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Is Homelessness The City’s Number One Issue? Organizations rally for affordable housing for all in the City By Alissa Fleck “What?” “Affordable housing!” “When?” “Now!” That was the rallying cry last Friday as volunteers from Habitat for Humanity New York City, the Interfaith Assembly on Housing and Homelessness, mayoral candidates and representatives from a variety of other organizations gathered on the front steps of City Hall to call for an end to homelessness in the city. The call to action was led by Larry Wood of the Goddard Riverside Community Center. Wood, who noted bankers and developers agree more money must be allocated for housing, said, ”I’m very pleased this effort is putting a focus on these issues. We need all the allies we can get.” He aims to bring mayoral candidates

together to debate homelessness and make it a priority issue in the campaign. Prior to the rally, 43 individuals set up overnight camp in City Hall Park in solidarity with the 57,000 homeless people living in New York City. Dr. Anne Klaeysen, leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, was one who spent the night in the park. “Every evening we shelter eight women,” said Klaeysen. “I often sleep on a cot, but last night we made a virtual home on the sidewalk.” “We have working poor and we have working homeless in our city,” she added. “They have the right to a safe, warm home.” Homelessness in the city is at an all-time high, according to Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

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Phillip Tracy Speight, a formerly homeless veteran, speaks out against the city’s housing crisis.

Constructing a Fence Through the Magical Garden A Lower East Side community garden could soon be razed to make way for development By Adam Janos

Children watering flowers near the fence.

“I could not believe that what I saw today,” Jun Mei Jiang wrote on Wednesday, May 15th in a letter to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). “There were so many police and reporters surrounding our garden. Cameras we flashing [sic] and a lot of workers were taking over our seeds and cutting the trees… Everything changed, my favorite apple tree was gone.” Mei Jiang is a student in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class at Lower East Preparatory High School. The garden described is Children’s Magical Garden, a thirty-year-old community garden at the

corner of Norfolk Street and Stanton Street. And as of the 15th of May, it’s become a flashpoint for controversy between a private developer and the community that nursed and maintained the long abandoned space. Children’s Magical Garden, which was created in the 1980s, is 4,992 square feet, and can be divided into three parcels of land. Two are owned by the HPD; the other is a 2,000 square foot envelopment belonging to Serge Hoyda of Norfolk Street Developers LLC. On Wednesday the 15th, Hoyda had workers cordon off his section of the property, effectively ending youth involvement in half the garden. Mei Jiang’s class had been working on improving the garden as part of their coursework. Their school is one of several that uses the garden; Marta Valle High

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NEIGHBORHOOD CHATTER Senator Schumer: New Statue of Liberty Security Risky New security plans for the Statue of Liberty could leave visitors vulnerable when it reopens July Fourth, New York officials said last week. Sen. Charles Schumer and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called for the National Park Service to reverse its plan, which calls for visitors to board boats either lower Manhattan or New Jersey and stop at nearby Ellis Island for security. “The NYPD and the Park Service have differences over how to best protect visitors from a potential terrorist attack,” said Kelly, adding that he has written to the secretary of the interior about the issue. “I know the NPS cares deeply about the monument and its visitors,” said Schumer. “But in this case I think they’ve made a mistake and should rethink this policy change.” Park service representatives did not immediately respond to comment requests. The statue was closed after Superstorm Sandy. Storm surges flooded Liberty Island, destroying boilers and electrical systems, but the statue, which is on higher ground on the island, remained intact. Previously, passengers were screened with

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airport-style metal detectors before they boarded boats for Liberty Island from Battery Park in Lower Manhattan and Liberty State Park in New Jersey. “This screening was put in just after the horrific events of Sept. 11. And I can tell you, in our judgment, the threat has not abated,” Kelly said. Terrorist groups, he added, “have an interest in targeting locations that represent America.”

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Both officials said any additional costs could be covered with a small increase in the fee charged to visit the island. They also advocated scheduled ticketing to help reduce lines. The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which suffered severe damage to its infrastructure during the storm, will remain closed for repairs, except for the proposed screening area. Schumer praised the park service for its “quick cleanup and repair efforts” on Liberty Island after the storm, but said that “it is particularly important that the unique threats to this site are taken into consideration for every step of this journey.”

9/11 Remains Come to Rest in New Location The City chief medical examiner’s office says the remains of Sept. 11 World Trade Center victims will be kept at a forensic laboratory building because the previous location was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The medical examiner’s office said last week that the remains were moved as a precaution before the late October storm. The old space was in Manhattan’s Memorial Park area, next to the medical examiner’s office. Officials decided it could be vulnerable in

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future storms. So they will continue to keep the remains at the new state-of-the-art DNA Forensic Biology Laboratory Building nearby. The remains include those of identified and unidentified victims of the 2001 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Families that wish to see the new facility may contact the medical examiner’s office.

Bike Share Blamed for $475 in Parking Tickets A New York University graduate student was hit with $475 in parking fines after workers moved her car to an illegal spot while clearing space for New York City’s new bikeshare program. The New York Post reports that Patricia Preston left her car at a legal parking place in Manhattan on April 30. When she went to move it, her car was gone and a Citi Bike rack was in its place. Preston said there was no sign warning her that the bike rack was coming. The city charged her $220 for towing and she got three other tickets, two for $95 and one for $65. She got the charges dismissed in traffic court Friday but is angry she had to fight the tickets. The bike-share program started last week.

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CRIME WATCH FERRAGONE-O In the evening of Friday, May 24, a 32-year-old man paid for a drink in a bar on Chambers Street and left his wallet on the bar by mistake. When he realized what he had done, he discovered that his wallet had been taken by an unknown person. The man canceled his credit cards immediately, and no unauthorized charges appeared on his accounts. He then waited a day to report the incident to police, thinking the wallet would be found. The items stolen included a Ferragamo wallet valued at $300, the man’s New York State driver’s license, $200 in cash, and his credit and debit cards. How do you know you’ve had too much to drink? When you leave your wallet on the bar!

