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Wait for a table at park pavilion could get longer

By Albert Amateau The Department of Parks’ deal with a restaurant group to operate a seasonal restaurant in the renovated Union Square Park pavilion has fallen through.

But the city said on Tuesday that it would seek another operator.

The 15-year concession awarded last May to O-V Hospitality Group was for a restaurant, City Farm Café, to open in 2012 and oper-

ate from May to October, with casual and affordable food service, featuring products from the Union Square Greenmarket.

The deal called for O-V Hospitality, managed by celebrity chef Don Pintabono, to invest $1.1 million to install the restaurant in the recently renovated pavilion and pay the city at least $400,000 per year.

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Former Bialystoker prez asks, ‘What in hell’s going on?’

By Albert Amateau Sam Solarz, 83, a former president of the Bialystoker Center board of directors, is not happy about the impending closing of the 80-yearold nursing home at 228 E. Broadway.

“I think something is wrong with that,” Solarz told this newspaper in a telephone interview last week.

“When I left the board in 1999, we had thousands of

people who came to fundraisers for the home.”

Solarz, a founder of Master Purveyors, a meat wholesale company in Hunts Point, was born in Bialystok, Poland, the formerly largely Jewish city in northeast Poland that was the original home of immigrants who founded the center.

Solarz had survived the

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A traffic officer hung up one of the tiles from the Tiles for America memorial fence Wednesday. See Page 18 for more photos.

After surviving storm, tiles to be site of 9/11 gathering

By Lincoln Anderson They call it the “Heart and Soul of the Village,” and it’s been that way ever since the tragedy of 9/11. And almost anyone that you ask wants to make sure it stays there forever.

The Tiles for America memorial, at Greenwich Ave. and Seventh Ave. South, was hurriedly taken down to protect it in advance of Hurricane Irene. Now, a push is on to get all the tiles hung up on the fence again by the 10th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend.

Dusty Berke, who is leading the effort, is out by the memorial all day long, rain or shine, asking passersby to say a prayer and put up a tile.

The Village spot is set to be the center of an all-weekend memorial gathering, Berke said, featuring everything from

flowers, candles and quiet reflection to guitar playing and singing. It will be nondenominational, she said.

“Sixty to 100 people helped us take these tiles down as Irene was coming,” Berke said. “People started coming from all over, people with their dogs, people with their kids.

“Angelo from Rizza hair salon stored some of the tiles.

The busboys from Wogies bar carried tiles. Cafe Rourou has also been holding some. Elephant and Castle sent busboys out to help.”

Now, in turn, by offering people the opportunity to put a tile back up on the fence, Berke said, it’s letting them feel that they’re part of the rebuilding process.

The firefighters from Squad 18 recently rehung the Tiles

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notebook ‘organizing in jail’: Lynne Stewart’s husband, Ralph Poynter (holding “warning� sign, above), was one of the participants in a “Sit-in for Justice� last Friday afternoon. The protest on behalf of political prisoners and victims of police brutality began with a screening of the film “Live Through the Wire� at Theatre 80 on St. Mark’s Place. The group then marched down to the Criminal Court Building on Centre St., where several people made impromptu speeches criticizing the justice system. In particular, they noted the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and radical ex-attorney Stewart. “She’s good, she’s organizing in jail,� Poynter said of Stewart in an exclusive interview with our Jefferson Siegel. Last year Stewart, then 70, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for allegedly carrying messages for her jailed client Omar Abdel Rahman, a.k.a. The Blind Sheik. Poynter said Stewart gets the Sunday New York Times a week late because officials believe she’s somehow sending messages through its pages. “Her health is O.K.,� Poynter continued. “She has diabetes. Sometimes they give cake for breakfast. ... I try to visit her once a month,�

Poynter said of the arduous trip to Fort Worth, Texas, where only immediate family and a few close friends may visit.

Delancey / bridge bicycling: Following our article last week on the Department of Transportation’s plan for the Manhattan side on/off ramp for the Williamsburg Bridge bike path, D.O.T. released an image of what it has in mind.

Bikers almost jumped off their seats when they saw the extent of the design, which will basically involve ringing the area with 3-foot-high concrete walls, with little notches for cyclists to squeeze through. Bill di Paola, founder of Time’s Up!, the bicycling and environmental advocacy group, is still pushing for D.O.T. to consider Time’s Up!’s alternative plan, which calls for a new ramp for bikes to be built down to Delancey St.’s south side. He said they finally got some feedback from D.O.T. on its design. “They’re trying to say that the reason it’s such a bad design is because Homeland Security designed it,� he said. “But why would you create a design that’s not going to protect people, it’s going to hurt

people? I think this design is dangerous. If they go forward with it, Time’s Up! will be advocating that part of the wall be made of breakaway plastic.� Meanwhile, the Time’s Up! plan “makes perfect sense in the long run,� he said, since it would also include a parkway for cyclists along Delancey St., which would give them three blocks after the bridge to decide what street they want to ride down. Meanwhile, state Senator Daniel Squadron and Councilmember Margaret Chin, in the wake of cyclist Jeffrey Axelrod’s death at Delancey and Chrystie Sts. a couple of weeks ago, have gotten countdown crosswalk lights installed at key intersections around that location. Squadron said he is convening a meeting early next week on how to make Delancey safer for cyclists and pedestrians. Local stakeholders, community board representatives and agency officials will join the politicians or their representatives in brainstorming on solutions. Squadron stressed that his approach is that these meetings should be open to all ideas. However, he said, any plan for the bridge’s bike ramp must be achievable in a short amount of time and be economically feasible.

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Former prez to investigate home’s planned closing Continued from page 1 Bialystok ghetto uprising during World War II, hid in the forests around the city, made his way out of Poland at the age of 17 in 1945 and arrived in New York in 1951. “I just came back [on Aug. 16] from a memorial in Bialystok,� Solarz said in the Sept. 2 telephone interview.

Solarz recalled he had been president of the Bialystoker board from 1968 to 1999. In the early 1970s, as a member of the board, he said, he went to Chicago to buy the adjacent property at 232 East Broadway from the Teamsters Union.

The $200,000 purchase, Solarz said, was financed by individual benefactors and the property was donated to the center.

Last year, the Bialystoker Center board of directors approved the sale of 232 East Broadway to Matthew Adams Properties, the real estate company owned by the board’s current chairman, Ira Meister, for $1.5 million.

A member of the board, Barry Winston, said two weeks ago that the sale of the three-story building, which has been largely vacant recently, was approved to raise funds for operating the adjacent nursing home, as well as for making emergency repairs to the eight-story center built in 1930.

But Solarz said last week that he and

Photo by Albert Amateau

John Penley, second from left, and other protesters demonstrated outside Ira Meister’s Midtown office last week. Their banner reads, “Ira Meister Evicts Elderly and Puts Them on the Street.�

his son, Mark Solarz, an attorney, intend to investigate the impending closing of the center. “We want to find out what the hell is

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going on,� Solarz said.

Neighborhood activist John Penley mounted a four-person demonstration on Sept. 1 in front of the Midtown building on E. 59th St. where Meister’s real estate company maintains its office.

Meister did not respond in person to the demonstration but a spokesperson for the board issued a statement that day describing the center’s financial condition as “dire.� “At the end of 2010 the center was more than $8.5 million in debt, and in July of this year, the New York State Department of Health approved the center’s closure and its proposed transition plan,� the statement said.

The statement also said the board had made great efforts to keep the center open, conducting an “exhaustive� search for a buyer who would continue to operate it as a nursing home. But in the prevailing economic conditions, including decreas-

ing reimbursements for Medicaid and Medicare, there have been no buyers. “The center is working closely with its residents and the New York State Department of Health to relocate each resident into a new nursing center where they will receive the appropriate level of care,� the statement said. “Once the center is fully vacated the building will be sold.

All proceeds from the sale of the building will be used to pay Bialystoker’s vendors and creditors. Any remaining funds will be donated to charity, in accordance with the Center’s nonprofit charter. “The board cares deeply for its residents and employees and the center is committed to finding alternative arrangements for our residents and helping our employees through this transition,� the statement said.

As of last week, the Bialystoker Center had 85 long-term residents and 132 staff members.

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Smith Houses T.A. President Aixa Torres, third from right, and volunteers were honored for their efforts during Irene by, from left, state Senator Daniel Squadron, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, NYCHA Chairperson John Rhea and Councilmembers Margaret Chin and (not pictured) Rosie Mendez.

Smith leader, tenants honored for a great Irene evacuate rate

By Aline Reynolds As Tropical Storm Irene approached New York City last weekend, Smith Houses Tenants Association members diligently knocked on neighbors’ doors and warned them to evacuate the Lower East Side housing complex.

Through their unflagging efforts, Smith T.A. President Aixa Torres and a roughly 50-member volunteer group managed to evacuate almost 90 percent of the public housing development’s 1,920 residents. The impressive feat was cause for a special honorary ceremony held by local elected officials last Wednesday.

The politicians showered the volunteers with praise, and awarded them individual certificates for their good work.

“The fact that this wasn’t a tragedy at Smith Houses isn’t only because the weather had turned and it got lucky,” said state Senator Daniel Squadron. “This wasn’t a tragedy at Smith Houses because you did the work to ensure it wasn’t a tragedy. Congratulations for a job done extraordinarily well.”

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, “While we’re all grateful that Hurricane Irene didn’t come with the severity that was predicted, what we did see was the spirit of compassion, the spirit of the community, and the spirit of generosity that we’ve come to expect from our fellow neighbors in Lower Manhattan.”

Squadron and Silver gave Torres and her team a state proclamation, honoring their achievement of the highest Irene-related evacuation rate of all New York City Housing Authority developments.

NYCHA Chairperson John Rhea said that Torres and her volunteer group set a precedent for the city’s public housing developments to aspire to in future emergencies. Rhea noted that not only did they alert tenants to the evacuation order on the Friday before Irene, but they also recruited volunteers and translators and coordinated the residents’ transportation to nearby shelters.

“We’ve blazed a trail for what it is to reach out and to make sure our fellow neighbors are safe,” he told Torres and her fellow volunteer

tenants.

Councilmember Margaret Chin also presented the volunteers with a proclamation.

“We told the evacuees, ‘There might be danger. You have to take care of yourself and your family,’” Chin said. “Getting that information out was so critical early on.”

Torres appreciatively accepted the accolades and proclamations and said she sensed the urgency of NYCHA official Robert Knapp’s call Thursday evening before the storm to convene an emergency meeting the following day.

“For the first time, the responsibility of life and death really hit me,” said Torres after the ceremony.

On Saturday afternoon as Irene was getting nearer, the T.A. president took charge and assigned volunteers to do several evacuation rounds in each of the development’s 12 buildings.

As for the recognition, Torres said, “I’m feeling overwhelmed, and I’m definitely feeling really humbled.”

Mariainez Quinones, chairperson of the T.A.’s Grievance Committee, helped assemble residents for the emergency meeting before evacuating her elderly mother and seeking shelter with relatives in Nassau County.

“Everybody was very worried. We’re not used to things like this in this community,” said Quinones.

Raising awareness among her Smith Houses neighbors, she added, is something that comes “naturally.”

“I’m surprised they’d give me recognition for something I’d automatically have done,” Quinones said.

“Everybody was calm and cool, and cooperated real well,” said Robert Walker, who came all the way from Englewood, N.J., to help evacuate Smith residents on Saturday and clean up the development grounds on Sunday after the storm.

“This feels really good,” he said of being recognized for his efforts.

“I’d do it anytime,” the smiling volunteer said. “I care about my Smith people.”

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Rival clubs go head-to-head in district leader races

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER the knowledge that we have acquired as to On Tues., Sept. 13, primary election day what our communities need.” in New York State, registered Democrats will Belfer, a lawyer by training, was one of be choosing the people whose names will go Gateway Plaza’s first tenants and is curon the November election ballot as district rently president of the Tribeca developleader. ment’s Tenants Association and chairperIn the 64th Assembly District, Part C, son of Community Board 1’s Battery Park Linda Belfer and Jeff Galloway, endorsed by City Committee. She has been endorsed the Lower Manhattan Democrats, are running by Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, state against Paul Newell and Jenifer Rajkumar, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, state endorsed by the Downtown Independent Senator Daniel Squadron, Borough President Democrats. The district takes in the southern Scott Stringer and City CouncilmemberChin. part of Battery Park City, as well as Little Italy, Jenifer Rajkumar, her opponent, also lives Nolita, South St. Seaport, Financial District in Gateway Plaza and is also a lawyer. Her and parts of the East Village and Lower East résumé includes advocacy for domestic vioSide. lence victims at Sanctuary for Families, for In the 66th Assembly District, Part B, the rights of low-income immigrant workers which includes the northern part of Battery via the American Civil Liberties Union, and Park City, as well as Tribeca, Soho, Noho, for women’s reproductive freedoms at the part of Greenwich Village, and some of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She pracEast Village, David Reck, the L.M.D. candi- ticed civil rights law at Sanford Wittels & date, is running against John Scott, the D.I.D. Heisler. candidate. Jean Grillo, of D.I.D. is running “I was lead counsel on cases against corunopposed in that district. porate fraud and helped litigate some of the Each district elects one male and one largest class action lawsuits on gender and female district leader. They serve two-year race discrimination,” she said. terms and are unpaid but play an important She has been endorsed by Councilmember role in grassroots politics.

Rosie Menendez.

“We are able to influence how our comJeff Galloway, another Gateway Plaza munities develop based on our input,” said resident and a lawyer, is running for district Linda Belfer, who has been district leader for leader for the first time. He and his family many years. “We can influence our elected have lived in Battery Park City since 1982. officials based on the fact that we work on He is1 chairperson of C.B. Planning GC-2012OpeningAd-Villager-Hor-p1*:Layout 9/6/11 4:31 PM1’s Page 1 and their behalf and we can pass along to them Community Infrastructure Committee and

co-chairperson of C.B. 1’s Battery Park City Committee. He is co-founder of the Battery Park City Dog Association.

‘So much of politics is very local. That’s why it’s important to vote in the primary.’

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Galloway seeks to be district leader as “an additional avenue to the elected officials.”

One of his concerns is the process by which judicial candidates are picked.

“It’s incredibly important to have a highquality state bench,” he said. “Civil Court judges hear the kinds of disputes, such as landlord/tenant, that most people might be involved in. Supreme Court judges hear divorce, child custody and commercial cases.

As district leader, I could have more impact on the selection process.”

Paul Newell, his opponent and the incumbent, co-founded and has helped lead the Coalition for a New Village Hospital to replace

St. Vincent’s with a hospital serving Downtown residents regardless of ability to pay.

“I was also a prominent voice advocating for religious tolerance when our community board meetings were being invaded by the culture wars,” he said, referring to the fight over what some people called the “Ground Zero mosque.” Newell has worked vigorously for stronger rent laws. He has been endorsed

by Stringer, Squadron and Mendez.

In Battery Park City’s northern part, incumbent David Reck is being challenged

by John Scott. Reck, an architect, is the chairperson of Community Board 2’s Zoning and Housing Committee and served on a task force created by Stringer to keep an eye on N.Y.U.’s development plans in the South Village and make recommendations.

He is a founding member and president of the Friends of Hudson Square. He has been endorsed by Assemblymember Keith Wright.

Scott, a former president of the Independence Plaza North Tenants Association, headed C.B. 1’s Youth Committee, served on the first committee to run Washington Market Park and helped to get P.S. 234 built. He has been endorsed by Chin and Squadron.

“So much of politics is very local,” said Catherine McVay Hughes, a prominent C.B. 1 member. “That’s why it’s important to vote in the primary. This election will decide who’s on the ballot in November.”

The polls will be open on Tues., Sept. 13, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Thomas Mangravite, 85, camera expert, helped Reich said, “Honest and forthright, Tom spoke his mind always out of his sincere belief for what was right for the department and right for our students.”

Michael Carmine, director of camera

By Albert Amateau Thomas Mangravite, a lifelong Villager studies of the Tisch School’s Kanbar Institute and prizewinning cameraman who taught of Film and Television, said, “Tom was the cinematography at New York University for smartest cameraman I ever met. Students 20 years, died Aug. 11 at the age of 85. from 20 years ago still come up to me to As a 17-year-old Merchant Marine talk about his special-effects lecture and Academy cadet, he served as a marine engi- demonstration in which he makes himself neer aboard merchant ships during World disappear on camera using two-way mirrors.

War II and ended the war as a lieutenant It was magic!”

Tom Mangravite was camera operator, commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

In the 1950s he worked at Bell director of photography or lighting director Laboratories in the Village where he designed on 49 feature films, and shot almost 3,000 a high-speed camera to photograph parts of commercials and 200 short documentary, a missile control system in motion, as well as educational and theatrical films in all formats, from 16-millimeter to IMAX, includtwo other special cameras.

A man of broad-ranging artistic and tech- ing Cinerama and 3-D. He was born in the Village, the son of nical talents, he was also associated in the 1950s with Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a Viennese Thomas and Ellen Glenfield Mangravite. His psychiatrist who died in prison in 1956 after father was a stonemason and bricklayer. The the Federal Drug Administration convicted family belonged to the parish of St. Joseph’s him in connection with the manufacture and Church. Young Thomas’s name is on the sale of “orgone boxes,” which Reich claimed bronze plaque on the church on Sixth Ave. honoring parishioners who served in World had almost miraculous therapeutic benefits.

Although in ill health in recent years, Tom War II. Mangravite taught regularly until September A cadet at the Kings Point Merchant 2009 when he had open-heart surgery, said Marine Academy soon after Pearl Harbor, he Pamela La Bonne, his wife of nearly 30 was commissioned a third assistant marine engineer on merchant ships in 1943. years.

