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Area to get power back, but will city get surge barriers? BY LINCOLN ANDERSON As anxious Downtowners stuck in the dark continued to be left in the dark about when power would be restored, on Thursday morning Con Edison reported that electricity would be turned back on by sometime this Saturday. Later in the day, a Con Ed spokesperson told this paper that the lights would be back on by 11 p.m. Saturday. Similarly, Downtown residents whose land lines were still work-

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National Guardsmen unload boxes of FEMA-supplied rations outside Smith Houses, where hundreds of desperate locals had swarmed on Thursday night to get much-needed food and water.

Finally, a response, as Guard trucks rations into Downtown BY SAM SPOKONY In a shaky yet mainly successful start to the National Guard presence in Downtown Manhattan following the impact of Hurricane Sandy, on Thursday night hundreds of desperate residents welcomed a massive delivery of food and water outside a Lower East Side public housing complex. The Guardsmen were originally scheduled to arrive to deliver the rations at 1 p.m. that day outside Smith Houses on Catherine St., near Cherry St. — but the people lined up waiting for hours for the drop-off became increasingly agitated until the trucks finally arrived around 6:15 p.m. Despite many harsh words over the lateness of that arrival, the residents

certainly appreciated the vital supplies, as their neighborhood continues to sit in darkness. “We would’ve gone crazy if they didn’t come,” said Tony Chan, 40, who came with his family several blocks from their home on Mott St. to pick up a box full of food and water bottles. Chan explained that, even though other problems still loom large, the rations provided an important lifeline to people like himself, who simply hadn’t been ready for such a difficult aftermath to the storm. Before the delivery, he had no food or water. “The only thing we could’ve eaten was a rat,” Chan joked, as he walked home. Governor Andrew Cuomo had origi-

nally mobilized the National Guard on Oct. 28, the day before the hurricane struck. And on Thursday morning, at the behest of local politicians, Cuomo announced the Guard would be delivering one million meals — supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency — to Downtown Manhattan and affected areas in Brooklyn and Queens. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senator Daniel Squadron, both of whom were part of a group that urged the governor to implement the deliveries, were outside Smith Houses on Thursday night with their aides to help oversee the arrival and hand out

ing or who had cell phone power and access reported that they had received robocalls on Thursday from Con Ed informing that the juice would be switched back on by 11 p.m. Saturday. A Con Ed spokesperson said two adjacent “electrical subdistricts” near Wall St. – serving about 6,500 customers -- would actually be getting power back a day earlier, on

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With the lights out, community switched into ‘Survivor’ mode BY LINCOLN ANDERSON As reality hit home after Monday night's hurricane that an extended blackout was in store, Downtowners who had stayed put began foraging for emergency supplies and figuring out how they were going to make it through the ordeal. With power cut south of 39th St. and cell phones losing their charges, or unable to fi nd a signal,

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there was scant access to information. Walking at the corner of 14th St. and First Ave. late Tuesday afternoon, Mike Schweinsburg, who has worked on many local political campaigns, was starting a northward trek in search of a functioning A.T.M. to get cash. Summing up the chal-

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NOTEBOOK PIER 40 DODGES DISASTER: Despite widespread alarm when Con Edison shut off power to protect Lower Manhattan from Hurricane Sandy, the Hudson River Park Trust could only breathe a sigh of relief. Pier 40, the deteriorating pier near West Houston St., narrowly avoided catastrophe during the storm. Madelyn Wils, president of the Trust, said that while power could be shut off in most of the Hudson River Park’s buildings, they were unable to do so at Pier 40 because the substation was very old. “We’re very lucky that Con Edison turned off power for the whole area,” Wils told us on Thursday. “If they hadn’t turned it off, the transformer

would have exploded and that would have started a fire. It could have been a disaster.” The storm did extensive damage to the pier’s ball fields, although the turf was already nearing its end. This is only one of many problems plaguing the structure of the pier, which turned 50 years old on Oct. 24. Long before Hurricane Sandy, the pier was in dire need of repair. GIRLS CLUB STANDS STRONG: Hurricane Sandy also did plenty of damage to the East Village and Lower East Side. But one valuable resource that survived untouched was the new building for the Lower Eastside Girls Club, located on Avenue D between E. Seventh and Eighth Sts. Lyn Pentecost, the Girls Club’s executive director, told us that the 30,000-square-foot facility — which is still under construction and is scheduled to open next fall — stayed “dry as a bone” throughout the storm, much to the delight of the organization’s staff and board. But Pentecost also shared the sad news that the buildings of many East Village families

whose daughters participate in the Girls Club’s programs did not fare as well. She said that the organization plans to go to work on rebuilding those flooded apartment in the near future, and we’ll certainly stay updated on all of their efforts. MEETINGS, EVENTS – BLOWN AWAY: A Community Board 2 public forum on plans and ideas to save Pier 40, scheduled for Mon., Oct. 29, was postponed around noon earlier that day as Sandy was bearing down on the city. The forum was rescheduled for Wed., Nov. 7, at P.S. 41, at 116 W. 11th St. On Monday, Kelly Magee, Councilmember Margaret Chin’s communications director, reported that a public hearing on the proposed Broadway-Soho Business Improvement District, scheduled for Wed., Oct. 31, was postponed. Waterfront Community Day at the Lower East Side’s Pier 42, originally scheduled for Nov. 3, was also postponed. Last but not least, Lower East Side Pickle Day was also cancelled.

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Finally, a response, as Guard trucks rations Downtown Continued from page 1 the rations. Although the crowd of hungry residents never became mob-like, the scene was somewhat frantic, as dozens of Guardsmen rushed to stack hundreds of cases of water bottles and sealed boxes of emergency meals. Silver noted that, in terms of a potentially life-saving delivery, it was better late than never. “It’s unfortunate that it isn’t taking place quite when they expected it to, but the need is being met,” Silver said. “This is just what happens when people are making decisions and trying to find answers in real time.” The speaker added that, shortly after the National Guard arrived, he called the governor to say that the timeliness of deliveries would have to improve over the next few days. According to an onsite member of the Salvation Army, which is helping to coordinate the shipments of the FEMA rations, the Guard will continue the deliveries at about 15 sites throughout the aforementioned areas until Sunday. “I said to [Cuomo] that we’ve got to beef up the distribution process, because there were people here waiting for hours,” Silver said. “He told me that the sites were actually chosen by the city, and not his office. But it’s not about blaming anyone, because we’re all in this together. At this point we just need to make sure that people get what they need, because these are trying times for everybody.” They were especially trying times for the many Chinatown residents who were left disappointed, and perhaps still hungry, by the National Guard’s late arrival on Thursday. A drop-off similar to the one at Smith Houses was scheduled to take place outside Confucius Plaza, on Bowery between Canal and Division Sts., at 1 p.m. that day. But the arrival was reportedly rescheduled to 3 p.m., and then, after hours of miscommunication and speculation, the Guard did not arrive in time to actually hand out rations. The delivery was in fact made to Confucius Plaza after the Guard finished its work at Smith Houses, but since it was already dark at that point — past 7:30 p.m. — the food and water was reportedly put into storage at the Chinatown building, so it could be handed out the following day. It wasn’t only residents of the 44-story Confucius Plaza complex who were left wanting by the Guard’s failure to reach the building in time — as with the Smith site, residents from around the neighborhood showed up, many carrying a visible sense of desperation. “We have nothing,” said a 24-year-old woman named Shatima, who has lived her entire life in the Baruch Houses projects, on Delancey and Columbia Sts., and declined to give her last name. “It’s gotten so bad that people are actually just taking shits in bags and throwing them out in the incinerator.” Shatima, who arrived at Confucius Plaza around 3 p.m. on Thursday with several neighborhood friends, echoed the Mott St. tenant’s earlier explanation by stressing that

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Lower East Side residents carried their rations of food and water away from the National Guard drop-off site outside Smith Houses on Thursday night.

they were all without food and water at that point because not enough people were ready for the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. “I just didn’t expect it to be this bad,” she said. “We all remembered Hurricane Irene last year, that nothing really happened, and we just weren’t prepared for all of this. It sounds sad, but now we’ve just been asking people for food on the street, and we’ve been wearing the same clothes since Monday.” Shatima and her friends were forced to find other options for food and water that night, but they were able to charge their cell phones outside Confucius Plaza at Speaker Silver’s “mobile district office” van, which was there from 3 to 6 p.m. Silver and his top aides had rented a large van, staffed with volunteers, that they stocked with water and an array of electrical outlets available for charging phones and other devices. The mobile office began its much-needed journey on Wednesday afternoon, and was at the corner of Madison and Gouverneur Sts. on Thursday before heading to Confucius Plaza. “We’re just trying to do all we can,” Silver said. As people waited for the National Guard to arrive between 3 p.m. and around 5:30 p.m., Silver was joined outside Confucius Plaza by a host of other local politicians and community leaders who have been active in recovery efforts ever since Hurricane Sandy struck on Monday night. Along with Squadron, they included Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Jessica Lappin and Robert Jackson; Community Board 3 Chairperson

Gigi Li; and staff members of Asian Americans for Equality, the Chinatown Business Improvement District and the Chinatown Partnership. While waiting there before he and Silver headed over to Smith Houses, Squadron asserted that the real test of the storm’s impact is beginning now. “It’s really important to remember that the crisis didn’t end when the wind died down, or even when the waters receded,” Squadron said, adding that he and his colleagues “pushed the city very hard” to implement in the FEMA ration deliveries via the National Guard. “It was clear that we needed to be more proactive in dealing with the challenges posed by a long-term blackout in high rises with low-income or senior residents, or people with other needs,” he explained. As for future National Guard deliveries to the Downtown area — whether through Sunday or, if Con Edison fails to restore power by then, perhaps longer — it’s clear that better communication will be key to reaching residents more swiftly. The Salvation Army member who was at Confucius Plaza on Thursday — and who was supposed to be the main point of contact between the National Guard and the people at the drop-off site — was at a loss each time the politicians asked him for an update on the status of the delivery. He explained to this newspaper that he could only communicate with Guardsmen at headquarters, rather than those in the actual delivery trucks, thus there

was no way for him to reach the Guardsmen driving to the site in order to give them directions or get an accurate estimate for their arrival. Fifth Precinct police officers who were controlling the crowd outside Confucius Plaza were equally confused. Throughout the evening, they repeated that they were receiving conflicting or false information about the whereabouts of the delivery trucks. As she stood waiting in vain for the trucks to arrive, assuming that the drivers didn’t know the best route to take, Chin vented her frustration. “People have been waiting a long time for this, and [the National Guard] should have somebody driving with them who knows the city,” she said. “At a time like this, how could they send drivers who don’t know our streets? But later, after the delivery at Smith Houses was completed and at least some of the earlier tension was lifted, Silver put the events of the day into the perspective. “Look, sure, it’s been a little chaotic, but this whole situation is chaotic,” he said. “And once you go through a process like this on the first day, you can hopefully understand what went wrong, and have it go a little more smoothly the next day.” As for his own plans, Silver pointed out that he and his staff would be taking their van through the Downtown area again the following day, to speak with residents while providing some valuable resources as the post-hurricane crisis continues. “I’ll be around,” he said.

