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Chinatown woman is elected to lead Community Board 3

By Lesley Sussman Gigi Li, who has served as second vice chairperson of Community Board 3 for the past two years, was elected Tuesday night June 26, as the East Village/Lower East Side board’s new chairperson. She replaces Dominick Pisciotta Berg, who chaired C.B. 3 for the past four years and did not seek re-election.

Li, a Chinatown resident, was the only nominee for the post and became the first

community board chairperson of Chinese descent in all of New York City.

Li previously co-chaired C.B. 3’s Chinatown Working Group Immigration and Social Services Subcommittee. She works as the co-director of the Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, a nonprofit organization serving youth, children and families in the Chinatown area.

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Mansion features elevator, wrestling and actual family Photo by Bob Krasner

Coming through with flying colors

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who delivered on same-sex marriage last year, received a hero’s welcome at the Pride March on Sunday. See Pages 16 and 17 for more Pride photos.

Gruber takes reins at C.B. 2

By Lincoln Anderson Until three weeks ago, it looked like Brad Hoylman was a shoo-in for re-election as Community Board 2 chairperson.

But then everything changed when Tom Duane announced he wouldn’t seek reelection to the state Senate. The L.G.B.T. political icon was quick to give the nod to Hoylman as his successor, and Duane recently formally endorsed Hoylman to take over his seat.

As a result, David Gruber, who wasn’t planning to challenge Hoylman’s re-election bid, became the favorite to win C.B.

2’s leadership.

Gruber won an uncontested election at last Thursday’s full board meeting, by a vote of 35 to 0.

Gruber had first mulled a run for board chairperson a year ago, but Hoylman — after having taken a two-year hiatus from the board’s leadership — was also running again, and it would have been tough to beat him. At the time, Gruber said he was also busy with business matters, and so decided to put the idea on hold.

Tobi Bergman and Bo Riccobono — two other board members whose names

had been mentioned as potential chairperson candidates — ultimately decided not to throw their hats in the ring for last week’s election.

Gruber is president of both the Carmine Block Association and Friends of Father Demo Square, and is a broker for retail space.

Board chairperson often can be a launching pad to elected office. But Gruber said he has no ambition to use it that way.

By Lincoln Anderson It’s true. They really are living there. And it really is a single-family mansion.

The Villager recently took a guided tour of 47 E. Third St., courtesy of Alistair and Catherine Economakis, the couple who gut-renovated the five-story building after emptying it of rental tenants.

The tenement-transforming overhaul took two and a half years. It was preceded by a landlord-tenant battle that started 10 years ago.

During the bitter battle over the Economakises’ efforts to

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clear the property, a frequently heard comment was that the couple and their growing family would never live there, that the owners would merely “flip” the building and sell it for a colossal sum, or rent it out for a high figure.

“It’s a scam,” people said.

Last month, word came from neighbors that the Economakises had apparently wrapped up the renovation and were spotted moving into the building.

Yet, many remained skep-

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‘Night of Living Debt’ rally sends a chilling message

By Gerard Flynn Debt zombies rose from their slumbers across New York City Friday for a “Night of the Living Debt” in Washington Square Park.

With faces coated with white makeup and daubed with fake blood, they raised a frightening cry about the crippling costs of higher education and the burden many graduates face from student-loan debt, which recently topped the trillion-dollar mark nationally.

Organizers borrowed the zombie theme from a book by anthropologist, David Graeber, who “likens the process [of acquiring a student loan] to a horror movie, in which the zombies or vampires attack the humans as a kind of recruitment policy.”

The march was also the fourth in a weekly Occupy Wall Street “Casserole,” held in solidarity with striking Quebec students, who are protesting tuition hikes and Bill 78, an inflammatory law limiting protest.

Performance preacher and activist Reverend Billy Talen, used the occasion to exorcise the debt demons of several students.

“Debt is everywhere,” he told the crowd of more than 200.

“We are consuming and we are being consumed,” he said, adding that debt globally has soared beyond $180 trillion.

He called on every city in the United States to deliver free or affordable education, like the City University of New York system.

“Whole generations of leadership came from CUNY because the opportunity was there to have. That should be part of the actualization of the American Dream,” Reverend Billy said.

Flanked by a large detail of police on foot and scooters, the protesters, banging pots

Photo by Gerard Flynn

A zombie was going to pieces about her student debt.

and pans, then marched along surrounding streets, many wearing labels showing their student debt burden.

Blithe, an arts graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, said her student debt, which amounts to more than $30,000, is having a draining impact on her life force.

Going out to eat or spending on clothes must be weighed against the burden of paying off her student debt, she said.

“It's a burden on my life,” she said. “It really limits what I do and where I go.”

Tourists from North Carolina who sat at a restaurant along the cash-strapped zombies’ route expressed sympathetic words for the protestors and the Occupy movement, while offering scathing ones for lending and highereducation institutions.

Camielle Greenup said her son, who graduated six months ago with a bachelor's degree in science and is unemployed, faces the daunting prospect of paying off $40,000 in student loans, and mounting pressure to do so from his creditors. She called the price of higher learn-

ing “too much.”

“Their prices are gouging these students,” she said. “They talk you into these loans until you are so far in debt you could have a mortgage.”

The protest came as President Obama called on Congress this week to act before a July 1 deadline that will see the fixed rate on federal student loans more than double from its current 3.4 percent, affecting more than 8 million students.

Although the march was mostly peaceful, police made one arrest as the protesters returned to Washington Square Park, where Sarge, a member of O.W.S., was taken into custody.

Her arrest provoked tense scenes between officers and some demonstrators, as well as claims that police are pursuing a policy of singling out prominent members of the Occupy movement for arrest at similar protests.

As the march ground to a close around 9:30 p.m., one onlooker, Joel Klein, standing with his wife under the Washington Square Arch, fondly recalled the days when he paid $1 dollar a year to attend Queens College.

He also pondered the case of students in the crowd who complained about their student debt, yet attended elite institutions like nearby New York University, when there were less expensive and “excellent” public options in the CUNY system.

He said that if education can't be free, it should be “affordable.” When asked what affordable education might mean in an age of skyrocketing higher-education costs, he said, “Affordable in which we can live and pay our educational bill and still have the right to have a quality of life as a human being.”

Guidelines Board again denies pleas for rent freeze

By Jefferson Siegel Last Thursday night, at a slightly less contentious, but no less vocal, gathering than in recent years, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted to approve rent increases of 2 percent for a one-year lease and 4 percent for a twoyear lease. The hikes apply to the state’s nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments and take effect with leases starting Oct. 1.

In a meeting lasting just under two hours, tenants again booed and jeered whenever a landlord representative of the board tried to make a case for higher rents due to increased costs.

Occupy Wall Street supporters were in attendance.

Whenever a landlord representative tried to speak, an audience member was quick to call a “mic check” before ticking off a list of tenant expenses that he or she said should negate the need for any rent increase at all.

Many in the crowd bore signs reading “0%.” A handful of landlord representatives, who sat off to one side of The Cooper Union’s Great Hall, had wanted increases of 5 percent and 9 percent.

Adriene Holder, a tenant representative on the R.G.B., voiced the frustrations of many city renters.

“It's just so much that these households just cannot continue to bear,” she lamented.

The board's final vote was 5 to 4. Identical increases will also apply to rent-stabilized loft spaces.

