Chelsea Now, Sept. 19, 2012

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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 02

THE WEST SIDE’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER

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Mutiny on the waterfront as Durst pitches Pier 40 plan

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Taking a different tack to try to save Pier 40, Douglas Durst, chairperson of the Friends of Hudson River Park, is pushing an alternative plan to add valet parking and a high-tech campus to the massive but crumbling structure.

Joining Durst in the effort is Ben Korman, the Friends’ vice chairperson and a partner in C&K Properties, which formerly ran the parking on the 14.5acre West Houston Street pier.

Durst’s Pier 40 plan is at odds with the vision of the Hudson River Park Trust, the state-city authority that oper-

ates the 5-mile-long waterfront park. The Trust, along with local youth sports leagues, has recently been pushing for residential housing development on the key park pier. The youth leagues commissioned a Pier 40 study earlier this year that found that adding 600 to 800 units of high-end, rental housing on it would provide the greatest amount of revenue along with the lowest impact when compared with other types of development scenarios studied.

Doing nothing on the pier

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Hotel sale caps GTS ‘Choose Life’ strategy Photo by Donathan Salkaln, courtesy of Chelsea Reform Democratic Club

To the victor go the smooches: Outside of Mustang Sally’s, Quinn and Duane lay one on Hoylman — upon learning that he was declared winner of the primary for NY State Senator. See page 6.

Chelsea activist, always on the move, dies at 65

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK Longtime Chelsea activist and affordable housing advocate Phyllis Gonzalez died on Wednesday, September 12 at 12:28pm at the Elliott-Chelsea Houses — where she had lived for more than 30 years. She was 65.

Gonzalez, who had been confined to a wheelchair since 1997, had crippling rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease. The cause of

death was end-stage congestive heart failure, her daughter Marion said.

Gonzalez’s career spanned multiple decades. She worked on a wide range of issues for her beloved Chelsea community, especially in her capacity as four-term president of the Elliott-Chelsea Tenants Association, where she touched many lives. “She loved this neighborhood, and she had to

BY SCOTT STIFFLER The recent sale of hotel property owned by The General Theological Seminary (GTS) marks the completion of the 194-year-old Episcopal institution’s efforts to bounce back from the brink of insolvency.

In October of 2010, GTS ($41 million in the red) embarked upon a “Plan to Choose Life” debt elimination and endowment restoration strategy.

Over the next two years, the building known as “2, 3,

help people,” said Marion. “She would go to court with you, help you with your paperwork. If you spoke Spanish, her Spanglish was perfect. If you spoke Korean, she would find somebody to translate.

It was an imperative.”

Since last November, due to failing health, Gonzalez was living

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4 Chelsea Square” was sold to The Brodsky Organization (a real estate development and management firm), along with the GTS tennis court property, an apartment building at 422 West 20th Street and the “West Building,” which is located within the Seminary’s garden (aka the “Close”).

Last week, in what GTS hailed as the “successful completion” of its Plan, Brodsky and MCR Development — a

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Dueling Pier 40 PR campaigns Continued from page 1 is not an option, the Trust says, since without a major cash infusion by a private development project, the decaying pier won’t be repaired and the entire park — which depends on Pier 40’s revenue — will soon be increasingly in the red.

Without funding, Pier 40 might have to be shut down in phases, the Trust’s leadership recently warned.

Jordan Barowitz, a spokesperson for Durst, outlined the new plan, which is still fairly general.

“It’s attendant parking,” he explained. “The current parking configuration on the pier is mostly park-and-lock,” meaning drivers park their own cars. “With attendant parking, it can be a lot more efficient in terms of space.”

Durst’s plan calls for installing stacker parking so that the cars can be parked in a smaller footprint. Attendants would be needed to park the cars and operate the hydraulic stackers.

Pier 40’s parking is currently on all three levels of the pier. Under Durst’s idea, the parking would be moved to one level — possibly the ground floor — freeing the other two levels for new uses.

Barowitz said Durst’s plan doesn’t seek to increase revenue by increasing either the amount of parking or the parking fees. Rather, the extra revenue would come from adding new uses in the space left over from consolidating the parking in a smaller area. Durst envisions these uses as “commercial, offices or a high-tech campus,” according to Barowitz.

(One park activist was alarmed by a sentence in an article on the Durst plan in the Observer referring to “galleries and shops” that indicated Durst might also be eyeing destination retail for Pier 40: “Given the area’s booming tech sector, [Durst] seems to think this could be a good spot for a technology campus of some sort, or, pitching to the neighborhood’s other historic strength, galleries and shops.” However, Barowitz told our sister publication The Villager, “Douglas didn’t talk to the Observer. It’s not a quote from him.”)

Asked about the cost of adding parking stackers, Barowitz downplayed it, saying, “It’s a small piece of the scope of the work necessary to secure the pier.

‘WE THINK IT’S VIABLE’ “It’s in the early stages, but we think it’s viable and certainly worth considering,” Barowitz said of the plan. “This is something that Douglas and Ben Korman have been working on. We think it could provide the incremental increase in revenue to finance the $100 million or so to fix the pier and also provide revenue for the park.”

As for building residential housing on Pier 40 — which would require a change to the Hudson River Park Act — Durst, who heads one of the city’s most prominent development organizations, says it wouldn’t work.

“Douglas speaking for himself does not have an ideological issue, but a practical one — that it will be too difficult to implement and construct and won’t generate the necessary revenue for the pier or the park,” Barowitz said.

Hudson River Park is intended to be financially self-sustaining, and until recently Pier 40 has supplied about 40 percent of the

park’s revenue. But as the pier deteriorates, its revenue will dry up, Trust officials warn.

For Durst’s plan, Barowitz said, changes to the park act also would be needed, including increasing the allowable length of the lease for the commercial component and allowing bonding ability.

The Trust would have to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for someone to “manage the pier,” he said, though adding, “Neither Douglas nor C&K is interested.”

Asked if there’s a study of their plan available, Barowitz said it’s not completed yet.

He said they’ve been talking to the Trust and local stakeholders about their plan for several weeks.

‘EXPLORING ALL POSSIBILITIES’ Regarding Durst’s idea for Pier 40, Madelyn Wils, the Trust’s president, indicated she’s open to a wide range of uses for the pier, but that they must generate sufficient funds.

“We are working with all of our community partners to continue to explore all possibilities, including a high-tech campus,” the Trust president said. “The most important step for Pier 40 is to allow legislative changes that will give us the best chance of receiving the strongest proposals possible. Any viable proposal must be able to provide for Pier 40’s huge infrastructural needs while also making annual payments to help fund the continued maintenance of the whole park.”

Since this article’s original publication (in the September 6 issue of The Villager), Durst and Madelyn Wils (president and CEO, Huson River Park Trust) responded by noting that, “The Durst Organization and the Hudson River Park Trust are both working to ensure that Pier 40 will remain open and generate necessary revenue not only for the pier itself, but for the entirety of the Hudson River Park. We are studying a range of possibilities for Pier 40 — including the viability of housing and other uses — and look forward to working with the community in the weeks and months ahead.”

The Friends of Hudson River Park had previously been the park’s main advocacy group — as well as its main watchdog. In recent years, the Friends sued to force the city to commit to remove its garbage trucks from Gansevoort Peninsula, at the north end of the Village waterfront, and also sued to end tourist helicopter flights at the West 30th Street heliport. More recently, though, the Friends transitioned into the Trust’s private fundraising arm.

Now, with Durst and Korman opposing the Trust’s hope for housing on Pier 40, its seems the Friends — or at least its leadership — is reprising its watchdog role.

However, in a statement, A.J. Pietrantone, the group’s president, said, “Friends of Hudson River Park remains committed to finding a sustainable solution to Pier 40 as well as to the care and completion of the entire park. While all ideas and input to that end are wholly welcome, Friends continues to expand our fundraising efforts and to work with the community in establishing an improvement district.”

A “neighborhood improvement district” is one thing, at least, that people seem to be agreeing on. The district would impose a fairly small

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Housing activist Phyllis Gonzales leaves lasting legacy three days, they said she was going to die — so people came to say good-bye, recalled Marion. “Then she woke up, they took the tube out and told her not to talk

Continued from page 1 with neighbor, best friend and caretaker Rose Ruchinsky in the latter’s apartment at 415 West 25th Street (between Ninth and Tenth Avenues). There, she received home hospice care, “so more people were there around the clock to watch her,� said Ruchinsky. Gonzalez had lived at number 415 for 24 years. Before that, she lived for six years at number 428 with her mother and her children (Marion, now 34, and Eric, now 45).

Ruchinsky, whose friendship with Gonzalez went back 28 years, described her as loving, giving, funny and always on the go. “That lady took her wheelchair and ran with it all over town, anywhere that was wheelchair accessible,� said Ruchinsky.

Her wheelchair getaway accomplice was often Peggy Tulle, one of the tenants association’s vice presidents. “We went to a lot of meetings, restaurants, shopping together,� recalled Tulle, who knew her when they both could walk. “She helped me like she helped everybody.�

Their escapades included the Red Lobster. She wasn’t supposed to have salt or shellfish, but Gonzalez insisted your life wasn’t any good unless you were cheating at something, explained Marion.

The last time Gonzalez was in a regular hospital, intubated and in a coma for

Gonzalez’s career spanned multiple decades. She worked on a wide range of issues for her beloved Chelsea community, especially in her capacity as four-term president of the Elliott-Chelsea Tenants Association, where she touched many lives. so her throat could heal. That lasted two minutes before she said, ‘I have to get the turkeys for Thanksgiving.’ Always one for the family, and one for people with no Phyllis Gonzales, in 2011.

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Goodbye guest rooms, hello Highline Hotel

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The Desmond Tutu Center: Room at the inn, but for rent by new management.

Continued from page 1 hotel ownership company with 20 properties in 10 states — purchased 60 “guest rooms” which comprised the hotel portion of GTS’s Desmond Tutu Center (on Tenth Avenue at 20th Street).

