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Youth leagues go to bat against strip club near Pier 40 BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Paul Fox was walking back home from Pier 40 with his 8-year-old son two Saturdays ago when he passed the adult video store at Clarkson and West Sts. He saw a sign posted on the building’s corner inviting people in for a “community meeting” about the new high-end topless club that’s planned there. Fox said he muttered something about the fact that now he’ll “have to fight this place too.” Photo by Milo Hess

A photo that really grabs you Last Saturday, the Lilac welcomed landlubbers aboard at Tribeca’s Pier 25 as part of Open House New York. The River Project pulled up traps from the moorings and a blue crab was among the haul.

Politicians call for emergency Senate vote to pass gun laws BY SAM SPOKONY In the wake of a recent shooting outside an East Village housing complex, local lawmakers gathered alongside community leaders last Friday to call for a special legislative session aimed at passing statewide gun control measures that would make New York’s gun laws the strongest in the country. At the heart of that argument was a bill requiring the use of a new techonology called microstamping, which passed the state Assembly in June but has been held up by the state Senate’s Republican majority since being introduced in 2011. State Senator Daniel Squadron, one of the sponsors of the microstamping bill, as well as other current-

ly stalled gun control legislation, led a press conference outside Campos Plaza at E. 12th St. and Avenue C — the site of the shooting — to call for the emergency Senate vote, while also condemning gun industry lobbyists. The Oct. 1 shooting injured one man and is still being investigated. “There’s no issue more important than this right now,” Squadron said, “and we need to pass these basic, commonsense laws that would make our streets safer.” Microstamping uses lasers to stamp a numeric code onto bullet shell casings, theoretically making it easier for police to track individual casings left at a crime scene back to the gun — and the shooter — that fired them. The scheme has

been met with strong opposition from Second Amendment advocates across the nation, and in recent months some major gun manufacturers have threatened to leave New York if statewide legislation requiring the new technology were to pass. California is currently the only state to have passed a microstamping law, but it is not actually in use there because, since 2007, the law has been held up on technicalities. “The gun lobby opposes this because they believe any law that places restrictions on any gun seller or purchaser is a bad law, and we’ve seen the violent effects of

“Why?” asked his son, as he held his dad’s hand. “Because I don’t want a strip club here,” he answered. “He said, ‘Daddy, what’s a strip club?’ ” Fox recalled. “I said, ‘It’s a place grownups go to drink and do silly things.’ ” Fox said he also thought about the dilemma posed by the sign’s invitation to meet in the XXX emporium: Either he could leave his son out on the

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Landmarks O.K.’s East Side district with 330 buildings BY SAM SPOKONY The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday approved the creation of a new historic district in the East Village. The East Village/Lower East Side Historic District comprises 330 buildings between E. Second and E. Seventh Sts., mainly around Second Ave., as well as some between First Ave. and

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Aveune A. The newly landmarked buildings represent a diverse mix, including tenements, religious institutions, row houses and theaters. The district had been considered by the commission since 2010. The L.P.C. commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of the district. All the commissioners expressed the importance

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Bringing his brand of illusion and endurance art to Hudson River Park’s Pier 54, magician David Blaine withstood a bombardment of crackling electric current for 72 hours straight, from Friday evening to Monday evening. As he stood on a platform wearing a special chainmail suit, seven Tesla coils — to the pulsing of minimalist techno beats — spat out a controlled lighting storm in the air around him. Raising his arms, Blaine was able to channel the electricity and shoot it out from his fingertips. He wore a special visor to protect his eyes, noise-cancelling earphones and also used a ventilation system to protect his lungs from the ionized air. He went without food and sucked water from a tube, while urinating into a catheter. Because his special suit and headgear channeled the electricity, experts scoffed that Blaine was never in danger. But it still looked pretty cool.

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SCOOPY’S

NOTEBOOK ON THE MARCH! The grand marshals for this year’s N.Y.U./Community Board 2 Children’s Halloween Parade include some real newsmakers. The trio includes John W. Sutter, The Villager’s former publisher; David Gruber, chairperson of C.B. 2; and Malina Webb, the head of the university’s Student Senate Council. Who knows what these three will be talking about as they lead the march. Maybe by the end, they’ll have worked out answers for everything from saving Pier 40 and the Hudson Square rezoning to what to do with N.Y.U.’s controversial Chick-fil-A franchise. The parade will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wed., Oct. 31. WITH FACEBOOK FRIENDS LIKE THESE...: Are the Friends of Hudson River Park on the same page as the Hudson River Park Trust? One thing we do know, the Friends’ executive director was recently on our page — as in “The Villager Newspaper” Facebook page. Tom Fox, the former head of the Hudson River Park Conservancy, the Trust’s predecessor, wrote a talking point (“Let’s return to the vision of the Hudson River Park”) for The Villager’s Sept. 13 issue in which he blasted the Trust’s latest idea of building residential housing on Pier 40 to generate revenue to save both the crumbling pier and the whole 5-mile-long park. On our Facebook page, A.J. Pietrantone, the Friends’ director, clicked “Like” under Fox’s talking point. Of course, this follows developer Douglas Durst, chairperson of the Friends, roiling the waters by pitching an alternative Pier 40 plan with parking and a high-tech campus, while saying that residential would never work on the pier. However, after our Sept. 6 article on Durst’s alternative plan, he and Madelyn Wils, the Trust’s president, wrote us a joint letter the next week saying, “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.” Now that we think about it, though — while the letter mentioned Durst’s company, it never mentioned anything about the Friends of Hudson River Park, which is the Trust’s chief private fundraising arm. Maybe the best thing to click under all of this is “Confused.”

Photo by Bob Arihood

The one-year anniversary of East Village photojournalist Bob Arihood’s death at age 65 just passed on Sept. 30. Before he began blogging at Neither More Nor Less, Arihood contributed his street photography to The Villager from the late 1990s to 2006. Inspired by this week’s talking point by Bill Weinberg about the pierogi-chilaquiles seismic cheap-eats shift in Alphabet City, we were inspired to run this photo of Bob’s taken outside of the old Leshko’s at Avenue A and Seventh St., one of the classic “pierogi palaces.” This photo, which we think was probably taken in the late 1980s or early ’90s, features some of Arihood’s favorite local characters. Famed chiseler and “Povercide” ranter “Loan Shark Bob” (with flag) holds court in front of the old greasy spoon, while crashed out facedown on the sidewalk in the foreground is Marlene Bailey, a.k.a. “Hot Dog.” … R.I.P., Bob. Avenue A, Tompkins Square and Ray’s Candy Store will never be the same without you.

CANNABINOID CORRECTION: Following our latest article on Dana Beal’s imprisonment and trials in the Midwest for transporting felony-weight pot cross-country, Doug Greene, a longtime friend of the Bleecker St. legalization activist, sent us the following correction: “Dana Beal does not have 18 months left on his Wisconsin jail term. I spoke with Bryon Walker,

his Wisconsin defense counsel.... Dana’s Wisconsin jail term will be over by early May 2013 at the latest, and he can probably get his sentence adjusted so he can be released in late February 2013. Dana has asked that a correction be printed.” Beal continues to maintain that the pot was “medicine” for medical marijuana buyers clubs.

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D.O.E. ignored cracks in schools’ walls, records show BY SAM SPOKONY The city’s Department of Education failed to act on initial signs of structural damage to an East Village school building that was evacuated two weeks ago, records show. The building, 420 E.12th St., housed two schools — Girls Prep Lower East Side Middle School and the East Side Community High School. It was immediately evacuated on Sept. 24 after it was determined that the building’s eastern wall had begun to separate from the main structure. But in March — six months prior to the emergency situation — D.O.E. was cited by city inspectors for a violation involving cracks in the exterior of the E. 12th St. building, defects in the parapet and an overall failure to maintain the building’s walls. The violation, dated Mar. 9, was handed down by the city’s Department of Buildings, and was categorized as “Class 2,” which, according to D.O.B.’s Web site, represents a “major” violation. Yet, according to the city’s records, D.O.E. never took steps to fix the problems listed in the violation, which were summed up by inspectors as, “Failure to maintain exterior facade,” and included, “mortar washing out throughout parapet inner & outter [sic] sides, also bulkheads have large step cracks on roof exterior side.”

Photo by Sam Spokony

The East Side Community High School and Girls Prep Lower East Side Middle School were forced to evacuate their building on Sept. 24, and have since been relocated.

Inspectors also wrote that some of the building’s coping stones — which sit atop the exterior wall — had begun to shift. The violation summary, which is available to the public via the D.O.B. Web site, states that although there is no outstanding fine due, there has been “no compliance recorded” on the part of the

building’s owner, which is D.O.E. Margie Feinberg, a D.O.E. spokesperson, declined to answer this newspaper’s question of why the department did not act to fix the structural problems when they were discovered in March. She responded only by saying that, “They were nonhazardous violations.”

‘[After notification of structural wall problems] I would get started as soon as possible to correct the problem in a case like that, because it’s always somewhat unpredictable what can happen. If there’s been recent movement, you have to assume that it could get worse.’ Bob Perl Feinberg said “they” because D.O.E. was also cited for three other building violations at 420 E. 12th St. in March. None of the other violations were related to the exterior wall, but two of them were also classified as “major,” and one involved plaster damage that allowed part of a fifth-floor ceiling to begin sagging, according to the city records. Bob Perl, who has nearly 30 years

of experience as a real estate developer in the East Village, told this newspaper that, based on the March violation involving the exterior wall, it would have been more prudent and safe for D.O.E. to act immediately — especially because of the fact that inspectors noted the shifting coping stones. “I would get started as soon as possible to correct the problem in a case like that, because it’s always somewhat unpredictable what can happen,” Perl said. “If there’s been recent movement, you have to assume that it could get worse.” Both the March violation involving the exterior wall of 420 E. 12th St. and the September violation that coincided with the building’s evacuation were listed under the same section of law — 28-302.1, which is described as “failure to maintain building wall(s) or appurtenances.” Kalvin Kamien, a New York City lawyer who for more than 30 years has specialized in the construction area, said that based on his experience in similar cases, if a series of violations are cited under the same section of law at the same building, it is generally considered that there was at least some danger present in the initial situation. “If the second violation cited the same section,” Kamien explained, “it would certainly appear to show that there was a level of danger in the first violation, and that there was some valid concern on the part of the inspector at that time.” Along with failing to address the structural damage cited in March, D.O.E. reportedly never notified the principals of Girls Prep and E.S.C.H.S. that there was a potentially dangerous problem with their building. Feinberg declined to answer when asked whether or not D.O.E. had ever informed the principals — or the parents of either school’s students — about the violations. Since being evacuated, both Girls Prep and E.S.C.H.S. have been relocated. Girls Prep is currently housed at the Bayard Taylor School on the Upper East Side — more than 60 blocks away from its original E. 12th St. location. E.S.C.H.S., which contains both middle and high school grades, has been split in two. The middle school students and teachers are currently at P.S. 1 in Chinatown, while their high school counterparts are at Norman Thomas High School on E. 33rd St. Meanwhile, D.O.E. has not yet updated its original estimate of how long construction on the damaged E. 12th St. school building — which began almost immediately after the Sept. 24 evacuation — will take. The original estimate was three to four weeks. But at a recent Girls Prep parent meeting that included a briefing from D.O.E.’s School Construction Authority, a department official reportedly told a school administrator they would be lucky if the process took three or four months. D.O.B. declined to comment.

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A burning issue about pipeline: Will gas pack radon? BY EILEEN STUKANE There are many issues to debate concerning the natural gas that is planned for arrival through the Spectra Energy Pipeline — currently under construction on the Gansevoort Peninsula at the edge of the Meatpacking District. A frightening one is whether the gas will be bringing cancer-causing radon to our kitchen stoves and heating systems. A scientific firestorm of sorts was set off by a January 2012 report from Marvin Resnikoff Ph.D., a highly credentialed physicist and senior associate of Radioactive Waste Management Associates. He was concerned that in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s early report on issues concerning natural gas hydraulically fractured, a.k.a. “hydrofracked,” from the Marcellus Shale, radon was only addressed, as he said, “in one sentence out of 1,400 pages.” He therefore undertook his own independent studies. A tasteless, odorless, colorless gas, radon is created naturally during the radioactive decay of uranium, thorium and radium, minerals that are highly present in Marcellus Shale. Radon inhalation is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers, the second leading cause among smokers, and according to the Environmental Protection Agency, radon causes 21,000 deaths from lung cancer a year. According to Dr. Resnikoff’s report, the fast transport of radon-containing natural gas hydrofracked from Marcellus Shale, could lead to an increase in lung cancer deaths from 1,182 to 30,448. While Governor Cuomo has delayed his decision on whether to expand hydrofracking of the Marcellus Shale in Upstate New York, activists warn that radon levels in the natural gas coming to the West Village still need attention. Cuomo has required a study on the impact hydrofracking would have on public health Upstate at the drilling locations. But activists say that New York City should be aware of radon, too. Resnikoff, who based his calculations on his analyses of a 1981 U.S. Geological Survey study and gamma ray logs, reported that hydrofracked Marcellus Shale gas could contain radon concentrations 70 times above average when compared to hydrofracked gas from other areas. To back up for a moment, Marcellus Shale — named for an outcropping near Marcellus, New York — is the geological result of the prehistoric settlement of marine sediment, in other words, bedrock. Marcellus Shale stretches thousands of feet belowground, from West Virginia, through Pennsylvania, a bit of Ohio, and on along the west side of the Hudson River in New York. Hydrofracking basically blasts open the underground rock using an array of unspecified chemicals and tons of water and sand to release the gas from the shale’s uranium and radium-226. Gas from the disturbed minerals contains as a side effect, radioactive radon. The good news is that radon has a relatively short halflife of 3.8 days, after which its concentration drops in half. After another 3.8 days that half divides in half, so it’s a fourth of the original, and so on. It dissipates quickly. Radon is fairly diluted in the gas we regularly receive from the Texas-Louisiana Coast, which takes six to eight days to get here. On the other hand, gas from the Marcellus Shale area, traveling at the estimated 10 miles per hour, will be here in less than a day, not enough time for the radon to diminish its radioactivity significantly. Resnikoff caused enough raised eyebrows to prompt the U.S. Geological Survey to go to wellheads and test for radon levels. From his data, he calculated radon levels would be as high as 2,500 picocuries per liter, with 37 at the low end, but the U.S.G.S.’s more comforting findings show 37 picocuries per liter as the median. (The E.P.A. cites 4 picocuries per liter as the safe level in homes.) The U.S.G.S. study, which is considered preliminary, sampled 11 unspecified wells, some on Marcellus Shale, in Western Pennsylvania. More samples are needed since wells are