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Vesey Villains In the afternoon of Sunday, May 26, a 34-year-old man was walking on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets on his way to the PATH train, when a 25-year-old man wearing sunglasses asked him, “Yo, man, you know where’s the subway?” At this time, the sunglass wearer’s accomplice, another 25-year-old man with curly hair, bumped the victim. The older man then reached into his front left-

hand pocket and noticed that his wallet was missing. Items stolen included $60 in cash, his New York State driver’s license, and a monthly MetroCard valued at $104.

Little Seizer In the afternoon of Friday, May 24, a 20-year-old woman boarded a southbound 4 train at the Fulton Street station. As the train pulled into the Wall Street station, the woman sat down and began using her cell phone. Just before the doors on the train were about to

close, a 14-year-old male youth with a Caesar hairstyle snatched her phone from her hand and exited the train. The woman also got off the train and pursued the young man, who fled to the northbound side, eventually exiting northbound onto Broadway. Police canvassed the area but were unable to locate the young phone felon. The Find My iPhone app was unable to locate the phone, as the device was turned off. The stolen cell was an iPhone 4 worth $200.

Postal Push In the evening of Saturday, May 25, a 21-year-old man was walking alongside the wall of the post office on Vesey Street with his headphones on. Suddenly he was bumped and pushed by an unknown man, who took an envelope out of the victim’s right back pocket. Then the thief ran off westbound. Cameras along the post office wall may have video of the incident. Items stolen included $300 in cash, the victim’s birth certificate, and his Social Security card. Back pockets are the pickpocket’s pick…

Dreadlock Dread In the afternoon of Sunday, May 26, a 24-year-old woman from Brooklyn boarded the northbound 4 train at Fulton Street. The woman stated that she got bumped on her right side, and when she turned around

to look in her pocketbook, her wallet was missing. The woman then looked at a 55-yearold woman with dreadlocks to her right and asked if she had taken her wallet. The woman with dreadlocks became highly irate and boisterous and started cursing at the young woman, saying, “I am going to teach you a lesson!” The young woman became fearful for her safety and got off the train at the next station. Items stolen included her tan-andpink Coach leather wallet valued at $200, Macy’s gift cards valued at $65, Starbucks gift cards valued at $20, $10 in cash, her Virginia drivers license, and various debit and credit cards.

Was It Something He Didn’t Say? Early in the morning of Saturday, May 25, a 24-year-old man was about to leave a bar on Thompson Street when he was approached by four or five men who began to kick and punch him in his head and face without reason. The young man sustained lacerations, bruising, and swelling to his face and head as a result of the assault. The injured man stated that he did not know the perpetrators who assaulted him and had not had a verbal confrontation with them prior to the assault. His friends detained one of the gang members until the police arrived. The gang member, a 27-year-old man, was arrested May 25 and charged with assault.

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Charter schools are independent of the NYC Department of Education. This gives them freedom to use new teaching approaches, and even have longer school days and school years.

It’s all about choice. NYC operates a “portfolio system” of public schools. This includes magnet schools, zoned and non-zoned district schools, and charter schools.

The first charter school in NYC opened in 1999. Fourteen years later, there are 183 charter schools located in all five boroughs.

It’s easy. There is likely a charter school in your community, and you can apply to more than one school at once online.

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Second In the City? No-Go for Soho House a second Manhattan location a 139 Ludlow Street. The first New York Soho House, in the Meatpacking District, is six floors, covers 45,000 square feet and has a rooftop pool and private theatre. Unfortunately for the club’s owners, the By Adam Janos Community Board voted to deny them a liquor license by a vote of 25-10, keeping in roucho Marx once line with the original recommendation of the humorously stated, “I don’t State Liquor Authority and Department of want to belong to any club Consumer Affairs (SLA & DCA) Licensing that will accept people like me Committee. as a member.â€? In the spirit of Community members cited an that irony, he’d be positively tickled to explain oversaturation of bars in the “Hell Squareâ€? the current state of affairs for Soho House, an area, a .026 square mile area in the city that ultra-exclusive international private members residents believe would be better off with club that can’t seem to get its foot in the door fewer watering holes, not more. There are 55 with Community Board 3. full on-premise liquor licenses in Hell Square, The club, which has become so eponymous with “New York chicâ€? that it was once featured including 38 that operate until 4:00 a.m. Members of Soho House felt that to on Sex & the City, is seeking to expand to be lumped together with those other bars was a mischaracterization. Calling itself a networking club for creative professionals, Soho .com House defenders pointed to the artistic and community-based STRAUS MEDIA ďšş MANHATTAN components of the space. And PRESIDENT truly, there are many in the Jeanne Straus works: a basement gallery for art EDITOR shows; a library; a yoga studio Megan Bungeroth • editor.otdt@strausnews.com space; a greenhouse terrace. The bar is but one component. CITYARTS EDITOR Armond White • editor.cityarts@strausnews.com All of which would be well and good, said the board, if STAFF REPORTER Joanna Fantozzi community members were

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allowed to access those things. Soho House members must pay $1,200-$2,400 per year for use of the facilities - and that’s only if they’re accepted. “In our club, we have more people on the waiting list than in the club,� admits Pierre Dourneau, East Coast Director of Operations. Still, Dorneau claims the charges of elitism and exclusivity are off-base, pointing to the fact that the club had held 14 open houses prior to the community board meeting and sent out 1,800 letters to tenants throughout the community in English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Jan Hanvik, former chair of Community Board 3’s Arts Task Force thinks they could have done more. “Eighteen hundred letters? To whom?� Hanvik asked. “How did you miss the Arts Task Force? I’m all for an arts center, a bar, a restaurant. There’s just too many things I don’t know anything about.� Hanvik voted “no� with the majority of the board. Still, Dorneau is not deterred. The group’s next step is a “500 foot hearing� with the State Liquor Authority, in which they’ll ask to be granted the liquor license in spite of the board’s disapproval. At the Community Board meeting he told board members that he’d be

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happy to discuss a discounted rate for senior citizens or struggling potential patrons, and hopes community board members will email him at pierre@sohohouseny.com to share their feedback of how he could best improve upon his space. The one thing he won’t do, though, is allow more people in. “We could have many more members, but often they wouldn’t be part of the industries we want our members to be from,� Dorneau said. “We could have more from financial industries, more lawyers, more architects, but it’s a bit like being a member of the Harvard club. Our criteria is certainly not [just] money.� Unfortunately for the Soho House, the artists they hope to attract may want a full bar to network out of. For those that do, it remains to be seen if the new Soho House will be worthy of their consideration.

