really strong kicks — very fast. Also, my overhead right [punch]. “I have a few knockouts. My best was an overhead right against this girl. She was just facedown on the mat.” Originally from Maryland, Hill currently lives near Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, in Brooklyn. She trains four hours a day. You might have seen her sprinting across the Brooklyn or Williamsburg bridges. “A lot of hard training,” she said. Her ring name, “Overkill Hill,” gives a sense of her power. She doesn’t brag, but, then again, she doesn’t have to. Her record speaks for itself. She’s had 14 amateur Muay Thai fights, two pro bouts and one mixed martial-arts fight. She’s undefeated. “Confidence is what got me here,” she said. “Most of my fights, I had to

fight girls with a lot more experience, a lot more wins than me. That didn’t stop me from beating them. “I feel like I want it more. I have a lot of drive. Also, I’m very technical,” she said. “You see a lot of sloppy fighters, just kind of swinging from the hips — and they leave a lot of holes in their game. I blame it on the coaches.” All of the fighters are very attractive. (Hey, after all, it’s Fox.) The series is touting the pugilists’ beauty as well as their strength. As for Cooper Union, Hill said she’s familiar with the ongoing battle over the formerly full-tuition school’s decision to start charging incoming freshmen tuition this year. “Yeah, it sucks,” she said of the new policy. “The only reason I was able to go to art school was because of Cooper Union, because of that scholarship. I applied to other schools, RISD, for a partial scholarship. But I still would have been $50,000 in debt. Cooper Union gave newcomers like me entrée into that world — people not from a lot of money or third-generation artists. I might still be in Maryland if not for Cooper Union. It just opened my eyes. “It’s really sad. It’s really unfortunate,” she said of the decision to institute tuition. “I wish there was something I could do,” she said. Then, as quick as one of her kicks, she added, “Maybe if I play my cards right, I can — maybe help one student.” EastVillagerNews.com

Village jazz remains red hot and blue Today built on yesterday, grooving to tomorrow BY MICHAEL LYDON

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decade or four ago I was a jazz-mad college kid, and anytime I had an extra dime in my pocket I’d bus down to the Big Apple to hear my heroes live in smoky hole-in-the-wall Village clubs: Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond rocking the nearly empty Jazz Gallery on St. Mark’s Place, Ornette Coleman wailing at Slugs on East Third St., not long before trumpeter Lee Morgan got shot on stage and the joint closed down. One night I dashed with my date from catching Herbie Mann at the Village Gate (now Le Poisson Rouge), to hear Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot on Third Ave. by the Cooper Union. Monk was great, but he often wandered off the stand, leaving his band to carry on without him. A few beers had made me more than a little drunk, and when the band’s tenor sax player tried to pick up my date, I’m sad to say he succeeded, leaving me crying the blues sometime ’round midnight. New York, New York jazz has a long and distinguished history — who but jazz cats named our toddlin’ town the Big Apple? — a history that stretches back a century to James P. Johnson and Fats Waller playing stride piano in Harlem, Duke Ellington leading his elegant orchestra at the Cotton Club in the 1920s, Benny Goodman bringing an integrated band to Carnegie Hall in 1938, and Bird, Diz and Monk in the 40s and 50s plotting the bebop revolution Uptown at Minton’s and Midtown at a dozen clubs on West 52nd St.

Pianist Kirk Lightsey’s quartet comes into the Vanguard Sept. 23–28.

West and East Village jazz forms a multicolored thread in this history, a thread with more than a few twists and turns, but one woven from a no-holds-barred commitment to funky honesty and experimental daring. As poets and painters, writers and rebels, folkies and philosophers have long found an intoxicating freedom in the Village’s higgledy-piggledy streets, jazz cats have long found an improvisational freedom in those same Village streets. Village jazz clubs come and go — Sweet Basil, Fez, and Blue Water

Grill are among the most recently departed — and the band on stage may be established stars or eager up-and-comers, but night after night the music still blows red hot and blue, and audiences of simpatico fans pack the clubs and clap and snap and groove with the cats all the way home. No other jazz club tells more of the Village jazz story, or tells it better, than the Village Vanguard, founded in February 1935 by Max Gordon, a Polish Jew who had immigrated to America with his parents only nine years before. Gor-

don first opened a coffee house on Charles St. as a forum for poets and artists as well as musicians, but city officials refused him a cabaret license. “I knew if I was ever to get anywhere in the nightclub business,” Gordon wrote wryly in his autobiography, “I’d have to find another place with two johns, two exits, that stood two hundred feet away from a church or synagogue.” He soon bought a triangle-shaped basement (and former speakeasy) JAZZ, continued on p.18 September 18, 2014

Just Do Art BY SCOTT STIFFLER

JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND’S “LOVE IS CRAZY” and “THE DRIFT”

Mx Bond x 2: Justin Vivian Bond appears at Florence Gould Hall and Joe’s Pub.

