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May 16 - 22, 2013

N.Y.U. gives space for tots and seniors on its superblocks

By LInCoLn anDerSon N.Y.U. — going beyond what was required in its agreement with the city for the O.K.’ing of its N.Y.U. 2031 development plan — is creating space for not one, but two, local nonprofit groups in the university’s Washington Square Village complex.

Alicia Hurley, New York University vice president of outreach and community engagement, recently led The Villager on a tour of the two Photo by Jefferson Siegel

Speaking in front of the Foundation Building at Wednesday’s protest, Chino Garcia said the former CHARAS/El Bohio should be restored as a community center. Councilmember Rosie Mendez, left, held the bullhorn, while Laurie Mittelmann, co-director of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS), right, held a poster blasting developer Gregg Singer.

Dormitory foes warn Cooper, Don’t get in bed with Singer!

By Sarah FerguSon On Wednesday, more than 150 people marched from the old P.S. 64 on E. 9th St. — former home of the CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center — to The Cooper Union to demand that the university reverse its plan to lease up to

196 beds in the new dormitory that owner Gregg Singer wants to build there.

Led by the Hungry March Band blowing Dixieland jazz, giant puppets and a substantial police escort, the boisterous crowd wound its way through the East Village, with

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some stopping to boo for a minute outside Cooper President Jamshed Bharucha’s residence on Stuyvesant St., before rallying outside Cooper Union’s Foundation Building.

There they were greeted by

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spaces, along with representatives of the nonprofits and Councilmember Margaret Chin, whose advocacy led to the creation of the second space.

As part of getting the city’s permission to develop roughly 2 million square feet of space on the university’s two South Village superblocks, N.Y.U. is required to designate 6,000 square feet on the ground floor

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Smoked cheese shop, burned by economy, closes on Sullivan St.

By JeFFerSon SIegeL Around midday on Saturday Anthony Campanelli, the co-owner of Joe’s Dairy on Sullivan St., was bent over a sink in the store’s back room.

He reached into a pan filled with balls of smoked mozzarella and, one by one, washed the gritty residue off each.

Saturday was the last day Campanelli, 60, would have to “wash the smoke off,” as he has been doing five days

a week for years. Yet another locally owned business was closing — this time, Joe’s Dairy — and word had been spreading throughout the neighborhood for days.

“We can’t keep up with everybody else,” Anthony said as he passed another pan of the washed “smokes” to his brother, Vincent, who was wrapping each in plastic.

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May 16 - 22, 2013

Trouble in paradise as owner fences part of garden

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Aresh Javadi, far right, and environmental attorney Joel Kupferman, second from right, spoke to a representative of developer Serge Hoyda, left, at the Children’s Magical Garden on Wednesday.

Kate Temple-West, one of the directors of the Children's Magical Garden, at right, watched in dismay as workers fenced off the land owned by Hoyda.

By Sarah Ferguson Developer Serge Hoyda staged a surprise attack on the Children’s Magical Garden Tuesday, when he dispatched a security detail and work crew to erect a chainlink fence to a section of the portion of the garden he owns.

Hoyda and his partners in Norfolk Street Development LLC own one of the three small lots that make up the garden on the corner of Norfolk and Stanton Sts. The other two lots are owned by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

A crowd of gardeners and supporters — including many students from the Lower East Side Prep school across the street — gathered to protest as workers began digging big holes through their fresh plantings.

“You don’t have to do this!” a young man shouted at the workers, begging them to stop.

The fence effectively bifurcates the garden.

Gardeners, who have been tilling the formerly abandoned lots for the last 30 years, had in recent weeks reached out to Hoyda’s reps and Councilmember Margaret Chin in hopes of orchestrating some kind of “land swap,” whereby the city might agree to give the developer a different lot to build on if he ceded his small lot to the gardeners.

Chin’s office put representatives of the developer in touch with officials at H.P.D. to

discuss the situation.

Instead of coming to some agreement, the developer brought a chainlink fence.

“It’s a total shock,” said garden president Kate Temple-West, who said she heard of the fence going up when she got a call from a neighbor at 9 a.m.

A crowd of high school students from Lower East Side Prep, which overlooks the garden, gathered outside the garden to watch the police and workers tromp through the seedlings that they had sprouted in their classroom and planted just the day before.

“They are killing our plants, our baby plants,” said Tamara Aulestiarte, 18, from Argentina. “Why are they doing this?”

L.E.S. Prep is one of three schools that now use the garden as an outdoor classroom.

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Taiyo Kizawa, 3, who lives around the corner from the garden and comes there often with his mother, played while workers fenced off the land owned by Hoyda.

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notebook SWEENEY’S ANTI-BIKE-SHARE JIHAD: The New York Times, catching up to the bike-share backlash story, bit on a quote we reported in our article in last week’s issue on the Community Board 2 “bike-share outrage” forum.

The Times, in its article this Wednesday, referred to a community member who slammed Citi Bike at the forum as making “an inelegant analogy between the Taliban and the Bloomberg administration.” That unnamed individual was Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance. “Yeah, that particularly annoyed me that I (and the Villager) was not given credit for the ‘inelegant’ remark,” Sweeney told us. “I had been to the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan back in the ’70s before the Russian invasion, so my comment was based on personal knowledge of the events.”

And now Sweeney has witnessed the removal of a small public art space in tiny Petrosino Square for a dreaded bike-share station. “Both Mullah Omar and Sadik-Khan are extremists who force their will on others,” the Soho activist fumed. “The chief difference is that Mullah Omar wears a robe and Mullah Sadik-Khan wears spandex.”

ROUNDUP REVULSION: An East Village reader alerted us that he had received an alarmed report from a friend who walks his dog in East River Park that the Parks Department is spraying the park with Monsanto’s Roundup weed-killer.

This will be putting pooches in grave danger, the dog owner fears. However, a Parks Department spokesperson tells us there’s no reason to get wound up about Roundup, and that the powerful plant killer is completely harmless. “Roundup has been used in parks for decades and is approved by OSHA and the city’s Health Department,” Phil Abramson said. “It is a post-emergent spray that combats weeds, and at East River Park, since Hurricane Sandy, mugwort has sprung up. The spray is inert, meaning that it targets weeds but does not affect soil, wildlife or people’s pets.” … Yeah, but it’s also made by Monsanto, which, as we learned from the movie “Food, Inc.” is strong-arming small farmers out of business left and right unless they agree to buy the multinational company’s grain seed, which doesn’t regerminate and needs to be purchased anew — from Monsanto — each year.

A YARN ABOUT A CAFE: Talk about getting wound up, Deb’s Cafe, on Varick St. between Houston and King Sts., was recently “yarn bombed,” which is a good thing.

Deb Barral-Miller, owner of Deb’s Catering, invited a group of women known as CYB (Community Yarn Bomb) to decorate the tables and seats in the place’s sidewalk cafe. A reception was held on May 7 to coincide with

the birthday of the late Sam Gold, Barrall-Miller’s father, who formerly owned the beloved Sam’s Sandwich Shop at the same spot.

CAPSIS SUES SIXTH, KELLY: We were recently sent court papers from attorney Arthur Schwartz, confirming that he is representing George Capsis, publisher of WestView, a monthly publication, in a lawsuit against Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and two Sixth Precinct police officers. The suit alleges police “exerted excessive force in the arrest of plaintiff Capsis.” The case involves a May 2012 incident in which the octogenarian West Villager was biking in the Bleecker St. bike lane and was cut off by a police van, and then pinned against the van by the officers. Capsis then slapped the face of one of the officers, who promptly socked Capsis in the eye in return, breaking his glasses and causing facial bruising.

The offending officer also threw Capsis to the ground, the suit says, adding that the WestView publisher was taken to the Sixth Precinct and then the hospital, where he was treated — while still in handcuffs. The suit seeks no less than $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages for Capsis, plus a jury trial.

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plug, right?” Robertson said with a smile. Although Catsimatidis is running as a Republican “fusion candidate,” the bagpiper said he didn’t fancy a former G.O.P. mayor, Rudy Giuliani, whom he called “a stiff.” And he’s not a Bloomberg fan, either. Robertson’s other issue — or one he is dealing with personally — is that someone who is trying to stop his “research” is bombarding him with microwaves through the walls of his Cherokee Place apartment on E. 78th St., and recently even tried to blast him with a “laser sound gun.” Robertson survived the searing shot to the solar plexus, but the attacks are taking a toll.

HATS OFF TO LIZ CHRISTY GARDEN! The Liz Christy Garden, on East Houston St. at the Bowery, is celebrating its 40th anniversary on Sat., May 18, with a blowout party from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Rain date is Sun., May 19.) Join them for free hot dogs and refreshments, and of course, their famous Hat Party. Artist Annie ShaverCrandell of Noho will man a hat-decorating table. Her late husband, Keith Crandell wrote powerfully in The Villager about the need to save the garden and not bifurcate it with a path during the AvalonBay construction project. The garden is looking even better than ever, having incorporated the adjacent Rock and Roll Garden.

MUSEUM NIGHT AT C.B. 2: Terri Cude of Community Board 2 is really excited about her Arts and Institutions Committee’s upcoming Wed., May 22, meeting, at the Little Red School House, at Sixth Ave. and Bleecker St., at 6:30p.m., at which local museums, both extant and future, will give reports on who they are and what they do. There will be a full lineup, with the likes of the Whitney, the Drawing Center, the Children’s Museum of the Arts, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesban Art, the Merchant’s House, the Yippie Museum and more.

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IN TUNE WITH CATSIMATIDIS: We were exiting Grand Central Station the other night and recognized the familiar bagpipe strains of Duncan Robertson, above, who we met a few years ago at a tree-planting party on the East Side. Our chat turned to politics and Robertson told us he recently attended an event on the Upper East Side for mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis. “He’s a real humanitarian,” he said of the Gristedes C.E.O. “Catsimatidis says, ‘I don’t vote for the party, I vote for the man,’ and that’s the way I am, too... That’s a good

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May 16 - 22, 2013

N.Y.U. gives up superblocks

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Michael Zisser, executive director of University Settlement, right, and Gabriella Taylor, director of Creative Steps, standing in front of the hallway that leads from the lobby of Washington Square Village 4 back to the current daycare center. The hallway and all the rooms off it will be incorporated into a new, 6,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art daycare center.

Continued from page 1 of Washington Square Village 4, on Bleecker St., for a community-oriented use. To fulfill that obligation, the university is expanding a small, existing daycare center already located in part of the space, Creative Steps, which will partner with University Settlement. The expansion will triple the size of the daycare’s space. The facility will be all new and state-of-the art, and will allow the daycare to serve 75 youngsters, ages 1 to 5.

The space is slated to open in January 2014.

Its entrance will be on Mercer St., next to the Mercer St. Playground.

The daycare expansion will take over a hallway that leads from the building’s lobby — and also the Center for Graduate Student Life, which will be relocated to Washington Square Village 2, on W. Third St. Started as a parent co-op in the 1970s, Creative Steps began with just eight students.

Michael Zisser, chief executive officer of University Settlement, said the new facility will be the ultimate in daycare.

“This is it, in terms of what’s built today,” he said. “It’ll all be high-end.”

In terms of who will use the daycare, Zisser said, “From our perspective, it’s a community facility — not just N.Y.U. It will be for the community at large.”

Creative Steps had been basically word of mouth in terms of how parents found about it, and it prioritized university personnel. But University Settlement and Creative Steps will now make an effort to reach out to the community regarding filling the slots.

University Settlement, a Lower East Side settlement house, has been involved in earlychildhood development for 125, Zisser noted, adding, “So we have some experience.”

The space will be opened up with glass to make it more airy and sun-filled, Gabriella Taylor, the daycare’s director, said approvingly.

“It makes us better than we are,” she said.

The fee will be “below market rate,” she assured.

“There are some early-childhood centers that charge yearly tuition equal to N.Y.U. tuition,” she noted.

Partial scholarships will be available to reflect the needs of applicants.

The university will cover the full cost of the renovation.

The rent will be very discounted, according to Zisser, noting, “Margaret Chin negotiated it to make it as minimal as possible.”

In addition, Councilmember Chin had requested that the same area also house a space for local senior-care organization, Visiting Neighbors. Instead, feeling this didn’t make sense logistically, N.Y.U. chose to site this nonprofit in 900 square feet of currently empty office space in Washington Square Village 3, also located on Bleecker St. Visiting Neighbors was started in 1973 as a grassroots organization by a group of concerned Villagers. The organization focuses on visiting seniors and also doing “shop and escort,” helping them with local errands. The group’s goal is to keep seniors living at home as long as possible.

But Visiting Neighbors has struggled to stay afloat in recent years due to funding cuts from the Department of the Aging. The organization was forced to leave a 2,000-squarefoot office in the Village and relocate to a very tight, windowless, 250-square-foot space in Chelsea. Three years ago the staff was cut from 13 to six, and those remaining went on unemployment for a year in order to keep Visiting Neighbors alive. Through it all, the organization has continued to serve 500 seniors residing mainly in the Village and on the Lower East Side.

