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i.\V ■■ ' ■; ■ '■', '■. 1/' kook Up A ‘-Ifai 06/37 NEW YORK, NY 1®®!-^ • ' i; Tfiree-i|ay Celebration jo f p E M l^fhe Arts on the Lower East : PAGE FIVE 887 To Outifne Their Warm Weather Patrol Plans for Village A t Council Meeting • PAGEFOUR I )l\ 1 ^ ■ ' ■ i' ■ ■ 'S .i Group Surveys Neighbors on W. Village’s Future BY DAVID GOODWIN Save the Village has received an encourag ing number of responses to its questionnaire looking into the creation of the proposed Greenwich Village Waterfi^ont Historic District and seeking the views of its West Village neighbors about zoning and planning issues. The group sent out about 500 question naires in early April and by its April 15 mon thly meeting, some 40 to 50 had been return ed. *‘We will process the questionnaires that we receive through the mall during the.spr- ing and summer,\ said Leslie Lowe. *SWeUl a l ^ be doing some tabling of the qu^tion- naire at various events. By the fall we should have a good idea what people’s interest in the project is.\ Save the Village broke down the waterfront issue into five main areas of concern on its questionnaire: 1) the creation of the water front preservation district; 2) zoning and development; 3) the West Side Highway replacement; 4) transit facilities; and 5) waterfront use. “The history of the Village is one of change and variety,\ says the in troduction to the survey. \The task now before us is to preserve the Village’s most noteworthy features while incorporating new elements.\ Pearl Broder, coordinator of Save the Village, pointed out that besides making an effort to determine public interest in the Waterfront, the group's efforts were also directed to informing the public about what was happening in their West Village neighborhood. “We feelthat evenif *>eoDlei!ofrtTetttnvlhe questionnaire they wiU, if they get past the first question, become inform^ because the package does contain a lot of information,\ Broder said. At the April 15 meeting, she also discussed the group’s association with the Federation to Preserve the Greenwich Village Watei^ front and Greatport. \The Federation ha^ pn- ly met twice but it has gathered together ^ o - ple with (sufficient) political and technical experience to move faster on the waterfront issue,\ Broder said. \They have a lot of zon ing and iandmarklng experience.\ w « r m § m V V'.*/ Members of Save the Village also dis cussed a public/fundraising event that would draw attention to the waterfront development i^ue and raise funds for the group. Save the Village member Jonathan Kuhn suggested that an art exhibition/auction could raise funds and capture needed attention but to organize a fir^-rate show would take a year’s planning. The members agreed that something this spring and summer would be preferable. A slide show of historic buildings and a - showing of Greenwich*Village feature films was proposed as a sort of fundraiser that has worked for other groups in the past. While those in attendance agreed this was more , manageable, nothing was decided or con- I firmed. A fundraising committee was formed, however, to look further into the possible event. Villagers who would like to get a copy of the questionaire should write: Save the Village, Apartment 2F, 380 West 12th Street, New York 10014. They Talk About Doing Business in the Village BY DAVID GOODWIN \Bleecker Street is a night street,\ said Art D’Lugoff, owner of the Village Gate. \Day businesses don’t do well on Bleeoker k reet.\ Mr. D’Lugoff is quite clear about the market he targets for his establishment. At a panel discussion entitled \Doing Business in the Village,\ at the Annual Meeting of the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday, April 15, Mr. D'Lugoff spoke about some of the successes and failures.in trying to cope with the chang ing tastes of the night time, music and theatre-going crowd. James Benedetto, the owner of Google’s and Judith Joice, part- owner of the Lion’s Head Bar and Restaurant where the annual meeting was held, also spoke at length about how changes in the Village (\the avant-garde capital of the world,\ according to Mr. Benedetto) affected their businesses and, about the actions they took tp cope with these changes. Before the panel discussion, Chamber members voted for new members or, as the Chamber refers to them, \Nominees to fill vacancies in the classes of 1988 and 1989.\ Six new members were selected from a group.ot eight promineriWlllagers (see News Brief on W^' i'i c Three restaurateurs talk about doing business In the Village at a recent Village Chamber of Commerce meeting. From left are: Judith Joice, Jim Bennadetto and Art D'Lugoff. (Vlllagor/Rosenstbok Photo) ballot). Chamber members also reelected six \Nominees for the Class of 1990” from a list of sbc. \Nobody is ever really voted out of the , Chamber,\ said one of the members in atten dance with a dismissive wave of the hand. **It’s really sort of a formality.\ Another of the Chamber’s formalities which took place before the panel discussion was the presentation of the Officer of the Month Award. Chamber President Evelynne Roberts Patterson, who was chairing her last meeting as president of the Chamber of Com merce, claimed that the award could be given to a number of deserving officers but that for the month of April 1987 Camilla Eckhardt, of the 6th Precinct, had been given the award for \outstanding service to the NYCPD knd , the Greenwich Village Com munity;’*' On February 25th, Officer Echhardt and her partner responded to a “10*30 burglary- in-progress\ at 708 Greenwich Street. When the officers arrive at apartment 5A, they found that the suspect had cut a hole in the wall from the hallway and crawled in the apartment/Because the suspect was tall and very thin only a small hole had been cut. Of ficer Echhardt was the smallest officer on the scene; she crawled into the apartment alone, \gun drawn but not pointed,\ she said. When asked if at that moment she felt afraid. Officer Eckhardt said \Yes but a lit tle high too. The kind of high cops get off on.\ The suspect surrendered without a struggle because \he was a pro.” \The best thing about the arrest was that it closed out 12 to 15 past complaints (robberies the suspect had committed),\ said Officer Eckhardt. Officer Eckhardt, echoing the claims of Ms. Patterson, pointed out that \Every cop makes this kind of arrest. My regular partner, Ellen Dickert, should get this award. She’s really serious about being a cop.\ After this award had been given out, the ballots collected, and the dishes cleared, the \Doing Business in the Village\ panel discus sion got started, albeit a rocky start. The dark, low ceilingcd Lion’s Head Bar and Restaurant is not acoustically suited to panel discussions; especially when thirty or so people are tucked into a dining area suited for about half that number. Many of the lun- cheoneers could not hear the panel speakers. Once the three panel members had moved to the center of the elongated dining table the presentation began in earnest. Mr. Benedetto introduced the panel theme: Because the Village changed rapidly, the suc cessful businessperson had to anticipate the change before it occurred. Businesses that failed to adapt to change could not do business in Greenwich Village., Mr. Benedetto then introducecil Art D’Lugoff. Mr. D’Lugoff began by recontmen- dlng the works of Peter D riper, the author of numerous books about ^ u n d business Continued On Following Page