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Maine (where Davis was born), “Icebound” concerns the chilly reception given to a shrewish second cousin who becomes heir to the estate of a stern matriarch. Denied any inheritance, the bitter children are also frozen out by the newly powerful cousin — who hires their on-the-lam black sheep brother to help around the house. They clash as well, but also envision a better future. “But nature will out,” warns Playhouse artistic director Alex Roe, in “a play that asks whether our habits and fears will always defy our highest aspirations.” Previews: Sept. 19, 21, 22, 25 at 7:30 p.m. & Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. Opens Sept. 26, closes Oct. 19, Thurs.–Sat. at 7:30 p.m. & Sun. at 3 p.m. (plus Oct. 8, 11, 15 & 18 at 3 p.m.). At Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. Fourth St., btw. Aves. A & B). Preview admission: $15, $10 for those under 18. During the run, tickets are $25 ($20 for students & seniors; $10 for those under 18). Purchase by calling 800-838-3006 or at metropolitanplayhouse.org.tickets.

INSTALLATION: “EVERYTHING BY MY SIDE”

The color may be plain and pure, but what’s waiting inside is fraught with mixed signals about everything from loneliness to intimacy to what’s public and what’s private. Argentinian dramatist and visual artist Fernando Rubio makes his U.S. debut with “Everything by my side,” in which seven white beds will be spaced along the riverside skyline, occupied by seven women. One by one, they will beckon the installation’s sole audience member to join them, at which point they’ll hear a whispered childhood memory. Part of The French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing

Olivia Killingsworth and Quinlan Corbett, in the Metropolitan Playhouse production of “Icebound.”

Tirelessly devoted to presenting works from America’s theatrical heritage — and especially adept at choosing ones that are both revelatory and relevant — the East Village’s Metropolitan Playhouse opens their 23rd season (devoted to “Progress”) with “Icebound.” Seen only once on the New York stage since its 1923 premiere, this revival of Owen Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama marks only the second effort from the author, since choosing to abandon a string of highly lucrative westerns, sex comedies and melodramas in favor of more serious fare. Set in rural

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From that gloriously damaged, ad-libbing, self-medicating songstress of Kiki and Herb fame to author of the remarkably randy memoir “TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels” to a nuanced cover artist (the “Silver Wells” CD) to the dead-on turn as the title character in Scott Wittman’s 2012 La MaMa production of “Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis,” Justin Vivian Bond is sexual, intellectual and artistic expression in perpetual motion. Intensely fluid in every sense of what that might mean to you, Mx Bond can — and should — be seen in Uptown and Downtown form. Presented as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival, “Love is Crazy” is an evening of “raucous and seductive songs and stories about love,” with selections from V’s debut CD, “Dendrophile,” as well as the aforementioned “Silver Wells.” Fingers crossed, and maybe you’ll hear the standout “Wells” track: “Something Cool.” Sung from the point of view of Blanche DuBois, it’s not the only Tennessee Williams connection to be found. At Joe’s Pub, “The Drift” finds Mx Bond immersed in spoken word and song inspired by the title character from Williams’ novella “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.”

The Hudson River Park interactive installation “Everything by my side” marks the U.S. debut of Argentinian artist Fernando Rubio.

the Line festival, this site-specific performance is co-presented by Hudson River Park and Performance Space 122 — which continues to present work throughout the five boroughs, during the ongoing massive overhaul of their East Village home (see ps122. org for more info). In English and Spanish. Fri. - Sun., Sept. 26-28, 2-7 p.m. Performances take place at 15-minute intervals, for individual audience members. At Hudson River Park’s Pier 45 (cross at Christopher St.). Tickets ($5) can be purchased at ps122.org or by calling 212-352-3101. For info on other Crossing the Line Festival events, visit fiaf.org. EastVillagerNews.com

An inspiring monument to the creative process ‘20,000 Days’ is as versatile and ambitious as its topic, Nick Cave

FILM 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH Written by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollared and Nick Cave Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard 2014 Runtime: 97 min. Through Sept. 30 At Film Forum 209 W. Houston St., W. of Sixth Ave. Screenings at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $13 Film Forum Members: $7.50 Tickets & info: filmforum.org