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C’mon Let’s Get Happy Reaping benefits from the power of positive thinking By Kristine Keller

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he other day I was walking in Washington Square Park, taking the time to savor the newly bloomed crimson-red tulips, unfettered from worry, when I felt a snap. I looked down and noticed the strap on my new leather sandals torn neatly in half. Normally, I would have cursed the sky and fallen prey to a platitude along the lines of “this would happen to me, I have the worst luck.” But instead, I collected myself and hobbled to a nearby bench to plan my next course of action, namely how I would continue my walk home without having to place my bare feet on NYC pavement. I decided I’d sit at the bench and call friends who lived near and could deliver spare shoes. I remained positive and uncharacteristically calm, and then, something happened. A boy sat next to me with a vaguely familiar grin; it turned out he was an old friend from my childhood. We ended up talking for hours and have a date lined up for the following week. I didn’t even know he lived in New York City and wabam! Just like that, something happened. There are those that don’t believe in coincidences or fortuitous findings — and sometimes I’m one of those naysayers. But, while I don’t always believe that things happen for a reason on their own, I do believe that things happen for a reason, because you allow them to do so. People vastly underestimate the power of their own cognitions. Instead of planting my wounded sandals in a graveyard next to a renegade guitar player near the fountain, I made the best of my situation. Had I not been looking up on that bench, both metaphorically and literally, I may never have noticed the boy from my wonder years. Sometimes, especially in New York City, what you release into the universe really does come back to you. The power of positive thinking and the ability to re-frame negative thinking into optimism is

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a skill that takes methodical honing. It’s not easy to make mimosas from oranges at any given moment — sometimes you just want to call the orange what it is, a ball of layered mass that’s found on Florida driveways. But, I’ve found it’s easy to turn Washington Square Park any day around with a few quick cognitive switches. The most egregious player in the negative armed forces just might be the aforementioned, “this would happen to me.” Replace “would” with “did.” This scenario did happen to you — but what can you do now? See what you can learn from this situation and what tools you can bring to future scenarios. You can readily re-frame any given moment. Do you have to work late and miss happy hour? Think of all the productive work you’ll be generating. Do you have to get your wisdom teeth out and stay in all weekend? That’s fantastic because you’ve been wanting to watch the last season of Friday Night Lights. By reconstructing negative thinking into positive, we are also enhancing our self-efficacy, a pillar for mental well-being. The greater role that we actively play in our own lives and destiny, the happier and more productive we are. So, the next time you’re running at the Hudson River and embarrassingly trip over your shoe laces right as you pass a group of guys shooting hoops, you can rest assured there is positivity in the moment. Hopefully in the form of Carmello Anthony asking you if you’re alright. Kristine received her Master’s in Psychology from NYU. E-mail her at StreetshrinkNYC@gmail. com for questions.

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Danziger Gallery, 527 West 23rd St., danzigerprojects.com, 11 a.m. FREE: O. Winston Link was a commercial photographer who devoted five years of his life to capturing the last moments of steam on the Norfolk and Western railway line in the 1950’s. He took the pictures only at night, when the steam appeared white against the black sky, using train personnel and locals as supporting cast. This exhibition is a combination of works from both Winston, and Gregory Crewdson, who is one of the pioneers of large scale contemporary color photography.

Birdland, 315 West 44th St., birdlandjazz.com, 5 p.m., $20-$35. Central Italy’s most prestigious jazz festival has transplanted itself to Times Square for a week of enticing shows. Tonight the Stefano Bollani Trio will perform, which includes Bollani, Morten Lund, and Jesper Bodilsen. They are all award-winning and highly revered, each being highly in demand in Europe for collaborations. This is your chance to listen to the sensation the Italians have been keeping all to themselves.

Sidewalk Art

Vintage Police Car Shows

The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org, 10:30 a.m., $5. Children of all ages are invited to test out their architectural skills. First they will sketch a blueprint for a building that is familiar to them, such as their home or school. Then they will work together to create a colorful skyline on the sidewalk right in front of the museum. This could be the first step on their path to designing an iconic New York building…who knows!

New York City Police Museum, Front St. btwn Maiden Ln & John St., nycpolicemuseum.org, 10 a.m., $5-$8. Dozens of police cruisers will be on display outside what once was New York City’s 1st Precinct. You will be able to view cars that were used on duty and on television shows, one of the most famous cars being the Batmobile from the 1960’s series. If you’re a car buff, you will be in heaven. Even if you aren’t, there is guaranteed to be a car here that will excite even the most unenthusiastic tag-along.

Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival ◄FREE: Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge St., eldridgestreet.org, 12 p.m.

Imran Qureshi The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, metmuseum.org, 10 a.m., free-$25. Qureshi is a Pakistani artist who is best known for creating contemporary updates on the miniature paintings that flourished during the Mughal Era. Head up to the Met roof top to see for yourself, while also taking in a spectacular view.

This block party celebrates both the Chinese and Jewish communities who call the Lower East Side home. There are multiple activities for you to participate in to expand your mind and learn more about another culture, or even learn something new about your own. Watch Chinese opera and acrobatics in awe, learn Yiddish and Chinese, play mah jongg, take a synagogue tour, or watch a food or folk art demo.

