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Tyra Banks puts Girls Club in zone with glitzy benefit

BY SAM SPOKONY It’s been a long road for the Lower Eastside Girls Club, one full of the same challenges and growing pains felt by the very girls the club has taken in, inspired and educated during the past 16 years.

Thanks to a massive, unprecedented expansion, the Girls Club is set to grow into a new building — now nearing completion — that will triple the organization’s

Deep purple pushback

Board 2 O.K.’s Hudson Sq. rezoning with major changes Trinity hopes to construct at Duarte Square, at Sixth Ave. and Canal St. Also, the board said the rezoning should be denied unless the abutting, proposed South Village Historic District is designated as a landmarked district — since allowing residential use in Hudson Square would put development pressure on the South Village.

The board’s review and vote represented the first step of the city’s seven-month-long ULURP (uniform land use review procedure) on the proposed rezoning. C.B. 2’s vote is advisory only, and the review will next move on to the borough president and the City Planning Commission, before a vote by the City Council.

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N.Y.U. students, faculty, alumni and community members opposed to the university’s superblocks expansion plan held a “Stop the Purple Monster” march Saturday in Washington Square. The event was organized by All in the Red, a group fighting for accessible, debt-free education for all. The N.Y.U. plan’s foes say its huge cost will boost students’ tuition and, consequently, debt.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Community Board 2 approved a sweeping rezoning for Hudson Square last week that would allow residential use and cap building heights for new construction. But the board also recommended slashing the height caps even beyond those put forward by Trinity Real Estate — the rezoning’s main sponsor — and also recommended that a special subdistrict with lower building heights proposed

by Trinity should be made equal in height to the rest of the district.

In addition, C.B. 2 said the rezoning should not be approved unless Trinity includes, not just space for a public school, but also a new community center, in a residential tower

program capacity. In that it’s taken hard work, determination and creativity to reach this point, it’s clear that the Girls Club has done no less than epitomize the very ideals it’s sought to communicate to others.

“It’s always been one of those little engines that could,” said Lyn Pentecost, Girls Club executive director.

“This engine just happened

The rezoning would cover an 18-block area roughly bounded by West Houston and Vandam Sts. on the north, Sixth Ave. and about 100 feet east of Varick St. on the east, Canal and Spring Sts. on the south and Hudson and Greenwich Sts. on the west. Trinity owns 40 percent of the lot area within the proposed rezoning district.

The district’s occupancy is currently only 4 percent residential, and Trinity hopes to increase that number to 25 percent, to create a more vibrant, 24/7 community. Currently, Hudson Square empties out on nights and weekends and there is little foot

Oh brother! Pompei celebrates Michael’s 50 years of service

BY ALBERT AMATEAU The 12 o’clock Mass at Our Lady of Pompei in the heart of Greenwich Village was full last Sunday when nearly 300 parishioners and friends came to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Michael LaMantia’s vows on becoming a brother in the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, popularly known as the Scalabrinians.

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Brother Michael has served at Our Lady of Pompei for 37 of those years and the Oct. 21 Mass reflected the affection and respect of the community.

Indeed, the congregation rose and cheered after Brother Michael renewed his vows at the hands of the very Reverend Matthew Didone, provincial superior

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NOTEBOOK COULD BE JUST WHAT WE NID, ER… NEED: The dates for the public outreach meetings for the proposed Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District, or NID, have been set. There will be one meeting in each of the three community boards that include the park. The first is set for Thurs., Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Community School, at 272 W. 10th St. The second will be Tues., Nov. 27, at 6:30 p.m., at the Fulton Center Auditorium, 119 Ninth Ave. The final meeting will be Mon., Dec. 3, at 6:30 p.m., at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St., in the Richard Terrace Room. Maria Passannante Derr, former Community Board 2 chairperson, for one, thinks most property owners living near the river would be willing to pay a relatively small annual fee to help fund the operation and maintenance of cash-hungry Hudson River Park. The funds would also go toward sprucing up neighboring blocks a short distance inland from the park. “A condo owner with a 2,000-square-foot unit would pay about $150 a year,” she said. “I think most people would have no problem writing out a check, especially if they live across the street from the park.” She said she heard this could generate up to $10 million a year for the 5-mile-long waterfront park.

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Silvestri drops by on Sundays to help out in the kitchen. One of the most important points, she noted, is that everything Peter and his staff cook tastes great and is full of flavor. “When people think vegan — ‘it’s dry, it’s tasteless,’ ” she said. “But his triple chocolate brownie — to die for.” We phoned Silvestri’s landlord but didn’t get a call back by press time.

NEWS ON EMBATTLED NEWSSTAND: Speaking of Ray, Councilmember Rosie Mendez tells us she and others plan to hold a press conference next month for Jerry Delakas to help him keep his newsstand at Astor Place and Lafayette St. Community Board 2 has already passed a resolution in support of the longtime vendor, but the city has said he doesn’t technically have ownership of the license to operate the stand, having manned it for others who held the lease. Mendez said that, once again, it’s going to be up to The Villager to make the difference. “You saved Ray’s,” Mendez said, urging us, “You’ve got to do for Jerry’s newsstand what you did for Ray.” Plus, she noted, Brad Hoylman, former C.B. 2 chairperson, who is running for Tom Duane’s seat in the state Senate, will join the rally, and will have by then, no doubt, have been elected. “We’ll have the power of a state senator behind us,” she said. We told Jerry about the rally and he was excited to hear it, and gave us an approving fist-bump.

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VEGAN OUT OF ST. MARK’S? NO WAY! Vegan master baker Peter Silvestri, above with freshly sliced apples, reached out to us recently to ask for help in spreading the word that his Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen, at St. Mark’s Place just off of Avenue A, is facing eviction. (He said Ray from Ray’s Candy Store around the corner recommended he contact us, since The Villager helped keep him in business slinging egg creams, Belgian fries and hot dogs.) Silvestri said this summer was just terrible for business and that, consequently, he fell behind a couple of months in rent, and about two weeks ago the landlord sent him an eviction letter. It doesn’t help matters that the block is now lined with bars, 14 between Avenue A and First Ave., said Silvestri. “It changed the block. People come here for the bars now,” he said. And it’s so loud. He’s partially deaf, but when he recently poked his head inside one of the bars to say hi to someone it almost blew out his one remaining good eardrum.

He and his late mother started their business at 70 Spring St. in Soho back in 1978, and moved to St. Mark’s in 1991. They began a little bit vegan, but today, the shop’s offerings are 100 percent vegan and 80 percent organic, with everything from hemp seed cookies (no, they won’t get you high) and double chocolate vegan snowballs to tofu cheese cake, plus juices, breads, muffins, cakes, hot soups, savory sandwiches, vegan lasagna and vegetable burritos. He recently got a grill so they can cook tofu scrambled for breakfast and fry up vegan burgers. They’ll even customize dishes to order if you have a food allergy. And it’s healthy — who knows, it could be a placebo effect, but after recently eating a sampling of Peter’s food, we immediately felt a surge of positive energy. His sister Carmela

NO JOKE — HE’S RUNNING: Taking another stab at political office, stand-up comic and progressive activist Randy Credico is throwing his hat into the ring for mayor in the Democratic primary. Credico most recently ran against Senator Chuck Schumer in 2010, almost cracking the 1 percent mark, garnering .97 percent of the vote. Credico and his canine campaign manager, Bianca, dropped by our office last week, above, to discuss his candidacy — and take some pops at the rest of the field. He said he planned to officially announce his run on Fred Dicker’s political radio show, on which he’s the official comedian.

Starting with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Credico blasted her for allegedly persuading Margaret Ratner — Bill Kunstler’s widow — to stay out of the special election for Tom Duane’s former Council seat 14 years ago that was ultimately won by Quinn.

As for Borough President Scott Stringer, he just did a stammering impression — Credico does more than 200 impersonations.

“Scott? He t-t-talks l-l-like th-th-this,” he said. Bill Thompson?

“He looks 200 years old,” Credico sniffed. “He looks older than me, and I’m the oldest guy in the race.” Bill de Blasio? “His real last name is Wilhelm — he’s German,” the comic charged, adding, “I mean, how many Italians are 6 foot 5?” “They’re all hacks,” Credico said. “It’s a six-pack of hacks. I call them the Hack Pack.” The only other candidate he had anything favorable to say about was Tom Allon. “Is he a Democrat?” Credico asked, a week before Allon announced he would run as a Republican, Credico having already gotten wind of the expected change. “He’s the most interesting candidate after me.” A reformed substance abuser, Credico supports legalization of pot. “I tried drugs for 25 years — it didn’t work out,” he quipped. (Stand-up comedy is just full of drugs, he noted.) If elected, Credico said he’d appoint Cornel West schools chancellor and Professor Irwin Corey, 98,

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Tyra Banks, celebs raise $1 million for Girls Club Continued from page 1 to have a couple of hundred incredible people pushing it forward.”

That collaborative push was certainly on display last Thursday, when model-turnedphilanthropist Tyra Banks, one of the organization’s major sponsors, hosted a star-powered fundraiser for the new building that brought in more than $1 million in one evening.

The new Girls Club building — which includes a wing named for (and run in partnership with) Banks and her seven-yearold TZONE charitable foundation — has been a $20 million project. The new club house comprises 30,000 square feet, and features a planetarium, arts studios, a “Science and Environmental Education Center” and a “Library and Academic Support Center.”

At the building’s TZONE wing, the girls will learn about goal setting, healthy lifestyles, improving self-esteem and leadership skills in general.

The project will also feature 78 mixedincome residential units. The Girls Club won’t own these units and won’t get any income from them.

Located on Avenue D between E. Seventh and E. Eighth Sts., the building is scheduled to open in fall 2013.

As the Girls Club has always done for years in its current office at E. First St. and First Ave., the new building will provide free services to neighborhood girls ages 8 to 18, and its increased size will allow programming for more than 1,500 girls per week. Nearly all of the girls in the organization’s programs come from struggling, low-income families.

Thursday’s fundraiser, at the swanky Capitale venue on Bowery, drew around 500 contributors who were constantly reminded of the importance the new center will have on its community.

“We’re raising this money to give these girls an opportunity, because it’s an opportunity they deserve to have,” Banks told the crowd as the evening began. “A lot of the time, the cards we’re dealt are based on where we’re born and where we live. But I feel like my girls, most of whom are in the [East Village] housing projects, deserve just

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Model-philanthropist and Girls Club sponsor Tyra Banks, left, and Girls Club executive director Lyn Pentecost enjoyed a conversation onstage during Thursday’s million-dollar fundraiser for the organization’s new building, which is scheduled to open next fall.

the same as those who are born and live on the Upper East Side.”

High-profile guests at the fundraiser included actress Rosario Dawson (who is also a Girls Club board member), news anchor Soledad O’Brien, entertainer Clay Aiken, actor John Leguizamo and hip-hop artist Drake, who performed to close the gathering.

Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson was also on hand to curate a world-class dinner menu, which for this reporter was the highlight of the evening, if not the entire year.

In addition, several local elected officials, who all provided support throughout the Girls Club’s growth, joined in Thursday’s festivities. Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, who joked that he came in through the side entrance rather than down the “yellow carpet” with the celebrities, nevertheless praised Banks’s contributions, and lauded Pentecost’s evolving vision for the organization.

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“I was involved with the Girls Club even before I took office [in 2007], and it’s been absolutely incredible to watch them expand so rapidly, while also focusing on developing programs that really engage the girls and integrate them into the community,” Kavanagh said. “They’ve done a great job of promoting all of the things young women in our society should be, as well as the paths to success they should be encouraged to think about.”

And the gathering really hit home for one rising star who attended the fundraiser, that being 30-year-old actress Tina Huang, who’s played supporting roles in major films and TV shows, and most recently has been featured on the Nickelodeon TV series “Hollywood Heights.”

Huang was born in Texas but raised from the age of 4 in Chinatown, where she said she and her low-income parents lived in an illegal apartment on St. James Place, until Huang moved into the East Village years later when she attended New York University. She began attending programs at the Girls Club when she was 15, shortly after the organization formed, and recalled its early challenges but also its importance in her life.

“It was a small staff at that time, mostly just moms from the neighborhood, and it was really just after-school activities rather than the variety of programs they have now,” Huang said. “But it was absolutely a second home environment for me, which was incredibly important because I couldn’t get a lot of attention from my parents because they worked all day, and we were still so poor that they just couldn’t afford after-school programs.”

Huang was lighthearted while chatting with fellow celebs on Thursday, but her ties to the roots of the Girls Club, as well as her

own veritable rags-to-riches story, drew out even deeper emotions as she talked about the new building coming to fruition.

“I caught myself almost crying a few times, just because I know how difficult it is to accomplish that kind of thing,” she explained.

“It’s pretty moving, and I’m so ridiculously proud of Lyn and all the staff members. It opens this whole world of possibility, and most importantly it shows that it wasn’t just a dream — it’s always been an achievable goal.”

After the fundraiser, Pentecost told this newspaper that she plans to hold a series of soft openings for the Girls Club building this coming spring, in advance of the grand opening in the fall. Among those will be a Mother’s Day event, and a gathering in partnership with the V-Day activist organization, which seeks to end violence against women and girls (and of which Rosario Dawson is also a board member).

“It’s great. It’ll be like a whole year of openings,” Pentecost said, with a laugh.

And even though the new building hasn’t yet begun its ambitious programming, the Girls Club’s seemingly tireless executive director is, yet again, looking toward the future.

Noting that the organization already attracts interns from colleges around the country, Pentecost explained that, a few years down the road, she hopes to take advantage of the new building’s size by hosting training seminars for adults from other states who wish to learn more about community organizing and effective ways to build neighborhood nonprofits.

“Hopefully they’d be able to go back to their communities and do similar programs, by taking away something from the philosophy we’re putting in place,” she said.

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But Trinity, which has many commercial tenants, doesn’t want to scrap the area’s commercial character either. Under the plan, if an existing building of 70,000 square feet or more is demolished, then the new building on that site must include a 1-for-1 replacement of commercial space, before residential can be added. Sites with smaller buildings can be converted residentially without any need to replace existing commercial space.

Formerly known as the Printing District, the area currently has an M1-2 (manufacturing) zoning, which only allows manufacturing and commercial uses, including hotels, but not residential use.

Board 2’s vote last Thursday evening ultimately was nearly unanimous with only one “no” vote cast. However, before reaching that result, there was a lengthy, intense discussion about so-called “Subdistrict B.” The subdistrict is bounded by roughly Dominick St. to the north, midblock between Varick St. and Sixth Ave. to the east, Watts St. to the south and the Holland Tunnel entrance to the west.

About 15 of the 18 property owners from within the proposed subdistrict turned out at the meeting, concerned that their development rights would be unfairly limited by the Trinity plan.

The district’s current zoning allows an F.A.R. (floor area ratio) of 10. Under the Trinity plan, this would be decreased to an F.A.R. of 9 for residential or mixed (residential and commercial) use — but developers could build up to an F.A.R. of 12 if they add affordable housing, and in doing so would get a slight increase in the amount of market-rate residential housing they could add in their projects. Trinity is proposing a maximum 320-foot height on wide streets and 185 feet on narrow streets.