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Gruber takes helm at C.B. 2 as Hoylman steps down Continued from page 1 In recent years, in addition to Hoylman, a number of previous C.B. 2 chairpersons have run for City Council, including Aubrey Lees and Maria Passannante Derr, as well as Alan Gerson — Gerson winning election in 2001 as Lower Manhattan’s councilmember.

“I’m political — but I’m not interested in running for office,” Gruber said in an interview this week.

As for why he wants to head the board, he said, “I want to mentor some of the newer and younger members who have come on the board.

We need to honestly mentor people for the next generation.”

C.B. 2 right now has “a full plate” of issues to deal with, he said.

“Hearings are coming up on N.Y.U.,” he said.

“We’re expecting the Hudson Square rezoning to be certified this fall. We have Pier 40... .”

At last Thursday’s meeting, the board chose not to vote on its Waterfront Committee’s resolution in support of allowing residential housing on the West Houston St. pier. Gruber said, with the state Legislature having failed to vote on legislation to modify the Hudson River Park Act before its legislative session ended on June 21, C.B. 2 now has some time to consider the issue more fully.

“We’ll have more public hearings on it,” he said. “We really want to get as much public input as we can. We don’t need to vote on a resolution if the state Legislature is not going to consider anything until December.”

However, he acknowledged, “We’ve got a real problem — something has to be done with that pier. We want to look at all options, including housing. My mind is open, and I want to see what other people have to say about it.”

Gruber said the board, before doing anything, wants to see “some real economic projections” for various scenarios for Pier 40.

“We’ve got a lot of stuff in front of us,” Gruber reiterated. “There’s Hudson Square — it’s not as contentious as N.Y.U., but there’s issues.” He said a good process here “could be better for both sides of the ULURP,” referring to the city’s uniform land-use review procedure.

As for changes that he’ll be making under his watch, Gruber said one he can already announce is that he has appointed Bergman chairperson of the Land-Use and Business Development Committee. This is considered one of the board’s most important committees, considering applications for major rezonings and new development projects.

In recent years the committee was chaired

by David Reck, who abruptly stepped down from C.B. 2 only a few weeks ago. Gruber, who has a background in urban planning, took over the committee in the interim, before tapping Bergman for the key post.

Bergman for years has led C.B. 2’s Parks Committee. Gruber said he’s confident Bergman is up to the task.

“Tobi’s going to take Zoning [the committee’s former name] because he’s competent and he’s smart,” Gruber said. “He’s been a member of the Zoning Committee for a long time. He’s been a committee chairperson for a long time — but he wants to be challenged.”

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

David Gruber looked contented after giving his remarks to the board following his election as chairperson.

As for his tenure at C.B. 2, Gruber began as a public member 11 years ago when Lees was chairing the board, eventually being appointed a board member.

He formerly chaired the board’s Arts and Institutions Committee, as well as, more recently, the N.Y.U. Working Group, which put together the board’s “absolute no” resolution slamming the university’s 2031 superblocks mega-development plan.

Gruber also said he plans to give each committee “its own day,” so people don’t have to choose which committee meeting to attend when more than one is meeting on the same night.

As for how the board should function, he said it’s not to debate or advocate for issues, but to listen to all sides.

On the other hand, there’s a limit to listening, he noted. He’d like to try to speed up the monthly full-board meetings, for example, by avoiding the lengthy back-and-forths between board members over Robert’s Rules of Order that sometimes bog down proceedings.

“Everyone I’ve spoken on the board would like to run a tighter meeting,” he noted.

Outside of C.B. 2, Gruber is vice president of Open House New York, a popular program that opens up private homes and more for the public to explore on one weekend in October.

“It’s not just houses,” Gruber stressed. “It’s sewage-treatment plants, private gardens, basement museums... .”

Talking of exploring, starting in his 20s, he spent 15 years in India — not searching for enlightenment, but for the ultimate lacquered box.

“I went there looking to see the world,” he recalled. “I started a little handicraft business — boxes from Kashmir.”

He eventually got a master’s degree in planning from Pratt and worked at the Department of City Planning. After graduate school, he settled on Carmine St. Six years ago, he developed a new residential

building on Sixth Ave. at Washington Place.

Gruber was born in Manhattan, but grew up on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. He has roots in the Meat Market, where his maternal grandfather was a large commercial butcher with five buildings on Little West 12th St. “He used the High Line to bring in large cows,” Gruber noted.

As for why he won’t seek higher office, he said it’s simple.

“I like my life,” he said. “I have business interests. I’m on different boards. I like travel. I have a very well-balanced life.”

On his predecessors, Hoylman and, before him, Jo Hamilton, Gruber said they’ve set the bar high.

“They have raised the level of what a chairperson should be in terms of professionalism and set a standard,” he said.

During the public session of last Thursday’s meeting, Borough President Scott Stringer presented a proclamation to Hoylman for his service as board chairperson. Hoylman had resigned from C.B. 2 a few days earlier to start focusing on his state Senate campaign.

Stringer’s proclamation praised Hoylman’s “remarkable leadership.”

“He stepped up when the board needed leadership the most,” the proclamation stated.

“Brad shepherded the board through intelligent and comprehensive responses to several of the most significant issues in the city, including the redevelopment of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus, New York University’s expansion and school overcrowding.”

Regarding his successor, Hoylman told The Villager he has full confidence in him.

“I think David Gruber is going to be an outstanding board chairperson,” he said. “He has a deep understanding of what makes our neighborhoods unique from his years of involvement in local block associations and community groups, as well as a strong base of knowledge

in issues, such as zoning and landmarking, and good relationships with our elected officials.”

Of his own tenure as chairperson over three years — the first two years were followed by two years of Hamilton as chairperson, followed

by Hoylman’s return to the post over this past year — Hoylman said the highlights were the board’s work on N.Y.U. 2031 and the St. Vincent’s redevelopment.

“As chairperson, I’m most proud of helping unite the community and articulate its position on two key issues in the last year — the N.Y.U. expansion plan and the St. Vincent’s redevelopment. On N.Y.U., the community conducted an unprecedented comprehensive public review and has stood unwavering in the face of pressure from the city administration. There’s more work to be done, but I’m confident our voices are being heard.

“On St. Vincent’s, I’m proud we made the Rudin plan more reasonable while saving six historic buildings, creating a legal defense fund for rent-regulated tenants, making a public park with an AIDS memorial, directing developer money into arts programs for local school kids and achieving what many thought was impossible: two new public schools, including a new middle school at 75 Morton St. “At the same time,” Hoylman continued, “we launched a community health-needs assessment through the Hunter College School of Public Health that demonstrated the impact of losing the hospital and what services we need from the new North ShoreL.I.J. health facility [planned at the former St. Vincent’s O’Toole Pavilion].

“Almost everything I learned about community organizing was from my decade on Community Board 2,” Hoylman said. “I’ll miss it, but hope to continue to work closely with my friends and neighbors on the board should I be successful in replacing Tom Duane in the state Senate.”

Borough President Scott Stringer, left, presented Brad Hoylman, holding his daughter, Silvia, with a proclamation declaring “Brad Hoylman Appreciation Day” in Manhattan.

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Chinatown’s Gigi Li is elected C.B. 3 chairperson Continued from page 1 She said her first priority was to “continue maximizing the community board’s role in the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area agenda.”

The new board chairperson, who was elected with only one opposing vote, said she would also like to “look at the day-to-day board procedures and committees and maybe spur up their effectiveness.”

