The Collector of Bedford Street

Listen to The WBGO Journal on Friday evening, May 4th for a story about a Greenwich Village neighborhood that started a trust fund for a developmentally disabled man and has kept him in his own apartment with his beloved cat and dog. Larry Selman, who just turned 70, is the subject of Alice Elliot’s Academy Award-nominated documentary, “The Collector of Bedford Street.” Selman is known as the collector because he has spent years on the sidewalks of his West Village neighborhood collecting contributions for a variety of charities. True to form, Selman wasn’t shy about asking for donations from neighbors who showed up at his recent birthday party.