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I>7ACK 3 SVSiSiZg ] ■ i t:.- : - c'.iB/av 1. y ^ Vittage Writer I ' ,i- Talks'About Writing Spot Openr^\^ ^ 1 198? II ■ ’ A hnut Hnmnr In n lyew O u td I/O r f ] V J Slide Sbjfw i i l ^ o STORY, AND PHOTOS, PAGE 3 u i n J j T m u u u i rr • u iri. About Humor In Hudson Pai^k Series REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK, PAGE SIX Speak Out For Halloween Parade BY DAVID GOODWIN “I just really urge people to try to overlook their own inconvenience for one night for an event that is so important to the city,\ said Marilynne Stem, a professional photograph er who documents the Haloween Day Parade. She represented one segment of opinion at the parade which was voiced at a special meeting of the Community Board Two’s Traffic, Transportation and Water front Committee on April 23. Carol Janeway, speaking for the Patchin-Milligan Neighborhood Association, had a different view: ‘‘Mr. Lee (Ralph Ue, the parade’s founder) has retired, let the parade also retire... .Halloween is for children, let’s leave it that way. No parade.\ Other Greenwich Village residents who had come to the meeting to discuss the future of the Halloween Day Parade were not against the parade, they insisted, but only against the route it followed and the crowds the parade attracted. ‘‘We are not against the parade,\ said Ann Slatin of the West 10th Street Block Associa tion. \It has just gotten too big for our sinall street. And that is what our executive com mittee has unanimously voted on, to change the route of the parade since it is a major parade now and as Ms. Fleming says it is a world-wide parade. It has gotten too big for a small narrow street like West 10th street.\ Jean Fleming, director of the the Village Halloween Day Parade, works year round on the parade, virtually without pay, she says, and pointed out to the assembled that over the parade’s 14-year history, it has grown from the small parade that Ralph Lee created, where Mr. Lee ‘‘walked through the streets of the Village with his children and friends wearing some of the costumes that he created over the years,” into the noteworthy affair it is today. It is known, says Fleming, ‘‘world->wide now. It’s considered one of the top cultural events that happens in the world and is covered world-wide by all the press from many nations.” The parade ‘‘adds a very special quality to the city and par ticularly to Greenwich Vilage where it originated. And it is a reflection of this com munity of the creative and sensitive people who started it and continue to work with it.\ AGONIZE OVER THE SIZE The size of the parade today has been something that Fleming and the people she works with have “agonized over.\ She added, “All of us are very sad that the parade had to grow as much as we appreciate its success. I remember the first time I walked up Sixth Avenue; I cried.” Fleming went on to say that she didn’t think the parade was going to get smaller. The organizers have talked about ending the parade for years, but came to the conclusion that people would come to the Village to parade anyway. “It’s more dangerous to cancel it than to have it,” Flem ing said. Peter Saris, a member of Save the Village, articulated what the meeting’s chair, Arthur Strickler, had suggested to him before the meeting: ‘‘I think a wonderful suggestion might be, next year, to have a children’s parade along the route of the original parade, linking up somewhere in the middle with the main parade.” Several speakers embraced the idea of a childrens’ parade. Suzanne Green, an art teacher at P.S. 41, who has participated in the parade since its beginning said she did not en joy the parade now as much as she did when it was smaller, adding that she thought a parade ‘‘for the children is wonderful idea. In fact, I think, at 41 we’ve reached the point of thinking that (the parade) is too big for us.” CONSIDERED MANY OF QUESTIONS Mitchell Redman, the parade’s production manager from 1977 to 1982 then spoke. Mr. Redman worked with founder Ralph Lee and oversaw the many workings, organization and execution of the parade during the years of its greatest growth. \When I started there Continued On hollowing Page New Challenger for Democratic Leader Post i!By VOLKER MADRY Freda Jlradlow will be the candidate of the Village Independent Democrats (VID) for the position of Female Democratic Party District Leader in the Village’s Part A of the 61st Assembly District in this fall’s primary ^ election. Bradlow will be challenging incum- I bent List Schollenberger of the young, rival Village tPeform Democratic Club (VRCD), who won a special election last year for the i post in a bitterly contested race. Bradlow’s running mate is incumbent Democratic leader Anthony Hoffman, who will be defend ing his post against challenger Tim James of the VRDC. Calling this year ‘‘a politically crucial period in the Village,” Bradlow says that she is “running to provide Democratic leader ship to everyone who supports progressive government without corruption, nepotism or the support of big real estate interests.” She said this year’s race will be run with integri ty. “I’ve lived in the Village 28 years so I can’t be attacked as a carpetbagger, that's certain,\ she says, “and what I would like to see is a race without distortion or falsehood. We should focus on the issues that affect our communities, rather than rely on mud- slinging.” A resident of the Village since 1959, Bradlow says she was an early activist in the Democratic reform movement, south of Houston St. She was elected as a Democratic ‘h County Committee woman in 1961, a post she still holds. In the mid-seventies, Bradlow worked with then City Counciimember Ted Weiss to revise the City’s noise code which Announcing her challenge for the poet of Pemalb Democratic District Leader for tie Village, Frelda Bradlow poses wlth.runnlng mate, Incumbent Male Leader Anthony Loff- mann. (Vlllagor/Roaenatock Photo) had not been changed since the 1930’s. She was campaign co-ordinator for Council- woman Miriam Friedlander in 1981-82 and 'again in 1984-85, and participated in the establishment of the Landmarks Preserva tion Commission. At the last convention of the Democratic Party organization for Manhattan, Bradlow participated in the drafting of the resolution of the Welfare Com mittee, particularly she says, in drafting the position on the homeless “in support of de cent individual non-barracks type housing for families.” Bradlow says that there are many ongoing concerns in the Village she will address in her campaign, including quality of life issues, housing, preservation and education. ENVIRONMENT A CONCERN “The environment is a big concern in the Village” says Bradlow \and I’ve worked with the EPA on City, State and Federal issues that affect our communities since 1972.” Traffic congestibn is causing serious environmental and health problems in the Village, as the result of pollution and increased noise levels. \This has become as serious problem,” Bradlow says, “since a one-way bridge toll is being levied at the Verrazanno Bridge be tween Brooklyn and Staten Island with an adverse impact on Lower Manhattan. Most people she said, have learned to avoid the toll by coming east for free from New Jersey, then returning, free through Manhattan and take the Holland Tunnel route. The result is that you get traffic congestion with traffic backing up on Varick St. as far up as 14th St. This causes enormous environmental prob- Contlnued on Page 5