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hroughout his decades-long career, Nick Cave has made a point of pushing himself forward musically and artistically. With his main band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave’s albums incorporate loud, heavy rock, piano-based ballads, electronic and looping experiments, acoustic instrumentation and orchestral arrangements — to say nothing of the raw post-punk of his first band, the Birthday Party, the noisy thrash of side project Grinderman and his moody, ambient film soundtracks. The one consistent thing throughout these stylistically disparate projects is the man himself, and his distinctive authorial (and singing) voice — dark, humorous, powerful, verbose and a little profound, and willing to tackle the headiest of themes and existential questions, or cheekily subvert rock ‘n roll clichés. It’s fitting then, that “20,000 Days on Earth,” the new film which finds Cave as its subject, refuses to be categorized easily. Not quite a documentary and definitely not a concert film (though it features some extraordinary performance footage), it’s perhaps best described as a non-fiction film with a fictional framing device. While initially being hired to film promo footage during the recording of the Seeds’ 2013 album, “Push the Sky Away,” directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard EastVillagerNews.com

Nick Cave plays with a magnifying glass at his archives.

decided to expand the footage into a feature. Following Cave as he drifts through his fictional, titular 20,000th day, the film mixes the off-the-cuff and real with the manufactured in ways that provide a unique, subdued portrait of an artist who deserves a film as distinct as his voice. One of the ways the filmmakers accomplish this is by staging situations to provoke certain reactions from Cave and company, and allowing the participants to react via unscripted conversation. Early scenes, for instance, show Cave speaking with a psychiatrist and opening up about his youth, his relationship with his father, and how the passage of time affects his work. Later on, he’s allowed to pick through things from the Nick Cave Collection (a collection of his papers, writing and photographs), causing him to reminisce about the early days of his career and meet up with right-hand Bad Seed Warren Ellis for lunch — during which they have a conversation about the best gigs they’ve ever attended. The most

intriguing of these real/fake situations are the hallucinatory sequences which find Cave driving with various figures from his past. Putting Cave in the car alone with Kylie Minogue, actor Ray Winstone, and ex-Bad Seed Blixa Bargeld sparks conversations that muse on the trappings of fame, identity, the nature of creative collaboration. It’s an interesting way to structure the film, which often yields quietly revelatory responses. Perhaps the most interesting and revealing information comes from the obviously staged moments, when Cave (who, along with the directors, co-wrote the film) is left alone to wax philosophic. Periodically, Cave’s rich baritone intones internal monologues over picturesque images of perennially rainy Brighton, England (the cinematography is top-notch, awash in rich navy blues, greens, grays, and beige). In his characteristically vivid language, he speaks on his creative process, offering candid insight into how he approaches writing music and lyrics — comparing himself to a

cannibal, consuming and regurgitating life experiences into lyrics, and songs to wild beasts that need to be captured and tamed. His thoughts on performance and his rock star persona are similarly enlightening — he talks eloquently about how he lives for performing, the transformative experience of being on stage and connecting with people. It’s no surprise then that the film, and Cave himself, are never more hypnotizing than when he’s playing with the Bad Seeds. One scene, filmed during the recording of “Push the Sky Away” captures Cave at his most musically introspective — hunched over his piano, leading the band in a beautiful rendition the rambling epic “Higgs Boson Blues.” Outside the studio, the band viciously tears through “Stagger Lee” (a profane, grimy rocker from 1996’s “Murder Ballads”) to a crowd of hyped-up fans — the soft-spoken and mild-mannered Cave of the preceding film becoming the swaggering, fiery rock icon fans see him as. The climax of the film comes as Cave the Bad Seeds take the stage of the Sydney Opera House, in their home country of Australia. Joined by an orchestra and a children’s choir, they launch into a transcendent performance of “Push the Sky Away” standout “Jubilee Street.” The band works itself up to an impressive crescendo, and footage of Cave performing onstage over the decades is interspersed (in the last of a few frenetically edited montages) — as Cave belts “I’m transforming, I’m vibrating...Look at me now.” It’s a dynamic, almost overwhelming, way of showing both how much and how little time has affected Cave as a performer, and how his art and devotion to performance carried him and the band from scrappy punk clubs to opera houses. This unexpectedly affecting and totally cathartic sequence speaks to all of the film’s strengths. For Nick Cave fans, it serves as an indispensable document of the man in action, and a glimpse into his often inscrutable mind. For film lovers, it’s beautifully shot, expertly edited, and plays around with the form and conventions of documentary/non-fiction film in creative and exciting ways, blurring the line between artifice and reality. And for everyone else, “20,000 Days on Earth” functions as an inspiring monument to the power of performance and the creative process. September 18, 2014

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The Vanguard Orchestra (sax section, seen here) appears every Mon. at the Village Vanguard.