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tening in complete silence to the torpedoes go by,” said La Bonne, who married him in 1982.

After Tom was discharged from naval service and married at the time to a girl he had met as a teenager, he went to Paris as a photographer for a U.S. Army magazine, shot freelance photos and did sculpture.

“He was really a Renaissance man, a cabinetmaker, carpenter, sculptor, photographer, cinematographer, inventor — he did everything,” La Bonne said.

Back in New York in 1949 Tom Mangravite worked for the Department of Parks on pool filtering systems and later was a technical aide to Hunt Diderich, a sculptor whose work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to a résumé he drafted in 1998. In a 1998 interview with James Strick, a history of science scholar, Tom Mangravite recalled his involvement with Reich and Dr. Michael Silvert, a Reich associate. Although denounced by mainstream psychiatrists, Reich’s theory of orgone energy won many adherents in the 1950s and led to the development of accumulators — boxes made mostly of wood with some metal and large enough for a patient to sit in to absorb the “energy.”

Mangravite, a patient of Silvert’s at the time, fabricated Reich’s orgone boxes in New York, at a cost of about $100, and Reich sold them for about $400, according to the Strick interview.

But because of the trouble with the F.D.A., Reich moved to Maine and told Mangravite not to send any boxes across state lines. However, a man purporting to have an orgone box in Pennsylvania asked Mangravite to mail a small metal wire component to a Pennsylvania address. Soon after, federal agents arrested Mangravite and took him in handcuffs to Portland, Maine, to testify as a material witness in the federal

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Something fishy going on

A young parkgoer demonstrated how to use East River Park’s new table for cleaning fish, chopping up bait — and (very important after all that fishy business) washing hands. She said her father told her the table was used for cleaning fish. The water is controlled by foot pedals, and the table has a special groove leading to a drain.

Thomas Mangravite, 85 Continued from page 8 case against Reich.

Both Reich and Silvert were sentenced to two years in prison, but Reich died before his sentence ended.

“I met Tom at a party in 1973,” said La Bonne. By that time Tom was long divorced from his first wife and was about to be divorced from his second wife, Phyllis Stevens, an artist. “He was the smartest man I ever met,” said La Bonne, who married Mangravite in 1982.

In addition to N.Y.U. he taught a lighting seminar at Columbia University in the mid1960s and courses at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s.

His feature film work included “Across the River”; “Death Wish,” with Charles Bronson; “Tattoo,” with Bruce Dern; and stunt photography in “Superman.”

Redden’s Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

A memorial will be held at 1 p.m. Sun., Sept. 25, on the Tisch soundstage at 721 Broadway where he taught a generation of cinematographers.

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Union Square Park pavilion cafe operator bails out Continued from page 1 However, O-V-Hospitality withdrew from negotiations without signing a concession agreement. No reason was given, but the finances of the deal may have been a snag in negotiations. Moreover, there is the prospect of a renewed lawsuit by the Union Square Community Coalition and NYC Parks Advocates, civic groups long opposed to a restaurant in what they insist must be reserved for park and playground uses.

Nevertheless, a spokesperson for the Department of Parks said the agency is “reviewing other highly qualified proposals and will select a new operator in the very near future.”

“The new public cafe benefits all New Yorkers and brings

positive life to the park, especially after dark, as it continues the 150-year-old tradition — going back to the first restaurant in Central Park — of dining al fresco or stopping for a beverage in a natural setting nestled in the midst of this boisterous and fastpaced city. Income from this public seasonal cafe goes to the general fund to pay for city services. It not a private venture,” the spokesperson said.

But Geoffrey Croft, a founder of NYC Parks Advocates, said on Tuesday that he was saddened that the city is going to continue to pursue another concessionaire “and take away desperately need year-round community and playground space.”

U.S.C.C. went to court in 2008 to block the proposal for a concession in the pavilion but the suit was dismissed in 2009

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Croft said on Tuesday that the awarding of a concession in May made a renewal of the lawsuit “ripe.” The suit asserts that the restaurant concession must obtain New York State approval for “alienation” of public park property. Such approval was obtained for the restaurant in Bryant Park on 42nd St., Croft said.

At the city’s Franchise and Concession Review Committee in June, elected officials, including Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and state Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, had reservations about the Union Square pavilion concession.

Stringer on Tuesday said, “Now that the city’s illconceived deal to turn over the Union Square pavilion to a private concessionaire has fallen through, I urge the administration to reconsider their plans and return the pavilion to full-time public and community uses. The city’s precious public park space should be used for recreational purposes that benefit all New Yorkers, not for private enterprise that benefits only a few.”

Croft contended that the area around Union Square Park has the lowest concentration of playground space but the highest concentration of restaurants in the entire city.

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Police BLOTTER Pee perp is flushed out

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Police finally caught up last weekend with a suspect who fought while being arrested on July 24 on Christopher St. for urinating on a car. William Green, 30, was arrested Sat., Sept. 3, for the offense at 4:44 a.m. more than a month earlier in front of 114 Christopher St. Green fought with the two officers who tried to apprehend him and elbowed one cop in the face and kicked him in the stomach before making his escape.

Police did not say how or where they arrested the suspect.

After an evening of shopping in Soho, a Brooklyn man, 26, sat on the steps in front of 99 Prince St. around 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 17, for a rest while listening to music on his headphones. A short time later, he discovered that his bag, which he had put down beside him with his wallet and iPhone, was gone. Other people were sitting on the steps at the same time, but no one saw anyone take the bag, police said.

Pulled out gun Two suspects approached a man walking on Wooster St. near Canal St. around 4:10 a.m. Sat., Sept. 3, when one of the suspects tried to grab the victim’s neck chain, police said. The victim held onto the chain and struggled with the suspect who pulled a silver handgun and ejected a spent shell casing, but fled with his accomplice without firing a shot, police said.

Friends fight A man, 27, told police that a friend punched him to the ground after an argument around 12:50 a.m. Tues., Aug. 30, on the southwest corner of Grove St. and Seventh Ave. South. An immediate canvass of the area did not turn up a suspect. But four hours later police arrested Evander Carter, 19, identified as the suspect, and charged him with thirddegree assault.

Meatpacking bash A 27-year-old woman patron of Tenjune, the club at 26 Little W. 12th St., told police that another woman patron hit her over the head with a bottle around 3:20 a.m. Sun., Sept. 4. Jennifer Laurie, 25, was arrested in the incident and charged with assault.

Gone at Off the Wagon A patron of Off the Wagon, the bar at 109 MacDougal St., put his laptop computer next to him on Mon., Aug. 29, around 5:50 p.m. and discovered a short time later that it had been stolen. A surveillance camera in the bar recorded two patrons, later identified as David Henao, 28 and Jorge Perez, 29, passing the item back and forth between them. They were charged with larceny.

Bloomies theft Police arrested Ivette Santiago, 38, after she was caught on a surveillance tape in the Bloomingdales Soho, 504 Broadway, on Wed., Aug. 31, removing five watches and a pair of earrings from a display case and stashing them in a white plastic bag.

Santiago was stopped as she tried to exit the store without paying for the items, valued at $1,210, police said.

Car break-in A resident of 78 Grand St., between Greene and Wooster Sts., parked his car in front of his residence at 11 a.m. Mon., Aug. 29, and returned to it the following evening at 7 p.m. to find the rear window broken and the G.P.S., along with a camera, two cell phone chargers, an iPod and two iPod connectors, were gone.

‘Hey! Where’s my S.U.V.?’

A man who parked his 1997 Subaru S.U.V. on Vandam St. between Hudson and Greenwich Sts. at 8 p.m. Tues., Aug. 30, returned an hour later to find the vehicle had been stolen. He admitted to police that he had a spare set of keys on top of the driver’s side sun visor.

E. Fifth St. burglary Police arrested three suspects as they came out of a building at 715 E. Fifth St. between Avenues C and D shortly after 2 a.m. Sun., Aug. 27, and charged them with breaking into an apartment in the building and stealing various items.

Kevin Santos, 18, Michael Ortiz, 19, and Joshua Bartolomey, 29, were charged with the break-in. Police found the stolen goods — an iPod and an iTouch, a brown leather bag, a baseball and a digital camera — that were taken from the apartment.

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Stronger than ever

What a decade it has been since 9/11/2001 — a devastation and a decade that have totally transformed our neighborhoods.

Our coverage in The Villager and our sister paper, Downtown Express, over the past 10 years — of 9/11 itself and its still ongoing reverberations — has detailed Downtown New York’s continuing struggles with the pain, horror and dislocation of 9/11; the enormous efforts to get people back into their homes and businesses; and the sheer pulling ourselves together, all of which give an overwhelming American and New York response to terror: You cannot break us, we will only come back stronger.

Those who live and work Downtown, and even some who don’t, will well remember the nerve-racking dramas of our children being transported to welcoming schools outside the district; of parents demanding environmental and pollution analyses to see if they could get their kids back into their own schools; of businesses trying to open their doors to see if they still had any customers; and of the leaders of our nation, state and city formulating (and reformulating) a massive resolve to rebuild Downtown, and the World Trade Center site itself.

The W.T.C. rebuilding process, at the end of day, is one of the most remarkable and democratic building experiments ever put in play — a vast plebiscite on who we are as a people and how we can come together for a common purpose and actually get, not just something done but, God willing, something extraordinary done.

It’s clear from a review of our last decade’s articles that our community’s 10-year response to tragedy and rebuilding was not easy. It was done in fits and starts, it had huge delays, there was sometimes great political and civic vision, and sometimes great political discontinuity and failures of vision.

What comes through in the end is something of the essence and strength of a healthy urban democratic process. Citizens and civic groups mobilized impressively to rebuild a community. Leaders emerged who listened, planned and implemented a vast development process that deepened the area’s residential presence and diversified its commercial makeup. The resulting mixed-use neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan are much more stable than pre-9/11, more able to weather economic challenges and other dislocations.

Wshat has resulted is a better, more sustainable and robust Downtown, one that has doubled its population since 9/11 and is today among the most livable and dynamic neighborhoods in the entire city.

Downtown is clearly back, and stronger. It is a story we can all be deeply proud of.

This May, under President Barack Obama, a daring raid by U.S. Navy Seals finally took out 9/11’s mastermind, Osama bin Laden.

Although it was a major relief — and a bittersweet victory — to have finally eliminated bin Laden, we must still remain vigilant. New York is still a terrorist target, and our local and federal law enforcement must stay on point. This struggle, unfortunately, will be ongoing — probably for decades.

But out of the death, devastation and despair of 9/11, we managed to come together. We began to feel closer to people whom we had perhaps just passed by in the past.

We looked at our police and firefighters in a new way — realizing they are on the “front lines” of this new war.

Ultimately, we realized we’re all in this together.

New York has sprung back, stronger than ever.

That’s how New York is: We pick ourselves up and move on with our lives. We’re tough. We do what we have to do. We get it done.

But we will never forget 9/11 and its victims, and its heroes, too, and the Twin Towers. We still stand tall.

letters to the editor Don’t exterminate — relocate!

To The Editor: Cruelty-free rat management could succeed in Tompkins Square Park; it did for us. Do we really want our beloved park seeded with poison — dangerous to wildlife, children, dogs — and poisonous to our idea of our park? Aren’t cruelty-free and earth-friendly solutions the Village ethos, and the park’s? Surely a better example to children!

We live in both the East Village and out of state. Last summer, spilled birdseed attracted rats. We wanted no poison on our property: We’d solve the problem without harming rats. The Health Department agreed, confirmed that rats’ spreading rabies is a myth, and stressed that removing food sources and covering garbage bins are essential to any solution — applicable to Tompkins Square Park.

Working with a local animal rescue, we humanely livetrapped the rats, using the “Tuffy 24” steel rescue trap with smaller mesh, from Tru Catch. For bait — bananas, apples, bread, peanut butter.

Check traps frequently. Harmlessly release trapped birds or squirrels. Fill rat holes with soil; when holes aren’t reopened, rats are gone.

We trapped all 25 rats, and transported them to a suitable, remote location, which we dubbed “Ratopia.” Recently, flooding threatened. The rescue retrapped every rat, relocating them to uninhabited higher ground, “New Ratopia.”

Surprisingly, the rats were smart, endearing, engaging. Some dislike rats, but all beings deserve our compassion. Our food-littering helped increase Tompkins Square Park’s rats. It’s our responsibility to remedy this humanely, without violence. We can! Animal rescues and community groups could volunteer to help trap and transport. It’s pretty easy to do.

So far, at our out-of-state place, we’re rat-free. Accrued good rat karma!

C. White

A happy median for cyclists To The Editor: Re “A bridge plan gone too far? Bikers have an idea of their own” (news article, Sept. 1): Wouldn’t it make sense to continue the two-way bike path down a protected median along the middle of Delancey St., all the way to Bowery? The Department of Transportation’s “meet-up area” at the foot of the bridge is guaranteed to

create a congested mess, and it just dumps cyclists onto adjacent streets that are not well set up for cycling and are not the destination of many of the cyclists.

Instead, create a traffic-light-controlled median along the length of Delancey, from which cyclists can turn onto whichever north-south street they need to get to. Plus, it would create a better pedestrian refuge area in the median.

David Bergman

This BID could be BAD To The Editor: Re “Back Chinatown BID” (editorial, July 21): Years of the L.M.D.C.-funded Chinatown Partnership have not made business better in Chinatown. Within blocks of Councilmember Margaret Chin’s and the Chinatown Partnership’s offices, there are still vacant storefronts since the post-9/11 closure of Park Row. The same leadership would be at the helm of the Chinatown BID. In total, the area’s already financially burdened small property owners and businesses would have to pay at least $1.3 million per year for the BID. The bad economy will probably put some out of business, but adding a BID could be the lethal blow for even more.

So, ironically, putting a business improvement district in Chinatown will not improve business. The BID will employ some people to tie up and replace bags at the corner garbage cans and perhaps pay for some frilly features as “window dressing.”

Sadly, the Chinatown BID’s budget of $1 million for sanitation costs, which comes to almost $3,000 per day, will not improve business anywhere close to what the BID will cost. Meanwhile, the BID will pay more than $200,000 a year in administrative costs. Will Wellington Chen continue to benefit with the lion’s share of this cost in salary? Will the cost of a Chinatown BID mean not only higher prices in Chinatown, but more storefront vacancies?

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En route to Irene of summer 2011: A hurricane diary notebook

By JERRY TALLMER The blackbird sings to him, ‘Brother, brother, If this be the last song you shall sing, Sing well, for you will not sing another; Brother, sing.

Julian Grenfell, “Into Battle”

You could call it a portico. You could call it a rotunda. Or you could just call it a big, semicircular, roofed porch, the whole thing supported by three or four massive Greek columns, in the manner of the Parthenon, though these columns were surely not marble but painted wood.

Be they wood or marble or the granite of New Hampshire, that portico and those columns at the entrance of College Hall saved my life, a lifetime ago.

What do you know about hurricanes, my editor asked as washed-out Irene wandered on her destructive way toward Vermont and points north.

Only that I’ve lived through three of them. Earlier ones.

Can you write it? Try, he said… .

College Hall, a big, old, rumbling elephant of a building diagonally across Main Street from the Hanover Inn, was where all freshmen in those years took all their meals — breakfast, lunch, dinner.

On the night of September 21, 1938, we 600 or so new kids on the block had only been in Hanover a day or two. Everything was exciting and fearsome — the school, the upper classmen, the professors, the placement tests, the being-on-your-own, the new roommate, the homesickness (not I!), even the weather.

Which was blowing up a storm.

Literally.

They didn’t have female names for hurricanes back then. This one would simply go down in history as The Great New England Hurricane of 1938, or, depending on where you lived, The Long Island Express.

Before it was through, it had killed some 700 to 800 people along its track and left a trail of wreckage and injury that today would be measured in the billions.

And as we freshmen at Dartmouth College were finishing our so-called dinner

that night, the winds came bearing straight down upon us.

In latter-day slang, we young fools thought it was a hoot. We laughed. We gamboled. We rushed to the door to take a look… .

Hard cut, Jean-Luc Godard style.

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Some of the flotsam that washed up onto the East River esplanade north of Waterside Plaza in the E. 20s during Tropical Storm Irene.

think, but in any event before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We are ordered to batten down our tents and everything else in sight, but it does no good: Everything gets blown away in the howling winds — and when I look out over the vast harbor the next day, there are what seem to be hundreds of U.S. vessels, large and small, floating there, as far as the eye can see — upside down. A surreal scene, calling for Brueghel or Bosch.

There were no casualties of man or aircraft in our squadron. Far as that goes, the nearest I ever came to death throughout all four years of World War II was when I bent down to pick up a towel that had fallen off my hips as I was going to an open-air shower — a big metal can with holes in it. (This may have been on Guam.) At the instant I bent down to grab the towel, a bullet whistled past where my head had just been. Doug Blalock — the name has suddenly sprung back to me out of nowhere — a lean, cynical, long-nosed crew member from St. Louis, had shot from our tent at a rat scuttling through — a fun and games Blalock played all the time.

Jump Cut 2 to Fire Island, just off Long Island, summer of (I believe) 1952. I am freelance writing, which means swimming in the Atlantic Ocean and putt-putting around Great South Bay in a rowboat driven by an outboard motor.

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A hurricane is coming. Warnings go up in Ocean Beach. People pack up and flee to the mainland. We will not flee. We are young — not so young as back at Dartmouth, but young and foolish enough to want to stick it out just for the hell of it. To see what a hurricane looks like, by daylight, up close.