The new Village-based headquarters will also help Visiting Neighbors — which will relocate there by fall 2013 — by bringing it closer to the clients it serves.

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space for toddlers, seniors Continued from page 4 “Our heart and soul is still the Village, because it’s where we started,” said Cynthia Maurer, Visiting Neighbors executive director.

Maurer said that currently she has to leave the office and step out to the deli in order to have a confidential discussion.

Looking at the Washington Square Village space two weeks ago, a relieved Maurer said, “I’ll probably finally be able to have a private conversation in here.”

Another area in the office, she said, as they checked the space out, would be perfect for a health advocate, who will “nudge” the seniors to get medical attention and regular checkups.

“It gives us hope for the future,” she said of their future 900-square-foot home. “We’re grateful to N.Y.U. … And a window!” she said excitedly, envisioning her future director’s office.

As part of the agreement with the city, N.Y.U. is also giving the city’s School Construction Authority the right to build a 100,000-squarefoot public school at the current Morton Williams supermarket site, at Bleecker St. and LaGuardia Place. If by the end of 2014, S.C.A. has chosen not to build the school, then N.Y.U., under the agreement, will build a 25,000-square-foot community facility there, possibly for seniors, as part of a 100,000-square-foot building.

As the tour concluded, everyone gathered around a table in the office of Community Board 2, which is also located in Washington Square 3.

“It just exceeded my expectations,” said a smiling Chin regarding the soon-to-be renovated spaces. “I’m just so happy that it worked out with the early-childhood center. This is really great. And I’m just so happy we could find a space for Visiting Neighbors.”

Chin is continuing to meet with N.Y.U. regularly regarding the 2031 project, to monitor the process moving forward and make sure that the university is abiding by its agreements. There is also an open-space task force that is keeping tabs on N.Y.U.’s requirements on that front.

Speaking later, one member of the Washington Square Village Tenants

Association who has been an active critic of 2031, talking on condition of anonymity, noted that Creative Steps has had its space rent-free all these years.

Asked about that, N.Y.U.’s Hurley responded, “Regarding ‘rent,’ Creative Steps and University Settlement, as well as Visiting Neighbors, will all be paying rent, but a highly affordable one.

We want them in the space to succeed. If the nonprofit partners who are preparing their business plans and factoring in rents see this as a very good and generous opportunity made available by the university, at the request of Councilmember Chin, I’m not sure that I’m too concerned over a few vocal opponents who tend to not be able to say anything positive about the university.”

Washington Square Village has possibly around 1,100 apartments now, according to the tenant activist. She said no one really knows for certain, since N.Y.U. has been combining so many units in the complex. About 18 percent of the apartments are occupied by non-university-affiliated tenants. The tenants association is waiting for N.Y.U. to provide them with a space, too — a 60 person-capacity meeting room — she added.

In total, under the approval of the 2031 ULURP, the university is obligated to provide 38,000 square feet of community space, which presumably factors in a community facility on the Morton Williams supermarket site, should the city opt not to build a public school there.

Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, is a plaintiff in a community lawsuit against the 2031 project. He said that the “tradeoff,” if it can be called that — under which the university is providing new community space — doesn’t change the equation, given the impact the university’s planned development projects will have on the two South Village superblocks.

“Thirty-eight-thousand square feet of community space doesn’t make up for 2 million square feet of expansion,” he said, “or for turning our residential neighborhood into a construction zone.”

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Caught a bit off-guard by the photographer, Cynthia Maurer, executive director of Visiting Neighbors, right, was happily checking out the 900-square-foot space in Washington Square Village 3 that N.Y.U. will renovate for the senior-care organization.

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Police BLOTTER Ch-ch-chain of fool

Wallet thief couldn’t wait

Police arrested a man who allegedly robbed another man while following him home after both had attended a concert at Webster Hall.

The victim, 20, told officers that he and his friend got into a heated dispute with Andrew Soto, 22, as they were all leaving the popular E. 11th St. venue around 1 a.m. on Sun., May 12, and noticed that Soto began following them as they walked away. He claimed that Soto then attacked from behind while they were on Washington Place, just outside Washington Square Park, and ripped the chain from his neck before fleeing on foot.

Around 5 a.m., after the crime had been reported, an officer on patrol used the victim’s description to identify, stop and question Soto, and noticed the stolen chain sticking out of Soto’s pocket. Soto was charged with robbery.

A thirsty thief’s impatience was his downfall early on May 8, after he blew his cover by using a stolen credit card at the same bar where he’d just swiped it from an unwitting woman.

The victim, 29, told police she was about to pay her tab at Employees Only, at 510 Hudson St., around 4 a.m., when she noticed that her wallet was missing from her purse. But after she asked the bartender if he’d seen any lost wallets lying around, he quickly realized that a man at the other end of the bar — later identified as Luis Nadal, 26 — was right then trying to pay for his own drinks with the woman’s card. The bartender promptly snatched away the card and wallet from Nadal, and reported the crime to police, who arrived minutes later to cuff the unsuccessful thief.

Nadal was charged with attempted grand larceny.

Bubbly burglar fizzles

Employees of Catch, a multistory restaurant at 21 Ninth Ave. in the Meatpacking District that also includes a bar and lounge, told cops they saw Shawn James, 28, stalking around outside the restaurant at 7:30 a.m. on Mon., May 13. James then reportedly entered through an unlocked side door and took an elevator up to the fourth floor, where he crept behind the bar, grabbed three bottles of bubbly — total value $800 — and stashed them in a black bag.

But when James tried to make a stealthy escape through the same side door, the employees were waiting for him, and stopped him from leaving while they called police. James was arrested minutes later, and charged with burglary.

Cabbie was an iCrook

A disgruntled taxi driver got fed up with his feisty fare and allegedly stole her cell phone early Sat., May 11, but police used some digital assistance to track him down and retrieve the goods.

A 27-year-old woman said she hailed the hack in Times Square around 2 a.m. and asked him to drive back to her home in Crown Heights. But upon arriving at the destination, a dispute arose about payment of the fare, and the cabbie reportedly responded by snatching the woman’s iPhone and driving away before she had a chance to react.

The woman then reported the incident to her local police station, the 77th Precinct, where officers used the “Find My Phone” app to track the filched iPhone — and the cabbie — back to the Village, at Bleecker and Sullivan Sts. Sixth Precinct officers were then able to identify and arrest the cabbie, Yasar Munawar, 29, charging him with grand larceny.

Flung phone, then woman Police arrested a man after he allegedly smashed a woman’s cell phone on the sidewalk and threw her to the ground following an argument early on Sat., May 11.

The victim said she was walking past the corner of Hudson and Christopher Sts. on her way to the subway around 3 a.m., when she bumped into Davon Wicks, 26, causing him to start a verbal altercation. Wicks then reportedly grabbed the woman’s phone and flung it to the curb, breaking it beyond repair, and began to walk away. And when the victim began to yell at him as he left the scene, Wicks allegedly grabbed her and threw her down as well, leaving some bruises.

After the woman reported the crime later that morning, police quickly apprehended Wicks during a canvass of the area. He was charged with criminal mischief.

Tikka masala tantrum Police said that concerned pedestrians flagged down an officer driving near Thelewala, an Indian restaurant at 112 MacDougal St., around 11 p.m. on Fri., May 10, because a man on the street was acting “out of control.” A restaurant employee then told the officer that the enraged man — later identified as Matthew Realley, 22 — had just punched the establishment’s front window, leaving several large cracks. After being immediately arrested and questioned about the incident, Realley reportedly told the officer that he was just mad after being denied entry to a nearby bar.

Realley was charged with criminal mischief.

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Girl groper cops guilty plea Rene Otero, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on Fri., May 10, above, center, had been arrested days before and charged with groping a 9-year-old girl in the East Village on April 14.

At his court appearance, where he would learn if a grand jury had indicted him on the charge, Otero unexpectedly agreed to a plea deal.

In return for pleading guilty, Otero had a charge of first-degree sexual abuse reduced to second-degree sexual abuse, for which he will serve five months.

Appearing before Judge Lisa Sokoloff,

Otero stood quietly as she read aloud the agreement’s details.

“Is it true,” she asked Otero, “that on April 14 at 1:45 p.m. in the rear of 205 Avenue C, that you subjected a child less than 14 years of age to unwanted sexual contact?”

“Yes,” Otero replied.

As part of the plea deal, Otero waived his rights to appeal and to a trial.

In addition, he must register as a sex offender under the state Sex Offender Registration Act. He will be formally sentenced in June.

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Obama zooms around through Downtown to fundraisers cycles in formation with their front red lights all ablaze, the motorcade came streaming up the cleared highway, with Obama presumably riding in “The Beast,” the presidential limo flying flags on its front fenders. But it turned out there were two “Beasts,” so who knew which one he was in?

That time of the first big fundraising convoy, Karen said, she had actually seen Obama, but this time, it all went by in a blur. But, still — hey, at least they had been there.

“High-five!” she said to an obliging Ava. “He passed us. We waved to him.”

Then Ava did some jump-roping over Winston’s leash, and then the construction workers went back to the worksite.

Meanwhile, a bit farther north in the Village, Justin Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Biel, the latter reportedly wearing “hipster glasses,” were among the 60 or so guests at the home of Weinstein and his wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman.

In his remarks, according to the press pool report, the president said he’s hoping for greater cooperation from Republicans, especially now since he has been re-elected.

“There’s a desire,” he said, “to get outPhoto by Milo Hess side of the constant squabbling and bickAround 6 p.m. Monday, a limo, possibly carrying the president, in the convoy came ering and positioning and gamesmanship up Greenwich St. near Duane St. and get to the business of figuring out how do we make sure that the next generation ported Obama, Karen offered a qualified, does better than this generation.”

“Sometimes.”

The president later attended a Tribeca The hard hats said a police officer had fundraiser at the home of Alexandra informed them Obama’s motorcade would Stanton, a former Clinton administration be coming down from the 30th St. West aide, and Sam Natapoff, of the Empire Illuminating the East Village since 1856 Side Heliport. But they had it wrong.

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Finally, he addressed Israel.

“For all the difficulties, for all the setbacks, for all the false starts,” he said, “deep down there’s still this incredible desire for peace.

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By LInCoLn anDerSon It was Monday afternoon and President Obama was due in the Village for another high-powered fundraiser at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s home.

Around 3:20, The Villager — noticing that police had closed off the westbound lanes of Canal St. that feed onto the West Side Highway — started keeping an eye out for the motorcade at Canal St. Police who had put out blue sawhorses along West St. wouldn’t say which way POTUS was coming, from the north or south, but one did acknowledge that he would be coming soon.

Construction workers from the Department of Sanitation megagarage wandered over in their fluorescent green safety vests and hardhats, hoping to get a glimpse of the commander in chief.

Hudson Square residents Karen Azoulay and her daughter, Ava, 5 — actually, “5 and a quarter,” Ava stressed — also came by, Karen having just picked up Ava at the Barrow St. Nursery School. They were accompanied by Winston, their little pooch with an appropriate “top dog”-like name for the occasion. Years ago, Ava had seen Obama’s first big New York fundraising convoy go by. Well, at least she had been there.

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A smashing idea: Breaking barriers through boards

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Leif Becker demonstrated his board-smashing prowess, then invited Boys Club members to channel their own inner Bruce Lee.

On Wed., May 8, at the Boys Club of New York, at E. 10th St. and Avenue A, martial artist Leif Becker smashed through dozens of wooden boards while more than 60 Boys Club members first watched in awe, and then kowabunga-chopped boards themselves to help them break through their own barriers. Becker, who holds two world record titles for fastest board-breaking, created the Breaking Barriers program to help young kids and teens overcome personal difficulties, including peer pressure, poverty, violence and illness. “Each board represents

a child’s voice and the opportunity to have it heard,” Becker explained. “These kids have more power than they know, so when they witness me breaking through boards, they understand that, just as easily, they too can overcome their own fears or personal setbacks. Their challenges, life missions and dreams are represented on that piece of wood. It’s a very powerful thing.” As a finale to his current national tour of youth organizations, Becker plans to break 100,000 boards in 24 hours, each one signed and representing a child’s personal barrier.

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May 16 - 22, 2013

eDitoRial

Solving school crowding The wait continues for solutions to Lower Manhattan’s perennial school wait lists. In a sense, the problem is unavoidable, given the city until now has decided not to make accurate population projections Downtown.

There’s no sense continuing to beat up the Department of Education when there are real, immediate decisions that the city could make right now to alleviate parents’ anxiety.

For starters, send out kindergarten seat offers now for every slot open in Lower Manhattan. There are about 15 openings that are sitting there, while the Education Department waits to get answers for everyone.