FREE: Sing This One Back to Me

The Songs of Adele

Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 6 p.m. Bob Holman, “the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti” (according to Henry Louis Gates Jr.), will read from his newest book, “Sing This One Back To Me,” at the newly-reopened Bowery Poetry Club. The book explores Holman’s traveling to West Africa in search of the roots of the oral tradition, hip-hop and spoken word.

Birdland NYC, 315 W. 44th St., www.birdlandjazz.com/event/278477-pop-show-songs-adelenew-york/, 6p.m., $25. On Monday Birdland, the self-described “jazz corner of the world, will host the second evening of The Pop Show, its newest monthly event. Each Month, Broadway, jazz and cabaretperformers sing the hits and deep tracks from a different pop musician’s catalog backed by a pulsating six-piece band. This month’s concert features the songs of Adele.

Hidden Harbor Tour

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South Street Seaport, Pier 16, nywatertaxi.com, 6:15 p.m., $25-39. Discover the secrets behind one of the busiest waterways in the world. A large portion of the tour is spent travelling North up along the West Side of Manhattan. You will pass Hudson River Park, historic ships, ferry terminals, Chelsea Piers and passenger ship terminals. You will then cross over to the New Jersey side, passing the historic Hoboken waterfront, featured in “On the Waterfront”. It closes with a sunset view of lady liberty.

Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby St., housingworksbookstore.org, 7 p.m., $8. If you consider yourself a master or an admirer of fiction, this has your name written all over it. This extremely popular storytelling series challenges fablers to deliver an impressive tale based on a specific theme: this week’s being “fathers”. Ten compete, 3 teams judge, and there is only one winner. Make sure you get in line early, as spots for competitors and spectators alike go quickly.

FREE: Marc Maron

FREE: Wednesday Night Skate

Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th St., bn.com, 7 p.m.. Maron is famous for oversharing about his life on his podcast WTF- but in the most hilarious and entertaining way. In his new book Attempting Normal, he doesn’t fail to give what his fans expect. The popular interviewer, stand-up comic, and sitcom star shares his middle-aged frustrations and partakes in some classic ranting, which is something he does very well.

Union Square, South End, unionsquarenyc.org, 7:45 p.m. Each week, dozens of skaters cruise around the city for two hours. They explore a different route each week, previously wheeling through Central Park, Queens, Brooklyn, and even Jersey. Don’t be intimidated by these distances, all skill levels are welcome as long as you can stop and turn. Post skate, the fun continues at Mumbles Bar and restaurant which is also where the gang heads if the event is rained out. Don’t forget your helmet and wrist guards- safety first!

FREE:A More Perfect Union Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 10th Avenue, edlingallery.com, 11 a.m. In March 2008, Barack Obama delivered an inspirational speech that many believe is what convinced Americans to vote him into office. Although Ralph Fasanella passed away in 1997, this speech would have deeply resonated with him, which why this exhibition shares its title. Fasanella was a self-taught New York painter, creating boldly colored and intricately detailed work. He shared similar ideals to Obama and aspired for a more perfect America, frequently combining scenes of what was with what could be.

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Eventi Plaza, 851 Sixth Avenue, eventihotel.com, 5 p.m. Wind down on Thursday evenings in this 12,000-square-foot, tree-studded open-air plaza, strung with twinkling lights. Food offerings span over a variety of cuisines, including Thai street food, made to order pizzas, and Vietnamese sandwiches. Wash your snacks down with a cocktail or a $14 pitcher from the Tiki Bar. Afterwards, you can head to the Brighton theatre for a movie and popcorn for no cost.

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As Katz’s Turns 125, Professional Eaters Binge Meat lovers competed for pastrami eating championship By Adam Janos

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t was 86 degrees and humid, and the competitors stood, stone-faced, at the sun-drenched dais. Five gladiators, their arms locked military-style behind their backs, waited as the announcer counted down from ten, the throngs of onlookers pushing at one another, trying to catch a glimpse of the clash of willpower that was about to occur. And then, when the count reached zero, it started. They dunked their heads into salty brine, and began bobbing for pickles. The Amateur Pickle Bobbing Contest was an appetizer of an event for Katz’s Delicatessen at the Daylife Festival on Orchard Street Sunday, where the great Lower East Side institution celebrated its 125th anniversary. Since 1888, the deli has been doling out generously portioned kosher-style sandwiches. They now claim to serve up to 20,000 pounds of meat per week. On Sunday June 2nd, the deli honored the longevity of its storefront with something a little more quick and dirty: a competitive eating contest, with ten professionally-ranked competitive eaters gorging themselves on pastrami sandwiches for ten minutes, in an

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attempt to take home a share of the $7,500 purse that was up for grabs. So what is a professional eater? How does one become “professionalâ€?? At this contest, four of the top five ranked Major League Eaters were present: #1 Ranked Joey Chestnut who regularly wins Nathan’s Hot Dog competition on Coney Island, July 4th; #2 Tim “Eater Xâ€? Janus, who paints his face like a 1990s professional wrestler; #4 Matthew “the Megatoadâ€? Stone; and #5, Bob “The Notorious B.O.Bâ€? Shoudt. “It’s not like you wake up one day and say, ‘hey, I’m going to be a professional eater!’â€? said Matthew Stonie. Stonie, a spry 130-pound 21-year-old, doesn’t look like the world’s #4 ranked eater. And yet the San Jose native competes, and in late April this year he beat #1 ranked Joey Chestnut in a deep-friend asparagus contest in Stockton, California, shocking the competitive eating world. “It all started when a local place had a big burrito, and if you could finish it all, you got the burrito for free. So I got the free burrito. Next, I signed up for an eating contest and won $600. I thought, hey, not bad for a halfhour’s work.â€? Stonie’s low-key demeanor stood in stark contrast to the event’s announcer, Major League Eating Commissioner George Shea, who pumped the crowd prior to the contestants coming out with speech that was half-sermon and half-circus ringmaster. “They say that competitive eating is the battleground upon which God and Lucifer wage war over men’s souls my friends‌ and they are right!â€? Shea frantically shouted. “For this is a battle of the Titans that comes to earth

