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FLASHBACK
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John Lindsay perused The Villager during his congressional campaign
in 1958.
Lindsay makes leap
from G.O.P. to Dem’s
BY GABE HERMAN
An article on Page One of The
Villager on Aug. 19, 1971, was
about Mayor John Lindsay’s recent
switch to the Democratic Party,
and how it would affect his past and
future political alliances.
Despite still being in the “Democratic
honeymoon” phase, Lindsay’s
close associates worried about his
connection with Vincent Albano,
New York County G.O.P. chief, and
“political bosses” and “power brokers”
of Lindsay’s previous campaigns.
Lindsay was New York’s mayor
from 1966-73. In the article, close associates
noted to The Villager that his
hero Fiorello LaGuardia also left the
Republican Party during his fi rst term
as mayor. But LaGuardia did not join
the Democrats and maintained an independence,
keeping good relationships
with local Republican leaders.
Lindsay’s party switch was described
by those close to him as “like
jumping into a roaring furnace from
a comparatively tiny frying pan,” according
to the article, by Frank Daniels.
In another article, Village community
and political leaders were
concerned about the impact of a
new “ferry boat clinic” that provided
methadone for addicts, stationed at
Pier 45, at W. 10th St.
The Gold Star Mother was a converted
Staten Island ferry boat, being
used for patients of the West Side
Medical Center on the Upper West
Side, which had recently closed. The
vessel clinic serviced 500 volunteer
patients who had to be at least 18
years old, city residents and heroin
addicts for at least two years.
Rachelle Wall, Planning Board 2
chairperson, said local leaders’ main
objection was the Village not being
notifi ed of the clinic’s move into the
area. Possible negative impacts included
decreased police protection
for the Village, increased drug traffi c
on the nearby Morton St. Pier, and
the clinic’s patients falling prey to addicts
and thieves.
Wall said the clinic’s sudden relocation
was “another instance of the
city’s disregard of neighborhood government.”
Dr. Robert Newman, director of
the City Methadone Maintenance
Treatment Program, said patients
had not been robbed at the city’s other
22 similar clinics. And he said that
in other clinics, patients left the area
immediately after treatment.
Newman said that ending addiction
was a major city problem. And
he added of the fl oating facility’s impact
on the Village, “The clinic won’t
eliminate your problems, but it won’t
add to them.”
Also in the same issue, the rock
musical “Godspell” received the
National Theater Arts Conference’s
Dineen Award for its “relevancy of
theme and positive statement.” The
musical had just moved Uptown from
the Cherry Lane Theatre, at 38 Commerce
St., to the Promenade Theater.
In its 100th performance, the show
was praised for its “positive statement
to a world weary of negativism.”
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