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Last month, activists staged protests against the start of construction of the Spectra natural gas pipeline at Gansevoort Peninsula. On Sept. 12, six activists conducted civil disobedience on the peninsula, including Dave Publow, who climbed onto the arm of a Caterpillar at the peninsula’s far end. Firefighters used a ladder to remove him, and he was arrested.

known to vary in levels of radium-226 and radon. Experts were commissioned by Spectra Energy for its “Texas Eastern Transmission LP and Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC New Jersey - New York Expansion Project” — the official name of the pipeline coming to the Village — to review Resnikoff’s assertion that as many as 30,000 excess lung cancer deaths might occur due to high radon levels. One expert labeled Resnikoff’s figures “sensational and false.” Spectra Energy also hired an environmental engineering company to test eight natural gas samples taken from along its pipeline for radon levels. A close-to-New York sampling from a New Jersey compressor station — which contains a mixture of natural gas from Marcellus Shale, Texas and Louisiana — read 17 picocuries per liter, quite a bit lower than Resnikoff’s estimates of up to 2,500 picocuries. However, this natural gas does not contain the Upstate Marcellus Shale natural gas that may be hydrofracked in the future. So where does that leave those of us who are cooking on gas burners? A Final Environmental Impact Statement produced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, came out in March 2012. Four paragraphs out of about 1,500 pages were devoted to the radon safety issue, which is at least an improvement from the earlier report’s one sentence. FERC concludes: “We [FERC] expect that the combustion of gas delivered by LDCs [local distribution companies] would comply with all applicable air emission standards. In the unlikely event that these standards are exceeded, the necessary modifications would be implemented to ensure public safety.” Again, the E.P.A. sets radon safety in the home at 4 picocuries per liter. Test kits anyone? Also, remember that issue of the speed of transport? Remember that natural gas hydrofracked from the

Marcellus Shale area to New York City gets to us in less than a day, while radon needs 3.8 days to disintegrate by half? According to Marylee Hanley, Spectra Energy’s director of stakeholder outreach, “The gas traveling on our system comes from four different locations, the Rocky Mountains, Nova Scotia, the Gulf of Mexico and Marcellus.” The natural gas coming to New York City will be commingled, diluting the radon level of the closer Marcellus natural gas by mixing it with the gas that has traveled for a few days. The levels of commingling, however, are unknown. Also, although storage tanks to hold the natural gas for a few days before transport to the city would give radon’s radioactivity a chance to diminish, Hanley does not see storage as a possibility. She referred to Spectra’s released statement that FERC “has concluded that the exposure to radon in the home is very limited and doesn’t pose a health risk.” See above for FERC’s final words on radon at the end of its four paragraph review. At the moment, six environmental groups and seven individuals have recently filed suit against Spectra Energy and the Hudson River Park Trust — which granted an easement for the project — to block construction of Spectra Energy’s natural gas pipeline, due for completion in November 2013. The suit claims that a review of the project, complying with New York State’s Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, was not conducted. As the lawsuit makes its way through the legal system, the radon safety debate remains. There is complete agreement among all the scientists, however, that the level of radon that exists in hydrofracked natural gas can be determined fairly easily through regular testing. An impartial entity ought to be able to measure the radon at the wellheads, in the pipelines, at the compressor stations and in the homes if necessary. As one researcher suggested, “Get out of the office and get some samples.”

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Mourned by theater friends, victim a mystery no more BY TEQUILA MINSKY Arnold Slater, 75, who was killed in a hitand-run accident in Morningside Heights on Sept. 28, was a mystery to his neighbors, but not to his circle of friends. To them, Slater, an actor and playwright who lived at 171 Thompson St., was a man of many insights. Years ago he acted in Off Broadway plays and, at the time of his death, he had many plays in development. Physically he moved slowly, but mentally he was very agile. Michael Simon Hall, a theater artist and writer, producer/director and co-chairperson of the Playwrights’ Roundtable, met Slater seven years ago at the Playwrights Lab at the Neighborhood Playhouse on E. 54th St., where playwrights met to help each other in developing their work. “He was a quiet man and a big enthusiast of foreign film,” Hall said of Slater. “He attended many cultural events, foreign films and talks on European history, culture and business at Columbia University, from which he graduated. He had a special affinity for the Upper West Side, where he had lived before moving Downtown, and hence he spent much time there, often dining with friends late into the evening.” Hall was among Slater’s friends who identified the body at the morgue a few days after he was killed. Hall said Slater has no immediate family in the area but has siblings in California. Slater was drafted during the Vietnam War

and posted in Germany and France, where he developed an affinity for French culture and became fluent in French. He later translated a French play into English for the 59E59 theaters. “Arnold had a unique, sophisticated, Brechtian sort of humor, which I savored on many occasions,” Hall added. “He had a quiet kindness. He will be very missed and not forgotten.” Mary Baldridge, who ran Playwrights Lab, expressed shock and sadness at his sudden death. “Arnold was erudite, well-educated and an informed asset to the group,” she said. “This past spring, he was part of the last public presentation of the Lab with a wonderfully witty one-act that was a real success.” His friend Doug Gray said, “He was very interested in ideas, politics, human nature and had a great curiosity. He worked at D&B [Dun & Bradstreet] for years, then moved into working on economic development projects with my company for another 10-plus years. “Arnold loved to travel, be it in Europe, Montreal or California, and was eager for the next experience. We’ll miss his spirit, knowledge, wit and dry humor and hope that he’s having a nice meal and engaging discussion while working on a new script. ‘Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’ ” The evening he was killed, Slater was

returning from dinner with his friend Vince Bagnall, with whom he met for dinner three times a week for the last few years. Bagnall said Slater loved the beach, and in the three weeks before his death, went to Brighton Beach every day in the afternoon, saying it reminded him of the French Riviera. It was Bagnall who police called soon after Slater’s death, his being the last number called on the victim’s cell phone. Soon afterward, Bagnall went to Slater’s apartment with a police officer and rescued the Villager’s cat, which was taken in by a friend. (Days later, neighbors in the building spent

hours on the phone trying to gain access to the apartment, not knowing or being informed by the 26th Precinct that the cat had already been rescued.) Bagnall is following the police investigation of the hit-and-run. He believes that a witness got the car’s license number and that there might be useful footage from a security camera at Columbia, but police are not currently sharing anything about the investigation. Slater’s friends from the Playwrights Lab held an informal memorial for him last week, and another memorial is planned next month.

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Tompkins rape arrest

The man suspected of brutally murdering a suburban youth soccer coach in Union Square on Sun., Oct. 7, has reportedly evaded authorities by fleeing to Mexico. The suspect — alternately known as Orlando Orea or Orlando Gutierrez, 32, of Queens — bought a one-way ticket with cash and flew out of Kennedy Airport on an Aero Mexico plane early on Tuesday, according to unnamed sources cited in the New York Post. The victim, Michael Jones, 25, who was born in the United Kingdom and lived in Westchester, was found dead on the sidewalk on W. 14th St. near Fifth A ve. on Sunday, with multiple stab wounds to the head, neck and chest. One of his ears had also been cut off. Police were able to identify the suspect — who was caught on video surveillance leaving the scene of the crime — after a West Village bartender told them the suspect was a regular at a bar called Bunga’s Den on W. 14th St., and that he frequented a local tattoo parlor, the Post reported.

A homeless man was arrested after he allegedly raped a woman in Tompkins Square Park on Fri., Oct. 5. Ruben Canales, 27, is believed to have raped a 31-year-old woman after he saw her sleeping on a bench in the park around 11:30 p.m., police said. He was caught after following the woman into a nearby deli after she eventually ran away, where deli employees had called the police.

Washington Sq. butt slapper Police arrested Mayank Munsiff, 55, early on Sun., Oct. 7, after he slapped a young woman on the buttocks as she was walking near Washington Square Park. The woman, 25, had been walking along Washington Square South around midnight when Munsiff passed her from the opposite direction, smacked her buttocks and continued walking, police said. Munsiff was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment. He has also been arrested for two previous sex-related crimes within the last six months, the New York Post reported.

West Village car chase Jamal Pulley, 30, was arrested early on Sun., Oct. 7, after he led police on a wild car chase through the West Village during which he hit six different vehicles, leaving two people injured. The chase began after Pulley blew through a police D.W.I. checkpoint at West Houston St., between Washington and West Sts., around 1:30 a.m., police said. He then tried to evade pursuing officers by driving north up West St., blowing through two different red lights. When he reached the intersection of Bethune and West Sts., Pulley attempted to steer around traffic but struck three other vehicles in the process, according to the police report. After frantically turning east on Bethune St., he then hit a fourth vehicle head on, and subsequently smashed into two parked cars after losing control. After finally pulling him out of the car and arresting him for vehicular assault, police discovered that Pulley had also been driving without a valid license.

Search for slay suspect Police are searching for Joshua Nunez, 21, the prime suspect in the murder of Charles Ferndandez, 29, outside a Lower East Side barbershop on Sat., Oct. 6. Nunez is believed to have shot Fernandez in the chest at around 9:30 p.m. following a fight inside Jose Beauty Salon and Barber Shop on Forsyth St., between Delancey and Broome Sts., police said. Fernandez, who lived on Mott St., took a cab to Bellevue Hospital after the shooting but died upon arriving. The Post reported that police identified Nunez as the suspect on Tues., Oct. 9, and that he and Fernandez had known each other prior to the shooting, according to sources. Nunez has an extensive criminal background, including arrests for reckless endangerment, drug-impaired driving, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, the Post also reported.

Bogus bills Jeffrey Gibbs, 27, was arrested after passing off fake $100 bills at a Meatpacking District restaurant on Fri., Oct. 5. Gibbs brought drinks around 8 p.m. at Fig & Olive, at 420 W. 13th St., using one of the counterfeit bills, and pocketed the real cash he received as change, according to the police report. But the restaurant got wise and reported the crime to police, who quickly arrested Gibbs and also found other fake hundreds in his pocket. He is charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Bleecker brawler Police arrested Angelo Guzman, 23, early on Sat., Oct. 6, after he suckerpunched a man inside a West Village nightclub and then tried to fight the bouncers who kicked him out. Witnesses told police they saw Guzman punch the 22-year-old man, who wasn’t looking at him, around 3:30 a.m in the club at 154 Bleecker St. And while security was removing him from the establishment, Guzman continued to vent his anger by attempting to have it out with the club’s security. Police officers stopped Guzman shortly after the incident and charged him with assault — but they added a resisting arrest charge to that when he began flailing his arms and legs, and grabbing the officer’s shirt.

Knife-wielding robber Police are looking for Giovonnie Gray, 18, after he allegedly robbed a man and threatened him with a knife outside a Soho convenience store on Wed., Oct. 3. The victim, 20, told police he was just walking with a female friend to the store to buy Newport cigarettes around 7 p.m., when the friend asked him to check something on his phone. As he took the phone out, Gray snatched it and ran away, police said. When the unsuspecting victim followed the thief across the street to try to take the phone back, Gray said, “Don’t come near me or I’ll stab you,” according to the police report. He then grabbed the man, pushed him against a car and brandished a pocketknife before fleeing the scene. Police described Gray as black, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 250 pounds. Gray also knew the victim prior to robbing him, according the police report.

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A veteran operator of high-end strip clubs like Scores and Sapphires hopes to open a topless club “as soon as possible” at the site of this current adult video store at Clarkson and West Sts. near Pier 40.

Leagues go to bat against topless club near Pier 40 Continued from page 1 sidewalk while he went inside, or he could take him in with him and break the law. He also has an 11-year-old daughter. Both his kids play in the baseball and soccer leagues on Pier 40. Some DUSC players are as young as 4 years old. Fox — the parent coordinator for recreation at Downtown United Soccer Club and a member of the league’s board — is spearheading the effort by local youth leagues to block the strip club from getting a liquor license, in hopes of keeping the business from opening at all at the location. The salacious site is right across the West Side Highway from Pier 40, which has become a youth sports mecca and a vital hub for local families with young children. “This is where kids come to play on sports teams and parents talk to each other,” Fox said of the 14.5-acre pier. “It’s not an area that we don’t use — it’s the heart of the community. We deserve to have an environment free of these types of stimuli. We want to teach our kids to respect themselves and each other. “Are we about building a community based on our children?” Fox asked. “If we are, then forcing them to walk past this isn’t about teaching young girls to respect themselves.” Last year, Fox fought an attempt by the operators of The Jane Ballroom to open a trendy nightclub in a space next door to the Clarkson St. video store where they would have had topless pole dancers as a sort of hipster adornment. “They wanted to have strippers there for ambience,” he said. “It wasn’t really a strip club — they kept calling it an ‘ironic strip club.’ ” The locations of the video store and where the “ironic strip club” was planned are both in

an adult-use zoning district that was designated by Mayor Giuliani in 1997. However, Fox made the argument to the State Liquor Authority that it was inappropriate to have topless dancers there with so many children passing by. The chairperson of the State Liquor Authority agreed — and ordered the new club, Westway, to remove its stripper poles. (Apparently, no one from the youth leagues has actually checked inside the place to confirm the poles are gone, but the leagues seem satisfied.) Also, Fox “talked things through” with Matt Kliegman, one of The Jane’s operators, and persuaded them not to open Westway until 9 p.m., when the majority of youth league programs on Pier 40 have ended. However, Thomas Wolfe, who plans to open Platinum, a high-end “gentlemen’s club,” at the video store location, is saying he would operate from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. weekdays, but open later, maybe at 6, 7 or 8 p.m. on weekends. A petition Wolfe recently circulated seeking support for Platinum said it would operate from 12 noon to 4 a.m., but he now says those aren’t the correct hours. “We’re changing that — 4 to 4,” he said this week. “At the time, we were thinking about a lunch crowd.” Wolfe said the petition garnered 1,000 signatures from local residents in support of the topless club as an “upgrade” over the video store. “It’s always been an adult entertainment area,” he said of the corner. “I’m just improving what’s there.” The petition reads: “The following undersigned residents of the area support the issuance of an on-premises liquor license to Mystique Mystique Inc. [a.k.a. Platinum] for the ground-

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We are looking for creative submissions to showcase the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. Mediums such as dance, drama, music, painting, sculpture, magic, readings, performance art, and other forms of expressions are encouraged to audition for the chance to illuminate Poe’s life. ALL AGES ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT WORK on a rolling basis until Monday, October 29. Contact Arlene Peralta at 212.998.2401 or at arlene.peralta@nyu.edu SAVE THE DATE FOR THE POE ROOM EVENT Friday, November 16, 2012 at 6:00PM NYU School of Law, 245 Sullivan Street Furman Hall, Room 216

