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Special election called for 65th A.D.; Nominee pick set for Super Sunday BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a proclamation setting Tues., April 19, as the date for a special election for the 59th, 62nd and 65th Assembly Districts, as well as the Ninth Senate District. The date — which coincides with the presidential
primary election in New York State — was chosen in order to both “maximize voter turnout and minimize the cost to taxpayers,” according to the governor. The Lower East Side’s 65th A.D. seat has been vacant since late last year when former Assembly Speaker ShelASSEMBLY continued on p. 8
Conservative mag attacks Catholic Worker as lefty extremists; Who wrote it? BY MARY REINHOLZ
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avid Horowitz’s conservative Web site, FrontPageMag.com,
Catholic Worker movement circles last fall when it posted an article attacking the followers of co-founder Dorothy Day as hard-left 1960s-style radicals who are allegedly
using the movement’s soup kitchen operation as a front to promote extremist politics and a “vile variant of liberation theology.” The piece, posted Oct. 2 and carrying the byline of Spyridon Mitsotakis, a 27-year-old freelance writer, accuses Day’s “errant acARTICLE continued on p. 24
PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, at Saturday’s national “March for Bernie,” a Sanders supporter in Union Square posed proudly with her papier-mâché main man. For more photos, see Pages 12 and 13.
CBGB rocks on...well, sort of...in airport cafe BY TINA BENITEZ-EVES
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n its early days, CBGB actually had a kitchen where burgers and chili were cooked up. But it eventually became a dressing room, and many never imagined grabbing food inside the place ever again. However, inside Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport, travelers can now get a pseudo-taste of the now-defunct night club — or a turkey club sandwich, French onion soup or
caprese salad — at CBGB L.A.B., or lounge and bar, a new restaurant that opened last December. The open beer garden setup is adorned with a whiteand-red CBGB awning, resembling the one that hung at 315 Bowery for more than 30 years, along with posters inside of Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry and Sid Vicious. CBGB L.A.B., though, isn’t a “rebirth” of the famed East Village punk venue, but a theme restaurant in a very unlikely spot. It’s part of a $120 million
renovation of the airport terminal by food-service company OTG Management, including more than 55 new dining venues, with some concepts created by more than 20 chefs. But CBGB L.A.B. doesn’t have any CB’s-inspired sandwiches or other dishes. Deviled eggs are called simply deviled eggs. Patrons can even order via iPad. But you need a plane ticket to get in. “They have a bar like any other bar at the airport and a CBGB L.A.B. continued on p. 14
Schwartz will try to unseat Glick.....................page 2 Don Lee announces for Assembly..............page 10 HOWL! Happening — and how!....page 19
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Schwartz challenging Glick for state Assembly BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n the past, District Leader Arthur Schwartz has
always held back, usually citing the fact that he had young children — and he has had two sets Last month, Schwartz, who is Bernie Sanders’s New York campaign lawyer, announced he plans to challenge longtime incumbent Deborah Glick this September in the 66th Assemblymember District. The two have always had a testy relationship, and it’s only worsened in recent years. Schwartz has lately attacked Glick’s close ties to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was convicted in December on federal corruption charges. A top union lawyer, Schwartz has served as general counsel to the Transport Workers Union since 2001. His specialty has been helping dissident factions take over unions. Two years ago, he was treasurer for Zephyr Teachout’s campaign against Governor Andrew Cuomo. A former member of Community Board 2 for many years, Schwartz is also well known in the Village for his work on Hudson River Park, having previously led the Hudson River Park Advisory Council. He helped push through the Hudson River Park Act in 1998, the park’s founding legislation — and that, he said, he is where his beef with Glick began. Glick opposed the legislation, she said, because it created an “unaccountable” state-city authority to run the park. “I don’t care,” Schwartz told us. “She voted ‘no’ on the bill to build the park. She was one of a small handful of people who voted against it. The entire environmental community supported it. The community board was for it. The youth recreation organizations were for it — and she voted ‘no.’ We had a break over Hudson River Park,” Schwartz said, “and since then we’ve had an antagonistic relationship.” years he has been a critic and is best known for his distortions and outright lies.” Schwartz is now slamming Glick for not supporting a plan to develop the St. John’s Center; the developers would buy 200,000 square feet of air rights from Pier 40, in return for which they would pay the Hudson River Park Trust $100 million, which would then be used to repair the ailing W. Houston St. pier. Thirty percent of the project’s apartments would be affordable. However, Glick said that, again, Schwartz is mis-
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From left, Arthur Schwartz, Bernie Sanders and former state Senator Tom Duane at a recent Sanders event in New York. Duane has endorsed Sanders, but has not endorsed Schwartz.
characterizing her position. Her statement was part of the public comment on the project’s “scoping.” “What Arthur doesn’t say — and this is a distortion — is I presented testimony on behalf of all the
Deborah Glick, right, with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand has not endorsed Glick.
Jerry Nadler, Daniel Squadron, Gale Brewer — that represent the area. My testimony was the testimothat raised a range of concerns. It was the start of a discussion. And Arthur, as he has done in the past 20 years, will spend the next several months engaging in distortion.” Glick, of course, is a pioneer in her own right, the New York Legislature, and is currently “one of only three women in Manhattan in the Assembly, and there are 12 Assembly seats in Manhattan,” she noted. Schwartz, who has always been a political maverick, has been endorsed by Teachout, who won a stunning 68 percent of the vote in the 66th A.D. in her race against Cuomo, her highest margin of victory anywhere in New York State. “Arthur was my treasurer, is a friend and great collaborator over many years and, yes, I support Teachout told The Villager. Glick shrugged it off, saying Teachout’s nod was predictable. “Well, she was his campaign treasurer,” the assemblymember said. “I never met the woman, I’ve never spoken to her. It would seem odd that she chose to endorse this early — but it seems very typical political payback.” As for Silver, Glick said, “I wouldn’t run away from the fact that Shelly did a lot of good things over the years.” He stopped the West Side stadium, supported expanding pre-K and always fought for education, among other things, she noted. “People are not one-dimensional. I think Shelly did lots of things, and I think the things that were raised during the trial were obviously deeply disturbing.” Glick noted that, unlike Silver and others, she is a “full-time legislator,” with no outside jobs or income, and that she has called for this to be the norm for all state legislators. Glick added of Schwartz’s trying to tar her with her association with Silver, “I think it’s shocking that someone who calls themselves a civil rights
attorney would engage in a campaign of guilt by association.” News editorial said she was his enabler — what does that have to do with civil rights? She was part of the club.” Schwartz blasted Glick for not opposing the hush-money deal Silver set up with women who accused former Assemblymember Vito Lopez of sexual harassment when they worked as his staffers. “As a civil rights attorney, I was grossly offended by that,” Schwartz said. “You want to pay the rageous. She never spoke out against that deal.” However, Schwartz said, “I am going to spend little time talking about Deborah Glick — I actually learned that from her — because it’s free publicity for the opponent. The campaign I’m going to run is going to be all positive about what I’ve done.” In one concession to Glick, Schwartz said, “I think she probably played a good role around [getting a middle school at] 75 Morton St. I give her credit for that. “I want to deal with some of the issues Bernie is talking about, like student debt,” he said. “I would promise to do some dramatic things. I have thought about doing a hunger strike over campeople to join me,” Schwartz said, referring to the city getting its fair share of state education funds. “I could lose a few pounds,” he quipped. “I am not going to engage in a weekly Villager debate with Arthur’s trash-talking,” Glick emphatically stated. “I’m going to be doing my job, working for the people of the 66th Assembly District.” But could Schwartz beat Glick? One local activist and former political staffer, requesting anonymity, said anything is possible. “With the way things are in Albany today, who knows?” he said. “And Arthur is a formidable campaigner.” TheVillager.com
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A police sketch of the suspect in the Jan. 3 Village sexual assault.
W. 12th sexual assault Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman in her Village home in early January, and are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the suspect. According to police, on Sun., Jan. 3, vicinity of W. 12th St. and Greenwich Ave., a man knocked on a 23-yearold woman’s door, pretending to be a neighbor. He also was seen following the victim for several blocks before she got home. The man asked if some-
Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a man who beat up a senior on Sat., Nov. 28, in the McDonald’s at 114 Delancey St. lice said, the individual was inside the fast-food spot when he got into an argument with the victim, 64. The suspect then proceeded to punch the older and stomp him. EMS responded and took the injured man to an area hospital where he received treatment for facial injuries and bleeding of the brain. The victim was in stable condition. Police described the attacker as a male black with braids. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline.