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Continued from page 1 Friday. Flooding in the East Village on Monday night during Hurricane Sandy had spread almost all the way to Avenue B, and Avenue C was a river more than waist-high. The Con Ed power plant on E. 14th St., couldn’t handle it, and the salt water inundation caused an explosion, knocking the plant offline and crippling Lower Manhattan. “Con Ed is prepared to handle a storm surge of 12 feet 6 inches,” said Allan Drury, a spokesperson for the utility company. “That would have been a foot and a half higher than any surge in the history of Manhattan.” In fact, what had been forecast was a surge of 10 to 12 feet, “which would have been a major threat to us,” Drury admitted. “The storm surge from Hurricane Irene was 9.5 feet. The storm surge on Monday night [which was 14 feet] exceeded all forecasts.” Although power was slated to come back Saturday evening, Drury said if customers’ electrical equipment had been too badly damaged by the storm, their lights wouldn’t go back on, and that they’d have to hire an electrician to fix the problem. As of Thursday, he said, 130 buildings in the Downtown and Lower Manhattan area had damaged electrical systems and so wouldn’t be able to have power over the weekend – but there were also anecdotal accounts that many building owners throughout the area were not reporting problems so that they could make fixes without going through bureaucratic red tape. Meanwhile, longtime Chelsea activist Bob Trentlyon obviously wasn’t happy that the disaster had occurred, but he and other advocates of storm-surge barriers for New York City felt vindicated in their belief. He spoke in a phone interview on Wednesday from outside the blackout zone -- from the Upper West Side, where he and his wife, Betty, were staying with longtime friend Betty Mosedale. The former publisher of The Westsider and Chelsea Clinton News weekly newspapers, Trentlyon was an early proponent of creating the Hudson River Park along the waterfront. He served for many years on Community Board 4. Now his interest in the waterfront has led him to champion a new issue – trying to protect the city

‘The sea rise is going to be happening. We have to do something similar to what is being done in London, Venice, St. Petersburg.’ Bob Trentlyon Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer

Bob Trentlyon advocating for storm-surge barriers at a meeting of Community Board 1 last year.

from the calamatous effects of climate change due to the rising sea level. “I reached the conclusion about three years ago that what the city is doing is very good – reducing the amount of carbon,” he said, “but the city doesn’t have any plans that will protect us from the sea rise. The sea rise is going to be happening. Greenland will keep melting. We have to do something similar to what is being done in London, Venice, St. Petersburg. Of 140 ports in the world, we’re in the top fifth for storm surge C’mon, we’re gonna get hit. “Irene moved away at the last minute – we were lucky. And less than a year later – we get hit,” Trentlyon said. “We’re wasting time, we’re losing time, and the sooner we do it, the better we’ll be. I think the city has to take this seriously and call on the Army Corps of Engineers to study it, come up with a plan that they’re going to do, and do it. Another benefit -- this would

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be a massive public works project, and there’s a need for jobs right now.” If the surge barriers aren’t built, on the other hand, it would have a devastating effect for the city’s economy, Trentlyon warned. “If you keep having these, do you expect Wall St. to stay in New York -- if they have to keep closing down every year or five years?” he asked. “We’d be cutting our own throat. These storms are going to be more and more, and bigger and bigger.” Surge barriers are massive underwater gates that can be opened and closed and lowered and raised to hold back the raging waters during hurricanes. Two different plans – one by a Dutch expert and one by a British expert -- propose installing the structures at key points, either a combination of three separate gates at the Verrazano Narrows, the Arthur Kill and Throgs Neck or one long gate between Sandy

At a press conference on Thursday, Bloomberg, citing the enormous cost of adding storm-surge barriers in a place “where you have an enormous harbor, like we do,” said he didn’t really think the city was ready to take that step. “We don’t know what the mayor’s thinking about,” Trentlyon said. “He’s keeping it close to his vest. I think the mayor isn’t ready to say, ‘We should have done something sooner.’ ” Meanwhile, as Trentlyon was evacuating from Chelsea after the hurricane, friends greeted him on the street, saying, “You were right!” and “We should have done it!” While he admitted that’s good for his ego, he said the bigger issue, clearly, is whether the city and state will face up to the fact that something has to be done before another hurricane slams the city again -- with maybe even more devastating results than what Lower Manhattan, other parts of the city and the region just suffered. A hit of that level is hard to imagine – but Trentlyon has imagined it – and he has seen a way to prevent it. If only the city administration would listen to him.

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Two Bridges community rallies to help trapped senior citizens BY SAM SPOKONY As people across the city worked to recover from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, a group of seniors trapped in a Lower East Side building — without electricity, water or adequate food supplies — were being saved from the brink of despair by community leaders, city workers and volunteers who came to their aid. The nearly 50 elderly tenants of 80 Rutgers Slip who didn’t leave the building — which is in Zone A, the area that was under mandatory evacuation orders before the storm hit — faced a dire situation when their lobby was flooded and power was lost on Monday night. Following the storm, the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council spearheaded a collaborative effort that provided a vital lifeline to the ailing seniors. “We’ve been extremely pleased with the turnout so far,” said Victor Papa, president of Two Bridges, speaking on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier that day, three meals for each of the 80 Rutgers tenants were delivered by the nonprofit organization Citymeals on Wheels, in an arrangement arranged and overseen by Two Bridges. And Papa explained that on Thursday, the seniors would be receiving 200 more meals from the city’s Department for the Aging. He also said that, in an equally heroic effort, a local volunteer dropped off 60 gallons of water at 80 Rutgers Slip on Tuesday. The water was shared between that building and the adjacent 82 Rutgers Slip, which, like many other buildings in the area, was also without power and running water in the days following Sandy. The Two Bridges staff also bought dozens of flashlights on Wednesday for the elderly tenants, but Papa added that more were needed for that building and others in the area. He continued to encourage area residents to donate flashlights and other supplies to 80 Rutgers, since aid to the building was only immediate and didn’t constitute even a consistent short-term plan. The meal deliveries, Papa stressed, would not be continuous and were secured only for the days on which the food was delivered. Although Internet reception was spotty and keeping cell phones charged was a constant struggle, social media and other Internet resources helped the swift responses to the seniors’ desperate needs, as well as to other struggling buildings within Lower East Side communities. A new community-based volunteer Web site, lowereastside.recovers.org, went online on Tuesday morning. The product of volunteer collaborations between Occupy Wall Street and 350.org (an environmental organization), the “recovers” site allowed local residents to communicate and organize in support of ailing neighbors, as well as allowing community organizations like

Two Bridges to post requests for donations for specific buildings. Recovers.org is a for-profit operation that licenses its software to cities and major organizations that are preparing for disasters, and was founded last year by survivors of a tornado in Massachusetts. “I think the site will make things a lot easier during the big transition that’s going to take place between the immediate disaster response and planning for long term needs,” said Caitria O’Neill, co-founder and C.E.O. of recovers.org. Those who wish to donate specifically to Lower East Side buildings in need can visit lowereastside.recovers.org and contact community representatives by phone or e-mail.

‘In the end, we have to rely on ourselves. We’re the ones that have to live through this.’ Victor Papa

As of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the Web site also had requests for donations to 46 Hester St. in Chinatown, 242 E. Second St. in the East Village, and numerous other buildings in need. Nearly 250,000 people were still without electrical power in Manhattan as of Friday. On Wednesday at noon, Con Edison released a statement saying that people in Manhattan and Brooklyn who are served by underground equipment should have power back by Saturday. Papa acknowledged that Con Ed’s ability to restore power would be the most important part of recovering from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, but he stressed that, for the moment, it was up to Lower East Side residents to keep themselves going. “In the end, we can’t rely on the circumstances of crisis, and the predictions of the authorities,” Papa said. “We have to rely on ourselves. We’re the ones that have to live through this.”

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Taking shelter from the storm at evacuation center BY LESLEY SUSSMAN They walked in carrying bulging backpacks and luggage, plus a few precious household items. Some brought cats, dogs and a favorite plant or two. They were trying to escape a storm considered so potentially dangerous that the city had issued a mandatory evacuation order for people who lived in the housing projects along F.D.R. Drive and elsewhere east of Avenue B all the way to Avenue D. The scene late Monday afternoon at the former Seward Park High School, 350 Grand St., now the campus for five different small schools, which had been turned into an emergency evacuation center, looked like something out of some post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie as more than 500 people forced to leave their homes filled the corridors, auditorium and gyms of the school building. Also among their number were homeless people who had abandoned their usual outdoor sleeping spots as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the city. Old and young packed the George Comet Theater Auditorium where they sat with eyes glued to the NY1 News weather report on a color TV screen, while others tried to relax on cots provided by the city and wait for dinner to be served. Many just wandered back and forth along the long corridor with a makeshift emergency clinic at one end of it, looking a bit dazed. Meanwhile, kids -- some of them

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A volunteer at the evacuation center at Ludlow and Grand Sts. on Monday afternoon cradled the cat of a local resident who was staying at the shelter.

wearing Halloween costumes and under the watchful eye of anxious parents -- did their utmost to amuse themselves. “We have no idea how many people we’re going to have to handle,” said Richard Gorgoglione, the evacuation center’s manager, an employee of the city’s Office of

Emergency Management. “Most of them came yesterday and we have 500 people here right now,” he said. “We feed them, give them bedding and toilet facilities and a safe place to stay. We can take up to 900 people.” Gorgoglione said that three hot meals

a day would be served. Doing the grunt work of registering people, helping them get settled and serving meals were dozens of workers from various city agencies who live in the evacuation area and volunteered to man the emergency shelter instead of reporting to work. The city worker said he had been through this once before -- during last year’s hurricane that downgraded to a tropical storm -- and did not feel overwhelmed by the task at hand. “We’re trained for this,” he said. “We watched the weather and here we are.” At least one volunteer, a woman who asked that her name not be used, said that she had been at the shelter since 8 a.m. on Sunday. “I may have to stay over one more night,” she sighed, while petting a cat that someone had brought into the shelter. “I’m totally exhausted.”Robert Torres, who said he was homeless, liked the arrangement. “It’s nice here,” he said. “We’re sleeping on cots and not on the floor and we’re getting breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Diane Vernon, a resident of the Lillian Wald Houses along F.D.R. Drive, said she came because of fears that the power might go out and the water would be cut off in her public housing development. “I brought my daughter and my cat and

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Pub owner ‘saw surge coming,’ though he didn’t actually see it BY LINCOLN ANDERSON “The most amazing thing is, it went from there to here in about 30 seconds -- then it came back, went back, in its time.” As a diesel generator thrummed loudly and gave off fumes outside the Ear Inn bar near the western end of Spring St. Wednesday morning around 10 a.m., owner Martin Sheridan described experiencing the storm surge Monday evening during Hurricane Sandy. He didn’t actually see the surge, though, until he and his bar were in the middle of it. He had walked over toward the river to check out the storm conditions, and then when he was returning to the Ear Inn with his back turned to the river, the 3-foot-high wall of water suddenly came rushing. The sound was just an enormous “whoooosh!” he said. Anticipating the surge, he had turned off all power at the bar beforehand, hoping to save his electrical equipment from more serious damage from the corrosive salt water. The water swept into the bar about 1 foot high, then went down into the basement, then came popping up through hatches in the floor, trying to find any way out. Sheridan had wisely kicked everyone out of the place a half hour before the surge hit, though many had resisted exiting into the 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts and lashing rain. “People didn’t want to get out. They were afraid to go home,” he said. “The women were frightened,” he said, adding, “Don’t be offended -- if you want to put that a little better.” The bar had beer stored in two large walk-in freezers in the basement and food in another. Of the three, the solid 1920s freezer was the one that fared the best in the deluge. “The old things held up!” he said with a grin.

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Martin Sheridan tended to a diesel-powered water pump at the Ear Inn. On the wall behind him, a marking shows where the Manhattan shoreline used to be just west of Greenwich St. before it was extended another two blocks with landfill.

The bar has 40 beer taps and Sheridan said they’ll have to test each one to see if they’re salvageable. Despite the basement having up to 7 feet of water in the rear, as well as 4 feet in the front, the historic building’s foundations are fine, he said. People from the community pitched in to help, and it was inspiring for the bar owner. “There was a lot of camaraderie around,” he said, “people coming in and helping, helping out with buckets. I haven’t seen it since 9/11 -- people just want to help.” As he turned back to tend to pumping out the bar’s waterlogged basement, Sheridan said, “We’re all alive. The good news around here is no one got hurt. We can start again.”

