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City O.K.’s roof rotors up to 55 ft. tall for buildings

BY ALBERT AMATEAU Despite reservations by preservation advocates, real estate officials hailed new land-use guidelines intended to encourage the building and retrofitting of energy-sustainable buildings.

The citywide Zone Green Text Amendment, passed by the City Council and signed

by Mayor Bloomberg, which removed some zoning impediments to the construction and renovation of “green” build-

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A serene scene in Soho “Survival of Serena,” Carole Feuerman’s hyper-realistic sculpture — complete with beads of water on the figure’s arms and the inner tube — was recently installed in Soho’s Petrosino Square, at Lafayette and Spring Sts. The painted bronze piece will be on view through Sept. 23. The artist’s first version of “Serena,” as a painted resin sculpture, was shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale, then won first place at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Three days after the sculpture’s installation in Soho, its base was graffitied, but the artist herself reportedly quickly took care of the inappropriate tag.

Mendez, Little Red, garden honored with Village Awards

BY ALBERT AMATEAU The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation on Thurs., June 7, will bestow eight awards on the people, places and institutions of the West Village, the East Village and Noho that contribute to their neighborhoods’ special character. Author Calvin Trillin will do the honors.

The society’s 22nd annual ceremony, including awards to City Councilmember Rosie Mendez and to Marilyn Appleberg, of the 10th and Stuyvesant Block

Association, will take place at 6:30 p.m. at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, at 66 W. 12th St. Over the past 22 years, the society has given out more than 150 awards.

The 2012 award to Mendez, representing the Second Council District since 2006, honors her unflinching advocacy of historic preservation. She has helped secure preservation-friendly rezonings and landmark designations in the East Village and the Lower East Side. Her award citation notes that in the past year

she was the only councilmember to vote against de-landmarking the 1817 building at 135 Bowery.

The 2012 award to Marilyn Appleberg, president of the 10th and Stuyvesant Block Association, cites her efforts for more than 40 years to preserve and improve the neighborhood’s quality of life. She helped create the small Abe Lebewohl Park in front of St. Mark’s Church and spearheaded the effort to

ings, went into effect May 1.

While one of the more striking features, allowing 55-foot-tall wind turbines on the tops of buildings 100 feet or taller, may not become a reality in the near future, other features are more likely to appear on new and reconstructed buildings.

Constantine Kontokosta, director of the Center for the Sustainable Built Environment

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Private’s birthday is met with cards, tears and resolve

BY ALINE REYNOLDS It was an outpouring of emotion prompted by tragedy, with the backdrop a photo of an only child who died far too young.

Some 400 Chinatown residents and students gathered at Pace University High School, at 100 Hester St., last Thurs., May 24, to commemorate the late U.S. Army Private Danny Chen, a 2010 graduate of the school.

Were Chen still alive, he would have celebrated his

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20th birthday over Memorial Day weekend.

The event, arranged by the New York chapter of Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), consisted of poignant performances by drummers, spoken-word artists and dancers — their art calling for justice for Chen and offering emotional catharsis to those who knew him personally or learned of him after he passed.

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NOTEBOOK H U D S O N S E X Y PA R K ! The Hudson River Park’s Spring Gala at Pier 26 on Tuesday night was a smashing success. The event raised a cool $2.2 million — double what was expected, and quadruple the amount netted by last year’s gala. All the credit goes to the Friends of Hudson River Park, which has transitioned from the park’s lawsuit-filing watchdog to the Hudson River Park Trust’s new private fundraising arm. The Tribeca pier is slated to become an estuarium — a place to study the river’s natural habitat and species. But Tuesday night it was covered by a de rigeur white tent and was aswarm with financial heavy hitters. More than 800 attended the $1,000-per-plate affair, with some forking out even more for a serving of arctic char. Blake Beatty, the Friends new director of development, was feelin’ it — to put it mildly — after the mega-successful haul. “I raised $2.2 million tonight!� she gushed, a touch of gold glitter shimmering on her cheek. “We needed to beat the High Line, and we needed to bring the sexy back. I got a call from the High Line boys, and they said, ‘You’re taking our sexy,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I did.’ � Beatty knows from sexy — in five years, she raised $350 million for the National 9/11 Memorial down at Ground Zero. “Martha Stewart just joined the board� of the Friends, Beatty said, adding that Aussie hunk Hugh Jackman and his wife are also getting involved. “This is really the Gold Coast of New York City — this is their escape,� Beatty said. “We got the big hitters, like Glenn Dubin,� she noted proudly. Jackman gave a videotaped speech at the gala. Mayor Bloomberg attended and gave Dubin, C.E.O. of Highbridge Capital Management, the event’s Leadership in Community Enrichment Award. Sporting a black cast on her foot, Diana Taylor, the mayor’s main squeeze and the Trust’s chairperson, gave remarks, as did Madelyn Wils, the Trust’s president. The evening’s emcee was Gayle King, co-host of “CBS This Morning.� Douglas Durst, Friends co-chairperson, also spoke. It was good to see Rob Balachandran, the Trust’s former president, who is now working in title insurance. He hooked us up for a quick interview with his ex-boss, former Governor George Pataki, who was towering over the crowd. As government funding for the park has dwindled under Governors Spitzer, Paterson and Cuomo, the former G.O.P. gov — always a major funder of the project — is looking more than ever like the park’s true champion. Pataki recalled how, upon seeing the Lower West Side’s rundown piers, he knew it was the perfect place for a park. Asked what he thought of the idea currently being tossed around for residential use on Pier 40, Pataki said he really didn’t know enough about it, and didn’t want to comment. Also at the event were Congressmember Jerrold Nadler and Robert Gottheim, his district director, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried’s chief of staff, Wendi Paster, borough president hopefuls Julie Menin and Jessica Lappin, expected City Council candidate Corey Johnson, Abigail Trenk of the W. 30th St. Heliport, Ben Korman — who formerly ran the parking at Pier 40 — Tony and Nadine Hoffmann of Village Independent Democrats, Trust counsel Laurie Silberfeld and P3’s Tobi Bergman, Nancy Clark and their son, Patrick Clark, who recently landed a gig — congrats! — reporting on Wall St. for the New York Observer.

B E T T E R S A F E T H A N S O R R Y : Speaking of Hudson River Park, hoping to avoid an overflow crowd, Community Board 2, at the last minute, changed the venue for its May 21 Waterfront Committee meeting, finding a larger space at the L.G.B.T. Center on W. 13th St. Tust President Wils was scheduled to lay out the

findings of a recent study on Pier 40, showing how residential use there could provide the highest revenue for the park — with the least negative impact — and a high turnout seemed like a possibility. C.B. 2 was trying to avoid what happened earlier this year when a meeting on the N.Y.U. 2031 plan drew an overcapacity crowd to the A.I.A. Center on LaGuardia Place, forcing everyone to schlep over to Our Lady of Pompei Church’s Father Demo Hall at Carmine and Bleecker Sts. where there was sufficient space. But, in the end, only about 20 to 25 people showed up at the May 21 Waterfront Committee meeting. We’ll see if there’s a larger turnout this Thurs., May 31, at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway between Fulton and Vesey Sts., when the Trust and Hudson River Park Advisory Council will lead a meeting on ideas to improve the cash-strapped park’s financial situation, which would likely include changes to the 1998 Hudson River Park Act. St. Paul’s was picked because, again, it has a large capacity. We’ll see if it was needed.

WEDDING B E L L S : Jennifer Falk, right, executive director of the Union Square Partnership, is getting married June 10 to Anthony Corrao, a financial planner and adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s College and at Marymount Manhattan. They met a year ago when they were on an AIDS bicycle ride.

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K O C H S L A M S C Y B E R B U L LY S E N T E N C E : Former Mayor Ed Koch says Dharun Ravi, 18, the Rutgers student who spied on his gay roommate’s trysts with a Webcam — causing the young violinist to leap off the G.W. Bridge — got off too lightly. The judge sentenced the Indian immigrant to 30 days in jail, plus 300 hours community service and counselling about cyberbullying. “I say, not enough,â€? Koch wrote in his “Commentaryâ€? column. “Tyler Clementi is dead. ‌ Surely at least a year in prison of the 10 available under the law would have provided greater justice and closure for Clementi’s parents. Hopefully, on appeal — although appellate courts do not like to substitute their judgment on sentencing for that of the trial judge — the appellate judges will set aside the lower court’s sentencing decision and send the case back for resentencing‌ Allowing the sentence to stand would be a flagrant injustice.â€?

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Astor news vendor appeals to state’s highest court

BY ALBERT AMATEAU Jerry Delakas is still hanging onto the Astor Place newsstand where he has been serving the neighborhood for more than 25 years.

For more than a year, he has been fighting to overturn a Department of Consumer Affairs decision to pull his newsstand license, and has lost twice in court.

If it were up to his neighbors and to the countless people who buy newspapers and magazines, or just stop to ask him for directions, Delakas, 64, would be there for life. More than 1,000 of them, including residents of Stewart House, at 70 E. 10th St., have signed a petition of support.

Hopes rose on Wednesday when Delakas’s lawyer, Gil Santamarina, filed an appeal with the Court of Appeals in Albany, the highest court in the state, that if successful would keep Delakas at the newsstand on the triangle where Astor Place and E. Eighth St. intersect with Lafayette St. “We’re grateful that Consumer Affairs has agreed to sit tight until this is all over,” Santamarina said on Wed., May 30.

Jerry, who is supporting an ailing brother at their home in Sunnyside, Queens, has been selling papers on the site since the mid-1980s when he worked for the then-license holders, Abraham and Stella Schwartz.

After they died in 1987, Katherine Ashley was the licensee and Delakas worked for her. After she died in 2006, Jerry ran the newsstand for her husband, Sheldon, until he died in 2009.

Before she died, Katherine Ashley wrote in her will that she wanted Gerasimos (Jerry’s real name) Delakas to run the stand after her husband died. But despite Sheldon’s estate lawyers’ application to renew the license in Jerry’s name, D.C.A. refused in April 2010. The department said the 24-year-old agreement that Jerry had with Ashley to run the stand was not legal.

Santamarina took the case to Manhattan State Supreme Court, which upheld the D.C.A., and he then appealed to the five-member Appellate Division panel, which on April 26 also upheld D.E.C. “But a 3-2 decision gave us the automatic right to go to the Court of Appeals,” Santamarina said.

The dissenting opinion held that Jerry has a “preexisting, established relationship” to the former license holders Stella Schwartz and Katherine Ashley. The dissent also held that Jerry “is the person to whom the grant of such a license would be in the interest of fairness,” and noted that Jerry rebuilt the newsstand around 1993

Photo by Bruce Cunningham

Jerry Delakas, with a feathered friend, talking to a young boy in front of Delakas’s Astor Place newsstand.

at a cost of about $55,000.

“I think we have a good shot at the appeal,” Santamarina said. However, he would not speculate on when the case might be heard in Albany or when a decision might be made.

Among Jerry’s friends and supporters is Bruce Cunningham, executive director of the Queens Interagency Council on Aging, who recently took a series of photos of Jerry at the newsstand.

And on Wednesday night, Nicole Cimino, an actress and filmmaker, showed “The Paper House Report,” a 25-minute documentary about Jerry, at WIP (Work In Progress), the artists collective at 34 Vandam St. Cimino, who came to New York from Rome two years ago, met Jerry quite by accident when she was at the newsstand waiting for a colleague. She noticed news

articles about him from The Villager on display at the newsstand, and dug into the story. She and her partner, Luigi Benvisto, decided to document her research.

“We interviewed Jerry, of course, and his customers, Community Board 2 members, Martin Tessler and Joan Schulz, who live at 70 E. 10th St.,” Cimino said.

“We tried to get another supporter, Rosie Mendez, the city councilmember, but we ran out of time because we wanted to finish the film in time to do some good.”

Meanwhile, more supporters and customers were still signing onto the petition this week.

Jerry, born on Kephalonia, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, worked as a merchant seaman until he left his ship in Boston in the 1970s.

“I’ve been here more than any other place in my life,” he said this week.

Answer is blowin’ in the wind: Roof rotors O.K.’d Continued from page 1

of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, said of the text amendment, “It’s a great step forward for a zoning text that hasn’t seen a major revision since 1961.”

Angela Pinsky, Real Estate Board of New York senior vice president for management affairs, said the Department of City Planning has done a good job in helping to move the city toward greater energy sustainability.

A city task force is currently working on recommendations to bring both the city Building Code and Zoning Code up to date as part of PlaNYC. “Some of the features are more aspirational

than practical, but others are likely to encourage green building and retrofitting,” Pinsky said of the new guidelines. “There is a demand out there for solar panels,” she added.