A surveillance camera image of the suspect in what police believe is a string of Village robberies.
Robbery pattern robberies — in all of which he either displayed or simulated a weapon — in the Sixth and Ninth Precincts, since December. ages 30 and 29, were approached by the suspect, who demanded their property an apartment building lobby in the vicinity of Waverly Place and Christopher St. The suspect removed $400 from one 30, in front of 181 Thompson St., police believe the same suspect — this time with a sidekick — approached a man, phone, watch and $300. p.m. on Thurs., Jan. 14, the suspect followed a man, 27, into an elevator in an East Village apartment building, sim-
19, according to police, the perpetrator followed a male victim, 28, into an apartment building at 381 E. 10th St., displayed a knife, and demanded his messenger bag. The victim refused and Finally, on Thurs., Jan. 21, at around woman, 24, into an elevator in a West Village apartment building, and simuing with her headphones and $50. The robber is described as about age 40, rather short, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 160 pounds, and with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a black shirt under a black jacket, with blue jeans, black sneakers and a black winter hat. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline.
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Gary Null, left, giving Jean-Louise Bourgeois a gift of some natural toothpaste and a book on reversing arthritis at Bourgeois’s birthday party this past July. Null also gave the West Village activist and scion of sculptor Louise Bourgeois some of his other books and DVD’s on health and current affairs.
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gaged in acts evidencing callous disregard for the intellectual property and contractual rights of others.” programmer Gary Null, also charges the foundation and a bevy of manag“the loss of a sense of mission” and a “betrayal of trust” of its listeners. At the heart of the suit, which was by Null concerning DVD’s and other materials he provides to WBAI. These “premiums” are sent to contributors who have made pledges to support the station. Allegedly, DVD’s were pirated by WBAI managers and sent to contributors without Null’s permission. Null is a well-known health programmer whose work includes titles such as “7 Steps to Perfect Health” and “Kiss Your Fat Goodbye.” There have been continuous reports that WBAI is unable to deliver premiums to customers in the minimum time required by law and that the station, which laid off most of its staff in a cost-cutting move two years ago, is near bankruptcy. California has reportedly threatened to force a sale of WBAI if the station station’s paid membership has sunk to 7,500 from nearly 20,000 members
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don Silver was convicted on multiple federal graft charges and immediateAccording to State Committeeman John Quinn, Democratic County Committee members from the 65th A.D. will meet this coming Sun., Feb. 7 — Super Bowl Sunday — for their vote to pick the party’s sole nominee for the “special.” Quinn’s Lower East Side Democratic Club will play a pivotal role in the County Committee vote. Other clubs covering parts of the district include Soho’s Downtown Independent Democrats, Chinatown’s United Democratic Organization and Grand St.’s Harry S. Truman Club. The roster of Assembly hopefuls includes District Leaders Alice Cancel, Paul Newell and Jenifer Rajkumar, as well as Yuh-Line Niou — chief of staff to Queens Assemblymember Ron Kim — Chinatown activist Don Lee and Community Board 3 Chairperson Gigi Li. it out for County Committee members’ support in D.I.D.’s turf, while Niou has the backing of U.D.O. Cancel’s home club is L.E.S.D.C. Councilmember Rosie Mendez has endorsed Cancel, who is married to Quinn. At an event in Chinatown on Jan. 25 — before the special election was called — Lee announced he is running for Assembly. However — without a base in any of the local political clubs — he said he was looking beyond the special election, to the general election in September, when the public will have a chance to pick the Democratic nominee. Speaking last week before the governor had called the special election, Virginia Kee, president emeritus of U.D.O., said it was hard to predict how the County Committee vote would play out. No candidate can expect to a win the required absolute majority — more than 50 percent of the vote — on Cancel might conceivably be the top she hoped Niou would come in second. After that, there would be further jockeying for position and more rounds of voting, during which Kee hoped Niou, her candidate, would prevail. But that, obviously, is clearly Kee’s partisan take. “We don’t know what will happen,” she admitted. Sean Sweeney, a leading member of D.I.D., said after each successive round of voting, the hope would be that the low vote-getters would drop out of the running. Because of the short notice, it was a scramble to set a time and place for
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As of Wednesday, at least six candidates were running for Assembly in the 65th District, including, from left, Alice Cancel, Paul Newell and Jenifer Rajkumar.
the County Committee vote, Sweeney said. “It’s crazy because the Super Bowl is that day,” he said. “But Saturday is the Sabbath, and Monday is Chinese New Year, so that leaves Sunday afternoon. But sports fans on the committee might get antsy to watch the game and that could affect decision making. Crazy timing.” The location and time of Sunday’s County Committee have been set for the Educational Alliance, at 197 E. Broadway, at 2 p.m. According to Quinn, the meeting must be open to the public and the press. The auditorium can hold 300 people, so it can easily accommodate the 200 County Committee members, plus the public and press. According to their State Board of ings, showing how much cash the candidates had on hand, Niou had $133,180, Rajkumar had $84,363 and Newell had $68,720. Quinn said Cancel only opened her campaign bank account two weeks ago and has no funds on hand right now. People are essentially raising the money for the general election in September, he said. “You’re the Democratic nominee in this district — what is it, 8-to-1 Democrat? — [money] doesn’t matter,” he said of the April special election, which will pit one Democrat versus one Republican. In response to Kee’s hope that Niou might leapfrog Cancel in later rounds of voting by County Committee members, Quinn said, “Look, my club would not support Yuh-Line, and [she is] not getting anything from D.I.D. It ain’t gonna happen.” The general election in September will likely be a wild free-for-all, he said. “The scramble is gonna start the day after the County Committee
vote,” he predicted. Councilmember Margaret Chin is supporting Li. Quinn says he has “a good feeling” about Cancel being picked as the nominee on Sunday, especially because of the “weighted vote.” Namely, County Committee members’ votes will count more in areas where there was a heavy turnout for Governor Cuomo in the 2014 general election for governor. D.I.D. backed Zephyr Teachout in the primary versus Cuomo and then Green candidate Howie Hawkins in the general election. “You’re walking in with 40 percent of the vote,” Quinn said of his club’s County Committee members. “You need 10 percent. It’s a weighted vote — it’s based on the number of votes that came out for the governor [in his last general election]. The West Side made the stupid mistake of going for Teachout. She gave Cuomo a run for his money. But not voting for him in the general? People stayed at home.” Mendez released a statement in support of Cancel, saying, “There are many candidates who have declared their intention to run for the 65th Assembly District. Several of these indido a good job at representing this very diverse district. However, for me, there’s one candidate who stands head and shoulders above the rest and that candidate is Alice Cancel. Alice Cancel has been a district leader for 25 years who has, without remuneration, represented her community, who has fought against inequities and resolved thousands of complaints for her neighbors. Based on her commitment to her community and her ability to get things done, I am proud to support Alice Cancel.” On Wednesday, Niou received the endorsement of former City Comptroller John Liu. “As a daughter of immigrants, Yuh-Line understands the challenges
and issues that both immigrants and working families face,” Liu said. “Her commitment to public service, her passion as a community advocate, her national experience, along with her extensive knowledge of the workings of state government, make Yuh-Line the voice Lower Manhattan needs in Albany.” In turn, Niou said, “As a solid progressive leader, Comptroller Liu has been a true champion for immigrants and working families, and I want to continue his tradition of empowering those in need throughout our community by championing crucial issues like paid family leave and the Fight for $15.” Niou noted that the 65th Assembly District is a “70 percent minority-majority district” and color to represent it, if elected. Also on Wednesday, John Bal withdrew from the race. “It is unfortunate that other candidates are not troubled by the lack of democratic process,” Bal said. “My roots are in the community — not political clubs. It’s a disappointment that Governor Cuomo called for a special election, which strongly favors political clubs and excludes community participation.” Bal said he was still currently in Thailand, studying the Thai language. “If I thought it would be a fair nominating process, I would return home and campaign,” he said. Quinn said Newell has strategically beaten out Rajkumar in terms of securing County Committee members who have weighted votes — in areas where there was a good turnout for Cuomo in ’14. so people shouldn’t fret about their Super Bowl parties, Quinn added. “Football’s just a game,” he said. “This is a blood sport, boy. This is serious. This is our community. This is the real thing.” TheVillager.com
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See you in September! Don Lee declares for 65th BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n a Jan. 25 press conference at Joy Luck Palace on Mott St. — as waiters plied the aisles with bamboo steamers full of dim sum — Chinatown activist Don Lee announced his campaign for Assembly in the 65th District. Lee, 56, grew up across the street from the dim sum palace and worked as a chef and waiter there at a previous incarnation of the eatery. His wife also worked there when it was a garment factory. “There is a desperate need to reform Albany,” Lee said. “The public deserves clean government and I mean to deliver. The other priorities for our campaign are better healthcare delivery, supportive services for seniors and jobs through small businesses. All of Lower Manhattan — from Battery Park City and the Financial District to the Lower East Side and Chinatown — is under intense pressure from forces that threaten to price long-term residents and businesses out of their neighborhoods. I am running to stand up for the people I have lived with and worked with my entire life.” As Lee spoke on stage he was
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Don Lee, surrounded by supporters, announcing his campaign for Assembly on Jan. 25.