Every day that goes by without an offer is another day of unnecessary pain for 110 families. Some are looking to move out of an area that the city, state and federal government have been working for decades to grow — an effort that took on a renewed urgency in the years after the 9/11 attacks.

Second, decide right now how many more temporary classrooms are going to be opened at Tweed Courthouse, on Chambers St. This decision alone has the potential to solve the entire problem — it certainly could put a huge dent in it.

D.O.E. has not yet even considered this solution, which is literally under their noses in their own headquarters.

The building is being used as temporary space for the Peck Slip School. The school, when it opens in 2015, will be able to accommodate five kindergarten classes, but now it can only take in two per year in temporary space. That means the school could potentially accommodate three more classes — 75 students — if more classroom space were found.

Third, propose a plan for P.S 150 that parents support. Even if there are merits to the idea of moving the non-zoned Tribeca school to the new “Foundling High School” in Chelsea — a point we’re not at all conceding — the timing of the proposal was disastrous, making a horrible overcrowding situation worse. A solution to this problem will reduce the waiting lists at the other Lower Manhattan schools.

Incoming P.S. 150 parents expecting to get a small neighborhood school have had their long-term plans upset. Parents are now being pitted against parents as these families naturally look for space in other Lower Manhattan schools.

At the very least, the current P.S. 150 community, including incoming kindergartners, deserves an assurance that they will continue to have seats in their current building or at a suitable site in Lower Manhattan.

That may not satisfy all families, but we were pleased to see that the P.S. 150 parents who attended Tuesday night’s Community Board 1 committee meeting generally supported the board’s resolution to find a new Lower Manhattan location for a larger P.S. 150.

We were glad to see Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver press the city to speed up its timetable for quicker answers. His critics will no doubt see this as Silver unfairly throwing his weight around — but the fact is the population growth in Lower Manhattan is unique to the city, and Downtown is lucky to have such a powerful advocate.

D.O.E. should not let one more day go by without actively pursuing every potential school location that the dedicated members of Silver’s task force have suggested.

Last Friday, at Silver’s school meeting, one of the waitlisted parents invited D.O.E. representatives to come to explain to her daughter why the girl can’t continue at her school after pre-K. Officials can make 109 other visits like that, or they can start making some of those families happy now.

letteRS to tHe eDitoR Dance of the bike-share protest

Let’s get this rolling!

To The Editor: Re “Bike-share backlash” (editorial, May 2): I didn’t even know there was any public art going on in Petrosino Square before two bike racks got put there. But now that the racks are there, strangely, there still is room for this woman to do her 10 days of dancing.

To The Editor: Re “Anger over bike sites in high gear at C.B. 2 forum” (news article, May 9): I am a kindergarten teacher. I bike to work. I bike with my family. I am one of the 5,000 people who signed up for bike-share in the first day and a half. There is no conspiracy — just lots of people who are excited about new ways to get around the city. My wife and I have been very excited from the beginning to start using Citi Bike!

David Dartley

Like a cult — but on wheels

Ben Kintisch

To The Editor: Re “Bike-share in the Village: What would Jane Jacobs do?” (talking point, by Charles Komanoff, May 9): As co-founder of the cycling advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives, Charles Komanoff set the tone for the presumption of moral and logistical superiority with which this group operates.

New York City has, on average, the nation’s longest commuting time and the fifth-worst traffic congestion, according to a recent USA Today report. A good part of the reason for all this is the misapplication of bike amenities, such as bike lanes and quiet plazas imported from Europe. New York City has much greater density with narrower streets. Logistics.

Over the last 10 years, fueled by the $10 million funding of Mark Gorton, the LimeWire software developer and high-frequency hedge fund operator, and the appointment of Janette Sadik-Khan as commissioner of the Department of Transportation, Transportation Alternatives has managed to bamboozle the gullible and browbeat politicians. T.A. has assumed a cult-like status by pushing “going green” while supporting an outlaw bike population instead of a responsible bike culture. Neat trick.

When it comes to bike-share, T.A. is rushing to push through everything it can under the free rein of Mayor Bloomberg. Adding an untested layer of bike riders and a squadron of docking stations to an already dangerous, out-of-control traffic situation seems borderline, cult-like madness.

Well, Charlie, it looks like the clamor is mounting and the lawsuits flying. The public isn’t drinking the Kool-Aid.

My daughter, the biker (not doctor)

Jack Brown Brown is founder, Coalition Against Rogue Riding (CARR)

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To The Editor: Re “Anger over bike sites in high gear at C.B. 2 forum” (news article, May 9): While it is true that my daughter (who learned to ride a bike in Greenwich Village) now lives in London and bikeshares to work, she is not, as stated in The Villager, a doctor.

She would like New Yorkers to know, however, that it would be very rare in London to see a cyclist riding on the sidewalk, and rare to see anyone going the wrong way on a one-way street. And she also noted that most riders stop for red lights.

With the expected increase in bike use here, it would be nice to think that the mayor, the Police Department and the Department of Transportation are thinking creatively about ensuring better compliance with the law and better enforcement.

Carol Greitzer

We’re not Paris, or even Brussels To The Editor: Re “Anger over bike sites in high gear at C.B. 2 forum” (news article, May 9): The bike-share program and those barricades of bike stations were thrust on the city without the benefit of a smaller-scale trial run to see if the program was actually viable. Communities’ considerations and objections were completely disregarded as these things sprung up overnight like alien spaceships in some sci-fi movie, turning us into

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8th St. walks away from shoes toward something new notebook By eLISSa STeIn The windows of Barnes & Noble are covered with Kraft paper. The longstanding hat shop across the way recently closed. Shuttered storefronts dot the west end of the block.

Looking east, from the corner of Sixth Ave., Eighth St. appears to have been overtaken by scaffolding and “For Rent” signs. The view from MacDougal St. is much the same, and at Fifth Avenue, full-scale construction projects have taken over both north and south corners.

Once a vibrant Downtown destination, at first glance, this particular block appears to have hit hard times.

William Kelley, the executive director of the Village Alliance business improvement district, attributes many of the business losses to changes in shopping habits. Now that so much can be bought online, the successful shoe and fashion mecca this stretch used to be doesn’t work anymore.

Abramson, of Buchbinder & Warren, who represents property owners on the block, has been seeking out and placing businesses with a slant toward artisanal food and services. Both Kelley and Abramson mentioned eclectic merchants from Brooklyn as an inspiration for reinvention.

Soon to open are a Japanese bakery, a Persian cultural center and a Peruvian restaurant. Stumptown Coffee will soon join the recently opened Burger Joint, home of the classic Parker Meridian burgers. Other relatively new arrivals that are going strong are the Greenwich Project, a restaurant featuring live music, Netta, an exclusive eatery masked behind curtains, Pour George, a sports bar, Amelie, a wine lounge, and The Growler Station, a craft beer emporium.

Marlton House, most recently a New School dorm and before that an S.R.O. (singleroom-occupancy) hotel —where arts luminaries like Jack Kerouac, John Barrymore and Edna St. Vincent Millay once stayed — will soon reopen as a historic boutique hotel with a midrange price point. An adjacent restaurant is weeks away from completion. Analogue, a jazz lounge, an artisanal yogurt outlet and a Wisconsin cheese melt spot are also in the works. Juice and gourmet popcorn outposts have already opened their doors. Even the long defunct TLA Video site has a new tenant — a Beth Israel Medical walk-in clinic — located in the same building as Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios.

To celebrate the block’s resurgence the

Village Alliance is hosting two “Positively 8th Street” street fairs, Sat., June 8, and Sat., 15.

Don’t expect the usual socks and mozzareppa — local shops will be sharing their wares and services out of doors. Loschiavo sees these events as a throwback to Eighth St.’s successful past, when businesses hosted happenings, like book readings, author signings, culinary demonstrations and flower arranging classes to encourage patrons to make repeat visits. Not only did this drive traffic to the block, local newspapers covered these events in things-todo-in-the-city sections, which meant free advertising for proprietors. Perhaps, and hopefully, these new merchants can learn a lesson or two from those long-past glory days and Eighth St. will become a popular destination once again.

Marlton House, a former hotel and dorm, will soon reopen as a midrange hotel in the spirit of its beatnik roots.

According to LindaAnn Loschiavo, a journalist and Village historian, the transformation of Eighth St. into a thriving footwear destination was a comedown from when the boulevard was considered the gateway to the Village; when there were bustling bookstores, overflowing nightclubs, packed restaurants and successful merchants drawing crowds Downtown.

Eighth St. was where Barbra Streisand made her New York City debut at the Bon Soir, and later where midnight showings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” packed the 8th Street Playhouse.

But, if one looks more closely, Kelley asserts, there’s a quiet resurgence going on. Recently new tenants have been moving in, and more are in the way in the coming weeks and months. Bill

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In Petrosino Square, at Spring and Lafayette Sts., on Thurs., May 9, Elizabeth Hellman, a Little Italy resident, performed atop a low box just north of where a 32-bike docking station for the new Citi Bike program was recently installed. Following the square’s renovation, the place where the bike station is now located had recently been used as a site for rotating displays of public art. Last week, neighbors — who feel the bike station dominates the square’s open corner, where they would prefer public art — were collecting signatures on a petition asking that the station be relocated into the street at the northeast corner of Lafayette and Spring Sts. On May 10, an Uncle Sam mounted the box to protest the docking station.

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May 16 - 22, 2013

Grace organ gets a second wind (make that, sixth)

By Albert Amateau A deep swelling tone, felt even before it was heard, opened the concert inaugurating the new organ of Grace Church.

The music of the Taylor & Boody organ, with its 5,000 pipes and 75 stops, played by Grace Church organist and choirmaster Dr. Patrick Allen, was gentle as well as majestic. Filling the landmarked church, it was joined by the voices of the combined boys’ and girls’ choirs, conducted by Dr. Barry Rose, a distinguished visitor from England.

“The organ isn’t finished yet but it’s well on its way, and strictly speaking, we heard it played for its first hymn on Christmas Day, and at full power on Easter Sunday. But this is our opportunity to introduce it in a formal way,” Reverend J. Donald Waring, rector of Grace Church, told the more than 300 parishioners and friends at the Friday evening concert on April 26.

The great instrument, The Bicentennial Organ, Opus 65, by Taylor & Boody, Organbuilders, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the founding of Grace Church. The church opened in 1808 on Broadway and Rector St., and moved in 1846 to the Gothic Revival church, designed by James Renwick, on Broadway at E. 10th St. Reverend Waring paid tribute to the generous parishioners who have taken part in three fundraising campaigns for the new organ (a $3 million project) over the past five years. The current “Adopt a Pipe” campaign is still open to donors.

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Just some of the 5,000 pipes of Grace Church’s new Taylor & Boody-built Bicentennial Organ.

Of course, the builders, George Taylor and John Boody, were at the concert and at the reception that followed. It was a double celebration for Taylor, who observed his 70th birthday April 26.

“We hope to be finished by June,” said Boody, regarding the completion of the organ, the 65th since the founding of the company in Staunton, Virginia. It took more than three years for Taylor and Boody’s 15 employees

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to build the instrument, transport it piece by piece to Manhattan and install it in the historic church.

Parts of the organ — the bellows, the wind system and much of the tracker action — usually installed in the visible casework or nearby, are built into a climate-controlled space beneath the chancel floor at Grace Church.

“Some of the trackers [rods connecting the keys of the console to the pipes] run for more than 40 feet,” according to the builders’ brochure. Two miles of carbon fiber — with a self-adjusting key action of wood, plywood, aluminum and nylon — go into the system, along with electronic controls.

Since the Bicentennial Organ is intended to accompany hymns and Grace Church choirs,

one set of stops is chosen especially to accompany the boys’ and girls' choirs.

Moreover, the organ is partly a restoration project.

“We felt it was important to retain the surviving 12, open wood, 32-foot pipes built

by E.M. Skinner, which have stood in the gallery since 1907,” the company brochure says.

Indeed, the 12 pipes have been “adopted” by a group of donors.

The new organ follows six earlier instruments, counting additions. An instrument built in 1830 by Henry Erben was moved into the new church in 1846. An organ by Hilborne L. Roosevelt was installed in 1876; and in 1902 the E.M. Skinner organ with 89 ranks was installed and enlarged three times. In 1961, a new instrument by the Schlicker Organ Co. was installed.

But by 2007 the Schlicker Organ was beginning to show its age while the great organs of Europe are still going strong after 300 years.

“In the summer of 2007 our choristers traveled to Amsterdam for a concert tour, and there Patrick Allen accompanied their singing on an organ that was not only 400 years old, but a delight to play and hear,” Waring wrote in a welcome to the concert last week.

That was when the planning and fundraising for the new Grace Church organ began.

Allen, organist and choirmaster at Grace Church for the past 13 years, has high praise for the new instrument.