Subdistrict B, however, under the Trinity proposal, would have a significantly lower F.A.R., of 5.4, for residential use, bonusable up to 7.2 by including affordable housing.

The plan also includes restrictions on big-box stores — no stores would be allowed of more than 10,000 square feet, though a large supermarket would be permitted, since the neighborhood needs one.

Also, a special permit would be required for new hotels of more than 100 rooms, since Trinity feels the area already has an abundance of hotels.

David Gruber won election as C.B. 2 chairperson a few months ago after Brad Hoylman stepped down to run for state Senate. Gruber also chairs the board’s Hudson Square Working Group. He laid out the working group’s thinking behind the resolution that the full board was about to vote on last Thursday evening.

“Three hundred twenty feet seemed a bit high to us,” Gruber said of the proposed maximum height on wide streets. “It

A rendering by Trinity Real Estate shows the height of buildings at potential development sites that could be built under Hudson Square’s existing zoning, which lacks height caps, top, versus under Trinity’s proposed rezoning, which would impose height caps, above.

seemed like there were only two buildings in that range,” he said, referring to the 450-foot-tall Trump Soho hotel-condo and the former SEIU building on Sixth Ave. at Grand St., which is 320 feet tall. “The rest of the buildings were in the 260-to230-foot range.”

What the board supports is “a contextual rezoning,” he said, and so the working group had recommended a height cap of 250 feet, with affordable housing, on the wide streets, or 210 feet for “straight mixed use,” without any affordable housing included.

“In the midblocks it was felt we should keep the 185 if they were going to do inclusionary [affordable] housing,” Gruber said of Trinity’s proposed height cap for narrow streets. “It really did need some height to develop,” he said of the narrow streets.

The working group strongly endorsed the idea of height caps, Gruber said, noting, “One of the reasons Trump got so high is he was able to buy air rights from his neighbors and pile them on top of his building. Height caps would stop this.”

As for Trinity’s proposed building at Duarte Square, Gruber said, the real estate company was asking for a 9 F.A.R. — but which would be stacked on top of a 444-seat public school in the building’s base, which would not be counted toward

‘We couldn’t reach a consensus. We’re not the decision-making body.’

David Gruber the total F.A.R. That would add up to a 430-foot-tall skyscraper towering over everything but the Trump Soho.

“That’s very, very, very tall,” Gruber said disapprovingly of Trinity’s proposed building.

In addition, the working group resolution called for Trinity to also add a

50,000-square-foot recreation center in the Duarte Square building.

“We need a recreation center,” Gruber stressed. “We only have Dapolito Center [at Seventh Ave. and Clarkson St.] and that’s not in such good shape. It’s good for the school that the rec center will be there.”

Having a recreation center would also meets C.B. 2’s requirement that the rezoning provide open space, he added.

“That’s how you do it in a built environment — you build it in buildings,” he said.

The board also called for Trinity to add another floor for the school.

As for Subdistrict B, however, Gruber said that the working group had been stumped. On the one hand, he explained, City Planning supported the idea of this carve-out as a sort of “snapshot” preserving an eclectic mix of smaller buildings that had evolved there over time. On the other hand, property owners felt strongly they were being deprived of their development rights.

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but not any ‘gerrymandering’ Continued from page 6 “We couldn’t reach a consensus,” Gruber said. “We thought that the fair thing to do was to not opine on this for lack of a better word. We just sort of ‘kicked the can,’” he said, though adding, the working group “wasn’t trying to duck it.” Ultimately, City Planning would make the verdict, he said, adding, “We’re not the decision-making body.”

Keen Berger, a member of the board’s Executive Committee, protested that she was “troubled” at the board’s not giving an opinion on Subdistrict B. A few other board members also voiced their concern and called for a full discussion.

“Trinity’s letting a lot of the property get taller, but not this part,” Berger said of Subdistrict B. “I think the community is allowed to tell Trinity, ‘You can’t gerrypick... gerrymander.’”

‘Trinity’s letting a lot of the property get taller, but not this part.’

Keen Berger As for City Planning’s purported argument that Subdistrict B wouldn’t really be “downzoned,” since the property owners there would now have a chance to cash in with residential development, Berger said, “If City Planning wants to make that argument, they should be here and make that argument.”

But who was calling the shots on Subdistrict B, Trinity or City Planning? it was asked.

“It’s Trinity’s application, so I would have to say Trinity drew it,” Gruber said.

Tobi Bergman, a veteran, respected member of C.B. 2, owns a building on Watts St. in Subdistrict B. He spoke at length before the vote, though correctly recused himself from the vote out of potential conflict of interest.

Like Berger, he said, “This is a case of gerrymandering.” He noted that on the corner of Watts and Varick Sts. is a sixstory building, which is in Subdistrict B, but then right north of that on the same block is a vacant lot, currently used for parking, that is outside the subdistrict, but which is owned by Trinity, and on which a high-rise tower could be developed under the proposed rezoning.

“There’s a march of buildings on Varick St.,” Bergman said. “There’s Trump, then there’s a small zone [Subdistrict B], then it goes back up [for Trinity’s proposed Duarte Square tower]. And on the block directly across from my property is the second-tallest building in the district, the SEIU building.”

A map showing the boundaries of the proposed Hudson Square rezoning district. “Protected buildings” are those over 70,000 square feet; if these buildings are converted residentially or demolished and rebuilt there would have to be a 1-to-1 replacement of existing commercial space.

A vote was finally taken by the full board on whether the lower heights for Subdistrict B should be removed, and everyone’s hand immediately shot up in favor of doing so. The board’s resolution was changed to reflect that it now did have an opinion on the matter.

Charles Friedman is the owner of the vacant lot at 100 Varick St. across from the Holland Tunnel entrance. He was asked, after the vote, how he felt now that C.B. 2 had recommended that his development rights not be capped at a lower height than for the rest of the proposed Hudson Square rezoning district.

“Thank God,” he said, throwing his hands out to his sides in a gesture of relief.

Afterward, in a statement, Jason Pizer, president of Trinity Real Estate, said, “We are pleased that Community Board 2 agrees with the goals of this proposed rezoning and supports creation of a diverse and vibrant, mixed-use community that preserves neighborhood character, and we look forward to working with our community, our elected representatives and city officials to realize these goals.”

As for why C.B. 2’s Hudson Square Working Group couldn’t achieve consensus on Subdistrict B prior to the full board’s vote, Shirley Secunda, a working group member, said it was a complex plan.

“I think there was a little bit of confusion,” she said. “You know, zoning is a confusing thing. It looked like the buildings should be preserved — but then again, it wasn’t a cohesive area.”

The proposed Subdistrict B area does have three small landmarked buildings on Dominick St., but otherwise is unprotected by landmarking. As Secunda pointed out, a zoning change in and of itself would not protect the subdistrict’s other buildings — beyond the three protected ones — from demolition anyway.

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POLICE BLOTTER 15 years for L.E.S. rapist

Coat Factory cash snatch

The man who pleaded guilty to raping and robbing a 28-year-old-woman on the Lower East Side in 1998 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced on Mon., Oct. 23.

Lerio Guerrero, 33, pleaded guilty on Oct. 9 to all counts of the indictment: rape, sodomy, burglary, robbery and attempted robbery, all in the first degree.

According to court documents, on Nov. 8, 1998, Guerrero followed the victim to her Orchard St. apartment, pushed open the building door behind her and threatened her with a piece of broken glass. He then forced the woman to the rear of the building, where he sexually assaulted her and stole her wallet. After that, he forced her to follow him to an A.T.M. to withdraw cash. But when Guerrero tried to make the woman go to an A.T.M. at a different location to withdraw more cash, she escaped into a deli.

Guerrero was not arrested for the crime until 2011, when he left DNA on a cigarette butt while smoking in a Police Department interrogation room as he was being questioned about a different incident, according to The New York Times. The DNA was linked to blood he had left on his victim’s coat after slicing his hand on the night of the 1998 crime.

Since opening a month ago, the new flagship Burlington Coat Factory in Union Square has already had the honor of hosting at least one unsuccessful thief.

Officers arrested Rosemary Uhuwmangho, 44, in the discount clothing store at 40 E. 14th St. on Tues., Oct. 16, after she couldn’t resist snatching $750 from an unattended purse.

The bag was originally lost by a 37-year-old woman, who left it sitting on a shoe display before a vigilant security guard took it out of sight and brought it to his desk until she returned. But when the woman ended up picking up the purse shortly after, instead of finding it untouched, she bemoaned the fact that, of the $1,400 in cash she said she’d been carrying, only $650 remained.

Burlington’s staff quickly investigated the matter and spotted Uhuwmangho on a surveillance video, swiping the missing cash from the purse before replacing it on the security counter. The security guards found her wandering the store minutes later, and detained her until police could arrive and bust her for grand larceny.

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Police are hunting for three thugs who held up a man at gunpoint in Soho and stole his $50,000 Mercedes-Benz early on Sun., Oct. 21.

The victim, 28, from Valley Cottage in Rockland County, left his car, a 2009 C6A model, running at the corner of Varick and Vandam Sts. while he stood next to it and smoked a cigarette around 3:30 a.m., police said. Then three men — each described only as black Hispanic — approached him, and one brandished a silver handgun and said, “Back the f--up.”

When the car’s owner complied, the trio jumped into the Benz and drove north on Sixth Ave., police said. The man flagged down a cab and tried following his stolen car as it sped away, but he gave up after losing sight of the criminals near the corner of W. 18th St. and Sixth Ave. Officers from the 13th and First Precincts canvassed the area for the stolen Benz and the thugs without success.

A dead woman was found in a vacant lot on E. Seventh St. on the morning of Wed., Oct. 24, police said.

Police arrived at the 227 E. Seventh St. lot, between Avenues B and C, shortly after 10 a.m. to find the body of the woman, who they believe was in her 30s, which was reportedly spotted by local residents around 9 a.m.

It was not immediately clear how the woman died, and an investigation into possible criminal activity is ongoing, police said.

Ex-cop to be a convict A former New York Police Department officer will do 15½ years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing four handguns from the East Village’s Ninth Precinct and selling them to a Queens drug ring in order to fund his addiction to painkillers.

Nicholas Mina, 31, was arrested in July after investigators wiretapped him and caught him talking about taking more guns to sell. He had been a police officer for 4½ years.

All four of the guns Mina stole — two Glock 19 9-millimeters, a Glock 26 9-millimeter and a Smith & Wesson 5946 — were loaded, according to the court records.

He will be sentenced on Nov. 7.

Picked wrong purse A West Village purse thief got more than he bargained for when his victim refused to let go of the goods, leading to a struggle that ended with the crook in cuffs.

Michael Williams, 50, snuck up on a 24-year-old woman as she was entering her 455 Hudson St. apartment building around 4:15 a.m. on Sat., Oct. 20, and tried grabbing her bag. But the woman held on, even as Williams dragged her across the street, leaving her with scraped knees and a bruised finger.

Worse for Williams was that, as the commotion continued, cops caught wind of the noise and quickly arrived on the scene to arrest him for robbery. And after patting him down, the officers also busted him for a crack pipe they reportedly found in his pocket.

Union Square fatal leap A 57-year-old woman died on Mon., Oct. 22 after she jumped from the eighth floor of a building in Union Square and struck the sidewalk below.

Erika Kobald, a resident of Stuyvesant Town, was immediately pronounced dead after she leaped from the building at the corner of University Place and E. 13th St. shortly before noon, police said.

Bagel burglar bagged Police have caught the teenager who broke into an East Village bagel shop on Tues., Oct. 16, and swiped a laptop and other property.

Christopher Lyles, 18, was arrested this past Thursday and charged with burglary, police said. He was identified after being caught on surveillance video at Tompkins Square Bagels, on A venue A near E. 10th St., when he entered the shop’s basement around 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 and stole the items before fleeing.

While burglarizing the basement, Lyles reportedly tricked a bagel shop employee into thinking he was city inspector. Police have also linked him to 10 other thefts in the East Village.

Wasn’t so easy, dude A middle-aged graffiti artist was nabbed on Wed., Oct. 17, after he tagged a West Village bar, but his partner in paint slipped away.

Callejas Harrison, 49, was charged with criminal mischief after cops caught him and the friend spray painting “dude” and “easy” on the front of the eponymous bar at 49 Grove St. around 1:30 a.m.

Since officers only responded after an employee of the bar reported the graffiti in progress, the unidentified perpetrator was able to flee the scene while Harrison was taking the rap.

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Richard Barone is ‘cool’ with where he is right now

BY SAM SPOKONY Richard Barone is a guy who likes to say “yes.”

As one of the unsung heroes of modern pop music, he brought avant-garde sensibilities to the genre as the frontman of The Bongos in the ’80s, and evolved into a solo artist who arguably helped pioneer the chamber pop sound that took off in the ’90s.

Not to mention the other gains he’s made over the years — through collaborations with artists as diverse as Lou Reed, Tiny Tim and Moby — and his work as a producer, most recently for a new music video by folk legend Pete Seeger.

And as a longtime Greenwich Village resident, Barone has certainly been just as active: He’s maintained a presence as a community advocate, contributed valuable effort to a local nonprofit, and recently took on a professorship at New York University.

“There have been very few times when I haven’t been happy with the fact that I’ve said yes,” Barone said, with a reflective chuckle, as he sat in one of the offices he uses at N.Y.U.’s Clive Davis Insitute of Recorded Music on Mercer St. He added that, even amidst all of his past successes, this has been a pretty good year.

A particularly bright point he was referring to is that on Oct. 30, the DigSin record label will release a limited-edition box set to mark the 25th anniversary of Barone’s first solo album, “cool blue halo.”

The set features a remastered version of the original album, as well as both a recording and video of a reunion concert he performed on May 4 at City Winery in Hudson Square. In addition, it includes an exclusive DVD documentary about the history of “cool blue halo,” plus a vinyl record with two singles and a 48-page tribute book.

When it was first released in 1987 — as a live recording at The Bottom Line, the former Village venue on W. Fourth St. — “cool blue halo” made waves with its innovative approach to pop-rock, as well as the diverse instrumentation and sidemen Barone employed to achieve its sound. But he explained that the newly remastered version will give fans an even more complete and accurate listening experience than the original ever could.

“Now it sounds the way it should’ve sounded back then,” Barone said. “The original CD just never had the full fidelity I wanted, and it’s so great that now people are going to hear how it actually sounded to me in the studio. It makes the album feel new again, and that’s all I could ever want.”

He added that being able to perform and release the landmark album once again has even allowed him to see it in a new light.

“I’ve always written my songs through a stream of consciousness, so I never dwelled on what I was singing about in those days,” Barone said. “But looking at it now, I see it as having more weight than I imagined, and greater meaning. That’s the truth.”

He also turned a nostalgic eye to his own presence in the neighborhood over the decades.

Barone, who is originally from Florida,

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Richard Barone, in a recording studio at N.Y.U., where he now teaches, looks forward to the release of a box set marking the 25th anniversary of his landmark album “cool blue halo.”

has lived in the Village since 1984. His first residence in the area was a small studio apartment on Perry St., between Bleecker and W. Fourth Sts., where, as he wistfully recalled, most of the writing and rehearsing for “cool blue halo” took place. He joked

‘To me, Greenwich Village is like Vatican City — it’s a sacred place that must be maintained with that same kind of respect.’ that, after a decade, he outgrew that space because it couldn’t fit his guitars.

