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Noisy bars, gardens, fracking, housing top bill at E.V. town hall BY LESLEY SUSSMAN It was “open mic night” at the Tompkins Square Library on Tuesday, but the more than 100 local residents who packed the “East Village Town Hall” meeting that was held there were not interested in reading poetry or performing music. They crowded into the third-floor meeting room to vent their concerns about a variety of issues affecting the East Village, Lower East Side

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From left, Jeanne Wilcke, Judy Callet, G.V.S.H.P.’s Andrew Berman and Mary Johnson turned out to show their opposition to the N.Y.U. plan.

N.Y.U. 2031 plan wins key vote by Council committee BY LINCOLN ANDERSON By a vote of 19 to 1, the City Council’s Land Use Committee on Tuesday approved New York University’s 2031 plan for its two South Village superblocks. The full Council is now poised to cast a final vote on the plan next Wed., July 25. Unlike at the City Council hearing several weeks ago, when testimony by the massive project’s opponents, especially actor Matthew Broderick, had drawn flurries of agreeing “jazz hands” fluttering in the air, this time opponents had little to feel jazzed about. The only “jazz hands” in evidence were when Councilmember Charles Barron spoke before casting his lone

dissenting vote. Nevertheless, Councilmember Margaret Chin — whose First District includes the N.Y.U. superblocks — was able to get some significant reductions and concessions compared with the version of the plan that was previously approved by the City Planning Commission. “At last month’s public hearing, I made it clear I did not support N.Y.U.’s expansion proposal as modified by the City Planning Commission,” Chin said in her remarks before the vote. “Throughout this process, I have tried to keep an open mind. I have maintained that it is possible to strike a balance that upholds the integrity of Greenwich

Village and meets N.Y.U.’s immediate academic needs.” Chin said she was confident that the modified proposal “strikes this appropriate balance,” and that N.Y.U. has made “major modifications to their core campus expansion. “To be perfectly honest, no one got everything they wanted,” she added. “This was a compromise; but it was arrived at rationally in good faith.” Lynne Brown, N.Y.U. senior vice president, said, “The plan approved today by the City Council Committee on Land Use will enable N.Y.U. to

and even the West Village — everything from the dangers of hydraulic fracturing a.k.a. “fracking” to the future fate of the community gardens. The 6 p.m. meeting was hosted by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and attended by representatives from more than 16 government agencies. Also present were several other political leaders,

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Judge’s book gives an insider’s view of life on the bench BY JERRY TALLMER The author of “Disrobed” was indeed disrobed. On this Saturday morning the honorable Frederic L. Block, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (which covers Brooklyn and Long Island), had set aside his black robes in favor of a light-blue, bicycle-imprinted T-shirt and white shorts. The traffic on the West Side Drive had thrown him for a loop. “Cyanide on the rocks with a twist,” he said to a waiting waitress, but then settled for a

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bagel and coffee. “So? Did you read the book? How’d you like it?” Judge Block asked this reader. I said I liked it fine but that its index was all screwed up. He said they were working to fix that in the next edition. “Disrobed” (published by Thomson Reuters Westlaw) is in fact just what its subtitle says it is: “An inside look at the life and work of a federal judge.” Its 454 jam-packed pages carry Greenwich Villager Frederic

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The little radioactive mermaids The past three Sundays, Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping have protested along with environmentalists at the planned site of a gas pipeline at Gansevoort Peninsula near the Meatpacking District. Last Sunday, in a tragic “mermaid passion play,” Billy’s wife, Savitri D, Monica Hunken and Lopie L., canoed from the W. 26th St. boat launch to Gansevoort. Hunken carried Savitri D to a bulldozer and placed her in its scoop, which, like D, was covered with pinkdot stickers — the activists’ symbol for the radioactive radon they say the hydrofracked gas will be laced with. Billy also noted with alarm that the pipeline site is near the Jane St. children’s water playground. The pipeline construction is slated to start imminently.

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NOTEBOOK EDWARDIAN MOVEMENT: Arthur Schwartz reports that Cate Edwards has joined the team at Advocates for Justice, his new progressive law firm. Schwartz, the Village’s Democratic state committeeman, said he also expects Sharon Eubanks will be joining the firm. Eubanks was the lead attorney in the U.S. tobacco litigation that won billions of dollars from the cigarette companies. Schwartz said he’s still holding out hope that Cate’s dad, John Edwards, will be coming onboard. “John hasn’t decided what to do yet,� Schwartz told us. “I do hope he joins us. It would be exciting; he is one of the great lawyers in the U.S., irrespective of his personal issues. I have found him to be very committed to his political beliefs, which are quite progressive. And I was most impressed by how close he was to his kids,� he said, adding, “And I was not a fan in 2008.� Photo by Scoopy

CAPSIS-CLASH CASE: Speaking of Schwartz, he’s representing George Capsis, 84, in his defense against the charge that the WestView publisher, on May 17, slapped a police officer in the face. The altercation occurred after a police van pulled in front of Capsis, who was cycling in the bike lane at Bleecker and Leroy Sts. and, according to the police report, became “highly agitated.� After Capsis’s slap, the officer, who was from the Sixth Police Precinct, struck the senior citizen in the face, giving him a shiner. “The Capsis case is set for trial August 8,� Schwartz told us. “If the district attorney isn’t ready, the judge — who was upset with photos of George’s face on the day of the arrest — will dismiss the case. George may file a claim against the city for assault.� KEEP ON (FOOD) TRUCKIN’: As part of a new program by the Parks Department to have food trucks in select city park locations, the Kelvin Natural Slush Company is selling its refreshing ginger-flavored slushies from its brand new spin-off cart, Ice Cube, every day from 12 p.m. until 9 p.m. at Little Red Square Park, at Bleecker St. and Sixth Ave. Not far away, Desi Food Truck is offering authentic northern Indian culinary creations six days a week at Soho Square, at Spring St. and Sixth Ave. (As Gogo at the Desi truck explained to us, northern Indian food doesn’t have the dairy one finds in southern Indian food — so, we assume, it’s more lowcalorie.) Also, Je and Jo’s tricycle cart is selling fresh artisanal ice cream paired with all-natural cookie dough at the Bleecker Playground at Bleecker and W. 11th Sts. A total of seven food vendors have been licensed to park their vehicles or carts in or next to seven green spaces throughout the city year-round for a five-year concession. Other locations included Fort Greene and the Upper West Side and Upper East Side.

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NO SHAOUL SHOUT-OUT FOR YOU! The New York Times’s recent piece on East Village developer Ben Shaoul gave ample citations to sources in the blogosphere but conspicuously avoided mentioning us! In fact, the Times seemed to go out of its way NOT to mention our paper. Referring to Shaoul’s eviction of the residents of The Cave, a loose-knit artists’ squat on St. Mark’s Place, in 2006, the article stated, “A neighborhood photographer snapped Mr. Shaoul, accompanied by sledge hammer- and crowbar-wielding construction workers, as he confronted some of the squatters. At some point the police were called in; the photographs soon circulated around the neighborhood.â€? Hmm‌ “circulated around the neighborhoodâ€?? Did the photos sort of walk around on their own on Avenue A and display themselves to passersby? No, they were published in The Villager! And how about mentioning the photographer’s name? Bob Arihood! Sheesh! The article must have gone through the Times’s Department of Non-Attribution, which we imagine is something like what one might find in the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s “1984.â€? At least the Times’s photo department was true to their word after we supplied them with a photo of The Cave eviction for the article, giving Bob’s photo the agreed-upon credit, “Bob Arihood for The Villager.â€? REDISTRICTING AND REALITY: Councilmember Margaret Chin insists that her Lower Manhattan District 1 won’t see a major redistricting — though there have been rumors and murmurings that she might lose the

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POLICE BLOTTER Dealt guns for drugs Police arrested Nicholas Mina, 31, a Ninth Precinct detective, on Thurs., Jan. 12, for stealing four loaded pistols and a bulletproof vest from the lockers of fellow officers in the stationhouse at 321 E. Fifth St. earlier this year. Mina, identified as addicted to painkillers, was charged in the conspiracy to sell the guns and vest to a Queens gun and drug dealer along with five other defendants, one of whom has not yet been apprehended. Also arrested was Ivan Chavez, 24, of Woodhaven, Queens, charged with dealing drugs and weapons and supplying Mina with oxycodone and other drugs. Marcos Echevarria, 22, of Brooklyn was charged with possession and sale of weapons. Meryl Lebowitz, 64, of Queens, was charged with possession and sale of weapons and a controlled substance. Jennifer Sultan, 38, who lives in a luxury apartment at E. 17th St. and Fifth Ave., was charged with selling guns and drugs to Chavez. A raid on Chavez’s Woodhaven apartment on Jan. 12 turned up a TEC-9 machine pistol, a sawed-off shotgun, thousands of prescription pills, a large quantity of heroin, blank prescription pads, 30 ID and credit cards in various names and $61,000 in counterfeit bills. The case broke after undercover police bought weapons from Chavez, including guns loaded with police-issued ammunition. Mina was suspended from the New York Police Department. Mina and the other suspects were arraigned in court on Friday. Assistant District Attorney Christopher Prevost read the charges against the officer, then said, “It shocks the conscience that...undercovers had to put their lives in danger to stop another police officer from putting guns out into the streets.” Judge Edward McLaughlin looked at Mina and declared, “I don't believe there is any bail that would assure this person’s appearance in this courtroom ever.” At that, Mina slumped forward, his head momentarily dropping to the table before he was led out of the courtroom. Four of the defendants were ordered held without bail. Sultan was ordered held in lieu of $45,000 cash or $150,000 bond. All five were remanded back into custody. In a statement, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said, “This defendant endangered the very public he took an oath to protect, at a time when gun violence is destroying lives every day.”

Chinatown-slay suspect Police on Mon., July 16, arrested a person of interest in the June 29 shooting deaths of two women whose bodies were found in a fire on Henry St. A New York Post item said the person of interest, a tattooed gang member, was arrested on a Delta airliner at J.F.K. Airport about to

take off for Hong Kong. Firefighters found the victims, Xiao L. Li, 70, and Yong Hua Chen, 36, shot in the head in a ground-floor apartment where two fires had been started at 83 Henry St. near the Manhattan Bridge overpass. Law enforcement officials had impounded the suspect’s car two days before his arrest.

Papaya perp A man followed a girl, 16, and her 15-yearold boyfriend when they got out of the subway at Sixth Ave. and 14th St. at 6:20 a.m. Sun., July 15, making sexual remarks as they walked down to W. Eighth St., police said. Inside Gray’s Papaya, the suspect took the girl’s eyeglasses and a $20 bill and then punched her when she tried to take her property back. Police arrived and arrested Aramis Halley, 26, and charged him with robbery.

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Above, Police Officer Nicholas Mina is arraigned in court Friday on charges of selling stolen police guns for drugs. Below, Chelsea resident Jennifer Sultan, a member of the alleged drug ring, being led into court.

A resident of 36 Grove St. left home around 6:35 p.m. Thurs., July 5, and returned a half hour later to find that a laptop had been taken. There was no sign of forced entry, police said. A burglar broke into the front door of an apartment at 13 Carmine St. on Sat., July 7, sometime between 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and stole an iPad, a laptop computer, $1,500 in cash and jewelry, police said.

Didn’t Occupy chain DNA on a CD player found eight years ago in Inwood Hill Park where a Juilliard student was murdered appeared last week to match DNA found on a chain used as part of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in March at an East Flatbush subway station. But the match was soon found likely to have been the result of careless handling by a lab technician who worked on both cases. An O.W.S. spokesperson said he was outraged that police had searched for DNA on a chain used in a peaceful protest, but Police Commissioner Kelly defended it. The mistake still leaves the mystery of the 2004 murder of Sarah Fox, the Juilliard student. Only one suspect ever emerged from the Fox murder, Dmitry Sheinman, but he was never charged. Sheinman moved to South Africa but returned to New York recently where he was reported giving police the name of the true killer which, he claimed, came to him in a psychic vision.

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A taxi cab hit a 50-year-old man around 4:20 a.m. Sat., July 14, at the corner of Broadway and Prince St., knocking the victim unconscious, according to reports. An Emergency Medical Service unit took the victim to Bellevue Hospital where he was said to be in stable condition. The cab driver remained at the scene and police said no criminality was involved.

Police arrested Orlando Rodas, 34, around 5:30 p.m. Wed., July 11, for using his cell phone to video under a woman’s dress as she walked up the stairs of the Union Square subway station. The phone’s video function was still running when the arresting officer confiscated it.

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AIDS memorial design is O.K.’d by C.B. 2 committees

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A rendering of the planned “St. Vincent’s Hospital Park,” with the proposed design of a foliage-covered AIDS memorial, with an oculus, at its western corner.