“This beautiful organ is indeed an icon,” Allen said, “reaching beyond time, and by her special nature, reflecting the past, supporting the present and dreaming of the future of this parish.”

“If all goes well,” Waring said, “Grace Church will have no need to convene another Organ Replacement Committee for 500 years.”

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For Taylor: The last great Downtown bohemian artist Whatever You say Whatever You do Whatever Happens Whatever Gets you through

— Bob Holman

By Bob Holman Stephen Paul Miller got up, told the story of how Taylor got his apartment — Taylor came to visit Stephen and stayed, so Stephen just found another apartment.

Leticia Viloria, former bartender at the Bowery Poetry Club, discussed having Taylor’s Dewar’s (three ice cubes) waiting as he sat down at the corner of the bar to unprepare for his weekly show. Then she lit into an a cappella “Love Song” filled with graphic language that would have made a sailor blush, but a Taylor was rejoicing in uncensored sexual rush.

Duv, the Club doorman, and Shawn “Symphonics” Randall freestyled a hip-hop eulogy to the man they often walked to his place on stage.

And so it went at Monday night’s Spontaneous Gathering, a loving act of remembrance for the last great Downtown New York bohemian artist, the poet/actor/ painter Taylor Mead, held at what was described as “Bowery Poetry 2.0,” where Taylor performed a weekly show for more than nine years. He had died of a stroke, at age 88, on May 8.

Robert Galinsky, who produced Taylor’s Web cast series on Josh Fried’s (in atten-

dance) wild Pseudo Network, holding his iPhone up to the microphone, played clips of “Taylor Mead’s Last Fifteen Minutes.”

(The astonishingly refurbished shared space of Duane Park/Bowery Poetry Club has many many attributes, but a dongle to connect projector to MAC it has not.)

Taylor’s rap begins: “If you’re watching this I’m long gone. I’m dead, and I don’t care. It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to.”

And so went the night. Poems and confessions, uninhibited audience participation, some drinks, wit all around. Taylor’s bar bills were discussed. Zack Bahaj, son of Lucien of Lucien’s, the main key to Taylor’s survival during lean years, read a poem for the first time, Taylor’s “I Don’t Remember,” that goes, in its entirety, “F--it.”

Clayton Patterson, Cary Abrams, Irving, Zero Boy, Fly, Robert the filmmaker, Dorothy Friedman August, Tom Savage, Terese Coe, Steve Dalchinsky, Mari Claire Sherba (who played opposite Taylor in the Obie-winning 1963 production of Frank O’Hara’s “The General Returns From One Place to Another”), Richie Rich (Theater for the New City), David Huberman, Puma Perl, Robert Heide and many others.

Nikhil Melnuchuk and Adam Horowitz, the new co-Executive Directors of Bowery Poetry, were very much present, smoothly watching over Bowery’s transition as we all grappled with Taylor’s. Taylor, whose whole life was spontaneous improvised transition, on screen and off, now gets that Infinity he’d predicated would be his death date.

The night truly orbited around the member of the family, the divine Priscilla Mead,

Photo by Clayton Patterson

Taylor Mead in front of his Ludlow St. building on the Lower East Side in 2010.

Photo by Toni Dalton

Taylor Mead at an art show at the Westbeth Gallery about three years ago.

who had come to New York a couple months ago to negotiate a deal with Taylor’s landlord and his escape from New York.

For years, word was that Taylor couldn’t survive in the infested hellhole that was his apartment. Clayton Patterson’s articles in The Villager fired up the population, goaded the landlord. And then Taylor’s angel, Priscilla, his niece, appeared, manifesting all that seemed Heaven for Taylor: a house with a bed, a dog and cat he adored, radio that had opera and classical.

He was planning a trip to New Orleans soon — gallerist Brad Boyd had offered him a loft, studio space and a show. He had a dentist appointment with our mutual dentist, Caroline Stern, on May 21, so we knew he’d be returning. From one place to another.

The irony of course that he couldn’t survive heaven. Priscilla spun out the story

with grace, twinkles and “whatever”s, channeling Taylor himself. I’ve never seen family be so lucid, generous, in this kind of public setting, putting grief on the backburner so the community could have all of Taylor, as much as he’d let us, in the room.

The room, so different than in Taylor’s tenure, so new to most people in the house (and the place was packed throughout, from 6 to 9 p.m., SRO), was energized and in love with our Taylor, the great artist who had “an anonymous celebrity,” as Cary Abrams declared.

A last poem. From Taylor’s “A Simple Country Girl,” published by Otto Barz and Bowery Books: I Burned My Candle At Both Ends I shall not last the night But what a f------- life

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May 16 - 22, 2013

Cooper and Singer make strange bedfellows, critics cry Continued from page 1 Cooper students who have been occupying Bharucha’s office since May 8 to protest the board of trustees’ decision to break with a century-old tradition and begin charging undergraduate tuition in 2014.

“There is no room, and no desire, and no way we will live with a dorm in our backyard,” declared Councilmember Rosie Mendez, shouting to the crowd from a bullhorn. “Cooper Union needs to rescind whatever deal I believe it doesn’t have so Singer can give us back our building,” Mendez added.

Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh was equally strident.

“As a community, we have to at some point draw the line and say this is a battle we are not going to lose, and this is a fight we’re not going to quit,” Kavanagh said.

Responding to claims by Cooper officials that they were unaware of the long controversy over the sale of CHARAS and Singer’s handling of the property, Kavanagh added: “If it was a mistake that they didn’t know what they were getting into, then they should back off and get out of this deal.”

CHARAS co-founder Chino Garcia questioned whether Singer’s plans were really for a dorm at all. The lease Cooper signed gives it “right of first refusal” for 196 of the roughly 530 beds in the proposed dorm.

“Let’s be clear. This is not a dorm,” Garcia told the crowd. “He wants to build a youth hostel. He’s been trying to do that for 13 years.

“That’s a residential neighborhood and it shouldn’t be that. It should be a community center that serves the local community,” Garcia said.

Saar Shemesh, a first-year art student, read a statement on behalf of the roughly 100 Cooper undergrads who have occupied Bharucha’s office over the last week.

“As a community in the throes of financial uncertainty, we find it wholly unacceptable that Cooper Union’s administration failed to research the vital history of this space before pursuing a disgusting lease,” Shemesh said, adding, “From one landmarked institution to another, we call for this community treasure to be protected not endangered.”

Shemesh also questioned whether many Cooper students would rent space at Singer’s dorm, where students would pay $1,550 to bunk with four to seven other students in the same suite. Cooper already has its own dorm, which houses nearly all of its roughly 200 freshmen, she noted, and it’s generally only freshmen who want to pay a premium to live in a dorm setting.

“I don’t know anyone who pays more than $400 or $700 for shared space,” Shemesh said. “Most of my friends live in Brooklyn or way Uptown.”

Garcia said that if Cooper really wanted more dorm space, it could add a few more floors on its modern new academic

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The protesters gathered outside the old P.S. 64, at Ninth St. near Avenue B, below, then marched over to Cooper Union’s Foundation Building on Cooper Square, to the strains of the Hungry March Band, above.

building on Cooper Square, or on the glittering office tower being completed on Astor Place on land leased long-term from Cooper Union, drawing jeers from the crowd.

Former squatter Eric Rassi urged opponents of the dorm to dog the mayoral candidates and “make them take a position.”

Filmmaker turned Internet entrepreneur Paul Garrin, who graduated from Cooper in 1982, noted that Mayor Bloomberg will be speaking at Cooper’s commencement on May 29.

“We should ask him to write a check to Cooper to close its deficit, and a second check to Cooper to buy back CHARAS, so they can bring in their architects and engineers and artists to transform that building into a state-of-the-art community center that is energy independent and ecologically sustainable,” Garrin said.

While that may be unlikely, the need to build greater cooperation between Cooper and the East Village community was clear.

“They should have talked to us to see how they could help this community with the architects and engineers that they have,” Garcia lamented. “There’s a lot of people in this neighborhood that need that type of help.”

Mendez said said President Bharucha has agreed to meet with her and other elected officials and community members next week to hear the whole saga of CHARAS and its contested sale to Singer.

“I think if he can get out of it, he will,” Mendez said of the dorm lease.

But while Cooper put its neck out by being the first school to sign on with Singer, other schools are starting to follow.

On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the West Village’s Joffrey Ballet School had agreed to rent 120 beds at the proposed dorm, dubbed University House.

“Ballet school officials say the dorm represents an opportunity to offer its stu-

dents — some of whom are high-school age — much-needed housing options,” the Journal wrote.

That means Singer has leasing commitments for more than half the dorm. And it makes Cooper’s position as a partner in the project that much more tenable.

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Photos by Jefferson Siegel

Students occupy, see red after Cooper ends free tuition In protest of The Cooper Union’s recent announcement that it would start charging incoming undergraduates a 50 percent tuition — ending a 100-year tradition of free education — about 50 students occupied President Jamshed Bharucha’s office in the Foundation Building last Wed., May 8. On the evening of May 9, students rallied outside the Foundation Building’s entrance on E. Seventh St. At one point, everyone stood back from the building in anticipation of the students inside turning Bharucha’s office red, then let out a cheer as the windows turned crimson. As of press time on Wed., May 15, student protesters were still camped out in Bharucha’s office, though the president had met with them earlier in the week one day for nearly two hours.

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Joe’s Dairy closes after 36 years of making ‘smokes’ Continued from page 1 “It’s not the way it was when we first opened the store. It was more family oriented,” he explained. “The superstores came into existence and they blew everybody away.”

Anthony started working at Joe’s Dairy fresh out of school in 1973, when Sullivan St. was a block of mom-and-pop stores. A few doors down at 149 Sullivan was Rocky’s Fruits and Vegetables. Nearby was Mario’s Butcher Shop.

Across the street was Canepa Bakery and Cardinali Brothers Grocery. Four years later, Anthony bought Joe’s.

Today local businesses with names like Once Upon A Tart and the Aroma Espresso Bar line nearby streets, but even these stores carry Joe’s cheeses.

“We started it off as a simple little store to provide a service that people would enjoy,” Anthony said. “Little did we know it would last this long.”

As he washed another tray of smoke, the front of the store filled with customers anxious for one more delicacy, a gorgonzola mascarpone torte, homemade pesto or smoked mozzarella.

The store’s distinctive smoked mozzarella balls are made by, first, cutting large mozzarella chunks into smaller wads. Then they’re put in boiling water before going into the smoker in the back alley for two to three minutes.

“There’s so little authentic left,” lamented Merle Kaufman, a Villager since 1968. “It’s just wonderful to walk into an old place like the Lower East Side used to be.”

On line behind her was Lisa Giunta, whose parents opened Arturo’s on West Houston St. Giunta, who grew up in the neighborhood, now runs the restaurant.

“We always bought from Joe’s Dairy for pizza and mozzarella salads” for Arturo’s, she said, adding that they will continue buying Joe’s Dairy products from its wholesale location in Fairfield, New Jersey.

Photo by Tequila Minsky

“I know all the customers,” said counterperson Rosemarie “Ro” Pianoforte, a fixture at Joe’s Dairy for the past 13 1/2 years.

“The rent has nothing to do with it,” Anthony explained of his decision to close. “It’s a sign of the times — the economy is just too much. You can’t keep up with your expenses.

“It’s not a decision we want to make, it’s a decision we have to make. It’s just sad.”

Micki McGee, a customer for a quarter century, agreed.

“What we see happening in the neighborhood is hypergentrification,” she said. “It’s been a livable neighborhood for moderate-income families for many, many years. The hypergentrification from the Hudson Square redevelopment is reshaping the neighborhood.”

Closer to where she lives, McGee has been

battling an expansion project by God’s Love We Deliver at Spring St. and Sixth Ave., which is selling its air rights to a new luxury development project.

Cindy Keiter of the Village was more emotional.

“My heart broke because these mom-andpop shops, you can’t replace them,” she said.

“Once the door shuts, they’re gone and they’re not coming back.” Keiter bought $20 worth of olives and mozzarella, but gave counterpersons Ro Pianoforte and her daughter, Robin, an extra $10. “Go buy yourselves a glass of wine,” Keiter said.

Anthony hasn’t yet made plans for the

future.

“Right now everything’s in a whirlwind,” he said. “Tomorrow I’ll start to reflect a little.”

He put down a handful of smoked mozzarella balls to answer the phone.

“We’re open until 6,” he told the caller, before adding, “Yes, today’s our last day.”

At the worktable, Vincent finished wrapping another pan of smokes and passed it to Ro out front.

“Tomorrow I go out and mow the lawn,” he said.

Although ending its retail business, Joe’s Dairy will continue to supply local restaurants with its famous mozzarella.