along with street vendors who he helped protect against overzealous police enforcement and also newsstand vendor Marilyn Louie, whose kiosk he tried to keep the city from reducing in size. Less than a week after Lee’s announcement, Governor Cuomo proclaimed that April 19 would be the Manhattan Assembly seat, formerly held by fallen Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The County Committee will meet this weekend to pick the Democratic nominee. on the general election in September, when all the district’s voters will get to weigh in. Lee, his wife, Lai, and their daughter, Victoria, live in Battery Park City. His father was the mechanic foreman for the Hong Kong bus company — a very good job, Lee noted — but emigrated with his family to America, where he became a dishwasher and dress presser, to give them greater opportunity. Growing up, Lee attended district public schools — P.S. 130, J.H.S. 65 and Seward Park High School — before graduating from New York University with an accounting degree. An IT specialist, he worked for a decade in city government, starting in the Koch administration, before moving into the private sector. He has a history of activism in the district, including helping lead
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Veteran TV journalist Ti-Hua Chang, enjoying some dim sum, said of Don Lee, “This is someone who actually deserves to be in Albany.”
the Grand St. Coalition that fought back efforts by the M.T.A. to cut subway service to the Grand St. station during construction. And after 9/11, he led efforts to open and organize a disaster relief center on Mott St. He launched recovery and revitalization activities with community leaders and activists to support small business and address health and safety in the Downtown area. More recently, Lee helped defend shop owners and licensed street vendors who found themselves suddenly arrested. In many cases, individuals were threatened with deportation by what Lee called “a criminal justice
system run amok and enforcement that was predatory in nature.” As a member of the executive cabinet in the South Manhattan Healthcare Network, he advocated for funding to modernize and expand Gouverneur Health Services on Madison St. Among other supporters at the press conference were Rocio Sanz, a board member of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce and a member of Community Board 2, who became friends with Lee when he was formerly on the West Side community board. “I always found him to be a very relatable, responsible and devoted
person,” Sanz said. “He was not only for businesses but also for the community in general.” Karlin Chan, a member of C.B. 3, called Lee “an old friend. He’s an ideal candidate,” he said. Nelson Hom, a high school friend of Lee’s, recalled of him, “He was always helping somebody out — on his own time.” Another supporter is Ti-Hua Chang, the award-winning TV journalist. “This is somebody who actually deserves to be in Albany,” he said of Lee. “So many people don’t deserve it. He’s done all the community work, the volunteer work. He’s done all the right things that politicians should — and yet people say it’s ‘David versus Goliath’ [for him] because of the political clubhouses.” News vendor Louie said, “I think he would be a good assemblymember. He’s helping people on his own that kind of people around.” Veteran photographer Corky Lee, who has long documented the city’s Asian-American community, was covering the event. Asked if he endorsed Lee, he said, “As a freelance journalist, I can’t really support anyone. But if I have to, I would support Don. I know what he’s done. “And he speaks Cantonese,” he added. “Most of the people who live in Chinatown speak Cantonese, and are the people who put [Coun-
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is a missed opportunity. “Why would you want to put ‘CBGB’ on your restaurant and not think of creative names?” she wondered. Bayley also recommended re-creating the classic, CBGB bathrooms in the new establishment. “The restaurant can have really horrible bathrooms, and that would be their thing,” she laughed. She also recommended selling CBGB T-shirts and playing punk music for customers. Whether a theme airport bar or a re-creation of the actual venue, nothing can taint CBGB’s history or legacy, said Kaye, because it could never be the same. “I don’t think it tarnishes the legacy of the club,” he said, “because the club’s legacy has gone around the world several thousand times, birthed thousands of bands, provided a sense
sandwich menu. It could be like any other place,” said Lenny Kaye, the guitarist for The Patti Smith Group, told The Villager. “It’s a design opportunity that appears to be lost. It would be nice if they had bands play there or if they had a bathroom attached that On his way through Newark, Kaye recently stopped in to the restaurant for a breakfast sandwich, and found the place, with its standard fare, didn’t evoke much of the original venue’s true spirit. “I couldn’t resist,” Kaye said. “It was so airport generic, in a way. It didn’t seem to be anything but a lot of photos on the wall that didn’t make it look like the club might have looked. It seemed weirdly irrelevant to CBGB’s legacy.” Smith and Kaye were the last act to perform at the venue when it closed on Oct. 15, 2006. He recalled that, in the early days of CBGB, there was a makeshift kitchen where hamburgers and chili would be served up, in what would later become a dressing room. Karen Kristal, wife of CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, even made Kaye burgers in the 1970s. “There’s kind of an odd full circle that you can go to a Newark restaurant and have a hamburger at CBGB,” Kaye said, adding that the hood of the stove could still be seen in the room throughout the life of the gritty Bowery venue. Since CBGB’s doors closed for good nearly 10 years ago, it has been kept “alive” through merchandise, a CBGB music festival in New York, and its soiled stage — still intact at 315 Bowery at the John Varvatos boutique. “A lot of kids had no parents in those days,” said Andy Shernoff, a founding member of The Dictators, at a recent punk panel at Howl! Happening Gallery, at 6 E. First St. “Hilly had an open house.” Now, the House that Hilly Built is an airport restaurant, with the possibility of more CBGB-themed venues on the way. Tim Hayes, founder and executive director of the CBGB Festival, and several other investors bought the brand name in 2011 and now are planning an expanded, global branding campaign. Before the CBGB sale, Hilly Kristal’s daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, and his ex-wife, Karen Kristal, were embroiled in a legal battle over his estate. For years, Hilly Kristal, who died Aug. 28, 2007, had fought with the landlord of the CBGB space, Bowery Residents’ Committee, over unpaid rent, which eventually totaled $90,000. The venA majority of Hilly Kristal’s CBGB estate, totaling $3 million, was left to
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Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys in 1977 inside the kitchen at CBGB, which later was converted into a dressing room. Legend has it that no one would eat the chili when Bators was in the kitchen, fearing he had added his bodily fluids to it.
Lenny Kaye getting into his 1968 Chevy outside of CBGB in 1977.