BY ALBERT AMATEAU An AIDS memorial in the proposed “St. Vincent’s Hospital Park” won support on Monday from Community Board 2’s Parks and Landmarks committees, making full board approval later this week a virtual certainty. The Landmarks Committee’s vote was unanimous, and the Parks Committee had one dissenting vote. Final working drawings for the memorial and the entire St. Vincent’s park will be submitted to the City Planning Commission as part of the land-use review of Rudin Management’s residential redevelopment of the former hospital property. The Rudin development will pay for most of the construction and maintenance of the 16,000-square-foot, triangular park, designed by Rick Parisi, across from the former hospital. The AIDS Memorial Park (AMP) coalition will pay for the design, construction and maintenance of the 1,600-square-foot memorial at the western corner of the park at the intersection of Seventh and Greenwich Aves. At the final design forum on Mon., July 16, the memorial coalition and its architect, Mateo Paiva, showed detailed renderings of the thin, steel, 18-foot-tall canopy over the memorial, supported on three triangular legs, with plantings intertwining across the canopy and the legs. An oculus — a circular opening in the canopy — would look down on a round water feature on the floor of the memorial. Circular pavers would carry the narrative of the AIDS epidemic and the community’s response to it. Despite the approval of both committees, members were anxious about security and about maintenance.

Chris Tepper, co-founder of AMP, estimated that monthly maintenance of the plantings would cost $20,000 a year, which the coalition would raise as part of a $500,000 endowment. But Frederica Sigel, a C.B. 2 Parks Committee member, was not convinced. “Unless you have more than monthly maintenance, this can’t happen,” she said. Other critics were anxious about security. A 3-foot-tall iron fence would surround most of the St. Vincent’s Hospital Park triangle except for the memorial, which would be open except for a chain across the west entrance at night. “Anyone could step over it. It’s like an attractive nuisance,” said Ken Winslow, a neighborhood resident and frequent critic of the memorial design. “It’s more like a corporate plaza than anything you can see in the Village,” Winslow added. Critics were also anxious that the memorial would encourage homeless people to sleep there. Winslow also objected to the inwardfacing stone seating along the Seventh Ave. and Greenwich Ave. sides of the memorial. “The backs are too low and they are not comfortable,” Winslow suggested of the seating. Paiva said the seating was designed to encourage visitors to walk around the memorial and follow the narrative on the pavers rather than remain seated for long periods. However, Amanda Davis, director of preservation and research of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said the society strongly supported the memorial design.

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Jeep-stealing jerk almost mows down boy and nanny BY ALBERT AMATEAU AND JEFFERSON SIEGEL A man who stole his girlfriend’s Jeep Cherokee on E. 14th St. at Second Ave. around 5 p.m. Thurs., July 12, drove it wildly west in what could have resulted in a serious accident. He almost hit several pedestrians, ran a red light at Fifth Ave., hit a van, jumped the curb and hit a traffic light at Fifth Ave. at 13th St., knocking it down, police said. The crazed driver, clad only in jeans and no shoes, fled from the wreck, down to 11th St., and ran west. He hopped the wall around the small cemetery near Sixth Ave., hoping to hide inside, but police broke open the gate and arrested him. Dezmon Sardina, 19, of New Jersey was charged with reckless endangerment, larceny and resisting arrest. As Sardina was careening into the corner of Fifth Ave. and 13th St. in the Jeep, a nanny, Cindy Gaston of Brooklyn, grabbed a 4-year-old boy from the path of the oncoming vehicle, averting tragedy by inches. Gaston was hospitalized with an injury to her leg and later released.

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Bookshop is hoping to turn over new leaf at new space BY AIDAN GARDINER St. Mark’s Bookshop has sat at its corner on Third Avenue and E. Ninth St. for the past 20 years as a bazaar of unique literature and bold art books that has seen the neighborhood around it shift from a haven of oddity to a hub of development. But the store’s sales have slumped in recent years, and rent increased creating such an untenable financial situation that even with some leeway from the store’s landlord, The Cooper Union, its co-owners are now looking to move. The beloved shop has been struggling for years. Sales dropped nearly 35 percent between 2008 and 2011. Then the store’s rent increased as well last year to $20,000 per month. Co-owners Terry McCoy and Bob Contant cut their staff and began drawing on their Social Security just to keep the bookshop afloat. They lobbied Cooper Union for a rent reduction, but the college could only afford to decrease their rate to $17,500 for one year, at the end of which it would revert to $20,000 and even increase in 2013, per their lease. “It’s been a tough year and we’ve been doing the best we can to keep everything going,� McCoy said. “But we’ve come to the conclusion that we won’t be able to pay rent when these increases come into effect.� The store’s sales spiked roughly 20 percent last year when interest about its struggles surged, but McCoy said that increase has mostly disappeared in recent months. He also said they have increased the bookshop’s online presence and hosted more in-store events, but while successful, these

still haven’t been enough. So now, McCoy and Contant are looking to move to a smaller and cheaper space. The bookshop currently occupies 2,700 square feet of retail space along with an office and basement. McCoy said they’re looking for someplace that’s ideally 2,000 square feet, or even smaller, with a proportionally lower rent to match. “That would be a significant reduction in space,� McCoy said. “We’d have to be pretty creative in working with that.� But McCoy said plans and goals for a move are still only in the preliminary stages and subject to change. The act of relocating is also extremely costly, making it tough on a struggling bookstore, so McCoy said he and his partner plan to begin raising money soon and possibly partnering with an organization that specializes with grassroots fundraising. While many aspects of the potential move are still up in the air, McCoy said he is determined to keep the bookshop in the East Village, the neighborhood it’s called home since its founding in the 1970s. This would be the second move for St. Mark’s Bookshop if it does end up happening. It originally was located on the street for which it’s named before Cooper Union offered to house it around the corner in 1990. All throughout, McCoy said, St. Mark’s Bookshop was meant to embody the aesthetic and culture of the neighborhood around it. “This store’s whole identity is linked to the East Village,� he said. “We can’t go anywhere else. It’s our reason for being.�

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Victor Arnold, actor of stage, TV, film, dies at 79 OBITUARY BY ALBERT AMATEAU Victor Arnold, a longtime Village resident and actor who was in the original production of “Fortune and Men’s Eyes,” died April 13 in a hospice in Buffalo at the age of 79. Although he quit smoking in 1985, he was afflicted with emphysema, said his wife, Jessie Phillips Ratner. “He was a wonderful actor and a terrific storyteller,” said David Rothenberg, who produced the 1967 Off Broadway prison play and founded The Fortune Society, which advocates for prison reform and helps ex-offenders re-enter society. Victor Arnold’s acting career spanned nearly 50 years on stage, television and in film, including the original “Shaft,” directed by Gordon Parks, “And Justice for All,” directed by Norman Jewison and “Trees Lounge,” directed by Steve Buscemi. On Broadway his credits include “Fun City” with Joan Rivers and the revival “Front Page” with Robert Ryan and Helen Hayes. He was frequently on television, with featured appearances in “Law and Order,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Kojak” and other programs. He acted in many regional theater productions, from Boston to Los Angeles, over the years. Born Arnold Ratner in Herkimer, N.Y.,

Victor Arnold on the Greenwich Village waterfront with Gansevoort Peninsula (with its former incinerator’s smokestacks still standing) in the background.

he grew up in the Bronx where his parents moved when his was 3 years old. He played baseball at Taft High School in the Bronx and had a tryout at third base for the Phillies in the Polo Grounds when he hit an inside-the-park homerun, his wife said. “Vic was a tremendous storyteller, a true raconteur,” she said. “He would mesmerize any gathering with stories about baseball, the Navy and show business.” After high school he joined the Navy in 1951 and became a medical corpsman

serving aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore. “He told about being stationed near a Marine base in North Carolina when General ‘Chesty’ Puller [the most decorated Marine in the corps’ history] ordered him to ‘square away’ because he was wearing his hat at a nonregulation angle,” Ratner recalled. After discharge from the Navy in 1955 he went to New York University under the G.I. Bill, studying to become a gym teacher. “He was walking past the 13th Street

Repertory Theatre one day when a friend stopped him and asked him if he wanted to be in a play. I think it was ‘Tiger at the Gates,’ ” his wife said. It was the beginning of a distinguished career. Victor Arnold got his stage name after a meeting in1962 with Maynard Morris, an influential theater agent at MCA Artists. “ ‘Ratner’ was too ethnic so they made his first name his last and Vic came up with ‘Victor’ for his first name,” Ratner said. A resident of Buffalo, Jessie met her husband through mutual friends when he was in a play at the Buffalo Studio Arena. “He told me he lived in Greenwich Village and asked me to come with him. ‘There are trees on the street and the Hudson River is a block away,’ he said. So I gave my boss two weeks notice and when Vic’s show closed I said goodbye to Buffalo,” she said. When Vic’s emphysema condition got worse, he could not manage stairs, so the couple moved to Buffalo last year, where he entered a hospice, his wife said. “We lived back and forth for a time in Los Angeles, like a lot of actors, but the Village was really our home,” she said. He kept in touch with The Fortune Society since its founding in 1967 and regularly attended its events until recently, Rothenberg said. A sister died young and his parents predeceased him.

familyfriday Relax with your kids and meet other downtown families for free pizza, children’s movies, es, and community. Everyone is welcome. FRIDAY, July 20 · 6-7:30PM Charlotte’s Place Dreamworks’ Shrek The ogre Shrek makes a deal with a scheming lord to reclaim his swamp by rescuing a princess. He’s joined on his journey by a talkative donkey.

FRIDAY, August 17 · 6-7:30PM Charlotte’s Place Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast After a Beast imprisons her father, Belle bargains to take his place. Although she doesn’t like the Beast at first, she soon discovers he’s under an enchanted spell.

FRIDAY, September 21 · 6-7:30PM -7:30PM Charlotte’s Place Universal’s Babe A young pig has an ambitious dream ream of herding sheep with a farmer, a job normally reserved for sheepdogs. s.

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N.Y.U. 2031 plan wins key vote by Council committee Continued from page 1 add the academic space it needs for classes, labs and performance space while at the same time providing the local community with more publicly accessible open space and community facility space. This plan will also help New York City remain economically vibrant and the talent capital of the world.” A few councilmembers prefaced their votes with comments saying they had concerns about the plan’s impact, before ultimately voting “yes.” Rosie Mendez said many people would be happy if she voted “no,” and that it would be the “easy thing to do.” But deferring to her “sister” Margaret Chin, she said she would vote “yes.” The Council’s practice is generally for members to follow the lead of the councilmember in whose district a project is located. However, Barron cited the “noise, traffic and congestion” the project would cause. “These are neighborhoods, these are not university towns,” Barron said, referring to expansion projects by N.Y.U., as well as by Columbia University. “We should send this back to the drawing board,” he said. Referring to Community Board 2’s resolution on the project, which was an “absolute no,” Barron said, “It does seem that everything in this report is diametrically opposed to what’s in the plan. “This is so-called representative democracy,” he declared. “We’re supposed to be representing the people — not N.Y.U.” His comments were greeted appreciatively, silently but with “jazz hands” so as not to disrupt the proceedings, by the roughly 100 people in the audience, a mix of superblocks residents — including N.Y.U. faculty — neighbors living around the superblocks, Downtown activists and preservationists. Public testimony wasn’t allowed at the vote, though opponents held aloft small protest signs saying the project was wrong for the Village, N.Y.U. and the city. In the latest negotiations, the Boomerang buildings that are planned to be added on the Washington Square Village block were cut down, very significantly in the case of the Mercer St. Boomerang, which had been the larger of the two. During the Council’s review, the Mercer building was cut by 64 percent, dropping from 11 stories to four. In addition, 21,000 square feet was slashed from the LaGuardia Boomerang. Both buildings now have smaller footprints, meaning they’ll take up less space and make the complex’s central courtyard more accessible to the public. As for the Zipper building, on Mercer St. on the southern superblock, a 14-story tower at the project’s northeastern corner has been chopped down to five stories, and the building’s bulk generally shifted southward, so that it will have less impact on residents in two residential buildings — 200 Mercer St. and 88 Bleecker St. Furthermore, while retaining the option for a public school at the southeast corner of Bleecker St. and LaGuardia Place, Chin was able to get N.Y.U. to commit to ensuring that — if the school plan doesn’t pan out — one-quarter of a building there will be for community use. The School Construction Authority will now have until Dec. 31, 2014, to “say yes” to building a school on the Bleecker St. site. The S.C.A. will then have until July 1, 2018, to begin construction on the proposed school. If the S.C.A. declines to build the school, then N.Y.U. would construct a building at the site of up to 100,000 square feet, with no less than 25,000 square feet devoted to uses by community groups, such as a preschool or

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At a rally before the vote, Jeanne Wilcke, president of the Downtown Independent Democrats political club, held up a copy of the N.Y.U. Faculty Against the Sexton Plan’s no-build alternative “green plan.”

senior day center. Space would be provided to the community groups at a rent that “ensures that N.Y.U. would not make a profit.” Formerly, if the S.C.A. decided not to build the school by 2025, the university would have taken back control of

