Volume 77, Number 21
October 24 - 30, 2007
Editorial/Op-Ed
9/11 should be campaign material
It came as a surprise to many political observers that Hillary Clinton, not Rudy Giuliani, was the first 2008 presidential candidate to use 9/11 images in a campaign ad. Predictably, she was criticized in some quarters for “exploiting” the tragedy for political gain.
Chinatown’s new voice
It’s easy to dismiss the importance of community boards because their power is advisory. Government officials and developers are free to ignore the board’s suggestions and do what they want to do anyway. But usually they listen and make adjustments.
Scoopy's Notebook
Letters to the Editor
Talking Point
Contraceptive bill is a pill for college women
By Carolyn Maloney
It may sound absurd, but the Deficit Reduction Act that Congress passed back in 2005 is now causing birth control prices to spike at New York University’s Student Health Center and other college and free clinics throughout the country. College and low-income women are being forced to bear the brunt of this unfair price hike.
Ira Blutreich
Police Blotter
In Brief
Village icon honored
Old fashioned poet
Obituaries
Adam Honigman, 53, parks advocate, dies
By Albert Amateau
Adam Honigman, a longtime member of Community Board 4 and an advocate for parks and community gardens, died on Tues., Oct. 16 at the age of 53.
Memorial for Glowaty
A memorial mass for George Glowaty, a painter who died Aug. 8 at the age of 89 in the Village apartment where he lived for more than 50 years, will be held at noon on Fri., Nov. 16 at Our Lady of Pompei Church on Carmine and Bleecker Sts.
Sports
Stars from all fields get a kick out of Pier 40
By Judith Stiles
Every sports aficionado in Lower Manhattan knows that Pier 40 is a mecca for youth soccer, but it is also an international magnet for avid adult footballers who move to New York City.
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Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel
Chelsea’s Boulevard of Death
Leandra Rosado, 9, chalks a message in memory of her friend, Prince “Kumo” Harris, Jr., an 8-year-old boy who was run over and killed earlier this month on Ninth Ave. He was the fifth person killed on Ninth Ave. within the last year. Article
 New festival woos audiences with theater, music and film
By Steven Snyder
If there’s one thing New York City isn’t lacking, it’s arts festivals. Love music? The CMJ Music Marathon just rolled through town. Love movies? This month alone has seen a seamless segue from the New York Film Festival to the Israel Film Festival. Love theater? The Fringe Festival eats up an entire month every summer.
 City’s new traffic plan draws Chinatown fire
By Skye H. McFarlane
The row over Park Row continues as community groups from both sides of Police Plaza raise objections to the city’s new proposal to decongest and beautify the area.
City blocks St. Marks restaurant, siding with tenants
By Patrick Hedlund
Tenants in the East Village struck a victory against owners of their residential building on a busy stretch of St. Marks Pl. last week after the city shot down the landlord’s request to convert a portion of the property for commercial use.
 East Village baker struggles as rents rise
By Christian Taske
At 3 p.m. the bakery’s showcases are empty except for half a dozen pastries and a few loaves of bread. While the bare shelves could be mistaken as the result of a successful business day, they instead tell a story of economic hardship.
 Big flower money for Little Flower’s park
By Albert Amateau
Friends of LaGuardia Place had two big reasons to celebrate last week at the group’s annual Fiorello Gala: David and Henrietta Whitcomb, members of Friends for many years, announced their donation of $15,500 to make a final payment on the heroic-size bronze statue of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia that has been on the east side of the street since 1992.
VILLAGER ART & LIFESTYLE
 Festival brings art back to beer-soaked L.E.S.
By Jennifer O’Reilly
With less than a week until the Crown Point Festival hits the stage, Executive Director Kelly Markus is spending her days tying up loose ends. As the sole full-time employee of a massive multi-media festival with a $50,000 budget and 225 performing acts, it’s an understatement to say that Markus’s agenda is full.
 Urban Shaman to lead the Village Halloween Parade
By Wickham Boyle
Urban Shaman is not an easy job title, or even a moniker that can be absorbed facilely at cocktail parties or class reunions. But after three decades of producing public artwork, this is how Donna Henes describes herself. “It’s been 33 years now and I see myself as a shaman… a person who intercedes between the community and the spirit world.
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NEWS
Bars’ new rules avoid the main problem, some East Siders say
By Albert Amateau
Club owners and elected officials said bars will have better safety and a more law abiding environment because of a new Best Practices guidelines published last week. But some community board and neighborhood representatives said they were left out of the year-long consultation between the N.Y.P.D. and owners that resulted in the 58-point guidelines.
Bellying up for a higher cause
By Melissa Korn
Glittery bats flying above the bar, a string of small gold lights and a carved pumpkin welcome you to the Lolita Bar, a low-key spot on the corner of Broome and Allen Sts. For four nights last week, so did boobies. Lots and lots of boobies.
 Boy’s death sparks rally for Ninth Ave. safety
By Jefferson Siegel
Chelsea residents rallied Monday to protest the death of an 8-year-old child pedestrian -- the latest victim of Ninth Ave. traffic.
City to release plan for L.E.S. development & housing
By Patrick Hedlund
As debate over efforts to rezone and landmark the Lower East Side rages among residents, preservationists and developers in the community, the city has moved even closer to declaring its intentions for the neighborhood with possible determinations to come as early as the end of the year.
 Parade’s founder, 3 decades later
By Jerry Tallmer
It isn’t everybody who once built a life-sized Fred Astaire for ventriloquist and puppeteer Shari Lewis to dance with. For that matter, it isn’t everybody who has a large, disagreeable Two-Headed Pig Beast lurking against one wall of his and his wife’s rambling Westbeth apartment.
Children’s Halloween events
Ghouls and goblins are expected to hit Washington Square Park on Wed., Oct. 31. Costumed children, accompanied by their parents, will feast in an afternoon filled with face painting, goodie bags and live entertainment at the 17th annual Washington Square Park Children’s Halloween Parade
 L.E.S. children rally for after school funds
By Joe Pompeo
Children throughout the Lower East Side celebrated Lights On Afterschool last Thursday, Oct. 18, showing their support for the programs that supervise and stimulate them each day in the hours before their parents can pick them up.
VILLAGER ART & LIFESTYLE
The Orson Welles of Waverly Place
By Will McKinley
Dan Bianchi looks like he’s ready to bump somebody off. With his long leather coat, slicked back hair and Noo Yawk growl, the fifty-something greybeard appears to have just stepped out of the pulp fiction he grew up reading.
Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“We Own the Night” (+) I have a small part in this film, playing myself as mayor. So here I am evaluating a movie in which I have an interest — not a financial one since I was paid scale, but a cultural one. I hope everyone will see this picture, which is good but not great, and that it will be an enormous success.
“Lust, Caution” (+) This movie is interesting in that it covers a period of the Japanese occupation of China and, in particular, the City of Shanghai in the early 1940s.
“Naked Boys Singing” (+) When I left the theater after seeing the show, a couple in line asked what I thought of it. I replied that it is very good and similar to a college musical.
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