Since 1994, Barone has lived on the west end of Waverly Place, in an apartment that he now shares with a roommate. That location within the heart of the Village has led him to become increasingly involved in attending and contributing to Community Board 2 meetings, he explained, both because of his eternal “yes” mentality and an innate desire to keep the neighborhood safe.

“To me, Greenwich Village is like Vatican City,” Barone mused, “in that it’s a sacred place that must be maintained with that

same kind of respect. And that’s why I get involved, it’s why I go to the meetings and raise my voice.”

Earlier this year, he even wrote a talking point in The Villager to advocate for an open park at the triangle at Greenwich and Seventh Aves. and W. 12th St. — a site slated for public use following the demise of St. Vincent’s Hospital. Barone said he’s optimistic about the current plans for the space, which now also include an AIDS memorial, but that he’ll certainly be ready to provide some input — positive or negative — once the new design is actually constructed.

Thinking back further, he also touched on some of the music venues in the West and East Village that have unfortunately closed down over the course of his many years here.

He mourned the loss of The Bottom Line in 2004, but added that his favorite local venue in those days was King Tut’s Wawa Hut, which was located for years at E. Seventh St. and Avenue A until it closed in the mid ’90s.

Barone fondly remembered one particularly classic gig at King Tut’s in 1987, when he was playing with the band for his solo project just before “cool blue halo” was released. The opening act that night, he explained, was a duo comprised of a guy with a drum and another guy who was naked except for a layer of cake batter covering his body.

“The one guy just played a drumroll that started out slow and then became really fast,” Barone recalled, laughing, “and as he

did that, his buddy started dancing and spinning, so the cake batter flew over the audience, and, unfortunately, all of our instruments, until he was totally naked onstage.”

Another Village connection he’s made in recent years is the result of his work at Anthology Film Archives, a nonprofit film archive and theater at Second Ave. and E. Second St. that restores, maintains and exhibits a vast library of independent and avant-garde cinema from around the world.

Barone — who has a passion for film and studied it in college — explained that the relationship began when legendary filmmaker and former Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas, who runs Anthology, contacted him several years ago after learning he’d previously collaborated with singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim, whom Mekas had documented earlier in his career. Barone then suggested organizing some benefit concerts to help fund Anthology, the first of which took place in 2009 and featured performances by Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, a punk band led by filmmaker Kenneth Anger and The Virgins.

“It was one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever produced,” Barone said.

More benefit concerts followed, and Barone was eventually named to Anthology’s board of advisers last August — a position he proudly embraces.

In addition, a special event will be held at Anthology Film Archives on the eve-

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East Village school building repair will take months

BY SAM SPOKONY Students from two East Village schools who were displaced a month ago after an exterior wall in their shared building began to buckle will have to wait until at least February to a In an Oct. 15 letter to the parents of students at Girls Prep Lower East Side Middle School and East Side Community High School, Deputy Schools Chancellor Kathleen Grimm called the necessary construction work a “major undertaking,” adding that the building’s east wall will need be rebuilt piece by piece and additional work will need to be done on the west wall.

The two schools had shared space in the 89-year-old building at 420 E. 12th St. They were evacuated on Sept. 24 after it became apparent that the east wall was separating from the building. Teachers and students had received no prior warning about the building’s condition, and were forced to leave in minutes.

Following the evacuation, the Department of Education initially estimated that the repairs would take three to four weeks.

Both schools have since been relocated.

Girls Prep is currently housed at the Bayard Taylor School on the Upper East Side — more than 60 blocks away from E. 12th St. East Side Community High School, 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. East Side Principal Mark Federman remained

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students, staff and families,” Federman wrote, although he also added that “we all deeply miss our building and this has been hard for us.”

Two weeks ago this newspaper reported that, according to public city records, D.O.E. did not act to fix structural damage to the E. 12 St. building that was noted by the Department of Buildings, when it issued a Class 2 violation — categorized as a “major” violation — for the building’s cracked and crumbling exterior in March.

In her letter to the schools’ parents, Grimm characterized The Villager’s report as “misinformation” — without actually naming this newspaper — and said the March violation was not related to

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The school building at 420 E. 12th St. was evacuated on Sept. 24.

optimistic in a letter he sent out to parents following D.O.E.’s announcement. He wrote that, while it would be ideal to be able to bring both divisions of his school back together under one interim roof, the immediate focus must remain on sustaining productive classroom learning in the students’ current environments.

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The text of the March violation stated that D.O.E. had failed to maintain the exterior facade of 420 E. 12th St., that there were large cracks in the roof’s exterior, and that coping stones on the northwest corner of the facade had begun to shift.

After claiming that those particular elements were not related to any necessary repairs to the building, Grimm wrote that D.O.E. is taking extra time to renovate the west wall because of the “potential for future issues” with that wall’s masonry and brick facade.

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Brother’s service is celebrated by Our Lady of Pompei Continued from page 1 of the Scalabrini Fathers, who celebrated the Mass along with Father John Massari, pastor of Our Lady of Pompei.

Founded in 1888 by Bishop John Scalabrini of Piacenza, Italy, to minister to the countless Italian immigrants to the New World, the order now also serves newer immigrants, with services at Our Lady of Pompei for parishioners from the Philippines and Brazil. At the Mass last Sunday, parishioners sang the anthems in Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian as well as English.

At the reception later in the church’s Father Demo Hall, three generations of parishioners showed their love for Brother Michael.

Robert Rodriguez, currently studying for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, paid his respects. “I was raised in the Village and went to school at Our Lady of Pompeii. I’ve known Brother Michael for years,� said Rodriguez, who hopes to become a priest in two years. “I’ve been at Pompei for 20 years, since I came from Brooklyn, and I’ve known Brother Mike for 20 years,� said Vinnie Orgo, an officer of the parish who was among the volunteers serving the reception dinner. “He does everything around here,

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he even cooks sometimes,� Orgo said. “Brother Michael has shared in the lives of so many people in this parish,� said Maria Donovan, the secretary and receptionist at the church rectory. Donovan was helping produce a YouTube segment on the celebration. “We’ll have everyone in our community in it, and you’ll be able to see it tomorrow,� she promised.

Marie-Coeur Altidor, an immigrant from Haiti who works at a public school on East Houston St., comes to weekday Masses during her lunch break. “I’m here today because Brother Michael is my friend,� she said.

Elizabeth McKenna, an Our Lady of Pompei parishioner for 30 years, recalled that her twins, a boy and a girl now 19 years old, were baptized at the church. “Brother Michael is such a giving person,� she said. Her husband, Brian, born and raised in the Village and owner of McKenna’s Pub on W. 14th St., said, “Brother Michael IS Our Lady of Pompei.�

Brother Michael’s oldest brother, Raffaelo LaMantia, made the trip down from Providence, R.I., to honor Michael.

Joe Crocitto, a family friend, was with him. Crocitto, who retired as a New York Police Department sergeant in 1993, went to school at Our Lady of Pompeii. “I’ve gone with Michael to Chicago to visit his family,� Crocitto said.

In an interview with a reporter earlier last week, Brother Michael said, “We were eight in our family, five boys and two girls.

I was the fifth.�

He grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in an Italian neighborhood that,

like New York, became Chinese as the earlier wave of immigrants moved out. “My father was born in Pittsburgh and my mother was born in Chicago,� he recalled. “My grandfather bought a house near the White Sox stadium.� His grandparents were immigrants, his mother’s family from Calabria and his father’s family from Sicily. “My father was a butcher. The family worked in the produce business. We had a grocery story at one time,� he said. “I went to public school, but we were more religious than the kids who went to Catholic school. I can still see my mother ironing my shirts for church. It was always white shirts and ties for church.�

Raised in a religious family, Michael had a calling as a teenager for a religious life. He transferred from public school to Sacred Heart Seminary to finish high school. “I became close to our parish priest who was a Scalabrinian,� he recalled.

After graduating from seminary in 1960, Michael went to the newly opened novitiate of the Scalabrini Fathers in Cornwall, N.Y. He made his first vows Aug. 23, 1962, two years later. It is those vows that were renewed at the Mass last week.

At Cornwall, Michael took charge of the kitchen, cooking, buying provisions and cleaning the house. “I learned to cook watching my mother at home,� he said. Michael’s cooking was renowned among Scalabrinian Fathers in New York, who found making the trip to Cornwall for dinner was well worth the effort.

The Scalabrinians gave up the house in 1968 and Michael was transferred to the Sacred Heart Seminary in Chicago. It was there that he took his perpetual vows and was assigned to Our Lady of Pompei in Greenwich Village as sacristan. And there he stayed, except for an assignment in 1974 to the Scalabrini House of Study in Toronto to be in charge of the kitchen. But the pastor of Pompei asked for him back a year later.

The average day at Our Lady of Pompei begins early for Brother Michael. “We start at 5:45, open the church at 6:30. We have morning prayers at 7:30 and then breakfast. Our big meal of the day is around 12:30, we have a cook who comes in,� he said, although he acknowledged that he does some cooking from time to time.

A year ago, Brother Michael was diagnosed with cancer. “I refused an operation but I am taking chemo,� he said. “The doctor told me that the tumor is reducing,� he added, but, admitted that the treatment takes its toll.

At the Mass on Sunday, prayers were offered for his health, but his energy at the celebration was high.

David Nafari, a Village native and longtime parishioner at the church, told a reporter at the reception, “Brother Michael has always taken care of the church and taken care of us. Now we have to take care of him.�

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’Net rebel sues over .nyc, .sex and wants damages

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Paul Garrin wants you to have .sex right now if you want it — and .food, .art and .music along with it, too, if you like. But there’s a little problem. Actually, make that a big problem, as in the faceless organization that rules the World Wide Web with a digital iron fist.

The East Village alternative Internet pioneer — who coined .nyc, .gay and .chat, as well as those above — has filed a federal antitrust and trademarkinfringement suit against ICANN, charging that the secrecy-shrouded, domain name-granting body has blocked his company’s propietary address extensions from wide use on the Web. “Name.space’s TLDs [top-level domains] have been shut out of the DNS by ICANN and its predecessors, and forced to operate its own network of TLDs,” the suit states, “thereby effectively blocking and quarantining name. space TLDs and its registrants’ domains from the majority of Internet users.

“Because of ICANN’s conspiracy,” the suit charges, “name.space has lost millions of dollars in potential revenue.”

ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is the nonprofit entity set up by the government to administer the Web. Name.space was founded by Garrin, a visual artist who videotaped the 1988

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Tompkins Square Park Riots before going on to become an Internet entrepreneur.

Before ICANN even existed, Garrin and his company originated 482 top-level domain names — including .film, .now and .sucks, in addition to the potentially lucrative .nyc. They have kept these so-called “expressive” TLDs oper-

ating since 1996, albeit on an alternate Domain Name System, or DNS, outside of the main “Root” that is surfed by most Internet users. A control panel adjustment does allow computer users to access this alternate root, but it’s an extra step most people don’t know about.

“Practically speaking, for 99.9 percent of the world, the Root is the Internet,” the suit states. “Domain names under name. space’s TLDs were by default not universally resolvable on the Internet, thereby eliminating any chance of name.space competing… .”

Currently, the number of TLDs — other than country code TLDs — “has been arbitrarily limited to 22,” the suit says, though adding, “There are no financial, technical or other constraints to adding new TLDs to the current architecture of the Internet via access to the Web.” Fourteen of the 22 TLDs are “sponsored top level domains,” such as .gov and .edu, and are restricted to users who must have a criterion to use them, such as working in government or education.

Eight more TLDs are “generic top level domains,” such as .com and .net, that permit anyone to register.

In 2000, ICANN opened a window to expand new TLDs and solicited applications. The application fee was $50,000, and name.space applied for 118 TLDs under that one lump fee. ICANN dragged

its feet and never acted on the application — but didn’t deny it either. Garrin’s suit states that one ICANN committee member scoffed of name.space’s application, “We’ll wait them out.”

Ultimately, only seven new TLDs were approved in 2000 — the generic TLDs .biz and .info and the sponsored TLDs .aero, .coop, .museum, .name and .pro.

Earlier this year, from Jan. 12 to April 12, ICANN again opened a new round of applications for TLDs. This time, ICANN charged $185,000 for each individual TLD application, not allowing multiple applications under one fee as before. So if ICANN had resubmitted all its proposed TLDs from 2000 it would have cost a whopping $22 million just to apply.

“As a result of the 2012 application round’s procedural and financial barriers created by ICANN, name.space was unable to participate in the 2012 application round, and continues to seek delegation of its 118 TLDs from its 2000 application,” the suit states.

The suit further charges that applicants in the 2012 round have applied for TLDs that are among the 482 that name.space “has operated and promoted continuously since 1996 and in which name.space has exclusive trademark rights.” Garrin and his partners believe ICANN intends to autho-

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Chinatown hotel owners try to end ongoing dispute

BY SAM SPOKONY Chinatown’s new Wyndham Garden Hotel will open for business in a week, and its owners are attempting to end years of controversy surrounding the project. They’re reaching out to the former tenants of 128 Hester St., who charge they were wronged when that building was demolished in 2009.

Last Friday, for the first time since demonstrations against the Wyndham began, hotel co-owner William Su held a press conference, aiming to clear a path toward a more peaceful opening for the hotel, at the corner of Bowery and Hester St. Su — who appeared at the press conference with his attorney and a spokesperson — has been the main target of the virulent protests led by the Chinatown advocacy group Asian Americans for Equality.

Although his presence was certainly notable, Su sat silently as his associates gave statements and fielded questions inside the Ling Sing Association building, at 49 Mott St. “In good faith, the owners are extending their hands,” said Vincent Wong, a spokesperson for the owners. “We encourage the tenants [of 128 Hester St.] to contact us so we can offer them appropriate compensation.”

Wong and Stuart Klein, attorney for the hotel owners, also stressed that an open letter has been sent to the tenants, which provides contact information for Wong and

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From left, spokesperson Vincent Wong, attorney Stuart Klein and Wyndham Hotel coowner William Su at a press conference in Chinatown on Friday.

implores them to call him in order to schedule face-to-face meetings.

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ing or compensation to the eight families — a total of 29 tenants — who were displaced when the city’s Department of Buildings ordered 128 Hester St. demolished in August 2009.

Su and his associates purchased the Hester St. building in 2007, and AAFE asserts he intentionally neglected it, leading to the demolition. AAFE has also claimed, citing comments reportedly made by D.O.B., that Su’s construction of the Wyndham, at 93 Bowery, played a part in the structural deterioration of the adjacent 128 Hester St. But Klein went on the offensive on Friday, rebuking AAFE and presenting city and state documents aimed at casting doubt on the advocacy group’s claims — namely those of intentional neglect and a refusal to comply with orders to compensate former tenants.

“These rumors that have been spread in a very unprofessional way, and in a very scandalous way…they’re just not the truth,” he said.

Some of Klein’s rebuttals appeared to be effective, but some did not.

Among the documents Klein brought was a public D.O.B. record showing that in 2007 the owners of 128 Hester St. did in fact invest in structural repairs to the building’s masonry. However, while Klein has claimed that the owners spent “well in excess of a hundred thousand dollars” on

building repairs, the document he produced only showed about $15,000 worth of work.

