Ave. A, Slow Down, Tin Men, Eat Me on St. Marks Place

You have to look closely and or click on the image but yes that is the Tin Men in the middle there. What part of the anatomy was he missing...?

Thurman Munson

Yo, everyone following my blog know I love Thurman Munson!!!!!!!!!!!
He played with so much heart!!!!!!!

""He was absolutely my favorite teammate," pitcher Goose Gossage has said about Munson. "I had some great, great, great teammates. But he was the best."

p.s.  Love the mustaches from that era, just the best.    The photos of firemen from the early 1900's have dudes with amazing mustaches.   I think the Yankees, FDNY and NYPD dudes show all go for that look. 

Rays

AM NY has a piece in their Friday-weekend edition "Chains wrap around NYC" Is city's character being lost?"

Yes, the city is losing it's character and characters too.

Shop at Mom and Pop stores!

Jay, Tompkins Square Park

Jay really helped out Karl one day out on the street when he was clearly in need. Today he is excited about the music tomorrow and Sunday remembering the riots and he will be there helping out if he can.

Have camera will trespass, The New York Times City Room

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/have-camera-will-trespass-on-brooklyns-waterfront/

Makes me think of a conversation I had with Clayton Patterson and how important cameras and video are and cel phone cameras, any kinds are part of people documenting history, happenings, stories....

The NY Daily News "Remembering 9/11/76" letter by Christoper Murphy

The letter includes a photo of the young NYPD officer that was murdered in the a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 1976 by Croatian terrorist at Grand Central.

It is an excellent letter in The NY Daily News  and The NY Daily News has done a very good job bringing attention to the fact the federal parole board let this guy go home and the parole board would not even give  the widow of the Brain Murphy, NYPD police officer the time of day to hear from her while the murderer is at home with his wife now.   

Sept. 11 was the 2nd terrorist attack at the WTC site but at Christoper Murphy points out the federal parole board let a terrorist return home, a terrorist responsible for the death of an NYPD officer who died in the line of duty, Sept. 11, 1976.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/07/croatian-group-planted-bomb-in-grand.html

Fire Brooklyn front to back photos and confessions from yet another "I am not your stalker" and other tid bits

Fire!!!!!! Big turn out, a lot of really nice guys because I did say hi to a few and ask some questions. No one was hurt thankfully.


Yo, I kid you not, I was going to visit a friend to get photos from the back and there is "////// ???????", assoc. editor from what newspaper (?) who clearly  reads my blog  quite often because the first thing he said is "I am not your stalker."   He was visiting his friend, not here to catch a fire, stalk, etc.    I just turned on my heels to make as much distance as possible and went to take some photos from the front of the fire so I could be around big handsome guys that I feel safe with.


The new catch phrase when people see me is "I am not your stalker" and of course you are not. You are not making judgements on my life style like some Nazi and telling me I am not from the neighborhood where my family history includes  living in tenement houses in the early 1900's and being so poor they were having babies there at home.  (How ironic now rich and middle class people stay at home to have babies.) And believe me,  before my family who were immigrants were here I am smart enough to know there was a long history starting with the American Indians.  

More sad news, some many terrible stories of people losing their housing that are not just tenant landlord issues here in NYC. And there are some good landlords that bend over backward for their tenants from what I have heard and it isn't easy because cost go up.

I am longing for a new small home with green as in greenery, grass to walk bare foot on. I wouldn't want a big house because who could afford it and you would need help trying to clean it all. I just want some peace, quiet and greenery.

That being said I love NYC. The good people just like everything in NYC are extremely good and they come from every economic strata and every background or combination there of!

The FDNY are the best.   I saw Rescue 2 rolling up the street and I am told the Rescue units are like the Harvard of the FDNY...and NYC firemen are the most handsome....just some broad generalizations and humor through the fire and smoke here in NYC.

Robin William's greenhouse Harlem dream house

ABC news local with Lauren Glassberg who I adore.

The house is a dream house.

www.70nline.com

10 dollars to tour this weekend and the money will go to planting trees in Harlem.

ABC news is showing video footage of rapist in Queens.

I don't know if I will have time to get to ABC News website.  Maybe the newspapers will have a link that I can post but please if you can help catch this rapist.   The more videos of rapists and color photos can be posted in windows all around the neighborhood the better.

Keyanna's murder walks

I was not there.  My thoughts were published in the New York Daily News on behalf of Keyanna Jones based on an article I read in The New York Daily News and in the article it was stated she urged peace so I don't understand what she did to deserve being stabbed in the hurt -- to be murdered.

My heart goes out to her family and friends.   It was heartbreaking to listen to her Grandfather speak and he seemed in shock.  ABC showed beautiful photos of Keyanna and again I just feel chills in my body.  This is very disturbing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/06/29/2008-06-29_voice_of_the_people_for_june_30_2008.html

I did not witness what happened but a young girl was stabbed once in the heart and it seems the man's intent was to kill her.