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I feel safer here,” she said. Elsewhere late Monday afternoon throughout the East Village and Lower East Side, and judging by the packed bars and restaurants along Ludlow, Eldridge and Rivington Sts., most young people seemed to be enjoying their day off from work. Meanwhile, along Avenue A, many stores, bars and restaurants remained open for business -- including the packed Key Food supermarket on the corner of E. Fourth St. Further east, along Avenues B, C and D, business owners seemed to be taking the storm warnings and evacuation notice seriously and had shuttered their establishments. All day Sunday and Monday, the long lines of people at the Key Food supermarket seemed to rival that of Trader Joe’s on E. 14th St. On Sunday the line of people waiting to get into the Trader Joe’s wine shop annex was as long as the one outside the main store. At Key Food, there was a party atmosphere

among many of the younger customers, who seemed torn between looking at their smart phone screens and reading and sending text messages versus shopping. Most of the shopping carts were filled with bottles of water, bread and canned goods, and there were also plenty of frozen pizzas and beer in sight. One shelf in the store that was completely empty was the one that had contained cans of black beans. Joe Vacinni, a fill-in worker at the Key Food, said the supermarket had almost run out of water and bread, and that clerks working the cash registers were on the verge of exhaustion trying to handle the never-ending, long lines of customers. “It’s like the end of the world,” Vacinni said, and one elderly man who heard him staunchly agreed. “The world is going to end at 7 p.m. tonight,” the older man shouted, to the amusement of many of those standing nearby “I wish it would,” one young freak dressed all in black with dyed green hair and devils’ faces tattooed on his wrists replied aloud. “The hell with this world and Key Food.”

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The driver of this Volvo reportedly tried to make a break from Garage 5 as the surge was coming, but abandoned ship.

Stuy Town parkers driven mad after cars are totaled by Sandy BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Stuyvesant Town parkers were feeling “garage rage” after Hurricane Sandy wrecked their cars in a place they were assured would be safe during the storm. Angry and concerned car owners gathered outside Garage 5, on Avenue C near 15th St., on Tuesday afternoon, but it was gated and there were no attendants in sight. Inside the garage a white car could be seen sitting in water about 3 feet high. A GoodYear tow truck operator whose name patch read “Bernard” let them know they were in for the worst due to the salt water’s effects on their wheels. “Every car out here -- totaled,” he said. “If it ever starts running again, it’ll have electronic problems for a long time.” Parkers were livid that they had received a letter before the storm from Quik Park, which took over the operation in August, telling them to move their cars out of Garages 2, 3 and 4 -- with the assumption being that Garage 5 was safe. No. 5 is the biggest garage of the lot. All the Stuy Town garages along Avenue C are in Zone B. Zone A, the most flood-prone area, stops in the middle of 14th St. But the storm didn’t know from A or B. “I have an ‘87, cherry red BMW,” said Diana Lee Wolozin, who owns a co-op nearby on 14th St. “It’s like my life savings. … I’m a massage therapist and my massage equipment is in the back of my trunk.” Saying her car was “vintage” and so didn’t have electronic computer controls, she hoped Bernard would confirm that the vehicle would be O.K., but he didn’t sound convinced. George Kane, 57, a lifelong resident of the complex said this was the worst storm -- and worst garage carnage -- he had ever

seen, including the ‘92 storm that inundated No. 5 with salt water. “Even Dec. 11, 1992 -- we had a nor’easter and it wasn’t this bad,” he said. “What you had here was a nor’easter combined with a full moon.” One woman, who didn’t give her name, said that, recalling that ‘92 garage swamping, she took her car out of the garage two days before Monday’s storm, and parked it on First Ave. Outside the Quik Park, cars sat scattered haphazardly at angles, some half on and half off the pavement, left where they had settled after floating in the water on the flooded avenue. Wolozin checked out a white Mercedes. “Its inside smelled like the East River,” she reported. Farzad Sabouhi was annoyed that when he had parked his car at 6 p.m. on Monday the attendants didn’t seem particularly concerned about the onrushing Sandy-pocalypse. “They didn’t mention nothing,” he said. “This has to be a class-action suit here,” said sports writer Alan Kreda, who has been parking in the garage since 1993. Diane Fraher said parkers had been assured that the garage would be “sandbagged up” before the storm hit, but it was never done. She said when she came by earlier on Monday an attendant had been there and told her the story behind the Volvo XC 60 that sat parked at an angle on the garage’s threshold. It hadn’t been tossed there by the water. “It was a young guy who tried to get away at the last minute,” she said, “and he panicked, and he jumped out.”

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Ice, ice, baby: Con Ed chips in with chilly chunks On Thursday in Union Square, Con Ed distributed blocks of ice that residents could put in their unpowered refrigerators to keep food chilled. There was a long line for the frozen hot commodity. Older residents remembered how refrigerators used to be called “ice boxes” back in the day, when they really were cooled by large blocks of ice that the iceman would drop off whenever he would “cometh.” At right, Villager Diane Waller showed her ice.

N.Y.U. relocates 6,000, suspends classes for a week BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Dealing with a hurricane of the force of Sandy, followed by the city’s longest-ever blackout is hardly academic. Yet New York University students, faculty, staff and facilities survived the most devastating storm in the city’s history “mostly all well,” according to Jules Martin, the university’s vice president for global security and crisis management. Following Monday’s storm, the university ultimately decided that the school would not reopen for classes until Mon., Nov. 5. The university did have to relocate 6,000 students from dorms whose life-safety and fire-protection systems ran out of backup power, sending these students to other dorms or nonresidential facilities. In a statement released on Wed., Oct. 31, Martin reported that things were under control and that the university was focusing on doing door-to-door outreach with is nursing school students and faculty to elderly residents living in N.Y.U. housing. Due to power outages affecting facilities and the transit situation, classes and activities were canceled through the end off the week. According to Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president for government relations and community engagement, the university’s cogeneration plant didn’t fail during Hurricane Sandy. The newly expanded plant was intended to help take N.Y.U. increasingly off the grid, which has the benefit of putting less stress on the city’s system. “The co-gen plant held up very well. It shows the need for it,” Hurley said. “The co-gen didn't fail. It was always only covering our main academic buildings and some dorms -- not everything could be added -- about 30 of our buildings. We own more than

30.” Some dorms – either not near Washington Square or built in a way that didn’t allow them to be connected to the co-gen plant -- lost power. N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center on First Ave. in the E. 30s had to be evacuated during the storm when its generators failed. But, Hurley explained, the medical center has its own generator system. The university’s co-gen system is actually like “mini-systems/ micro-grids” that can only be set up to serve a certain number of buildings and within a certain distance. N.Y.U. announced that it would be opening 13 academic buildings, including Vanderbilt Hall, Tisch Hall, Stern Business School, Shimkin Hall, Furman Hall, the Silver Building and Warren Weaver Hall. In addition, Bobst Library and the Kimmel Center for University Life – where the university put up some students on cots -- are on the co-gen system. “Please be aware that because we are operating under extraordinary power conditions, we may need to curtail loads in these buildings similar to what we do on high-heat days in summer, whereby some elevators, nonessential lighting, etc., may not be on,” an emergency notice read. “All life-safety systems will be operational in these buildings even in curtailment mode.” Said Martin, “The most important news is that our community is safe and well. No injuries, and very minor damage to our facilities at our Washington Square campus. Many of the students who needed to be relocated found their own accommodations with friends or family who had power, according to the university.

During the day, the Kimmel Center and the adjacent Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life were open to students to charge phones and get access to WiFi. Hot showers were available to students on a 24/7 basis at the Palladium recreation facility on E. 14th St. Students were required to bring their ID, and their own towel and soap. In one mishap, a generator at the 3rd North residence -- for which the university had scheduled a refueling -- ran out of fuel on Wednesday at noon, creating a temporary smoke condition. There was no danger, and there were no injuries, the university reported. The fuel arrived five hours later, allowing the generator to be restarted and the hall to be used for overnight housing. Many faculty and their families live in N.Y.U. housing and were also without power. The faculty had access to the academic buildings that have N.Y.U.-generated power, and they and their families had access during the day to the lower level of Bobst and on 24/7 basis to the lower concourse of Tisch Hall and Hemmerdinger Hall in the Silver Center; in these locations they could access WiFi and power for charging phones and other devices. Hot showers were available at Coles gym for faculty and their families. The university arranged for transportation for faculty to parts of Manhattan where power was not lost so that they could shop for food for their families and to fill prescriptions. As for the medical center, it was closed and was “beginning its recovery operation.” Around 300 patients were safely evacuated from the hospital during the storm, though some research facilities were damaged.

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EDITORIAL Surviving the next storm Downtowners once again are coming together, helping their neighbors -- so the comparisons between Hurricane Sandy and 9/11 are natural. The key difference is that the devastating and tragic loss of life this time does not approach the magnitude of the attack 11 years ago. That of course does not make it any easier for each grieving family. The scramble back to homes for evacuees, the frantic group e-mails, the search for information, for places to charge cell phones, has an all-too-familiar ring to many. Once again we are inspired by the stories we’ve seen and heard about people helping -- offering everything from beds to showers to food to batteries. At the South Street Seaport, devastated businesses are helping each other recover. In northern Chelsea we saw a small group of police officers Monday lifting heavy wood from the street clearing a dangerous situation rather than waiting for another agency to do it. In the East Village, an out-of-town samaritan trucked in a generator to help the Ninth Precinct keep functioning, which was also used to help local residents charge up their phones. A local bar on Avenue A stayed open with a generator after the storm and, again, let people power up their phones. In the West Village, there were cookouts to help feed the hungry, as food became scarce and the contents of peoples’ refrigerators in their homes became inedible. In the Two Bridges area on the Lower East Side, residents banded together to help senior citizens trapped in their high-rise apartments without access to food or water. There were so many more stories like these. As we look at what comes next, foremost in our minds is that low-lying Lower Manhattan is one of the most vulnerable areas to storms. We hope by now, you the reader, have your lights back. We also hope the subways return to Lower Manhattan as they did for the rest of the city. It did not seem that long ago when the trains could run rain or shine, but that day has passed and will never return without the political will for large-scale investment. The science is clear that these storms will continue with more frequency and ferocity going forward. We shouldn’t rush in with massive expenditures on storm protection without careful study, but on the other hand, we can’t throw our hands up and wait for better environmental policies to reverse the tide. That’s what Mayor Bloomberg seemed to do the other day. While he has been a leader on climate issues, he should not be so dismissive of costly measures that would likely help. A system of storm-surge barriers -- as advocated for most notably on the political level by Chelsea activist Bob Trentlyon – may be the only thing that can protect us from another devastating storm of Sandy’s proportions. But constructing these barriers is “not an easy process,” as Trentlyon says, so it’s something that we should start studying now to see if it’s the way to go to ensure that Lower Manhattan continues to be a viable place to live and work in a world with a rapidly changing climate. Meanwhile, we’re riding in subway stations built more than a century ago. Shortsighted politicians will scoff at spending hundreds of billions both to protect people living near the water, as well as at least some of our transit system. But consider the multibillions of dollars lost when our lives and jobs are so disrupted. How many times a year will Lower Manhattan be asked to pack up and flee? In the meanwhile, we’ll stay on the Sandy aftermath story from our new temporary offices, updating our Web sites as well as two most welcome post-9/11 advances -Facebook and Twitter. Lastly, don’t forget to vote on Tuesday. For those with difficulty getting to the polls, you may still get an absentee ballot application Monday if you go to 450 W. 33rd St., 10th floor. It’s too late to get the candidates to promise better storm protection this year, but you can still hold the winners accountable.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A hurricane of news To The Editor: Hunkering down for Hurricane Sandy, I was delighted to spend some time with the latest issue of the East Villager. One story after another piqued my interest, from the plans for the Seward Park area to the heartening green efforts of our local schools and politicians. It was also heartening to see that activist Eric Carter’s case was drummed out of court for his participation in a recent demonstration at CHARAS. I was glad to learn about ideas for vacant city parks building in our neighborhood. Perhaps the dynamic new Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space on Avenue C will become involved. And on a personal note, I appreciated the epitaph for artist John Evans and was pleased that the story included one of his beautiful collages in full color. Finally, I wanted to extend a welcome to the new publisher Jennifer Goodstein and congratulate Lincoln Anderson on his well-deserved promotion to editor in chief. Long live the East Village and the East Villager. The community is grateful for your service. Jeff Wright

Free speech forever To The Editor: Re "Anderson, Editor in Chief" (editorial, Oct. 25): The community is fortunate to have such a strong and dedicated voice upholding the First Amendment. Thank you and congratulations on your promotion to editor in chief, Lincoln Anderson.