Photo by Jefferson Siegel

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Brothers Vincent, left, and Anthony Campanelli making “smokes” — balls of smoked mozzarella — on Saturday, the last day of retail business for Joe’s Dairy on Sullivan St.

As its awning advertised, Joe’s Dairy always offered latticini freschi — fresh dairy products.

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villager arts & entertainment Buhmann on Art At four galleries, fresh takes on painting & sculpture

Installation Shot courtesy of The Drawing Center, photo by Cathy Carver.

This vitrine contains various Giosetta Fioroni drawings, including some from her childhood as well as images representing a performance she did in 1968. On view through June 2, at The Drawing Center.

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN

GIOSETTA FIORONI: L’ARGENTO

Curated by Claire Gilman, this exhibition is Fioroni’s first solo show in North America. It features over 80 works by the Italian artist, dating from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. In her drawings, paintings, films, theater designs and illustrations, Fioroni responded to the increasingly commercial culture of her time.

However, in contrast to the American Pop artists, her focus remained on handrendering images rather than deriving them from commercial advertisements.

Born in 1932, Fioroni was the only female member of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo — a group of artists that emerged in Rome during the 1960s. She continues to live and work in Rome.

Through June 2, at The Drawing Center (35 Wooster St., btw. Broome & Grand Sts.). Hours: Wed, Fri.-Sun., 12-6pm. and Thurs., 12-8pm. Call 212-219-2166 or visit drawingcenter.org.

ELENA SISTO: BETWEEN THE SILVER LIGHT AND ORANGE SHADOW

Sisto’s first solo show with the gallery serves as the final venue for the traveling museum exhibition of the same title. For the last three years, Sisto’s paintings have explored the formative years of young women artists. Most show three-quarter profiles of women

Image courtesy of the artist and Lori Bookstein Fine Art.

Elena Sisto: “At Midnight” (2010, oil on linen, 36 x 40 inches).

against the backdrop of the studio or while partially hidden behind the canvas. These intimate depictions offer deep insight into the psychology of each sitter. Though abstracted, Sisto’s subjects maintain unique personalities and dispositions that hint at the possibility of narrative.

Through May 25, at Lori Bookstein Fine Art (138 10th Ave., btw. 18th & 19th Sts.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10:30am6pm. Call 212-750-0949 or visit loribooksteinfineart.com.

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Courtesy of Feature Inc., New York

Dike Blair: “Dance Dance Dance” (2011; paint on wood, framed mixed media on paper; 72 x 55 x 216”). See page 19.

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info, call 212-475-7710 or visit lamama.org.

BY Maeve gately & scott stiffler THE SCHOLASTIC STORE Held every Saturday at 3pm, Scholastic’s in-store activities are designed to get kids reading, thinking, talking, creating and moving. At 11am every Tues., Wed. and Thurs., the Scholastic Storyteller brings tales to life at Daily Storytime.

At 557 Broadway (btw. Prince & Spring Sts.). Store hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-7pm and Sun., 11am-6pm. For info, call 212-343-6166 or visit scholastic.com/sohostore.

T H E C H I L D R E N ’ S R O O M AT P O E T S H O U S E i s a bright and vibrant space that encourages literacy and creativity. In addition to housing many poetry books by classic and contemporary authors, the Children’s Room is designed to stimulate the imaginations of young ones and drive them to create poems and art of their own. From Thurs.-Sat., children are free to draw inspiration from the room’s card catalogue full of quirky objects and type up their own masterpieces on vintage typewriters. Every Thurs. at 10am, “Tiny Poet Time” offers poetry readings and music for toddlers. At 10 River Terrace (at Murray St.). Hours: Children’s Room open Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Admission: Free. For info, call 212-431-7920 or visit poetshouse.org.

212-602-0800 or visit trinitywallstreet.org/calendar.

Twitter: @CharlottesPlc. Facebook,: facebook.com/ CharlottesPlaceNYC. La MaMa KIDS Shadow puppets, dance, music, storytelling and mask-making for youngsters and their families all figure into the schedule of events that are part of “La MaMa Kids.” This new series of creative workshops, La MaMa’s first such regular series of programming for family audiences, is sure to inspire a love of theater — and likely help launch a whole new generation of theatrical performers! The next installment in the series happens on Sat., June 8. Perry Yung will lead a “Mindful Music” workshop, in which families will learn to use traditional Japanese instruments, craft their own and tell a story (at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E. 4th St., 2nd floor, btw. Bowery & Second Ave.). All workshops take place at 11am. Admission is $10 per family. For a full schedule of events and more

THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS The Museum celebrates its quarter century of promoting self-expression and esteem — by presenting a new exhibit that offers a fascinating exploration of self-identity through still, moving and living portraits, as portrayed by children using traditional methods of painting and drawing, as well as technology. On view through June 9, “Face to Face” features 40 portraits selected from CMA’s Permanent Collection of children’s art from over 50 countries, dating back to the 1930s. To incorporate CMA’s philosophy of hands-on art-making, the exhibit will be accompanied by a variety of interactive installations that examine the texture, shape and sound of portraits. Hands-on stations encourage visitors to become part of the exhibit, including reimagined versions of a typical self-portrait station. At the CMA Media Lab, visitors can take photos that will be projected on the wall. These photos will stream into a montage that will be accessioned into the collection and will also serve as a fascinating time-lapse of the exhibit as a whole. At 103 Charlton St. Hours: Mon. & Wed., 12-5pm; Thurs. & Fri., 12-6pm; Sat. & Sun., 10am-5pm. Admission: $11 (Seniors and 0-12 months, free from 4-6pm). Thursdays are pay-as-you-wish. For info, call 212-274-0986 or visit cmany.org PS11 & ETSY SPRING CRAFTS FAIR Help raise funds for the PS11 PTA — which, in turn, will help to support the school’s art, music and enrichment programs — by coming, cash in hand, to “Crafts in Chel-

sea,” a spring crafts fair featuring the creative (and functional) output of over 70 vendors from Etsy (an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items as well as art and craft supplies). In addition to the up-for-grabs goods (which, we’re assured, make great belated Mother’s Day gifts and early bird Father’s Day presents), the fair offers free arts and crafts activities and face painting. PS11 teachers, a Bob Marley cover band and a DJ provide the music. The Fresh and Hearty Food Truck will be selling wraps, salads and soups. Sat., June 1, from 11am-5pm, outside of PS11 (21st St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves.). For more info, visit ps11chelsea.org.

P S 3 3 C O M M U N I T Y D AY C A R N I VA L A d u l t s w i l l appreciate the chance to meet the staff, teachers and PTA members of PS33 (Chelsea Prep). But let’s not kid ourselves — the kids are going to be begging you to go so they can spend some quality time in the bouncy castle and on the giant slide. That means there’s something for everyone at the PS33 Fifth Annual Community Day Carnival. Music, arts activities and great food (donated by Union Square Events) also figures into the mix — as does a 3pm raffle whose prizes include an iPad with Retina display, an iPod Touch and a Kindle Fire. All proceeds from the event will help support the school’s A-rated arts and enrichment programs. Sat., June 1, 11am-4pm, in the PS33 school yard (W. 26 St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.). $2 entry fee (children under three, free admission). Tickets must be purchased for rides, food and activities. For more info, visit ps33chelseaprep.org or send an email to ps33pta@gmail.com.

S AT U R D AY F A M I LY P R O G R A M S AT T H E S K YSCRAPER MUSEUM Explore tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction and places of work and residence at The Skyscraper Museum. Their spring “Saturday Family Program” series (taking place from 10:30-11:45am) features workshops designed to introduce children and their families to the principles of architecture and engineering through hands-on activities. On May 25, “Body Buildings: Woolworth” gives kids ages 3-9 the chance to turn their silhouettes into buildings, working together to make a unique New York City skyline. On June 8, the all-ages “Sidewalk Art” event takes place in front of the museum — where colorful chalk will be used to draw buildings based on blueprint sketches of buildings they know. And on June 10, the “Archikids” workshop, lead by architect Yves Roger, gives kids ages 9-13 the chance to make their own soaring structures (inspired by images, vintage film and models of actual skyscrapers of the past and present) All workshops ($5 per family) take place at 10:30am. Registration is required. Call 212-945-6324 or emaileducation@skyscraper.org. At 39 Battery Place (btw. First Place & Little West St.). Regular museum hours are Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Admission is $5 ($2.50 for students/seniors).

Photo by Sarah Cassell

T R I N I T Y C H U R C H P R E S E N T S FA M I LY F R I D AY PIZZA & MOVIE NIGHT Every so often, every family should get together for pizza and a movie. To help make that noble goal a regular thing, Trinity Wall Street hosts this third-Friday-of-the-month event for kids who are hungry (for food and entertainment) and adults who are too tired to cook (or even dial for delivery!). On May 17, it’s Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax.” On June 21, it’s the Steven Spielberg classic “E.T.” Free. From 6-7:30pm, at Charlotte’s Place (107 Greenwich St., rear of 74 Trinity Place, btw. Rector & Carlisle Sts.). For more info, call

BATTERY PARK CITY DAY NURSERY HAYRIDE Past and present students will be lining up for a horse-drawn hayride, Lower Manhattan-style — when Battery Park City Day Nursery hosts its 26th Annual Hayride event (featuring face painting while you wait for your turn!). The five-minute ride takes you around the Rector Place oval.

Thurs., May 30, from 3:30-6:00pm. At 215 South End Ave. (btw. Albany St. & Rector Place). Alumni, future students, friends and neighborhood supporters are welcome. The $5 (per person) donation benefits the Nursery’s Enrichment programs. Children under one year of age ride for free, when (of course!) accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

For more info, visit bpcdaynursery.com.

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Gut Wrenching Nathan Lane hits career peak in ‘The Nance’ THEATER THE NANCE

At the Lyceum Theatre 145 W. 45th St. ues. at 7pm Wed.-Sat. at 8pm Wed. & Sat. at 2pm Sun. at 3pm For tickets ($37-$132), Visit telecharge.com Or call 800-432-7250

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE In “The Nance,” Douglas Carter Beane’s extraordinary new play set in 1937, during vaudeville’s waning days, creaky-joked, groaninducing broad theatricality is the background for a heartbreaking tragedy about a man trapped in a sense of himself and his place in the world that puts the love he longs for out of his reach.

Chauncey Miles is a vaudeville star. He’s a nance, an effeminate man who spouts puns and doubles entendres in routines and often gets the upper hand over the straight — in both senses of the word — man. Chauncey, unlike others who play the nance role, is actually gay, and Beane immediately sets up the conflict between Chauncey’s “out there” public image and his tormented private life. Trying to steer

Photo by Joan Marcus

Nathan Lane and Lewis J. Stadlen in Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance.”

clear of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s crackdown on deviancy, he searches for assignations in a restaurant automat in a brilliant opening scene that lays out the dance of cruising and furtive connection between men seeking sex with one another. It is there, amid coded speaking and

paper folding, that Chauncey meets Ned, a much younger man from Buffalo. Chauncey assumes Ned will be a passing trick, but instead Ned falls in love with him and decides to join the vaudeville troupe. Together, they set up housekeeping in Chauncey’s Hell’s Kitchen

basement apartment.

When the mayor, cleaning up the city in advance of the 1939 World’s Fair, goes after indecency in vaudeville, Chauncey’s act becomes a target. Rather than laying low, he challenges the city’s enforcement on stage and is jailed. When he returns to vaudeville, he is no longer allowed to play a nance and instead appears on stage in women’s clothing, which apparently does not run afoul of LaGuardia’s sense of decency. Chauncey, however, is humiliated, feeling his art has been corrupted. And his internalized homophobia prevents him from truly embracing his one salvation — Ned’s love.

With the help of John Lee Beatty’s set and Ann Roth’s divine costumes, Beane intersperses Chauncey’s story with subplots about New York politics, unions, and wonderfully cheesy vaudeville routines. “The Nance” perfectly evokes vaudeville’s end days both visually and emotionally.

Director Jack O’Brien deserves high praise for negotiating a complex narrative coherently while capturing the gritty joy of a down-at-heels vaudeville world. His cast is flawless. Lewis J. Stadlen gives an outstanding performance as company manager Efram, who is willing to tolerate Chauncey’s homosexuality. The troupe’s girls, played by Cady Huffman, Jenni Barber, and Andréa Burns, are dead-on types but also fully realized characters. Jonny Orsini gives a stunning Broadway debut as Ned, convincingly and movingly changing from naïve country boy into a man on the brink of maturity.

Nathan Lane in the title role gives what may be the performance of his career — though his track record of topping himself has made virtually everything he does an event. He is as brilliant at the arcane vaudeville shtick as he is at subtly conveying the heartbreak of Chauncey’s offstage life. It’s a perfectly calibrated performance notable for its integrity and in balancing elements that illuminate a culture, an art form, and a man.

Lane’s is a generous performance, and his chemistry with Orsini is real and affecting.