only once, in only one location, and that is here at Katz’s Delicatessen on the corner of East Houston on Orchard Street, in New York, NY. The eaters have arrived from points all across the globe, here gathered by the sum of all, we march toward history made and so it is and so it always shall be! Let the contest begin!� Following that soaring rhetoric, the eating was, by contrast, a tedious and grotesque affair. For ten minutes, the ten eaters attempted to shove as many sandwiches down their gullets as possible, frequently dipping the bread into water or red Powerade to better assist its path from mouth to esophagus. Six minutes in, reigning champ Joey Chesnut spewed brown meat-water over the front row of the crowd (“The spray zone!� Shea shouted.) In the end, Chestnut took first place by eating 25 halfsandwiches of pastrami, eking in front of Stonie, who took second with 21.

As a gaggle of New York television outlets surrounded Chestnut, Stonie retreated to the back of the stage. Still, he was upbeat, and insisted that he wasn’t disappointed. “We’re all friends,â€? said Stonie. “When we’re in the same city, we go out for drinks afterwards.â€? This must be something of a new tradition for Stonie: he only turned 21 in late May. For his birthday, he ate a 5.5 pound birthday cake in 8:59. When not competitive eating, he studies nutrition at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. When asked how he’ll strategize to to vault up to 1st place in the rankings and eventually overtake Chestnut, Stonie shrugs and admits competitive eating doesn’t require a lot of strategy or nuance. “It’s like lifting. You have to train your muscles, train your mind. But there’s not much technique‌ at least, not for pastrami sandwiches.â€?

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oys without fathers are the target audience for Will Smith’s After Earth. Its story of a boy Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) trying to live up to his father Cypher Raige’s (Will Smith) survivalist code is a potential blockbuster, combing futuristic whimsy with street hardness (and its opposite: vulnerability). What Black moviegoer or Fresh Prince of Bel Air fan can’t imagine where this comes from or what it means? The theme of a youth seeking to bond with his macho military father by emulating his masculine strength is set a thousand years in the future but suggests more than the usual Summer comic-book-movie fare. If the 2009 The Karate Kid blatantly established Jaden Smith’s trust fund, this time Daddy Will produces After Earth with genuine purpose. While not as profound as the deeply felt lifelessons of Kendrick Lamar’s good kid m.A.A.d city, After Earth yet evokes a similar vibe. After Earth’s coming-of-age sci-fi story repeats the basic Luke Skywalker template with Kitai’s experiences after crash-landing on Earth and dealing with a traumatic memory. (“He’s a feeling boy” his mother says.) But whether dull or exciting, After Earth’s new genre–Hip-Hop Sci-Fi–replaces 50s Cold War metaphors and pulp video-game escapism with a morality tale about growing into manhood and responsibility. It’s exactly the unusual hybrid one might expect a thoughtful Black filmmaker to initiate. Two images stand out: A shot of male bodies hanging from a tree that connotes lynching and a post-apocalypse montage of urban destruction cannily resembling old news footage of riot-torn cities. Smith’s audience might not catch the significance of these images among the film’s imaginative, Avatar-biting CGI, that’s why the story takes place after the end of history. After Earth contemplates the future of Kitai’s perseverance. Race consciousness is implicit in the saga of both males’ survival. It transfers an urban walkabout of a drugs-and-gangs drama

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Will Smith guides his son through Hollywood Darwinism in After Earth By Armond White

Will Smith and Jaden Smith in After Earth. into a primal setting where Kitai tests himself against nature–the meteorological elements and the ferocity of animals (while listening to Cypher as if to an ancestral voice). From movie star father to legatee son, After Earth basically illustrates Hollywood Darwinism: what it takes to survive a vicious culture and predatory environment. (Like Tom Cruise’s inquiry into the perfidy of love in Oblivion, this personal tale of filial commitment gives Smith’s equivalently nostalgic vision but replaces Cruise’s idealized, vernal future with a complicated nature.) Sharing rage as more than a name, Cypher speaks the film’s theme: “Danger is real. Fear is a choice,” teaching his son to live as he does: “completely without fear.” Basically hiphop braggadocio, this contradicts the wiser moral lesson of the 1984 film Claudine where Diahann Carroll as a welfare mother advised her son “You’d better be scared. This world will kill you!” Only hip-hop machismo would make Smith advise “ghosting”– the film’s “neurobiological ” state where “you don’t have a trace of fear in you.” It’s the modern version of what Paul Laurence Dunbar described in

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his poem “We Wear the Mask.” As a Hollywood potentate, Will Smith wears a mask of omnipotence (his one and a half-note performance here is a bit too stoic) letting his son account for brash youth. (Shots of Jaden freezing in the cold may remind contemporary viewers of those Moorehouse College graduates getting drenched in rain while President Obama, under a canopy, lectured them not to make excuses after spending four years doing undergraduate work.) Cypher’s unreachable paternal tenderness may strongly affect moviegoers who welcome paternal scolding, but it’s by no means sure-fire, especially given M. Night Shyamalan’s lethargic, nonvisionary, sub-Apocalypto direction. Smith fans who are unaware of how adolescent life lessons were taught in rich, earth-bound movies like Sounder, The Yearling, National Velvet, The Human Comedy may yet respond enthusiastically to After Earth–less as entertainment than as a matter of need. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Beauty vs. Beastliness Soderbergh’s Liberace pic confuses sympathy with politics By Armond White