We too would like to see the Hudson River Park Trust and our elected officials work together to address the needs of the community for ballfields and green space. However, we would most like to see them acknowledge (preferably on paper) their commitment to supporting the future of community boathouses and public access to the water at Pier 40. Sally Curtis, Rob Buchanan, Phil Yee, Dave Clayton, Ruth Lindner, Divid Shehigian, Frank Cervi The above signers are board of directors members, Village Community Boathouse

Rothenberg is a godsend To The Editor: Re "David Rothenberg’s new book took a lifetime to write" (interview, by Jerry Tallmer, Oct. 25): Beloved David Rothenberg is a godsend to our priorconvicted community family, and to us all. Here we have a soul that is in tune with humanity. He has and continues to give much. He does not look for praise. He looks for us to follow in his footsteps to help those who are kicked to the curb. The Castle is an example of what comes of a dream. Beloved David has a spirit that communicates with us all. His "Out on a Limb" blog postings on his "Any Saturday" WBAI radio show are treasures we all should latch onto, to better understand the working of our current social structure. Beloved David is more than honest. He tells it like it is, and has suffered many insults from people who don't know any better. However, he keeps on keeping on. And how I love David for his dedication to life. Bright moments beloved David. I am grateful to be called your friend.

A.S. Evans Stella Marrs

Spokony: The Next Generation To The Editor: I just want to convey how deeply impressed we have been at Two Bridges with the earnest reporting by Sam Spokony. He is levelheaded, unassuming, always asks insightful questions and his articles are always well balanced. It's wonderful to witness a new generation of reporters like him. Thank you. Victor Papa Papa is president, Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

Don’t rock the boat(houses) To The Editor: Re "Leagues toss a change-up on Pier 40 buildings idea" (news article, Oct. 18): In all the handwringing about the future of Pier 40, one of the park's biggest and most public-spirited constituencies is getting overlooked, and that is the two community boathouses on Pier 40 that offer free public access to the waterways that actually make up most of Hudson River Park. Together, those two boathouses put more than 15,000 people on the water this season. As anyone who has walked down that short stretch of walkway on the south side of the pier knows, we have created the literal "connection to the water" that the park's creators, designers and managers have always claimed they want to provide.

Treasured Evans’s collages To The Editor: Re "John Evans, 79, artist whose collages were a diary" (obituary, Oct. 25): We were lucky enough to be mail art chums with John over many years through the interntional mail art network since the early 80s, in fact. His mail was always a joy to receive, and to get a collage on my birthday was a real treat indeed and they are much treasured. It was great to see him find some measure of success during the last 10 years of his life. Success that was a long time coming and richly deserved! Michael Leigh

Denigrating for dogs To The Editor: Re "Halloween goes to the dogs" (photos, Oct. 25): If dogs had thumbs they would not need us to open their can of food and they would not have to put up with this sort of humiliation. Until evolution turns in that direction, however, bring on the spangles, funny hats and feathers. Lawrence White

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Like Louis vs. Schmeling, it’s another crucial fight Here is an extract from something else I had a few years ago in these pages, and before that in the first (and only) issue of a magazine called P.S.:

NOTEBOOK BY JERRY TALLMER There was a time, a golden time, when every morning after a Joe Louis victory over the latest “Bum of the Month,” a teenaged white kid in New York would walk the city’s blocks, travel the buses and subways, silently reacting in his heart to the faces he saw before him, the joyous faces smiling back or the odious faces exuding black hatred. Hatred of blacks, that is, and of that one particular black who was the undefeated Heavyweight Champion of the World. But I would not have written that sentence then or used the word “black” in or out of print. People of goodwill, people in polite society, didn’t say “black,” they said colored, they said Negro. And, colored or white, people of goodwill in those years worshiped Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber from Detroit. Blanche Avalony, also known as GiGi, the tiny brown woman from Harlem who held our household together, would have slapped my face had I said black. And then Joe Louis came up against Max Schmeling, Hitler’s pride and joy, though (so far as we know) the stubborn Max was not a Nazi himself. Just a good tough German prizefighter with a good right-hand punch that caught Joe Louis by surprise, over and over again. Louis had to wait two years for a rematch. June 22, 1938. Yankee Stadium. Arthur Donovan once again the referee, Harry Balogh the announcer. Sellout crowd. Heart in mouth. Hitler screaming on the radio. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, New Dealing everything. Republicans gnashing their teeth — no, sharpening their teeth — against any F.D.R. try for a third term. Unconstitutional! Criminal! The election — the most

It is the night of June 22, 1938 ….. three months and eight days before Munich. All week the tension has mounted, and my father and I have said nothing about it: not one word. I do not know that he knows there is going to be this fight, for he has showed no interest in it: none. The longawaited Louis-Schmeling rematch, unsuperman against superman with superman everywhere on the march. I do not know where my brother is; he is not in memory on the scene. I am alone, nursing my tension, my fears, my dread, the end of the world. I have nursed it alone like that for a week, for a slow crescendo of many weeks of increasing dread. There is a radio by my bed. I put it on and the bulling, beautiful voice of Harry Balogh roars from the tiny amplifier, over the clang of bells: “…in this corner, wearing purple trunks…for the Heavyweight Championship of the World…” Single clang of the bell. The [radio] announcer starts yelling. He keeps on yell-

ing. “A left to the body, a left hook to the head, a savage left to the… ” My father is in the next room, quietly reading his evening paper under the wrought-iron lamp. No he isn’t. He is here in my room, all of a sudden, saying nothing, standing by my bed, white in the face, lips compressed. “Another left…another right…a left to the stomach…Schmeling is grabbing his stomach…” It is the first round and Schmeling is down, the only man Joe Louis ever tried to kill, and the announcer is yelling, the crowd roaring, the bell clanging. My father with his white face makes a fist with his right hand. The fight is over. Superman will spend the next little while in the hospital. My father slams the fist of his right hand into the palm of his left hand, once, twice, three times. “Thank God,” he says, “there is a God. Thank God, there is a God.” Once for each sock of the fist. “Thank God, there is a God.” Dear God, if there is a God: let things come out this Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to junk the haters, the racists, the troglodytes, and re-elect Barack Hussein Obama in — oh, hell — as crucial a U.S. presidential election as any in history.

‘…in this corner, wearing purple trunks…for the Heavyweight Championship of the World…’

crucial U.S. presidential election in history, everybody said — was two years away. As was the fall of France. Four years ago in these pages I had a piece arguing that every U.S. presidential election, certainly since 1932 (F.D.R. I), has been the most important in history. Well, that Louis-Schmeling prizefight on the night of June 22, 1938, still seems like the most important prizefight in history. It certainly seemed so to that teenaged kid reading the faces on the sidewalks and subways of New York. Also, as it would turn out, to the Albert F. Tallmer who was that boy’s father.

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On Thurs., Oct. 18, a federal appeals court struck down a portion of DoMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, specifically the part that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The lawsuit leading to this ruling was filed by Edith “Edie” Windsor, 83, who had been in a relationship with another woman, Thea Clara Spyer, for 40 years. The couple lived in a Fifth Ave. apartment near Washington Square. They married in Canada in 2007. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor was hit with an estate tax bill of more than $300,000, since the U.S. did not recognize their marriage. On Oct. 18, an elated Windsor, above, with her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, standing behind her, met the press at the Downtown offices of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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Fracking foes are getting fired up as deadlines loom BY LIZA BÉAR As the hydrofracking issue becomes increasingly contentious, with deadlines approaching on every front, opponents are mounting efforts to alert residents both Upstate and in New York City to what they say are the hotly debated drilling technique’s dangers. Residents of the Southern Tier, which sits atop the Marcellus Shale, are concerned about known carcinogens in the water used in the drilling process, wastewater and air pollution from methane gas, as well as the loss of their homes’ real estate value once the land has been contaminated. Cleanwater advocates in New York City share their concern about pollution of the aquifer, which, they fear, could affect the city’s watershed due to seepage of chemicals used in fracking. Also, local environmentalists and residents are worried about potentially dangerous levels of radon in Marcellus Shale natural gas. And there is also fear over the risk of pipeline explosions in a dense urban area, such as the West Village, where the Gansevoort Peninsula is the endpoint for a 16-mile, 30-inch, high-pressure pipeline that Spectra is constructing from New Jersey under the Hudson River. On Oct. 18 there was a special screening of the Academy Award-nominated film “Gasland” at the IFC Center on Sixth Ave. at W. Third St. The screening was introduced by John Vanco, managing director of IFC, which initially released the film in 2010, and actress and Village native Scarlett Johanssen, who champions environmental causes, and who reiterated her support for potential mayoral hopeful Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. “The stakes have never been higher,” said Stringer in his opening remarks. He called hydrofracking unreliable and dangerous and an “outrageous environmental affront.” An hour earlier and a few blocks away on Leroy St., the Hudson Public Library held a free screening of “Gasland” organized by Sandra Koponen of Occupy the Pipeline. This screening was attended by Josh Fox’s mother, who spoke on his behalf while the “Gasland” filmmaker shared the IFC stage for the post-screening Q&A with Sean Lennon, cofounder of Artists Against Fracking, along with his mother, Yoko Ono, and musician Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, who helps run the A.A.F. Web site. There was also a surprise visitor, from the heavily fracked town of Dimah, in Susquehannah County, Pennsylvania, featured in “Gasland,” who spoke passionately of the devastation brought to his home town, and had a plastic gallon jug filled with dirty brown well water affected by fracking to prove it. Although the benefit was specifically for Josh Fox’s production company, International WOW and Water Defense, “fracktivists” from Sane Energy and Occupy the Pipeline, with green painted faces in hazmat overalls, were holding signs on the sidewalk outside the theater. “There were people working on the issue out West and

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Actress Scarlett Johanssen introduced the film “Gasland” at a special screening at the IFC Center.

in Upstate New York since 2008, who previewed early versions of the movie and worked with Josh Fox,” said Clare Donahue, co-founder of Sane Energy Project. “But without ‘Gasland,’ a national movement the size of what we have now would not have happened.” Inside the theater, Sean Lennon explained he had never intended to be an activist. “What happened to Josh in the film I never thought would happen to me,” he said after the screening. “A few months ago the gas companies came to my family’s farm Upstate. The issue grabbed me and swept me away. It felt like I had no choice.” Lennon added, “What we could offer as artists and musicians is a public voice and a media campaign.” In related news, Spectra is cleaning up its Gansevoort

construction site in preparation for shutting it down on Thurs., Nov. 1, for the winter. Nevertheless, daily vigils and protests in and around the site continue unabated. On Oct. 14, Koponen and Donna Stein, both boaters, set sail from Hoboken on a small houseboat holding “No Spectra, No Fracking” banners. On Tues., Oct. 23, at 1:30 p.m., George Pingeon, an Occupy the Pipeline member, locked his wrist to a backhoe with a chain and U-shaped padlock at a new pit dug by Spectra at the Gansevoort construction site, north of the original pit, which has now been boarded up. It seems to have been a spontaneous action that Monica Hunken, another activist present at the site, described on the phone as “an act of passion.” When the police arrived, Pingeon unlocked himself of his own accord. He was taken to the Sixth Police Precinct and later Downtown to The Tombs. On Thurs., Nov. 8, Community Board 2 will hold the first joint hearing with Spectra and Con Edison, that latter which is constructing the final 1,500 feet of the pipeline, connecting the Spectra 30-inch, high-pressure distribution line running under the Hudson to the Con Edison grid, a much older pipeline infrastructure. On the legal front, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied the request for a rehearing on approval of the Spectra Gansevoort construction filed by New York City and New Jersey plaintiffs led by Sane Energy. On Sane Energy’s Web site, Donahue announced that the decision will be appealed. The case against Spectra and the Hudson River Park Trust, led by Sane Energy and five other community and environmental groups, is scheduled to be heard in court on Tues., Nov. 13.