John Leo, co-chairperson of the board's Chinatown Working Group, hailed Li’s election.

“It’s about time that we had an Asian woman as chairperson of this community board,” he said. “She lives and works in the neighborhood and knows it well. She is representative of it.”

It was a busy four-hour session for the full community board, which met at BRC Senior Services Center, 30 Delancey St. About 100 local residents attended the meeting.

Highlighting the evening was a lengthy and sometimes contentious debate on whether or not C.B. 3 should support a liquor license application for a new bar and restaurant that wants to operate at 221 East Broadway.

Many community residents and several board members spoke out strongly against approving the application, by co-owners Sivan Harlap and Andrew States, because the new establishment would be located near five religious institutions and four public schools. Opponents said it would violate the State Liquor Authority’s 200-foot rule prohibiting the sale of liquor near

Photo by Lesley Sussman

Gigi Li was elected nearly unanimously by her fellow board members to lead the East Village/Lower East Side board.

schools or houses of worship.

Harlap and States have operated B-Side, at 204 Avenue B at 12th St., for nine years. They said the proposed new bar at East Broadway and Clinton St. would be “totally different” than their Avenue B punk bar. It would include a chip shop purveying “the best kosher fish, chips

and falafel you’ve ever had,” Harlap said.

Several residents from the Seward Park Co-operative, which is located directly across the street from the proposed new bar and restaurant, were joined by Marc Rivera, the pastor of the Primitive Christian Church on East Broadway, and some of his members in speaking out against the application.

Some of these residents argued that the new establishment would feature Frenchstyle windows that would be open in nice weather and that this would create too much nighttime noise in the largely quiet, residential neighborhood.

Speakers in support of the application, however, argued that the neighborhood below Delancey St. and east of Essex St. had very few places for people to gather and socialize late at night. They also argued that sections of East Broadway were dimly lit at night and that a late-night bar and restaurant would help keep the streets safe.

Harlap told C.B. 3 that B-Side had operated for several years with no noise complaints, and that every measure would be taken — including soundproofing the establishment -— to ensure that neighbors were not disturbed.

The board found itself deadlocked on its first vote on the measure, which called for denial of the liquor license application.

Afterward, outgoing C.B. 3 Chairperson Berg said he wanted to see the owners respond to community concerns.

The resolution that finally passed said the board would support the application if the owners agreed to close their windows at 9 p.m. and to serve food all the way until the place’s 4 a.m. closing time. Both owners agreed to do so.

Another stipulation the board requested was that the S.L.A. investigate whether the proposed bar was in violation of a regulation prohibiting the serving of alcohol within 200 feet of a religious institution or school.

After the meeting, Harlap said she was “relieved” by the vote.

“The stomachache I’ve had the past cou-

ple of weeks is finally beginning to go away,” she said.

In other important business, Board 3 unanimously approved the proposed conversion of a former 1.5-acre trolley terminal between the Williamsburg Bridge and Essex St. into an underground park.

The so-called “Low Line” is being developed by Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, co-founders of the Delancey Underground Project. The Low Line is envisioned to provide much needed additional green space in the heart of the Lower East Side.

Although some board members had previously voiced concern that the new project might compete with other local parks that are struggling for funding and resources, there was no debate on the proposal at the Tuesday night meeting.

Board member Morris Faitelewicz expressed the feelings of many members when he told this paper, “I’m very much in support of it.”

“We have an area that is underdeveloped and this will create more jobs,” he said. “In combination with the SPURA project, this is a big plus for economic development.”

Regular business at the meeting was briefly suspended as a slate of political leaders, their representatives and board members thanked Berg for his four years of service as board chairperson.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was among elected officials to personally appear and thank Berg. He presented the outgoing chairperson with a certificate of appreciation.

“You’ve distinguished yourself as chairman of C.B. 3,” Silver said. “You’ve been an advocate for housing, social justice and all the important issues we face in our community.”

Silver was joined by state Senator Tom Duane, who told Berg, “You’ve done terrific work protecting small businesses and helping the expansion of the Lower East Side.”

Berg told board members that he was honored to have served as board chairperson.

“I’m very much moved by all this,” he said.

“We’ve accomplished a great deal, from the improvement of the East River waterfront to improving bus service.

“SPURA took most of my energy, but it was well worth it,” he said. “There were some issues I couldn’t address — like having shorter meetings — and I wish Gigi the best in carrying on.”

The board also heard from a spokesperson for state Senator Daniel Squadron, who said the senator had been successful in getting the M.T.A. to review its L train service in response to skyrocketing ridership — especially on weekends.

The representative said 16 more L trains would be added on weekdays, 11 additional trains on Saturdays and seven more on Sundays.

“This is great news,” he said, “for riders tired of long wait times, crushing crowds and overflowing trains.”

The board also heard from a spokesperson for Margaret Chin, who said the city councilmember had convinced the Department of Education to allow C.B. 3 to resume meeting in schools without being charged a fee to do so.

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Police BLOTTER Stuy High cheating

Motor vehicle mischief

A cheating scandal broke at the elite Stuyvesant High School on June 18 when the principal, Stanley Teitel, found a student apparently getting answers on his cell phone while taking a test, according to the Daily News and the Post. A Department of Education spokesperson said the matter is under investigation. Another student at the Lower Manhattan school who was found with photos of tests on his cell phone, and is suspected of supplying test answers to about 50 students, has been dismissed, according to reports.

A woman who had parked her car in front of 763 Washington St. around 12:45 p.m. Tues., June 19, spotted a man raking a key across the side of her car. She called police, who arrested Itzhak Ben-Moshe, 65, for malicious mischief.

Police arrested Salvador Flores, 28, for malicious mischief around 11:27 p.m. Sun., June 24, for breaking the door handle and the passenger-side, rear-view mirror of a car parked at the corner of W. 11th St. and Fifth Ave.

Car problems A man who parked his 1999 Infiniti in front of 191 Sixth Ave. near Charlton St. around 3:55 a.m. Fri., June 22, came back 10 minutes later to find it had been stolen. A surveillance camera recorded the theft on tape.

A Wooster St. resident parked his car on the block near Canal St. around 8:30 p.m. Fri., June 22, and went home for five minutes. He returned to find that his camera bag, with equipment valued at $11,000, had been stolen from the back seat. A surveillance camera recorded the thief running north on Wooster St.

What a jerk Police found Fehd Abdul Wahed Ragabi, 30, around 5:45 p.m. Fri., June 22, lying on the sidewalk in front of the Sixth Police Precinct stationhouse and masturbating.

Playground robbery Two robbers, one armed with a gun, held up a 15-year-old boy in the playground at Jefferson and Madison Sts., around 4:40 p.m.

Tues, June 12, and fled with the victim’s cell phone and cash, police said.

Worth St. Watergate?

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s mayoral campaign office at 40 Worth St. was burglarized over the June 23-24 weekend and two laptop computers were stolen. Campaign workers are trying to determine whether the computers, which were not used personally by Stringer, had any politically sensitive documents.

Fire-gear fan Firefighters returning to their stationhouse at 32 W. 10th St. around 9 p.m.

Wed., June 21, spotted someone walking out of the place wearing a firefighter’s jacket valued at $2,000. They apprehended the suspect, Shelly Bayne, 32, and charged her with larceny.

