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Triangle park talk sinks to new level: Use of basement BY ALBERT AMATEAU The focus of attention shifted beneath the surface last week at a hearing on the proposed new triangle park on the west side of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus. The existing triangle, bounded by Seventh and Greenwich Aves. and W. 12th St., includes an inaccessible green space several feet above sidewalk level, with a 10,000-square-foot basement beneath it that
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‘It’s getting to the point...’ Tuesday, rock legends David Crosby, above, and Graham Nash performed at Zuccotti Park. They did two songs, including “Teach Your Children,” at Occupy Wall Street, which some have dubbed a “political Woodstock.”
Huge deficit puts Cooper Union in existential crisis BY AIDAN GARDINER In a meeting Monday night with the broader Cooper Union community, Mark Epstein, the chairperson of the school’s board of trustees, said that although no final decision has been made, lackluster fundraising and the economic downturn that began in 2008 may push the school to reverse its century-old practice and start charging students tuition. Then a young man in the back of the Cooper Union Great Hall stood up. “The entire student body is going to walk out if that happens,” he said. The hall erupted in applause. At several other points throughout the
meeting, students booed and hissed the trustee chairperson. But the young man’s remark was the most direct reference that night to the internal conflict that may lie ahead for the college. Cooper Union is in the middle of an existential crisis. School officials are weighing a financial decision that could dramatically transform the college’s culture. Alumni, faculty and students are still struggling to understand the recent deficit revelations while fighting to preserve what they love about their school. On Oct. 31, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both reported that Cooper Union was run-
ning a $16.5 million budget deficit and that officials were now seriously considering charging tuition as a way to generate enough revenue to cover increasing costs. Up till then, most in the Cooper community believed the school to be on solid ground, and were shocked to hear otherwise. It remains unclear why this information wasn’t known for so long. When asked at the Monday meeting, Epstein did little to explain this and simply said that the information had been publicly available through the tax forms filed with the state’s attorney
formerly served the nowshuttered hospital. Several neighborhood advocates at the Nov. 2 joint meeting of Community Board 2’s St. Vincent’s Omnibus and Parks Committees urged that the basement space be saved as part of the proposed park. The board, however, has been calling for an accessible public park at sidewalk level on the triangle for 30
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Mic check! Real mic being used at new meetings of O.W.S. BY ALINE REYNOLDS As Occupy Wall Street enters its eighth week, members of the movement who continue to camp out in Zuccotti Park are testing out a new way to come together and make decisions. O.W.S.’s new, consensus-based model, dubbed “Operational Spokes Council,” is meant to address the logistical needs of the park’s inhabitants that members say are being neglected by their nightly
General Assembly meetings. The Spokes Council, intended to be “nonhierarchical” and “directly democratic,” is supposed to facilitate discussions solely among “operational” working groups, or groups directly involved with the occupation at Zuccotti Park, according to a written proposal of the model posted on O.W.S.’s G.A. Web site. A talking point of several
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B.P. helps engineer deal between Cooper and store BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Borough President Scott Stringer helped author an agreement between The Cooper Union and its tenant St. Mark’s Bookshop in which the school will cut the cash-strapped store’s rent by $2,500 per month for a year and also forgive a $7,500 prior loan it gave it. The deal was announced last Thursday at a press conference with Stringer; Jamshed Bharucha, Cooper Union’s new president; store co-owners Bob Contant and Terry McCoy; and Cooper Square Committee members. Saying they needed a rent break to weather a changing book business and brutal economy, Contant and McCoy had requested a $5,000 monthly reduction from their current $20,000 rent. Cooper — announcing it was facing its own financial struggles — recently offered to defer one month’s rent and let the store pay it off over time. But the pact brokered by Stringer went farther. “I am pleased that I helped engineer an agreement between Cooper Union and St. Mark’s Bookshop that will allow this treasured community resource to remain open,” Stringer said. “I congratulate both sides for agreeing to new terms — and I also want to salute the small businesses, independent bookstores, artists and activists that have traditionally made the East Village so special.”
Bharucha said, “Both The Cooper Union and St. Mark’s Bookshop reflect the independent and tenacious spirit of
‘Our bookstore and Cooper Union are both vital to the intellectual life of our community and we look forward to working together in ways that will benefit us both.’ Bob Contant and Terry McCoy
the East Village. Despite our constraints, we felt it was important to help them because of what their presence means to our community.” He added, “The best way to ensure the longevity of St. Mark’s Bookshop is for the thousands of people who signed peti-
tions to buy more of its books.” Contant and McCoy said, “We are sincerely appreciative of the rent concessions Cooper Union has granted us. Our bookstore and Cooper Union are both vital to the intellectual life of our community and we look forward to working together in ways that will benefit us both.” Added state Senator Dan Squadron, “This rent reduction doesn’t just save a bookshop — it saves an East Village institution. The outpouring of support for St. Mark’s is a testament to its place in our community.” Assemblymember Deborah Glick remarked, “I am extremely pleased that the coordinated efforts of passionate local residents, elected officials and Cooper Union have enabled St. Mark’s Bookshop to keep its doors open. The overwhelming support that St. Mark’s Bookshop has received from the community is a testament to the importance of local businesses and we are thrilled that this one could be saved.” East Village Councilmember Rosie Mendez said, “Our voices were heard and St. Mark’s Bookshop was saved. I want to thank Cooper Union for coming to the table and negotiating a deal that allows our community to keep one of our unique neighborhood institutions open for business.” Joyce Ravitz, chairperson of the Cooper
Square Committee, also read a statement. The committee has fought for East Village and Lower East Side tenants and small businesses for 52 years. It was the idea of Frances Goldin, a founder of the committee who runs a literary agency, to start a petition for the bookstore. Said Ravitz, “We want to thank our 44,068 petition signers, without whom we would not be here today. The Cooper Square Committee doesn’t want to see the Lower East Side become a bland, corporate mall stuffed with chain stores, where only the rich can live. We will continue to work to preserve the Lower East Side as an area where the 99 percent can work and live full lives in a neighborhood that continues to have its own character.” According to the committee, Cooper Union has also agreed to forgive back rent the store owes, so the total relief is $40,000. The committee will throw a victory celebration at St. Mark’s Bookshop — also marking the store’s 34th anniversary of serving the community — at the store, at the southeast corner of Third Ave. and Ninth St., on Tues., Nov. 29, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Goldin said she has an idea that could ensure the bookstore’s survival, though at a new spot. She’s looking into the possibility of having it move, after a year, into an East Village space owned by the Cooper Square Committee.
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NOTEBOOK ANOTHER ‘NO’ ON SOHO BID: Following our editorial in last week’s issue that the Soho BID is “not ready for prime time� — at least not yet —state Senator Dan Squadron, at a Soho/Tribeca/Financial District town hall meeting Monday night at Southbridge Towers, also came out against the embattled business improvement district plan. It was his first public comment to that effect. Questioned by Pete Davies and the assembled Soho contingent, the senator told the audience he cannot support the BID as currently construed. Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance, reported to us, “There’s a scoop. Davies is getting it in writing, but everyone heard him say it over the mic. That puts peer pressure on Chin.� Political opposition against the BID seems to be snowballing. Assemblymember Deborah Glick also recently withdrew her support from the initiative, issuing a press release announcing her decision. The key player, however, remains Councilmember Margaret Chin, since the proposed BID is in her district and it’s the City Council that would vote on whether to green-light it. On Tuesday, Squadron confirmed to us that he made the comments. “The community board spoke with a very clear voice,� Squadron said, referring to C.B. 2’s having voted overwhelmingly against the BID proposal. “I don’t always do what the board says, but it’s a very, very important form of community input. There were improvements made to the plan, but it’s clear that community support for the BID isn’t there.� Asked if he had any advice for Chin at this juncture, Squadron simply said that what he stated was his own opinion. He acknowledged that Chin, as the councilmember, “certainly, has a more significant role� in the process. Squadron will be hosting a town hall meeting for the Lower East Side/East Village/Chinatown part of his district on Tues., Nov. 15, at B.R.C., 30 Delancey St. in S.D.R. Park, between Forsyth and Chrystie Sts., from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. O.W.S. CELEB REPORT CARD: Activist John Penley said he feels for Russell Simmons, the mega-rich music mogul who keeps visiting Zuccotti Park three or four nights a week to mingle amid Occupy Wall Street. Penley said, various occupiers are usually “screaming stuff at him over his shoulder� whenever Simmons tries to schmooze with the occupiers. “It’s different people each time. He takes a lot of s---, but he’s good about it. He’ll sit there and debate with people.� Penley said a bling-bedecked Kanye West toured the park and took abuse for his gold jewelry. Also down at O.W.S., Aron Kay, the “Yippie Pie Man,� who hadn’t plastered anyone with a pie in sometime, got Geraldo — just with flour, though, since there were no pies handy — who wasn’t happy about it. Boxing promoter Don King recently walked around Zuccotti with an American flag, but Penley said a lot of celebs are just coming down for photo-ops. In
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his book, though, Simmons and Michael Moore, who keep returning to the encampment, are the two stars who are genuinely into O.W.S. ... Penley also said he’s trying to organize an O.W.S. event in Washington Square Park this Friday, Veterans Day, which would tie in with the Occupy Central Park action planned for the same day. AIDS MEMORIAL OR JUST A PARK? Community Board 2 will soon wrap up its review of plans for the openspace triangle near the former St. Vincent’s Hospital. On Wed., Nov. 16, the board’s Parks Committee will weigh in on the issue at its meeting at the Little Red School House at Sixth Ave. and Bleecker St. starting at 6 p.m.; at the meeting, the Queer History Alliance will make its formal presentation of its plan for an AIDS Memorial Park at the site. The next day, Thurs., Nov. 17, C.B. 2’s full board will vote on the Park Committee’s resolution at its meeting at P.S. 3 at Hudson and Christopher Sts. starting at 6 p.m. Although the determined Q.H.A. has built some strong support for an AIDS Memorial Park, they noticeably lack the endorsement of the area’s politicians, who seem to be sensitive to community residents who want a more traditional type of community park there and are concerned that a memorial could become a destination for tour buses and the like. Although C.B. 2 won’t be proposing any names for the park at this point, some people reportedly think “St. Vincent’s Hospital Park,� or a version of that, might be appropriate.
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Triangle park talk turns to idea of reusing basement Continued from page 1 years and the plea seemed close to being answered. Last week, Rudin Management presented its revised preliminary plans to build the park as part of its residential redevelopment of the hospital’s east campus and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System’s creation of a community health center and emergency room in the O’Toole Building on the west side of Seventh Ave. Rick Parisi, of MPFP landscape architects, told the Nov. 2 meeting that the City Planning Department has indicated it would approve a plan to remove the basement, allowing an accessible park at sidewalk level. Parisi also said City Planning indicated that the existing low-rise, materials-handling building on the triangle that used to serve the hospital could also be demolished. The removal of the basement and the materials-handling building would allow a 16,000-square-foot park with 7,400 square feet of plantings covering virtually the entire triangle. An earlier plan with the materialshandling building in place would result in a park half the size. The plans presented on Nov. 2 did not include the basement as part of the park. But people in attendance, including members of the Queen History Alliance who are advocating for an AIDS memorial in the triangle,
A rendering of Rudin Management’s design for a park at the open-space triangle at Greenwich and Seventh Aves. and W. 12th St. The view is of an entrance that would be at the park’s southern corner.
said the 10,000-square-foot underground space was a potential community resource that should not be destroyed. Michael Seltzer, a Baruch College professor and a member of the alliance, said the triangle was the right place for a tribute to St. Vincent’s pioneering response to the AIDS health crisis. “Our intent is to create a fitting tribute to the indomitable spirit of our neighbors,”
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Seltzer said later. He said that Sister Patrice of St. Vincent’s, who ran the first bereavement groups for people who lost loved ones to AIDS, should be among those honored. Reverend Mead Miner Bailey, a founder of the country’s first congregate residence for people living with AIDS/H.I.V. — Bailey House on Christopher St. — should also have a tribute in the triangle, he said.
Christopher Tepper, a founder of the Queer History Alliance, urged Rudin Management, which has agreed to pay for building and maintaining the triangle park, to ‘keep an open mind’ about including the basement in the park design. Seltzer added that Reverend John Dyson Canon, priest at St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church from 1975 to 1987, should also be honored in the triangle park, along with the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug for her fearless neighborhood advocacy. Christopher Tepper, a founder of the Queer History Alliance, urged Rudin, which has agreed to pay for building and maintaining the triangle park, to “keep an open mind” about including the basement in the park design. Community board member Steve Ashkenazi was also concerned about pre-
serving the basement under the triangle. “To destroy that underground space makes no sense,” Ashkenazi said, citing the shortage of meeting places in the district. Robert Woodworth, operations manager of the L.G.B.T. Community Center on W. 13th St., said that 10,000 square feet of usable space should be preserved for the public as a teaching center. Gil Horowitz, of the Washington SquareLower Fifth Ave. Block Association, and Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, called on Rudin and MPFP to determine the cost and feasibility of a triangle park with a basement. But Kenneth Winslow, a Bank St. resident, presented a petition signed by scores of neighbors reaffirming the desire for a triangle park at sidewalk level, which would not be likely if the basement is preserved. Jo Hamilton, C.B. 2 chairperson, said she was concerned that the park be visible from the outside. Visibility was one of the main reasons the board has been calling for the park to be at sidewalk level. Albert Bennett, a public member of the board’s Parks Committee, was concerned that the roots of shade trees planned for the triangle park would not have room to grow if the basement remains. Tobi Bergman, chairperson of the C.B. 2 Parks Committee, reminded the audience that the Queer History Alliance was scheduled to present an alternative plan for preserving the underground space at Board 2’s Parks Committee meeting on Wed., Nov. 16. Nevertheless, the proposal for a sidewalklevel park was the only one being considered last week. The triangle park is to be part of the uniform land use review procedure, or ULURP, for Rudin’s residential redevelopment of the former St. Vincent’s property on Seventh Ave.’s east side. The entire project, including the park and how it would be maintained and administered, must win the approval of the City Council at the end of the ninemonth review procedure. Although Board 2 has called for the triangle to become a city Parks Department property, Melanie Meyers, Rudin’s land-use lawyer, said the developer would be responsible for the construction and maintenance of the park in perpetuity. In the future, the residential condo owners in the new Rudin project would fund the park’s maintenance, according to Meyers. Meyers said each condo owner would be required to agree to pay for the park’s maintenance and the city would have the power to enforce the maintenance agreement. The city Parks Department standard of maintenance would be the standard for the triangle park, Meyers said. She suggested that a Triangle Park Alliance — representing local elected officials, the community board, neighborhood park advocates and representatives of the condo owners — could be designated as responsible for the park. The entity would be included as part of the review for the residential project, she added.