Burgman, who later sold off CBGB for good. Karen Kristal died in June 2014. By 2014, the CBGB expansion was in full swing. Hayes brought in marand launched a campaign to spread the “attitude” of the famed venue around the world. “CBGB was the home for countless in a statement released by Epic Rights. “No one cared what you looked like, and everyone took care of each other. In a way, CBGB became a tightly knit international family of musicians, artists and fans. The same strong spirit of CBGB continues today. We are excited to be working with Epic Rights as we expand the CBGB attitude around the
world.” Epic Rights hasn’t release any future licensing and branding plans for CBGB since 2014. Photographer Roberta Bayley, who door, and captured the scene from its earliest days, said she’s not bothered by the Newark airport restaurant. “If it’s their intention to make it a chain, that would seem bizarre,” she said. “But I’m not offended by it as long as the food is good. If they have really terrible food that would just be awful.” Bayley said she’s not nostalgic for CBGB anymore, but the fact that the restaurant does not have more creative names for the food on its menu
creating a scene around that self and watching it grow. However, it asserts itself into the public consciousness, it will never be how CBGB’s was then. But if somebody has a little memory 103, why not?” John Holmstrom, co-founder of PUNK magazine, said that any future incarnations of the classic club, like the new Newark restaurant, really don’t matter in the grand scheme of the CBGB legacy. “I made peace with CB’s, and we tried to save it,” said Holmstrom, who was involved in the Randall Milling the late Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal. “When you think about the roster of talent that hung out at CBGB…there’s no place like it in the world,” he said during the recent Howl! punk panel. PUNK co-founder Legs McNeil echoed Holmstrom’s sentiments. “I don’t think it matters anymore,” he said. “It’s ludicrous. No one ever wanted it when it was real and authentic. It’s like when we wait for someone to die.” For anyone who lived the real CB’s, anything that opens now will never be the same, said Kaye. But as the “brand” of CBGB continues to grow, an airport restaurant clearly won’t be the last physical incarnation of the venue. “CB’s is a well-documented success story,” Kaye said. “The real blessing of CB’s is that it made its mark on the culture of rock ’n’ roll. It was a moment in time and space.” Kaye said he’ll stop into the CBGB restaurant on the way through Newark again. “I might try the burger,” he said. “I want see if it’s like the one Karen Kristal made for me back in 1974.” TheVillager.com
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chin wrong, disingenuous To The Editor: Re “City readies to request developers’ propos-
about the so-called “padlocked” heritage of access to the Elizabeth St. Garden, and disingenuous about the city’s prior commitments to this precious open space. Community residents presented a 1981 commitment for the garden site to be maintained “exclu-
sively for recreational purposes,” as well as Special Little Italy District zoning requirements dating from 1977. “Would you consider tearing down the High Line to build affordable housing?” asked Renee Greene, 84, who lives across from the garden and said she has found it a comfort since her husband died and her arthritis worsened. “Why, then, even think about destroying the magical space that is the Elizabeth St. Garden?” Theresa Collins
Congratulations, Claude To The Editor: Re “How I helped free Fernando, an innocent Congratulations, Claude. I know you worked long and hard to prove this man was innocent. You never wavered in your belief in his innocence. You knew that the system was not working, yet you believed you could right a wrong. And you did. Again, congratulations. We need more people like you. Clayton Patterson
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What about his daughters? To The Editor: I must note that none of the Purple supporters mentioned the rights of his daughters to have their voices heard and the bravery it took for them to speak out. I think that, for them, it is part of the healing process and I hope it did help them. I also think that if Bill Di Paola or any of those who spoke out for Purple had been molested by their parents, they would not be defending him.
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Scale back St. John’s plan; Divulge park air rights TALKING POINT BY ANDREW BERMAN
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n June 2013, the state Assembly and Senate passed legislation promoted by the Hudson Riv-
would allow the sale and transfer of “air rights” from the park for development one block inland. This legislation allows for increases in the size of permitted development in our neighborhood, while generating revenue for the park. Many, including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, decried the scheme’s potential for enabling overdevelopment, as well as the utter lack of basic information about how many air rights the provision actually created. Adding insult to injury, measures to protect nearby areas from overdevelopment, such as G.V.S.H.P.’s proposed rezoning of the South Village, were being stonewalled by the city at the same time. In response, a coalition of more than 50 neighborhood groups generated a list of alternative means for funding the park — some utilizing air rights, some not — that would not require increasing the size of permitted development in our community. Nearly three years later, virtually no progress has been made on any is now backing a developer’s plan to massively increase the allowable size of a development on the three-block St. John’s Terminal site at Houston and West St., partly by permitting air rights transfer from the park. Yet, still no information has been offered about the amount of available air rights the park actually has, meaning this massive project is about to go through the public approval process without any clue as to how much more increased development potential would remain for our neighborhood — and without any opportunities for limiting it. Neither city nor toward pursuing alternative methods for funding the park that community groups like G.V.S.H.P. put forward. And the city continues to block zoning measures that would protect nearby neighborhoods. If you’re unfamiliar with the development proposal at the heart 2-million-square-foot-combination of residences (with 30 percent affordable units, though these will occupy only 25 percent of the residential TheVillager.com
large-scale retail, including possibly an enormous underground big-box store. At its tallest, the development would reach the same height as the Trump Soho condo-hotel, but in sheer size (total square footage) would be the equivalent of six Trump Sohos, or about three-quarters the size of the Empire State Building. To enable this, the city would have to change the zoning for the site to allow residential and hotel development, which are both currently prohibited. It would also have to increase the allowable size of development on the site by 70 percent, including 200,000 square feet of air rights from nearby Pier 40, for which the developer would pay $100 million toward repairing the pier the massive W. Houston St. pier. This is an extraordinarily good deal for this developer. Based upon an economic analysis accepted by the city for a development site one block north of St. John’s, allowing hotel and residential development on this property and increasing the size of allowable development by 70 percent should more than triple the project’s worth, generating several billion dollars for the developer. While funding the repair of Pier affordable housing are arguably imarguable that these goals could be achieved without such a tremendous giveaway to this developer, and with much less of an impact upon the surrounding neighborhood and park. Perhaps most disturbingly, unless other measures are put in place, this enormous development could be just the tip of the iceberg of development enabled by Hudson River Park airrights sales. It’s unconscionable that the city is moving ahead with this massive scheme without putting in place long-sought protections for nearby residential areas, like the South Village, currently dealing with huge development pressures and totally inappropriate zoning that allows 300-foot-tall towers. And it simply strains credulity that much less approve it, without a full accounting of the number and location of air rights in the park, so that we would know how much more additional development from air rights could potentially still come to our neighborhood in the future. In fact, we would strongly argue that if this scheme is approved, a mechanism for ensuring that there will be no further air-rights transfers from Pier 40 into the surrounding neighborhood should be included. The Trust has been particularly resistant to the last possibility, claim-
ing that, though Pier 40 would still have unused air rights after this deal, there would simply be “no place else for them to go” in the Village. If only this were true. The Trust knows full well that there are several underbuilt sites in the northern end of the Village currently without zoning restrictions to prohibit air-rights transfers if authorized. And the claim that the West Village’s contextual zoning restrictions and height limits, which G.V.S.H.P. successfully secured in 2005 and 2010, guarantee that no further air rights can be transferred, is disingenuous, at best. As the Trust well knows, those zoning protections could be undone by the same rezoning process now being considered for the St. John’s site, which is a necessary component of any air-rights transfer. And there are other vulnerabilities, as well. For example, right now, the mayor is proposing an across-the-board weakening of the contextual zoning protections for the West Village and many other parts of the city. Though that particular proposal would be unlikely to allow any substantial transfer of air rights in the Village, it illustrates how even these existing protections are vulnerable to weakening or change, and do not provide immunity from future air-rights incursions. To be clear, something very large and impactful will almost inevitably be built on the St. John’s site, even if the city does not approve a rezoning.
zoning, there would be no funding for Pier 40 and no permanent affordable housing. But it’s a false dichotomy to say that the current proposal or a large “as of right” development with no
of event and retail space could be constructed right now without any public approvals. And without a re-
Berman is executive director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
The proposed 70 percent increase in allowable size of the development, combined with the zoning change to tial and hotel uses, is unnecessarily generous, and should be scaled back to the minimum necessary to fund the desired public amenities. A giant underground big-box store should never be approved, and even the current plan for 200,000 square feet of event and retail space should be pared back and limited to smaller stores with a local rather than regional scope. A full accounting of how many unused development rights would remain in the park for possible future transfer must also be provided, along with real, concrete guarantees that no further transfers could come from Pier 40. And the city must move ahead with long-overdue zoning protections for the nearby South Village. The administration cannot be allowed to continue to accommodate big real estate interests so generously with development-friendly rezonings, while continuing to ignore the needs and concerns of local communities. We have one chance to do this right; let’s not miss the opportunity.
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freely shared his insights with us. Adam Purple was a sort of elder statesman, living by example, showing us that we can live here and anywhere simply, without polluting or overconsumption. Before joining the attacking herd, Villager readers ought to ask themselves how they would
To The Editor: accomplishments and contributions during the last Excellent story on the community’s reaction. As to George Bliss’s comments about Adam Purple’s “visionary ideas” about building housing underground, he fails to note that this was Adam’s idea of a able public housing underneath the Garden of Eden. Plants were more important than people in needing light and air. Bury the people underground! You should have asked the New York City Housing Authority residents about Adam’s visionary proposal.
deeds they are alleged to have committed 50 years earlier?
