SoHo Pioneer Tony Goldman Dies at 68

Tony Goldman, an eye for an investor to identify areas of rejuvenation spoiled first brought to life in Manhattan SoHo in 1970 and South Beach in Florida in 80 years, died Tuesday in Manhattan.

The cause was heart failure, his wife, Janet Goldman, said.

Goldman does not like to be called a developer. "Developers are hitting 'em down, rebuild guys," he told the New York Times in 2000. "That's not me." Instead, they saw it as a long-term investor in the revitalization of historic neighborhoods.

In 1976, while walking through the ruins producing district south of Houston Street, once known as Hell 100 acres, was attracted by the imposing architecture of cast iron and noticed that the factory spacious loft that can be an attractive place to live.

"I saw the architecture of the neighborhood aura," said Goldman Preservation, the magazine of the National Historic Trust in 2010. "The district cast express a strong sense of place that does not exist, does not exist in many places around the world. Tissue It was the historic first that caught my attention and interest."

He bought and renovated 18 buildings, including Palau Greene Street SoHo, making it a larger area and higher mixed-use office building. In a neighborhood taverns scruffy artists' open restaurants to attract a young and chic: the first Greene Street Cafe, a jazz supper club, then the Soho Kitchen and Bar, an ancestor of the wine bar.

Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of several books on urban lifestyles and former member of the New York City Historical Preservation Commission, said Goldman's genius was to recognize not only the value of the old buildings, but also the importance of context.

"He understands what makes a neighborhood is the diversity of uses," he said. "The restaurants put people on the streets and add vitality. Persons wishing to remain in the city wanted to walk and not drive to services."

During a trip to a developer conference in Miami in 1985, Mr. Goldman was with local conservationists to see the Art Deco hotels in ruins along a stretch of turquoise sea in Miami Beach. Seeing the potential of the area began to buy - a building per month for 18 months.

With a talent for self-promotion, even said that he had "discovered" South Beach, but that was ten years in the making, when he began to put on them. Never mind, said Michael D. Kinerk, president emeritus of the Miami Design Preservation League, the keeper of the historic Miami Beach. "It was not the first, but it was time, and he was the greatest and most visionary."

Mr. Kinerk said that unlike other developers, Mr. Goldman was estimated conservation savings Interior Art Deco gems, as well as your outdoor furniture with antiques and old photographs framed.

Although some of his bets were disappointing, particularly a joint development effort with Archon Group in Boston, has been a success, as well as South Beach and SoHo. He helped revive the Rittenhouse Square area of ??Philadelphia and Wall Street after sunset in 1990 with the opening of the Wall Street Kitchen & Bar in building and notes Stone Street Tavern and loft . In his last years, has concentrated on the development of Wynwood, an industrial arts in Miami.

Goldman won the Louise du Pont Crowninshield by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2010 for his career.

Anthony Richard Goldman, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, December 6, 1943, was adopted by Charles Goldman and Tillie, a couple who lived prosperous Upper East Side of Manhattan. He worked in a coat factory from his father for 15 years to learn the trade.

Goldman went to Emerson College in Boston, where, on the first day of orientation, he met Janet Ehrlich. They married in 1966, the same year he graduated with a degree in drama.

After returning to New York, Mr. Goldman learned real estate from an uncle. "He would stay up late and brought his Scottish uncle," recalled Ms. Goldman, "and talked about real estate, and this is where he got his foundation in business."

In 1968, he hit on his own and founded the Society of Goldman Properties, who has worked primarily in the Upper West Side. He lived in SoHo.

He and his wife had two children, but in early 1970, deciding to marry very young, divorced, said Goldman. In retrospect, he said, "was a good thing -. Has allowed us to expand and try new things"

Goldman just opened the Greene Street Cafe, an investment company that gave him a place to go and sing without being kicked off the stage, the lady said Goldman. "Tony was a crooner," he said.

She and Mr. Goldman was remarried in 1977, and finally, two children, Jessica and Joey Goldman Goldman Srebnick, joined the company. Ms. Goldman Srebnick become the CEO of Goldman Properties.

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Author & Feminist Eva Figes Dies at 80

Eva Figes, a refugee from Nazi Germany who became an acclaimed writer and critic best known memoirs by treaty influential feminist "patriarchal attitudes," published in 1970, died August 28 at home in London.

The cause was heart failure, his son said Orlando.

Ms. FIGE (pronounced Jez-FIE) was 38 years old, divorced and raising two children, she felt compelled to write when an accusation blisters on the feet of women in society and what they saw as the inequality of marriage.

He was a novelist, at this point, but the experience of discrimination in the workplace and in other children (he was forced, for example, to get her husband to guarantee the lease home, but not pay for food), inspired by his anger.

"The much vaunted male logic is not logical, because the bias - against half the human race - are considered prejudices according to a dictionary definition," wrote Ms. FIGE.