D.O.B. records do show two other proposals for repairs in 2009, but the costs of those are not specified in the files.

Also, D.O.B. records show numerous complaints about structural problems with 128 Hester under the ownership of Su and his associates: Several records described cracks in the walls of the building, and several others claimed that construction on the adjacent hotel was causing 128 Hester to shake and buckle.

A more compelling document was one Klein showed to rebut AAFE’s repeated claims that Su and his associates are refusing to comply with a 2010 Division of Housing and Community Renewal order forcing him to pay relocation fees nearing $1 million to 128 Hester St.’s former tenants. Klein said on Friday that the order never existed.

And according to a State Supreme Court deposition filed in February 2011, which Klein produced at the press conference, that order in fact does not exist — or at least not anymore — because the court withdrew its action and ruled that the matter should be settled at the administrative level, rather than through a judge’s order.

Peter Gee, an AAFE spokesperson, declined to respond to specific questions about the accuracy of his group’s claims, but continued to assert that they are correct. He also deflected questions about a rumor that his organization has asked the former tenants of 128 Hester St. to sign contracts that would force them to give AAFE a portion of any compensation money they receive.

Instead, Gee accused the Wyndham owners of continuing a streak of dishonesty that he believes has characterized their interactions with the former tenants.

“There’s nothing new here, because the reality is that they’re just stalling, and they’re not really serious about getting this resolved,” he said. “It’s unfortunate, because the tenants have been waiting for three years for just and fair compensation.”

Gee added that AAFE will soon hold another protest outside the Wyndham, which is scheduled to open on Nov. 1.

At 18 stories, the Wyndham will be the largest hotel in Chinatown. Klein asserted on Friday that the hotel will be a “major boon” to the community, and that it will provide jobs to about 60 area residents.

A Wyndham spokesperson declined to comment directly on the ongoing dispute, saying only that the company will not be involved in any negotiations or dealings undertaken by the building’s owners.

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Pathmark pharmacy closes as contingencies are prescribed populated public housing projects, have rallied against the Pathmark’s impending closure since A&P announced on Sept. 28 that it had sold the lease. But the pharmacy’s closed doors appear to have drained any previous community optimism, which had raised after the area’s elected officials threw their support behind outraged and worried residents.

‘I feel that we’ve done the best we could. We have to keep up pressure, but we also have to develop a better relationship with A&P.’ Victor Papa On Monday, the A&P spokesperson said in a statement that the company would attempt to assuage neighborhood concerns by making all of the shuttered pharmacy’s prescription records available to customers at a nearby Rite Aid pharmacy, at 408 Grand St., beginning Oct. 24.

Two Bridges has also engaged its own contingency plan to help unprepared resi-

dents deal with the sudden loss of their pharmacy. The neighborhood council enlisted the help of Mannings Pharmacy, located in Chinatown’s Confucius Plaza, which has, since Monday, begun delivering prescriptions to elderly tenants of 80 and 82 Rutgers Slip who are unable to walk to the Rite Aid or any other new locations.

“I feel that we’ve done the best we could,” Papa said during a phone call on Monday evening.

He added that, as the situation develops, he and Two Bridges hope to convince A&P executives to run a shuttle bus from their Lower East Side neighborhood to another Pathmark location, either in Harlem or Gowanus, in order to further aid residents who need access to fresh, affordable groceries or drug prescriptions.

Papa had a phone conversation with A&P C.E.O. Sam Martin on Monday, shortly before speaking with this newspaper. During that conversation, he brought up the shuttle idea, as well as the ongoing request for the company to help ensure that any new development built on the Cherry St. site will include a new supermarket-pharmacy combination that matches Pathmark’s affordability and quality.

While Papa said that Martin expressed admiration for the work Two Bridges has done in support of Pathmark and the neighborhood as a whole, he added that

the C.E.O. did not give definite answers to any of his requests, saying that he would look into them with A&P staff members and respond at a later date.

It’s clear now that initial hopes of a grassroots success story in this case have been deflated. But even as the end of Pathmark’s Lower East Side presence looms large, the Two Bridges president explained that, in his opinion as a veteran community organizer, the time for angry protests is over.

“We have to keep up pressure for an affordable supermarket in the new building, but we also have to develop a better relationship with A&P,” Papa said.

“There’s just no use in keeping up the rancor, when a constructive relationship might allow us to get back some of the valuable services we could otherwise lose forever.”

Before ending their phone conversation on Monday, Papa proposed to meet with Martin in person sometime before Thanksgiving in order to further discuss the future prospects for Two Bridges residents — and he hopes that at least that request will be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, the joint letter sent by five elected officials to Martin on Oct. 5 — in which they expressed grave concern for residents who will struggle without their neighborhood Pathmark — has not yet received a reply.

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BY SAM SPOKONY In an unexpected turn that left Lower East Side community leaders dismayed, the Pathmark pharmacy at 237-239 Cherry St. closed on Tuesday, two months earlier than the company had previously announced.

A spokesperson for A&P, which owns Pathmark, declined to answer why the decision was made to close the pharmacy prematurely and without any warning to customers — mostly low-income senior citizens — who have relied on its services for decades.

But Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, explained that, during a phone call last week, an attorney for A&P told him that the pharmacy was closing due to “practical and financial considerations.”

The pharmacy had been located in a separate building from the Pathmark supermarket at 227 Cherry St., which is still scheduled to close on Dec. 28.

While the lease for the 30-year-old supermarket’s building was sold by A&P last month to make way for a large-scale residential development, the building that formerly housed the pharmacy is owned by the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council.

That fact had no bearing on the situation’s outcome.

Residents throughout the neighborhood, especially those within its heavily

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Tallmer is inducted into The Players Hall of Fame

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Legendary theater critic Jerry Tallmer was among the luminaries recently inducted into The Players Hall of Fame at a star-studded ceremony.

The Players, at 16 Gramercy Park South, was founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth, America’s pre-eminent Shakespearean actor of his day, and 15 other incorporators, including Mark Twain and General Tecumseh Sherman. The club’s stated purpose was “The promotion of social intercourse between members of the dramatic profession and kindred professions of literature, painting, architecture, sculpture and music, law and medicine, and the partons of the arts.”

This was the fifth induction into The Players Hall of Fame. Each inductee is commemorated with a fine-art portrait that is hung in the club’s permanent collection at its landmarked Booth mansion.

Tallmer was part of the founding staff of the Village Voice and served as its assistant editor and drama critic from 1955 to 1962. In 1956 he founded the Obie Awards, which recognized Off Broadway productions, later expanding to include Off Off Broadway shows.

From 1962 to 1993 Tallmer served as chief drama critic, film critic, editor, feature writer and reporter at the New York Post. After leaving the Post, Tallmer was brought aboard The Villager by former Editor Tom Butson, and at age 92 continues to write for the paper.

Other honorees at The Players’ Sept. 30 event included playwright Edward Albee, drag icon and actor Charles Busch, astronaut Scott Carpenter — celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first orbit of Earth — actor Brian Murray, cabaret star Steve Ross, actor Fritz Weaver, director Sidney Lumet, actors Ethan Hawke and Jack Klugman, actress Martha Plimpton and, posthumously, sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, Clark Gable and Janet Leigh.

In his remarks, Tallmer recalled how his successes would always irk Sam Zolotow, the cigar-chomping New York Times drama critic, who called him in 1956, gruffly demanding to know, “What does this ‘Obie’ mean?”

When, a few years later Tallmer nabbed the coveted George Jean Nathan Award in Drama Criticism,

Photos by Jonathan Slaff

Jerry Tallmer at the ceremony at The Players.

Edward Albee called Tallmer “one of the most important theatrical people in the 20th century in the United States.”

Zolotow rang again, asking annoyedly, “How the hell did you win that?”

It took a few decades for Tallmer to compose a fitting answer, but he gave it at The Players induction. It was, he said, in his always-gracious way, because he had been fortunate during his career to write about contemporaries like Lanford Wilson, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Sidney Lumet, John Martello — the executive director of The Players — and many other extraordinary talents.

“So Sam,” Tallmer said to his former nemesis, “that’s why I won this — that’s why I’m here.”

Just as Tallmer said it was the privilege of reviewing great playwrights’ works that fueled his own achievement, his fellow inductees at The Players turned around and praised him for his on-target, thoughtful reviews.

Albee, in particular, went on at length, calling Tallmer “one of the most important theatrical people we’ve had in the 20th century in the United States.

Probably nobody has had a more honorable, honest career in American theater, who tells us the truth — really what theater criticism is all about — who can say, ‘This guy is good.’

“He doesn’t pull punches,” Albee said of Tallmer.

“He doesn’t play favorites. … There’s one thing I wish more people would do — tell it like it is.” But that’s not a problem for Tallmer, Albee noted, saying, “You’re Jerry — you will always be completely honest to yourself and with yourself.”

Fritz Weaver recalled how, as a young boy growing up in New York, he saw the great Walter Hampden play Cyrano at the old Nixon Theater. Hampden went on to be president of The Players for 27 years.

Standing beside his Hall of Fame portrait, Weaver, in his sonorous voice, proclaimed reverently, “At last, I am here with Walter Hampden in this great club.”

Afterward, surrounded by family members on hand for the occasion, Tallmer said, he had been deeply touched by legendary playwright Albee’s words, which meant the world to him.

“Edward suckerpunched me — I didn’t see that coming,” he said. “I started to cry. Everything else was icing on the cake.”

As he paused to shake the theater scribe’s hand on his way out, Weaver told him, “Mr. Tallmer, I am honored to be at your bar mitzvah.”

“I never had a bar mitzvah,” Tallmer replied.

“Well,” Martello said, “you did tonight.”

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Halloween goes to the dogs Hundreds of people and well-dressed pooches flocked to the East Village on Saturday for the 22nd annual Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park. The event, which was hosted by drag queen Roxy Brooks and sponsored by pet-friendly businesses like Ruff Club, the soon-to-open dog daycare center on Avenue A, once again showed off the best — and weirdest — costumes that New Yorkers can squeeze onto their often unenthusiastic mutts. This year’s top honors went to Upper West Side resident Bennett Leak, 31, and his dog Maddie, who dressed up as Elliott and E.T., respectively, as they re-enacted the flying bicycle scene from the 1982 film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” opposite page. Leak even got his friend to dress up in a papier-mâché moon in order to complete the picture, and that thoroughness — along with Maddie’s good looks — apparently won over the judges.

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John Evans, 79, artist whose collages were a diary OBITUARY

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON John Evans, an East Village artist who created a collage every day for nearly 40 years, died on Oct. 5.

According to Pavel Zoubok, who represented him at his Chelsea gallery, Evans died of a sudden heart attack, following an extended battle with hydrocephalus.

He was 79.

Evans was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and moved to New York in 1963, settling on Avenue B in a four-room apartment renting for $35 a month.

Starting in 1964, he made a daily collage on a page of a bound sketchbook, date-stamping each work. Filling numerous books, he continued this practice through the year 2000. He chose to conclude the series on the millennium, which seemed to him an appropriate end date. A monograph, “John Evans: Collages,” was published in 2004.

His collage materials ranged from newspaper clippings, business cards, product stickers and ticket stubs to bits of ephemera or random photos found on the East Village streets. He used colored inks to build upon the collage elements. He employed abstraction, typography, ironic

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John Evans.

juxtaposition and Dada and Surrealist sensibility in his pieces.

His collages are mini-time capsules that mark the end of the Vietnam War, New York City’s 1970s fiscal crisis, the 1980s club scene and art market and the AIDS crisis and its devastating impact on the art world.

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A John Evans collage date-stamped July 7, 1989, including a newspaper clipping from the East Villager, on ongoing tensions a year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot.

That East Villager, formerly published by Everything for Everybody, was not connected to the current East Villager and The Villager. Former Villager Publisher John W. Sutter and his wife, artist Kathleen Kucka, purchased the piece in 2010.

“It became not so much his diary, but a diary of everyday life — all the flotsam and jetsam of our lives,” said Zoubok in an interview with this newspaper two years ago when the gallery was showing an exhibit of Evans’s work. In that show, Evans wanted to focus on the Tompkins Square Park riots and gentrification. In addition to images of the clashes, his works of that period are interspersed with product labels of foods one would find in local bodegas.

“It was not just the East Village, but a particular slice of New York,” Zoubok said of those collages, “a kind of experience that, unfortunately, the gentrification of the city has kind of altered.”

In an interview two years ago, Evans told this newspaper that part of the reason he had remained on Avenue B was because his rent was still cheap — under $200.

“I’ve lived here for 40 years or 50 years,” he said. “Everything has changed so many times. When I first came here, Avenue C was like going to Europe. There were people with pushcarts; they were selling buttons, chicken or eggs, whatever. Then the hippies and Puerto Ricans came... .”

Asked what the meaning of his diary of daily collages was, he said, “It’s just my life.”

He is survived by his wife, Margaret Evans, twin daughters, India Evans and Honor Evans, and their families.

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Clash and confusion at C.B. 3 liquor license vote

BY SAM SPOKONY In a bizarre vote, Community Board 3 decided on Tuesday night to deny a proposal for a full liquor license for a planned Latin restaurant at 106 Rivington St. Owners of the planned restaurant, which is as yet unnamed, had to settle for a stripped-down resolution that the board voted through shortly after, which recommended a beer and wine license and would only allow the restaurant to stay open until midnight throughout the week. The original resolution, which narrowly passed C.B. 3’s S.L.A. Committee despite heated opposition on Oct. 16, recommended to allow the establishment to stay open until 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The board’s recommendation will now be sent to the State Liquor Authority, which will have the final say on the matter.

Supporters of the restaurant believe the terms of the recommendation will not allow them to create a successful business. But opponents — who have formed a new-nightlife group called the L.E.S. Dwellers — celebrated a partial victory, claiming that a another establishment with a liquor license and late hours would have only bad quality-of-life effects on a block that already contains several rowdy bars.

Both groups had brought speakers to testify at the start of the meeting, and the tenseness of their exchanges continued until the final vote ended the debate — for now.

“We think it’s very positive,” said Diem Boyd, a Rivington St. resident who helped organize the L.E.S. Dwellers, after the meeting. “And we’re not saying that we don’t support their restaurant. We want and welcome a Latin restaurant. What we don’t want is a full liquor license in a place that’s two stories high, with an occupancy of 200 people, on what’s considered one of the most saturated blocks on the Northeast Coast.”

Enrique Cruz, a consultant for the restaurant’s two owners (one of whom is a lifetime Lower East Side resident) claimed in an interview the following day that opponents of the liquor license don’t really understand the effects of what they are trying to impose.

“How do they expect a restaurant like this to survive, to make a profit, with just a beer and wine license?” asked Cruz.

He also claimed that serving liquor such as rum at the restaurant would be vital, not only economically, but culturally, in terms of creating the authentic Latin feel that the owners believe would be of great public benefit, especially to the large Latin population of the L.E.S. “At French restaurants, it’s wine; at Japanese restaurants, it’s sake; and at Latin restaurants, it’s rum,” Cruz

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Supporters of a planned Latin restaurant’s bid for a liquor license at 106 Rivington St. turned out in force at C.B. 3’s full board meeting on Tuesday evening. So did opponents, in the form of a new residents group, L.E.S. Dwellers.

asserted. “No one there recognized that this is actually an issue of cultural importance.”