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Mic check! replaced by actual mic at O.W.S. meetings Continued from page 1 recent O.W.S. meetings, the model was initially proposed in mid-October, after the nightly G.A. became too large and diffused to meet day-to-day operational demands of the park. On Fri., Oct. 28, the Spokes Council was voted into implementation by the G.A. Gregory Schwedock, a member of O.W.S.’s alternate banking working group, compared the Zuccotti Park encampment to “a town that seems to be overflowing.” “The General Assembly is a great body, but it’s not conducive to getting logistics handled at the speed that they need to,” he said. The Spokes Council is poised to solve that problem by becoming “an extremely effective body to get work done,” according to Nicole Carty, a member of the structure and facilitation working groups. Carty stressed that the council is not a forum for discussion of the movement’s overall vision or ideals, which are handled by O.W.S.’s “movement” groups. “It only has to do with, ‘Who’s going to clean the park? Who’s going to make the tents?’ Things like that,” she said. According to the proposal, the Spokes Council will also address issues brought up by caucus groups, or groups of O.W.S. members that feel mutually marginalized with respect to race, gender, sexuality, age or ability. According to the proposal, Democratic movements dating back to the 1936 Spanish Revolution have benefited from the Spokes Council model to streamline insurgencies, as have more modern groups, including the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and ’80s, and the global justice movement of the ’90s and 2000s. “The reason why we did this is so we’re not micromanaging operational groups,” said Ryan Hoffman, who wrote O.W.S.’s initial declaration that spread to dozens of countries worldwide. The food working group, for example, shouldn’t have to report to the G.A. every time members seek to raise their budget; while the medical working group shouldn’t require G.A. approval to solicit additional funds. “It’s ridiculous,” said Hoffman. “This ‘100 percent consensus, everybody in a giant room’ approach, especially when you can’t use any microphones or P.A. systems or bullhorns, is becoming just patently absurd,” echoed Lucius Ringwald, a member of O.W.S.’s mental health and safety working groups. “We need to actually have some level of delegation, some level of people being identified as point person, with the consent of those they’re representing,” Ringwald said. About 150 O.W.S. members convened for a Spokes Council orientation meeting last Fri., Nov. 4, in the public atrium of 60 Wall St. to brainstorm ideas for discussion topics for future Spokes Council meetings. Carty and a couple other lead working group members ran the meeting. Demonstrators spouted ideas that they believe warrant ongoing dialogue, such as the use of park space, Internet access, safety, supplies and food.
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Nicole Carty addressed O.W.S. members at a Spokes Council orientation meeting on Nov. 4. Amplified sound — a microphone — will be used at the meetings, as opposed to the call-and-response, shout-out style of the group’s General Assemblies.
Next came the “mock proposals” session, when participants jokingly proposed to abandon Zuccotti Park for an indoor space, and spoke sardonically about Mayor Bloomberg supplying sleeping bags tagged with the message, “Corporations Are People” to the occupiers. Spokes Councils are organizationally structured like the spokes of a wheel, in that each operational working group is supposed to select a “spoke,” or an individual that represents its wishes during Spokes Council meetings. While the “spokes” are the only individuals that are supposed to speak during the council meetings, they rotate, can be recalled by their group at any time and do not make decisions or voice opinions without consensus in their respective groups. Typically, spokes will bring forth proposals to the Spokes Council only if 90 percent of members within the respective working group or caucus support it. Working groups and caucuses may block or table proposals introduced at the council meetings if more than 50 percent of the groups stand aside — unlike in the G.A., where individuals can block proposals. “It’s called ‘modified consensus’ — we aim for consensus first, which is 100 percent,” explained Carty. While all decisions made by the Spokes Council will be discussed during the General Assembly meetings, they don’t require G.A. ratification, noted Carty. O.W.S. held its first official Spokes Council meeting Mon., Nov. 7, in the cafeteria of Murry Bergtraum High School, at 411 Pearl St., where an estimated 60 O.W.S. working groups requested to become a part of the council. Of these 60, about a dozen working groups were chosen. However, Carty and other representatives were only able to get through less than one-third of the proposals. “We literally had pieces of paper for each group to register, and we spent most of the time putting these groups in different stacks,” Carty said. Carty reported a handful of disruptive
moments during the meeting, such as when the Direct Democracy working group sought to disband the Spokes Council altogether. Direct Democracy members weren’t immediately available to comment. Hoffman attributed the contention that arose at Monday’s meeting to “growing pains.” “Everyone is nervous of the Spokes Council
being something resembling a power structure,” said Hoffman. “It’s just a sorting-out of the egos. Next time, it’ll be a lot easier.” Depending on the model’s success, the council might multiply into several councils. “It’s a tool for developing conversation,” Carty said. “Any group that feels like they’ve grown too big to have an easily facilitated meeting can have a Spokes Council.” Hoffman, however, cautioned that multiple Spokes Councils could create the same inefficiency problems the G.A. has been grappling with. “It would create sectarianism and overlap — and that’s exactly what the Spokes Council was created to prevent,” said Hoffman. Meanwhile, Carty and fellow structure and facilitation working group representatives were already planning the council’s Wed., Nov. 9, meeting in hopes that it would run smoothly. “We’re going to give five minutes for each group,” Carty noted. “If we can’t come to a consensus at the end of five minutes, we’ll drop them down to the next round.” At some point, Carty said, “We have to draw a line as to when we’re going to just start doing work.” Spokes Council meetings will be held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., at locations to be determined; the General Assemblies will continue to take place at Zuccotti Park on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, also at 7 p.m. For more information on both, visit the General Assembly Web site (nycga.net).
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L.E.S. school on the ropes after hit by ‘F’ grade BY ALINE REYNOLDS Lower East Side parents are desperately fighting to keep their local public school open now that it’s potentially on the chopping block after recently getting a failing performance grade from the Department of Education. P.S. 137, a K-to-5 school at 293 East Broadway, received an “F” grade in its 2010-’11 school year progress report — a significant drop from its “C” score in the 2009-’10 year and “A” score in 2008-’09. As a result, the school has been classified as “needing further examination and review” by the Department of Education due to its poor performance. A department-issued school evaluation will be released in December — after which, D.O.E. will announce which schools it will be closing, by phasing them out. P.S. 137 is the only public school in Manhattan south of 14th St. currently categorized as “struggling,” according to D.O.E. data. The department evaluates schools based on current and former enrollment trends, community needs, leadership and teacher performance, current and past test scores, and school environment, according to Frank Thomas, a D.O.E. spokesperson. “We are engaging the community, parents and elected officials as part of our work to find out what is working and what isn’t in these schools, and will take that all into account before making any decisions,” Thomas said. Nevertheless, P.S. 137’s parents and administrators fear the department’s evaluation could be the beginning of the end for the formerly “A”-rated school. “I’m upset. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be closed,” said Maria Diaz, the school’s Parent-Teacher Association president. A resident of the LaGuardia Houses, a nearby public housing development, she has three grandchildren in the school. Diaz has devised a contingency plan for her family — looking into other Lower East Side schools, such as P.S. 20 and The Earth School, as alternative options for her grandkids. “Like I told my daughter — if it’s going
Councilmember Margaret Chin, with mic, and P.S. 137 parents and students rallied on Oct. 25, hoping to keep the school open.
to be an issue, we have to prepare ourselves for what’s going to happen to their future,” Diaz said. A school staffer, who requested anonymity for fear of D.O.E. retaliation, faulted the department for not providing adequate support to the school during a difficult transition period. “To go from an ‘A’ to an ‘F’…you’d really have to be sitting around twirling your thumbs all day for that to happen,” she said. “That’s not the kind of school we are.” P.S. 137 was particularly vulnerable to poor student performance in the last year, according to the source — due in part to losing one-quarter of its 20-member staff, because of retirement and other attrition, midway through the 2009-’10 school year. Many of the educators were replaced by substitutes rather than full-time teach-
ers, according to sources. Retaining the teachers was “crucial” to the school’s success, according to the staffer. “When you have a substitute, they’re not mandated to follow the standards we have,” she explained. Instead, she said, the baseline standard becomes: “As long as the kids don’t kill themselves or each other, then we’re good.” Other factors led to the school’s recent performance downfall, according to the source, such as a budget shrinkage by $350,000 in recent years and the loss of the school’s after-school enrichment program, “Virtual Y.” Asked about the school’s recent slump, Diaz said she lays most of the blame on the state English Language Arts and math exams, which third-through-eighth graders are required to take each school year. The exam’s gradual switch of focus from multiple choice to written-answer questions has proven difficult for the elementary students, she said. Diaz’s own granddaughter, fifth grader Kathleen Perez, complained this year about math being especially grueling, and received a “3” score last year in her math and English exams — compared to a “4” score two years ago. (A “4” is considered excellent and a “3” somewhere near average.) “I’m not blaming the principal. I’m not blaming the students,” said Diaz. “These are hard tests for them, and they’re getting harder. They should make it more simple for them to understand.” Asked for comment about the exams’ level of difficultly, Matthew Mittenthal, a D.O.E. spokesperson, said the city department backs the state Department
of Education’s effort to make the exams more challenging — and, specifically, more geared toward honing students’ critical thinking skills. “It’s the only way we are going to prepare our kids for college-level work,” Mittenthal said. P.S. 137 Principal Michelle Rodriguez couldn’t be reached for comment by press time. In an Oct. 25 letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, Councilmember Margaret Chin expressed her support for P.S. 137, and attributed the school’s 2010-’11 failing performance grade to factors outside its control. “Recently, I have met with Principal Rodriguez, members of the P.T.A. and parent coordinators, as well as visited the school,” Chin wrote. “I do not believe the ‘F’ grade is an accurate representation of student achievement at P.S. 137. “Under no circumstances should P.S. 137 be considered for phase-out.” In 2006, the school was transferred from Cherry St. to its current building at East Broadway, which it shares with P.S. 134. Since then, the school has had difficulties “establishing an identity at its current location,” according to Chin. The two schools are forced to share classrooms, a library and even administrative office space. P.S. 137 doesn’t have its own entrance to the building, the councilmember noted. “The exterior of the building is inscribed with only the name of P.S. 134, despite requests by Principal Rodriguez for equal signage,” Chin noted. In fact, according to the anonymous staffer, P.S. 134 hasn’t been welcoming to P.S. 137, and is treating the new school as a “guest” rather than a “neighbor.” “They would be happy to roll out the red carpet for us to get out,” she said. In addition to having a sizeable minority and public housing demographic, P.S. 137 boasts an unusually high number of English Language Learners — 18 percent total, compared to an average of 13 percent in other similarly ranked city public schools. According to Chin and other school advocates, these students, whose native language isn’t English, are “under-weighted” in comparison to special-needs, freelunch and minority students — which, they contend, has a direct bearing on the school’s progress report. And, the staffer pointed out that, according to statewide policy, E.L.L. students are required to take the same exams as native-English-speaking children after only one year of being in a city public school. “Whatever language skills we build Monday through Friday get broken down on nights and weekends,” she said, since the students’ families speak to them in their native languages. School parents organized a rally on Tues., Oct. 25, to build support for the school. Another rally will be held in front of the school on Mon., Nov. 14.
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East Village’s Tanya Towers getting major overhaul BY ALBERT AMATEAU Elected officials joined city and federal housing agency executives last week to celebrate the beginning of a $4.4 million renovation of Tanya Towers in the East Village. The renovation of the apartment tower operated by F.E.G.S. Health and Human Services System at 620 E. 13th St. will include elevators, boilers, windows, concrete work and improvements to facilities that serve the 138 low-income residents, who are deaf, blind or have other disabilities. The renovation will also include upgrades of the Tanya Towers gardens and community spaces, as well as improvements to “green” the building and achieve LEED-sustainable energy certification. The major renovation project was funded, in part, by a $1 million capital grant from the City Council, sponsored by Councilmember Rosie Mendez, and a $500,000 grant from the office of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. An additional $2.9 million came through financing arranged through the New York City Housing Development Corporation. The Tanya Towers renovation is part of the Bloomberg administration’s New Housing Marketplace Plan to finance 165,000 affordable apartments for about 500,000 residents by the end of the 2014 fiscal year. “We all have a responsibility to create and preserve affordable housing in New York City, particularly housing that serves
our most vulnerable residents,” Mendez told the Nov. 3 gathering at the E. 13th St. building. “I am proud to have been able to secure city funding for this project — one that ensures the disabled, mentally ill, hardof-hearing and deaf communities have an enhanced quality of life and living environment,” Mendez said. “Tanya Towers represents the best of New York City, a place where our most vulnerable residents can live with access to support services and community,” Stringer said. “I am proud to have played a role in the funding of new renovations that will sustain the use of this building and reduce its carbon footprint for decades to come,” he added. “For decades, Tanya Towers has been a safe, stable and supportive home for people in need of special services and dedicated resources,” said Marc Jahr, president of the city Housing Development Corp. “We at H.D.C. are proud to be partner with F.E.G.S., the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Councilmember Mendez and Borough President Stringer in preserving this irreplaceable resource,” Jahr said. Named after the late Tanya Nash, who served as executive director of the New York Society for the Deaf for 35 years, the towers opened in 1973. In 2006, the society merged with F.E.G.S., which assumed responsibility for all its projects, including Tanya Towers. The building was organized as a city and federally supported Mitchell-
Tanya Towers’ courtyard is among the areas slated for upgrades under the renovation project.