His book was published two months of controversial feminist Germaine Greer "female eunuch" (1970) and "Sexual Politics" in the Kate Millett (1969), and together feminist ideas injected into the national debate. Newspapers and television FIGE lady tried for his point of view.

But Mrs. FIGE was too immature to be independent and any movement for a long time. It could also be dismissive of their brothers in arms. "I've never read 'The woman eunuch,'" he told the British newspaper The Guardian in 1993. "It was all out of my book and said:" Do not worry ", so I did. Germaine is crazy and I think a lot of what he says is romantic hot air."

Instead, he returned to writing novels. He has written more than a dozen and became less closely associated with a movement led by British experimental BS Johnson. "Kafka and Virginia Woolf were major influences looked back," Orlando FIGE, historian and writer, he said.

Much of the narrative FIGE lady was concerned with the passage of time. "Awakening" (1981) tells the story of a woman through her waking sleep in seven days for life. "Light" (1983) is a day in the life of Monet.

It also incorporates passages often teaching about oppression of women that critics did not like, and he praised books. "It's the insistence of Mrs. FIGE to hammer home a message that undermines a work the other ambitious, innovative and incredibly poetic," Angeline Goreau wrote in a review in The New York Times "The Seven Ages "(1987), a novel in which seven elements fit into the solitary life of a midwife.

In the last decade, Ms. FIGE focused on writing his memoirs, seems determined to come to terms with his childhood trauma.

Eva Unger was born in Berlin April 13, 1932, Peter Unger and Irma. He recalled his childhood as the golden age, protected at first by the growing Nazi threat of a wealthy Jewish family. He remembered learning to cook and sew after school to Grandma. This Eden is shattered when his father, a wholesale hinge, was arrested along with thousands of people during the violence of Kristallnacht in 1938 and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau.

Peter Unger escaped Dachau, and the family fled to England in 1939, but seven years, Eva did not want to safety. E 'was teased at school. Their grandparents and the servant of the family stayed behind and realized that his destiny only when her mother sent her to the movies alone at the end of the war saw the news of the concentration camps. Never recovered from the shock of the moment alone in the dark, he said.

Ms. FIGE sense of herself as an outsider while faded dominated English and began to excel as a writer. He has a degree in English at Queen Mary College, London, in 1953. Two years later - to move away from their parents, she said - she married John FIGE, who ran an employment agency recruiting. The marriage ended seven years later.

He returned to the war - or, rather, has returned to her - when she became a grandmother and she was thinking about those years in Germany and the pain of being uprooted, a theme taken up in "Tales of Innocence and Experience reports: Exploring "In a time of revision in 2003, Barbara Ehrenreich described the book as" a story of the Holocaust in relation to this, the poetic delicacy that no summary can do justice "..

Although Ms. FIGE had many relationships after divorce, with one writer Günter Grass, the work is based in England and went to live with his family after one of his own marriage dissolved, for the most lived sun.

In addition to his son, who survived a daughter, Kate, a brother, Ernesto, and four grandchildren.

"My mother was an isolated and intellectually," said Orlando FIGE. "I was put in writing, which was pretty limiting. Lived alone, so everything I wrote came from within. Last year, while he was thinking of death was, as material for writing. "

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Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz dies at 92

Dr. Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist at New York Don Quixote-like attacks on the psychiatric profession in 1960 and 1970, led him to a position of prominence and influence with their radical ideas fell into disrepute and disappeared.

Szasz died Sept. 8 at his home in Manlius, New York, his family announced. He suffered a spinal compression fracture resulting from a fall.

He rose to fame with his 1961 book, "The Myth of Mental Illness", which argued that mental illness is not a disease, but simply "life problems." In this and a series of successive volumes, he said not to use drugs to treat mental disorders with insanity as a defense against criminal acts and people committed to mental institutions against their will. He called the act "a crime against humanity."

In 1992, Szasz - pronounced "ZOZ" - said with courage Syracuse Post-Standard: "I am probably the only psychiatrist in the world who do not have clean hands I commit to I never gave him electric shocks which have never , ... never gave drugs to a mental patient. "

Perhaps his most controversial act was allied with the Church of Scientology founded the Citizens Commission for Human Rights, a group that is clearly opposed to psychiatry and its methods of treatment. Although he was not a Scientologist Szasz, has lent his collaboration patina of credibility to an organization inspired not by science but by a science fiction writer, according to his critics.

He later distanced himself from the church, but his association with the Commission and other views led New York authorities to block mental health teaching hospital in a state where residents with University New York State format.

The Crusader has emerged at a time when many critics have questioned some of the principles of psychiatry, including activities such as the diagnosis of women as "hysterical" when they refused to submit to the domination of men or request that homosexuality is a mental illness. Some critics also agreed that too "mentally ill" people were locked in an illegal way.