The vote rejecting the original resolution was 16 in favor, 15 opposed and two abstentions. The abstentions technically count as opposing votes, leaving the total count at 16 in favor and 17 opposed.

But the surprise controversy arose seconds after the votes were tallied, when board member Jimmy Cheng, who abstained, publicly announced that he actually didn’t know his abstention would count as a “no” vote.

If he had known this, he might have voted in favor — and if he had voted in favor, the resolution would have passed.

Supporters of the proposed liquor license subsequently got riled up and began shouting that the board should revote. And board member Anne Johnson, who had voted in favor of the resolution, went so far as to say that she didn’t think the vote was fair, given that Cheng is a relatively new member and the rule may never have been explained to him.

But in response to a question by another board member, C.B. 3 Chairperson Gigi Li stated that the rules regarding abstentions are in fact described in the board’s bylaws and training procedures. After several minutes of shouting and confusion, the board judged that the vote was fair.

Cruz thought otherwise.

“I’m a little upset about how that went down,” he said. “I wished it would’ve been more organized, and that this rule would’ve been explained a little better to the people who were voting. Because in the end, that unintentional vote is what made the difference.”

Li declined to comment after the meeting.

Boyd acknowledged that there were some confusing moments during the vote, but said she and her group will now be entirely focused on taking their case to the State Liquor Authority before it makes a final decision on the matter.

“We’ll be there in full force,” she said.

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EDITORIAL Anderson, Editor in Chief As Publisher of The Villager I am pleased to announce that Lincoln Anderson has been named Editor in Chief of The Villager and East Villager & Lower East Sider newspapers.

Since 1998 when Lincoln joined The Villager he has honorably upheld a 75-plus-year tradition for “going deep” in covering the best neighborhood in the world, the Village and the whole Downtown area. He brings a well-honed talent for uncovering local stories that must be told and a reputation for delivering news fairly and thoroughly. In 2010 he helped extend The Villager’s unique brand of journalism across town with the launch of The East Villager & Lower East Sider.

The neighborhoods of the West Village and East Village are well served by someone of Lincoln’s caliber being so committed to community journalism. Over the years he has developed a readership that consistently demonstrates trust and respect for his work. Lincoln is famous for his illuminating, quirky headlines, his attention-grabbing ledes, outstanding only-in-TheVillager quotes, granular details and often pioneering story angles.

The Villager and the East Villager & Lower East Sider, because of Lincoln’s craftwork, are must-reads. New York City and State politicians, local community leaders and neighbors across town rely on his insight.

Being appreciated by readers and community leaders is only half the story. The quality of Lincoln’s work is regularly celebrated by peers and industry leaders, witnessed by more than 100 awards for the paper from the New York Press Association: writer of the year, best headlines, best photos in the state, best op-ed page, best business coverage, best obituaries, best news story, best sports feature, best column, spot news photos, art photos, picture story — and of course the list would not be complete without best newspaper in New York State as awarded on three separate occasions.

During the short time I have been Publisher of The Villager and East Villager & Lower East Sider, Lincoln Anderson has reflected the hard work, knowledge and ethical standards one would hope to find in an Editor in Chief.

But the credit for finding and growing this young reporter into a great editor goes to my predecessors, the two publishers who worked with Lincoln throughout his time at The Villager: Elizabeth Butson and John Sutter.

Jennifer Goodstein Publisher I am delighted to hear about Lincoln’s promotion to Editor in Chief of The Villager. It is well deserved.

From the day Tom and I hired him as a young talented reporter Lincoln hit the ground running. Our editorial policy was single-minded: Good journalism makes the community it serves a better place. Raise the bar in reporting. Report fairly and accurately. A newspaper’s biggest asset is its reputation. Keep the reader interested no matter what you are writing about.

Our message fueled Lincoln’s insatiable appetite to deliver every week several well-written news stories that performed a public service to the community, stories that dug deeply for the truth behind complex issues, human interest stories, neighborhood drama, you name it.

Lincoln never hangs up when the phone rings. It can be the next great award-winning story for the paper. Tom would have been proud of you today Lincoln. I send you my heartfelt congratulations from both of us.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Not charity, but justice

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To The Editor: Re “Activists keep up the pressure for Firestone feminist apartment” (news article, Oct. 18): What the community is asking of Mr. Perl is not charity, but justice on the part of those who have benefited off the legacy of revolutionary women like Ms. Firestone. To offer up one of hundreds of apartments that Mr. Perl owns as a testament to her and to the politics she stood for is not too much to ask. And it would be a sign of integrity rather than the shrewd opportunism that characterizes so much of the hip-capitalism that has overrun the L.E.S. community.

To The Editor: Re “A burning issue about pipeline: Will gas pack radon?” (news article, Oct. 11): The industry that wants to dilute the radon by mixing it in with other natural gas so that it is “safe” is the same industry that wanted to frack using atomic bombs during the Nixon administration. Several test atomic bomb frack jobs were done, and when testing showed that the natural gas that was produced was highly radioactive, they wanted to use it anyway and just dilute it to make it less radioactive. See the Kansas City Star April 25, 2011, article titled, “Detonating Nukes in Search of Natural Gas: A Curious Tale in the 70’s”.

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Landlords reap the rewards To The Editor: Re “Activists keep up the pressure for Firestone feminist apartment” (news article, Oct. 18): Mr. Perl complains that he is being asked for a “lifelong donation” to create a permanent below-market-rate apartment for a working feminist to honor the radical feminist legacy of Shulamith Firestone. But it is actually Mr. Perl who is the ongoing recipient of a permanent and lifelong donation from the neighborhood!

The large profits he reaps from owning buildings in the Lower East Side/East Village would not be possible were the neighborhood not known as “interesting,” “edgy” and “artistic.” This is why people who can afford them pay ultra-exorbitant rents in order to live here.

But the neighborhood’s reputation actually rests on decades of struggle by untold numbers of people who labored, often for free, to make it such an “interesting” place. These include, but are not limited to: those who created, fought for and continue to maintain our community gardens; created and sustained our poetry and theater projects; planted trees on every block; painted murals on buildings; strutted “wild style” on our streets; squatted/ rehabbed buildings; made jazz, paintings, poems and unclassifiable works of art — as well as the Beats, hippies, radical feminists, punks, sexual rebels and so many more.

Mr Perl has inherited, and is profiting from, the result of all this history. What he calls a “lifelong donation” actually represents an extremely small fraction — and one he can well afford — of what he and others owe the people of the Lower East Side!

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Elizabeth Margaritis Butson Publisher 1992-1999

John W. Sutter Publisher 1999-2012 Please join the entire team at NYC Community Media in congratulating Lincoln Anderson on his well-deserved promotion!

To The Editor: Re “Money from women’s bodies” (letter, by K Webster, Oct. 18): Dear K Webster, your hoary feminazi arguments are as stale as week-old bread.

You know who is exploited in strip clubs?

Men, usually drunken men. By whom? The female strippers.

Second, rather than exploit women, these clubs enable women to make huge salaries with little hours of work. I know for a fact. I am friendly with a stripper who made $1,000 a week for working about 10 hours. Many women pay their way through college by exploiting these silly men.

There is no sex trafficking in strip clubs. Maybe you prefer to be exploited in a dull office job for meager wages. Other women do not.

And why are you so heterophobic? I don’t hear you complaining about male strip clubs. Why not? Shame on you and your hypocrisy.

I agree with the sentiment Carl Rosenstein and Lawrence White voiced in their letters slamming the opposition to the proposed strip club. Your ilk do not belong in the Village or even New York City. You belong with the Taliban preventing women from working, or in Saudi Arabia where no skin is allowed, or at least with the Mormons in Salt Lake City where chastity is a virtue.

Norman O. Brown

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EVAN FORSCH It was a joy and inspiration working with Lincoln for the 13 years that I was at Community Media. Lincoln has a burning desire to get out there and tell the story. He always tries to get the best attainable version of the truth. He knows what information in our community is significant, and he can contextualize it and explain its meaning. He has built deep networks of informants who trust that he will put the story out fairly and accurately. He writes beautifully and fast. He is among the best writers and editors in community journalism today, and Lower Manhattan is fortunate to have him on its beat.

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David Rothenberg’s new book took a lifetime to write INTERVIEW

BY JERRY TALLMER There was once a mercifully forgotten book and television series called “I Led Three Lives.” Well, David Rothenberg, a Greenwich Villager for almost all his 79 years, has led more than a dozen very full lives, as clocked via the chapter headings of his just published life story, “Fortune in My Eyes.”

As follows: Attica The Theater [Off Broadway] Broadway “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” The Fortune Society Prisons Homo Social Change Candidate and Transition The Fortune Academy “The Castle.” A play.

Senescence That opening chapter, “Attica,” deals with the tense, terrifying few days in September 1972 when David Rothenberg was one of a group of (so to speak) civilian monitors — newsman Tom Wicker, leftist lawyer William Kunstler, Congressman Herman Badillo, et al. — brought to the big overcrowded prison in Upstate New York where the inmates had forcibly taken over the cells and the yard while the National Guard troops assembled with rifles at the ready.

He sees Attica as ‘certainly the most exciting, most emotional thing in my life’ — which is why he led off with it in the first chapter.

In that yard, says Rothenberg, “We were called upon to describe ourselves. I said I was the producer of ‘Fortune and Men’s Eyes’ ” — the searing Off Broadway 1967 prison drama (and 1971 film) ignored by the Uptown press — “and a founder of the Fortune Society,” a body then and still to this day devoted to helping prison “graduates,” male and female, to get back and stay back on their feet.

Rothenberg was welcomed by the rioters’ leaders, among them a fellow in his 20s, L.D. Barcley, who was in prison for a traffic violation, and would die under gunfire a few days later.

“An eloquent young guy. What a loss,” Rothenberg recalled

David Rothenberg’s “Fortune in My Eyes” covers everything from the author’s groundbreaking campaign as the first openly gay candidate for City Council to his work with former inmates.

in a recent interview with me.

David looks back on Attica as “certainly the most exciting, most emotional thing in my life” — which is why he led off with it as the first chapter of “Fortune in My Eyes” (Applause Books, $29.99).

“It’s like the theater; you have to catch the audience’s attention right away.”

On the fourth day Governor Nelson Rockefeller, having turned a deaf ear to the Attica warden’s plea that he, Rockefeller, come in person to the besieged prison, sent in the New York State police and the National Guard.

Result: 39 dead, including 10 prison guards.

By then, Rothenberg and all the other observers had been ordered off the scene and sent back home.

“If we’d been able to stay, they’d never have sent the troops in. Kill Badillo? Not a chance.”

And in fact it was Herman Badillo who, the next day, spoke the most telling words about Attica. This newsbreak listener can still hear it: “I don’t know what the hurry was. There’s always Member of the New York Press Association

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time to die.”

David Rothenberg was one of that handful of young aspiring 1950s and ’60s theatrical publicity men — Merle Debuskey, Howard Atlee, Bob Ullman, various others — who came up as apprentices to the hardened old-timer types who inhabit plays and movie scripts by such as Ben Hecht. David was one of the first who, for instance, press-agented the earliest plays of Edward Albee.

“Bob Ullman is 90 now,” he said. “He’s got a little shop out on Long Island. We talk all the time. It was Bob who got me the job [of press rep, way back] at the Bucks County [Pa.] Playhouse, and it was [Bucks County Playhouse head man] Mike Ellis who got me to Alex Cohen,” a very big-time Broadway producer over many years, the kind of gentleman who would say to young David Rothenberg: “Grab a couple of shirts, kid, we’re flying to London two hours from now to talk with Richard and Elizabeth.”

If you don’t know who Richard and Elizabeth are (were) — or, as I once also wrote, Bette, Lauren, Judy, Al, Alvin, Joan, Peggy, Tennessee — you shouldn’t be reading this newspaper.

“I mean here I was, a kid from Teaneck, New Jersey, although I was always confident of my ability… .”

It was Alexander H. Cohen who in 1964 had the gold-plated idea of bringing Richard Burton to Broadway in a play called “Hamlet,” by a fellow named Shakespeare, with tryouts starting some weeks earlier in Toronto, Canada.

The “Hamlet” company would include Sir John Gielgud, director, Hume Cronyn, actor (as Polonius), and Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood's Queen Cleopatra and Richard Burton’s upcoming wife to be (twice).

Elizabeth was, oh, not exactly lonely, up there in Toronto, but she had a lot of time on her hands and no one to talk to, or with.

“Let’s go over there and have lunch,” she one day said to 30-year-old David Rothenberg — which is what they did, not just that day but every day, and she was David Rothenberg’s date, or vice versa, hand in hand, opening night of the Toronto production.

They lunched, they dated, and they talked.

“We talked about issues, and the world, and the civil-rights movement,” said political activist Rothenberg. “She was — a friend. She had the social skills to keep the conversation flowing. And she had guts. She challenged Reagan [for ignoring the plague that was decimating the homosexual population]. I mean, he wasn’t mean, like Newt or Nixon.” But Reagan just wouldn’t talk about AIDS. The Richard Burton “Hamlet,” here in New York, was a whole other thing. Broadway has never before or since seen such crowds, such gawkers, such mass hysteria. Ms. Taylor had to live through it, or beyond it, and Mr. Burton had to drink his way all the way through it.

“I don’t know how you do ‘Hamlet’ on a bottle of vodka a day,” said David Rothenberg these 48 years later.

It was Nathan Cohen, drama critic of the Toronto Star, who in 1966 — six years before Attica — told David Rothenberg about a play called “Fortune and Men’s Eyes,” written much earlier by a now (in 1966) 40-year-old Canadian named John

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‘Cool’ with where he is now David Rothenberg’s new Continued from page 10 ning of Nov. 5, as part of the “cool blue halo” 25th anniversary celebration, he said.

The event — which Barone acknowledged will be an especially exciting one for him — is going be held in three parts: First, Mekas will interview Barone about the album and his career, then the documentary featured in the 25th anniversary will be screened, and Barone will end the night with a brief performance, which he said will likely include a few special guests.

And the latest addition to the tunesmith’s lengthy résumé is his professorship at N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, which began at the start of this year.

In 2008, the university asked Barone to give a couple of lectures based on his 2007 book “Frontman: Surviving the Rock Star Myth,” in order to give music students insight into his career and tips on how to navigate the world of performance. The lectures were so well received that Barone was asked to put together several one-day workshops on the subject over the next few years.

Last December, after the conclusion of yet another appearance by Barone, the university suddenly offered him a teaching position if he could turn the workshop into a full 14-week course, and Barone happily accepted. He now teaches a class called

“Stage Presence,” in which he helps students of all backgrounds and levels of skill to discover their own musical persona and more effectively engage their audiences in live performance settings.

“But I never think of it as a job,” Barone said of his new professorship, adding that he hopes to continue the classes in the future, even as he also plans to release a new solo album in the near future and continue touring when he can.