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lenge that residents faced, he said, "The cumulative effect of no power, no heat, no hot water, no phone." Many people still at least had their land lines working, but Schweinsburg said, "Unfortunately, the Verizon substation is in my basement on Eighth St. - so, no phone." At least he had running cold water, and he added, "Gas is working, but you'll have to hand-light it." Buildings of six stories or less did have running cold water, since H2O - coming down from the Upstate reservoirs - naturally rises to that level. But buildings above that height mostly did not have running water, since it needs to be lifted to a rooftop water tank by electric pump, and then is gravity-fed to apartments. So Stuyvesant Town didn't have water, at least not as of late Tuesday afternoon. Water had come on briefly there on Tuesday, though, long enough for quick-acting residents to fill up their tubs and pots. Georgette Massarella said she'd just overheard while passing a car radio that the blackout might last for four days. "I'm running low on candles," she said. Schweinsburg told her that three blocks east at Avenue B a store had some, and was also still selling the hard-tofind "D" flashlight and radio batteries, which always fly off the shelves during blackouts and emergencies. However, Jim Wise, 77, of Stuy Town said the merchant had jacked up the price for two "D"'s to $5.50. "I said, 'Why are they so expensive,'" Wise recounted. "He said, 'They just went up.' ... That hurts the people." Like many in the East Village, Schweinsburg and his neighbors had heard the loud bang from Con Ed's E. 14th St. power plant before they were plunged into darkness. "Just as somebody said, 'I don't think we have to worry about power because we're so close to Con Ed' - crack! and lights out," he said. Alistair Heffernan, an N.Y.U. physics graduate student who lives in Stuy Town, had been out photographing the floodwaters on Avenue C when he heard the Con Ed plant explode -- and the sky turned green, he said. He said there were six more bangs - that lit the sky a light green - after the last of which the neighborhood went black. "Just this huge green light," he said. "Pure green across the whole sky. I was 20 feet away from the power plant." Similarly, Allan Drury, a Con Ed spokesperson said a reporter actually had asked him if the explosion gave off a blue light, though YouTube videos showed the explosion and fire as orange. David Wells said that as the salt water rose around the cars at the east end of 14th St., it switched their headlights on underwater, adding to the surreal quality. There were no traffic lights either south of 39th St., creating an extremely dangerous situation. Tuesday afternoon, a volunteer dressed all in black and wearing a black knit cap was doing a good job directing cars and buses at the busy intersection of 14th St. and First Ave. "Let's go! You're blocking my traffic!" he yelled at an inattentive driver. M.T.A. buses were running without any fare. A man who identified himself as Chaplain Rodriguez was standing watching the unidentified volunteer, concerned. "Last year, I did it here [during Hurricane Irene]. They give me lights," he said, gesturing how he flicked the batons. "I almost got killed." Local merchants pitched in with free or discounted fare. The restaurant 11 B was giving away pizza slices on Tuesday. Veniero's was selling its famous pastries for just $1. Stromboli's pizza on St. Mark's Place was going strong with a generator, and people were finding their way there

Melissa Bishop toughed out Sandy on the streets with the help of her trusty red sleeping mat, plus two military sleeping bags, all topped by a plastic bag.

Photos by Lincoln Anderson

With a good cup of java scarce in the ‘hood, Danielle Baskin was helping people get their coffee fix on Avenue A.

by "following the pizza boxes" of customers who were taking out. Carol D. said she had been housesitting for a friend on E. Seventh St. between Avenues C and D when the flash flood poured inside. She waded across Avenue C in freezing water almost up to her chest. “I went back today," she said on Tuesday. "All the antique furniture and books were floating." As darkness fell on Avenue A, the Bistro Truck was doing a brisk business near Seventh St. selling Belgian fries and light French fare. Its light was virtually the only illumination on the pitch-black avenue. Earlier in the day, Ray of Ray's Candy Store had been selling iced coffees, cookies and candy bars, but had finally gone home to take a rest. The much-derided "piss phone booth" on the corner had become a vital lifeline since people could barely get "one bar" on their cell phones. Wearing a headlamp and walking his dog Harry, James Mona said he'd been up to a Duane Reade in Midtown to recharge his phone, sitting on the floor for two hours with his cell plugged into an outlet. "Forty other people were doing it," he said. Melissa Bishop, 32 and recently newly homeless, was proud that she'd been able to sleep outside through Sandy, having found a safe spot nearby at the bottom of a stairwell below Lantern Thai restaurant. "I had a mat, two military sleeping bags and a garbage bag on top," she said. But she was disappointed that no homeless outreach workers from B.R.C. had been seen around since the hurricane struck.

Alistair Heffernan, right, and Jacqueline Read, N.Y.U. graduate science students, walked up from Stuy Town on Tuesday night to get some hot Chinese food on E. 45th St. Heffernan was being interviewed, at 30th St. and First Ave., telling his story of how he witnessed the explosion at the Con Ed plant right before the power in Lower Manhattan went out.

Usually, she sleeps other places, like "under the 'V''s," as she put it, at the new Cooper Union building. Thousands were going through caffeine withdrawal without their daily cup or cups of Joe. Helping to fill the need, Danielle Baskin, a recent N.Y.U. graduate who custom paints bicycle helmets, was selling cups of homebrewed coffee for a dollar from a cart. "I've sold 39 cups of coffee so far," she said, noting she'd only gotten the idea to do it about three hours earlier. A local named Kaos was keeping her company on the dark streets. "Anyone gets around her gets their face smashed in," he said, brandishing tattooed knuckles in the dim glow of the Bistro Truck's light. Some people were telling her it was a great idea, but it was getting a little late for coffee, though they really hoped she'd be back out there the next morning.

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Photo by Lincoln Anderson

Shining citizens on Avenue A “Flashlights for $3!” Audrey and Alex were making their sales pitch to the occasional cyclist and pedestrian on Tuesday evening that passed by the corner of Avenue A and 10th St. A flower artist, Audrey had 30 mini-flashlights left over from a project she had done in which the lights were supposed to illuminate bouquets. “I’m a bit obsessed with space, so I wanted to get rid of these as soon as possible, and also help people out – or help people out, and get rid of these as soon as possible,” explained Alex, an Alzheimer’s researcher. They had sold about 20 of them in just 45 minutes, and were planning to go home and have a glass of wine.

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

Sandy ‘takes out’ cafe awning The storm’s howling winds tore down the canopy and also part of the covering of the steel roll-down gate at AlphaBet Cafe, at 14th St. and Avenue B. A window was also missing. Police stood guard over the corner on Tuesday afternoon, but left later on.

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Local pubs were points of light amid the darkness BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Hurricane Sandy put a damper of epic proportions on Downtown. But here and there, a few hardy watering holes helped locals take their minds off all the water and wind they’d been lashed with, and were sanctuaries both during and after the storm. Candles lit the bar inside Doc Holliday’s, on Avenue A at E. Ninth St., Tuesday evening while bottled beer chilled on ice was the quaff of choice. Doorman Vincent Rispoli said business had actually been good during the storm and the following evening, better than usual for a Monday and Tuesday, typically the bar’s slow days. Keith Laban, swigging a brew at the bar, quipped that the place should start having “Blackout Tuesdays.” Seriously, Rispoli said he was enjoying the mellow vibe. “Nobody’s checking their Facebook every five minutes -- people are actually talking to each other,” he noted approvingly. Brad Spencer said another plus for powerless partying was environmental: “It’s green.” Some things never change, though. Rispoli had to 86 a woman who had had too much to drink. “She can’t handle blackouts,” Laban joked. Meanwhile, a major morale-raising operation was going on at Percy’s Tavern up the avenue at 13th St. The bar’s coowners, Larry Watson and Paul Byrne, had rigged up a generator outside the place to keep their meat fresh, and when residents had asked to charge their phones off of it, the owners slapped on some surgeprotector strips. Watson figured 2,000 to 3,000 people had charged their phones on it by last Tuesday evening. Watson’s car was parked up on the curb on Avenue A with its headlights angled toward the generator, while down 13th St., Byrne’s car was throwing its high beams toward the phone-charging confab. In a nice touch, the charging cells sat atop an East Villager news box. Watson said the box had been blowing around Monday night and that he had tied it down beside the bar. He said they were advising people that they had to go as far as Third Ave. to get reception. Families with small children were eating dinner at the place. They planned to open up at 8:30 the next morning to serve eggs -- and, again, the much-craved coffee. “I came here in 1985,” Watson said in his Irish brogue. “I lived at 11th and Second. My kids went to P.S. 19. Now I live on 12th St. It’s my neighborhood. This is New York at its best -- people come together. There hasn’t been one argument.” Watson planned to close at 11 p.m., not stay open till 4 a.m. “It’s after a hurricane,” he said, “people have to go home.”

Photos by Lincoln Anderson

An East Villager box got an assist at an ad-hoc phone-charging station outside Percy’s Tavern.

Larry Watson said the camaraderie he saw at his bar after the storm was “New York at its best.”

Vincent Rispoli enjoyed a Facebook-less night at Doc Holliday’s.

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L.E.S. BID weathers the storm, looks forward to loans BY SAM SPOKONY Amid the extensive flooding and other damage caused by Hurricane Sandy within Downtown Manhattan, the Lower East Side Business Improvement District has weathered the storm. Bob Zuckerman, the BID’s executive director, told this newspaper on Thursday that initial assessments of the district’s businesses showed that they’ve suffered very little, if any, property damage. “It’s very fortunate,” Zuckerman said, “but there’s still a tremendous human toll, in terms of the effects on these people’s livelihoods because their stores have had to stay closed this whole time.” The L.E.S. BID includes around 400 businesses, covering an area that stretches the length of Orchard and Allen Sts., as well as a few blocks on Delancey, Broome and Grand Sts., as far east as Clinton St. And while its easternmost blocks sit along the edge of Zone C, an area classified by the city a potential flood zone, the rest lies far enough inland to be out of the reach of any flooding danger. But, like virtually everything else in the surrounding area, the BID’s businesses are all still without power. Con Edison has stated, most recently on Thursday, that power to Downtown Manhattan will be restored by Saturday. Zuckerman explained that the next step for him and his staff will be to work with

business owners to deal with that “human toll,” as they struggle to recover financially from losses by incurred by the inability to open over the past week. The key aspect of that process, for owners, will be applying for business loans offered by the city, state and federal government. “We’ve already been in contact with our businesses, and we’ll be assisting as much as possible in order to be their conduit to obtaining any available loans,” Zuckerman said. “It’s just a matter of counteracting the cash flow issues they’re facing now, in terms of paying salaries and other normal costs once they open up again.” A major source of relief for businesses within the BID — as well as others throughout the city — will likely be the small- to mid-sized business emergency loan program offered jointly through the city’s Department of Small Business Services and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. A total of $5 million will be made available through that program, and an individual business can apply for up to $10,000. Rather than dealing with property damage and rebuilding purposes, the loans are specifically offered to counteract the effect of business interruption. N.Y.C. Business Solutions, a division of S.B.S., will be the main point of contact for those emergency loans. It will also coordi-

nate with community-based-organizations in severely affected areas to help businesses with the application process, according to an S.B.S. release. Another likely option, on the federal side, will be the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program run by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The important element for many Downtown Manhattan businesses not directly affected by flooding or high winds is the fact that, as with the S.B.S and E.D.C. loans, owners do not need to have suffered any property damage to apply for a loan. There is a July 31, 2013 filing deadline for any business owner applying for economic injury loans through the S.B.A., according to the federal agency’s latest release. Information about loans specifically for larger businesses or those that have suffered property damage can be found on the websites of S.B.S. (www.nyc.gov/html/sbs) and S.B.A. (www.sba.gov). Unfortunately, the massive impact of Hurricane Sandy has also led the L.E.S. BID

to make the decision to cancel its beloved Lower East Side Pickle Day event. Pickle Day — originally scheduled for Oct. 28 — was postponed to Nov. 4 several days in advance of the hurricane, and the subsequent decision to cancel it was made on Oct. 31, two days after the storm struck. “It’s certainly a shame, but we really didn’t have any other choice,” Zuckerman said. “The vendors aren’t ready, and there’s still no power right now, so it would be such a monumental task to try and put this together. I think that, for this week, people should be focused on getting their own lives back in order.” But Zuckerman added that he and the BID’s staff will do some brainstorming over the course of this week, to see if some other event can be arranged in the near future to fill the void left by Pickle Day. “Maybe we’ll be able to set up some kind of ‘Lower East Side Is Back’ event,” he said, “to help our businesses out and celebrate everyone’s resilience through all of this.”