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floor and basement premises located at 354-355 West St. It is understood by the undersigned residents that the business will be that of a highend gentlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club, similar to Sapphires in Las Vegas and Scores in New York. It will take the place of the current peep show and all-nude presentation along with an adult paraphernalia store that currently does business at the premises.â&#x20AC;? Wolfe plans to present the petition signatures for review at Community Board 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s S.L.A. Committee on Thurs., Oct. 11, at 6:30 p.m., at St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, at Sullivan and Houston Sts. He believes his main opposition is from Morton Square, the new, full-square-block, residential building one block to the north. Morton Squareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s block was rezoned from manufacturing use to allow the residential project. However, DUSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fox and other youth league leaders are finalizing a letter they plan to present at the meeting asking the board to reject the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going to ask the community board to side with us in protecting the environment for children that was created,â&#x20AC;? he said. Asked his initial thoughts about Platinum, David Gruber, C.B. 2 chairperson, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not happy about it.â&#x20AC;? But he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems they may have an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;as of right,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? meaning the club can go there due to the adult-use zoning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see.â&#x20AC;? DUSC and its girls league â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gotham Girls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plus Greenwich Village Little League represent a total of about 5,000 local families that will oppose the club. Fox said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure he can also pull in the Downtown Soccer Club and the Downtown Little League â&#x20AC;&#x201D; adding another 1,500 families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to join the anti-Platinum push. Above all, the leagues donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the club there, he said. But the idea that the flashy fleshpotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening at 4 p.m. would somehow shelter kids from its activity is false, he added. Younger kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; after-school sports programs at the pier only start at 3:30 or 4 p.m., he noted, and can run till 7 p.m. Older kids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ages 13 to 15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; start using the pier around 7 p.m. and might not wrap up till 8:30 or 9 p.m., but the main concern is for the younger kids, Fox said. Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the case that if Wolfe opens later, the leagues would accept it, the DUSC member said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would say, first of all, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, second of all, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it there,â&#x20AC;? Fox stated. In fact, the leagues have looked into trying to close down the adult video store, but found that legally it can be there. As it is, the video store, without windows, is fairly low key, at least during the day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though it did have fully nude dancing in its rear before Wolfe took it over in August. Some in the league have wondered whether the corner can be rezoned to remove the adultuse zoning, but Fox said thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big job and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re basically only parent volunteers who â&#x20AC;&#x153;put out fires as they occur.â&#x20AC;? As for Wolfeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claim that his bouncers and security cameras will improve safety for young

athletes walking to and from the W. Houston St. Pier, Fox called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;ludicrous.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he feels the need to have security cameras and bouncers, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clear indication he expects a dangerous environment,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need strip clubs to provide security for our children. We have the police for that.â&#x20AC;? Fox said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting his campaign at C.B. 2, and will go further if needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to go to every single organization in the West Village that cares about kids,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find responsible and likeminded people at the community board, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go to the S.L.A. and the City Council â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whoever we need to go to.â&#x20AC;?

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Until recently, there was fully nude â&#x20AC;&#x201D; topless and bottomless â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dancing in the rear of the adult video store at Clarkson and West Sts., though without alcohol, since by law alcohol cannot be served with fully nude dancing. After Thomas Wolfe took over the video store in August with plans to convert it to a Scores-like topless club, he ended the naked dancing, saying he wanted to get off on the right foot with the community. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Closed Tonightâ&#x20AC;? cutout sign now stands in front of the room where the naked dancing used to occur. However, Wolfe said if the community denies him a liquor license for a topless club, then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just have fully naked dancing without alcohol.

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The Public Theater raises the curtain again Actor Mandy Pantinkin read lines from Shakespeare as Oscar Eustis, the Public Theater’s artistic director, cracked up, left, and playwright Richard Foreman listened during the rededication of the Public Theater following its four-year renovation. The $40 million project included a controversial sidewalk “bump-out” into one lane of Lafayette St. to accommodate a new grand staircase entranceway. The Public hopes the staircase becomes a “town square.” The city paid for nearly two-thirds of the renovation’s cost.

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Politicians call for emergency vote to pass gun laws Continued from page 1 that thinking over and over again,” said Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, a sponsor of various statewide gun control measures, at Friday’s press conference. “People who oppose these laws need to stop victimizing communities at the behest of a wealthy industry, one that basically pays for the kind of violence that we see every day on streets like this.” But Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, attempted to cast doubts on the new technology’s effectiveness while accusing Squadron and his supporters of grandstanding in the wake of the East Village shooting. “These lawmakers are misrepresenting the whole issue,” King said. “If Squadron and the others were actually interested in keeping people safe, they would spend more time making sure that the state’s current antigun laws are being enforced, and that gun criminals are given the maximum prison sentences.” The gun advocate also claimed that microstamping simply “doesn’t work,” and that any legislation requiring it would have a negative impact on licensed, lawabiding gun owners. Squadron stressed on Friday that implementing the new technology — as well as passing other gun control measures,

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Campos Plaza tenant leader Dereese Huff joined, from left, state Senator Daniel Squadron, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and state Senate Democratic nominee Brad Hoylman as they called for a special session in the state Senate to pass new gun control laws.

like an expansion of the current assault weapons ban and a limit on the number of firearms someone can purchase per month — would not affect licensed hunters or other lawful gun owners, and that microstamping would cause the price of each gun to increase by no more than $12. “There’s a real need for it, and claims about excessive cost are irrational,” said Jackie Hilly, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. “The system we use now only gives us about a 2 percent chance of identifying the gun for a given shell casing, and microstamping would make that process at least 25 percent more effective.” Advocates on both sides of the issue have presented various “expert” studies that either support or discredit microstamping technology, which was invented in the 1990s by an engineer named Todd Lizotte. Hilly was citing a study published in the spring by Iowa State University’s Ames Laboratory — in collaboration with Lizotte himself — showing that microstamping could be up to 97 percent effective in some cases. The New York Police Department did not respond by press time to a request for comment on the issue of microstamping and other gun control measures. At Friday’s press conference, Dereese Huff, Campos Plaza Tenant Association president, implored lawmakers to heed Squadron’s call for a special session and quickly pass gun control legislation. “Our children and family members are dying from the violence. How long should we continue to bury our own families and

friends?” Huff asked the gathering. “As a tenant leader, I see the pain and fear in the faces of my fellow residents. I hope that our lawmakers hear our voices, our chorus of pain, and act quickly to protect us from the dangers of uncontrolled gun sales.” But after speaking to the public, Huff told this newspaper that what she wants most of all is the increased police presence that public housing tenants have been seeking for years, alongside other security measures, like surveillance cameras and functioning locks on the buildings’ front doors. These concerns have been highlighted multiple times over the past year, as the New York City Housing Authority continues to sit on $42 million of taxpayer money specifically earmarked for security upgrades. NYCHA is also the only landlord in the city required to pay for policing its property, and has paid more than $70 million annually for those services since 1994, as the result of a memorandum of understanding with the N.Y.P.D. An unexpected presence on Friday was that of Brad Hoylman, the Democratic candidate for the state Senate seat soon to be vacated by Tom Duane. Hoylman spoke at the press conference, even though he will not officially take the seat — he is running unopposed — until Jan. 1, 2013. “It would be great to pass these bills before you have a chance to vote on them, by going for a special session,” Squadron told Hoylman. “But if we can’t, I know you’re going to be one of the leaders once you get to Albany.”

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From left, outside court after their arrest for violating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial’s curfew, Ellen Barfield, an Army veteran who served during 1977-81; Tarak Kauff, an Army Airborne veteran; Ken Mayers, a Marine veteran (1958-66); and Mike Hastie, a Vietnam War Army medic veteran (1970-71).

Vets protest Afghanistan War — and also memorial curfew BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL Oct. 7 marked the start of the 12th year of the conflict in Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history. Although the anniversary passed with little notice last Sunday, one determined group of military veterans was determined not to let the loss of more than 2,100 fellow soldiers pass unnoticed. Last Sunday night more than 100 veterans and others gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial near the Battery for a reading of the names of the fallen from the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Episcopal Bishop George Packard, a Vietnam veteran famously arrested at the Occupy Wall Street attempted takeover of Duarte Square last Dec. 17, spoke. Also speaking was Pulitzer Prizewinning correspondent Christopher Hedges. The vets called for an immediate end to the Afghanistan War and to all U.S. wars of aggression. President Obama has said the U.S. plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan by

2014. They also affirmed the right to assemble. A small sign posted near the memorial’s entrance notes the closing time of 10 p.m. but the veterans believe it should be open to them around the clock. “There are many combat vets that this is sacred ground to and to tell them that they cannot be there after a certain hour is like your memory is shutting down,” said Tarak Kauff, a director on the board of Veterans For Peace and a veteran of the Army Airborne. Kauff was one of 25 vets arrested for staying after the memorial’s 10 p.m. closing time. Twenty-two were released after being issued desk appearance tickets with return dates in November. Three others were held overnight and were released by Monday afternoon with adjournments in contemplation of dismissals. In interviews, many of them said they still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from their combat days.

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Bill Heine, musician, artist, magician, dies at 83 OBITUARY BY JEROME POYNTON Bill Heine, an influential figure in the 1960s Downtown art and social scene, died on Sept. 15 at Kingston Hospital after a long illness. He was 83. He was born Bill Mossman, the son of a popular radio show personality. Upon his mother’s divorce, Bill took the name of his second father, Paul Heine. Later in life he used both names. As a student at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Washington, D.C., Bill visited Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital with fellow student, Eustace Mullins, secreting in a bottle of wine. Pound proceeded to open and down the bottle immediately without taking a breath of air. While in D.C., Heine toured as a piano player in a Horton Foote play with Libby Holman. Moving to New York in the early 1950s Heine visited the San Remo, on the advice of poet Sheri Martinelli, and he became integrated into the thriving New York art scene, rooming with Willem de Kooning and playing drums with Charlie Parker. Heine socialized with Parker offstage and recalled once entering a drug den with Parker, with Hank Williams entering right behind them. Who knew these two American greats met and shared a drug proclivity? Heine was acutely aware of how racism impacted the early jazz scene, where police and sailors routinely beat up jazz musicians for sport. In one instance, he remembered drinking Navy men slamming the keyboard cover down on the fingers of a jazz pianist in mid-performance. On another occasion, a black musician stepped between an

altercation between New York police and Charles Mingus, protecting Mingus by taking the beating for him. It was a time when jazz greats, such as Billie Holiday, died kicking heroin, under New York Police Department guard. There were numerous drug busts and the jazz musicians were easy targets. Heine recalled a Christmas music review at Rikers Island, where all the inmates renowned in the jazz world played for their fellow inmates. “Miles Davis declined to participate,” Heine recalled. “He stayed in his cell.” Often remembered as an artist and musician, Heine’s notoriety in the ’60s was as a practitioner of black magic. He studied the occult with Harry Smith and Lionel Ziprin. In the ’60s Heine was credited with introducing tiedye to America. He created his paintings by injecting bundled sheets with dye, using a hypodermic needle, and unfolding them to an array of bright color. In “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Dylan’s lyric, “The empty-handed painter from your streets/is drawing crazy paintings on your sheets,” is a reference to Bill Heine’s work. Heine was a member of the Beat Generation with poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Janine Pomy Vega, Lee Forester, Clive Matson and many others. Herbert Huncke wrote about Heine in his notebooks, and Irving Rosenthal published this as “Huncke’s Bill India” in his landmark novel “Sheeper”: “His magic absorbs his spirit—black magic—white magic—Gods and Demons. He practices magic—creating. He reads about the formulas—he knows the forces to command—he calls upon the planets—the moon—the animals—the spirits of wood—metal—stone—earth— Photo by Clayton Patterson

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Signing on for a safer street Richard Blodgett, longtime resident and unofficial historian of Charlton St., right, spoke with Philip Kassen, director of the Little Red School House, and crossing guard Esperanca Varela — who was on her break — last week while Blodgett circulated a petition for pedestrian safety at the intersection of Houston St. and Sixth Ave. Signatures are being collected throughout the neighborhood. The petition calls on the city’s Department of Transportation “to implement meaningful changes to make the intersection safe for pedestrians.” Soho resident Jessica Dworkin, 58, was killed at the intersection on Aug. 27 as she was riding her kick scooter to Greenwich House’s senior program and was hit by a long, flatbed tractor-trailer truck turning from Houston St. onto Sixth Ave.

Kicked drugs, turned to spirituality Continued from page 16 of all things—watching for signs—letter combinations—numerical values—good omens—bad omens.” In 1983 Bill Heine relocated with his companion Anne Spitzer from E. Third St. to Kagyu Thubten Choling, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Upstate New York. At night, living in separate buildings, they communicated with each other using flashlights. While living there Heine kicked his heroin habit. The lama allowed him to visit his milk can of beer hidden in the woods off the monastery property. Heine’s life changed from drug use to a life of vivid spirituality. Poet Anne Ardolino met Bill Heine on the Lower East Side in the 1960s. Of the neighborhood back then, she recalled, “There were pushcarts on Avenue C with dried donkey penises and pig penises for sale. There were sheep balls hanging from clotheslines in tiny wooden stalls that passed for places of business. There were stools and people sat there and ate meals that had those ingredients. “Heine was extremely young and thin and had a nose like Karl Malden,” she said. “He was extremely hot, as in sexy,

and he was scary. He was THE person to check with if you wanted to find drugs. He was a criminal and not to be messed with. Period. And yet, as bad as his reputation was — and it was — he never did me harm or caused me grief. Never.” Heine’s last New York City art show was with tattoo artist Tom Divita, Ardolino and Cochise at the Outlaw Art Museum, curated by Clayton Patterson, in March 1993. Bill Heine lived in a time when there was extreme crosspollination between artists and socialites. The Lower East Side and West Village were the epicenter of this explosion of talent. Rent was not a staged play; it was cheap. Often, the drug world was where people met — some lived but some died young. Those who lived left much evidence of their spirit in today’s film, theater, performance art and music. A graveside ceremony will take place on Sat., Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. at the cemetery in Woodstock, N.Y. Letters from art thief Jimmy Porter, written while he was at Downstate Correctional to Bill Heine at Kagyu Thubten Choling monastery, are in preproduction for a staged reading with Penny Arcade, Anne Ardolino and Anne Hanavan in spring 2013.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told residents and community leaders at Wednesday’s rally, “We’ve fought this battle before, and we’ll fight it again,” outside the Pathmark, at 227 Cherry St., which is in danger of closing soon.

