Occupy Wall Street Health Insurance St Vincents Protest Press Release

New York, NY – Oct 26 – Activists from and allies of Occupy Wall Street will be marching to St. Vincent’s Hospital today to highlight the greed and corruption that lead to the hospital’s devastating closure in 2010.   St. Vincent’s was a Catholic-run hospital, which had a charity mission to serve the under-insured and uninsured.  St. Vincent’s lacked the corporate clout to negotiate fair reimbursement rates from profit-driven insurance companies, leading to financial instability.  Moreover, the short-term focus of the highly-paid executives and consultants pushed St. Vincent’s into bankruptcy – leading to a public health emergency:  there is now no hospital on the Westside below 57th Street.   Two months ago, The New York Post reported that the Manhattan District Attorney was investigating whether hospital executives intentionally let St. Vincent’s fail, so that the Rudin Management Company could buy the hospital’s real estate as part of a controversial luxury condominium development project. (1)   Rudin paid pennies on the dollar to buy the hospital’s real estate, and Rudin now stands to sell luxury condominiums and townhouses, once constructed, that are expected to have a combined fair-market value of over $1 billion. 

 “People can’t get the healthcare they need when they need it, precisely because of the corporate desire for making profits by denying healthcare coverage and access to sick patients,” states Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal of Physicians for a National Health Program.   “I have a health insurance plan with a $15,000 deductible.  My family rations care all the time because we can’t afford the out-of-pockets costs,” explains Katie Robbins, supporter of Occupy Wall Street and member of Healthcare-NOW! NYC. “We have to get Wall Street out of our healthcare system.”   Anger towards the Wall Street-controlled healthcare system inspired today’s march, which is set to also target Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and WellCare.  The march was initiated by a working group of Occupy Wall Street called Healthcare for the 99%, which is composed of healthcare workers and people who seek to end inequality in our healthcare system and our society.     ### (1) http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/da_eyes_st_vinny_go_for_broke_plan_fvDtudcbAWyxqqiQnhbzaI   WHEN: Wednesday, October 26, 3pm - 7pm WHERE: Starting at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), Broadway and Cedar MARCH DETAILS: http://owshealthcare.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/march-route-map.pdf Assemble 3pm at Liberty Square (corner of Bway and Cedar), Speak-out at 4pm 4:15pm – Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield / One Liberty Plaza ARRIVE 5:30pm  - WellCare / 110 5th Ave 6pm – St Vincent’s Community Hospital / 12th St & 7th Ave

Occupy St. Vincent’s Wednesday March 26

http://eastvillageeasteastvillage.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-st-vincents-wednesday-march-26.html

Mayor Bloomberg Crook Says OWS get Permits

http://youtu.be/-SliB5_x6hk Mr. Mosque Mike Bloomberg to violate Occupy Wall Street’s constitutional rights as well as human rights. Mike who committed perjury two weeks ago admits OWS peaceful to explain why OWS have been beaten, pepper sprayed and the NYPD tricking them in to a mass arrest leading them on to the Brooklyn Bridge. If the NYPD did not want them on the bridge why does the video show them being lead on to the bridge? Mike has violated their human rights and now Mike is going to go down for mass violation of constitutional rights for his corrupt Wall Street buddies protecting their mega-million dollar bonuses! This Sunday Sept. 23 marks 3 years ago Mike pushed through an illegal 3rd term with the help of his mini-me Christine Quinn a corrupt city council speaker that sold the lie we must have Mike to help us with the economy!

Did Mike and his mini-me Corrupt Christine Quinn help you? No but they and their pals grew richer as more New Yorkers fell in to poverty, homelessness, or were forced out of NYC!

Mike Bloomberg used slush payer money aka tax payer money and intimidation to push through a third term illegally done preventing us from voting on term limits! come sunday City Hall 2pm -- if under 20 people protest with us in the park -- if over 20 than East Side of City Hall by subway entrances.