According to Brodsky spokesperson J. Dean Amro, the hotel is currently open for business under its new management — but is operating in the same manner as it had under GTS ownership. Amro notes, however, that the space will close “partially or completely” in January or February of 2013 for interior redecorating and renovation. In March or April, the rechristened “Highline Hotel” will have its official launch.

In a September 13 press release announcing the sale, GTS specified that it will retain control of the Tutu Center’s dining hall, two large conference spaces and several small breakout rooms which, GTS president Rev. Lang Lowery vowed, will “remain an integral part” of the Seminary’s complex of historic buildings that stretch along 21st Street from Ninth to Tenth Avenues.

Funds generated from this most recent transaction, along with past “Life” plan sales, will enable the Seminary to renovate four dormitories, establish new administrative and classroom spaces, add three new faculty members and complete construction on its Christoph Keller, Jr. Library.

The sidewalks and amenities within the Seminary’s Close have already been improved.

Security, exterior lighting and handicap access throughout the sprawling complex are currently being upgraded.

The school has also been able to establish a “multi-year reserve of operational funds” and reduce the annual draw on its $5 million dollar endowment (twice what it was in 2010) to just four percent.

The hotel is currently open for business under its new management — but is operating in the same manner as it had under GTS ownership.

Amro notes, however, that the space will close ‘partially or completely’ in January or February of 2013 for interior redecorating and renovation. In March or April, the rechristened ‘Highline Hotel’ will have its official launch.

Lowery (who will soon be stepping down as president) cautioned that despite positive actions taken over the past two years, the Seminary is “by no means fully self-sufficient financially. We must increase the endowment, and we still have a material way to go to reach a balanced budget.”

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Garnering more than two-thirds of the vote against Tom Greco, the straight owner of a gay bar, the Ritz on Restaurant Row in Midtown, and educator Tanika Inlaw, Hoylman is now guaranteed election in November since he holds the only other line on the ballot, that of the Working Families Party.

The 27th District runs from the Lower East Side to the West Village and then uptown to the Upper West Side. Duane, who held the seat since 1999, announced his decision not to seek reelection in early June.

At an August 20 debate sponsored by Citizens Union, a non-partisan civic group, and Gay City News (and our other sister publications), Greco and Inlaw charged that Hoylman was hand-picked by Democratic insiders to replace Duane. They also questioned his 12 years of work at the Partnership for New York City, a major business lobby that has taken some public positions at odds

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Hoylman enjoyed essentially unanimous support from elected officials in Manhattan, including Duane, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, US Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, and State Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Dick Gottfried. He quickly amassed a campaign war chest of more than $200,000 that dwarfed those of his opponents.

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CCBA identifies problems, suggests solutions

BY BILL BOROCK In January 1961, a newsletter called “Chelsea Vista” was published by the Chelsea Conservation and Rehabilitation Project. In it was an article which stated, “The Chelsea Council of Block Associations, composed of representatives from the six blocks within the Chelsea Conservation Program (West 20th Street to West 22nd Street, between Eighth Avenue and Tenth Avenue) is dedicated to improving living conditions within this area. We welcome your support and participation.”

This was the beginning of CCBA. Fast forward 51 years later, to September 2012. Today, the old Chelsea Council of Block Associations — now called the Council of Chelsea Block Associations (CCBA) — is comprised of 11 associations covering 21 blocks.

Additional block associations are in the process of being formed. CCBA meets on a monthly basis to review issues impacting our community, arrive at positions that seek solutions to specific problems and strives to advance the general interests of our member block associations.

The blocks with representatives on the CCBA are: 100/200 West 15th Street, 300 West 15th Street, 100 West 16th Street, 100 West 17th Street, 300 West 18th/19th Streets, 500 West 19th Street, 200 West 19th/20th/21st/22nd/23rd [south side] Streets, 300 West 20th Street, 400 West 20th Street, 300 West 21st/22nd/23rd Streets and 400 West 21st/22nd/23rd Streets.

Each block association varies with regard to structure. Some meet on a regular basis, for example quarterly, or have an annual meeting, or meet as needed depending on situations or plans/proposals impacting their block.

Others are less formal, and the members keep in contact with each other by phone and email. Some have committees which deal with specific issues and some have members who are on advisory councils of social service facilities on their blocks or in their neighborhood.

Here are a few examples of the issues the CCBA and its member block

associations are concerned about — along with our suggestions for improving the situation.

SIDEWALK CAFES They’re nice to have, but not so nice when tables and chairs impede pedestrians walking by…when customers waiting to be seated congregate and block the sidewalk…when loud music disturbs the local residents; and when low-hanging table umbrellas protrude into the walking space of passersbys — causing them to duck or twist to avoid being poked in the head. These problems are made worse by the city counting metal subway grates as “walkable space.” As a consequence, seniors with canes and those walking dogs are relegated to an even narrower corridor between the cafe tables and the curb.

REMEDY: Abide by the law and leave enough sidewalk space to walk on; have better crowd and noise control; and have table umbrellas higher (or, instead of umbrellas, install awnings — which are easy to roll up and down, as some restaurants have). This matter is being brought to the attention of the Community Board 4 (CB4) Quality of Life Committee.

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Recently, CB4 received a liquor license application for what was purported to be an upscale restaurant. CCBA was contacted, and the information was shared with the appropriate block associations.

After reading the application material and meeting with the applicants, it became apparent that the establishment was going to be more like a lounge (catering to late night club patrons).

REMEDY: At CB4’s Business, License and Permits Committee meeting, local residents voiced their concern about the late hours as well as the fact that the proposal would be in violation of the regulation governing how far an establishment serving liquor had to be from a school entrance. The result: CB4 agreed, and the applicants withdrew their application.

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EDITORIAL Championing Chelsea (Market) Change With summer almost gone and fall just ahead, September 5 seemed an appropriate time for the City Planning Commission (CPC) to weigh in on the proposal by Jamestown Properties to vertically expand its iconic Chelsea Market property. Seasons change, and plans evolve.

Jamestown’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) application now sits with the City Council, which has just a few more weeks to reach a decision and bring this long, contentious process to a close.

We support the plan and hope to see the City Council approve it — with all the agreed upon changes, and some additions of their own.

The suggested ULURP alterations that emerged from vetting by Community Board 4 (CB4), Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and the CPC were the products of forward-thinking leadership and imperfect but reasonable compromise. They were also the result of many well-attended public forums where issues raised by community groups and local residents compelled the applicant to make aesthetic and economic concessions. We applaud all involved for the long hours and hard work they’ve invested in this process.

By the time the plan was voted on by the CPC, the alterations agreed to by Jamestown addressed concerns regarding the quality of life for both residents and visitors to the High Line. The criteria that visual elements of the project complement the character of the neighborhood will, we hope, streamline future development by compelling ULURP applicants to incorporate community standards into their initial design — and provide an equitable amount of benefits to the area they wish to become a part of.

The City Council now has, in its hands, a scenario that meets many concerns of the community while allowing for the sort of economic growth and physical change that is a reality of urban living. The zoning variances necessary to allow the Jamestown plan are unprecedented — but so are the concessions agreed to by the applicant.

The eleventh hour addition of funding for affordable housing was an unexpected and welcome change to the plan. Just as surprising, but somewhat disheartening, is the refusal of community groups to demonstrate the same capacity for compromise that they’ve demanded from Jamestown. By continuing to petition Quinn to reject the project outright (a highly unlikely scenario this late in the game), they risk parlaying the cards of righteous indignation and steadfast opposition into a losing hand.

Fighting the good fight is noble, and necessary. But it is now apparent that some form of construction is likely to take place atop Chelsea Market. This is the point at which the combined assets of the opposition’s knowledge, passion and influence should be put towards securing the most amount of public good that can be wrung from the process. If the same uncompromising strategy persists, it will be difficult to take seriously an opponent’s rightful place at the bargaining table when the next proposed change comes to Chelsea.

As we look to the City Council to complete the URULP process, we hope that Speaker Quinn (with both her Chelsea constituents and mayoral ambitions in mind) will compel the council to put their own stamp on this project.

Ensuring landmark status for the original building and securing an even larger Jamestown donation for the affordable housing provision are within the council’s sphere of influence, and worthy additions to the CB4 and CPC contributions. Additional community “gets” might include job training necessary for locals to secure employment with the incoming tech companies.

Led by CB4, all of this project’s stakeholders have fought hard to create a solution that allows for a strong tomorrow built on the ideals of the past.

We urge Speaker Quinn and the City Council to secure these improvements — then approve this project.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR An open letter to Quinn

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Dear Speaker Quinn: I understand that the City Planning Commission has approved a change in the zoning in Chelsea to allow the Chelsea Market proposals to proceed and that now the matter will be reviewed and voted on by the City Council.

I write to urge you and the Council to oppose this project.

During the summer, the Times published an article about the protest fifty years ago to save the Pennsylvania Station from destruction. The building was destroyed and replaced by a new Madison Square Garden and an office tower, but that event marked the beginning of a conscious effort to defend the quality of life in the city. Then, the arguments for destruction and new construction were economic development, jobs and profits, and indeed quality of life. But it seems that such arguments are always used to justify any project, however unfortunate it turns out to be. These same arguments today are used to defend the Jamestown proposals for Chelsea Market.

Chelsea over the past fifty years has seen a great enhancement of its quality of life, thanks to the efforts of its inhabitants and of the whole city. Chelsea Market itself has contributed to this effect, as has the High Line and the many developers who have constructed new residential buildings. But there comes a point at which further development is counterproductive and that is the case now. Local residents and the city sought to avoid just such damage in landmarking and zoning regulations, but it is these protections that are at issue.

Chelsea does not need a change in the zoning regulations.

There are still many areas in the neighborhood where we may have development within the current regulations.

The Jamestown proposals will not only injure buildings of historic significance — the present Chelsea Market buildings themselves — but will bring more crowding and congestion to the avenues and the High Line.

The people of Chelsea pay their taxes and they may make modest contributions to political candidates, but they cannot afford to contribute $14 million to the High Line. They think they deserve the attention of their representatives even when they cannot afford huge political contributions. We do not think the money should govern everything. Therefore we ask you, Ms. Quinn, and the City Council not to approve the rezoning of Chelsea.