Lama project. “I am delighted to be a partner in ensuring that this community has decent and safe housing for those most vulnerable in our society,” said Adolfo Carrion, regional administrator of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The UJA-Federation of New York, one of the original supporters of services for the deaf, is a partner in Tanya Towers. The New York State Office of Mental Heath and the State Office of People With Developmental Disabilities are also partners in the project.
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To fight crime, patrol must first defeat skepticism BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI BICCHIERAI The round blue and yellow stickers dot the lobby of many of the Riis Houses buildings in the East Village. The “T” and “P” interlaced in the center are meant to tell the world that this is a tenant-patrolled building. Except that it isn’t. The last tenant patrols in the building actually took place a full 10 years ago, in 2001. Now, the New York City Housing Authority is attempting to resuscitate the patrols. But at a Sept. 29 meeting organized by the authority to discuss the subject, only two residents showed up. “Tenant patrols are a dangerous proposition,” said Gilbert Alicea, a Riis Houses resident, explaining why he opposes a Resident Watch in the building. He said most of the potential volunteers would be retired, elderly people — easy prey for criminals. “It might work in another neighborhood but not here,” he said. “They have guns and sell crack here. It’s very dangerous.” Asked if he’d volunteer, he shook his head: “If I do it I’d be tagged as a snitch.” Besides, he said, “Nobody likes a civilian acting like a cop.” Carlos González, a longtime Riis resident, said he thinks the agency should put security guards in every building instead of expecting tenants to form patrols. “It’s like working for NYCHA without pay,” he said. But the two residents who attended the
meeting — Louise Velez, the unofficial captain of that particular building, and GourdineBarbosa, who lives in another Riis building — aren’t giving up. Gourdine-Barbosa said that before coming to Riis eight years ago, she lived in the Bay View Houses, where she was the development’s tenant patrol supervisor — the liaison between management and the volunteers, the one who organizes patrols and recruits volunteers. “It was beautiful,” she said, recalling those years at Bay View. “Tenants were happy to sit. We had a good time.” And crime, she said, dropped “considerably.” Lenore Tucker, who was the NYCHA tenant patrol coordinator when Gourdine-Barbosa was the supervisor at Bay View, explained that the program “was very active.” It was widespread all over the city, she said. “The program is volunteer driven, so there is no limit on the number of volunteers that can sit in a building,” NYCHA spokesperson Sheila Stainback said in an e-mail. To set up patrols, a minimum of two residents are needed; then NYCHA and the volunteers plan out a schedule. After three months of active patrols, the volunteers vote to elect a captain and a co-captain. Building captains are elected by the Resident Watch volunteers and have several duties, such as opening up the patrol on a nightly basis or preparing the lobby patrol’s schedule, according to Stainback. At that point, NYCHA provides equipment: four chairs, a table, a fan, a heater and a tele-
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Malina Gourdine-Barbosa has been trying to organize a Resident Watch at the Riis Houses.
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Manuel Pacheco, NYCHA’s field consultant for the Resident Watch program, said that he conducts random checks to make sure the patrols are up and running. As part of the program, all development supervisors receive training in “observation skills, terrorism awareness, first aid and gang awareness,” Stainback said. According to NYCHA’s Web site, the purpose of the Resident Watch program at Housing Authority complexes is to “enhance the safety and security of their communities.” Not everybody thinks this is a great idea, though. Salma Figueroa was a tenant patrol volunteer during the ’70s, but she’s not interested in repeating the experience. “I don’t think it will work,” she said, “I hope somebody will do something about our problems here but it’s very bad.” Despite the apparent opposition to the program, Stainback said NYCHA is currently looking for a Resident Watch supervisor at Riis. Even though she attends every lobby meeting, including the ones that are not for her building, Gourdine-Barbosa knows it’s not going to be easy to reach her goal. “People won’t help fight with me,” she said. But she’s not going to surrender either. “I wanna fight for this building,” she said.
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A fire watcher on the city’s second iron fire tower at Varick and Spring Sts. scanning the horizon for trouble. He would ring a large bell to alert volunteer firefighters to the general whereabouts of blazes.
Vintage views of the Village BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Local author Anita Dickhuth is kicking off a tour for her new book, “Greenwich Village,” part of the “Images of America” series by Arcadia Publishing. Through more than 200 painstakingly assembled archival photos and accompanying informative captions, Dickhuth traces the area’s evolution from a Lenape Indian settlement into today’s world-renowned Greenwich Village. There’s also a two-page introduction in which Dickhuth describes the preservation battles of the 1960s and, specifically, activist Doris Diether’s role in them. Photos were obtained from the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society and local merchants and residents, among other sources. The book includes maps showing how the West Village’s streets follow original Native American footpaths and Colonial-era roads.
There are capsule histories of noteworthy buildings, including more than a few that no longer exist. Diether helped the author in the chapter on Greenwich Village’s houses. Even experts on Greenwich Village are sure to find something new and interesting here. A Greenwich Village resident for more than four decades, Dickhuth is a visual researcher and photograph editor, as well as a member of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation. She will be signing her book at the Barnes and Noble at Eighth St. and Sixth Ave. on Thurs., Nov. 10, at 7 p.m.; at Porto Rico Importing Company at 201 Bleecker St. on Sat., Nov. 12, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; and at Garber Hardware, 710 Greenwich St., on Sat., Nov. 26, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Greenwich Village,” by Anita Dickhuth, $21.99, 128 pages, softcover, Arcadia Publishing.
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POLICE BLOTTER Groper arrested Police on Nov. 6 arrested a suspect in connection with the Oct. 23 sex abuse of a woman, 19, on the southbound platform of the No. 6 train in the Union Square subway station. Froylan Andrade, 39, of Elmhurst, Queens, was charged with sexual abuse for seizing the victim’s shoulder from behind, lifting her dress and grabbing her buttocks and crotch. The victim boarded the same train as the suspect, shot his photo with her cell phone and gave a copy to police.
Subway death An unidentified man was struck and killed by a northbound No. 4 train at the Bleecker and Lafayette Sts. station as he was walking across the tracks at 8:48 a.m. Sun., Nov. 6, police said.
Village robbery series Police are seeking a suspect or two wanted for three armed robberies in the Village and South Village areas. One target was the Pleasure Chest, 156 Seventh Ave., which was hit at 2:45 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 13. The robber, simulating a handgun, grabbed
an employee and said, “Don’t move, don’t move. Open the register.” He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspects entered Braccialini, at 436 West Broadway, around 3:10 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 20, when one of them displayed a silver handgun, demanded money and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspects, one of them armed with a handgun, entered EZ Pawn, 200 W. 14th St., 20 minutes later on Oct. 20, demanded money and jewelry and fled with undisclosed items and a sum of cash. Both suspects were described as black men, 25 to 35 years old. One was between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 7 inches, with a thinto-medium build, and the other was said to be 6 feet 1 inches, with a thin-to-medium build and wearing a green baseball cap.
Stuy Town mugger Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with the robbery of a 77-year-old man on Nov. 3 at 5:15 p.m. in the vestibule of his Stuyvesant Town building at 274 First Ave. at E. 16th St. The mugger grabbed the victim, took money from his pocket and fled, police said. The suspect was described as a black man, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 180 pounds, last seen wearing glasses, a lightcolored shirt, baseball cap, blue jeans and sneakers.
SCOOPY’S NOTEBOOK Continued from page 3 confident he’ll have a deal in place before year’s end. He said he recently met separately with representatives of Thor Equities and also Neil Bender of Gottlieb Real Estate, and even sang Bender a Johnny Mathis song a cappella, “Chances Are.” He also spoke a few weeks ago with hip hotelier Andre Balazs, whose successful, High Line-straddling Standard Hotel, abuts his property. Noury, formerly known as “The Arrow Keyboard Man” back from his Studio 54 days and also a singer, said the Thor folks seemed to like his concept. But he said it was a bit harder to read Balazs. “I don’t know if he loves my idea or just wants to do something temporary,” the “Disco Developer” said. “His mind is into something. I have a dream. I don’t know if he wants to buy into this.” Plus, Noury noted, “Someone mentioned to me, he’s an alpha male and I’m an alpha male, and two alpha males can’t do business together.” Since this time around things seem serious, Noury stressed to us to treat this all with due seriousness, apparently feeling some of our previous reports had been, well, a bit flip. We apologize for that. … Anyway, asked if his
hoped-for mini-inn will still have a pyramid on top, sporting state-of-the-art, solar-energycollecting venetian blinds, Noury responded, “Absolutely!” He additionally sees there being a hydraulic lift that would dramatically raise cars to the High Line level, “spinning around slowly, with a beautiful girl displaying it.” Or, the car in the sky (next to the park in the sky) could be used for events: “The celebrated person, or the bride and groom, stands up there and waves.” The fancy wheels could be either his 1960 Bentley, his Excalibur white limo or some new high-tech vehicle. Clearly, Noury still has ambitious design plans, but he added, “I don’t want to say too much — you know the Buildings Department.” What we really wanted to know is if people would be able to drive their car from Noury’s rooftop directly into Balazs’s hotel, which could almost be like a Coney Island roller coaster, except with cars. “You know, that’s a possibility that I explained to him,” Noury said. Finally, he said, he’s not wedded to it even being a miniinn; at this point, he knows he has to work with his potential partners to come up with a viable project they can all agree on. Still — the intra-building car coaster would be awesome! Seriously.
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Police are asking the public’s help in identifying a suspect wanted in connection with two Chelsea robberies. On Wed., Nov. 2, at 8:49 p.m. the suspect entered Soul Fixins, the restaurant at 225 W. 28th St., said he had a gun and demanded money. He took the tip jar and fled. About 40 minutes later he walked in the Blimpie at 67 W. 23rd St., ordered coffee and when the employee opened the register, took an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber and the employee struggled before the robber fled. He was described as being a black man about 5 feet 7 inches and heavyset. Anyone with information should report it by phone to the Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or online at www. nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (Crimes) and entering TIP577.
Police arrested two suspects at Thompson and West Houston Sts. around 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and charged them with using fake credit cards to pay $2,344 for a car. Johnson Mosquito, 22, and Michael Johnson, 21, were charged with larceny.
Soho cape swipe A man and a woman who walked into the TSE boutique at 120 Wooster St. around 3 p.m. Sun., Oct. 30, managed to take a cashmere cape from a display mannequin and walk out without paying for it. The shop manager noticed three days later that the item was missing and called police after viewing the surveillance tape that recorded the theft.
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Hold onto those handbags! A Brooklyn woman, 21, left her bag on the back of her chair with her jacket over it in Greenhouse, the nightclub at 150 Varick St., around 3 a.m. Sun., Oct. 30, and went to the powder room. She returned five minutes later to find that a thief had made off with the bag but left her jacket. A Queens woman, 19, left her handbag unattended at her table at Diva, the club at 331 West Broadway at Grand St., around 1 a.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and returned a few minutes later to find it had been stolen. A woman, 55, visiting from Hawaii was trying on shoes at the David Z boutique, 561 Broadway near Prince St., around 4 p.m. Sat., Oct. 29, when she discovered that her bag, which she had placed on the floor beside her, was gone along with its contents of $500 in cash, jewelry valued at $600 and her iPhone.
