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Editorial
Thanks Tony, for all your work over the years
Greenwich Village, all of Downtown and New York City lost a larger-than-life figure this week with the passing of Anthony Dapolito.
Dapolito, 82, who died Wednesday, was known as “The Mayor of Greenwich Village.”
Letters to the editor
Second thoughts
By RICHMOND JONES
Editorial cartoon
By IRA BLUTREICH
Reporter’s notebook
Talking with the mayor
By Jane Flanagan
This article was written three years ago on the occasion of Tony Dapolito’s 80th birthday.
A tall, tanned, young woman with shoulder-length brown hair and a halter-top stepped up to the counter to request a loaf of bread. Proprietor Tony Dapolito, 79, an appreciator of feminine beauty, turned to a friend and said of his occupation, “It’s tough.”
Notebook
Friend, parks lover, peacemaker: Remembering Tony
By Ed Gold
We had been friends for more than 30 years and he had had a serious stroke so I went to see Tony Dapolito at the Village Nursing Home rehab center. I ran into a lot of excitement with doctors and nurses running in and out of his room. His wife and best friend, Frances, saw me and said, with anxiety and affection: “Tony’s been a bad boy.”
Eating (or maybe not) in England
By Andrei Codrescu
English food is the primitive ancestor of American diner food circa 1950. In the pubs and the average eateries, they consume instant mashed potatoes topped by sickly white sausages made from things like pig hooves and leeks. Sometimes they add peas and horribly tortured broiled tomatoes that must pass for healthy greens.
A mini-primer on the circus life
By Jenny Klion
Regardless of this crazy weather, summer is circus time. And as a two-time circus alumna myself — with no past big-top history in my family that I’m aware of — I feel it is my duty to send a note to all concerned parents regarding some of the ins and outs of backstage circus life, just in case your child should get the inkling to run away and join one (and I’m not talking “Cirque du Soleil” here).
News in brief
Police blotter
9/11 benefits claim date extended
City set to resume plastic recycling
Federal funds for 2nd Ave. Subway
Picture story
Lions and tugs and flares,
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Felix Millan Juniors best G.V., 6-3
By Peter Gale
The Felix Millan Juniors Division Tournament team won by a 6-3 score over their Greenwich Village counterparts on Wednesday evening, July 2, at East River Park. The loss dropped the Village Juniors out of the tournament, while Millan, from the Lower East Side, will continue.
Inwood no-hitter knocks out Majors
By Peter Gale
Anthony Gaton of the Inwood Little League pitched a no-hitter against the Greenwich Village 11-and-12-year-old Majors division team on Monday evening, July 7, in East Harlem. The 10-0 shutout suffered by the Greenwich Village team dashed the players’ hopes of winning a district championship. It was an abrupt turnaround for the Village team, which had a no-hitter against the Downtown League on June 27.
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Villager photo by Lawrence White
Tony Dapolito in the doorway of his Vesuvio Bakery on Prince St., shortly before Sept. 11, 2001.
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Anthony Dapolito, the ‘Mayor of Greenwich Village,’ dies at 82
By Albert Amateau
Anthony Dapolito, a Villager born and bred and a Soho baker who served on Community Board 2 for 50 years, fostered the establishment of Village parks and fought against threats to his beloved neighborhood, died on Wed. July. 2, the day before his 83rd birthday.
Judge says Park Row closings were ‘heavy-handed’
By Josh Rogers
A state judge said the city appears to have closed down more streets than necessary to secure the area around Police Headquarters and has taken “a very, very heavy-handed approach” with people living nearby. The judge however also said he doesn’t think there is much he can do about it under the law.
 $1 million is allocated for Demo Sq.
By Lincoln Anderson
Things are looking up for Father Demo Sq., a key crossroads of Greenwich Village, after the recent passage of the city’s budget, which contains an allocation of close to $1 million for the square’s renovation.
City keeps an eye on rehabbed E. Houston building
By Lincoln Anderson
A formerly city-owned building at the corner of E. Houston and Orchard Sts. whose tenants were abruptly evacuated several years ago during a heavy rain is almost ready to be reoccupied, and the city says it is watching closely to make sure that the displaced tenants will get their apartments back.
City pays damages to two Soho street art vendors
By Elizabeth O’Brien
The city has compensated two Soho art vendors for property destroyed in an April 2002 police raid that inflamed tensions between the city and the sidewalk vendor community.
Two false terror alarms disrupt Downtown transit
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Last Wednesday, two unrelated terror scares that disrupted subway service and briefly closed the Brooklyn Bridge forced Lower Manhattan residents and workers to contend with missed appointments, delayed commutes and for many, an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Friends call Pier 40 delay ‘legally flawed’
By Lincoln Anderson
The Friends of Hudson River Park have sent a forcefully argued letter to the Hudson River Park Trust’s top officials, criticizing the Trust’s failure to pick a developer for Pier 40, calling the decision “legally flawed” and a possible violation of both the park’s legislation and the state’s Open Meetings Law.
New boys’ school on St. Mark’s Pl.
By Jane Flanagan
A unique school for boys is coming to the East Village.
The George Jackson Academy for grades four through eight, will open its doors in September on St. Mark’s Pl. The school is for boys from around the city from low-income backgrounds who show academic promise. It will be housed in the former Notre Dame School for Girls, which moved into the St. Bernard’s school building on W. 13th St.
Despite reports, Joyce Theater won’t miss a step
By Doris Diether
Despite the prediction in the Daily News last month that the Joyce Theater would be closing for 11 weeks over the next year due to the cancellation of Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech performances, The Villager has been assured the Joyce will not be closing.
Like her protagonist, director tries new role
By Davida Singer
Last Tuesday’s opening of a new comedy, “Out From Under It” at the Vital Theatre on W. 42nd St., also just happened to be playwright Susan Bernfield’s birthday. Bernfield, 39, is really a Downtown girl, residing on Hudson St., with her husband and two children since 1992. That’s the same year she formed New Georges, the now prominent company dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
Bonhoeffer (+) This is a very impressive documentary about a brilliant young German, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who became a Protestant minister and a mover and shaker among the clergy. 28 Days Later (-) When I called HS to suggest that we see this film, he was not happy. He doesn’t like scary films and had read The New York Times review which opened with “ ‘When 28 Days Later’ is not scaring you silly, it invites you to reflect seriously on the fragility of modern civilization…” I pushed the reference to the deeper, philosophical aspect of the film and he agreed to see it.
‘Romeo and Juliet,’ with a Latino quarterback
By Jerry Tallmer
This story has so many handles. Let us pick one. Well, two. Kirk Wood Bromley, playwright, actor and poet, the “Downtown Shakespeare,” grew up in Arizona. Aaron Beall, actor, director, playwright, producer, was obsessed by football as a kid. Still is.
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