To The Editor: How ironic that Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream owners, liberal icons of tolerance and choice would file a restraining order against Caballero — the producers of adult entertainment whose DVD titles parody Ben & Jerry’s flavors. What is the harm of “Boston Cream Thighs,” “Chocolate Fudge Babes” and “Peanut Butter D-Cups” playing off Ben & Jerry’s Boston Cream Pie, Chocolate Fudge Brownies and Peanut Butter Cup? The owners of this adult video company pay taxes like the rest of us. They also provide gainful employment to those who produce and star in their productions along with distributors and stores who sell their products. They are part of a multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry employing tens of thousands and patronized by millions of Americans on a voluntary basis.

How disappointing that corporate owners representing progressive liberals such as Ben & Jerry's have thrown their lot in with the so-called Moral Majority social police and politically extreme reactionary conservatives who attempt to use government rules and regulations to impose their moral values on others.

For those who don’t like adult videos, don’t buy them! This is the basic nature of free enterprise and how life works in a free society. Consumers are free to make their own individual decisions and choices on a voluntary basis to select which products they desire to patronize and spend their money.

What consenting adults consume, inhale, perform, read or view in the privacy of their own home, private social or adult club along with what restaurant to eat in is not the concern of government. Individual economic and civil liberties prosper best when government stays out of the bedroom, marketplace and your local restaurants.

Ben & Jerry’s should worry more about Mayor Bloomberg and his NYC Health Commissioner who are now our “Health Food Police.” Who knows when they will insist on Ben & Jerry labeling their products to warn that excessive consumption may be unhealthy and contribute to heart disease and diabetes? This is far more serious than an adult video company using creative play on words. Only an idiot would mistake Caballero's adult videos for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream products.

John Wilson

Nanny state should focus on traffic To The Editor: Before Mayor Bloomberg scolds other cities and states for not having stricter gun control laws, he needs to focus more on a neglected issue in his own city-traffic laws. In New York City, drivers constantly exceed the speed limit of 35mph and run red lights without fear of any enforcement by the police. I have been in cabs going 70mph on the West Side Highway and cars were passing us!

Cars run red lights and fail to yield to pedestrians. The result of this vehicular chaos is the loss of life and injuries.

Where is the outrage by the mayor and the public? Traffic laws are strictly enforced in many other cities resulting in much safer conditions (just try speeding on Collins Ave. in Bal Harbour, FL, and see how quick you are pulled over).

Recently, I was almost hit by a motorcycle that rode up on the sidewalk going over 70mph, and cops refused to do anything even though there were witnesses and video cameras. We need stricter enforcement of traffic laws ASAP. Keith Rolland

Larry Penner

Ban the ‘Bantustans’ To The Editor: Re “Unified Village, Asian-Latino districts hot topics at hearing” (web news article, Sept. 1): I am shocked that liberal city politicians are still supporting the arch-reactionary concept of election districts for “protected minority groups.” Surely it is a time to simply do away with these districts that remind this reader of Bantustans inside the nasty South Africa of former times.

In the New York experience these districts seem designed to perpetuate dependency, nepotism, corruption and a politics based upon the crudest form of race and ethnic set-asides.

Today it is so obvious that only when a people escape the stultifying and constricting limits of race and ethnicity do they have the possibility of genuine prosperity and freedom.

Thomas McGonigle Email letters, not longer than 300 words in length, to scott@chelseanow.com or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to Chelsea Now, Letters to the Editor, 515 Canal Street, Unit 1C, New York City, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confirmation purposes. Chelsea Now reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. Chelsea Now does not publish anonymous letters.

September 19 - October 2, 2012

Community Contacts To be listed, email info to scott@chelseanow.com.

COMMUNITY BOARD 4 (CB4) CB4 serves Manhattan’s West Side neighborhoods of Chelsea and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. Its boundaries are 14th St. on the south, 59/60th St. on the north, the Hudson River on the west, 6th Ave. on the east (south of 26th St.) and 8th Ave. on the east (north of 26th St.). The board meeting, open to the public, is the first Wednesday of the month.

The next meeting is Wed., Oct. 3, 6:30pm at Fulton Auditorium (119 9th Ave., btw. 17th & 18th Sts.).

Call 212-736-4536, visit nyc.gov/ mcb4 or email them at info@manhattanCB4.org.

COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (CB5) CB5 represents the central business district of New York City.

It includes midtown Manhattan, the Fashion, Flower, Flatiron and Diamond districts, as well as Bryant Park and Union Square Park. The district is at the center of New York’s tourism industry. The Theatre District, Times Square, Carnegie Hall, the Empire State Building and two of the region’s transportation hubs (Grand Central Station and Penn Station) fall within CB5. CB5’s board meeting, open to the public, happens on the second Thursday of the month.

The next meeting will be at 6pm on Thurs., Oct. 11, at Xavier High School (30 W. 16th St., btw. 5th and 6th Aves., 2nd fl.). Call 212465-0907, visit cb5.org or email them at office@cb5.org.

THE 300 WEST 23RD, 22ND & 21ST STREETS BLOCK ASSOCIATION Contact them at 300westblockassoc@prodigy.net.

THE WEST 400 BLOCK ASSOCIATION Contact them at w400ba@gmail.com.

CHELSEA GARDEN CLUB Chelsea Garden Club cares for the bike lane tree pits in Chelsea. If you want to adopt a tree pit or join the group, please contact them at cgc.nyc@gmail.com or like them on Facebook. Also visit chelseagardenclub.blogspot.com.

LOWER CHELSEA ALLIANCE (LoCal) This group is committed to protecting the residential blocks of Chelsea from overscale development. Contact them at LowerChelseaAlliance@ gmail.com.

THE GREENWICH VILLAGE-CHELSEA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Call 212-337-5912 or visit villagechelsea.com.

THE MEATPACKING DISTRICT INITIATIVE Visit meatpacking-district.com or call 212-633-0185.

THE BOWERY RESIDENTS’ COMMITTEE: HOMELESS HELPLINE If you know of anyone who is in need of their services, call the Homeless Helpline at 212-533-5151, and the BRC will send someone to make contact. This number is staffed by outreach team leaders 24 hours a day. Callers may remain anonymous. For more info, visit brc.org.

THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER At 208 W. 13th St. (btw. 7th & 8th Aves.). Visit gaycenter.org or call 212-620-7310.

THE ALI FORNEY CENTER Their mission is to help homeless LGBT youth be safe and become independent as they move from adolescence to adulthood. Main headquarters: 224 W. 35th St., Suite 1102. Call 212-222-3427.

The Ali Forney Day Center is located at 527 W. 22nd St., 1st floor. Call 212-2060574 or visit aliforneycenter.org.

GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS (GMHC) At 446 W. 33rd St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.

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HUDSON GUILD Founded in 1895, Hudson Guild is a multi-service, multi-generational community serving approximately 14,000 people annually with daycare, hot meals for senior citizens, low-cost professional counseling, community arts programs and recreational programming for teens. Visit them at hudsonguild.org. Email them at info@hudsonguild.org. For the John Lovejoy Elliott Center (441 W. 26th St.), call 212-7609800. For the Children’s Center (459 W. 26th St.), call 212-760-9830. For the Education Center (447 W. 25th St.), call 212-760-9843. For the Fulton Center for Adult Services (119 9th Ave.), call 212-924-6710.

THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING This organization promotes the wellbeing of individuals 60 and older through direct social services and volunteer programs oriented to individual, family and community needs. Call 212-879-7400 or visit burdencenter.org.

PENN SOUTH The Penn South Program for Seniors provides recreation, education and social services — and welcomes volunteers. For info, call 212-243-3670 or visit pennsouth.com.

FULTON YOUTH OF THE FUTURE Email them at fultonyouth@gmail. com or contact Miguel Acevedo, 646-671-0310.

WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE Visit westsidenyc.org or call 212956-2573. Email them at wsna@ hcc-nyc.org.

CHELSEA COALITION ON HOUSING Tenant assistance every Thursday night at 7pm, at Hudson Guild (119 9th Ave.). Email them at chelseacoalition.cch@gmail.com.

FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK Visit fohrp.org or call 212-757-0981.

HUDSON RIVER PARK TRUST Visit hudsonriverpark.org or call 212627-2020.

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SAVE CHELSEA Contact them at savechelseanyc@ gmail.com.

MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT SCOTT STRINGER Call 212-669-8300 or visit mbpo.org.

CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTINE QUINN Call 212-564-7757 or visit council.nyc. gov/d3/html/members/home.shtml.

STATE SENATOR TOM DUANE Call 212-633-8052 or visit tomduane.com.

ASSEMBLYMEMBER RICHARD GOTTFRIED Call 212-807-7900 or email GottfriedR@ assembly.state.ny.us.

CHELSEA REFORM DEMOCRATIC CLUB The CRDC (the home club of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, State Senator Tom Duane and Assemblymember Richard N. Gottfried) meets monthly to exchange political ideas on protecting the rights and improving the lives of those residing in Chelsea. Visit crdcnyc.org or email them at info@crdcnyc.org.

At 147 W. 24th Street (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.)

THE SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression without facing harassment, discrimination or violence. Visit srlp.org.

FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment) builds the leadership and power of bisexual, transgender and queer youth of color in NYC. Visit fiercenyc.org.

QUEERS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE is a progressive organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation. Visit q4ej.org.

THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color center for community organizing. Visit alp.org.

ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Troy Masters SENIOR DESIGNER Michael Shirey GRAPHIC DESIGNER Arnold Rozon CIRCULATION SALES MNGR. Marvin Rock DISTRIBUTION & CIRCULATION Cheryl Williamson

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September 19 - October 2, 2012

POLICE BLOTTER This thief showed up for church, but it wasn’t enough to save his (her?) soul.

At approximately 2pm on Fri., Sept. 7, a woman placed her oboe (a pricey “Josef” model) on a pew inside of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (346 W. 20th St., btw.

8th & 9th Aves.). Upon returning, she found it had been removed (“without permission or authority,” according to the police report — which is a more formal way of saying “stolen”). The victim and associates canvassed the area for the lost instrument, but did not find it. No video footage exists of the crime, but the faithful can take comfort in the fact that someone (up there) saw the whole thing.