Area can’t afford to lose Pathmark, residents say BY SAM SPOKONY Around a hundred Lower East Side residents gathered with community leaders and politicians on Wednesday to rally against the impending closure of a Pathmark supermarket, which would pave the way for a largely unwelcome, upscale residential development. “This community is stunned that we will very soon be deprived of a very basic need in our neighborhood,” said Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, at the rally outside the Pathmark at 227 Cherry St. “And that need is the affordable food and medicine that this [supermarket and pharmacy] has provided for nearly three decades.” A&P, which owns Pathmark, announced on Sept. 28 that the Cherry St. supermarket will close at the end of December due to the sale of its lease to an unidentified party. An A&P spokesperson said the corporation is relinquishing the lease to accommodate a “large-scale residential development and improvement project, while preserving the right to operate once the project is complete.” The community’s immediate outrage at the announcement has continued steadily since the news broke, especially among the many low-income, public housing residents and seniors who live within walking distance of the Pathmark and have few other options for grocery shopping. “I love my Pathmark, and I would really miss it,” said Dalia Soto, who came to Wednesday’s rally from her home in the

nearby LaGuardia Houses, where she has lived for more than 50 years. Soto added that, for the past 15 years, she has done basically all of her grocery shopping at the Cherry St. supermarket. If it were to close as planned, her only other option would be to shop at the Fine Fare on Clinton St., near Grand St. — but she explained that the walk back and forth would be too long, and that the Fine Fare just doesn’t compare with the value offered by Pathmark. Another LaGuardia Houses resident, Ruth Hawkins, showed up at the rally waving her most recent Pathmark receipt, which showed that she had saved more than $1,300 so far this year by using the store’s member discount card. “That’s money for my family,” said Hawkins, who added that she is currently unemployed and looking for work. “It’s really scary, because we just can’t afford to shop anywhere else.” State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who helped lead a similar — and successful — fight in 2007, when the Cherry St. Pathmark was in danger of being replaced by a residential development, gave spirited and optimistic remarks at Wednesday’s gathering. “We’ve fought this battle before, and we’ll fight it again,” Silver told the crowd, before adding, amid cheers, his firm belief that, “We’ll win!” Silver, Borough President Scott Stringer, state Senator Daniel Squadron, City Councilmember Margaret Chin and Congressmember Nydia Velazquez — all of

whom were on hand at the rally, except for Velazquez — sent an Oct. 5 letter to A&P’s C.E.O., as well as to the longtime owner of the land, F. Roy Schoenberg, imploring them to work collaboratively with community leaders in order to ease the burden on local residents. After the rally, Silver said that the elected officials hope to meet with A&P executives, Schoenberg and the new developer as soon as possible, although that meeting hasn’t been scheduled yet. Papa later explained that, although he hasn’t received confirmation, he has good reason to believe that the developer now in control of the 227 Cherry St. lease is the Extell Development Company, which is led

by Gary Barnett. Extell’s residential properties are all massive luxury apartment buildings. The company is currently constructing the 90-story One57 building in Midtown, which, at slightly more than 1,000 feet, will be the tallest residential building in the city once it’s completed in 2013. One57’s duplex penthouse sold for in excess of $90 million in May. Soto, the LaGuardia Houses resident, said she believes a luxury building would simply feel out of place at 227 Cherry St. “This isn’t Fifth Avenue,” she said. “We’re just regular people.” Barnett declined to comment, via a spokesperson at Rubenstein Public Relations.

Were Pathmark rally signs ‘nicked’? A resident of Knickerbocker Village, a Lower East Side development located on and around Monroe St., told this newspaper that she believes her building’s management took down signs about the Pathmark rally last week, several days before the rally took place. The resident, who declined to give her name but said she has lived there for 27 years, explained that one of her neighbors spent time putting up the signs around the development last Thursday. But on Monday, she added,

the neighbor told her that the signs had been removed and replaced by letters stating that, as she described it, “Knickerbocker Village isn’t involved with Pathmark.” Vincent Callagy, manager of Knickerbocker Village, responded by saying that he never authorized the removal or replacement of any such signs, and declined to comment further on the issue.

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New activist museum opens in time for Open House NY BY SAM SPOKONY After more than a year of planning and tireless work by its staff and volunteers, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space — which seeks to tell the stories of East Village squatters and community activists — held its first open house tours on Saturday and Sunday, both of the museum’s interior exhibits and the surrounding area. It was an unofficial opening, since MoRUS co-director Bill Di Paola noted that there’s still some work to be done within the museum’s space in the storefront of C-Squat, at Avenue C and E. 10th St. But the tours, which were hosted in conjunction with Open House New York, a citywide nonprofit organization, marked an important step forward in presenting the history museum’s unique concept to a wide audience. “It was an amazingly successful day,” Di Paola said on Saturday evening, after the first tours finished. “A lot of our volunteers were up all night just trying to get the place ready, and we really didn’t know what to expect, but people seemed to really understand what we’re trying to do here.” In fact, the museum’s new windows — made by two C-Squat residents, Popeye and Shayne — were installed only hours before the space opened that morning, and other cosmetic preparations were also completed barely in time. But the first day went off without a hitch, as visitors browsed photographs and artwork documenting the struggles of those who worked to save community gardens and squats and fight for cyclists’ rights over the past three decades. Bill Weinberg, a longtime East Village activist, led the museum’s first walking tour on Saturday afternoon, speaking to a crowd of about 30 people as he explained the living history of some of the movement’s most iconic sites. After beginning just outside the museum at the Ninth Street Community Garden and La Plaza Cultural, the tour continued on foot to places including the former CHARAS / El Bohio Cultural and Community Center at E. Ninth St. and Avenue B — which served as a gathering space for the neighborhood until being handed over to a developer a decade ago — and Bullet Space, at E. Third St. between Avenues C and D, a former squat that became legal in 2009 and has since come to include a vibrant art gallery. Along with providing an encyclopedic slew of information about the history of riots in Tompkins Square Park, as well as gardens like El Jardin del Paraiso and the Lower East Side Ecology Center Garden, Weinberg infused the tour with plenty of anecdotes about his own presence during those struggles. Di Paola later noted that the personal touch is both MoRUS’s key selling point and its best claim to the kind of authenticity that has been stressed throughout the entire project. “The real idea is that it’s not some history museum that’s just coming from a hired tour guide,” he said. “It’s coming from the people who were there, who really lived through these experiences.” Weinberg joked that leading the tours was just another good way to get out of the house

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MoRUS co-director Bill Di Paola — with other co-director Laurie Mittelmann, behind him — introduced visitors to the museum’s first open house tours on Saturday.

and spend some time in the gardens, but added that he hopes to continue giving them as the museum grows. “They’re good for my state of mind,” he mused. Those on the tour also got to check out an actual apartment within the former squat at 209 E. Seventh St., which became legal three years ago as a low-income Housing Development Fund Corporation co-op. The apartment’s owner, Steven Prestianni — who now goes by the moniker “Pastrami” — explained the decades of renovation work squatters put into the building, even as they survived without heat or hot water, as well as the underlying reasons for devoting themselves so passionately to the space. “We were attracted to it because it was sovereign entity,” said Pastrami, who had previously hosted informal MoRUS tours in his apartment. “The police didn’t come in here, the city government didn’t come in here, and we were all really just seeking freedom from that.” After the two-hour walking tour had concluded, some of the visitors voiced their overwhelmingly positive impressions of the experience, one which most of them had gone into without actually knowing what to expect. “It wasn’t just interesting; it was really worthwhile,” said Bob Epstein, who came from Long Island to explore MoRUS and take the tour. Another visitor, Dan Zajackowski, who came from Bushwick, explained that he’d already had some experience with the East Village squatter movement because his rock band, Marvin Berry & The New Sound, played

East Village activist Bill Weinberg led a group on MoRUS’s first official walking tour Saturday, explaining the history of various squats and community gardens.

a show in the C-Squat basement last year. But he added that the tour provided valuable insight into the history of something that he’d previously only known in passing. “It’s incredible that the people who lived through this want to share what they know, because it’s such an overlooked part of our city’s history,” Zajackowski said. “Above all, it’s just great to keep raising awareness about it.” Zajackowski also went on to say that he’s

an urban planning student at Hunter College, and his studies lead him to believe that part of MoRUS’s true value is not just as a history museum, but also as a spark for present-day applications of the tenets that supported the squatter movement. “New York just isn’t the kind of workingclass city it used to be,” he said, “and I think the museum is a great way for people now to learn about other ways of thinking about private property.”

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EDITORIAL E.V. Historic District The approval of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District on Tuesday comes as wonderful news. And it’s long overdue. As opposed to surrounding neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Soho, which sport well-established, substantial-sized historic districts, the East Village has been sorely underserved in this area — underlandmarked. This Landmarks Preservation Commission designation — which takes immediate effect — helps address that imbalance. Three hundred thirty 19th- and early-20th-century buildings between the Bowery and Avenue A, St. Mark’s Place and Second St. now enjoy landmark protections. Previously, the East Village only had two small historic districts and several individual landmarks. The new historic district includes a number of sites that preservationists fought hard to have included, notably several houses of worship: Congregation Mezritch Synagogue, at 415 E. Sixth St., the East Village’s last remaining tenement synagogue, which came very close to demolition in 2008; the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, at 59 E. Second St., for which plans had been filed to build a condo tower vertical addition; and Community Synagogue, at 323 E. Sixth St., built in 1847 as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew, from which many of the victims of the General Slocum excursion boat disaster came. Local churches and synagogues, in turn, fought the designation, feeling it would hurt them financially and also force them to climb through bureaucratic red tape every time they have to do something to their building facades. However, there’s no question that these beautiful houses of worship add immensely to the fabric of the historic district — and to the East Village. The effort to create an East Village Historic District initiated a couple of years ago with L.P.C., which was clearly responding to a growing chorus of cries that the neighborhood was underlandmarked. The East Village Community Coalition had surprisingly succeeded in landmarking the old P.S. 64 (CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center) on E. Ninth St. — even after it had been purchased by developer Gregg Singer — and there was a rising awareness of how vulnerable the East Village’s historic buildings were. Thanks are also definitely due to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, which worked closely with E.V.C.C. and the community to raise awareness about landmarking — and which then championed the historic district, which ultimately was passed with only minor modifications from the original proposed boundaries. The East Village and Lower East Side had been rezoned a few years before the landmarking push began, adding height caps for new construction, eliminating air-rights transfers and removing community facility bonuses. While the rezoning curbed out-of-proportion development, it didn’t protect historic buildings from demolition — which is what the Landmarks designation now does. Basically, it was a one-two punch to protect the neighborhood. Yes, some religious institutions are concerned. But landmarking is proven to add value to property, and these buildings really do belong in the district. Ultimately, these houses of worship will benefit from this designation, just as the rest of the 330 buildings in the district surely will. It’s important to note that tax breaks are available for privately owned buildings in historic districts, and grants and loans for nonprofit groups and religious institutions. There is even a hardship law that allows landlords to get out of requirements if it’s shown they can’t afford them, and which permits houses of worship to avoid them if it hinders their mission. Over all, the approval of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District is a win-win and, again, was seriously overdue. Hopefully, we’ll soon be writing about the expansion of this historic district.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No one’s being fooled

Bike-sharing is already rolling

To The Editor: “High-end topless club hopes to swing it near sports pier” (news article, Oct. 4): There’s a lot going on in this article. Anyone else heard of a plan for a high-rise hotel? Regarding the strip club, let’s be serious: Is he really going to go into spin mode on a strip club, as if a strip club is no longer what it is? Using the word “classy” — several times? As in, “This will be the very first-ever ‘classy’ strip joint.” C’mon, don’t insult us from the start. The reality is those in the neighborhood who would not be opposed to this for reasons of fairness and liberty, ought to be opposed to it because of the one truth about every strip club in New York City: exploitation. No matter how “classy,” how “upscale” this operator says his business is, at some point, sex for money will happen within its doors. Everyone I know who has ever worked in a New York City strip club, as a waiter, bouncer, bartender, hostess or dancer, has told the tale. Every former “dancer” who has written a book about the business has included passages about high-paying customers and the inevitable prostitution. To say it is otherwise is a lie, and it must be opposed firmly on these grounds. The entire strip club culture is about making sure the customers don’t take the dancers home, one former bouncer said to me. The obvious trade-off there is that after time, sex will discreetly be allowed inside. That is prostitution. We have to say no to what this is actually potentially bringing to the neighborhood: well-heeled, self-entitled, “high class” pimps and johns. And this is not a judgment, its a truth-telling. People are free to do whatever they want, but ultimately, in denying this liquor license, we would be disallowing liquor that would be sold in service of lubricating the path to prostitution. Also, I would love to see the list of names on this operator’s petition and ask the signers what they thought they were signing.

To The Editor: Re “Software delays are bumps in the road for bike-share rollout” (news article, Oct. 4): Even if Alta fails to launch, biking in New York City is already a huge success. New York City is already home to Bike and Roll, with the nation’s largest fleet of bikes, more than 2,000, whereas Alta’s largest operation is a smaller 1,670 bikes in Washington, D.C. Bike and Roll is safe, dependable and has been in business six years. Bike and Roll offers “full service” bike-share, versus Alta, which offers “automated" bike-share. New York City is also home to SoBi, a new and much lowercosting approach to bike-share — about one-fifth the cost per bike. SoBi highlights that there are three different approaches to bike-share:

Patrick Shields

To The Editor: Re “L.E.S. Pathmark to close; Residents are distraught” (news article, Oct. 4): A&P/Pathmark executives should have the decency to meet face to face with community residents, since according to The Lo-Down, the company will receive at least $87 million for the lease. A&P is controlled by Ron Burkle — who founded and now chairs Yucaipa private-equity holdings — whose worth exceeds $30 billion, and who contributes millions every year to the Democratic Party. Since the Dems claim to represent us lower-income folks, surely A&P can come up with an alternative site, or provide free bus service across the Manhattan Bridge to the Atlantic Ave. Pathmark in Brooklyn. According to store employees, that Pathmark grosses more than $1 million each week!

At least Clayton helped us To The Editor: Re “As Times cuts ties with N.Y.U., local bloggers sound off” (news article, Oct. 4): I have to correct Bowerie Boogie’s Dave Gustav. The Local’s student reporters have interacted quite a bit with neighborhood chroniclers like Clayton Patterson, who was nice enough to speak to them in class, had them over to his gallery and, despite his reservations about New York University, helped them out with stories, such as our video profile of reformed gang member Jose Quiles. They’ve gone to him freely because he has been generous with his time and knowledge. Others, not so much.

1) “Smart-dock” — the Velib style (about $4,000 per bike); 2) “Smart-bike” — the SoBi approach (about $1,000 per bike); 3) “Smart-lock” — the NextBike approach (about $600 per bike); This is New York City. Do we want to copy Velib, or do we want to take what Parisians have started and possibly do something much better — something where more people have access to bikes, where the program is safer, and where it creates more local entrepreneurial opportunities — versus importing everything from Quebec and China? Hopefully, Alta launches. But if not, all is not lost. New York City can still be a major bike-share player — maybe in ways that are far more robust than anything found in Paris or London. Tom Glendening

Hey, Burkle, help us out!

