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Two plans, many questions; Pier 40 forum coming up

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON With two competing proposals recently having been floated for Pier 40, Community Board 2 will hold a forum on Thurs., Feb. 28, on the ongoing, contentious issue of how best to redevelop the sprawling West Houston St. pier.

One of the plans is by a coalition of local youth sports leagues called Pier 40 Champions. Their proposal

Director Neil Barsky, with a poster of his new film, “Koch,” about the late mayor, who died on Feb. 1.

Koch’s color, complexities laid out in new documentary

BY JERRY TALLMER Near the end of Neil Barsky’s “Koch,” the hugely enjoyable 95-minute docu-bio that, as if by arrangement with God — or maybe Satan — opened in New York City on the very day of its 88-year-old subject’s unwilling 2 a.m. departure from this earth, we glimpse an adoring fan of the triple-term former mayor clutching at him while begging: “You must run again!”

“No,” the Koch who would have relished a fourth (and fifth and sixth) term tartly responds. “You threw me out, and now you must be punished.”

And you know what? He half believes it. We know this because just a bit earlier we have heard this proud Jew say, tongue only slightly in cheek: “I believe in the afterlife, in rewards and punishments — and I expect to be rewarded.”

One of those rewards is not to be

buried in a small, old, hidden-away cemetery like the five tiny Greenwich Village graveyards that longstanding Greenwich Villager Koch inspects and rejects in between hospitalizations.

Speaking of cheek: The close-in cameras of director of photography Tom Hurwitz have brought out the apple cheeks and owl’s nose that unkindly turn the aging Ed Koch into a Mr. Punch; whereas at least one family photo of tall young Ed in his — I’m guessing — twenties, shows him to have been quite a handsome young buck.

When I first met him, circa 1960, he was already a tall, funny-looking, balding, political galoot, but not yet a Mr. Punch.

Speaking of the Deity: At the top of the film we hear Ed Koch (mayor, 1978-1989) surveying this unmanageable city — blackouts, looters, transit strikes, crumbled housing, no housing, traf-

fic jams, labor relations, race relations, strikes, Son of Sam murders, municipal bankruptcy (“We were now beggars”), FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, the whole megillah — “and it belongs to me!” Ed Koch exults. “Thank you, God.” The Saturday afternoon crowd at the Lincoln Plaza, where I saw Mr. Barsky's “Koch” (it’s also at the Angelika), roared and laughed at that line and everything else. At least half the audience was comprised of young men and women — or men and men — who had not yet been born, or just barely been born, when Ed Koch first ran for mayor (against Mario Cuomo) in 1977.

Ed Koch? Good and bad were all tangled together in this most complex, most contradictory of politicos. Every documentary has its share of talking heads,

calls for the construction of two residential towers sited just east of Pier 40 on parkland within the Hudson River Park. Revenue from the towers would help fund repairs and redevelopment of the 15-acre, three-story pier, which needs tens of millions of dollars to fix up its corroded steel support piles and eroded concrete

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P.S. 3 play street is a serious issue for its neighbors

BY SAM SpOKONY Due to overcrowding and loss of indoor space, parents and teachers at P.S. 3 are seeking to turn a portion of Grove St. into a recreational area for the school’s students. And amidst some uneasiness from local residents, the Community Board 2 Transportation Committee resolved to recommend instituting a trial period for the plan, lasting one school year,

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which would likely begin in the fall.

P.S. 3 Principal Lisa Siegman and parent Denise Collins presented the school’s request for a play street on Grove St., between Bedford and Hudson Sts., at the committee’s Feb. 7 meeting.

They said that the school hopes to make the block available primarily to fourth and

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JENNY FROM THE (BARUCH) BLOCK: The confirmation of CUNY School of Law professor Jenny Rivera, above, as the newest member of the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, garnered intense coverage, as she weathered stiff opposition

by Republicans on the state Senate Judiciary Committee last week. A former law clerk to Sonia Sotomayor in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and a Legal Aid lawyer, Rivera was also commissioner of the city’s Commission on Human Rights from 2002 to 2007, and most recently an assistant attorney general in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration. Nevertheless, the G.O.P.’ers grilled Rivera for hours, questioning her lack of trial or judicial experience and dragging their feet on the confirmation. Some of them charged she would bring “judicial activism” to the bench.

But Rivera was ultimately approved in a voice vote. A New York native of Puerto Rican background, Rivera replaces Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, who has retired and was the previous sole Hispanic on the state’s high court. Cuomo, who nominated Rivera last month, lauded her real-world experience helping the poor. He said appointing Rivera, with her background, would be a valuable addition to the court, instead of the same type of individuals always being

selected. “Her extensive experience in civil rights law and her passion for making our state a fairer and more just place will greatly benefit New York,” Cuomo said. Congressmember Nydia Velazquez said, “Throughout her career, time and again, Jenny Rivera has proven herself a dedicated public servant. Her ascension to the Court of Appeals is excellent news for all New Yorkers. I wish her all the best and am confident she will approach this next challenge with her trademark sharp intellect and tireless commitment to justice.” John Sexton, president of New York University, said, “I am thrilled by the Senate’s confirmation of Professor Jenny Rivera to the New York State Court of Appeals.

I have known Professor Rivera since her days as a student at N.Y.U., and I have witnessed her grow to be a distinguished member of the bar and a defender of civil rights and social justice.

She is a deeply intelligent and compassionate individual — traits that I am sure she will bring to the bench as an associate judge and public servant. In her new role, she will serve New Yorkers fairly in the court and enhance our system of justice.” Although Rivera is a longtime Bronx resident, state Senator Daniel Squadron noted that she grew up right on the Lower East Side in the Baruch Houses. "I was honored to vote in support of Jenny Rivera’s confirmation to the New York Court of Appeals,” Squadron said on Monday. “Professor Rivera will not only make a highly qualified jurist — she is an inspiration for New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and throughout New York.” The state senator also praised Rivera’s “ongoing commitment to her community through her work on the Grand Street Settlement board.” “I hope that kids on the Lower East Side were watching today as we confirmed Professor Rivera,” Squadron said.

“She proves that, while it’s not easy, wherever you start out it is possible to rise to the state’s highest court — or to any place you dream.

Congratulations, future Justice Rivera!”

CORRECTIONS: An article on the threatened sale of the Old Chelsea Station post office in last week’s issue of The Villager incorrectly stated that the building was landmarked.

However, it is neither an interior or exterior New York City landmark, thought it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places… . Last week’s Scoopy’s Notebook about Jon Geballe beating Arthur Schwartz in the district leader vote by the County Committee incorrectly referred to the district as the 66th Assembly District, Part A, but it’s the 64th A.D., Part A.

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Should have seen it coming Sylvia Mitchell, a Greenwich Village psychic accused of conning $128,000 out of a woman to rid her of her “bad spirits,” was arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court on Wed., Feb. 6, where she pleaded not guilty to grand larceny and was released on her own recognizance. Pictured with her above is her lawyer, Joe Murray. Mitchell, who runs palm-reading businesses in the Village and Mystic, Connecticut, is accused of fleecing Lee Chong, a Singapore native, out of the sum between 2007 and 2009. According to the Daily News, Chong reported Mitchell to the police late last September. Mitchell’s Village location is Zena Clairvoyant, at 82 Seventh Ave., at Barrow St., where police handcuffed her this past Tuesday. According to the News, Mitchell has previously been busted in at least three similar scams, in which she bilked women of tens of thousands of dollars, even duping one of them to take her on a shopping spree at Ralph Lauren. In this latest incident, her attorney Murray claimed that Chong’s money was merely a loan to Mitchell. “She’s done nothing wrong,” he asserted at the arraignment. “She’s been smeared again and again.”

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Rezoning needs landmarking, rec space, critics say

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON The City Council’s Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee heard four hours of testimony by advocates and opponents of the Hudson Square residential rezoning proposal on Tuesday morning.

The hearing, attended by about 100 people, was held at 250 Broadway, across the street from the Council Chambers in City Hall.

Many who spoke called for a linkage between rezoning Hudson Square and landmarking the rest of the proposed South Village Historic District as put forward by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. To date, the city has landmarked only about one-third of the proposed historic district.

Andrew Berman, director of G.V.S.H.P., said rezoning the adjacent Hudson Square area to allow residential use would surely ratchet up development pressure on the historic, low-rise South Village — so the landmarking of the rest of the proposed district must come before the rezoning. If the South Village isn’t landmarked, Berman and others said, then the rezoning should not go forward.

Berman later said he was disappointed that some of the subcommittee’s members didn’t appear to know exactly where the South Village, or even Hudson Square itself, were, or to fully grasp their geographical proximity.

The councilmembers’ questions were along

Andrew Berman, director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, testified at Tuesday’s hearing on the Hudson Square rezoning. Seated next to him are G.V.S.H.P. staffers, from left, Dana Schulz, Sheryl Woodruff and Drew Durniak.

the lines of “Is the South Village Hudson Square?” and “Is Hudson Square in the South Village?” as well as “What is the relationship between the two neighborhoods?”

At one point, asking for clarification, Leroy Comrie, chairperson of the Council’s full Land Use Committee, shrugged a bit and offered apologetically, “I’m a Queens guy.”

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to this in order to educate them,” Berman said later. “I give credit to [subcommittee chairperson] Mark Weprin, who runs a good meeting, but too few of the councilmembers seemed to know the details of the proposal and its impact. They seemed more confused than anything. There didn’t seem to be anybody there to illuminate the other members of the committee about the parameters of the neighborhood.”

Had Council Speaker Christine Quinn — whose Third Council District includes Hudson Square and most of the South Village — been sitting on the panel, she could have enlightened her colleagues. But she didn’t attend the hearing.

A City Council spokesperson, in a subsequent interview, explained that Quinn doesn’t attend hearings by the Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee or Land Use Committee that pertain to her own district. In fact, she has gone to only one such hearing — on the Spring St. mega-garage project, several years ago. Quinn did have staff at Tuesday’s hearing on the Hudson Square rezoning, who report back to her on the proceedings, the spokesperson noted.

As for Quinn’s position on landmarking the South Village, the spokesperson said the speaker is on record supporting designating the entire proposed historic district — and will continue to advocate for this. However, landmarking is initiated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, he added.

Meanwhile, David Gruber, chairperson of Community Board 2, testified that the rezoning — which is being pushed by Trinity Real Estate and is expected to add around 8,000 new residents to the district in the next 10 years — doesn’t adequately address the city’s requirement for public recreation space. C.B. 2 wants Trinity to include a rec center in the new tower the company plans at Duarte Square, at Sixth Ave. and Canal St. Trinity already plans to include space for a new, 444seat public school in this tower’s base, and instead has agreed to contribute $5.6 million toward the nearby Tony Dapolito Recreation

Center, which is actually just outside the rezoning area. Gruber also called for landmarking the South Village.

The rezoning would also cap building heights in Hudson Square, where none currently exist. In addition, Berman and Gruber called for lower heights on large streets than what was recently approved by the City Planning Commission for Hudson Square — 290 feet.

Trinity Church, one of the oldest parishes in the nation, owns 40 percent of the land in Hudson Square.

Testifying on behalf of the rezoning, Jason Pizer, president of Trinity Real Estate, said, “We take a long-term view — weighing how decisions taken today will impact the years and decades ahead.

“The goal of the rezoning is to strengthen and protect the area as a flourishing center for creative companies and jobs, while invigorating and preserving Hudson Square’s special character,” Pizer said. “Allowing limited residential development will add a missing ingredient essential to promoting street life and enriching retail opportunities. The introduction of height limits and disincentives to demolition will help preserve the area’s large buildings and neighborhood character. While Hudson Square is doing O.K. today, these changes are vital for the area’s continued value as a dynamic, 24/7, mixed-use neighborhood.”

This was the final public hearing on the rezoning. The Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee will next vote, followed by the Land Use Commmittee and then the full City Council, probably in mid-March sometime.

Asked later on Tuesday if there’s anything to report on the Landmarks Preservation Commission possibly designating the rest of the South Village anytime soon, spokesperson Lisi de Bourbon said, “No, other than it remains under consideration.”

When L.P.C. approved one-third of the South Village proposed district, it called it an expansion of the existing Greenwich Village Historic District.

“The commission in 2010 expanded the Greenwich Village Historic District — which is the largest historic district in New York City — by 235 buildings,” de Bourbon noted.

“The original district, approved in 1969, had 2,035 buildings and had already been extended by an additional 45 buildings in 2006. The total number of buildings in multiple historic districts in Greenwich Village is now 2,315.

“We continue to work with elected officials, community leaders and advocacy groups to protect as many of the city’s historic neighborhoods as possible, not only in Greenwich Village, but also in many neighborhoods across all five boroughs where residents have longstanding requests for historic districts,” de Bourbon said, “so we’re considering the South Village Historic District proposal within the context of our other priorities.”

However, Berman argued that Landmarks, over the past 10 years, has actually paid less attention to Greenwich Village than other areas of the city in terms of the number of buildings it has designated over that period of time.

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Police BLOTTER D.W.I. drivers busted

Where there’s smoke…

Police said they spotted Paul Carlson, 23, holding a lit marijuana joint on W. 10th St., near Fifth Ave., around 7 p.m. on Feb. 6. But when they approached to question him, Carlson reportedly threw the joint away where the officers couldn’t recover it.

However, Carlson was in fact found to be in possession of three other alleged joints, as well as an open bottle of Jameson whiskey and a gravity knife.

He was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, drinking in public, criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence — the last charge resulting from Carlson’s decision to hide the original joint.