at 178 Seventh Ave. and named it the Village Vanguard. In its early years Gordon dedicated the Vanguard to poetry readings and folk music, and club goers heard Maxwell Bodenheim, the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians, declaim his verse and Leadbelly sing plaintive Southern songs like “Bring Me a Little Water, Sylvie.” Yet in 1940 trumpeter Roy Eldridge packed the 123-seat club, and soon after so did Sidney Bechet, Art Hodes and Mary Lou Williams. Following the trend, Gordon began booking three jazz acts a night. Not every group, however, proved an instant success. On Thelonious Monk’s first Vanguard night in September 1948, Gordon’s wife Lorraine remembered, “Nobody came. None of the so-called jazz critics. None of the so-called cognoscenti. Zilch.” With the loyalty that endeared them to generations of jazz artists, the Gordons kept booking Monk and enjoyed watching him grow to international fame. Through the 1950s the Vanguard became the home club for dozens of modern jazz stars: Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Anita O’Day, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Stan Getz and Carmen McRae. Fans who loved the carefully sculpted sounds of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra made their Monday night gigs a must-hear jazz institution from 1966 to 1990. Other fans who liked their jazz more unbuttoned packed the Saturday afternoon jam sessions. “My pals and I went to the Vanguard for the jamming,” remembered one devoté. “We could go hear Lester Young, Ben Webster; all the greatest jazz musicians for fifty cents at the door!”

Chick Corea & The Vigil appear at The Blue Note for a six-night stand, Sept. 30–Oct. 5.

Fortunately, many great Vanguard nights got recorded. Sonny Rollins taped three LPs there, and Art Pepper, Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane and Wynton Marsalis are a few of the artists who have put out “Live at the Village Vanguard” albums — a title, says Bruce Lundvall, head of Blue Note Records, “that has a direct and positive influence on an album’s sales.”

The day after Max Gordon died in 1989, Lorraine Gordon closed the Vanguard. The next day she opened it again, and by hook or by crook she’s kept the place going ever since. “It’s still the way everybody likes it,” says one longtime habitué. What makes a café or bar a bonafide jazz club? It’s not always easy to say. Hothouse, the free monthly guide to the New York jazz scene,

lists 77 venues south of 34th St., but some of those are tablecloth and candle restaurants where a decorous pianist plays standards at Sunday brunch, and others are rock-blues joints where the band might cover Ray Charles and Herbie Hancock hits. Between the two extremes a dedicated jazz buff can find a wide variety of clubs bursting with both seasoned and fresh talent six and seven nights a week. Max and Lorraine’s daughter Deborah now manages the Vanguard. Lorraine, in her 90s, doesn’t come in to the club much anymore, but trombonist John Mosca says, “We’re still afraid of her!” Pianist Kirk Lightsey’s quartet comes into the Vanguard Sept. 23 to 28, followed by another sax quartet, this one led by Ravi Coltrane, son of jazz pioneers John and Alice Coltrane, appearing from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5. The 18-piece band Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, now led by trombonists Mosca and Doug Purviance, still rules the roost Mondays and plays JAZZ, continued on p.19

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Cornelia Street Café has pianist Sebastien Ammann’s quartet, hot after a European tour, on Sept. 29.

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new works as well as many Thad Jones-Mel Lewis orchestrations that date back to the 60s. The Blue Note continues its star-studded booking tradition with Lou Donaldson coming in for one night, Sept. 25, and pianist Chick Corea & the Vigil covering a six-night stand Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, both groups playing two sets at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Smalls will be closed for renovations from Sept. 22 to 25,

but reopens Fri., Sept. 26 with an afternoon open jam session from 4 to 7 p.m. Regular programming then resumes with Ralph Lalama’s band, Bop Juice, at 7:30 p.m., Myron Walden’s Momentum at 10:30 p.m., and Anthony Wonsey’s piano trio playing until closing or dawn, whichever comes first. The smaller joints are jumping too. The Cornelia Street Café has flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny leading a quartet through improvised originals and Duke Ellington classics Sept. 24 at 8:30 p.m., and pia-

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Traditional jazz still holds sway at Arthur’s Tavern, but look out for more modern surprises.

nist Sebastien Ammann’s quartet, hot after a European tour, on Sept. 29. Guitar virtuosos and 55 Bar regulars Mike and Leni Stern will be back at their old haunt this fall: Mike Sept. 22 24 & 29 and Leni, Sept. 23. At Arthur’s Tavern, traditional jazz still hold sway, but look out for more modern surprises. At Fat Cat, you can play billiards while listening to eager up and comers, and you might as well go the new WhyNot Jazz Room Sept. 24 and hear Rale Micic & Vic Juris howl on two guitars — why not?