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Your front-page photo of the Willkie “family” — featuring four uncomfortable-looking girls trying to smile for the camera — is horrifying and heartbreaking with the hindsight of knowing they were all being molested by their father at the time. Not just molest-
Purple rage
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Purple’s emotional wreckage To The Editor:
To The Editor: Re “All Purple’s daughters” (news article, Jan. He is lucky not to have touched my daughter. I would have broken his legs. Aron Kay a.k.a. The Yippie Pie Man
Bucking the ‘attack herd’ To The Editor:
Instead of pursuing corrupt politicians and other criminals who need to be exposed and brought to justice, as a genuine community newspaper should, The Villager has taken a cue from the National Enquirer, choosing twice to go after community gardening activist Adam Purple, presenting graphic allegations of sexual misconduct committed by Adam as David Wilkie 50 years ago — after Adam was dead, when he could not respond or defend himself. What was the point of The Villager doing this? Is assassinating Adam’s character after his death a bigger story for The Villager than going after those persons and groups who are betraying the public trust and destroying our city — or is it just a whole lot easier? The responses to your articles on Adam Purple reveal something very disturbing abut human nature that ought to be addressed, as well. It seems that the more severe an accusation, the more eagerly people will attack the accused. And then they will attack those who do not go along with the program and fail to join them in the attack; those who dare to raise questions or doubts; and those who dare to require a higher standard of proof and a higher assumption of innocence before guilt. Well, I dare to say that I am going to honor the memory of Adam Purple, regardless of the attacking herd. In the almost 30 years that I knew him, Adam was an inspiration to the rest of us as an urban survivalist, living off the land and using what was already here to create wonderful things. Adam Purple was a brilliant and witty guy who
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was to “please men.” This is the patriarchal and misogynist vision of the “visionary” Adam Purple. And he was not alone in his beliefs and actions. During the ’60s, there were many cults in which a patriarch dispensed sexual favors through the women he controlled — much as Adam used his daughters as “spectacle” and “pleasurers” for his orgy gatherings. Purple left a huge amount of emotional wreckage, but never “got it” — he was still proposing threesomes to his adult daughters, well into his garden of the solution or part of the problem.” Those who think this is all made-up or trivial — a small stain on a great man’s reputation — are part of the problem. Fran Luck Luck is producer, “The Joy of Resistance,” a multicultural feminist radio show on WBAI
Holy horse manure, Batman! To The Editor: Holy horse manure, Batman! Well, one would have to be naive beyond naive not to assess that there was a complex picture and past behind the man I knew as Adam Purple. When I was a 16-year-old, Adam allowed me to live on people there when I arrived being Adam and Eve (i.e., Eve I, Diane). They were certainly nice to me. I spent a fair amount of time in their apartment and was treated well. We read and I was fed! I certainly hope that Diane and Nova Dawn succeeded in every way possible and have lived a full life. You were nice and supportive to me when I was but a struggling teen. And now I realize you were probably less then a decade older than me, which means back then you were young too! I had many teens visit me over the years I was there, and I believe both my friends Sorale and Lynne babysat for Nova Dawn on a few occasions
without ever anything but positive experiences. I was never made to use the garden as a lavatory and I likely wore leather sneakers daily, and at no time was Adam ever less than a educator and a protector, given the neighborhood at that time, where I appreciate all of Lincoln Anderson’s efforts and research 100 percent. I cannot speak to Adam’s life from before my time but only of my experiences, and they were positive. There are 8 million stories in the big city and this is certainly a complex one, indeed. Larry Friedman
Shocking part of Purple To The Editor: Re “The dark side of Purple,” “All Purple’s
These three articles have been a real shock to many of us who knew Adam for so many years and had no idea that this was part of who he was. I know that it is uncomfortable for us to have to adjust how we think of him, but our comfort is not what’s important here. These stories of healing and survival are far more important. I am so very grateful to Adam’s daughters for coming forward with this information. And I am ashamed and deeply sorry for the disbelief and negativity that doing so has engendered from some vocal members of my community. Adam’s legacy is forever changed by these revelations, and that’s as it should be. Secrecy and denial are and have always been the tools of predators like Adam Purple. It’s a necessary part of how they are able to get away with this type of extreme violence right under the noses of unsuspecting friends and supporters. This series of articles is one important step in breaking down that silence. Thank you to Lincoln and The Villager for that. I’d also like to amplify something that Adam’s
love and compassion for myself and for all the other children whose spirits were (and are) crushed by ment. This story is NOT uncommon.” Her whole post is wonderful, but this really struck me. Thank you, Jenean. I knew your father for 30 years and had no idea. He’s actually the reason I defend the amazing garden I’d heard about. This is such an important lesson for us all to be aware that, just because we think we know someone and may even have seen him do great things, it violence. And it does not absolve us of the moral obligation to refuse to be complicit in the conspiracy of silence that typically surrounds this type of behavior. Sarah Hogarth
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Embracing us all: Howl! Happening Gallery celebrates creation, community, legacy
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ears back, a good gallery opening provided enough food and drink to carry you over for days. You saw friends, checked out the art, and strolled over to the next place (if you were desperate, you might even carry a doggie bag). These days, you’re lucky to and many of the galleries, regardless of quality, demonstrate a disconnect with their surroundings. Not the case with Howl! — the love child of the late Arturo Vega (1947-2013) and Howl Arts, Inc. board members Jane Friedman, BG Hacker and Bob Perl (no relation to this reporter). “Arturo Vega was our good friend,” said Jane Friedman, who serves as executor of his estate. “He was an amazing artist and supporter of arts and artists in every way possible. Part of his legacy is to counter the cynicism of the art world and champion artistic endeavors. The gallery is PHOTO BY JOHN E. ESPINOSA
East Village Museum that showcases the unique imagination and talent in our community. We have two major archives and also house the Tom Murrin Alien Comic archive.” In addition, the Howl! Happening gallery (6 E. First St., btw. Bowery & Second Ave.) offers poetry readsions and concrete support — in the form of workshops geared toward obtaining health care and affordable housing, both of which are provided by the Actors Fund. “Arturo Vega, American Treasure,”
Victor Bockris and Marcia Resnick signed copies at the Nov. 2015 release party for “Punks, Poets & Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys, 1977–1982.”
Mar. 29, 2015. Subsequent events,
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which change monthly, included installations by Downtown icons Lydia Lunch and Clayton Patterson. “Secrets of the Great Pyramid,” the Sept. event, paid tribute to the great ’80s nightspot and included signature performances from that era. “Insults,” which will display a series of Vega’s paintings imprinted with text fragments, will open on Mar. 5. One of the unique aspects of Howl! Happening is the merging of the old school with younger community members, musicians and artists who
roots, while contributing their own such a natural sense of inclusion. The PUNK Magazine 40th Anniversary Exhibition, which opened on Jan. 14 and closed on Jan. 30, illustrated the sense of belonging one feels at these events. Cartoonist and PUNK founding editor John Holmstrom and collaborators displayed both early art and new work by contributors. Copies
an illustration of Lou Reed on the cover, were available for sale. In a corner of the room, artist Ken Weiner drew his “ugly portraits” (he was one of many magazine contributors in attendance). Also in the crowd were Martin Rev, Tish and Snooky, Lenny Kaye and Anthony HadenGuest, to name a few, and, naturally, Holmstrom, greeting dozens of friends and signing books and zines. Making my way through the
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packed room, I encountered Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers, who are known for their GoNightclubbing Archive of 1975-80. Their Nov. 2015 show, “Alone At Last,” featured an interactive peep show and closed with one of Friedman and Hacker’s famous holiday parties. “Howl! Happening is our artistic playhouse,” said Ivers. “It reminds me of sharing ideas with my friends at CBGB — now, we actually see the outcomes. Our crowd never stopped creating.” Photographer David Godlis, another PUNK contributor, agreed. “It’s like sitting at the end of the bar again; everyone is here.” Alison Aguiar, whose older sister brought her to shows in the late ’70s, was standing nearby. As a young adult, she worked for CBGB and Manic Panic. “In the post-CB years,” she said, “Jane and BG have been the glue that connects us, brings us together, and provides places we can go. They embrace us all.” “Gallery Director Ted Riederer is the facilitator and Jane Friedman is the visionary” is how artist/activist Clayton Patterson put it. “What I admire most about the vision is the people they show — everyone is very connected to the underground and the avant-garde. Some of them were the ones who made things happen, but they were too far ahead of the curve.” In keeping with that vision, Howl! is committed to emerging artists and their supporters. Riederer, at 46, is a generation or two younger than many of the folks with whom he works. He is an artist and a member of The Antagonists, a group committed to mentoring others and to carrying on the work of Arturo Vega. “All of my hard work and dedication is a tribute to Arturo’s spirit,” Riederer told me. “He generously supported neighborhood artists and musicians of all ages and abilities. I’m really lucky to be part of that legacy.” Antagonist co-founder Ethan Medicated” at the gallery last June, agreed. “Howl! Happening is the real deal,” he said. “Their track record not only demonstrates the historical importance of documenting the arts that put the Downtown scene into the forefront, but they keep an eye on the present and future of that same community.” Photographer Marcia Resnick, who also attended the PUNK Anniversary event, has been documenting the Downtown arts and music scene since the 1970s. In Nov. 2015, she
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Cartoonist and PUNK co-creator John Holmstrom, at the 40th Anniversary Exhibition’s opening event.
