[media-credit id=1 align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] B.J. Westman in the late 1990s. BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  B.J. Westman, a theatrical press agent and longtime volunteer with the Jefferson Market Garden and at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital who was known to his friends as Buddy, died April 12, a month before his 90th birthday. He died in [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Vern Fry, who came to Greenwich Village about 60 years ago to pursue his interests in theater, opera and music, died Mon., March 12, a day after his 84th birthday in the Beth Israel Hospice. An Emergency Medical Service team took him to New York Downtown Hospital in mid-February, and after [...]

BY K WEBSTER  | Elizabeth Hubbard, a dancer, teacher and member of the M’finda Kalunga Garden, died on March 13 at her Lower East Side home. She was 76. Elizabeth Ann Thompson was born in Harlem. She taught dance at Dance Theater of Harlem and was the dance mistress at Ballet Hispanico. She joined the corps [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Christine Barattini, a Village resident since she was brought to America as a baby in her mother’s arms, died Fri., March 9, at 98. A resident of Sixth Ave. near Bleecker St. for more than 70 years, she was the center of a circle of family, friends and neighbors, said her [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER  |  No two men could have been more unalike than José Quintero and Theodore Mann, who together gave birth, not just to the Circle in the Square but to the whole big, blooming Off Broadway theater of our times, though they didn’t know it at the moment of conception, It took a [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER  |  We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. “Waiting for Godot” When Barney Rosset, who left us last week, [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Rose Vialotti, born and bred in the Village and the widow and mother of physicians, died Fri., Feb. 17, in a Saddle River, N.J., hospice at the age of 98. Called “a woman before her time” in the eulogy by her son, Dr. Charles Vialotti, Jr., Rose Vialotti went to college [...]

[media-credit name="Anthony DeGiglio." align="aligncenter" width="300"][/media-credit]BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Anthony DeGiglio, a lifelong Village resident and devoted volunteer at St. Joseph’s Church and at St. Vincent’s Hospital, died Tues., Jan. 28, in a Bronx hospice at age 86. He was diagnosed with cancer in November, said his nephew John Mirvish, of Alexandria, Va. A decorated Army [...]