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Huge deficit and threat of tuition at Cooper Union Continued from page 1 general every year. According to Epstein, any tuition policy wouldn’t be implemented until 2013, if at all, and wouldn’t affect any current students. He said the trustees have yet to determine how many students would be charged to attend and how much. Currently, all Cooper Union students are given scholarships of $38,500 to attend, and Epstein indicated that the school may continue offering such financial assistance to those prospective students who need it. Critics of the proposed tuition policy haven’t yet mounted a serious organizing effort against the issue. Students and alumni have crafted several online forums on Facebook and other sites to exchange information and analysis and rally support. But many are still simply trying to comprehend the situation and don’t think the time has yet come for more drastic protests — like building occupations — as seen at other neighboring universities in recent years. “Nothing has happened yet and to mount this kind of social protest is a form of acceptance that it will — that tuition is a foregone conclusion, which it isn’t,” architecture professor Lebbeus Woods posted on Free as Air and Water, a new blog where alumni, faculty and students discuss Cooper Union’s situation. “I think we should concentrate on making our position known within the school — use the banner and mass gathering there!” Last Friday, students and faculty staged a small walkout, leaving the school’s flagship Foundation Building on Astor Place to hold class on the street. Students made signs and did other work, but it was hardly a substantial protest. However, students and faculty are likely to take more dramatic action if the board of trustees moves forward with a tuition policy. Tommy Coleman, an alumnus who now works in Cooper Union’s admissions office and production labs, said that he would likely join a large-scale walkout if the trustees move forward. In his view, a tuition model compromises the
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Mark Epstein, chairperson of The Cooper Union’s board of trustees, speaking last month at Jamshed Bharucha’s inauguration as the school’s new president.
student and faculty relationships that are vital to Cooper Union’s educational culture in which both parties teach and learn from each other. “From the first day, you’re told, ‘You’re here to ignite someone else’s education,’” Coleman said. “It wouldn’t be Cooper Union.” Critics argue that if a tuition policy is implemented, then some students will simply attend the school because they can pay and not because they have the competency or even desire to do so. Epstein said that he is committed to preserving the integrity of Cooper Union, reminding the audience at Monday’s event that he is an alumnus of the school, as well, and has worked on its behalf for many years. While many in the audience spoke about Cooper Union in moral terms, Epstein tried to lay out the intricacies of the school’s financial picture and their implications for the col-
lege’s future. “We’re not in a major crisis right now, but if we don’t make any significant changes now, then we will be,” Epstein said. Much of his talk focused on clarifying facts about Cooper Union’s predicament, countering any misconceptions that he could, and addressing alternative revenue proposals to a tuition model. Among those other revenue generating ideas he addressed were obtaining more grant money for research, making more patents and offering online classes, among others. The issue of alumni support has become a contentious issue. Epstein said that alumni have not done enough to bolster their former school. Many in the audience retorted that the fault rested more firmly at the feet of the trustees, but Epstein disagreed. “Only 20 percent of alumni donate and that’s a failed investment,” Epstein said. “Four out of five students in this room will become part of the problem when they graduate.” At one point later on, he added, “I would blame the lackluster performance of alumni —” at which the audience cut him off with booing and hissing in response. Alumni play an integral role at the school and many students feel fiercely loyal to them. Some alumni in the audience told Epstein that they were offended that he would suggest they were not doing enough. “Being thrown on the sacrificial slab like that is really hard,” Coleman said afterward. “It pains me to hear him say it’s the alumni’s fault.” It remains unclear what the next steps will be for Cooper Union. Its board of trustees has added another meeting to their schedule to better grapple with the situation. The administration has convened a special task force to investigate alternative revenue models; many students are devoting whatever little free time they have to investigating the same goals. According to Epstein, the school needs to focus on growing revenue because it has already cut costs everywhere it can. “We don’t need to tighten our belts anymore,” Epstein said. “We need better-fitting pants.”
Still trying to drill the message home: No fracking! BY ALBERT AMATEAU Environmental advocates and elected officials rallied in Manhattan last week to mobilize opposition to hydraulicfracture gas drilling in New York State The process, known as fracking, involves drilling horizontally a mile or more below the surface and injecting high volumes of water laced with toxic chemicals and sand to fracture the shale and release gas trapped in the rock. United for Action, an umbrella advocacy group, spon-
sored anti-fracking rallies in the Village and the Upper West Side last week with local state assemblymembers. “I think fracking is the most important environmental issue of our time,” said Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal of the Upper West Side at the Nov. 3 rally at the L.G.B.T. Community Center on W. 13th St. Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, who represents Chelsea, noted that natural gas drilling has been going on in the state for 100 years. “The difference is that instead of drilling straight down they now can go down a mile or more and then drill horizontally for thousands of feet, and pump 400,000 gallons of water laced with chemicals, including known carcinogens.” While gas companies insist that the process can be done safely, Governor Cuomo has agreed to prohibit the process in the New York City and Syracuse watersheds.
“If it is not safe for New York City and Syracuse, how can it be safe for towns and farms that get their water from their own wells?” Gottfried asked. Gas companies stress the economic benefits of gas fracking for property owners, the state tax rolls and employment. The Marcellus Shale formation has been called an energy source for decades to come, “like Saudi Arabia right under our feet.” While it is true that natural gas burns cleaner and is less polluting than coal or oil, the environmental cost of trucking huge amounts of water and chemicals to wellheads must be figured in. Environmental damage from accidents and leaks of toxic wastewater is another problem, Gottfried added. David Braun, a founder of United for Action, told the Nov. 3 rally that crucial deadlines are looming. New York State is conducting hearings on a draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement that would govern fracking in the Marcellus Shale in the state’s southern tier counties along the Pennsylvania border. On Wed., Nov. 30, the state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a hearing on the draft E.I.S. at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Braun said that United for Action and other coalition partners will hold a press event on Mon., Nov. 14, at noon in front of Governor Cuomo’s Manhattan office, 633 Third Ave., to urge him to vote no.
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Mic check: The whole world is watching, and thinking TALKING POINT BY SHARON WOOLUMS Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) as it has evolved, is not a utopian society. It is a microcosm of our world. As is true in any organization, there will inevitably be the 1 percent that will attempt to ruin it for the other 99, those advocating for the best life possible, as is our want under the Constitution. And as in any protest movement, there are suspected infiltrators, plants sent there to create discord that will provide the media fodder for those hoping to marginalize and denigrate the effort — to make political liability of the protests. Daniel Massey of Crain’s New York Business refers to the occupiers as “the motley collection of agitators.” It is true there have been thefts reported, and though declared a sober zone, drug addicts, too, anarchists with mayhem on their minds and some who forgot to take their meds and now, sadly, reported sex abuse. Mr. Massey didn’t, however, mention the other 99 percent that I met there. I had to see for myself. Who are the occupiers? I met brilliant, articulate people that know exactly why they are there and were happy to tell me; recent college grads, now saddled with enormous debt, discovering their dream jobs already outsourced to Third World countries — which is creating a Third World climate in our own; homeless people who have suffered the sad ordeal of foreclosure; others with hopes of starting a cottage industry to live the American dream, who soon realized their price points couldn’t compete with goods imported from China, the American dream for them deteriorating into a nightmare of despair. There are those who can’t really explain what drew them to this place; they feel something’s gone wrong with the system and want to know why. There are professors, the jobless, great legal minds, writers, union workers, ex-marines, the poor, artists, the rich, the huddled masses — all trying to make sense of the mess we’re in. Some want easy simple answers; they want the organization to come up with something. But even doctors have to diagnose the problem before they can fix it.
Occupiers invite us to think, finally — to connect the dots. And this is not about partisan politics (plenty of blame to go around here!) nor left versus right — but maybe right versus wrong.
The occupiers have occupied a space in our collective consciousness and forced us all to question things. I doubt anybody likes everything that is said at Occupy Wall Street, but everybody can agree on one thing. Something is not working in the U.S. of A. We know this because despite advancements in technology, communication, travel, etc., suddenly in our economically progressive history, the next generation is not facing a brighter future, unlike their baby boomer parents. No matter what the spin or the future of this movement, the occupiers have occupied a space in our collective consciousness and forced us all to question things we have been pondering since we first realized something went wrong. We lost our way and here appeared the hopeful 99 standing at the edge of Ground Zero, determined to forge a path out of the chaos to the street paved of gold, now “up against the Wall” street. With the fervor, the excitement, the creativity this site has generated, “the people” spoke, were heard and captured the attention of the whole wide world. But as much as the occupiers and others are filled with hope and empowered by idealism, when the rain pours, will the dedication dampen? When the cold comes, will the infectious fervor chill? I hope this spirit of fervent inquiry and determination to participate in our democracy never disintegrates into a winter of discontent, but that indoors or out, it will blossom with ideas and solutions, so that we will once again thrive under a great flag.
New solutions are needed, but it is the old values that will lead us back to the garden. “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Some say the soul of this country is already bought and sold, and that the Big Apple is rotten with greed and corruption. Those willing to sacrifice democracy for their own greedy interests have bit off more than they could chew, and environmentalists tell us, it’s making us all sick. Elected officials have been pressured by corporate lobbyists into signing onto legislation that is a blatant disregard for the people. Lawmakers who got into office with fancy words and behind-the-scene deals with moneyed interests, chipped away at the laws that protected and benefited the people. “They” are winning at the expense of the
majority, but in the end, all will lose. And at the hands of a few, the great experiment that is America will have gone awry; idealism buried under a pile of gold, our golden opportunity gone. Certain officials’ salty remarks led to pepper-spraying of four young female protesters. The emperors have no clothes, but they do what they do because they can, because “we” allow it. The “fair and balanced” media has been caught spinning a web of deception. Occupiers beckon us to be our own best investigative journalists. There are indisputable facts and figures that speak for themselves. Fact check... The whole world is watching. Mic check…Listen and learn. Far from the park, reverberations are felt around the world.
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So, what’s your sign? Robert Reiss has been camping out at Occupy Wall Street since it took root at Zuccotti Park in September. At first, he slept on nothing more than newspaper without a sleeping bag. Every day he’s made at least one new sign to display, with more than 80 to date. His sign above was getting lots of attention on Fri., Oct. 14, when the feeling at Zuccotti was euphoric after police backed off plans to selectively clear the park that morning to allow for its cleaning. “I thought this up 20 years ago,” Reiss explained of the placard, happily adding of the Tao, “It can never go down.” A self-described “scholar and magician,” he used to contribute to the
now-defunct New York Sun’s Knickerbocker nightlife column. His grandparents, both artists, met in bohemian Greenwich Village. One of his early signs responded to conditions at Zuccotti, specifically, the occupiers’ inability to get port-o-potties: “Hell no, We can’t go!” A Smithsonian representative took his first sign — “F.D.R.’s social democracy vs. Obama’s neoliberal economics” — for the museum’s “Reform and Radical Politics” collection. “All I want is the completion of F.D.R.’s New Deal,” Reiss stated. “In a word — Denmark. That’s not utopia.”
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Christine Bullen as Mary Dale and Justin Flagg as Jack Robin — in “The Jazz Singer” (at Metropolitan Playhouse). Photo by Alex Roe
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The desire to win, at the expense of others Terence Rattigan revival gets to the heart of our DNA BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE Could there be a better time to revive “Man and Boy,” Terence Rattigan’s obscure amorality tale from 1963 about an international businessman in the final spasms of brinksmanship as his empire collapses? Probably not. Could there be a better actor than Frank Langella to embody the ruthlessness, desperation and strategizing all with an impeccable sang-froid? Decidedly not. Under the precise and thoughtful direction of Maria Aitken, Rattigan’s play — a combination of thriller, family drama and social commentary — is vibrantly alive and wonderfully understated. It is a wellmade play in a well-mounted production, but beyond that, it’s also entertaining and thought-provoking. The play is set in 1934, and Langella plays Gregor Antonescu, a wildly successful businessman credited with saving Europe after World War I. If his means are shady, the ends have justified them –– at least until the opening of the play, when it seems the health of the global markets rides on his ability to forge an unlikely merger. Gregor seeks refuge from the media and arranges a meeting with the man he must come to terms with, Mark Herries, at the down-at-the-heels Greenwich Village basement apartment of one Basil Anthony. This
MAN AND BOY Written by Terence Rattigan Directed by Maria Aitken Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company Through Nov. 27 At American Airlines Theatre (227 W. 42nd St.) Tues.-Sat. at 8pm; Wed., Sat., Sun. at 2pm For tickets ($67-$117), visit roundabouttheatre.org or call 212-719-1300
seemingly incongruous meeting place makes sense when we learn that Basil is actually Vasily Antonescu, Gregor’s estranged son. There is no happy reunion in this story, however. Basil abhors the actions that allowed his father to grow rich while others suffered, and yet he allows him to meet there. Gregor repays the filial favor by attempting — there’s no delicate way to put this — to pimp Basil out to Herries, a closeted homosexual, as the strategy for closing the deal.
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Frank Langella, as Gregor Antonescu; Adam Driver, as Basil Anthony…or is he?
Conventional thinking would find this shocking, but Gregor is anything but conventional. In fact, he’s a sociopath (one who has made people a great deal of money). No one wants to look too closely at his actions, and what might in other circumstances be seen as depravity is here considered a quirk.
It’s tempting to see this play through the lens of our own time, and it certainly resonates. Still, it’s more chilling to realize that while the trappings may change, the desire to win — at the expense of others — is as old as civilization.
Gregor cares about nothing but winning, and the people in his life find him at once irresistible and repellant. They are unable
to disentangle themselves from him, but he engages with them only when they are useful to him. Rattigan’s investigation of the bargains people make and the games they play is fascinating. Langella is at the height of his game in this role. He is perfectly in control, and every moment is rich in detail –– from the way he holds his hand in his jacket pocket to his gesture flicking a folder to the floor to the subtlety of Gregor’s unfolding plan. He’s so charming and persuasive it’s easy to see how an entire continent could fall under Gregor’s spell, blind to his pathological narcissism. The supporting cast is very good as well. Zach Grenier is fascinating as Herries, a man who has the upper hand until Gergor finds his fatal flaw. Adam Driver is compelling as Basil, maintaining a strong sense of morality despite his seeming weakness. Michael Siberry, as usual, turns in an accomplished performance as Sven, Gregor’s right hand man, and Brian Hutchinson is appealing as Herrie’s accountant, David Beeston, Gergor’s first victim as the game unfolds. It’s tempting to see this play through the lens of our own time, and it certainly resonates. Still, it’s more chilling to realize that while the trappings may change, the desire to win — at the expense of others — is as old as civilization. It is in our DNA, this drive to survive. We may be shocked at Gregor’s actions, but we can’t really be surprised. And against all odds, part of us wants him to win.
