Scoopy’s notebook

Not a pretty picture: Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz better hurry up and buy that historic townhouse at Greenwich and 11th Sts. that her workers almost totaled a year ago. Even though it’s been buttressed with steel beams, the wall on Greenwich Ave. appears to have buckled out even more, frighteningly in fact, since we last looked. For the meantime, we’d strongly advise people to walk on the other side of the street when passing the building.

Correction: Kathy Kinsella called to point out that The Villager underreported the number of out gay and lesbian Democratic district leaders in Manhattan in an article last week on the Village female Democratic district leader race. There are currently five out gays and lesbians among Manhattan’s 70 Democratic district leaders, including Tim Gay and Kinsella (both Chelsea/Flatiron), Aubrey Lees (Village), Rosie Mendez (East Village) and Frank Wilkinson (Upper East Side). Arlene Bluth (East Midtown) stepped down to run for Civil Court judge. Lees didn’t run for reelection and her seat was won by Keen Berger, a heterosexual, last night, so soon it will be down to four.

Yum: Harvest in the Square, the annual food, wine and beer tasting extravaganza under a big tent in Union Sq. Park’s north plaza, will be Thurs., Sept. 18, from 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Dishes are prepared by executive chefs from restaurants in the Union Sq., Gramercy Park and Flatiron neighborhoods. Tickets are $75 in advance, $90 at the door, cash only. Proceeds will go to the capital campaign for the redesign of Union Sq. Park’s north plaza, being led by the 14th St.-Union Sq. Local Development Corp. and Business Improvement District, also sponsor of Harvest in the Square. For tickets, call Tele-charge at 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com; for V.I.P. tickets call 212-460-1208.

Yum Yum: The Meet the Chefs event on Carmine St., between Bleecker and Bedford Sts., this year will feature chefs from 34 South Village restaurants, including Blue Ribbon, Po and Yama, while Kopper’s chocolates will do a demonstration of chocolate making, on Sat., Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It’s a benefit for Our Lady of Pompeii School, P.S. 41 and the Downing St. Preschool and is organized and run by the Carmine St. Block Association.

Background check: Pete Gleason, who lost in the Democratic primary against Councilmember Alan Gerson, was a member of the Independence Party for about a year a few years ago. Queried about it, Gleason said he made a mistake and thought he was registering as an “independent” and that when he became aware of it changed to Democrat. Sean Sweeney, president of Downtown Independent Democrats, was skeptical — “He’s a damn liar!” is actually how he put it. Sweeney charged Gleason’s campaign manager, Michael Zumbluskas, ran on the Independence Party line for public advocate against Betsy Gotbaum. Zumbluskus told The Villager that while he’s still an active member of the Independence Party, he was knocked off the ballot for public advocate for not having enough petition signatures by “the [Lenora] Fulani people.”

Walk of Art: On Sat., Sept. 20, Bleecker St. between Christopher St. and Eighth Ave. will be a walking mall for over 100 crafters, artists and photographers. The event is a fundraiser for the Greenwich Village Youth Council’s Girls Basketball League.

9/11 photos: The September 11 Photo Project was a moving exhibit in a storefront in Soho in the weeks after 9/11/01. People walked in — from 40 countries — and just handed over photos they’d taken, and it all went up on the walls along with written statements, and stayed there. Now, after a two-year nationwide tour, that project, all of it, has been taken in for permanent collection at the Main Branch (42nd St.) of the New York Public Library, where it is on exhibit and had a reception Tuesday. A thousand of the photos were added during the tour.

Going to the birds: From mid-May to early June, a wild turkey made her home in the West Village Houses’ courtyards. A few years ago, there was a falcon sighting at W.V.H.