“The Nance” is not to be missed.

Buhmann on Art Sara VanDerBeek

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DIKE BLAIR: SCULPTURE

Blair’s sculptures are assemblages. They are comprised of painted wooden shipping crates, which in the past have contained framed gouache paintings or objects like Noguchi lamps. While the abstract geometric aspects of Blair’s work evoke a range of modernist movements, including the De Stijl, it remains very much rooted in the here and now. Conceptually, these sculptures address notions of storage, furniture and the human body. They bring attention to the banal and transitory details of everyday life, feeling both personal and mediated.

Through June 2, at Feature Inc. (131 Allen St., btw.

Delancey & Rivington Sts.). Hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm.

Call 212-675-7772 or visit featureinc.com

Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures

Sara VanDerBeek: “Roman Women VIII” (2013, 2 Digital C-Prints, 20 x 16 inches--each image size; 50.8 x 40.6 cm, 20 1/2 x 16 3/8 inches (each frame size), 52.1 x 41.6 cm. Edition of 3.

In her first solo show with the gallery, VanDerBeek presents new photographs and sculptures that explore the translation of memory into image and form. Her research stems from recent travels to Paris, Rome and Naples — where she explored archeological sites and museum collections of classical and neoclassical sculpture. Largely inspired by ancient female figures, VanDerBeek has created, among others, a group of photographs of large marble and metal female figures, colorized with blue and pink Plexiglas, that are seen opposite a colonnade of rectilinear modular forms.

Through June 8, at Metro Pictures (519 W. 24th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am6pm. Call 212-206-7100 or visit metropicturesgallery. com.

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Just Do Art!

By SCoTT STIFFLer

Photo by Alex Colby

Photo courtesy of Swish

Take another little piece of my heart: Velocity Chyaldd and friends are cooking up a !Badass! tribute to Janis Joplin.

Molly Tynes, appearing in the current Broadway revival of “Pippin,” will appear at the May 20 Swish benefit.

!BADASS! BURLESQUE PRESENTS: !BADASS! LOVES JANIS 3

FringeNYC veteran, Huffington Post blogger and classically trained soprano Juliet Jeske brings her killer voice and improv chops to the role of Janis, as she hosts a righteous tribe of highly sexualized performers gathered together in the service of “making tantric mojo to Joplin’s jaw dropping battle cries.” The ensemble includes Cassandra Rosebeetle, Rev. Mother Flash, “!BadAss! Burlesque” founder Velocity Chyaldd, Delysia LeChatte, Run Around Sue, Boo Boo Darlin', Nasty Canasta, Kat Mon Dieu, Legs Malone , Danger Doll, Gal Friday and Francine. Stage Masters Faceboy and SuperMorgan, alongside Stage Kitten Amanda Whip, keep things clean — between acts, that is — by mopping the stage and removing the tattered remnants of what came before them. Far out raffle

Photo courtesy of David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg performing with cicadas. See “Insect Music.”

prizes, righteous cinema and way out audio also figure into the mix, making for a skin show that’s as dedicated to good vibes as it is to groin-based thrills.

Fri., May 24, from 1am-3pm (technically, that’s Saturday — but think of it as happening on a very late Friday night). At The Kraine Theater (85 E. 4th St., btw. 2nd Ave. & Bowery). For tickets ($15), badasslovesjanis.brownpapertickets.com. For info, visit badassburlesque.com.

INSECT MUSIC

Don’t beat yourself up for sleeping through the morning and missing that appointment. That’s nothing compared to the 17-year snooze cycle the cicadas are on. Just like you, though, they’ll eventually have to emerge and face the music — and we’re about to get an earful, as they cover the New York area with their high-pitched

mating sound. With the whole city buggin’, the time seems right for “Insect Music.”

This concert celebrates the return of the cicadas, along with the release of musician/naturalist David Rothenberg’s book and CD, “Bug Music: How Insects Gave us Rhythm and Noise.” The concert brings together Rothenberg, veteran composer Pauline Oliveros and others, who will play off the sounds of cicadas as well as crickets, katydids, leafhoppers and water bugs.

Wed., May 22, at 7:30pm. At Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, btw. Thompson & Sullivan Sts.).

Suggested donation of $15, at the door. For info, visit eartotheearth.org.

SONGS IN THE KEY OF EQUALITY: A BENEFIT FOR SWISH

Sequins, glitter, Pride parade floats, sassy signs for rights marches and a tireless campaign on the part of straight allies to champion the LGBT movement — these things cost money, honey. That’s why supporters of the 3,000-member-strong Swish are set to get together, knock a few back and watch some of the brightest stars on the musical theater and cabaret scene knock it out of the park — all in the name of raising muchneeded funds for the organization. Held annually since 2008, “Songs in the Key of

Equality” has presented a potpourri of talent that draws from New York’s rich musical communities. For one night, nightclub chanteuses, singer-actors, folkies, rockers and dance divas will meet on one stage in what has become a signature musical event.

Bring your fabulous self, listen to the music and know you’ve done your part for those who are doing their queer brothers and sisters a solid, all year round! Among the more than 16 performers already signed for this year’s show: Jeff Blumenkrantz (a Tony nominee for the “Urban Cowboy” score).

Caroline Bowman (currently appearing in “Kinky Boots”), Gabrielle Ruiz (who toured for a year as Diana Morales in “A Chorus Line”) and Molly Tynes (appearing in the current Broadway revival of “Pippin”). Sara Haines, contributing correspondent and host of “Backstage Pass” for NBC’s “Today Show,” hosts.

Mon., May 20, at 7pm at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St., btw. Sullivan & Thompson Sts.). $20 for Live Streaming (virtual access to show), $25 for Standing Room (for bar stools with a view of the show — for a limited time only), $75 for General Admission (priority seating, 3 hours cash bar & hors d’oeuvres), $150

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Just Do Art!

Photo by Maya Moverman Photo by Dayle Vander Sande

BSESS at MHM: See “Bond Street.”

Continued from page 20 for Premium (priority center stage seating, 3 hours limited open bar, passed hors d’oeuvres and post-show meet & greet with the cast), $250 for VIP (includes premiere center stage seating, 3 hours premium open bar & passed hors d’oeuvres and post-show meet & greet with the cast) and $1000 for Ally Sponsor Package (includes 4 VIP tickets with all benefits, branded “RESERVED FOR” table signage, brand placement on invitation, on-site event materials and 4 places of honor on Swish’s 10th Anniversary Pride float at NYC Pride, on June 30.). Reservations: donate.swishpride.org/SwishConcert2013.

THE BOND STREET EUTERPEAN SINGING SOCIETY PRESENTS: SPRING FEVER — THE SONG IS ON THE ROSE

Technically precise vocal pyrotechnics and good humor make any appearance

by The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society a must-see event — and this concert is your last chance to hear them until October. With fall a very long haul away,

the current season is, appropriately, on the brains (and vocal chords) of BSESS. “Spring Fever —The Song is on the Rose” is a collection of lush, magical vocal music by 19th century European composers such as Rossini, Mendelssohn, Sullivan, Fauré, Wolf and more, performed in the only authentic, intact 19th century domestic interior remaining in Manhattan.

Sat., May 18, at 7:30pm. At the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. 4 St., btw. Lafayette & Bowery). Limited seating (50-person capacity). Tickets are $25 ($10for Merchant’s House members). To purchase, visit merchantshouse.org/calendar.

T.A.G. (TEEN ART GALLERY) EXHIBITION

Determined to overcome “the limiting environment assigned to us because of our age,” the prolific members of T.A.G. (Teen Art Gallery) make their own opportunities by helping young artists navigate the process of showing in a gallery setting. Their current Chelsea exhibition consists of work rendered in black and white, and features contributions from Lisbeth Checo, Mindy Zou, Morris Reeves, Mary Walker Rippe, Kevin Nguyen, Maya Moverman, Phoebe

In their current exhibition (on view through June 8), Teen Art Gallery goes for the black and white look.

Kaufman, Clara Lu, Teri Minogue, Jasmine Clarke, Sungwon Hong, Alika Feldman, Arielle Trenk and Robin Krupnick. From July 11-20, T.A.G. will present a second exhibition at Chashama — featuring a wide range of work from artists across the country, as well as a selection of creative writing and the introduction of the group’s YouTube channel. Plans are cur-

rently being solidified, so visit teenartgallery.org for updates.

A free exhibition, “T.A.G. in Black and White,” is on view through June 8, at HiArt! (227 W. 29th St., btw. 7th & 8th Aves., buzzer 400). Gallery Hours: Mon.Fri., 3-6pm. To arrange a private viewing outside normal gallery hours, call 212209-1552.

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Performances Ever y Night 6pm-1am

Outdoors on E. 10th St. Saturday 12pm - 6pm w/Performances & Vendors Youth Program Sat 2 - 5pm Film Sat 12pm - 12am Poetry Sun 4pm - 7:30pm

Scheduled to Appear:

SPEAKERS: Joe Franklin, Council Member Rosie Mendez, Judith Malina PERFORMANCES BY: F. Murray Abraham, Tammy Grimes, Reno, Phoebe Legere. George Bartenieff, Epstein & Hassan, John Jiler, Katherine Adamenko, Stan Baker, Louisa Bradshaw, Susana Cook, Lindsay Davis, J. Lois Diamond, Michael Domitrovich, Dixie Lee Estes, Evan, Tjasa Ferme, Ines Ferre, Benno Haenel, Clare Helene, Inma Heredia, Bobbie Horowitz, Baba Israel, Ariana Johns, Evan Laurence, Mike Lesser, Ed Malin, Fran McGee, Jessie "Hula Hoops" McGee, MD, Lissa Moira, Stephan Morrow, Veronica N'Cognita, Aidan O'Shea, Karen Oberlin, Valery Oisteanu, Anne Pasquale, Mike Perrie, Poez, Elizabeth Ruf, Therese Schorn, Robert Schwimmer, Margo Lee Sherman, Alice Shields, Connie Flagtwat, John Taylor Thomas, Thing Machine, Mary Tierney, Richard Weber, Lei Zhou MUSIC: David Amram, KT Sullivan, Judy Gorman, Lucas Papaelias (LPFunk), Bill Zeffiro, David Ippolito, Maquina Mono, Gingger Shankar, Arthur Abrams, Burning City Orchestra, Judeth DeMott, Peter Dizozza, Downtown Music Productions, Ben Harburg & Friends, David Jacobsen, Kitsch, Dawoud Kringle, Melange, Susan Mitchell, Marissa Mulder, Open To The Hound, Lorcan Otway, Danielle Erin Rhodes, Mary Riley, Norman Savitt, Silvercloud Singers & Drummers, Ellen Steier, Jacob Merrik Storms, Alison Tartalia, Michael Vazquez, David Vernon, Richard West DANCE: Rod Rodgers Dance Co., e-Dance, Kinding Sindaw, The Love Show, Kitty Lunn, Amy Marshall Dance Co., Alessandra Belloni, Andre Brown, Constellation Moving Co., Desert Sin, Maya DeSilva, Raqsuncommon, House of Ducatti, Human Kinetics, Kaoru Ikeda, Infinity Dance Theater, John J. Zullo Dance, Juana Cala Flamenco, Kalpulli Atlachinolli, Laura Shapiro, Suspended Cirque, Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, Vangeline Theater, VonDuvois Dance Collective, Ashley Liang THEATER GROUPS: G.O.L.E.S., Cooper Square, New York Theatre Workshop, The Living Theatre, La Mama E.T.C., Yangtze Theater Co., Rev. Billy & The Church of Earthallujah, Cobu, Accidental Rep, Alternative Theater of Manhattan, Arts Without Walls, Beautiful Soup, BK Culture Jammers, Bond Street Theatre, Caps Lock Theater, The Cell, Chinese Theatre Works, Coatlique Theater Co., Dixon Place, Downtown Urban Theater Festival, Ego Actus, The Experimentals, Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop, Le Squeezebox Cabaret, Less Than Rent, Lesser America, Loretta Auditorium, NY Lyric Circus, Project Girl, Prophecy Productions, The Slipper Room, Take Wing and Soar, Teatro La Tea, The Troupe Theatre, Time Banks NYC, Wise Guise, Yara Arts WRITERS: Eduardo Machado, Lyle Kessler, Barbara Kahn, Bina Sharif, Lissa Moira, Matt Morillo, Tom Attea, Seymour Barab, Liza Birkenmeier, Sara Cooper, Walter Corwin, Tom Diriwachter, Chris Force, Anthony Laura, Eugenia Macer-Story, Sabura Rashid, Ramiro Sandoval, Oliver Thrun, Trav S.D., Peter Welch, David Willinger

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May 16 - 22, 2013

Publ ic Notice s Notice is hereby given that a Tavern Wine license, #TBA has been applied for

by SFK Foods, Corp d/b/a Flatiron Green Cafe to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at Flatiron Public Plaza South, Between 22nd & 23rd Streets New York NY 10010.