While the previous zoning did not allow solar installations above a building’s maximum permitted height, the Zone Green Amendment allows solar panels on flat roofs anywhere below the parapet, regardless of building height.

Portions of taller solar installations higher than 4 feet will be subject to limits on roof coverage and height. On sloping roofs, panels will be allowed to be flat-mounted, less than 18 inches high.

“Almost any building could be fitted with solar panels,” Kontokosta suggested. He also said the rule allowing external insulation up to

8 inches on existing buildings was a welcome feature of the Zone Green Amendment.

However, at a February hearing at Community Board 2 on the amendment, the Historic Districts Council said that encouraging retrofitting of existing buildings with external insulation could threaten massive alteration of building exteriors.

Another feature of the amendment — allowing rooftop greenhouses no taller than 25 feet and set back at least 6 feet from the roof edge of nonresidential buildings — was part of the reason Community Board 2 in February voted against the amendment.

Although any addition permitted by the Zone Green Amendment would be subject to existing Landmarks Preservation Commission and Department of Buildings

rules and review, C.B. 2 was concerned that those agencies do not have sufficient resources and funds to review alterations or enforce rules.

The community board also wanted the text amendment to drop the wind turbines.

However, the amendment permits wind turbine assemblies to rise 55 feet above the rooftops of buildings 100 feet and taller if they are set back 10 feet from any property line. On waterfront blocks in medium- or higher-density residential, commercial or manufacturing districts, all buildings could install rooftop turbines up to half the height of the building, or 55 feet, whichever is less. Free-standing turbines are allowed in commercial and manufacturing areas on waterfront blocks.

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POLICE BLOTTER Truck kills young actress Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver of a truck that struck and killed a woman, 21, around 1:26 a.m., Thurs., May 24, while she was walking east across 14th St. at Broadway across from Union Square Park. The truck was traveling east on 14th St. and making a right turn onto Broadway when it struck Roxanna SorinaButa, 21, of Lindenwood, Queens, and continued south on Broadway. The victim, a Hunter College student and an actress who appeared in a Village production in January of this year, was taken to Beth Israel Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.

Cab hits cyclist A cab struck a bicycle rider who was crossing 17th St. near Park Ave. South at the northeast corner of Union Square Park around 9:50 a.m. Sat., May 26. The rider sustained head injuries and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition.

The driver remained at the scene and the incident is under investigation.

Cornelia St. burglary A burglar broke into the basement of 7 Cornelia St. — which is shared by two restaurants and upstairs residents — sometime after 1 a.m. Sun., May 20, and made off with a laptop computer, police said.

Thompson St. burglary The resident of an apartment at 170 Thompson St. told police she arrived home at 8 a.m. Sun., May 21, to discover her bedroom window open and a jacket and a laptop computer had been stolen.

The victim said her front door was locked, but police said a surveillance tape showed a stranger entering by the door.

Leroy St. break-in A resident of 51 Leroy St. left home at 11 a.m. Mon., May 7, and returned at 9 p.m. to discover that a laptop computer

had been stolen.

Another laptop gone The resident of a sixth-floor apartment at 51 E. 12th St. left the place at 7:30 p.m. Thurs., May 17, and returned at 9 a.m. the next day to discover the apartment had been burglarized and that two laptop computers with a total value of $5,000 had been stolen.

a knife and cut his left hand and the man hit him on the shoulder with a shovel.

Police arrested Shawn Sewell, 24, and Squire Foster, 41, and charged them with assault.

Assault and mischief Police arrested Stephen Hartie, 27, around 1:15 a.m. Sat., May 26, and charged him with hitting an employee of a store at 233 Bleecker St. near Sixth Ave. in the head during an argument and then proceeding to trash the place.

Busted for baton

A resident of a fifth-floor apartment at 14 Horatio St. near Jackson Square told police she left the place at 6 p.m. on Tues., May 5, and arrived 12 hours later to discover that a laptop computer valued at $1,500 was gone. She told police that several people had keys to the apartment.

Police stopped the driver of a 1999 Acura with New Jersey license plates in front of 360 Sixth Ave. near Washington Place at 1:40 a.m. for defective brake lights. They charged Harold Poueriet, 26, for weapons possession when they found an expandable baton in the car. The suspect also had two outstanding scofflaw violations and was driving with a suspended New York State driver’s license.

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Thieving women

The resident of an apartment at 95 Horatio St. near West St. discovered on Thursday morning May 17 that a safe in a closet had been opened without force and $7,000 in cash, plus six watches and other jewelry with a total value of $147,000, had been stolen.

Two women attacked a victim, 31, outside of the Starbucks at 482 West

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A woman patron of Le Pain Quotidien, 100 Grand St. at Mercer St., hung her handbag on the back of her chair around 4:30 p.m. Thurs., May 3, and discovered it was gone a few minutes later. She reported the theft on Thurs., May 24, after she learned that an unauthorized credit card charge of $2,449.69 had been made at the Helmut Lang boutique at 93 Grand St.

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Knife-’n’-shovel combo An assault victim told police that he got into an argument on Tuesday evening May 22 with a man and a woman who stopped him later at 10:10 p.m. in front of 165 Christopher St. between Washington and West Sts. He said the woman pulled

Broadway at Houston St. around 11:40 p.m. Fri., May 18, hitting her in the face and making off with her cell phone, police said.

A woman walked into a department store at 575 Broadway near Prince St. around 2 p.m. Fri., May 25, grabbed four blouses and a pair of men’s shorts and attempted to walk out without paying, police said. A security guard challenged her, but she slapped his face, dropped the merchandise and her handbag and fled.

A man and a woman who entered the Burberry shop at 131 Spring St. around 5:30 p.m. Sun., May 20, made off with a handbag valued at $1,295, police said.

A surveillance tape showed the woman moving the bag from one end of a display table to the other and the man putting it in her handbag.

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A visitor from San Francisco told police he was walking on the northeast corner of Sixth Ave. and West Broadway in Tribeca around 3 p.m. Tues., May 22, when two strangers grabbed him. One of them pushed him against against a building and took his watch while the other was the lookout. Police soon arrested Anthony Bullard, 42, but the accomplice, identified as Samuel McDaniel, 44, escaped.

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Private’s birthday met with cards, tears and resolve Continued from page 1 The acts ranged from tribal-sounding percussion numbers and classical pieces to rock songs and contemporary dances. Interspersed throughout were readings of a handful of the roughly 9,000 birthday cards sent in Chen’s memory from people around the globe, along with heartfelt speeches made by Chen’s advocates and family.

Chen was born in Chinatown. At a young age, he moved with his parents to an apartment in East Village public housing, and was living with them there before joining the Army. He was found dead last October in a guard tower in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where his military unit was deployed at the time. Military officials have since concluded Chen shot himself after fellow soldiers bullied and physically abused him because of his Asian-American ethnicity.

Yalini Dream, a spoken-word artist from Bedford-Stuyvesant, was inspired to perform at the event after hearing about Chen’s death late last year through OCA-NY. As an undergraduate at the University of Texas in Austin, Dream participated in sit-ins advocating for AsianAmerican studies at the university, in which several of her classmates were arrested.

“I knew there was a lot of anger and a lot of pain,” she said of Chen’s suicide. “I think it’s really important that we come together and we celebrate people’s lives, and harness the power of healing and love to push forward and motivate us as we fight for justice.”

It’s crucial that the government examine how the U.S. military is functioning in order to prevent future acts of hazing, said Dream, whose brother’s two friends are in the Army.

With respect to Army reforms, the anti-hazing legislation introduced by Congressmember Nydia Velazquez passed in the House and is now await-

Photo by Aline Reynolds

Private Danny Chen’s mother, Su Zhen Chen, wept as she spoke about her son — shown in the photo behind her — at the event for his 20th birthday at Pace University High School last Thursday.

ing Senate approval. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has also introduced a bill calling for stricter enforcement of the military’s anti-hazing rules.

The start of the courts-martial of the eight soldiers implicated in Chen’s death has been postponed until August.

The trial of Staff Sergeant Blaine Dugas is now set to begin on Thurs., Aug. 16 — three months later than the start date the Army previously announced, according to OCA-NY President Liz OuYang.

The mid-May trial dates had conflicted with a memorial service the military hosted in Alaska for Chen and fellow soldiers from his unit who died in combat during their Afghanistan deployment, OuYang said.

“They had scheduled both at the same time, and we told them it’s not fair to have the family choose between which one to go to,” she said.

“But it turned out that the defendant’s attorney had requested a delay anyway, so it worked out.”

At the Pace birthday event, Chen’s 16-yearold cousin Alex Wong recited a solemn poem saying Chen is “dearly missed” and that, while time won’t heal the wound, “we will learn to accept [what happened].”

Some of Chen’s former schoolmates were also present, including Umme Begum, a junior at the high school who is active in student government.

“He always kept to himself, but I realized he was actually a really smart kid,” Begum said.

Begum added that Pace University High School has held moments of silence for Chen, and there have been discusions about him in class. There have also been candleligthing events for Chen and photos of him posted in the hallways.

Seated in the auditorium’s front row that evening were Chen’s parents, Su Zhen Chen and Yan Tao Chen, who stoically watched the performances and, later, somberly addressed the crowd.

As they strode to the stage, the Chens were greeted by a standing ovation. Their remarks were translated into English by a city employee.

“Without your support, I would not be able to live until today,” Chen’s mother told the gathered group in a high-pitched tone as she wiped away tears. “My husband and I wish what happened to my son does not happen to someone else.”

The event comes on the heels of OCANY’s card-writing campaign honoring Chen’s birthday. In just more than a month, the organization received thousands of birthday cards from 25 states around the country and nine countries, including Hungary, Denmark and Germany.

OCA-NY, joined by a few other civil rights groups, hand-delivered the cards to Congress the day before the Pace birthday ceremony.

“We sent a strong message that we do not want them to forget Danny,” said Mackenzie Yang, representing OCA-NY. “The outcome of these upcoming trials, and what the U.S. does to address these serious issues, will further determine your legacy,” Ou Yang said of the deceased private, in her remarks at the Pace event.

The abuse Chen endured in the Army has shocked and frightened children, such as 8-year-old Clara Shapiro, who read aloud her birthday card on stage.

“Dear Danny, We are so upset and sad that those other soldiers who are on your side were so cruel to you,” she wrote. “I don’t want to ever join the Army, because it is a violent place where you can be tortured by someone on your side.”

They’re starting to see the light on Christopher St.

BY LORENZO LIGATO Two and a half months after the survey of the lighting conditions in the Christopher St. area, the West Village neighborhood is starting to grow brighter.

As first reported in The Villager on May 17, the lighting inspection coordinated by state Senator Tom Duane identified more than 100 illumination problems in the area between W. 10th and Morton Sts. from Sixth Ave. to West St. The problems ranged from missing, obstructed or nonfunctioning streetlights to multifamily residences lacking legally required exterior lighting.

The survey’s findings were soon transferred to the city’s Department of Transportation — the agency in charge of proper functioning of streetlights — and to the Parks Department, which is responsible for pruning any trees blocking streetlights.

The agencies, Duane observed, have begun to take action to resolve the illumination issues found in the survey. D.O.T. replaced the one streetlight that was

reported completely missing and restored power to five nonfunctioning streelights in the area. D.O.T. and Con Edison are currently in the process of repairing a sixth streetlight, which is surrounded by a sidewalk shed adjacent to a construction site. Three Bishop’s Crook lightpoles — reproductions of the old-style streetlights introduced in the late 1890s — were determined to be solely ornamental, although nonilluminated.

In addition, the Parks Department, Duane said, will prune the trees found to be blocking streetlights at the start of the new fiscal year in July.

Duane also added that many of the landlords of multifamily residential properties he contacted regarding their lack of exterior lighting have taken steps to comply with the existing regulations. Even some owners of single-family residences — though exempted from the requirements — have voluntarily improved their buildings’ outdoor lighting in the interest of the neighborhood, Duane added.

“These are promising results, but we need the ongoing help of all community residents to ensure our neighborhood is as well lit as possible,” Duane said, inviting citizens to report any lighting issues to 311.

In addition, a second inspection of the lighting in Hudson River Park, from Morton St. to Charles St., was sponsored

by Duane and his staff members. Duane said he’s collaborating with the Hudson River Park Trust to ensure that all park light fixtures are illuminated from sunset to sunrise.