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Police nabbed two serial cellphone snatchers after they got too greedy at a swanky Meatpacking District nightclub early on Fri., Feb. 8.

Jeffree Elusma, 23, and Khadine Charles, 24, allegedly lifted five phones, along with two credit cards, during an hour-long spree at Cielo, a club at 18 Little W. 12th St. After numerous reports of thefts began to circulate throughout the place, the matter was reported to police, and the thieves were picked up outside the club around 3 a.m. Cops said the filched items totaled over $3,000 in value, but the duo was fortunately unable to make any unauthorized charges on the credit cards before being busted.

Elusma and Charles were both charged with grand larceny.

Two phone thieves were caught trying to make their getaway from the Meatpacking District early on Thurs., Feb. 7, but they ended up getting hit with some extra charges once police tracked them down.

Ali Facaci, 28, grabbed a cell phone out of another man’s hand on W. 13th St. near Ninth Ave. around 2:45 a.m., and then jumped into a truck driven by Aboudou Gassama, 29, police said. The duo probably thought they had it made, but they were soon pulled over by a police cruiser.

Police recovered the stolen phone after Facaci threw it out the truck’s window in an attempt to hide the evidence. Upon further investigation, officers also found him to be in possession of a bag of alleged marijuana. And Gassama was found to be driving with a suspended license.

In addition to the pot and suspended licenses charges, both Facaci and Gassama were charged with grand larceny.

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Cops busted a drunk driver near Washington Square Park early on Sun., Feb. 10, after the man hit another car while his blood alcohol content was allegedly more than twice the legal limit.

Officers responded to an accident at the corner of Washington Square South and MacDougal St. around 2:30 a.m., where Maxim Kononchuk, 24, had apparently rear-ended a vehicle with his 2013 BMW. Upon questioning Kononchuk, police said he smelled strongly of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and was extremely unsteady on his feet. After a breathalyzer test was conducted, he was found to have a B.A.C. of .181 — more than twice the legal limit of .08.

Kononchuk was charged with D.W.I. And the next day, another man was busted for intoxicated driving — but this time it was pot smoke to blame.

Police stopped Albert Dinkins, 30, at a D.W.I. checkpoint at West Houston and Washington Sts. around 2 a.m., after they smelled a strong marijuana odor emanating from his car window. Dinkins reportedly confessed without much prodding, telling officers, “I smoked a couple of hours ago.” Police also said his eyes were still bloodshot at that time.

In addition to being charged with D.W.I., Dinkins was also slapped with a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle, because upon further investigation, police learned that the 2012 Chrysler Town Car he was in was actually a Hertz rental car that Dinkins was not presently permitted to drive.

fight off an arrest.

An officer saw Rudolph Downing, 50, jump the turnstile around 4 a.m., and, after apprehending him, found that Downing already had a warrant out for a previous violation. But when the officer turned to slap the cuffs on him, Downing reportedly began to flail his arms and attempt to push the policeman away, while loudly cursing at him and creating a general disturbance.

After he was eventually subdued, Downing was charged with resisting arrest, along with farebeating. A Sixth Precinct source later said that Downing is “one of our regular Washington Square Park guys,” adding that he has been arrested in that area at least 50 times.

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Past and present unite at P.S. 3 panel discussion

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BY SAM SpOKONY P.S. 3 parents, alumni and current and former teachers gathered in the Hudson St. school’s auditorium on Sat., Feb. 2, for discussions about the origin and development of the West Village’s longtime alternative choice in elementary education.

Founded in 1971, the school has throughout its history shown the benefits of progressive, experimental methods of teaching and learning. However, many within the P.S. 3 community are still reeling from the recent decision by the Department of Education and Community Education Council to split the school’s shared zone with P.S. 41 starting in 2014, thus removing its role as a choice school.

At top left, New Yorker magazine contributor and author Calvin Trillin (left) — who lives

across the street from P.S. 3 and sent his children there decades ago — moderated a panel discussion with former student Nat Oppenheimer, a structural engineer who is now overseeing development of the new Whitney Museum near the High Line, and several other former students and P.S. 3 educators.

Below left, an intergenerational discussion featured architect Norman Rosenfeld (left), who, along with his wife, Lee, played a major role in the founding of P.S. 3; his daughter Marion Rosenfeld (center), a writer and media professional who was one of the school’s first students; and her daughter Thea Rosenfeld (right), a current student at the school.

Below right, P.S. 3 students led the crowd in a group rendition of the school song.

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P.S. 3 play street is a serious issue for neighbors Continued from page 1 fifth graders only on school days and during various recess hours, which were initially stated as between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Siegman, who also said that space would conceivably be used by around 100 children at a time, later said that the aforementioned time period could be shortened if necessary.

The play street program is jointly run by the city’s Departments of Health, Transportation and Parks, and was created to combat childhood obesity by opening up eligible streets to schools or community groups that need additional recreational space.

Since the three city agencies began collaborating on the program in 2010, 67 play street permits have been granted citywide, according to D.O.H., including 26 for schools and 41 for community groups.

A department representative also said that, during that time, there have not been any play streets created within the Community Board 2 area. The program existed before 2010, albeit without major city agency involvement, after the first play street was created in 1914 by the Police Athletic League.

A play street permit requires approval first by the local community board, then by the local Police Department precinct’s community affairs office, then by D.O.H., and finally by D.O.T. Spaces eligible for the program are those

that are one-way streets, do not include hospitals, fire stationhouses or other facilities that require emergency vehicle access, and are adjacent to the school or organization applying for the permit.

In the case of P.S. 3, the proposed Grove St. block conforms to all of those requirements.

But around a dozen residents of the street’s block between Bedford and Hudson Sts. showed up to the Feb. 7 committee meeting to oppose the school’s request, citing worries about the disturbances they believe it could cause for elderly people, families with infants and those who work from home.

“We’re not against children, we’re just against the noise,” said Richard Eric Weigle, president of the Grove St. Block Association, who does not live on the affected block but spoke alongside his constituents. “Grove St. is a little oasis of calm in this city, and you have to ask yourselves, how would you feel if 100 children were dropped off in front of your place for three hours every day?”

Other residents in opposition said they had only bad memories stemming from several years ago, when P.S. 3 used the block in a similar way. At that time, the school building also housed middle school students, and P.S. 3 representatives responded to those comments by pointing out that it was mainly the middle school-aged children who had caused such disturbances.

Siegman said that if a play street were to be

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P.S. 3 Principal Lisa Siegman spoke at the C.B. 2 Transportation Committee’s Feb. 7 meeting to request approval for a school recreational space on Grove St., between Bedford and Hudson Sts.

approved, students using the block for recreation would be under adult supervision at all times, and would be required to follow a strict code of conduct barring them from entering private property, such as stoops, gardens or tree beds, as well as being required to clean up

after themselves. She also stressed that P.S. 3 staff and volunteers would make sure that use of the block does not create any new hazards for residents.

“We want to be good neighbors,” Siegman said. “This won’t impede residents from getting into their homes, play will be stopped if cars need to get through, and we can also stop play if disabled residents need to pass on the street. We’ll maintain ongoing communication with the block association to make sure any concerns are dealt with.”

Several other members of the P.S. 3 community, including P.T.A. Co-president Nick Gottlieb, were also present at the committee meeting to speak in support of the play street request.

While it seemed unlikely that the Grove St. residents would be placated over the course of the meeting, they did eventually agree with the committee’s resolution, which calls for the play street to be implemented with a trial period of one school year. If that ends up being the case, the space could become a permanent fixture after the trial period expires.

Following the meeting, several residents did in fact say that, all fears aside, they would be willing to work with P.S. 3 in the hopes of making the play street a positive experience for all stakeholders.

The committee’s resolution will be voted on at the C.B. 2 full board meeting on Thurs., Feb. 21.

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Ed Koch’s color and complexities are laid out in new Continued from page 1 and “Koch” the movie has its full measure of City Hall aides and authorities and journalists pivoted around Joyce Purnick, former New York Post reporter, former New York Times “Metro Matters” columnist, who keeps Koch Plus and Minus matters in useful perspective.

No, Ed Koch did not suffer fools gladly. He was indeed very tough on them — “Calls them as he sees them,” says one intimate, “but he also knows a wacko when he sees one.”

Film editor Juliet Weber has assembled “Koch” as a mosaic, a kaleidoscope of hundreds of interlocked, interrelated pieces, large and small, like a cathedral’s stained-glass window. This may bother some viewers who would prefer a straightforward chronological sequence, but it didn’t and doesn’t bother me; life doesn’t run in straight lines, nor do the lives of great cities.

It’s a bad pun, but Ed Koch’s personal life didn’t run in a straight line either. “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo” was the slogan that was plastered all over Queens in 1977 and ’78 — maybe by hired hands of Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario Cuomo, maybe not. It made no difference.

“A primary is like a civil war,” Hizzoner says, “but when it’s over, it’s over."

The question of lifelong unmarried Edward I. Koch’s sexual orientation will never be — how to put it? — laid to rest, and it is hard for me not to agree with the ex-mayor’s angry denunciation of some future official Orwellian form that demands an answer on the dotted line to “Are you gay?” or “Are you straight?”

“I’m not going to do it,” we hear Koch stubbornly proclaim, followed by: “It’s none of your f------ business.”

Nor is it.

What follows, filmically and logically, is Larry Kramer exploding in rage against the mayor, who was burying himself ever deeper in the closet while, starting in the early 1980s, the black death of AIDS was wiping out playwright Kramer’s friends and other good people by the hundreds and ultimately the thousands.

On other hot-potato social questions — abortion, for instance — Koch was neither naive nor silent. His mother, he tells us, or tells former New York Daily News and Wall Street Journal reporter Neil Barsky, had long ago

Ed Koch campaigning for governor on Election Day at Grand Central in 1981, as seen in the new documentary, “Koch.”

revealed to her son how she’d once almost died from an illegal abortion.

When I heard Koch saying this, I had a hot flashback of my own. It was Koch strategist David Garth who’d thought up recruiting Bronx-born Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, as Koch’s “beard” — the true beauty who, in the year of “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo,” would go everywhere with Koch, every day, every night, every opening, every ribbon-cutting, every everything, to demonstrate his non-homosexuality.

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Ed Koch on the bus with Bess Myerson on the way to his mayoral inauguration in January 1978.

Continued from page 8 Well, I once interviewed Bess Myerson, after Koch made her commissioner of Cultural Affairs. We had never met before in our lives, mind you, would never meet again. She kept the interview going for two hours, and she suddenly started telling me, in fulsome detail, about her abortion. Told me everything except the name of the impregnator, which was not Ed Koch.

Yes, Koch “had an insatiable hunger for the camera” — what politician does not? — but he also had guts, and in Freedom Summer, 1964, the summer of the murder of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, long before he was mayor, Ed Koch was marching in Mississippi to establish his credentials.

And yes, he can’t stop talking. Passing through the gentrified (ugh) 42nd Street, he can’t resist saying, out of nowhere, for no reason: “I’ve never been to a Red Lobster.”

Fiorello LaGuardia used to say: “When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut.” Ed Koch could say the same, many times over, notably in the closing of under-used Sydenham Hospital in

Harlem, which opened the door to charges of this mayor’s racism.

“Maybe I should have given in to racial terror,” he says cynically, on camera, backed up by how he’d incurred “a great deal of ill will and resentment just because I was white.”

“He’s worse than a racist,” says one critic.

“He’s an opportunist.” “It’s all theatrics,” says another.

Koch himself puts it another way: “Some people talk about bringing people together.

Other people” — i.e. me, I, Ed Koch — “do it.”

In his time, Koch suffered and survived a heart attack, a bypass, a couple of strokes, paralysis of the face (“That scared the hell out of me”), and periods of depression.

About 10 minutes before the end of the movie we see old, old Ed Koch, all alone, his back to us, trudging down a long, dark, narrow corridor to obscurity. If I were director Barsky or editor Weber I would have made that the closing shot.

Koch the movie does run a bit long. But so did Ed Koch, the man. I’m glad for all 95 minutes of this gripping, anatomical recapitulation of a New Yorker whose likes we’ll not be seeing again soon.

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Koch in the office of his campaign manager, David Garth, in September 1977, as seen in the movie “Koch.”

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Diane Wolkstein, 70, city’s storyteller, folklore historian OBITUARY

By Albert Amateau Diane Wolkstein, the first full-time storyteller hired by the Department of Parks and Recreation 45 years ago, who became a folklore historian and the author of 23 books, died Jan. 31 in Taiwan at the age of 70.

A resident of Patchin Place in Greenwich Village, Diane Wolkstein was undergoing emergency heart surgery while in Taiwan researching a Chinese folk story, said her daughter, Rachel Zucker.

“She died surrounded by close friends.

A rabbi said Kaddish, and Buddhist prayers were said,” Zucker wrote in an e-mail to Jefferson Siegel, a photographer for The Villager who had photographed Wolkstein in 2009.

“Her life overflowed with joy, intensity, friendship, love and spirit. Her love for each of us and for the stories she told live inside of us forever,” Zucker said.

Wolkstein told a New York Times reporter in 1992 that she talked her way into the job as storyteller in the city parks in 1967 without realizing what had to be done.

“It was a park, people could walk away if they didn’t like it,” she told the interviewer.

For five years, Wolkstein went from one park at 11 a.m. to another at 2 p.m. five days a week with a few props and a repertoire of tales ranging from “Hansel and Gretel” to Chinese, Persian, Nigerian and African-American stories.

The pay was $40 per week. From 1968 to 1980, she was on WNYC radio on Saturday mornings with “Stories From Many Lands.”