Clayton Patterson will host the Acker Awards on Mar. 18, at Howl! Happening.
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Sex Pistols cover and original art, displayed at the PUNK 40th Anniversary Exhibition.
Marcia Resnick’s 1981 photo of David Byrne will be part of her gallery show, which opens Feb. 4 at Howl! Happening.
throughout her wildly successful release party for her book, “Punks, Bad Boys, 1977–1982.” Writer Victor Bockris, who contributed most of the text, was by her side. Like the PUNK exhibit, it brought people from far and wide, including photographer John E. Espinosa, one of many who have reluctantly left surviving as an artist. “Marcia is my best friend and heroine,” he wrote. “Even after having to move back to Texas after 22 years, there was no way I would miss her party. When something is true and real it manifests a jolt of electromagnetic energy. Marcia’s photographs burst out from a sincere love of the
scene and its players, and from herself, as a partner in crime.” An upcoming show, opening Feb. 4 and running through Mar. 2, will display her work and is sure to turn into another great party. “I love that Howl! Happening provides a magnetic attraction for those who frequented places like CBGB’s, Max’s and the Mudd Club in the ’70s and ’80s, and also for younger people who admire punk culture,” said Resnick. “Like those Downtown venues of the past, people now have a place where they can share their artistic creations, ideas, and mutual admiration. It was a perfect place for my book launch, and I’m hoping that my photo show attracts an equally enthusiastic audience!” No matter whom I speak with about Howl!, certain keywords come
Legacy. Support. Energy. There is a joyousness and celebration of the artistic endeavor that is palpable, created by the love of both art and humanity. Who needs stale crackers, anyway? Upcoming events include Marcia Resnick’s “Punks, Poets & Boys, 1977–1982” (Feb. 4, 6 p.m.), an Actors Fund Affordable Housing Workshop (Feb. 16, 2 p.m.), Arturo Vega’s “Insults” (Mar. 5, 6 p.m.), and The Acker Awards (Mar. 18, 6 p.m.), in which Clayton Patterson and friends pay tribute to members of the avant-garde arts community. Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is located at 6 E. First St. (btw. Bowery & Second Ave.) Gallery Hours: Wed.–Sun., 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Visit happening.howlarts.org or call 917-475-1294. TheVillager.com
Dr. Burbank’s audacious Iowa autopsy Sifting through the caucus fracas
Here’s how it works, I think, kind the state’s 1,681 Precincts (times 2, 1 for Republicans, 1 for Democrats = 3,362; or 3,363, since one party has an additional Precinct, usually decided by “one potato/two potato”). They gather with the purpose of electing delegates to the corresponding county conventions, one for each of the 99 state counties. Q: Wait…what? A: Hang on, I’m not done. Republican and Democratic Caucuses follow different rules and procedures. While ings of neighbors” (as opposed to the “voting” that goes on in primaries), participants must be registered to the party of the Caucus they attend, but can change registration at the actual Caucus as long as they are in possession of a “ring-a-levio” card or can prove their nickname is “Slapsy.” The Republican Caucus — which should not be confused with the Republican Straw Poll, held in August of the preceding year, an event mostly
notable for being of even less importance than the Caucus, and now they aren’t going to do anymore ’cause word got out it was mostly just a liquor-fueled, corn on the cob eating contest — features lengthy speeches by “Precinct Captains” followed by paper balloting done right out in the open where anyone can see you, Iowa Democrats think the Republican process is way too simple and suspiciously like “voting.” On arrival, Democrat Caucusers are sorted into designated candidate sections, (sometimes called “Voter Pens” or “Idiot Boxes”). There, they are counted. If one candidate fails to get at least 15% of voters, his “Pen” is opened, releasing its Caucusers. Precinct captains are allowed to speechify, cajole, threaten and prod released Caucusers into the remaining “Pens,” with the warning that if they continue to vote for their original candidate they will get a punch in the mouth. CAUCUS continued on p. 22
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to the races — and the results! Good lord, can you believe it? Why, this means… Okay, before we talk about who won what and all that portends, let’s just take a breath, shall we? Stop for a moment and consider something we all know deep down. The entire nation is involved in a conspiracy to mutually pretend that a Caucus is pretty very nearly the same thing as a Primary, a reason why the circular race in “Alice in Wonderland” that goes on for a while and then just stops with no one discernibly in the lead is called “The TheVillager.com
Caucus Race.” It’s because “Caucus” is just another way of saying “Meaningless Political Exercise.” There is no way to even start thinking about the “meaning” of Iowa’s brief quadrennial foray into quasi-relevance until you understand what a “Caucus” is and how it differs from a
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The number of delegates for each Precinct will be assigned based on Democratic turnout in that Precinct from the last two elections. That’s a sentence I cut and pasted directly from the Washington Post. If anyone knows what it means, tell me, and we’ll both be happy. Q: So, do the Iowa Caucuses matter? A: Let me be clear. No. Q: What? Wait, now…but, Max— A: “Dr. Burbank,” please. Look, the Iowa Caucuses are deliberately structured to select a very specific set of voters. You have to be willing to give up a whole evening you could spend with loved ones watching TV like a normal person, drive who knows how far through what kind of hellish Iowan winter weather to some godforsaken school gymnasium/ cafeteria that smells like boiled cabbage and capitulation, listen to teeth grindingly boring sound bites translated by neighbors who understand them even
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Ted Cruz surreptitiously reaches out to Iowa’s gay voters, through a secret coded message sprawled across his campaign bus.
that you are (in ascending order of likelihood) without hobbies, evangelical, white, some sort of fanatic or an outright kook are very, very good. This is not meant as a slight against Iowans, of whom the vast majority are lovely, well-adjusted people who almost certainly don’t Caucus. For the most part, Americans don’t even register to vote. Of those who do register, most of them still don’t vote. good? Of course not — but Caucusing is a much bigger drag. So the results of the Iowa Caucuses tell us pretty much nothing. That being said, let’s move on to feverishly discussing the results of the Iowa Caucuses as if they were really, really exciting…and important. Q: What?! But you just said— A: Oh, what the hell else are we going to do? lyzing and chewing over every word 20-some odd megalomaniacs (and yes, anyone who thinks they should or even could be president is clearly a megalomaniac) have said without any real idea of what actual people might actually want. Now we have a data sample that, while tiny, bizarrely selective and deniably exists. Are you kidding? We’re going to go to town with this! The only reason we are not actually wetting ourselves is we’re saving that for New Hampshire! So! The mind blowing, astounding, game-changing results!