The Christopher St. survey followed a series of meetings between Duane and neighborhood stakeholders to respond to a spike in violent incidents in the area in recent years. Yet, despite the senator’s efforts, many residents and visitors said the changes implemented since the mid-March inspection haven’t met their expectations.

George Forbes, executive director of the Lucille Lortel Theatre, at 121 Christopher St., said he hasn’t seen much improvement since the survey, though he admitted there

are some complicating factors.

“We realize that as a mixed-use street with commercial and residential tenants, it is difficult to strike a balance regarding lighting,” he said. “Some of the West Village’s charm is in walking down dimly lit streets versus the harsh lights of Times Square, for example.”

Forbes, who has worked with the Lucille Lortel Foundation since 1989, said that around 15 years ago they installed high-efficiency lighting under the theater’s marquee, as well as in the entrance to the adjoining alley. After these steps, he noted, the theater saw a significant reduction of graffiti on its front exterioor and a general improvement of conditions in the alley.

“Given our experience with adding external lighting to our building, I do feel that increasing the overall illumination in the area would be an improvement to the street,” Forbes said. “It would make our patrons feel safer, reduce criminal mischief and generally improve the quality of life on the street.”

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Society honors Mendez, Little Red, 6 and B Garden Continued from page 1 extend the St. Mark’s Historic District and to get it listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

This year’s awardees also include Little Red School House/Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI), celebrating the 90th anniversary of its founding by the educational reformer and progressive education pioneer Elisabeth Irwin.

Founded originally as a public school, the Little Red School House had to raise private funds during the Great Depression to remain in operation.

Little Red, at Bleecker St. and Sixth Ave., and the high school, at 40 Charlton St., remain true to their progressive roots to bring together children of various backgrounds.

In addition, the Lower East Side History Project, founded in 2006, is being honored for researching, documenting and preserving the history of the East Village and the Lower East Side. Project research has contributed to landmarking reports, school programs and guided tours, and is also available to the public for personal research. In 2009, L.E.S.H.P. joined other local cultural groups to open the East Village Visitors Center, at 308 Bowery.

The Bleecker St. sitting area renovation is receiving the Regina Kellerman Award for transforming the formerly rundown seating area at Bleecker and W. 11th Sts. next to the Bleecker Playground into an inviting, land-

scaped public green space. The 2012 renovation project is the result of public/private collaboration and tenacious efforts by local residents to transform the overlooked space.

The Sixth and B Garden, at E. Sixth St. and Avenue B, founded by neighbors in 1983, is being honored by G.V.S.H.P. for its 29 years of providing a haven for East Village vegetable growers and gardeners who focus on flora native to Manhattan. The garden also provides many free music, dance and theater programs open to the public.

Arturo’s Restaurant, at 106 West Houston St., is honored for continuing a proud neighborhood tradition of more than 50 years.

Founded in 1957 by Arthur “Arturo” and Elizabeth “Betty” Giunta on MacDougal St., Arturo’s moved to its present location in 1963.

While Arturo died in 2006 and Betty in 2007, their son Scott and daughter Lisa continue to feature the coal-oven pizza, live music and warm generosity that have made the place known and loved.

The preservation society is also honoring Foods of News York Tours for giving foodtasting and cultural walking tours through the West Village since 1999, recently adding Noho and Little Italy. The tours, which showcase specialty food shops and ethnic eateries, inform visitors and neighbors about ethnic and social history, as well as the importance of preservation. The award citation credits the tour with helping mom-and-pop stores stay afloat in a turbulent economic environment.

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

Food trucks, dancers occupy coveted Duarte Square space Toward the end of last year, after losing their home base at Zuccotti Park in the Financial District, Occupy Wall Street members were fixated on setting up a new encampment — to be dubbed “Occupy 2.0” — at Duarte Square. Occupy never was able to occupy the space, at Canal St. and Sixth Ave., however, and today remains without a major outdoor site for an organizing hub and visibility in New York City.

This past Tuesday, the Duarte Square space, which is owned by Trinity Real Estate and leased to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for use for its “Lent Space” programming, was occupied by a convoy of food trucks and also a dance performance on a small stage. “Lent Space” was not open to the public during the winter.

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Gay youth complain of West Village stop and frisks

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Sitting on one of the West Village piers on a sunny Friday afternoon, Tamir Tanner scowled when the New York Police Department practice of stopping and frisking was mentioned.

“It’s just not fair,” the 27-year-old said.

“It’s really not fair to anybody to be stopped and frisked.”

Tanner estimated that he had been stopped by police in the Sixth Precinct, which patrols Manhattan’s West Village, about 10 times in July of last year.

“They rolled past,” Tanner said. “I guess I looked suspicious to them… . I started to feel like they had a problem with me.”

According to a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union, police stopped and frisked 685,724 people citywide in 2011.

Fifty-three percent of those stopped were African-American and 34 percent were Latino. They were also disproportionately young and male.

By contrast, police stopped and frisked considerably fewer people in 2002 — 97,296.

While there were relatively few stops and frisks in the Sixth Precinct in 2011 — just 2,954 — 76.6 percent of those stopped were African-American and Latino. Just 8 percent of the residents in that precinct are African-American or Latino, so it’s apparent who the police are stopping — the queer youth of color who enjoy hanging out in the West Village and who have been the subject of complaints by some residents there.

“We do know that a lot of our constituency are stopped in the West Village,” said Ellen Manny Vaz, the communications director at FIERCE, a group that organizes among L.G.B.T. youth of color. “These numbers are not surprising. They definitely coincide with what our members are reporting.”

The N.Y.P.D., which did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment, has argued that stop and frisk is a necessary anticrime strategy that has contributed to New York City’s low crime rates. Part of the police rationale for the practice is that it deters those who may carry a weapon, because they fear that weapon would be found during a stop and frisk.

The N.Y.C.L.U. report found that the tactic is producing diminishing returns. In 2003, police recovered 604 guns after stopping and frisking 160,851 people. Stops grew by more than 300 percent in 2011 compared to 2003, but police recovered 780 guns last year. At 176 more guns than in 2003, that is a 29 percent increase.

The report did not say if any guns were recovered in the Sixth Precinct as the result of stop and frisk. The N.Y.C.L.U. press office could not answer that question.

That stop and frisk is being used in the Sixth Precinct is odd. It has been and remains a low-crime precinct. There was one murder in the Sixth Precinct last year compared to 515 citywide. That precinct reported six rapes in 2011 compared to 1,414 citywide, 44 robberies compared to 19,752 citywide, and 38 felony assaults compared 18,579 citywide. Opponents of stop and frisk say that beyond violating the rights of those who are stopped, it also alienates people in the communities where it is practiced. There is some evidence of that in the West Village.

“I hate it, I hate it,” said Eliezer Pardo, 32, who was passing time with a friend on one of the West Village piers that jut into the Hudson River. “It makes a lot of us stop coming out here… . They don’t treat straight people the way they treat gay people. They harass gay people.”

FIERCE’s Vaz seconded that saying, “It’s not really helping to create safer communities. In fact, it causes negative relationships.”

Pardo said he has prior arrests, and he added that some of the youth who hang out in the West Village do break the law — but, in his view, that does not excuse the N.Y.P.D.’s use of stop and frisk.

“To be realistic, I can’t blame it all on them, because a lot of the people out here, they don’t act right,” he said. “I understand why they do their job, but they take it overboard,” he said of the police.

West Village residents have for years been complaining about the young people of color who hang out in the neighborhood.

In recent years, efforts by Community Board 2, FIERCE and residents to reach an accommodation have had some success, but it remains an ongoing conversation.

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Photos by Gay City News

Tamir Tanner, above, and Eliezer Pardo were among the youth who complained of police harassment in the West Village.

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Other Pier 40 plans failed: Residential would work TALKING POINT

BY PAUL A. ULLMAN I was appointed to the board of the Hudson River Park Trust five years ago by former Governor Spitzer. I asked to be chosen because I love and use Hudson River Park. I also thought I could contribute, intellectually, to the planning and development process of one of the nation’s great urban parks. And, I was terrified about the prospect of the megadevelopment on Pier 40 proposed by The Related Companies. My wife, motivated by those same impulses, became a co-founder of the Pier 40 Partnership, which created and submitted to the Trust a counterproposal to Related’s plan. As it turned out, neither plan was deemed an adequate response to the Trust’s request for proposals (R.F.P.) and both were rejected.

I began my career on the Trust board with a suspicion (widely held Downtown) that somehow the Trust R.F.P. was rigged such that Related was the only company that could respond.

Among the first questions that I asked then-Trust President Connie Fishman and current Vice President Noreen Doyle concerned the process leading up to that R.F.P.’s release. Believe me, I got an earful. It seems that the plan for the R.F.P. was discussed well in advance with the Hudson River Park Advisory Council and the local community boards and also with the staffs of the relevant elected officials. The neighborhood fever, created by the Related proposal, became so hot that the Trust’s prior disclosure efforts were forgotten or ignored. The

real reason that Related was the only Pier 40 R.F.P. respondent from the New York City real estate community was that the use and lease-term restrictions imposed by the Hudson River Park Act made large-scale, commercial, capitalinfrastructure investment within the boundaries of the park almost impossibly unprofitable.

For the park to fulfill its mission, its legislation must change in fundamental ways.

I provide this story as background because I believe that a part of the political and emotional gauntlet that the Trust is now attempting to negotiate, with respect to its potential proposals to make changes to the park’s governing legislation, has to do with lingering unease about how the Trust has gone about its job of managing the park’s affairs. This despite the fact the park has been such a resounding success.

I am currently member of the strategic task force that has been wrestling with the complexities of how the park act can be changed to better enable the Trust to manage the financial difficulties the park is now facing.

This task force, initiated by current Trust President Madelyn Wils, has heard presentations from the Trust about the

park’s financial condition. It has also examined financial analysis, developed by several real estate consultants, showing how various new uses could meaningfully affect the income to the park generated by future development proposals. And, the task force has heard explanations on how tax-exempt bond financing could help the Trust structure a development proposal that would net more income for the park.

Most importantly, over the course of many meetings, various park uses beyond those currently allowed by the park act have been generally discussed, openly and in detail. The task force members are from a wide range of constituencies, and the opinions voiced form a wide range of perspectives. One thing has been abundantly clear almost from the beginning: There is a widespread belief among the task force members, that in order for the park to fulfill its mission, the park act has to change in basic and fundamental ways. And, among those fundamental ways is the allowance of residential development at specific commercial nodes that have already been designated by the park act. While residential development would, by far, generate the most revenue for the park and be the least impactful from a traffic standpoint, other use types that could have an important place in any future proposal are hotel and office development.

Let me be clear, despite claims to the contrary, there is no existing plan for residential development on Pier 40 or anywhere else in the park. There is, however, open and detailed discussion about the idea among members of the task force, many of whom — including

myself — live near, use extensively and love the park.

Churchill said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” With respect to Hudson River Park, we should, as a community, optimistically confront the realities of the current financial climate and support new ways to fund the park and its mission. The ability of local and state governments to support capital infrastructure for parks that they had previously generously supported is compromised and will remain such for many years to come. To ignore that reality — merely to hope that somehow something will soon change — would miss a wonderful opportunity.

Let me also say that the Trust and their board really should be given their due as a group of people who are serious, substantial and sophisticated and who really care about the park, its mission and its constituencies. Any additional flexibility that is granted the Trust by amendments to the park act will be used judiciously, creatively and artistically to create an environment that gives pleasure to the greatest number of park users.

There may very well be a future R.F.P. that will seek plans from local, national and international firms to develop Piers 40 and 76 that includes expanded uses and lease terms. If that day comes, rest assured that the Trust will consult with all the various park constituencies — as it has in the past — such that the process is open, creative, beneficial and successful.

The future of the park can be very bright.

With rising sea levels, housing on piers is reckless TALKING POINT

BY BEN GREEN AND LESLIE LOWE Fifteen years ago, New Yorkers were told that the New York City Parks Department was incapable of building and maintaining a large waterfront park, and that a public authority (like the M.T.A. and the Port Authority) was needed as the governing entity for the Hudson River Park.

In the 14 years since the Hudson River Park Trust, a public authority, has had control of our waterfront, it has consistently favored profits over parkland. Nevertheless, the Trust now claims it does not have the financial resources to maintain and finish the waterfront park. During these same 14 years, city parks have flourished under the Parks Department and today look better

than they have in over 50 years.

In its latest gambit to raise revenue, the Trust proposes building residential housing on Pier 40, at West Houston St.

The cost of maintaining and insuring housing built over the water will be exorbitant To do so, it would have to change the Hudson River Park Act, the law that governs the 5-mile-long park. Housing was not included in the act, for good reasons.

The neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan ranked third in the state among communities with the least open space. The public unanimously decried the inclusion of housing as a park use. That the Trust seeks to revive this repudiated idea is indicative, at the very least, of misguided and myopic decision-making.

Building housing on Pier 40, or on any Hudson River pier, is environmentally and financially reckless. The city’s own studies have found that rising sea levels due to climate change will place infrastructure in low-lying areas at risk of flooding during storm surges. Our waterfront parkland is threatened by flooding, but its financial burden would be dwarfed compared to residential development on river piers. The cost of maintaining and insuring housing built over the water will be exorbitant. Any

private developer will be certain to seek public subsidies, hidden through public authority bookkeeping, to make money on the deal.

The Trust now sees its salvation in further reducing open space in exchange for illusory profits from housing development that ignores environmental realities.

If the Hudson River Park Act is to be revisited, then perhaps the idea of handing public parkland over to an unaccountable authority should be reconsidered, as well. With this “climate ridiculous” proposal, Trust management shows it is not equal to the task of running a great 21st-century park.

Green and Lowe were founding members of the Federation to Preserve the Greenwich Village Waterfront and Great Port

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The Hudson River Park: Let’s tone down the rhetoric TALKING POINT

BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ For the 21 years I have been on Community Board 2, Hudson River Park has been a point of contention. This year the park is in contention again, with some folks characterizing the discussion as being in a similar vein to N.Y.U. 2031 or the Rudin plan to make profit off the demise of St. Vincent’s. But this is an issue which has actually unfolded slowly over a 40-year period, and I am determined, as the person entrusted to moderate public discussion, to demand that folks tone down the rhetoric and deal with the facts.

I am not an apologist for the Hudson River Trust board of directors, and I have not always agreed with the Trust. When the Trust took ownership of the Friends of Hudson River Park — turning it into a private fundraising vehicle for the park — I got “honorably” pushed off the Friends board, despite my longtime public role as a spokesperson for the community. But I know, as someone who has spent 16 years examining the inner bowels of Pier 40 and carefully walking the length of the park many, many times, and who has looked closely at the park’s finances, that the park is in serious trouble.

Let’s start with what I can assure my fellow Lower West Siders is not happening here.

First, the Trust’s efforts to date have not been pushed or shaped by real estate developers — even though the Trust had the Pier 40 study completed by an arm of Tishman.

The warnings being sounded about Pier 40 are not merely rhetoric. There have been scientific, periodic assessments of Pier 40 that demonstrate a potential for collapse from above. Over the next two years, the Trust needs to invest more than $10 million of its scant reserves to shore up the roof and prevent a collapse — $10 million that could be better spent. And the “parking model” for Pier 40 isn’t working; revenue from parking has declined as prices in local parking lots have gone down and the recession has caused a reassessment of many people’s car-owning habits.

Let’s also look at the setting for the discussion: We function as a state with a very part-time Legislature. If a bill isn’t passed during their threeday-per-week sessions prior to June 30, it must wait till next January. In fact, with on-time budgets, most post-April legislative sessions last less than an hour.

Governor Cuomo, unlike former Governor Pataki, doesn’t have a great interest in parks, much less Hudson River Park. We just came off a four-year span where former Governors Spitzer and Paterson were too distracted to focus on parks. As a result, capital contributions to Hudson River Park have fallen from $20 million or more per year to $3 million. As a result, completion of the park proceeds at a snail’s pace. And anyone who believes that the state budget might one day include money for the park’s operational expenses also still believes that U.S. House Speaker John Boehner might one day support increasing taxes on the wealthy.

We now have Madelyn Wils as president of the Hudson River Park Trust. Wils chaired Community Board 1 for 10 years, including post-9/11, chaired the Hudson River Park Advisory Council, which I now chair, and then did a stint at the city’s Economic Development Corporation. She is very, very respectful of the impacted community. She

lives in the community adjacent to the park. She has put together a task force — that does not include developers or representatives of the real estate industry — to make recommendations about how to move forward.

I have participated in this task force’s meetings since the beginning of this year. All but a small number of us are convinced that the park’s shortterm and long-term financial and structural crises are real, not just a fiction created to accomplish residential development on Pier 40.

There will be lots of public information and public input into development of proposals for legislative change potentially needed to open a few financial doors for the park. But this is not 1995.

We now have a park that is three-quarters done, and its shape and character are pretty much set. In the original park plans, as well as in the alternative plans proposed by those opposing the Hudson

River Park Act, the ugly edifice at Pier 40 was not going to stay. Pier 40 presently provides no “view corridors” to the water and has very little space, even on the roof, from which the river or the harbor can be seen.

I feel it’s imperative that we have a broad discussion over the next few weeks (including about the proposal to build a soccer stadium on Pier 40), so that something can be brought to the Legislature and the governor with a stamp of community approval before the end of this year’s legislative session — which, unfortunately, means June 30. We can do it if we pull together as a community to find solutions instead of objections.

Schwartz is chairperson, Hudson River Park Trust Advisory Council and C.B. 2 Waterfront Committee, and the State Democratic Committee member for the Village, Soho and Tribeca.

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EDITORIAL Say ‘No’ to Jamestown Community Board 4 will soon weigh in on the matter of allowing Jamestown Properties to vertically expand Chelsea Market — by adding as much as 330,000 square feet of office and hotel space to the building’s Ninth and Tenth Aves. sides.

We urge C.B. 4 to oppose this plan in the strongest manner possible. A straightforward “Yes” vote seems unlikely. Equally unacceptable, however, is a “Yes, but” or a “No, but” option — which would recommend approving the ULURP (uniform land use review procedure) application if certain conditions are met.

Eliminating the hotel and establishing an affordable housing fund are among the commendable alterations being discussed. But no amount of public good will compensate for the lasting impact such a decision would have on the Special West Chelsea District’s purpose, vision and integrity.

For more than a year, concerned residents of Chelsea have demonstrated good citizenship by regularly attending C.B. 4 meetings in large numbers —hoping to influence the board’s decision on this critical project. An unequivocal “No” vote will demonstrate that C.B. 4 has heard, and heeded, the will of the very community it exists to serve.

A vote of total denial will also send a message to those who will ultimately decide the fate of this project. A “No” vote from Board 4 will further embolden Borough President Scott Stringer, the City Planning Commission and Council Speaker Christine Quinn to stop this project, which in our view should never have received ULURP certification to begin with.

The dismal architecture and dubious claims of a pressing need for more office space are reasons enough to disavow this plan. But if given the green light, this project would undoubtedly encourage developers with similar vertical ambitions for the surrounding area. The implications of such a precedent cannot be denied, and must be taken into account.

There are vast tracts of available commercial space in Manhattan, or soon to come online at Hudson Yards, or the World Trade Center site, for New York’s growing media and tech industries.

Jamestown’s project is marginal to the health of that sector, but highly detrimental to Chelsea Market and the surrounding neighborhood itself.

This project has none of the redeeming qualities of other similarly ambitious ULURP-approved endeavors. Unlike Rudin Management, New York University and Trinity Real Estate, Jamestown Properties does not have deep roots in the community it profits from. They have not made, and are unlikely to make, any lasting commitment to Chelsea.

Nor does their one-shot, contentious $19 million donation to the robust High Line in any way compensate for stealing in perpetuity light and air from the High Line itself.

Jamestown Properties has done nothing to dispel the perception that they are temporary stewards of this property. On the other hand, there are other properties in our great city that Jamestown should consider purchasing, improving and selling.

C.B. 4 and our public officials must not permit this developer to irreparably deform the iconic structure that is the Chelsea Market and the phenomenally successful High Line park.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR N.Y.U.’s contradictory growth

Studying while ‘going mobile’

To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. flip-flops on what it requires in its ‘core’ ” (talking point, by Andrew Berman, May 24): As usual, Andrew Berman is right on target in his comments on the contradictory and indefensible positions of New York University on its future growth.

On the one hand, the N.Y.U. administration seeks to clone the university in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and possibly other exotic locations, and the university’s president, John Sexton, has proposed a type of global conveyor belt transporting faculty and students overseas for one, two or more years.

On the other hand, N.Y.U. finds it unacceptable to ask students and faculty to travel the short distance between Washington Square and the Financial District. As Berman points out, many universities have facilities and programs spread out over an equivalent distance.

What’s especially frustrating is that the Financial District proposal is a potential win-win solution. The Village wins because it avoids the thoroughly destructive transformation threatened by the university’s 2031 plan. And the Financial District, eager to fill its available commercial space, wins by gaining a prestigious university as a neighbor.

To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. flip-flops on what it requires in its ‘core’ ” (talking point, by Andrew Berman, May 24): Great piece. Community Board 1 has expressed interest in hosting N.Y.U. facilities, and the university administration should begin negotiating with them. Our subway system is great, but N.Y.U. could also purchase a few “green,” quiet buses and outfit them with Wi-Fi to ferry students to the Financial District and back in a few minutes. Lots of campuses are spread over one and half or two miles like this, and use such systems.

I’m an N.Y.U. faculty member who lives outside Manhattan. But I reject the planned construction in the Village because it will blight and financially cripple the campus where I work, and do the same to the neighborhood.

Howard Negrin

To The Editor: Re “Positive purple aura” (Scoopy’s Notebook, May 24): I second the sentiments of G.V.S.H.P.’s Andrew Berman, whose compelling talking point in this week’s Villager eviscerates N.Y.U.’s flaccid arguments for actually needing to expand in the core and decimate this iconic neighborhood.

If the mayor’s Upper East Side townhouse were to be subject to similar air and noise pollution and general chaos of 20 years’ duration, one might assume that Bloomberg would either helicopter in and out or somehow base himself at his digs in Bermuda.

Indeed, the very rich are different.

Thank goodness for Berman To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. flip-flops on what it requires in its ‘core’ ” (talking point, by Andrew Berman, May 24): Thank goodness for Andrew Berman. He truly represents the feelings of Villagers about N.Y.U.’s catastrophic 2031 ULURP proposal.

When we attended the Planning Commission meeting in April, President Sexton also was unsure of what will go into the “Zipper Building.” Despite supposed “concessions” on the plan agreed to with the borough president, most from N.Y.U. who testified were flopping all over the place.

We had to laugh when university Vice President Lynne Brown said they needed the “commercial overlay” in order to “enliven” Mercer St. As if nearby Broadway’s feast of stores and the bustling activity on Bleecker St. are unable to “enliven” our area.

We shall certainly be disappointed if Mrs. Chin doesn’t help us overturn the proposed overbuilding of the two residential superblocks and the commercialization of an integral part of Greenwich Village. Nor should she allow N.Y.U. to usurp the Mercer St. public-land strip to build a hotel!

John Archer

Mike would hit the copter!

Joseph Hannah

Gas pipeline too dangerous To The Editor: Re “C.B. 2, Jersey City inflamed as feds accept gas pipeline” (news article, May 24): Good article, Al. Several years ago my best friend and his wife were blown up on State St. in Brooklyn when gas exploded in his brownstone.

Cy Adler

Sylvia Rackow Rackow is a member, Committee to Preserve Ourr Neighborhood

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IRA BLUTREICH

Bloomberg’s “public servant” copter privileges are a public nuisance!

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NATO Summit protests spark memories of Chicago ’68 NOTEBOOK

BY JERRY TALLMER Plus ça change.

Couple of hours ago I clicked on the tube, to see if there’d been any great old murals or statuary damaged by earthquake in Italy.

No murals, no statuary. No siree, Bob. Just what looked terrifyingly like a considerable dozens of human skulls being damaged by the nightsticks of a small army of the helmeted Chicago police.

Seems to me I’ve caught this flick before. Nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. Late August. The Chicago Riot, it was called. Police Riot, the blue-ribbon Walker Commission later adjudged it.

Actually it was the second Chicago riot of that cruel year.

The first one, in the largely black area Southside, had been ignited by the assassination, in Memphis, in April, of Martin Luther King, Jr. This one, in August, following the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in June, was triggered by Mayor Richard J. Daley’s paranoid fear (or simulated fear) of a couple of Yippity threats to the national welfare.

That terrifying worldwide anarcho-syndicate conspiracy, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin & Co. (“Conspiracy?” Abbie would later remark, “We couldn’t agree on lunch”) also included one genuine young black revolutionary of sorts, Bobbie Seale, later bound and gagged and separated from his fellow defendants by the other Hoffman — the Honorable Judge Julius J. Huff-and-Puff Hoffman — at the Trial of the Chicago 8…no, 7...a year later.

But now, 1968, nobody who was there will ever forget it, and I was there for the New York Post.