In 1971, with the municipal fiscal crisis looming, the city decided it could not afford a full-time storyteller. But Wolkstein was awarded the honorary lifetime title, with no pay, of City’s Storyteller. In 1980, she helped create The Storytellers Circle of New York, which trained thousands of volunteers and sent them to schools, libraries and to the weekly story session at the Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park at Fifth Ave. at 72nd St. The first of her nearly two dozen books appeared in 1972 with folktales, legends and creation myths gathered from research trips to Africa, Asia and Haiti. In 1983, with Samuel Noah Kramer, a scholar of Assyrian civilization, Wolkstein wrote “Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth,” a 4,000-yearold story of the Sumerian goddess of fertility, love and war. She also wrote a fictional account of the biblical story of Esther.

Wolkstein revisited her role as a parks storyteller in 1992; in an interview at the time with Clem Richardson, a Daily News

Photo by Jefferson Siegel

Diane Wolkstein in her backyard on Patchin Place.

columnist, she said, “Each time I tell a story that I love I appreciate it in a different way.”

She noted that she read hundreds of stories before finding one that she wanted to tell.

“You have to find one that moves you,” she explained. “If it doesn’t move you it won’t move anyone else when you tell it.

You’re really sharing your heart, exchanging love with your listeners.”

She also told Richardson about a story she didn’t understand and therefore couldn’t perform until she finally did know in her heart what it meant.

Her repertoire included tales from Haiti, which she visited several times. She also learned from Aborigine storytellers she met in Australia.

Diane was born Nov. 11, 1942, in Newark, N.J., to Henry and Ruth Wolkstein and was raised in Maplewood.

She graduated from Smith College and then went to Paris where she studied with Etienne Decroux, the renowned mime master. She earned her living in Paris teaching Sunday school for American expatriates. But she returned to New York in 1966 to earn a master’s degree from the Bank Street College of Education. A memorial service was held Feb. 3 in the New York Insight and Meditation Center on W. 27th St. A celebration of her life is planned for the summer at a time and place to be announced.

In addition to her daughter, also surviving are her mother, two brothers and three grandsons.

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Sylvia Friedman, 74, a leader in East Side politics OBITUARY

By Albert Amateau Sylvia Friedman, a leader for decades in East Side Democratic politics who served as district leader, as well as in the New York State Assembly, and was an intrepid advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, died Feb. 3 at the age of 74.

A member of the Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats, of which she had served as president, she was honored by the club last December for her accomplishments.

“We knew her as the ‘conscience of the club’ because of her fierce commitment to doing what’s right through the political process,” said Tom Nooter, current club president and district leader.

“She was an outspoken advocate for the disabled community — she had major problems with asthma herself,” noted Allen Roskoff, a gay activist and friend of Friedman for more than 30 years. “I can’t think of any progressive cause that she didn’t fight for. She was also 100 percent committed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender [L.G.B.T.] community,” said Roskoff, a member with Friedman on the staff of

Mark Green when he was the city’s public advocate from 1993 to 2001. Friedman was Green’s liaison to the disabled community.

“She was one of a kind, never afraid to voice her opinion — on feminism, civil liberties,” Roskoff added.

Sylvia also worked for Green on his campaigns for mayor and for state attorney general.

“She was a friend, a supporter and a model community activist,” Green said. “Sylvia had passion, patience and thoughtfulness. She knew about the problems of ordinary people from what she heard at community board and neighborhood meetings. She was smart, clearheaded and she had a cadre of loyal friends. Sylvia was a problem solver rather than a headline hunter. Her death is a great loss to the community,” Green said.

As a member of Community Board 6, Sylvia Friedman was head of the board’s Committee on Housing for the Homeless and also of its Parks and Landmarks Committee.

She also served as Democratic district leader and as Democratic State Committee member.

Twice she ran for City Council but failed to be elected. When Miriam Friedlander tried to regain her former Lower East Side

Sylvia Friedman.

Council seat from Antonio Pagan in 1993, she lost to Pagan in a three-way primary race that included Friedman, who took 2,000 votes.

“We lost that one because some of the Hispanic community was confused by ‘Friedman’ and ‘Friedlander,’ ” Frieda Bradlow told The Villager in an obituary in this paper on Friedlander in October 2009.

“If Sylvia hadn’t run, Miriam would have won — because the community had started to realize what this guy [Pagan] was about.”

However, in early 2006, Sylvia Friedman won a special election to fill the East Side seat that had been vacated by Assemblymember Steven Sanders. In the Assembly, she helped pass Timothy’s Law, which guarantees parity of health insurance coverage of mental as well as physical illness.

She didn’t hold the Assembly seat for long, though, losing it in September 2006 in a close race to Brian Kavanagh.

Friedman was a member of 504 Democrats, the club devoted to the rights of the disabled community and the first member of the club to be elected to public office.

In May 2006, she received the club’s Jean Kinzer award.

For the past 20 years, Friedman was the head of the shelter provided for 12 homeless men and women at the Quaker Meeting House on E. 15th St. at Stuyvesant Square.

She also helped found Friends House, a residence for 50 formerly homeless men and women in the Bronx.

A memorial for Sylvia Friedman will be held in April or May in the Friends Meeting House on Stuyvesant Square.

Remembering Larry, friend, neighbor, Village icon MEMORIAL

By Leslie T. Sharpe I first met Larry Selman when I moved to our neighborhood in 1978. Larry passed away peacefully, his great heart finally failing, last month.

I would see him patrolling the streets, his close-cut, pebbly hair (I always teased him it was too long), thick glasses and rotund shape, reminiscent of one of those gawky kids in Gary Lawson’s cartoons. He would be accosting friends and strangers alike, with “Hey, Mister / Miss, can I see you?” — with the goal, I would eventually learn, of raising money for any number of worthy charities.

Invariably, I would flee to the other side of the street, his affect alarming me — and this was my own admitted ignorance — as he was clearly developmentally disabled. “Call me retarded,” Larry would later insist, “it sounds better.”

Then, one spring day at a Mets game, I saw him roaming the stands at Shea in his Miss Piggy mask, delighting kids and adults alike. Inevitably, on the way home, he sat down beside me on the subway.

“I know you!” he announced. “Wanna go to a game?”

He was, in a word, irresistible, and Larry and I would go to many Mets games together, getting the cheap seats in the upper deck. But Larry would always make a beeline to the box seats on the first-base line, where he would find his friend Gil, then the head groundskeeper; miraculously, we would end up sitting behind the home dugout, with Larry calling out to the players, who always waved back.

Larry knew everyone, and everyone knew Larry.

He had a way of bridging so many worlds — which I chronicled in two pieces I wrote for New York Newsday, when I was a columnist for that paper, and which Larry loved — he delighted in seeing himself in print: From the borough of birth, Brooklyn, whose accent he carried so well (“I shoulda stood in bed...”) and

which he often joked he would return to (he could be so deadpan!), vowing to live under the boardwalk at Coney Island, where he would have the best view of the annual Mermaid Parade (“I like to watch the pretty girls…”); to Greenwich Village, where his devoted Uncle Murray settled him after Larry’s parents died, so many years ago, in a tiny, rent-controlled apartment on Bedford St. (such as were plentiful then), and which would make possible his life as an independent, fully engaged and productive member of our community; to Hollywood, California, which claimed Larry as its own when our neighbor Alice Elliott’s film “The Collector of Bedford Street,” which so movingly documents Larry’s life in the Village, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Documentary.

Larry took that in stride, as he critiqued his fellow stars (Jack Nicholson, among them), for their generosity (Larry was always collecting for good causes), as he often did politicians (Republicans, he reported, were “cheap”).

But even before he was known as “The Collector,” Larry for many years had been raising funds for the Bedford-BarrowCommerce Block Association, tirelessly working every spring to sell raffles for Ye Olde Village Fair, and also to “shake down” — as one local merchant described it to me, with a laugh — businesses for raffle prizes, as he also did for the B.B.C.’s annual holiday party.

Larry adored playing Santa at that party, and as recently as Christmas 2011, though he could no longer get up the stairs, played a new role, “Downstairs Santa,” where he greeted people on their way in to the festivities. In earlier years, he would dress as Santa during the holidays and traipse around the Village, offering good cheer to passersby. And he would invariably stop at local firehouses, dispensing candy to firefighters, whom he loved. As a kid he had “buffed” — been adopted as a mascot by a local Brooklyn firehouse, and had been allowed, from time to time, to ride up on the engine.

Larry loved baseball, cats and dogs, firefighters, his friends and neighbors, and especially raising funds for all sorts of

causes. He loved life, and lived it so fully. I don’t know anyone who has done more with life — who has lived up to every ounce of his or her potential — the way Larry did.

Which doesn’t mean that Larry was a saint. He wasn’t. He could be such a pain — stubborn, contrary, cranky, irascible and just plain difficult. E. M. Forster would have described him as a “round character.” But, none of us, as frustrated as we could get with him, ever stopped loving him. Because, first and foremost, Larry was so lovable — his generosity of heart, his honesty, his devilish sense of humor, that infectious laugh of his, his neverending phone calls. On more than a few of these, he would try to convince me that Leo Durocher was returning to manage the Mets — I would get back at him by threatening to become a Yankees fan! But mostly because he was ours, a member of the family — and family, at its best, is about unconditional love.

Kathy Donaldson, B.B.C. president, has been the tireless force behind the block association’s success as an awardwinning neighborhood organization that has managed to do so much good for so many, individuals and local nonprofits alike.

Kathy remarked to me recently about how Larry never took no for an answer, when asking people for contributions to any of his causes.

“He once said to me, he didn’t care how many people said no, because he knew, that eventually one person — just one — would say yes,” Kathy recalled.

So many of us get so discouraged. Larry, as he once told me, was called “simple” by some people when he was growing up. But he never stopped believing, in his causes and in his fellow humans, and he never stopped trying. And he succeeded — in raising money, in helping others, in making friends, in living a wonderful life. And most of all, he succeeded in making a difference.

It was the Daily News, in its obituary of Larry, that referred to him as an “icon” of the Village. As I referenced that, at the start of this remembrance, I could hear Larry, who would have loved all these tributes, say, “What’s an icon? Is that good?”

Yes, Larry, it’s very good — it’s very good indeed.

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Hizzoner Ed Koch

It was hard to imagine New York City ever being without Ed Koch. Whether you loved him, hated him or fell somewhere in between, Koch was a larger-than-life figure who always seemed to embody the very essence of the city.

His death on Feb. 1 at age 88 came as a shock — even though he had been very publicly preparing for it for years.

Long after leaving office, and in fact until the very end, he remained an avuncular political icon who was always available for a quote and relished the spotlight.

His endorsed carried clout and was coveted. He regularly e-mailed out his opinion pieces on a myriad of issues and — after we dropped him as a movie reviewer a few years ago — his movie critiques.

Two years ago, proving he was still relevant and could have a profound political impact, he launched the New York Uprising campaign, pushing for campaign finance reform, independent redistricting and ethics reform in Albany. He was successful on two out of three, though politicians — fearful of losing their gerrymandered seats — ultimately refused to weaken their hold on redistricting.

Most will say that Koch leaves a mixed legacy. Most important on the pro side, he pulled New York City out of the 1970s fiscal crisis, and also poured billions of dollars into the creation of middle-class housing — on a scale no one has done either before or after him.

Koch also reformed the judicial selection process so that it became based on merit rather than patronage. This last initiative stemmed from his political roots, which were in Greenwich Village, where he was an early, leading member of the Village Independent Democrats club. V.I.D. was a Reform Democratic club, and judicial reform was part of its platform.

Running with Carol Greitzer, Koch went on to topple Tammany District Leader Carmine De Sapio, a political kingmaker and machine boss known for selling judicial nominations. From there, Koch rose to city councilmember, congressmember and finally a three-term mayor of New York City. He continued to live in Greenwich Village as mayor — it was said because he valued his privacy.

Some said it was because Koch was gay and didn’t want his social life exposed.

This leads to part of Koch’s legacy that remains controversial: his failure to respond quickly and assertively to the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. AIDS activists charged that his lack of action resulted in thousands of deaths. That Koch was gay, they claimed, only served to heighten the outrage.

It was Koch’s choice to keep his sexuality private, though it definitely would have helped gays had he come out.

Koch also came under heavy criticism for closing Sydenham Hospital in Harlem, an action he later said he regretted having taken. In addition, in terms of race relations in New York City, he unfortunately became a polarizing figure, and was dubbed racist by black activists.

However, those who knew him over his political career contend that Koch wasn’t racist, but more of an opportunist: He saw that he had lost support in the Village, on the Upper West Side and Harlem as he had moved to the center, and so realized his base was now the boroughs.

He used race as a way to maintain his power, the thinking goes. That he was famously pugnacious didn’t help race relations either. But his level of racial insensitivity or antagonism never reached the level of Rudy Giuliani.

He crossed party lines often, such as to support the likes of George W. Bush and Bob Turner. His old club, V.I.D., parted ways with him when they endorsed the more liberal Mario Cuomo over him for governor.

Koch was a staunch defender of Israel and a vigilant monitor of anti-Semitism around the globe.

For all of his imperfections, Ed Koch was always New York’s number one cheerleader.

Whatever you think of him, one thing’s for sure, there will never quite be another mayor like Ed Koch.

letters to the editor Says Durst plan has no park space

The gateway to privatization

To The Editor: Re “Geballe wins Round 1” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Feb. 7): Yes, the Durst plan proposes to “adaptively reuse” Pier 40 — but unfortunately by converting the pier’s wonderful courtyard space into a massive new parking garage. There will be no park space on the pier. Sports fields will be relegated to “publicly accessible private space” on the roof of a massive commercial development.