I think there is a little of Scott and Zelda splashing in the Plaza Fountain somewhere in that decision.

In latter-day slang, we young fools thought it was a hoot. We laughed. We gamboled. We rushed to the door to take a look… .

So we stay. Our rented house is a lovely, two-story, isolated wooden dwelling a quarter-mile to the east of civilization. We are alone, isolated.

The hurricane strikes, howling and blowing like fury, round and round, ripping apart Fire Island, which at this end is nothing more than sand and scrub and seagulls.

We know one thing about hurricanes: There is dead space, an eye of the hurricane, in its very center, and first the wind circles one way, clockwise — unless it’s counterclockwise — and then there is this dead zone, and then Act II arrives and the wind blows in circles the other way.

And sure enough, this happens. The eye of the hurricane arrives over Fire Island, and there is no wind at all, no sound at all except our breathing. Dead silence. And then, in this absolute vacuum, a birdsong! Not a screeching of seagulls but an exquisite sweet lone birdsong, maybe a blackbird or a meadowlark, offering a hymn at heaven’s gate.

Then the other side of the hurricane arrives, howling and blasting as before but in the counterclockwise apposition. And then, after a while, it’s all over, and we’re alive, and the lovely rented house is still standing, and the seagulls start screeching again — and the hurricane has cut a 50-foot-wide track, a slice, a gulf, a trench, a river, clean through Fire Island, ocean to bay, splitting Fire Island

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actually in two. It missed our house — and us — by perhaps the length of a football field. Had it been a hundred yards the other way, we’d have had to swim for it… .

In the College Hall dining room we foolish frosh are laughing and joking, and some guys — I learned only yesterday from classmate Leo Caproni — have pulled chairs out onto that porch and are sitting there, jesting, taking the storm at leisure.

I’ll go see for myself. This New York boy doesn’t know from hurricanes. I run to the door, take four steps out onto the porch, and suddenly a giant tree, maybe a giant ancient elm, 50 feet high and 6 feet in circumference — at that instant this huge hundred-year-old granddad comes crashing down straight at me, atop me, programmed by the Almighty to squash me like a bug.

And gets caught on the very edge of that semicircular porch roof, and clings there by its fingertips — or my tingling fingertips — as I duck under and away from the fallen killer, and off the porch to confront the night and the wind and the rain and the gale on my own.

Seven days after the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 — on September 28, 1938 — Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Monsieur Edouard Daladier will hasten to Berchtesgaden to hand Czechoslovakia over to Herr Adolf Hitler.

Some three years after the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 I would be writing editorials in The Dartmouth with headlines like “Into the Night,” recalling that storm-tossed entry to college while bracing for — calling for — entry to the far larger and more consequential worldwide hurricane.

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Out of the Ashes

Looking back at 9/11 â&#x20AC;˘ A special Villager supplement â&#x20AC;˘ Pages 15 to 46

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The tiles on the chain-link fence at Greenwich Ave. and Seventh Ave. South are the last spontaneous 9/11 memorial left in the city. They were painted by children at Our Name Is Mud, the former ceramic studio next to the triangular lot, which is owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Not all the tiles feature images of the World Trade Center; some have written messages, others symbols of peace. Recently, to safeguard them before Tropical Storm Irene hit town, a group of P.S. 41 parents took them down, and now, with the help of the community, are putting them back up again.

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In photo at left, from left to right, Noah Sutter, Villager Publisher John W. Sutter and Cici Sutter in 2000. At right, Noah and Cici Sutter in 2011.

What my kids said to me is what I’ll remember most

By John W. Sutter At the end of the day, what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, is a personal experience for everyone. Sure, our newspapers covered the events relating to the tragedy and rebuilding for the last decade, more than 1,700 stories.

Sure, we were intimately involved with all of the rebuilding “timelines” and covered the churning politics, the accomplishments and the many delays. But at the end of the day, when I think about 9/11, I think most about what my kids said to me.

On Sept. 12, 2001, my daughter Cici (five years old at the time and attending her first week of kindergarten at P.S. 234) asked me if Borders at the World Trade Center site had survived the big fire. She loved Borders and had attended dozens of morning “story times” there. I told her that I didn’t think it did, and that’s when she finally broke.

“It did survive,” she cried, “I know it did.

I saw it through the flames!”

In fact, I didn’t know at the time if it had survived or not, but I was intent to find out. The next evening I worked the W.T.C. midnight to 4 a.m. shift with a group of ambulance workers at a feeding station. On

my way home, I had to see if Cici’s vision of Borders was right, and I schlepped all the way over there through the ankle-deep ash and smoke with eyes burning and lungs aching. When I rounded the corner at Church and Vesey, my spirits soared: there it was, Borders, still standing! But as I looked closer, it was completely charred and gutted, and clearly had to be razed.

My son, Noah, who was four at the time and headed for his first day at preschool, was with us at Duane Park and saw the first plane fly overhead bound for the North Tower. He asked me a week later if a lot of people had died in the “great fire.” I told him that I thought that a lot had, and that’s when he dropped a line that still rips into me. “I know there was a lot of death Daddy because I can hear people screaming beneath the flames.”

Of course the little soul had absorbed the despair and death all around us. Our Tribeca neighborhood was plastered with heartwrenching posters of missing family members and crawling with police and emergency service personnel. The smoke and stench of the pile hung over our neighborhood like a

dark shroud.

Every morning we would get up, and walk over to Greenwich and Jay Sts. and look at the pile, and ask each other if the fire was out yet. And every day, when we

We all have a post-9/11 decade under our belts, but it’s still deeply personal. would see the smoke, we’d say, “Not yet!”

And we said those same words, every day from September through the end of December 2001, when we looked hard, and even harder, and finally saw no smoke.

The fires went out on Christmas Day, or at least that’s the day they went out for us.

And that’s the day we brought home Rosie, a baby black pug.

We had never explicitly told the kids about what really happened on 9/11. They

knew about the planes, but not the intent.

It’s hard to explain that level of evil to a four- and five-year-old. It was just known to them as the big fire that the heroic firefighters finally put out.

When Cici reached the age of seven, in 2003, she let me in on a real Downtown coming-of-age gem. She asked, “Daddy, do you remember those people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center?” “Yes,” I replied. “What about them?” She looked me in the eyes, voice raised and pulsating, and said, “THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE!” I didn’t know whether to burst out crying or laughing.

On Sat., Sept. 10, 2011, Kathleen, Cici, Noah and I will attend the “Hand in Hand” event sponsored by Community Board 1. We all have a post-9/11 decade under our belts, but it’s still deeply personal. And we’ll hold our hands tight, and our neighbors’, too, as we still try to come to terms with the most significant event of our lifetimes.

Sutter is publisher and editor in chief of The Villager, East Villager and Downtown Express

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Memorial has become the ‘Heart of the Village’

Everyone is pitching in to help get the Tiles for America memorial back in shape for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. To keep the tiles from being blown off and destroyed by Hurricane Irene, a group of women who call themselves the Village Angels, along with volunteers, took them all down two weekends ago. Clockwise from above: Village Angel Dusty Berke, right, talking with Joanna Shows, who was carrying a plant someone had donated to the memorial; nanny Meredith Kennedy and Dashel Neville put up a tile; Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man,” brought over his 9/11 planter from Astor Place, and it now has a palm tree in it; tiles laid out on a police barricade in the rain, ready to be rehung by community members or passersby on Wednesday.

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New York University pauses to remember and honor the lives lost on

September 11, 2001.

We continue to mourn those members of the NYU community and fellow New Yorkers who died on that tragic day.

NYU stands by New York: past, present, and future.

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Mighty Twin Towers are laid low on a day of infamy The Sept. 11 attack leveled the 110-story World Trade Center in under two hours, an hour and 45 minutes to be exact. At 8:45 a.m., W.T.C. 1, with the antenna on top, was hit. Eighteen minutes later, W.T.C. 2 was struck; it collapsed first in a huge cloud of dust and smoke, at around 10 a.m. A half hour later, W.T.C. 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antenna wobbled, then the tower imploded downward, the weight of the top floors pancaking onto those below.

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Disaster on an epic scale: ‘It looked like a movie’

Above, people fleeing in shock and panic as the World Trade Center’s South Tower came crashing down on 9/11. Below, a bit earlier, smoke spewing from the fatally stricken Twin Towers after they were hit by hijacked, fuel-laden passenger jets. A common comment heard that day was “It looked like a disaster movie.”

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Cheering the rescue workers: My month on the median

By Kate Walter I saw summer turn to fall on the median of the West Side Highway where I stood waving my American flag, holding up handmade thank-you signs, saluting the rescue and recovery workers.

The crews, coming from long shifts, would pass in their various vehicles — fire engines, police cars, ambulances, motorcycles, Army trucks, heavy rigs, M.T.A. buses, Verizon vans, Sanitation trucks, Con Ed trucks, food and water trucks — and they would honk, blow sirens, wave back.

By the second week, a system had developed. Someone would yell, “Incoming,” and we’d rush to the downtown side.

“Outgoing,” we’d rush to the uptown side.

The first few days, it was so crowded; both sides were lined thick with cheerleaders.

Then most people went back to work, but since I teach at Manhattan Community College, which was commandeered in the cleanup effort, this became my job.

The second Sunday after the attacks, two police cars stopped, and the officers got out to greet us. This had not happened before. It was the canine rescue unit from Knox County, Tennessee. The officers wore green uniforms and had heavy Southern accents. Two of them removed their hard hats and asked us to sign them!

I wrote, “New York Loves You — Thanks.” Then they took our pictures and we took theirs. The dogs, Max and Chase, jumped out too. According to the officers, the dogs were stressed out and needed attention. So everyone eagerly petted the hero dogs from Tennessee.

We asked the officers if they had ever been to New York before.

“No, first time,” one drawled.

“Ya’ll come back,” we said as they sped off.

As our ranks thinned into a raggedy encampment at the corner of Christopher St., it seemed important to maintain the vigil on this site, now dubbed Point Thank You on Hero Highway. I felt guilty if I missed a day.

Although I never did an overnight shift, I was a regular on the highway for a month.

We shared bottled water and Gatorade donated by the Red Cross. Most people were freelancers, retirees or the unemployed. As one woman explained, “I’m on the dole. This is how I’m earning the money.”

Our group included a few attractive-looking 30-something women who wore tight American flag T-shirts and Yankee caps. They flirted with hunkylooking cops or firemen. One officer from Buffalo, who paused to snap our picture, insisted this sexy woman in a red tank top get into the forefront, “for the boys back home.” The World War II reference reminded me we were entertaining the troops of this new war.

As the second and third weeks wore on, more personnel stopped to talk. A member of the Fire Department handed out the now familiar posters of the three

firemen raising the flag at the site. A FEMA worker filled up with tears. Police officers from Fitchburg, New Hampshire, gave us special pins stating, “National Disaster Medical System.” I fixed one on the collar of my jacket and felt recognized

I realized cheering the workers was my way of coping. It was my therapy. as part of this effort.

Police from Rhinebeck, New York, paused to say goodbye on their last day before heading back Upstate. One said, “The people of the city have been great.

We wanted to thank you guys on the highway. Your support means a lot.”

“Can you believe they are thanking us?” we asked each other.

On Sept. 28, an official government car pulled up. A tall man emerged, wearing crisply pressed dark pants, a blue shirt and navy tie; two ID cards hung around his neck. He came over with a handful of boxes and said, “These are gifts from the president of the United States. He wants you to have them.”

At first I thought it was a joke. Then I realized it was not. He gave us boxes of M&M candy with the presidential seal and blue stripes and white stars.

“Thank you. What an honor,” I managed to say, forgetting I am a liberal Democrat.

One Saturday, Police Commissioner Kerik stopped to thank us.

“You’re doing a great job, sir,” I said, surprised at myself. I once called cops pigs.

Throughout the fourth week, state troopers and cops from the N.Y.P.D. and the New York Sheriff’s Office visited for longer periods. I wondered if the state trooper smiling at me was the same scary guy who gave me a ticket Upstate or if he understood the pink triangle in the middle of my flag button. No matter. The cops hugged the women, shook hands heartily with the men.

For a month, I donned my New York Liberty cap and went to the highway religiously. I asked myself why I did this and why I kept coming back. The first week, I was caught up in the rush to do something. After a month, I realized cheering the workers was my way of coping. I didn’t feel helpless. I felt needed. It was my therapy.

An officer told us about driving back home at midnight on a rainy night.

They were betting whether anyone would be out on the median.

“You guys were there,” he reported.

“We couldn’t believe it. You were there.”

That kind of feedback helped keep the vigil alive. When I arrived for duty Sat., Oct. 13, I saw the West Side Highway was open to downtown traffic for the first time since Sept. 11. Two lanes of regular traffic and only a few rescue vehicles in one lane had altered the atmosphere. Now visitors from New Jersey and New York and Connecticut in flag-decorated cars were honking and waving at us.

“Welcome back to New York. Welcome back to the Village,” I chanted, knowing it was time for me to break camp and leave the median.

I had done my duty and was needed back at my job at Manhattan Community College. Fiterman Hall, our new south building, was under the rubble and looked like it might have to be razed; my class was now meeting in a trailer on the West Side Highway, across from the pollution-

spewing operation where the wreckage was dumped from trucks onto barges in the river.

I walked down Chambers St. past the carnage to teach in this depressing environment. My students were great and they kept me going. The dust flew all the time.

My throat felt like I swallowed chalk.

The college assured us the air was not toxic, but face masks were available in the nurse’s office.

Walter lives in Westbeth and is writing a spiritual quest memoir. She teaches personal essay writing at N.Y.U.’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and is a faculty member at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

“Cheering the Rescue Workers” is also in the anthology “In the Shadow of the Towers.”

Photo by Elisabeth Robert

In the Village after 9/11, showing support for the rescue workers along the West Side Highway.

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Healing at Union Square

After 9/11, Union Square became a place to gather to mourn and try to salve the psychic and emotional wound of the terror attack. At right, on Sept. 17, 2001, a woman lit a wick in a virtual cathedral of candles. A group of woman kept the candles lit at all times. Priests and monks came to hold services. Others came to engage in fiery arguments about foreign policy, war and peace. Above, after a few weeks, World Trade Center paraphernalia also began to appear in Union Square.

We will never forget, our prayers go out to all the families and friends who lost their loved ones

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Losing the Towers, losing our sense of security in New York

By JERRY TALLMER Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December. But the days grow short when you reach September.

Ten years. Ten minutes. Ten seconds.

The elevators in the World Trade Center always scared the hell out of me, the few times I had reason to ride in them — usually to get to Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of one of the Towers.

They reminded me of boxcars, those elevators — the kind of boxcars that conveyed a million or so Jews to Auschwitz, except that these oversized tin-can elevators seemed much more flimsy than any boxcars would have been.

I was actually in another elevator, in my own apartment house, heading off to work, when a woman who lived some floors above me said: “Did you hear? A plane has just flown into the World Trade Center.”

What flashed into mind was the B-25 that had hit the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on a fogged-in day in 1945, not a beautiful blue-sky day in 2001. Joseph Kahn, a reporter for the New York Post, had climbed up all 79 flights of steps to get to the floor where a dozen or so young women had been burnt to death at their desks.

Now, in 2001, a black woman of some years had a radio tuned to 1010 WINS. A second plane had hit the other Tower. How

Am I still angry? You bet.

Angry at the box-cutter wielders who killed Berry Berenson Perkins and nearly 3,000 other human beings.

Jerry Tallmer.

many dead, I asked her.

“Forty thousand,” she said bleakly.

I crossed the street, entered the building where I worked, got into an elevator there... and, for the first and only time in my life, slid to the floor in a two-second faint.

Make mine Manhattan, New York, New York, it’s a helluva town; the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, the people all ride through a hole in the ground…. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere…

I like New York in June. And July. And

“As we continue to rebuild Lower Manhattan, the victims of September 11 will remain in our hearts and memories. The acts of that day will stay with us forever, but the resiliency of our great community will continue to move us forward.”

August. And September… .

What the hell, I was born and bred here East Side, West Side, all around the town.

Native New Yorker, New York City-er. All my life I have been — had been — blessed with a sense of security, total unthinking security, as I walked around town — my town — guarded by two oceans and a forest of skyscrapers. Weren’t you? And millions of other walkers?

All that security was blown away in the space of an hour. Not an hour, a split second, when the first plane hit the first Tower. In that instant everything changed — changed utterly, as a great poet said in somewhat different context.

Le Corbusier said the skyscrapers weren’t tall enough. Maybe he was right. Not tall

enough or strong enough, not to mention fireproof enough.

There was once a long, slow, prestigious movie called “2001.” In it, an exploratory space ship of the (then) future is taken over by a computer named Hal. That’s the difference between 21st-century terrorism and 13th-century terrorism — a rogue computer vs. a handful of box cutters.

Since 9/11 we have narrowly averted a shoe bomber, an underwear bomber, a Times Square bomber, and I don’t know how many undisclosed other bombers.

Nobody knows how much longer we can be so fortunate as to hold off even greater disaster than 9/11.

Am I still angry? You bet. Angry at the box-cutter wielders who killed Berry Berenson Perkins and nearly 3,000 other human beings that morning. Angry at George Bush for taking three whole days to get to Ground Zero and then exploiting the hell out of it. Also for not having the guts to go get bin Laden when he, and we, might have had him. Most of all, angry at myself for sharing, to whatever tiny degree, the Islamophobia of some of the worst, most despicable, most dangerous political figures of our time.

The New York Observer had it right 10 years ago. Its 96-point banner front-page headline that week was, quite simply: “Sept.

