BY GARY SHAPIRO  |  Tony Goldman, a developer with a knack for resuscitating urban neighborhoods, died on Sept. 11. He was 68. Where others saw dilapidated buildings, Goldman envisioned busy clubs, art galleries, and hotels. Soho, Miami’s South Beach and Philadelphia were all beneficiaries of his touch. “He had a keen eye for preservation,” said [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  Helen Iannello, a fixture in the politics and struggles of Greenwich Village in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, died on Aug. 18 at age 89. A Greenwich Village native, she was born and grew up on Thompson St. She attended P.S. 3 and New York University. She rose to become an [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  Shulamith Firestone, a pioneering feminist who shot to fame at age 25 with her best-selling book, “The Dialectic of Sex,” was found dead in her East Village apartment on Tuesday. She was 67. Alerted by neighbors, who had smelled a strong odor from her apartment, her superintendent peered in through a [...]

BY GARY SHAPIRO  |  Michael Nash, a leader in preserving the history of the left, has died. As educator, archivist and historian, Nash led New York University’s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. “Mike had a profound understanding of how the history of the left fit together with all its parts. It was [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Peter J. Ottomanelli, a partner with three of his brothers in O. Ottomanelli & Sons, the meat market founded by their late father that has become a Greenwich Village institution, died June 1 at the age of 65. He died of cancer in Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island after [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER  |  With his pirate’s handlebar moustache and all-occasion, white-on-white suits, LeRoy Neiman always looked to me like nothing so much as a 19th-century Mississippi riverboat gambler. Or maybe Mark Twain in the guise of a deeply courteous, soft-spoken Mississippi riverboat gambler. And it was true. His whole long life, which ended last [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Maria Cardone, a lifelong resident of Carmine St. in the Village, died June 13 at the age of 69. She had a heart condition and was homebound for the past few years, said her friend and former neighbor Justina Burton. The only child of Hubert and Adeline Cardone, Maria went to Our [...]

Carmella Danzo, a Village resident who made her home for many years on Thompson St., died June 2 in Memorial Hospital, in Easton, Maryland, at the age of 93. “She was ill for three months and died in my arms,” said her daughter, Nancy Cossu, of Tilghman Island, Maryland. She moved with her husband of [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Jerome Borgos, theatrical designer, artist and a longtime resident of the West Village Houses, died Mon., May 28, in Beth Israel Hospital, three weeks before his 86th birthday. He had been housebound for the past year, said Katy Bordonaro, his friend and West Village Houses neighbor. Born in Cleveland to Fred [...]