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Flame on! Grillers to the rescue Restaurants were grilling outdoors on an open flame in Union Square on Thursday to help feed the famished. Many delis and restaurants Downtown in the blackout zone continued to serve food and coffee -- with the help of backup generators and ice -- but the outdoor cookout method also helped bring nourishment to those who needed it.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The show must go on Call ahead, check the web BY TRAV S.D. Your correspondent actually earned his salary this past month, by warming seats at several Downtown theaters — keeping eyes and ears open so you don’t have to. It’s harder work than it sounds. PigPen Theatre Company’s “The Old Man and the Old Moon” at Judson Memorial Church wasn’t to my liking at all. While the shadow puppetry was charming and the musicianship pleasant, it all seemed to me in the service of nothing more substantial than a work of provincial children’s theatre. Bring the kids — and then leave them there. It’s playing through November 26. Pigpentheatre. com for more info. Neither was “Speakeasy Dollhouse” my cup of bathtub gin. If you are a tired businessman or a Jeanketeer, you may well enjoy this interactive experience (set in a faux speakeasy in the former Lansky Lounge). Me, I couldn’t “take it on the lam” fast enough. Costume parties are for amateurs! If you want to subject yourself to the charade, give the secret knock at speakeasydollhouse.com. Before you get the idea that this curmudgeon hates everything on earth, let me tell you about an ongoing show I saw and actually liked. I was lucky enough to catch Cardone the Vaudeville Magician’s “Spook Show” at the Canal Park Playhouse (which happens to be located in one of the oldest buildings in New York). This family-friendly combination magic show/haunted house attraction is a charming hoot, and it’s playing every Tuesday, 7pm, through December 18. Cardone is the only performer I know who can do ventriloquism and a card trick at the same time. And for the piece de resistance — live ghosts! I chose the Halloween season to attend for obvious reasons, but this show would be an entertaining lark any time of year. Learn more at canalparkplayhouse.com. Through November 10, the clown company Vagabond Inventions (in collaboration with an international partnership of artists hailing from France, Spain and Sweden) will be presenting “Under the Skiff” — described as “a lyrical clown farce exploring the human side of immigration and the struggle for connection in a foreign landscape” in which “The Red Room in the East Village is transformed into a barren immigration office in a strange country where two naive applicants wait (and wait...) in hopes that their papers will be approved.” More details to be found at: vagabondinventions.com. Now playing through November17, the Talking Band will be presenting “Obskene” — a theater piece conceived and directed by Tina Shepard. “Obskene” literally means “offstage” in Greek, where all the nasty bits in the tragedies happened…the battles, the violence, the rapes and murders (hence giving birth to our

Photo by Don Spiro

Angie Pontani heads an all-star cast, in “Burlesque-A-Pades.”

modern word “obscene”). In the drama of the ancient Greeks, these events are always related by a messenger. “Obskene” juxtaposes a bunch of these classic speeches (newly adapted by Sidney Goldfarb and Lizzie Olesker) with original contributions by Marcus Gardley, Sidney Goldfarb, David Greenspan, John Jesurun, Ellen Maddow, Deb Margolin, Lizzie Olesker and Paul Zimet. “Obskene” will be at HERE Arts Center. More details at talkingband.org. Through December 2, the LAByrinth Theater Company will be presenting the world premiere of “Radiance,” Cusi Cram’s new play inspired by the true story of Captain Robert Lewis. Lewis was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In 1955, he was scheduled to appear as a guest on the television show “This Is Your Life”, but first he stopped off at a neighborhood bar to get thoroughly smashed. If you had dropped the first A-bomb and then were about to appear on TV, wouldn’t you? “Radiance” will be playing at the Bank Street Theater. For tickets and info, go to labtheater.org. November 7-December 2, Soho Rep will be presenting a new work by Jackie Sibblies, a member of their 2011-2012 Writer/Director

Lab. The title of the play is — wait for it — “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.” In “We Are Proud,” a troupe of American actors stumble over questions of authenticity and appropriation as they attempt to reconstruct the little-known first genocide of the 20th century — and land in an exploration that hits closer to home. Visit sohorep.org for more details. November 13, playwright Paula Vogel — who’s taken on controversial subject matter from AIDS (“The Baltimore Waltz”) to incest (“How I Learned to Drive”) — will be opening a play about what may be the most surprising topic yet: the American Civil War. I keep looking for irony in the marketing copy for her new show “A Civil War Christmas,” but there ain’t none to be had! Apparently, this is a straightup “tapestry” of real-life historical figures (from Lincoln to runaway slaves) as they live through Christmas Eve 1864. It’s directed by Tina Landau at New York Theatre Workshop and will be playing through December 30. Sounds not-to-be-missed. Visit nytw.org for tickets and info.

Opening November 17 is the Metropolitan Playhouse’s revival of the 1911 hit “The Boss” — by long-forgotten playwright Edward Sheldon. In this combination melodrama and political protest play, “a bare-knuckles robberbaron has taken over the grain industry in a Great Lakes city, squeezing out all competition, crushing his workers and turning a once proud city into his own fiefdom.” Yes, but does he have an elevator for his car? “The Boss” plays through December 16. For more details, go to metropolitanplayhouse.org. Last but not least: I just know you will want to check out “Burlesque-A-Pades” — starring New York neo-burlesque pioneer Angie Pontani and an all-star cast of cuties and cut-ups, including the World Famous Pontani Sisters, Tigger, Albert Cadabra, Gal Friday, the Maine Attraction and Pinkie Special. In addition to all the fetching burlesque dancers, the show’s special angle is the number of classic burlesque comedy sketches curated and directed by your correspondent (i.e., me!) It’s playing every Friday at 10pm at the Soho Playhouse. I sure hope you can make it! Tickets and info are at burlesqueapades.com. Have an excellent Thanksgiving!

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‘Just a metaphor for personal power in everything’ So says Richards of her ‘so what’ philosophy THEATER SOWA’S RED GRAVY

Written by Diane Richards Directed by Woodie King, Jr. Through Nov. 18 Thurs./Fri. at 7:30pm, Sat. at 2pm/8pm, Sun. at 2pm At the Castillo Theatre 543 W. 42nd St. (btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) For tickets ($25), call 212-941-1234 or visit castillo.org For info, visit newfederaltheatre.org

BY JERRY TALLMER In the 42 miraculous years of his brilliantly successful New Federal Theatre (NFT), Woodie King, Jr., has produced some 350 plays, mostly by black dramatists and/or women — but, by his own count, has only directed seven of them. Now he’s directing his eighth, and there’s a reason for it. The play is “Sowa’s Red Gravy,” by short story writer Diane Richards — and Woodie King. Jr. sees a whole history of the Negro people in America. Or, more precisely, of the great migration of that people from south to north in these United States. “Two of them, in fact — two great migrations,” says King over a mid-morning omelet and coffee. “One to Detroit, one to New York.” Detroit — where Woodie King, Jr., born in Alabama in 1937, went to high school and worked in the Ford factory for three years. Detroit, where a gorgeous actress named Lonette McKee was born, we don’t have to know how long ago. We don’t have to know that about Diane Richards, either. “In my forties,” the playwright says. Both of these beauteous ladies together would surely not add up to the 110-year-old Sowa — whom McKee will be portraying in the NFT production of “Sowa’s Red Gravy.” Ms. McKee was also a bit less in years in age than the Billy Holiday she brought back to heartbreaking life in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” at the Vineyard Theater in 1986. You could look up this appraiser’s love letter to her on that occasion.

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Iris Wilson and Gary Vincent.

Now, Ms. McKee is Diane Richards’ and Woodie King’s Sowa — half sex-driven loveidol movie star, half voodoo witch of Harlem, who travels back and forth through time in a history (sort of) of black America. Her traveling companions include best friend Windy Willow (Toni Seawright), enemies Luwanna (Kimberly “Q”) and Belozah (Kene Holiday), young handsome unsure male boyfriend Sapphire — (Jonathan Peck) and a Baron Samedi who is, of course, the devil.

There is also a character named Jeremiah Bernstein, aka Anxiety Man (Aaron Fried), a white and Jewish fellow who is, well, quite uptight. As follows: Friends say I’m anxious. I’m worried…but not for the reasons they think. It’s for a specific reason. Soon we white people will be outnumbered. Eleanor Roosevelt brought this up on national television years ago. It’s happening now.

Soon I, one lonely white person, will be outnumbered on my job, in my neighborhood, on the subway. This is why I’ve come to see Windy Willow. Maybe she’ll teach me how to cook that Red Gravy. I heard that Windy, Sowa and Luwanna flew into Chicago and sprinkled that Red Gravy on that man that’s sitting in the White

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‘Red Gravy’ plot stirs, thickens Continued from page 22 House right now. Let us pray. I mean, dear reader: come Tuesday, November 6, 2012, let us pray. Anxiety Man knows about Eleanor Roosevelt because Diane Richards is, as my mother would have said, “hipped” on Eleanor Roosevelt. Diane Richards has researched everything about that great woman. What Diane Richards did not know until I told her was that Lorraine Hansberry, back around 1960, chatting with this journalist on a sidewalk in Greenwich Village, said with a knowing smile: “We’re soon going to outvote you.” Meaning black nations vs. white nations in the United Nations. And that eventuality did indeed come to pass quite soon thereafter. “Wow,” says Diane Richards anent Lorraine Hansberry. “Thank you.” My mother never knew about Google, which has informed Diane Richards — “I hate to say it,” Ms. Richards says — that there's another Diane Richards who is a porn star. “What a life! And here am I, a quiet Milwaukee girl.” By the way, Ms. Richards, what’s the deeper meaning of “Red Gravy?” “Oh, it’s just a metaphor for personal power in everything. It came from my worrying about everything.” Like what? “Life. Death. Illness. Marriage. Divorce. Everything. It’s also where the name “Sowa” comes from, ‘Sowa…So what?’ That’s how to pronounce it Just think of ‘so what.’ ” How did that come into your head? “You know what? I don’t know. I was in the Islands, the Caribbean, and she started talking to me.” There is, by the way, a character named Mark Lindner in “A Raisin in the Sun,” a nervous little white man who tries bribe the Negro family — Walter Lee Younger and his mother, wife, sister, son — from moving into an allwhite neighborhood in suburban Chicago. Not unlike Anxiety Man in “Sowa’s Red Gravy.” Speaking of which, how many Jeremiah

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Jonathan Peck and Lonette McKee.