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‘Line’ occupies same philosophical space as O.W.S. John Doe concerns are timeless, contemporary BY ALINE REYONLDS Exploitation. Dissatisfaction. Revolution. These underlying themes of the Occupy Wall Street (O.W.S.) movement are also the central concerns of “On the Line” — playwright Joe Roland’s intriguing tale of three lifelong buddies who become embroiled in a months-long strike against a company that all but destroys their hometown. We never find out the name the town (or even the region) the story takes place in — nor are we told the time period or which industry the characters work in. That “John Doe” gesture, says the playwright, is meant to cement the notion that the discontent we’re seeing at Zuccotti Park, and on the stage of the Canal Park Playhouse, “can take place anywhere,” explained Roland. Despite this lack of critical information, “On the Line” successfully exposes the grim realities of men and women victimized by large industries — and, specifically, by the merciless corporate heads who hoard the wealth. That phenomenon, of course, predates the current protests at Zuccotti Park and elsewhere. Roland, who wrote the play in 2003, deems the play’s correlations with O.W.S. a “happy accident.”
ON THE LINE Written by Joe Roland Directed by Michael Tisdale Through Nov. 19 Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm At Canal Park Playhouse 508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich & West Sts. For tickets ($18), call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com
“When I wrote the play, I was probably as pissed off as the people down at O.W.S. are now about the pressure on working people,” said Roland (referencing President Bush’s slashing of veterans’ benefits around that time). Diverging from O.W.S., the play underscores the fragility of communities that are wholly dependent on the success of their signature industries. Photo by Jim Baldassare
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Striking workers ponder their future over drinks, in “On the Line.”
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Drama of an Orchard St. cantor’s son returns Metropolitan’s ‘Jazz Singer’ first NYC production since 1925 BY JERRY TALLMER On April 25, 1917, a college student named Samson Raphaelson went to see a show called “Robinson Crusoe” at a theater in Champaign, Illinois. Nineteen days earlier, the United States had entered World War I — but what more immediately stunned young Raphaelson (a Jew from the Lower East Side of New York) was, as he would later recall, the astonishingly passionate “velocity” and “fluidity” of an unknown performer also from the Lower East Side of New York. It was as if a cantor in a synagogue had put on blackface to dig into the soul of a congregation during the High Holy Days. The unknown actor/singer was Asa Yoselson, born in Russia on or about (by his own later guesstimate), May 25, 1886 — brought at age 6, along with mama and the three other surviving kids, to that same Lower East Side (where papa served as a cantor and occasional rabbi). Asa Yoselson grew up to be Al Jolson. And since the show that Raphaelson saw in Champaign, Illinois, had been “Robinson Crusoe” — and Jolson had appeared in it in blackface — one hazards that the role was that of “Friday,” the dark-skinned native who becomes castaway Crusoe’s savior, protector and manservant. This is not irrelevant. In 1922, five years after seeing “Robinson
THE JAZZ SINGER Written by Samson Raphaelson Directed by Laura Livingston Nov. 12-Dec. 11 Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm through Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm Pay-What-You-Will performance on Mon., Nov. 14, at 7:30pm Additional 3pm matinees: Sat., Nov. 26, Dec. 3 & 10 No performance on Wed./Thurs., Nov. 23/24 At the Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. 4th St., btw. Aves. A & B) Photo by Alex Roe
Justin Flagg as Jack Robin, Nona Pipes as Sara Rabinowitz and Michael Durkin as Harry Lee.
Crusoe,” Sam Raphaelson wrote a short story about an up-and-coming young Lower Eastsider named Jakie Rabinowitz who as “Jack Robins” is on his way toward stardom on the musical-comedy stage — much to the fury of his father, an aging and ailing Orchard Street cantor who would have his son abandon such low class junk and follow in papa’s footsteps.
After the story appeared in a national magazine, Raphaelson was encouraged to turn it into a play called “The Jazz Singer,” in which the climax has Jack/Jakie torn between his make-or-break opening night on Broadway and his father’s simultaneous deathbed. It is this all but forgotten 1925 play that became the 1927 Warner Bros. talking (and singing) motion picture that — making a worldwide star of Al Jolson — put to rest the silent-film era. It is this same stage play that is now back in being at the Lower East Side’s Metropolitan Playhouse. It is also this city’s first professional production since the 1920s of Raphaelson’s original script. The prime mover at Metropolitan Playhouse is founder, lead producer, artistic director, “and everything else” Alex Roe — a Harvard graduate who from time to time had seen fragments of the Warner Bros. movie but had never heard of Raphaelson’s play until a friend told him about it last summer. Laura Livingston, who had done some acting as well as directing at Metropolitan Playhouse, had never heard of this play either, much less the short story that had preceded it. It is not every script that has a Jew putting on blackface to sing “Mammy” songs that deeply stir an audience’s mixed emotions. One imperiled minority doubling as another. And not easy to cast. Ms. Livingston: “I had some people say to me: ‘I can’t audition for that. It’s too distasteful.’ ” Mr. Roe: “I had people saying the same thing when I did ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ last year. So I had a little trepidation this year.” It might be noticed, says this noticer, that some white actors have been putting on blackface for upwards of five hundred years. To play Othello. Neither Roe nor Laura Livingston are, if that matters, Jewish. There are three moments in the play when, with the actors’ backs to the audience, we hear
Tickets: $22; $18 for students, seniors; $10 for those under 18 For reservations: 212-995-5302 or metropolitanplayhouse.org the offstage voice of Jack Robin (Justin Flagg) raised in wrenching song — the movie’s big production numbers. (If we hadn’t seen Jolson and Co. doing those numbers, Hollywood would still be in the silent era.) What’s in the short story but not in the play is, in Ms. Livingston’s words, that “Jakie’s father has thrown him out of the house when Jakie reveals his engagement to a shiksa.” Jack Robin’s relationship with his costar, Mary Dale (Christine Claiborne Bullen) is a good bit more tentative than that. “The story, the play and the movie are three different things,” says director Livingston, whose “day job,” as she puts it, is improvisational theater. A native of Oak Park, Illinois, she was waiting tables at Second City, Chicago, when her admission to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School came through and whisked her off to England, leaving the unknown awestruck Second City improvisers (Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, John Candy, et al.) gaping in astonishment. “Went to England, studied at the Bristol Old Vic, came back, turned on the television — and there they all were.” Nowadays, she lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, Michael Durkin, the actor who plays Jack Robin’s no-nonsense Broadway producer in the Metropolitan’s “The Jazz Singer.” Jakie Rabinowitz’s mama and cantor papa are played by Nona Pipes and Charles Gerber, Al Jolson left us in 1950, but his excitement carries on. One incidental: When young Judy Garland wanted to break away from Louis B. Mayer and strike out on her own as a singer, she went to her beloved Oscar Levant and asked him what should she sing. The acerbic Oscar uttered two words: “Sing Jolson.” And that’s just what she did. Oh Judy. Oh Swanee. Oh Mammy. Oy, oy. oy….
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Ongoing, upcoming, closing soon Essential shows to see BY SCOTT STIFFLER
BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER This year’s presentation of Bread and Puppet Theater is sponsored by the number “40.” Appropriate, considering this is the 40th year that Peter Schumann’s nonprofit, self-supporting, puppet-centric theatrical company has made the pilgrimage from their Vermont home base to the Lower East Side’s Theater for the New City. Also of interest to their sponsoring number: One of their upcoming performances (“Attica”) is a revival of a piece created 40 years ago as a response to that infamous prison massacre (and first performed in Bread and Puppet’s Coney Island theater). Over the course of a little over two weeks, B&P will present works for both adult and all-ages audiences — including the family-friendly “Man = Carrot Circus” and the just-forgrownups “Man of Flesh and Cardboard” (about PFC Bradley Manning, the soldier incarcerated for supplying restricted material to WikiLeaks). As for “Carrot Circus,” it’s based on the revelation (or theory, or tall tale) that an upright man rooted in dirt was created in the image of the upright carrot rooted in dirt. Dec. 1-18. At Theater for the New City (155 First Ave., at E. 10th St.). For tickets (12; $6 for children 12 and under), call 212254-1109 or visit theaterforthenewcity.net (where you can also find a complete schedule of performances). Also visit breadandpuppet.org.
THE LYONS Thanks to an extension of its run through November 20, the world-premiere production of Nicky Silver’s “The Lyons” (his seventh play at The Vineyard Theatre) continues to surpass the box office record it broke for the venue. That means you still have a brief window of opportunity to see the show and
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Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Man = Carrot Circus” (from a performance in Glover, VT).
secure bragging rights (“I remember when I saw….”) for years to come. Mark Brokaw directs. Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa star as parents who finally bond with their children on the sad occasion of dad’s impending death. As the fractured family gathers to say goodbye, they make one last (well, first) attempt to forge a real human connection before death removes that procrastinator’s task from the table. Through Nov. 20. Tues. at 7pm; Wed.Sat. at 8pm; Sat./Sun. at 3pm. At the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St., btw. Park and Irving). For tickets ($70; premium seats, $100), call 212-353-0303 vineyardtheatre. org.
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Daddy’s dying: Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa as Ben and Rita Lyons, in “The Lyons.”
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA The Irish Repertory Theatre’s 24th season continues, with this 20th Anniversary production of Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” (which opened on Broadway in October 1991 and won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play). Set in a modest cottage in Donegal as the autumn of 1936 approaches, the play finds five unmarried sisters entwined with the fate of eight-year-old love child, Michael, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack (recently returned from 25 years in a leper colony in Uganda). Ancient tribal customs and Christian beliefs clash, as the sisters dance in a wild, final celebration of their way of life before it changes forever. Through Dec. 11. Wed-Sat., 8pm; matinees on Wed., Sat., Sun. at 3pm. At the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 W. 22nd St., btw. 6th & 7th Aves.). For tickets ($65, $55), call the Irish Rep box office at 212-727-2737 or visit irishrep. org.
MONETTE: I LOVE MY LIFE Talk about your forced transitions. Her only child just left for college. Her
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Jasmine Eileen Coles as Kennedy “Monette.”
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Charades: No other game in history (with the possible exception of Monopoly) has inspired more frustration, power plays and bitter grudges. But in the capable hands of gifted actors, charades can be a thing of beauty — and should it turn ugly, at least the proceeds go to a good cause. Labyrinth Theater Company’s annual signature benefit event (“Celebrity Charades 2011: Down and Derby”) has four celebrity teams miming their way to the Winner’s Circle in a speed charades competition to support Labyrinth’s 2011/12 season. At press time, the amiable players (and, perhaps, future bitter enemies) included Bob Balaban, Bobby Cannavale, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Chris Rock, Cynthia Rowley and Kristen Wiig. Mon., Nov. 14, at the Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.). The VIP reception starts 6:30pm; event begins at 8pm. For info on tickets and tables, visit labtheater.org, call 212-5131080.
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“[The company in the play] really is the beating heart of the town, financially and in many other ways,” said director Michael Tisdale. In recent decades, he noted, Americans have witnessed these types of meltdowns in cities like Cleveland and Detroit. When the company’s owner, Dolan, breaks the good faith negotiations with the union that represents his workers, the workers go on strike — presenting a fork in the road for Jimmy, Mikey and Dev that ultimately tests their longstanding friendship. “These guys are trying to hold down jobs and make a living wage to provide a living for their families, and they’re being threatened on some level by management,” said Tisdale. “Once they can’t escape into that ‘remember the good old days’ mode anymore, because things are so different in the present reality, it pulls their relationship apart at the seams.” The demands of adult and family life particularly wear on the friendship between Dev and Mickey, after Mickey accepts a job in the company’s corporate division (which Dev and others in the town consider to be an unforgivable betrayal of trust). Tisdale interweaves the disparate work and bar scenes in seamless fashion. He and Roland also succeed at compensating for the theater’s diminutive stage space. Their use of lockers, stools, video projection and a bar table allows the audience to clearly visualize the diverse settings. While actor Matt Citron (“Jimmy”) is a good story-
teller, his colleague, Jacob Knoll, does a phenomenal job playing Dev. Though his emotions often get the best of him, the character’s rebellious tendencies are channeled into stalwart activism during the strike. A combination of history, life experience and family inspired Roland’s play — which references Reagan’s supplanting of air traffic controllers in the early 1980s following a union strike that was deemed illegal. A decade later, Roland found himself amid an employee’s strike while working for upscale east side hotel (part of a citywide strike that threatened the tourist industry). Both the playwright’s grandfathers were blue-collar men
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THE SUGAR HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS When dad dies, mom goes on a “grief pilgrimageâ€? and leaves Chinese adoptees Greta and Han in the quasi-capable hands of their ex-rock star uncle and his considerably younger girlfriend‌and that’s just the beginning of Carla Ching’s new play. Shipped off
to the wilds of New York, Greta and Han do mom one better in the grief-stricken soul-searching department — when Greta runs afoul of the law and Han runs away to become a street musician. Live music, and a live Twitter feed, put a very contemporary spin on the familiar rites of passage that come from growing up fast and finding yourself. Presented by the always ambitious, Ma-Yi Theater Company — a Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning collective that consistently delivers challenging, entertaining new works by Asian American playwrights. Through Sun, Dec. 4; Tues.-Fri. at 7:30pm; Sat. at 2pm/7:30pm; Sun. at 3pm. At The Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th St., btw. Aves. A & B). For tickets ($25), call 212-352-3101 or visit ma-yitheatre.org.
CHANT MACABRE: SONGS OF DEATH AND ENCHANTMENT
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The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society. Left to right: Anthony Bellov, Jane Rady, Rosalind Gnatt and Dayle Vander Sande.
Halloween has come and gone. But before you succumb to visions of sugarplums and holiday merriment, spend a little more time contemplating mortality — 19th century style. “Chant Macabre: Songs of Death and Enchantment� is the latest from the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (BSESS), a talented ensemble with a (vocal) flair for the dramatic. As the arts group-inresidence of the possibly/probably haunted Merchant’s House Museum, BSESS concerts have been known to attract the attention of the museum’s deceased Tredwell family
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members, servants and caretakers. Why? The 19th century, BSESS tells us, “is replete with gothic stories and melancholic poetry. This heritage, rich with beautiful lamentations, gothic ghouls and otherworldly tales touches the heart to its core with either compassion or dread.� So come mourn your cares away, as the BSESS pour their voices into harrowing musical tales and expressions of sympathy for the dearly departed. Then, and only then, should you begin penning
that letter to Santa. Fri., Nov. 18, 7pm. At the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. 4th St., btw. Lafayette and Bowery). Admission: $25 general, $15 for museum members. Proceeds benefit Merchant’s House (a non-profit). For info, call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse. org.