But Szasz, has actually thrown the baby with the bathwater, on the grounds that the majority of psychiatric diagnoses were poorly designed and without scientific basis.

However, their arguments introduced some new ideas, Dr. Robert W. Daly, a psychiatrist at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Post-Standard awarded to "The discussion on the use of coercion and forced treatment and all that, I had a real impact on the discussion of these items within the profession and within the law. has helped increase awareness of what in fact they were doing. "

In a 2006 profile in The New Atlantis, Szasz virtually admitted that there were windmills. "I really do not think I'm doing when I say that I was hoping not to have much impact on psychiatry. Psychiatry've seen all the time as more of the Catholic Church. Voltaire What impact do about it? If you think about what has happened since then, no, no, I did not expect any difference. "

Thomas Stephen Szasz is, April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. After his family emigrated to the United States in 1938, obtained a degree in physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1941. When he graduated in medicine from the University was the first of its kind in 1944.

He studied psychoanalysis at the University of Chicago and, except for two years in the Naval Reserve, he worked at the University in 1955 before joining what is now the SUNY Upstate. He remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1990, but continued writing and research until his death.

Two years after his retirement, he was sued for negligence by the widow of a man who committed suicide after six months Szasz told him to stop taking lithium for depression. The case was settled out of court, and finally gave up private practice Szasz.

More than half a century, Szasz has published 35 books and hundreds of articles.

His wife, Rosine, who died in 1971. He left two daughters, Dr. Szasz Margot Peters and Suzy Szasz Palmer, a brother, George, and grandson.

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Snowboard pioneer Tom Sims dies at 61

Tom Sims, a new skate and snowboard pioneer and former world champion who helped snowboarding to the masses that push the ski resorts to embrace the emerging sport in 1980, has died. I 'was 61.

The founder of skateboard and snowboard Sims Sims died Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after suffering a heart attack, said his sister, Margie Sims Klinger.

"It was the godfather of all sports facilities," said Michael Brooke, publisher of specific wavelength, Friday.

"He has literally helped build the skate professionally, and was one of the giants in the history of snowboarding."

Pat Bridges, editor of Snowboarder, Sims said, "is not only a pioneer of snowboarding, but also popularized what came to be known as the lifestyle of action sports. Had a different modus for a good while standing sideways, depending on the season. "

As Brooke said, "I was an only child of a company that sells these things. Seen you."

"It was the first true pioneer of what is called the longboard - a skateboard over 4 feet long," said Brooke. "I ride longboard great for cruising and hills. Was doing this way before anyone else. Would like to take this type of waves and feel put there to skate."

A transplant from New Jersey, who was also a surfer and wakeboarding, Sims moved to Santa Barbara in 1971 and began participating and winning skateboarding competitions, including the World skateboard.

"It's become someone who all the kids looked up to and wanted to emulate wanted his paintings," Sister Sims' he said. "Then I realized I had such a demand, he founded a company and started producing products. Skateboard His specialty was 4 meters long, it has begun to do the same."

A few years after the release of The Sims skateboards in the mid 70's, Sims Snowboards was founded.

Sims, who became world champion of snowboarding in 1983, was responsible for the creation of early snowboarding halfpipe in the snow and used in competition, Lake Tahoe, and the first snow permanent halfpipe at a ski resort, Snow Summit in Big Bear Lake.

"Not only will support this activity," said Bridges, "has changed the perception of people born in this sport, a complex time."

He was also the main trick snowboard Roger Moore in the James Bond movie 1985 "A View to a Kill".

In an interview in 1995 Snowboarder Magazine, Sims said: "The world has woken up and realized that the best and the most pleasant way a mountain is a table of snowboard Before 1985, I have requested the owner of a ski out. precious the chairlifts. himself kind that started on the hill for 10 years, now ask me a card for her grandson. "

Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1950, Sims moved to the East Coast when he was 2 years old, and his family settled in Haddonfield, New Jersey when he was 6 years old.

While visiting his grandparents in Los Angeles during the summer of 1960, saw his first skate Sims when he saw half a dozen guys rolling on the sidewalk.

"I was absolutely in transit," said Ola concrete in November. He begged his father to buy him a skateboard in Sears and "from that day I experienced my skate. Loved beyond imagination. Before the end of the second day was as good as any of the boys out there on the sidewalk. I just found something I really loved to do. "

In 1963, Sims built his first surfboard thin snow in his school shop class half-notch. Called a "skiboards".

"I was trying to solve a dilemma that I had," he told National Public Radio in 1998. "I could not skate on roads covered with snow in winter in southern New Jersey. And the easiest solution was to make a skateboard for snow."

In addition to his sister, Sims is survived by his wife, Hillary, their children, Sarah, Tommy and Shane, and their daughters, Alexa and Kylie Wagner.

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