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Appearing before Judge Mel Greenberg on December 27, Cardona pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on $500 bail with orders to stay away from the woman. Greenberg instructed both parties to return January 17 for a pre-trial conference...
...Greenberg's tiny apartment in Greenwich Village is piled high with 1,600 mismatched gloves, and he regularly has friends in for a glove-matching party because "I would never give out mismatched gloves. That's denigrating." The group sits around, drinking beer and matching gloves, "and the next day we discover there are not as many matched as we thought...
...Greenberg has witnessed a parade of defeated humanity in his quarter-century of giving on skid row. He has offered gloves to his former professor at Brooklyn College and to a once famous baritone at the Metropolitan Opera, recognized by Greenberg from his days as a youthful walk-on at the Met. Most of the people he meets are confused, seemingly uncertain of where they are or what they are doing. The more frightened refuse the gloves, and he will follow them for several blocks, insisting, "They're a gift. I really want you to have them." One elderly...
Major changes have swept down the Bowery since Greenberg first ventured out. Sad, abandoned men can still be found in the few remaining missions, and in hotels with names like the Prince and the Sunshine. But most of the 82 bars and dozens of flophouses that once served a floating population of aging, mostly white, casual laborers and alcoholics, have gone. Instead the area now boasts expensive apartments and chic restaurants. The newer homeless inhabitants of skid row are more likely to be young, unemployed men who clean car windows at intersections or mill in groups on street corners. Drugs...
Occasionally, a star of hope radiates through all this gloom. Recently he was waiting for a train at Penn Station, when a well-dressed man asked him if he was "the glove guy." Says Greenberg: "He said that I had given him a pair of gloves on the Bowery five years previously and that now he was married with two children, and he wanted to give me $20 to buy more gloves. I told him the same as I tell others who want to write me a check: no thank you. You spend the money on gloves, and you give...