Waverly Inn fire Fire in the basement of Waverly Inn, 16 Bank St., around 5:20 p.m. Mon., June 25, damaged a mural by the cartoonist Edward Sorel and forced residents of apartments upstairs to vacate for a while. There were no injuries, and Sorel told the New York Post that the mural was digitalized and easily reproduced.

Arrest murder suspect Police arrested Carl Knox, 47, also known as Abdul Hakim, around 1 a.m.

Sun., June 17, for the June 9 stabbing death of Corey Capers, 31, on E. Fifth St. near Avenue D in the Lillian Wald Houses. The victim was trying to stop a fight between the suspect and his aunt. Knox has three prior convictions — for attempted rape, attempted assault and weapons possession — according to the Post.

Shoed and wrenched A brawl involving four people at the corner of Washington and Horatio Sts., around 8:15 p.m. Sun., June 24, ended when police arrived and arrested Ajamu Edney, 18, and Nagee Smith, 20, for assault. Edney took off one of his platform shoes and hit a 40-year-old victim in the face with it, and Smith hit a victim over the head with an iron wrench, police said.

S.L.A. slaps club The State Liquor Authority has filed violations against W.i.P., the basement club at 34 Vandam St., and its sister club, Greenhouse, in the same building at 150 Varick St., regarding the June 14 brawl at W.i.P. in which eight people were hurt, including the San Antonio Spurs guard

Tony Parker, whose cornea was cut by glass. Lawyers for the two clubs are seeking to lift the temporary closing imposed by the police.

Kenmare club ruckus Police descended on La Esquina, 114 Kenmare St., around 12:30 a.m. Sat., June 24, after two groups of patrons began pushing each other. Several patrol cars responded, and suspects were issued desk appearance tickets for harassment, police said. Police allowed the club to reopen around 1:30 a.m.

La Esquina has been the target of numerous neighborhood complaints.

Lifts were often swift A Brooklyn woman told police she went to Café Vivaldi, 32 Jones St., on Fri., June 22, around 9:30 p.m. and discovered when she was about to leave at 12:30 a.m. that her bag, which she had placed next to her, was gone.

A woman patron of Marc Bar, 151 Mercer St., kept her bag on her shoulder while in the place on Friday evening June 15 but discovered by 8 p.m. that her wallet had been lifted from the bag.

A woman patron of Café Duke, 545 Broadway between Prince and Spring Sts., put her bag on the back of her chair around 5:30 p.m. Thurs., June 21, and discovered five minutes later that it was gone. A charge of $200 had been made on her debit card.

A woman patron of Le Bain, 444 W. 13th St., in the Meatpacking District told police her bag was lifted from a shelf around 4 a.m. Sun., June 24.

A patron of Grove Bar, at 125 MacDougal St., told police her wallet was lifted around 3 a.m. Sun., June 24, and her debit card was used to steal $388 from her account.

A patron of Tenjune, 26 Little W. 12th St. in the Meatpacking District, told police that someone lifted his wallet around 1 a.m., Sat. June 23, but acknowledged, “I don’t remember much of the incident.” He learned later that $600 was charged to a credit card.

Soho shoplifters A man who walked into Costume National, 150 Greene St., around 5:30 p.m.

Sun., June 17, and walked out eight minutes later with a white leather handbag valued at $2,150 without paying for it.

A woman walked into the Club Monaco boutique, at 121 Prince St., at 2:09 p.m.

Thurs., June 21, and shoved seven tank tops, two skirts, five vests and six Kessie tops into a shopping bag and walked out without paying for the clothes, valued at $1,950.

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Manslaughter, not murder, conviction in gay man’s death

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE After deliberating for roughly a day, a Manhattan jury found Davawn Robinson guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the 2009 killing of Edgard Mercado.

Jurors weighed second-degree murder, based on the prosecution’s argument that Robinson, 25, intended to kill the 39-year-old Mercado when he strangled him to death in the older man’s East Village apartment. They also considered second-degree manslaughter, which requires the jury to find that he acted recklessly; and criminally negligent homicide.

The maximum penalty for second-degree manslaughter is up to 15 years in prison, with the inmate eligible for release after serving six-sevenths of that time, or just under 13 years. Robinson has been in jail since the 2009 killing, and that time counts toward his prison sentence.

The prosecution said that Robinson killed Mercado in the course of a botched robbery. The prosecutors, John McConnell and Leila Kermani, had a great deal of physical evidence in the case, but it largely relied on the testimony of Dr. Jason Graham, a deputy chief medical examiner in the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner. He concluded that the multiple hemorrhages, ligature abrasions, bruises and fractures that Mercado suffered resulted from a fight.

“I would not expect to see these injuries in someone who is engaging in consensual sexual practice,” Graham said on June 18. The next day he said, “Taken together, this indicates a great deal of motion and I think would be highly consistent with a struggle.”

Robinson, who testified in the case, claimed that Mercado died when they were engaged in erotic asphyxiation as part of sex. The two men met in the West Village at Chi Chiz, a West Village bar since closed. They drank and purchased cocaine. At Mercado’s East Village apartment, they used the cocaine and drank more. Robinson said that Mercado asked him to strangle him.

Police found no bondage pornography or equipment in Mercado’s apartment. The rope that Robinson used to strangle Mercado was part of a uniform that the older man wore during a Brazilian dance class.

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Police traced Robinson to his New Jersey home the next day, and he continued to claim that he acted in self-defense in written, oral and videotaped statements. It was at his first trial last year, which ended in a mistrial, that he claimed the death was an accident during sex.

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Owners and family are really living in a mansion; Continued from page 1 tical, suspecting Alistair was merely pretending to live there — signing for FedEx packages, taking his dog out for walks — and that this was, again, just an elaborate ruse.

Meanwhile, some also said they were surprised to find Alistair was actually a nice guy.

The Villager reached out to Alistair Economakis then, and he gave the following response: “Catherine’s and my intentions to make 47 E. Third St. our home were always true and genuine as is now evident.”

Yet, in the end, only a look inside the place would confirm whether or not the Economakises had created a mansion and were truly residing there. The Villager asked to visit.

In fact, nearly three years ago, Alistair had promised The Villager that, once the renovation was completed, he would invite the newspaper in to see the results — to prove they had been telling the truth.

When the request was made a few weeks ago, Alistair made good on his promise, allowing the newspaper to tour the place. He’s a man of his word, he said.

Plus, he’s still galled by the accusations that it was a “scam,” and wants to prove them wrong.

But first, he had to convince his wife. She was more anxious about the idea of opening the house to inspection, reluctant to draw more scrutiny, now that the renovation is over and things have calmed down. With three young children, they just want to live in peace and enjoy their privacy.

But they talked it over and Alistair allayed Catherine’s concerns. He called the newspaper, saying they had agreed to allow the visit.

Mansion tour

The reporter was buzzed into the place, and entered through a short veranda tiled in large, glossy, new green tiles. Alistair appeared and led the way up to the second floor.

The staircase, formerly centrally located, has been shifted to the eastern wall, to open up the space. The stairs are sleek and modern, with thin, shiny, steel cables for spindles.

On the second floor is a large kitchen. Also there at that moment was Zoey, their friendly brindle mastiff puppy, who briefly was tied up to the stairway post because she had just peed on the floor.

To its south, the kitchen overlooks an airy living room that’s two stories high: Obviously, a whole section of the second floor was removed to create this space.

A glass, waist-high wall serves as a protective barrier between the kitchen and the living room below. Catherine said she settled on a glass wall because she likes to be able to see down through it and call through the space to her children, if they’re playing below.

