While we didn't know him personally, he is someone we saw often in the neighborhood. And we featured him last Aug. 29 in Out and About in the East Village.
I moved down here by accident. I was in love with this girl and we were in the throws of breaking up. I grew up in Queens. I had no intentions of moving down here, especially back then when this neighborhood was the way it was. But she moved here and I followed her. I thought maybe we’d get back together but it never happened and I ended up staying.
Here's an obituary, which notes:
His gentle spirit and kind way will be missed dearly.
[Thanks to Bill the Libertarian Anarchist for letting us know about Joey]
Very sad to hear this. Joey was a friend from back in the mid-80s, and was indeed a gentle spirit. (He also worked as a security guard at the Forbes Gallery on Fifth Avenue in the late 90s/early 2000s.)
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