So, all things considered, it certainly has been a pretty good year for an artist who remains one of the Village’s top musical talents. But rather than tout his own accolades too heavily, Barone instead expressed an unexpected sense of newfound balance that has come with his work at N.Y.U. “It’s very symbolic for me,” he said, with a smile, “because I live all the way on the west end of Waverly Place, and when I teach, my class is all the way at the other end of the street, so it kind of bookends the Village for me.”

And although he’s still going to be performing and traveling across the world to continue his career, Barone mentioned that he can’t see himself ever leaving the neighborhood for too long.

“I just feel most at home here,” he said.

“I used to tour constantly, and I would fall in love with cities like Berlin or London… . I’d fall in love with them for the moment.

And I’d have, like, a fling with the city. But I always got homesick for the Village.”

book took a lifetime to write Continued from page 23 Herbert who had spent some time as inmate of a brutalizing reformatory for youth. The key and unforgettable scene — this playgoer still vividly remembers it — was an onstage rape, or virtual rape.

Rothenberg decided to turn from P.R. man to producer. He mounted “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” in the small, venerable Actors’ Playhouse, just below Sheridan Square, where it opened in February 1967 and was either reviled or ignored by the mainstream press.

Rothenberg particularly remembers one reviewer, the late Norman Nadel, having written: “Unless you’re obsessed by sodomy, there’s no reason to see this play.”

David prefers to think of his own mother’s tolerant law of life: “As long as you don’t hurt anybody or scare the horses in the street… .”

The nonmainstream press, including yours truly, gave “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” enough of a rave to start it rolling on for three years at two theaters (Actors’ Playhouse and Stage 73) and then onward to 40 nations around the world.

The convicts who had seized control of Attica knew all about “Fortune and Men’s Eyes.”

And out of that play was born the Fortune Society — a sort of all-around, crucial, first aid in housing, therapy, training, employment and all that goes with it for the emerging inmate of any incarceration throughout the United States and Canada.

Since 2002 the principal base of the Fortune Society has been a huge old structure dubbed the Castle because it looks like a castle, alongside Riverside Drive and the Hudson at 140th St. in West Harlem. There, in what was once a Catholic girls’ school, permanent residence is provided for 41 former prison inmates with 21 other rooms held out for emergency usage.

And there, following in founder David Rothenberg’s footsteps, Fortune Society president and C.E.O. JoAnne Page — the daughter of Holocaust survivors — has worked daily miracles for 15 or 16 years.

“I still go every Thursday to board meetings,” said Rothenberg. “And some theater people ask: ‘Are you still working with criminals?’ ” Tit for tat. Still stagestruck, Rothenberg has prevailed on more than one ex-inmate to come with him to a Broadway or Off Broadway show, but by and large, graduates of prison are uneasy intruders on any such environment.

“But not this one guy at the Castle who said: ‘Listen, if I can get comfortable at Attica, I can get comfortable in a

Broadway theater.’ ” Rothenberg has done more than take former prisoners to live theater. He has assembled and directed two hard-hitting dramas — or staged readings — of the lifetime experiences of eight graduates of imprisonment, under the titles “The Castle I” and “The Castle II.” Edward Albee, who goes way back with Rothenberg, came to one performance.

“There was a woman in the audience, a judge, who looked at Edward and said: ‘What did that old con do?’ I said: ‘Write plays and win three Pulitzer Prizes.’ ” The mainstream press ignored “The Castle” as long as it possibly could. “One of my guys said: ‘Maybe I should commit a crime. That would get attention.’ ” David Rothenberg himself got attention when in 1985 he became the first openly homosexual candidate (thus the chapter “Homo”) ever to run for City Council. Against a popular incumbent, Carol Greitzer, he received 46 percent of the vote and almost pulled it off.

David Rothenberg was born August 19, 1933 — “a Depression baby.” In the hospital his mama gestured toward a young mother in the next bed and said to her own infant son: “I was in labor with you 22 hours and she goes to the bathroom and has a baby on the night of the prom.”

David’s parents were Leon and Leonore Weinberg Rothenbeg, both New Jerseyites born in New York City.

“They weren’t political, but they had good values.”

What did your father do?

“Uhhh…what year?”

David Rothenberg has lived quietly for a dozen years on West 13th Street, and before that for 40 years at No. 3 Sheridan Square — the original Circle-inthe-Square building.

He swims 20 laps at the Y every day, walks a mile every day, does aerobics and chin-ups every day.

Two years ago a woman who overheard him talking about some of his experiences said to him: “Why don’t you write this down? I’m a literary agent, and I’ll represent you. Give me a couple of chapters and I’ll sell it.”

Pause. “So I did and she did. Her name is Julia Lord. Like Our Lord and savior.

Every so often I’d read a chapter to her.”

He wrote it by typewriter.

“Computers are my enemy. They don’t like Jews. All machines are my enemies.

I’m just now mastering my toaster.”

So how long did it take to write the book?

He scratches his chin: “A lifetime.”

To write it and to live it. Also vice versa.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT House of Earthly Frights ‘Killers’ mines terror from manmade evil KILLERS: A NIGHTMARE HAUNTED HOUSE

Through Sat., Nov. 3 Hours (6pm-1am) vary daily Call 212-352-3101 Visit hauntedhousenyc.com At Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center 107 Suffolk St. (btw. Rivington & Delancey Sts.) Tickets: $30 in advance $35 at the door Student Rush tickets: $20 (1 hour before, at the door) VIP tickets: $60 (front of the line access)

Photos by Christopher Brielmaier

Chicago-based serial killer H.H. Holmes plucked victims from the 1893 World’s Fair.

BY SCOTT STIFFLER There’s something morally dicey about the notion of getting recreational chills and thrills from visiting the splatter-filled workspaces of murderers, psychopaths and serial killers.

Go to a haunted house full of zombies and vampires, and the only ones being exploited are underpaid actors forced to cower in the shadows as they await the next unsuspecting group. But interact with Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper and John Wayne Gacy while wondering where your next giddy fright is coming from, and a persuasive argument can be made that the true crime titillation you’ve paid good money for is being had at the expense of very real, very innocent, victims.

That damning implication hovers in the stale, dead air throughout the cramped rooms and foreboding transition spaces of “Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House” — a dynamically executed stab at getting up close and personal with “monsters that walk among us…who are neither sexy or cool — but rather presented for what they are…scary as hell!”

You’ve got to hand it to the creative team for questioning the very appropriate-

ness of their endeavor. Early on in the tour (after being forced to face the wall during an intimidating orientation), we’re ordered into a room where the grieving relative of a murder victim invades our personal space and demands to know: “Why are you here?”

Unexpectedly put on the defensive, my group of seven could only answer with nervous laughter and a few lame variations of, “To get scared.” Mission accomplished — again and again, over a nearly half-hour period which took us through a succession of lairs in which some of history’s most infamous sickos reveled in the violent, sexually charged fruits of their labors.

First things first, though: If you go, best to just bite the bullet and take them up on the offer to mark your forehead with an X — a sign that you’ve volunteered to be an active participant in the experience.

Don’t worry. Nothing that’s going to be done to you by the Killers compares to how you’ll suffer at the hands of masked chaperones who repeatedly humiliate anyone cowardly enough to forego the interactive option.

Only one in my group took the mark.

But that didn’t stop the rest of us from being rudely herded like cattle and, in one especially creepy room, aggressively

“Why are you here?” You’d better have a good answer for her.

propositioned. That Lady Bathory is no lady — her uninvited grinding and nippletwisting is bound to give squeamish prudes some very bad memories to take home.

This being a haunted house (albeit one with a thoroughly unconventional narrative), it’s no spoiler to note there’s a high volume of moments built around the shock value of somebody jumping out at you — but “Killers” works this dusty trope with brilliance and flair. Less successful is the

sound design, which is so over-the-top loud that it often cancels out the subtle parts (which this house has its share of, in the form of a few understated performances that are just as effective as the full-on histrionics).

Also packing a wallop is the level of verbal abuse from the supporting cast — a potty-mouthed crew who direct you through

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Exterminator of assorted religious illusions Asner gives ‘Grace’ its spine THEATER GRACE Written by Craig Wright Directed by Dexter Bullard Through Jan. 6 At the Cort Theatre 138 W. 48th St. (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.)

Tue.-Thu. at 7pm; Fri.-Sat. at 8pm; Wed., Sat. at 2pm; Sun. at 3pm Tickets: $32-$132 To order, visit telecharge.org or call 212-239-6200 Also visit graceonbroadway.com

BY JERRY TALLMER Don’t look now, but crusty, lovable Lou Grant has returned amongst us as a certain Karl, last name unknown — a bitterly caustic exterminator of ants, termites and assorted religious illusions.

Oh heck, you can look, especially if you have always loved Ed Asner as gruff news boss Lou Grant, on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — always respectfully addressed as “Mr. Grant” by producer Mary Richards — and everything else this all-purpose invaluable actor has in all the media done for us from the mid-1950s to now.

Ed Asner is back, live, on Broadway, after a quarter century absence, as this Germanborn atheist exterminator fellow, Karl, in a new play. It’s what they call a supporting role, but “Grace” would be lacking a spine without it. Or him.

The three other figures in Craig Wright’s “Grace” are born again Christians Steve (Paul Rudd) and Sara (Kate Harringon) — a Midwestern married couple come down to Florida, where Steve is awaiting the arrival from some millionaire in Switzerland of a $90,000 check with which to launch the first of a string of faith-healing hotels. Completing a triangle is their reclusive neighbor, Sam (Michael Shannon), whose wife was killed in an automobile accident that left him, Sam,

badly burnt and scarred. But not too scarred to attract the interest, not to say the affection, of lonely Sara.

The play begins and ends with a contradictory stroke of theater, while Karl the exterminator — a non-Jewish survivor of Nazi brutality capped by the July 1943 British and U.S. fire-storm aerial bombings (“Operation Gomorrah”) that destroyed Hamburg, Germany, and 45,000 of its people, among them young Karl's entire family — barges in and out of the scene, supplying a sort of Goyaesque atheistic chorus.

By the way, is Edward Asner, born in Kansas City, Kansas, raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the lifelong committed radical son of Orthodox Jewish Russian-American parents — is Asner himself an atheist?

“Well,” he says as he nurses an early coffee, “to save conversation and speculation, and in line with the World War II slogan that there are no atheists in foxholes, let’s just say I call myself an agnostic until proved otherwise.” Pause. Then, dryly: “If there was a God, He wouldn’t have invented man.”

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show ran from 1970 into 1977, followed, for Asner, by five years of “Lou Grant” (terminated in 1982 by CBS, without explanation, when its ratings were still high). To this day, much of America is still in love with the whole “Mary Tyler Moore” team at WJM-TV in Minneapolis: Gavin Macleod as newswriter Murray Slaughter, Ted Knight as bumbling, egotistical anchorman Ted Baxter, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, Valerie Harper, Georgia Engel and of course Ed Asner and wonderful Mary Tyler Moore herself.

The script was written and the weekly story put together in Los Angeles. “I did a lot of touring in that area,” says Asner, “visiting news rooms, and they were always eager to show us their Ted Baxter.” Pause. “Ted Knight’s the only one who’s gone.”

Was it fun, Mr. Asner?

“Marvelous fun. Seven years of Yellow Brick Road.”

Was everything scripted? Could the actors make changes?

“We were all seasoned performers. But we didn’t change a comma without consulting the scriptwriter.”

Asner was last on a New York City stage as blustering Harry Brock — a much less likable guy than Lou Grant — opposite Madeline Kahn as “Drop dead!” showgirl Billie Dawn, in a 1989 Broadway revival of

Photo by Joan Marcus

Paul Rudd (L) and Ed Asner.

“Born Yesterday.” Between then and now, and before then and now, he’s done a ton of movie work, television work, voice work, won a batch of Emmy Awards and other honors, served a couple of stormy terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild and been politically and socially active in various causes on a score of fronts.

His parents — “who spoke fractured English” — were Morris Asner, originally of Lithuania, “who came to the United States in 1899 or 1900, and I think actually sailed for America from Hamburg,” and Lizzie Seligson Asner, who came to the United States from the Ukraine in 1913.

“My father was a junk dealer” — more elegantly, the proprietor of a second-hand store in Kansas City.

“I did radio in high school, but did not think of acting as a career.” It was at the University of Chicago, after a hitch in the Signal Corps, “where I fallaciously waved my signals” — that Asner had a roommate who was in a Paul Sills theater group doing T.S.

Eliot's “Murder in the Cathedral.” When the roommate had to drop out, Asner took over as Thomas (Archbishop) Becket. But when Paul Sills “wanted to go into improvisational theater” — the Compass, which became The Second City — “I wanted to stay legit, and came to New York.”

And what did you do here?

“Pounded the pavement. Looked for an agent. And in February or March of 1956, got into [Off-Broadway’s recordsetting] Brecht-Weill ‘Threepenny Opera’ as J.J. [Jonathan Jeremiah] Peachum, corrupt father of Polly Peachum, Did that for two and a half years, became a good friend of the show’s Jerry Orbach and his wife Marta Curro, and then did a Papp” — as the Duke of Exeter in Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival 1960 production of “Henry V.” “James Earl Jones was in it, Tom Aldredge was in it, and” — searches memory —

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Capture the Friendly Ghost Through tours, museums tout their paranormal activity TALKS & TOURS CANDLELIGHT GHOST TOUR OF “MANHATTAN’S MOST HAUNTED HOUSE” Thurs., Oct. 27 through Sun., Oct. 27 Mon., Oct. 29, Tues., Oct. 30 6pm/9:30pm tours: $40, (includesfourth floor Servants’ Quarters) 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm: $25 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm: $30 At The Merchant’s House Museum 29 E. Fourth St. (btw. Lafayette & Bowery) To reserve, call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org Self-Guided Tours every Thurs.-Mon., 12-5pm (guided tours, 2pm) Museum Admission: $10, $5 for students/seniors (over 65) CEMETERY WALK & PARANORMAL TALK Sat., Oct. 27, 6:30pm At the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum 895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx $20 ($17 for seniors/students) Reservations required: call 718-8851461 Guided Mansion Tours, every Wed., Sat. & Sun., 12-4pm Grounds open daily, until dusk $5, $3 for students/seniors For info, visit bartwopellmansionmuseum.org and sturgesparanormal.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER In the realm of fiction — and on so-called “Reality TV” — things rarely go well as people explore the long hallways, winding staircases and frozen-in-time rooms of a haunted house.

Literature and cinema have no shortage of mayhem unleashed when a deceased

tycoon stipulates that potential heirs spend the night in a spooky mansion before they inherit — and the cable airwaves are positively flooded with jumpy investigative crews desperate to ferret out restless souls.

But not all old houses said to be occupied by spirits are foreboding destinations (or, for that matter, off-limits to all but a select few).

In fact, two of them are close to home, open year-round to the public and come with the promise of a solid history lesson — along with the chance to have a genuine paranormal experience.

THE BARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM With its original brick and mortar construction having come to a halt in 1842, the BartowPell Mansion (opened as a museum in 1947) provides visitors with an exemplary glimpse of country living in the Pelham Bay Park area during the 19th century. Tours of the mansion are given every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 12-4pm, and the estate grounds are open daily until dusk.