‘This was a compromise; but it was arrived at rationally in good faith.’ Margaret Chin

the site for its own use. Speaking before the Council vote, Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president for government affairs and community engagement, assured of the Bleecker building that the university would build “the core and shell” of the community space and fully “fit it out” for use by the tenants. As for what N.Y.U. would put on top of this community space, word is it would be something like its Wagner School of Public Service, since this could “mesh well” with the community uses below. N.Y.U.’s previous

plan for the site included a freshman dorm on top, but community members and C.B. 2 had argued this would be akin to plopping “Animal House” on top of a public school, and didn’t feel it would be appropriate. N.Y.U. has also pledged to provide 6,000 square feet in Washington Square Village building No. 4 for community use. In addition, the university will create a 7,500-squarefoot indoor atrium/community space on the western side of the new Zipper building, which will be similar to a public plaza one might find in a Midtown office building or at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, for example. Chin and her staff said this atrium might be a place where one could get a cup of coffee or light fare and hang out, and would give people more of a reason to walk down a widened walkway on the western side of the Zipper building. The current remnant of Greene St. behind the existing Coles gym is narrow and mainly known for being a gusty wind tunnel in the winter. (N.Y.U. also has agreed to allow community members to apply for paid access to Coles gym and continue this arrangement for the new gym to be built in the lower level of the Zipper building.) Chin was unsuccessful in preventing N.Y.U. from taking part of the public-space strip along Mercer St. in front of Coles. N.Y.U. said it couldn’t move back the street wall for the Zipper because this would limit the way the mechanical systems could be laid out in the building. In total, N.Y.U. agreed to provide 38,500 square feet of community space, including the 25,000-square-foot community space in the Bleecker building, should the public school not be built. (With the city recently committing to buy 75 Morton St. for use as a new public school or middle school, it’s unclear if the S.C.A. would also want a public school on the N.Y.U. superblocks.) Also, N.Y.U. has committed to immediate upgrades to existing open space. For one, signage will be added to the Sasaki Garden to increase public awareness of the space. Due to the community’s concern about N.Y.U.’s ability to maintain its public spaces, the university has committed to enter a “Maintenance and Operation” agreement for care of the public land on the superblocks with the Parks Department. In addition, the university will create an endowment that will generate an annual $150,000 maintenance fund paid for by N.Y.U. for the permanent upkeep and maintenance of private open spaces on the superblocks. As part of the agreement, N.Y.U. is promising to maintain the city-owned public strips “at the same standard and quality” as N.Y.U.-owned private land. N.Y.U. has also agreed to modify a so-called “Open Space Oversight Organization” — which was previously approved by City Planning — to include oversight of existing, as well as future open spaces. This O.S.O.O. is to be established by the end of this year. In other issues, N.Y.U. has agreed not to lease space on the superblocks to tenants that will operate a nightclub, or allow tenants to accept a cabaret license, or apply for or accept a beer, wine or liquor license, apart from the use of space as a bona fide restaurant. After Tuesday’s vote, David Gruber, C.B. 2 chairperson, said he was very disappointed that the Mercer Boomerang hadn’t been completely removed from the plan. As for why it wasn’t, Hurley said, speaking after the vote, “We studied closely whether all of the air-handling/mechanicals and access/egress to the below-grade classroom space could be supported with one building and it could not. Both Boomerang buildings — in some

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Boomerangs thrown for a loop, are cut down further The so-called Boomerang buildings N.Y.U. plans to add in Washington Square Village’s courtyard came around for another spin through the ULURP review process, but this time were slashed over all much more than in the previous round. The City Planning Commission had previously trimmed the Space Mountain-like structures, but in the latest round of negotiations at the City Council, the lima bean-looking edifices were slashed more sharply. The Mercer St. Boomerang, in particular, saw a major square-footage cut — dropping from 11 stories to four stories. Both buildings’ footprints were also reduced, which will make the structures less bulky, allowing more light and air into the future public open space inside W.S.V., which is located between W. Third and Bleecker Sts. The seemingly transparent extra story shown on top of each Boomerang will house mechanical structures, for elevators and such, though will hardly be transparent.

Zipper gets zapped a bit, to the benefit of neighbors The Zipper building’s design was also “undone” a bit during the City Council negotiations. The above-grade bulk of the block-long building, planned for Mercer St. between Houston and Bleecker Sts., was reduced by about 9 percent. This was done to provide more light and air to residents living in two buildings at or near the northeast corner of Mercer and Bleecker Sts., across the street from the Zipper. Yet, it would be a stretch to say this was the Zipper’s “undoing,” since the project will still contain nearly 1 million square feet of space.

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Bars, gardens, fracking top bill at B.P.’s town hall Continued from page 1 including Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and City Councilmember Rosie Mendez. More than two dozen local residents took the opportunity to step up to the microphone to ask questions and raise concerns about the future direction of the neighborhood. In addition to fracking and gardens, residents spoke about farmers’ markets; the overabundance of bars and liquor licenses, resulting in late nightnight noise, garbage and other quality-of-life issues; rampant development; unscrupulous landlords; the lack of affordable housing; and the need for improved M.T.A. service in the neighborhood. Other issues discussed at the two-hour meeting included opposition to the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy; local religious institutions’ desire to be exempt from the city’s planned East Village/Lower East Side Historic District; the decline in funding for the New York City Housing Authority and its effect on the elderly and poor; and the need for more solar power and other energy-saving green projects in the neighborhood. One important development at the meeting came in response to a local resident’s complaint that the Lower East Side and East Village were “the filthiest neighborhoods in the city.” In response, Ignazio Terranova, a representative of the city’s Department of Sanitation, acknowledged the problem and said that his agency had recently been budgeted for an additional 401 Sanitation workers citywide, which will help improve garbage pickup in the area. Stringer told the Department of Sanitation official that he wants to set up a meeting between the agency and local residents to identify specific blocks where garbage pickup is poor. In another development, the borough president told several residents who voiced concern about the future of community gardens and farmers’ markets that he will push for the creation of a new city office — a Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets. Stringer added that instead of encouraging the growth of farmers’ markets, the city too often buries them in a maze of permit requirements and costly operating fees. “I have begun working with the city Parks Department to cut the red tape holding back so many of these markets,” he stated. The idea for a new Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets won support from Councilmember Mendez. Speaking after the meeting, she noted that the Parks Department has, over the years, had the responsibility for overseeing community gardens and farmers’ markets and “has done a great job of dealing with them. “I don’t know if the jurisdiction for the gardens would shift to that commissioner,” Mendez said. “We’d have to wait and see under a new mayoral administration if that would happen. But it’s a great idea for all the food markets, greenmarkets and little kiosks that sell fruits and vegetables in the city. We need someone to have oversight over them.” Stringer kicked off the standing-roomonly town hall meeting by declaring that the

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Borough President Scott Stringer answered after an audience member spoke about an issue of concern at Stringer’s East Village Town Hall meeting on Tuesday.

evening was “open mic night.” The borough president said that he and the various city agency representatives were eager to hear what was on residents’ minds and to see if they could be of assistance. The borough president reminded the audience that the Lower East Side and East Village has traditionally been the home for many immigrants coming to America seeking a better way of life. “We want to make sure that everyone can continue to live here,” he said, “and to keep this neighborhood a place where housing is avail-

‘We’ve got a lot of worthy buildings in this neighborhood and we should be hiring people to meet with local residents and historians to create a long-range plan [on landmarking].’ Scott Stringer

able for the poor, middle-class and wealthy.” One of the first concerns raised at the meeting focused on the issue of unscrupulous local landlords who, one resident said, were “wreaking havoc” and “taking advantage” of their tenants. The speaker cited as an example the case of 47 E. Third St., whose owners succeeded in emptying the entire, 15-unit, rent-regulated building

in order to create a five-story mansion for themselves. “We’re trying to get justice for people whose landlords are causing them a lot of heartache and pain,” Stringer responded. “I want to send a clear message to landlords like this one that they have to stand down.” The borough president also heard from Anthony Donovan, a member of a local interfaith organization whose houses of worship want to be exempt from the pending landmarked district. “We haven’t found a single politician to address our concerns,” Donovan said. “We’ve got a lot of worthy buildings in this neighborhood and we should be hiring people to meet with local residents and historians to create a long-range plan,” Stringer answered him. Several speakers raised concerns about a Houston-based gas company, Spectra Energy, which plans to build a high-pressure, natural gas pipeline from Jersey City to Gansevoort Peninsula near the Meat Market. This hydraulic fracturing procedure involves drilling deep into the earth and using explosives, millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals to break apart shale, creating fissures that would release the gas, which would be used for homes and businesses. Longtime local resident Jessica Roth told the borough president, “Fracking is not an environmental issue but a public health one.” She said that the gas released during this process contained toxic chemicals, such as radon, “the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers.” Stringer agreed that the push by the city to convert buses, boilers and power plants to methane and to supply all this extra gas via massive pipelines was “totally unsafe and dangerous,” and promised to create a coalition of concerned residents to “work on this issue.” The B.P. was joined by Assemblymember Kavanagh, who told Roth that “fracking was

not going to happen here. The governor is not going to let it happen. But we have to fight against this throughout the state.” One of the evening’s biggest complaints involved late-night noise and other qualityof-life issues. Judith Zaborowski, a member of the Ninth St. Block Association, said that calls to the Ninth Precinct about late-night street noise — mostly from “N.Y.U. students” leaving bars and nightclubs, she said — were falling on deaf ears. “This is a huge issue for us,” Deputy Inspector John Cappelmann, the precinct’s commanding officer, said. “There are more than 300 bars and restaurants in our precinct. It’s a continual battle that we have to fight, and we do monitor and respond to all complaints that we get.” Several residents spoke out about the need for better bus service for the Lower East Side and East Village, especially for residents living between Avenue D and First Ave. Stringer agreed and said what was needed was a “more stable stream of revenue for the M.T.A. so that they could expand their services.” The borough president said he was working on a plan to create “an infrastructure bank for mass transit called the New York City Transit Trust.” He said this trust would support crucial transportation public services in Manhattan. He also called for a restoration of the city’s commuter tax, which was repealed in 1999. “This will help fund and improve the transit system and get people who work in the city but live outside the five boroughs to add a few bucks to the M.T.A. budget,” Stringer said. In response to concerns about the financially struggling Housing Authority and new fees that are being imposed on residents — including senior citizens who cannot afford to pay more rent — Stringer said, it again, speaks to the need for adequate financing. “This is a very serious problem,” he said. “I plan to propose a number of strong reforms to help solve that agency’s budget problem.”

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Conscious weight loss: Lose pounds, boost energy CONVERSATIONS WITH HEALTH BY CHRISTOPHER HASSETT My sister’s wedding is coming up in three months and to look my best I need to lose some weight. My goal is 15 pounds. What’s the safest way to do this? — Lucinda, Lower East Side There are so many benefits to being at a weight that’s right for our body. One is, as you suggest, it allows us to look and feel our best. But the more important benefits come in how significantly being at an optimum weight reduces, reverses or even eliminates many of the chronic conditions that come with simply carrying too much weight, conditions such as high cholesteral, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, sleep disorders, depression, exhaustion and countless other maladies now plaguing Western society. How, then, should we go about getting to a weight we can be happy with long-term? And how to do this safely? Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, says perhaps the safest and easiest way to lose weight is to remove meat entirely from your

diet. By doing this, he says, you won’t even need to count calories, for the weight will fall off on its own. He speaks of an average weight loss of 22 pounds in one year on a diet without meat. A quicker approach, he says, is to remove all animal products from your diet. According to his studies, the average weight loss in doing this is 13 pounds in three months, which would nearly be your goal. A weekend fast to help cleanse the body of excess toxins could then easily take you over the top. There are good reasons why Barnard focuses on meat. As a percentage of its calories, meat is very high in fat. Beef at its leanest is 29 percent fat. Chicken is 21 percent. Fish tends to be lower, but a Chinook Salmon is surprisingly 50 percent fat, though only 15 to 30 percent of that fat is saturated, while beef is 50 percent saturated fat. All of which contributes not only to higher cholesteral and cancer rates, but difficulty in losing weight. But if meat is what you want, then eating less of it would certainly help. Meat, though, is not the sole culprit in why so many of us battle wildly with weight. Consider our options, which through large swaths of this country are decidedly few. Most obviously, fast food is everywhere. In nearly every city these businesses far outnumber restaurants that serve fresh, low-fat, highly nutritious meals. Drive through some of the smaller communities beyond the city and it’s commonplace to see entire towns

sauce has 2,140 calories! Eat this one burger and you’ve eaten more than a full day’s worth of calories. The namesake cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory has more than 1,500 calories in a single slice. A mere appetizer at T.G.I. Friday’s, aptly called Loaded Potato Skins, has more than 2,000 calories, 65 percent of which is fat! It becomes apparent that one meal while dining at these so-called “friendly� chains — an appetizer, main course and dessert — can easily total 6,000 calories with the addition of drinks — four days worth of calories in a single meal! This is criminally high and aggressively negligent when considering that the companies that serve these meals absolutely know how ruinous such high intakes of fat and calories can be to our bodies. Our supermarkets are no better, since they too are literally shelved with products that silently poison us and rapidly fatten us. But the most insidious influence snaking through it all is the relentless marketing directed at us every second of our lives, so that whether we believe it or not, we are continually being lured toward a more unhealthy way of eating. Consider for a moment the number of ads you see for quinoa or kale in a day? In contrast, how many do you see for Coke? For chips? Pizza? These three make up what many consider to be a light snack. Yet far from light, the three together count in at 700

swallowed whole by these establishments. But I see little point in singling out fast food, since it’s such an easy target. By now we’re all aware of the lethal long-term consequences such food has on our bodies. Instead, I’ll turn my gaze to those seemingly “safer� family restaurants that, in spite of the foamy sweetness they show us in their ads, in truth care nothing

