Last I saw Dan, he was running a recording studio in the storefront that later became his raw-food restaurant, Quintessence, on E. 10th St. — he was living with Debbie of the False Prophets in a loft above what’s now the dining room. Chicken John was also living there, or crashing, or keeping his stuff in the basement (or something), and I was playing bass with John’s band-at-the-time, Letch Patrol. We’d record in what’s now (I think) Quintessence’s kitchen, while Dan and Debbie argued upstairs about all the weirdos who were always hanging around the place.

Right, ‘Letch Patrol’ — ‘food in the raw.’ Puns springing up like hollyhocks. See, you turn around and suddenly people are on the cover of the NY Post. There are like, what, a couple hundred residents of downtown Manhattan? Because it’s just the same people over and over.

(Pic & clip stolen from the doughty Steve Gilliard.)

Restaurant boss in raw – tipsters

Is he subway flasher?

BY TRACY CONNOR and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Cops want to question a Manhattan restaurant owner after getting numerous tips that he’s the subway flasher caught in the act by camera phone, police sources said last night.

Nearly two dozen people have phoned the Daily News and the NYPD to say they believe Dan Hoyt, co-owner of raw-food eateries called Quintessence, is the man whose photo appeared on the cover of Saturday’s paper.

Investigators contacted Hoyt by phone and asked him to come in for an interview, NYPD sources said. No arrests have been made.

Hoyt did not return The News’ calls, and his business partner and ex-wife, Tolentin Chan, said, “It’s not proven yet.”

She said whoever the flasher is, he needs counseling.

“There should be a support center to support these men to find what is the cause of their action instead of …putting them in jail,” she said.

Hoyt and Chan co-own two restaurants, one on E. 10th St. in the East Village and the other on Amsterdam Ave., and are well known in the raw food movement, which calls for serving uncooked food.