11, 2001.” That said it then, and says it now.

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ON THIS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11TH

WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO WERE LOST AND ALL THOSE WHO LOVED THEM. WE THANK THOSE WHO RESPONDED THE FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, EMERGENCY WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS. WE WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE IMPACTED AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO REBUILD.

THE PEOPLE OF GOLDMAN SACHS

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I left Jane St., but that day will always be with me

By Patricia Fieldsteel NYONS, France — A perfect Provençal morning. That was how I thought of it, then.

I came here to visit, but my home for more than 30 years was Jane St. When the first plane flew way too low overhead, many of us ran outside and stood on the corner of Hudson and Jane in horror and disbelief.

Then another plane did the unthinkable. We held each other and wept. For 102 minutes we watched in shock, in a nowhere place, suspended in time. As the second graceful Titanic of the sky slid into oblivion, I remember thinking, “All those people thought they were simply going to work on a beautiful September day and suddenly their lives were over. You’ve always wanted to live in France.

What the hell are you waiting for?”

I’d been coming to Nyons for four winters to babysit eight cats in a feudal château while the owners returned to Jane St. The first two years, much as I loved France, I was happy to return home. I’m a fifth-generation New Yorker and my friends always joked about my inability to go above 14th St. unless it was to visit a museum, attend a performance or go to the dentist.

My lifelong love affair with New York began to sour with my landlord’s increased harassment in 1999. By the time I came here to Nyons in January 2002, I was desperate to get out. Money, or rather the lack of it, has always been a major issue, but an insurance settlement for damage done by the landlord

to my apartment’s contents had put some cash in my pocket.

Two weeks before I was due to return to New York, an odd chain of events began to fall into place. I’d had no intention of buying either a house or an apartment, but four days before my departure a 400-year-old newly restored house came up for sale. It was the only house I looked at and I was the only person to see it. My first thought was, “This is much too good for me.”

I’d lived my entire adult life in studio apartments with Pullman kitchens. I could afford the down payment and mortgage provided I gave up my rent-stabilized studio and with it my life in New York forever. A chance like that happens once. I thought back to that day, five months before. What was I waiting for? I signed the necessary papers, negotiated a 20-year mortgage and returned home to pack. By July 2002, I was gone.

For the first anniversary, friends were visiting Provence. They invited me and several others to be their guests at one of this area’s finest restaurants. I was ambivalent. Dining in a two-star a year after nearly 3,000 innocent people had been murdered in the space of minutes seemed obscene. But then, if they hadn’t had their lives barbarically extinguished, wouldn’t most have given anything to do what I was contemplating turning down in their memory? I went, mindful of the sacredness of the day and how blessed I am.

Ten years later we remember all those who are no longer with us and salute all the heroes who came together to make our City even stronger.

The Downtown communty remains as vibrant as ever, a testament to the spirit of all those who live here.

Assemblymember

Deborah J. Glick 853 Broadway, Suite 1518, New York, NY 10003

Tel: 212-674-5153 / Fax: 212-674-5530 glickd@assembly.state.ny.us

Today, 10 years on, what remains? I’m alive, without injuries, or the loss of anyone close. Low-flying planes and stealth bombers still cause me to stiffen; nightmares of being caught in collapsing buildings or running

I remember wondering, ‘Why is that plane flying right up to the burning Tower? Isn’t it dangerous?’

from burning cities occasionally interrupt my sleep. I’m bothered by sudden loud noises and burning odors.

The waking memories have lost their power, or so I’d thought. That first afternoon I’d wandered into what was still called the Meat Market. Massive refrigerated trucks were parked, motors continuously running.

Men stood guard, their own cars, license plates from around the country, parked nearby. I’d asked if there was anything I could do.

“I’m dying for a smoke.”

I bought a carton of his brand; when he tried to reimburse me, I refused.

“Thank you,” he’d said, somewhat surprised. “You know, I’ve never been to New York before. People are so nice.”

I’d pointed out buying cigarettes was nothing compared to what they were doing for us.

At first, there was the disconnect, the denial of what we were seeing. Clearly now, it’s obvious what was in all those frozenfood trucks that traveled back and forth from Ground Zero (initially called “The Pit”), parked for weeks in the Market and Chelsea Piers.

When the second plane circled around in back of the towers and flew so close, I remember wondering, “Why is that plane flying right up to the burning Tower? Isn’t it dangerous? The passengers must all want to take pictures. How bizarre.”

Even without the ensuing explosion, when I see videos of what I watched from the sidewalk, my thoughts were pathetic, absurd. Just as when I walked south along the West Side Highway, camera in hand, wondering what the “precedent” was for photographing this or that. Or when small projectiles were falling straight down from the top floors and I’d needed to believe they were pieces of wood.

Trauma gave way to an epidemic of kindness that couldn’t sustain itself. We cooked for the Sixth Precinct and the res-

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Thank you to the entire Lower Manhattan community for extraordinary courage, strength and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds. There is much to remember and honor as our rebuilding continues.

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That day will always be with me Continued from page 27 cue workers; we looked out for each other, held fundraisers for our two firehouses, each of which lost so many men, men we knew, who’d been in our apartments to help out with floods, power outages, fires, gas leaks. We knew them from Western Beef and the Jefferson Market, those beautiful, muscular boys who loved to cook, with whom we shared recipes and tips. This time they didn’t risk their lives, they gave them, often unnecessarily because of the Giuliani administration’s arrogant lack of preparedness and outdated disaster response equipment, something the mayor later tried to cover up.

We went through the motions of daily life. I went to work on Morton St. the next morning. Francis Mason, the man for whom I worked, received an early call from a friend. She’d had a breakfast meeting at Windows on the World. The meeting was running late. A colleague who’d had to leave asked her to ride down in the elevator so he could go over some points. A man held the closing doors for them. They rode down, the plane hit; they were the last to leave alive.

The day continued like that.

We both knew people who were missing; they all turned up alive, telling similar stories involving quirks of fate.

On the way home, I walked along the West Side Highway. News trucks from around the world were parked below Christopher St. New Yorkers — mommies and daddies and babies in strollers, leather boys and hustlers, yuppies, guppies and old Yippies, people of every color, shade and hue of our glorious mosaic — stood silently with flags, with handmade signs that said “We love you” — and as our officers from the Sixth returned from Ground Zero, their faces ashen, expressionless, staring ahead, we clapped and applauded until for a moment they wanly turned away from a hell we could not imagine to look at us and try to smile.

All along the riverbank, couples stood and sat, embracing, staring out at the rippling golden river as the red sun began to sink on a day that would be forever seared in our memories. What the night would

bring — and we prayed another dawn — no one knew.

The fires continued to burn. We washed cremated dust from our windows. Zombielike states gave way to emotional excess, overreactions to everything, petty fights over nothing. We worked nonstop or couldn’t concentrate; we slept too much or barely; we drugged or drank, ate too much or too little; we were angry, sad, depressed. A lot of us had colds, sore throats and coughs that went on too long. Friends and neighbors lost their jobs, or had work dry up, especially artists, caterers and freelancers.

At first I was determined to stay, to help rebuild my town, even though the seeds to leave had been planted before the airplanes hit. Ten years later, I’m to some degree Nyonsaise, but I consider myself a New Yorker. I’ll never be anything but, even though I live somewhere else. People here refer to me as La New Yorkaise and most likely always will.

In July, I had lunch in an outdoor cafe with a young Dutch couple. We’d met by chance; they were intrigued to find a New Yorker in a relatively unknown part of France. They loved New York. Inevitably the conversation turned to l’onze Septembre.

(In French it has a mournful sound — l’ohnz Sehtombruh.)

He’d visited Manhattan in early October 2001 for a business trip planned months before. The farther Downtown he’d gone, the more he’d no longer recognized the city he’d visited in 2000. What had struck him most was the silence that had rained down along with the paper, the debris and the ash.

I could see it was hard for him to talk, especially when he tried to describe how he’d felt when the first reports had come across his computer screen. His wife hadn’t found out until the evening when she’d returned from work. Hesitantly, they’d asked if I’d still been there. It was such a long way’s off; I confidently began to describe that morning.

Before I understood what was happening, my throat began to tighten, my heart to race, then tears fell from my eyes.

Here in Provence, I still think of a day like that as a September 11 morning. It’s no longer perfect.

Over the last ten years, Lower Manhattan has grown into a thriving residential and cultural community. This transformation is possible due to the resilience and spirit of downtown residents — who have demonstrated their unwavering commitment to their community every day since the attacks on September 11, 2001. I am inspired by the strength of this community and honored to serve as your representative.

Councilmember Margaret S. Chin

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A DECADE OF GROWTH Ten years ago, New York Downtown Hospital participated in the single largest hospital response to an emergency ever. Over the course of two days, with no utilities, the Hospital treated 1,500 people, including 269 firefighters, police, and rescue workers. As a result of this effort, the Downtown corporate community came together to fund a new Emergency Center that would be the most up-todate facility, twice the size of its predecessor, with the latest available technology, to meet the needs of the Lower Manhattan communities.

This new Emergency Center was built on what was the Hospital’s center courtyard.

After a decade of expansion, the roof of the Emergency Center became the foundation for the Hospital’s new Wellness & Prevention Center, which provides advanced cardiac diagnostic technology, and a full spectrum of women’s services, including mammography and DEXA scan. Based on the results of your screening, you and your physician will develop a plan to protect, promote and maintain your health, as well as to prevent disease and disability.

Lower Manhattan is the fastest growing neighborhood in New York. And New York Downtown Hospital is continuing to grow to meet your needs.

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Snapshots of lives cut short

In the days and weeks after 9/11, missing persons posters for the victims of the Trade Center attack were ubiquitous Downtown, particularly around the former St. Vincentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. The hospital devoted a wall on W. 11th St. as an area for the posters. As time went on, it became a poignant memorial. As made clear by the fliers, the victims came from all walks of life, all races and all religions. These photos were taken on the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11.

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Haunting my youth — from Pakistan to Ground Zero

By Muneeza Iqbal I sat in front of the television doing my homework. It was around five in the evening and I was startled to hear my dad’s voice as he marched up the stairs, hours before he usually came home from work.

He ordered me to switch on CNN and I did so without question because I had never seen the man look so scared.

And there I saw the breaking news of the event that would haunt my childhood, change my world as I knew it, and start a 10-year hunt for a man that, little did I know then, would be found in a small military town in the country I grew up in.

The next day after school I accompanied my mother to the grocery store. She was stocking up on necessities, like the swarms of other tense shoppers in the store. The whispered word around town was that our president was going to “side with them,” the bearded enemy, and not with the Americans, who would then choose to attack us in such a scenario. And hence, people were hoarding groceries, expecting the worst.

And although nothing drastic enough to cause rationing happened, a month later the first American troops marched onto Afghani soil. Our schools were shut down for “an indefinite time period.” I thought nothing unusual of this; schools were often closed due to sudden riots or strikes.

However, there was something different about the unexpected holiday this time. Air Force planes flew over our house several times a day.

American franchises, dubbed the devil’s brainwashing mechanism, were targeted by bombers and would continue to be so for the next couple of years. There was nothing welcoming about Ronald McDonald anymore. People ignored their Big Mac cravings and drove past his smiling figure as fast as possible.

It was only years later as I sat eating dinner with my American college friends in New York City that I learned there was nothing normal about schools being closed “indefinitely” because of a war not even being fought on one’s own territory. We had lost about two consecutive weeks of school, along with several other days throughout that year.

In my mind I had always assumed that my American counterparts probably got a few days off as well. They hadn’t — life went on as usual for them.

My father had lost sleep for days after the two Towers fell because the business he had built exporting to America could collapse if our president chose the wrong allies. But he didn’t, and my family didn’t starve — however, many others would. Less than 3,000 people died that fateful day, but that is close to the number of innocent people that fall victim to terrorism in any given month in Pakistan up till today.

I can’t pinpoint the day I realized that the Taliban had poured into my country and become a local nightmare. At first we just heard about the isolated battles in the remote northern regions of the country.

Then entire villages were evacuated. And

A friend of the writer’s flashing the crowd at Ground Zero in May amid the jubilation over Osama bin Laden’s killing.

then bombs went off in the major cities of Islamabad and Lahore. Karachi, my hometown, remained surprisingly safe.

But then some of Karachi’s well-known co-ed schools had bomb scares. Hordes of children, as young as 4, were evacuated.

Fortunately, they remained just scares. My own school received several threats from people claiming to be associated with the Taliban. The school eventually put barbed wire all around its walls, installed metal detectors at all the entrances, and even went as far as to place a sniper on the roof.

By then I had moved to New York. I would often hear about family friends being kidnapped for large sums of money and bomb blasts in areas that I was only too familiar with. Being so far away, I felt terrified for my loved ones back home.

I remember stepping out of an exam once and going on Facebook to announce to the world my sense of relief. But through status updates of friends from back home I learned that there had been a bomb blast, about four miles from where my family lived. My heart stopped.

When I called my dad, he told me that the entire house had rattled. But he joked about it. Because for those back home, bomb blasts are a frequent occurrence, more frequent than rain, and hence even rain can cause more disruption to daily life than a bomb going off. People just carry on with their lives, simply praying every morning that it won’t be their last. It was only when I stepped out of that bubble did I realize how wrong it was to have to live this way.

As finals rolled around this year, I found myself procrastinating one day on Twitter.

Several updates informed me that Obama was going to break some important news that night. Very soon, the Web was filled with speculations as to what it could be.

“Osama bin Landen is dead!” announced foxnews.com stealing the breaking news from the president. Sitting between friends who had grown up in this country, and for whom this was an extremely proud moment to be an American, I too got swept up in the emotions. We high-fived and hugged. It was the first war victory our generation was experiencing.

Not for a minute did I pause and think, between grabbing my coat and camera and heading toward Ground Zero, what this really meant for the country I grew up in, one that had been affected very differently than the U.S. by this slain man.

For Pakistan, nothing would change.

Hundreds more fell victim to terrorism within the country the week the man whose image accompanied the very term “terrorism” was eradicated. If anything, Pakistan’s situation became worse as the U.S. considered cutting aid and the Taliban fought back the Pakistani soldiers even more fiercely than before.

Most Pakistanis refused to even believe that bin Laden was found and killed in that compound. They had seen pictures of Saddam Hussein’s hanging dead body, so why couldn’t bin Laden’s corpse have some visual proof? The word of the U.S. president was not satiating enough; they wanted evidence.

Thinking about it rationally, bin Laden’s hideout was not very different from my own childhood home, or any other average Pakistan house. His boundary walls were 18 feet high; my own are 11 feet. Barbed wire skirted the walls of both his home and mine, as they do on many other homes to prevent thieves from breaking in. There is nothing unusual about having a large plot of land.

Property is fairly cheap in Pakistan and many middle-class families have large houses and gardens, often inherited from their parents and grandparents.

There is no proper garbage disposal method in most of the country. So, people either dump their trash on empty ground in the neighborhood, or burn it, like those living in bin Laden’s compound did.

Some news agency interviewed neighborhood children who complained that when their cricket balls landed in that house, the family wouldn’t return them. My grandfather has a large collection of such cricket balls because he hates it when the neighborhood kids ring his doorbell several times a day wanting to search his grounds for their lost balls.

But as I stood among the crowd at Ground Zero that night, I too got carried away with the mob. I had gone there with the intention of observing how people would react, but was moved into chanting with them. I realized later that the entire crowd had consisted of college students looking for an excuse to drink and celebrate, without realizing that their debased reaction would be aired to the world and be severely condemned.

I don’t regret being there that night, but I do regret joining in the “celebrations.”

There was nothing really to celebrate there, because the alleged death of one man will not end terrorism. Rather, it amplifies it in the form of backlash. Things continued to worsen for Pakistan. If we continue to avenge death with death, the world will not be a safer place.

Iqbal is an undergraduate at New York University. She interned with The Villager this summer.

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Do we have fortitude to keep up war against terror?

By Ed Koch In his address to Congress after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was “a date which will live in infamy.” Nine Eleven is likewise a date that will live in infamy. The war with Japan lasted almost four years. The war that began on 9/11 with the Islamist terrorist world is now 10 years old with no end in sight.

Islamist terrorism now exists in 62 Muslim countries and is supported by millions of fanatics. That campaign of terror is also supported by homegrown Islamist terrorists in the U.S. and European countries, and we have seen major acts of homegrown terrorism in the U.S., Great Britain and Spain, by those born and raised in Western countries.

Those who suffer most from Islamist terrorism are Muslims, sometimes Sunni and other times Shiite. Those two branches of Islam have been engaged in a civil war for centuries. Muslims have been killed by the tens of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, etc., by other Muslims in their ongoing religious civil war. Muslim citizens in Western countries suffer unfairly from being viewed by many fellow citizens as a potential fifth column.

Do we of Western civilization have the intestinal fortitude to keep fighting generation after generation to preserve our values and our liberties? Or will we ultimately, in effect, surrender.

The killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, by the U.S. Navy Seal team has had little or no effect on the morale of the adherents and supporters of al Qaeda. For his followers, he is now a martyr in terrorist heaven, where they all hope to end up. The “Arab Spring” events have increased the power of the terrorists.

In Egypt, the opponents and successors in government to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, an authoritarian leader but longtime friend of the U.S., are overwhelmingly Islamists. When the so-called “Arab Spring” uprising spread to Egypt, we quickly dropped our support of President Mubarak, naively forgetting that his opponents are not friends of this country and want to end Egypt’s peace with Israel.

