The Bottom Line
Performing at a Bottom Line benefit last Friday night were, from left, John Hiatt, Suzanne Vega and Dar Williams.
Folkies jam for Bottom Line in famous club’s swan song
By Lincoln Anderson
They were three onstage. Each with a guitar. There was John Hiatt, a grizzled veteran singer and songwriter; Suzanne Vega, probably the biggest star to emerge from the 1980s fast-folk movement; and Dar Williams, a relatively newer star in the folk firmament. They took turns singing their songs, telling stories and anecdotes, bantering with each other, joking with the audience, creating that special atmosphere as only folk music can do. It was a night of folk music in the best tradition.
Rep. Kucinich gets ovations at the Center
By Ed Gold
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, the very longshot Democratic candidate for president, received a rousing reception Sunday in Greenwich Village, appearing at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center on W. 13th St.
L.G.B.T. Center and critics will meet on noise
By Albert Amateau
Residential neighbors of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on W. 13th St. have been complaining for the past two years about noisy crowds from the Center disrupting neighborhood.
Kathryn Freed becomes a judge
Former City Councilmember Kathryn Freed was formally sworn in as a Civil Court Judge for the Second Municipal Court District on Monday afternoon at 111 Centre St. In photo at right, Democratic District Leader Adam Silvera, a friend and an attorney with Weitz, Klenick & Weitz, LLP, chaired the program, while Judge Fern Fisher, .
New School’s Kerrey is appointed member of the 9/11 Commission
Bob Kerrey, New School University president and former U.S. senator from Nebraska, has just been named to the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, replacing another former senator, Max Cleland of Georgia.
Hudson Sq. BID seeks more property owners’ support
The steering committee of the Hudson Sq. Business Improvement District has not yet convinced the required 51 percent of the property owners in the mixed industrial and residential district between Morton and Canal Sts. from West St. to Varick St. to take part in the proposed BID.
Children’s Aid Society is still needed in Village
By Sascha Brodsky
Most people don’t consider Greenwich Village a poor area. But as the Village has gentrified and multi-million dollar apartments proliferate, the Children’s Aid Society continues to make it a home as it has for the past 150 years.
Assembly hearing about complaints Hudson Park Trust excludes public
By Albert Amateau
West Side Assemblymembers have asked an Assembly committee to hear their complaints that the Hudson River Park Trust has been excluding the public from participating in important decisions on the 4.5-mile Hudson River Park between Chambers and 59th Sts.
Washington Sq. Park renovation proves slow 
going
By Lincoln Anderson
Two years ago, community interest was generated around renovating Washington Sq. Park. There was a well-attended Community Board 2-sponsored meeting at which designer George Vellonakis presented a preliminary redesign for the landmark park, and there was talk of creating a fundraising group to pay for the work and the park’s maintenance. At the meeting, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe explained how parks conservancies and friends of parks groups operate.
New 10th commander focuses on clubs and violence
By Albert Amateau
Captain Dennis De Quatro, appointed commanding officer of the 10th Precinct on Sept. 24, has his work cut out for him. Crime statistics in the precinct rose 49.4 percent over the past year, counter to the continuing downward trend citywide.
Nadler angered by Maloney World Trade Center bill
By Josh Rogers
A proposed bill by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney about the World Trade Center memorial has angered Downtown leaders and reignited, her rivalry with U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler who accused his fellow Democrat of “invading my district.”
Affordable housing group can no longer afford rent
By Dan Fiedler
At first sight, the red and white “Space For Rent” sign at 525 E. Sixth St. seems innocuous. For the current tenants of the building, however, its significance is mired in the harsh reality of a market-driven economy that has pushed local real estate prices to unheard-of rates. Since 1987, the building has been home to Good Old Lower East Side, a neighborhood housing and preservation organization dedicated to homelessness prevention and community revitalization. For GOLES, whose landlord is currently intent on doubling the space’s rent, the sign is something of a canary in a coal mine, signaling the death of affordable housing on the Lower East Side.
Council subcommittee approves full Market District
By Albert Amateau
To the relief and joy of Village preservationists, the City Council Landmarks Subcommittee voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend approval of the Gansevoort Market Historic District.
Safety barriers installed in N.Y.U. library atrium
By Jessica Mintz
Following the tragic deaths of two students who leapt from the upper balconies of New York University’s Bobst Library in September and October, the school has installed clear, tall barriers along the passages that line the building’s open center atrium, much to the relief of some members of the university community — and to the disappointment of others.
New club is a nightmare for Bleecker St. neighbors
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Its name is Nocturne, and some neighbors of the hot new club at 144 Bleecker St. say the club’s pumping bass is forcing them to become nocturnal.
Since the club opened in October, nearby residents have complained about loud patrons entering and exiting the club, streets clogged with taxis honking their horns and dish-rattling vibrations for those residents who live above the club or in apartments in the abutting building at 184 Thompson St.
Effort to return Soho street sculptures continues
By Lincoln Anderson
Although the Parks Department probably wishes the issue would just go away, Soho art activists and Community Board 2 are not giving up their effort to restore Bob Bolles’ scrap-metal sculptures to a small triangle park by the Holland Tunnel.
The issue, a potentially precedent-setting case involving public art, was on the agenda at Board 2’s Parks Committee meeting on Thursday night.
Love transforms a tax evader
By JERRY TALLMER
Josh Kornbluth is back in town, and he’s traded in his red diaper for a Form 1040.
That is to say, the stimulating autobiomonologist of “Red Diaper Baby” (about his Communist parental roots) and “Haiku Tunnel” (about youthful durance vile at a law firm) and “Ben Franklin Unplugged” (well, he looks like Benjamin Franklin) is now among us with “Love & Taxes,” a saga that embraces both a girl named Sara and a 1990s tax bill that expanded exponentially like Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Koch on Film
“In America” ( + )
This is a truly beautiful movie with a shimmering script — poignant, sad, joyous and most of all full of love. I believe it is based on the experiences of its director and scriptwriter, Jim Sheridan.
The Triplets of Belleville” ( - )
I haven’t seen a cartoon in a theater since the industry stopped showing them as an added attraction before a feature film and began presenting them as the featured attraction. Because of the improved technology in the industry, especially by the Japanese, and the rave reviews that this film received in all the papers, I decided to see it.
Comedians becoming ever more political
By Timothy Lavin
When Stephen Goldstein performed his satiric cabaret recently at the Museum of the American Piano, at 291 Broadway in Tribeca, he delivered something rare in the world of modern comedy acts: an incisive, topical, musically adroit routine that remained, for a performance titled “Screw You,” mercifully free of profanity. He also delivered something else, rather less mercifully: an overt political agenda.
Local teenagers host Mexican photographers
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
There is a picture of a young Mexican girl with long, black braided hair draping dozens of colorfully woven bracelets over her arm for display and gazing toward the ground. Another photo reveals dogs in bright sweaters frolicking at the Tomkins Square dog run, their bundled owners watching them from the nearby benches.
Leaving home examined at Rattlestick
By Davida Singer
Lucy Thurber describes her play, “Where We’re Born”, now at the Rattlestick Theatre, as a tale of “what it means to leave home, and what it means to stay.”
“It’s so American to leave,” she says, “but we don’t often think about who and what we leave behind. In order to leave home, you do have to destroy it. It’s not about purposeful destruction, but about growing up and realizing the world around you is too small. Growing up in a poor, rural culture, when all you have is love and loyalty, not externals, what does it mean for people you’re leaving and for you? It has to be a betrayal in some way because you’re changing loyalties.”
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