colored tulips—to plant. Our gardener Tyler Red-mond will have prepared the soil so all you have to do is plant. Be sure to bring your own garden-ing tools (a spoon and fork will work too!), and bring a friend as well!

News from BBCer Alice Eliott Alice is also hard at work putting the fin-ishing touches on her upcoming docu-mentary, Miracle on 42nd Street. The film tells the story of the Manhattan Plaza, an affordable housing complex for artists. Alice plans on sub-mitting Miracle to the Tribeca Film Festival and other festivals this fall.

NABE NOTESThe Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) presents Village Maca-bre walking tour Sunday, October 30 11:00am- 12:30pm. Celebrate the Halloween season with some of the most mysterious and macabre stories in New York history — murders, hangings, explo-sions, famous missing persons, and specters all haunt the historic streets of Greenwich Village. Expert tour guide Joyce Gold guides you through the autumnal scenery as you explore tales of the Village’s early 19th century Jewish graveyard, Newgate prison, Edgar Allan Poe’s home and in-spiration for The Raven, the hangman’s house, America’s most famous missing person, and more. Free. Reservations required. Meeting loca-tion will be provided after registration. [This event

Annual Membership is still (only) $25;

For information,Please call 212.366.1451.bbcblockassociation.org

BBC NEWS AND VIEWS November 2016

The next meeting is Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00pm at the Greenwich House Music School (46 Bar-row Street). Come to our sec-ond BBC Literary Soiree fea-turing the talents of our very own BBC poets, novelists, play-wrights and nonfiction writers. Please bring a neighbor or two to this special event. Refresh-ments will be served at 6:30pm.

2016 BBC Holiday Party This year’s BBC Holiday Party (it’s never too ear-ly to mark your calendars to make sure you’re in town for the best holiday party for kids and grown-ups, not just in the Village, but in all of New York City!) is Saturday, December 3 at Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow St.) 6-9 pm. Adults $15 and Children (under 12) $5. Mark your calendars!

BBC Fall Planting Our fall planting is Sun-day (not Saturday), Novem-ber 13. Meet at 10:00am on Commerce St., at the driveway to the 81 Bedford St. garage. We have lots of bulbs—yellow daffodils and

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is not wheelchair accessible.]

NYU and Manhattan Community Board 2 invite you to join the 26th Annual Children’s Hallow-een Parade, the city’s largest free children’s event on Halloween Day! Mon-day, October 31, 2016 3:00 pm – 6:00pm. Parents and children are invited to gather at the fountain in Washington Square Park by 3:00 pm. After the parade, free trick-or-treat bags, games, and rides will await the children on West 3rd Street between LaGuardia Place and Mercer Street.

Greenwich House Annual Arts Benefit, Thurs-day, November 3, 2016, Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU is a celebration of the unique arts programs – Pottery, Music School, After-School, Summer Arts Camp and Senior Arts- that make Green-wich House the place for artistic expression and a foundation that has shaped the Greenwich Vil-lage community for generations. The benefit will raise needed funds for the arts across Greenwich House programs, supporting scholarships, con-certs, exhibitions and free art classes for seniors.

Village Care presents the 18 Annual Legends of the Village, Monday, November 14, Tribeca Roof-top 6:00pm cocktails, 7:00pm dinner and danc-ing-honorees Thomas Kail Tony Award-Winning Director, Hamilton, Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, Michael Shamalov GEO, L.I. Scripts tickets www.founda-tion@villagecare.org

John’s Lutheran Church(Christopher Street) presents a series of fall concerts:December 1: Canticuum Scholars (Choral Early Music) $5 Seniors/$15 Adults,December 11: Annual Messiah Sing-in free, 5pm rehearsal, 7:00pm sing-in.

Washington Square Music Festival; On Satur-day, November 19 at 8:00 pm, the Washington Square Music Festival offers a pre-holiday gift to music lovers: Orchestral Treasures, a free concert of music by Rossini, Czerny and Mozart. Lutz Rath conducts the Festival Chamber Or-chestra featuring pianists Hélène Jeanney and

David Oei. Taking place in the Sanctuary of the Manhattan Seventh-day Adventist Church, 232 West 11th Street, just west of Seventh Avenue South in Manhattan, the historic and beautiful church was built in 1881 in the Queen Anne Style. The evening is a collabo-ration between REACH-NYC “Concerts for Peace” and the Washington Square Music Festival. Enjoy a Great Evening Out While Helping a Good Cause