The New York Times of Aug. 21 reported: “By removing Mr. Mubarak’s authoritarian but dependably loyal government, the revolution has stripped away a bulwark of Israel’s position in the region, unleashing the Egyptian public’s pent-up anger at Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians at a time when a transitional government is scrambling to maintain its own legitimacy in the streets.”

We will soon see if the Libyan rebels who appear to have toppled Muammar elQaddafi — he should have been assassinated by our special forces long ago — will be any different than their oppressor.

I do not mean to suggest that we should not support popular uprisings. My point is that we must judge each situation on its merits and not immediately conclude that those who take to the streets in the Arab

world are like those who took to the streets to fight the Soviet Communist governments in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and elsewhere.

In the case of Syria, the popular uprising is most likely in the U.S. interest. However, we have been exceedingly slow in throwing our support behind the Syrian people’s efforts to topple a brutal regime that is a close ally of Iran. President Bashar al-Assad has ordered the killing of his own people. His soldiers have shot down several thousand of them in the streets of major Syrian cities — men, women and children. He ordered the Syrian Navy to bombard the seaside city of Latakia, inflicting civilian casualties.

The Western world now demands that Israel engage in peace talks with the Palestinian Authority that now includes Hamas, which is described by Western countries as a terrorist organization. While President Obama has demanded that Israel return to the pre-1967 borders with “swaps,” Hamas believes that Tel Aviv is part of the Palestinian inheritance, and that every Jew who entered historic Palestine after 1917 must be expelled. Yet, Western nations

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expect Israel to negotiate with Hamas, which is reminiscent of Britain and France insisting at Munich that Czechoslovakia negotiate with Hitler.

If we are willing to pressure Israel to

negotiate with a terrorist organization and we support Afghanistan’s negotiating with the Taliban, another terrorist group, can we be certain that our president won’t ultimately direct Secretary of State Clinton to negotiate with the Islamist terrorists to achieve peace in our time? Iraq, which we liberated from its oppressor Saddam Hussein, is now aligning itself with Iran and Syria.

It was shocking to me to learn that every Democratic member of the House of Representatives elected in New York City voted against renewal of the Patriot Act. This act is the major law enforcement legislation used to uncover terrorists here and abroad. Fortunately, it passed in the House by a vote of 250 to 153 and in the Senate by a vote of 72 to 23. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand voted “aye” and Senator Chuck Schumer did not vote.

Do we have it in us to stand up for freedom, no matter how long it takes to achieve victory and no matter the cost in blood and treasure? I wonder.

Koch was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, and is a longtime Villager

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After 9/11, learning to love cops and wave the flag;

By Heather Fenby “Die yuppie scum” graffiti covered this neighborhood back in 1988, when the Tompkins Square riot pitted squatters and homeless-rights activists against cops on a hot August night. “My horse is my penis!

My stick is my dick!” taunted the crowd as mounted riot police charged protesters and bystanders alike, bottles rained down from rooftops, and helicopters beamed searchlights from above. In 2001, this same corner held our neighborhood’s shrine for the missing, poems and flowers and candles for those we thought we reviled. One of our block’s French bistros, long bemoaned as an example of the gentrification that supplanted any remaining real bohemia with destination fun, replaced its prix fixe chalkboard with an open invitation for free dinner for blood donors and volunteers. And the cops at the Ninth Precinct’s stationhouse invited local street artist Chico (Antonio Garcia) to paint a new mural on their garage bay door: “To the Community: Thank You.” This is the East Village, iconoclast central. And in our grieving, we are redefining our stance against authority, shaping a leftist patriotism, and reclaiming our community. The 13 years since the Tompkins Square riot have seen the very gentrification the demonstrators feared. Overpriced Thai food trumps funky performance gallery.

Community gardens bulldozed and developed. Although the raw anger and rebellion,

and the most vocal squatters and punks, the most fabulous Mudd Club faces, the edge and the squalor, have been gone for some years now, the East Village remains invested in its outsider image.

Long-term residents often share the views expressed by performance artist and activist Penny Arcade, that the police are protecting real estate interests and “your right to walk down Avenue B in a slip.” Since when, she asks, “does the Housing Authority own a tank?” Gentrification, to Penny, is police enforcement of middle-class values. Cabaret artist Helen Stratford concurs, “The police were seen as a threat to creativity, intelligence, originality and all of the magical things that happen in chaos. They enforced order, conformity, the law.”

But after Sept. 11’s pyrotechnic horror show, viewed on TV or from our very own rooftops, our New York was literally invaded by the other New York, and then, virtually, by the world’s images and ideas of New York. Our neighborhood was cordoned off.

Here, in the zone between 14th and Canal, with only official traffic and bona fide residents allowed, an authentic grief and solidarity took shape. We were incredibly respectful to one another; the homeless, briefly, became real people rather than a cause, just as the faceless sell-out yuppies moved from symbol to individuals in the heartbreaking Times tributes. The cordons let us fell the real soul of our neighborhood, without the clutter and

chatter of the party crowd. They allowed us, too, to feel how close we were to what had happened; we were insiders. The constant sirens, the police policy of “omnipresence,” the discarded yellow tape and blue wooden

This is the East Village, iconoclast central. And in our grieving, we redefined our stance against authority, shaping a leftist patriotism. barricades, the detritus of emergency, all felt more real than repetitive broadcast images, heroic/patriotic montages, rhetoric and analysis.

A memorial far less dense and organized than that at Union Square formed in Tompkins Square Park, the shape of a huge heart outlined with candles and full of flowers. A more profuse floral display blossomed on Avenue A just south of 14th St. under a breathtaking new mural of the city’s skyline painted by Chico on Sept. 11. The Hell’s

Julie Menin wishes to thank and acknowledge all who stood tall with our community in our darkest hour as now on this ten year anniversary we reflect, remember and unite.

Angels New York Chapter spanned the largest American flag I’ve ever seen across Third St. And the Ninth Precinct was reclaimed from TV land’s “NYPD Blue” iconography for the community, decorated with hundreds of thank-you cards from as far away as Oregon, and with the ever-fresh flowers at the sidewalk shrine.

Detective Jaime Hernandez, community affairs officer for the precinct, tells me that community response was instantaneous and overwhelming. People called and stopped in, asking what they could do, what the cops needed. Local hospitals and clinics and a Y.M.H.A. offered beds for those crashing after long shifts, and free care to the five precinct cops injured on the first day. People brought food. “This one woman, she’s a character, she likes to stop by, she likes to dance,” Hernandez says. “Always asking us for money. She brought us two packages of cookies and some juice. And she was crying because she said, ‘This is all I can afford.’

What are we gonna do, tell her we don’t need it? It was the type of thing you just wanted to grab her and scoop her up in a big hug.”

Irene Nolan owns Ponica, where she sells her own clothing designs, two doors down from the precinct house. For the first week after the attack, she stayed at home, watched TV, and felt isolated and afraid. One day she

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Reclaiming our community from media and talking heads Continued from page 36 went down to the West Side Highway, and there was Helen Stratford, with a bunch of American flags, cheering like mad. Helen tells me that Irene grabbed a flag and held it close, and that marked the change.

“Me? With an American flag? Embracing American values?” She opened up her shop because people need a place to gather, and she began to organize and coordinate donations to the precinct. Her schedule shows that for almost two months, every day, local restaurants delivered dinner for 75 cops.

Once Irene began to call, people began calling her, asking, “How can I help?”

Irene tells me that participation saved her life. “It was scary to be alone during this time.” And Helen tells me that everything has changed, that the cops and the community have humanized one another. Before, she says, we could romanticize anarchy and revolution. But now, she says, “I see they are protecting our ability to create, to rebel. The taste of true chaos made us value that order and stability within which we experiment.”

One night a cop decided to paint a huge flag for the stationhouse, and it kind of didn’t look that good. So Lieutenant Sam ran up to Chico’s house at 11 p.m. The cops know Chico because, before he got commissions, he got busted for graffiti regularly.

Lieutenant Sam told him, “We need a mural,

something with a flag, a thank you.” And Chico grabbed his stuff and painted it in about half an hour. Irene shows me a photo of a broadly smiling group, some in uniform, “Cops and hippies, hanging out,” she says.

I go to a breakfast that the police are giving for the community. There is laughter and genuine warmth, lots of cops, business owners and artsy people. Detective Hernandez has made gorgeous, framed plaques for the people who’d dropped off business cards with their donations, featuring a stunning, detailed, pen-and-ink drawing of the precinct house. The precinct has also taken out a fullpage ad in The Villager, which states: “Being a Police Officer is a very difficult job, but in these past days, you, the community, have helped to keep us strong, to reinforce the oath we have sworn to uphold the law, and made it easier to cope with this tragedy. They say that New York City is the greatest city in the world, but this saying cannot be complete without the greatest citizens of this city — like the residents of the Lower East Side.”

One cop says, “I’ll never forget that first night at Ground Zero. A citizen showed up with a shovel, wanting to help. That’s what this community has been like.” Irene, who’s from England, gives a beautiful speech about having lived here for 30 years but never having felt American until now. Someone talks about a new era, a transformation in how we all deal with one another. “These are our heroes and I’m glad that our society’s

changed so it values that.” Everyone cheers.

Lieutenant Sam (Airam Ortiz) notes that she asked to be transferred to this precinct, and jokes about the renown of the “world-famous graffiti artist” Chico. The photographer who came by snaps picture after picture; everyone wants one of them with the cops, holding their plaque. Helen, resplendent in a swirling Victoriana gown, plays cabaret accordion, and then, as the gathering winds down, a gentle “America the Beautiful.”

Coming home I pass a building on Seventh St. with an actively tended shrine.

Candles burn, flowers are fresh, and on the door is posted a Times obituary I had just read last night. Joyce, I remembered reading, “was the epitome of cool.” Of course this is where she lived. There is a pumpkin and wonderful cards: “I love you Joyce,” reads one card.

The nation moved on to abstraction and analysis, before New York was ready. And the smell and the rubble and the dust and the

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sirens and the tape and the posters — I want them to stay. Too quickly, the material races ahead of the emotional. We New Yorkers are still stuck on minutiae when the media has moved on to meaning. For the first time I understand that meaning can be the enemy.

It’s always imposed, and always, particularity is plowed under, tamed. It makes sense to me that things should be disrupted, that we should be forced to confront what happened. And I can’t be the only New Yorker who feels a tad proprietary, as if the world has wrested our tragedy away from us for its war and its lessons and its justifications and its catharsis. Ours.

Someone has graffitied the sidewalks again. But with fat outlines of flowers, simple and schematic. The image is almost banal, yet oddly resonant and persistent; it surfaces intermittently from the fringes of my subconscious, the blossoming of new hope.

This article is reprinted from the Jan. 23, 2002, issue of The Villager.

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Former firefighter recalls the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Miracle of Stairwell Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

By Gerard Flynn In his studio apartment not far from Ground Zero, retired Firefighter Mickey Kross recently demonstrated what he did the morning the North Tower collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, at 10:28 a.m.

Kross, 64, then a lieutenant assigned to a firehouse on E. 29th St., was part of a unit on the 24th floor that had been ordered by his commander to quickly vacate the building, following news of the collapse of the South Tower at 9:58 a.m.

Stopping to assist an injured woman on the 23rd floor, Kross and his men had carried her to the fourth floor of Stairwell B when the walls started violently shaking.

What followed over the next 10 seconds, Kross recalled, was a deafening roar, as the 110-story office tower rained 250,000 tons of steel and slabs of concrete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was like a 100-mile-per-hour hurricane,â&#x20AC;? Kross said, as he pulled his knees tight up under his chin in a fetal position, as he did that morning in a corner of Stairwell B, in anticipation for what must have seemed like certain death.

He calls those 10 terrifying seconds as the North Tower came down â&#x20AC;&#x153;DABDA,â&#x20AC;? from an acronym coined by psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, referring to the five stages of grief she theorized terminally ill patients experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That means denial, anger, bargaining,

depression and acceptance,â&#x20AC;? Kross said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a difference if you are going to die in a year from now or in a minute, the process is the same.â&#x20AC;?

However, what followed the thunderous roar of the plummeting skyscraper was not death, but what Kross described as a silence â&#x20AC;&#x153;quite unlike I have ever heard.â&#x20AC;?

Still for the next 10 minutes Kross, entombed in debris, was sure that he had become one of the hundreds of firefighters killed that day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought I might be dead. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel anything. Maybe I am dead. I have never been dead before so I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know,â&#x20AC;? he said.

After 10 minutes of experiencing â&#x20AC;&#x153;no sensation,â&#x20AC;? Kross came through. Managing to push the rubble off him, he started yelling out for the other members of his unit and was surprised to hear screams from other firefighters, an additional 11 in all.

Several employees from offices in the building had also survived, including the woman he helped down, Josephine Harris, who became known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angel of Stairwell B.â&#x20AC;?

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With only a bloody nose from the attack, but covered in debris, Kross shook off requests to go to a hospital and instead went looking for his girlfriend, Christine Gonda, to tell her that he was alive.

Gonda, who lived a couple of blocks from the site, had called Kross at his engine house at 8:48 a.m., in a hysterical state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We both heard the plane hit the building while talking on the phone. I knew that a lot of people were going to die that day,â&#x20AC;? a tearful Gonda recalled, adding that she will never forget the â&#x20AC;&#x153;horror on the faces of mothersâ&#x20AC;? who had been play-

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When Kross got to her building in the afternoon, he found that Gonda wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there. Instead he left her a note at the door, which is now kept in a museum: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christina, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m OK. Talk to you later.

Luv, Mickey. This 3 p.m.,â&#x20AC;? the note read. They reunited at his firehouse that night.

After leaving Gondaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment building, Kross returned to the World Trade Center site to assist in recovery efforts, finding the body of a fallen police officer nearby. He would return to Ground Zero to search for bodies over the next nine months.

At a reception recently on behalf of international firefighters at Seven World Trade Center, Fire Department Commissioner Salvatore Cassano commended the efforts of Kross and others on that day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From being at the World Trade Center that day, there was never any doubt about the bravery and commitment and dedication of the F.D.N.Y. It was unbelievable,â&#x20AC;?

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By Clayton Patterson Remembering 9/11 is like viewing an avant-garde filmstrip with several deleted frames. Some images are absolutely clear but there is no continuity of information or connection to what happened before or what came next.

This is the first time I have written anything about what happened to Elsa and me on that day. It is not that we ignore the memories; we just do not deal with them.

Besides, other people had more profound and significant personal catastrophes. I have never found any kind of psych people I could identify with. Elsa does not believe in this kind of help. So our memories remain private. Unsettled. This is a brief from that day.

On Sept. 11 at about 9 a.m. Elsa commented that a plane passed VERY low overhead. A few minutes later Jeremiah Newton phoned and said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Elsa and I rushed down to the J and M subway station and got off at Chambers St. just as the whole transit system was being shut down.

When we got to street level we could see the burning building and worked our way toward it. We saw airplane parts strewn on the street and people running north. We were

told to leave for our safety, but because this is our city we pressed forward. Our voice is equal to the corporate media. We worked our way over to the command center on the West Side Highway. What we found there was a tremendous amount of confusion as the area was slowly getting set up.

I knew that we had to blend into a group of people if we were going to get closer to the building and the action. We could not be with the firemen or the cops, so we gathered with a Hatzolah emergency team. Soon a highly excited cop started to scream at us to get off the block and followed us north.

As soon as he was out of sight, we headed back south.

At 100 Church St. a group of officials, one being Chief Allee, were standing together in the doorway. We heard that another plane was coming. We turned left and ended up across from Seven World Trade Center.

Since this was a side street and not one of the main arteries carrying the masses of evacuating people north, it was somewhat secluded.

There were around 10 to 15 people looking up. One of the individuals was Detective Swain from the Seventh Precinct, others were wearing F.B.I. jackets, or casual clothes. One guy had on a Warzone band T-shirt. Detective Swain recognized us from the neighborhood and he let us hang with this group.

Elsa and I took turns with the video cam-

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The worst images burned into our memory were, of course, people jumping. A person near the top floor had broken a window and was waving a large white cloth. Then a helicopter appeared and we hoped an evacuation from the roof was possible. The chopper went forward and then backward and suddenly flew away.

As I looked up I saw an absolutely beautiful image. The clear, deep-blue sky was all of a sudden filled with what looked like sparkling diamonds. Seconds later it sounded like a side of a mountain had dropped off.

The sparkles were shards of glass as the collapsing building compressed the glass, causing it to explode outward.

I looked across the street at Seven W.T.C., and I thought I saw what looked like one of the exterior wall pipes — similar to those that vent Chinatown sweatshop factories — only this was a small funnel of a flame bursting out of the building’s exterior.

I turned around and all the people were gone. The last image I saw was the yellow F.B.I. letters on the back of a blue jacket disappearing around the corner. Now the street was completely empty. Where was Elsa? She was gone.

I made my way to the corner. Around

the corner I found Elsa, by herself, leaning against a car. She was disoriented and trying to adjust her glasses. It seems someone yelled, “Run!” pushed her and she fell down, smacking her head on the sidewalk, also breaking the video camera. She was dazed. I never found out till later, she lost a shoe.

A lump on her temple was swelling up.

I held her up as we started to walk out of the area. As a couple of people came out of a residential building, I asked if they had some ice and they said no. We made it to a grocery store. Got some ice. I think it was here Elsa lost her cap. We never found the cap, her shoe, and later, no matter how hard we looked, that store again.

We looked down the avenue and saw the other building collapse and the dust bellowed. First the dust followed the building falling down, and then raged and churned upward, gathering force until it climbed about 10 stories in height; then the dark mass started to roll outward and came rushing down the avenue like a monstrous, angry, ocean wave crashing toward the beach.