The living room’s southern wall sports two rows of nine windows, one above the other, each covered with a plain, white blind. With the flick of an electric switch, the blinds slowly, silently rise in unison in the morning, then lower again at night for privacy.

In general, the interior’s layout is very open, with most walls having been removed. The design and furnishings are modern.

There’s nary a trace of the 15 rent-regulated apartments that formerly filled the place, three units per floor, housing a diverse mix of tenants.

Recycled beams

However, there is one very conspicuous remnant — an upsidedown “river” of wooden beams that bisects the room, flowing from the top of a new gas-powered fireplace on the living room’s western wall and up across the ceiling to its eastern edge. As Alistair explained it, after they ripped out the walls, they had a pile of old wooden beams. Using them for this wooden ceiling sculpture was their carpenter’s idea. It’s rustic, actually kind of cool-looking.

Two stylish, geometric chandeliers hang over the living room, draped in asymmetrical silver metal mesh.

In the rear of the building’s second floor is a smallish dining room. However, they said, they had fit 26 relatives in there just the other night for a dinner.

“And those were just family members on her side,” he noted.

In fact, they expect to do a lot of entertaining of family members, they said, which probably partly explains the spacious living room below. “ Like ‘Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ ” Catherine quipped.

They said they didn’t want photos of the building’s renovated interior published in the newspaper, again, feeling this would be an invasion of their privacy. Catherine said the last thing she wants is an article in Architectural Digest about how they’ve redone the space.

The third floor features another overlook to the living room. In an unadorned nook there’s what Catherine called the building’s “nerve center” — with all the security systems and cameras, plus the computer-server hub. Their bedroom is in the rear of this floor.

On the wall near the bedroom’s door is an array of aged,

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Going up!

In a first, the building now contains an elevator. Alistair noted their plans always included one. A chrome-doored elevator breaks the wall between the Economakises’ bedroom and their bathroom. Catherine said their architect advised against locating the elevator there, but she didn’t mind.

On the fourth floor are the bedrooms for the Economakises’ three young children. The tour was around 8:30 p.m., and all the kids could be seen sleeping in their individual rooms — they were konked out and motionless, but The Villager can at least confirm that, yes, the kids were indeed there.

Swaths of different types of wallpaper — generally with large, modern patterns — decorate the stairway landings on the various floors.

Wrestlemania The fifth floor features a wrestling room, with a red-and-black, padded mat and mirrors on one wall. Alexander used to run in the New York Marathon, but injured his plantar fascia. He subsequently discovered Greco-Roman wrestling as an exercise that didn’t put pressure on his sore heel. He has fun wrestling with his kids — and joked that he takes them for a round in the wrestling room if they misbehave.

This level also has an “office space” where family members can work on their computers. It sports a glass wall and doors so the parents can monitor the kids’ computer activity.

Their live-in nanny also has her own room. She was inside it during the tour, according to Alistair. Maybe she was sleeping, as well, tired from keeping up with the kids all day.

There’s also a children’s playroom, a laundry room and a guest room.

The building has been rigged with wireless Sonos speakers in the ceilings, allowing people to play their iPods through them in individual rooms, or for the same tunes to be piped through the whole house simultaneously.

‘Mosaic Man’ too In another reuse of the building’s former materials, Alistair has commissioned Jim Power, a.k.a. the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” to do a piece on part of the building’s exterior. Alistair said he wanted to do something with the old bathroom floor tiles they ripped out during the rehab. Inspired

by Power’s new mosaics at The Bean coffee shop down the block on the corner of

Second Ave., he commissioned the street artist to do a border above 47 E. Third St.’s basement-level storefront, which Alistair hopes to rent out to a medical facility.

Power took the job, which calls for a geometric pattern with green, black and off-white tiles.

“They have a really nice design,” Power said. “His architects designed it. The tiles are something that would have been around in the 19th century — it’s heavy, marble like.”

‘I think, in many years, you won’t see a For Sale sign.’

Alistair Economakis

Family affair Alistair said he and Catherine, who are now both 40, got the idea to convert the building for their own use when she was pregnant with their first child. They had purchased the property the year before.

They moved to evict the rent-stabilized tenants under the “owner occupancy” provision, after which some took buyouts to vacate. But tenants in nine of the building’s units chose to stay and fight the eviction in court.

Compromise failed When Catherine was pregnant with their second child, the landlords, not wanting a drawn-out legal struggle, decided to offer a compromise — to allow tenants to remain in six apartments in the building’s front half. But, showing solidarity, the residents refused, since tenants in three apartments would have had to vacate.

(Alistair recently revealed that, early on, they were thinking of taking only the top two or three floors. Yet, he said, they found out that, for fire-egress reasons, they would have had to keep a public stairway to the roof in the middle of the building, preventing them from opening up their space. This is what made them decide to take over the whole building, he said.)

In the end, fearing a lengthy legal battle — with the prospect of having to pay the Economakises’ legal fees if they lost — the holdout tenants took buyouts of, on average, $70,000.

If the Economakises had evicted the tenants under “owner occupancy,” then they would have been legally required to live there for at least three years. Yet because the case was settled out of court, the Economakises aren’t obligated to reside there.

Happy with result According to Alistair and Catherine, the protracted fight to empty the building actually allowed them to think the renovation through more thoroughly, producing a better result.

As for those who question whether they’ll really live there long term, Alistair said, “I think, in many years, you won’t see a For Sale sign.”

The idea of converting the building back to a multi-unit dwelling would be impractical, he said, since so many walls have now been removed. Furthermore, he said, he sees it as a place where his kids can come back and live after college if they like. In Greek families, different generations often live together, he noted.

Value has increased However, there’s no question that the property is now more valuable after the renovation and would fetch a much higher price on the market. Some estimate it may now be worth $10 million or more.

City Councilmember Rosie Mendez was an outspoken critic of the Economakises’ takeover of the building. Told that they are living at 47 E. Third St., as they said they would, and that the place has been renovated for use as a single-family building, she said she still disagrees with what they did.

‘Something is wrong’ “I’m glad that they’re sticking to their word,”she said. “But I feel that something is wrong with the system when someone can take a multifamily dwelling and convert it to a five-story, mansion-style house. If they wanted a home, they should have bought a multilevel condo or a brownstone in the neighborhood.

“The law allowed them to do it — but there’s something wrong with the law. I can’t see converting a building that for a century has been used for residential rental units.”

Asked if she thought the tenement’s conversion was a bad precedent for the East Village, Mendez replied, “It’s a bad precedent for the city.”

Ursula Kinzel, one of the holdout tenants

at 47 E. Third St., eventually got a payment of $150,000, which included a $70,000 buyout, plus the settlement of a rent-overcharge case she brought against the previous owners. In the end, after paying lawyers’ fees, she ended up keeping very little of the money. She lives nearby in a building operated by the Cooper Square Committee.

“I mean, it’s a nice apartment,” she said.

“I don’t have all the windows that I used to, and it’s smaller. But it’s nice to live in the East Village.”

Stuck with it now Kinzel said, whether the Economakises genuinely had intended to live in the building long term or not, they now have to.

“As everybody’s watching, I think that he’s stuck with it,” she said. “He’s concerned with his image. He’s stuck with the story.

“They were able to buy the building because it was a rent-stabilized building,” she noted. “They could not have afforded a market-rate building. They could not have a afforded a $10 million building. They got it for $900,000.”

