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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933

May 25, 2017 • $1.00 Volume 87 • Number 21

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Pier55 stayin’ alive? Army Corps appeals; Trust tweaks its plan BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

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t may still be too early to call Pier55 — the “arts fantasy island” that would be funded by Barry Diller — “the Atlantis of the Hudson River Park.” In short, the project isn’t sunk — at least not yet, its supporters say. On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

filed an appeal of federal Judge Lorna Schofield’s stunning March ruling, in which she said the Corps had erred in issuing a critical permit for the project, since the “basic use” of Pier55 would not, in her view, be “water dependent.” Schofield rescinded the permit, leaving the project “dead PIER continued on p. 19

Woman killed by truck was longtime 8th St. resident, financial wiz BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

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he 60-year-old woman fatally struck by a private garbage truck on Tues., May 16, at Eighth St. and Sixth Ave., was an Ivy League-educated financial adviser and broker and a founding member of the W. Eighth St. Block Association.

As of last week’s Villager deadline, police had not yet released the victim’s name pending family notification. Fern B. Jones lived at Nine W. Eighth St., near Fifth Ave. — a little less than a block away from where she was horrifically crushed by the carting

PHOTO BY MILO HESS

With 10,000 high-stepping hoofers, Saturday’s 11th annual Dance Parade & Festival hula-hooped, tangoed, waltzed and sambaed its way from W. 21st St. to Tompkins Square Park, where there was a post-parade festival with free dance lessons.

Veteran feminists to thump Trumpism at Judson reunion

JONES continued on p. 7

BY MARY REINHOLZ

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adical feminist Susan Brownmiller has plenty of room at the top in her West Village penthouse near the Meatpacking District. Outside on the terrace is her urban oasis of carefully cultivated plants, trees and flowers, the subject of her latest book, “My City Highrise Garden” (Rutgers University Press). To a casual observer,

she appears to lead an idyllic existence in Downtown Manhattan. But Brownmiller, a self-described “82-year-old celibate heterosexual,” isn’t always at peace in her spacious 20thfloor apartment on Jane St. (now shared with a roommate). The rent-stabilized penthouse pad was triple the rent of the one-bedroom apartment she previously had lived in, also on Jane St. But

she was able to make the move several years after the 1975 success of her groundbreaking treatise on rape, “Against Our Will.” That book established her as a prominent voice in the women’s liberation movement, even while some leftwing feminists denounced her for becoming a star name in a collective effort to achieve gender equality. FEMINISTS continued on p. 23

Scoopy unravels Ottomanelli ‘noose incident’ ...p. 2 Editorial: ‘Citizen Jane’ is a doc for the ages ...p. 8 Students’ tables teach us........p. 6

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