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November 24 - 30, 2011
Square’s alivewith sound ofmusic, p. 23
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Fortified by a coalition of religiousleaders and veterans of the civil rightsmovement, Occupy Wall Street is con-tinuing to fight to pitch its tents ina privately owned lot belonging toTrinity Real Estate at Canal St. andSixth Ave.Following the surprise, early-morn-ing eviction by police of the O.W.S.tent city from Zuccotti Park in the earlymorning of Tues., Nov. 15, the occupi-ers and their supporters regroupedat Duarte Square later that morningand attempted to occupy the adjacent,fenced-in Trinity space. Police quicklymoved in and made about 20 arrests,including of two journalists with PoliceDepartment-issued press credentials.Not to be deterred, O.W.S. demon-strators were back at Duarte Squarefive days later this past Sunday eve-ning, holding a candlelight vigil dur-ing which they appealed to Trinity tolet them use the space for their new“home.” The Trinity space is ideal forthem, they say, and they badly want it.“We have a long-term strategy totake this space,” an O.W.S. memberannounced to the group. “We want thatspace. We’re gonna take that space.This
is
the future home of the occupa-tion — or one of them.“Does everyone know that thisspace is owned by Trinity Real Estateand Trinity Church — the largest land-owner in New York City?” he asked.On Nov. 15, O.W.S. members hadused a bolt cutter to clip a human-sizedhole in the lot’s chain-link fence. Theysucceeded in planting in the ground afew yellow structures with “Occupy”and “Liberate” written on them beforepolice cleared the property.“We’re strong enough and militantenough to take that space,” the speakersaid, referring to that short-lived occu-pation. “We can cut the locks.”This time, though, he said, they’re
Occupy is still preoccupiedwith Trinity lot for its ‘home’
Photo by Q. Sakamaki
Police and protesters clash
An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator was arrested during the “Day of Action” last Thursday on Broadway nearTrinity Church. For more photos, see Page 4.
Continued on page 14
BY NADIA RENIDRAG
Thursday’s day of actionby Occupy Wall Street sawplenty of action at GreenwichVillage’s The New School,where some students walkedout of classes and an on-campus occupation alsobegan.Things started off inmidafternoon when 50 stu-dents gathered in the VeraList courtyard between TheNew School’s 11th and 12thSt. buildings. They chanted“Walk out!” very loudly.People who had classesadjacent to the courtyardcame to the windows to seewhat was happening. Someclosed their blinds. Onlyabout five actually joinedthe walkout. Apparently,many classes had alreadybeen cancelled because pro-fessors knew their studentswanted to join the protest.Presumably a good numberof students were already atUnion Square.One student played abongo drum, leading the
New School students occupy study center in 14th St. building
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Community Board 2 lastweek passed a nearly unani-mous resolution in supportof Rudin Management’s cur-rent design for a trianglepark across from the formerSt. Vincent’s Hospital cam-pus.However, a friendlyamendment to the Nov. 17resolution left the door opento a possible redesign of thepark to include the under-ground space beneath partof the triangle for a com-munity teaching space andan AIDS memorial.The design by MPFP,Rudin’s landscape archi-tects, is based on eliminat-ing the underground space,demolishing an existingmaterials-handling buildingthat served the former hos-pital, and building a park atsidewalk level on the westside of Seventh Ave.But more than 50 people,including members of the
Board 2 backs park plan; Gay activists still want basement
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Taking it to the streets
During last Thursday’s march by students and union members from Foley Square toUnion Square, a woman from a family of police officers held a sign explaining whyshe supported the Occupy Wall Street movement, above. A woman was distraught,below, after being arrested for briefly stepping off the sidewalk into the street.