Bernsteins has Diane Richards known in her life? “A whole bunch. I grew up in a very Nazi city. And the German Jews were the only ones who would allow us into their neighborhoods.” Diane Richards got to New York in 1977 and graduated from City College in 2003. All her life she has loved writing, and the material of “Sowa’s Red Gravy” first saw daylight as a series of short stories. Then it was published as a book under the Harlem Writers Guild imprint, and also as an e-book — and somewhere in that whole process, Woodie King, Jr. came upon the work, and its author, at a writers’ conference in upstate New York ten years ago. “He said: ‘This would be great for theatrical production,’ and this past August we went to work to turn it into a play. Woodie picked the stories, starting with the ‘Voodoo Black Magic’ that goes all through it. Woodie would tell me what he saw, how he envisioned it, and then we’d go back and forth, developing insights and nuances that I was not conscious of.” Diane Richards and her husband live in Harlem at 122nd Street. Sowa lives in Harlem near 125th Street whenever she’s not somewhere else at some other time. Diane Richards’ father, Bruce Richards, is a postal supervisor. She lost her mother, nurse Glendora Toliver, in 1989. “My husband is black, he’s psychologist Anthony Mills, we’ve been married ten years,” says the café-au-lait Diane Richards, “but before that I lived with a white man for a long time.” Her husband — “He’s proud of me” — calls the Sowa stories “a mosaic of ingenuity.” History, history. Woodie King sees “Sowa’s Red Gravy” as “a history of the great migrations, one to Detroit, one to New York. I don’t think Shakespeare sat down to do a history of England, but it's all there, isn’t it? This king did this, that king did that.” And the King named Woodie will put it all together for you at the Castillo Theatre — with the help of those two radiant ladies, Diane Richards and Lonette McKee.

DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS

mimi stern-wolfe, artistic director EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES “SUNDAYS @ 3” St. Marks in the Bowery - 131 East 10th Street & 2nd Avenue

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 @ 3pm A STRINGS AND PIANO "HARMONY FOR HUMANITY" ~ memory of Daniel Pearl ~

Beethoven ~ Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3 Shostakovich ~ Piano Trio in E minor Durufle ~ Prelude, Recitatif and Variations Yuko Naito-Gotay, Violin; Orlando Wells, Viola; David Gotay, Cello Karen Bogardus, Flute; Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano Suggested Donation: $12, Students, Seniors, Unemployed: $7 Information: 212 477-1594 downtownmusicproductions.org dmpmimi@verizon.net

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Just Do Art! BY SCOTT STIFFLER

GREENWICH HOUSE POTTERY PRESENTS: LINDA SORMIN’S “MY VOICE CHANGES WHEN I SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE” “This immigrant lives in fear of waste,” says Linda Sormin of her personal habits. “Nothing is thrown away. Old yogurt is used to jumpstart the new batch,” she notes, contextualizing her own thrift as a means to understand what role repurposing plays in her art. “What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?” In her first NYC solo exhibition, Bangkok-born Sormin (who immigrated to Canada at the age of five) uses a sitespecific installation to explore themes of fragility, aggression, mobility and survival. “My Voice Changes When I Speak Your Language” fills the gallery space of Greenwich House Pottery by “embroidering raw clay through objects she has found and re-purposed.” In their second life, these fused objects are used to enact stories of Sormin’s Batak Indonesian past and experiences as an immigrant moving between cultures. Through Nov. 21. Free. At The Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery (16 Jones St., btw. Bleecker & W.

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

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

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

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

WALKING TOUR: “HEROINES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE” Learn about, and celebrate, the lives of nine women who brought social, political and artistic change to the Lower East Side in the early 20th century. Historian and preservationist Joyce Mendelsohn (author of “The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited”) leads the inaugural edition of this two-hour

walking tour. Highlights include a stop at the Henry Street Settlement — where you’ll hear about Settlement founder Lillian D. Wald (who also founded the Visiting Nurse Service of New York). Additionally scheduled: deep background on the life of anarchist and self-styled revolutionary Emma Goldman — a writer and public speaker whose positions on workers' rights, free speech, birth control and atheism got her deported to Russia in 1917. The tour concludes with a visit to the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy's Kling & Niman Family Visitor Center, to view a special photog-

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B O O K S O F W O N D E R N e w Yo r k C i t y ’s o l d e s t a n d l a r g e s t i n d e p e n d e n t c h i l d r e n ’s b o o k s t o r e h o s t s Storytime every Fri. at 4pm and Sun. at noon in t h e i r C h i l d r e n ’s R o o m . A t 1 8 W. 1 8 t h S t . ( b t w. Fifth & Sixth Aves.). Store hours are Mon.-Sat., 11am-7pm and Sun., 11am-6pm. For more info, c a l l 2 1 2 - 9 8 9 - 3 2 7 0 o r v i s i t b o o k s o f w o n d e r. c o m .

POETS HOUSE The Poets House Children’s Room gives children and their parents a gateway to enter the world of rhyme through readings, group activities and interactive performances. For children ages 1-3, the Children’s Room offers “Tiny Poets Time” readings on Thursdays at 10am; for those ages4-10, “Weekly Poetry Readings” take place every Sat. at 11am. Filled with poetry books,

old-fashioned typewriters and a card catalogue packed with poetic objects to trigger inspiration, the Children’s Room is open Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Free admission. At 10 River Terrace. Call 212-431-7920 or visit poetshouse.org. CREATURES OF LIGHT Descend into the depths of the ocean and explore the caves of New Zealand — without ever leaving Manhattan. Just visit the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibit on bioluminescence (organisms that produce light through chemical reactions). Kids will eagerly soak up this interactive twilight world where huge models of everything from fireflies to alienlike fish illuminate the dark. Through Jan. 6, 2013 at the American Museum of Natural History (79th St. & Central Park West). Open daily, 10am–5:45pm.Admission is $25, $14.50 for children, $19 for students/seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the museum or at amnh.org. For more info, call 212-769-5100. THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM The Skyscraper M u s e u m ’s “ S a t u r d a y F a m i l y P r o g r a m ” s e r i e s f e a tures workshops designed to introduce children and their families to the principles of architecture

and engineering through hands-on activities. Call 2 1 2 - 9 4 5 - 6 3 2 4 o r e m a i l e d u c a t i o n @ s k y s c r a p e r. o r g . Admission: $5 per child, free for members. Museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm.Museum admission: $5, $2.50 for students/seniors. For info, call 212-9456324, visit skyscraper.org. T H E S C H O L A S T I C S T O R E Held every Saturday at 3 p m , S c h o l a s t i c ’s i n - s t o r e a c t i v i t i e s a r e d e s i g n e d to get kids reading, thinking, talking, creating and moving. At 11am every Tues., Wed. and Thurs., the Scholastic Storyteller brings tales to life at Daily Storytime. At 557 Broadway (btw. Prince & Spring Sts.). Store hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-7pmand Sun., 11am6pm. For info, call 212-343-6166 or visit scholastic. com/sohostore. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR LISTING IN THE VILLAGER? Please provide the date, time, location, price and a description of the event. Send to scott@ chelseanow.com or mail to 515 Canal St., Unit 1C, New York City, NY 10013. Requests must be received at least three weeks before the event. For more info, call 646-452-2497.

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Tristen Buettel (Sally Bowles) and Javier Spivey (Cliff), in rehearsal for “Cabaret.”

KIDZ THEATER PRESENTS “CABARET” What does Kidz Theater have in common with Liza Minnelli? Well, for starters, they’re both a little unconventional (spelling their names with a “Z” when others are happy to settle for “S”). Also, they gravitate toward dark, complex and challenging material (the upcoming Mainstage Musical production of “Cabaret”). Finally, they’re both award-winners. Liza’s are too numerous to mention here — and Kidz Theater won the prestigious National Youth Arts Award’s top honor (“Outstanding Production”) for 2010, 2011 and 2012. All of this bodes exceedingly well for this upcoming Kander and Ebb musical, which features professional young performers ages 14-19 (including Jenny Mollet, from Broadway’s “The Color Purple”). If you haven’t seen the 1972 film (for which Minnelli won an Oscar), here’s the plot in a nutshell: It’s Berlin, Germany, at the dawn of the Nazi era. Young American

Clifford Bradshaw falls hard for the city’s gaudy decadence…and the equally gaudy and decadent Sally Bowles (main attraction at the Kit Kat Club. The lives of Cliff, Sally and their landlady Fraulein Schneider intersect — as the Nazis take over. That tells you nothing about the moody, memorable score, so you’ll just have to see the show (although you might want to come prepared, by reading Christopher Isherwood’s short novel “Goodbye to Berlin,” on which the musical is based. Nov. 9-18 at The Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th St., btw. Aves. A & B). The performance schedule is: Fri., Nov. 9 at 7pm; Sat., Nov. 10 at 1pm & 7pm; Sun., Nov. 11 at 2pm & 7pm; Tues., Nov. 13 at 7pm; Wed., Nov. 14 at 7pm; Thurs., Nov. 15 at 7pm; Fri., Nov. 16 at 7pm; Sat., Nov. 17th at 1pm & 7pm Sun., Nov. 18 at 1pm. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. To order, visit kidztheater.org.

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A whole new world. No, wait, that’s “Aladdin.” We meant a whole New World.

TRINITY CHURCH FAMILY FRIDAY PIZZA & MOVIE NIGHT Every family should get together for pizza and a movie…and to help make that happen, Trinity Wall Street hosts this monthly event for kids who are hungry and adults who are too tired to cook (or call for delivery!). For November, they’ll be screening the Disney classic “Pocahontas” — a musical tale of unexpected love that blossoms when an English soldier (Captain John Smith) and the daughter of Chief Powhatan meet when Smith lands on the shores of the New World in search of gold. It’s not all

mushy stuff, though. There are cute animals, too! Fri., Nov. 16, 6pm-7:30pm, at Charlotte’s Place (107 Greenwich St., rear of 74 Trinity Place, btw. Rector & Carlisle Sts.). For more info, call 212-602-0800 or visit trinitywallstreet.org/calendar. For Twitter: @ CharlottesPlc. For Facebook, facebook. com/CharlottesPlaceNYC. Charlotte’s Place is a free space. Open to everyone, it is supported and operated by Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopal parish in the city of New York.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HPS BORDEN AVENUE LIHTC ASSOCIATES LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LUXURY LIVING OF NEW YORK, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Giuliano Iannaccone, Esq., Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, 1350 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CLARIS ADVISORS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Managing Member, Advisory Holdings, LLC, 1375 Broadway, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TD PRIVATE CLIENT WEALTH LLC Authority filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office Location: New York County. LLC formed in DE on 7/13/12. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to its DE address: CSC 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Certificate of Formation filed with DE Secretary of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: A MAN OF ALL SEASONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 288 West Street, Suite 3E, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 QUALIFICATION OF HALCYON ALST BLOCKER LLC Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/12. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/19/11. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE address of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ETF SERVICE PROVIDER, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 7/27/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the TX address of LLC: 300 Crescent Court, Ste. 650, Dallas, TX 75201. Arts. of Org. filed with TX Secy. of State, 13679, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 28 WEST 12TH STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom proc ess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 34 W. 12th St., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS (E&P) GCIP, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/1/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 9/26/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FRED MAROLDA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/18/2012. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, 900 Third Ave., NY, NY 10022. Term: until 9/1/2057. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 ELI HALILI JEWELRY AND DESIGN LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/21/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 250 Mott St., NY, NY 10012. General Purposes. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 JHRUN LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/10/2012. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 E. 86th St., #523, NY, NY 10028, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 778 MAIN, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/2012. Office Location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process c/o Mikael J. Levey, 472 Broome Street, Apt. 3, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AC 332 W 84 COMPANY, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/9/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, registered agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 386 PAS OWNER LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/13/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o William Macklowe Company, 126 E. 56th St., NY, NY 10022, Attn: William Macklowe. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BERKLEY PUBLIC ENTITY MANAGERS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 S. 17th St., Ste. 1450, Philadelphia, PA 19103. LLC formed in DE on 3/29/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF IC 1411 BROADWAY MANAGER LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 9/12/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 LOGOS PROPERTIES LLC a foreign LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/20/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mark M. Altschul, 18 E. 12th St., #1A, NY, NY 10003-4458. General Purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 CHOPITA LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/12/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 844 2nd Ave., NY, NY 10017. General Purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NNC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 3/28/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Simone, Esq., Frank Simone, PA., 701 Brickell Ave., Ste. 1550, Miami, FL 33131. FL address of LLC: 8200 NW 33rd St., Ste. 300, Miami, FL 33122. Arts. of Org. filed FL Secy. of State, 500 Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RC21, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/11. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS EXCHANGE, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/25/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 335 Bowery, NY, NY 10003. LLC formed in DE on 5/31/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADVANCED LITIGATION STRATEGIES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 30 East 39th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10016-2555. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NEXT LEVEL PARTNERS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. NYS fict. name: Next Level Partners Holdings, LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in FL on 8/22/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. FL and principal business addr.: 2338 Immokalee Rd., Ste. 415, Naples, FL 34110. Cert. of Org. filed with FL Sec. of State, 2661 Executive Center Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32301. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GROW WELLNESS ACUPUNCTURE PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 E. 40th St., Fl 2, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: practice the profession of acupuncture. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF N&A BAKE SHOP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/12. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 330 W. 55th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