The Durst plan depends on $65 per square foot for 400,000 square feet of offices, while rents in the soughtafter and convenient Chelsea and Hudson Square areas, with good transportation and lots of places to lunch, are 20 percent less. So when office tenants at these rents are not available, developers will have to bring in the same kinds of massive destination retail projects that have been rejected by our community twice before.

The Pier 40 Champions’ idea is offered by groups in your neighborhoods that provide sports activities for more than 5,000 children. It is not a developer’s proposal, but an effort to start the conversation about the opportunities of this 15-acre treasure: to protect and grow the space for youth sports; to designate at least 60 percent of the pier for park use only; to open up river views and access; and to minimize the impacts of commercial uses. Your opinion is important.

Please take a very careful look at what people are proposing before you form yours. Visit http://pier40champions.org .

To The Editor: Re “City plans to lease NYCHA sites for luxury development” (news article, Feb. 7): This is just the foot in the door to ultimately privatize public housing and evict the poor from a rapidly gentrifying New York City.

It’s no accident that these initial projects are in Manhattan, many them set for housing developments with water views. Don’t doubt for a moment that this is anything other than the opening step in getting the poor out of these neighborhoods and out of the city altogether.

Tobi Bergman Bergman is president, P3 (Pier Park & Playground Association), a member of the Pier 40 Champions group

A worthy Koch tribute To The Editor: Nice job on The Villager’s memorial issue to Edward Irving Koch, which covered him from the alpha (Koch’s authenticity) through the omega (his seeming omnipresence).

As anticipated, the paper delivered a tribute — including some intriguing insider perspectives — worthy of a sometimes controversial, overall well-loved, three-term mayor with an outsized personality, who boasted of strong roots in Greenwich Village. Kudos!

Susan M. Silver

EVAN FORSCH

Michael Fiorillo

A falafel is not free speech To The Editor: Re “Restrict vendors? Think again” (letter, by Robert Lederman, Feb. 7): Robert Lederman is correct to question the number of street fairs in our area, which are recommended for approval too often by Community Board 2, but more to the point, approved with few if any exceptions by the Mayor’s Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO).

However, Mr. Lederman is incorrect to blame either C.B. 2 or the Broadway Residents Coalition for the proposed Broadway Soho Business Improvement District.

When he was formerly C.B. 2 chairperson, state Senator Brad Hoylman testified before the City Council Land Use Committee on Nov. 20, 2012, against the BID plan, and C.B. 2 voted unanimously not once but twice against the BID. Representatives of Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s and state Senator Daniel Squadron’s offices delivered testimony against the BID, not for it, with Councilmember Margaret Chin being the only elected representative standing for it. At that same City Council hearing, it was the Broadway Residents Coalition that presented the greatest wealth of research, documentation and argumentation decidedly against, not for, the proposed Broadway Soho BID. Finally, Mr. Lederman conflates “street artists” with the “larger food vendors” that are the main focus of C.B. 2’s resolution and the coalition’s efforts. The First Amendment rights of artists that Mr. Lederman has worked so hard for do not extend to food vendors: A falafel is not a speech act or any other form of creative expression within the legal meaning of that term.

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Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking tAlkinG point

BY ANDREW BERMAN, KATY BORDONARO, ZACK WINESTINE, MICKI MCgEE, RICHARD BLODgETT, CARL ROSENSTEIN AND SILVIA BEAM The Hudson Square rezoning currently before the City Council presents a rare case where a win-win is possible. Done right, the outcome could please everyone — developers and community groups, residents and businesses. Unfortunately, the rezoning plan also presents the possibility of a lose-lose for the community. One person will decide which of these outcomes we get — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, in whose district the proposed rezoning lies.

There is a rare consensus that Hudson Square’s current zoning should be improved. The current zoning allows out-of-scale development like the Trump Soho condo hotel, and makes hotels the most attractive kind of development. Trinity Real Estate, a developer which owns 40 percent of the property in the neighborhood, has proposed a rezoning that has been approved by the borough president and the City Planning Commission, and now must be approved by the City Council.

If some important changes were made to the rezoning, we could all support it too. But our support for the rezoning, and the rezoning doing more good than harm, is also very much contingent upon the city putting in place long-promised landmark protections for the adjacent South Village neighborhood. The South Village will experience increased development pressure and accelerated demolition and inappropriate new development if the rezoning is approved without the landmarking as well.

The proposed rezoning would introduce residential development to Hudson Square for the first time. All sides agree this will result in a good deal of new development in Hudson Square that would not otherwise take place. But under the current proposal, the height and density of allowable proposed development would be more typical of Midtown Manhattan, putting added pressure on local infrastructure, increasing traffic and allowing new towers much taller than in most of the existing neighborhood. That’s why many of us have urged that the allowable height of new construction in Hudson Square be reduced by about a third, to 210 feet, and that the bulk of most new development be reduced by about a quarter.

But in some ways, the impact of the Hudson Square rezoning would be most powerfully felt not in Hudson Square itself, but directly across Sixth Ave. in the South Village. This lowrise, residential neighborhood, stretching from Washington Square to Watts St., is one of New York’s most historic, and currently one of its most threatened.

Advocates have been seeking to have the area landmarked since the 1960s, and a concerted effort to get the city to finally grant landmark protections to the neighborhood has been ongoing since the early 2000s. In 2009, the city began the process of landmarking about 30 percent of the South Village, focusing on its northwesternmost corner. At the time, the city promised to consider the remainder of the neighborhood shortly thereafter.

It still has not done so, however, and the South Village has suf-

fered greatly for it. The landmarking effort was spurred in part by New York University’s demolition of the neighborhood’s Judson House and Edgar Allan Poe House in the early 2000s. Since then, N.Y.U. has also demolished almost the entire Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, and in the last few years developers have razed 19th-century houses on Bleecker St. and Spring St. and lower Sixth Ave. The Children’s Aid Society’s campus on Sullivan St., including its 1891 Calvert Vaux-designed main building, is being gutted and transformed into condos. New towers as high as 18 stories are planned on sites next to four- and five-story buildings.

Unfortunately, this process has appeared to accelerate in anticipation of the Hudson Square rezoning, and it will clearly only get worse once the rezoning is enacted.

Trinity’s intention is to turn Hudson Square into a “vibrant, 24-hour-a-day neighborhood” with new, luxury high-rise apartment buildings and a lively and attractive mix of retail — the new “it”

Once Hudson Square goes from sleepy backwater to hot new neighborhood, you can bet the South Village will feel the heat as well. neighborhood. There are a limited number of potential development sites within Hudson Square: Much of the neighborhood is built up with large, older loft buildings that can’t be demolished. However, the low-rise South Village directly across Sixth Ave. is quite ripe for demolition and new development.

Once Hudson Square goes from sleepy backwater to hot new neighborhood, you can bet that the South Village, on its doorstep, will feel the heat as well. And we are not the only ones who think so — the city’s own environmental analysis of the proposed Hudson Square rezoning said that while the South Village was “landmarkeligible,” it would suffer “significant adverse impacts” if the rezoning was passed and landmarking was not.

But the die is not yet cast. Though the city has given its approval to the Hudson Square rezoning and made clear that it has no intention to landmark the South Village anytime soon, Speaker Quinn holds all the cards.

She has tremendous leverage over City Hall and the Landmarks Preservation Commission; the mayor can pass no legislation without the Council’s approval, and all of the commission’s designations, and its funding, must be approved by the Council as well.

And City Hall wants the Hudson Square rezoning to pass. Speaker Quinn has used her leverage in other such rezoning applications to get the city to provide millions in funding for schools and affordable housing it had previously resisted, as well as to move ahead with a historic district. So there’s good reason to believe that if she wanted to, she could get the city to do the same here.

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age — absolutely refuses to move ahead with landmark designation, Speaker Quinn still holds all the cards. She must also approve the rezoning, and she can turn it down if City Hall refuses to budge on landmarking the South Village. This would prevent irreversible damage from happening to the South Village, which would be the inevitable result of passing the Hudson Square rezoning without landmarking. And Trinity could come back in six months, or a year, or however long it takes to convince the city that landmarking the South Village is essential, particularly for allowing passage of the Hudson Square rezoning, which will otherwise accelerate the South Village’s destruction.

Speaker Quinn, it’s all up to you. You have the power to create the win-win that the administration has refused to — demand South Village landmarking as a condition for approval of a modified, reasonable, Hudson Square rezoning. And if the administration says no, we need you to stand with your constituents, and the neighborhood you represent, and say no as well. Don’t approve this rezoning that will hasten the undoing of the South Village unless the long-promised and much-needed landmark protections are approved also.

Berman is executive director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation; Bordonaro and Winestine are co-chairpersons, Greenwich Village Community Task Force; McGee is a member, South Village Neighborhood Association; Blodgett is president, Charlton St. Block Association; Rosenstein is a member, Broome St. Block Association; Beam is president, Vandam St. Block Association

PUBLISHER Jennifer Goodstein

PUBLISHER EMERITUS John W. Sutter

ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Troy Masters

EDITOR IN CHIEF Lincoln Anderson ARTS EDITOR Scott Stiffler REPORTER Sam Spokony

SR. V.P. OF SALES AND MARKETING Francesco Regini

SENIOR DESIGNER Michael Shirey

BUSINESS MANAGER/ CONTROLLER Vera Musa

RETAIL ADVERTISING MANAGER Colin Gregory ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Allison Greaker Julius Harrison Alex Morris Julio Tumbaco

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Arnold Rozon PHOTOGRAPHERS Tequila Minsky Jefferson Siegel Clayton Patterson

CIRCULATION SALES MNGR. Marvin Rock CONTRIBUTORS Ira Blutreich Terese Loeb Kreuzer Patricia Fieldsteel Jefferson Siegel Jerry Tallmer

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Chinatown merchants cheer Sandy fund relief checks Chinatown small business owners happily waved their Superstorm Sandy relief checks last Friday, after a ceremony at the Transfiguration Church, on Mott St. The effort was spearheaded by the Chinatown Business Improvement District, the Chinatown Partnership and City Councilmember Margaret Chin (front row center, in glasses). The two-week fundraising push raised nearly $80,000 for businesses impacted

by the devastating storm.

BID Chairperson David Louie (pictured behind Councilmember Chin) proudly proclaimed that the 79 small business owners — who each received grant checks of slightly more than $1,000 — were getting “every penny” of the money raised, since the fund had no administrative costs. He also touted the fact that, while most of the grant money came

TENEbrae A Lenten early music series with TENET and Trinity Wall Street

Jolle Greenleaf Artistic Director, TENET Julian Wachner Director of Music & the Arts, Trinity Wall Street

from within the Chinatown community, many donations also came from outside the neighborhood, including a $5,000 check from Utica First Insurance Company in Upstate New York.

Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership, who is known for his colorful allusions and inspirational metaphors, likened the successful relief effort to a sentiment expressed in the most famous words of

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address.

“We have nothing to fear now,” said Chen (pictured at far right, in red jacket). “This may not be a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, but it is a symbol of solidarity, to show that we are all intertwined, and that together we will have a rising fortune, not a sinking one.

Chinatown should be proud of this.”

At Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 5PM Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 5PM François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres pour Mercredi SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 5PM Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah

SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 5PM Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres pour Vendredi WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 6PM Tomás Luis de Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah As part of the Office of Tenebrae service.

SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 5PM Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

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Novogratz and Wils wrestle with Pier 40 Rubik’s Cube Continued from page 1 roof. However, the payoff for the youth leagues is that the pier would be opened up for increased use for sports fields. The Villager profiled the Champions plan this past summer, but since then, they have revised it so that it now includes even more field space.

The rival concept for Pier 40 is by Douglas Durst, former chairperson of the Friends of Hudson River Park, who is partnering with Ben Korman, who formerly ran the pier’s parking operation. An adaptive reuse plan, it would utilize the pier’s existing shed structure for a mix of high-tech office space and retail, along with parking. Durst is not an advocate for housing either on Pier 40 or anywhere in the park.

Allowing housing in the Hudson River Park would require the state Legislature to modify the Hudson River Park Act of 1998, which prohibits residential use.

Meanwhile, the Hudson River Park Trust appears favorable toward the Pier 40 Champions plan, with its residential component, as a solution for helping save both Pier 40 and the entire 5-mile-long park, yet, at the same time, is also interested in the idea of parking stackers, as contained in the Durst plan.

The park is suffering a serious cash flow problem, which will only worsen in coming years, according to the Trust, as state and city funding have tapered off.

The Hudson River Park is supposed to be financially self-sustaining, and Pier 40 is one of its primary designated commercial “nodes.” However, under the park act, 50 percent of the pier’s footprint also must remain for open park use.

The Villager recently sat down for an interview with Madelyn Wils, president of the Hudson River Park Trust, the statecity authority that operates the park, and Michael Novogratz, the new chairperson of the Friends of Hudson River Park.

Novogratz, formerly a board member of the Trust, switched over to the Friends — the park’s leading fundraising arm — after Durst bailed from the Friends at the end of last year, Durst publicly stating he disagreed with the Trust’s direction on Pier 40.

Wils and Novogratz are sending the message that — after the fallout with Durst —things are now “kumbaya” between the Trust and Friends, that they’re on the same page, regarding the park and, especially, Pier 40.

Wils noted that the Trust has retained a leading commercial real estate advisory firm, Newmark Grubb Night Frank, to crunch the financials for both the Champions and the Durst plans to assess their feasibility in terms of generating the needed millions in revenue for the park.