Vil: 05/16 - 05/23/2013 Notice is hereby given that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by RV Partners Inc. d/b/a Bombay Duck to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 190 Bleecker Street New York NY 10012.

Vil: 05/16 - 05/23/2013 Notice is hereby given that a Tavern Wine license, #TBA has been applied for

by You’re Almost There, Inc. d/b/a Bibi to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 211 East 4th Street New York NY 10009.

Vil: 05/16 - 05/23/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: PACIFIC 4, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/08/13. 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, c/o Vincent Boitier, 431 Broome Street, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 Notice of Application for Authority for a Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC): Name: STORY SHELTER, LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/23/2013. 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: C/O STORY SHELTER, LLC. 635 West 42nd Street, Apartment 4H, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 Notice of Qualification of ATALAYA SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND (CAYMAN) IV LP Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/01/13. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 06/16/11.

Princ. office of LP: 780 Third Ave., 27th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Arts. of Org. filed with Registrar of Companies, P.O. Box 123, Ground Fl., Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, CI KY1-9000. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013

Notice of Formation of EAST 74TH STREET BRIDGE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/30/13. 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 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Attn: Jay Neveloff, 1177 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 Notice of Qualification of 53 FRONT STREET, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/26/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/19/13. Princ. office of LLC: 5 Hanover Sq., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10004. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of NEW WAVE DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY, PLLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/06/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC is to: The PLLC, 400 Jericho Tnpk., Ste. 100, Jericho, NY 11753. Purpose:To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, YES LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/22/13. 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:The LLC, 290Third Avenue, #30A, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 SANDEMAR CONSTRUCTION, LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/1/13. Office location: NewYork County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Moss & Kalish, PLLC, 122 E. 42nd St., Ste. 2100, NY, NY 10168.

General Purposes.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 UNITY YOGA 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 LLC, 311 W. 127th St. #807, NY, NY 10027-1892.

General Purposes.

Vil: 05/16 - 06/20/2013

Notice of Qualification of JZ REIT Fund Flatbush Portfolio, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/26/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 767 5th Ave., 48th Fl., NY, NY 10153. LLC formed in DE on 4/11/13. 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: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 Notice of Qualification of Screaming Spirit Productions, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/26/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/12/11.

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 Home Box Office, Inc., 1100 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10036, 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: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 Notice of Qualification of Valar Ventures LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/25/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 4/22/13.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE address 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: 05/16 - 06/20/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of MARMELADE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/13. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 281 Hollow Tree Ridge Road, Darien, CT 06820. Purpose: any lawful activity. The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice is hereby given that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for

by ECCO 124 Chambers LLC d/b/a ECCO! The Italian Saloon to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 124 Chambers Street New York NY 10007.

Vil: 05/09 - 05/16/2013

Notice is hereby given that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for

by Mafrey Corp to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 45 West 8th Street New York NY 10011.

Vil: 05/09 - 05/16/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Carlo Balestri Architect, PLLC a professional service limited liability company (PLLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/24/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC is to: Carlo Balestri Architect, PLLC, 40 Wall Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CMT BOOTCAMP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/01/13. 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, 111 Broadway, Suite 1702, New York, New York 10006. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Application for Authority of 114 5th AVENUE NEW YORK CITY, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/23/13.

The LLC was formed in DE 4/19/13. Office loc.: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The principal business loc. and address SSNY shall mail copy of process is 600 Madison Ave., 20th Fl., New York, NY 10022.

The office address in DE is 203 NE Front St., Ste. 101, Milford, DE 19963. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of WellGen Power, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/8/13. 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 330 Madison Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of 150th Debt LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/12/13. 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 Bluestone Group, 225 Broadway, 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013

Notice of Formation of Agente Creativo, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/26/13. 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 c/o Ana Leshen, 451 Broadway, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of Rapha Racing NY LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/21/13. 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 Salans LLP, Att: Jody Saltzman, Esq., 620 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10020. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Qual. of TWG OE Funding LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/22/13. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/20/13. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of Maki Bar LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yaniv Shaky Cohen, 451 Broome St., #5E, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Qualification of Long John Silver’s, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/13. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/6/69. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Qualification of Shaner Industries, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/17/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/12/11.

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: 05/09 - 06/13/2013

Notice of Formation of 48150 Boxwood Holdings LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/29/12.

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 The Community Preservation Corp., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016, principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of 48152 Chestnut Holdings LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/31/12.

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 The Community Preservation Corp., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016, principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/09 - 06/13/2013 Notice of Formation of Besame Mucho LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/7/13. 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 Rothstein Kass, 9171 Wilshire Blvd., 5th Fl., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of AEC PowerFlow, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/13.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/15/07. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of BERKSHIRE ACQUISITION II, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/19/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/13. Princ. office of LLC: 7 Hanover Sq., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10004. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013

Notice of Qualification of 156 EAST 33RD STREET LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/18/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/13. Princ. office of LLC: c/o CORIGIN, 505 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10017.

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. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 BIG GULP HACKING LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/15/13. 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, 415 W. 127th St., NY, NY 10027. General Purposes.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Formation of Lookout Point Films, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/13. 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 S. Reid Kahn, Esq., Kane Kessler, P.C., 1350 Ave. of the Americas, 26th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Formation of Barclay 7 Realty LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/19/13. 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 Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP, 1501 Broadway, 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Formation of MB 1200, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/27/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Marisa Bellis, 182 Poppasquash Road, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of McFarland Dewey Company, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/15/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 300, NY, NY 10170.

LLC formed in DE on 3/12/13.

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: 05/02 - 06/06/2013

Notice of Qualification of Partners VII/98 Avenue A Owner LLC uthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/18/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: c/o AEW Capital, Two Seaport Lane, Boston, MA 02210-2021. LLC formed in DE on 4/12/13. 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: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 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: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of Select Media Services, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/8/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 18th Fl. - 1067 W. Cordova St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1C7. LLC formed in DE on 12/23/97. 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: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of Walleye Trading Advisors, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/20/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MN on 3/24/05.

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: 16-18 W. 22nd St., NY, NY 10010, Attn: Peter Goddard. MN address of LLC: 14601 27th Ave N, Ste. 102, Plymouth, MN 55447.

Cert. of Org. filed with MN Sec. of State, 60 Empire Dr., Ste. 100, St. Paul, MN 55103.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013 Notice of Qualification of Zentis Sweet Ovations Holding, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/12/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in IN on 11/22/06.

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. IN and principal business addr.: 2050 North Oak Rd., Plymouth, IN 46563.

Cert. of Org. filed with IN Sec. of State, 302 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 05/02 - 06/06/2013

May 16 - 22, 2013

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Publ ic Notice s Notice of Formation of foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Prevention Metrics Advisors LLC Application for Authority filed by the Department of State of New York on: 10/26/12 Jurisdiction: Delaware Organized on: 2/15/12 Office location: County of New York Principal office: 137 Riverside Drive, #6D, New York, NY 10024 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: 137 Riverside Drive, #6D, New York, NY 10024 Address of office required to be maintained in Delaware 1209 Orange Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Authorized officer in its Jurisdiction is: Secretary of State of Delaware John G. Townsend Building 401 Federal Street, Suite 4. Dover, DE 19901 Purpose: any and all lawful activities Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 CAPE END EAST HOLDINGS, LLC Arts., of Org., filed with NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) 03/28/2013. Office in New York County; SSNY designated agent for service of process with copy mailed to Cape Advisors, Inc., 483 Broadway, 5th Fl. New York, NY 10013, Attn: Curtis Bashaw, All lawful business purposes.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of FORTIS BARA LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/13/12. 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, 1196 PARK PLACE, BROOKLYN NEW YORK 11213. Purpose:To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: HARPER SPIN LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/17/12. 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, 214 W. 21st Street, Apt. 5A, New York, New York 10011. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 Notice of Formation of Mortensen MidAtlantic of NY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013

Notice of Formation of EMPIRE STATE DENTAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/15/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 577 Isham St., 1G, NY, NY 10034. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Ysabel Ulerio at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 Notice of Formation of MPP #9 ACQUISITION LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/15/13. 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 Millhouse Peck Properties LLC, 420 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10170. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 BENITO ONE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/12/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Christian Moretti, 2 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 SAMANTHA LITZINGER LUTZ, PH.D. PSYCHOLOGIST PLLC, a domestic PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/22/13. Office location: New York. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ronald Lawrence Crane, Esq., 5 Farmers Rd., Great Neck, NY 11024. Purpose: Psychology Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 AREXA RURIK EKSTROM AND ASSOCIATES LLC a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/20/13. 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, 35 Canal St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10002.

General Purposes.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 Notice of Formation of EPHOCUS CAPITAL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/13. 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 Kustal & Kustal, PC, 237 W. 35th St., Ste. 1001, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 04/25 - 05/30/2013 287A WEBSTER AVENUE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 01/11/2013. Off. Loc.:NewYork Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Ian DeFronze, 1396 Third Avenue, #1B, New York, NY 10075. Purpose:Any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013

Notice of Qualification of US VC PARTNERS GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/08/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/11/13.

Princ. office of LLC: 900 Third Ave., 19th 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 Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Qualification of SNOWPLOW HOLDINGS LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/04/13. Princ. office of LLC: 950 Third Ave., 18th 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 The Worldwide Group, Attn: David Lowenfeld at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Qualification of SNOWPLOW LH LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/04/13. Princ. office of LLC: 950 Third Ave., 18th 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 The Worldwide Group, Attn: David Lowenfeld at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 A.C. LAWRENCE WEST, LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/4/13. Office location: NewYork County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Leonard Franzblau, 729 Seventh Ave., NY, NY 10019. General Purposes.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 D28 CAPITAL LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/16/13. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Douglas A. Lobel P.C., 28 W. 44th St., Ste. 1205, NY, NY 10036. General Purposes.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Nelson, Robinson & El Ashmawy, PLLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/13. 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: 342 Broadway, #164 NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of formation of Gretchen & Waters LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York. SSNY on 03/12/2013, Office located in New York County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC at 1509 Broadway, Suite 1920, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Qualification of FBS Education, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/13.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/8/12. 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. DE address of LLC: 1675 South State St., Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Formation of Leslie Earl Robertson, Structural Engineer, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/13. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 100 Riverside Blvd., (18-D), NY, NY 10069. Purpose: practice the profession of engineering.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Formation of 22 BNDO LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/13. 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 Wachtel Masyr & Missry LLP, 885 Second Ave., 47th Fl., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Mitchell Fenton, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/18 - 05/23/2013 Notice of Qualification of Fluent Medical LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/2/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 377 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10013. LLC formed in DE on 8/1/06. 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: 04/18 - 05/23/2013

Notice of Qualification of GOLF RIVERHEAD, LLC. Authority filed with Secy.

Of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/28/13. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/20/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Avenue, 13th Floor, NewYork, NY 10011. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, Delaware 19904. Arts.

Of Org. filed with DE Secy.

Of State, Corporate Div., 401 Federal St., Suite 4, John G. Townsend Bldg., Dover, De 19901. Purpose: Acquisition, Development & Management of Real Estate and operation of a golf club.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Furious Flames Films, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/13. 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, 601 West 26th St., Ste. 1762, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Village JV 340 East 11th LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Case Real Estate Funding, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/22/13. 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, c/o Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 620 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10018, Attn: Lester Bliwise, Esq. Principal Office: c/o Case Real Estate Capital, LLC, 340 West Passaic St., 3rd Fl., Rochelle Park, NJ 07662.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Qualification of AlpInvest Secondaries Fund (Offshore) V, L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/03/13. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 09/11/12.

Princ. office of LP: 630 Fifth Ave., 28th Fl., NY, NY 10111.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Arts. of Org. filed with Registrar of Limited Partnerships, Government Admininstration Bldg., Grand Cayman, CI KY1-9000. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

Notice of Qualification of ROTHSCHILD INNOVATORS GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/28/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/22/13. Princ. office of LLC: Attn: David D. Rothschild, 477 Madison Ave., 6th 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. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of RA 70 PINE DEVELOPMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/01/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 200 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Rose Associates, Inc. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Qualification of ROTHSCHILD CORNERSTONE GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/29/13. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/29/03. Princ. office of LLC: Attn: David D. Rothschild, 477 Madison Ave., 6th 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 princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Yola Colon LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 03/11/13.

