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(Lee Wiley, Djuna Barnes, Berenice Abbott, Eddie Condon: the list of Hank O'Neal's pals is a who's who of the most thrilling characters in the great Drama of New York. He's a renaissance man of pictures, songs and some rather awkward modern dancing. And it's all thanks to the CIA.)

(Dr. Michaeleen Maher is a scientist trained in brain research, and a known ghost investigator. She's extremely articulate, funny and theatrical. She might have been a famous actress had not other interests prevailed. Her person exudes a kind of exotic promise that time spent with her is never time wasted.)

(What's tall and thin and black and white and late at night? Hattie dressed as a nun on some tawdry stage, that's what. Hattie is the magician behind so many legends they can't be counted—Mudd Club, Pyramid, Wigstock, Jackie 60—anything tall and genius had to be Hattie Hathaway.)

(Herbert Kearney comes from Ireland. He is an artist and a leprechaun. When we met him long ago in the Chelsea Hotel, he drove a carriage in Central Park and made carvings out of cow bones. Down in New Orleans, where he lives, he recently was jailed for peeing outside.)

(Roger Richards ran the famous Rare Book Room with his wife Irvyne for many years. That's where it all happened. He died prematurely in 2002, after doing this interview about his wild and wonderful life full of luminous downtown folklore and magic. He knew literature like no one else does.)

(Lionel Ziprin is the Lower East Side. His mother, Sheba, is responsible for the creation of low-cost housing in the US. Imagine what she'd say if she were here now! Lionel sees everything. He doesn't miss a trick. His house is full of rabbinical hats and he has one mouse.)

(Captain Bob used to be over at the barge at Pier 63 where the Frying Pan lightship is docked. His stories made the barge. Now he can be found out at Coney Island, where he gives his own style of walking tour. Look for his white hair and captain's cap.)

(Penny Arcade is an international performance superstar. Her performances are scathing and hilarious and full of truth. She is a great promoter of other artists, both living and dead. Her regular impersonations of such underground stars as Dame Margo Howard-Howard and Jack Smith have kept them in the public consciousness.)

(Edgar Oliver is a prolific playwright and the author of The Man Who Loved Plants. He lives on East 10th Street in New York City, the last resident of a crumbling SRO. His acting is as legendary as his voice, which has no match. He is considered a downtown treasure.)

(Kasoundra Kasoundra was famously in love with Leonard Cohen, which is reflected in her art, of course, but that's not all. She was close to Harry Smith and Stanley the Turtle. She's an icon of true bohemia. It's no wonder Germaine Greer dedicated her book The Female Eunuch to Kasoundra.)

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(To any room she adds a dark sparkle of glamour, to any conversation she adds wit. When Terence left New York at the end of September, the city lost a shade of its color. A diarist, a bibliophile and a lover of cats, she was also our most beloved dominatrix.)

(Ira Cohen is the author of Poems from the Akashic Record and maker of the film Kings with Straw Mats. He is known around the world for his poems, his photographs, his films, and his recordings. He published the famous magazine Gnaoua in Morocco. His life is a magic carpet.)

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(Were the Lower East Side a Republic, Charles Schick and Regina Bartktoff and their daughter Hannah would be its first family in our opinion, because as far as we can tell, there is no family on this island of Manhattan who better personifies the heart of the city than theirs.)

(She was born in Boonville, Indiana in 1935. Her parents ran the hardware store on the square. She almost went to medical school but came instead to New York to sing. Today she blends science and singing in her work with some of the most beloved voices in our city.)

(Victor Bockris is famous for his biographies of Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, William Burroughs and others of equal importance. He himself is an eccentric in the tradition of the Sitwells, living right here in New York City. This is the only lengthy interview where Victor is himself the star subject.)

(In the 1920s, Pat the Wonder Dog had charge of the old Gilmore Hotel. Now the Sylvia Beach Hotel, Pat's duties belong to a cat named Shelley. Obsessions, amorous heavy machinery, life lived exactly to the letter and the ghosts of famous old communists enliven the pages of this issue.)

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