Bloomberg Haggery Guilty 3rd Term Protest

Term Limits Anniversary Sunday 2PM in City Hall Park

On Oct. 23, 2008, City Council passed a law that extended term limits for Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn.  Quinn herself strong-armed the change of law in a self-serving attempt to save her career after her slush fund scandal exploded across all of the city's newspapers. 

We are gathering at City Hall Park on Sunday, Oct. 23, at 2 pm to mark the third anniversary of the "Day Democracy Died."

Activists will make speeches and pass out voter registration applications to help vote out the City Council members, who passed the term limits extension. 

http://christine-quinn-sold-out.blogspot.com/2011/09/oct-23-term-limits-rally.html

Louis Flores

Save St. Vincent's Hospital.avi

Mayor Bloomberg Cover-Up E. Village Water Main Breaks Sewage Infrastruct...

Giuseppi Logan Out of Hospital Tompkins Playing YouTube Documentary Series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjm7DIFKRMg

His hip is broken.   He is playing on a broken sax.....

If you can help him with money or any kind of support.

Thank you.

Peaceful Protest We Need A Hospital West Village

You are invited to participate in the enactment of a mass civilian trauma exercise on the sidewalk outside St. Vincent's Hospital.
Join community members as they plan to peacefully organise a field hospital on the sidewalks, form into make-shift blood donation lines, visualise what it would look like to set up alternative decontamination showers, help each other to tie on surgical masks to protect each other from air-bourne particles, and finally to think through what steps would need to be taken to request provisional mass casualty tents.
Some of the participants will ''not make it,'' because there is no Level 1 Trauma Center below 14th Street. And it probably takes ambulances over 30 minutes to respond to the Lower West Side of Manhattan, and then it would probably take another 30 minutes for ambulances to drive through busy cross-town traffic to any of the hospitals on the East Side.  The ''survivors'' will have to figure out what to do with the “injured” participants.
Then, a team of survivors will walk over to Grace Church, 86 Fourth Ave., Tuttle Hall, to ask for help from Jason Mansfield, the chair of Manhattan Community Board 2's Environment, Public Safety & Public Health Committee.
Community Board 2 is about to approve the rezoning of St. Vincent's to allow the billionaire Rudin Family to convert the hospital into luxury condos. Community residents hope that this civilian trauma exercise will educate and mobilise the public to stop CB2 from approving the dangerous Rudin condo conversion plan for St. Vincent's Hospital. 

The community's goal is to keep the real estate zoning intact, to attract new hospital investors to restore a full-service hospital at the former site of St. Vincent's.  

Will Suzannah B. Troy Artist Make it past The NY Times Censors on John Liu Vs. Bloomberg Cover-ups for Bloomberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/nyregion/irregularities-found-in-john-lius-campaign-finance-reports.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp   I posted the comment below -- but will I make it past The New York Times sensors?

The New York Times coverage -- or should I save “cover” for Mike Bloomberg vs. John Liu is very interesting.  For instance besides silencing voices in opposition of the mayor including mine, The New York Times did everything possible to put Mike Bloomberg in office a third term.  http://youtu.be/F3OLAgH1MJg I post a YouTube link May 4, 2009 stating don’t believe what the media is saying Mike Bloomberg may not win due to Voter Anger!  What did I know that The New York Times didn’t or chose to be willfully obtuse but was forced off script the night of the election?  John Liu stopped CityTime in it’s tracks will Bloomberg and Thompson allowed CityTime to flourish.  Liu stopped CityTime 2 aka ECTP the 911 tech system which in my opinion may be in fact a bigger rip-off of NYC tax payer money than CityTime.  I dubbed NYCAPS CityTime 3.  In case you don’t post this comment it goes on all my blogs.  Liu is not a saint but he has made history exposing the largest White Collar Crime ever in NYC gov. history but The NYTimes non-reporting for Mike Bloomberg and pals is as shocking as Steve Rattner pleading the 5th 62 times and getting an Op Ed piece in The NY Times!