On October 27, the museum offers an appropriately spooky “Historic Halloween” program that begins with a candlelit tour of the Pell Cemetery. Located at the end of a chestnut tree-lined walkway, it’s the final resting place of several family members, whose tombstones date from the early to late 1700s.

Once the group arrives back in the mansion (safely, we assume), veteran paranormal investigator Dan Sturges will give a lecture that’s equal parts Ghost 101 background info, tech equipment primer and overview of evidence collected at Bartow-Pell (including an audio clip which seems to indicate a give and take conversation between the investigative team and somebody from the other side). He’ll also shine some light on questions asked by staff and visitors, including speculation about the presence of angels in the north parlor and a child’s ghost on the third floor…and who keeps leaving indentations on the Lannuier bed?

Throughout the evening, keep tabs on those standing next to you and where that breeze is coming from. It will help differentiate between an earthly and an otherworldly explanation, should you (as others have in the past) feel something come in contact, get goosebumps or have the feeling you’re being watched.

THE MERCHANT’S HOUSE MUSEM Built in 1832 (and a museum since 1936), wealthy NYC hardware merchant Seabury Tredwell moved the family to this upscale Bond Street row house in 1835. For nearly a century, members of the Tredwell clan lived (and died) there. Countless servants and caretakers passed through its doors — and the fourth floor Servants’ Quarters is thought to be the oldest example of Irish cohabitation in NYC. The front second floor room is where daughter Gertrude died — in the same bed where she was born, and in which her father met his maker.

Some say the Tredwells and their servants

Image courtesy of Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

The Bartow Mansion, in the early 1900s.

never left. The first sighting of Gertrude took place shortly after her earthly departure, when neighbors swore they saw her open the front door and scold a group of rowdy kids — and a visitor to the museum flipping through old photos ID’d one of the Tredwell sons, who engaged her in a long, polite conversation when (uninformed about its haunted reputation) she stopped by to tour the house.

Since 2007, Dan Sturges has been the only investigator given access to what The New York Times quite accurately dubbed, “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House.” Long ago, museum staff made a conscious choice to embrace and document (though by no means exploit) their reputation as a place where unexplained things happen with unusual frequency. Having been on 14 Sturges investigations, I can vouch for that. On my first visit, in October of 2010, I felt something brush up against me and picked up audio on a device I was holding (which nobody heard as we were recording).

Throughout the year, self-guided tours let you court your own paranormal experience — and a few upcoming events up your chance for

a strange encounter.

October 25-27 and 29-30, the “Candlelight Ghost Tour” takes you throughout the house — as guides play captured audio (EVP) and display unexplained photos. Many times over the years, the staff has received phone calls and emails the next day — with visitors reporting odd sightings and sensations. On Sunday, October 28 (3-5pm), “From Parlor to Grave” finds the first floor Greek Revival parlors draped in black crape, for a recreation of Seabury Tredwell’s 1865 funeral. After the service, mourners will follow the coffin to Marble Cemetery for a graveside service and tour ($40; $10 for cemetery only). Costumed attire is encouraged on All Hallows’ Eve, as the front parlor hosts “Spine Tingling and True: Ghost Stories of the Merchant’s House Museum” (two performances, at 7 & 8:30pm; $25). Between selections from 19th century horror classics, you’ll hear strangerthan-fiction tales of supernatural occurrences at Merchant’s House (including one doozy that took place in the very room in which you’re seated).

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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BY SCOTT STIFFLER

WALKING TOUR: “MACABRE GREENWICH VILLAGE” Stroll through the Village on any given day and you’re likely to see some strange and memorable things — but murders, hangings, explosions, famous missing persons and ghosts? That stuff, you don’t encounter every day (unless you know where to look). NYU instructor and “Encyclopedia of NYC” contributor Joyce Gold knows where the bodies are buried — and after her walking tour, so will you. “Macabre Greenwich Village” gives you the lurid backstory on places such as the Washington Square Park graveyard, Newgate Prison and Edgar Allan Poe’s home.

Sat., Oct. 27 & Sun., Oct. 28. Tours begin at 1pm. Meet at the Washington Arch (Fifth Ave., just south of Eighth St.). Tickets are $18 ($15 for seniors 62+). No reservations necessary. For info on this and other tours throughout the city (and throughout the year), call 212-242-5762 or visit joycegoldhistorytours.com.

THE CROOK THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS “MACBETH”

Photo by Paul LaRosa

Joyce Mendelsohn leads a LES tour celebrating heroines of historic significance.

Photo by Anders Sune Berg

Linda Sormin’s “Howling Room 3” (see “Greenwich House Pottery”).

reason. Between the omens spouted by three witches and the guilt-induced vision of a dagger, “The Scottish Play” has enough blood on its hands — and in its plot — to haunt you long after the curtain comes down. The Crook Theater Company’s adaptation of “Macbeth” puts a horror-genre stamp on the proceedings, along with some gender-bending casting. Set in a “bleak future full of violence and betrayal,” demons and zombies also figure into the brew.

Through Nov. 4 (Mon., Wed.-Fri. at 8pm; Sat. at 2pm/8pm; Sun. at 2pm). At Access Theater (380 Broadway, at White St.). For tickets ($18), call 800-838-3006 or visit macbeth.brownpapertickets.com. Also visit thecrooktheatercompany.com.

GREENWICH HOUSE POTTERY PRESENTS: LINDA SORMIN’S “MY VOICE CHANGES WHEN I SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE” Photo by Brittanie Bond

Lady Macbeth works the bloody dagger look.

Actors fear to speak aloud the title of this dark Shakespeare effort — and for good

“This immigrant lives in fear of waste,” says Linda Sormin of her personal habits.

“Nothing is thrown away. Old yogurt is used to jumpstart the new batch,” she notes, contextualizing her own thrift as a means to understand what role repurposing plays in her

art. “What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?”

In her first NYC solo exhibition, Bangkokborn Sormin (who immigrated to Canada at the age of five) uses a site-specific installation to explore themes of fragility, aggression, mobility and survival. “My Voice Changes When I Speak Your Language” fills the gallery space of Greenwich House Pottery by “embroidering raw clay through objects she has found and re-purposed.” In their second life, these fused objects are used to enact stories of Sormin’s Batak Indonesian past and experiences as an immigrant moving between cultures.

Through Nov. 21 (opening reception, Fri., Oct. 26, 6-8pm). Free. At The Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery (16 Jones St., btw. Bleecker & W. Fourth Sts.).

Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-4pm or by appointment. For info, visit greenwichhouse. org. Also visit lindasormin.com.

WALKING TOUR: “HEROINES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE” Learn about, and celebrate, the lives of nine women who brought social, political

and artistic change to the Lower East Side in the early 20th century. Historian and preservationist Joyce Mendelsohn (author of “The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited”) leads the inaugural edition of this two-hour walking tour. Highlights include a stop at the Henry Street Settlement — where you’ll hear about Settlement founder Lillian D. Wald (who also founded the Visiting Nurse Service of New York). Additionally scheduled: deep background on the life of anarchist and selfstyled revolutionary Emma Goldman — a writer and public speaker whose positions on workers' rights, free speech, birth control and atheism got her deported to Russia in 1917. The tour concludes with a visit to the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy's Kling & Niman Family Visitor Center, to view a special photography exhibit.

Sun., Nov. 11, 10:45am-12:45pm. Meet at Straus Square (corner of E. Broadway, Essex & Canal Sts.). The tour is a fundraising event for the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Tickets are $36. For a contribution of $54, participants will receive tour admission and a signed copy of Joyce Mendelsohn's book (“The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited”). For $100, receive both of the above and two free passes to any other LESJC public tour. Participants must pre-register and pre-pay by Thurs., Nov. 8, at nycjewishtours.org . For more info, call 212-374-4100.

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Foxhole atheist Asner on Lou Grant, Joe Papp and ‘Moore’ Continued from page 26 “Jimmy…Jimmy” — the late James Ray as the king.

What now lured you back to Broadway?

“The two producers, Paula Wagner and Debbie Bisno, who sent me a script and asked if I’d be interested in playing Karl. I thought it a very interesting role, a challenge, this exterminator and atheist who’s confronting that born again couple.”

How’s your Germanic English?

“Vot you vont to know?” said Asner.

Followed, straight-faced, by: “They couldn’t get Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

Had Asner known playwright Craig Wright?

“I do now. And I loved ‘Six Feet Under,’ ” a television series written by Wright.

Do we see any symbolism in Karl the atheist as an exterminator?

“I think it’s a wry twist.”

So’s the title, wouldn't you say?

“Well, everyone in the play is seeking a state of grace. Have you noticed the graphics for the show, the posters out there? The ‘A’ in “Grace” is tipped and falling, upside down.

Karl seeks his own grace for what he had to do as a teenager during the war” — betray to the rapacious Storm Troopers — and worse — his teenage hidden Jewish girlfriend.

Asner has actually been, more recently, on the living stage, solo — though not in New York — as his hero (and mine), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Been doing it for three years, and will do it again after this show” has run its course.

“No speaker that we’ve got now can approximate FDR. Obama? A cold fish. But I don’t want to cost him votes.” Measured pause. “Besides, he might send a drone after me.”

Oh yes, Asner will vote for Obama — again — but with something less than wild enthusiasm.

“Where is FDR today? He’s up in the mountains, on a horse, isn’t he? He's gonna come down, one of these days….”

Twice married, one and a half times divorced, seven times a grandfather, Asner is the father of three middle-aged offspring: Michael, director of a California autism clinic; Kate, “who is working toward her internship in psychiatry, and who could still be an actress” and Liza, “my assistant.”

Do you have a lady now?

“I have some.” Pause. “I see my ex-es” — Nancy Sykes and Cindy Gilmore — “quite a lot.”

Thank you, Mr. Grant. Thank you, Mary Tyler Moore. Thank you, Karl. Let’s all say grace.

Photo by Joan Marcus

Couch trip: Asner’s caustic exterminator lords over a triangle.

Welcome to their ‘Nightmare’ Continued from page 25 winding pathways by dispensing intimidating four-letter word motivation. The sadistic power trip they’re on doesn’t allow for social niceties. In fact, they seem to get a rise from the gasps of shock that greet each new act of cruelty and coercion.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere about the joy mankind takes when embracing his dark impulses…but this is a trip to hell and back, not a philosophical discourse. So by the time we made our final exit, a boast in the “Killers” promo material had come to an uneasy rest in the pit of our stomachs: “You are likely to be too busy screaming and averting your eyes to get any real understanding of the people you are seeing or their crimes.”

Safely back in the lobby (but still buzzed from the experience), The Mind of Madness Gallery attempts to fill in some of those blanks with an exhibit featuring memorabilia and personal effects from notorious serial killers. Reading song lyrics written by Charles Manson isn’t likely to make any light bulbs go off regarding the nature of evil, but it’s more than enough to send you into the night with an extra jolt of discomfort.

Photo by Christopher Brielmaier

Balloon animal: John Wayne Gacy, prepped to pop the weasel.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1266537, has been applied for by Mario San Incorporated, to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 36 Ludlow Street, Store B, New York, NY 10002 for on-premises consumption.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/01/2012

3SHANTI LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/10/12. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 630 First Ave. 16S, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1265920 for wine and beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 29 E. 20th Street, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. Star Glory Inc. Vil: 10/25 - 11/01/2012

BENCH EQUITY LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/27/12. Office location: NewYork County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ronnie Ann Powell, Esq., Bressler, Amery & Ross, PC, 17 State St., NY, NY 10004. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by 229 Bleecker LLC d/b/a Terra to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 222 West Broadway aka 6 Varick Street New York NY 10007.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, no. 1265237 has been applied for by EBFRU LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at a Bar/Restaurant located at 15 Irving Pl, New York, NY 10003, for on-premises consumption.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1266617 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 254 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10001 for on-premises consumption. CG ALM LLC d/b/a L&W Oyster Co Vil: 10/25 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIBECA GLOBAL HOLDINGS, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 68 White Street New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 TRANSPARENCV, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/7/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mayer Rosenzweig 115 W 73rd St. Apt. 8A New York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TL 109TH STREET LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 178 East 109th Street, New York, NY 10029.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HPS BORDEN AVENUE LIHTC ASSOCIATES LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LUXURY LIVING OF NEW YORK, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Giuliano Iannaccone, Esq., Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, 1350 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CLARIS ADVISORS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Managing Member, Advisory Holdings, LLC, 1375 Broadway, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TD PRIVATE CLIENT WEALTH LLC Authority filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office Location: New York County. LLC formed in DE on 7/13/12. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to its DE address: CSC 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Certificate of Formation filed with DE Secretary of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: A MAN OF ALL SEASONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 288 West Street, Suite 3E, New York, NewYork 10013. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 QUALIFICATION OF HALCYON ALST BLOCKER LLC Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/12. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/19/11. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809.

DE address of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ETF SERVICE PROVIDER, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 7/27/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the TX address of LLC: 300 Crescent Court, Ste. 650, Dallas, TX 75201. Arts. of Org. filed with TX Secy. of State, 13679, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 28 WEST 12TH STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom proc ess against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 34 W. 12th St., NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS (E&P) GCIP, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/1/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 9/26/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FRED MAROLDA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/18/2012.

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:Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, 900Third Ave., NY, NY 10022.

Term: until 9/1/2057. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 ELI HALILI JEWELRY AND DESIGN LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/21/12. 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, 250 Mott St., NY, NY 10012. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 JHRUN LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/10/2012.

Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 E. 86th St., #523, NY, NY 10028, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 778 MAIN, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/2012.

Office Location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process c/o Mikael J. Levey, 472 Broome Street, Apt. 3, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KAEH REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kathryn Avers Haas, 1012 Bryn Mawr Ave., Penn Valley, PA 19072. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JGC FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/12. 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 Judith Goffman Cutler, 18 E. 77th St., NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GJJH LIGHTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/10/12. 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 Krusch & Modell, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste. 710, NY, NY 10020-1903. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ORION KING LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/06/2012. 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: Orion King LLC, 300 East 56th St., #27D, New York, NY 10022.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AC 332 W 84 COMPANY, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/9/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BSTV, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/11. Princ. office of LLC: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. 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. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: Incorporating Services, LTD, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 386 PAS OWNER LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/13/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o William Macklowe Company, 126 E. 56th St., NY, NY 10022, Attn: William Macklowe. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BERKLEY PUBLIC ENTITY MANAGERS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 S. 17th St., Ste. 1450, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

LLC formed in DE on 3/29/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF IC 1411 BROADWAY MANAGER LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 9/12/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. 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: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 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 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 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 100162555. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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 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 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.:NewYork 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/oTrident Media Group, LLC, 41 Madison Ave., 36th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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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 NewYork (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.

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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.

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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 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 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: NewYork 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 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., NewYork, 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 12207-2543. 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 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.

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’Net rebel sues over .nyc, .sex and wants damages

PUBLIC NOTICE S

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PUBLIC NOTICE S PROBATE CITATION FILE NO. 4449-11/B CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT

rize some of these TLDs, which would violate name.space’s trademark rights.

The suit seeks “injunctive relief” and unspecified damages for “ICANN’s wrongdoing…in an amount to be proven at trial,” adding, “Plaintiff name.space, Inc. hereby demands a trial by jury.”