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

November 3 - 7, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VALEJA LLC Arts of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/31/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 60 Riverside Blvd., Unit 1706, NY, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ANOVA TECHNOLOGIES - SMG HOLDINGS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in IL on 8/29/07. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the IL and principal business address: c/o Leonard J. Gambino, 222 S. Riverside Plaza, Ste. 2100, Chicago, IL 60606. Cert. of Org. filed with IL Sec. of State, 501 S. 2nd St., Rm. 351, Springfield, IL 62756. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vil: 09/27 - 11/01/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Hotel Liquor License has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail rates for on-premises consumption at the JW Marriott Essex House New York located at 160 Central Park South, New York, NY 10022 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law. DTRS Essex House LLC and Marriott Hotel Services, Inc. Vil: 11/01 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PERFICIO PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 20 W. 71st St., Apt. #2, NY, NY 10023. 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: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SYCORAX, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 501 Madison Ave., 14th 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OD PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 401 Broadway - Ste. 611, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CRUNCH BUSHWICK, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/17/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 22 West 19th St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10011, also the principal office address. Address to be maintained in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 C2C MEDIA LLC a foreign LLC filed with the SSNY on 8/28/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 353 Lexington Ave., Ste. 200, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SECONDMARKET TRADING, LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/27/2012. LLC formed in Delaware on 9/20/2012. Office location: New York County. Principal business address is: 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: c/o SecondMarket Holdings, Inc., 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 Attn: General Counsel. Delaware address of the LLC is c/o NRAI, 160 Greenwood Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of Delaware located at: Division of Corporations, 401 Federal Street - Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WEST 17TH STREET HOLDINGS II, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/07/12. 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 princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CORE TECHNOLOGY FUND, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/12/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o S Squared Technology, LLC, 515 Madison Ave., Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF POLIWOGG SERVICES, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc. (UCS), Ten Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. DE address of LLC: c/o UCS, 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2000 BROADWAY NEW YORK LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 155 W. 68th St., Unit 304, NY, NY 10023. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Vill: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SQUIGGLE CONSULTING LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/15/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/11/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 7 E. 14th St., Ste. 1205, NY, NY 10003, principal business address. DE address 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.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SOUTHERN LAND COMPANY, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/15/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in TN on 6/20/95. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the TN and principal business address: 1550 W McEwen Dr., Ste. 200, Franklin, TN 37067. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Cert. of Org. filed with TN Sec. of State, 312 8th Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37243. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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PROBATE CITATION FILE NO. 4449-11/B CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT TO: The Carter Burden Center for the Aging, Inc., Attorney General of the State of New York, Rita Wunderlin, if living, and if dead, to her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown, and if she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees, and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown, and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of William Winskie, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be ascertained. A petition having been duly filed by Ethel J. Griffin, the Public Administrator of the County of New York, with offices located at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, 10007, seeking letters of administration c.t.a. in the estate of William Winskie. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County at Room 503, 31 Chambers Street, New York, on December 4, 2012 at 9:30 a.m., in Room 503, why a decree should not be made in the estate of William Winskie lately domiciled at 306 E. 83rd Street, New York, New York 10028, admitting to probate as a will of real and personal property the paper writing dated August 4, 2010 (copy attached) and ordering that letters of administration c.t.a. issue to the Public Administrator of New York County. Dated, Attested and Sealed October 2, 2012. (L.S.) HON. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate, New York County. Diana Sanabria, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court. Name of Attorney: Schram & Graber, P.C. Address of Attorney: 350 Broadway – Suite 515, New York, N.Y. 10013, (212) 896-3310. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. Vil: 10/18 - 11/08/2012

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 12

Michele moved me to tears To The Editor: Re "The education of a New York public school parent" (notebook, by Michele Herman, Oct. 18): This lovely, thoughtful article moved me to tears, especially since my children are alumni of some of the same schools as Michele's. When we left lovely Charlottesville, Virginia, for the wilds of New York City 18 years ago, some of our friends believed that we were essentially committing child abuse by enrolling our children in the New York City public schools. But all these years later, I couldn't agree more with Michele's assessment, and I will mention that I, too, saved the recipes from Alan's Restaurant. Long may they serve up those fabulous meals. Thank you, Michele. Pam Raab

Would be great P.R. To The Editor: "Activists keep up the pressure for Firestone feminist apartment" (news article, Oct. 18): Dear Robert Perl, I urge you to consider the possibility of granting an apartment at a reduced rent

to a responsible feminist. Such a person, carefully selected, will be a desirable tenant who pays rent every month, and who will take proper care of her apartment, bequeathed to her by you. The publicity of your generosity in this case will enhance your philanthropic reputation. I am a Lower East Side resident of 68 years, blessed with a caring landord. I'm now 88, and still working. Frances Goldin

And yes, I think all landlords should do this, when some famous important person dies and leaves the apartment available. It would certainly help their public image, which truthfully is quite dismal these days. I hope Perl can change his mindset and lead the way. Grace Weaver

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Landlord could lead way To The Editor: Re "Activists keep up the pressure for Firestone feminist apartment" (news article, Oct. 18): I recently had to move and look for an apartment and therefore can attest to the fact that the rents all over Manhattan, but particularly in the East Village, are sky high. The studios are so small one can barely fit a bed in them and they are running $1,700 to more than $2,000 a month. The idea for an apartment set aside for a feminist, someone who is continuing the legacy of Ms. Firestone, seems like an excellent (though partial) solution to the problem of the scarcity of affordable housing. Perl should jump at this opportunity to support people in the neighborhood where it really counts and where he could make a real difference.

To The Editor: Re "Pedestrian pebble-ization" (news brief, Oct. 18): I cross Bleecker St. on the east side of Seventh Ave. South every morning. We need a left-turn signal because traffic still speeds through that left onto Bleecker even with pedestrians attempting to cross. This is still a very dangerous corner, whether going uptown or downtown. Linda Bennett

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Carmine St. book shop calls in phone store to help on rent BY TANISIA MORRIS In August, Jim Drougas made a deal with an unlikely subtenant. Drougas, the owner of Unoppressive NonImperialist Bargain Books, began sharing his Carmine St. space — and the rent — with Mike Tunk, an authorized MetroPCS wireless phone dealer. Longtime customers are surprised when they get a glimpse of the new addition, Drougas said. “They’re like, ‘What’s this phone store doing here? This doesn’t belong here,’ ” said Drougas, who has run the bookstore for 22 years. “We’re barely visible anymore. Our sign is normally covered in leaves above their sign, which is beneath us.” Between rent increases, and the growth of chain bookstores and e-books, independent bookstore owners in the Village and throughout the city find themselves being forced to close, move or come up with creative solutions to survive. Sharing space, though, isn’t always a comfortable fit. MetroPCS runs its wireless phone service in a space about the size of a newsstand in the left side of the store’s front, taking up about 30 percent of the 990-square-foot shop. A sea of books surrounds its counter area and phone display. Tunk, 34, struck the deal with Drougas after losing his shop at 30 Carmine St., a few doors down from the bookstore. He paid $4,000 a month for his old space. He now contributes $2,000 a month toward Drougas’s rent. Drougas, 62, would not reveal how much he pays for the space, but noted the store has faced

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MetroPCS now shares canopy and store space with Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, but the deal may not be permanent.

a series of downsizings and rent increases over the years, making it difficult for him to meet his bottom line. Still, Drougas said he doesn’t plan to extend the three-month agreement beyond October because he doesn’t think the two businesses are a good match. Tunk also has experienced some unease with the arrangement. “At first, [customers] feel like they’ve walked into the wrong place,” Drougas said. “But it’s not a shocker once they recognize what’s happening. It helps.”

Tunk and Drougas both see their businesses as victims of rising retail rents. According to a quarterly report released in July by the global property advisor CBRE Group Inc., New York has the second most expensive retail space, with rents at $2,475 per square foot, a 15.1 percent increase from last year’s report. “I think back then in the old days, for one thing, New York rents were a lot more reasonable,” Drougas said. “Nowadays, it’s very hard to compete with the Marc Jacobs and the Ralph Laurens who are around the corner, who are

encroaching more and more, and can pay ludicrous rents that are never viable for anyone.” Carolyn Epstein of Bookbook, formerly known as Biography Bookshop, knows all about Marc Jacobs. She was forced to move her 25-year-old bookstore from 400 Bleecker St. to 266 Bleecker St. when rent became too costly. Fashion giant Marc Jacobs opened his own bookshop, Bookmarc, in Epstein’s old space. While Epstein’s new shop is more affordable, it’s smaller. “It’s difficult, but we’re managing,” she said. The East Village’s St. Mark’s Bookshop, which has been around for 35 years, tapped the crowdfunding platform Lucky Ant to help finance its planned move to a more affordable space after months of financial distress. St. Mark’s raised $28,420 in August, surpassing its $23,000 goal. But the bookstore’s future is still in limbo. “Landlords want three to four months in advance,” said co-owner Terry McCoy. “Rents are awfully high for a bookstore. It’s difficult to pay Manhattan rents these days.” Inspired by St. Mark’s crowdfunding success, Drougas recently launched a campaign with Lucky Ant to raise $18,000 to save Unoppressive. He’d like to build a new children’s area and expand the store’s inventory. “We’re just happy to be able to survive as long as we have,” he said. “We’ve had a nice long run. When it ends, it ends. There’s not much else we can do about it except try again, and see where else we can explore it.”

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BUSINESS The Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), among others, are coordinating a set of services to assist small businesses in recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Below is an outline of available programs and relevant contact information. SMALL BUSINESS EMERGENCY LOANS

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For small- to mid-sized businesses that have experienced business interruption, emergency loans will be available, patterned after similar programs deployed in past emergencies. Loans will be capped at $10,000.

POWER OUTAGES

In addition to the 250,000 electric customers without electricity in Manhattan, every steam customer south of 42nd Street lost service. Customers can report downed power lines, outages, and check service restoration status by computer or mobile device at www.conEd.com. They also can call 1-800-75-CONED (1-800-752-6633).

All NYC parks, playgrounds, beaches, and recreation centers remain closed until further notice due to hazardous conditions. More at NYCgovparks.org.

NYC PARKS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

PROPERTY DAMAGE

In order to qualify for disaster relief assistance, New York City must estimate the stormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total effect on city residents and employees. Be prepared to answer questions about the extent of your propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s damage. You may call 311 to report downed trees or trees that have yet to be cleaned up.

Make a donation to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Call in your donation by dialing 1-800-RED CROSS or mail a check to American Red Cross, P.O. Box 4002018, Des Moines, IA 50340. Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

DONATE TO THE DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS

CALL FEMA AT 800-621-3362 FOR ASSISTANCE BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR ADDRESS, INSURANCE #, AND SSN # READY.

For mid- to large-sized businesses that need to undertake rebuilding, an emergency sales tax letter from New York City Industrial Development Authority (IDA) will be available allowing businesses to avoid payment of New York City and New York State sales taxes on materials purchased for rebuilding. IDA will also waive all fees and, while following State law, look to streamline its normal procedure. This program is H[SHFWHG WR RIIHU HFRQRPLF EHQHÂżWV WR UHFRQVWUXFtion projects costing $500,000 or more. Please LARGER contact Shin Mitsugi at smitsugi@nycedc.com RECONSTRUCTION for further information on this program. PROJECT LOANS

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CALL 311 AND ASK FOR NYC BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN BENEFIT FROM THESE PROGRAMS.