____________________________________________________________

earlier post today......

http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/10/ny-times-coverage-of-john-liu-vs.html

Scroll down until you get to The NY Post part about the Post’s treatment of John Liu.  If you do not know anything about Murdoch Joel Klein board of ed or department of education tech deals -- you need to start googling and how John Liu may have thwarted Rupert Murdoch’s mega-bucks dream to tech this tech program globally but Liu may have prevented him from doing so here in NYC.

If you buy my lunch maybe I will spoon feed you but I am tired of pasting all the links.

Michael Lytle Elewhale

Come by on Saturday to Perez Square for a couple hours (1to3)? Would be great to see you! 
Michael

Michael Lytle
elewhale works

http://www.elewhale.net
http://soundcloud.com/michael-elewhale-lytle
http://www.vimeo.com/elewhale/videos
http://www.myspace.com/557920871
http://www.youtube.com/user/elewhale2?feature=mhee

St. Vincent's Hospital - Rudin Family #OccupyCB2 - YouTube Documentary V...

Theatre 80 Penny Arcade Playing Bette Davis Role What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

8:00 tonight

http://www.theatre80.net/

Occupy Wall St Washington Sq Park NYU Dirt

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/wall_street_protesters_to_occupy_4V8FHFBbZzezVpObnYA6VM

Thank goodness!   No room for NYU students!!!  If Occupy Wall Street knew the corrupt greedy “improvements” brokered by NYU, Mike Bloomberg to “improve Washington Square park -- wasting millions to move a fountain a few feet and ripped out old trees so NYU can continue to turn out the public for their private graduations.  I prefer Occupy Wall Street any day to NYU turning the public out of a public park, ripping out ancient trees for their picture perfect graduation photos.  The money could have gone to parks in poor neighborhoods and FYI John Sexton pres of NYU aka the evil empire ran down to testify Mike Bloomberg must have a 3rd term and he all all the vile creeps that want to protect their real estate and financial bets want Christine Quinn in so Mike can have a 4th term!

Just a reminder Mike’s city planner an evil shrew mega-millionaire socialite Amanda the People’s Burden and she and Mike are responsible for the most mass displacement and for the largest exodus of people here since the Native Americans.   Eminent domain abuse -- Columbia University the entire neighborhood of Manhattanville and ex mayor David Dinkins was purchased along with the illegal land grab - another sell-out, eminent domain abuse -- Brooklyn -- a Russian billionaire via eminent domain abuse owns a huge chunk of Brooklyn, Willet’s Point, etc.   NY Times building eminent domain abuse and their stupid greed bankrupted them so now a Mexican billionaire owns a huge chunk of the NYTimes!  Cooper Union has been allowed to do some serious illegal zone busting buildings thanks to Amanda the People’s Burden.  Even Rudy’s city planner said no to Cooper Union, NYU jr.  NYU mega dormed the East Village to death and than came mega hotels and sky piercing condos!

Like Wall Street greed, NYC real estate and NY gov from Albany to City Hall greed and stupidity rules -- The White House as well which is why we have a 17? trillion dollar deficit and China owns a huge part of our debt!

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/inside_city_hall/148435/ny1-online--journalist-tom-robbins-talks-ballot-security

Occupy Wall Street Liberty Square

#ows Second General Assembly Of Manhattan Meets At 3PM In Washington Square Park - Anti-Flag To Play Set In Solidarity at Liberty Square

Posted Oct. 8, 2011, 1:30 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

#ows is growing. We will be in a thousand cities in this country by the end of the month - hundreds of cities in other countries. We will see General Assemblies on six continents.
Liberty Square has grown exponentially over the last three weeks. It is time to form a second General Assembly in Manhattan. We expect more to follow.
On October eighth at three in the afternoon a General Assembly will convene in Washington Square Park. At the same time Anti-Flag will play an acoustic set in Liberty Square in solidarity with our movement's expansion.
We are growing. Block by block – city by city. We will see change in this country, in this world. It will happen sooner than you can imagine.

Occupy Wall Street “Welcome to Media Blackout” Now NYC Slut Walk Black Out? Let’s See.