Garrin has said that if name.space got the right to use .nyc and its scores of other TLDs on the main Root, the company would use part of the profits from its sale of domain names (Web page addresses) for a significant social mission. This could include, Garrin has said, putting laptop computers in all public schools, as well as buying back the former CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center, the old P.S. 64, on E. Ninth St. and Avenue B, in order to restore it as a community center.

Within the past few months, Garrin has received some support from local politicians, calling for an investigation of name.space’s stalled application, plus specifically the .nyc ownership issue — this in light of the fact that the city is now moving ahead in trying to purchase this TLD from ICANN. On July 27, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney wrote to the federal National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Garrin’s behalf.

“I would like to understand why ICANN never acted on [name.space’s] original application [for the 118 TLDs in 2000] and why so much time has been allowed to elapse without any action being taken,” Maloney wrote. “It

SCOOPY’S

TO: The Carter Burden Center for the Aging, Inc., Attorney General of the State of New York, Rita Wunderlin, if living, and if dead, to her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown, 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

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and distributees of William Winskie, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by Ethel J. Griffin, the Public Administrator of the County of NewYork, with offices located at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, 10007, seeking letters of administration c.t.a. in the estate of William Winskie.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITEDTO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, NewYork County at Room 503, 31 Chambers Street, New York, on December 4, 2012 at 9:30 a.m., in Room 503, why a decree should not be made in the estate of William Winskie lately domiciled at 306 E. 83rd Street, New York, New York 10028, admitting to probate as a will of real and personal property the paper writing dated August 4, 2010 (copy attached) and ordering that letters of administration c.t.a. issue to the Public Administrator of New York County.

Dated, Attested and Sealed October 2, 2012.

(L.S.) HON. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate, New York County.

Diana Sanabria, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court.

Name of Attorney: Schram & Graber, P.C. Address of Attorney: 350 Broadway – Suite 515, New York, N.Y. 10013, (212) 896-3310.

This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested.

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“The World’s Foremost Authority,” as communications director. (When we spoke to him Monday night, Credico said he was going up to see his friend Corey later to watch the GiantsCardinals game with him, though the Professor is a bit laid-up right now — no, not getting laid, as Corey might joke.) And, oh yeah, Bianca would be Parks commissioner.

ROGUE-RIDING RAGE: Jack Brown of the Coalition Against Rogue Riding has seen some bad collisions between cyclists and pedestrians in his day — and he was previously injured in one — but an accident that he claimed he witnessed the tail end of on Sat., Oct. 13, left him livid. Brown said he arrived at the scene at Fourth St. and Avenue A around 7 p.m. to see a pool of blood on the street. Brown tells us that, according to a witness, two middle-aged people were struck by a “rogue delivery cyclist.” “The bloody double smackdown occurred when the cyclist

seems to me that this would not be fair to require Mr. Garrin to refile when he had no control over ICANN’s processing of his application.

Please review Mr. Garrin’s concerns and advise me as to your conclusions.”

Similarly on July 10, Councilmember Rosie Mendez wrote to the commissioner of the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to question New York City’s contracting with Neustar to apply for, operate, administer, manage, maintain and market the prospective TLD .nyc.

“Mr. Garrin’s basic contention is that the contract between DoITT and Neustar conflicts with name.space’s prior rights to the .nyc domain,” Mendez wrote. “The facts — as presented to me by Mr. Garrin — are compelling and certainly bear out the need for a clear investigation and response from DoITT.” On July 20, DoITT’s commissioner wrote back to Mendez, saying, “On April 6, 2012, DoITT submitted a proposed contract with Neustar to the [New York City] Comptroller for registration. That contract has been registered and, pursuant to it, an application to operate a .nyc TLD has been submitted to ICANN. Name.space operates in an area of the Internet that is known as an ‘alternate root zone’ without accreditation or oversight. U.S. courts have held that operating in an alternate root zone does not give the operator any rights to a particular name space or TLD.” Garrin said his suit has resulted in an injunction against everyone else’s current applications to ICANN to try to get any of name.space’s 118 TLDs, including Google and Amazon.

bearing the ID Five Points Restaurant ran a red light,” Brown wrote in an e-mail. “The couple, possibly Italian tourists, were crossing with the light. Initially the woman was struck and, according to an eyewitness, fell and hit her head. There was a visible lump that formed. The cyclist attempted to flee and her companion held the bike. The rogue rider then dragged the man, who suffered head trauma, resulting in a substantial loss of blood, which pooled in the middle of the intersection. The rogue deliveryman rode off into the night. He was Caucasian. No helmet. Semi-bald with a shag at the back. The F.D.N.Y. came. The woman was standing while her companion was placed on a stretcher and loaded into the ambulance. The N.Y.P.D. arrived about 7:20 p.m.” Brown called ineffective new regulations the City Council approved — coincidentally just a day before the E. Fourth St. accident — that would require bicycle deliverypersons to wear proper identification and take “training” classes. “The maximum fines for violations will be $250,” Brown said. “Five Points is upscale. The delivery agent might have been carrying $250 worth of dinner.

This administration has succeeded in turning the East Village into a party spot. It would seem that part of the bargain in attracting discretionary income would be creating an environment with public safety.”

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Like a Midler 2.0, vamping from tender to outrageous

BY BOB KRASNER Bridget Everett has a secret identity. The wild, half-naked chanteuse onstage at Joe’s Pub chugging Chardonnay and singing, “I’ve got the pussy, I’ve got the power!” is, in real life, Bridget Everett. Although her onstage persona, which Everett refers to as “a superhero version of myself,” is brassy and large in every way, she’s still a slightly wide-eyed girl who followed the yellow brick road from Manhattan, Kansas, to Downtown Manhattan 15 years ago. It was here that she discovered a scene that was like none other.

“Nowhere else has the diversity of performers that the East Village has,” she said.

Seeing performers like Murray Hill and the drag queen Sweetie opened her eyes to new possibilities.

“I always wanted to be a singer but I didn’t know how,” she said. “They showed me that I could tell my own story and there would be an audience for it. That’s what I’ve been doing ever since.”

Her first show, “At Least It’s Pink,” a collaboration with Kiki and Herb’s Kenny Mellman, was followed by “Our Hit Parade” (also with Mellman and a revolving roster of special guests) and “Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments” (with her band, which includes Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz).

Her onstage antics include pressing her ample breasts into a patron’s face, eating off a customer’s plate and stripping a young hunk so that she can sit on him while singing, but these are not the only reasons why

Photo by Bob Krasner

Bridget Everett performing at Joe’s Pub.

Joe’s Pub is full for every show. The fact is that the outrageous woman climbing atop the piano has heart, soul, a great voice and a growing catalog of original tunes.

Friend and collaborator Justin Vivian Bond said of her, “Bridget’s outrageousness is so explosive that it sometimes obscures the fact that she’s tremendously talented.

She’s a fantastic singer. As a comedian her timing is impeccable and as a human being she is seemingly fearless.”

Though her tales of a dysfunctional childhood, adolescence and adulthood provide

much of the comedy, listening to her duet with her pianist on “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” is somewhat transcendent. Equally affecting is “Endless Road,” the song she wrote for her late sister, which deals with grief, guilt, love and the hope that time will heal the pain of loss.

“My family used humor to get through every situation,” she explained. “Of the six kids, I wasn’t the funniest, but I had the best voice.” Her stories, one of which notably involves her brother and a hot dog, are at

least “based on the truth.”

“I take experiences from my own life and turn them into a monologue,” she said. “I don’t rehearse a whole lot. I spend a lot of time in my bathtub coming up with ideas.”

One is tempted to describe her as a modern Bette Midler, but the Divine Miss M never opened a show in a see-through chemise belting out a number called “We’re Gonna Fuck Some Shit Up.” Regular fans have lately found themselves having to move over to accommodate celebrity patrons such as Ben Stiller, Lili Taylor, Kathy Najimy and Patti LuPone.

LuPone, who has joined Everett onstage, told us, “Bridget has a great voice and guts. I am in awe of her.” No less a fan is Bridget’s mother (“a wickedly funny, lifelong Republican school teacher”), who finally, to Everett’s trepidation, saw her daughter perform.

“Bridget,” she told her after the show, “that was freedom in motion.”

Taking a minute to ponder where she’s going, the 40-year-old performer said, “I feel like I’ve hit my stride and the world is slowly getting ready for me. I’ve waited a long time for people to understand me as performer.”

It seems that her time has come.

Everett’s upcoming shows at Joe’s Pub, at 425 Lafayette St., include “Our Hit Parade,” starring Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn, on Oct. 24, at 9:30 p.m.; and “Bridget Everett and the Tender Moments,” on Nov. 7, at 9:30 p.m.

D.A. is M.I.A. on pledge to probe fatal accidents SPIN CITY

BY KEEGAN STEPHAN AND CHARLES KOMANOFF Sixties relic or not, speaking truth to power remains critical to democracy. Nowadays, though, elected officials and corporate bosses hide behind gates, goons and guns.

Dissenters are shunted into cordons sanitaires. The unfettered, unmediated dialogue necessary for a free society is reduced to dueling slogans and kabuki protests.

The veil lifted, for a few moments anyway, in Lower Manhattan earlier this month, when Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spoke at New York Law School’s “City Law” breakfast series. The cover of the Oct. 25 New York Review of Books depicts Vance alongside Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly under a headline, “The Problem Of The New York Police.” And indeed, as a member of the triumvirate that dispenses law enforcement and criminal justice in New York County, Vance has much to account for.

The D.A.’s talk at the law school was a dutiful recitation of triumphs, such as smashing Iranian money-laundering rings. Vance left unspoken not only the stop-andfrisk debacle that recently led the Bronx County D.A. to cease prosecuting most stop-and-frisk arrests, but also Vance’s complicity in two other ongoing New York Police Department scandals: the department’s whitewashing of traffic crimes against pedestrians and cyclists, and its intimidation, sometimes brutal, of peaceful dissent. That

was left to this column’s co-writers in the Q&A. Charles Komanoff led off by reminding Vance of the D.A.’s 2009 campaign promise to seize vehicles’ “black boxes” to get data that could assign culpability and assist in diagnosing lethal crashes. Komanoff then brought up the two-car collision last month at 59th St. and Park Ave. that killed a pedestrian, Rubin Baum, and asked Vance if his office had subpoenaed the cars’ black boxes. Vance replied that he didn’t know, and added that procuring black box data is “complicated.”

Complicated? As if global financial shenanigans are simple? Vance’s answer suggests that in his nearly three years as D.A., after a hundred or more traffic fatalities in his New York County jurisdiction, he hasn’t even tried to look under the hood. The Baum case, in which one car T-boned another, launching it onto the sidewalk and into the 80-year-old Korean War veteran and decorated medic, cries out for forensic analysis. By his inaction, Vance, effectively lip-synched the N.Y.P.D. line in most such fatalities: “No criminality suspected.” Subtext: Get over it.

The D.A. also bemoaned the limited resources of his and other prosecutorial staffs, which set the stage for Keegan Stephan’s question. Stephan charged that Vance has been silently complicit in the suppression of peaceful protests through hundreds of unlawful arrests at public demonstrations, such as those organized by Occupy Wall Street. These arrests have cost the D.A.’s office countless hours and money, since each case routinely comes before a judge several times, with diminished charges each time, before being dismissed for lack of evidence.

Stephan asked why the D.A. had not instructed the N.Y.P.D. to stop flooding his office with these dubious cases, especially considering Vance's argument that his resources are so sparse he cannot investigate deadly traffic crashes.

D.A. Vance admitted that these cases had cost his office valuable time — more than 1,200 O.W.S. cases alone, he stated with an apparent air of insolence toward the protesters rather than the N.Y.P.D. Vance contended that he can only prosecute cases that are brought before him, and that if some cases were rightfully dismissed for insufficient evidence, then his office had done its job. It was not his job, he insisted, to criticize the N.Y.P.D. Investigating the N.Y.P.D.’s recurring, almost routine arrests of civil demonstrators, and prosecuting the department if those arrests are rooted in policy, would both restore essential civil rights and free up resources to target serious crime.

At the New York Law School forum, the calls to prosecute traffic crime aggressively and to prevent police abuse of protesters came through loud and clear.

We need more forums like this — and more citizens willing to respectfully but vigorously remind officials of their obligation to protect the citizenry from true harm.

Stephan is a member of Time’s Up!, an environmental and cycling organization.

Komanoff is author of the booklet “Killed By Automobile,” and was recently dubbed a “street safety stalwart” by Streetsblog.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 22

God’s Love plan unpalatable To The Editor: Re “Double the Love: Nonprofit meals provider to grow� (news article, Oct. 18): I was stunned to see The Villager headline this as “Double the Love.�

Why not call it “Double the Losses� — or “Double the End Run� — around the laws that require public community spaces to be a concession to the community, in exchange for the light that this development will steal from all of us who live on Sullivan St. overlooking Sixth Ave. The way in which this is organized — giving roof garden rights only to the new residents of the 14-story-luxury building — is an abomination. It skirts the intent of the law, and adds another luxury amenity for those who could easily afford to develop their own roof garden.

I have to admit that it is brilliant — and cynical — of this developer to partner with God’s Love We Deliver to try to ram through this development. It seems that even The Villager has bought into the sham — a luxury development dressed up as an organic garden serving disabled people and their families. Shame.

Micki McGee

Enormous, not contextual To The Editor: Re “Double the Love: Nonprofit meals provider to grow� (news article, Oct. 18): As an artist who has lived directly across the street from this proposed project since 1975, I am trying to balance my own personal misgivings at the prospect of losing light, privacy and a view of the Empire State Building, from what I see as an enormous, aggressive new gateway to the neighborhood that is totally oppositional to any of the existing architecture.

This building will only have a small section of so-called “church stone.� It will clearly be composed of shiny aluminum cladding and glass. Furthermore, Spring St. is not the wide-open boulevard depicted in the rendering, and this new building will completely overpower our narrow and twisting street corner.

The neighborhood is composed almost entirely of traditional masonry buildings, and there is nothing remotely like this new proposal. I believe this design can be characterized as an invitation to developers far and near to run rampant over the historic character of our neighborhood. It seems like it would fit in better in South Beach or the Hamptons.

If great European cities can preserve an

old section, why can we not recognize this area as an Old New York, and preserve the heritage, beauty and scale that drew us to it in the first place?

I urge Mr. Kors and the good people at God’s Love We Deliver to go back to the drawing board, and come up with a new design that recognizes the site’s historical context and acknowledges that a great charity take into account the human dignity — reflected in the old factory and tenement buildings constructed by our immigrant grandparents — rather than fashion trends furthered by secret deals for air rights.

Harry Pincus

Makes corner much safer To The Editor: Re “Pedestrian pebble-ization� (photos, Oct. 18): This is a vast improvement on a corner that has long been ripe for being the next tragedy.

There will still be drivers who will try to make a left turn from the middle lane. But technically eliminating that second, impatient, left turn by “in a hurry� right-lane cars will make a difference.

The pressure will now be on the lead car in the left-turn lane to get moving (“What am I supposed to do, hit the pedestrian?�) so Bleecker Street Pizza visitors get ready for more horn honking.

Over all, notch one in the win column for the Department of Transportation on this one. No more cars forced into the leather store window. Up until now we’ve only been lucky.

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