Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Book

Other free meals can be gotten at the various missions.

• Bowery Mission—227 Bowery (674-3456). Pray and eat from 4:00 to 6:00 PM only. Heavy religious orientation.

• Catholic Worker—36 E. First St. Soup line from 10:00 to 11:00 AM.

Clothes for women on Thursday from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. Clothes for men after 2:00 PM weekdays. Sometimes lodging.

• Holy Name Center for Homeless Men—18 Bleeker St. (CA 6-5848 or CA 6-2338) Clothes and morning showers from 7:00 to 11:00 AM.

• Macauley Mission—90 Lafayette St. (CA 6-6214) Free room and board.

Free food Saturdays at 5:00 PM. Sometimes free clothes.

• Moravian Church—154 Lexington Ave. (MU 3-4219 or 533-3737) Free spaghetti dinner on Tuesday at 1:00 PM.

• Quakers—328 E. 15th St. Meals at 6:00 PM Tuesdays.

• Wayward—287 Mercer St. Free meals nightly.

The International Society For Krishna Consciousness is located at 41 Second Ave. Every morning at 7:00 AM a delicious cereal breakfast is served free along with chanting and dancing. Also at noon, more food and chanting and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 PM, again food and chanting. Then it’s all day Sunday in Central Park Sheepmeadow (generally) for still more chanting (sans food). Hari Krishna is the freest high going if you can get into it and dig cereal and of course, more chanting.

The Paradox Restaurant, at 64 E. 7th St. is a neat cheap health joint that will give you a free meal if you help peel shrimp or do the dishes.

The latest dope on family planning and the new abortion law can be obtained from Planned Parenthood, 300 Park Ave. (777-2015). They provide a free directory on city-wide services in this area. The Black Panther Free Health Clinic on 180 Sutter Ave. in Brooklyn is radical medicine in action. If you ripped off this book, why not send them or another group mentioned in this book a check so they can continue serving the people. Two fantastic clinics on the Lower East Side are the St. Marks People’s Clinic at 44 St. Marks Place (533-9500), open weekdays 6-10 PM and NENA at 290 E. Third St. (677-5040) which also functions as a switchboard for the area.

The Beth Israel Teenage Clinic at 17th St. and 1st Ave. 673-3000 ext. 2424) services young people. Millie at the Village Project, 88 2nd Ave. can arrange for free glasses. The New York University Dental Clinic, 421 First Ave. will give you the cheapest dental care in Gotham. Stuyvesant-Poly Clinic, 137 Second Ave. (674-0232) has an emergency day clinic with the quickest service. Dial-a-freakout is 324-0707. Ambulance service is at 440-1234. You ought to know the cops accompany ambulance calls. The following is a list of the New York City Health Department Centers. They provide a number of free services including X-rays, venereal examinations and treatment, shots for children’s diseases, vaccinations, tetanus shots and a host of other services.