On Thursday, December 1 at the Skirball Cen-ter, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South Visiting Neighbors, which has been help-ing our community’s elderly stay independent since 1972, is sponsoring a special opportunity to see the world-famous Pilobolus Dance Com-pany perform Shadowland, a uique combination of shadow art and dance. Visiting Neighbors’ event will include a pre-performance wine and cheese reception at 5:30PM, orchestra seats for the 7:00pm performance, and a post-show dis-cussion including a Q&A with the artists. Tick-ets are $150. If you purchase the ticket directly through Visiting Neighbors the price is $100. For more information, call Visiting Neighbors at (212) 260-6200, or send your check (a portion is tax-deductible) to Visiting Neighbors at 3 Washington Square Village, Suite 1F, New York, NY 10012.

Cherry Lane Theatre: Monday, December 5 at 7:00pm: Join us for Mentor Project 2017 An-nouncement Night! We will announce this sea-son’s three new play-wrights and their men-tors: McArthur Genius Grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Pulit-zer-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis and OBIE Award-winner Lucy Thurber. Featuring selections read by the artists. Mentor Proj-ect is Cherry Lanne’s OBIE Award-winning new play development series, now in its 19th season. Reception following. Details at cherrylanetheatre.org

Hélène Jeanney

Lucy Thurber

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Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow St.) welcomes a new partner Creative Music Stu-dio (CMS). Through this partnership GHMS will hold workshops and performances led by CMS improvisation staff and with the CMS Improvisers Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Karl Berger. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS is a phenomenon in the international music world, providing participants with the rare opportunity to interact personally with musical giants of im-provisation and musical thought on a daily basis. Creative Music Studio 2.0 Presents: ‘In the Spirit of Don Cherry’ at 8:30 pm $20 at the door (in-cludes CMS Archive CD) CMS Improvisers Octet led by Karl Berger will explore themes from Cher-ry’s 50-year-old landmark recordings Symphony for Improvisers, Where is Brooklyn? and Com-plete Communion.

Sound it Out continues: Thursday, November 3 at 8:00pm: Anna Webber’s Simple Trio Tickets: $15 ($12 for students and seniors)November 4 at 8:00pm: Oded Lev-Ari Group Tick-ets: $18 ($15 for students and seniors) Saturday, November 12 at 8:00pm: In Praise of Ornette! Fay Victor’s In Praise of Ornette Tickets: $15 ($12 for students and seniors) Wednesday,November 30 at 7:30pm: Guitar Double-Bill! Mike Baggetta Trio and Anders Nilsson Trio Tickets: $18 ($15 for students and seniors)

Neighborhood Notes & NotablesBill Cornwell and Tom Doyle lived in a brown-stone in the West Village for over five decades....Mr. Cornwell died two years ago at age 88. Now, his will, in which he bequeathed the small apart-ment building to Mr. Doyle, is in dispute, leaving his partner with no clear claim to his home of 55 years. The property, on Horatio Street, is an ex-tremely valuable asset, and several of Mr. Corn-well’s nieces and nephews have claimed it as their inheritance, rejecting the notion that their uncle wanted it to go to Mr. Doyle. They put the build-ing up for sale, and it is now under contract — for over $7 million....The dispute has now shifted to court. Mr. Cornwell set down his final wishes about a decade ago. All his possessions...should go to his longtime partner, the will stipulated. But the document’s signing was witnessed by only one person, not two, as required in New York State, making it legally invalid....Without a valid will,

the law requires that all of Mr. Cornwell’s assets go to his next of kin, two nieces and two nephews. Carole DeMaio, one of the nieces, said her un-cle never took the necessary steps to make sure every-thing went to Mr. Doyle, in-cluding not marrying him, because he did not want to... Mr. Doyle has sued the nieces and nephews in Sur roga te ’ s Court in Man-hattan, as-serting his claim to the building....The legal argument is based on the claim that the two men were in a “common law marriage’’ — even though New York State does not legally recognize such arrange-ments. But Pennsylvania, which the couple vis-ited in 1991 to buy their dog Bingo — a symbol of their commitment — did recognize common law marriages until 2005, the suit argues. As a re-sult, Pennsylvania law at the time should apply. Arthur Z. Schwartz, a lawyer who is repre-senting Mr. Doyle, said there was legal precedent for such an argument. More important, he said, was the simple issue of fairness. “I thought there was an injustice,” Mr. Schwartz said. “Because this was clearly the will of Bill Cornwell.” The suit came as a surprise to Mr. Cornwell’s nieces and nephews. They had tried to mollify Mr. Doyle by arranging for him to stay in the building. The contract for the sale of the property includes a clause stating that he must remain in his gar-den-level apartment, at a rent of $10 a month, for five years. He will also receive $250,000 from the eventual sale of the building, according to Peter Gray, a lawyer for Mr. Cornwell’s family members. Mr. Doyle, however, believed that was hard-ly a satisfactory compromise because, he said, “there should be no question” about who is the building’s legitimate owner. Mr. Gray questioned the point of Mr. Doyle’s complaint, given the like-lihood that he has few remaining years. One niece, Shelia McNichols, had attempted to abide by her uncle’s wishes by assigning her