Occupy Wall St. “Those Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible....” John F. Kennedy

Occupy Wall Street Arrests Brooklyn Br like Repub. Convention

RadioHead Occupy Wall Street 4pm today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1lgBCQbVI&sns=em

Michael Moore book signing Here Comes Trouble St. Marks Bookstore Tomorrow!

A note from Cooper Sq. Committee:  Michael Moore at book signing tomorrow St. Marks -- see details down below....

From Suzannah B. Troy Artist 

Dear Michael Moore:  Would love to chat about Bloomberg SAIC CityTime ECTP Northrup Grumman and the BIGGEST White Collar Crimes ever NYC gov....and all under Bloomberg with the help of his mini-me Christine Quinn who wants to be mayor next and Wall St. is donating it’s bail-out money big time to her campaign....

Michael I want to talk to you  but how Cooper Union, NYU jr. is destroying and displacing communities like Columbia U. abusing eminent domain to move an entire neighborhood called Manhattanville but I will be celebrating the Jewish New Year.

Maybe you can further shame NYU jr. aka Cooper Union from not evicting St. Marks Bookstore which can’t afford to be on St. Mark’s anymore or any where in the E. Village because of Cooper Union, NYU, NYU mega-dormed the E. Village to death, NY Law has a mega dorm next to the Hells Angels and SVA all confusing the community with dorm fodder and they use their not for profit status as a tax shelter and bust thru zoning using the term “community facility”but they exclude the facility.  I demand community outreach centers in every University “community facility” so Michael Moore shame Cooper Union.

http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/09/cooper-union-nyu-jr-evil-wants-to-evict.html

Cooper Union has this “neogtiating with terrorists” but for some reason Cooper Union did not included themselves as terrorists and NYU as well as Columbia U. in this EVENT.   

http://cooper.edu/news-events/events/negotiating-with-evil

Below the email from Cooper Square  Committe and FYI here is one example how Fran and Joyce a true heres .....http://www.youtube.com/user/Suzannahartist#p/u/20/BrXEcjUzN8I  Jason tells us how he is fighting cancer.  Without Joyce and the work she does he and his Mom could have been homeless living in a shelter after the mass eviction at 47 East 3rd St.

Jason’s positive attitude is heroic and he has beaten the cancer and having a home may have helped as much as being a victim of mass eviction must have hurt.

We at the Cooper Square Committee want to thank you for signing the St Mark's Bookshop Petition.

We have an unexpected update: Michael Moore will be at the bookstore tomorrow, Thursday at 7 pm to sign his new exciting book "Here Comes Trouble."    

Yesterday the Public Affairs Office at Cooper Union, the St. Mark's Bookshop's landlord, sent out a letter saying Cooper Union's Board was asking its Finance and Business Affairs Committee to examine the request to lower the bookstore's rent from its current $20,000 a month. The outcome will be announced at the end of October. 

We believe that Cooper Union is stonewalling this issue, hoping our community will forget about the bookstore.  We need you to send this petition out to all of your friends and family today.  Help us reach 50,000 signatures by the middle of October.  

Thanks,  

Frances Goldin, a founder of the Cooper Square Committee, and 
Joyce Ravitz, Chairperson

p.s. Michael -- it is  Suzannah -- can we talk about the Haggerty Trial how  Bloomberg is doing to the justice system what he did to democracy when he and his mini-me Christine  Quinn denied us a referendum.

Michael the US Justice system has gone the way of Wall street.....collapsed....

Bloomberg & Mini-me Christine Quinn 75,000 NYers Pushed In To Poverty

Christine Quinn sued 4 times for back rent moved on up in to luxury with her girlfriend and dollar a year Bloomberg increased his billions but from 2009 to 2010 75,000 NYC residents were pushed into poverty!

Manhattan has the biggest gap between the poor and mega-rich.


Metro & NYTimes

Quinn would be struggling like most people but she sold her soul and the People out to greedy stupid developers and it has increased her and her friends wealth.