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Or check out the newest club on the block, Mezzrow, across 10th St. from Smalls. “Jazz in the Village never ceases to amaze me,” says Jim Eigo, a diehard fan who’s become a publicist. “Old, new, traditional, experimental, big clubs, little clubs, known players, unknown players. There’s so much energy, so much daring. Go to a place you’ve never heard of, listen to a band you think you’re not going to like. I guarantee, if you open your ears, you’re going to have a Village night you’ll never forget.”

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Stanton St., by D.O.E. because it was a for-profit business and therefore not fulfilling the permit requirements. Now, after residents have been complaining about continuing kickball games on the schoolyards, the department has made a full reverse on the issue. In an e-mail two weeks ago, Marge Feinberg, the same spokesperson who initially told The Villager that the permits had been rescinded, said that ZogSports “provided documentation showing they are a nonprofit organization” and that “their permit has not been revoked.” She previously stood by her original statement but conceded to investigate after the office manager for ZogSports confirmed that games were continuing on the Lower East Side, starting the fall season this past weekend. “We met with the Department of Education on August 15 [after the Villager article was published] and they confirmed that the ZogSports Athletic Association has permits and that the person that you spoke with was incorrect when they said that. Our permit was never revoked,” the ZogSports office manager said. The residents have complained that Zogsports promotes alcohol on schoolyards by partnering with sponsors such as Bud Light and Wild Turkey American Honey. The residents also say that children are turned away at the gates of their own schoolyards to make room for the adult kickball games. “I guess they can technically cover themselves as a not-for-profit because of their sister entity,” said Diem Boyd, founder of L.E.S. Dwellers, an activist local neighborhood group. “But our argument still says that it’s promoting happy hour at local bars and alcohol brands, and we don’t see how that’s appropriate on D.O.E. property.” Boyd added that the problems don’t end on the field because the players move on to the countless nearby bars on the Lower East Side after the games. According to the Town & Village blog, ZogSports was expelled from Stuyvesant Town-area playgrounds in 2012 after a woman and her kids were turned away at the gate because of an ongoing kickball game, which triggered a flurry of complaints from residents. ZogSports is a for-profit entity that gives a portion of its net profit to a sister nonprofit called Play For Your Cause. In addition, the ZogSports Athletic Association of New York City is a nonprofit that runs “100 percent of the [ZogSports] activities in

ZogSports kickball players using the playground outside Lower East Side Prep High School, at 145 Stanton St., last Sunday.

NYC Department of Education facilities” and in turn donates 100 percent of net proceeds to charity, according to the ZogSports Web site. According to the ZogSports office manager, the permits are made out to the nonprofit ZSAANYC, therefore qualifying the games for D.O.E. facilities. Part of the donations that are made through the association also go directly to the schools that host the games. Play For Your Cause “receives money from ZogSports, ZSAANYC, partner bars and sponsors” and donates funds to charities as well, according to the Web site. The group including Boyd and L.E.S. Dwellers has written numerous letters to the department and also filed a complaint against Play for Your Cause with the New York State Charities Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office. “They seem to be concentrating in certain areas where there’s a lot of alcohol around, and the poor neighborhoods,” Boyd said of ZogSports. “It’s not happening at Upper East Side schools, it’s not happening at Upper West Side schools. I think they’re doing it down here for obvious reasons. One local resident who did not want to be named, but claims she has witnessed this behavior from her apartment opposite P.S. 142, said, “This is shameful. I mean,

come on, you’re kicking kids out so that these adult kickball leagues can play on school property?” Marge Feinberg, the D.O.E. spokesperson, responded to the allegations last week, saying, “There was no evidence of promoting alcohol. Also, schoolchildren are not inconvenienced because the permit only allows the organization to use the field when it would otherwise be closed.” Other than ZogSports’ office manager, company representatives could not be reached for a comment. This is not the first time the residents are fighting an adult sports league. Last month, NYC Social Sports League, another organizer of co-ed leagues, stopped playing there after L.E.S. Dwellers and residents repeatedly contacted the department with similar complaints. Boyd said they never heard back, but the league removed its equipment from the fields and hasn’t been playing since. NYC Social did not return phone calls asking for confirmation. But Feinberg said, “NYC Social decided not to complete its time left on its permit.” Martha Polin, who has been the principal at Lower East Side Preparatory High School for 13 years and is the building principal for M.O. 25 (which houses three schools), said she can’t understand the complaints.