Grand Larceny: Asleep at the switch...and he wasn’t even driving the train A thirty-year-old man reported to police that he boarded a southbound E train at the Queens Grand Ave. stop around 5am on Sun., Sept. 9, then fell asleep. He awoke at 14th St. & 8th Ave., realizing that he’d missed his intended stop — and also realizing that his right rear pocket had been cut. The victim’s wallet (worth $200) had been stolen along with its contents: $350 in cash, his driver’s license and a bank debit card. The police report noted that there were no witnesses to the crime, and no video of the incident was available.

Criminal Mischief: Benz broken, nothing stolen At around 4pm on Fri., Sept. 7, the owner of an E-class four-door Mercedes-Benz sedan returned to where he had parked it (on the southeast corner of W. 33rd St. & 12th Ave.), to discover the right side front passenger window had been broken. No property was removed from the vehicle.

Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance: Double parker busted for baggies A routine parking violation resulted in a trip to jail for a 32-year-old male who put his car, and his stash, in ill-advised positions. Police collared the defendant around 4:30am on Sun., Sept. 9 after observing that he was illegally parked in front of a nightclub (on the northwest corner of 10th Ave. & W. 18th St.). After instructing the man to relocate his vehicle, the arresting officer’s suspicions were aroused when he noticed there was no license plate attached to the car or visible in the window. According the police report, the officer “conducted a car stop and, in plain view on the right side of the back seat, A/O [Arresting Officer] did observe three baggies of alleged cocaine and one bigger baggie of alleged marijuana.”

Robbery: Clothing thief had naked ambition A brazen thief with a thing for jeans and T-shirts was arrested by uniformed officers — after the manager of EFOR clothing boutique (168 8th Ave., btw. 18th & 19th Sts.) sustained injuries while holding the 50-year-old man until police arrived. At 12:35pm on Mon., Sept. 10, the manager observed the defendant walking out of the store with six pairs of Mavi jeans (worth $588). The two men wrestled outside of the store, at which time the defendant declared, “Get the f--k off me or I’ll cut you.” The defendant broke free, and the manager noticed he was bleeding from a cut on his right hand. Responding officers found a box cutter in the defendant’s right pocket, and also discovered in his possession T-shirts (with the tags still on them) that he had stolen earlier from a nearby American Apparel clothing store. The Apparel manager later confirmed to police that the defendant had walked out of the store without paying for the shirts (worth $104).

Leaving the Scene and Property Damage: New pole position A witness reported to police that at 3:15pm on Sat., Sept. 8, a gray 2003 Acura two-door sedan hit a utility pole at the southwest corner of 10th Ave. & W. 21st St., then sped off, heading west on 21st St.

Petty Larceny: GPS whereabouts unknown When a 22-year-old resident of Pennsylvania recently returned to her vehicle (which was parked in the MPG Garage, at 450 W. 17th St.), she discovered that her Magellan GPS device (valued at $60) was missing. There was no damage to the car.

—Scott Stiffler

Reckless Endangerment: Gunshots heard, casings found Two witnesses reported that shortly before 4am on Mon., Sept. 10, they were inside club America (at 609 W. 29th St.), when they heard “what sounded like gunshots.” Responding officers found several spent shell casings between W. 28th & W. 29th Streets (at 11th Ave., on the west side). In total, eight 40-caliber shell casings were recovered. After canvassing nearby hospitals, police did not find any gunshot victims — leading them to believe that no one was injured on the scene.

THE 10th PRECINCT Located at 230 W. 20th St. (btw.

7th & 8th Aves.). Deputy Inspector: Elisa Cokkinos. Main number: 212741-8211. Community Affairs: 212-741-8226. Crime Prevention: 212-741-8226. Domestic Violence: 212-741-8216. Youth Officer: 212741-8211. Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-741-8210. Detective Squad: 212-741-8245. The Community Council Meeting takes place at 7pm on the last Wed. of the month.

CASH FOR GUNS $100 cash will be given (no questions asked) for each handgun, assault weapon or sawed-off shotgun, up to a maximum payment of $300. Guns are accepted at any Police Precinct, PSA or Transit District.

CRIME STOPPERS If you have info regarding a crime committed or a wanted person, call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, text “TIP577” (plus your message) to “CRIMES” (274637) or submit a tip online at nypdcrimestoppers.com.

THE 13th PRECINCT Located at 230 E. 21st St. (btw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.). Deputy Inspector: Ted Bernsted. Call 212-477-7411.

Community Affairs: 212-477-7427.

Crime Prevention: 212-477-7427.

Domestic Violence: 212-477-3863.

Youth Officer: 212-477-7411.

Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-4774380. Detective Squad: 212-4777444. The Community Council Meeting takes place at 6:30pm on the third Tues. of the month.

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NEWLY CONSTRUCTED APARTMENTS FOR RENT IN MANHATTAN 44th Street Development LLC is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for 682 affordable housing rental apartments now under construction at 510-550 West 45th Street in the Clinton section of Manhattan.

The buildings are being constructed through the Inclusionary Housing Program of the New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) with financing provided by New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA). The size, rent and income requirements of the 682 units are below: I

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Total Gross Annual Income****

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Studio

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1

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86

Studio

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$57,600 - $78,435

14

1 Bedroom

$533

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$20,263 - $23,240

43

1 Bedroom

$2,042

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$72,000 - $78,435

2

$72,000 - $89,640

2

$86,435 - $89,640

3

$86,435 - $100,845

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3

2 Bedroom

3 Bedroom

$648

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$20,263 - $26,560

2

$24,309 - $26,560

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$743

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$2,460

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$24,309 - $33,200

4

$86,435 - $112,050

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3***

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$28,115 - $33,200

4

$99,875 - $112,050

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$28,115 - $35,880

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$99,875 - $121,095

6

$28,115 - $38,520

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$99,875 - $130,005

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3 Bedroom

$2,836

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87

Studio

$1,997

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$70,423 - $95,865

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1 Bedroom

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1 Bedroom

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2 Bedroom

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65

2 Bedroom

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3 Bedroom

$958

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$25,612 - $29,050

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$25,612 - $33,200

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$30,720 - $33,200

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$88,012 - $95,865

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$30,720 - $37,350

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$105,635 - $123,255

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$30,720 - $41,500

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$35,486 - $41,500

4

$122,058 - $136,950

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$35,486 - $44,850

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$122,058 - $148,005

21

3 Bedroom

$3,483

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Applicants will be required to meet income guidelines and additional selection criteria. To request an application, mail a postcard to: West 45 Lottery, P.O. Box 1761 Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10156, or download from www.West45Lottery.com. Completed Applications must be returned by Regular Mail ONLY (No priority, certified, registered, express, overnight or oversized mail will be accepted) to a post office box number that will be listed with the application, and must be postmarked by November 9, 2012. Applications post marked after November 9, 2012 will be set aside for possible future consideration. Applications will be selected by lottery; applicants who submit more than one application will be disqualified. Disqualified applications will not be accepted. Preference will be given to New York City residents. Current and eligible residents of Manhattan Community Board 4 will receive preference for 50% of the units. Eligible households that include persons with mobility impairments will receive preference for 5% of the units; eligible households that include persons with visual and/or hearing impairments will receive preference for 2% of the units; and eligible City of New York Municipal employees will receive a 5% preference.

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September 19 - October 2, 2012

Durst pitches an alternative plan to save Pier 40 Continued from page 3 annual fee on commercial and residential property owners living within a few blocks of the park. This money would be funneled back into the park’s maintenance and operations and used to spruce up the blocks near the park.

As for political intrigue, some speculate that with Mayor Bloomberg heading into his final year in office, the Durst “mutiny” could be setting the stage for a possible change in the Trust’s leadership under a new mayor, or at least an effort to “rob victory” from Bloomberg and Wils on Pier 40.

GLICK: ‘INTERESTING IDEA’ Assemblymember Deborah Glick is a fierce opponent of housing on Pier 40. The pier is in her district and she has made it clear she won’t support modifying the Hudson River Park Act to allow residential development there. She objects, in principle, to the idea that the park must be financially self-sustaining, arguing this will only lead to unwanted overdevelopment — like housing in the park.

Glick noted that Durst and Korman’s stacker-parking plan is similar to one pitched in 2007 by the Pier 40 Partnership. A wellfunded group of parents whose children played sports on the pier, the Partnership’s proposal was an alternative to the “Vegas on the Hudson” plan by The Related Companies that would have turned the pier into a major entertainment site.

“We thought that was an interesting idea and were sorry the Trust didn’t pursue it,” Glick said of the Partnership’s plan, which also included space for schools.

She called Durst’s proposal “an interesting approach, a more common-sense approach. We’re really pleased to see someone who has a tremendous track record in New York City real estate and development share a similar view of the future of Pier 40 that supports the park and preserves the playing fields,” she said.

Glick figured the parking rates might rise a bit with the attendant parking, though adding, “I would hope it wouldn’t be dramatic.”

Meanwhile, she said, she could see the space freed up by consolidating the parking being used by “new media or postproduction film facilities, maybe gallery space, too. There’s great potential for natural light,” she noted of Pier 40.

However, the park act’s prohibitions against housing must remain, she warned, or else, “The entire Lower West Side will be developed over time and the river will be walled off.”

GOTTFRIED: ‘WE NEED OPTIONS’ Assemblymember Richard Gottfried co-authored the 1998 park act, and his district includes Hudson River Park north of West 14th Street. This spring he was won over to the idea of residential housing on Pier 40 as the best way to save both the pier and the cash-strapped park. On the other hand, at the big public meeting the Trust held about Pier 40 in May, he stated, “A

A rendering provided by Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s Office gives a rough sense of how Pier 40 could look with 15-story towers added along its northern edge.

parking garage and a tow pound — I don’t think either one of these belongs in Hudson River Park.” The Police Department’s tow pound is currently on Pier 76, at West 36th Street.