Line for Mexican Food Passes Surpasses Fellow Food Servers

Broadway below Houston - the line was so long I wondered if they were giving something away free.

Some Subway Platforms Not Just Rats but Cell Phone Service!

Broadway below Houston - the line was so long I wondered if they were giving something away free.

William Barnacle Bar 80 St. Marks Place Theatre 80

Facebook page for bar William Barnacle at 80 St. Marks Place

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002604372170http://www.theatre80.net/

 Suzannah with Belgian Absinthe Fountain and french absinthe glasses

They are also serving alimony beer and other exotic drinks as well as theatre, films and the option to rent the place for your own events....check out Theatre 80 Website....

Mayor Mike Bloomberg Funneled $ Allison Jaffin Haggerty Mike GUILTY!

oops spelled her name wrong  Allison Jaffin!

http://youtu.be/8yp2FX6Pdhw

click on link to see NY Post articles on Allison Jaffe and two other women getting 2 salaries courtesy of the tax payers and a dummy company not Bloomberg News that Mike was giving than another 6 figure salary = 2 six figure salaries -- they said it is who you know and who you....

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bloomberg_aides_in_double_dip_s2XsMXCVCNGVnFJH4mbPSL

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704113504575264511412301460.html

MLE Hagen Fall Head Wear Show Plaza Hotel

Ok, for all of you have been admiring my hats when I go out: this is my
cousin, and her work is AMAZING! Trunk shows are a great chance to nab a
one-of-a-kind chapeau at a discount...and have a look at the collection. 

This one is at the Plaza, so you know it will be swanky...also, I have been
informed that there may be some liquid refreshments of the fizzy kind! Hats
are back....though in my view, they never left. Please forward this to your
fashion forward (and retro) friends. 


Subject: TRUNK SHOW FRIDAY!

MLE HAGEN FALL HEAD WEAR
WHERE: PLAZA HOTEL - WARREN TRICOMI FL. 2
WHEN:  FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
TIME: 12-6
www.mlehagen.com

Last 2 Public Hearings Lives At Risk No Hospital W. Village Speak Out Against Rudin/North Shore/LIJ Proposal

Lives at risk with no West Side Hospital/Trauma I Center

Everyone urged to come and speak out at the last two public hearings against steamroller train  Rudin/NorthShore/LIJ proposal to install a "Duane Reade on Stretchers" non-hospital emergency room in St. Vincent's O'Toole Building 7th Ave and 12th St.

Wednesday

 9//2011 Community Board Public Health Hearing

Village Community School 272 W. 10th St

6:30 pm

Wednesday is last day to register to attend  the  final New York State Department of Health Hearing being  held 10 am on Thursday September 22, at 90 Church Street 4th Floor.

Must call Colleen Frost 518-402-0964 or Email PHHPC@health.state.ny.us

Re: CON # 111531  (Lenox Hill/NorthShoreLIJ)

Picture I.D. needed at door.

FYI: http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2011/09/st-vincents-hospital-vs-rudin-condos-1.html

If you click on the top photo and look carefully in the center of the pink flower you can see the bee -- not Brad Pitt but still worth the look... hard working bees...there was quite a large turn out of them doing their thang with the pretty flowers.

Jerry Delakas Struggling NYer short film by Jake Oleson

Jerry Delakas Holds on To His Newstand by a Thread & Prayer Court Date Coming

http://www.petitiononline.com/delakas/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jerrys-Newsstand/101196016638360

Sept. 12, 2001 Jerry was open and sold NYTimes to a line of patient shell shocked grief stricken New Yorkers.  Mayor Bloomberg wake-up!  NYC gov. return the love and fortitude of this dedicated New Yorker.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/newsstand_icon_could_get_the_boot_nPisFPV3QssVbWlugMpH6H

From April

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2011/04/jerry-delakas-city-gives-beloved-cooper.html

YouTube from April

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-iaJtN0no

From May

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2011/05/jerrys-new-stand-in-peril-jerry-delakas.html

Suzannah B. Troy With Peace Earring Table 14th St by Washington

http://www.facebook.com/people/Autumn-Tink-MJ-Love/583468281?sk=info

The artist who made these earrings and everything on the table is shy --

the link above is her face book page and the sale of everything she wishes to go to a film making endeavor to tell her story and her best friend’s.