Sam Martin

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Decline of the pierogi palace: ¡Viva chilaquiles! TALKING POINT BY BILL WEINBERG The changing nature of cheap ethnic food in the East Village weighs especially heavily on my mind as the weather starts to turn in October, and the nostalgic craving sets in for warm, friendly carbohydrates wrapped in just slightly chewy dough and slathered in generous quantities of melted butter... . Yes, pierogies. There are still a few places in the neighborhood where you can get them, but they aren’t nearly as ubiquitous, and usually not as cheap (even adjusted for inflation), as when I first started hanging out here, now a full generation ago. Pierogi joints were then the standby for good, filling, cheap eats. Little Eastern European restaurants abounded — Polish, Ukrainian or Jewish, they all served up the same wholesome, earthy fare, at the same budget prices. Back in the ’80s, I practically lived on this transplanted peasant cuisine year-round. Pierogies, in case you don’t know, are dumplings stuffed with meat or potatoes or cheese or sauerkraut or mushrooms or kasha, and served boiled or fried with a dollop of sour cream. Being of vegetarian inclination, I always opted for the potato or kasha, and boiled (quite greasy enough, thanks). They are perfect winter food, along with such other standards as potato pancakes (latkes in Yiddish), apple fritters, hot borscht (a hearty soup made from beets) and kasha (that is, buckwheat groats) with mushroom gravy. In the summer, nothing beats the cold variety of borscht — usually served with a hard-boiled egg floating in it, and sans the cabbage and potatoes associated with the hot kind. With a couple of slices of pumpernickel and an iced coffee, it’s the perfect lunch for a New York City scorcher. And healthy too, contrary to popular belief. This food (to the extent that anyone thinks about it all these days) has sort of got a bum rap health-wise. Sure, you can overdo it with the carbs and fried stuff and sour cream. But it doesn’t get any healthier than a plate full of buckwheat groats. And if you opt for the boiled pierogies and skip the sour cream (which is really gilding the lily given all that melted butter), they aren’t so bad for you either. (I should parenthetically interject that pierogies in San Francisco are completely different, much bigger and with a bread crust, to be eaten by hand like an Italian calzone or a Turkish

bureka. Maybe one day I will find out the origin of this regional variation, and if this kind can also be found back in Europe.) The most celebrated pierogi palace was the Kiev, a longtime East Village institution, open 24/7 at the corner of Second Ave. and Seventh St. The pierogies were incredibly heavy, but their Ukrainian cold borscht was the best.

Back in the ’80s, I practically lived on this transplanted peasant cuisine.

Years after the joint closed its doors, the memory of its sharp twinge of garlic remains poignant. Other neighborhood institutions that are now only memories for old-timers are Leshko’s, the Polish joint at the corner of Avenue A and Seventh, and Teresa’s, the one on First Ave. between Sixth and Seventh Sts. (I think Teresa’s moved out to Brooklyn Heights, and may still survive there.) Numerous shorter-lived places have come and gone. But the one I miss the most is Polonia, which was across First Ave. from Teresa’s, right next door to that global symbol of corporate pseudo-food, the golden arches of Mickey-Dees. I consider it a desecration of the neighborhood’s cultural legacy that the McDonald’s survives and Polonia doesn’t. Their borscht was perfect, both hot and cold, and their prices rock bottom (even if the service was frequently surly). For years, I ate there several times a week. One house specialty I haven’t been able to find elsewhere is hot pickle soup. I’d say, “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it,” except I don’t think it is available to try anywhere in the city now. Maybe in Greenpoint or Williamsburg. What happened to them all? Well, the short answer is that one inevitable word: gentrification. As the neighborhood started to go upscale, the old East European eateries started to realize they would have to change or die. Some negotiated the transformation successfully, others resisted — or succumbed. Member of the New York Press Association

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At first it seemed like a joke to see this food, which is intrinsically unpretentious and proletarian, trying to be something it wasn’t. Some of the old joints sprouted new decor and revamped menus, attempting to be the kind of places where yuppies wouldn’t be ashamed to eat. I cracked to a friend that one day they’d be offering arugula pierogies. Then, in a perverse case of life imitating satire, I actually saw that absurdity on the specials board at Veselka! The 24/7 Veselka (Ukrainian for “rainbow”), possibly the oldest Ukrainian restaurant in the ’hood (it opened in 1954), remains at the corner of Second Ave. and Ninth, and has most successfully managed the transition — though it has compromised its authenticity a bit too much for my taste. It has even recently opened a second branch, Veselka Bowery, in the new luxury housing complex at Bowery and First St. (incorporating the former site of the famous 19th-century dive bar McGurk’s Suicide Hall). I haven’t gone into the Bowery location yet

(and doubt I ever will), so I don’t know if the menu and prices are the same — but it certainly looks way more upscale. I guess the only way proletarian food can pass for posh is by playing the ironic angle. It is certainly an irony that the Bowery, once the most déclassé area of the greater East Village, is now the most fashionable. The former site of Polonia, sadly, is still an empty storefront — an ominous sign of bad economic times. The former sites of Leshko’s and Teresa’s are some yuppie-friendly nonEastern European eateries. The former site of Kiev was at first a self-consciously ironic retro-’50s diner, which thankfully didn’t last long. It is now a Korean BBQ place, which is at least authentic. What else survives? B&H Dairy, another long-lived institution, is still alive and kicking

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Last Saturday, the steamship Lilac had an open house at Pier 25 in Tribeca. There was an exhibition by The River Project — the marine science field station based at Pier 40, at West Houston St. — onboard showcasing the Hudson’s ecosystem. Traps were pulled up from moorings on the Lilac’s side to see what aquatic life was around the ship. A blue crab and a seahorse, above — which was pulled up the week before and was swimming in a tank — were interesting examples that delighted old and young visitors alike.

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Decline of the pierogi palace: ¡Viva chilaquiles! Continued from page 23 at its hole-in-the-wall location on Second Ave. just below St. Mark’s Place. A kosher dairy restaurant, it serves no meat, so it has survived by appealing to the vegetarian crowd, offering a more affordable alternative to the neighborhood’s more New Age-oriented veggie places. (I won’t mention any names). Still entirely authentic are Little Poland on Second Ave. between 12th and 13th Sts., and Neptune (also Polish) at First Ave. and 12th. Odessa, on Avenue A between Seventh and St. Mark’s, has actually expanded, now taking up two storefronts — but it is no longer particularly Ukrainian. I guess they still keep some pierogies in the freezer in case someone ever orders them, but it is mostly standard New York diner fare (real, not retro) — and, thankfully, still cheap. The neighborhood’s real secret gem is the Ukrainian National Home. It is right next door to Veselka on Second Ave. but has no obvious storefront — the restaurant itself is down a long corridor from the door opening on the sidewalk. If you don’t know it’s there, you will miss it. It still seems to be mostly patronized by actual Ukrainians and, aside from a few aberrations (e.g. the oxymoron of vegetarian schnitzel), remains entirely authentic. It has also been there for ages. Before I was born, my dad used to hear jazz bands at an upstairs hall on the premises. An even better-kept secret (shut up, Weinberg, an inner voice says) is the Ukrainian Kitchen. In a basement (you have to walk down a short flight from sidewalk level to reach it) on Seventh St. west of Second Ave., it is run by some old women who seem to be attached to the big Ukrainian Uniate church on that block. It is only open a few limited hours on the weekends. As authentic as it gets. The changing gastronomic climate of the East Village is a barometer of the more general cultural climate. The decline of

the pierogi palace isn’t just a function of the neighborhood going upscale, but also of the old East European immigrant community dwindling through attrition and newer immigrant communities taking its place. The cheap, wholesome ethnic grub in the ’hood now is increasingly Mexican or Indo-Pakistani — both unheard of back in the ’80s when pierogies reigned supreme (not counting the “Little India” row of cloth-napkin places on E. Sixth St., now actually in decline). But, in general, there are today far fewer affordable, family-run joints than there were a generation ago. The upscale joints continue to squeeze them out, economic crisis notwithstanding. Increasingly, chilaquiles play the role in my culinary life that pierogies once did. Chilaquiles seem to be pretty far removed from pierogies—fried tortilla strips floating in salsa picante, usually served with refried beans and optionally mixed up with a couple of scrambled eggs. But like pierogies, they are a wholesome and tasty but very basic dish from the Old Country, usually eaten for breakfast, and only to be found at the most authentic places. You aren’t going to find chilaquiles at the kind of joints that serve frozen margaritas; this, once again, is real proletarian food. The two exponents of this kind of fare in the East Village are the Downtown Bakery, a little hole-in-the-wall place at First Ave. and Fourth St., and the just slightly larger Puebla Coffee Shop, one block to the south. Both are good, but the Puebla Coffee Shop’s chilaquiles are really first-rate. The green sauce is strictly for the adventurous; beginners might want to opt for the red. There is actually one slightly upscale place in the ’hood that also serves chilaquiles in a bid for a more self-conscious authenticity — La Palapa on St. Mark’s. They are perfectly good chilaquiles (and definitely on the picante side), but you can get ’em just as good for a lot less dinero at Downtown Bakery or the Puebla Coffee Shop. And I wonder how long the new Mexican places will be around before they also fall victim to gentrification. A truly trag-

ic loss was last year’s demise of the Festival Mexican Restaurant on Rivington St. off Essex. I hope the owners took photos before it closed of the mural on one of the inside walls, depicting scenes from the life of Pancho Villa. There are still other options. A few of the old Puerto Rican and Dominican places still survive, especially south of Houston St., and they are always reliable. Katz’s Delicatessen on Houston is sort of artificially preserved for the tourists and its prices have gone up, but both the decor and the New York Jewish fare (knishes, pastrami sandwiches and the like) are unchanged since the 1940s. It’s perhaps the last place in the city where you can still get Cel-Ray soda. A few blocks to the west, Yonah Schimmel knishery is still hanging in there, actually serving borscht as well as knishes. But good, cheap food is more and more an endangered species in the East Village, and the worst insult is that the overpriced yuppie joints that are replacing the wholesome ethnic joints generally don’t even serve good food. You are paying much more for an inferior product — a pseudo-cuisine obsessed with novelty for novelty’s sake, divorced from the cultures that sustain good eating. And then of course there is the simultaneous proliferation of corporate chain outlets that offer seductively underpriced actual pseudo-food, even more divorced from those cultures. Authenticity lies in the middle range: family-run, papernapkin joints still rooted in recent immigrant communities just one or two generations removed from the peasantry, whether of Poland or Puebla. Use it or lose it, folks. Fight back against the global epidemic of bad food by voting with your feet — to your friendly (or even surly) neighborhood greasy spoon. And buen provecho. Weinberg, a longtime East Village resident, produces the website World War 4 Report, and is preparing to launch the food-related EthnoGrub.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 22

Excellent review! To The Editor: Re “Vinny Vella: Who’s Better Than You” (Just Do Art, Oct. 4): Thank you to The Villager for the write-up on the show. You know I was born here! Who’s better than you? Vinny Vella Sr.

I treasured his comments To The Editor: Re “Man killed in Harlem hit and run was a mystery to his neighbors” (news article, Oct. 4): I only knew Arnold for a couple of years as a member of the Playwrights’ Circle. We went to see the Bob Marley film, which he didn’t enjoy that much, though he liked his music. We rode on a bicycle taxi in the East End, which he thoroughly enjoyed, especially when we were almost hit by a car. And we ate often at his favorite Thai restau-

rant on Amsterdam Ave. Arnold was insightful and could articulate very quickly problems in plays that were being discussed within The Playwrights’ Circle. I especially respected and treasured the comments he made about my plays. It is hard for me to realize that he will no longer be present to discuss things with. I will miss him dearly. My hope is that we at the Playwrights’ Circle may be able to put together a collection of his writings. Maybe the people in his building who didn’t know him may get a glimmer of who he was. Angelina Cacciato

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October 11 - 17, 2012

VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Your $10 Lower East Side Halloween Hip tips for budget-conscious guys, gals, ghouls BY REVEREND JEN MILLER, FACEBOY & SCOTT STIFFLER Be it sugary candy or gift-wrapped treasures, both holidays compel us to give — but unlike its vastly inferior counterpart Christmas, Halloween affords us the opportunity to exact sweet revenge (“trick”) upon those who dare to forego October 31’s traditional gesture (“treat”). In the spirit of giving — and protecting our sixth floor tenement walk-up from egging — we recently met on an appropriately raw and overcast morning to scour some of the Lower East Side’s most iconic establishments for party favors and candy to appease the rowdy locals who will come calling on All Hallows’ Eve. But could we do it all for a modest sawbuck?

M E E T Y O U R T H R I F T Y, S P O O K TA C U L A R H O S T S SAINT REVEREND JEN MILLER

YOUR $10 L.E.S. HALLOWEEN

#1: ECONOMY CANDY (108 Rivington St.) “There were many wonderful items out of our price range,” recalls Faceboy. “They even had a great selection of '70s-era records, on vinyl.” Wandering amidst the narrow aisles of sugary treats, Rev. Jen observed: “It’s like time traveling to a period when I didn’t know about diabetes” — then advised us to splurge. “If you don’t give kids recognizable candy,” she reasoned, “they will think you are a cheap shit.” Mindful of the risk of egging should we greet our trick-or-treaters with Necco Wafers instead of Kit Kats (but equally aware of our budget), we settled on the following:

· Candy House Buttons ($1.79) · Lucky Lights Candy Cigarettes; .75) Photos by Scott Stiffler

Originally from Middle Earth, Maryland, Rev. Jen is an “elf that lives in a Troll Museum above a shoe store, with a Chihuahua named Reverend Jen Junior.” She is “an Art Star, Troll Museum curator, writer, painter, Voice of the Downtrodden & Tired and Patron Saint of the Uncool.” Rev. Jen is the host of the former open mic, Rev. Jen's Anti-Slam (currently sans a venue), author of the books “Elf Girl” and “Live Nude Elf” (available everywhere) and co-founder of ASS Studios — the most underfunded motion picture studio picture in history. Grab a copy of their latest DVD, “ASS Studios Presents 4 Short Films” (featuring Faceboy as ASS's “Fairy Grant”), at Kim's Video and Music (124 First Ave.) or at a merchandiser near you. For more info, visit revjen.com.

FACEBOY Born and raised in Greenwich Village, Faceboy began a long friendship and collaboration with Rev. Jen when the two met in the mid-1990s — as he began what would become a 13-year run of “Faceboyz Open Mike” (which happened mostly at Surf Reality). Based on Rev. Jen’s dubbing her Anti-Slam performers as “Art Stars,” Faceboy declared Downtown’s emerging comedy performance circuit as the “Art Star Scene” (A.S.S.). Faceboy is currently producer and host of “Faceboyz Folliez.” The next show will be either Nov. 10 or 17. For updates, pics and more, visit facebook.com/FaceboyzFolliez.