A Chili’s jalapeùo smokehouse burger with jalapeùo sauce has 2,140 calories — more than a full day’s worth of calories! at all about our health. This is evidenced in the massive sums of fat and calories that go unmentioned yet wholly saturate their menus (though they quite happily tout the healthy stats on their few low-calorie dishes). There are, for instance, 940 calories in an Applebee’s bacon cheeseburger, far more than half of what a normal body requires in a single day. Nearly 60 percent of those calories come in the form of fat. A Chili’s jalapeùo smokehouse burger with jalapeùo

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EDITORIAL Margaret Chin and N.Y.U. On Tuesday, the City Council’s Land Use Committee voted overwhelmingly, by 19 to 1, to support New York University’s 2031 development plan for its two South Village superblocks. The resulting plan wasn’t what opponents were hoping for, but represents significant concessions by N.Y.U., and may be the best outcome achievable under the circumstances. The Bloomberg administration strongly supported the plan — as witnessed by the City Planning Commission’s earlier vote to approve the 20-year project. In any compromise, no one is ever completely satisfied. Six years ago, N.Y.U. started a public process to provide a rational and transparent planning process for the expansion of its facilities, which it said had not kept pace with its student body’s growth and the school’s changing nature from a commuter school to a worldclass university. Growing on its own footprint is an improvement to the university’s former approach of haphazardly finding development sites. Yet, the superblocks plan was an overreach and needed to be reined in. City Councilmember Margaret Chin and Borough President Scott Stringer — and City Planning, which nixed an N.Y.U. hotel from the project — have all played a part in paring the plan down. The earlier removal of a temporary gym was also a win for neighbors. Chin worked long and hard on this — her first major ULURP — to secure compromises from N.Y.U. And the concessions by the university are binding, agreed to in writing by N.Y.U. President John Sexton. Specifically, the Mercer St. Boomerang building has been shaved down significantly, from 11 stories to four. Its footprint, along with that of the LaGuardia Place Boomerang, has been reduced, which will take up less space within Washington Square Village, and make the complex’s courtyard seem less like a walled-off “college quad.” The Zipper building, which will replace Coles gym, has also been reduced in size and its mass shifted toward Houston St., so that the project will have less impact on residents living near the building’s northern end. Also important, N.Y.U. has agreed to maintain the open-space public strips on the superblocks at the same level as its privately owned public spaces on the blocks. Up till now, N.Y.U. has done an atrocious job in this regard, for example, allowing a playground on Mercer St. to become a condemned sinkhole, unusable by the public. This agreement will rectify that long-festering problem. In another major concession, N.Y.U. has agreed that — if the School Construction Authority doesn’t build a public school at the current Morton Williams supermarket site — then the university will include at least 25,000 square feet of space in a new building there for use by community groups, at a moderate rent. In her critical negotiations with the university during this process, Margaret Chin has handled herself as a competent and committed community leader. She has listened to all sides in this roiled debate, including her constituents, many of whom never gave her a reasonable road map to a final solution. Had they backed off of an unreasonable maximalist position of “no growth whatsoever in the core,” she might have been able to make more headway. Without any guidelines, they left her up against the N.Y.U. powers almost alone. The councilmember pushed N.Y.U. to make critical cuts in the project and provided novel community spaces and amenities. In this most important decision of her Council tenure, Margaret Chin stands tall.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR N.Y.U. is giving back already

Just a lame punk bully

To The Editor: Re: “High time N.Y.U. gave back” (letter, by Robin Rothstein, July 12): Robin Rothstein’s letter to the editor correctly notes that N.Y.U. has a responsibility to give back to Greenwich Village and the larger New York City community of which it has been a part for more than 180 years. That is, in fact, precisely what the university has done throughout its history; N.Y.U. is very proud of its distinguished record of community service. Last year, N.Y.U. students, faculty and staff provided more than 1.4 million hours of service through numerous local and national programs. To give a few examples: • N.Y.U.’s American Reads/America Counts program is the largest in the country and provides nearly 1,000 tutors working up to 12 hours a week in the New York City public schools; • The N.Y.U. Dental Van travels throughout the city providing free dental care to low-income children, and N.Y.U.’s dental clinic provides low-cost dental care to 50,000 people every year; • N.Y.U. contributed significant support to both the renovation of Washington Square Park and restoration of the Arch; • N.Y.U. provides annual support for the summer Washington Square Music Festival; • The N.Y.U. Civic Team arranges for more than 300 students each semester to work at 20 nonprofit agencies where they commit to a minimum of two hours of service per week; • N.Y.U.’s Jumpstart program places seven teams of 10 tutors each in Lower East Side nonprofit agencies to help preschool children; • Every year, N.Y.U. sponsors a team in the Greenwich Village Little League; • And the N.Y.U. Community Fund has raised and distributed more than $2 million since 1982 to support local nonprofit organizations. This is just a partial list of the many local programs and services where the university works with nonprofits and other organizations to improve the larger New York City community. Because of our record of community service, in March N.Y.U. was named with “Distinction” to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which recognizes schools that “reflect the values of exemplary community service.” As we move ahead with our N.Y.U. 2031 expansion, we look forward to working with the community to create a better N.Y.U. and a better New York City.

To The Editor: Re “Peed-off crusty threatens senior, trashes his glasses” (news article, July 12): I am not sure what a “crusty” is but I know a lame punk bully when I see one. I made a film about this sort of violent behavior in Washington Square Park back in 1994. Sad to see that the tradition lives on.

John Beckman Beckman is N.Y.U. vice president for public affairs

Lawrence White

Get real about Lynne Stewart! To The Editor: I call your attention to an article on Fri., June 29, in The New York Times, “10-year sentence for lawyer in terrorism case is upheld.” Your paper in the past has published articles favorable to Lynne Stewart. Puff pieces! Please print the truth about this woman who has aided terrorists! Her accomplice got 20 years! Ten is not enough! Joseph Marra

Color her a Chupi fan To The Editor: Re “Pompeii Red redo at Palazzo Chupi” (news article, July 12): Loved it pink and love it Pompeii Red. Glad photographer Toni Dalton tracks our evolving museum in the West Village. Miriam Chaikin

Imagining the damage To The Editor: Re “Chin must reduce N.Y.U. 2031 project’s scale” (editorial, July 5): N.Y.U. has spent a tremendous amount of money trying to push this expansion play down the throats of the Village. I didn't say “superblocks” on purpose. Our entire community would be damaged.

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A lifelong newsman looks back as he approaches 80 REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK BY ALBERT AMATEAU When did it start? Age 3 going on 4, stomping through half-empty house, shouting, “Where’s my printing set?” Gave explicit instructions to mother and father not to forget it in the move from Kings Highway, Brooklyn to Utopia Parkway, Queens. Don’t remember finding it. Copy boy, World Telegram & Sun (125 Barclay St. 1952?). Made friends with fellow copy boy a few years older who lived on Avenue A, Allen Ginsberg. He carried around a library book about the Mayans and said he was going to Yucatan to see the ruins, then hang out with friends in San Francisco. Ginsberg tells me about visiting Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s asylum in Washington, D.C. Shows me a typescript of his own poems with a short blurb by William Carlos Williams. I show him a poem I had written with some not-verygood rhymes. His critique: “Forget that tired crap.” Copy boy on New York Post (75 West St., 1956?), working midnight-to-8 a.m. shift: July 25, 1956, city room frantic. Andrea Doria bound for New York collides off Nantucket with outbound Swedish-American liner Stockholm. “[Post publisher] Dorothy Schiff’s grandson and ex-daughter-in-law, [film actress] Ruth Roman are aboard. Look for them. Take a copy boy with you,” says night city editor to man on rewrite desk, who takes me. We do not find Ruth Roman. She lands the next day, rescued by the Ile de France. Her son, Richard Hall, 3, arrives July 27 aboard the Stockholm, which came in under her own power. Andrea Doria capsized and sank, 1,660 rescued, about 50 were lost, including five or six Stockholm crew. Receive free press ticket to “Waiting for Godot,” first Broadway production, with Burt Lahr, E.G. Marshall. Still remember that bleak, funny, compelling performance. Lafayette, Louisiana. Daily Advertiser, 1956, first job as a staff reporter. South Louisiana, many country people speak Cajun French. Politics divided between Long and

Anti-Long. (Earl Long, Last of the Red Hot Poppas and Huey’s brother, is governor.) Beat includes City Hall, police, fire. Later, I’m editor of real estate and oil-exploration pages, knowing nothing about either. “You ever smoke marijuana?” asks Police Chief Carlo P. Listi, who invites me in, introduces me to a couple of narcotics agents from Houston. Funny smell in the police station. Gives me a skinny cigarette and lights me up. “You got to hold it in a little bit,” instructs a very relaxed agent. “How do you like it?” asks Listi. I shrug, “O.K.”

After Hurricane Audrey, my editor sent me with a Speed Graphic camera to fly over the area in a threeseat, single-engine plane. I got surprisingly good shots of the devastation.

Agent looks at me with pity, says, “Don’t know how to smoke weed, eh?” Lafayette was second stop on their “Beware the Weed” tour, with 90 miles still to go before New Orleans. Yet another day, publisher calls me upstairs about lawsuit for a million dollars filed by white plaintiff against Daily Advertiser naming me for “impugning his honor as a Southern gentleman” in a police item about a brawl over “a colored girl.” Suit soon dismissed. Beat includes weekly Rotary Club lunch where Tennessee Governor Frank Clement appears — one of several stops he makes across the South in 1957 — to justify calling state National Guard to quell riot was dropped following integration of Clinton, Tenn., Central High School. File story at Western

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As a Park Enforcement Patrol officer arrested a crusty on Monday, the handcuffed man’s friends vehemently protested, one giving the officer the finger.

Spitting-mad crusty gets collared in dogs dust-up Dogs running off the leash where they shouldn’t on a grass lawn in the northeast section of Washington Square Park around 6:30 p.m. Mon., July 16, brought Park Enforcement Police officers to the area. Four so-called “crusties” — young homeless travelers, apparent dog owners, who frequent the neighborhood — were asked for ID and all but one said they had none. Police said one of the suspects refused to give his name, denied ownership of the dogs, and then spit in the arresting officer’s face. He was immediately arrested. The other three yelled at the PEP officers as they were trying to handcuff the spitter, identified as Robert Milburn, 27, who was charged with obstructing government administration.

One woman made certain to call out the names of the officers. Another pointed out that cameras were on the officers, and shouted that she hoped they’d enjoy “being on YouTube tomorrow.” Police said Milburn had possession of a hypodermic needle when he was arrested. On Sun., July 15, in another crusty-dogrelated incident in Washington Square Park, one of the young travelers harassed a senior after the latter complained about the crusty’s pooch peeing in the fountain. When the senior tried to call 911, the crusty pushed him, ripped his sunglasses off his face and stomped on them, breaking them.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Summer stars of jazz and indie Forgo outdoor fests, and beat the heat with music in the Village

Unsung jazz hero Lew Tabackin will lead a high-powered trio, featuring bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Shinnosuke Takahashi, at Smalls Jazz Club on July 27.

BY SAM SPOKONY With the thermometer hitting the triple digits for days on end, I don’t blame you for wanting to stay inside — and while New York hosts some of the nation’s best outdoor music festivals every summer, we shouldn’t neglect the equally exciting shows taking place inside the wealth of excellent East and West Village venues. So feel free to get some sun — but don’t feel compelled to run all the way out to the beaches or parks when it comes to taking in tunes of all shapes, sizes and subgenres. With that in mind, I’ve looked deeply into my crystal ball of coming events in the worlds of jazz and indie/rock music, and have come up with several tips to increase your live listening pleasure over the next month. Aside from including both fast-rising young artists and revered elder statesmen, these listings also feature some of the best values in town —no higher than $35 for jazz and $20 for indie, with a couple of freebies thrown into the mix — because some of us can’t drop $200 on tickets for Justin Bieber at MSG…and why should we, when there’s more affordable and eclectic fare to be had?