• Central Harlem—2238 Fifth Ave. AU 3-1900

• East Harlem—158 E. 115th St. TR 6-0300

• Lower East Side—341 E. 25th St. MU 9-6353

• Manhattanville—21 Old Broadway MO 5-5900

• Morningside—264 W. 118th St. UN6-2500

• Washington Heights—600 W. 168th St. WA 7-6300

• Morrisania—1309 Fulton St. WY 2-4200

• Mott Haven—349 E. 140th St. MO 9-6010

• Tremont-Fordham—1826 Arthur Ave. LU 3-5500

• Westchester-Pelham—2527 Glebe Ave. SY 2-0100

• Bedford—485 Throop Ave. GL 2-7880

• Brownsville—259 Briston St. HY 8-6742

• Bushwick—335 Central Ave. HI 3-5000

• Crown Heights—1218 Prospect Place SL 6-8902

• Flatbush-Gravesend—1601 Ave. S NI 5-8280

• Ft. Greene—295 Flatbush Ave. Ext. 643-8934

• Red Hook-Gowanus—250 Baltic St. 643-5687

• Sunset Park—514 49th St. GE 6-2800

• Williamsburg-Greenpoint—151 Mayier St. EV 8-3714

• Astoria-Maspeth—12-1631st Ave. L.I.C. AS 8-5520

• Corona-Flushing—34-33 Junction Blvd., Jackson Heights HI 6-3570

• Jamaica—90-37 Parsons Blvd. OL 8-6600

• Rockaway—67-10 Rockaway Beach Blvd.; Arvenne NE 4-7700

• Richmond—51 Stuyvesant Place SA 7-6000

The key to getting overall medical care for free is to pick up on a Medicaid card.

You can apply at any metropolitan hospital. After filling out a long form and waiting three weeks you’ll get your card in the mail. Have a good story when interviewed about why you’re not working or only making under $2900 a year.

There is an age limit in that only folks over 21 can qualify, but the rule is liberally enforced and younger people can get the card with the right hardship story.

The Lawyer’s Commune is a group of revolutionary young lawyers pledged to make a limited income and handle the toughest political cases. They handle all our cases. Find them at 640 Broadway on the fifth floor (677-1552).

New York radicals are fortunate in having a number of good legal assistance agencies. One of the following is bound to be able to help you out of a jam.

• Emergency Civil Liberties Committee—25 E. 26th St. 683-8120 (civil liberties)

• Legal Aid Society—100 Centre St. BE 3-0250 (criminal matters)

• Mobilization for Youth Legal Services—320 E. Third St. 777-5250 (all types of services)

• National Lawyers Guild—5 Beekman St. 277-0385 or 227-1078 (political)

• New York Civil Liberties Union—156 Fifth Ave. 929-6076 (civil liberties)

• New York University Law Center Office—249 Sullivan St. GR 3-1896 (civil matters)

• Claremont Neighborhood Center—169th St. and Washington Ave. 588-1000. Hours are from 2:00 to 10:00 weekdays.

• Black Anti-Draft Union—448 Nostrand Ave.

• Church of St. John the Evangelist—195 Mayier St. 387-8721

• Society for Ethical Culture—53 Prospect Park West SO 8-2972

• American Friends Service Committee—15 Rutherford Place 777-4600

• Chelsea Draft Information—346 W. 20th St. WA 9-2391

• Community Free Draft Counseling Center—470 Amsterdam Ave. 787-8500

• Greenwich Village Peace Center—137 W. Fourth St. 533-5120

• Harlem Unemployment Center—2035 Fifth Ave. 831-6591

• LEMPA—105 Avenue B 477-9749

• New York Civil Liberties Union—156 Fifth Ave. 675-5990

• New York Workshop in Nonviolence—339 Lafayette St. 227-0973

• Resistance—339 Lafayette St. 674-9060

• Union Theological Seminary—606 W. 122nd St. MO 3-9090

• War Resisters League—339 Lafayette St. 228-0450

• Westside Draft Information—602 Columbus Ave. (89th St.) 874-7330

• Woman’s Strike for Peace—799 Broadway 254-1925

• Conservatory Gardens—Central Park, 105th St. and Fifth Ave. Seasonal display. LE 4-4938

• Brooklyn Botanical Gardens—Flatbush and Washington Aves. Rose Oriental Garden, Rose Garden, Native Wild Flower Garden, Rock Garden, Conservatory. Seasonal display. MA 2-4433.

• New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx Park, 200th St., east of Webster Ave.

Gardens and Conservatories. Seasonal displays. Parking fee: $1.00 on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Open: Grounds—10:00 AM to dark, Greenhouses—10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. 933-9400.

• Queens Botanical Gardens, 43-50 Main St., between Dahilia and Elder Aves., Flushing. TU 6-3800.

These gardens are really beautiful places to fuck around for a day. The best ones are the Bronx and Brooklyn. Bring a picnic, a few friends, some grass, and plant the seeds. It’s all free.