Well, Lookie There, It’s Charles Barron!

Andrew Berman just made life that much more difficult for Donald Trump:

A powerful preservation group is asking Mayor Bloomberg to investigate whether the site of the Trump SoHo condo hotel was a stopover on the Underground Railroad. Currently, excavation is stalled on the site at Spring and Varick streets where developer Donald Trump and his partners want to build a 45-story tower. Last week, the Department of Buildings issued a stop-work order after human remains more than 100 years old were uncovered. Historical accounts indicate the remains are related to a graveyard of Spring Street Presbyterian Church, an activist abolitionist church that stood from 1811 to 1968, according to the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, Andrew Berman. The church was nearly burned down in 1834 because of its antislavery work, Mr. Berman said. His letter to the mayor was copied to several African American leaders, including City Council Member Charles Barron, a Democrat of Brooklyn, and Lieutenant Governorelect David Patterson. Messrs. Barron and Patterson were active in the effort to preserve the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.

Motherfucking Slumlords

First he was attacked by intruders and paralyzed. Then his building’s elevator went on the fritz. Then he ran short of money for the $80 to get four men to carry him down the stairs. And we forgot to mention the cancer:

Not only is Willie Freeman a prisoner in his own body, he is now a prisoner in his own home.

Freeman, 59, has been paralyzed from the neck down for almost 20 years, but that wouldn’t necessarily trouble him at this point if his elevator worked.

And that wouldn’t be a complete disaster if he wasn’t suffering from colon cancer. Since May, he hasn’t received regular chemotherapy or radiation treatment because he can’t get out of his home, he said.

“Cancer is eating away at me, and I can’t get out to save my life,” said Freeman, who used to install carpets before an attack by intruders in his home left him handicapped.

He’s only been able to afford the $80 it costs to pay four men to carry him up and down from his third-floor apartment a few times, he said.

The owner of the Bedford-Stuyvesant building at 300 Putnam Ave., Bedford Throop Housing Development Fund Corp., abandoned repairs last year. Neither city officials nor the new manager could say why, and the owner did not return calls seeking comment.

That’s Dedication

Devising excessive Christmas light displays may not sound like the wisest thing to if you’re prone to getting seizures, but some are truly touched with the holiday spirit:

The decorating starts on Halloween. The lights switch on the day after Thanksgiving. And come Jan. 1, the electric bill is $800 more than usual.

But Joseph DeGaetano and Robert Sibrizzi say putting up thousands of Christmas lights on their neighboring Bayside homes — and scores of other decorations in the front and back yards, garages and driveways — is well worth the time and money.

“When you just see the little kids coming around and the smiles on their faces, it gives you a nice, warm feeling,” said Sibrizzi, who lives with his partner, DeGaetano in a house next door to DeGaetano’s parents.

Sibrizzi is epileptic, but the condition hardly dampens his holiday spirit.

The 42-year-old loved decorating his parents’ Bronx house when he was growing up, and continued the tradition when he moved to 205th St. in Bayside about a decade ago.

“He does what he wants and goes where he wants,” DeGaetano said. “[Epilepsy] doesn’t really hinder him. If he has a seizure, he just rests a while and goes right back at it.”

And Just 163,000 Hot Dogs Later (Or 446.6 A Day), The License Will Pay For Itself

The privilege of selling hot dogs in Central Park for one year exceeds the median price of a single-family home in many parts of the country*:

Vendors have agreed to pay up to $326,000 a year to peddle hot dogs in and around Central Park in the latest contracts awarded by the Parks Department, The Post has learned.

And that’s for a single cart!

Topping the list was north side of the steps to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, one of the most expensive commercial parcels on earth on a square-foot basis.

New York One LLC bid $326,000 for the right to continue selling $2 hot dogs, $1.25 sodas and 50-cent bags of chips from a 10-foot-by-5-foot cart next year. It has been paying $277,000.

In the third year of the deal, the price goes up to $330,000.

But the company balked at a 15 percent price hike — to an astonishing $375,000 — demanded by Parks for a companion cart on the south side of the heavily traveled steps. “We’re paying the city too much,” protested co-owner Thomas Makkos.

. . .

Makkos was tight-lipped about sales, except to say that he was providing a “great service” and bringing in “great revenue” to the city.

In fact, the city hauled in $3.48 million last year from Central Park cart concessions, much of it from Makkos’ company.

*See, for example.

Detectives Union Head Slams NYPD Recruitment Efforts

The head of the police detectives’ union doesn’t believe there are actually 100 blacks in law enforcement:

Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, said the group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care is like a secret society that constantly chooses to criticize the NYPD while failing to show support for cops — even for slain black cops.

The group, now called 100 Blacks Who Care, was founded by Capt. Eric Adams and has been advocating changes in NYPD undercover tactics, firearms training and removal of top brass in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting of Bell outside a strip club.

“I only see the same five people at their press conferences,” Palladino told The Post.

“What is the identity of the other 95 members, what is their connection to law enforcement and more importantly, what do they care about, since they have showed no interest in the five black NYPD detectives who recently sacrificed their lives for their community?” he asked.

Marq Claxton, a retired NYPD detective who serves as the group’s “minister of information,” said 100 Blacks is a “civil rights” — not fraternal — organization with more than 130 members, most of them in the NYPD.

He said entry into the group is by “invitation only.” He declined to provide a list or say what the dues payments are.