JAZZ While Brooklyn-based pianist John Lander isn’t quite old enough to order a beer, his melodic control and keen sense of harmonic layering belie his age. The SUNY Purchase conservatory student has the rare ability to approach both decades-old standards and contemporary tunes with the same level of energy and fresh invention. Check him out at Caffe Vivaldi (32 Jones St., btw. Bleecker & W. Fourth Sts.) on July 24 at 8:30pm, and you’ll see what I mean. Whether it’s with Duke Ellington’s classic “C Jam Blues” played in two keys at once, or a surprisingly deep Deadmau5 cover, this kid’s going to show you that jazz hasn’t stopped evolving. And

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Young Magic, led by producer and vocalist Isaac Emmanuel (right), will bring their brand of indie electronica to the Mercury Lounge on July 29.

to top it off, there’s no cover charge. For more info, visit caffevivaldi.com. Speaking of evolution, I won’t be the first one to tell you that there are a number of jazz instrumentalists who haven’t become household names, even though they’ve played a vital role in pushing the music forward. Tenor saxophonist and flautist Lew Tabackin, who turned 72 this year, falls squarely into that category — so if you haven’t heard him blow yet, get off your couch and get schooled! Aside from spending three decades as the head soloist in a cutting-edge big band led by his wife (pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi), Tabackin has recorded with icons like Clark Terry, Hank Jones and Charlie Haden. Now you can see him at Smalls Jazz Club (183 W. 10th St., btw. W. Fourth St. & Seventh Ave.) on July 27 and 28 at 10pm, for a $20 cover. For the back-to-back shows, Tabackin will be leading a trio featuring bassist Boris Kozlov — who also does a hell of a job leading the Charles Mingus Big Band — and drummer Shinnosuke Takahashi. Tickets can’t be reserved, so you’ll have to pay your cover at the door. For more information, visit smallsjazzclub.com. If the straight-ahead stuff isn’t enough, and you’re up for an act that stretches the boundaries of jazz outside both the genre and the American border, look no further than Farah Siraj and The Arabian Jazz Project. Siraj, a vocalist who was recently named the Musical Ambassadress of her home country of Jordan, now leads

an ethnically diverse quintet — with musicians from the U.S., Spain, Syria and Georgia — on a quest to blend Middle Eastern rhythms with Western jazz harmonies. They’re doing it with everything from traditional Arabian folk tunes to original compositions in contemporary styles, and you can experience some of the culture shock for yourself at Drom (85 Ave. A, btw. Fifth & Sixth Sts.) on August 4 at 9:30pm. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased in advance at dromnyc.com. And it wouldn’t hurt to see four of jazz’s greatest living musicians all at once, right? That’s what you’ll get if you come out to see Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock and Joey Baron as they celebrate the release of their new album, “Enfants Terribles,” with a five-night run at the Blue Note (131 W. Third St., btw. MacDougal St. & Sixth Ave.). Just writing about it is making me sweat — and I think I just coughed up a few minor ninth chords in anxious anticipation. Saxophonist Konitz, guitarist Frisell, bassist Peacock and drummer Baron have all left their mark on the last half-century of the jazz tradition as individual leaders — but this is the first time they’re joining forces to bring the best of the old school to the 21st century. And there’s a chance for everyone to take a listen, as the quartet will perform two sets per night — at 8pm and 10:30pm — from August 15-19. Tickets cost $20 for a bar seat and $35 for a table, and

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Tea-themed art project is steeped in history BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK Michele Brody’s installation at Hudson Guild’s Gallery II, “Reflections in Tea — stories and poetry on recycled tea bags,” draws on a proverb by the Baltis (an ethnic group of Tibetan descent who live in the northernmost mountainous region of Pakistan), quoted in Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”: “The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family.” To this time-honored notion of family, Brody — the visual artist in residence at the Guild’s senior center — has combined the ritual of preparing and serving tea and spiked it with her own special admixture: repurposing tea-soaked bags as writing paper to stimulate a community sharefest. “What I proposed to do with the tea project was not just interacting with students, but with the whole community, opened up to everybody,” said Brody. During the first half of her residency (which ends in August), Brody and Brooklyn poet Gary Glazner have collaborated on two CommuniTea with Poetry events in the gallery — where participants served tea to one another and wrote and shared their thoughts, poems and reminiscences of the multi-faceted infusion. These writings and others line the southern and eastern walls like a patchwork quilt — more than 500 contributions from individual and group tea ceremonies she has hosted while at the Guild and other venues. The aromatic loose leaf teas and elongated German-made “t-sacs” were donated by serendipiTea of Manhasset, Long Island. The sacs are made from abaca, a very strong fiber from the inside of a banana tree. “They can take getting wet and still retain their form,” explained Brody. “I let them dry out and iron them flat, and they become like writing paper.” The resultant seven-inch-long by fourinch-wide surfaces create unique variegated earth-toned stain patterns — reminiscent of the mountain ranges where tea is cultivated, said Brody. Brody serves the tea in handmade pinch pot teacups (diminutive bowls without handles) made by artists from the Guild’s ceramics studio. Ava McNamee, who teaches ceramics here and at Penn South, was one of the contributing artists. “Michele introduced me to the process of dipping the cup in tea and letting it stay for a while to get stained, which produces a beautiful crackle effect,” said McNamee. When not in use, the cups share a display case with canisters of tea varieties and Brody’s handmade tea purses, tea books and “Reflections in Tea” catalogue, which are all for sale. Brody also invites gallery visitors to take tea inside an open structure resembling a Japanese teahouse, which you crouch down to get into and then sit on comfortable mats. The frame is constructed solely of copper pipe, and the stories (attached only

at their tops) give the illusion of fluttering walls or mini window shades. “The copper pipe is a beautiful color,” observed Brody. “It goes well with tea, but also represents how liquid runs through the inside of our homes and brings it out into the light of the community.” Also on exhibit are selections from Brody’s previous solo show, the first installment of her residency, “Drawing Roots” — drawings on handmade paper that she produced by planting flax seeds in recycled linen/flax pulp that sprouted as if planted in soil. As the seedlings grow, their roots migrate below, etching their way into the paper and creating spider-like patterns. Native New Yorker Brody, 45, a former Chelsea resident now living in Harlem, has been working with tea and material for a long time to “express what I love — the colors, smell, taste, especially the stains — as part of my daily life,” she said. Brody admitted to drinking all kinds of tea three times a day, all day long, and saving her own tea bags to write on. “I was going through a breakup and writing everything I was feeling. It was very cathartic. It was nothing I wanted to show, but the idea of writing on tea bags intrigued me, treating them like journal pages.” That evolved into collecting other people’s reflections about tea. At the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in 2007, she rented a coffee cart and invited people to sit and have tea with her. She has since brought her roving tea ceremony to the Henry Street Settlement, and (in a pushcart) to the Tenement Museum, among other New York cultural institutions. Brody was influenced by her travels abroad, where she observed tea’s strong links to family, community and tradition. In England, where it’s cold and wet, afternoon tea fortifies. In Japan, the tea ceremony is highly ritualized and studied for years to perfect. In the Middle East, besides tea as hospitality, it is also used as a means of doing business, as anyone who has ever bargained in Morocco can attest. Tea was first cultivated in China over 4,000 years ago, although today, India has become the largest exporter. The strong, hot brew remains extremely popular in Asia and is steeped in tradition and myths. When Brody was invited to a fifthgrade class in Chinatown on Career Day, one of the Chinese students recounted on his tea bag a well-known legend, learned in childhood:

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Michele Brody makes tea, in preparation for collecting reflections.

“A Buddhist monk kept falling asleep when he tried to meditate. This monk got so frustrated that he eventually cut out his own eyelids. The first tea bush grew in the spot where his eyelids fell.” Photo by Bonnie Rosenstock

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Wall of thoughts: After sharing tea with Michele Brody, Hudson Guild seniors wrote poems, reminiscences and memorials.

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The great indoors: Jazz and indie music, at Village venues Continued from page 15 you can purchase table tickets in advance at bluenote.com. Tickets for bar seats can only be purchased at the door, and they’re first-come, first-served.

INDIE/ROCK Lovers of the musically trippy should by all means converge at the Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St., btw. Ludlow & Essex Sts.) on July 29 — where you’ll find two acts that come from opposite angles to achieve equal amounts of catchiness and weirdness. Quilt, a Boston-based indie-folk trio, radiates a cosmic wave of jangly guitars and three-part harmonies that recalls the soul of the ’60s — while washing that soul in chorus effects that are thick enough to kill a small horse. Young Magic is an electronica trio led by Australian-born producer Isaac Emmanuel, whose most recent project involved sampling and recording songs, piece-by-piece, over the course of a sixmonth trip around the world. This combination should be one that captures everything great about the blend of high-tech instrumentation and lo-fi grit that’s been an indie trademark for years, so don’t miss it. Doors open at 7pm, and

As RJD2 continues to mix samples from the worlds of rock, hip-hop and electronica into a whole that’s much greater than the sum of its parts, it’s worth hearing him on such a big stage.

tickets cost $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show. To purchase tickets, visit mercuryloungenyc.com. Amy Vachal: so dreamy. And I don’t just say that because she’s young and attractive. Her voice may actually be angelic enough to permeate and hover within your subconscious mind. She’s a songwriter and guitarist at heart, combining passionate lyrics with upbeat tunes that are folk-tinged and pop-friendly — but Vachal also shines while reinterpreting cheesy old standards like “La Vie En Rose” in understated, self-accompanied solos. Don’t believe me? Go check her out for yourself at Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St., btw. E. Houston & Stanton Sts.) on August 2 at 9pm. And there’s no cover charge, so feel free to buy yourself that extra drink. For more information, visit rockwoodmusichall.com. Now, I know some people are just going to treat this next event as a massive dance party. That’s fine, but I still think there’s plenty of listening value in it for anyone like me, who would rather watch paint dry than dance continually for three hours. I’m talking about electro mastermind RJD2, who’s going to be playing a set at Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St., btw. Third & Fourth Aves.) on August 3 at 10pm. For more than a decade, he’s been one of the most adventurous and stylistically open-minded producers in the nation, while never losing his straightup skills as a DJ and instrumentalist. As RJD2 continues to mix samples from the worlds of rock, hip-hop and electronica into a whole that’s much greater than the sum of its parts, it’s worth hearing him on such a big stage. Tickets cost $20, and can be purchased in advance at websterhall.com. And finally, since it’s always nice to end with a flourish, I give you instrumental rock mainstay Russian Circles. With a wide dynamic range that runs from seriously heavy breakdowns to swirling, ethereal improvisations, the Chicago-based trio quickly became known for their way-better-than-therecord live shows when they first hit the scene around 2004, and that repu-

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Sampling mastermind RJD2 will blend rock, hip-hop, electro and indie in an energetic solo set at Webster Hall on August 3.

tation has never faded. Catch them at Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th St., btw. Ninth & Tenth Aves.) on August 18 at 8:30pm. The opening bill for this one is also worth hearing, comprising the deeply brooding singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe and the inventively grungy power trio Marriages. But don’t you dare bring earplugs. You take that high-volume distortion — and you take it like a (gender-neutral) man. Tickets cost $15 in advance and $18 on the day of the show, and you can purchase them at highlineballroom.com. And that’s that! Happy listening to all, and don’t forget to tip your bartender. If you have any questions, suggestions or hidden secrets about sweet shows on and under the Village radar, drop me a line at samspokony@gmail.com.

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At Hudson Guild, write a cup of tea Continued from page 16 At the Guild, however, the predominantly Hispanic senior population doesn’t have a tea-drinking culture and couldn’t connect with it, said Brody. Many refused to drink tea because it brought up associations with being ill as children and forced to drink medicinal tea; chamomile and ginger are still used as digestives. Although not all participants were tea lovers, they were still encouraged to express themselves. One woman offered her perspective, in Spanish (translated): “I always enjoy coffee, but when someone special comes to my house, I always offer them hot tea because I believe it’s the best. I feel very happy to offer tea. It’s so elegant. They return to see me, thanks to my tea.”

A native English-speaking woman, also not a fan, proposed: “tea? not for me! offer me beer I’ll drink it with cheer” Another contributor used the occasion to memorialize a departed friend. She drew a teapot and wrote: “Tea with Edie (a lover of teas & teapots) A memory, a mourning Tea, then tears…” When Jim Furlong, the Guild’s director of arts, first saw Brody’s portfolio a couple of years ago, he was impressed with how original her art was and offered her the residency. “She takes these unusual elements — roots, earth, tea bags

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and stains — and made beautiful, somewhat abstract, art out of it,” he said. “She creates a very magical, other-worldly aura. It’s hard to pin down a category for what she does, and she resists it and persuades me to resist it also.” Furlong holds his weekly class, “The Lively Arts,” in the gallery, where Brody gave an interactive session with his students. Ellen Wagner is still mulling over what Brody imparted. “I am in the process of writing something on many papers,” she said. Wagner, who also helped out at the June 21 opening reception, is leaning towards writing about Brody, “someone breaking the standard rules for artistic treatment by making canvases of tea bags. I have never seen this before.” The dark bean forces have supplanted our once-thriving pre-World War II green tea-drinking culture. Just over 100 years ago, the U.S. introduced iced tea to the world at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. If anyone noticed, June was National Iced Tea Month. According

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Ellen Wagner, writing down her thoughts on a tea bag.

to statistics, more than 40 billion cold cups are consumed annually — impressive for a Starbucks-sucking nation. Hopefully, this exhibit will give tea the pick-me-up it deserves. “Reflections in Tea — stories and poetry on recycled tea bags” takes place through Aug. 7, at Hudson Guild Fulton Center, Guild Gallery II (119 Ninth Ave., btw. 17th & 18th Sts.). Viewing hours: Wed., Thurs., Fri., 3-6pm and by appointment (contact michele@michelebrody.com). For more information, visit hudsonguild.org.

Thurs., Aug. 2 at 6:30pm. At the Tenement Museum Visitor Center and Museum Shop (103 Orchard St., SW corner of Delancey St.). Seating is first-come, first-served. For tickets, call 877-975-3786 or visit tenement.org. For info, call 212-982-8420. Admission is $25 ($45 with purchase of the book).

TENEMENT TALKS: “FERMENTED NEW YORK” Part history lesson, part lecture, part author meet and greet: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s Tenement Talks series consistently informs and engages by shining a light on famous, infamous and forgotten aspects of New York City culture. Gangsters, poets, pugilists and vanishing storefront shops are among our favorite past topics — but the series is at its mind-feeding best when food is on its plate (which is often; check out their website to listen to all 75 minutes of June 19’s “Behind the Scenes: Goldie Lustgarten’s Kosher Butcher Shop and the Riot of 1902”). Scholar and self-proclaimed “fermentation revivalist” Sandor Katz rhapsodizes about the 7,000+ year-old tradition that gives some added character to bread, coffee, pickles, beer, cheese, yogurt and…more. In addition to citing facts, figures and anecdotes from his book “The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World,” Katz will delve into all aspects of New York’s own unique pickling traditions — then conclude with a home pickling workshop and tasting.

BARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM RESTORATION WORKSHOP Like the East Village’s own Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. Fourth St.), the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum provides the public with a rare opportunity to see life as it was lived in the 1800s. Now, for the second consecutive summer, Bartow-Pell’s Shutter Shop on Shore Road Restoration Workshop will allow you to do more than just tour the last of the country estates in the Pelham Bay area. Help restore the Green Revival mansion’s interior wooden shutters — from the mansion bedroom where its prized Charles-Honoré Lannuier bedstead is located. With special attention paid to curatorial, preservation and environmental considerations, participants will learn how to safely handle lead paint removal, make appropriate carpentry repairs, prime and paint. Then they’ll put those new skills to use. Mon., July 30 through Fri., Aug. 3, 9am-4pm. At the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx). The workshop is $295 for the week and includes snacks, lunch, instruction, materials and insurance. Guest speakers and mansion tours are sched-

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A right proper pickle: On August 2, Tenement Talks guest Sandor Katz rhapsodizes about fermented foods.

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uled during the lunch break. Participants must be 18 or over. Registration is required. Call 718-885-1461 or email info@bpmm.org. The mansion and carriage house are open to the public for guided tours every Wed., Sat., & Sun., from noon to 4pm. The gardens and grounds are open daily from 8:30am to dusk. Mansion admission is $5 adults, $3 for students/seniors and free for children under six. Visiting the garden and grounds is free. For more info, visit bpmm.org .

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A Cooled Star at Peace Rodriguez’s Detroit music career sputtered, yet inspired creative voices of protest in South Africa FILM SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

Documentary Directed by Malik Bendjelloul Opens July 27 At The Angelika Film Center 18 W. Houston St. (at Mercer St.) For info, visit angelikafilmcenter.com

BY STEVE ERICKSON The history of rock music is littered with artists who sold few albums during their lifespan but eventually had an impact far beyond their sales figures. Brian Eno famously said that very few people bought the Velvet Underground’s first album but all of them went out and started a band. The deliberately robotic, all-electronic German band Kraftwerk had only one mainstream hit in the US, 1975’s “Autobahn,” but its music clicked with African-American communities in the Bronx and Detroit, influencing techno and early hip-hop. Detroit-based singer and songwriter Rodriguez, the subject of the documentary “Searching For Sugar Man,” released two albums in the early ‘70s, which bombed in the US, but, unbeknownst to him, sold half a million copies in apartheid-era South Africa. His protest songs, inspired by the decay of Detroit, helped South African musicians find their own creative voice to fight back against their government in the ‘70s and ‘80s. “Searching For Sugar Man” is structured, in something of an artificial fashion, like a mystery dating back to the 1990s. The director seems to have made it for an audience that doesn’t know Rodriguez is still alive. However, I can’t imagine it playing to anyone other than fans of singer/ songwriters of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Despite the reissue of his two albums by the Light in the Attic label in 2009, Rodriguez remains obscure in the US. The film begins with director Malik Bendjelloul talking to a record store owner nicknamed “Sugar” (after “Sugar Man,” the Rodriguez song from which the film takes its name) and investigating the lurid rumors South African fans had for years told themselves about Rodriguez’s onstage suicide. Even a chat with Clarence Avant, the owner of Rodriguez’s American label Sussex Records, doesn’t clear up the question of where he is. Only when a webmaster who runs a Rodriguez fan site receives a message from his daughter Eva do the artist’s whereabouts become evident. In turn, Rodriguez, learning of his popularity in South Africa, tours arenas there in 1998. “Searching For Sugar Man” is an optimistic film about the counterculture of the

Detroit-based singer and songwriter Rodriguez in the 1970s.

‘60s and early ‘70s, managing to rescue the notion of music as a force for political change from the dustbin of cliché and baby boomer self-congratulation. It helps that the film’s subject is such an obscure artist and that it focuses on his impact in South Africa. The fact that Bendjelloul is Swedish — and, given his name, presumably of Arab descent — adds another layer to the cross-cultural interplay. Like last year’s Swedish-made “The Black Power Mixtape,” “Searching For Sugar Man” excavates America’s buried legacy of radical politics. Rodriguez has frequently been compared to Bob Dylan, but Phil Ochs is the singer whom he most closely resembles. The documentary “Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune,” released last year, portrayed the singer/ songwriter as a ‘60s casualty, unable to adjust when his utopian dreams didn’t come true and the times grew more conservative. Its final third showed Ochs mired in alcoholism, paranoia (perhaps justified), and depression, culminating in suicide. By contrast, Rodriguez is a survivor. The song “Sugar Man” is an ode to a drug dealer, but if he overindulged in the sugar man’s treats, the film never mentions it. Rodriguez seems to have taken the American commercial failure of his two albums in stride. (He began a third album but never finished it, and the film doesn’t go into the story of its making.) He returned to working-class life but remained politically active, even running for mayor of Detroit in 1981. His daughters testify that although they grew up poor, he took them to libraries and museums. Interviewed by Bendjelloul, he says he’s not sure the stardom and money he should have enjoyed from his South African success would have changed his life for the better. His interview segments are notable for how taciturn he seems; Rodriguez comes across at once as both aloof and humble. “Searching For Sugar Man” may play like a thriller at times, but despite

the hints of suicide and despair, it comes with a happy ending. Once Rodriguez introduces himself into the picture, the film’s personality changes. It becomes a portrait of a man who outlasted his times and went on to live

in peace, unlike Ochs or Janis Joplin (about whom he wrote a tribute song of sorts). In his trip to South Africa, he finds an unlikely kind of homecoming few of us are likely to be lucky enough to experience.

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Judge’s book gives inside view of life on the bench Continued from page 1 Block from cradle in Brooklyn (June 6, 1934) through an upward-rising 15-year law career on Long Island to appointment (July 22, 1994) by President Bill Clinton to the federal bench, and everything before and since. On the back cover of “Disrobed” there is even a nice blurb by President Bill Clinton — “No,” says the bagel-eater, “we’ve never actually met” — regarding Judge Block’s “engaging, often humorous…introduction to the world of a federal judge whose decisions are subject to plenty of public scrutiny but whose decision-making process remains a mystery for most Americans.” Plenty of public scrutiny? How about the Crown Heights race riots of August 1991, which set the entire city boiling and ended up a dozen years later in Judge Block’s courtroom with the third trial of Lemrick Nelson for the murder of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. After four days of fruitless deliberations by the jurors, with Judge Block thinking, “My God, don’t tell me there’s going to be yet another trial,” he sent them home one last time. The next day — August 20, 2003 — they came in with a verdict: Lemrick Nelson guilty, not of murder but of violating Yankel Rosenbaum’s civil rights. From the “Disrobed” chapter on Race Riots: “I sentenced Nelson to 10 years. It was the maximum under the law…[and] an easy call.” Not so easy was Judge Block’s reaction when he opened the newspapers the next day and saw that “I was vilified by a columnist for the New York Post… [I]n his article…Steve Dunleavy wrote that he was ‘still reeling from the message given by wacky jurors and a judge who sent them up a blind alley…spitting in the face of a more sensible jurist.’

‘Yes, I think some of the attacks on Obama are racist in some parts of the country, yes.’

“I have no idea what he was talking about,” says Frederic Block in his book — and now, over his Saturday-morning bagel and coffee, was interested to hear from this former New York Post slave that Steve Dunleavy was, or had been in my time, one of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s jovial, unscrupulous Australian pets. In short, that any opinions uttered by Dunleavy could be considered Murdoch’s opinions. “Stupid comments,” the judge now muttered, half under his breath. “Stupid and irresponsible.” But maybe not as, shall we say, irresponsible as the front-page “wood” — the huge, front-page, 72-point headline — in the New York Daily News the morning after Judge Block’s declaration during the 2007 murder trial of a Queens-based thug named Kenneth (“Supreme”) McGriff that for the government “to seek McGriff’s execution” would be “absurd” and “a total misappropriation” of taxpayer funds. That Daily News wood, the next day: “JUDGE BLOCKHEAD.” “It’s stupid and dangerous,” says that judge again, “but what are you supposed to do? You have to live with it.” Does any of this work — your decisions — ever get to you? I ask the judge. “No… Well, sometimes. If you have a doubt, your mind keeps working. It bothers you. But as a general proposition, no.” Pauses. Then: “I gave that Carreto boy [convicted of overlording the white slavery of young Mexican-born prostitutes] 50 years. I was going to give him 35 years, but he showed no remorse for his victims, so I tacked on 15 years. Just could not tolerate the way he behaved. It was a proper sentence, but…a little on the heavy side… .”

Judge Frederic L. Block.

A little on the light side are sentences that bring out the quality of mercy, strained or unstrained. For instance in the matter of Aaron Myvett, a wrongo who’d never known a father or had any other break in life. Myvett had made the government happy by turning state’s evidence in a drug case, but could still have received up to 20 years in prison. On sentencing day he showed up in court with astonishing drawings of Mother Teresa and some of Myvett’s fellow inmates. “Everyone did a double take… . I was intrigued. I adjourned the sentence to explore with the Probation Department whether there might be some way to give Myvett an opportunity to exploit his talent during [a five-year] term of supervised release.” The way was found: a Catholic school where Aaron Myvett would decorate the kindergarten with Disney cartoons. He also gave Judge Block a likeness of Judge Block. It hangs by the Judge’s desk to this day. What are the risks — of violent assault, up to and including murder, in or out of the courtroom — faced by federal and other judges every day, every night? Not many, but enough. After he’d been visited one day by an F.B.I. agent “who looked like he came right out of central casting” and conveyed to the judge the news that a mobster named Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso “had sworn to kill me,” Frederic Block thought he’d better do a little research into “whether I would be the first federal judge who would be assassinated.” And found out that “if Gaspipe had his way, I would be the fourth during the last two decades.” So what do you do, mentally, in the face of such risks? Like Samuel Beckett’s two eternal tramps in “Waiting for Godot,” you just go on. “I feel badly about only one thing. My innocent grandchildren, Jordan, Kyra, Kelsey, Brandon and Ryan, have to go through school being called Little Blockheads.” The great-grandfather of those five children — the judge’s father — was Norman Louis Block, “always just called Lou,” and their great-grandmother was Florence Ferman Block. Lou Brock started out “in the clothing business, inexpensive men’s clothing,” and then went into the more fruitful telephoneanswering business, which took the family out to Long Island. One of the judge’s two brothers, Leonard, is still alive and kicking at 87. Their brother Sheldon died far too young at 39. Frederic Block got his B.A. from Indiana University in 1956, his L.L.B. from Cornell University in 1959. From 1961 to 1994 — 33 years — he practiced law on an ascending scale at Patchogue, Port Jefferson, Centereach and Smithtown. Indeed the first 120 pages of “Disrobed” may teach you more about 33 years of Long Island law offices, law cases and (mostly Republican) politics than you ever wanted to know, climaxing in Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) recommending Frederic Block’s appointment to the federal bench, on the advice

of highly respected New York legal eagle Judah Gribetz. But that section of “Disrobed” will also surprise you — or did me — with the information that from May 22 to June 15, 1984, an amiable, suburbia-slanted, little Off Broadway show called “Professionally Speaking,” music by Frederic Block, lyrics by Frederic Block, produced by Frederic Block, ran for 37 performances at St. Peter’s Church, Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, where the York Players are presently ensconced. The press agent had been my old acquaintance Shirley Herz. “We tried it out first in Port Jefferson,” says the Frederic Block who looks rather like a onetime professional wrestler some years on. “We got good reviews. Then one day I received a call from Tony Tanner” — the British-born actor-director. “I put on a suit and went to see him. He met me in an orange bathrobe” — and became the director of 1984’s “Professionally Speaking.” It was when Frederick Block was appointed to the bench that he moved to Manhattan — first to West 77th Street, across from the side entrance of the Museum of Natural History, then to King Street in Greenwich Village, then (and ever since) to the far West Village near where I first lived many years ago. Frederic Block’s children — variously the parents of those grandchildren — are Neil, age 50, a labor lawyer on Long Island, and Nancy, 49, a social worker in Oregon. He is divorced from their mother after 47 years of marriage — and, according to the book, after sessions over many of those years with no fewer than seven marriage counselors and several shrinks. Yes, he has a girlfriend — Betsy, “the wonderful GreekAmerican girl” to whom the book is dedicated. Indeed, even as we talked, Judge Block was preparing to visit Greece “and meet the U.S. ambassador there and give him a copy of the book.” There is a United States courthouse smack at each end of the Brooklyn Bridge, Judge Block works on the Brooklyn side — in addition, of course, to the home in Greenwich Village where he will often start writing at 2 or 3 o’clock in a sleepless morning. He gave forth with this book, he says, all by computer and all by himself. The vast source material was “newspapers, my opinions, transcripts of trials, decisions that I wrote.” Not to mention sheer memory. He draws breath, then says, à la Proust: “I was able to recapture my past.” No, he says, you didn’t have to be a registered Democrat to get Pat Moynihan’s nod, or Justice Judah Gribetz’s boost, or Bill Clinton’s stamp on one’s appointment to the federal bench, but “Yes, I’m an Obama supporter, and yes, I think some of the attacks on him are racist in some parts of the country, yes.” This is a book that, for my money, picks up steam as it goes along, with sections on “Getting There” and “Being There” all leading up to the eminently readable last 200 pages of “Being There,” broken into eight subsections. These are: Death — i.e., death-penalty headaches, verdicts and entanglements, notably the case of — see above — Kenneth (“Supreme”) McGriff. Racketeering — with focus on the paparazzi-blanketed trial of Peter Gotti, older brother of the late John Gotti — “the most difficult and lengthy trial which I…ever had.” Those paparazzi woke up the day that Judge Block’s girlfriend Betsy, turning up as a courtroom spectator in Cartier aviator sunglasses, high heels and short skirt, unknowingly sat herself down among the similarly garbed Gotti female support fringe. But comedy gives way to tragedy when, after Gotti’s conviction, one of that support fringe — Peter Gotti’s own most loyal lover, Marjorie Alexander — checks into a Nassau County motel, ties a bag over her head, and kills herself. Marjorie Alexander? One couldn’t help thinking of Susan Alexander — the second Mrs. Charles Foster Kane — as so brilliantly portrayed by Dorothy Comingore in you know what greatest of movies. Guns — a long and far-ranging expository chapter that perhaps may be summed up by its citing from Bob Herbert in The New York Times “that there are 283 million privately owned firearms in America, that someone is killed by a gun in this country every 17 minutes, that eight American children are shot to death every

