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jtack ^ S i VER^^EI Clowns Show Their 23 1985 As Serious Stuff ir^ CliJlir^ ^Spring Into Clown ShortT afer IGHT,PAGE FIVE * V I L * Oe/85 WfEW YORK PUBLIC LlBRfiRY PQ BOX £u540, GRAND CENT E T f l NEW YORK, NY iOOi? / 'estbeth. (Villager/Sheehan Photo) Incumbent, Challenger Square O f f in First Debate as Race fo r VUlage Council Seat Begins STORY PAGE FIVE Broadway Businessmen H it Street Vendor Trade 4 BY TIMOTHY McDARRAH Residents and store owners along Astor Place and Broadway are preparing for a^ Department of Consumer Affairs hearing at the end of April in their attempt to make their sidewalks off limits to street vendors. They say the vendors clog up the area streets and are taking away significant amounts of business. Stuart Busch of I. Buss Uniforms at 738 Broadway explains:.‘'This neighborhood has i become a very strong retail area over the last two or three years, and the street vendors have gotten wise to it. It was never that great a problem, until last fall. It got crazy—im possible to walk on the sidewalk.\ Busch continues that many of the vendors on the street sell the same accessory items such as scarvesT gloves, make-up and jewelry, as many of the stores of the street. \They get it from the same jobbers as we do, but they get rejects, seconds and leftovers. Without any overhead, they sell it right in front of our stores at 20-30-40 percent less. I don't want to take away anyone’s living out there, but I don’t want to lose mine either.\ Harvey Russack of Unique Qothing Warehouse at 716-18 Broadway, which open- * ed on the street in 1974 and opened an annex last year a few doors away, says that one of the biggest problems he sees is the \Koreans Continued on Pa^e 4 Richard Mauro (left) outside his Unique Clothing Warehouse,Js uniquely disap pointed with the hordes of street peddlers at his doorstep rieaf^ftfor Place and Broad way and, along with other local shopkeepers, is pressing the City to make the area off limits to sidewalk retailers. Broadway peddlers (right) can.make thousands of dollars each weekend on such Items as sunglasses, cassette tapes and jewelry. (Vlllager/Bla- gart Photos) Loft Artists Speak Their Minds During a March in Soho Some 200 Lower Manhat tan artist loft residents came out Saturday In Soho to protest what they say Is \Neanderthal treatment\ a) the hands of the City whose loft policies \may make ar tists as extinct as the lamented dinosaur.\ The crowd, some clothed In pre historic garb, gathered on Greene St. and marched up West Broadway In their plea to \Stop the City's Ice Age on Artists.\ Lofters are seeking an artist represen tative on the City's Loft Board which they say Is helping to drive them Into the streets Instead ol pro tecting their legal rights. Meanwhile, the board will Introduce a controversial draft regulation for loft / legalization next week/Llsi . ............................ ihbttan „ . _ ______ ^Isa Wilde of Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, sponsor of the April 13 demonstration, said a similar one Is set for City Hall at noon May B. (Vlllager/ODonoghue Photos) . j '/I h i