According to Kinzel, most of the former holdout tenants are now renting. One reportedly recently purchased a unit in a Housing Development Fund Corporation building in East Harlem. Another is in Brooklyn. One of them, George Boyd, 71, died in 2010 from heart problems. His son said the eviction battle had caused his dad “some undue stress” that exacerbated his deteriorating health.

Before the tenants started their litigation, the buyout the Economakises offered was smaller, $30,000, Kinzel recalled.

Many New Yorkers are willing to take buyouts, or at least to hold out for more money, but Kinzel said it just didn’t seem right in their case.

“Why would I want to give up an apartment? Thirty thousand dollars doesn’t go very far in New York,” she noted.

“I think the whole story is outlandish. Why would they go through six years of litigation and then demolishing the whole inside?” she asked. “I just think it’s really weird.”

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Preservationists and clergy clash over proposed E.V./L.E.S. district

By Lesley Sussman Preservationists who want to see a large chunk of the Lower East Side and East Village designated as historic districts and religious leaders who oppose being told what to do with their houses of worship, laid out their arguments before the Landmarks Preservation Commission Tuesday in a contentious, jam-packed hearing.

It was the pro-preservation forces, however, who seemed to gain the upper hand at the 3:30 p.m. hearing, filling the ninth-floor hearing room at One Centre St. with a large number of supporters, many wearing stickers that read, “Preserve the East Village, Landmark Now.” The 11 L.P.C. commissioners held the public hearing to gather feedback on a proposed 330-building district that would stretch zigzag fashion in a 15-block area from St. Marks Place to Second St. and from Avenue A almost to the Bowery.

A final vote by the commission isn’t expected for months to come. However, if the historic landmark designation goes into effect, it would lend protections to hundreds of historic buildings, including cultural icons like the La MaMa Theater, the former Fillmore East building and the Anthology Film Archives, as well as several houses of worship.

Currently, the only other historic districts in the neighborhood are a small enclave around St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery that was approved in 1979 — that includes buildings on Stuyvesant and E. Tenth Sts. — and, designated this January, one block of 26 quaint row houses and tenements along E. 10th St. between Avenues A and B on the north edge of Tompkins Square Park.

In the first hour and a half of the nearly three-hour hearing, roughly 80 speakers — mostly preservationists — had their say. Also testifying in favor of the historic landmark designation were representatives of City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, state Senator Daniel Squadron, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and state Senator Tom Duane.

A spokesperson for Assemblymember Deborah Glick told Landmarks Commission Chairperson Robert Tierney that the assemblymember was “in full support of landmarking. We are only scratching the surface of what we need to do to preserve the existing historic character of the Lower East Side and East Village,” she said.

Carolyn Ratcliffe, a member of a Community Board 3 subcommittee dealing with historic landmarking, said the community board was basically in support of the historic district designation.

However, she added, “We also want the commissioners to take into consideration the concerns of the religious organizations who are opposed to this and work together with them.”

Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, an organization advocating for the historic district’s creation, stressed

the importance of protecting the area as a symbol of the city’s mercantile history and to honor the waves of immigrants that have called the neighborhood home.

Berman also emphasized the East Village’s more recent bohemian past when the neighborhood nurtured artists, painters, writers and musicians in the late 20th century.

“This is one of the most historically significant neighborhoods in the city of New York,” he said. “But despite that, the East Village and Lower East Side is surprisingly lacking in landmark protection.”

Among the handful of speakers opposed to a historic landmark designation for the neighborhood was Father Christopher Calin, dean and chief executive officer in residence of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, 59 E. Second St. The priest angrily told the commissioners that his church opposes “the forced landmark designation.”

“Landmark designation would require government approval for any alternation affecting the exterior of the designated property, effectively transferring authority from the cathedral to the civil authority,” he protested. “Thus, the civil government would dictate the religious freedoms of the church, a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.”

Also speaking out against the proposed historic landmark plan was Anthony Donovan, a member of a local interfaith organization who said he was only speaking for himself as a local resident “It’s simple,” Donovan said. “If you are imposing these regulations upon others, then you pay the extra costs.”

Donovan was referring to a grant program operated by L.P.C. that provides from $5,000 to $50,000 for restoration work to eligible owners of landmarked buildings, according to Elisabeth de Bourbon, the commission’s spokesperson. However, funding is not guaranteed.

Donovan also noted that religious organizations could not afford the public-relations efforts being mounted by many preservation groups, such as G.V.S.H.P, which has been sending out press releases on the proposed historic district and which handed out orange-and-blue stickers to supporters at the hearing.

Meanwhile, local architect Leo Blackman said local religious institutions’ fears “are not founded in fact.” He said that several churches have been demolished in recent years to make way for new developments, such as St Ann’s on E. 12th St., which was replaced by an N.Y.U. student dorm.

“We learned that religious leaders cannot be trusted to protect their patrimony for all of us,” Blackman said.

Tierney, meanwhile, said there was no timeline yet for a final decision about the East Village-Lower East Side Historic District. The hearing did not end with a vote by L.P.C., and a date for a future vote or additional hearings has not been set.

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Holy union: St. Emeric’s merging with St. Brigid’s

By Albert Amateau Members of the old St. Brigid’s and parishioners of St. Emeric’s Church will be worshiping together at a new Church of St. Brigid and St. Emeric this autumn when the restoration of St. Brigid’s on Avenue B is completed.

It has been a long wait for St. Brigid members. Their parish was dissolved in 2004. But it was then resurrected by an anonymous “angel” who donated $20 million to the New York Catholic Archdiocese in May 2008 to restore the deteriorated 1848 church building and endow its future maintenance.

The new parish will be created from the closing of St. Emeric’s Church, built in 1950 at 740 E. 13th St. at Avenue D, and the merging of the St. Brigid and St. Emeric parishes.

For many at St. Emeric, like Edwin Torres, who went to the church on Avenue D after St. Brigid’s, at 119 Avenue B, was closed, the change is really a homecoming.

President of the Committee to Save St. Brigid, Torres has been teaching youth confirmation classes at St. Emeric’s since he began worshiping there seven years ago.

“We had a graduation on Friday [June 15] for 22 students with Bishop Dennis Sullivan,” Torres said, adding that he plans to continue

the classes at St. Brigid’s in the fall.

Joseph Zwilling, archdiocese spokesperson, said he hoped for a September opening of St. Brigid and St. Emeric but he was not able to give a definite date.

“But the church will have a rectory, which St. Emeric’s doesn’t have, and no debt,” Zwilling said.

Father Lorenzo Ato, priest in charge at St. Emeric for the past four years, will be the pastor of the new parish and has already moved into the rectory. Ato, a native of Peru, will also continue to serve as assistant director for Hispanic media for the archdiocese.

Zwilling said there was no decision yet on the disposition of the St. Emeric’s church building or the two-story parochial school built in 1952 next door on E. 12th St. and Avenue D. “The first preference is always to see if another Catholic agency wants it,” Zwilling said.

A leased city preschool program is located on the second floor of the St. Emeric school building, and parish confirmation classes use space in the building.

However, there is no longer a St. Emeric’s parochial elementary school.

Con Edison’s power plant virtually surrounds the St. Emeric property and the area currently has construction activity.

Down at St. Brigid’s, the parish elementary school has been operating since it was built in 1959 at the corner of Avenue B and E. Seventh St., and is expected to continue.