Finally we got to City Hall. A couple of ambulance personnel were assisting those covered in dirt. Elsa wanted to leave, so

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Dealing with the lingering effects a decade later Continued from page 40 we began the long walk home, made longer because Elsa had only one shoe and what later was diagnosed as a concussion.

Another clear visual memory was looking at the dust on the ground and thinking, “Oh my G-d.” Mixed in the dust was what looked like asbestos fibers, strands like the kind sprayed on the pipes and steel beams of the skeleton of a building. Another observation was that you could see the line on the ground where the dust storm exhausted its reach.

The line was similar to the wet watermark left in the sand at the highest point where the tide rolls over the beach. This was where the dust ended.

Not sure of the timing...was it the next day? Elsa was in pain and we heard St. Vincent’s was the hospital to go to. We got to the hospital. Outside of the emergency entrance were a slew of doctors in white coats waiting for the pending injured masses to show up. Because I had a camera on me I was not allowed in. I hung around outside taking pictures of the press conference.

And finally I had enough. Found my way in a side door. Once through the door they were not going to stop me, I found Elsa. She was unhappy. It seems the X-ray tech was so flustered he forgot to put in the film in the machine.

A second round of X-raying her injured wrist, but not her head. We came home.

William Allee, chief of detectives of the New York Police Department, center, and other officials and law enforcement officers huddle outside 99 Church St. on 9/11.

The first plane had already hit the World Trade Center, and word was that another was on the way.

Out of this disaster one of our greatest blessings is the Red Cross-sponsored 9/11

survivors medical program. We go to the program at Bellevue Medical Center. Elsa

still has some issues that are related to her head injury, which is being dealt with now.

We both ended up with asthma. And Elsa has a skin disorder on her forearms known as the “9/11 rash.”

Because of our experience we are a part of the 9/11 group. We attended the Moussaoui trial, which was shown on closed circuit TV in a 500 Pearl St. courtroom. Elsa attended almost every day and I occasionally went when not dealing with the home front.

We were against the war in Iraq. The terrorists mostly came from Saudi Arabia, not Iraq. Iraq had been contained by the first Bush. We wanted bin Laden dealt with, which Bush did not and Obama did. This was our one moment of victory.

My greatest and deepest regret is that Elsa did not want to get close to the disaster and I did. She would never have left my side, so her injuries and issues stemming from that day rest squarely on my shoulders and I have to bear that load. The physical damage I suffered is just the price I must accept to do what I do.

Beyond the human suffering, one of the more destructive political elements attached to that day is how divided America became.

So many believe our government was behind the attack. Instead of bringing the country closer together, the divide just kept getting wider and wider, and all our millionaire politicians are not dealing with any of our real problems.

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Artists bear witness to the rebirth of W.T.C. site

By Gerard Flynn On the 48th floor of Seven World Trade Center, a group of artists have taken on the daunting challenge of documenting the reconstruction of Ground Zero in its many forms and through many different media since the 52-story building was completed in 2006.

The title of Tribeca artist Todd Stone’s exhibition here is “Witness: Downtown Rising,” and that theme largely describes what everyone up here on 48 — myself included — is doing: documenting renewal in a place where thousands lost their lives exactly 10 years ago.

We have 10,000 square feet here.

Developer Larry Silverstein has given it to the artists until the space is rented.

Among the works on display are oil paintings by Diana Horowitz, whose connection to the site goes back to 1985.

As a Brooklyn College graduate student, Horowitz spent many hours on the North Tower’s 107th-floor observation deck, painting landscapes of New York City’s many splendid vistas.

But she said, trying to document the reconstruction process going on 48 floors below has been challenging due to the work’s rapid pace. (One World Trade itself has risen to dizzying heights itself in just the year that I have been here doing my acrylic paintings.)

Still, Horowitz has managed to create

A painting by Bryan Cross done on the 48th floor of the new Seven W.T.C.

not just astonishing art, but also remarkably to evoke a quiet, almost eternal, mood in her work — ironic considering how busy and noisy it is down on the

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“A lot of people make comments about how quiet my paintings are,” she said. “It’s not something that I set out to do. It just

comes out.”

Horowitz, now a professor of art at her alma mater, may have had a near miss on 9/11. Had she not been jetlagged from a recent trip to Italy, she might have found herself back up on the observation deck in the midst of the horror of a day that she recalls vividly.

Today still living in Brooklyn, she remembers the stench of the smoke that blew in from site of the attack, “flooding” her back garden with papers from Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment bank on the 101st to 104th floors, which lost 658 employees.

Her paintings, she said, are largely about the feeling of a common bond, as well as the action below in the 16 acres surrounding us every day: process.

“I just like the process of painting, which is a very modern idea,” she said. “I am trying to record my process as some kind of distillation of what I see and experience.”

Horowitz works from life — reveling in the ever-changing light on the site — rather than photos.

A week ago, Horowitz and I sat and talked by the windows on 48, our backs to the Memorial Pools.

“When I first came here several years ago, nothing was happening,” she said.

She gazed out over the site where today there is so much activity.

“Now my eyes have moved down,” she said, “and I see all of this.”

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Will he remember? Trade Center was his playground

By Amy Dellasala “Hey Mom, what was the World Trade Center?”

I was hoping you would remember.

Let me start by reminding you that from the time you were two, you referred to it as the “World Train Center.” Perhaps it was because it’s where we boarded all our subway trains.

It may have been because during your toddler years, a Lionel train, complete with buttoncontrol steam whistle, ran in a display case during a few Christmas seasons. Or could it be the magical yearly appearance of Thomas the Tank Engine himself during the annual Children’s Day in the plaza? Whatever the reason, it was a fitting name and I never bothered to correct you.

We lived just blocks away and greeted the Towers every day no matter what our destination. Yet they rarely looked the same as the ever-changing light and clouds tinkered with their vertical steel tracks and washed rainbows of color over the glass facades.

The “Train Center” was where we would escape those long harsh winter days. The welcoming whoosh of the automatic doors greeted us with a warm blast of air on our windblown cheeks. We would immediately free ourselves from the layers of restrictive coats, hats and snowsuits. You and your baby sister, less than two years apart in age, would unsteadily charge down the ramp that led to the corridor of shops.

I recall the precious sight of my two wobbly toddlers walking hand in hand, diapers crinkling in

World Trade Center plaza — officially called Austin J. Tobin Plaza — with “The Sphere,” a 25-foot-high bronze sculpture by Fritz Koenig. The sculpture was recovered from the rubble and placed in Battery Park, where it is now a 9/11 memorial with an eternal flame.

unison, amid the charmed expressions of the passing office workers.

Could it be possible that you and your sister don’t remember the big outdoor circular fountain capped by the enormous sphere spilling undulating sheets of water? When you were newborns, I’d seek out the serenity of the

fountain. The sparkling surface never failed to command your infant gaze and the soothing slosh of water provided a rare moment of certain tranquility for a freshly postpartum mom and baby. I’d lie back on the concrete bench to fill my bloodshot, sleep-deprived eyes with the image of the enormous Towers. And year after

year, we’d come back to the fountain. Every spring of those six years we lived here. You and your sister — charged up with the sugar rush of freshly devoured Krispy Kreme doughnuts — would orbit in opposite directions until you’d giddily collide and fall in fits of laughter.

Then, there was this covered bridge we routinely passed through on our way to visit Daddy at his office in the World Financial Center. The mirrored tower elevators gently dinging as we made our way to the bridge level. Do you recall the smell of rubber tiles and sensation of the bumpy surface under the stroller wheels?

Do you remember how our walk through this passageway inevitably included repeated slides down the angled windowsills (much to the chagrin of your impatient Mommy)?

And don’t you at least vaguely recall the image of the gnarled face of the tree in the kids’ section of Borders? Oh, the countless hours we spent there watching raindrops streak the glass of the window seat as we read book after book.

Strange how the empty space left behind seems so much larger than the buildings did themselves. Please don’t forget that we who lived in the Twin’s shadows lost more than the 110 stories of valuable office square footage.

Those massive buildings existed for us on a human scale and contain echoes of our kids’ childhood experiences, which now lie muffled amid smoldering ruins.

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Former MVP hoopster’s team wins one for the Zipper

By Lincoln Anderson and Tequila Minsky On Mon., Aug. 22, the Stephen Mulderry Men’s Unlimited League held its championship game at the Hamilton Fish basketball court on the Lower East Side. The tournament’s namesake was a 33-year-old equities trader and top player in the league who died in the World Trade Center attack.

This year, Mulderry’s team won the title game, taking home Stephen Mulderry jackets along with their trophies. The team’s name is Zip City, after Mulderry’s nickname — Zipper or Zip — that he earned as a guard on the University of Albany basketball team.

The young baller worked in the World Trade Center’s South Tower — the second to be hit, the first to collapse — where he was trapped on the 87th floor.

The New York Times, in its “Portraits of Grief” series, reported parts of Mulderry’s final phone conversations: “We’ve tried everything,” he said in a call to his brother, Peter. “We tried to go up. We tried to get down. It’s just too hot and it’s too much smoke. We’ve found a conference room, and we found a phone that works. ... We’re just going to wait for the firemen to come get us. But it’s a long way for them to come, and the smoke’s real bad. Some people are talking about throwing the fire extinguisher through

Photo by Tequila Minsky

The Zip City team after winning the Stephen Mulderry Men’s Unlimited League championship game last month.

the window, but I know that will be the end of us. ...”

It was the decision of Bill Lynch, the tournament’s director, to rename it for Mulderry.

“I knew Stephen for about seven years where Stephen was part of two championship teams in 1995 and 2001,” Lynch said. “In Stephen’s last game, before he passed away, on Aug. 20, 2001, he scored 24 points and led his team to the championship. He was named the game MVP after that performance.

“What I remember about Mr. Mulderry was that he wasn’t just a basketball player, but also his warmth and kindness,” Lynch said. “An example of his kindness and the kind of person Stephen was came in the final game he played at Hamilton Fish Park, which was the last time I saw him alive. I presented him with the MVP award. He turned to me and said, ‘Give it to the summer youth who you feel worked the hardest and displayed the most as a great team player.’ It was a 7-foot trophy, which the summer youth was in shock to receive from Mr. Mulderry.”

Dave Zuklie is the only player still on the team from 10 years ago when Mulderry won the MVP. “Steve was a tremendous competitor,” Zulkie said. “He had an infectiously good attitude and he loved basketball. He got better as he got older. He won the MVP in August 2001 — he was in his 30s.”

Zulkie and Mulderry, who was three years older, became friends at the University of Albany.

“He took me under his wing, and when I came to New York, I played in all the leagues he played in,” Zulkie recalled.

One of those leagues — where he had some of his finest moments on the court — will continue to honor his memory, on the Lower East Side.

“Stephen Mulderry was a great American,” Lynch said. “We still think and talk about him, and God bless the Mulderry family and friends.”

Stephen Mulderry.

Photo by Tequila Minsky

League director Bill Lynch doing the play-by-play at the championship game.

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Police BLOTTER Dine-and-dashers beat up cook Continued from page 11

Drug bust Five men, one of them a resident of the Chelsea Houses, were indicted and arrested last week for selling drugs — including heroin, cocaine, crack and Oxycodone — and guns in Chelsea over the past four months.

Epifanio Santiago, 45, known as Frenchie, the main suspect, lives in the Chelsea Houses at 425 W. 25th St. He made the largest sale of the four-month period on June 23, when he brought his infant daughter along and had the drugs stashed inside her stroller and a diaper bag, according to the complaint. Santiago was arrested Wed., Aug. 31, as he was about to make a sale of illegal drugs at the corner of W. 23rd St. and Ninth Ave., according to Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor.

Santiago was in possession of crack, heroin and $382 when he was arrested.

A warrant search of his apartment uncovered crack pipes and a small quantity of marijuana, the complaint says. Other defendants, David Rodriguez, 18, of W. 148th St., known as Red and D-Blood, and Deion Alonzo, 23, of E. 93rd St., known as Peso and Saint, were arrested earlier in front of 446 W. 25th St.

Later, Deshawn Sanders and Carmelo Ortiz were also arrested in the case.

Manhattan South Narcotics Division officers began the investigation in April in response to community complaints about drug activity and violence in the Chelsea Houses. Most of the sales, including two involving guns, took place near a playground in the public housing complex and two blocks away from P.S. 33, according to the special narcotics prosecutor.

Alonzo aided Santiago in the June 23 sale when they used Santiago’s baby daughter to conceal the drugs. Both are also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Santiago also sold a shotgun and a .32-caliber handgun during the four months when a total of $11,400, changed hands, the complaint says.

All the defendants pleaded not guilty.

Santiago was being held without bail.

Ortiz was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Saunders and Alonzo were each being held in lieu of $200,000 bond or $150,000 cash bail. Rodriquez was released on his own recognizance but must observe a 9 p.m. curfew, stay out of Chelsea and must not associate with any known drug dealers.

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On Sat., Aug. 27, around 3 a.m., two men ate a meal at El Sombrero, the popular Dominican restaurant with Mexican-style home cooking, at 108 Stanton St. at the corner of Ludlow St. After eating, they left without paying their bill — a scam called “dine and dash.”

One of the cooks, Adolfo Batista, and a friend chased the men and caught up to them in front of 110 Stanton St., across the street from the open San Loco, another Mexican restaurant. But the dining delinquents got away and Batista ended up getting a serious beating. He was taken to the hospital and later released.

Clayton Patterson, who took the photo at right, said, “The block between Houston and Stanton St. is heavily patrolled. A patrol car parked at the corner of Houston stops all traffic from entering Ludlow. The police put two powerful klieg lights just north of Max Fish bar, which lights up the block like a Hollywood set. It is not unusual to see the Seventh Precinct captain himself sitting in a car on the block.

But in this incident, no arrests were made.

The thieves got away.”

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Hard-working cook Adolfo Batista of El Sombrero tried to catch two men who skipped out on their check, but the freeloaders beat him up.

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villager arts & entertainment Back on Broadway, far from folly Baker’s daughter Bernadette, on roles THEATER

BY JERRY TALLMER A very young woman — a teenaged hick from the stix, as Variety would put it — comes down the aisle from the rear of the theater toward the stage, lugging a suitcase that will turn out to contain not much more than a pair of tap shoes.

Halfway to the stage she stops and looks around with wonder — or worship — in her eyes. This is New York, the big time, a real live theater with real live people — actors! dancers! singers! — putting a show together, up there on that stage, and here she is, daring to try to become one of them, if only as a standby for a standby.

Her name is Ruby.

Well, no it isn’t, really. Ruby is the name of the character, that wide-eyed pure-voiced newcomer she plays in “Dames at Sea” — a little smash-hit Off-Off-Broadway parody of old Ruby Keeler Hollywood musicals — and this, back there in what must have been 1968, is the very first time I have laid my own wide eyes on Bernadette Peters (starto-be of Broadway stage, big screen, small screen, concert hall, recording studio, a couple of children’s books and a canine cause called Broadway Barks).

Her name isn’t Bernadette Peters either.

It is or was, Bernadette Lazzara — the baker Peter Lazzara’s daughter. “He went at 99,” she says with quiet pride — and those stix, or sticks, were all the way out in Ozone Park, Queens, 20 minutes on the subway. Mama Marge (Marguerite) Lazzara had daughter Bernadette going on television at 3 1/2. The kid got her Equity card at nine.

Ms. Peters has appeared in some 15 Broadway musicals, winning two Tony Awards, since “The Most Happy Fella” of 1959 (when she was all of 11) and is now back with her most inspired and inspiring collaborator, Stephen Sondheim — creator among much else of the music and lyrics of “Follies,” the wrenching counterromantic 1971 work of art that in a sense takes us right back to little Ruby of “Dames at Sea,” walking down the aisle of that theater with her dreams, her suitcase, her tap shoes and her illusions.

More yet, “Follies” takes us back deeper and earlier into the cold reality behind the whole nostalgic Tinseltown era of sweet/ sad 1930s showbiz movies best epitomized

by Louise Rainer weeping (beautifully) into her telephone in “The Great Ziegfeld” and winning an Oscar in the process.

“I once sat next to Louise Rainer at the Oscars,” says Bernadette Peters over a somewhat more recent telephone. “My mouth just fell open.” It also fell open, she says, “when Cary Grant sat two feet away from me at the opening of ‘Annie’ ” a movie in which she

FOLLIES Book by James Goldman Score by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Eric Schaeffer Choreographed by Warren Carlyle Music direction by James Moore Currently in previews. Opening night: Sept. 12 At the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway) For tickets ($45-$135), call 800-745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com Visit folliesbroadway.com herself co-starred.

Oh, sure, she’s seen “The Great Ziegfeld,” which was made a dozen years before she was born. “That’s what I used to do — run home from school to watch the 4 o’clock movies on television. That’s why I know about Ruby Keeler.”

Bittersweet is one word for the four Stephen Sondheim musicals she’s done to date on Broadway. Unsparing is another word. Or somewhere in between. They are — working backward — “Follies.” “A Little Night Music” (derived from the great Ingmar Bergman film), “Into the Woods” (from Grimm’s Fairy Tales) and, derived from genius and thin air, “Sunday in the Park With George.”

As perhaps a reader can guess, the one that comes closest to sublime, for my money, is — was — 1984’s “Sunday in the Park With George.” (George being Paris pointillist Georges Seurat — and the park being the Grande Jatte that hung on my wall in reproduction all through college).

Bernadette Peters herself was almost ethereal as Dot — Seurat’s model-musemistress, and had the glowing, angelic voice to go with it?

It was her first show with Sondheim.