Some things I viscerally remember: The odor of stink bombs throughout the public places of the Chicago Hilton and other leading Windy City hotels.

I can’t describe that odor, other than to say it is close first cousin to vomit. It lingers and is pervasive and will always be a Proustian memory, with a difference, whenever throughout this life I again see or hear the name “Chicago.”

And this: Bandages on some of the broken heads and arms of the walking wounded — survivors of the big police bust in Grant Park the night before.

And this: Governor Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, on the floor of convention hall, his microphone cut off, deploring the “Gestapo tactics” of the Daley political machine, even as Boss Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, on that same convention floor, stands red-faced and bellowing: “Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch!” at McGovern nominator Ribicoff.

Dan Rather and Mike Wallace being roughed up and prevented from reporting from that same convention floor.

Walter Cronkite in the control booth saying: “I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here.”

Jerry Rubin and folksinger Phil Ochs nominating Pegasus, a

real live pig, for president of the United States of America.

Daley’s Chicago police clubbing beatniks and peaceniks and everybody else in sight for 17 minutes, on camera, as the demonstrators chant: “The whole world is watching,” which it was.

Myself for three days and nights in Chicago very carefully turning away from any block or corner or intersection at which I spied one or more Chicago cops in the distance.

Myself by daylight across the street from the Hilton, standing

The protesters of today — the Occupiers, mostly — have a lot more diffuse set of evils to face. nose to nose opposite a motionless, rifle-bearing Illinois national guardsman young enough to be my son — well, nephew. He’s standing there in rigid ranks with hundreds of his fellow guardsmen.

Myself in the Hilton lobby watching the huge mass of bodies outside pressing against the hotel’s large plate-glass windows.

And those windows will break.

Columnist Jimmy Breslin saying to me in the bar: “I guess your guy isn’t doing so good.” He meant Gene McCarthy, the gutsy guy I’d been reporting on for many months now. The guy who might really get us out of Vietnam, if elected. If nominated.

Which he wasn’t going to be.

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To my mind, the protesters of today — the Occupiers, mostly — have a lot more diffuse set of evils to face. The evils change, the protesters change, but the Chicago police — like, now and then, some of their New York counterparts — will go on forever.

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Back in New York, Norman Mailer would write that the United States was in the midst of a national nervous breakdown.

In Chicago, some parties purportedly unknown broke into the hotel headquarters of the Gene McCarthy campaign workers, upstairs in (I think) the Hilton and beat up everybody in sight.

On the streets of Chicago there was a closing-night candlelight parade. Murray Kempton of the New York Post, one of America’s all-time finest newspapermen, was among the marchers.

A year later I went back to Chicago for the opening week of the trial of the Chicago 8 minus 1. Crazy-like-a-fox Abbie Hoffman had the whole thing in his hand; also had Judge Julius J. Hoffman, that pompous horse’s ass, climbing a wall.

One day during an intermission I strolled over from the Federal Courthouse to the Chicago Art Institute, on the lake. And found myself facing a Van Gogh self-portrait that had the same mad, staring eyes of the real-life Jerry Rubin I’d just left. Seemed to me a sort of appropriate cap to the whole experience.

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Photos by Lincoln Anderson

Clockwise from above left: Last Friday morning, flowers, a teddy bear and a lit candle were left outside the sidewalk-vault doors leading to the basement where a suspect said he killed Etan Patz; crime-scene officers photographed the basement from the sidewalk; Stan Patz after returning to Prince St. Friday morning, getting back into his car before driving off with a detective in the passenger seat.

A confession in Etan case, but did he really do it?

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Police took a New Jersey man, Pedro Hernandez, 51, into custody last week after he confessed to murdering Etan Patz in Soho 33 years ago.

Following Hernandez’s confession, police on Friday morning descended on the northwest corner of West Broadway and Prince St., where Hernandez, in his confession, had told them he briefly worked at a bodega as a shelf-stocker around the time of Etan’s disappearance. Today, the location is home to an eyeglasses store.

The day he vanished, Etan, 6, had been going to school by himself for the first time. The suspect told police he saw the boy waiting at the bus stop that morning, and lured him with a soda into the bodega’s basement — accessible through a hatch in the sidewalk. There, Hernandez said he strangled the little boy, before putting his body in a bag, and then a box and then leaving it among a pile of garbage in a nearby alley on Thompson St. Hernandez is currently being held on suicide watch at Bellevue Hospital. He reportedly had previously told family members and his New Jersey church group that he had done a terrible thing when he was

18 — killing a child. But he suffers from mental illness, and some in law enforcement aren’t convinced he did it. Police are working to find evidence to corroborate his confession.

If he did kill Etan and dispose of the body, its location would be almost impossible to pinpoint, since the Department of Sanitation didn’t start keeping records of disposals until about 10 years later.

Also last Friday morning, Stan and Julie Patz arrived back at their Soho apartment — just about two blocks away from the latest crime-scene investigation in the case. They had been attending their daughter’s graduation in Harvard, and returned to their Prince St. home in a black Dodge minivan. Police detectives accompanied them and helped unload their bags, bins of stuff and a wheelchair and walker. An older woman who walked with difficulty was also with the Patzes.

The Patzes didn’t talk to reporters then. But this Tuesday, Julie told reporters and photographers who have been camped outside her door, “I wish this could end. This is taking my freedom away.” She didn’t comment on whether she thought police had the right man.

May 31 - June 6, 2012

Photos by Bob Krasner

Patrick-Earl Barnes, below right, paints daily entries about his encounters and experiences, some of which he adds onto an ongoing artwork already 400 feet long.

‘Deep folk artist’ takes it all in to add to his street journal

BY BOB KRASNER Since self-taught painter Patrick-Earl Barnes is essentially an “outsider” artist, it makes sense that one can usually find him outside. Four to five days a week he travels from his home in Brooklyn to the corner of Spring and Mercer Sts. in Soho, where he leans his art against the wall and becomes, in his words, his “own flagship store.” For him, the bottom line is not based solely on how many pieces he has sold. Instead, there are a number of other criteria, some intangible, that factor into the equation.

Among other things, he’s looking to get people to go to his Web site (patrick-earl. com) and think about what he’s doing.

In addition to the possibility that some of those people will buy some work or give him a commission, he’s also hoping that a certain amount of inspiration will find its way out from his art to the world.

Although his art has a whimsical, simplistic quality, it deals with some major issues, such as race, self-sufficiency and individualism.

He makes good use of his time on the street. He loves to engage in conversation with potential clients (whether they are buying or not) and the random characters that bend his ear. He keeps a daily journal of his encounters, some

of which become panels in an ongoing piece called “Deep Wall” (working title). For the past three years, he has been adding to it almost every day, basing each section on his experiences and observations. At present, the piece measures 7 inches by 4,800 inches (that would be 400 feet long) and he’s not done. It’s quite possible that this piece will become the basis for an animated film, as well.

Barnes makes good use of his time off the street as well, often painting for five to six hours when he gets home at night, and then starting up again first thing in the morning. His pieces have ended up on the walls of Grey Advertising, the Heath Gallery in Harlem and the homes, presumably, of Whoopi Goldberg and Malcolm Gladwell. Pepe Giallo restaurant in Chelsea currently has 20 of his pieces covering the walls, until the end of May. Barnes sees himself as “a poster boy for other artists” who are trying to be seen. In the 11 years that he’s been selling his work on the street, he said, he’s “developed a tough skin. People will put you down. They’ll say, ‘My kid can do that.’

“But you can’t get mad,” he said. “You have to know who you are.”

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Young hawks execute a rare nocturnal double-fledge

BY LORENZO LIGATO Fledge day has come for the two red-tailed stars of New York University’s Bobst Library.

Boo and Scout, the two baby hawks named after Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” have taken their first flight, after nearly 50 days of life.

And, now, a new journey is about to begin for them.

On Monday evening, May 28, Memorial Day, Scout, the firstborn of the two nestlings (or eyasses as they are formally known), left the 12th-floor nest overlooking Washington Square Park. It was around 8:05 p.m. when the juvenile hawk stretched his chocolatebrown wings and — after a quick glance right and then left — took a leap over the edge and briskly sailed away to an eighth-floor windowsill at N.Y.U’s Silver Center of Arts and Science, bordering the park’s eastern edge.

Bobby and Rosie — the eyasses’ parents — were sitting several feet above on the same building, guarding the newly flying Scout.

About 10 minutes later, Boo followed its sibling, landing successfully on the same ledge.

Hawk photographer D. Bruce Yolton — who blogs about red-tailed hawks and other wild birds in the city at urbanhawks.blogs. com — caught the event on his camera and called it “something almost unheard of.”

Double-fledges like this are indeed a rarity, agreed John A. Blakeman, a raptor biologist and master falconer from Huron, Ohio.

“Fledging red-tailed hawks seldom jump

off in time so close to each other,” Blakeman observed, adding that, while later-hatching juveniles often do take less time to fledge than their older siblings, there is usually a time span of one day or longer between each bird’s fledging.

Second, Blakeman noted, fledglings rarely fly uniformly to an identical perch.

“The reason both birds flew to the new ledge almost surely derives from its previous use by the two parents as a prey cache — a site where captured rats and other prey had been brought for mutual feeding or consumption,” he explained. “In this case, the two eyasses flew right to where they had seen food being placed in previous days.”

The time of fledging, too, was atypical, since red-tailed hawks don’t fly at night.

However, the reason for this other anomaly remains unknown.

The event, captured by the Hawk Cam installed at Bobst by The New York Times’s City Room blog in March, was greeted enthusiastically by hawk lovers in the city and across the world. Fans of Boo and Scout cheered and bid farewell and bon voyage to the two raptors on the chat room associated with the nest cam.

“There’s something so wonderful about new life taking hold among the parks and skyscrapers of a city I love,” said Hawk Cam devotee Carole Giangrande, a native New Yorker who is now living in Toronto. “I felt very protective of those birds. I loved their energy and I really

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Cleared for takeoff! Scout photographed on Memorial Day a few minutes before he took the leap into Washington Square airspace.

felt a drive to see them ‘make it’.”

Giangrande added that the moment of fledging was hardly visible from the vantage point of the Hawk Cam, since the two eyasses wandered out of camera range.

“Someone did see a flash of wing, but it was so slight that they thought it might be a bug,” she noted. “I know this because I lurked in the chat room all evening.”

Meanwhile, for Boo and Scout, the real adventure has begun.

After spending the night together on the ledge at the Silver Center, the two hawks started to wander around the park, flapping their wings still somewhat ungracefully or resting on low branches and ledges.

Though the Hawk Cam is still up and running, it’s unlikely the two fledglings will fly back to their nursery at Bobst Library, Blakeman said.

Bobby and Rosie will continue to feed the two fledglings, at least until Boo and Scout have perfected their flight skills and learned to hunt successfully — which will most likely occur around eight weeks after fledging.

Yet, even under the vigilant supervision of Bobby and Rosie (and the watchful eyes of hundreds of hawk fans), the two baby red-tails will still face numerous dangers.

While more than 70 percent of all redtailed chicks survive until fledging, the lifeexpectancy rates plunge after that, observed Glenn Phillips, executive director of NYC Audubon, an environmental organization for the protection of wild birds. More than a half of all fledglings, he said, perish during their first year of life, based on ID-band return data.

“The biggest danger is the fledging process itself,” Phillips noted. “The chicks have to learn how to fly and they are likely to end up on the ground or collide with a car.”

Yet, N.Y.U, the city’s Parks Department and its urban park rangers will be on alert to intervene if needed, Phillips said.

In addition, hawk fans have raised concerns over the danger of secondary poisoning from rats. The rodenticides commonly

Scout hanging out on a ledge at N.Y.U.’s Silver Center this Wednesday.

used in the city’s parks to control vermin are highly toxic to baby hawks and are responsible for several hawk deaths every year, said Phillips.

“That said, both N.Y.U. and the Department of Parks follow the guidelines to avoid use of rat poison during nesting season,” he added.

Philip Abramson, a Parks spokesperson, confirmed that the department stopped baiting for rats in the Washington Square Park area as soon as the hawk eggs hatched.

Baiting won’t resume until the young hawks migrate to their own hunting territory, he added. Parks is employing alternative rat control measures, including prompt trash removal, covering any potential rat burrows and, soon, mechanical traps.

With a little help from N.Y.U. and Parks, hawk lovers can continue to enjoy the spectacle of nature unfolding itself, at least until midsummer. Then, Boo and Scout will be ready to leave their parents and Washington Square Park.