“What we’re looking for is the most risk averse plan for the pier,” Wils said, acknowledging that that is the same as “least risky.”

Asked if she supported the Pier 40 Champions plan, she responded, “I’m not signing onto any project, but the residential

A rendering by WXY Architects of what Pier 40 could look like under the Pier 40 Champions plan. The concept includes an elevated jogging track that would ring the pier’s large central courtyard.

on the upland [part of the park, as opposed to on the pier itself] gives more parkland on Pier 40. … I’m a parkie.”

She added that more options for Pier 40 are needed, and that, “The best way to get more options is to open the act up,” as in modify the legislation to allow currently illegal uses, such as housing.

Novogratz admitted he has “big shoes to

‘I don’t think asking our opinion about what the elected officials will do is very useful.’

Madelyn Wils fill,” in following park advocate and philanthropist Durst.

“The Friends board is going to be big and diverse,” Novogratz stated, adding, “The real mission is to walk side by side” with the Trust, though noting that the two organizations are separate and distinct for a reason.

Novogratz, a hedge fund executive who heads Fortress, said that there are a lot of “wealthy, creative people” who live along the park from Tribeca up through the Village and Chelsea, and that he’s confident they’ll be able to tap into that pool to fundraise for the park.

“If we haven’t raised substantially more money over the next five years, I would see our tenure as a failure,” he said, referring to the previous five years of fundraising by the Friends.

“This is not being done to make a half a million dollar donation to the park each year,” he stressed. “This is the richest city in America and a ton of people use this park.”

He was joined at the sit-down by Scott Lawton, the new vice chairperson of the Friends, who replaces Korman, who resigned from the group along with Durst last December. Novogratz and Lawton noted they had just hosted a fundraiser in Tribeca for the park the previous night that netted a cool $200,000.

The Trust and Friends are also pushing a plan for a neighborhood improvement district, or NID, that would extend two or three blocks inland from the park to assess property owners a small tax each year. The revenue would be used to help with the park’s maintenance and even capital costs and would also fund upkeep of the highway median, and create safer highway crossings, among other things.

Wils added, “The park needs the NID, the park needs private funding and the park needs to generate funding from the revenue nodes [designated piers].”

As for the ideal plan for Pier 40, Novogratz said, “There’s a great line a judge had about pornography — ‘I know it when I see it.’

That’s what I think it’ll be like with Pier 40 — when there’s a good plan, we’ll know it when we see it: Someone comes up with the idea of residential on the upland… Stacking cars might be a piece of it,” he said, referring to automated parking stackers, which are featured in the Durst plan, as a way to consolidate the pier’s parking operation, to free up space for other revenue-generating uses.

Asked how any plan with residential use would be O.K.’d if all the local legislators oppose it — which currently appears to be the case — Wils downplayed that issue.

“I don’t think asking our opinion about what the elected officials will do is very useful,” she said.

“At the end of the day, we’re dealing with a 15-acre piece of infrastructure that’s severely debilitated — and it’s getting worse,” she emphasized.

“If a fairy godmother gave us infinite sums, would I put residential on the pier?

No,” Novogratz said, adding, “I wouldn’t put parking on the pier either. I wouldn’t put anything there. You gotta try to figure out the Rubik’s Cube — and it’s complicated.”

Asked about the Durst plan, Wils indicated she’d simply like to see more options, in general. The problem, she said, is really that there hasn’t been a comparison of “three or four plans” for the pier. However, she did say, “Intuitively, stacking parking seems like it would work.”

To get a comparison of a larger number of concept plans, Wils continued, it’s necessary to put out a request for proposals, or R.F.P., to developers. However, the Trust can’t cast a wide net for uses if so many of these uses are illegal, she noted. Hence, the need for modifying the park’s legislation.

“We’re pushing to get the legislation done as soon possible,” she said, assuring, “We will get legislation.

“If the local youth leagues came up with that with their architects,” she said, referring to the Champions plan and WXY Architects, the firm they worked with, “what other plans are we not seeing?” In other words, there would be a wealth of ideas out there for Pier 40, if only more uses were allowed for the pier.

“You’ve got to be able to see these ideas side by side, and we haven’t been given that opportunity,” said Lawton.

“We’d like to be able to test the market on pretty much everything,” Wils said.

Asked if this included residential, she said, “Really, yeah.”

Novogratz — a major booster of U.S. wrestling, who was wearing a Princeton Wrestling windbreaker during the sit-down — said he could envision some sort of recreation center on Pier 40, with the funding for it raised privately. “Just a big jock,” he said, describing himself after being asked about his wrestling boosterism.

“It’s very difficult to go up to someone and say, ‘Give me $10 million to fix the piles,’ he noted, contrasting that with the attractiveness of ideas like a rec center or other conspicuous uses.

How about the idea of transferring air rights from Pier 40 across the highway to the St. John’s Center building? they were asked. This is an idea that reportedly has been kicking around in real estate circles, and could conceivably generate revenue for the park, though undoubtedly would be controversial.

Wils said, in fact, they have been looking at this, but the idea would be to see if they can transfer all of the park’s air rights to one single site — she didn’t say where that might be — for a development project. The piers,

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Activists gathered Saturday at the East Village’s Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space to celebrate individuality, sustainability and a very radical sense of style during the museum’s first-ever Direct Action Fashion Show. The improvised runway show, which was held in the adjoining C-Squat basement at 155 Avenue C — a space often shared with MoRUS — featured colorful and quirky costumes that highlighted the neighborhood’s grassroots history, as well as direct references to community garden activism and other environmentalism efforts.

The evening began with a characteristically raucous performance by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra — a band generally found on the

front lines of social justice protests — and included dozens of catwalk participants, all of whom were worried less about “modeling” and more about expressing the vibrant spirit of antiestablishment movements.

Along with the outfits made and worn by various neighborhood eccentrics, some members of well-known direct action groups — like Earth Celebrations and the Occupy Wall Street Puppet Guild — made flashy appearances. And after it was all said and done, the activist models took one more stroll down the runway, accompanied by costumed MoRUS staff members, for a totally radical dance party.

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Mardi Gras bash raises cash for L.E.S. Girls Club The second line ran all the way from New Orleans to the West Village on Tuesday night, as Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker St. hosted the Fourth Annual Two Boots Mardi Gras Ball, which doubled as a benefit for the Lower East Side Girls Club. Along with some traditional brass band fanfare and festive stilt dancers, colorfully masked revelers were treated to funk, blues and a star-studded crowning ceremony. Top left: Bassist Doug Burns went berserk as he and the 11-piece band EMEFE blasted out afrobeat jams to get the crowd moving. Top right: Roots drummer Questlove and pop queen Cyndi Lauper looked out from their thrones after an L.E.S. Girls Club member crowned them king and queen of the ball. Bottom left: Odetta Hartman, the daughter of Two Boots Pizza owner Phil Hartman, jumped onstage with This Ambitious Orchestra to sing a few tunes. Bottom right: Isabel Celeste brought some serious soul to the mic, as she sang with the Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir behind her.

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villager arts & entertainment Only one dude can wear the ‘Bud’ crown Rev. Jen, on what makes a Mr. Lower East Side THE 14th ANNUAL MR. LOWER EAST SIDE PAGEANT

Thurs., Feb. 21, 8pm At Cake Shop 152 Ludlow St., btw. Rivington & Stanton Sts. Admission: $10 Contestants & Judges must arrive by 8pm Contestants can register by e-mailing revjen@revjen.com for details Visit revjen.com and cake-shop.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER When she’s not conducting guided tours of her Lower East Side Troll Museum, hosting the Anti-Slam at Pyramid Club or writing books (such as the upcoming “BDSM 101”), chances are elf-eared art star icon Saint Reverend Jen is busy prepping for The Mr. Lower East Side Pageant.

Like the Macy’s Parade, this beloved annual NYC destination event requires yearround work in order to delight the masses with its intoxicating brew of satire, sexy spectacle and Budweiser-fueled shenanigans.

But are those who triumph in their quest for the crown born or made? We asked this, and other penetrating questions, to Rev. Jen. Can contestants train to develop the qualities one looks for in a Mr. L.E.S., or are they intangible traits?

Some men are naturally lazy multislackers, while others need to work at it. Training for the pageant should involve imbibing copious amounts of cheap alcohol, collecting unemployment checks, loosening one’s morality and ridding oneself of shame.

Only gay men and women are allowed to be judges. Like the Boy Scouts, have you faced external pressure to reflect the diversity that makes America the single greatest country on the face of the earth?

The decision to allow only women and gay men the right to vote has been controversial — but I believe that if straight men were allowed to vote, there would be too

much underhanded alpha male bullshit to contend with. Women didn’t get the right to vote in this country until 1920, so dudes need to give us a break.

How do the duties of runner-up Mr. Tribeca differ from those of Mr. L.E.S.?

Mr. Tribeca’s only duty is to wear a vagina-shaped crown throughout his term, while Mr. L.E.S. has no duty other than to bask in the glory of being Mr. L.E.S. — though it should be stated that previous Mr. Lower East Sides have done quite a bit.

When Giuliani created a “decency panel” back in 2001, Mr. L.E.S. Mike Amato created a “Lower East Side Decency Panel.” When Mr. L.E.S. John Ennis had to relocate to L.A., he made pamphlets that spread the good news about the Lower East Side and handed them out to people on Hollywood Boulevard.

Would a scandal force Mr. L.E.S. to abdicate, or is bad behavior encouraged?

How has 2012 winner Jason Thompson conducted himself?

Jason Thompson also recently relocated to L.A., which seems to be a trend.

Fortunately, he is using his time wisely thanks to Grindr. We only had one impeachment trial, during Jeff Mac’s term in 2005.

Laziness and insolence are encouraged…but he was just too lazy.

What are some of the most memorable responses to the Q&A segment?

Last year, when Jason Thompson was asked to name four films Cher had appeared in, he named every film Cher had ever appeared in. It also helped that his “evening wear” consisted of his birthday suit and a ZZ Top-style wig that just barely covered his wenis. He strutted onto the stage to “Sharp Dressed Man.” The Q&A plus evening wear segment is the deadliest. It makes or breaks contestants. It’s important to know two things: Lower East Side history and the female anatomy.

Rising rents, high rise buildings, shuttered theaters and a suffocating influx of monied twits — how have these exciting changes in the neighborhood impacted the pageant’s identity and mission, since its 1999 debut?

The first few pageants were held at Collective Unconscious, which we had to leave when the building was bulldozed by developers. Then we moved to Cake Shop.

Then we moved to Bowery Poetry Club, which recently closed — and now, we are moving back to Cake Shop.

Obviously, the Mr. Lower East Sides aren’t doing quite enough. However, the pageant combats gentrification in that it

Photo by George Courtney

Jason “J-Boy” Thompson is crowned by Faceboy and Rev. Jen.

reminds people that there are still freaks in New York City. The city should actually fund the pageant — because if folks in Middle America thought there were no more weirdos in New York, no one would come here.

We are increasing tourism.

Describe the best, and worst, talent portion in pageant history.

This is a tough one…because after 13 years, I’ve witnessed so much greatness.

The talent portion is one minute long and if

contestants deign to go over one minute, the place erupts into the Roman Coliseum.

Moonshine Shorey (the only Triple Crown Mr. L.E.S.) chugged a beer and read a poem in under a minute. Sometimes just showing your “junk” isn’t enough. I witnessed one gentleman insert his wenis into his own anus and he still didn't win.

Does this event have spin-off or corpo-

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The next Mr. L.E.S. is...

c s e o o s p r H o Aries Like the crane’s wingspan, your late February

ambitions are wide and majestic. Don’t be discouraged by a slow takeoff. Lucky binding agent: Paste.

Taurus A barn owl has no more business in a studio

apartment than you do in a pair of prohibitively expensive shoes. Lucky cake: Marble.

Gemini When doves cry, your kind words have the power to dry their tears. That’s a metaphor! Lucky snack: Nutter Butters.

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Isn’t he lovely: Having just heard his name announced by Rev. Jen and Faceboy, Moonshine — basking in a shower of bubbles — gracefully accepts his crown.

Continued from page 19 rate sponsorship potential (a Miss L.E.S. Pageant or perhaps a doggy version brought to you by Alpo)?

I started the pageant because I was fed up with the female body being objectified.

I write for Penthouse, so I obviously have nothing against porn or naked female bodies.

But my open mic and the performance

scene in general was sorely lacking in naked male bodies. Other women and gay men must have agreed, because the pageant was an immediate hit. Every year, it gets better. The contestants have a blast and so does the audience. I would love to curate a Chippendales-type spin-off that happens monthly. The world needs it. The more silly, dancing, half-naked men in this world, the better. But for now, the pageant only happens once a year — like Christmas.

Cancer Tuesday imbues you with the power to sing jealousy its swan song. Lucky meat dish: Pot roast.

Leo Verbose Leos should take a page from the parrot’s

limited vocabulary. Less is more! Lucky band: Nashville Cats.

Virgo Like the dodo bird, a nasty habit you’ve conquered is best left extinct. Lucky table: Pool.

Libra Your unwelcoming aura causes chicks and ducks and geese to scurry. Be nice! Lucky fringe location: On top.

Scorpio A hat adorned with ostrich feathers makes for an effective peace offering. Lucky pie: Humble.

Sagittarius This week, eagles and bold Sagittarians fly high on the wings of a profitable new venture. Lucky letter: P. Capricorn Buzzards are circling a bad idea you refuse to abandon. Lucky art: Deco.

