Meeting mystery: Community Board 2’s Aubrey Lees complained to us the other day that Robert Tierney, the Landmarks Preservation Commission chairperson, had been ducking a meeting with C.B. 2’s Landmarking Task Force. She said that when she and Jim Smith, Board 2’s chairperson, finally managed to get Tierney to sit down with them in November, he promised he would meet sometime soon after the new year with the Task Force, just as his predecessor, Sherida Paulsen, had done. Yet, Lees claimed Tierney did not respond to subsequent letters, faxes, phone calls to his secretary and e-mails inquiring when the meeting would be held. So, The Villager made a phone call to Landmarks to find out what was up. A grateful Lees claimed the next day that, as a result of The Villager’s call, the meeting has now been set for Feb. 26. However, a Landmarks spokesperson was perplexed by Lees’ accusations. “I promise you,” said Diane Jackier, “no one at this office got a ton of e-mails, phone calls and faxes on this that we did not respond to. We have not received these supposed numerous requests…. It’s very strange.” Oh well, we’re just glad it all worked out.
Gep team: Ray Cline, a vice president of Village Reform Democratic Club, is New York City director for Richard Gephardt’s presidential campaign, in charge of petitioning to get Gephardt on the ballot. Cline said that several political allies are running as delegates for Gephardt, including Adam Silvera of Downtown Independent Democrats and Greg Lambert and Susan Kent, both of V.R.D.C.
The 6th source: Scoopy recently reported, on the word of a well-placed source at the Sixth Precinct, that Deputy Inspector Kevin Fitzgerald, the Greenwich Village precinct’s commanding officer, was due to be transferred. If so, Fitzgerald would likely be promoted to inspector, a high rank, so the move would be made only after approval by top police brass. However, Fitzgerald hasn’t gone anywhere. Detective Mike Singer, Sixth Precinct community affairs officer, said the list of promotions recently came out, and Fitzgerald’s name wasn’t on it. “Whoever told you that is pretty stupid,” Singer said of the source. “Nobody knows until the commissioner makes a decision.”
Pundits wanted: At Village Independent Democrats’ January general membership meeting, V.I.D. will be having an open roundtable discussion on the Democratic candidates for U.S. president in which both club members and nonmembers are invited to participate. The goal, according to Chad Marlow, V.I.D. president, is “to have a free flow of ideas from all points of view regarding the election and the candidates.” The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 8 at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, at 11th St. and Second Ave. Because their recent Democratic presidential candidate endorsement vote yielded no clear winner, V.I.D. will be taking another endorsement vote at its February general membership meeting.
‘Not my yob, man’: In response to a recent Villager editorial’s call for more elected officials to chip in funds for the renovation of Washington Sq., a representative from Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s office called to point out that state legislators don’t really have the ability to allocate funds for local park projects the way city officials, like councilmembers, do.
Metrosexual meeting spot: Crazy Nanny’s has gone straight, sort of. The former South Village lesbian watering hole has been renovated into a hip, loungy spot called Luke & Leroy. A bartender there the other evening said lesbians are going to more “inclusive” parties nowadays, like Lovergirl, at places like Bar d’O and La Esquelita, which has cut into business. Though some might think the new bar’s name means it has flipped to male homosexual, it refers to the streets at the location. In fact, the bartender said, all persuasions are welcome — which probably means even metrosexuals, like Howard Dean.
Oops: Reporter Albert Amateau’s byline was missing from the article on Peter Gay in last week’s Villager… Also, Elisabeth Robert, not Bob Arihood, took the photograph of the fire-damaged apartment at 76 Horatio St.