But for now, park users — be they fervid hawk watchers or casual visistors — can expect to see the two young raptors plunge down and hunt, or perch, just a few feet away.

“If that happens, just stand and watch.

Don’t try to approach the nearby hawks or attempt to touch them,” falconer Blakeman said. “Few others get to see these regal birds so close at hand. It’s a wonderful spectacle in a wonderful city in a wonderful neighborhood.”

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Recalling sexual politics on the piers On abandoned, decaying Village structures, the revolution was photographed ART THE PIERS: ART AND SEX ALONG THE NEW YORK WATERFRONT

Through July 7 At the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art 26 Wooster St., btw. Canal & Grand Sts. Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm Closing reception: July 6, 6-8pm Visit leslielohman.org

BY MICHAEL LUONGO For young New Yorkers knowing only a sanitized, seemingly well ordered, affluent Manhattan, the overtly sexual gay life on the Hudson River piers in Lower Manhattan in the 1970s seems another world. All the more reason the period needs to be catalogued and remembered.

“The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront,” an exhibition at the Leslie/ Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, does exactly that. The exhibit, co-curated by Jonathan Weinberg and Darren Jones, opened in April and has been extended through July 7.

“The Piers” presents more than 70 works, largely photographs, but also film and even recovered pieces of artwork that adorned concrete on the Lower Hudson piers.

Gay life had a modicum of visibility in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, but after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, gay expression exploded. Attached to Greenwich Village, the piers, a crumbling, largely abandoned vestige of New York’s days as a shipping powerhouse, became one of the major social and political centers of the gay movement.

Leslie/ Lohman board president Jonathan David Katz — the director of the Visual Studies doctoral program at SUNY, Buffalo and the cocurator of the recent “Hide/ Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum — said for young people coming of age now, it is especially important to see “The Piers” to understand how different things were and how gay sexuality is now often overlooked.

Katz explained, “I think that we, especially given the political movement of late — marriage, military, et al. — are in danger of remaking our history in our current image. But ours once was one of profound dissidence, often sexual dissidence, to a degree that seems almost unimaginable today.”

He added, “There was a kind of fusion in the

1970s, almost as a political movement to refute heteronormative standards. And my God, what a thing to combine sex — and great sex — with a form of political activism, and that is what the piers were. There was very much a point that the piers were appended to New York proper. That we would not be forced off to a place that could not be glimpsed. We built a city that was a utopia on our terms.”

Even straight liberals at the time understood the movement’s deeply expressive sexuality.

Among them was Shelley Seccombe, the lone female photographer in the exhibit. She said she had moved to Westbeth, an artists’ housing and studio complex on Bethune Street in the far West Village, “in 1970 and began seriously exploring the waterfront soon after that.” Still a dangerous area at the time, she often brought her husband, especially when entering the piers’ abandoned shipping office buildings. These locations were where gay men had sex, addicts did hits, and crime on occasion confronted visitors.

“I always try to be gender-neutral when it comes to photography, but I guess it was an advantage to be female in certain circumstances,” Seccombe said.

The piers’ blend of art and sexuality is what some exhibit photographers remember most.

“I was looking for sex, and sometimes I was looking for pictures,” Stanley Stellar recalled.

“Sometimes I found both on the same afternoon, and sometimes I found one or the other.”

Among his favorite images is what he titled “Cyclops” — a “kind of monster monumental” celebrating an intensely sexual man he met and photographed there.

“I have a lot of affection for that image because he was one of a kind — a freak and someone I never saw again after that,” Stellar said, explaining the man cruised major gay gathering spots “attracting gay men by traveling around and showing his package. And that was his calling card of life, and that was a sort of way of doing things back then.”

The day they met, Stellar said, “I was looking for pictures and for sex, and I found both in him. This is a metaphor for my work at that time and maybe still. How hot can I make these pictures and get away with it, and not make them into the pornographic.”

Other photographers on exhibit include Leonard Fink, Frank Hallam, Lee Snider, and Rich Wandel. The exhibit also includes seminal works of the New York avant-garde, such as Vito Acconci’s “Untitled Project for Pier 17,” Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Day’s End,” and David Wojnarowicz’s series “Arthur Rimbaud in New York.” The piers themselves were a canvas for art, becoming an extension of the East Village art scene, especially Pier 34, taken over by

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Images courtesy of the artist

Frank Hallam’s “Tava (Gustav von Will) Painting (Pier 46),” 1980/ 2011, archival digital print from slide, 18.5 x 12.5 in.

Frank Hallam’s “Sunners, Pier 5 (Exterior from Interior),” 1978, archival digital print from slide, 18.5 x 12.5 in.

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Aptekar delves deep into the mind of big thinkers, major players Artist’s work accessible Uptown and in Soho ART BERNARD APTEKAR: “PORTRAITS OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL LANDSCAPE”

Through June 12 Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm At the Kosciuszko Foundation 15 E. 65th St., btw. Madison & 5th Aves.

For info on the exhibition, call 212-7342130 or visit thekf.org To access Aptekar’s paintings, sculpture & seriographs, visit aptekar.net/bernard

Brooklyn-born, Soho-based artist Bernard Aptekar brings his uniquely perceptive paintings to the Kosciuszko Foundation — a year after the exhibition had a critically acclaimed run at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland.

“Life has to be serious as well as playful, and you have to do it all,” says Aptekar — whose work makes good on that philosophy by burrowing deep into the psyche of political and intellectual figures, while grafting his own sometimes whimsical, sometimes ominous stamp onto their well-known public personas.

In July of 2011, in an article available online (go to downtownexpress.com and access “Soho artist finds an audience in Poland”), Sam Spokony observed: “Bernard Aptekar, 75, has never been a stranger to the dark aspects of human existence. Neither cryptic nor apologetic, his artwork has exposed and protested the cruelty and violence born of the development of civilization. The same keen eye that has guided him through towering cultural opuses like “The Defeat of the City of Plutonium: A Holocaust Prevented” (which put the ethics of technological achievement on trial) and “The Heart of the Matter” (an empathetic treatment of Cuba’s communist revolutionaries) has led Aptekar to create a series of paintings in which he focuses

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“The Triple Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer” charts the scientist’s intellectual development.

on some of the most unique minds in modern history. Among his subjects are Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Miller and Philip Roth. Their unique achievements are represented by contextual backgrounds that range from splashes of color to floating heads.”

In addition to the Kosciuszko Foundation exhibition, the public is invited to contact the artist at 212-226-7154 for a tour of his Mercer Street studio. Among the portraits on display there: “Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a Tee Shirt with Speeding Vehicles Thinks About One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Like all of his work, that title provides much information about Aptekar’s take on his subject — but stops short of revealing the whole story.

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A Downtown pioneer sparkles and shines, again Come and play in the ‘Jukebox Jackie’ glitterbox THEATER JUKEBOX JACKIE: SNATCHES OF JACKIE CURTIS

Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman Collaged by Scott Wittman and Tony Zanetta Performed by Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Cole Escola and Steel Burkhardt Designed by Scott Pask, with lighting by Aaron Spivey, costumes by Rita Ryack Staged by Joey Pizzi Musical direction by Lance Horne Through June 10 Wed. through Fri., at 8pm; Sat. at 7 & 10pm; Sun. at 7:30pm At La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre 66 E. 4th St., btw. Bowery & 2nd Ave. For tickets ($30, $25 for students/seniors), call 212-475-7710 or visit lamama.org

BY SCOTT STIFFLER So this strange guy saunters up, and what’s the first thing out of his mouth? He asks if you want to be a star. Then Andy Warhol sweetens the deal: “You won’t have to do anything for it.”

Most people would grab that opportunity by the balls and hold on tight for the rest of their dear lives. Not Jackie Curtis. The first thing that went through Jackie’s head was, “I wanted to do everything. I wanted to sing, dance, talk, be a man, be a woman, and wear furs.”

That’s what set the Downtown drag artist, writer, director and glam rock “pioneer without a frontier” apart from others on Warhol’s assembly line of Factory talent. They achieved notoriety largely for the simple act of being.

Jackie got attention and applause the old fashioned way: by earning it.

Decades after Jackie sparkled and shined, her body of work has been largely forgotten — while pop culture drowns in a sea of household names who shot to fame thanks to their talent for…not having any particular talent.

“Jukebox Jackie” sets out to restore some karmic balance to the universe, by giving audiences an overdue primer on what made the late, great artist tick. This self-professed “collage” has elements of a biopic, a celebrity confession beach read, a poetry slam, a rock concert and a few other things that (like its subject) can’t be defined or described. You just know it when you see it…and what you see is more than enough to make you a Jackie convert.

By the end, you haven’t exactly emerged with a complete picture of who Jackie Curtis was. But you do get a strong sense of the “why.”

When Jackie took to the stage or street as a woman, an invisible, effeminate boy became

Photo by Mat Szwajkos

L to R: Cole Escola, Steel Burkhardt, Justin Vivian Bond and Bridget Everett.

a powerful, feminine figure that demanded attention. Respect or ridicule, Jackie didn’t care. Both extremes, she reasoned, certainly beat indifference.

Larger than life, it takes a cast of four to resurrect Jackie. Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Cole Escola and Steel Burkhardt all play different shades of Jackie’s temperament and talent — and each member of the tight,

Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Cole Escola and Steel Burkhardt all play different shades of Jackie’s temperament and talent — and each member of the tight, highly theatrical ensemble gets an exceedingly well executed star turn, or two or three.

highly theatrical ensemble gets an exceedingly well executed star turn (or two or three).

But it’s Bond who spends the most time in Jackie’s skin…and shoes, and ripped black stockings. Author of the memoir “TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels” and renowned inhabitant of the “Kiki” half of cabaret duo Kiki & Herb, the empathetic and dynamic Bond (who prefers to be called Justin, Vivian or “V”) is intimately familiar with the gender tribulations that prompted Jackie to

declare, “I’m not a boy, not a girl. I’m just me, Jackie.”

That piercing stab at self-definition, a simple request uttered decades ago, is still relevant to today’s trans youth.

Skillfully conceived and directed by Scott Wittman (who won a Tony for scoring “Hairspray” and currently pens songs for “Smash”), “Jukebox” deserves to be seen — so Jackie’s clear and strong voice can once again be heard.

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BY KAITLYN MEADE & SCOTT STIFFLER

Photo by Joan Marcus Photo courtesy of nizer.com

EXPECT THE IMPOSSIBLE For one weekend only, Mark Nizer comes to Canal Park Playhouse armed with robots, flying lasers and outrageous juggling tricks. Audience members will be issued 3D glasses for this crazy combination of live performance and cutting-edge technology.

C R E AT U R E S O F L I G H T D e s c e n d i n t o t h e d e p t h s of the ocean and explore the caves of New Zealand — without ever leaving Manhattan. Just visit the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit on bioluminescence (organisms that produce light through chemical reactions). Interactive and family-friendly, kids will eagerly soak up this twilight world where huge models of everything from fireflies to alien-like fish illuminate the dark.

Through Jan. 6, 2013, at the American Museum of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y ( 7 9 t h S t . a n d C e n t r a l P a r k We s t ) .

Open daily, 10am–5:45pm. Admission is $25, $14.50 for children, $19 for students/seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the museum or at amnh.org. For more information, call 212-769-5100.

A M E R I C A N TA P D A N C E F O U N D AT I O N T h e Ta p C i t y Yo u t h E n s e m b l e a n d A m e r i c a n Ta p D a n c e F o u n d a t i o n p r e s e n t “ Ta p A t t a c k s ” — s h o w c a s i n g the best youth tap talent the city has to offer as

June 15-17. Fri. at 7pm; Sat. at 1pm, 4pm & 7pm; and Sun. at 1pm & 4pm. At Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich and West Sts.). For tickets ($20), call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

part of their Outdoor Presentation series. 10:3011:30am on Sat., June 9 at Bleecker Playground a n d S u n . , J u n e 1 0 a t Ve s u v i o P l a y g r o u n d . O r, i f you’d rather make some noise yourself, the Americ a n Ta p D a n c e C e n t e r ( 1 5 4 C h r i s t o p h e r S t . , # 2 B , b t w. G r e e n w i c h & W a s h i n g t o n S t s . ) i s o f f e r i n g children and teens a free introductory tap class.

Sat., June 9, 4:30-5:30pm. RSVP at 646-230-9564.

For more info, visit atdf.org.