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rom the actors’ perspective, Behind the Candelabra looks like a compassionate portrayal of the pianist and singer Liberace‘s relationship with Scott Thorson. The older established celebrity’s involvement with a younger man, masked for the public from 1977 to Liberace’s death in 1987, gets exposed here as an example of the deception then practiced by some gay performers. The title of this HBO production either criticizes or ridicules the closet, but as Michael Douglas portrays Liberace and Matt Damon portrays Thorson, there’s also a strange confession of the weaknesses and dependencies that occur in such insecure and unstable showbiz relationships. The film itself feels unstable partly because Richard LaGravanese’s screenplay starts from Thorson’s memoir, taking the defensive view of a complainant in a palimony case. Behind the Candelabra shows Thorson as a “bisexual� with interest in becoming a veterinarian who, through association with gay hustlers, is picked up to be Liberace’s consort (one in a series). The two go from friends to lovers to a filial partnership. Liberace proposes adopting Thorson to make their coupling legal; Thorson even undergoes plastic surgery to resemble Liberace (and to fit Liberace’s romantic ideal). Through the attrition and tension of intimacy (as well as drugs, sex and materialist escapades) they part acrimoniously, leaving Thorson thrown back on the working-class heap. A star is not born. Douglas and Damon attempt illuminating these men’s fragile humanity. (A shot of Rock Hudson’s death notice in a newspaper headline casts the fatal pall of AIDS.) Their almost fascinating commitment to these roles--portraying romantic and social clowns putting forth fronts for peers, audiences and each other--bounces back on the stars’ own artistic dedication. After years of seeing Douglas play scoundrels and Damon as politically-correct paragons, they (even when bare-assed) can’t help but lend villainy to Liberace and victimhood to Thorson. It’s Douglas and Damon’s stock-in-trade and possibly what they best understand about human nature: the greed and selfishness of power and the resentment and ambition of the powerless. Regrettably, this approach also limits Behind the Candelabra to stock characterizations. Another aspect of the film’s instability comes from its conceit that by looking back at the wreckage of Liberace and Thorson’s closeted lives; the film makes an au courant Marriage Equality parable. But Marriage Equality (a tortured euphemism for gay rights) wouldn’t resolve a relationship where partners are unequally joined or mutual exploitative, contradicting their monogamous commitment or one that is based on unspecified consensual deals that differ from

Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra. traditional fidelity. These complexities, the conditions of partnership and details of character that override the Marriage Equality issue, get mixed up with the inexact parallels of Liberace and Thorson’s quasiliberated lives. Too often Douglas’ sympathetic performance looks and sounds wide-eyed and goofy-voiced like Carol Channing, while Damon improbably suggests Cesar Caligari’s childlike creature, un-willful yet petulant. In depicting these wildly luxurious and disingenuous lifestyles, director Steven Soderbergh seems to confuse Liberace and Thorson with the out-gay Las Vegas magicians, Siegfried and Roy. Behind the Candelabra is partly, unmistakably, a freak show (Magic Mike II). And this is where the actors’ empathy and the director’s condescension collide. It recalls that ungracious moment in George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck taking a gratuitous slam at Librace, ignoring the fact that his flamboyance was never totally deceptive. Liberace’s public (like Little Richard’s) always “knew.� (Liberace was the Elton John of Vegas, a glitzy dresser and colorful entertainer to all.) Soderbergh can’t find an appropriate moral context for this story. Using the glib cynicism he learned from Mike Nichols, Candelabra turns into a roman a clef circus performed by a bevy of comic pranksters: Dan Ayckroyd, Rob Lowe, Scott Bakula, Paul Reisner and Debbie Reynolds as Liberace’s money-grubbing mother. Soderbergh’s dismissive treatment ignores Liberace’s artistry, judging his showmanship not for its skill and friendly kitsch but as proof of bad taste rather than emotional generosity. This beauty-and-the-beast concept is what’s kitschy.

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Music of the Heavens Musica Mundana’s transcendent New York performance By Judy Gelman Myers

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and Grinhauz artfully supported Piazzolla’s Four Seasons (“Autumn” and “Summer”) with the force necessary to the tango’s centrifugal drive without self-conscious enslavement to its syncopation. The true meaning of musica mundana revealed itself in Piazzolla’s “Milonga,” arranged as a clarinet-piano duet. Like Rodrigo in his Concierto de Aranjuez, Piazzolla captures something ineffably sad in the universe, a melancholy inherent in the turning of the spheres, transported on Lumanovski’s clarinet with unsentimenal sympathy, an empathic, godlike

recognition of the way things are. The show ended— perfectly—with Piazzolla’s “Liber Tango,” whose sophistication of harmonies, intricate interplay between melodic lines and syncopation give his music the kind of richness that makes you beg for just one more, for the evening to never end.

undana is the worst kind of false cognate: it pretends to mean its opposite. Musica mundana is not, as one would expect, mundane music at all but the music of the Musica Mundana spheres, the sounds the planets make as they revolve in limitless space, a heavenly noise we could hear if we only opened ourselves to it. It’s also the name of the excellent chamber ensemble that played Drom on May 23, in a program that flowed effortlessly from THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 the Argentinean tangos of Piazzolla and Gardel to “Romanian Melody” by German Romantic composer Max Bruch and “Tango” by Stravinsky. For Musica Mundana, music is music, disregarding–or transcending– geographical borders and questions of genre. What allows this trio to move with dexterity and authenticity between varied material is its heterogeneity– each of its superb musicians combines classical training with a deep knowledge of ethnic traditions. A master of Debussy’s piano scores, Turkish-born director Aysegul Durakoglu concertizes in Sephardic repertoire; Argentinean-born cellist Leo Grinhauz studied under Janos Starker and recorded with Paquito D’Rivera; Macedonian clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski, the first Rom to graduate from Juilliard, is a founding member of the New York Gypsy All-Stars. Their classical training forbids cheesy exaggeration while their ethnic roots forbid excessive rigidity. For example, Lumanovski rendered “Czardas,” composed metmuseum.org in 1904 by Italian Vittorio Monti but heard most often in Hungarian restaurants, Open 7 days a week starting July 1 Also on view through August 25 Paper Campaigns: All exhibitions free with admission American Civil War Prints, 1861–65 with the virtuosity it required but none of the shenanigans Above: Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1861, oil on paper, Collection of Fred Keeler; and Unknown artist, The Civil War and American Art is made possible by an anonymous foundation. Additional support is provided by the that frequently accompany Captain Charles A. and Sergeant John M. Hawkins, Company E, “Tom Cobb Infantry,” 38th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund and the Enterprise Holdings Endowment. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity Infantry, 1861–62, quarter-plate ambrotype with applied color, David Wynn Vaughan Collection. from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. It was organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. its playing, while Durakoglu

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Building Boldness

OPPORTUNITY Motivated and talented low-income public high school students are eager to go to college but can’t afford SAT prep.