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GLADLY GIVES ‘GAY RAGE’:
Activist
John Penley
hasbeen busy organizing events for Occupy Wall Street, from the
Joan Baez
concert down at Foley Square on Veterans Day tothe raucous drum circle up near Mayor
Bloomberg
’s houseon Sunday. But in a flashback to his earlier career as a newsphotographer, Penley said he recently got a call from peoplemaking a new movie on
Ed Koch
, asking for permission touse his photo of the former mayor striding through a sea of angry Act Up protesters. The photo ran on the New YorkPost’s front page under the headline “Gay Rage,” and is oneof Penley’s all-time favorite shots, so he was more than happyto let them use it. Other than confirming that there is indeeda film, Koch revealed few details. “Yes, there is a movie, to beshown in January-February,” Hizzoner told us, adding, “I willdiscuss it at that time.” The big question is will Koch reviewthis one, and will he give it a plus or a minus?
GAY RAGE MINUS THE ‘Y’ EQUALS — ‘GARAGE’:
East Village blog EV Grieve recently had an update on thesuspected garage at the Economakis “mass-eviction” man-sion at 47 E. Third St. We ourselves had received a tipearlier this year from a former tenant of the building whotold us a highly coveted curb cut had been approved for thesidewalk in front; the former tenant — who, like the otherholdouts, eventually took a buyout to leave — noted it’svery difficult to get approval for a curb cut, yet somehowthe Economakises managed to wrangle one. Every timewe pass down the block, we’ve been checking to see if thecurb cut has been installed, but it still isn’t there. Anyway,some months ago, we called
Alistair Economakis
to ask himabout the purported curb cut and garage that people havebeen alleging he’s putting in. He said he couldn’t really talkabout it. So, we tried e-mailing him instead, and he sent backthe following response: “[
Scoopy
], Thank you for your e-mailand for reaching out, I hope all is well. Regarding the ques-tions from my neighbors, I have to say that I enjoy meetingmy neighbors and speaking to them in person. In fact, I havedone so on many an occasion. If my neighbors have questionsthey are always free to introduce themselves and I would behappy to speak with them in person. However, at this point intime, I would prefer to move beyond discussing my home inthe media. Sincerely, Alistair.” So maybe — who knows? — if someone just goes up to him and asks him if he’s putting inthe garage, all this confusion will finally be answered. We sawAlistair on the sidewalk a few weeks ago, talking to a man ina business suit. However, before we could go over and askabout the garage, they both ducked inside the basement-levelspace on the other side of the stoop. It basically looked likeEconomakis was showing the space to a potential tenant. Thissummer a meditation poster was pasted on the plywood fencecovering the alleged garage, and someone had written “HareKrsna” under the Economakises’ mailbox, which is also onthis plywood fence. So, at that point, we were wondering if the “garage” was in fact a new Hare Krishna temple — ormaybe just a ginormous mailbox.
D.G.’S WORD TO Q.H.A.:
Assemblymember
DeborahGlick
tells us that leaders of the Queer History Alliancerecently met with her to talk about getting access tothe basement under the open-space triangle where RudinManagement plans to build a park for the community, at12th St. and Seventh Ave. Glick said she instead proposeda new idea to Q.H.A.: that they try to use empty space inthe former St. Vincent’s O’Toole Building for their plannedlearning center on the AIDS crisis and its heroes, likeSt. Vincent’s Hospital. An AIDS memorial could still belocated in the new community park, Glick said, but “with anentrance across from the park, the learning center would bevisible.” On the other hand, she said, “Underground space isperhaps a little reminiscent of a burial.”
ONE-WOMAN WOW!
We caught an amazing perfor-mance by
Heather Harpham
in “Happiness” at Theatre 80St. Mark’s on Friday evening. Her autobiographical pieceabout caring for a daughter with bone cancer was part of the “All for One” theater festival there, a weeklong series of one-person shows that wrapped up last weekend. A formerEast Villager, Harpham used to live at Fifth St. and AvenueA. The performance continued afterward, as Theatre 80impresario
Lorcan Otway
jauntily played first his Irish fluteand then drum while dispensing the Tallisker whiskey andabsinthe — the latter which apparently won’t actually rotyour brain and drive you crazy. (That was reportedly just themisleading hype by the French wine lobby back in the daysof Rimbaud and “Le Bateau Ivre.”)
SCOOPY’S
NOTEBOOK
Photos by Scoopy
Meditating on garage mystery.A worker at the Economakis mansion gave a wary look as a photograph was taken of the garage, or whatever itis, this summer.
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