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A lifelong newsman looks back as he approaches 80 Continued from page 13 Union office to AP regional desk. June 25, 1957, Hurricane Audrey makes landfall with 140 mile-per-hour wind and 15-foot storm surge in Vermillion Parish just south of Lafayette. Next morning, editor sends me with Speed Graphic camera to fly over the area in three-seat, single-engine plane. When pilot banks, I point camera out of window and shoot. Surprised at good photos of devastation. First estimate: 200 deaths. Editor makes me lowball it down to 40. Deaths eventually total 400 in Vermillion and Cameron parishes. Syracuse Post Standard’s North Country bureaus in Ogdensburg and Watertown, 1959, record cold and snow. St. Lawrence River ice stops ferry service between Ogdensburg, N.Y., and Prescott, Ontario. State editor assigns me to inquire about possibility of cars crossing the river on tops of St. Lawrence Seaway dams. Seaway Authority chief Robert Moses does not return phone call. Ogdensburg Bureau includes State Court in Canton, N.Y. Cover “deer-jacking” cases against defendants hunting at night and shining flashlights in deers’ eyes. Watertown Bureau: John Foster Dulles, U.S. secretary of state, January 1953 to April 1959, dies in May 1959. State editor assigns me the obituary because Dulles grew up in Watertown and used to sail from nearby Henderson Harbor yacht club on east end of Lake Ontario. Obituary made Post Standard front page all editions. Assigned to cover Queen Elizabeth II 1959

visit to Kingston, Ont. Took photos with Speed Graphic. Not very good. Knowing nothing about millinery, hired by Millinery Research in 1961 as editor of 12-to16-page trade weekly with office in center of budget millinery district, W. 39th St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves. Interview Alex Rose, head of Hat Cap Millinery Workers’ Union and influential co-founder of Liberal Party. He scolds me for not wearing a hat. Included occasional items on Emile Griffith, up-and-coming welterweight boxer with day job in stock room of a Sixth Ave. millinery house. Items get longer as Griffith’s boxing star ascended. Covered fight in St. Nicholas Arena (W. 66th St. at Columbus Ave., now ABC television studio), where an unpopular decision gives Griffith the win, provoking peeved fans to fling folding chairs down from the balcony. “This is a millinery paper, not a sports sheet,” says the publisher, putting end to boxing stories. One day a week at the printer, Peña Press, W. 28th or 29th St. under the High Line. In addition to Millinery Research, they print Taxi Weekly; La Farandula, weekly Spanish entertainment magazine; and Al Islah, Arabiclanguage weekly paper written, typeset and published by Dr. Charise, a priest of the Maronite Rite of the Catholic Church, with an Arabic-speaking Lebanese congregation. Peña Press, on the second floor, had an Arabic linotype machine on which the good doctor composed his articles and set them in type at the same time.

Block holds court in new book Continued from page 20 day, and that since September 11, 2001, ‘nearly 120,000 Americans have been killed in nonterror homicides, most of them committed with guns,’ which is ‘nearly 25 times the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.’ ” Drugs — a chapter built around the prosecution — or persecution? — and ultimate acquittal of Peter Gatien, movie producer and impresario of the strobe-lit, Ecstasy-wreathed, Limelight nightclub in the beautiful, old, onetime Church off the Holy Communion, Sixth Avenue at 20th Street. It was, as it happens, piratically eye-patched Canadian-born Peter Gatien who’d won my admiration for first producing the then unknown Chazz Palminteri’s one-man 1989 autobiographical play, “A Bronx Tale,” and subsequently backing the 1993 movie made from it, starring Palminteri and (as actor/director) Robert De Niro. The judge nodded, said yes, but that he’d never seen play or movie. Discrimination — of all sorts, race, creed, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, birthplace (ah there, Donald Trump!), what have you, with special emphasis on the unequal-pay case of Molly Perdue, Brooklyn College women’s sports administrator and women’s basketball coach, 1991-92. Ms. Perdue thought she was worth at least as much as the men’s basketball coach and men’s sports administrator, and the jury — and then Judge Block — agreed with her. She got a healthy settlement.

Race Riots — notably Crown Heights, see above. Terrorism — among other cases, that of Afghanistan-born, Queens-based Imam Ahmed Wais Afzali, 39, “a large man in a beige suit and white skullcap,” who on March 4, 2010, wept as he “pled guilty before me for lying to the feds about his relationship with [15 years younger] Najibullah Zazi, who had recently pled guilty to participating in an al Qaeda plot to bomb the New York City subways.” It is worth noting that the politically circumspect Frederic Block takes occasion in this chapter to remark that Guantanamo Bay “[has dealt] a black eye to the American system of justice.” Foreign Affairs — notably overseeing the distribution to victims of the Holocaust and their heirs, of billions of dollars of looted money and property salted away in Swiss banks by the Nazis. So, Mr. Justice Block, what advice, if any, can you tender to would-be wearers of the black robe? “Aaahhh,” he says, and then stops and thinks a long, long thought. Finally: “You can’t live your life with expectations of being a judge. That’s foolhardy. You just want to be an interesting person in a broad way. Not Broadway,” he instantly edits himself — can’t resist it — “but a broad way. Don’t let money be the center of your life. All paths lead to Rome, but some paths lead more directly. In other words, do it exactly as I did.” Court’s adjourned.

A Hungarian-language paper also published there but I never met anyone connected with it. Downstairs, Hokkaido Shimbun published, a Japanese weekly. Shimbun printers set type by hand and would occasionally came up to Peña Press, use a piece of equipment, then run back downstairs. It was an incredible establishment. Fairchild publications, Women’s Wear Daily, other daily and weekly trade papers, 1962-65, covering state and federal courts from courthouse pressrooms. State Supreme Court had two pressrooms because of bitter feud between Daily News and Post reporters. Occasionally, plaintiffs, defendants, lawyers and judges who wanted ink would drop in. Actor Zero Mostel walks in with a cane, talks about his personal-injury case. Roy Cohn, with several law partners, also comes in. So does Prince Felix Yusupov, said to be leader of aristocratic gang that in December 1916 assassinated Rasputin, monk with powerful influence over the Tsar’s family. The prince was suing a writer for questioning his role in the Rasputin assassination. Dr. Charise, my friend from Pena Press, comes in one day to talk about a church dispute that found its way to State Supreme Court Assigned to Federal Court, where pressroom radio is always tuned to all-news station and perpetual poker game always has three to six reporters, lawyers, clerks. Nov. 22, 1963, 1:30 p.m. I leave pressroom to have lunch with a friend on Henry St. “The president was just shot,” he says. We listen to the radio for a while before I go

back to Federal Court. Poker players groan as radio confirms Kennedy death, but game goes on. Spring 1983, on staff of Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider after a few years of other ventures. Weeklies published by Robert S. Trentlyon, strong supporter of a Hudson River Park after New York State drops Westway landfill project. “Go interview this guy in Chelsea who claims to be writing the longest diary in the world,” says editor Tom Lyles. Name of diarist, Edward Robb Ellis, sounds familiar. He tells me he worked on World Telegram and Sun. “Ed Ellis! I used to be your copy boy 30 years ago.” Ellis was star feature writer on the Telegram. Born in Illinois, he worked on Chicago, New Orleans and other papers but loves New York. Began writing his diary in 1927 as a teenager and wants it to be in the same class as Samuel Pepys’s 17th-century London diary and 19th-century diary of New York Mayor Philip Hone. He worked hard on everything he wrote: “Easy write, hard read. Hard write, easy read,” was his motto. Afflicted with emphysema and overweight, Ed lived in a third-floor walkup and died 1998. Since 1997 on staff of The Villager, Downtown Express. World Trade Center towers, 15 blocks away, attacked and fall Sept. 11, 2001. John Sutter and Lincoln Anderson get down close, file great copy; The Villager publishes two days late. After countless obits, stories about St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York University, find myself in July 2012 two weeks from 80th birthday. How did that happen?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 12 The strips are public land but the university has treated them as if it has the right to own and change them. Thousands and thousands of hours have been spent making these open-space areas what they are now. Isn’t that effort worth something? The lives of the residents in 505 LaGuardia Place are under a cloud with the specter of losing their ability to pay for their homes. What about those people who worked hard and spent their lives’ income to live on Mercer St? What will compensate them from losing their piece of the sun? I could repeat a score of reasons why N.Y.U. should not be allowed to build its N.Y.U. 2031 plan. Let us hope that the scales of justice are working in the City Council because if they aren’t, the courts will have their way. Ray Cline

Purple shame To The Editor: Re “ ‘It’s gone too far’; Broderick brings down the N.Y.U. house” (news article, July 5):

New York City needs to take a lesson from San Francisco, which, starting back in the ’70s and ’80s, elected progressive officials (mayors, supervisors, planning commission members) who believed in preserving the beauty and character of the city’s skyline and old Victorian neighborhoods rather than “Manhattanizing” them. It is not surprising that New York University continues its bulldozing mentality of targeting the Sasaki Garden, the community gardens, the majestic trees along Laguardia Place, etc., when it has already wiped away the historic Edgar Allan Poe house and the historic Provincetown Playhouse, rather than realizing the importance of preservation and restoration. Shame, shame. Ralph Swain

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1032 LEXINGTON ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Restaurant Group, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 710, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TWIN LAKES GLOBAL STRATEGY FUND LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/22/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Howard Booth. 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. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ABBOTT CAPITAL PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTORS GP 2012, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/17/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1290 Ave. of the Americas, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10104. LP formed in DE on 5/16/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MVG 60TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/06. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 950 3rd Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WALTON/ ISAACSON, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CA on 11/1/05. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. CA and principal business address: 15260 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 2100, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. Cert. of Org. filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

MONKWELL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2012. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 54 W. 87th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 402 E. 80TH STREET REALTY LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 318 E. 80th St., NY, NY 10075. General Purposes. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 CREDIT RESOLUTION COLLECTIONS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/03/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yisroel Ackerman, 98-01 67th Ave No. 10-D, Rego Park, NY 11374. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Name: Unit 4303 SoHo LLC. Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/07/2012. Office location: County of New York. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Adu Advaney 243 Spring Street, Unit 4303 New York, NY 10013. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 10 SOUTH STREET SUBTENANT, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 41 HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Peter L. HessellundJensen, 521 Fifth Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10175-3399. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE PARK AVENUE HEART AND RHYTHM CENTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 791 Park Ave., #1C, NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 513 YELLOW APPLE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Alan J. Marcus, Esq., 20803 Biscayne Blvd., Ste. 301, Aventura, FL 33180. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Real estate rental. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GENMAR I LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Jan M. Gennet, 19 E. 88th St., #12E, NY, NY 10128. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ML HOSPITALITY LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: ML Hospitality LLC, 520 West 43rd St, #5T, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MVM HOSPITALITY LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: MVM Hospitality LLC, 57 Kenmare St, #11, New York, NY 10012. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ON THE GROUND EVENTS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/2/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 125 E. 12th St., PH A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 92 EQUITIES AR1 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/9/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 2ND AVENUE PROPERTIES REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/12/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 5 BEEKMAN JV LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/14/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 3/8/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 5 BEEKMAN PROPERTY OWNER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/17/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/10/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 105 WEST 57TH STREET HOLDINGS, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/13/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 1/30/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF L.N. AND N ENTERPRISES. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/12. 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 David Kelner, 815 W. 181st St., Ste. 6H, NY, NY 10033. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE KATHERINE HANNER CONSULTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/24/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 545 W. 111th St., Apt. 8B, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CREATIVITY IS EVERYWHERE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 244 5th Ave., #2228, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW SUFFOLK LAND CO. II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/05. 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 CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEAMWORK MANAGEMENT THREE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12. 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 The LLC, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil:06/21-07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEAMWORK MANAGEMENT ONE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12. 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 The LLC, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TELEPORT COMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/7/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One AT&T Way, Bedminster, NJ 07921. LLC formed in DE on 5/25/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS XI (E&P) PARTNERSA, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/8/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 5/3/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful activity. Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LTB ASSOCIATES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/08/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as an agent uponwhom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against theLLC is to: The LtB associates, LLC, 101 Maple St. #3, Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PINO GOMES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/22/12 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: PINO GOMES LLC, 212 East 88 Street, Apt. 1C, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