DEP DOT Can’t Solve? Starting with NY1 almost 5 Years Water Main Breaks and More 2nd Avenue 7th Street

Mike Bloomberg’s streets of New York third world with massive deep holes but at least we have nice bike lanes! http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/this_is_not_uLJUo4iKd1WqfPZvUA2tyN

This hole has reopened yet again and can be seen in my new YouTube!

DOT keeps repaving 2nd avenue by 7th street and the street continues to break open...Thursday man hole cover exploded, we have water main break and giant craters and holes in the street and it started when Cooper Union did it’s zone busting construction for it’s new hideous Studio on old NY’s infratructure.

Clearly we need a deputy mayor of infrastructure to put the safety of the People first and address third world street conditions thanks to Bloomberg and a socialite mega-millionaire  city planner Amanda The People’s Burden that pushed a tsunami of community crushing development to help their rich pals  as http://www.youtube.com/user/Suzannahartist#p/u/2/P8dDGASwyA8 same intersection almost 5 years ago http://www.ny1.com/content/69978/east-village-water-main-break-leaves-thousands-without-water
Another YouTube channel and I covered water shunting out of the street in August like open hurt surgery and the MD had walked away...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6nfVXr8_O0&feature=watch_response_rev
Another activists YouTube and here is mine  http://www.youtube.com/user/Suzannahartist#p/u/10/5NkUzy2jc8w

St. Marks Book Store Sign the Petition

http://signon.org/sign/save-the-st-marks-bookshop?source=c.em.cp&r_by=547074

Friends of the Bowery Help Save 135 Bowery

Dear Friend of the Bowery:

Please help save the landmarked circa 1818 Federal-style house at 135 Bowery by contacting District 1 City Council Member Margaret Chin. Tell her you want her to represent the interests of her constituents, not a big monied bank, and uphold the landmark designation in the City Council. Although designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the City Council has chosen to call for a vote to either uphold or overturn the landmark designation. Ms. Chin's testimony favoring 135 Bowery helped lead to the LPC designation, so we desperately need her leadership as the issue moves to a City Council vote.

Having lost the oldest building on Cooper Square (35 Cooper Sq.) in May, and with the Bowery's recent nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, it is crucial that the City protect this seminally important (and oldest!) thoroughfare. Located on the Bowery's most well-preserved block (Grand to Broome Streets), and across the street from the iconic Bowery Savings Bank and several other Federal-style buildings, 135 Bowery is a rare survivor that evokes the city's earliest period of development. Not supporting the designation of 135 Bowery could set back landmarking on the Bowery for years. It deserves its designation as a NYC landmark.

Thank you for your support.

Here's what you can do:  

1) Call and/or e-mail Council Member Chin today:

chin@council.nyc.gov 212-587-3159212-442-1563FAX 212-587-3138 250 Broadway, Suite 1804, NY, NY 10007 (Two templates for a letter to Councilmember Chin are attached.  Please choose whichever you feel would be appropriate. Adding your comments would create a greater impact to the letter.)  

2) Attend the NYC Council Landmarks Subcommittee hearing on 135 Bowery on

Thur., Sept. 15 at 11am at 250 Broadway, 16^th floor conference room. http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=158922&GUID=FD347715-58F4-49AA-887F-B0E706AB8C15&Options=info|&Search=

This is a public hearing on affirming the landmark designation of 135 Bowery. It is important that CM Chin,  in advance of this hearing, knows that the citizens,which the City Council represents, want this landmark building to remain a part of the historic Bowery and not be demolished by the bank-owner for a multi-story office building!

3) Please Sign the petition to tell Councilmember Margaret Chin and City Council that we do not want to lose this Bowery landmark.