THE REPUBLICANS Trump was leading in the polls right to the end, ish! Iowa Republicans faced a tough choice, a nightyou rather gargle with toxic waste or shove a road kill possum down your pants?” — except Iowans seemed oddly enthusiastic about both possibilities. In the end, Cruz (27.6%) crushed Trump (24.3%) decisively, winning by a whopping 3.3% — or
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roughly, I don’t know, like, 60 Iowans? What this means for Trump’s future is uncertain, but this much some actual government experience. By, you know, about 3.3%. The big news here was always going to be who came in third, ’cause isn’t the bronze medal always right behind Trump, giving his campaign a huge boost in credibility, always assuming you didn’t stop paying attention right after you heard Cruz won. Ben Carson, who came in fourth with 9.3%, may have been hurt by Cruz supporters spreading rumors that he was dropping out of the race after it was revealed he had plane tickets to Florida, not
New Hampshire. Carson’s Communications Director leapt in, releasing a statement that Carson was not dropping out, just getting out of Iowa ahead of a “snow storm” and going home to get “a fresh set of clothes.” I guess Detroit is between Iowa and Florida. He probably has a favorite bathing suit. Jeb! Jeb. Jeb? In sixth place at 2.8%, he called Trump “unstable” and referred to Cruz and Rubio as “backbenchers who have never done anything of consequence in their lives.” Besides, you know, beating the crap out of Jeb! in the Iowa Caucuses. John Kasich, at 1.9%, wanted to remind the voters of New Hampshire that he was the only Republican CAUCUS continued on p. 23 TheVillager.com
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candidate who was an actual human being and not “some kind of reptile, or demon thrall or whatever the hell those other guys are.” Okay, that’s not really something he said, but it is true. Carly Fiorina, also at 1.9%, said she was the most successful CEO in history, and that she had a suitcase full of baby parts she’d bought directly from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, and that she was already Queen of America, so Iowa could suck it. Chris Christie, at 1.8%, wanted everyone to keep in mind that while technically he tied with Huckabee for last place, he wasn’t last place. Huckabee was last place ’cause he dropped out like a little baby quitter. Then he gave Huckabee a wedgie.
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“My male member is this large, it’s one of the largest in fact. You could fit 25 Jeb Bush members into my member, with room left over for Cruz and Rubio. Because my member is yuge. YUGE.”
THE DEMOCRATS Hillary Clinton (49.9%) won, which makes her the winner, and Bernie Sanders (49.6%) didn’t lose by very much at all, which makes him also the winner. Clinton took Sanders to the cleaners by .3%, some unknowable sliver of which she got from six (or possibly more, who knows) Precincts where there were exact ties, so they tossed a coin…unless Sanders won more of them than Clinton — because in Iowa not all precincts even report on coin toss decisions. While this column is peppered with whoppers, that isn’t It was a clear victory largely decided by coin tosses enough to be the real winner, and Martin O’Malley (0.6%) decided a refund on his airline ticket to New Hampshire was the better part of valor.
THE LOSERS As of this writing, Martin O’Malley (0.6%) and Mike Huckabee have thrown in the towel — both forgone conclusions, really. O’Malley, because since Lincoln Chafee dropped out, he’s had no one to sit with at lunch — and Huckabee, because no one in America can say “President Huckabee” without giggling, on account of the visual of a grown man throwing a bee. Huck-a-bee? Seriously? If he’d really ever wanted to be president, he’d have changed his said the race was “wide open” — but they may have TheVillager.com
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“Okay Jimmy Fallon, yes, my parents were immigrants. That doesn’t mean I don’t hate immigrants. A lot of people hate their parents.”
meant it was wide enough to exit through without before we went to press. Google “Santorum Urban Now, on to New Hampshire, “The Granite State” — a place every bit as cold, weird and marginalized as Iowa, but a place where there’s a Primary, so it’s
easier to vote, and more people who care less will show up. And since caring less is what the vast majority of us do, the results will be more representative. Is that enough to convince ourselves that anything before Super Tuesday makes any difference? If you’re still reading, the answer is a resounding, American “YES!” February 4, 2016
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its left-wing stances on issues going back to the Spanish Civil war, and noted that the Maryhouse events draw a diverse crowd. Attendees include students from Catholic Universities like Fordham to retirees gripping canes and walkers when they
olytes” of welcoming speakers and activists who espouse anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-Assad and proP.L.O. propaganda during Friday night lectures at Maryhouse, the red brick Catholic Worker residence on E. Third St. where Day died in 1980. Day is now being considered for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day who writes for the Catholic Worker newspaper, also which is headlined, “Pope Francis and the Uncertain Legacy of Dorothy Day, a disturbing glimpse into the Trouble at the ‘Catholic Worker.’ ” It claims that Hennessy, who shares Day’s philosophy of nonviolence and works of mercy for the downtrodden, allegedly “availed herself of the protection of it to Afghanistan. Hennessy did not respond to a phone call to her Vermont farm requesting comment. Joanne Kennedy, managing editor of the C.W. paper and another target of Mitsotakis’s jibes, acknowledged that Hennessy has photos of herself with armed people in the war-ravaged country. “That’s what happens in Afghanistan. But that doesn’t mean she availed herself” of a weapon, Kennedy said in a telephone conversation. “Under no circumstances would Martha hold a gun.” Kennedy said that the FrontPage article “created a buzz for a moment and people said, ‘Oh, my God, did you see it? Who wrote it?’ But we didn’t respond. We don’t want to feed that kind of energy. What good would come of it?” snarky article was written by Robert Reiss, 63, a longtime attendee of
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Robert Reiss at a Friday night meeting at The Catholic Worker’s Maryhouse on E. Third St.
events at Maryhouse who, she said, is known for objecting to talks on Israel and Palestine. She maintains Reiss is Mitsotakis’s “main source.” Kennedy characterized the FrontPage charges as false or “taken out of context.” For example, she disputed Mitsotakis’s claim that her newspaper’s circulation was declining “vastly” because of its political bent. Instead, she said, the circulation began “growing steadily” after 2006, the year when the paper cut its list of subscribers who did not respond to a query asking them to reply if they still wanted to receive it at an increased annual price of 25 cents “because our printing costs had become quite high.” As a result of the cuts, Kennedy said, the paper reduced its subscribers from a full list of 65,000 to about 20,000 “and we cut our printing costs by a third.” Since then, she said, the paper’s circulation has increased to 26,000.
E. 12th St. man found dead
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oaquin Velez, a longtime resident of 527 E. 12th St., was found dead
apartment last Tues., Jan. 26. Velez, who may have been in his late 50s, worked for UPS, at Spring and Washington Sts., and may have also more recently worked in a restaurant. An East Village plumber told The Villager he had been called to the building 10 days earlier due to an odor that a neighbor living about the apartment smelled. The smell wasn’t coming out the front door, though. People thought it might have been a dead mouse or rat. But the odor grew worse, and someone thought it was gas, and he
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was called again. This time, police entered the apartment, and found Velez dead in bed. “The medical examiner said he had been dead more than four weeks,” said the plumber, who requested anonymity. Julie Bolcer, spokesperson for the said the cause of death was hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Velez lived alone. “He was a quiet man,” the plumber said. “If you put something in your newspaper, then maybe people will know what happened to him.”