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Blissed out and barefoot on the block back in Sixties FLASHBACK
In what looks like it could have been a scene from “Hair,” hippies hung out on St. Mark’s Place between Second and Third Aves. in 1968. The view is looking east.
Make triangle an inclusive, community park for all TALKING POINT BY RICHARD BARONE Residents of the West Village are faced with the rare — and perhaps final — opportunity of acquiring for public use a green space, in the form of the triangle site across from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital. The triangle is being designated as a community park, and its unique location at Greenwich and Seventh Aves. makes it a “gateway to the Village.” By definition, a community park must be all things to all people. But, in the attempt to please all, there is a danger of losing all. For instance, when the discussion moves to the addition of a playground or monument you are no longer talking about a true community park — which should be an “open” space: visually, mentally and emotionally. I attended Community Board 2’s St. Vincent’s Omnibus Committee meeting several weeks ago, listened to the thoughtful and at times passionate discussion, and commend the committee’s letter to City Planning. The letter is a well-written, thorough document that firmly establishes
the community’s concerns for the park and the reuse, as housing, of the old St. Vincent’s facility site itself. But I disagree with the second point in the letter’s fourth section, regarding the inclusion of a playground. This plan would require a higher, protective fence than the one described in the letter, blocking off and changing the nature of the open space. Without such a fence, the park would be unsafe for children playing because of the constant, irregular traffic patterns around the narrow triangle: One stray ball retrieved over a low fence could spell tragedy. And there is already a successful, safe, designated playground just two blocks west on Bleecker St. Instead, a slightly elevated grassy area for general use could be integrated into the design as a free space that everyone could enjoy, truly serving the neighborhood’s needs. As suggested in the committee’s letter, placing an AIDS remembrance outside the park, along the Seventh Ave. perimeter — and, furthermore, making it a universal tribute to the diverse victims, groundbreaking caregivers of St. Vincent’s and historic activists — would keep the inside park space inclusive and uplifting for all.
The first responders, as well as those lost to the epidemic, would be honored with a park within that celebrates the joy of living with understated, natural dignity. Surely, there is no better tribute. Lastly, we should not rush this process, which is what seems to be the case based on the quickly ticking-away 90-day deadline discussed at a recent C.B. 2 meeting. As with all great parks large and small, a design competition should be held to create a landscaping plan that utilizes the space fully and beautifully, takes the above points into account, and results in a true community park. Future generations will thank us for the foresight we display now. Barone is a recording artist, performer, producer and author who has collaborated with artists from Lou Reed and Moby to Liza Minnelli, Tiny Tim and most recently, Pete Seeger. The lead singer of the Bongos, his memoir, “Frontman: Surviving the Rock Star Myth,” was published by Hal Leonard Books. Since 1984, Barone has lived in Greenwich Village, where he recently completed work on his fifth solo album, “Glow.”
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Park is needed more Greenwich Village is starved for public open space. Indeed, Community Board 2 — from 14th St. to Canal St. west of Bowery/Fourth Ave. — ranks among the lowest in green space per capita of all the city’s community board districts. That’s why when the opportunity arises to create a new park, it’s special. Such a moment is now upon us. Rudin Management, as part of its redevelopment of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital eastern campus into 450 new luxury condo units, has pledged to provide a park on the open-space triangle across the street. At the same time, the Queer History Alliance has come forward, saying the triangle presents a unique chance to create an AIDS Memorial Park with a learning center. The Village was an epicenter of the 1980s AIDS crisis and St. Vincent’s was where the disease was first confronted and treated in a humane way, Q.H.A. rightly says. The Alliance strongly feels that the basement below the triangle should be used as a learning center that could pay tribute to local healthcare providers — such as St. Vincent’s and others — that met the challenge of the disease. An AIDS Memorial Park is certainly a very worthy project. But many community members who actually live around the location are concerned — and justifiedly so — that such a memorial could well turn into a tourist and tour bus destination. Already tour buses pause at the 9/11 Tiles for America memorial just across Mulry Square from the triangle so their tourist passengers can snap photos. Were an AIDS Memorial added kitty-corner across the square, it’s easy to imagine this becoming a point where tour buses would actually stop and drop their passengers off for a while so they could walk around and check out both the 9/11 tiles and the AIDS memorial. But this sort of memorial nexus isn’t what local residents want at all, and it doesn’t seem to be what Community Board 2 — as a reflection of the community’s will — is calling for, either. C.B. 2 will be making its final recommendation for the triangle next Thursday. That recommendation will, in turn, be added to the board’s input on the city’s ULURP review for the entire Rudin project. We agree that, above all, what is needed here is a true community park — unencumbered by major memorials or features that would detract from its being a place to relax and enjoy a respite of natural beauty and tranquility amid the world’s most hectic city. Memorials to St. Vincent’s history and AIDS could be incorporated somehow — but certainly not dominating the park. Whether the triangle’s basement can or should be used as a learning center, or would interfere with the park, remains to be seen. Better yet — why not find an airy and uplifting space, with some windows? Plus, the Village does, in fact, already have an AIDS memorial. Dedicated three years ago at Bank St. in Hudson River Park, it was the first AIDS memorial on public property in the entire state. The AIDS Memorial Committee spent 14 years working to create this tasteful monument, at a cost of $88,000. A long, bench-like structure of Canadian black granite, it overlooks the former Pier 49’s wooden pilings — which are “sort of a metaphor for lives cut short,” as the committee’s Lawrence Swehla put it. In addition, the park that Rudin creates at Greenwich and Seventh Aves. should not be privately owned. Rather, when done, it should be turned over to the Parks Department. Again, this is in line with keeping this welcome new green space as open and publicly accessible as possible.
Thanks for hearing us To The Editor: Re “Soho BID needs work” (editorial, Nov. 3): We are very grateful to you for running the editorial in opposition to the business improvement district. As a resident of Soho, since the ’70s, I’ve seen many changes. The BID is the worst thing that could happen to the neighborhood and its residents. Thank you for providing a way for our voices to be heard. Ronnie Wolf
United against Soho BID To The Editor: Re “Soho BID needs work” (editorial, Nov. 3): It was heartening to see that you have taken a firm stand against the Soho BID. We in the community are united in our opposition. Joyce Kozloff
O.W.S. pros outweigh cons To The Editor: Last Thursday night I went down to an off-site sustainability meeting for Occupy Wall Street. Our community garden needs compost and they have it. It’s a win-win. As I walked to the bus I passed young adults in my neighborhood partying in a bar and at a well-heeled gallery opening. When I got to the meeting area there was an atrium full of young adults — and people of other ages — gathered in clusters strategizing about media, sustainability, sanitation, facilitation, education, etc. on behalf of O.W.S. Did you know that after their generators were taken they hooked up bikes to batteries to power their electricity? Did you know they are looking into solar power and building a model wind generator? They are creating power-generation models that we might all need to know how to build someday. They are figuring out recycling. (City parks are not required to recycle.) They are composting, they have a gray water reclamation model. They are building possibilities for sustainability that as community gardeners we’ve been working toward for more than 30 years now. On the Lower East Side, we still have a vibrant neighbor-
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hood: diverse, interesting and rich in culture and uniqueness. I wouldn’t trade it for anywhere else. But in my neighborhood another teenager was murdered a few weeks ago, despite the courageous attempts by his parents to organize against youth violence. One of the few remaining low-income senior homes was sold for luxury condos. Those longtime residents were scattered away from friends and families. More unemployed workers and fewer housing options for this community’s elderly resulted. I wish we had thought to “Occupy Bialystoker.” As a parent, I know it’s hard to live next to noise and crowds. We’ve been subjected to an unending barrage of luxury construction on the Lower East Side and a high-end bar scene that has generated noise, murders and not a few wasted evenings spent trying to rein this scene in. We have seen a burgeoning of mindless wealth accumulation and the required mind-numbing activity that accompanies it. We have seen the despair in our low- and middle-income youth over the realization that they will never be a part of the American Dream while witnessing the relentless economic decline of their parents. Over-the-top wealth inequity is not news here. If I had a choice between living with the (loud) sounds and inconveniences of youth organizing for a better world, trying to take charge of their futures, as well as the future of all of us, or living with the status quo — I know what my choice would be. They are welcome next door to me. Bring it all. Drums too. Because I think it may be past time to end our silent consent to the travesties going on around us. K Webster
Why AIDS memorial is different To The Editor: Re “Should AIDS be part or all of park triangle memorial?” (news article, Nov. 3): All of those events, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, 9/11, etc. were not preventable. AIDS is preventable now, and the kids need a reminder of what we went through in the ’80s. It would be a remembrance and a public service to make this entire park an AIDS memorial. I said to a friend recently, while trying to explain what it was like in 1983, “Look around the bar at all these beautiful guys. Now imagine more than half of them dead within a year. Imagine the funerals, the loss, the terror of being 20 and seeing everyone around you sick and dying.”
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‘Just say no’ to BID isn’t a workable alternative and commercial property owners each and every day. The BID plan does not “need work.” It is at the best it can be, and will be better if given a chance to prove itself.
TALKING POINT BY BRIAN STEINWURTZEL The residents and business owners who serve on the BID Steering Committee (www.sohobid.org) and the other supporters of a business improvement district for Soho’s Broadway are very disturbed and disappointed with The Villager’s editorial “Soho BID needs work” in your last week’s issue. The editorial calls on BID supporters to gather more support. In the specific BID service area — Broadway between Canal and Houston Sts. — the majority of property owners (residential and commercial) support the BID. Under New York’s BID Law, created by our elected representatives, that’s what it takes to form a BID. Denying the people who live and work on Broadway the BID they want because of opposition outside the BID area flies in the face of the law and democratic principles. It cannot simply be a case where those who yell the loudest are right. If BID advocates must win support of their neighbors outside the BID area, where do you draw the line? The editorial recognizes the urgent need to implement solutions along Broadway, solutions that seek to manage the “success” of this major retailing destination; mitigate its negative impacts and bring to the forefront what makes historic Soho special. The editorial acknowledges that a BID is the workable alternative that provides the democratic decision-making structure and the necessary funding to bring focused, persistent attention to the challenges faced by Soho’s Broadway. The BID Steering Committee has appreciated the reporting by The Villager and its sister paper Downtown Express on this important neighborhood planning issue since its public presentation in April 2010. The initiative taken by Mr. Henry Buhl, resident of Soho and founder of ACE, was the start of the formation process of the proposed BID and it is still underway as the legislation awaits approval by the City Council. The BID Steering Committee, Community Board 2, the Department of City Planning and the City Council all have followed the BID Law, and we look forward to the completion of this democratic, legislative process. Yes, the clumsy, outdated legal name “business improvement district” is misleading and does not define the intentions of this specific BID for Soho’s Broadway. This may be why so many wrongly assume that the BID plan intends to “promote only business, attracting more crowds, tourism, etc.” The BID Steering Committee, in its role as an initial planning group, has succeeded in crafting a BID plan with services and improvements that reflect the areas of concern expressed by the many constituent groups served by the BID. The BID plan speaks of the same issues that: 1) the “Broadway Residents Coalition” has brought to the attention of city officials; 2) the BID area’s 800 businesses and 12,000 employees talk about; and 3) are experienced by residents
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Many wrongly assume the Soho BID plan intends to ‘promote only business, attracting more crowds and tourism.’ At every turn, the BID Steering Committee has made a genuine effort to address community concerns, and to reconcile Community Board 2’s resolution with the merits of the BID district plan. As demonstrated by our mission statement and by the commitment of BID area residents participating in BID committee meetings and by the encouragement of Councilmember Margaret Chin, it is clear that working together to improve the quality of life of a neighborhood “under siege,” while seeking to strike a balance between resident and commercial interests, is indeed possible. The BID Steering Committee remains committed to working with everyone, supporters and opponents alike.
You cite the case of 40 Mercer St. where five members of the condo board voted unanimously to commit all 40 condo units in support of the BID. That board vote is accepted common practice of condo boards everywhere and of the BID formation process. That vote happened more than a year ago and so far no condo owner in 40 Mercer St. has objected; and, in fact, the board will reaffirm its support along with other property owners who voted for the BID. Moreover, the total number of residential condo units at 40 Mercer St. is not significant enough to change results, since there remains an overwhelming majority of respondents in support of the BID. That being said, even if you removed 40 Mercer St. from the tally, 72 percent of property-owner respondents support the BID (versus 80 percent with 40 Mercer St.). We regret that this doesn’t pass The Villager’s “smell test,” but those are the rules. We respectfully suggest you check the facts and take another sniff. The BID structure provides certainty of annual funding, flexibility to respond to neighborhood issues, and a private-public partnership that succeeds because it reflects active, informed participants. The response of “just say no” is not a workable alternative to the special needs of Soho’s Broadway. Steinwurtzel is chairperson, Broadway Soho Business Improvement District Steering Committee
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 22 There needs to be a place to not forget that we have to live with this safe sex every single day. There’s no law to use a condom, but there is a law to keep the fire stairs unlocked as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. We need this memorial. Robert Presar
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To The Editor: Re “Should AIDS be part or all of park triangle memorial?� (news article, Nov. 3): The more than 40 individuals and AIDS service organizations that came to Community Board 2’s full board meeting last month were more interested in the art design for a memorial than asking for or demanding adequate healthcare for the community living around the triangle and beyond with a plea for a hospital. Mourning the dead while neighbors suffer and die without a hospital. Let’s get the priorities straight. An AIDS memorial exists on the Hudson River waterfront, featuring a 42-foot-long granite bench, words from a Finnish folk song and former pier pilings. Jackson Square Park was brought back to its glory by Stephen Petrino, a New York City Parks Department landscape architect who died of AIDS as the park was rededicated. Do we really need an AIDS park? Members of the Queer History Alliance should think about this on their next emergency crosstown trip because they and their friends wanted a memorial to the dead and did nothing to demand a hospital for the living. As for the Sisters of Charity of the Roman Catholic Church and the triangle: Let’s see no condom education — God hates fags — but we can make millions off AIDS caring for the “sinners.� The good Sisters of Charity handed St. Vincent’s Hospital to the thieves who drove it into the ground with mismanagement. We need a hospital. Pray to Jesus that no one dies without a hospital.