Asked about the new Durst/Korman plan, Gottfried said, “We need a broad range of options on the table for Pier 40 and Pier 76, including office buildings, parking garages, housing, hotels and longer lease terms to allow financing. They should be allowed in the law. Then there would have to be an open planning process to evaluate the revenue potential, traffic impact and other factors for these options. The law requires a request for proposals, public hearings by the Hudson River Park Trust, and the city ULURP process. The Trust has a good track record of getting broad community input. Douglas Durst is an extraordinary friend of the park. Any proposal he is advancing deserves our attention. The legislation I support would help make that happen.”

By “the legislation I support,” Gottfried was referring to proposed legislative changes that the Trust is expected to ask the state Legislature to approve either in a special session in November or December or, if not then, likely in March, when the state budget is passed.

“The proposal wants to open up 500,000 square feet for commercial use based on an RFP,” Bergman said. “But what if a fairy-tale tech campus doesn’t bid? Then we are left with generic commercial space that can be legally used for retail and entertainment, and what we have is a back-door approach to the same kinds of proposals that the community has rejected twice before.”

(Indeed, the city has been giving away free space for hightech campuses in other places lately, so, some would ask, why would anyone pay for it at Pier 40?)

Bergman added, “Why insist on preserving the existing piershed structure when other plans might create more park space and more river access? Isn’t the idea to have a better park?

“The Pier 40 Partnership tried to show this approach works and the conclusion was it probably doesn’t,” Bergman said. “The existing building is poorly configured for most other uses.... And income from parking is too unreliable to support the investment.

Shifting the costs to other commercial uses overstresses the added development.”

PR, PRO AND CON LIKES INCREMENTAL IDEA Arthur Schwartz, co-chairperson of Community Board 2’s Waterfront Committee and head of the Hudson River Park Advisory Council, also expressed respect for Durst and said the incremental-approach idea “was a step in the right direction.”

But he worried where the needed millions would come from to renovate the pier’s dilapidated roof and corroded pilings.

“The community advocates who have struggled with Pier 40 development issues since 2002, as part of two task forces, have long called for incremental development; developing the pier piece by piece, instead of as part of a grand plan,” Schwartz said. “If anyone can figure out how to do this it’s Doug Durst, and I look forward to discussing his proposal with him from a community perspective.”

‘FAIRY-TALE TECH CAMPUS?’ P3 (Pier, Park and Playground Association) is one of the youth sports groups that commissioned the consultant’s study that found housing was the best high revenue/low impact option for Pier 40. Asked his thoughts on Durst’s plan, Tobi Bergman, P3’s president, was skeptical.

Meanwhile, the local youth sports groups are poised to launch a new PR campaign in support of residential use at Pier 40. Called The Pier 40 Champions, they’ll use architects and urban planners to illustrate possible schemes for residential or mixed-use development on the pier.

According to a member of the group, the concept will be to graphically show how “a residential project can increase the space on the pier available for playing fields, improve access and openness to the river, and bring more income to the Trust, based on a solution that brings in fewer than 1,000 [residents] who will care deeply about the park instead of hundreds of thousands [of people coming to a destination retail or entertainment-use pier] who could care less about it.”

The group plans to use a Facebook page to allow people to see the visuals and comment.

Not to be outdone, Glick plans to wage her own visual campaign to show how putting housing on Pier 40 will “wall off the waterfront.” An architect friend of Glick’s office has produced basic renderings showing what the West Houston Sreet pier could look like with 15-story-or-higher residential towers added along its northern edge.

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Hidden treasures in plain view, at reasonable prices

Move over “Antiques Road Show.” Reality TV’s newest craze (think “Storage Wars” and “American Pickers”) squeezes considerable drama from the premise that we’re a nation of hoarders whose ancient cardboard boxes are filled with treasures just waiting to be adopted by a looky-loo public with cash to burn. Look no further than your own back yard (or nearby side street) for proof.

Once a year, members of the London Terrace Tenants Association part ways with quality items they no longer have use or room for. The result: a truly old-fashioned street fair gloriously bereft of funnel cakes, tube socks,

bedsheets and 10-minute bargain backrubs.

Instead, you get top shelf goodies culled from high-end closets. Manned by volunteers and always packed to capacity with buyers and sellers, the fair donates all proceeds to help maintain the quality of life in London Terrace and all around the Big Apple.

The 2012 London Terrace Street Fair takes place on Sat., Sept. 29, 10am-5pm, “In the heart of historic Chelsea” (aka 24th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves). For info, email LTTAstreetfair@aol.com.

—Scott Stiffler

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Walk honors Father Mychal F. Judge

Photos by Scott Stiffler

BY SCOTT STIFFLER On September 9, the annual Father Mychal F. Judge Walk of Remembrance once again paid tribute the fallen FDNY Chaplain — as well as the 342 NYC Fire Dept. Members, 37 Port Authority Officers, 23 NYC Police Dept.

Members, 3 New York State Court Officers, 1 New York State Trooper, 2 FBI Officers and 1 Secret Service Officer who lost their lives at

the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001. The event also acknowledges the 125 Pentagon Personnel and the 40 heroes who died at Shanksville, PA. Beginning with a Rosary and Mass at the St. Francis of Assisi Church (135 West 31st Street), dozens of participants made their way

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Remembering, reflecting

Photos by Scott Stiffler

Continued from page 14 Downtown, stopping at various precincts and firehouses — among them, Engine 1/Ladder 24 (at West 31st Street) and the NYPD Traffic Control Division (on West 30th Street).

The procession also came to a halt on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 20th Street, for a prayer acknowledging members

of Chelsea’s Engine 3/Ladder 12/Battalion 7 and the 10th Police Precinct. A color guard was also on hand, comprised largely of officers from the 10th Precinct (Axillary Deputy Inspector Thomas Miller, Aux. Sgt. Ernest Moreira, Aux. Police Officer Elissa DeSani, Aux. P.O. Wagner Balan, Aux. P.O. Jiong Cai, Aux. P.O. Michelle Pou, Aux. Capt. Seth Gilman of the Housing Bureau/PSA 4 and the Sixth Precinct’s Aux. Sgt. Maury Englander).

Congressman Jerrold Nadler to speak on the great economic divide

Photo courtesy of Donathan Salkaln/CRDC

At the podium, on the soapbox: On Sept. 27, Congressman Nadler talks politics, economics and inequality.

The Chelsea Reform Democratic Club will host United States Congressman Jerrold Nadler, who will address how the concentration of privately held wealth — which is at its highest peak since 1929 — impacts the other 99 percent of Americans.

He will also give his assessment of the current political landscape.

Free. Thurs., Sept. 27, 7-9 pm. At Hudson Guild’s Elliott Center (441 W. 26th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.).

Light refreshments will be served. For more info, visit crdcnyc.org.

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New High Line hire engages community

BY KAITLYN MEADE Erycka Montoya-Perez has joined Friends of the High Line (FOHL) as the Community Engagement Manager, a position created to help strengthen the organization’s relationship with local residents.

It is often forgotten that the mile-long park looms over an economically and culturally diverse neighborhood. The 5,000 residents of the Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses represent the High Line’s largest group of neighbors. Yet a 2011 survey conducted by FOHL showed that many of these residents did not regularly visit the High Line or feel any particular loyalty or connection to it.

When asked what type of programming and activities would draw them to the park, a significant number of the survey’s 800 respondents mentioned gardening programs, interactive cultural events and job opportunities — especially for local teens.

The interest was there. All that was needed was a plan, and a person, to make it happen.

With monetary support from AT&T, the position of Community Engagement Manager was created. After an extensive search for the right person, FOHL hired life-long Queens resident Erycka MontoyaPerez (who comes to the job with a recent master’s degree in environmental policy).

“We want to make sure our most imme-

Photos by Liz Ligon, courtesy of Friends of the High Line

The kids will have their say: Local teens are becoming more involved in High Line programming.

diate neighbors are informed about this park that is in their backyard. We want to make sure they feel like this is their park,” says Montoya-Perez, who notes that besides reaching out directly to locals, “We’re looking to identify other community-based groups in the neighborhood to figure out how we can strengthen our ties

with PTAs in the schools and strengthen our after-school programs.”

Thus far, one successful manifestation of the engagement program was the “Teen Picks” movie series, during which a group of local teens from the nearby

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More public programs coming to High Line Continued from page 16 Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses collected votes on a series of free teen-themed film screenings on the High Line.

The series (which debuted in August) brought teen-friendly programming to the park and taught local teens useful and marketable skills. Furthermore, the movies featured messages of reinvention and engagement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the same thing MontoyaPerez and her outreach team are trying to bring to the High Lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs.

Another priority is to go green: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking to expand our Green Corps,â&#x20AC;? she notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This past spring, the program was a week long. Many of the teens wanted to keep working with us. Members of the Teen Film Committee [eight of the ten] came from that.â&#x20AC;?

The engagement program is also a way to involve the senior community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One idea that we are exploring, for example, is taking care of neighborhood tree pits and providing some guidance on cultivating more community gardens. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some conversations with NORC [Naturally Occurring Retirement Community] and Hudson Guild to figure out whether or not this is a possibility.â&#x20AC;?

Miguel Acevedo, founder of Fulton Youth of the Future, says the difference made by Montoya-Perez was immediate (several Fulton Youth members currently work in the Community Engagement office). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a positive move for Friends of the High Line,â&#x20AC;? notes Acevedo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve shown that they want to be a part of the community.â&#x20AC;?

Acevedo added that he would like to see a similar partnership with Hudson River Trust in order to bring the larger community together and provide growth opportunities.

As a recent graduate with a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in environmental policy and a diverse background which ranges from working directly with constituents in New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21st Council District to workforce development in the Bronx Workforce 1 Career Center, the Bard Collage grad is uniquely suited to fill this new position.

Regarding the 2011 survey and her own outreach efforts thus far, MontoyaPerez says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were trying to understand this disconnect: Nobody had anything negative to say about the park, but it was maybe a place people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel comfortable about going to.â&#x20AC;? She elaborates that the park, which was originally planned to open to 300,000 people, was visited by three million in the first year. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot for the area to absorb.