The church, at E. Eighth St. across from Tompkins Square Park, was designed by Patrick Keely, an Irish-born architect, and built during 1848-49 by Irish boatwrights from the East River boatyards.

Two original Gothic stone spires were dismantled in the mid-1960s, and other alterations over the years made the building an unlikely candidate for landmark designation.

In 1991, a significant crack in the church's east wall had to be buttressed, and by June 2001, after a visit by then Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan, the building was declared unsafe. Masses were then shifted to the school building's basement cafeteria.

The archdiocese estimated the cost of restoring the 150-year-old building at $580,000. The parish, largely Hispanic for many years, organized the Committee to Save St. Brigid to raise the money. But $103,000 that was raised went to the parish’s general expenses.

Moreover, the archdiocese secured a building permit in 2003 to construct a five-story residence on the site, potentially as a new home for the Cabrini Nursing and Rehabilitation Center that was in rented

space on E. Fifth St. In 2004, the archdiocese closed the parish, but Save St. Brigid held demonstrations, marching from the East Village to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The committee also went to court to challenge the closing and preserve the building. However, the challenges failed.

The $20 million from the anonymous “angel” in May 2008 provided $10 million to fix serious structural problems and restore the church, plus $2 million for an endowment, and $8 million to support St. Brigid’s School and other Catholic schools in the area.

The angel remains anonymous, although Zwilling at the time said he was not Matt Dillon, who filmed in the church for his 2002 movie “City of Ghosts.”

St. Brigid of Kildare, who died in 524, was a founder with St. Patrick and St. Columba of Celtic Christianity. The daughter of a Druid and a slave, she became an abbess and was the patron saint of blacksmiths, boatmen and scholars.

St. Emeric (Americus in Latin), a son of King St. Stephen of Hungary, was killed at the age of 23 in 1031 by a wild boar during a hunt. Healings and Christian conversions that occurred at his grave led to his canonization in 1083 along with his father and his teacher Bishop Gerhard.

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New rules will rein in Chinatown’s bus operators

By Aline Reynolds Clamping down on illegal bus operators, the city will soon be enforcing new rules against cheap-fare buses traveling to and from Chinatown. Yet, while many locals back greater regulation of the buses, some fear that the low-cost operators are being unfairly targeted and that their closure will harm the neighborhood’s economic welfare.

Statewide legislation co-sponsored by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senator Daniel Squadron, awaiting Governor Cuomo’s signature, will require curbside bus companies to apply for city permits to operate, and only to pick up and drop off passengers at locations authorized by the city.

The law’s passage comes on the heels of the federal government’s shutdown of 26 bus operators last month that were deemed “imminent hazards to public safety.” The action, an outgrowth of a yearlong investigation, constitutes the largest single safety crackdown in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Two of the shuttered bus carriers, Apex Bus and I-95 Coach, previously picked up and dropped off passengers in Chinatown (on Allen and Chrystie Sts., respectively).

According to D.O.T.’s shutdown order, the bus operators failed to ensure that their drivers complied with hoursof-service requirements. The companies also neglected to administer drug and alcohol testing, to properly inspect and maintain their buses and to mandate that all their drivers had valid commercial driver’s licenses.

The state law requires the city to consult with local community boards and allows for a 45-day comment period prior to issuing permits for pickup and drop-off locations in Chinatown and elsewhere. Under the law, the city could also compel bus companies to disclose information about their vehicles, the number of passengers they’re carrying and their parking locations.

Violators of the law will face fines of up to $2,500, in addition to a suspension or complete loss of their permits, which otherwise have three-year terms and cost up to $275 annually per vehicle.

The codified enforcement was prompted by a series of fatal bus accidents in the metropolitan area that included a crash last March on Interstate 95 by a Chinatown-bound bus, operated by World Wide Travel of Greater New York, which killed 15 passengers. Less than three months later, a bus operated by Sky Express veered off I-95 in Virginia and flipped onto its roof, killing four passengers.

Both bus operators were shut down soon after the accidents, and investigators have found that, in both instances, the drivers suffered from sleep loss tied to working inordinately long shifts.

Former representatives of Apex and I-95 Coach couldn’t be reached for comment, while a few other local companies declined to comment on the news. ApexBus.com, a Web

site that is still active, brands itself as the “leading ticket service provider for Chinatown bus companies,” though it claims not to be affiliated with Apex Bus, Inc., the operator that was shut down.

Sam Kwang, a customer-service representative at Fung Wah bus company, which continues to transport passengers to and from Boston seven days a week, said he doesn’t mind the increased oversight. The company, which runs nearly 30 buses, picks up and drops off customers in front of 139 Canal St. and 77 Bowery.

“I think the rules are fine — it’s good for the bus companies, as long as they follow the regulation,” said Kwang.

‘I think it’s good for all of us. The bus companies will have some rules to follow. Before, it was like the Wild West.’

Justin Yu

While Fung Wah hasn’t breached any federal laws, he said, the company racks up an average of 70 fines per month in city parking violations, ranging from $65 to $115 per ticket.

“Sometimes when we’re dropping off or picking up a customer, we’ll get a ticket from the traffic cop,” Kwang explained.

To ensure passenger safety, Fung Wah staff hold monthly meetings with drivers and hire mechanics to inspect the buses prior to use. The company also makes sure its drivers have at least a two-hour break between driving shifts, Kwang said.

“We don’t let the same driver go back and forth,” he said. “When they come in from one place and don’t get enough break to rest, or they don’t have enough sleep… that’s when things happen.”

Justin Yu, chairperson of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York, at 33 Bowery, voiced support for the government’s added oversight of the buses, since the cat-and-mouse games the drivers play with the traffic officers have proven to be ineffective.

Yu himself had a bad experience on a bus from Washington, D.C., to New York, in which the driver took the wrong route in Pennsylvania and arrived in Chinatown

two hours late.

“I think it’s good for all of us,” he said. “At least in the future, the bus companies have some rules to follow.

Before, it was like the Wild West.”

But Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation, said the government crackdown could jeopardize a vital link in Chinatown’s economic lifeline.

“These people do not have the luxury or the option to go and take the Greyhound buses or the Amtrak trains,” said Chen. “I’ve been told again and again, ‘They want to crush this industry once and for all.’ ” Shutting down local bus companies will inevitably hurt Chinatown businesses, according to Kenneth Cheng, chairperson of the Fukien Benevolent Association of America.

Cheng said he’s been approached by several neighborhood merchants who worry that fewer people will travel to Chinatown altogether, leading to the loss of store customers.

“East Broadway would be dead,” if the buses are driven out of business, he said. “They’re also hurting Mott St. and the Bowery.”

But according to Kelly Magee, a spokesperson for Councilmember Margaret Chin, who backs the new rules, there were inarguable reasons for the enforcement — including the fact that the companies that were shut down were unlicensed.

While bus companies that operate out of terminals, such as Peter Pan and Greyhound, are exempt from the new legislation, the government already has stringent rules in place for those companies, Magee noted.

Statistically speaking, curbside bus operators are seven times more likely to have fatal crashes than terminal-based operations, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report from last fall.

“They are being targeted because they’re not following the rules,” Magee said of the curbside buses.

Councilmember Chin stressed the importance of additional enforcement in bringing home the message to bus operators that, if they’re not playing by the rules, they won’t be allowed to operate in New York.

“This is a safety issue,” Chin said, “and the operators that are breaking the law are creating a bad image for all the bus companies who are following the rules.”

