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FROM THE VILLAGE TO CAIRO: As the world
anxiously watches the situation in Egypt unfold, in
Washington Square, there’s confidence that opposition
leader Mohamed ElBaradei will help play a positive
role in the outcome. ElBaradei taught as an adjunct law
professor at New York University School of Law from
1981 to 1987. He received his Ph.D. in international
law from N.Y.U. in 1974, going on to win the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2005. Washington Square News, N.Y.U.’s
undergraduate newspaper, quotes university president
John Sexton saying of ElBaradei, “We have great faith
in his character, intelligence, integrity and leader-
ship. We all fervently hope for a peaceful conclusion
to events now transpiring in Egypt, and we have little
doubt that Mohamed ElBaradei will be instrumental in
achieving such an outcome.” Sexton was dean of the law
school when ElBaradei was an adjunct. W.S.N. quotes
Richard Revesz, the law school’s current dean, saying of Photos by Milo Hess
ElBaradei, “We hope he will now be able to contribute to On Saturday, about 500 Egyptian and Egyptian-American demonstrators rallied across from the United Nations,
peaceful democratization in Egypt.” denouncing President Mubarak’s regime and calling for him to resign immediately. Some painted small Egyptian
flags or the word “Egypt” — in red, white and black — on their faces.
ALMOST A WITNESS TO HISTORY: Knowing that
West Village political and gay activist Allen Roskoff was To commemorate the anniversary, bookbook will be CORRECTION: Our article last week on the Feast of San
recently planning to visit Egypt, friends wondered how offering 20 percent off all store merchandise (includ- Gennaro indicated that one of the conditions the event’s orga-
he was faring there as the popular uprising against Hosni ing their well-known remainders) for the whole month nizers agreed to was to move the sound stage around to differ-
Mubarak broke out last week. It turns out, however, that of February. At 266 Bleecker St. between Sixth and ent spots during the 11-day street festival. In fact, according to
Roskoff won’t have any epic stories of being caught up in Seventh Aves., bookbook features general literature, art Community Board 2’s resolution, the organizers have agreed to
the dramatic events. “I couldn’t get into Egypt,” he told us in and drama books, New York books, cookbooks, poetry, rotate the sound stage’s location each year, so as not to annually
an e-mail. “We are in Eilat and have to return home without children’s books and an entire wall of bargain books. inconvenience the same residents with amplified sound.
Egypt.” Eilat, a port city and resort in southern Israel, is right
across the border from Egypt.
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Continued from page 1 Duane, whose district includes the build-
ing, said, “There is so little left of our beloved
neighborhood with tile mosaics, urged dem- Village, of the history we’re proud of. To risk
onstrators to employ direct action to preserve losing a piece of that, even just one building,
the area. Power was also incensed about the is tragic.”
city’s proposed alterations that would close Last fall, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez
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Ave., which he fears would eliminate lamp-
posts with his mosaics.
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protection for the building, located on a site
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Holiday Camps at
1960’s, tenants like diPrima and Minnelli began
renting upstairs rooms in the building. Poet
diPrima and her then husband, Alan Marlowe,
ran a few seasons of the New York Poets Theatre
from 35 Cooper Square. Claude Brown, author
of “Manchild in the Promised Land,” also lived
23rd Street & Hudson River Park there. In 1970, Stanley Sobossek, a painter, ran
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Accused gay basher says, ‘I’m bi’ City settles in ‘false’ porn busts
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE used words of hate.” BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Some of the men who were arrested told
A 45-year-old man charged with Just prior to going to Julius’, Giunta New York City has settled lawsuits with Gay City News, The Villager’s sister newspa-
attempted robbery and third-degree assault is alleged to have attempted to steal a four men who sued in federal court after they per, they were approached by a younger man
as a hate crime in 2010 incidents in two wallet from someone near Ty’s Bar on were arrested for prostitution by vice officers who aggressively flirted with them. It was
West Village gay bars said that while he Christopher St. in a Manhattan porn shop and a spa. only after they agreed to a consensual sex act
was admittedly involved in a bar fight, he He denied doing that. The city, however, will continue fighting that the young man, who turned out to be an
never used antigay or racial slurs. The third-degree assault as a hate the federal case brought by Robert Pinter, undercover officer, said he would pay for the
“I just wanted to tell my side of the crime charge is significant in Giunta’s the gay man who blew the whistle on the sex. Some men said they refused the money
story,” said Frederick Giunta in a phone case. If he is convicted, that E felony will vice squad busts and the only man among all or, as in Pinter’s case, said nothing and they
interview. “I think it’s only fair because I be sentenced as if it is a D felony, and his those arrested to go public. were arrested.