I don't understand why her murderer is allowed to walk.  I understand he felt he was being attacked by a group of teenagers and he claims plunging a knife in Keyanna was self defense.

What was her weapon?  She did not have one.

Again I was not there but I just wonder who is working at the District Attorney's office that presented the case to the grand jury.

lunch conversation about construction accidents, getting women from all over the world, life imitates art?

As much as I stand out, like all people I am also a series of contradictions and one is that I am also invisible more than I would like  sometimes.    I make a reference to being invisible and people talking in front of me as if I don't exist in a fictional short story I wrote called "Chopping the Street" which is about white collar crime.

I was having lunch and a small group of business people where chatting loud enough for me to hear "Bloomberg", "construction accidents" where just that, they happen, (he may have also blamed supervisors) something to that affect --- which anyone who knows me or follows this blog knows I feel we had way too many accidents because this was a tsunami  --- it was way too fast to be safe and there are many other reasons it was and isn't safe which I am not going to discuss+ and than the loquacious man talked of a man he admired -- I didn't know the name.   I can't remember the name but he admired this guy because he could get any woman he wanted,  "South American", "Asian", "Russian", you get my point...

In "Chopping the Street..." I talk about the "white collars"    ....as they "white collars"  had
their quieter, or not so quiet parties with "servants of all kinds".

I ate as quickly as possible and left.    Does life imitate art?   There was something about that conversation that "felt" criminal to me.

It was so horrible.   I wished I had my head phones.

+ There are so many reasons why these site were not safe and still are not.   I am not anti-construction.  I have stood up for the construction workers pointing out at City Council Task Force  Meeting on DOB which Christine Quinn was too busy to attend, Dec. 2006, that too many constructions workers were dying.   There is so much construction going on city wide right now it is mind boggling and still I believe impossible to "police" safe guard because there is just "too much" and only so many union trained workers....I also wonder where the droves of mostly wealthy people will come to fill all these supersized mega builds city wide.   And you know my stance on our infrastructure and yet another way peoples lives are endangered.

Tenants and Neigbhors -- this was forwarded to me by activist

Tenants & Neighbors Happy Hour on July 31
Tenants & Neighbors is launching a new initiative to involve more young people in the struggle to preserve affordable housing and strengthen tenant protections. Join us for the kick-off event on July 31 at 5:30 at SideBar at 110 East 15th Street at Irving Place. Admission, which includes a one year introductory membership to Tenants & Neighbors, is $20, $15 for people 25 and under, who qualify for our youth membership rate, and $10 for current members. Come and learn about our current campaigns and about how you can get involved!


Save the Date: Tenants & Neighbors Annual Meeting and Conference on September 20
Please mark your calendars now and plans to attend Tenants & Neighbors’ annual membership meeting and conference on Saturday, September 20. The theme of the conference is "From the Ground Up: Building a Grassroots Movement for Tenant Power."

If you have an inner prude, respect it and don't read....plus email to the Gov and other matters that matter or don't

Yes, I emailed Gov. Patterson today about environmental, infrastructure concerns, illegal air sale over St. Ann's etc.   

So what is new....?

I was feeling under the weather and yowza, I can't explain it but I pasted this fierce dude with tatts, including wings that wowed me and rocked my world, hmmmm,  I can't wait until I out grow this particular phase but I am feeling a little better tonight.   Hot!!!!!!!!

I am planning on getting rock climbing ropes and scaling The New York Times building nude with SBT text about nudity aka transparency in NYC government (and of course my website www.suzannahbtroyartist.com but first I have to get in better shape.  I want to call The New York Post and get on their front cover like the artist Kasuma and if I am not in shape you know they won't give me the time of day.  I also have to call the police and get arrested.  Just joking of course.

Kasuma did go nude in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art and did make the front page of The New York Post as she got arrested.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/kusama/

She made some fun and wild under wear art.   My under wear art is about technology being a 2nd skin, technology changing faster than fashion, human relations and sexual politics.

One of my favorite Kusama art works is a chair but like no other.  

If you are a prude you should not be reading this!

Yo I am tired!

I have that lovely 9-11 throat burn and I am tired.

Thanks for all the emails.  I can't post everything but I am reading them and I commend you for all your caring on so many issues from health care to the environment, politics and everything.  If I don't post it just means I am worn out but bravo for your efforts and thank you!!!!!!!

email from Andrew Berman for 75 Morton Street, a rally!