T O TA L C O S T: $2.77 Exiting the store with our classic candies, Faceboy said, “The Buttons [aka those sugar dots gently affixed to a strip of paper] are great, because they can be cut into individual pieces, yielding a plentiful bounty.”

At Economy Candy, which Rev. Jen likens to a trip back in time (when she was blissfully unaware of diabetes).

#2 ESSEX STREET MARKET (120 Essex St.) Be it party centerpiece or doorstep mascot, every Halloween celebrant needs a pumpkin. At this market, notes Faceboy, “We didn't see pumpkins (though they might be there), but I spotted some fetching oranges. At three for a dollar, we could easily get a 33-cent orange and pretend it's a pumpkin. Scott noted that the Vitamin C would help ward of rickets — a ‘tragic consequence of the Lower East Side artist’s notoriously poor diet,’ he asserted. I was visibly peeved when they charged us 50 cents. Rev. insisted I let it go: “Faceboy, you know that orange didn’t belong there. Our orange is clearly different from the others in that basket.” So we bit the bullet and produced two quarters for our “poor man’s pumpkin.”

· One Small Orange (.50) TOTAL COST: .50

We stopped by a local deli, to gently cradle a pumpkin and share a moment of sadness at our inability to afford one this year.

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Have yourself a cheap All Hallows’ Eve NOTE: A failure to take taxes into account caused us to go 11 cents over budget. “Rev. covered it,” says Faceboy, “and will be calculating how many sheets of toilet paper she can keep for her contribution.”

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TOTAL COST: $3.24

#5 THE TROLL MUSEUM (aka Rev. Jen’s apartment)

Photos by Scott Stiffler

A Halloween with spirits: $3.60 got us rum and cups.

#3 JADE FOUNTAIN LIQUOR CORP. (123 Delancey St.) Faceboy suggested vodka, “because it goes with everything” — to which Rev. noted, “Vodka is the new black.” We settled on rum, because of its seasonal multitasking properties. “Rum,” Faceboy noted, is a vital part of “Egg Nogg, Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Apple Cider, Hot Felched Rum and Hot Rum Toddies just to name a few. We purchased a nice little bottle for $3.50. They also had small cups for 10 cents and smaller (urine sample-sized) for 5 cents. We purchased two of the smaller ones. This stop filled our depressive asses with temporary joy!”

and, of course, a helpful agent of personal hygiene. Faceboy advocated for a box of Party Snaps (those white twisty things that explode when tossed to the ground), noting they could be used “to frighten those deserving of a quick and harmless noise scare. We wanted to test our Snaps, but waited for an elderly person to pass out of range so as not to frighten her. Elders are the one population of potentially vulnerable adults that we're all guaranteed to be join, unless we die!”

· Party Snaps (.50) · Mabel Clean & Soft 2-Ply Toilet Paper (.50) · Scary mask (.99) · Pirate mask (.99)

TOTAL COST: $3.60

#4 B & B VARIETY STORE (110 Ludlow St.) With just over three dollars left, we headed to the always reliable B&B — and it did not disappoint. Faceboy chose a foreboding plastic mask of indeterminate identity (just plain scary), and Rev. Jen went for a pirate mask — whose eye patch was admirably authentic, yet dangerous (no hole for the wearer’s eye). A roll of toilet paper would, we rationalized, later do triple duty as party decorations, mischievous “TP-ing” material

Oh, snap! Our toilet paper and Party Snaps prepped us for Oct. 31 tricks.

Faceboy recalls: “After hauling our tired, broken frames up the six flights of stairs, we were quickly cheered up when we saw just how far our $10 budget went. We had costumes, candy dots, decorations and candy cigarettes (they weren’t very good; we were hoping for the ones that allow you to blow out powdered sugar for that real kid smokin' a cig effect. But alas, ours were not said variety). So we went about decorating, cutting dots and turning our lovely (overpriced) orange into our Halloween pumpkin. Oh, and drinking Rum!”

REV. JEN’S TIPS FOR TRICK OR TREATING:

Halloween really is the most existential of all holidays as it begs the question, “Who

am I? Am I just a ghost or am I a Queen?” If you are extremely existential, do as Faceboy did as a child. Wear a sign that says “I didn't know what I wanted to be.” Don't have money for a costume? Do you happen to have any of the plastic 1970s-style ones leftover from childhood? If you are a malnourished art star, you can probably still squeeze into them! If they don't fit, just safety pin it to your normal clothes! If you have long brown hair and wear elf ears daily as I do, just get an Arwen gown and be the regal Lord of the Rings babe. If you have a Chihuahua, it’s very easy to dress them as another elf such as Legolas, given their pointed ears.

REV. JEN’S PARTY IDEAS:

Download the sound of graveyard winds. Play it at high volume all night long to annoy your neighbors. Even if no one comes to your party, this is fun, fun, fun! Ask a creepy child to jump rope in front of your building while singing an even creepier song. Speaking of children, no child really wants candy. Give them pennies so they can save for college. A no-frills/no-fuss snack idea: Count Chocula!

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It takes two ‘Duo’ showcases new works by a ‘great theatre polymath’ triple threat THEATER MARIO FRATTI’S “DOU”

Two Plays: “Suicide Club” & “Three Sisters and a Priest” Directed by Stephan Morrow Through Oct. 21 Thurs.-Sat., at 8pm & Sun. at 3pm At Theater for the New City 155 First Ave. (btw. 9th & 10th Sts. For tickets ($11.50), call 212-868-4444 or visit smarttix.com For info, call 212-254-1109 or visit theaterforthenewcity.net

BY MARTIN DENTON (of nytheatre.com) Most people, by the time they reach their 80s, are happy to stop working — or at least scale back their activities, reveling in a mode of relaxation and retirement that is welldeserved and richly earned. But Mario Fratti is not most people. Instead, he is, at 85, as active as ever. Fratti has been working professionally in American theater since I was 2 years old — and he makes me look like a slacker. He’s the great theatre polymath: playwright, critic, teacher, and advocate of drama that’s reflective politically, socially, and sexually of the way people actually behave. He’s as prolific a writer as exists in the theatre today, and one of the most generous, helping artists at every stage of their career get better at what they do. He’s been enormously supportive of my work, especially NYTE Small

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

Playwright Mario Fratti’s “Duo” brings two new tales to TNC.

Press, which published a collection of 28 of his shorter pieces, “Unpredictable Plays,” in 2007, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. (We just talked to Mario on the phone a few days ago and he promises another collection for his 90th). Fratti’s oeuvre spans 50 years and includes landmarks like the musical “Nine” (for which he wrote the translation from the Italian) and “The Cage,” which premiered off-Broadway in 1966 and has been seen in literally dozens of countries since. The distinguished theater critic/anthologist Stanley Richards wrote, “As a dramatist, Fratti eschews the obscure and the enigmatic. A principled advocate of directness and immediate communication in the theater, Fratti’s plays are governed by a fine and firm creative hand.” Another of America’s great theater critics, Richard L. Coe, wrote, “His plays are strong, cogent and tightly knit. This, perhaps, explains Fratti’s particular gift of choosing a dramatic situation, keeping it alive with sharp dialogue, drawing unequivocal characters and driving to a point.”

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

An unpredictable and surprising conclusion awaits a trio of characters, in “Suicide Club.”

Last season, he had a quartet of gaythemed plays performed at Theater for the New City, helmed by director Stephan Morrow; and also a new one-act called “Obama 44,” a murder mystery about a woman who was an ardent supporter of our current president, which debuted at La MaMa. Fratti’s plays have titles like “Terrorist” and “Beata, the Pope’s Daughter” and “Che” and “porno” that indicate the breadth of his curiosity about the world and passion for ideas of all stripes. Probably his most performed recent work is “Iraq (Blindness),” which is a short, stunning drama about a returning veteran who brings tragic and edifying news to the family of a fallen comrade-in-arms.

Fratti reunites with Morrow, again at Theater for the New City, for a double bill of plays making their U.S. premieres. They are both vintage Fratti, moving from a provocative and unusual premise toward a twist that you almost certainly won’t see coming. As Robert Corrigan wrote (in the introduction to the anthology “Masterpieces of Italian Theater”), “Almost all of Fratti’s plays begin with a bizarre dramatic situation. This he then develops and exploits in innumerable ways. But his purpose is always to lead us from the distortions of reality to a fuller understanding for it. Fratti is not afraid of facing reality and he believes that one of the chief functions of the theater is to provide a direct confrontation with it.” So here’s what he’s got for us now: The first of the pair is “Three Sisters and a Priest,” which was inspired by Pope John Paul II’s 1999 statement that hell is “a state of mind, a self-willed exile from God.” Three elderly, wealthy sisters are fascinated and confused by the Holy Father's words and summon a priest to clarify them. (Watch out, Priest.) The second item is “Suicide Club,” in which a mother has joined a support group for survivors of family suicides — under false pretenses. The plays feature actors Deborah Offner, Carol Tammer, Mark Ethan, Maria Deasy, Connor Moore and Cheryl Freeman. TNC, long a home for Fratti’s work, makes it accessible and affordable, too (tickets are just $11.50). Where else can you see new work by one of the world’s most highly regarded international playwrights for such a low price? Two of the hallmarks of Fratti’s work are their candor about sexuality and their unexpected endings. These are certainly among the attributes I prize about his plays. The former is based, I think, in his Italian heritage. Even though Fratti has lived and worked in New York City since the early ‘60s (he taught at Hunter College for many years), his sensibility is decidedly post-war European — by which I mean that he lacks the provincialism and puritanical streak that we often find in American writers, and his world view is informed by a sense of internationalism and multi-culturalism that comes from having spent so many years in an adopted country and so much working time, to this day, abroad (Fratti travels wherever his work takes him, to Europe, Asia, and South America, and he is constantly delighted by the reception his plays receive in countries not his own). As for the endings, well, that’s the Fratti signature. He told me once that the key to writing a great play is to know the ending up front. “Come up with a great ending,” he says, “and the rest will easily follow.” We’ll see that principle in action, I am sure, at TNC.

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Chance of a ghost Concert, lecture just might bring out the dead MUSIC & LECTURE CHANT MACABRE: SONGS OF DEATH & ENCHANTMENT Sat., Oct. 13 at 7:30pm Tickets are $20, $10 for MHM members INVESTIGATING MANHATTAN’S MOST HAUNTED HOUSE Wed., Oct. 17 at 7pm Tickets are $20, $10 for MHM members At The Merchant’s House Museum 29 E. Fourth St., btw. Lafayette & Bowery Seating is limited and reservations are strongly suggested To reserve, call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org Proceeds from both events benefit the museum Visit sturgesparanormal.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Phantom notes from an unmanned piano, disembodied voices joining the living for Christmas carols and a spectral concert attendant seen only by a handful of audience members: All of these unexplained events, and more, have taken place in the front Greek Revival parlor of the Merchant’s House Museum (NYC's only family home

Photo by Margaret Fox

So good it’s scary: L to R, The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society: Anthony Bellov, Jane Elizabeth Rady, Rosalind Gnatt & Dayle Vander Sande.

preserved intact from the 19th century). Music seems to inspire paranormal activity at MHM — and this upcoming event seems tailor-made to draw out the spirits of servants, caretakers and Tredwell family members seen over the years by dozens of staff members, visitors and volunteers. “Chant Macabre: Songs of Death & Enchantment” is the autumnal installment in an ongoing concert series from The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (MHM’s official artists-in-residence). The vocally gifted quartet with a flare for the dramatic (and a sly sense of humor) will present a program of harrowing tales, tuneful lamentations and melancholy expressions of sympathy for the dearly departed — all taken from the musical literature of the 19th century. Selections by Saint-Saens, Schubert, Loewe, Liszt, Debussy, Mussorgsky and more will provide a window into a time when tragedy and grief were ubiquitous (and mourning was a domestic affair). Adding to the authentic atmosphere of dread: The parlor will be draped in black crepe, and

dominated by a coffin — a precursor to MHM’s October 28 “Parlor to Grave” event, which recreates the 1865 funeral of patriarch Seabury Tredwell. If that’s not enough to bring out the dead, this one should do the trick: “Investigating Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” is a lecture by Dan Sturges. Co-host of the weekly web broadcast “The PSI Show,” Sturges has, since 2007, been given exclusive and unlimited access to MHM’s parlors, bedrooms, servant’s quarters, hallways, staircases, basement and garden. Having joined him on 14 investigations, I’ve witnessed (what we think was) poltergeist activity, heard (what sounded like) recorded voices, had odd sensory experiences and seen a disembodied white dress pass by out of the corner of my eye. That’s nothing compared to what Sturges has witnessed over the years — yet he refuses to say MHM is haunted, or declare his belief in ghosts. By the end of the lecture, however, even skeptics will be hard-pressed to say there’s nothing unusual going on in the house. After a brief primer on the history of parapsychology, Sturges will present audio, video and photographic evidence from various MHM investigations, discuss information revealed by psychics and conclude with a spirited Q&A session. No matter what side of the fence you end up on, at least you’ll be able to speak the language — having learned the difference between EMF and EVP, thanks to a section

Photo courtesy of Merchant’s House Museum

The lights are on…but are the dead at home?

that focuses on the proper use of electronic equipment. Armed with this knowledge, you can return to MHM, take the self-guided tour and maybe have an experience of your own. At the very least, you’ll never watch one of those dreadful ghost hunting TV shows in quite the same way.

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Just Do Art! BY SCOTT STIFFLER

SCREAMIN’ GREEN HALLOWEEN For the first time, World Financial Center’s annual family-friendly, eco-themed autumnal afternoon of adventure is taking place outdoors. Watched over by a 30-foot scarecrow and witch, the Plaza and waterfront will be transformed into a Halloween Village. At the Costume Swap, exchange last year’s trick-or-treat guise for gently used and ready-to-wear ones that will come in handy at 3pm’s closing ceremony: The Ghosts and Goblins Parade. Prior to that, kids can listen to spooky tales told in verse, at the Poets House Tent. Outside, they’ll join wandering puppets and marching bands and receive fair trade organic treats and temporary tattoos of pumpkins and ghosts. Before those prizes are claimed, though, there will be games to play — including a vertical spin on the old bobbing for apples tub, and a challenge to tack the face onto a pumpkin (no donkey tail-pinning at this party!). Ghoulish little gamers can also test their skill at the Gourd Roll (an obstacle course where you navigate your gourd using a small broom) and try to toss a Spider in the Brew (only three chances to get that beanbag creepy crawly into the giant tractor tire cauldron). The Ghost Farm is a giant communal art installation waiting for contributions (a ghost of your making). Give those specters something to dance to, by playing the Musical Spider Web (made of gongs, pipes, bells and washtubs). In the Screamin’ Green Screen Photo Booth, have a photo taken wearing your newly crafted Green Halloween costume and email it, tweet it or post it on Facebook. Free. Sat., Oct, 27, from 12-3pm, at World Financial Center Plaza (220 Vesey St.). Free valet bicycle parking will be provided by Transportation Alternatives. For event info: visit worldfinancialcenter.com/screamingreen-halloween or call 212-945-0505.