am facing a lot of time in this case.” possible maximum time in prison will go Three of the men were arrested in Unicorn The city’s Law Department and the Police
Giunta, who said he is bisexual, arrived from four years to seven years. DVD, located at 27th St. and Eighth Ave. in Department’s Legal Unit cited the prostitu-
in the West Village around 1 p.m. last Giunta was already on parole on an Chelsea, while the fourth, a straight man, tion arrests in separate nuisance abatement
Oct. 11. He told police he was there to earlier larceny charge. In that case, he was arrested at a W. 34th St. spa after he lawsuits they brought against the porn shops
see a friend. He then visited a series of was diverted to drug and alcohol treat- went there to apply for a driver’s job. and spas.
gay bars and drank at each one. By the ment instead of prison. Since he was One of the men arrested in Unicorn DVD Pinter declined to comment, as did
time he reached Julius’ on W. 10th St. rearrested, he would likely have to serve received $25,001 in his settlement. The Spiegel.
at about 5:40 p.m., he was “really, really at least two years in prison on the larceny other three received $40,001 each. In an e-mail, a Law Department spokes-
intoxicated,” Giunta said. charge. Their attorney, Michael Spiegel, got “rea- person wrote, “Since some elements of the
He allegedly fought with another patron In addition, he has served three short sonable attorneys’ fees, expenses and costs,” settlements of these cases remain unresolved,
and an employee there after an argument. prison terms for drug sales and another according to filings on pacer.gov, the federal we are unable to comment at this time.” The
During the incident, he is alleged to have larceny since 1991. None were violent courts Web site. Police Department did not respond to an
used antigay and racial slurs. crimes. All the arrests, which are seen as false e-mail seeking comment.
“[The bartender] then jumps over the Giunta could not make his $25,000 arrests in the gay community, were made in The city has aggressively litigated Pinter’s
bar, grabs me,” Giunta said. “As they are bail, so he has been held in the Manhattan 2008 by Manhattan South Vice Enforcement case from the start, but then the facts in his
escorting me out to the door, I’m sure I Detention Center since his Oct. 15 arrest. Squad officers. case are different from the other cases. Pinter
might have said something, but nothing He spoke to this reporter by phone Altogether, vice officers arrested 30 men initially pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
hateful at all. It’s blown out of propor- after his wife, Judy, approached Gay City in six porn shops. Another 11 men and one He later had that plea vacated and the charg-
tion... . I had no intent to do what they News, The Villager’s sister paper, offering woman were busted for prostitution in two es dismissed. The other men contested their
are saying I was doing.” an interview with him. spas. The same vice officers made most of cases, and their charges were dismissed.
Giunta acknowledged he was involved “A lot of these things are just fabricat- the arrests. Pinter has been a vocal critic of the Police
in the fight, but called it a “bar scuffle.” ed,” Giunta said. “I was actually flirting Five of the men, including Pinter, brought Department’s handling of these arrests. He
“There was one punch that was thrown with the bartender... . I’m a very caring, four federal lawsuits. Another man sued in has organized multiple protests and held
that I could admit to,” he said. “I never kind person.” state court. meetings with city officials.
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