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piece of the inheritance to Mr. Doyle, but the rest of Mr. Cornwell’s relatives chose not to go along,... The current situation has left Mr. Doyle frightened, feeling a loss of control over his life and suspicious of people he once considered his extended family. “It’s as if I’ve been deserted,’’ he said. “I don’t hate them, but they are fighting over what is legally mine and Bill’s.’’ from The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2016

An ongoing effort from commuter advocacy group Transportation Alternatives to establish a “PeopleWay” car- and truck-less thoroughfare on 14th St. during the L train shutdown — and possibly permanently — received mixed reviews from the public at a Community Board 4 Trans-portation Planning Committee meeting on the night of Wed., Oct. 19. TransAlt Director of Orga-nizing Thomas DeVito called the plan extremely preliminary...and that his group was looking for input from locals. PeopleWay would make 14th St. a largely high-capacity bus-only roadway with protected bike lines. ...Many locals said the group hadn’t thought of where the cars and trucks that now use 14th St. would go. “Our organization has been extremely up-set because we have experienced when all of these vehicles do get detoured, there is no mitigation pos-sible on any of this,” said Stanley Bulbach, head of the West 15th St. 100 and 200 Block Association. “The local residential neighbor-hood does not support this, we make that perfectly clear.”Bulbach and others also criticized TransAlt for what he said was a misleading pitch, because repre-sentatives did not disclose that the PeopleWay plan is meant to be permanent, not a temporary fix during the L train shutdown. A handful of folks supported the plan.. TransAlt did not ask for an endorsement of the plan because of its preliminary nature and Transportation Planning Committee did not weigh in on the discussion. On Nov. 9 at 6:30 p.m., the group will hold a public workshop to hear more input from locals (Fulton Auditorium; 119 Ninth Ave., btw. W. 17th & W. 18th Sts.). from Now Chelse,Oct.20, 2016

Resources & Information

Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater (224 Waverly Place) presents Mike Daisy‚ Story of A Gun. Mike Daisy is the preeminent monologist working today, telling groundbreaking stories about our world. Now Daisy tackcles his most provocative subject yet: our national re-lationship with guns. Daisy tells the story of the gun in America; how did it evolve as a weapon? What has gun own-ership meant in our history? What does it mean for us as a people now? Daisy cuts theough the political static with a blend of hilarious comedy, brillliant observation and pitch perfect timing. November 3-5. 8:00pm

Nick Howard’s All Or Nothing Tour will be playing at the Rockwood Mu-sic Hall (185 Orchard Street) on November 8 and 9. 8:15pm Nick Howard is an Eng-lish singer-songwriter who has released four studio albums since 2008 and played over 1000 shows across the world. His music has been featured on Pretty Little Liars, Switched At Birth, The Hills, Jersey Shore, Next, True Life, Cougar Town, 90210, LA Ink, Greek and Army Wives. He has toured with Lifehouse, Boyce Av-enue, Eric Hutchinson, Tristan Prettyman and supported Train (band), Gavin Degraw & Jack Johnson. Tickets are $10 https://www.tick-etfly.com/purchase/event/1350067, Phone: (212) 477-4155

The Neighborhood Preservation Center is is sponsoring #PegLegPeteScavengerHunt Test your knowledge about the history of the area which was once Peter Stuyvesant’s Bouwerie with this friendly competition! The Hunt will include interesting facts about the buildings, people, and culture throughout the East Village neighbor-hood. This year’s Hunt and corresponding Tour will focus on the Progressive Era of the 1900s and 1910s. Awards will be given in several categories. Satuday, November 5 at 11am, Starting Locatio TBD, Call 212.228.2781 for information.

Stanley Bulbach