“These are lovely people, they’re young professionals, it’s good for the neighborhood,” she said. “It’s really not loud. There’s no promotion, there’s no signs, nothing. There’s no alcohol on the premises. After they are finished playing kickball, they may go out to a bar — I don’t know what they do, and if they do, so be it. It’s not my business. “Down here, on a Thursday night or a Friday night, people are vomiting in the streets; it’s so crowded you can’t walk on the sidewalk,” Polin added. “But this is where these people choose to live. And they’re complaining about a little kickball, a little fun. Plus, these organized sports, they donate all their money to charity. So I don’t know what their problem is, but I think if we had a flower-arranging class back there, they’d complain about that, too!” Polin added that ZogSports doesn’t pay the schools to play on their grounds and hasn’t donated any money to M.O. 25 either. The league does, however, pay D.O.E. a fee for its permit. The principal also confirmed that the schoolyard would normally not be open to children anyway. “If they weren’t using the yard, it would be locked,” she said. “It’s not a park.” A spokesperson for P.S. 142 referred questions about the sports league to D.O.E. September 18, 2014

A chill is in the air, but Manhattan, Brooklyn REAL ESTATE BY LAUREN PRICE

September 18, 2014

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anhattan real estate remains hot and is increasingly exclusive. That’s the message from Corcoran’s second quarter 2014 report. The average price for resale co-ops, resale condos and new developments increased 20 percent over last year, up to $1.697 million. That number topped the first quarter and sets a new record high price. Median price, however, while increasing 6 percent to $920,000, has still not rebounded to the 2008 second quarter all-time high of $975,000. Price per square foot saw a large gain, up 15 percent to $1,286 market-wide, which is also a new record. Larger units are seeing higher price gains, with annual growth at 2 percent for studios, 6 percent for one-bedrooms, 11 percent for two-bedrooms, and a whopping 23 percent for three-bedrooms. New development slowed in the second quarter, but not for lack of demand. Price increases reflect not only appreciation but also the high quality

The rustic dining room of the penthouse duplex at 430 E. 10th St. in the East Village.

of new supply. The new development market increased 63 percent over last year and price per square foot increased 31 percent. Median price was

up 16 percent, to $1.731 million. New developments skewed larger, with 27 percent three-plus bedrooms, compared to just 14 percent of existing stock. The greatest number of new development closings took place on the Upper East Side. Douglas Elliman’s second quarter report found that consistent with a declining vacancy rate, Manhattan rents have grown steadily over the past five months. Tight mortgage underwriting standards and an increase in city employment levels were key factors. Median rental levels increased 5.4 percent to $3,205 compared to second quarter 2013, the biggest increase for that quarter in six years. The number of new rentals increased modestly by 7.2 percent to 4,938. In Brooklyn, Elliman found, the rental market is also hot, with prices up for the 14th consecutive month and smaller apartments bearing the bulk of the increases. Tenants showed a greater willingness to seek affordability elsewhere rather than renew existing leases. Price gains were seen across the studio and one-bedroom markets, with more mixed results in the larger size categories. The median rent in Brooklyn grew 6.6 percent from a year ago to $2,852, but the luxury market rate increased only 1.8 percent to $4,500. The number of new rentals listed jumped 127 percent to 892 over the same period, reflecting strong tenant resistance to renewing leases at higher cost. For Manhattan buyers, new developments, particularly on the Upper

East Side near the Second Ave. subway, provide great options. When Phase I of the new subway line opens in late 2016, it will carry 200,000 straphangers from 96th St. to connections at 63rd St. and Lexington Ave. For views of the East River, there is the spanking new SixtyFour at 300 E. 64th St. at Second Ave., developed by architects Stonehilll & Taylor. A luxury condo conversion of a rental building, SixtyFour is exclusively sold through Douglas Elliman. Unit sizes runs from one- to three-bedrooms, including a penthouse, all with hardwood floors and oversized or floor-to-ceiling windows, and square footage ranging from about 725 to 1,431. Kitchens are outfitted with Liebherr and Bosch appliances, and bathrooms have soaking tubs, Kohler Caxton sinks and marble vanities. A communal open-air penthouse, furnished and with a barbeque grill and four exposures, offers spectacular views of the river and the Queensboro Bridge. The building also includes a screening room and a gym. Prices start at about $925,000. (sixtyfourcondo.com) The Charles from Bluerock Real Estate was designed by Ismael Leyva, with interiors by David Collins Studio. A luxury condominium with private access full-floor residences — including a duplex penthouse with two large terraces, each more than 3,000 square feet — The Charles is at 1335 First Ave. near 72nd St. Prices average $2,500 per square foot. Special REAL ESTATE, continued on p. 23 EastVillagerNews.com