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PUBL IC NOTICE S SPEYER MERIDIAN, LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/10/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Bruce S. Monteith, 235 E. 40th St., Apt 41E, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 YTR 54 EAST LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 415 E. 54 St., Unit 9F, NY, NY 10022, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF METROPOLITIC LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: Keith Avila, 60 W 23rd St, Apt. 945, NY, NY, 10010. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CYRUS SPECIAL STRATEGIES FUND, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. Princ. office of LP: 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Stephen C. Freidheim, 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: NANCY M. ROSEN D.M.D. PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/11/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, Nancy Rosen, 20 East 74th Street, 6A, New York, New York 10021. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Dentistry. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

DK 562 LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 05/31/2012 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, 223 West 115th Street, Suite 1, New York, NY 10026. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MIDTOWN SC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BAIT & TACKLE REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles Milite, c/o Coffee Shop Restaurant, 29 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TI OZONE PARK STORAGE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12. 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 The LLC, 1350 Broadway, Ste. 1010, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HORIZONS ETFS MANAGEMENT (USA) LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/29/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One Bryant Park, 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TRIAN IR HOLDCO, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/21/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BROOKLYN PIER 1 RESIDENTIAL OWNER, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/6/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. LP formed in DE on 4/23/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 328 WEST 45TH STREET LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/18/2011. 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: 5201 Great America Pkwy, Ste 256, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SILVER LAKE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 331 W 57th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HAMILTON HEIGHTS REAL ESTATE LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/21/2012. 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: 425 Boylston St., 3rd Flr., Boston, MA 02116 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 LOVELY FRANCHISING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/30/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 313 W. 4th St., NY, NY 10014, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACKSUB 2 LLC Authority filed with Secy. ofState of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware(DE) on 06/19/12. Princ. office of LLC: 11 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10010-3629. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WHITE HORSE PROPERTIES NEW YORK, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Richard R. Wagonheim, 2 Tudor City Place, Apt. 2AN, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NRELATE LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/20/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/20/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the principal office of LLC: 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART PARTNERS, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/7/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 147 W. 35th St., Ste. 602, NY, NY 10001. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Justin Zamparelli, Esq., Withers Bergman LLP, 430 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MIS EAST SETAUKET, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/5/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Arun Jethani, 99 Madison Ave., Ste. 511, NY, NY 10016, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAMA 57 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/12. 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: c/o DeGaetano & Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1264042 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 37 West 24th Street, New York, New York 10010 for on premises consumption. Applicant-Jin Restaurant Management LLC d/b/a San Rocco Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1264315, has been applied for by Pachanga Inc & Corossol LLC, to sell wine and beer at retail in a cafe under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 450 Washington Street, New York, NY 10013 for on-premises consumption. Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF U.S.-CHINA CULTURE COMMUNICATION LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/29/12. 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: 580 Main Street Suite752, New York, NY 10044. Purpose:To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 31 W 27 STREET LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/14/12. Princ. office of LLC: 50 California St., Ste. 838, San Francisco, CA 94111. 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: The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Organge St., Wilmington, DE 19801. 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. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NS PROJECTS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/12. 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 Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF R AND C SULLIVAN STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Imian Partners, LLC, 65 Locust Ave., Ste. 105, New Canaan, CT 06840. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WLB FAMILY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Davis & Gilbert LLP, 1740 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COHEN FILM PROJECTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 750 Lexington Ave., 28th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TFC WEST 57 GC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/12. Office location: NY County. Principal business location: 387 Park Avenue South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 387 Park Avenue South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016, Attn: General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 10396 HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o The Community Preservation Corp., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012

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P UBLIC N OTICE S NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1264231 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 328330 W. 46th St., New York, 10036 for on-premises consumption. BRAZIL 46 RESTAURANT ROW INC. Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BROWN & BROWN OF MASSACHUSETTS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/1/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MA on 1/28/11. 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. MA and principal business address: 181 Wells Ave., Newton, MA 02459. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Sec. of State, One Ashburton Pl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN a License Number 1264426 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at, 408 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011 for on premises consumption. 408 W15 Associates LLC and Bowery Hospitality Group LLC, as manager d/b/a TBD Vil: 07/19 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Downtown Dining LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 5 Avenue A New York NY 10009. Vil: 07/19 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1264536 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 52 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022 for on-premises consumption. 53RD ST. FOOD, LLC d/b/a BLAKE & TODD Vil: 07/19 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1264449 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine/ beer at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 464 W. 51st St., NY, NY 10019 for on-premises consumption. RAMEN TIME INC. Vil: 07/19 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ICONOSCOPE FILMS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/23/12 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: 16 Ocean Parkway, C20, Brooklyn, NY 11218. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 2155 GRAND AVE. LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/22/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mandell, Mandell, Okin & Edelman, LLP, 3000 Marcus Ave., Ste. 2E7, Lake Success, NY 11042. General Purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: SAFE BOATS INTERNATIONAL L.L.C. Application for Authority filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/07/2012 Jurisdiction: Washington Organized on: 12/23/1996 Office location: County of New York Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: NATIONAL REGISTERED AGENTS, INC., 274 MADISON AVENUE, SUITE 801, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10016. Address of office required to be maintained in Washington: 8800 SW Barney White Road, Bremerton, WA 98312. Authorized officer on its jurisdiction is: Secretary of State of the State of Washington, 801 Capitol Way S, Olympia, WA. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 625 BROADWAY VENTURE, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/11/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Gregory S. Courtwright Esq., Lincoln Property Co., 2000 McKinney Ave., Ste. 1000, Dallas, TX 65201. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Trust Co., Corp. Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Property investment. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ASIA POOLED 522 LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/03/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: c/o J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc., 270 Park Ave., 25th Fl., Attn: Julian Shles, Mng. Dir., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 145 DENTAL REALTY, LLC a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/31/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Richard A. Lehrer, 145 W. 86th St., NY, NY 10024. General Purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LAURENS LEASH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Incorp Services,Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210-2822,also the registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 217 WEST 115TH FT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NAME OF LLC: S2 REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 6/15/12. 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: 07/19 - 08/23/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NBC NEWS CHANNEL LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/85. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NBC OLYMPICS LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112. LLC formed in DE on 1/25/90. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NBC UNIVERSAL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/12/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112. LLC formed in DE on 11/24/08. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RSP 79 PROPERTY LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/14/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: RSP Companies, 1515 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 07/19 - 08/23/2012

N.Y.U. 2031 plan wins key vote by Council committee

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Councilmember Rosie Mendez, right, said she deferred to her “sister” Margaret Chin, though noting many people she knew would have preferred she vote otherwise.

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form — were needed.” As for why the Zipper building’s planned footprint couldn’t be removed from the Mercer St. open-space strip (where the Mercer-Houston Dog Run is currently located), Hurley said, “There are rules to how close you can be to residential windows — Silver Towers is residential. So if the building could not shift onto the strip, it would have to shrink in terms of the footprint, and a slimmer footprint would not allow our gym and other programs — like theaters — to be built.” Similarly, a source close to Chin said, “We could not get rid of the Mercer Boomerang totally, because it was needed to support the underground space — in terms of emergency exits and ventilation. Also, there was concern that having all students enter through the LaGuardia Boomerang would overwhelm that area. This way, pedestrian traffic will be diffused. “We researched many options, but the smallest possible form of the Mercer building would have been an ugly, noisy, 30-foot ventilation-and-mechanical structure right outside people’s windows. “We instead chose the smallest and thinnest building possible. It’s betterlooking and will be less disruptive over all. “As far as the strip, we could not shrink the Zipper building off of the

strip because of the waivers granted by the City Planning Commission that mandated the building be a certain distance from Silver Towers. If we shrunk it, then the building would have been too close to Silver Towers, and thus out of scope. It was out of our hands.” In a rally before the vote, members of N.Y.U. Faculty Against the Sexton Plan (N.Y.U. FASP) presented their “no build” alternative, which calls for the university to move administrative uses out of the campus core, freeing up space for academic use. N.Y.U. FASP members have previously said they would support teaching on Fridays, since this would better utilize N.Y.U.’s existing classroom space, so that new space wouldn’t be required. The no-classes-on-Fridays regimen is a holdover from the university’s days as a commuter school, plus the fact that New York has a large Jewish population. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said the Council committee’s vote was “deeply disappointing.” “The plan is still absolutely wrong,” he said of N.Y.U. 2031, “and it violates a public trust. This was public land given to N.Y.U. a generation ago. This land was never supposed to be built on. While we appreciate that the plan was scaled back slightly, it’s not nearly enough to make it acceptable.” Berman noted there is still the option of filing a lawsuit against the plan.

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Conscious weight loss works Continued from page 11 calories. This is a little less than half of what the average woman at 5 feet 6 inches, 130 pounds would need each day to simply maintain her current weight. That same woman wanting to lose even a little weight would need to aim for no more than 1,200 calories a day. If she were interested in a more rapid weight loss, her daily caloric intake would need to come down to around a 1,000. You can see how the combination of packaged foods and fast foods, or rather the preponderance of all foods marketed to us each day works against our better impulses to remain healthy, and it all but crushes our ability to stay at an optimum weight. If you’re concerned about either your health or weight, then it’s crucial to remain ever-vigilant of these forces weighing in around you at all times. On the other hand, should you choose to become a warrior against the commercial machine, you have the entire world of whole, unprocessed foods on your side. A large green-leaf salad light on olive oil, for example, has as little as 100 calories, and the energy you receive from those calories is significantly better than those found in the pizza combo above. A plate of rice and beans counts in at a meager 250 calories. Adding a serving of corn to complete the

protein would still bring this supremely healthy dish in at around 300 calories. Yet those generously few calories will keep you satisfied longer, with far more energy and mental clarity, than the Coke, pizza, chips, and perhaps even the 900-calorie burger. Narrowing the entire discussion down to just the numbers, know that a pound of fat in the body is 3,500 calories. To lose that pound in a week you would have to reduce or burn 500 more calories a day than what the body needs to maintain its current weight. Exercise helps in this process. Even walking makes a difference. Walk a mile and you can burn 100 calories. A more rigorous workout at the gym will burn another few hundred calories. Combine the two with an awareness of all the calories you’re taking in each day and you’re on track to losing a pound a week, and nearly 15 in three months. The wonderful bonus in doing so is that you’re likely to feel better than you have in many years. Christopher Hassett is a columnist and natural healer living in New York City. Learn more about natural approaches to improved health at www.threeperfections.com. Do you have a question or concern you’d like Christopher to respond to? Please email him at: conversations@threeperfections.com. Receive an update when a new column is published at: www.facebook.com/threeperfections.

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Miguel of JAE bodega.

Photos by Clayton Patterson

Chopo, left, and Dominick. Locksmith Edwin Natal Agosto.

Local lens: Capturing folks over the years on the L.E.S. CLAYTON BY CLAYTON PATTERSON I have always enjoyed documenting people as they grow older. I first photographed Miguel when he was 15 years old working at the same bodega as he does today. The ownership of the business has changed over the years, but Miguel, now 30, still is working at the same location. JAE, as it’s now called, on Stanton St. is one of the lonely bodegas in this part of the Lower East Side. The last time I photographed Chopo (at left in photo above) and Dominick (at right) was 20 years ago. Chopo I have continued to photograph since he was around 6 years old. I first met and photographed Edwin Natal Agosto around 1985. Our front door was made of heavy metal and leaned inward. It was very difficult to get a lock that fit and worked. Eddie came to the rescue. He was studying to be a locksmith and it turned out that he was a very good one. He passed all the needed exams and got his license. His craft took him to Harlem, a place that had its share of complicated security issues. Eddie was the one guy to call to solve the problem. Eddie eventually moved to Puerto Rico and is now back in N.Y.C. and trying to move back to his home base — the L.E.S. And

guess what? When he arrived back in the neighborhood we had a lock problem and he immediately took care of it. Over the years I have continued to photograph the Chinese bottle ladies. Most of them are elderly. I admire how dedicated they are to the work and how hard they work. This young girl in the pink shirt I photographed a couple of years ago when she was a much younger teenager. Here she is with another woman, sharing a light moment together. A few years ago I heard from a neighbor that an elderly Chinese bottle collector was sexually assaulted on Norfolk St. around 4 a.m. I sent out a mass e-mail and Alice O’Malley was the one who stepped up. The police were not doing much about it, so Alice and I started to put pressure on the politicians to do something about this outrageous crime. It turned out that there was a sexual predator attacking woman in the community. Eventually — maybe a coincidence — but in the early-morning hours Alice heard a ruckus in her building’s hallway. She opened her door and there was a man on top of a lady. Alice drove him off, got a good look at him, and the cops picked him up. Alice became a witness and testified in court. The guy was given a long prison sentence, though ultimately was charged for robbery. The sexual attacks stopped. Good job, Alice!

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