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April 12, 2018 • $1.00 Volume 88 • Number 15
N.Y.U. prof, ‘truther’ poised to challenge Maloney in primary BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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n a congressional district as blue as the 12th, winning the primary election is the biggest hurdle to a seat on Capitol Hill. But, over the years, Representative Carolyn Maloney, who has been in Congress since 1992, has repeatedly squashed any oppo-
nents who have tried to snatch her seat. Her challengers are hoping that this year, however, will be different. Suraj Patel, a Barack Obama campaign veteran and business ethics professor at New York University’s business school, hasn’t run for office before, nor PRIMARY continued on p. 6
To catch a Kushner: False filings can open door to harassment BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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aryAnn Siwek’s ceiling caved in — twice. Her bathroom ceiling did, too. There was water damage, dust in the hallway and ongoing construction late into the night during the peak of the chaos after the Kushner Companies bought ught her buildbuild
ing in 2013. Siwek lives in a rent-regulated apartment at 170 E. Second St., and the shoddy, unsafe construction began soon after Jared Kushner’s company purchased the building, according to her. Three years later, Kushner’s KUSHNER ccontinued on p. 14
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“She lit the spark...”: Sarah Jessica Parker — both as Carrie and as herself — has been an inspiration for a fellow native Midwesterner living in the Village. See Page 21.
Alcohol problem: C.B. 2 committee in ‘bar brawl’ BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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here’s no doubt how Ed Gold, the late longtime Community Board 2 member, would have pegged this one: “It’s a real ‘Rashomon’!” he would have said, with a chortle. “Rashomon,” the classic 1950 Kurosawa flick, features alternate versions of a samurai’s murder — as told by his wife, the bandit who ravished her, a woodcutter and the
Herbert Kee, Ch’town lion....... p. 4
samurai as channeled through a medium. Yet, in this particular “Rashomon” the setting was not a forest in medieval Japan, but the Church of St. Anthony of Padua basement, on Sullivan St., when the C.B. 2 State Liquor Authority Committee met there on Jan. 9. And the main characters are Tom Connor, a senior activist who was subsequently abruptly booted off the committee; Bob Ely, the committee’s co-chairperson;
the other seven committee members, one of whom was willing to comment on the record for this article and three others who only spoke to The Villager off the record; and Terri Cude, the C.B. 2 chairperson, who was not at the meeting, but who reassigned Connor off of it. In the background of the entire affair is the accusation, made by a prominent nightlife advocate, that C.B. 2 — which C.B.2 continued on p. 8
Bella Abzug finally gets her own ‘Way’............ ..p. 3 Vote! Participate in District 3 budgeting ............p. 5 www.TheVillager.com