HOW TO BREAK Some shows, like some unwelcome life obstacles, are too daunting to tackle alone. With that in mind, HERE Arts Center

called in reinforcements — in the form of Collective Consciousness Theater and the Hip-Hop Theater Festival — for their firstever co-producing endeavor. The result is a human beat-boxing, breaking, popping, locking, multimedia graffiti art production being presented by HERE’s startHERE Program: Innovative Theatre for Young People. Playwright Aaron Jafferis, pioneering breakers Kwikstep and Rokafella, beatboxers Adam Matta and Yako 440 — along with composer Rebecca Hart and director Christopher Edwards — combine their formidable talents to tell the story of three troubled souls who unite to help two bodies in crisis. “How to Break” transports the audience into a hospital room where a socially awkward pediatric hematologist, a music therapist/yoga teacher and a nurse with a beatboxing problem try to save (or at least not screw up) an impulsive but intuitive b-boy with sickle cell anemia and a defiantly independent b-girl with leukemia. Together, all involved make a connection as they struggle to rise above the limitations of their diagnosis and redefine what it means to be “ill.” Select performances of “How to Break” are followed by interactive panel discussions. On Oct. 24, “Total Chaos: Hip-Hop Culture & the Ensemble Creation Process” takes you behind the scenes of the show. On Oct. 25, “Ill Art: Is Laughter Really The Best Medicine?” explores the role of creativity and humor in the healing process — and on Oct. 28, “CoSMO” invites health care practitioners to respond to the social, psychological and medical questions posed by the play. Previews begin Thurs., Oct. 18, for an Oct. 23-Nov. 4 run. Performances are Tues.-Sat. at 7pm (with 2pm matinees on Sun., Oct. 28 & Nov. 4; 10:30pm performances on Fri., Oct. 26 & Nov. 2; no show Oct. 31). At HERE (145 Sixth Ave., 1 block below Spring St.). For tickets ($10 in advance, $18 24 hours prior, $20 on day of show), call 212-3523101 or visit here.org. This production, FREE for students with valid student ID , is appropriate for ages 12 and up (strong language). For more info on the creative team, visit socialchangetheatre.org and hhtf.org.

Photo courtesy of Arts Brookfield

How about a little air, Scarecrow? This year, Screamin’ Green Halloween is an outdoor affair.

Photo courtesy of Trevor J. Martin

All about getting ill: Pedro Morillo, in “How to Break.”

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 Come see and be seen and Celebrate the Night of Nights! Costume Parade & Live Bands Miracles & Monsters HOT FOOD AND HOT ENTERTAINMENT

Bandstage on E. 10th St at 4:30pm

DOORS OPEN 7:30pm ALL TICKETS $20

Theater for the New City 155 1st Ave. at East 10th St. for Info call (212) 254-1109 Tickets available online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net Also at www.facebook.com/theaterforthenewcity

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PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Lafayette Street Partners II, LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 380 Lafayette Street New York NY 10003. Vil: 10/11 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by PMMR, LLC d/b/a Subject to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 188 Suffolk Street New York NY 10002. Vil: 10/11 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Marina Gourmet Deli Inc. d/b/a Marina Gourmet Deli to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 246 East 23rd Street New York NY 10010. Vil: 10/11 - 10/18/2012 LOGOS PROPERTIES LLC a foreign LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/20/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mark M. Altschul, 18 E. 12th St., #1A, NY, NY 10003-4458. General Purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 CHOPITA LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/12/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 844 2nd Ave., NY, NY 10017. General Purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADVANCED LITIGATION STRATEGIES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 30 East 39th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10016-2555. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GROW WELLNESS ACUPUNCTURE PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 E. 40th St., Fl 2, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: practice the profession of acupuncture. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NNC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 3/28/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Simone, Esq., Frank Simone, PA., 701 Brickell Ave., Ste. 1550, Miami, FL 33131. FL address of LLC: 8200 NW 33rd St., Ste. 300, Miami, FL 33122. Arts. of Org. filed FL Secy. of State, 500 Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RC21, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/11. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS EXCHANGE, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/25/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 335 Bowery, NY, NY 10003. LLC formed in DE on 5/31/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NEXT LEVEL PARTNERS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. NYS fict. name: Next Level Partners Holdings, LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in FL on 8/22/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. FL and principal business addr.: 2338 Immokalee Rd., Ste. 415, Naples, FL 34110. Cert. of Org. filed with FL Sec. of State, 2661 Executive Center Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32301. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF N&A BAKE SHOP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 330 W. 55th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAVID ORTIZ CELEBRITY GOLF CLASSIC, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process to principal business address: The LLC, 150 W. 28th St. Suite 1003 NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 REISER PROPERTIES LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 09/14/2012. Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 151 East 79th Street, Apartment 4, New York, NY 10075. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 RW CANE L.L.P (“LLP”) filed a Cert. of Registration with the Department of State of NY on 8/21/2012 under the name CW Law Group L.L.P. The location of the principal office will be in the County of New York. The Secretary of the State of NY (“SSNY”) has been designated as agent of the LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served on the LLP to245 Park Avenue, 24th Floor, NY NY 10169. The purpose of the LLP is to practice law. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MBS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 424 Madison Ave., Ste. 400, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PEREG VENTURES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Ruth Fisher, Roth Law Firm, 295 Madison Ave., 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BEACON 86TH STREET PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/28/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Beacon Hospitality Partners, LLC, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 840, NY, NY 10170. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AADAUTO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/19/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o August DiRenzo, 10 E. 70th St., #8B, NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 SANCHO HOLDINGS LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/27/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Elisabeth M. Kovac, Esq., 90 Park Ave., Fl. 18, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JASPER B 250 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/28/03, Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it maybe served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 599 Broadway, 5th FL, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SKNYC PROPERTIES, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/4/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 147, Sherman, CT 06784. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 99 EAST 7TH STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12, SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 10l, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form, on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 318 EAST 6TH STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served, SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10011, DE off. addr., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL, OF 318 EAST 11TH STREET REALLY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eight Ave. NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover. DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 267 EAST 10TH STREET LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE. 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 156 SULLIVAN STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may he served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 120 MACDOUGAL STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 155 WEST 46 OWNER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/17/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 3/21/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101. Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL OF 33 BEEKMAN GROUND LESSEE LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/26/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/9/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 148 HENRY DEBT LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Bluestone Group, 40 Rector St. Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF IN AN HOUR, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/1/12. Office location: NY County. SSN designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 400 E. 71st St., Apt 18D, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 316 E. 63rd St., Ste. 1A, NY, NY 10065. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NO ONE CARES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/11. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Christopher Jonns, 15 Broad St., Ste. 2820, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SAGG RECORDS INDEPENDENT MUSIC LABEL LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 528 E. 79th St., Unit 2D, NY, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TMG DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Trident Media Group, LLC, 41 Madison Ave., 36th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 18W11, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/5/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Korsant Partners, 350 Park Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MIX MODEL MANAGEMENT, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/30/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 175 Varick St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE on 7/10/09. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SKYE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/31/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 117 E. 72nd St., Apt. 12, NY, NY 10021, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HARD EIGHT TRADING LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/13/04. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joseph M. Laub, Gould & Ratner LLP, 222 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 800, Chicago, IL 60601. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HARD EIGHT FUTURES L.L.C Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Illinois (IL) on 3/6/06. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joseph M. Laub, Gould & Ratner LLP, 222 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 800, Chicago, IL 60601, also the address to be maintained in IL. Arts of Org. filed with the IL Secretary of State, 501 S. Second St., Rm. 351, Springfield, IL 62756. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JERSEY MIKE’S MAIDEN LANE LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/15/12 Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Peter Cancro, 2251 Landmark Place, Manasquan, NJ 08736. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HAYES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 1500 Lexington Ave. Suite 18A, NY, NY 10029. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HOME SERVICE WORLD LLC App for Authority filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/22/12. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to business address: P.O. Box 4668, #46073, NY, NY 10163. DE address of LLC: 1675 So State St., Ste B, Dover, DE 19901. Cert of LLC filed with Secy of State of DE located: P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LEARNVEST PLANNING SERVICES, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/12/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/22/12. Princ. office of LLC: 113 University Pl., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10031. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Attn: Dept. of Corps., 401 Federal St., #3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Registered investment advisory firm that provides phone and email based support for a subscription based fee. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ONECK TOV 993 LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 515 W. 42nd St., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012

October 11 - 17, 2012

PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JUNTO LABS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kiril Kirilov, 33 W. 19th St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10011, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRESTIGE WORLDWIDE HOLDING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/17/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: John McDermott, 33 W. 19th St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10011, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RENAISSANCE KALEIDOSCOPE RF FUND LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/31/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/24/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Renaissance Technologies LLC, 800 Third Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EAST 138TH STREET GP LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Alembic Community Development, 11 Hanover Square, #701, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HIGHER MISSION, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/28/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 465 CAPITAL ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 161 Bowery, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VALEJA LLC Arts of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/31/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 60 Riverside Blvd., Unit 1706, NY, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ANOVA TECHNOLOGIES - SMG HOLDINGS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in IL on 8/29/07. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the IL and principal business address: c/o Leonard J. Gambino, 222 S. Riverside Plaza, Ste. 2100, Chicago, IL 60606. Cert. of Org. filed with IL Sec. of State, 501 S. 2nd St., Rm. 351, Springfield, IL 62756. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 2130 ACP BOULEVARD INVESTORS LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/10/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/23/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19101. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SYDLING WNT MASTER FUND LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/10/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/07/12. Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Daryl Dewbrey, 1285 Ave. of the Americas, 13th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Daryl Dewbrey, 1285 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE DOUG CAMERON EXPERIENCE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The Doug Cameron Experience, LLC, 145 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RAKOWER LAW PLLC Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 8/3/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O THE LLC, 747 3rd Ave. 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10017. Purpose: to engage in the practice of Law. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LUXLIFE REALTY LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 104 Forsyth St, #12A NY, NY 10002. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LBNY MANAGEMENT, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 521 Fifth Ave., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10175. Purpose: any lawful activities. Latest date 12/31/2057. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 M & O ASSOCIATES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/30/12. Off. Loc.: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 161 W. 61st St., New York, NY 10023. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 STEVE E. BLATZ ARCHITECT PLLC, A DOMESTIC PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/20/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Steve E. Blatz, 1 Union Square West, Ste. 506, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Architecture Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WEST SEATTLE REALTY HOLDINGS, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/24/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012

NAME OF LLC: EL TORO INTERACTIVE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 8/29/12. Office loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Jason Feingold, 636 Broadway, Ste. 1000, NY, NY 10012, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ZIMMER PARTNERS GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/05/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/04/12. Princ. office of LLC: 7 W 54th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 3 FACES FILMS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/08/2012 Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: 119 Payson Ave NYC, NY 10034. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice is given of the formation of Kelly & Curtis, PLLC by the filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 17, 2012. Office Location: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Ronald J. Nelson, Esq., PC, at 161 Washington Valley Road, Suite 207, Warren, NJ 07059. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/201 MEA SUCATO WRITING, LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/3/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Mea Sucato, Esq., 9 W. 31st St, Apt 37C, NY, NY 10001. General Purposes. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LE BILBOQUET NY, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/21/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 521 Fifth Ave., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10175. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JAJA 168 LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 78 Canal St, 2/F, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 09/20 - 10/25/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ENCHANTED HILL LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/30/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Att: Darren Berger, c/o Kane Kessler, 1350 Ave of the Americas, 26th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LANCASTER HOPE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/10/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 174 E. 104th St., NY, NY 10029. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF LANA LUFT LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/25/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 1/17/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF LONG RIDGE OFFSHORE SUBSIDIARY HOLDINGS, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/1/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/29/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Kevin Bhatt, 1120 Ave of the Americas, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRADING LIAISON LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 204 E 77th St Apt 3C NY, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act. 1936470. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KINGSLAND REALTY MANAGEMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gene Pullo, 500 Kingsland Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RSSM ADVISORY GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 757 Third Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 100172049. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRI VILLA AVENUE L.P. Certificate filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/30/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Project Renewal, Inc., 200 Varick St., NY, NY 10014. Name/ address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2072. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SWORDFISH REALTY LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/23/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One World Financial Ctr., NY, NY 10281. LLC formed in DE on 8/10/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WILLIAMS FIELD SERVICES COMPANY, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One Williams Ctr., Tulsa, OK 74172. LLC formed in DE on 2/3/06. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION FOR 231 EAST 111TH STREET LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 6/26/12. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 45 North Station Plaza, Ste 400, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACKSTONE REAL ESTATE PARTNERS VII.TE.8 L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/27/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/21/12. Princ. office of LP: c/o the Blackstone Group L.P., 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Blackstone Real Estate Associates VII L.P., c/o C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., Corp. Trust Cntr., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Manage assets. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALENYA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/24/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

1485 HOLDINGS LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/30/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Elizabeth M. Kovac, Esq., 90 Park Ave., Fl. 18, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SLC CORAM, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 7/20/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE): 5/16/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 217 E. 70th St., #627, NY, NY 10021. DE address of LLC: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike, #301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LINDA RICH ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 200 W. 86th St., Apt. 14K, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WCS PRODUCTIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/20/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Irving Place, #V10B, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CPC FUNDING SPE 1 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/24/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o The Community Preservation Corp., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

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Landmarks designates East Village Historic District Continued from page 1 of maintaining a neighborhood that had been home to various groups of immigrants since the 19th century, and they acknowledged the importance of the East Village as an artistic haven in the latter half of the 20th century. “I’m very proud of this,” said L.P.C. Chairman Robert Tierney, as he introduced the vote. “We’re ensuring that an environment which tells a rich cultural and immigrant story will be here for generations to come. I think it’s a good day for the Landmarks Commission, and a good day for New York City.” Margery Perlmutter, who voiced the L.P.C.’s only dissenting opinion, argued that commission members were not focusing properly on their goal as preservationists, mainly because she believed too many undeserving tenements were included. “Are we trying to preserve everything in sight?” Perlmutter asked the commission, estimating that around 200 of the newly landmarked buildings are tenements. “If we look at almost any historic district in New York City, there are tenements in them, all over the place. I don’t think that this district needs to preserve [so many].” The new district was welcomed by advocates who had fought for its creation over the past two years, notably Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, who was on hand for the vote alongside a couple dozen other supporters. After calling Perlmutter’s dissension “very odd” in an interview following the vote, Berman explained that his organization will now be focused on educating the public about the East

Map courtesy of the Landmarks Preservation Commission

A map of the new East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved with minor last-minute changes. Late in the process, the L.P.C. removed from the district six tax lots (shown in crosshatched marking, above) between Sixth and Seventh Sts. on First Ave. — four of these clustered at the southeast corner of Seventh and First.

