Nowadays, when he is not raging the stage with the Cro-Mags or competing in the Ironman Triathlon, he spends his mornings feeding the homeless in front of Tompkin Square Park.
PILLOWS ON THE PEWS -- Houses of worship, having won the right to shelter the homeless on their front steps, will match their civility with humanity by allowing them to sleep inside.
Rio's archbishop, Orani Tempesta, started the ceremony on a somber note, reminding attendees that July 23 also marked the 20th anniversary of the killing of eight homeless children in front of Candelária church, one of the most revered Catholic sanctuaries in this most Catholic of nations.
Jackson visited the homeless camping in front of City Hall(when told of his arrival Koch raced out to lunch early, escaping a few moments before Jackson arrived) and he talked about racism, the Tawana Brawley case, Howard Beach, and the Tompkins Square Park riot.
Former mayor Art Agnos allowed and then broke up an enormous homeless encampment in front of City Hall in 1990.
(Later, in West L.A., I made a point to buy Starbucks for the homeless vets out front).
The Abbott Government also managed to find $4 million to host a currently homeless think tank fronted by Danish climate science contrarian Bjorn Lomborg who also happens to think that climate change might not be all that bad and, anyway, the world's poorest really needs coal.
If eels could wear red trousers and burn £50 notes in front of homeless people, I think you'd have it in one.
Clearly, the United States needs a radical change of policy on affordable housing ("New Wave of the Homeless Floods Cities' Shelters," front page, Dec. 18).
It's an oddly unsettling note that sounds louder when Mr. Marker lingers over a homeless man sprawled in front of the center and then cuts to the startling televised image of the burning twin towers reflected in a window overlooking Paris.