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To The Editor: Re â&#x20AC;&#x153;A politicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal reflections on St. Vincentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? (talking point, by Deborah Glick, Oct. 27): I am truly sad and actually frightened that we will be without St. Vincentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. By now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all heard a variety of reasons for the demise of our local hospital. Still, it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been made clear at all how it closed or who caused the closing. Further, the current decisions and plans for the former hospital siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future are varied and,
I believe, possibly tinged with politics. So, though the puzzle has not been completely solved, thank you, Deborah Glick, for â&#x20AC;&#x153;listening,â&#x20AC;? and for a most cogent review of the puzzling situation. Annette Zaner
The Doors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; think about it To The Editor: Re â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uncivil and dangerousâ&#x20AC;? (letter, by Bill Weinberg, Oct. 3): Mr. Weinberg provides an extreme example of hostile selfishness. Actually, two examples. I could match that with the callous indifference manifested by an exiting motorist who flung his car door open and caused me to crash into his door violently. I suffered multiple fractures in my wrist and forearm. But I wonder if what really hurts America the most is the absence of small gestures of courtesy and goodwill in ordinary, daily life. Some 45 years ago I recall a man holding open a door for a woman in a bustling Grand Central Station. That kind of a small act of courtesy, alas, seems largely gone in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;every-man-for-himself, dog-eat-dogâ&#x20AC;? society. P.S.: I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe dogs eat other dogs. Michael Gottlieb
The tech it is a-changinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; To The Editor: Re â&#x20AC;&#x153;E-books and online orders beating pulp out of an indie storeâ&#x20AC;? (news article, June 23): The times they are a-changinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I remember when we pasted up every column of print on the boards at the Village Voice. What happened to all those paste-up artists? I worked at an insurance office once where we pasted every commission of every salesman onto a file card by hand. I toiled at an office at a manufacturing plant where every purchase order and invoice was organized and filed by hand â&#x20AC;&#x201D; feeling superior to the guys on the factory floor who actually touched the product. None of these jobs exist anymore and the sad thing is there are not many new jobs to replace them. I buy e-books and send e-mail and I probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go back to using a typewriter or a quill pen. Richard Kopperdahl E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to news@thevillager.com or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 515 Canal St., Suite 1C, NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confirmation purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not publish anonymous letters.
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Just Do Art! Continued from page 20
OCCUPT ART SHOW Part pop up party, party performance, part exhibit — this indoor event is inspired by the artful activist on display in Zuccotti Park. The issues raised by Occupy Wall Street will be discussed, with the work of O.W.S. artists represented alongside other established and
emerging Downtown voices. Expect poetry, comedy, music, slide shows, documentaries and video short films, dance, paintings and digital art. Participating artists include SinXero (SX), Duke Nine, Lisa Moira, Darryl LaVare, Dottie Wilson, Shell Sheddy and Rodney Rigoli. Participating musicians include Welf Dorr (from Underground Horns), Hungry March Band, No Police State Girl and Kenny Yb Yogi. While you’re there, stop by the “PROTEST!” art exhibition (on view through Dec. 31). Sat., Nov. 12, 4-9pm, at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave., at E. 10th St.). For info, visit theaterforthenewcity.net and occupyart.blogspot.com.
TENDER MUSCLES: FIVE FILMS BYCHARLES FAIRBANKS
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Filmmaker and wrestler Charles Fairbanks will be there in person — when Anthology Film Archives screens a few of his popular short films. From his home base in Mexico, Fairbanks wrestles (with a camera built into his mask) as “El Gato Tuerto” (“The OneEyed Cat”). Fairbanks promises to show up with 2009’s “Pioneers,” a self-portrait that finds the director returning to his roots in Lexington, Nebraska. “The Men,” from 2010, is a three-minute video offering the fighter’s perspective in submission wrestling (“an immersive experience between intimacy and violence,” according to its creator). “Wrestling with my Father,” also from 2010, needs no further explanation — and the 2010
video “Irma” reveals the strength, humor, feminine charms and masculine strength of Irma Gonzalez — the former women’s professional wrestling world champion. Finally, 2010’s 23-minute “Flexing Muscles” delivers some of Fairbanks’ cats-eye-view footage from his own Luca Libre wrestling matches. Thurs., Nov. 17, 7:30pm. At Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave., at Second St.). Tickets: $9 general; $8 Essential Cinema (free for members); $7 for students, seniors, & children (12 & under); $6 AFA members. For info, call 212-505-5181 or visit anthologyfilmarchives.org. Also visit charlesfairbanks.info.
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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF STONETURN GROUP (NEW YORK), LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/09/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is C/O the LLC 60 State Street, 35th Floor, Boston, MA 02109. Date of Dissolution: None. Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity. Street address of Principal Business location is: 60 State Street, 35th Floor, Boston, MA 02109. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COLUMN TECHNICAL SERVICES EAST, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 09/06/11. 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: CT Corporation System 111 Eight Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 HALCYON AGILIS FUND GP LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/13/2011. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 07/06/2011. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Walkers Corporate Svcs Delaware Ltd. Ste 170 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Wilmington, DE 19809. Address required to be maintained in DE: 200 Bellevue Pkwy Ste 170 Wilmington DE 19809. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EIDETIC PRODUCTION LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/25/11. 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: C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF STYLECASTER MEDIA GROUP LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/13/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/27/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 49 W. 27th St., Studio A, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ECONOMIC CYCLE FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/13/11. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 500 Fifth Ave., 57th Fl., NY, NY 10110. DE address of LP: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 360 BOOM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/09. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PANORAMA PARTNERS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 9/12/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE on 8/26/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 369 Lexington Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1888 HYLAN BLVD REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/24/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joseph Smerina, 175 West Broadway, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SML MEDIA GROUP, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/1/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/18/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 817 Broadway, 4th Fl., NY, NY 10003. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/06-11/10/11
FRED BASCH ARCHITECT PLLC, A PROF. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/07/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 288 Lexington Ave, Apt 10A, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Architect. Vil 10/06-11/10/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SAGNELLA PHYSICAL THERAPY PLLC Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/25/2011 Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 11 First Ave, Moriches, NY 11955 Purpose: Any lawful activity Vil 10/13-11/17/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JOSEPH ZENTIL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/11. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 247 West Broadway, Apt. 4, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 10/06-11/10/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF EXG 12W48 LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/20/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/16/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent. Principal office address: 805 Third Ave., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Address to be maintained in DE: Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities Vil 10/13-11/17/11
NOTICE IS HEREBY NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ELIKEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/15/11. 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, 150 West 28 Street, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TWO GUIZE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY on 09/12/2011 Office Location: NY County Secretary of State designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to the principal business address: 170 EAST 110th STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10029 Purpose: any lawful acts. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JWED VENTURES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 55 White St., Apt. #2B, NY, NY 10013. 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 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 701 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, c/o Steven Schuster, 260 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 10/13- 11/17/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JOGIA DIAMONDS LLC. Art. of Org.filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/22/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 99 Washington Ave. #805A,Albany, NY 12210. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RESONANCE HOLDINGS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/29/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/8/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o James Waldinger, 500 W. 43rd St., #37C, NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NAVIS INVESTMENTS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/13/11. Fictitious name in NY State: NAVIS INVESTMENTS I, LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/24/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 150 E. 39th St., Ste. 405, NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/13-11/17/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 19 STANTON STREET LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/20/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 149 Madison Ave., Ste. 701, NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: Harvard Business Services, Inc., 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JUPITER MOONS PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/21/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 87 Luquer St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. 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. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF FINK LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/15/11. NYS fictitious name: Fink I LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/15/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Armando Belly, Soros Fund Management LLC, 888 Seventh Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10106. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 10/13-11/17/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WLA CONSULTING LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/19/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 41 Madison Ave., 29th Fl., NY, NY 10010. LLC formed in DE on 6/29/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, 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, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 10/13-11/17/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AOB LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/23/11. 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, c/o Natalia A. Muravieva, 200 East 66th Street, Apartment E-4/05, New York, New York 10065. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. Vil 10/20-11/24/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 67A PROPERTY CO., L.L.C., a limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/06/2005. Office location: New York. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 230 West 56th St. Ste 67A, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Vil 10/20-11/24/2011 ESPRIT CHIROPRACTIC & PHYSICAL THERAPY, PLLC, a domestic Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/11. NY office Location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/her to The PLLC, 2 W. 45th St., Ste. 1708, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Chiropractic & Physical Therapy Vil 10/20-11/24/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ET MODERN, LLC Application for Authority filed with NYSOS 9/22/11. Office location NY County. LLC formed in CT 8/29/11. NYSOS is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to c/o Wiggin and Dana LLP, 450 Lexington Ave., Ste 3800, NY, NY 10017. Principal business address of the LLC is 547 W 20th St., NY, NY 10011. CT address is 1161 Sperry Rd., Cheshire, CT 06410. Certificate filed with CT SOS at 30 Trinity St., Hartford, CT 06115. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/20-11/24/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF POST ARTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 36 Peck Slip 5A, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/20-11/24/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TARGA MIDSTREAM SERVICES LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/23/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1000 Louisiana, Ste. 4300, Houston, TX 77002. LLC formed in DE on 7/8/96. 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 10/20-11/24/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TRIAD DIGITAL MEDIA, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/2/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MI on 11/2/04. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: John T. Panourgias, Esq., Panourgias Law Firm, PLLC, 25200 Telegraph Rd., Ste. 410, Southfield, MI 48033. MI and principal business addr.: 33481 Fourteen Mile Rd., #100, Farmington Hills, MI 48331. Cert. of Org. filed with Director, Dept. of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth, PO Box 30054, Lansing, MI 48909. Purpose: all lawful activities. Vil 10/20-11/24/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAPITAL GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/2011. 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 Reisman Property Interests, 340 W. Passaic St., Rochelle Park, NJ 07662. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NINTH AVENUE LAND LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity Vil 10/27-12/01/2011 FELLOWES EXECUTIVE SEARCH LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 7/21/11. NY Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her toThe LLC, 884 West End Ave., #64, NY, NY 10025. General Purposes. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF STUDIO 580 L.L.C Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 08/04/11. 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: Business Filing Incorporated, 187 Wolf Road, Suite 101, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RESERVE SECURITY ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC. rts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Justin Milberg, 2373 Broadway, #1621, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ZOE INT. LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/11/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: ZOE INT. LLC 142 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LIQUID FUTURES, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/3/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/25/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1 North End Ave., Ste. 909, NY, NY 10282. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/11
SV CONSULTANTS, LLC a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/04/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Silvia Vailati, 200W 54th St., 8B, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LITTLE COLLINS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/9/11. 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 Leon Unglik, 204 W. 14th St., 6A, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/11
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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ECHO GLASS WORKS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 5/6/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Diana Shaller, 347 W. 57th St., Apt. 7E, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 10/27-12/01/11 NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: SBCO MGR, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 9/29/11. Office loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 2/20/08. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205. DE addr. of LLC: 108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011 NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: SBCO - NYC, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 9/29/11. Office loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 2/20/08. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205. DE addr. of LLC: 108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. Vil 10/27-12/01/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1257310 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 1471 First Ave., New York, NY 11021 for onpremises consumption. THE ALL AMERICAN BAR ON FIRST AVENUE INC. d/b/a AMERICAN BAR Vil 11/03 – 11/10/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a serial number 1258170 for a restaurant wine license has been applied for by Simply Thai Restaurant Corp. to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 693 9th Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10036 for on-premises consumption. Vil 11/03 – 11/10/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Concept Restaurant Corp d/b/a Jeanne & Gaston to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 212 West 14th Street New York NY 10011. Vil 11/03 – 11/10/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a license, #1258257 has been applied for by Edible Kitchens Inc. to sell beer at retail in an eating place. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 213 Park Ave S New York NY 10003. Vil 11/03 – 11/10/2011
