Gone but not forgotten

Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2020...

• Frances Goldin, lifelong preservationist and community activist

• Terry Lewis, aka Kid Lucky, beatbox and beatrhyming pioneer

• Jimmy Webb, manager at Trash & Vaudeville, and later owner of I Need More

 

• Annette Averette, neighborhood activist and member of the Sixth Street Community Center 

• Matthew "Matty" Maher, longtime bartender then owner of McSorley's

• Margaret Morton, professor at Cooper Union and photographer who documented the city's homeless

• Holly Lane, East Village-based music executive

• David Gonzales, longtime employee at Frank Restaurant on Second Avenue

• Shirley Campbell, housing activist

• Giuseppi Logan, free-jazz legend



• Phyllis Somerville, veteran actress of film, TV and Broadway 

• Miguel Algarin, poet and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

• Carol Porteous-Fall, eco-activist and yoga enthusiast

• Ali Yasin, pharmacist and proprietor at New York City Pharmacy on First Avenue

• Miguel Grande, the Pasta King at Supper on Second Street

• Nashom Wooden, legend in the drag community 

• The Rev. Diane Dunne, pastor of Hope for the Future Ministries who fed the homeless in Tompkins Square Park since the late 1980s

• Edgar Artur Cajamarca, kitchen team member at Miss Lily's 7A

  

• Francois "Frans" Nieuwendam, menswear consultant and nightlife veteran

• Walter Lure, musician and founding member of the Heartbreakers

• Hanshi Wilfredo Roldan, martial-arts legend

• Jack Finelli, theater lover, community gardener

• George Eshareturi, doorman at St. Dymphna's

• Stasia Micula, community activist who worked in the 1970s-1980s as adult film star Samantha Fox