B O O K S O F W O N D E R New York City’s oldest and largest independent children’s bookstore has it all, from rare classics to the recently published. Join them for Storytime — where books are picked off the shelf based on the ages and interests of the a t t e n d i n g c h i l d r e n . S u n d a y a t N o o n a n d F r i d a y, 4pm. On Tues., June 5 (from 6-8pm), former Books of Wonder employees who have gone on to create their own books will read, answer your questions and sign their works. On Wed., June 6, “Rebel Writ-

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SKIPPYJON JONES BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center and TheatreworksUSA present this imaginative romp (for children ages 4-8) about a kitten named Skippyjon who dreams of being a Chihuahua. When the neighborhood bully starts picking on the smaller dogs, it’s up to Skippyjon to stop being a

e r s f o r Te e n s ” w e l c o m e s a u t h o r s i n c l u d i n g H o l l y Black and Scott Tracey. Books of Wonder is located at 18 W. 18th St. (btw. 5th & 6th Aves.). Call 212989-3270 or visit booksofwonder.com.

scaredy-cat and stand up for them.

This musical adventure is playing for one day only, on June 3, 3pm at the BMCC Tribeca PAC (199 Chambers St., btw. West and Greenwich Sts.).

For tickets ($25), call 212-220-1460 or visit the box office. For more info, visit tribecapac.org.

7pm, at Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw.

Greenwich & West Sts.). For tickets ($20), call 866811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS Every s u m m e r, C M A p a r t n e r s w i t h G o v e r n o r s I s l a n d f o r their Free Art Island Outpost where kids ages 1-12 can do a variety of projects, from craft stations to sound design (every Sat. & Sun., from 11am-3pm, at buildings 11 & 14 in Nolan Park).

B a c k i n M a n h a t t a n , a t t h e C h i l d r e n ’s M u s e u m , explore painting, collage and sculpture through self-guided arts projects. Open art stations give children the opportunity to experiment with mater i a l s s u c h a s p a i n t , c l a y, f a b r i c , p a p e r a n d f o u n d o b j e c t s . R e g u l a r m u s e u m h o u r s : M o n . a n d We d . , 12-5pm; Thurs.-Fri., 12-6pm; Sat.-Sun., 10am-6pm.

Admission: $10; free for seniors and infants (0-12 months). Pay as you wish on Thurs., 4-6pm. At 103 C h a r l t o n S t . ( b t w. H u d s o n a n d G r e e n w i c h S t s . ) .

C a l l 2 1 2 - 2 7 4 - 0 9 8 6 o r v i s i t c m a n y. o r g . F o r g r o u p tours, call 212-274-0986, ext. 31.

THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM The Skyscraper M u s e u m ’s “ S a t u r d a y F a m i l y P r o g r a m ” s e r i e s f e a tures workshops designed to introduce children and their families to the principles of architecture and engineering — through hands-on activities.

On June 9, the “Sidewalk Art” workshop will show kids how to sketch a blueprint of a building and then draw it on the sidewalk in chalk to create a unique skyline. On June 23, children six and up will model and design green buildings in the “Sustainable Skyscrapers” workshop. All workshops take place from 10:30-11:45am, at The Skyscraper Museum (39 Battery Place). Registration required.

Call 212-945-6324 or e-mail education@skyscraper.org. Admission: $5 per child, free for members.

Museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Museum admission: $5, $2.50 for students/seniors. For i n f o , c a l l 2 1 2 - 9 4 5 - 6 3 2 4 , v i s i t s k y s c r a p e r. o r g o r email education@skyscraper.org.

H O U S E O F G H O S T LY H A U N T S C a r d o n e T h e M a g i c i a n ’s s p o o k s h o w w i l l c o n t i n u e t o e l e c t r i f y audiences as Canal Park Playhouse once again extends its run, now through July 31. The vaudeville-style act features razor swallowing and spirit conjuring — and ends in 10 minutes of complete darkness. Appropriate for ages 7 and up. Tuesdays,

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR EVENT LISTED IN THE VILLAGER? Please provide the date, time, location, price and a description of the event. Send to scott@chelseanow.com or mail to 515 Canal St., Unit 1C, New York City, NY 10013. Requests must be received at least three weeks before the event.

For more info, call 646-452-2497.

May 31 - June 6, 2012

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Just Do Art!

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

NORTH RIVER MUSIC AT GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC SCHOOL Greenwich House Music School’s “North River Music” series concludes, with a performance by GHMS pianist and faculty member Taka Kigawa.

He’ll perform John Cage’s “Etudes Australes” — a work of 32 pieces for which, GHMS tells us, “Cage used various chance operations over a star chart of the sky in the southern hemisphere to determine the selection of notes and chords in the work.” Just comprehending the concept is tough enough…so imagine trying to play it. Conceived as a duet for two independent hands, Kigawa’s solo take on the complex work will validate Cage’s declaration that “a performance would show that the impossible is not impossible.”

Thurs., June 7, 8pm, at Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow St., at Bedford St.).

Tickets are $15 at door, $10 for students/seniors (no advance sales). For info, call 212-242-4770 or visit greenwichhouse.org. To learn more about the artist, visit takakigawa.com.

MERCHANT’S HOUSE ANNUAL JUNE BENEFIT: A GREEK REVIVAL Considering the fact that the Merchant’s House Museum has been home to the Tredwell family’s furnishings and possessions since they first moved in a very long time ago, the whole place looks remarkably well. Still, a little microscopic and chemical analysis wouldn’t hurt…in order to ensure that everything from window treatments to carpeting to the placement of furniture accurately represents the time period of 1835-1865.

The MHM’s Historic Furnishings Plan is an ambitious effort to present an even more authentic interpretation of the house. Such CSI-like detective work costs real money, though…and

䉴 THE PIERS Continued from page.17 Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo in 1983.

By that point however, the AIDS epidemic and political transformation had begun to impact the scene, along with urban gentrification and the demolition of many of the pier structures.

For Stellar, when he views images in the exhibit, he said, “what came up for me is my youth and my friends. I was young, and I had all my friends whom I no longer have anymore because they are all dead. It was a different kind of family. They had all the same physical cultural experiences of what it meant to be gay back then, but they are not here anymore.”

Co-curator Darren Jones grew up in Scotland and did not see the piers until 1996, long after their heyday. He explained the exhibition “will appeal to people of all backgrounds with an interest in New York’s recent past. It functions as a social retrospective on the various uses of a now legendary place and time in Manhattan’s history.

Gay men used the piers as a meeting place, an urban playground, if you will, to meet friends, sunbathe and relax, as well as to pursue the excitement of sexual encounters. Artists utilized the vast spaces of the pier buildings to make some of the most influential and experimental contemporary art of the 20th century. Many went on to make

that’s where you come in. Help the keepers of Merchant’s House preserve the integrity of New York City’s only family home preserved intact from the mid-19th century — when you attend their annual June benefit. This year’s theme, “A Greek Revival,” involves cocktails, fine wines, hors d’oeuvres, music and a silent auction in the Museum’s lush 19th century garden (with the chance to spend some quality time in MHM’s oneof-a-kind Greek Revival parlors).

Thurs., June 7, 6:30-8:30pm, at Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. 4th St., btw. Bowery & Lafayette). Tickets start at $125. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/greekrevival. Regular Museum hours: Thurs.-Mon., 12-5pm. Admission is $10, $5 for students/seniors.

daily). Cocktail party, for ARC members, on Thurs., June 7, 6-9pm. At ARChive of Contemporary Music (54 White St., btw. Broadway & Church St., three blocks south of Canal). For info, call 212-226-6967 or visit arcmusic.org. Email them at arcmusic@inch.com, follow their blog at arcmusic.wordpress.com and friend them, at facebook.com/archiveofcontemporarymusic.

ARChive OF CONTEMPORARTY MUSIC SURFIN’ SUMMER RECORD & CD SALE A not-for-profit archive, library and research center, the ARChive of Contemporary Music collects, preserves and provides information on popular music from 1950 to the present (by, among other things, keeping on hand two copies of all recordings released in America). One of their big events, Brazilian Music Day, happens on September 7…but you don’t have to sit tight until then. Put on your Hawaiian shirt (or buy one on site) and get into the spirit of ARChive’s “Rockin’ Summer Record & CD Sale.” Over 20,000 items are up for grab — including hundreds of CDs priced at $1 to $5, and just-released CDs for $5-$10. It’s mostly pop and rock, but you’ll also find jazz, blues, Cuban CDs and classical LPs and CDs. If discs and vinyl don’t excite you, maybe the original vintage 60s psychedelic posters and Astroturf Yard Sale section of vintage kitchen wares and clothing will get your motor running.

Sat. June 9 through Sun., June 17 (11am-6pm,

their names as major players in the art world.”

Jones added that he learned a lot in working on the project, explaining, “Talking to the artists and photographers who were there, who saw this world come and go, and to hear their stories was one of the most moving experiences imaginable. Above all, I had a powerful sense of how fortunate I am to be able to live my life as I do today, in large part due to the progress made by earlier generations of gay men.”

Katz said that what made the piers unique in relation to 1970s bathhouses and discos was that the piers were free, public spaces.

“That very openness was the key,” he said, adding, “You didn’t have to claim anything to walk into them,” including self-identification as gay. “This was a free space, and let’s not lose sight of that. The piers were democratizing,” for the poor, the young, and those new to New York who had not yet found their way. New York today has far fewer such spaces.

Katz said gay New Yorkers should see the exhibit because “the arrogance of the present is that it remakes the past in its own image, and the piers bespeak a very different image and a very different politics from our current one.

And while I am very much in favor of the choice for people, for example, to get married, I don’t want our sexual dissidence to get, as we used to say, ‘straightened up.’ ”

Photo by Kenji Mori

Taka Kigawa, in concert at Greenwich House Music School on June 7.

Photo courtesy of Merchant’s House Museum

The Merchant’s House Museum's 19th century garden.

Photo by George

ARChive’s summer sale has over 20,000 items up for grabs.

Courtesy of LGBT Community National History Archive

Leonard Fink’s “West Side Highway, Tava Phallus,” 1977, silver gelatin print, 10 x 8 in.

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May 31 - June 6, 2012

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SEASTONE ADVISORS, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/06/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/27/12. Princ. office of LLC: 650 Madison Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10022.

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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. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, DE Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC C/O Caroline Walde-Jensen, 229 Front Street, PHN, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Cty off. loc.: New York Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 1221 Ave. of the Americas, 20th Fl., Ste. 2057, NY, NY 10020. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Auth. officer in DE where Cert. of Form. filed: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity Vil: 04/26 - 05/31/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SECONDMARKET MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/22/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 2/13/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: SecondMarket Management, LLC, 26 Broadway, 12th Fl., NY, NY 10004, principal business address.

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SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 19 W. 44th St., Ste. 312, NY, NY 10036. General Purposes.

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1835668 Vil: 05/03 - 06/07/2012 FORMATION NOTICE OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC).NAME: HELLESSY LLC. Application of Authority filed with the NY Secretary of State (SSNY): March 27,2012.

The LLC was originally filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware: March 16, 2012.

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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: SWEETWATER FILMS LLC C/O FKC A DIV OF J H COHN, LLP. 1212 AVE OF THE AMERICAS 9TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10036. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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SSNY shall mail process to c/o Marathon Asset Management, L.P. at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to 485 7th Ave. Rm. 526, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to 33 Greenwich Ave., #9A, NY, NY 10014, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: to practice the profession of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SET MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Oregon (OR) on 2/4/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Mark R. Wada, 121 SW Morrison St., Ste. 600, Portland, OR 97204, also the address to be maintained in OR. Principal office: 122 W 27th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Arts of Org. filed with the OR Secretary of State, 255 Capitol St. NE, Ste. 151, Salem, OR 97310-1327. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Vil: 05/10 - 06/14/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KJ JIANG LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/13/2012. Office located in New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: KJ Jiang LLC, 21 Monroe st, Apt 3D, New York, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 05/10 - 06/14/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SKYBRIDGE HOLDCO, LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 4/10/12.

Off. loc.: NY Cty. LLC formed in DE: 12/20/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 527 Madison Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 6500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on June 20, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Fillip’s Catering, Inc to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 200 7th Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Friday, July 5th, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from 325 Church St, Company, LLC to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 325 Church Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 300 E. 93rd St., Ste. 42A, NY, NY 10128, Attn: Patricia S. Pao. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity .

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF REDKITE FINANCIAL MARKETS LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/16/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 120 Aldersgate St., Fl. 3, London, EC1A 4JQ, UK. LLC formed in DE on 7/12/11.

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. 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.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SPRING VALLEY SITE IV MASTER TENANT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/1/10.