The answer, it seems, lies not only in building that public space, but also in having someone to mediate between the funders, the planners and the people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tabled outside of the Fulton Center. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also tabled in a couple of spots around Elliot-Chelsea as well. We were focusing on collecting votes for the teen picks movies, as well as providing information about High Line programs and job openings.â&#x20AC;?

This fall, Montoya-Perez will be working to set up other public programs that neighbors expressed interest in, â&#x20AC;&#x153;such as more job skill development programs for teens, concerts featuring local choruses and tours for neighbors,â&#x20AC;? says Kate Lindquist, director of communications and marketing for Friends of the High Line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Performances are one way weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to respond to that,â&#x20AC;? notes Lindquist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also looking to see how we can incorporate fashion. That came up a lot in our talks with [NYCHA] residents and through our surveying. People said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see a fashion show and have our local kids participate in it.â&#x20AC;?

On August 25, FOHL participated in the Resident Family Day that took place at Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea. Teens were responsible for curating the activities offered, such as mural painting and creating wildflower-potted plants.

Currently, the High Line is preparing for a multitude of fall activities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Montoya-Perez is busy making sure that nearby residents are engaged as both collaborators and participants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming up this fall,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;will be our community-based Halloween celebration on Saturday, October 27. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part-

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Fully engaged: Montoya-Perez, seated, at a local tabling event.

nering with Fulton Youth of the Future to create a pumpkin patch on the High Line, where kids will be able to decorate pumpkins. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also have face painting.

We're hoping to work with teachers and children from local schools to create

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Sept. 23 service to honor Phyllis Gonzalez Continued from page 4 family and seniors who came to her tenants association office.”

Miguel Acevedo, president of the Fulton Houses Tenants Association and director of Fulton Youth of the Future, knew Gonzalez for 20 years. He related that for so many years, as bad as her health was, she always put her community first and foremost. “She didn’t care if she came out of the hospital and couldn’t breathe. The next day, if she had to have a meeting, she held it,” he said.

“We always did everything together to make sure people in this low-income community knew they were not forgotten.

It’s such a big loss for that development.

She was probably one of the last of the Mohicans. I am definitely going to miss her,” he continued.

Acevedo and Gonzalez recently discussed having a demonstration to get a long-promised laundromat on the ground floor of her building. “The community is being shafted at this site, and we are going ahead in her honor.”

Years ago, Gonzalez worked as a social worker at the Hudson Guild and before that, at the notorious welfare hotels, the Allerton (West 22nd Street and Eighth Avenue, gutted in 2007) and Martinique (West 32nd Street and Broadway, now the upscale Radisson Martinique). “She got a lot of people out of there and into ElliottChelsea housing,” said Marion.

Marion, who lived with her mother, said there were always people in the house — if they needed a meal, a shower, someplace to stay (including those who had been evicted from the hotels). Nancy Moore, then one of her clients, said, choking back tears, “She helped me get out of

the Allerton and into the project 24 years ago. She helped me get a job. She got my kids into a school I wanted them to go to.

She was a very dear friend. There are no words….”

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‘She was a commanding presence, but never in an overbearing way, and a longtime fierce protector of her avowed neighborhood, not just the Elliott-Chelsea Houses. Her presence and influence cast a much wider net,’ said Duane.

‘She really lived an exceptional life.’

Coordinator of New York Dream Center, a religious organization, met Gonzalez last year when she came to one of their Saturday programs in the courtyard of the project, where they were passing out food, clothing and other items. “She saw what we were doing, and through her we were able to expand our program. She connected us with people in the community who needed help,” said Rush. “Our mission is to love God, love people. That was Phyllis

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in the flesh. She was the godfather of the neighborhood. If you needed something, you went to Phyllis and it got done.”

At the organization’s Thursday, September 13 bread line, Chelsea Now spoke to Be-Be, who met Gonzalez 22 years ago when she moved into the project. “Many years ago, she helped me and my kids go to Hudson Guild Farm, out of the city for a whole week,” recalled Be-Be. She also got her kids into Basketball City for a season free of charge. “I will never forget that.”

Gonzalez was also a member of the Hudson Guild’s Neighborhood Advisory Council. She served as a member of Community Board 4 up until last year, and was involved with the local PTA at PS 33 (when Marion was in school) and served as its president at one time.

She was also a member of the former Community School Board 2. For many years Gonzalez ensured that PS 33, one of the busiest polling places during elections, ran smoothly. She was the secretary of the Citywide Council of Presidents for the New York City Housing Authority.

And in her younger days, she was one of the first black women to drive a cab in Greensboro, NC. Marion recalled that when she was younger, every Christmas her mother made a big dinner at the Guild, and they wrapped a lot of presents. “She got an award for that,” said Marion, one of many awards too numerous to mention.

Her last award was this past May — the second annual Doris Corrigan Award for community service, presented to her by the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, the home club of City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and state Senator Tom Duane, who knew Gonzalez from the neighborhood even before he became district leader in 1982. In a phone interview with Chelsea Now, Duane said that knowing she was in ill health for several years, he was glad she was recognized at the club’s 2012 annual spring brunch.

“She was a commanding presence, but never in an overbearing way, and a longtime fierce protector of her avowed neighborhood, not just the Elliott-Chelsea

Houses. Her presence and influence cast a much wider net,” said Duane. “She really lived an exceptional life.”

In an email to Chelsea Now, Quinn said, “I am deeply saddened by the passing of Phyllis Gonzalez. Phyllis was dedicated to her tenants association and to her residents. She worked tirelessly to advocate for a wide range of issues, from creating more affordable housing to improving the quality of life in public housing to tenant safety issues.

She called attention to problems when she saw them and kept fighting until they were resolved. She will be greatly missed.”

In his email, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried recalled her as “a longtime determined fighter for neighbors in ElliotChelsea Houses and in all of Chelsea.

Our community depends on people like Phyllis. She understood that we are not here just to be for ourselves. We have responsibilities to our families, neighbors and community."

Gonzalez was born on May 28, 1947, in Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital and raised on the Lower East Side. She is survived by her daughter Marion, son Eric, 45, and his two daughters, Krista, 17 and Samantha, 19.

There is no funeral. Gonzalez was cremated and her ashes placed in an old wooden wine box that she painted herself in acrylics. There are mountains and a night sky on one side and a waterscape on the other side. “She loved to paint things and was a very good artist,” said Marion, who will keep her ashes at home.

“Ma didn’t want a viewing,” she explained. “She loved life. She loved you in spite of the choices you made. So we’re going to have a party.”

She added, “If you are going to remember Ma, do something nice for somebody you can’t stand, and she’d love it. And do eat something you’re not supposed to,” she said, laughing.

A celebration of Phyllis Gonzalez’s life will take place on Sunday, September 23, (from 3-8pm) at Hudson Guild (441 West 26th Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues).

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MUNI METERS Recently, one of our member block associations was asked by some business people on the block if some of the commercial-only three-hour meter parking regulations could be changed to one-hour regular parking. This change would allow customers of the stores to park nearby (and the residents of the block and commercial vehicles could still park there if needed).

REMEDY: This request was discussed with residents on the block as well as other businesses. The consensus was that it was a good suggestion if the changes were made in a limited area. This request was then brought to the attention of CB 4’s Transportation Committee — which passed a supporting resolution, which was then approved by the full board and sent to the city’s Department of Transportation. We are waiting for their decision.

CHANGING POLICE PRECINCT COVERAGE (AKA “COTERMINALITY) For years, residents of the eastern part of Chelsea have been requesting that their blocks be covered by the 10th Precinct (which is located close by, and is in our CB4’s catchment area) instead of being serviced as they now are, by the 13th Precinct (which is located a distance away and is in the Community Board 6 district — which is not Chelsea’s Community Board and which is not where the blocks in question are located).

REMEDY: A petition and letterwriting effort was initiated. With the support of CB4, our Chelsea City Councilmember Speaker Christine Quinn, Borough President Scott Stringer and state Senator Tom Duane, the request was sent to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The request is being reviewed and we are awaiting the decision.

There are many more issues, concerns and activities that the Council of Chelsea Block Associations and our member blocks are involved in. Due to the limited space of this article, they will be mentioned below — but not described.

• Request to install traffic light arrow turn signals (to help prevent cars from going the wrong way).

• Request to stop alleged illegal commercial business activity (such as film and photo shoots) in areas which are zoned as residential.

• CCBA has sent a letter to the NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner regarding the way our streets are milled, resurfaced and dug up. In that letter, we suggested that the city decrease the lag time between the initial milling and the resurfacing (which can be as long as several weeks), and that they do as much work as possible during the daytime (so as to not disturb residents’ sleep). A request was also made to put appropriate signage in place to warn drivers of the road conditions.

We also emphasized the crosswalk markings.

• Support to preserve historic buildings such as the Lamartine Place building (which was an Underground Railroad site).

• Support for appropriate development, but not overdevelopment, as well as not changing existing zoning regulations — which, if changed, will allow building on top of historic buildings (such as the current Chelsea Market proposal).

• Support to try and keep Mom & Pop stores from having to leave our Chelsea community.

• Support for affordable housing for low-income and middle-income residents, so that Chelsea can remain mixed — both ethnically and economically.

• Participate in tree guard, tree planting programs and street beautification programs.

• Attend the 10th Precinct Community Council meetings, and share information provided by the precinct.

• Letter to Speaker Quinn requesting joint City Council Committee Hearings, so appropriate experts can discuss potential health risks and energy questions related to the Spectra Gas Pipeline proposed to come to the West 14th Street area.

• Publicizing community information, such as the annual Chelsea community meeting (on October 10, hosted by the 300 West 21st/22nd/23rd Street Block Association) and the upcoming 100 West 16th Street block party on October 27.

The CCBA welcomes your feedback and questions. Send an email to Bill Borock (CCBA president), at wborock@ hotmail.com. For info on CB4’s various public meetings, visit nyc.gov/mcb4 or email them at info@manhattanCB4.org.

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CHELSEA: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT She sings, she acts, she moves furniture!