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Kennedy, who lives at Maryhouse, dismissed Mistotakis’s charge that residents are vacating its rentfree rooms because of their alleged disgust over the lefty politics of those in charge. “Who would give up free rent in New York, even for political reasons?” she said. She said that Mitsotakis — a 2013 graduate in history from New York University who does not appear to live in the city — did not contact her for an interview and she didn’t meet him at Maryhouse. “But he could have been here,” she conceded. David McReynolds, the famed East speaks frequently at Maryhouse, announced late last November that there could be a FrontPage writer in its midst before the start of a Friday night panel marking the 50th ancards in Union Square to protest the Vietnam War. “Is there a reporter for David Horowitz here?” he inquired sardonically. The 86-year-old McReynolds, a retired national secretary of the War Resisters League, whose last name is misspelled in Mitsotakis’s piece, was clearly angry. “I was furious,” he recalled last week. “The content was unfair and typical of the Horowitz people. They are very far right — and not legitimate as conservatives, like The National Review is. They don’t have those credentials.” McReynolds acknowledged that his anger was stoked by reports that Reiss, who considers himself a Catholic Worker, was the author of the piece. He said that the Catholic Worker movement has frequently been attacked over the years for
Maryhouse volunteers described Reiss, a magician and writer, as a man who projects an “erudite William Buckley” persona and likes to “stir things up” in discussions. Reiss told this reporter that he had penned a history of The Catholic Worker for The Villager and also lectured at St. Joseph’s Catholic Worker residence on E. First St. in 1995. He presented a written note about the FrontPage article following the Maryhouse panel on draft card burning. Reiss later denied that he wrote the article, noting he doesn’t own a computer, but claimed it was largely accurate. After another Maryhouse event, Reiss acknowledged that he had given information on the Catholic Worker movement to Mitsotakis — mainly, he said, on “anti-Semitism” expressed at Maryhouse Friday night gatherings. Reiss subsequently contacted the editor in chief of this newspaper and insisted that his contributions to Mitsotakis’s article amounted to only “one percent,” and that there had been “no stir” at Maryhouse as a result of the article. Meanwhile, other Catholic Workers, past and present, still mistakenly believe that Reiss is the sole author of the FrontPage piece. Bill Antalics, a former resident at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Worker building who now lives on E. Eighth St. and is quoted in the article, said Reiss discussed it with him several months ago. “Robert came to me and was very, very angry about anti-Israel” comments he had heard at Maryhouse, he said. “I told him to be careful and fact check because he would become an outcast. He would lose friends” in the Catholic Worker movement. Antalics said he hadn’t read the piece and didn’t recognize the name of Spyridon Mitsotakis. ed with Mitsotakis in a pre-dawn exchange of e-mails. He declined to answer questions about Reiss’s contributions to his FrontPage article. “I stand by my reporting,” Mitsotakis wrote, adding that he had visited Maryhouse “many times” — and quiring of Hells Angels on E. Third St. on how to get to the building. “It is noteworthy that there are ARTICLE continued on p. 25 TheVillager.com
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many back issues of the Catholic Worker newspaper available for free at Maryhouse and the sentiments I described often come through in the paper,” he noted. Mitsotakis, who did not respond to a request for a photograph of himself, said his interest in the Catholic Worker movement began because of his “fascination” with Bayard Rustin, an African-American leader in the civil rights struggle who advocated for nonviolence, socialism and gay rights. He also noted that Rustin was a “personal hero” of his. Eventually, he said, his interest in Rustin grew lap in membership between the W.R.L. and C.W. so I decided to [see] if the same stuff I found upsetting about W.R.L. was happening in C.W.” Early in his article, Mitsotakis states that the material represents the “winnowing” of a year’s worth of interviews with people at “New York City chapters” in the Catholic Worker movement. He claims without substantiation that donors to the Catholic Worker newspaper are “sending less money” because of articles that “slander American foreign policy.” The piece quotes senior Maryhouse resident Roger O’Neil, an associate editor at the Catholic Worker, stating, “In my day, we took seriously the world on these anti-American junkets.” O’Neil told The Villager that the wording of the quotes “was not something I would say,” but not-
ed he made a similar comment in discussion with Robert Reiss. He characterized Reiss as a “complicated guy, but we need people like him in some ways.” O’Neil said Mitsotakis did not contact him and “nobody has seen him around” Maryhouse. Informed of O’Neil’s statements, Mitsotakis wrote back to this reporter, saying in part, “I have to decline to comment any further. I don’t want this to turn into a witch hunt.” Reiss continues to attend meetings at Maryhouse, according to Joanne Kennedy. What does she say to him these days? “It’s in our Christian spirit to say to him, ‘We’re going to forgive and try to love you,’” she said. Reiss subsequently mailed to The Villager a packet containing a copy of his May 5, 1983, article — a “laudatory article,” he noted — that ran in the paper, “The Living Legacy of Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker.” He also included, among other materials, a 1972 letter from Judith Malina, the late director of The Living Theatre, to a federal judge on behalf of Reiss during his trial for refusing to register for the draft. “Robert Reiss’ refusal to register for war is a meaningful part of a long and culturally important struggle in which we, you and I, and all of us are engaged,” Malina wrote Judge Charles Brient, Jr. Also included in Reiss’s packet was a 1995 letter from Frank Donovan, Day’s “right-hand man and major domo of the [Catholic Worker] operation in N.Y.C.,” Reiss noted, thanking him for having given the group a lecture on Reiss’s grandmother, the Village artist Sarah McPherson, at one of their Fri-
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day night meetings. In one of several letters faxed to The Villager, Reiss said, “It is slander (and libel if published) for certain individuals to assert, as they apparently have to reporter Mary Reinholz, that I am the author [of the Mitsotakis article in question].” all calls go directly to an answering service — he only had one phone conversation with the paper, in addition to his interactions with the reporter at Maryhouse. Reiss wanted to set up a face-to-face meeting with the paper’s editor in chief, who left him a message, asking if he could speak on the phone at a mutually convenient time. Reiss did not return the call. Reiss added that Mitsotakis worked on the article for a year. “The Catholic Worker representatives, rather than engaging openly with the issues raised by Mr. Spyridon Mitsotakis, have embarked upon a McCarthy-like ‘witch hunt’ to identify as many sources within the C.W. community,” Reiss wrote. “Myself, I am a source for 1 percent of the author’s investigative piece, and one unattributed quotation.” Reiss added that he feels a part of the Maryhouse group and is annually invited to their private Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers. “There was no stir” over the article, he repeatedly stressed.
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‘The Empress’ of Overthrow reigns as WBC champ
Declared the winner, Alicia Napoleon proudly wears the WBC championship belt.
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umber 9 Bleecker is back in full swing, albeit minus Dana Beal and the Yippies. However, Joey Goodwin, the place’s new proprietor, gets regular visits from Beal and Aron Kay (The Yippie Pie Man) when he is out of the hospital, and drop-ins by Alice Torbush when she is in town. The Yippies used to publish Overthrow newspaper out of No. 9, and Joey kept the name alive, by calling his new gym Overthrow boxing. And the place is jumping. The boxing classes keep many patrons in shape. Among those one can run into working out at the gym are Sean Avery, the former “Fighting Ranger” hockey player, the F.D.N.Y. boxing club and the star of the place,
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Alicia “The Empress” Napoleon, right, lands a right against Szilvia Szabados in their title bout last week.
Alicia “The Empress” Napoleon. Elegant and beautiful, The Empress is the head trainer and general manager at Overthrow boxing club. A hard worker and multitalented — she also sings — she has won four Golden Gloves titles, including the National Golden Gloves and, best of all, she is now a world champion.
Friday night in Queens, at the Five Star Banquet hall, she beat the Hungarian champion Szilvia Szabados, winning the coveted and prestigious WBC championship belt in the 154-pound class, the super-welterweight title. outside the ring, but a raging tor-
the 10-round bout by unanimous decision, and New York City now has another champion to celebrate. She is now 5-0 in her professional career. Overthrow boxing has been getting a lot of public attention. Soon there may be a reality TV show, judging by the interest buzzing around, with the presence of MTV and Bravo types asking a lot of questions.
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young men can rely upon. Last week, on Thurs., Jan. 28, the Bears hosted a game against Thomas Jefferson High School. Jefferson is rated the No. 1 team in the city this season. Since it was Regents week, there were no scheduled games, so Assistant Coach Ed Lau dialed up an old friend, Lawrence Pollard, head coach for PSAL AA Division Jefferson High School. Jefferson is led by Shamare Ponds, a 6-foot-1 guard who was one of Chris Mullins’s top recruits this year. He will be attending St. John’s next year and
was rated one of the top 40 high school players in the country. Also on Jefferson, Rasheem Dunn, a 6-foot-3 standout player, is headed to St. Francis, another Division 1 school, right here in Downtown Brooklyn. The gym was packed even during Regents week, which was unexpected. Seward Park’s D’Andre McLamb had a good game against Ponds, with 14 points. Xavier Jennings led Seward Park with 19 points, Drew Billingsley scored 15, and junior center Dean LaBoy had 10 points. For Jefferson, Ponds netted 16 points
and Dunn had 11. Seward lost, 81-71, but losing to the No. 1 team in the city by just 10 was quite an accomplishment. The St. Francis coach was at the game. Wagner, Monroe and St. Francis are all looking at McLamb. Cloud County Junior College in Kansas and Howard College in Texas — another two-year college — are both looking at X. Adelphi and New York Institute of Technology are looking at LaBoy. Playoffs are in about two weeks. Will keep you all posted. February 4, 2016
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