Dear friend:

Please join GVSHP for a rally we are co-sponsoring on Wednesday, August 6th at 5:30 pm in front of 75 Morton Street (at Greenwich Street), where we will be joining local public school parents, elected officials, and the community board to call for preservation of the State-owned building at 75 Morton Street for re-use as a local public school.
Background: 75 Morton Street is a former warehouse built in 1919 and currently owned and occupied by the State. However, the State intends to sell off the building, potentially to the highest bidder for whatever use they see fit. A recent rezoning of neighboring blocks, and the City's recent decision to allow 'condo-hotels' (like the nearby Trump SoHo 'Condo-Hotel') in the area, increases development pressure on this site.

GVSHP has joined with the Public School Parent Advocacy Committee to ask the City and State to turn the building into a much-needed local public school, given levels of overcrowding at nearby schools. We are concerned about what could happen to the site if it is simply sold off for development, and support locating a school there, which would maintain the building for a public purpose and potentially create an open space attached to the school which could also be used by the general public. A decision from the State is expected shortly, so Wednesday's rally is needed to send a strong message about the community's wishes for the site.
If you plan to come to the rally, or cannot come but are interested in this issue, please reply to this e-mail to let us know.

Best,

Andrew Berman
Executive Director,
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

To join GVSHP or support our preservation efforts, go to www.gvshp.org/membership.htm.

My thoughts on Rita's letter, John Sexton and thanks to people from all over for caring.

I love Rita's letter for so many reasons including her mention of saving trees at Berkeley as an analogy to Provincetown Playhouse which I find touching.  The letter is awesome!!!!!

I like the term "position of power", sounds sexy, except in this case of course.  It is the opposite.

I call NYU the Evil Empire of the East Village because NYU mega dormed the East Village to death.  I know West Villagers feel the same and anywhere from Stuy Town to South Street Seaport most community members feel NYU has gone too far and is predatory and destructive, not a good partner with the community.

I kind of look at John Sexton as Darth Vader but Darth Vader had some redeeming qualities.  John Sexton has sold out, sold out the neighborhood although NYU has such powerful connections they can always get good p.r.

The city is going bust and it is so disturbing that the no. 1 real estate magnate, NYU is buying up and supersizing as fast as possible because they probably won't have a mayor like Mike Bloomberg who acts like he is the mayor of NYU and not NYC so the rush is on to tear down and supersize asap.   I have heard that the President of Columbia U. is in fierce competition with the President of NYU to supersize and in every way possible.  I was told both men have "lost their way" and forgotten their true values."  This was told me in Italy by the first Americans I finally came across, how ironic.  Columbia U. is the no. 3 real estate magnate.  Cooper Union wants us to know they are not as bad as NYU and I say that is just because they don't have NYU's resources.   The new studio building, the intent to tear down their Science building and supersize and lease thanks to Amanda Burden, mega millionaire socialite city planner and Cooper Union's mega dorm fit in with the river of NYU mega dorms down Third Avenue which start at 14th Street and all "not for profit" which would seem to indicate a cap on not for profits real estate magnates as the city goes belly up.  I am told they use the term community facility to supersize and exclude the community which is why I keep calling for community outreach resource centers in every mega dorm and supersized "university housing".

Thanks to people from all over the world that take to the time to speak up for our communities.  You are New Yorkers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a letter to John Sexton from a Californian that cares. Preserve the historic Provincetown Playhouse!!!!

This letter via email was forwarded to me and I contacted Rita and asked for permission to post on my blog.   Rita, thank you for your passion and carrying for the City of New York, for our historic Provincetown Playhouse.  I consider you a true "Villager" and a New Yorker!!!

This is a letter to the President of NYU, John Sexton.

Dear Mr. Sexton:

I am writing regarding the preservation of the Provincetown Playhouse. Why is it so hard for you to understand the importance of preserving the historic playhouse. I think you are just interested in money and that you have forgotten there are some things worth preserving despite the big money needed for a law school.

In Berkeley, there is a grove of old stand trees that the University wants to destroy in order to build a new sports facility. The trees cannot be instantly regrown somewhere else. Yes, new trees can be replanted but they will not be the trees that have been there for hundreds of years. And it will take hundreds of years for new trees to become symbolic of the campus.

There is a sports facility nearby that is used by the men's teams. The administration is crying because the women's team will not be by the old facility. The administration wants what it wants and it does not care that the trees are part of the very fiber and heritage and tradition of the campus.

The trees are the historic symbol of the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Provincetown Playhouse is the symbol of the tradition of theatre in your area. When it is gone, that symbol that is part of the tradition of our country dies a little. More and more of those symbols are disappearing.

You of all people should be fighting to save it. Shame on you that you are so willing to give it away. Shame on you that you support the lies that have been told and continue to be told about its protection.

Money buys lots of things. It can buy a new law school or an education building. Or it can be used to preserve a place of creativity and memorial to the best that has been produced in theatre in our country.

Please use your position of power to help keep alive this wonderful reminder of the creativity of American theatre. It should remain a continuing active theatre producing the best plays in our time.