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black lacquer vanities. All units feature Kohler cast-iron tubs and glass-enclosed showers. Community pleasures include a fitness center and private storage units. Marketed and sold by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, prices start at $2.54 million. (505W19.com) Downtown, a duplex penthouse co-op with private outdoor space has just come on the market at 430 E. 10th St., between Avenues C and D. This loft-like, four-plus bedroom unit in a meticulously renovated building merges modern amenities with original details, including exposed brick walls, wood beam ceilings and rustic wood columns throughout. Spanning more than 3,400 square feet with a private rooftop that practically matches the interior square footage, the apartment has new electricity and plumbing, central heating and cooling systems, double-paned windows and white oak “floating” floors installed with professional-grade acoustic soundproofing. The living room / dining room has six large windows. Highlighted by a skylight and a doublewide cement sink, the open kitchen has cabinetry

created from the original 19th-century flooring topped with Belgium bluestone and appliances are by SubZero, BlueStar and Miele. The 500-bottle wine storage and tasting room is also created from the original floors. The corner master bedroom suite has a walk-in closet and an en suite bath with a freestanding tub, a glass-enclosed shower, double vanities and Lefroy Brooks fixtures. There is also a separate laundry room with full-size washer and exterior-vented dryer. Listed with TOWN Residential, it’s priced at $3.998 million (townrealestate.com/ sale/id-303796/430-East-10th-Street4th-Floor-East-Village) Other Lower Manhattan properties include the contemporary architectural statement Ismael Leyva created at the Tribeca Royale at 19 Park Place near Church St. Developed by ABM Realty LLC, it’s made up of 24 half- and full-floor condominiums pre-wired for smart-home technology, each with floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls with frameless glass balconies, wide-plank European oak floors from Mercier, and in-home washers and dryers by Miele. One- to three-bedroom units range from 716 to 1,336 square feet, and the mix includes a duplex and

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There’s only one way to save our small businesses SMALL BUSINESS, continued from p. 13

53,200 commercial evictions were issued and 160,000 businesses closed during Bloomberg’s 12-year term. De Blasio, appointing the same people and taking the same position as Bloomberg, said the major problems facing small businesses were “excessive fines and lack of affordable loans,” never mentioning rent-gouging, illegal extortion or action to stop the closings and save jobs. Why would anyone want to start a business in this city without any built-in predictability of success? Stores do come and go now quickly, but we all know nothing can replace the patina of the tried and true. No matter what side you’re on, political, aesthetic, sentimental, whatever, we can all agree that we are losing the Village, Chinatown, Little Italy…our distinctive neighborhoods that we knew and loved. No need for preaching to the choir. Many voices, sing perhaps a different tune, but ending on the same note: We all want our Village back safe and secure. Of the small businesses interviewed for this article, one merchant’s response struck a chord that resonates with many. The owner of a successful West Village restaurant, she wishes to remain anonymous — like most, in fear of retaliation upon lease renewal. “December, the fate of my 30-year-old Greenwich Ave. restau-

rant will be decided when its lease expires,” she said. “With exorbitant rents demanded by landlords, several businesses already closed in surrounding blocks, we are fearful for the future of our own establishment. We need help in negotiating fair lease terms to level the playing field with our landlords. If I do not get lease terms allowing me a reasonable profit, I will have to close my business and walk away from 30 years of hard work. “How many more banks and Duane Reades can we cram in before no one comes here anymore?” she asked desperately. “Everyone you talk to hates what is happening. We are standing by watching the literal destruction of the capital city of the world — the city dreams are made of. No more can you have a good idea and become an entrepreneur. Most people don’t realize tenants pay huge portions of the buildings’ out-of-control real estate taxes, adding thousands of dollars a year in expenses— another reason so many small shops are gone. “If I reject the lease terms and close my business,” she continued, “the landlord will not care if it remains empty for years because they can get a tax deduction for loss of income. Great for the landlord, destructive to everyone else. Empty space is not generating jobs, sales and payroll tax or attracting people to neighborhoods. Something must be done or there will be nothing left, and those rich people in luxury

apartments will wonder why they moved to such a boring, unsexy city.” Myriad, long-favored establishments have disappeared before our disbelieving eyes; distinctive colorful neighborhoods faded into a gray sea of mediocrity — the bitter end of a trickle-down economy at its worst. Mayor de Blasio thinks “trickle-down” creates jobs. Except it never does “trickle” past the corrupt political machine. And when it rains, it pours — profits into the pockets of greedy landlords taking advantage of a situation because “they can.” Renowned economist Robert Reich aptly frames it: “The moral crisis of our age [is] corporate payoffs to friendly politicians...and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.” Bottom-up or top-down, advocates, the choice is yours but no longer can we afford to ignore the obvious. For this article, Councilmember Annabel Palma, who introduced the S.B.J.S.A. into the Council in June, was interviewed, along with local politicians. Villager: Why do you feel your bill is the best solution to stopping the closing of small businesses and saving jobs? Palma: The S.B.J.S.A. would help facilitate and cultivate a fair negotiating environment, which would result in more reasonable leasing terms to help small businesses thrive, and encourage job retention