Office location: NY County.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CLOUDBREAK GROUP, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/05/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/13/10. Princ. office of LLC: 85 Fifth Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10003. 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., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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Vil: 05/17 - 06/21/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JKL PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/4/12.Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom processagainst it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joshua Liebling, 775 Columbus Ave., #11F, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/17 - 06/21/2012

NOTICE OF REGISTRATION OF KAPLAN RICE LLP. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CIAMPI LLC, 39 Broadway, Ste. 520, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: practice the profession of law.

Vil: 05/17 - 06/21/2012

NAME OF LLC: RELEVANCE NEW YORK, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/29/12. Office loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 05/17 - 06/14/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for

by Boxaurant LLC d/b/a Redwood Kitchenette & Bar to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 102 8th Avenue New York NY 10011.

Vil: 05/24 - 05/31/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHEFS AND ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION OF MORVILLO LLP. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/25/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CIAMPI LLC, 39 Broadway, Ste. 520, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: practice the profession of law.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EMPIRE GATE IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/15/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., 666 Third Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Nili Yolin, Esq. Purpose: as specifically set forth in the Arts. of Org. Vil: 05/17 - 06/14/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN a License Number 1262925 for on-premises Wine/Beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Wine/ Beer at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 129 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption. GHOZO LLC D/B/A TINY’S GIANT SANDWICH SHOP Vil: 05/24 - 05/31/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BUSINESS BROKERAGE AND FRANCHISE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES OF NY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/30/12.

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Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.:247 W. 46th St., PH 1, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license #1263167 for beer and wine has been applied for by Faggiano Incorporated (doing business as MODA Espresso Bar) to sell beer and wine at retail in the café under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 234 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF XXX MAGAZINE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Knuckleknee LLC, 487 Greenwich St., #5A, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ATHENA LEGAL SERVICES LLC, A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LLC (PLLC).

Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 4/25/12. Office loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: practice law.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC department of consumer affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday June 6th, 2012 at 2:00 p.m at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from 505-23 Bar, Inc. to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 505-507 West 23rd 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, Attn: Foil Officer, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004.

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SUPREME COURT, STATE OF NY, COUNTY OF NEW YORK, INDEX NO. 303621/11

GUOPING TANG V. JOANNA LEE GREGORY, DEFENDANT PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS WITH NOTICE IN DIVORCE ACTION. BASIS OF VENUE & TRIAL IS CPLR SEC. 509 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday June 20th, 2012 at 2:00 p.m at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Seventh Avenue Tomato, Inc. to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 209 Seventh Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. Requests for copies of the proposed revocable consent agreement may be addressed to: Department of consumer affairs, Attn: Foil Officer, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004.

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To the above-named defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear in this action by serving a notice of appearance on Plaintiff’s Attorney within 30 days after service is complete and if you fail to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default. This summons is served upon you by order of publication by order of Judge Joan B. Lobis, Justice of this Court, dated Feb. 14, 2012, on file in the New York Co. Clk’s office. Plaintiff’s Attorney: Geleen Rose Ortiz, Esq., 276 Fifth Ave.,#704, NY, NY

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Friday, June 6th, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from 18 Font Inc. to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 18 Spring Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

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10016. (212) 587-1508.

Notice: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties on the grounds of DRL Sec. 170(2) – Abandonment.

Notice of Automatic Orders: Pursuant to Domestic Relations Law Sec. 236 Part B, Sec 2, the parties are bound by certain automatic orders which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action. For further details you should contact

NOTICE OF VILLAGE ALLIANCE ANNUAL MEETING

the clerk of the matrimonial part, Supreme Court, 60 Centre St., NY, NY 10007, Tel (646) 386-3010.

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Village Alliance District Management Association, Inc. will be held

PLEASE BE ADVISED that once the judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both parties must be aware that he or she will no

Date: Wednesday, June 6th Time: 5:30 PM Where: 13-19 University Place (@ East 8th St), NY, NY 10003

longer be covered by the other party’s health insurance plan & that each party shall be responsible for his/her own health insurance coverage & may be entitled to buy health insurance on his or her own through a COBRA option.

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May 31 - June 6, 2012

From stage to senior show, art fuels their friendship

BY LORENZO LIGATO “Art is a guarantee of sanity.” So read the characters printed on the black T-shirt that Aura Levitas was wearing the afternoon I met her, in the parlor of Greenwich House’s Senior Center on the north side of Washington Square Park.

Next to her was sitting Ingrid Edwards, in a chic dark blazer and white-and-red blouse.

Surrounding the two vivacious ladies affiliated with the senior center were a collection of oil paintings, pastel artworks and photographs occupying the bright walls of the parlor, along with ceramics and other articles studiously installed around the room.

Yet, in the case of Levitas and Edwards, Louise Bourgeois’s famous dictum about art is only partially correct: For the two women, art has been first and foremost a guarantee of friendship. Levitas and Edwards, both artists and retired dancers, first met while working together in a Broadway production in 1947.

In the succeeding years, the pair cemented their friendship when they appeared as dancers in a series of Broadway shows — including the original production of Tony Award-winning musical “Kiss me, Kate” in 1948 — before leaving the stage for television and art exhibitions.

“We met on a show called ‘Sweethearts,’ and we’ve been sweethearts ever since,” said Levitas, smiling.

Today, the two friends of more than 60 years are the founders and curators of an annual allelders art show at Greenwich House’s Senior Center on the Square. The “20 over 60 Senior Art Show” — this year in its fifth edition — kicked off Fri., May 18, at 20 Washington Square North, drawing more than 200 attendees from the neighborhood and beyond.

For seven days, the senior centers’ parlor housed 48 mixed-media visual artworks from 20 seniors affiliated with Greenwich House.

The pieces on display were all available for sale, with 40 percent of the proceeds benefiting Greenwich House’s senior arts programs.

The artworks were selected by a jury panel composed of New York Times culture editor Deborah Leiderman, NY1 arts and culture reporter Stephanie Simon and Greenwich House Pottery director Adam Welch.

“We began this show in an effort to highlight the older artists in the city who are exploring new mediums and channels of creativity as they develop and grow both as artists and New York City residents,” said Levitas and Edwards in a statement. “Our immediate goal was just to have a good show.”

The weeklong show first began as “12 over 50” in 2008, Levitas explained, adding that she searched all over the neighborhood for a space to install the exhibition. Eventually, she decided to hold it at the senior center, of which she was then a board member.

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Ingrid Edwards, left, and Aura Levitas met in the 1947 production of “Sweethearts.”

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But, after Greenwich House — a socialservice provider and cultural community based in the Village — acquired the former Caring Community Center on Washington Square North last July, the exhibition changed its name and has been adapted to increase the number of artists featured, with the requirement that all be at least age 60.

Yet, when it comes to creativity and artistic sense, age is really just a number.

“Art keeps us young,” said Julia Sager, a Gramercy Park resident and ceramist who had a bowl and a platter displayed at the show. “I just really love the magic of creating something new.”

Joan Silinish, a Tribeca artist who submitted three photographs, applauded the show as an “impressively surprising” experience, both for the mature artists and for the visitors.

“This exhibition really shows the talent that New York City seniors can offer,” she said, adding that participating in the exhibition helps encourage the elderly to pursue their artistic ambitions.

The show’s two founders concurred that, for these senior artists, the prospect of displaying their work is not only reinvigorating, but also motivating.

“To have a show is an inspiration, especially for older artists,” Levitas said of the senior exhibition, which was up through May 25.

“Everybody who has artistic or creative sense would take up something — whether it’s painting, pottery or poetry,” echoed Edwards.

“For me, I always found that painting was the

answer: When I don’t paint, I feel sick. It’s really a sort of self-defense mechanism.”

Levitas concluded: “So, truly, art is a guaranty of sanity: It gives you impetus and reason to work.”

Besides, the two women said, arts have been an “incredibly important” aspect of their lives for decades. After Broadway, Levitas, a native of Brooklyn, danced on TV for 11 years, including on “The Perry Como Show” and “The Milton Berle Show,” among others. Later, she started creating assemblages.

For her part, Edwards, born in Switzerland and raised in Cleveland and Chicago, left New York and went on to teach art at an allgirls school in New Jersey.

“That was the only time when Aura and I lost touch for a little while,” Edwards said.

Yet, she added, when her husband, Sherman Edwards, composed the musical score for the 1969 Broadway sensation “1776,” he ran into Aura’s husband, set designer Willard Levitas.

“Soon they realized their wives knew each other,” Levitas said. “So, ‘1776’ brought us back together.”

That reunion, Levitas and Edwards noted, was the start of a new partnership, both as friends and artists. During more than half a century of friendship in New York, the two women have cultivated their art, motivating one another and benefiting from each other’s critiques.

“We help each other, especially with our art,” Levitas said. “And of course, we party together.”

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOOMAN KHORASANI,M.D., PLLC a professional service limited liability company (PLLC). Articlesof Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/26/12. Office location: NYCounty. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process againstthe PLLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy ofany process against the PLLC is to: HoomanKhorasani, M.D., PLLC, 55 W. 25th St. #37G, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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50 PINE REAL ESTATE LLC a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/08/2012.

Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Pine St. Retail Condo, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BOOK NOOK NYC LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/28/12. 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: Book Nook NYC LLC, 457 W57th St. Apt 916, New York, NY10019. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 STEILISH LLC, Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 23rd day of April 2012. Office in New York Co. at 42 King Street, Suite 3, New York, New York 10014. SSNY desig. agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 42 King Street, Suite 3, New York, New York 10014. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 DDD REALTY LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/18/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 156A E. 83rd St., NY, NY 10028. General Purposes.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 HORIZONS GROUP 74, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 12/16/2011. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC C/O Holm & Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hara LLP, 3 West 35th Street, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10001-2204. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BK BELTS 637 BROADWAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/10/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Mr. Jerry Kaplan, 8 Schindler Ct., Chatham, NJ 07928. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 157 HUDSON ACQUISITION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Snitow Kanfer Holtzer and Millus, LLP, 575 Lexington Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 104TH STREET CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/7/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jonathan Rose Companies, 551 Fifth Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10176. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 05/24 - 06/28/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a License Number (PENDING) for on-premises Wine/ Beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Wine/Beer at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 424 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10009 for on premises consumption. SONS OF BROOKLYN, LLC D/B/A EXCHANGE ALLEY Vil: 05/31 - 06/07/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Angolo Food Concepts, LLC d/b/a Angolo Soho to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 53 Grand Street a/k/a 331 West Broadway New York NY 10013.

Vil: 05/31 - 06/07/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CANDLEWOOD STRUCTURED CREDIT HARVEST GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/18/12.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/02/12. Princ. office of LLC: 777 Third Ave., Ste. 19B, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Candlewood Investment Group, LP at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 12

Hawk blog vs. hawk cam To The Editor: “Young ‘reality show raptors’ get ready to wing it” (news article, May 24): How can you have an article about the hawks without linking to the fabulous blog Roger_Paw? Roger takes amazing pictures of the hawks all the time and documents them at rogerpaw.blogspot. com . You should have interviewed more on-the-ground hawk watchers, not cam watchers.

dents. This document was published last month, and is available to the public at friendsofcooperunion.org .

Henry Chapman

The answer is — a park!

To The Editor: Re “Hotel opposition sells C.B. 2 on saving Merchant’s House” (news article, May 17): The city of New York should buy the property that the garage sits on and turn it into a park!

CK Watt

John Heliker

The right way forward

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To The Editor: Re “Cooper prez: Fee plan offers ‘most optimistic way forward’ ” (news article, May 24): The more “optimistic way forward” — which does not do an about-face on the school’s mission — has been outlined by faculty, alumni and stu-

Photo by Milo Hess

Johnny comes marching home, then catches ferry to Governors On Saturday, joining the Governors Island opening-day festivities were a group of Civil War re-enactors, including the woman above. Representing the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment, they did lots of drilling with their muskets, and just generally waiting around for the Rebels to show up — which they didn’t. Maybe next year. They also did a lot of sweating in their blue wool coats in the hot weather.

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Photos by Clayton Patterson

No masking it: Loisaida Fest was well worth crowing about Since 1987, the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated on the Sunday before Memorial Day. This year’s installment saw many vendors, including the woman painting a mask, above left. Of course there was great music, from conga players and singers to more casual itinerant music makers, like the man with the maracas, above right. Further adding to the festive air was the guy (wearing cap) with his “rooster mobile,” at right.

When he hit a button, a cock-a-doodle-doo sounded.

CLAYTON

Photo by Marlis Momber

We are family: Community feeling flows at festival The “Loisaida Family” gathered in front of Casa Adela restaurant, at Avenue C and Fifth St., Sunday in honor of the 20th anniversary of the death of Bimbo Rivas, the famed Lower East Side poet, playwright and community activist.

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