Talented multitasker Lavin on Billy, the bossa nova and feminizing Fagen

MUSIC “LINDA LAVIN…NOW” Sun., Sept. 23, 3pm At 54 Below 254 W. 54th St., (btw. Broadway & 8th Ave.) Cover Charge: $30 for bar seats $40 for main dining area $25 food/drink minimum For reservations, call 866-468-7619 For info, visit 54below.com or call 646-476-3551 To purchase the CD “Possibilities,” visit sh-k-boom.com/lindalavin.shtml Also visit lindalavin.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Check out the photo on this page. There’s Linda Lavin — working the tough and tart matriarch look — in a scene from her recent Tony-nominated performance in “The Lyons.”

You don’t get gams like that by sitting down or standing still.

Okay, she’s sitting in the photo. But in all fairness, that brief spate of inaction occurred while in character. Real life? That’s another matter.

Two times we’ve spoken with Lavin, and on both occasions she was immersed in the mundane tasks of everyday existence (doing laundry and moving furniture, respectively). But that didn’t stop her from dispensing showbiz anecdotes and insider analysis with the same gusto she brought to her domestic chores.

Heavy lifting done well (and with ease) is the takeaway one gets, whether watching Lavin prowl the Broadway stage as Rita Lyons, chat up the crowd between numbers at Birdland or navigate the intricacies of jazz and Broadway standards on her debut CD, “Possibilities.”

In the liner notes to that project (which takes its title from her signature tune in the Broadway production of “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman”), no less than Hal Prince weighs in on Lavin’s formidable range.

“She had everything, that girl,” says Prince of Lavin’s rise from bit part to featured player in 1961’s “A Family Affair.”

Brought in to direct as the show was floundering, Prince recalls being struck by Lavin’s “wonderfully unique singing voice, acting chops and — what else can you call it? — star quality.”

Fifty years later, the song remains the same. “Linda brings her prodigious gifts and uncommon intelligence to this material,” gushes Prince — an evaluation we can back up, having seen Lavin in concert at Birdland shortly before the 2011 release of “Possibilities.”

Photo by Carol Rosegg

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A career with legs: Linda Lavin’s most recent Broadway incarnation was hot mess mama Rita Lyons.

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Jazz and indie music: Best of fests, and all the rest Autumn brings new, established artists Downtown

BY SAM SPOKONY With another sweltering city summer in the can, there’s a whole lot of awesome music on the way this fall — and it’s coming from a variety of artistic sources, both established and unexpected. While summer’s festivals brought some of the industry’s top names outdoors, the coming season will draw great international talent to concert halls big and small throughout the Downtown area. What follows is a preview of some of the best live listening available through late November.

I’m keeping it cheap for you, because I didn’t move on up to this tiny, threefloor walkup in Bed-Stuy by just throwing my money away, did I? This fall, we’ve got great shows, series and festivals in Tribeca and the Village (East and West) that range from $20 all the way down to free of charge. And once November hits, the dog days will feel pretty distant — in fact, it’ll probably be cold enough by that point for you to take the cash you’ve saved on cover charges to warm up with a few shots of vodka. But, as they say, that’s a different story for a different day.

In any case, here are my picks for the season — featuring some of my favorite players, alongside a few I just recently

Photo courtesy of the artist

Violinist Mia Zabelka will bring her innovative violin improvisations to University of the Streets on September 26.

caught wind of. Keeping an open mind has always worked for me — so my very first fall recommendation would be to

do just that, as you look for new music to dig.

JAZZ Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka might not play jazz per se, but she performs in ways that will captivate and engage any fans of intelligently improvised music.

Using electronics and multiple microphones to warp her instrument’s tone or create new sounds altogether, Zabelka floats through the many stylistic worlds of contemporary art music while maintaining the distinct spirit of jazz. She’ll play a solo set at one of my favorite havens for experimental music, University of the Streets (130 E. Seventh St., btw. First Ave. & Ave. A), on September 26 at 8pm.

Tickets are $10, and can be purchased at universityofthestreets.org. For more info on the artist, visit miazabelka.com.

Another foreign talent, Israeli guitarist Oz Noy, developed his natural virtuosity to such heights that he became one of the most in-demand studio musicians in his country by the time he was only 24. Since moving to New York in 1996, Noy has brought his genre-bending sound — which is based in jazz but touches on funk, rock, blues and R&B — to bear with top artists like John Medeski, Dave Weckl, Chris Botti and Eric Johnson. Don’t miss him at 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., btw. Sixth & Seventh Aves.) on September 27 at 10pm, when he’ll be playing with an all-star trio including bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased at the door. For more info, visit 55bar.com and oznoy.com.

October 10 would have been pianist Thelonious Monk’s 95th birthday. Monk, who died in 1982, left his eternal mark on

Photo by Lou Jones

After years of success in both classical and jazz, pianist Donal Fox will play a solo set at 92Y Tribeca on November 3.

modern jazz by creating and performing in a musical language all his own. So on the anniversary of Monk’s birthday, Arts Brookfield continues its annual “Counting Down to 100” series with a free concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey St., btw. North End Ave. & West St.) that will bring together five of today’s top pianists to pay homage to a master. The show, which takes place from 12-3pm on October 10, features Michael Cochrane, Jean-Michel Pilc, Manuel Valera, Elio Villafranca and James Weidman. And while you still have another five years to go before Monk’s 100th, with a lineup like that and no cover charge, I’d recommend making every birthday count.

For more info, visit artsbrookfield.com.

Most serious musicians, regardless of their level of talent, shy away from making equal contributions to the fields of jazz and classical. But pianist Donal Fox has been doing just that for decades, and has found just as much success in composing — with the St. Louis Symphony and Harvard University, among others — as in improvising on the keys. This year, he will lead off the month-long “Four for the Apple” series at 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St., btw. Desbrosses & Vestry Sts.) with a solo set on November 3 at 8pm. Fox’s performance, titled “Inventions in Blue,” should give a perfect taste of his deftly nuanced jazz style, while also showcasing the control and precision of his classical training. For more info, visit myspace. com/donalfoxprojects.

The three other concerts in the “Four for the Apple” series feature the Fonda/

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New music to dig Continued from page 22 Stevens Group — an accomplished quartet that specializes in blending the various idioms of modern jazz, on November 10; pianist Michele Rosewoman and her soulful, bass-less trio on November 17; and PUBLIQuartet, a string quartet that performs both traditional chamber music and contemporary compositions, on November 24. Tickets for the first three shows in the series are all $20 in advance and $25 at the door, and tickets for the November 24 show are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. To purchase tickets, or for more info, visit 92y.org/tribeca.

INDIE If you’re feeling adventurous towards the end of September, you can explore some of the best music you’ve never heard at the NYC New Music Festival, a massive five-day program with stages at 27 venues throughout the East Village, West Village and the Lower East Side.

The festival, which takes place from September 26-30, features up-and-coming indie artists from both New York and the rest of the nation, including tinges of rock, pop, folk, blues and more. For info, visit nycmf.com.

Amidst the wide selection, my personal recommendation would be to check out Elephants Gerald at the Kraine Theater (85 E. Fourth St., btw. Second Ave. & Bowery) on September 30 at 8pm.

The folk-Americana duo from Baltimore brings an earthy, organic sound that goes well alongside introspective lyrics and good guitar interplay. Tickets for that show are $8 at the door, but prices for the festival’s other venues vary, and allday passes are also available online. To buy tickets or learn more, visit ssa.cc/ nycsch.html. For info on “elephants,” visit elephants-gerald.com.

A more established voice on the indie-folk scene has been Alex Brown Church, who leads the (currently) sixpiece group Sea Wolf. With haunting harmonies, unexpected instrumentation and an intimate sound, the band has been following a Bright Eyes-esque trail since 2007 — and Church has succeeded in his own right, penning a tune for the second installation of the Twilight movie series (2009’s“New Moon”). Sea Wolf’s a new album, “Old World Romance,” came out on September 11. So after grabbing the record, you can see the band live at (Le) Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St., btw. Sullivan & Thompson Sts.) on October 19 at 7pm, alongside supporting acts Jim White and Hey Marseilles. Tickets cost $15, and can be purchased at lepoissonrouge.com. For more info, visit seawolfmusic.com.

And one more great indie-folk choice this fall — for those seeking something a bit farther Downtown — is 92Y Tribeca’s double offering of Barnaby Bright and Liz Longley on November

Photo courtesy of Mia Kirby Photo courtesy of the artist

Which do they love more: the music, or each other? Decide for yourself after seeing the husband-and-wife team of Barnaby Bright at 92YTribeca on November 9.

9 at 9pm. First of all, Barnaby Bright is basically the cutest thing ever. It’s a husband-and-wife team (Nathan and Rebecca Bliss) who sing soft melodies to each other, intertwining and harmonizing over lush guitar backgrounds. Bring a date. You can’t beat that — not to mention the fact that both members of Barnaby Bright have some pretty solid classical music training behind them, and that their songs have been featured on national TV shows like “ER” and “Days of Our Lives.” For more info, visit barnabybright.com.

Singer/songwriter Liz Longley only graduated from the Berklee College of Music two years ago, but she’s already well on her way to transitioning from academia to the pop music limelight.

Longley’s ability to craft great tunes has led to prizes in some of the nation’s top songwriting contests, and she also recently raised enough money — nearly $50,000 thus far — to record a new album without the help of a record label. And her instantly relaxing voice makes it all click. For more info on the artist, visit lizlongley.com. Tickets for the November 9 show are $10 and can be purchased online at 92y.org/tribeca.

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 Downtown radar, drop me a line at samspokony@gmail.com.

Singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church will lead indie-folk mainstay Sea Wolf in a show at (Le) Poisson Rouge on October 19.

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Post-Lyons Linda is keeping busy Continued from page 21 Besides understated, borderline melancholy takes on “It Amazes Me” and “Two for the Road,” Lavin finds room on the CD for the unorthodox. Coming at you from far left field, “Walk Between the Raindrops” is a cover from Donald Fagen’s 1982 solo album, “The Nightfly.”

When asked what inspired her to put a feminine stamp on the often lecherous voice of Steely Dan, Lavin observes that as both a singer and a lyricist, “Fagen is very masculine.