Actors find new inspiration for Ibsen By Valerie Gladstone

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renn Schmidt loves playing the role of the highly sexual and manipulative Hilde in Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder. The current production, directed by Andrei Belgrader at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and starring John Turturro as the eminent and egomaniacal architect Halvard Solness, leaves Schmidt plenty of room to display the cunning that will totally derail Solness’s life. “Working with John is a blast,” Schmidt said to CityArts. “He’s willing to try anything. It’s like a duet, a dance.” Belgrader gave his cast the freedom to try anything in order to shed new light on the powerful work. He and Turturro, both active in film, television and theater, had already collaborated before on Beckett’s Endgame in 2008 at BAM. This play was first published in 1892, around the time when Freudian psychology had begun to influence thinking about human behavior. Ibsen was, in a sense, doing some soul searching in his handling of these characters and their conflicts. As a young man, he had been fascinated with the symbol of an architect building a castle in the air and a young girl out of reach in one of its towers. And like his protagonist, he had been tempted late in life by much younger women; he well understood both the excitement and the danger. This advanced stage of his life as a master playwright –“The Master Builder” is one of his last plays–is also echoed in the life of Solness. His buildings could be seen as symbols of Ibsen’s plays, which had become ever more grand in their themes over the years. He saw the arrogance of Solness’ rationalizations as he progressively lost a sense of reality; however, his empathy for Solness and the other characters gives the work remarkable resonance. Concerned that at times Ibsen over-explains the characters’ impulses, Begrader compressed some scenes. “Andrei knows the script inside out, so he knows exactly what to bring out at exactly what moment,” Schmidt says. “He inspires me to keep digging to see what else is in the play and in Hilde. She is ruthless certainly but I believe she actually loves Solness. That’s my challenge–to show her in all her complexity. I believe the play is a love story.”

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Homelessness Continued from page 1

“There is no question that comprehensive affordable housing is one of the most important issues for the next mayor,” said Quinn. The Speaker also pointed out while homelessness is often thought of as a problem impacting those with low or no income, even those in the middle income range struggle to find housing. Quinn echoed Wood, saying that across every business sector she is hearing demands for housing to be built for workers, and many New Yorkers are left out of federal funding for housing. “We cannot yield to gentrification,” said Quinn. “It’s unacceptable there are so many neighborhoods where people cannot afford to live. We need permanent affordable housing.” She added there needs to be a major overhaul to New York City Housing Authority and Section 8 federal subsidy policies. “We’re running in place if every time we build more housing we let a slumlord drive a unit into the ground.” Matt Dunbar, the associate director of

government relations and advocacy with Habitat for Humanity NYC, noted, “At the rate we can build, it would take 5,500 years to meet current affordable housing needs in the city.” “That’s why we’re here not just with our hammers but with our pens,” said Dunbar. Dunbar explained Habitat has launched the Build Louder Hammer & Pen Campaign which aims to help elect the best affordable housing mayor and pursue a comprehensive housing plan. Dunbar and other Habitat volunteers unfurled a paper scroll with signatures from thousands of supporters of the push for affordable housing. Councilmember Gale Brewer, who represents the Upper West Side, noted the devastating impact for homeless seniors and said currently no one is doing what needs to be done to help in the city’s government. “In my district we lost 10,000 rent-regulated units,” said Brewer. “At least half the homeless people simply do not have the rent.” Musa Abdus-Salam, of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing’s board of directors, said minorities are always left behind by policies that fight homelessness because they often aren’t as aware of their rights. “Everyday I get calls from new families,” he

residential development. Garden advocates, meanwhile, are hoping HPD will instead turn their parcels over to the Parks Department. If that were to happen, the gardeners could enter School and the School for Global Leaders also into a Green Thumb Agreement that would use the space for educational purposes, and allow them to preserve the green space in the P.S. 20 had been planning on getting involved community indefinitely. before school was out. The entire matter will be addressed again Neither Hoyda nor his attorney Rex at Community Board 3’s Parks Committee at Whitehorn responded to requests for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, at the BRC comment from this paper; however advocates Senior Services Center (30 Delancey Street). for the park and local As for the developer’s government officials concerns over their allege that there are liability with the no imminent plans children until then, for the property Children’s Magical and that without Garden took out an the remaining insurance policy on two parcels of behalf of the Norfolk land, development property, covering $2 would be difficult million in damages, on such limited in the hopes the space. According to move would, at least Children’s Magical temporarily, bring Garden treasurer the fence down and Many local residents use the LES garden. Dave Currence, allow the young Whitehorn claimed gardeners back into that having children gardening in his vacant their garden. lot “was a liability issue, and if someone was “We don’t have much of a budget,” said to trip and fall they [the developer] would be Currence, when asked how much of an impact responsible.” the insurance policy cost the garden. “We Discussions for said-equitable agreement struggle to pay for wood chips. So paying have largely revolved around HPD, which for an insurance policy, it’s sizable… but it’s will play a deciding role in the fate of the doable, for the community. ” garden. Hoyda has approached the agency As of press time, the fence was still up. to inquire about purchasing their land for Magical Garden Continued from page 1

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said. “Some have been living here for 20 years and have four kids and now they’re being asked to leave their homes. This is not a faith-based problem, it’s a general problem.” Other members of religious organizations who have joined forces with the Interfaith Assembly agreed homelessness is a problem that affects everyone and making waves in New York City will hopefully spread the movement’s effects to the rest of the state, country and world. Phillip Tracy Speight, a formerly homeless veteran, said alcohol and substance abuse problems led to his homelessness but got back on his feet with the help of these organizations and is now living in Jericho Housing. “I’m here representing the veterans who fought in combat and are now sleeping on the street,” he said. Marc Greenberg, the executive director of the Interfaith Assembly, located in Thousands signed the petition for more afforddowntown Manhattan, said, “We have able housing in the city. to tear down the wall between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ We don’t want a candidate to walk in without a plan.”