and growth in the city of New York. Villager: Have you resolved ‘legal concerns’ expressed by the city’s Legal Department? Palma: This bill has been circulated within the Council for decades and has been analyzed and vetted by some of the most seasoned and competent lawyers I know. It is perhaps the most scrutinized bill put before the Council. As a result, I believe this bill is legally sound and viable. Arguments to the contrary, I sincerely feel, are wrong. Keen Berger, Village Democratic district leader: I favor the S.B.J.S.A. It seems necessary to level the playing field. I hate to make more laws, but this one seems essential. Councilmember Corey Johnson (not a sponsor of the S.B.J.S.A.): A variety of approaches need to be embraced to ensure the continued vitality of the small businesses that give New York City and its neighborhoods their distinct character and communities, and so I support commercial rent regulation. I applaud the creativity of my colleagues in developing various legislative mechanisms to preserve the local jobs and economies provided by these long-established businesses. Councilmember Margaret Chin is a sponsor of the S.B.J.S.A., but did not respond to the survey questions. Councilmember Rosie Mendez sponsored the S.B.J.S.A. in 2010, but is not a sponsor of the current S.B.J.S.A. She did not respond to survey questions.

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Manhattan Athletic Club, to which membership can be purchased. Marketed by Halstead Property, prices begin at $1.742 million. (388bridge.com) Developed by Sterling Equities and designed by Gluck+ Architects, a new boutique development at 345 Carroll St., between Hoyt and Bond Sts., begins selling units this month. The building includes 32 luxury residences, with 18 two- to four-bedroom units with square footage ranging from 1,215 to 1,973. There are also eight four-bedroom penthouses, sized from 1,847 to 2,393 square feet, and six one- to three-bedroom garden duplexes, with square footage ranging from 1,647 to 2,899. Master baths have custom herringbone Italian marble radiant heat floors, walnut vanities topped with marble, glass shower stall and tubs with marble decks. Amenities inEastVillagerNews.com

clude a vegetable garden and one that is landscaped, a rooftop deck, a kids’ playroom, a dog-washing area and a bocce ball court. Lobby attendants are 24 / 7 and parking and storage areas are for sale. Marketed and sold through Stribling Marketing Associates, prices begin at $1.5 million with occupancy slated for fall 2015. (345carroll.com) Cliff Finn, executive vice president at Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, offered his take on Brooklyn’s rental market. “Many renters prefer the technology, design and amenities of today’s new developments, and they are usually willing to trade off a little space and often location to get it,” Finn said. “Brooklyn is no longer the big discount to Manhattan it once was. However, in most cases, there is still a bit of a discount when compared to comparable buildings in other Manhattan neighborhoods, which now may only be a 10 percent to 25

percent savings, sometimes higher or even lower depending on the location. Compared to some Upper East Side and Upper West Side locations, one will find parts of Brooklyn more expensive.” Finn offered a telling example. “An average sized one-bedroom in our new boutique rental development, 267 Pacific in Boerum Hill, recently rented for $3,600. The same unit in the similarly sized new Hell’s Kitchen development would rent for $3,900, and in a new Greenwich Village rental, perhaps $5,000. The appeal, aside from new development housing stock, is the authenticity of its neighborhoods. Renters and purchasers like the look and feel of the various intimate neighborhoods, with their small neighborhood parks, mom-and-pop businesses, and the light and air one gets from having more low- and mid-rise buildings.” The signature design feature at 267 Pacific is the 50-foot-by 50-foot

“Sign Language” mural from famed street artists Chris Stain and Billy Mode, who collaborated with the Brooklyn youth arts group Cre8tive YouTH*ink. The mural, which covers the building’s entire right side, pays tribute to legendary photographer Martha Cooper. Developed by Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners and marketed through Elliman, the GF55 Partners-designed project offers 60 units with wideplank solid white oak floors, ranging from studios to two-bedrooms, some with terraces, plus penthouses with private terraces and spectacular views. Bathrooms have CaesarStone-topped vanities. Communal amenities include a large bike garage and dedicated workshop and a large rooftop terrace with entertaining space, a sundeck, a misting shower and barbeque grills. Almost ready for occupancy, monthly rents will start at $2,525. (267pacific.com) September 18, 2014

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