I hear him all the time when my husband and I play him on road trips. His songs, they don’t speak of women’s lives, but still…I call him the ‘Lenny Bruce of music.’ I don’t understand everything he says, but I sure as hell love listening to it.”

Lavin, and likeminded Fagen fans, take note: Lenny Bruce may be gone, but the fertile mind who brought us “The Nightfly,” “Kamakiriad” and “Morph the Cat” is still alive, kicking and prolific. Fagen’s latest solo effort, the nine-track “Sunken Condos,” drops on October 16. Spoiler alert: It’s great!

As for Lavin’s 12-track debut effort, other uncommon choices include “There’s a Small Hotel” (which, though best known as a duet, gets the solo treatment) and “It Might as Well Be Spring,” sung bossa nova style.

“I do as much bossa nova as I can,” explains

Photo by Derek Storm

All smiles: Linda Lavin and Birdland “Cast Party” host Jim Caruso.

Lavin, “because of Billy.” That’s Billy Stritch, who serves as the CD’s arranger, musical director and pianist. “Billy,” gushes Lavin in full on Hal Prince mode, “is one of the greatest interpreters of Brazilian music that we have. He expresses it sensually and beautifully. “ Lavin recalls how Stritch and Jim Caruso

came to see a cabaret gig (at the now-defunct Rainbow & Stars) and encouraged her. “I’ve known Billy and Jim since 1993,” says Lavin.

“We’ve played and sung together in our own living rooms since we’ve met. They’re friends, and I’m a fan of them both.”

Soon, Caruso (who currently hosts

Birdland’s Monday night open mic series “Cast Party,” with Stritch at the keys) was booking Lavin in the Poconos and Palm Beach. During that period, she notes, “my husband [Steve Bakunas] who is a rock drummer, became a jazz drummer. He became my drummer, and Billy took over as musical director. Then, I was in North Carolina doing a weekend, and my agent introduced me to John Brown [currently director of the Duke University jazz program, and also producer and bass player for “Possibilities”]. Five years later, he said, ‘You gotta do a CD.’ ” While appearing at 54 Below in support of “Possibilities,” Lavin is already plotting her next recording. “I live in Wilmington when I’m not working in New York,” she explained in our summertime interview. Since then, she and Bakunas have put a “For Sale” sign on their North Carolina home in anticipation of becoming full-time Manhattanites.

It’s at this point that we’ll resist the temptation to invoke a lyric from the beloved 70s sitcom “Alice” and point out that “There’s a new girl in town.” Instead, we’ll just note how earlier this year, a gig in Wilmington laid the groundwork for things to come.

“Back in March,” Lavin recalls, “we did a concert with the 60-piece Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, [Birdland regular] Aaron Weinstein, Billy, Jim and [jazz guitarist] Bucky Pizzarelli. I would love to build on that concert for a new album.”

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Liz Eckert (L) as Bessie Marbury and Jody Flader (R) as Elsie de Wolfe (see “The Bachelor’s Tea Party”).

Caroline Rhea guests at the Oct. 3 “Homo Comicus.”

HOMO COMICUS Making room inside its big tent for everything from biting satire to blue humor to good old-fashioned set-up/punchline jokes, the long-running (but still fabulouslooking) “Homo Comicus” has something to offer funny bones on all ends of the Kinsey scale. The October installment skewers heavily towards females with supernatural showbiz credits and large gay followings.

Caroline Rhea (a lovable aunt on “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) and Jackie Hoffman (Broadway’s “The Addams Family”) join Michele Balan, Jackson Ross Best Jr. and your affable host Bob Montgomery for an evening of lavender-leaning comedy.

Wed., Oct. 3, 8:30pm. At Gotham Comedy Club (208 W. 23rd St., btw. 7th & 8th Aves.).

Cover: $20, plus two-beverage minimum. For reservations, call 212-367-9000. For more info, visit homocomicus.com.

tions), Singer’s “Port of Call” meditates on matters of space and time, by charting “a woman’s metaphysical journey moving through eight transformational destinations — New York, East End of Long Island, Vermont, Millennium, Dementia, and beyond.” Past and present lovers, the mental decline of an aging parent and fragility as depicted by both global warming and a fractured pelvis all become metaphors for “a world of heightened disconnection,” where hope for the future is a dicey proposition. Got questions about any of that? Singer will take them all, we’re assured, after the reading!

Free (suggested donation, $5). Fri., Sept. 21, 7-9pm, at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen St., btw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.). For info, visit bluestockings.com and davidasinger.com.

DAVIDA SINGER READS FROM “PORT OF CALL” Performance artist Davida Singer’s latest collection of poetry has earned raves from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz.

Positively swooning over “Port of Call,” he declared it “both autobiographical and historic, all movingly bearing witness to her time and ours.” See what all the fuss is about, when Singer (who has written for our sister publications Gay City News and The Villager) reads from “Port” with musical assistance from jazz/klezmer artists Frank London (trumpet) and Daniel Kelly (keyboard).

Drawing comparisons to Walt Whitman (for her ability to imbue personal observations with cosmic implica-

Photo by Jesse T. Elliott

On Sept. 21, poet/performance artist Davida Singer comes to Bluestockings.

THE BACHELOR’S TEA PARTY So much for the classic five-course tea service as a gesture of civility and a gateway to tranquility. In the hands of Stolen Chair Theatre Company, the placid and polite ritual becomes a window into the intimate, combative dynamic between two unconventional movers and shakers. This “perverse take on a young girl’s imaginary tea party” is inspired by Elsie de Wolfe (credited with creating the profession of interior designer) and Bessie Marbury (credited with introducing America to Oscar Wilde). In the early 20th century,

they shacked up, sans men, and referred to themselves as “The Bachelors.” With dolls at the table and audience members seated inches away, teatime becomes “a playfully perverse” take on the civilized ritual.

Every Sun. through Oct. 28, 5pm, at Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon (56 Irving Place, btw. 17th & 18th Sts.). For tickets ($55, including a 5-course tea service), visit stolenchair.org or call 212-410-2830. Capacity is limited, so reservations are strongly recommended.

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ROSEMARIE BECK: EMBROIDERED MYTHOLOGIES By focusing on Beck’s late embroideries, this exhibition intends to explore the mythological themes in the artist's needlework. Beck (19232003) often turned to narrative in her work — depicting dramatic climaxes in Greek tragedies (such as the falling of Icarus or the foot race for Atalanta) in many intricate stitches, their angularity amplifying the drama of the story not unlike many vivid brushstrokes. Beck first began to work with embroidery by decorating blouses as a means to supplement her income. Over time, this evolved into an independent practice — leading to highly sophisticated depictions of the tales of Antigone, Daedalus, Icarus and Atalanta by the 1970s.

Through Oct. 6, at Lori Bookstein Fine Art (138 Tenth Ave., btw. 18th & 19th Sts.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10:30am-6pm. Call 212-750-0949 or visit loribooksteinfineart.com.

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Rosemarie Beck’s “Falling Icarus” (1983, embroidered fabric, 20 1/2 x 16 in).

Somebody's gonna get censored: See “Banned Book Party.”

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average Hollywood flick. Among the current offerings: “Myths & Realities” is a show exhibiting photography and video from 16 notable SVA alumni — inspired

by Timothy Leary’s declaration, “Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.” Participating artists include Brendan Austin, Kevin Cooley, Debbie Grossman, Sean Hemmerle, Ina Jang, Mark Kessell, Simen Johan, Noah Kalina, Justine Kurland, Dinh Q. Lê, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Vera Lutter, Domingo Milella, Matthew Pillsbury, Aïda Ruilova and Collier Schorr. New York Times Magazine Director of Photography Kathy Ryan and VII Magazine Editor Scott Thode share curating duties. The exhibition is augmented by a full-color catalog with an essay by independent critic Michael Wilson.

Organized in conjunction with the Golden Bee

—Stephanie Buhmann

Global Biennale in Moscow, “Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom” is an exhibition created in response to the big bear’s current political turmoil. Original posters show support for the Russian democracy movement that came to be after the controversial third-term election of President Vladimir Putin.

“Myths & Realities” is on view through Sept. 29, at the SVA Visual Art Gallery (601 W. 21st St., 15th floor, btw. 11th & 12th Aves.). Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. “Russia” is on view through Sept. 22, at SVA’s Westside Gallery (141 W. 21st St., ground floor, btw. 6th & 7th Aves.). Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9am7pm & Sat., 10am-6pm. Both exhibits are free. For info, call 212-592-2000 or visit sva.edu. Facebook: facebook.com/schoolofvisualarts. Twitter: twitter. com/sva_news.

Celebrated in his time and frequently censored in ours, Mark Twain used to advertise his lectures with this promise: “The trouble begins at 8.” Author and provocateur Mike Edison isn’t making that claim. But it’s a safe bet that his own upcoming 8pm debacle will see Twain’s savvy marketing slogan come to pass — when Edison and friends present the fifth installment of their yearly tribute to Banned Book Week (Sept.

30-Oct. 6). This self-professed “evening of literary hi-jinks, state-sponsored fear, vampires, music, sex and smokin’-hot smarty-pants thrills” features special guests who’ll read passages from their favorite banned books. Brush up on your knowledge of forbidden titles, because the evening ends with a spirited round of “Name That Banned Book.” Before that, however, those who’ve been burying their noses in forbidden pages can cut loose and dance to the outer space bop and dirty blues stylings of the Interstellar Rendezvous Band — whose members include drummers Bob Bert (Sonic Youth), Dee Pop (Bush Tetras, Gun Club) and Mickey Finn (the Left Banke), with Edison laying down licks from his set-for-stun theremin.

Fri., Sept. 28, 8pm. At 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St., btw. Desbrosses & Vestry Sts.). Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 on the day of the event. For info and reservations, visit 92y.org. Also visit mikeedison.com.

MYTH, REALITY and RUSSIA, at SVA The School for Visual Arts (SVA) is about more than the red carpet events that take place at their 23rd St. movie theater. All year long, art shows (free and open to the public) encourage bouts of contemplation, conversation and debate that rival the run time of your

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At SVA: Kevin Cooley’s “Ben's Soho Pizza for Men in Black II” (2001, digital C-Print, 30 x 40 in).

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