How had that come to be?

“I was doing my nightclub act at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. (Her nightclub act, “Song and Dance,” was presently to win her a Tony Award.) Got a call from James Lapine (writer of the book of “Sunday in the Park.”) He said they were doing a workshop of it. I first met Stephen at rehearsal.

“He gave me some books about Seurat. Showed me the pictures. Told me where the paintings were — in Paris, in London, at the Tate, first room on the

Photo by Joan Marcus

Tripping down Memory Lane. Foreground: Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone; Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer. Background: Lora Lee Gayer, Nick Verina as their younger selves.

right….” Later she went abroad and saw them for herself.

Did she and Sondheim ever fight?

A laugh. “No.” A pause. “If I had a question, he always had a very good answer.”

Pause. “It was the beginning of a fantastic relationship, a great creative journey.”

She never saw the original (1971) Broadway production of “Follies,” though she’s been to a couple of reincarnations. Her character, Sally Durant Plummer, is a onetime star who’s come back to a reunion “to see if the guy she’s really loved over all these years can respond to her.”

Bernadette Peters, who lost a husband to a helicopter crash and a boyfriend, Steve Martin, to the erosions of time and space,

knows something about that.

It isn’t Sally Durant Plummer who has the great song in “Follies” that starts like this:

Good times and bum times, I’ve seen them all and, my dear, I’m still here.

Plush velvet sometimes, Sometimes just pretzels and beer, But I’m here….

Yes indeed, still here. “I’m now at a point in my life,” says Ruby-Sally-Bernadette Peters, “I understand what those lyrics are all about.”

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After summer hiatus, galleries return to form Cave, Resnick, Rothenberg among the essentials

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN

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Jack Shainman Gallery: “Nick Cave: Ever-After.” This exhibition will feature several new “Soundsuits,” Cave’s famed body of work that could recently be seen at the Seattle Art Museum. Reflecting Cave’s background in dance and performance, these sculptural bodysuits camouflage the body and provide it with an otherworldly form of disguise. Beads, decorative ornaments, vibrant textiles and buttons are some of the materials used, which turn each movement into sound. Sept. 8-Oct. 8 (513 W. 20th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) Call 212-645-1701 or visit jackshainman.com. This exhibition is in collaboration with Cave’s “For Now” — at Mary Boone Gallery (541 W. 24th St., btw.

10th & 11th Aves.), Sept. 10-Oct. 22. For more info, visit maryboonegallery.com Brenda Taylor: “Kathleen Kucka: Ultra Structures.” Kucka’s abstract paintings, dimensional works on paper and sculptural installations combine two seemingly opposed entities: biomorphic forms and manmade structures. Fused into one entity, these hybrids allude to both micro- and macrocosms. In Kucka’s work, everything seems to be in flux, suggesting transient states that can be found within cell structures or cosmic star constellations, for example.

Sept. 8-Oct. 22 (505 W. 28th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Call 212-463-7166 or visit brendataylorgallery.com.

BravinLee programs: “Katie Armstrong: Once More Once More.” The Vancouverbased artist, writer and curator focuses on experimental literary practices. This show will present animated films, which feature the artist singing a cappella. Sept. 8-Oct. 15 (526 W. 26th St., Suite 211; btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Call 212-462-4404. Visit bravinlee.com or katiearmstrong.com.

Cheim & Read: “Milton Resnick: The Elephant in the Room.” Considered by some as the last Abstract Expressionist, Resnick (1917-2004) was known for his dedication to non-representational painting. His work is characterized by vivid brushwork and an affinity for an almost monochrome palette.

Image Courtesy of Sloan Fine Art, NY

Sloan Fine Art: “The Peerage” (2011, mixed media, 17” x 25”). See “Nicole Etienne: A Moveable Feast.”

Image courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, NY and the artist

“Soundsuit” (2011: wicker chair, xylophone, beaded basket, pipe cleaners, vintage doll and embellished found objects). See “Nick Cave: Ever-After.”

This exhibition will focus on Resnick’s later period, ranging from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Sept. 22-Oct. 29 (547 W. 25th St., btw.

10th & 11th Aves.). Call 212-242-7727 or visit cheimread.com.

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DJED.” Best known for his Cremaster Cycle, Barney now presents his first New York exhibition of the “Ancient Evenings” project. In progress since 2007, this multipart sculptural installation is structured as a site-specific opera in collaboration with Jonathan Bepler. The work is loosely based on Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel of the same title, which chronicles the seven stages of the soul’s progression through death and rebirth according to Egyptian mythology.

Sept. 17-Oct. 22 (530 W. 21st St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Call 212-206-9300 or visit gladstonegallery.com.

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Kansas Gallery: “Tamara Zahaykevich: Hey Harmonica!” Navigating between painting and sculpture, Zahaykevich’s constructions investigate color and form. Her materials, such as discarded styrofoam and old paint mixing palettes are hardly luxurious and yet her work exudes a unique blend of elegance, play and wit. This will be the artist’s first solo show in New York City. Sept. 16-Oct. 29 (59 Franklin St., btw.

Lafayette & Broadway). Call 646-559-1423.

Visit kansasgallery.com or tamarazahaykevich.com.

Sasha Wolf Gallery: “Elinor Carucci: Born.” For the past two decades, Carucci has photographed primarily herself, family and friends. She has gained international acclaim for her ability to capture intimate moments without trespassing into exhibitionism. This new body of work focuses on her children and motherhood. Sept.

15-Nov. 5 (10 Leonard St., btw. Hudson & W. Broadway). Call 212-925-0025. Visit sashawolf.com or elinorcarucci.com.

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Sloan Fine Art: “Nicole Etienne: A Moveable Feast.” Inspired by Hemingway’s memoir of the same title, Etienne creates canvases that pay homage to romantic settings. Lushly painted and exuding lust for life, these works manifest as a sensual carnival that celebrates mysterious pasts.

Sept. 7-Oct. 8 (128 Rivington St., below Stanton St.). Call 212-477-1140 or visit sloanfineart.com.

Invisible-Exports: “Lisa Kirk: If You See Something…” This multi-part video installation explores various things we cannot (or refuse) to see, such as explicit images of war and violence. In addition, Kirk’s video “Backyard Adversaries” will be screened on Governor’s Island until September 25. Sept. 7-Oct. 16 (14A Orchard St.). Call 212-226-5447. Visit invisible-exports.com or lisakirkprojects. com.

Sperone Westwater: “Susan Rothenberg.” In her 10th solo show with this gallery, Rothenberg will present 13 new paintings that continue to challenge painterly conventions by focusing on light, color, form and movement.

Subjects range from human body parts to dogs and ravens. Sept. 8-Oct. 29 (257 Bowery, below Houston). Call 212-9997337 or visit speronewestwater.com.

LMAK projects LES: “Jeff Grant: Thin Light.” Comprised of drawings, sculpture, installation and video, Grant’s exhibition questions the quality and specificity of our perception, in particular if applied to light and sound. Sept. 7-Oct. 15 (139 Eldridge St., below Delancey St.).Call 212-255-9707 or visit lmakprojects.com.

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Reimagined history: Chinese action style!

Detective flick tells epic tale on appropriately grand scale

BY SCOTT STIFFLER You won’t get much of a history lesson by watching this self-proclaimed “fantastical steampunk version of ancient China.” But Tsui Hark’s popcorn-friendly epic does deliver a damn fine sprint through the intrigue-infused time when the country feverishly prepared for the coronation of its first empress.

Lost to the history books, it seems, is the part where that Tang dynasty celebration was nearly foiled by a series of assassinations (victims were mysteriously consumed, from the inside out, by phantom flames).

Our titular hero is a brilliant former lawman who emerges from years of exile.

Skillfully riffing on everything from film noir to westerns to wronged cop revenge tales, capable sleuth Detective Dee (scorned by his peers, of course) proceeds to methodically crack the case by virtue of his superior skills and, well, superior virtue.

When the future empress welcomes a long-bearded Dee back from years of bleak prison labor, it’s not long before the freshlyshorn Sherlock-like detective (sporting his old signature duds, badge and one-of-a-kind “dragon-taming mace” weapon) is joined by a pair of ass-kicking Watsons (a royal court confidant and an albino policeman) who literally move heaven and earth to discover who’s been immolating those tasked with constructing a

film DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME Directed by Tsui Hark Rated PG-13 122 minutes In Mandarin, with English subtitles At Angelika Film Center (18 W. Houston St.) For info, angelikafilmcenter.com and releasing. indomina.com

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Martial artsy: Any Lau, as the titular character of “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.”

600-foot Buddha statue that simply must be finished before coronation day arrives.

Each time we’re told how indestructible that statue is (earthquakes and hurricanes won’t even smudge it), we become more

and more certain that sturdy old Buddha’s gonna crumble by the time the credits roll. It does, of course — spectacularly.

“Dee” wears its telegraphed plot points and Asian cinema action tropes like shiny,

defiant badges of honor. Director Hark crafts his witches brew of gravity-defying fights, secret identities and obscure clues with self-awareness and conviction. The result is a confident genre romp that makes you want to pump your fists when you should be rolling your eyes.

It’s no spoiler to reveal that after our hero’s redemption, duty obligates him to retreat back into exile — with, of course, the implied possibility of a sequel. A trilogy wouldn’t be a bad idea.

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Burn, baby, burn: A 2009 work from Arnold Wechler. See “Paintings, Prints.”

Image courtesy of Woodward Gallery

LIDAR image of Ground Zero. See “Charting.”

Just Do Art! inspired by my travels, a lot of it reflecting on the differences between country and city life.” The work featured in “Paintings, Prints & Drawings from Burning Man” includes recent oil and acrylic paintings, drawings on paper, charcoal works, etchings and Giclee (a form of digital imaging). Sept. 15-Oct. 6, at The Carter Burden Center for the Aging’s Gallery 307 (307 Seventh Ave., Suite 1401).

Gallery Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm. For more info, call 646-400-5245 or visit carterburdencenter.org.

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PAINTINGS, PRINTS & DRAWINGS FROM BURNING MAN

The Carter Burden Center’s relatively young Gallery 307 is dedicated to showcasing the work of older artists. Their latest focuses on work from 81-year-old Arnold Wechler. A longtime presence on the New York art scene, Wechsler’s abstract paintings have been inspired by popular cultures (often reflected in works that balance the organic and geometric form with native pictographs). “This exhibit,” says Wechler, “has a different stylistic energy than some of my previous work. Many of the pieces are

STEELY DAN: SHUFFLE DIPLOMACY TWENTY ELEVEN

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tered around the virtues of greeting the apocalypse with equal parts nihilism, denial and a jazzy party vibe (2003’s “Everything Must Go”), Steely Dan isn’t quite ready for the world to end. Last seen here during 2009’s “Rent Party” tour, the thankfully prolific duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are back with “Shuffle Diplomacy Twenty Eleven” — which, far from heralding the end times, promises “an idealistic strategy for World Peace.” Their run features performances of complete albums (“Gaucho” on Sept. 16 and “The Royal Scam on Sept. 20) — plus fan voting online to determine the set for Sept. 22’s Request Night. Classics like “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Deacon Blues” are sure to please — but for a taste of what makes them both relevant and enduring, here’s hoping they’ll lay into “Pixeleen” and “Cousin Dupree” on September 23. That evening’s “21st Century Dan” program features work from 2000’s “Two Against Nature” and the aforementioned “Two Against Nature.” Both albums deliver lyrics, licks and a narrative

vision every bit as layered and complex as their ‘70s output. September 14-23, at the Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway, at 74th St). For tickets, visit steelydan.com (telecharge.com for multi-show packages).

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CHARTING GROUND ZERO: TEN YEARS AFTER

Seen from great heights, the hole left at Ground Zero seems even more shocking than those now-familiar close up photos of the smoldering ruins. But if the aerial view disturbs as it reveals the magnitude of destruction, it also provides a unique opportunity to view the event with a clarity that can only come from distance (and time). “Charting Ground Zero: Ten Years After” does just that — by using maps, cartographic representations and laser imaging to show the site’s evolution and rebirth over the last decade. Organized

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Just Do Art! Continued from page 52 tion has traveled the country (and will ultimately be donated to the Memorial Museum at Ground Zero, for their permanent instillation). This updated version includes 2010 images produced with light detection and ranging (LIDAR) laserbased instruments mounted on planes — those unexpected weapons of 9/11. Free.

Sept. 7-Oct. 23. At Woodward Gallery (133 Eldridge St.). Gallery Hours: Tues.Sat., 11am-6pm; Sun., 12-5pm; and by private appointment. Visit woodwardgallery.net or call 212-966-3411.

TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE BOOK LAUNCH

Fourth-generation Psychic Medium Linda Lauren has good instincts (and, apparently, a flair for the dramatic). How else do you explain her branching out from the vocation of reading others to writing for others — and choosing the genuinely haunted Merchant’s House Museum as the location for her launch party? Her debut novel, “Hostage in Time,” is described as “a paranormal time-travel romance.” In addition to doing a meet and greet (and probably reading from the book), Lauren will sign copies and engage her guests in a, well, spirited round of Q&A. There will also be beverages and hors d’oeuvres relevant to the 1800s.

Appropriate, since that’s the time period her heroine is transported to. It’s also the era carefully frozen in time by the folks who keep Merchant’s House alive.

Thurs., Sept. 15, 6-9pm at The Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. 4th St., btw. Lafayette & Bowery; merchantshouse.org). Free admission, with purchase of book ($15). For more info, visit lindalauren.com.

Rollerena: A Retrospective

Still known far and wide as the queen of Studio 54 who danced with Nureyev and other celebrities at the world-famous club, local legend Rollerena is a Fairy Godmother whose most enduring work has been done on the streets, bridges and around the fountains of our fair city.

Celebrity photographer Darleen Rubin has spent decades documenting Rollerena’s strange sparkle and undeniable starshine.

The exhibit “Rollerena: A Retrospective” features 60 photographs that span 30 years of NYC’s fascination with the wheeled wonder. Though Oct. 29, at the Jefferson Market Library (425 Sixth Ave., at 10th St.). Hours: Mon./Wed. 10am-8pm; Tues./Thurs., 11am6pm; Fri./Sat. 10am-5pm. For info, call 212243-6973. Visit darleenrubin.com. Rollerena will make a special guest appearance on Copyright 2011, Darleen Rubin Wed., Sept. 28 at 7:15pm. The Jefferson Rollerena on the West Side Market Library’s Manager Frank Collerius Highway, 1979. See “Rollerena: A will interview Rollerena and host  a Q&A.   Retrospective.”

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Publ ic Notice s NOTICE OF FORMATION of GILLETTE ZEESE CONSULTING, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/01/2011. 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: 755 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Public Notice of formation of 3794 BROADWAY L.L.C. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on April 27, 2011. Office located in New York County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to Andrew E. Laufer, c/o Landau Arnold Laufer LLP, 85 East Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst, NY 11757-5010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Formation of 530 ADLER REALTY LG HOLDING COMPANY, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Savitt Partners LLC, 530 Seventh Ave., NY, NY 10018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Savott Partners LLC, 530 Seventh Ave., NY, NY 10018. As amended by Cert. of Correction filed with SSNY on 07/01/11, the addr. of process changed to c/o Savitt Partners LLC, 530 Seventh Ave., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Fan - Email.com, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/25/11. Office in NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to C/O Corporation Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: General.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 230 East 58th Partners, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/11. Office in NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 227 E. 56th St RM 400, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: General.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Elite Handling, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/20/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 80 1st Ave. #16G, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Municipal Prints Company LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/1/11.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 246 5th Ave. #2L, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LazyTriAthlete LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/17/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Fast Lane Billing Services, LLC. Appl. For Auth. Filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Nevada (NV) on 1/11/11.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228.

NV address of LLC: 500 N. Rainbow Blvd. #300A, Las Vegas, NV 89107. Cert. of Form. Filed with NV Secy. of State, 101 N. Carson St. #3, Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Charlotte Vintage LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 438 E.13 St. #A4, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Current name of LLC: Sierra Vintage LLC. Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Mercado Pan y Rosas LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/11.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 291 Kent Ave., Bklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Controlled Chaos LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/3/11.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 E.14 St. #1426, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of VSP-Services LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/30/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 217, Baldwin, NY 11510. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qual. of 215 East 64th Street Co., Lessee LLC, filed under the original name Lyden Gardens Lessee LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/7/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to David Duncan c/o Denihan Hospitality Group, 551 5th Ave., NY, NY 10176, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 LAVENDER CAR PARK LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 4/28/11. 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 GGMC Holding Corp., 1651 Third Ave., Ste. 207, NY, NY 10128.

General Purposes.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 ASTORIA HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATES LLP a domestic Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/28/05. NY office Location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLP may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLP served upon him/her to The LLP, 30-10 38th St., Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Medicine Vil 8/4-9/7/11

Notice of Qualification of PROP N SPOON LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/6/11. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in NJ on 3/15/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the NJ address of the LLC: c/o The LLC, 970 New Brunswick Avenue, Building I, Rahway, NJ 07065.

Arts. of Org. filed with NJ Div. of Rev., 33 West State St., 5th Fl., Trenton, NJ 08646. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Qualification of Parallon Business Solutions, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Tennessee (TN) on 5/9/11.

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 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. TN address/princ. bus. loc. of LLC: One Park Plaza, Nashville, TN 37203. Cert. of Form. filed with TN Secy. of State, 312 Rose L. Parks Ave., Snodgrass Tower, 6th Fl., Nashville, TN 37243. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Formation of NYC FROYO PARTNERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/6/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 498 Sixth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Global Reserve Group, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/20/11.