Aquarius A noisy crow will remind you to look both ways before crossing. Heed its timely warning! Lucky drink: Tang.

Pisces Happy little bluebirds are precursors to a close

encounter of the sexy kind. Lucky sound effect: Thunder.

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The festival that came into the cold Horse Trade’s FRIGID is a fine cousin of CAFF THEATER

THE 2013 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL Feb. 20 through March 3 At The Kraine Theater & The Red Room (85 East 4th St., btw. 2nd Ave. & Bowery) And at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place., btw. 1st Ave. & Ave. A) Tickets: $10-$16 Visit frigidnewyork.info Call 212-868-4444

CANUCK CABARET At UNDER St. Marks Midnight: Wed-Sat., Feb. 20-23 & Feb. 27-March 2 Tickets: $5

FRIGID HANGOVER At The Kraine Theater March 4-5 & 7-9 Schedule, TBA Tickets: $18

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Taking its cue from our always chilled and frequently cool neighbors to the north, the 30 shows featured in this year’s FRIGID New York Festival are — literally — random acts.

Not as large in number of participants, or as physically sprawling (or as

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“Bathtub Jen and the Henchmen” is a steampunk collaboration of prohibitionistic proportions that thrusts audiences into a world of slapstick, stand-up and vaudeville — when Jersey’s finest speakeasy entrepreneur and her curmudgeonly ex-con husband embark on a series of poorly judged money-making schemes, erotic escapades gone awry, run-ins with the fuzz and vignettes that include accordion, ukulele, clarinet, spoons and trumpet.

prone to crippling humidity) as August’s FringeNYC, FRIGID was founded in 2006

by Horse Trade Theater Group and EXIT Theatre. East Village mainstay Horse Trade brought to the table their three theaters (two of them housed in the same building as KGB Bar), and EXIT brought the wisdom accumulated from having run The San Francisco Fringe Festival since 1992. They also introduced Horse Trade to The Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals’ nurturing mission statement and fair, if somewhat dice-rolling, curation process.

Unlike FringeNYC, which has taken some flak from purists for choosing its participants through a juried process, FRIGID embraces the risks and rewards that come from CAFF’s open call for submissions — as well as its guiding principle to “provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members

of the community.”

“We jury, adjudicate and check out shows all year round,” says Horse Trade Executive Director Erez Ziv of how performers usually get booked for gigs at the Kraine Theater, The Red Room and UNDER St. Marks. “We go to scout shows and we read scripts, reviews and references…but this is the one time of the year we get to throw things out and see what happens. So we end up with some phenomenal shows we would have never picked if we were jurying.”

This year’s festival garnered around 80 applicants. Booking half of the 30 participants, notes Ziv, takes less than two seconds. “The application is online starting sometime in August,” he explains, “then there’s a countdown clock. You can fill out the application any time, but you can’t press the button until Labor Day.” As the clock strikes Midnight, the first 15 trigger-fingered applicants score an invite

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Presented by Toronto, Ontario’s The Theatre Elusive, “Love in the Time of Time Machines” is the once-upon-a-time tale of Klein and Gabrielle. When they broke up, that was the end of that…or was it? Taking place in a “world where time’s arrow spins like a compass needle at the North Pole,” this love story asks whether the actions of two people amount to a hill of beans…then ponders what a hill of beans amounts to.

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The morning after, and after, ‘Hangover’ features FRIGID’s best Continued from page 21 to FRIGID. In a nod to the festival’s Canadian roots, the remaining 15 acts are chosen from scraps of paper “pulled out of a beaver fur top hat. We normally do that at UNDER St. Marks, on Halloween night. This year, courtesy of Sandy, we did it in Brooklyn…and we pulled the names out of a plastic pumpkin.”

Residents of The Great White North need not feel slighted at this year’s abandonment of the beaver fur hat, since the land of universal health care and hockey is wellrepresented during FRIGID. The Midnight series “Canuck Cabaret” is a raucous variety show featuring Canadians living in New York, talent fresh from a border crossing and NYC-based artists who’ve agreed to be “honorary Canucks” for the night.

Ziv was evasive when repeatedly pressed for details

Horse Trade considers establishing relationships with new talent to be the real reward of FRIGID — which is good, since there’s no actual coinage to be had by hosting its 150 performances. ‘Participants keep one hundred percent of the box office,’ says Ziv, who adds, ‘The shows are the intellectual property of the performers. We keep no part of them when the festival ends.’

regarding the rights and responsibilities of such a classification — and eventually managed to throw us off the trail of potential scandal by noting that in addition to the aforementioned talent roster, “We sprinkle on top of that FRIGID performers. It’s a great chance for them to let loose, hang out with each other and let everyone see

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In “The Vindlevoss Family Circus Spectacular,” mustachioed Professor Penelope Vindlevoss discovers Edward the Zombie on her anthropological expedition, and takes it upon herself to domesticate him. Edward’s final lesson: put on a circus! Physical comedy and undead logic collide in this quirky fable about how to be truly human.

what they are, as artists, beyond the one show they have in the festival.

“Cabaret” is hosted by Paul Hutcheson, who “did a show with us in the second year of the festival called ‘On Second Thought.’ The material looked awful [beforehand], but it ended up being one of the highlights of the festival, and we’ve had a relationship with him ever since.

Horse Trade considers establishing relationships with new talent to be the real reward of FRIGID — which is good, since there’s no actual coinage to be had by hosting its 150 performances. “Participants keep one hundred percent of the box office,” says Ziv, who adds, “The shows are the intellectual property of the performers. We keep no part of them when the festival ends.”

For producers, there are advantages beyond a performance slot in FRIGID. “There’s quite a bit of overflow,” says Ziv of the content sharing between February’s FRIGID and August’s FringeNYC. “Almost every year, somebody from our festival also does the [NYC] Fringe.

Few shows leave with less than three reviews, and some have gotten as many as nine. They can emerge with a well-reviewed, successful show that’s already proved itself, and parlay that into a platform to show up at other festivals.”

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Tokyo-based clown Shoshinz (whose name translates into “shy timid people”) performs “A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup” — a mysterious figure whose solitary existence is accompanied by a raucous cast of sounds and music that make her life an absurd adventure.

In a mirror image of that trend, one of this year’s FRIGID performers arrives fresh from a well-reviewed and well-attended run in 2012’s FringeNYC. “Sassy senior” and longtime Village resident D’yan Forest — whose autobiographical “I Married a Nun” was a decadespanning yarn of bi-attraction — returns with a tale of how to keep the home fires burning at 78 and beyond.

With a philosophy as solid as its title is salty, Forest says her new show (“My Pussy is Purrin’ Again”) delves further into the price we pay for denying, and obeying, our deepest yearnings. “As time passes,” she says, “I’ve become acutely aware of the lies we tell ourselves in order to get the love we long for, even if it is not the love that feeds our soul.” Lest you think “Purrin’ Again” is strictly a two-hanky weeper, rest assured there will likely be a good deal of the ukulele, trumpet and the glockenspiel-accompanied tunes that made “Nun” such a crowd-pleaser.

If Forest pulls in respectable numbers and impresses management, she may be one of five to eight shows featured in the “Hangover” series. Set to run the week immediately following FRIGID, Ziv notes it marks a return to business as usual for Horse Trade: “Those ‘Hangover’ shows are curated. We pick them based on the quality of the show and their potential to get an audience. We’ll announce about half of the roundup on the first Tuesday of FRIGID, then pick the remainder towards the festival’s end. We try to do the out-of-town shows on Monday and Tuesday, take Wednesday off, then feature local shows Thursday through Saturday.”

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Their eyes focused on witness accounts Exhibitions draw upon interviews, intimate snapshots

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN

Open Sesame

In this exhibition, organizer Ola El-Khalidi revisits the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which happened on August 2, 1990. The Gulf wars that ensued contributed to the violence that is still very much a part of the region today and which shaped the lives of a whole generation. El-Khalidi refers to the latter as the Open Sesame generation and discusses how the thenteenagers experienced a sudden loss of youth. Gathering witness accounts and mementos, the assembled artists in the exhibition — Ganzeer, Jeanno Gaussi, Rheim Alkadhi and Makan Collective — provide a moving voice for this lost generation.

Through March 2, at apexart (291 Church St., btw. Walker & White Sts.).

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm. Cal1 212431-5270 or visit apexart.org.

Alexandre Singh: The Pledge

Curated by Claire Gilman, this first North American museum exhibition of Singh’s work presents a new series of Assembly Instructions.

This project takes interviews that the artist conducted throughout 2011 with noted scientists, artists, writers and filmmakers, and transforms them into fictional dialogues visualized according to Singh’s signature format of collaged photocopies con-

nected by hand-drawn pencil dots on the wall. Filling the entire Main Gallery, Singh’s “interviews” explore drawing not only as a form of physical gesture, but also as a graphic conduit for the intellectual process.

Through March 13, at The Drawing Center (35 Wooster St., btw. Grand & Wooster Sts.). Hours: Wed., Fri., Sat., 12-6pm; Thurs., 12-8pm. Call 212-2192166 or visit drawingcenter.org.

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Who could imagine a better look at the Beat Generation than through the lens of Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Although known primarily for his poetry, Ginsberg was also an avid photographer, capturing the individuals and places around him in a series of intimate snapshots. The black and white photographs on display include portraits of William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, as well as several self-portraits. Conveying a glimpse of the unique lifestyle and spirit of the Beats, Ginsberg’s images tell of a generation in which spontaneity and a lust for life began to boil.

Through April 6, at Grey Art G a l l e r y ( 1 0 0 Wa s h i n g t o n S q u a r e East, btw. Waverly & Washington P l a c e ) . H o u r s : Tu e s . , T h u r s . , F r i , 11am-6pm; Wed., 11am-8pm; Sat., 11am-5pm. Call 212-998-6780 or visit nyu.edu/greyart.

© 2012 Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Gelatin silver print, printed 1984–97 (9 7/8 x 14 7/8 in., 24.9 x 38 cm). National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis.

Neal Cassady and his love of that year the star-cross’d Natalie Jackson conscious of their roles in Market Street Eternity: Cassady had been prototype for Jack Kerouac’s 1950 On the Road saga hero Dean Moriarty, as later in 1960’s he’d taken the driver’s wheel of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic-era day-glo painted Merry Prankster crosscountry bus “Further.” Neal’s illuminated American automobile mania, “unspeakably enthusiastic” friendship & erotic energy had already written his name in bright-lit signs of our literary imaginations before movies were made imitating his charm.

That’s why we stopped under the marquee to fix the passing hand on the watch, San Francisco, maybe March 1955. —Allen Ginsberg

Courtesy Sprueth Magers: Berlin and London; Art: Concept: Paris; Metro Pictures: New York; Monitor Gallery: Rome.

Alexandre Singh: “Assembly Instructions (The Pledge-Leah Kelly).” 2011. Framed inkjet ultrachrome archival prints and dotted pencil lines, 18 x 24 inches, #6 from a set of 37.

Image courtesy of the artist and apexart.

Ganzeer: “Utopia” (2013). See "Open Sesame."

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Politicians skeptical on idea of housing in park Continued from page 15 all of which used to have pier sheds, have a floor area ratio of 2.

“We have quite a lot of F.A.R. in the park,” she noted, adding that the Trust is investigating “if we have the ability to sell those air rights off the park into a special district that’s created.” This has been done previously in the South Street Seaport, the Theater District and West Chelsea, she noted, adding, “We’re going to continue to pursue it.”

Novogratz said that a key part of the Friends fundraising ability — as for any fundraiser — is being able to convey “excitement,” and that’s something he clearly feels.

He has four children and has numerous brothers and sisters, and all their nieces and nephews, living Downtown, and they all use the park, he noted.

In related news, Fortress, his firm, recently purchased a controlling share of the St. John’s Center, across from Pier 40. But Novogratz is more on the investment side of the company — not its real estate division — and he and Wils shared a laugh, saying that he didn’t even know about the story until notified by Wils.

Returning to residential use at Pier 40 and whether it’s simply moot if local elected officials oppose it, The Villager polled a number of key pols whose districts include parts of the park.

New state Senator Brad Hoylman stated that he has “serious reservations” about housing at Pier 40.

“I recently met with the parent representatives of Pier 40 Champions to hear their concerns,” he said. “I have tremendous respect for their volunteer efforts and share their fundamental goals. I’m also appreciative of the work that Madelyn Wils is doing at the helm of the Trust in ensuring that there is a discussion of its financial future.

“As I’ve said before, however, I have serious reservations about residential development in the park,” Hoylman said. “These concerns have heightened considerably since the aftermath of Sandy. … Planning a new residential development directly on the waterfront before we understand the impact of Sandy and future surges seems, at best, premature.

“I’m confident,” Hoylman said, “that through a robust public process that involves all the stakeholders, public officials and the community, we’ll find a plan for Pier 40 that is financially viable, expands fields and open space, and has the least possible impact on the park and the surrounding neighborhood.”

State Senator Daniel Squadron cited his “longstanding concerns” about housing in parks.

“It’s great news that there’s a group of stakeholders deeply engaged on Pier 40 — and I’ll continue to work with all of them to find a long-term solution,” he said.

“Whether we’re talking about Hudson River Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park or any public park, I’ve had longstanding concerns about housing on public parkland. Over

time, those who live there have a fundamentally different relationship with the park than the broader public.

“We must continue to work together to find sources of funding to stabilize Pier 40 and support Hudson River Park for the long term,” Squadron added. “Each of these visions [Pier 40 Champions and Durst plans] represents a broad concept and will help inform legislative and funding decisions; none are proposals that could be accepted or rejected today.”