Petition co-sponsors: Historic Districts Council, Two Bridges Neighborhood Council,

Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and

Bowery Alliance of Neighbors. Here's the link: Here's the link: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-135-bowery/

4) Call or e-mail City Council Subcommittee on Landmarks and urge them to vote to uphold the LPC’s recent designation of 135 Bowery as a NYC landmark.

*Brad S. Lander, chair contact@bradlaner.com lander@council.nyc.gov

212-788-6969 250 Broadway, Suite 1776 New York, NY 10007

*Maria del Carmen Arroyo arroyo@council.nyc.nyc.us

Phone 718-402-6130212-788-7384212-788-7384 250 Broadway,

Suite 1768, New York, NY 10007

*Daniel J. Halloran, III dhalloran@council.nyc.gov

250 Broadway, Suite 1545 New York, NY 10007

718-631-6703 212-788-7250

*Rosie Mendez rmendez@council.nyc.gov LKaplan@council.nyc.gov

212-788-7366 250 Broadway, Suite 1734 New York, NY 10007

*Annabel Palma apalma@council.nyc.gov palma@council.nyc.ny.us

(718) 792-1140 250 Broadway, Suite 1781 New York, NY 10007

*James Sanders, Jr. jsanders@council.nyc.gov (718) 527-4356

250 Broadway, Suite 1820 New York, NY 10007

*Jumaane D. Williams Williams@council.nyc.us 
Phone 718-629-2900 718-629-2900 212-788- 6859250 Broadway, Suite 1808, New York, NY 10007Photos:
*135 Bowery, 2007 photo by Robert K. Chin

*135 Bowery shown in context, 2010. Panoramic streetscape photo assemblage

Photos: Stan Ries Assembled by Kerri Culhane

*135 Bowery shown in context, 1905. 135 is at right side.

Stanford White designed Bowery Savings Bank is at left side.

Sincerely,

David Mulkins, Chair

Bowery Alliance of Neighbors

184 Bowery, #4

New York, NY 10012

631-901-5435

Elizabeth Forel Ban Horse Drawn Carriages Bobby’s Bill Intro 670

Intro 670, which we call Bobby's Bill, was introduced last Thursday in the City Council. Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito is the sponsor.  

Please come to our press conference on the steps of City Hall on:

When:  Tuesday September 20th at 12 noon

Where:  steps of City Hall (City Hall is located in downtown Manhattan - bounded on the north by Chambers St.; west by Broadway and east by Park Row.)

We are calling the bill "Bobby's Bill" after Bobby II Freedom, the horse we rescued last June 2010 from the kill auction in New Holland with Equine Advocates.  

Because of the 4-digit number on his left front hoof, Bobby was saved and is now living the good life at Equine Advocates Sanctuary in Chatham, NY.  You can read about his rescue by clicking here. 

Currently, records for horses sold outside NYC are not required by the Department of Health so it is not known where the majority of horses go.  There is a high turnover in the trade - about 60-70 horses leave the business every year.  The bill seeks to change that by requiring that the owners either sell or donate their horses to sanctuaries or individuals who sign an assurance the the horse will be kept as a companion animal and will not be sold into another carriage business or taken to auction where they can be purchased by kill buyers on their way to slaughter.  

We believe many of these horse go to the auctions and then on to slaughter.   

The industry is already up in arms about this bill because they claim they find homes for all of their horses. If so, then this bill will require confirmation of that claim.  

We hope you will arrange your schedules to come to this very important event.

Thank you.  

PS - We still obviously support a total ban of the industry  - either the state bill - S5013 and A7748  or the NYC bill - Intro 86A, which will substitute electric cars.   But in the meantime, let's save the horses.  

--
Elizabeth Forel
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
www.banhdc.org
Horses Without Carriages International
www.horseswithoutcarriages.org

Jason G. Cancer After Mass Eviction E. Village Lower East Side

Donnyrecords Moves to 4th Avenue Cooper Square Across the Street E. Village