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: Global Reserve Group, 400 West 12th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of EV Capital, LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 7/19/11.

Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/15/11.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 217 E. 96th St., Ste. 41H, NY, NY 10128. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 14 CONSELYEA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/18/11. 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, 1407 Broadway, 41st Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11

Notice of Formation of JLAZ PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/2011. 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 Jeffrey T. Lazarus, 110 W. 25th St., #5, NY, NY 10001. Term: until 12/31/2051.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Fish Tacos NY 1, LLC, Arts of Org filed w SSNY on 12/7/10 in NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to 56 W22 St., NY, NY 10010.

Principal business address: 56 W22 St., NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Formation of Panna Rajni Realty, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/5/05. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Dickstein Shapiro LLP, 1633 Broadway, NY, NY 10019, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Qualification of Rockport PA, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/6/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 477 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 12/2/02. 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 8/4-9/7/11 Notice of Qualification of THYRA MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/08/11.

Princ. office of LLC: 107 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Notice of Formation of EAST RIVER PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/2011. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: c/o Preservation Development Holdings, LLC, 641 Lexington Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o East River Preservation Development, LLC, 641 Lexington Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of RED APPLE 180 MYRTLE AVENUE DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/2011. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 823 Eleventh Ave., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 LIFE POINT INTERACTIVE LLC, a foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/17/11. 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, 31 W. 16th St., #3B, NY, NY 10011. General purposes.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 212 EAST 47TH STREET 8H, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/12/11. 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, 630 First Ave., Apt. 19D, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Worthida Company, LLC. Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 825 3 Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 117 Salem Church Rd., Newark, DE 19713. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 RENEWAL CAPITAL GROUP, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/31/2011.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Registered agent: Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207 Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Notice of formation of Adana Properties LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 6/1/11. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 65 Seaman Ave, #CC, NY NY 10034. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of formation of 24 St Marks TL LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 7/22/11. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 208 West 88th St, #B, NY NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Stephen Mikhail New York, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/11. 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: Stephen Mikhail New York LLC, 363 W. 57th St. Apt 2D, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Notice of Formation of First Access LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. loc.: 530 Riverside Drive, Apt. 1E, NY, NY 10027. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin, PC, Attn: John Van Der Tuin, 1370 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Notice of Formation of 403 Greenwich Enterprises LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/13/11. 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 Cinotti & Buck LLP, 11 Broadway, Ste. 368, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Name of For. LLC: MCC Revonah Hill Road LLC. App. for Auth. filed NY Dept. of State: 3/9/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/8/11. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Eric L. Goldberg, Esq., Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, 65 E. 55th St., 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, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Mani Bhadra LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/23/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc. (CSI), 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. DE address of LLC: CSI, 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Name of LLC: MSC 220 PAS LENDER L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Dept. of State of NY on 6/9/11. Off. Loc. in NY: New York Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Malkin Holdings, LLC, Attn: Legal, One Grand Central Place, 60 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10165. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Name of LLC: MSC 220 MGR L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Dept. of State of NY on 6/15/11. Off. Loc. in NY: New York Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Malkin Holdings, LLC, Attn: Legal, One Grand Central Place, 60 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10165. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 Notice of Qualification of INFRACONSULT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/29/2011. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/28/2006.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with State of DE, Secy. of State, Div of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Formation of SOHAM WELLNESS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/27/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 2116 Frederick Douglass Blvd., NY, NY 10026. 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. As amended by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 07/27/11, changed the name of LLC to: SOHAM WELLNESS NYC LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Publ ic Notice s ASM Capital IV, L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/11. Office location: NY Co. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/11/11 SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LP 7600 Jericho Tpke STE 302 Woodbury, NY 11797. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 MARK MARMER, PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/2010.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC 240 E. 76th St. 11B New York, NY 10021. Purpose: The practice of law and any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RAILSMITH PAPERWORKS, LLC Application for Authority filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/7/11. Office location: NY County. Principal business address: 138 W. 118th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10028.

LLC formed in New Mexico (NM) on 03/17/06. 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, c/o Krista Peters, 138 W. 118th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10028. NM address of LLC: 4056 Cerrillos Rd., Suite F-1, Santa Fe, NM 87507.

Articles of Formation filed with NM Public Regulation Commission, Corporations Bureau, 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LOQUACIOUS LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/16/11.

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: LOQUACIOUS LLC, 300 east 33 Street, 19E, New York, NY 10016 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Formation of MORTON & HUDSON DESIGN GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 67 Morton St., Ste. 5B, NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o William Rodgers at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of MADISON COURT, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11.

Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/29/2011. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, 260 Park Ave. South, Apt. PH-B, NY, NY 10010. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of formation of Rosenfarb LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on July 8, 2011. Office location: NY County SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 200 East 65th St New York, NY 10065. Principal business address: 825 Third Ave New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act. 1737929 Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of formation of HARLEM YOGA STUDIO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/10. Office located in: NY County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to:the LLC, 41 64TH ST., #5C NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Qualification of TCG GMS Administrative LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 520 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Orit Mizrachi. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of Purple Box LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/2/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022.

DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Formation of Rachlan Strategic Communications LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/11. 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 Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Bruce M. Sabados, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Conversion of 413 West 14th Associates, a partnership, to Meilman Family Real Estate, LLC. Cert. filed with NY Dept. of State: 7/1/11. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 421 W. 14th St., Ste. 3R, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Qualification of Affinity Brokerage, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/22/11. NYS fict. name: Good Sam Insurance Agency, LLC. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 64 Inverness Dr. E., Englewood, CO 80112. LLC formed in DE on 2/19/97. 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 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Qualification of MBK Capital Management L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/1/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/1/11. 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, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Wiley Publishing LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/25/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. LLC formed in DE on 4/25/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, 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: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 Notice of Qualification of Warburg Pincus (Ganymede-II) Private Equity X, L.P Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/29/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 3/29/11.

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

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 ELITE APARTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 07/07/2011. Off Loc.:New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 872 Madison Avenue, Suite 2A, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qual. of Sherwood 30 Land Group LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/13/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/12/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CTC, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qual. of Sherwood 30 Management LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/19/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/17/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CTC, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

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BARRIO 47, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 4/18/11. 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 Alexandre Volland, 270 W. 17th St., Ste. 2A, NY, NY 10011. General Purposes Vil 8/25-9/29/11

Notice of Formation of Kuggie Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/11. 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, 169 Broadview Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT S. DOWD, JR. LLC, a foreign Professional Limited Liability Company (LLC) filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11. 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 PLLC, Three University Plaza, Ste. 207, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Purpose: Law Vil 8/25-9/29/11

Notice of Formation of LIVONIA APARTMENTS, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Institute For Community Living, 40 Rector St., 8th Floor, NY, NY 10006.

Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2060. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation 343 West End Avenue, LLC art. of org. filed Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 6/24/11. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Pines & Kessler, 110 E 59th St 23rd Fl, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qualification of Tanya Taylor Designs LLC. Authority filed with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/11.Juris. of org: DE filed: 5/11/11 NY off. loc. in New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Withers Bergman, 660 Steamboat Rd, Greenwich, CT 06830.

LLC address in DE: CTC, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of org. on file with SSDE, Div of Corps, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19801 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qualification of WAR CHEST CAPITAL MULTI-STRATEGY FUND LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/1/09. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste. 1703, NY, NY 10020. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of RABI NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/11/11.

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: c/o DeGaetano & Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Formation of Edward Mendelsohn, M.D., PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/11.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 853 Broadway, Ste. 200, NY, NY 10003.

Sec. of State designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Edward Mendelsohn, 22 Edgemont Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452. Purpose: practice medicine.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qualification of Henry Company LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/5/11. NYS fictitious name: Henry Building Products LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CA on 12/14/10. 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. CA and principal business addr.: 909 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 650, El Segundo, CA 90245. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of SUNS SPV LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 500 Park Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 6/24/11. 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, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice of Qualification of Tiger Accelerator Fund, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/6/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 4/5/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Tiger Accelerator GP Ltd., c/o Tiger Management Advisors L.L.C., 101 Park Ave., NY, NY 10178, principal business addr. CI addr. of LP: c/o Maples Corporate Services Ltd., PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, CI. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Reg. of Exempted LPs, Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman, CI. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 Notice is hereby given that a Hotel Liquor license, #TBA has been applied for by 9 West 26 ST. Rest., LLC d/b/a Saki Beach to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a Hotel. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 9 West 26 Street New York NY 10010.

Vil 9/1-9/7/11 Notice is hereby given that a license, #TBA has been applied for by De Armas Enterprises Corp d/b/a Coppelia to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 207 West 14th Street New York NY 10011.

Vil 9/1-9/7/11 Notice of formation Of EXTENDED SERVICES GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/12/11.

Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as Agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 3209 Bruner Avenue #1 Bronx, NY 10469 Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 237 REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2001.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC P.O. Box 908 Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of ILIAD 38, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/8/11.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/6/11. Princ. office of LLC: 745 Fifth Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10151. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 Notice of Qualification of Rhombus Services, LLC. Authority filed with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/12/11.Juris. of org: NJ filed: 9/27/10 NY off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to principal address: 560 Benigno Blvd, Bellmawr, NJ 08031. Arts of org. on file with State of NJ Treasurer, 125 W State St, Trenton, NJ 08808 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 Notice of Qualification of 360 WEST 31ST STREET HOLDINGS II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/15/11. Princ. office of LLC: 10 E. 53rd St., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10022. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 Notice is hereby given that license #1256032 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 17 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011 for on-premises consumption. SHOOT FOOD CORPORATION d/b/a SPOON CATERING; TBSP Vil9/1-9/7/11 Notice of Formation of OH 161ST STREET, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 5/7/2010. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LP, 95 Pine St., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10005.

Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2057. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Splash Enterprises LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/11. 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, 445 W. 23rd St., 11A, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1255647, for liquor has been applied for by 225 PAS 18th, LLC (f/k/a 225 PAS 17th, LLC) to sell liquor in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 225 Park Avenue South, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption.

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Notice of Formation of Hyper Dimension Solutions LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/26/11. Office location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc. 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001, also the registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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33RD STREET NYC LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/5/11.

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, 155 W. 33rd St., NY, NY 10001. General Purposes Vil 9/8-10/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF O’Brien LLP. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/06/11. Office loc: NY Cty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to: 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Principal business address: 590 Madison Ave, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 Notice of Formation of PCMH LYVERE, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/17/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Postgraduate Center For Mental Health, 158 E. 35th St., New York, NY 10016. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2061.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 Notice of Formation of FOSTER KENT NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/1/07. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 410 Park Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 UBLIC NOTICE – MetroPCS Antenna Collocations MetroPCS, NY LLC proposes one (1) new wireless communications facility to be located on a building rooftop in the City of New York. The facility name and address is: NY 0304 – 470 West 166th Street in New York City (Manhattan). The project will entail the collocation of antennas and the installation of ancillary equipment on the roof of the existing building. Comments regarding the potential effects of the proposed facility on historic properties should be directed in writing or via email to: IVI Telecom Services, Inc., 55 West Red Oak Lane, White Plains, New York 10604 or CulturalResources@ivi-intl. com and received within 30 calendar days of the date of this notice.

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Notice of Qualification of APOLLO CREDIT MANAGEMENT (EUROPEAN SENIOR DEBT), LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/24/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/19/11. Princ. office of LLC: 9 W. 57th St., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Formation of EGA57, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1057 First Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Janet Giaimo Vitale at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Formation of VIA DIAZ, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Paul I. Rosenberg, Esq., Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., 17 State St., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10004. Purpose: To own real estate.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ERNOK MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/11. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to the principal business address: 295 FIFTH AVE, #111, NEW YORK, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of RT INVESTMENT HOLDINGS GP LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/18/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/21/06. Princ. office of LLC: 280 Park Ave., 23rd Fl-East, NY, NY 10017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Qualification of PM SECURITIES, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/25/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/7/04. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 110 Chadds Ford Commons, Chadds Ford, PA 19317. DE addr. of LLC: 1313 N. Market St., Ste. 5100, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Townsend Bldg., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of CWS Consulting Group, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 3/4/09.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 1005 Boylston St. #243, Newton Highlands, MA 02461. MA address of LLC: 189 Carlton Rd., Newton, MA 02468. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Secy. of Commonwealth, 1 Ashburton Pl., 17 Fl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Jaywell Property Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 420 W. 42 St. #394, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Metro Network Services, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 90 White St., NY, NY 10013. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Irving 24D, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 69 Thompson St. #11, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Art Remba, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Global Energy Market Services, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/20/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/24/10. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8 Ave. NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Skylark And King LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/16/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. DE address of LLC: 1521 Concord Pike #301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Chromatic Gallerie LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/29/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Rhodestone Partners LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/29/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Deborah S. Stehr, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/3/11.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Monster Music Publishing LLC

App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/14/11.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Imagem Music USA, 229 W. 28th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001, Attn: Victoria Traube.

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, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Qualification of KKR Equity Strategies L.P. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/10/11.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o KKR Asset Management LLC, 555 California St., 50th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94104.

DE address of LP: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of Queenscliff Associates LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 900 Third Ave., Ste. 201-10, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Qualification of HPS Credit Opps Onshore, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/25/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC, 40 W. 57th St., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 Notice of Formation of INSIDE EXPERIENCES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/10/11. 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 The LLC, 33 E. 33rd St., Ste. 1107, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of GH Chelsea LLC.

Notice of Qualification of Indomitable Entertainment, LLC.

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/24/10.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, 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.

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Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 8/5/11. Office loc.: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 225 Varick St., Ste. 304, NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE: 5/5/09. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. 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: any lawful act.

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Notice of Qualification of GH West Side LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/24/10.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, 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.

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Notice of Qualification of Priam Capital Associates LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/16/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/28/11.

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.: 445 Park Ave., Ste. 1401, NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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At IAS Part 21 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, held in and for the County of New York, at the County Courthouse thereof, on the 30th day of August 2011.

P R E S E N T: HON. MICHAEL D. STALLMAN Justice.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X In the Matter of the Application of MASHEE REALTY CORP., ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE For an Order and Judgment pursuant to RPAPL 1931 Discharging an Ancient Index No. 107297/11 MortgagePetitioner, -againstESTATE OF FRANK RIDOLFI, JOSEPH A. DEROSE, JOHN DOE #1 THROUGH JANE DOE #10, being persons unknown and intended to designate the heirs, beneficiaries and descendants of Frank Ridolfi, deceased, Respondents.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X Upon the annexed affirmation of SIMON H. ROTHKRUG, of the firm of ROTHKRUG ROTHKRUG & SPECTOR, LLP, attorneys for the petitioner, dated August 19, 2011, the affidavit of Victor Shaman, sworn to on July 18, 2011, and the affidavit of Simon H. Rothkrug, sworn to on August 19, 2011, and upon all the proceedings heretofore had herein, it is ORDERED, that the respondents and all persons interested in the mortgage described hereinbelow, SHOW CAUSE at an IA Motion Submission (Room 130) Part thereof to be held at the County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, New York, on November 1, 2011 at 9:30 A.M., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an Order pursuant to Section 1931 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law should not be entered discharging of record a certain mortgage for $120,000, dated July 31, 1973, between petitioner and mortgagee Frank Ridolfi, which mortgage was recorded in the Office of the Register of the City of New York for the County of New York on August 3, 1973 in Reel 287 Page 235, and indexed against the real property located in Block 588 Lot 29, being 296 Bleecker Street, Borough and County of New York, said mortgage now being a lien on the said premises, and for such other and further relief as the Court may deem proper.

SUFFICIENT reason appearing herein for the granting of this Order, let service of a copy of this Order upon the respondents be deemed good and sufficient service if made by personal service to Carol Ann Quigley and Andrew Brusini on or before September 19, 2011, and by publication once a week for 3 successive weeks, in The Villager a newspaper published in the County and City of New York, on or before September 26, 2011.

ENTER ___/s/ Michael D. Stallman_______ J. S. C.

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Tiles a site for 9/11 gathering Continued from page 1 for America sign.

With the 10th anniversary this weekend, the memorial has rapidly been taking on a renewed life of its own. The other day, Chris King, who runs a flowers and plants business in the Flower District, dropped off 20 large potted palm trees.

“He wants this to be an oasis,” Berke explained. “He had a lot of people in the World Trade Center.”

The plants won’t make it through the winter, but that’s O.K.; it’s for now, she said.

Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man,” pitched in and helped plant the palms in the tree pits around the triangle. But part of his larger contribution is a 9/11 mosaic tree planter, which he brought over from Astor Place.

And sticking out of Power’s planter is now a giant palm, courtesy of King.

But that’s not all — Power is also creating a special concrete bench made out of some of the broken Tiles for America tiles, and the bench will be left at the memorial corner.

“People are calling me from all over the

country,” said Berke. “There’s a woman who lives in Israel who lost people on 9/11. She said she’s painting tiles and bringing them here.”

A spontaneous 9/11 memorial, the tiles hanging on the chain-link fence were painted by children at Our Name is Mud, the former ceramic studio next to the triangular lot, which is owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Villagers and visitors alike have taken to the inspirational memorial, and it’s even become a regular stop for local tour buses.

A group of local women who call themselves the Village Angels — Berke is one of them — tend the memorial and make sure it’s kept clean and in good repair.

The M.T.A. plans to build a fan-exhaust plant with a “fauxcade” at the site, and has said it will work some of the tiles into the project — but Berke said the tiles should be given greater priority.

“Why can’t we build a memorial that has a vent inside to protect us?” she said. “Why can’t we change the thinking about it?”

Community Board 2 is on record calling for the Tiles for America memorial to be preserved at the location.

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