Sincerely,



Rita Ayral

*Dear Loyal Readers of my blog:  To help go to www.gvshp.org and read, join, learn how you can help!  Thank you, SBT

SBT at Tompkins -- Music and Riots photo by Clayton Patterson

Yo!  Photo by Clayton Patterson and I WISH WE HAD ACCESS TO CLAYTON AND ELSA'S PHOTOS AND VIDEOs because I am not a photographer.  I just use my iphone.   I am sure Clayton has some truly smoking photos from Sunday!!!!!!!!!

Loved the photo and I see one of my best buddy's girl friend in the photo.

I had so much fun.  I screamed so loudly as Hammer Brain played to off load some tension!!!!!!

I had fun!!!!!

I would love to see more of Clayton Patterson's and Elsa Rensaa's photo documentation and videos.  They have been documenting our neighborhood, community and NYC for so long and they have a huge archive which becomes more important as the city under goes the newest "bad make over take over" (feels like the baddest to me and I know it is all relative).   

Clayton and Elsa are also really good at what they do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Clayton and Elsa!!!!!!!

Amercian Indians real New Yorkers

http://graywolf94.tripod.com/

I have posted the American Indian Museum downtown before and I just found this support group.

Heartbreaking, the history...   Ignorant people want to dismiss it using words like "casinos".

Solar one/Chris Neidl + Special Council Hearing on Alt. Energy Sources and NY

Contact: Chris Neidl
Solar One
(212) 505-6050
neidl@solar1.org
www.solar1.org

Special City Council Hearing on Alternative Energy Sources and New York
City's Electricity Grid: Potential, Challenges and Policy Directions.
When: Thursday July 31, 2008, 9:30am-1:00pm
Where: Hunter College, West Building (southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 68th Street in Manhattan) in the 8th Floor Faculty Dining Room.

The Infrastructure Task Forc

"Sewage spills cut into beach time" Amy Zimmer, Metro

Sewage spills cut in to beach time,  Amy Zimmer, Metro

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Sewage_spills_cut_into_beach_time/13165.html

Again this is a huge problem and anyone walking around the Lower East Side when it is raining can see when it remains it is like the East River can to the East Village.

Amy says in NYC "sewers were designed long ago to collect storm run off".

Well Mother Nature provides us the most natural resource for storm run off but the mayor keeps letting developers eat up every piece of green for the all mighty dollar green.

Infrastructure is old and the city is supersizing at a rapid pace and that was just one concern regarding St. Ann's but also for the entire city.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/05/old-new-york.html

This has photo images you might like that also tell the story.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/06/infrastructure-problems-that-are.html

The New York Times did an article on gardens and the need for green as a natural way to absorb rain and I know it is posted here somewhere but really too tired to search.

There is so much more I want to post and talk about but I have to rest.

And dear Readers:  Some of you have directly contacted me about how much you love the neighborhood, community and city and I consider you East Villagers and real New Yorkers because you care, you love the community and you actually come here and help us.

Thank you.

newest video of NYPD nightstick disturbing.

Newest video of the nightstick incident is disturbing.    I do think they are the largest police force, aprox.  37,000 policing over 8 million?  

The NYPD also does a lot of good and there are no videos and youtube footage of all they good the do.

"air toll" on the water planes and helicopters to the Hamptons?

For the really rich who are flying out to the Hamptons via water planes and helicopters -- whatever the fees are can they raise them even more to get money for NYC?

suicide response to mortgage crisis which hits all economic strata USA

This mortgage crisis hit many Americans hard and of all economic backgrounds.  There is just too much to talk about but I saw a piece in Metro, "The Suicide Solution" that mentioned the tragic response by a woman in Mass. that killed herself rather than lose her house.  If I remember correctly she left behind a husband, can't remember if there was kids.

It is really clear anyone can lose their housing these days and in so many different ways as entire neighborhood uptown is facing eminent domain "abuse" in my opinion thanks to Columbia U. or ask Daniel Goldstein about the Ratner development.

Let me count the ways, there are too many....

Metro, Patrick Arden "Everyone suck it in" Subways filled to capacity

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Everyone_suck_it_in/13157.html

Yup, it is on Union Square and bless Metro and Patrick Arden.

AM New York also bless you from last month (?) when you did the piece on the subways literally rotting and I too posted photos of the water coming thru ceilings and that was on scorching sunny days.

Question re:  subways packed to capacity -- when all the supersizing around Union Square Park and 14th St., 13th Street, and 12 with St. Ann's mega dorm-- was this in any way taken in to consideration.   NYU occupies to much of the property around there and supersizes to capacity and I am told that NYU even has a building that serves as a hotel for parents...just what I heard.

Anyway great article with even better photos in paper page 2!