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: 200 E 64th St., #26AB, New York, NY 10065. Purpose:To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 RD LEGAL GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/21/2013. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Irena Leigh Norton, Esq. C/O Law Office of Roni Dersovitz, 295 Madison Ave., 39th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Wall Street Cross Border Alternative Equity Index, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/28/13. 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: 52nd Fl, The Trump Building, 40 Wall St, NY NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act. 2062154 Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

Notice of Qual. of Valinor Capital Partners SPV IX, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/8/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/7/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: David Angstreich, 510 Madison Ave., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10022. 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: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

Notice of Formation of Village JV 500 East 11th LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

Notice of Qual. of Valinor Capital Partners SPV X, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/8/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/7/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: David Angstreich, 510 Madison Ave., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10022. 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: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

Notice of Formation of Village JV 504 East 12th LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Village JV 435 East 12th LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Village JV 338 East 11th LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Formation of Village JV 211 Avenue A LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/2/13. 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 Kushner Co., 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013

V. STEWARD GROUP LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/11/13. Office location: NewYork County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 201 E. 17th St., #11H, NY, NY 10003. General Purposes.

Vil: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Qualification of VHA Mid Atlantic, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/22/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 220 E. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, TX 75039.

LLC formed in DE on 5/7/99.

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. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 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: 04/11 - 05/16/2013 Notice of Qualification of VHA MidAtlantic Purchasing Coalition, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/21/13. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 220 E. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, TX 75039.

LLC formed in DE on 10/8/12.

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: The Corporation Trust Co., 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.

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Soho House has my support, but won’t get Acker Awards CLAYTON

By Clayton Patterson I have finished my exploration of Soho House. It was interesting, and I’m glad that I took the opportunity to check them out.

I see them fitting into this new Lower East Side. No different than the two new luxury hotels going up on Ludlow St. Of course, though — and using this small strip of Ludlow as an example — they are a part of the reason that the Pink Pony closed, Earth Matters closed, Dare Devil Tattoo moved, Max Fish is relocating and Taylor Meade’s apartment became such a valuable piece of property.

If they Soho House does get a liquor license and open, I am sure that their street presence will not be noticeable because they are completely elitist. They do not mix with the street.

Soho House would provide the space and the emcees — possibly Susan Sarandon — do the RSVPs, and provide finger food, a DJ and 200 chairs.

My prediction is that with this new form of Sohoization of our community, many of the noisy bars and eateries will be forced out. Those of us who have lived on the L.E.S. have witnessed the past: the East Village/Alphabet City gallery purge, then the eroding away of much of the local, small, independent and momand-pop businesses. The only difference between this period and the earlier period is that gentrification is happening at a highly accelerated rate. Gentrification is moving at such a high speed that bicycle racks are popping up all over the place like magic mushrooms after a spring rain.

In my effort to check them out, I heard all the different pitches. I was told that the Soho House in the Meatpacking District got rid of all the suits to make room for more creative types. One of the offers that intrigued me was that they had a program in which an artist who could not afford the heavy, yearly membership fee, which varied between $1,200 for a limited-access membership to $2,400 for full access, could trade creative work for a membership. A membership gave one entry to all of the Soho House clubs worldwide.

Sounded positive. Next, the new location on Ludlow St. would need workers. I know creative people who are looking for jobs.

As I started to bring forward names of local artists for membership and jobs,

Photo by Clayton Patterson

Where Soho House is planned at 137-139 Ludlow St. could be a prime site for an aggressive developer, in the writer’s opinion.

I was told to put that idea on hold since it would be months before the Ludlow place was open. This confused me, since I thought if they liked what the creative person had to offer, then what difference did time make? And if Soho House liked the artwork, they already had one club in New York City where it could be exhibited.

Not the case.

They had offered me a membership in trade for some photos. I asked if I could use this trade to get in another artist if I decided not to join. No go. When I visited the Meatpacking Soho House, I saw very few minorities as guests or workers.

Later, I talked to a couple of wellknown Downtown artists who traded art and became Soho House members. They only used the membership a couple of

times because the cost of food and drinks was so high they could not afford to go there. The limited-budget artists never met any of the so-called “right people” who could help them because there were no facilitators. Making introductions is an art form. A connector must be conscious of putting people together who would be able to mutually benefit from the introduction.

Otherwise, being in this unaffordable club is not different than going to a high-end gallery opening or an evening at MoMA. All the major players are at these openings, but so what?

However, I was willing to support it because something is going to be there no matter what. The 139 Ludlow St. building, which is in my area, is one of the few that has an architecturally interesting facade.

The building is only three-to-four stories high. Since it does not have landmark status and is a double-wide property, for most developers it would not make sense to keep the building as it is. For them, it would be more practical to tear this place down and build a 10-story luxury modern building. Imagine a 7-Eleven in the middle of the block.

One way of showing support was to hold the Acker Awards at this new Soho House location. Alan Kaufman, in San Francisco, and I, created the bicoastal Acker Awards (www.ackerawards.com) to bring together in one place, and honor, a wide cross-section of creative types who had made a major contribution to the avant-garde. The Acker Awards would give them credibility in the Downtown creative community.

Long story short, the 137-39 Ludlow location is an empty and barren, threestory space with some of the cement floor ripped up — similar to a parking garage with no pillars. Because it had been a printing company it smelled of oil.

The date of the event was set for June 6.

The plan was that Soho House would provide the space and the emcees — they mentioned several high-level names, like Susan Sarandon and some famous musicians — take care of the RSVP list by setting up an e-mail account and monitoring the list, get some finger food, nonalcoholic drinks, a DJ, 200 chairs. Fine. As the date was coming closer, the RSVP e-mail address was finally registered, but there was little else.

No emcee, nothing.

I was worried. I asked them about this and was scolded — “back off.” They were giving more than $10,000 worth of goods and services (the barren cement space and food) for free, they said. I stepped back and thought it was a joke. But it was no joke. Maybe to them I may look a little eccentric and old-school L.E.S., but that was worth $10,000? Please!

Thankfully, the Angel Orensanz Cultural Foundation, on Norfolk St., stepped up to save the day, and will host the awards on June 6.

My biggest disappointment was not the Soho House people. They behaved as expected. What bothered me was so very few locals attempted to test what was offered. People were just against them.

When I wrote articles in favor of the place, nobody stepped forward as an individual.

All I got was snide comments using pseudonyms. You have to stand up to be against.

You have to know what you are against.

Just to be against to be against is a pitiful position.

I still support Soho House. They are the lesser of what could be so much worse.

There is no reason for them not to be there. The place is not for me. But then, who cares? This is not all about me. It is going to be something. The world has changed. What is, is what is, and that is all there is. My world has changed. I cannot hate everyone. Life moves on and so do I.

May 16 - 22, 2013

letteRS to tHe eDitoR Continued from page 10 something New York City is not.

As with Bloomberg’s bike lanes that cause traffic congestion and are rarely used by bicyclists, this is another brainstorm that will turn into a disaster. Every day, I see cyclists coming toward me from the wrong direction, not heeding the traffic laws, not stopping for lights, barely missing pedestrians as they whiz by. And I’ve yet to see one get a ticket for not obeying the law. But I never see automobiles going against the traffic or not stopping for lights.

Lest I be branded as anti-bicycle, I have a good friend who cycles everywhere, obeys the rules and has never had an accident. And she actually uses the bike lanes.

There are, unfortunately, few of her ilk.

This is not Paris, it’s not Brussels or some other European city where cyclists seem to have a long history of blending into the pace of the city. Until then, why foist an untested program on us? Does every idea that Mayor Bloomberg has need to be implemented full-blown? His term is almost over, but it would be nice for our elected officials to remember the job is called “mayor,” not “dictator.”

The general reaction to these bike stations has been negative for a good reason.

Jay Matlick

NID is worth the cost To The Editor: I’m a lifelong Villager and I want to tell you why I heartily support the proposed neighborhood improvement district for Hudson River Park, better known as the NID. The way I see it, the NID is a great deal. You pay some, but you get a lot.

I’m a property owner on the west end of Christopher St., which lies in the proposed NID district. Based on our square footage, we will pay about $250 a year to the NID. That’s less than $1 a day, and for this, we get $10 million worth of benefits per year: $10 million worth of trees, flowers, maintained bikeways, safety officers, all to be spent solely on my park and the streets alongside it.

It is so important to me that Hudson River Park remain beautiful. I still remember the day the park opened. We were living on Washington St. with our two then-small children, and it was as if someone had opened the window to fresh air and sunshine. It was incredible that we could sit on green grass instead of a broken-glass-littered pier.

I joined the board of Friends of Hudson River Park because I cherish this park and the gift it’s given us. I am proud to be a member of this community — a community that believes in community

involvement — and I am happy to do my share to help this park thrive. If we don’t do it, who will? Please sign the petition at www.hrpnid.org.

Susanna Aaron Aaron is a board member, Friends of Hudson River Park

Now I’m really confused!

To The Editor: Re “ ‘Clarified’ park rules for artists, buskers still called unclear” (news article, May 9): Washington Square is loved and visited by people from near and far. It is a center of culture and activity. Why do we need “clarified” rules to limit the locations of the performers who give the square its charm? Instead of limiting them, let us enjoy and appreciate their talents.

George Jochnowitz

The war on slime To The Editor: Re “Judge snorts at coke-ring clients” (news article, May 2): My neighborhood on the Lower East Side is periodically under siege by the slimeballs who peddle their crap drugs, and visited by the equally slimy buyers who come seeking out their connections.

Reality tells me that I will never live to see a drug-free L.E.S. or, for that matter, a drug-free U.S.A. But if busting and prosecuting the buyers as well as the sellers puts even a small dent in the drug trade, then I’m all for it. And you should be too unless you’re part of either side of the drug business.

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PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE SPECTACULAR MEDICAL OFFICE TO SHARE Beautful Architectual Space in the heart of TriBeca. 2 or 3 examination rooms available most days. Call 917-213-7494

EMPLOYMENT

BROWNSTONE WANTED BROOKLYN/HARLEM please email details/photos to: mykonos55@yahoo.com

LOOKING TO BUY

SOUTH BEACH CONDO 1 bedroom or large studio mykonos55@yahoo.com LIC PETITE 3BR DPLX LRG STUDIO RM Backyard,Walk to Subways, Shopping, Etc.

ACCOUNTANT 12 mos. Experience. BA, Cockpit USA, 15 W 39th St., NYC 10018

COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEER BA + 3 mos experience.

Global Works Group LLC, A. George, 220 5thAve. NYC 10001

MANAGEMENT ANALYST HARLEM REAL ESTATE COMPANY Mail resume to Tahl-Propp Operations, LLC, Attn: C. Igartua 107-129 E. 126th Street, New York, NY 10035 CONSTRUCTION

Avail. August 1, $2195 per mo.

BIDS WANTED FOR CONSTRUCTION

MR M 718-426-2800 BTW 10 AM-4PM

Chen Dance Center is soliciting bids for alterations to its space 70 Mulberry St, NY, NY. For more info go to our website: www.chendancecenter.org

SoHo SPACE 4 LEASE Six (6) Soho district manufacturing spaces for lease Ideal for service, industrial No retail or office users

Loc#1: 8,130SF gnd+cellar, Loc#2: 2,200SF gnd+cellar, Loc#3: 2,600SF gnd+cellar, Loc#4: 2,400SF gnd+cellar, Loc#5: 3,700SF gnd+cellar, Loc#6: 4,400SF gnd+cellar. $80/SF call ELIOT @ 212-431-7500

PubLic Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANTTO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from RADIANTE LLC to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 131 DUANE ST 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: 05/16 - 05/23/2013

PubLic Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANTTO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from GREENWICH VILLAGE BISTRO LTD to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 1030835 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: 05/09 - 05/16/2013

COMMERCIAL SPACE

West Village Commercial Space Avail.

SOHO MANUFACTURING SPACE

Considering Non Food Business at

Ground Floor aprox 1,550 sqft

present. Approx.550 sq FT w Bsmt.

$120k per Anum.

Call Owner 718-344-6468

Call 212-226-3100

PubLic Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from RECTOR STREET FOOD ENTERPRISES LTD. to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 11 RECTOR STREET 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: 05/16 - 05/23/2013

May 16 - 22, 2013

LOWER EAST SIDE PEOPS PROJECT • PEOPS.ORG

Free Electronics Recycling Events Events Are 10am to 4pm • Rain or Shine May 18 Penn South, Manhattan May 19 Stuyvesant Town, East Village

TAYLOR MEAD - 04/20/2K5 - BOWERY POETRY CLUB

May 19 Morningside Heights, Manhattan

For details, visit tekserve.com/recycling

Recycle with us for a chance to WIN a MacBook Air For questions about recycling, contact:

Photos by Colin Gregory

Cupcakes and pancakes are in the house all of a sudden House of Cupcakes recently opened at Seventh Ave. South at Grove St. And if that wasn’t enough, a few blocks to the south, IHOP (the International House of Pancakes) has opened on Carmine St. near Seventh Ave. South. Only time will tell if this is a mere coincidence or if the “House of” eateries trend will sweep the Village.

212.477.4022 • lesecologycenter.org

A Lower East Side Ecology Center program sponsored by

119 W 23rd St • 212.929.3645 • tekserve.com

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