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premise license #1255095 has been issued to MSG Holdings, LP d/b/a 1879 Club to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in an on premise establishment, with 78 additional bars in total (15 additional on premise bars license numbers 12550961255110, 5 legitimate theater liquor bars license numbers 1255111-1255115, 58 beer bars license numbers 1255116-1255173) for on premises consumption under the ABC law at 4 Pennsylvania Plaza New York NY 10121. Vil 11/03 – 11/10/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday November 23, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from PGT Rest. Corp DBA Slainte to continue, maintain and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 304 Bowery Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the revocable consent agreement may be addressed to: Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, Attention: Foil Officer. Vil 11/03-11/10/2011 ARIEL PROPERTY ADVISORS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2010. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 635 W. 42nd St., #PHD, NY, NY 10036, which is also the principal business location as well as the address of the registered agent, Shimon Shkury, upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A & FIVE, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/11. Office loc: NYC. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful acts. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 SFOGLINI LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/5/11. Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processThe LLC 11 Riverside Dr., #7LE New York, NY 10023 Registered Agent: Scott Ketchum 11 Riverside Dr., #7LE New York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AS/ASOF II INVESTORS, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/03/09. Princ. office of LLC: American Securities, LLC, 299 Park Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10171-8000 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Jeffrey W. Bullock, 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Making investments. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COMMONWEALTH REAL ESTATE LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/14/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: c/o Corporate Filing Solutions of New York, 47 Jefferson, Ave., Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 169 THOMPSON RESTAURANT LLC, filed under the original name 169 Thompson LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/14/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/7/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE off. addr.: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 181 THOMPSON RESTAURANT LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/17/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/7/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE off. addr.: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GREENCOOPER LP Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 09/21/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: GreenCooper LP, 4 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010. Name/ address of each general partner available from SSNY. Purpose: To engage any lawful act or activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CEKLA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/21/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 675 Third Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PANOPTIC FILMS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gary Breslin, 231 Sullivan St., Apt. 4, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NAME OF FOR. LP: V3 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 3/17/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/1/11. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 535 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of LP in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State. Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ZBOT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 9/21/11. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/29/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Eric Zerof, 107 Bank St., Apt 1, New York, NY 10014. Registered agent upon whom process may be served: United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CARTER’S DRY GOODS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/11. 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, 112 W. 34th St., NY, NY 10120. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CAPITALPLUS COMMODITIES FUND GP LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 10/5/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 10/4/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1221 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10020. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BBDB REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/11. 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 Katsky Korins LLP, Attn: Eugene V. Kokot, Esq., 605 Third Ave., NY, NY 10158. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TA-170 BROADWAY INVESTOR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/6/11. 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 Tribeca Associates LLC, 321 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NAME OF FOR. LP: TRIAN PARTNERS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND-B GP, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 8/22/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 7/25/11. Princ. bus. loc.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Addr. of LP in DE is: Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State. Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NAME OF FOR. LP: TRIAN PARTNERS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND (SUB)-B, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 8/22/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 7/25/11. Princ. bus. loc.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Addr. of LP in DE is: Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State. Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BRP GREENLIGHT ENERGY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/20/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o BRP COMPANIES, 10 East 41st St., Ste. 1201, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NATURAL HEALTH 4 U, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Victor Dabah, c/o Vida Shoes International, Inc., 29 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CU FUSION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/4/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Victor Dabah, c/o Vida Shoes International, Inc., 29 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CS SPORT BRANDS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/17/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gleason & Koatz, LLP, 122 E. 42nd St., Ste. 518, New York, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LISA SLAVIN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/27/11. 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 the principal business addr.: Lisa Slavin, 254 E. 68th St., Ste. 21B, NY, NY 10065, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF UNTER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/11. 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: 800 Market St., 7th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94102. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIRIS PARTNERS II, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/12/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 540 Madison Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022. LP formed in DE on 8/29/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIRIS PARTNERS II PARALLEL, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/12/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 540 Madison Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022. LP formed in DE on 9/15/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, no. 1256681 has been applied for by V Eatery LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at a restaurant located at 1700 Second Ave., New York, NY 10128, for on-premises consumption. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Bolin Corp. d/b/a Len’s Papaya to sell beer at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at White Hall Ferry terminal 4 South St. Space 204 New York NY 10004. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Ruchi Restaurant Inc. d/b/a Ruchi Indian Cuisine to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 120 Cedar St. New York NY 10006. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Evir Corp to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 117 2nd Avenue New York NY 10003. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1257815 has been applied for by Saro Corp DBA Saro to sell Beer, Liquor and Wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverages Control Law at 102 Norfolk St. New York, NY for on premises consumption. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1258601 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 321323 W. 51st St., NewYork, NY 10019 for on-premises consumption. IPPUDO WESTSIDE INC. Vil 11/10 – 11/17/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEFT FOOT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/2011. Office location, County of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Pig ‘N Whistle, Attn: E. Wilson, 58 West 48th St., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
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PUBLIC NOTICES YYTL LLC, A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 9/19/11. NY Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 430 W. 14th St., Ste. 503, NY, NY 10014. General Purposes. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ZONE 2 PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Washington (DC) on 12/27/05. 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. Princ. Office of LLC: 1 University Pl., Apt. 2F, NY, NY 10003. Arts. of Org. filed with Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Dept. of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, 1100 4th St., SW, Washington, DC 20024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LANTAU FUND GP LLC (ORIGINALLY FILED MOUNT KELLETT CAPITAL HYBRID GP, LLC). App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/10/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 623 Fifth Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRETTY YUM THING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/26/11. 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 the principal business addr.: 105 Duane St., Ste. 11K, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF DC MEXICO HOLDCO SUB LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/30/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, Attn: Corporation Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF VISUAL MARKETING PARTNERS LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/26/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 22-19 41st Ave., Queens, NY 11101. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: manufacturing of printed materials.
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL FUND I, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/16/10. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Permal Asset Management Inc., 900 Third Ave., NY, NY 10010. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Vanguard Corporate Services, Ltd., 3500 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
VIL 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NAME OF FOR. LLC: V3 CAPITAL ADVISORS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed NY Dept. of State: 3/17/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/1/11. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to princ. bus. loc.: 535 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. officer in DE where Cert. of Form. filed: DE Sec. of State, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 78355 Date of Filing: October 24, 2011 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS NATIONWIDE ADVANTAGE MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, -againstJOSEPH K OLIVER, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said JOSEPH K OLIVER, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA NA; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Michael L. Nenno of the Supreme Court of the State of NewYork, signed on September 28, 2011, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Cattaraugus, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by JOSEPH K OLIVER to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NATIONWIDE ADVANTAGE MORTGAGE COMPANY in the principal amount of $85,500.00, which mortgage was recorded in Cattaraugus County, State of New York, on December 19, 2005, as Instrument #: 45816-002. Said mortgage was thereafter assigned to the Plaintiff by instrument dated May 7, 2010 and recorded on July 6, 2010 as instrument # 142956-001. Said premises being known as and by 5779 Five Mile Road, Ischua, NY 14743. Date: October 11, 2011 Batavia, New York Virginia C. Grapensteter, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure NewYork State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies. Vil 11/03 - 11/24/2011
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legalads@thevillager.com PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday November 23, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from La Pala LLC. to continue, maintain and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 198 Allen Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the revocable consent agreement may be addressed to: Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, Attention: Foil Officer. Vil 11/10 - 11/17/2011
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ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2009/4495/B CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK HUMBERTO LOPEZ GUERRA SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION KATERI RESIDENCE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE NEW YORK CITY HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of JUANA BELLOCQ, deceased, if living; and, if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest, whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Juana Bellocq, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 235 East 87th Street, Apt. 1A, New York, New York 10128. A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of NewYork, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, NewYork, NewYork, on December 9, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 509, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of NewYork as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named persons be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that, unless the estate is determined to be insolvent, a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees, at which time proof pursuant to SCPA 2225 may be presented, or, in the alternative, that the balance of the funds, if any, less an appropriate reserve for the preparation of fiduciary income tax returns and the payment of taxes, if any, shown thereon to be due, be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of decedent’s unknown distributees, or for the benefit of any distributee who is under a disability and for whom no fiduciary has been appointed, or who has post-deceased decedent and for whose estate no fiduciary has been appointed, or whose whereabouts are unknown; (iv) that the claim of Humberto Lopez Guerra in the amount of $10,450.05 for reimbursement of funeral expenses be allowed; (v) that the claims of Social Security Administration in the amount of $2,415.60 for refund of benefits paid in error, subject to adjustment for actual sums received, Kateri Residence in the amount of $2,136.00, for Medicare co-insurance amounts, and Humberto Lopez Guerra in the amount of $7,300.00 for a personal loan without interest made on April 7, 2009, be allowed, and that a possible claim of New York City Human Resources Administration in an unknown amount, for reimbursement of Medicaid and/ or Public Assistance benefits paid for the account of decedent be fixed and determined, or, if not so fixed and determined, deemed rejected, and that such claims, to the extent not deemed rejected, thereafter be paid according to their priorities, to the extent of the net estate; (vi) that, if necessary, the estate be declared to be insolvent, and that any further payment or payments on account of all claims be deferred until such time, if ever, as the estate may become solvent; (vii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the Petitioner for legal services rendered to the Petitioner herein; (viii) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (ix) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §307 where required or directed; and (x) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. HON. NORA S. ANDERSON, SURROGATE Surrogate Dated, Attested and Sealed, October 14, 2011 (Seal)
Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk
Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq. Counsel to Public Administrator of the County of New York 90 Broad Street, Suite 1700 New York, New York 10004 (212) 363-2500 Note:This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. Vil 10/27-11/17/2011
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Pulp bad girls and a wooden pole on E. Houston St. Earlier this month, a new pulp fiction-inspired graffiti mural — only a section of which is shown above — went up on the Houston St. graffiti wall. The punch-packing piece was created by Faile, a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. The work also includes a spinnable wooden pole around the corner on Bowery, right.
Filmmaker makes biopic on what she knows: Her nose BY KHIARA ORTIZ For Gayle Kirschenbaum, what would lead to years of conflict, then friendship, with her mother was always right in front of her face. As a young girl, Gayle had to confront her mother’s crusade for her to get a nose job, since it was a commonplace thing for girls to do in her neighborhood growing up. “I didn’t want to get a nose job,” said Kirschenbaum, a resident of the Westbeth artists complex. As she described it, she spent her middle and high school years as her mother’s Barbie doll, having her hair chemically straightened, stuffing her bathing suit bras with padding, and enduring undeserved criticism. Her mother compared Gayle’s nose to the Native American’s prominent proboscis on the Buffalo nickel. “She wanted to mold me into her perfect little Jewish daughter,” said Kirschenbaum. “My father was not there for me and my brothers turned on me and worked for her like a bouncer. I was in fear of her when I was young and it manifested itself physically.” Studying art at a university that reflected her inner hippie let Gayle find herself and a personality much bigger than the bump on her nose. In the first few years after graduat-
ing, she broke into the multimedia industry. By her early 30s, she was done with advertising and not particularly driven by money. A “frustrated storyteller,” she turned to filmmaking and produced her first film, “A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary,” about her closest companion — a little Shih Tzu named Chelsea. “My canine soulmate” is how she described Chelsea, who passed away more than a year ago. The film played all over the world at several festivals and eventually won Gayle an Emmy. “My Nose,” a short film about the battles with her mother, followed shortly after, along with “Transforming Difficult Relationships,” a seminar about healing relationships and The Seven Healing Tools she developed to do so. “A lot of people couldn’t believe my mother wanted me to have a nose job,” Kirschenbaum said. “I never expected this film to take on a life of its own.” After all her motivational seminars, Gayle heard the same three things — that people loved her nose, that they hated her mother, and that they wanted to share their own stories with her. “I didn’t realize I had this gift or this knowledge,” she said. “I knew how to get
Gayle Kirschenbaum, right, and her mother star in the documentary “My Nose.”
people to open up and I was able to change my relationship with my mother.” As if being a media guru weren’t enough, Gayle’s experiences made her into a relationship expert, proved by the newfound companionship she has with her mother. “The person is conflicted for the rest of their life if they don’t resolve their issues,” Kirschenbaum said. “Abusive people prey on sensitive people but you have to change how you treat the oppressor and realize
where the person is coming from. Don’t take it seriously.” And a chuckle or two never hurt anyone. “I like to turn everything into humor,” she added. Kirschenbaum is currently developing a more in-depth version of her second film, titled “My Nose: The Bigger Version.” Through Kickstarter, an online fundraising medium, she was able to collect $50,000 for her new venture.
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Clockwise from above left: Chris Magasich at the O.W.S. food tent; erecting a women’s “safe space”; Sam Wood a.k.a. “Captain” at the medical tent with vitamin C; Autumn Star answering questions at the info/press tent.
No leaders, but many helpers BY BOB KRASNER One can be forgiven for thinking that the site of Occupy Wall Street is a chaotic scene. There are hundreds of tents and people and seemingly as many agendas. But while the conglomeration of tents that cover the grounds of Zuccotti Park seem to be a haphazard mess, there are a number of them that serve a specific purpose. To the surprise of many, this disparate group has managed to set up an infrastructure that works. Stop at the info/press tent and the volunteers will direct you to the various tents that house the medical, food, clothing, sanitation, legal and finance services. Chris Magasich, a 55-year-old furniture maker (not unemployed, homeless or addicted, he would like to note), was taking a sixmonth hiatus to hike in the mountains when he heard about the occupation. He now helps run the pantry at the food tent, where volunteers sign up for shifts and the operation is managed like a business. Sam Wood, whom they call “Captain,” is an unemployed 21-year-old from Long Island who has been here “since day one.”
On day two he went to work in the medical tent, where he and volunteer doctors, nurses and paramedics deal with “a constant flow of problems,” from common colds to hypothermia. Vitamins are dispensed, 24-hour care is available and doctors are on call at all times. The scene is not without its problems, however. A new tent went up Saturday in response to sexual harassment of women in the park. Nana Terrie, of the Strong Women Rules Subcommittee, oversaw the erection of a “safe space” tent where women could not only feel comfortable but also get advice on what Terrie named as the three options for the unemployed among them: Go back to school, start a business or find a new job. The tent will be filled with bunk beds, dressers and a welcome table. Another table will hold a computer. If you are still wondering why they are occupying Zuccotti Park, Magasich will tell you that it’s “because the government is not functioning for the people.” And the people there will tell you that they are functioning quite well for themselves.
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