Village/Lower East Side Historic District, as well as continuing to push for more landmarks around that neighborhood. “This is tremendous progress,” he said, “and we hope it’ll be the first step, not the last.”

(As for the new district’s name, the district is located in what most today call the East Village, though many also still refer to it as the Lower East Side — its historic name. So the new district’s name includes both.)

Many religious institutions within the district’s boundaries had opposed the proposal ever since it was first introduced, claiming that landmark status will bring undue financial and bureaucratic hardship regarding renovations. Richard Wright, a longtime member of the Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, at 59 E. Second St., attended the vote, and said that the new district had been “indiscriminately applied, because of the sensibilities of a few nostalgic preservationists.” He went so far as to say that his church was preparing to hire legal representation to “fight the L.P.C. regarding our religious expression.” When asked what he meant by this, Wright explained that his church frequently changes the religious iconography affixed to the building’s facade, depending on the season and accompanying religious holidays. The inability to do that without receiving L.P.C. approval each time, he said, would be an onerous burden. Before approving the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, the L.P.C. removed six buildings — all either on or adjacent to First Ave., between E. Sixth and E. Seventh Sts. — that had previously been included within the boundaries. Four of the properties were removed because the L.P.C.’s research department believed they lacked historical and architectural significance; the other two were removed because their owner objected to the designation. Berman later commented on what he called the “unusual” nature of that last-minute removal. He noted that, unlike the rest of the process that went into creating the new district, there had been no hearing scheduled to notify the public of the change.

Pier 42 forum draws out many issues, few residents BY SAM SPOKONY The city’s new effort to turn Pier 42 into a park began in earnest last Thursday night, as Parks Department officials, landscape architects and Community Board 3 hosted a forum aimed at getting local residents’ input on potential plans. The mostly vacant 8-acre space, which sits along the East River waterfront just past the intersection of Montgomery and South Sts., has already seen two failed attempts at revitalization, in 2005 and 2009. But nearly $16 million of new funding has allowed the city to begin taking formal steps toward making the pier’s redevelopment a reality. The money was secured earlier this year by state Senator Daniel Squadron and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, and supplied by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. The community meeting on Thursday was led mainly by Signe Nielsen, principal of Mathews Nielsen, the architectural firm hired by the city to design the future park. Along with other representatives of that firm, Parks Department project managers Doug Nash and Lawrence Mauro were on hand to hear what residents want — or don’t want — Pier 42 to look like. The problem was, only a handful of the 40 or so people in attendance were actually local residents. “That was my biggest concern,” said Kerri Culhane, associate director of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, who was present that night. “The session was announced without much outreach beforehand. So we really need to see more outreach within the neighborhood, because whatever the design ends up being, that community input will be vital.” Nielsen later admitted that the meeting had been put together “pretty hastily,” and that her firm didn’t even have time to complete all of their preliminary studies of the pier before the city

asked them to begin the community outreach process. Mathews Nielsen was awarded the contract for the Pier 42 project in May, but wasn’t actually able to begin studying the area until last month. The firm hopes to have a master plan in place by next March. One piece of information the architects were in fact able to digest over the past month, as Nielsen reported on Thursday, may not bode well for the development process. The underside of the pier’s deck, which juts out over the river, she explained, is in extremely poor condition and will be expensive to fix. The question is whether or not to retain that structure — which is separate from the pier’s large shed, which sits entirely on land — and how to financially navigate any number of possible approaches involving the deck. But, in keeping with the evening’s brainstorming mode, Nielsen told residents not to get too hung up on that. “This is something we’ll talk more about in the future, she said, “but for tonight let’s just dream, and not worry about the cost.” Another potential snag in the pier’s redevelopment will be the need to relocate a Department of Transportation maintenance facility currently on the pier. As with the deteriorating deck, solutions for that problem weren’t fully addressed on Thursday, and it’s unclear what the city plans to do about it. The few residents in attendance did eventually have a chance to break into smaller groups in order to share their ideas for Pier 42. The opinions ran the gamut — including possible uses for both the green space and the river — but an overwhelming theme was, unsurprisingly, a push for a park catering to locals of all ages, especially children and seniors. “There’s definitely a lack of services for those two groups in

our area right now,” said Sallie Stroman, who has lived virtually across the street from pier for more than 40 years, speaking after the meeting. “We want an open space that everyone can enjoy, not just tourists, because it’s really going to have a huge impact on this community.” Carolina Salguero, director of Portside New York — a Brooklyn-based group that advocates for innovative use of city waterways — attended the forum in an attempt to remind local residents that Pier 42 holds great potential for the entire city, and isn’t just their own backyard. “If the pier is taken apart solely for the purpose of community use and programming, I would call that irresponsible,” Salguero said in an interview after the meeting. “There needs to be some awareness of the importance this site could have, in terms of providing ferry transportation or bringing in historic vessels.” The Pier 42 planning process will continue with another community meeting on Nov. 28. In response to a question about Thursday’s poor turnout, a Parks spokesperson said the C.B. 3 meetings are just part of the city’s outreach plan. He said the outreach will also include meetings with tenant associations from nearby public housing developments and other neighborhood organizations, as well as surveys to be distributed to people in East River Park and elsewhere in the community. There will also be a Waterfront Community Day at Pier 42 on Sat., Nov. 3, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., which will be the first time the pier is open for public use. That event will be sponsored by the Hester Street Collaborative, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance, state Senator Squadron and the Parks Department.

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My life among the Mormons CLAYTON BY CLAYTON PATTERSON In making decisions and choices regarding who I am and how I view the world, all I really have to reflect on are my own experiences. As it turns out, I do have a connection to Mitt Romney. It starts with the fundraising speech he made that was caught on video: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-nameit… . These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” I was shocked by this statement. After all, Romney is a proud Mormon.

Vil: 10/04 - 10/25/2012

PU B LI C NOT ICE S ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2011-2099/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York. To Ann Wadsworth, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, and if she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown; and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Joan M. Dunphy, a/k/a Joan Dunphy, the decedent herein, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Joan M. Dunphy, a/k/a Joan Dunphy, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 29 Jones Street, New York, New York 10014. A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on November 2, 2012, at 9:30 A.M. in Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named person(s) be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA Section 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (v) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vi) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or directed; and (vii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. Dated, Attested and Sealed. September 12, 2012 (Seal). Hon. Nora S. Anderson, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk Schram & Graber, P.C. - Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 350 Broadway, Suite 515, New York, New York 10013. (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. VIL: 09/27 - 10/18/2012

I milked cows, did chores and attended early-morning classes on Mormonism. I thought if I was ever going to be religious I would be a Mormon. I had left home between grades nine and grade 10. Between grades 10 and 11, to make money, I worked on a farm in southern Alberta. I was the only worker for this sickly farmer. I did a lot of work. Instead of getting paid weekly I decided to survive on little, hold off and get all my money at the summer’s end. But after two months and two weeks of labor, I was given only $90. I was taken aback. The farmer said he would buy me a bus ticket to Calgary and I could go live back home. I said, ‘Keep the bus ticket,’ and I hitchhiked back to Calgary, but then turned around and hitchhiked back. The farmer’s wife was a teacher in a nearby town. The population of the town and surrounding area was made up of mostly Mormons, as well as Mennonites and Japanese Buddhists. Neither the sickly farmer nor his wife were Mormon, but through them I had met a Mormon farmer who I considered to be a friend. When I hitchhiked back, I went to visit him. I wanted to be in the same school as the sickly farmer’s wife. I wanted her to know I was back. I ended up getting a job working for room and board with one of the poorest Mormon farmers in the community. My bed — not the room — was divided off with a curtain

from the rest of the small space they lived in. To make money, I worked on this large commercial farm run by a powerful Mormon family. I went to the local school and lived like a Mormon. After I got up at 5 a.m., I milked the cows and did the chores and, like the other kids, I attended the early-morning preschool classes on Mormonism. I learned a little bit about Mormons. At that time I thought if I was ever going to be religious I would be a Mormon. I liked the community values I witnessed: How they took care of each other — and yes not everyone was equal, but equal enough to be a part of the whole. The bishop was a bigger deal than the guy I worked for. And yes there were kids with limited abilities in school that sometimes were the butt of jokes, but everyone belonged and everyone was important to the whole group. The Mormon community was made of the whole cross-section of a normal population. Some were well-off and others poor; there were the hardworking as well as the lazy. I was deep in the culture. I lived in a Mormon household, went to the school, dated the girls, went to the community dances, played on the soccer team, had friends, went to the preschool program, went to temple. I was inside the community. An outsider, but living as an insider. The Mormons had a community farm that everyone shared the work on. I worked on the farm and in fact won the bale-throwing contest. All the profits from this farm were put into a reserve to deal with community problems. If a family with a limited income couldn’t afford a needed specialized medical treatment, the temple picked up the balance. There was shame — the support was expected. In this life there is no utopia. One guy at the high school played the bully, except with me. I got into a fight with him. Got pulled into the principal’s office in the end. I quit eleventh grade and hitchhiked back to Calgary. I never became a Mormon, but without question, I appreciated many of their values, like how they treated and respected each other: No matter what the income or social status, everyone was equal enough. They were dedicated to their religious beliefs, honest, hardworking people who shared what they had. They had strong family values. They didn’t have any kind of stimulants or intoxicants in the community — no coffee, no Coca-Cola, no alcohol. They helped people in need outside of their community. They were in complete support of small, self-run, independent businesses. I never witnessed anything unsavory. I liked the people. I could not imagine those people going in and bankrupting and selling off a business for profit, à la Romney and Bain Capital. Instead they would have supported and tried to save the business. I could not imagine them writing off almost half the American population because the people are struggling. Romney has lost contact with the Mormon values, or at least all the goodness I witnessed within that Alberta farming community. He has no concept what the term “We The People” means.

October 11 - 17, 2012

Playground was his life and now it bears his name BY L IN C O L N AND E R S O N Lower East Siders came together last Saturday morning to pay tribute to a larger-than-life community leader who left a lasting influence on generations of local youth. Friends, family and elected officials gathered on the blacktop at Sol Lain Park, on East Broadway near Grand St., to dedicate the playground’s new name — Edward Garcia Field. Garcia died two years ago at age 51. A former president of the Vladeck Houses Tenants Association, he rose to become a member of Community Board 3. He was famous for dressing up as Santa each Christmas and giving out toys to the kids in the public housing complex. He also took them on day trips to local amusement parks. But the playground that now bears his name was his heart. The space between its chain-link fence came to symbolize Garcia’s determination to improve the lives of local youth through team sports in the Sol Lain League, which he founded. A former gang member, he turned his life around in a positive way. He got his start as an activist by working with friends to clean up Sol Lain Park and ridding it of drug dealers. Councilmember Rosie Mendez, speaking at Saturday’s ceremony, recalled how Garcia, who used to go by “Fat Eddie,” used to dance in the aisle at halftime at Knicks games, sometimes even stripping off his shirt as the crowd went wild. But she said, he told her that after seeing himself on TV, he realized he wanted to do more with his life, which led to his tenant activism and eventually his applying to be a C.B. 3 member. Susan Stetzer, C.B. 3 district manager, said, two years later, Garcia’s loss is still felt deeply at the East Village/Lower East Side community board. Although his focus was parks and playgrounds, Garcia offered valuable input on a variety of issues, she said. “Eddie wasn’t just a one-issue person,” she said. “We miss him terribly on the community board. He has not been replaced.” Other speakers included Comptroller John Liu and David Garza, the Henry Street Settlement’s executive director. Towering at the back of the crowd of about 200 people was 6-foot-10 Jayson Williams, the former St. John’s University and Nets basketball star. He grew up near the playground — where as a youth he spent countless hours honing his hoops game. Before the ceremony, kids in the Sol Lain flag football league peppered him with questions about his statistics, like his scoring average (12 to 15 points per game). Williams comes back to the neighborhood several times a month to visit his mother, who still lives there. “I knew Eddie my whole life,” he said.

“This ain’t for show — he’s a big part of this community. “Yeah, I played on that court — I tried for the 76ers on that court,” Williams reflected, gazing over the blacktop. “The owner and the general manager of the 76ers came down and watched. … I think Eddie may be the only guy in the world who spent more time on that court than me. “We always in there,” Williams said of the courts and playground. Waving to the left, then the right, he said with a grin, “We did our good stuff over there and our not-so-good stuff over there — so they put a garden over there.” Eddie Garcia was a few years older than Williams, but they were friends. “Eddie was a very important guy back in the day,” the former pro recalled. “He carried a lot of weight. You had problems — you talked to him. He was in gangs in the beginning, and then he became a community leader.” Williams said Garcia’s gang was the Hell Hill Boys. “I was on teams. Eddie was in gangs,” he said. “It’s only gangs, teams. … When you’re young, boys run in gangs. When you’re a man, you organize teams — and that’s what he did here with all these young guys.” Lisa Burriss, who used to lead girls basketball programs on the outdoor courts, recalled how Garcia always somehow knew exactly which toy to give her at Christmas. “One year, I really wanted a yo-yo — and that’s what he gave me,” she said. “As one of four kids raised by a single mother, it meant a lot.” Burriss used to head PHROLES (Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side) and now runs Khufu cafe and hookah lounge on E. Third St., between First and Second Aves. At the ceremony’s end, Mendez and Bill Castro, the Manhattan borough Parks Department commissioner, presented Garcia’s sisters, Marilu and Eileen, with an honorary Edward Garcia Field plaque. Then, like Spider-Girl, Mendez sprung onto the chain-link fence and scaled it so she could pull off the covering of the new Edward Garcia Field plaque, and the crowd cheered. “C’mon, play ball!” one of the refs shouted, and two flag football teams wearing orange and gray T-shirts sprinted out onto the field for the first of the afternoon’s games. Since her brother’s passing, Marilu Garcia has run the league, which fields 45 players this season. “I do — not what my brother did, because nobody could do what he could — but I do what it takes to keep it running,” she said. “I’m very happy the way it turned out,” she said of Saturday’s ceremony. “I’m ever so grateful — because that’s all his hard work.”

Photos by Tequila Minsky

Councilmember Rosie Mendez and Bill Castro, Manhattan Parks commissioner, unveiled a plaque that they then presented to Eddie Garcia’s sisters.

Former Nets basketball star Jayson Williams, who grew up in the neighborhood, posed for a photo with some of the Sol Lain flag football players and, to the right of him, David Garza of the Henry Street Settlement.

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