Assemblymember Deborah Glick has been a staunch opponent of residential use in the park.

“My position has not altered on the waterfront,” she told The Villager this week.

“The proposal that [Pier 40 Champions] is advancing is a very intriguing picture, but has no details. And the Trust, which alleges

— Madelyn alleges they have no money — is about to spend money on doing an analysis of it, which I do not really understand because it is not a legal use, and none of the relevant legislators that represent the area support it.

“So, I’m mystified,” Glick said, adding — in a reference to the Durst proposal — “and I think we could have gotten further along if the Trust cooperated on an adaptive reuse plan.”

A recent article in Crain’s about the Pier 40 Champions plan, referring to the opposition of Hoylman and Squadron to housing in the park, was headlined, “Key politicians shoot down new Pier 40 plan.”

However, Tobi Bergman, president of P3 (Pier, Park & Playground Association), a member of the Champions group, felt the statements by the two politicians — who

are quoted more extensively in this article — were not deal-breakers, and he expressed confidence in the youth leagues’ eventual success.

“Squadron said he has ‘longstanding concerns’ about housing on parkland, and Hoylman said he has ‘serious reservations,’” Bergman said. “We don’t feel shot down. I know they both understand the importance of providing more sports fields for our growing communities, finding the best solution for Pier 40, and finding a way out of the crisis the park is in.

“We don't expect elected officials to just say yes,” he noted. “We do expect them to support the needs of their constituents, to respect the hard work we have done, to problem-solve with us, and keep their minds open to all possible solutions, as we are confident they will.”

letters to the editor Continued from page 12 On the other hand, many of the Broadway residents who struggle through the turmoil on our sidewalks are working artists, some certified, others not. Do they not have a right to a safe, healthy, and reasonably stress-free environment?

Georgette Fleischer

Larry just exuded positivity To The Editor: Re “Larry Selman, ‘Collector of Bedford St.,’ dies at 70” (obituary, Jan. 31): I recall Larry coming by my sidewalk photo display on West Broadway and hanging out. He had a very sweet disposition and was always entertaining to talk to. It’s interesting to note that when he was hanging out, it seemed like more people would stop to look at my photos. Of course this made it easy to contribute to whatever cause he was promoting. Few people on this planet exude such a strong sense of magic and positivity as Larry did.

Lawrence White

Alternative culture is dead To The Editor: Re “Creative pioneers under assault on the new L.E.S.” (Clayton, Jan. 24): It’s not just the Lower East Side. Rents have skyrocketed all over the city, including even the mega-lousy outer boroughs. I used to live in the East Village and it had a good community feel to it with like-minded artists and other unusual people that helped each other.

There is no place like that at all anymore and no one place that alternative culture can thrive in the city, and as a result there is nothing useful here anymore and culture is dead — just as it is throughout the rest of the country. The residents in the Village supported the creative efforts of so many, but now all local support is gone, since there is nothing “local” left.

Jason Ledyard

Fighting for the right to stay To The Editor: Re “Creative pioneers under assault on the new L.E.S.” (Clayton, Jan. 24): Clayton, thank you for this article. All of this holds true.

My mother and I have endured all of Ben Shaoul’s nastiness so far on Fourth St., with his renovations to our building and all of the dust and noise that went along with it. My former neighbor and longtime, childhood friend Alex, got kicked out of my building because Ben wanted more money, and apparently also because it was his mother’s second residence.

My neighbor Joy, who is still in our building, had to go through all of that same crap that we had to, but it was ten times worse for her.

F--- those greedy landlords! We will continue to go on and support the remaining artists and poets alike. We are relics of this neighborhood and we will fight for our right to stay!

Hugh Burkhardt

Art and cats are his world To The Editor: Re “Creative pioneers under assault on the new L.E.S.” (Clayton, Jan. 24): One of the most important things is that Taylor must be able to keep his beloved cats. His art and his cats are his world when you come right down to it and he must have both to stay alive.

Anne Ardolino

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SSNY shall mail process to c/o Hunter Gray at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of RGN INSTRUMENTS AND COLLECTIBLES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/29/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1700 Broadway, 39th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Qualification of STAPLE STREET GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/13. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/07/13. Princ. office of LP: 24 W. 40th St., NY, NY 10018. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the addr. of its princ. office. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Nasser A. Ahmad, c/o Staple Street Global Opportunities Holdings LLC, 24 W. 40th St., NY, NY 10018.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013

Notice of Qualification of YAMPA, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/22/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/18/13.

Princ. office of LLC: 350 Park Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 NOTICE TYPE: Certificate of Assumed Name Certificate of Assumed Name: KSA RETAIL LLC is doing business as EQUIPMENT; their principal place of business in New York is 80 West 40th St., #40, New York, NY 10018. Business will be transacted at 110 Wooster St., New York, NY 10012. This certificate was filed with the State of New York, Department of State on 12/18/12.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of Unit 500, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 62 W. 47th St., Ste. 501, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of October Management LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/13.

Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Libra Capital US, Inc., 134 E. 40th St., NY, NY 10016, Attn: Bert Diaz. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of DANA Building LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Naomi Avigdor, 45 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of Valet Parking Services LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Icon Parking Systems, 211 E. 38th St., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013

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February 14 - 20, 2013

Publ ic Notice s Notice of Formation of NYNP LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of J2FIT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1382 First Ave., Apt. 19, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of Gallagher’s Famous, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/13/12.

LLC formation on 1/1/13.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 228 W. 52nd St., NY, NY 10019, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Formation of Gallagher’s National, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/13/12.

LLC formation on 1/1/13.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 228 W. 52nd St., NY, NY 10019, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 Notice of Qualification of Lazard Emerging Markets Debt Blend (US), L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/13.

Office location: NY County.

LP formed in DE on 1/11/13.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 OTCEX LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/20/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C., 111 Broadway, Ste. 1805, NY, NY 10006. General Purposes.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013

Notice of Qualification of MKP Opportunity HedgeFocus Fund LP Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/14/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 11 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10010. LP formed in DE on 12/10/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 02/07 - 03/14/2013 NOTICE TYPE: Certificate of Assumed Name Certificate of Assumed Name: KSA RETAIL LLC is doing business as JOIE; their principal place of business in New York is 80 West 40th St., #40, New York, NY 10018.

Business will be transacted at 1196 Madison Ave., NewYork, NY 10128; 429 14th St., New York, NY 10014; 114 Wooster St., New York, NY 10012. This certificate was filed with the State of New York, Department of State on 12/27/12.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of J + G Interior Design, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 01/11/13.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: J + G Interior Design, LLC, 1 University Place, Apt. 5G, New York, NY 10003.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of formation for 753 Ninth Ave Realty LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/12/12. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 1461 First Avenue, New York, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of formation for 753 Ninth Ave Holdings LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/12/12. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 1461 First Avenue, New York, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of formation for 212 East 72nd Street LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/12/12. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 212 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013

Notice of Qualification of Real Time Neuromonitoring Associates, PLLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/14/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Tennessee (TN) on 12/31/08.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: URS Agents, LLC, 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste. 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Principal office address: 3004 B Poston Rd., Nashville, TN 37203. Arts of Org. filed with the TN Secretary of State, 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave., 6th Fl., Nashville, TN 37243-1102. Purpose: to practice the profession of medicine and any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of Golf Manhattan Instruction LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/30/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of Luis Guerrero, PLLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/15/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: to practice the profession of Law. Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of Yield Curve Capital, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/3/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Att: Amir Sadr, 105 Duane St., #44F, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of WiSH Trading LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/3/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Att: Amir Sadr, 105 Duane St., #44F, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of PFNY, LLC filed under the original name PFNY Operating Company, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/27/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 320 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013

Notice of Qual. of Armistice Capital, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/4/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 4/11/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Steven Boyd, 237 Park Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qual. of Manor Road Investment Partners, LP Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/25/12. Office loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 6/19/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: John Ku, 900 Third Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of MAGNACARE IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: One Penn Plaza, Ste. 4630, NY, NY 10119. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Craig B. Greenfield at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of THR WASHINGTON II, L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/18/13. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/17/12. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of SOLUTIONSTAR REALTY SERVICES LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/16/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/02/12. Princ. office of LLC: 350 Highland Dr., Lewisville, TX 75067.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013

Notice of Formation of GNYHA Purchasing Alliance, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o GNYHA Ventures, Inc., 555 W. 57th St., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of Hudson Empowerment LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 826 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of Merrimac Marine Insurance, LLC Fictitious name in NY State: Merrimac Marine Insurance LLC, Brokerage. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 6/27/02.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. FL address of LLC: 1020 North Orlando Ave., Ste. 200, Maitland, FL 32751. Arts. of Org. filed FL Secy. of State, 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32301. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of SES Wealth Advisors LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/18/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 237 Park Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of Weiter, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/10/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 405 Howard St., Ste. 550, San Francisco, CA 94105. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 MANHATTAN COGNITIVE – BEHAVIORAL THERAPY / PSYCHOLOGY, PLLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 12/10/2012. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC 276 Fifth Avenue, STE # 905, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013

Notice of Qualification of HIROAKI, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/12/12.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Hawaii (HI) on 12/5/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Keiko Ono Aoki, 645 Fifth Ave., Ste. 905, NY, NY 10022, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. HI addr. of LLC: 1136 Union Mall, Ste. 301, Honolulu, HI 96813. Cert. of Org. filed with HI Commissioner of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, 335 Merchant St., Honolulu, HI 96810. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of Libra TE, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/13/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: 777 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Ranjan Tandon. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of Thorley Industries LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/10/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in PA on 6/15/05.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. PA and principal business addr.: 40 24th St., 2nd Fl., Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

Cert. of Org. filed with PA Sec. of the Commonwealth, 206 North Office Bldg., Harrisburg, PA 17120. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Qualification of SP HHF Sub Brook Avenue LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/19/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: c/o Storage Post HHF Venture LLC, Two Buckhead Plz., 3050 Peachtree Rd. NW, Ste. 580, Atlanta, GA 30305. LLC formed in DE on 12/17/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013

Notice of Qualification of Zion Rootswear L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in FL on 2/8/99. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Principal office addr.: c/o Bravado International Group Merchandising Services Inc., 1755 Broadway, 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Cert. of Org. filed with FL Sec. of State, 2661 Executive Center Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32301.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/31 - 03/07/2013 Notice of Formation of CawsVideo LLC Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 116 Pinehurst Ave., Suite J23, NewYork, NY 10033. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ARAVO HOLDINGS LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/9/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 118 Baxter St Ste 402 New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 TJD 21 LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/21/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 245 Park Ave., NY, NY 10167. General Purposes.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 LENOIR LAW FIRM, PLLC, a domestic PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/28/12. Office location: New York. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: S. John Lenoir, 2753 Broadway, Ste. 251, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: Law Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 Notice of Formation of SASHA WOLF GALLERY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 70 Orchard St., NY, NY 10002. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/201

COMGROUP GLOBAL HOLDINGS LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/18/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Trief & Olk, Esqs., 150 E. 58th St., 34th Flr., NY, NY 10155.

General Purposes.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/10/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The Street.com, c/o James Cramer, 14 Wall St., 15th Flr., NY, NY 10005. General Purposes.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 Notice of Formation of LINCOLN PLAINS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/10/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to M. Nader Ahari, 524 Broadway, Ste. 405, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 Notice of Qualification of METLANG LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/08/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/24- 02/28/2013 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Battery Park Holdings Subsidiary LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 01/10/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Vesey St., 11th Fl., 3 WFC, New York, NY 10281. LLC formed in DE on 12/21/2012. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 Notice of Formation of SN Compliance LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/4/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: USPO Village Station, P.O. Box 132, NY, NY 10014.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013

February 14 - 20, 2013

Publ ic Not i ces NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Brookfield Properties W 33rd Co. L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 01/11/13. LP formed in DE on 04/15/1986.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Vesey St., 11th Fl., 3 WFC, New York, NY 10281. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Name/addr. of genl. ptr. avail. from NY Sec. of State.

Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of BOP West 31st Street LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 01/10/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Vesey St., 11th Fl., 3 WFC, New York, NY 10281. LLC formed in DE on 01/15/1999. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 Notice of Qualification of Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Global Tax Network Northeast, LLC. Application for Authority was filed by the Department of State of New York on: 01/02/2013. Jurisdiction: Delaware. Organized on: 01/30/2008. Office location: County of New York.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to principal business address: 7950 Main Street N., Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55369. Address of office required to be maintained in Delaware: One Commerce Center, 1201 Orange Street, Suite 600, Wilmington, DE 19899. Authorized officer in its Jurisdiction is: Secretary of State of Delaware John G. Townsend Building, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DONG & GU REALTY LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/3/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 82 Rutgers Slip Apt 18G New York, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

Notice of Formation of Philal LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/6/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 Notice of Qualification of Potenza Capital (GP), LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/28/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/21/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/24 - 02/28/2013 Notice of Qualification of EEGO West 44 Owner, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/12.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Jonathon K. Yormak, c/o East End Capital, 600 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, also the principal office address.

Address to be maintained in DE: 27111 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808, c/o Corporation Service Company. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

JONATHAN RAIBLE ARCHITECT, PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/24/12.

Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 370 Riverside Dr., #8B, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: To practice the profession of Architecture.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of 50HT LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 12/7/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Corporate Filing Solutions, LLC, 425 Boylston St., 3rd Flr., Boston, MA 02116. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: PARKER ROSE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/27/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 39 Broadway, Suite 3300, New York, New York 10006.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

Notice of Formation of MARGULIES FAMILY PLAN, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 3 Savanna Circle, Mt. Sinai, NY 11766. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Steven Margulies at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

NOTICE OF FORMATION of New Ballon Holdings, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 105 East 29th Street, Suite 5, New York, New York 10016. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

Notice of Formation of THREADSTONE RETAIL TRACKER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Treadstone Advisors, 477 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

Notice of Formation of Charles Realty Associates, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/11/07. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Pu blic No tices Notice of Formation of 57 Reade 20A LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/11/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o David Chen, 57 Reade St., #20A, NY, NY 10007, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 Notice of Formation of 9 Gramercy Park South LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/14/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 9 Gramercy Park So., NY, NY 10003. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP, 1 N. Lexington Ave., White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 NEGBA LLC Arts. of Org filed NY Secy of State(SSNY)10/10/12. OFC in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 109-23 71st Rd NY NY 11375. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 01/10 - 02/14/2013 Notice of Qualification of Catamaran LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/31/12.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed inTX on 12/4/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Principal office address: 2441 Warrenville Rd., Ste. 610, Lisle, IL 60532.

Cert. of Org. filed with TX Sec. of State, PO Box 13697, Austin,TX 78711. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 Notice of Qualification of Guard Control PMD, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/13/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 12/6/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 200 West St., NY, NY 10282-2198. CI addr. of LP: c/o Maples Corporate Services Ltd., P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, CI. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Registrar of Exempted LPs, Elizabethan Sq., 4th Fl., Phase Four, George Town, Grand Cayman, CI. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 Notice of Formation of 87 Baxter Street Realty LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/6/03. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 87 Baxter St., NY, NY. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 56-38 218th St., Bayside, NY 11364. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/10 - 02/14/2013

Notice of Qualification of FEC08 LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/21/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in OH on 12/6/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the OH and principal business addr.: c/o David A. Lightner, FSM Capital Management, LLC, 2000 Auburn Dr., Ste. 330, Cleveland, OH 44114.

Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Cert. of Org. filed with OH Sec. of State, 180 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43215. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013 Notice of Formation of VE LAIGHT MEMBER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/12.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o VE Equities LLC, 12 Mercer St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/10 - 02/14/2013

Notice of Formation of 136 W44TH ST MIRROR LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/12.

Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: One Bryant Park, NY, NY 10036. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., Attn: Gary M. Rosenberg, Esq., 733 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/10 - 02/14/2013 Notice of Qualification of Lennon, Murphy, Caulfield & Phillips, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/18/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CT on 4/12/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: The LLC, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 300, NY, NY 10170. CT addr. of LLC: 2425 Post Rd., Ste. 302, Southport, CT 06890. Cert. of Org. filed with CT Sec. of State, 30 Trinity St., Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/10 - 02/14/2013

Notice of Qualification of PRIORITY SENIOR SECURED INCOME MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/19/12.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 01/17- 02/21/2013

Public Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Gigino, Inc to maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 323 Greenwich Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

Vil: 02/14 - 02/21/2013

CITATION File No. 2011/765 SURROGATE’S COURT, New York COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of VERA SAVOYKA, deceased, if living; and, if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest, whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of the County of New York who is/are domiciled at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, Room 509, New York, on March 22nd, 2013, at 09:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Vera Savoyka lately domiciled at 20 West 64th Street, Apt. 31V, New York, New York 100237129, United States admitting to probate a Will dated September 30, 1994 a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Vera Savoyka deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to Public Administrator of the County of New York Further relief sought (if any): that Letters of Administration heretofore issued to the Public Administrator of the County of New York be revoked. Dated, Attested and Sealed, January 29th, 2013 HON. Nora S. Anderson Surrogate, Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk, Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq. Attorney, (212) 363-2500, 90 Broad Street, Suite 1700, New York, New York 10004-2286.

NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

Vil: 02/07 – 02/28/2013

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February 14 - 20, 2013

Let’s get back to our roots: We need new leaders CLAYTON

By Clayton Patterson The Lower East Side used to be a place that sheltered, developed and nurtured great political leaders. These were politicians whose ideas changed the world and made a difference to the huddled masses, the new immigrants and the poor, even giving a hand up to the dissidents — those questioning society or looking for utopia, seeking creative freedom while looking for the right to live and let live.

The leaders fought for and made a difference for the better in the lives of children, workers, women and the downtrodden, giving them the right to share in the abundance and freedom of We The People. They were at the forefront of helping to establish trade unions for men and women, a children’s bureau, tenants rights and public and co-operative housing.

Where did they go? What happened to those champions of the people? In the last couple of decades our so-called progressive politicians have just about given away all the rights that so many gave up so much to gain. I’ve said it before: What was before will never be again. Gone are the possibilities of coming to the L.E.S., finding cheap rent and the opportunity to live an inexpensive lifestyle, which gave individuals the chance to better their lives, become self-sufficient or sharpen their talents, which could allow one to enter a profession or make a contribution to our artistic heritage.

New York University is a massive institution, whose size has allowed it to be even more ruthless in rolling over renters’ rights and displacing thousands of neighborhood tenants.

Meanwhile, our mayor, the billiondollar baby, has once again broken, or shall I say, spent the money to make a change in the housing laws so a person’s castle can be a micro-unit as small as 250 square feet. Out go the “amenities” people fought so hard for: window light, cross ventilation, bathrooms separating tub from kitchen, and toilets in the apartment rather than in the hall — a livable space where a person could feel at home and bring a visitor.

Moreover, gone are the mom-and-pop businesses, exchanged for either cookie-cutter, anywhere America corporate repeats — like 7-Eleven, Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks, McDonald’s and Staples — or for bars and expensive restaurants that come and go because they cannot afford the rent. The fabric and substance of what made our community has been destabilized and gutted. We have become an “entertainment zone” for bar-crawling tourists, frat boys who live elsewhere, and transient residents.

Yes, people can go on about the bad old days and how rough the streets used to be. I was just talking to a guy who “made it” and moved out a decade ago.

He had come back for a visit and was so impressed by all the fancy new eateries.

He had to tell me how much better it is around here since when he was growing up. He seemed to conveniently forget that he would never have gotten a leg up in today’s world if not for the opportunities in the bad old L.E.S. He and his family struggled but survived. But with today’s rents in the L.E.S., they couldn’t even have scraped by in the neighborhood.

Gone are the days of political outrage, mass political gatherings, inspired firebrand speeches. Today if a youth gets murdered, the most we can hope for is an hour of speeches and maybe a sixblock memorial walk. Am I exaggerating?

Look at the column I recently wrote in The Villager about some local Hispanic merchants. They have made the successful business transition needed to survive in this New World Order, and want to be given the same opportunity to get a liquor license that so many others have. The license was denied.

An outraged commenter on my column threw in the word “racist,” even though I never meant to brand the situation that way. In fact, I do not believe the district manager is a racist. But as things go true to

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form, city councilmembers made it a point to speak out about the use of this word at a community board meeting. In other words, they will concentrate, not on the substance of the problem, but on how it was verbal-

ized. Our problems are much deeper than a few misspoken angry words.

This is not to say there is no political activism in our city. Occupy Wall Street proved that people were not ready to accept this new corporate order. In fact, it will be interesting to see how the police respond to the next O.W.S. demonstrations, considering that a number of the communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy are where the police live and the people associated with O.W.S. were often first on the scene to help. They proved more dedicated and efficient than the wellfinanced nonprofits like the Red Cross. A good number of the Sandy volunteers are the youth who used to live on the L.E.S. and now longer can afford to live here.

It is time for a change. It’s time to get some of that good Occupy energy back in the L.E.S. It is time to try and save some of what the people and the great leaders of our past fought so hard for.

We need new political leaders. Real leaders. Inspired leaders. New ideas. We need leaders who will fight for the People, not just use their political office for personal power. Enough with fancy-pants billionaires, or their wannabe clones, running our city!

Broadway will feel the crunch (on trash)

By T. Schoen “You have an insane garbage problem. It’s disgusting!

There’s no other way to describe it,” said Larry Marcus, a representative of Direct Environmental Corp., at a meeting of the Community Board 2 Environment Committee last Wednesday.

It’s no secret that New York struggles to maintain clean streets. But much of the garbage that overflows trash cans all across the city is, in fact, recyclable material. Failure to recycle isn’t only wasteful, it also takes up space in landfills and makes it more difficult to keep the streets clean.

To help address these issues, Direct Environmental Corp. has created the Big Belly Solar system, a mechanical, two-inone waste receptacle.

Speaking before Marcus, Ron Gonen, the city’s deputy commissioner for recycling, gave a presentation on the city’s trash problem and how the high-tech bins could help address both this and people’s failure to properly dispose of recyclables, like bottles and paper.

The advanced garbage cans consist of a pair of midsized waste containers attached to one another, one designated for normal waste, and the other for paper, plastic and metal recycling. The machines, Marcus explained, in addition to being solar powered, shoot a laser across the interior of the can. When this laser is interrupted for an extended period of time, a compactor presses the garbage down, allowing for greater capacity and preventing overflows.

Although recycling has always been a popular idea, with designated bins scattered sparsely about the city on street corners, it is given considerably less attention than traditional trash cans.

“There are 25,000 trash cans in New York City,” Gonen stated. “You know how many recycling bins there are? One

thousand.” More often than not, he and Marcus noted, people will indiscriminately just throw all of their waste into a bin, whether or not it is recyclable. The new cans, which have both a recycling bin and a traditional garbage can, will help eliminate that problem, though can’t control for intentional misplacement of waste.

Another issue raised during the meeting was illegal, massoperating recycling collection.

“Trucks go around and fan out their people,” Gonen said.

“They collect the cans and bring them back to the truck.”

The Big Belly Solar units, sporting closed tops, would make unauthorized pilfering of recyclable trash much more difficult.

The new compactor cans, despite their mechanical nature, require little maintenance.

“You just need to replace the battery every four years,” Marcus said.

But the new cans also are more costly.

“The normal recycling bins, the ones with the big tops, cost $1,200, and they don’t do anything,” he noted. “The new ones cost $3,000, and they compact the garbage.”

The hoped-for increase in recycling created by the compactor cans would benefit the city financially, as well.

“Five hundred thousand tons of landfill paper could actually be recycled right here in the city,” Gonen stated. Not only would more wastepaper be reclaimed for further use, the improved trash can technology would also justify an investment of “$85 million into one of the most advanced recycling centers in the country,” Gonen added.

Although the new receptacles are currently few in number in the city, Marcus said, referring to Community Board 2’s Village-area district, “The new recycling bins should be on Broadway very soon.”

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February 14 - 20, 2013

Why protest climate change?

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By Fury Young I’m a bus organizer for 350.org’s Forward on Climate rally. I’ve been on board with the protest for months now.

“Why is it important to protest climate change?” you might ask me. Because I feel it’s my civic duty as an earthling.

Whether or not you believe in global warming, it’s impossible to deny that the climate is changing. The 12 warmest years on record since 1850 have all occurred in the past 14 years. This past year broke the record by a wide margin. The planet is experiencing a wave of droughts, wildfires, storms, and floods. The cost of damages of just one of these disasters, the recent Hurricane Sandy, was $70 billion. The United Nations has estimated that the economic cost of such catastrophes, on a worldwide scale, could reach $600 billion annually by 2030.

As I’ve been doing one-on-one outreach, many subway riders and cafe denizens have asked me, “What are the protest’s specific goals?” I start with the macro, easy-to-grasp objective; that President Obama must enact policy to combat climate change. This flows into a more specific demand: to deny the Keystone XL pipeline’s construction.

As activist and conservation photographer Garth Lenz points out, the Keystone pipeline,

which would take the dirtiest fuel on earth from Canada to Texas, would promote “a huge disincentive to a sustainable clean energy future for America.”

There’s an alternative we must advocate for on Sun., Feb. 17, when tens of thousands of concerned earthlings, who feel it is their civic duty, show up in Washington, D.C. Let’s not put faith in the jobs the Keystone pipeline can generate, but the jobs that wind, solar and geothermal energy would create. We must shut down coal-fired power plants, slash our carbon production, and invest in our infrastructure to deal with environmental changes. Let’s steer away from a world that careens from disaster to disaster, in which resources become scarcer and political conflicts between nations intensify to wars.

I urge you to join us in D.C., to be brave and speak out against a truly harrowing reality.

If for nothing else, come to witness the sheer spectacle of 30,000 people forming a human pipeline around the White House. Because even if the cynics are right — that the damage is done, the corporate powers too strong, the planet too far gone — why go down without a fight?

Buses leave from the Marcy J/M/Z station, 178 Broadway between Driggs and Bedford Aves., in Williamsburg, Sun., Feb. 17, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Reserve tickets, $30, at forwardonclimate.eventbrite.com .

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Moses couldn’t part the L.E.S.

Legendary Lower East Side activist Frances Goldin talked at St. Mark’s Bookshop about the article on her by Chris Brandt in “Jews: A People’s History of The Lower East Side,” edited by Clayton Patterson and Dr. Mareleyn Schneider. Goldin concentrated on her years fighting to preserve affordable housing in the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area — a swath of buildings designated in the 1950s for “slum clearance” by Planning Czar Robert Moses, centered around the Bowery and Second Ave. on Houston St. and stretching several blocks north and south. Moses wanted to rebuild the area with another Stuyvesant Town. More than 50 years later, thanks to the efforts of Goldin and her fellow housing activists, people in the tenements saved from demolition now finally own their apartments, which will remain affordable in perpetuity.

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