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Going Down(town) in History Author John Strausbaugh paints the colorful history that permeates Greenwich Village

doors, and windows and stuck it in the side of this building and called it The Poe House. It’s a double slap in the face.

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From your book, I learned that Washington Square Park wasn’t even a park at first.

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It was a swampy meadow and mass burial ground for yellow fever and cholera victims. It was a parade ground, then Washington Square. It was sort of a park, but it wasn’t until the ‘50s that they closed off the streets. You used to be able to drive straight through and turn around and go back up 5th Avenue.

ife as we know it was greatly influenced by what once happened below 14th Street. “This place, for almost 400 years, was like a magnet for artists and a refuge for misfits and outcasts,” said John Strausbaugh, who literally walked miles around the Village on his journey to rediscover the quirkiness, charm, and rebellion that is part of the neighborhood’s rich saga. His book, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, is much more than a history lesson. It delves deep into the characters that made the Village the unique area that it was, while vividly setting the scene - from speakeasies during Prohibition to coffeehouses in the 1950s. The events that occurred in these places make us realize that history was made in the Village and it was undoubtedly a center for creativity and a catalyst for change. The book also evokes a yearning for the past, coupled with a desire to preserve what’s left of this cultural hamlet that can only exist in New York City.

You talk about how Edgar Allan Poe lived in the Village and was claimed as the first bohemian - and how NYU eventually knocked down his house. I think that’s the last thing he would have wanted people to say about him. He wanted mainstream success and never had it, except a little bit when The Raven came out. Have you ever walked past Furman Hall? NYU has a talent for hiring famous architects and having them do their worst work for them. They knocked down one of the houses that was called The Poe House. Then, they basically went to Home Depot and bought some bricks,

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How did the first subway line change the Village in the early 1900s? A lot of people then said, “This is the end of Greenwich Village.” There was no Seventh Avenue or Sixth Avenue. It was isolated and had all those twisty, goofy streets that it has still. They disrupted the whole avenue for more than two years to dig that Seventh Avenue transfer. The subway was bringing a lot more tourists. Then they did Sixth Avenue later. To this day, those are the two least ‘Village’ parts of Greenwich Village. In the 1950s coffeehouses emerged. We think of them as folk music places, but at first, they weren’t. People played checkers, chess, peaknuckle and canasta. The musicians were considered a distraction. Once they saw that the folk music was bringing people in, all the sudden it was in every coffeehouse in the Village.

Some of the venues you write about - Café Wha?, the White Horse Tavern, Cherry Lane Theatre, the Village Vanguard are still there today. My sister came up from Baltimore and wanted to go to the Village Vanguard. I think we were the only English speakers in the place, but we heard a great band. And I love that little room, they haven’t fixed it up too much. You know you’re in a place that’s been there forever.

You say that Café Wha? was once a basket house. Explain that concept. It was a place where anybody can try out, and at Café Wha? that meant anybody. Opera singers, vaudevillians, comedians, and eventually Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. But

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they weren’t going to pay them. So if you were smart, you’d have a pretty girl go around with the basket and people would just drop change in it.

How did the Village play a role in the antiwar movement? Not surprisingly, it was the epicenter of the antiwar movement in New York. All the antiwar groups were there. The women’s prison was there, so if you were arrested in any antiwar protest and were a woman, you got brought there.

Explain the Stonewall Riots in ’69 and what they did for the gay liberation movement. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, the gay and lesbian rights movement started very quietly and modeled on the Civil Rights Movement. They wanted to be accepted into the norm, not live lifestyles outside of it. The next generation came along and they were done with that. On three nights, in June of ’69, they just finally had had it and went nuts and rioted on the streets. It was the beginning of the national gay liberation movement.

One chapter focuses on celebrities like Dylan and Lennon moving back in the ‘70s. When he lived there, he was just little Bob Dylan, and when he came back, he was a global popstar. John Lennon and Yoko had the same sort of trouble. At first it was fine, but then people started zeroing in on them, and some of those are going to be crazies. For the first year, people left them alone. But by the second year, it got to be nuts and that’s why they moved up to the Dakota because there was a doorman and they were up on a high floor.

How did the atmosphere change as the AIDS epidemic broke out? It devastated not just the gay Village, but the entire Village. You had the hospital there that was the Ground Zero for AIDS patients. Everybody had scores of friends dying all the time. Because it literally decimated the Village, it opened up a lot of space and landlords instantly started moving in people with a lot

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You talk about how ironic it is to see a Brooks Brothers in the Village. In The Village! Who would have thought? There’s that sign that people have in their windows: “Less Marc Jacobs, more Jane Jacobs.” Marc Jacobs is a local, but still, how many Marc Jacobs stores do you need in Greenwich Village?

Do you consider Brooklyn to be what Greenwich Village was back in the day? Yes, in the sense that that’s where the arty kids and bohemians are going now. But no, because the Village was centrally located and within reach of everybody. The money that chased everyone out of Lower Manhattan and Manhattan is continuing to chase them in Brooklyn. Now, kids who just moved into Bed Stuy are moving out because they can’t afford it. When you can’t afford Bed Stuy, things have gotten a little strange. Join John at these talks and signings: June 8th at La Mama’s Coffeehouse Chronicles http://lamama.org/coffeehouse-chronicles/ john-strausbaugh/ June 13th at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space www.morusnyc.org

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