In an attempt to ensure passenger safety, the federal D.O.T. has also introduced its own new rules, such as slamming bus operators with a $25,000 fine — compared to the previous fee of only $2,200 — if they lack the government’s authorization to operate. The federal agency is also requiring all new carriers to undergo comprehensive safety audits before putting buses on the road.

Last November, commercial bus drivers were barred from talking on cell phones while driving, which followed a 2010 federal ban on their texting while driving.

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‘Cage’ tourney scores with players and spectators

By Sam Spokony Fingers start appearing between the links in the fence in the midafternoon, when the air really gets hot. Some press against the frame, supporting a body leaning in close enough to smell the action. Others fingers curl around the wire, their owner leaning back to let loose a cheer or an insult, depending on his or her loyalties.

On a Saturday, The Cage is lined with photographers. Paused bike riders. European tourists. Old guys from Brooklyn.

But those who step inside, filling their spots on the W. Fourth St. courts every summer weekend, don’t have much time to sort out all the faces peering in. This is Kenny Graham’s West Fourth Street, after all, one of the epicenters of New York streetball. And while to some it’s just another weekend attraction, to those with the ball, it’s something much more — a chance at something like glory.

They may be playing in an amateur basketball tournament, but that doesn’t mean that the shots don’t count.

“There’s nowhere else like it,” said Perry Wilkes, 32, who hails from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood and has been playing at W. Fourth St. for more than 10 years.

“It’s got the best competition and the best

talent compared to any other street league, so every game you really gotta show up, regardless of who’s watching.”

The basketball court next to the W. Fourth St. subway stop on Sixth Ave. — called The Cage by many players because of its small size and surrounding fence — has been the home of Kenny Graham’s West Fourth Street tournament for 35 years. Running from around Memorial Day weekend to the end of summer, the tourney is broken into divisions for high school boys and high school girls and adult men and women.

The high school teams take the court during weekday evenings and early on weekends, while the women play on weekend afternoons.

And while those games aren’t generally as well attended as the men’s games later on weekend afternoons and evenings, there are still plenty of reasons to play for pride — if only to impress one or two wide-eyed tourists or passersby.

“When they see the girls on the court, they might want to walk away,” said Desiree Simmons, 19, who once played in the tournament's high school division and recently returned to join the women’s league. “So it makes you want to prove yourself even more, so you can keep them watching.”

Kenny Graham, 60, who founded the cur-

rent West Fourth Street league in 1977, was sitting silently off to the side of the court as last Saturday’s women’s game finished, making way for the men’s game to begin shortly. After building his organization from scratch 35 years ago by doing everything from refereeing games to sweeping up, to keeping the books, Graham found that the league began to run itself, as smoothly as any professional tournament. That, he knows, is because he helped to give both his workers and players a reason to protect their court — to find value and purpose in contributing to something bigger than themselves.

“A lot of guys will try to start a program up, and it doesn’t survive because as soon as the money starts coming in, they put it all straight in their pockets,” said Graham. “I make sure that everybody who comes out here has a chance to be a part of this, and get something out of it. And that’s why these guys have a sense of loyalty. They’ll come out here and support what this represents.”

He added that, along with developing corporate sponsorships as the league gained attention — Nike is the current major sponsor — simple donations helped to keep the games happening after the league got off the ground. In fact, one of Graham’s fondest memories is receiving a

little early support from a certain New Yorker whose fame happened to be on the rise.

“Although he never played in the league, Denzel Washington used to play pickup ball out here,” Graham said. “One day I was standing around the court, and he just pulled up and wrote me a check for $1,000 for the league. That was back in the ’80s, just before he was a mega-star.”

Graham laughingly added, “If I would’ve known he was going to become a huge star, I would’ve Xeroxed it.”

Now, Kenny Graham’s West Fourth Street has become one of the Village’s most reliably crowded weekend attractions — while also providing a vital place for young athletes to hone their skills before attempting to play at a higher level.

Brian Heckstall, 18, is currently looking for a college to attend, where he’ll also play NCAA basketball. Coming into this year, he knew that West Fourth Street was the best court on which to train over the summer.

“I don’t know what school I’m going to play for yet,” said Heckstall, “but I just need to be prepared, and this is the place to do that. It’s tough, with people watching from outside every time and the veterans keeping you on your toes, but that’s why I came here. It doesn’t get much better than that.”

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Pride: The final frontier...to boldly go...for it all!

Pride — and high-flying cheerleaders — filled the air at Sunday’s Pride March. Sporting a Boy Scouts of America shirt, George Takei, a.k.a. Mr. Sulu from “Star Trek,” beamed down at warp speed to join the procession, and possibly seek out new forms of life. Guys with buffed bods did pushups while being whipped to do their utmost by a “trainer.” A young woman with a rainbow flag, above left, like others in her generation, is the future face of Pride.

Photos by Milo Hess (woman with flag, George Takei, youth group shot); Bob Krasner (flag-twirler, cheerleaders); and Q. Sakamaki (pushup, man with blue cape and feathers)

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A more perfect union

Ten years ago this week, no state in America afforded lesbian and gay couples marriage equality. The victory in Massachusetts was almost a year and a half away –– and New York’s, nine years. The sitting president in 2002 was hatching a strategy for re-election two years down the road that had as its cornerstone a cynical ploy to pull out conservative evangelical voters in swing states with a host of ballot measures banning same-sex marriage.

New York State didn’t have a gay rights law then.

Nor did it offer public school students who were lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual or questioning safeguards against bullying and harassment. Protections for the state’s L.G.B.T. citizens –– outside of localities, such as New York City –– consisted of a hate-crimes law and survivor benefits for those who lost a same-sex partner in the 9/11 attack.

At the federal level, there were still no constitutional protections for those arrested on sodomy charges. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act would not be enacted for another seven years.

Openly gay and lesbian service members were being rooted out of the military. Entry into the U.S. was denied to anyone who acknowledged being H.I.V.-positive.

Every one of those things has changed –– except that advocates in New Jersey, where the state’s high court ruled in 2006 that same-sex couples are entitled to at least civil union rights, are still battling for full marriage equality, most recently in the face of a veto by Republican Governor Chris Christie.

And, in noting the phenomenal progress here in New York, it must be acknowledged that the transgender community remains outside the purview of civil rights protections that gays and lesbians won in 2002.

The most pressing challenge, of course, comes in the November election. There is no disputing the historic advances gays and lesbians have made under President Barack Obama. Gay men and lesbians can now serve openly in the military; visitors living with H.I.V. can now gain entry into the U.S.; L.G.B.T. Americans are now assured of access to their partners in hospitals; federal hate-crimes law now protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender victims; our country is now affirmatively leading on gay rights globally; the Justice Department no longer defends the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); and the most powerful leader in the world has endorsed the right of gays and lesbians to marry.

Mitt Romney supports DOMA. While he has made no noise about reinstating Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, he showed no support for its repeal, either. Though Romney has made bland pronouncements about being opposed to discrimination, it is unclear if he would advocate for –– or even support –– the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

The issue of ENDA raises a second critical challenge this year –– returning the Democrats to control of the U.S. House. Speaker John Boehner's one initiative on L.G.B.T. issues has been to step into the breach left by the Justice Department to battle on behalf of DOMA in the courts.

Election Day drama will not be confined to the presidential, Senate and House contests. In four states, the right of same-sex marriage is at stake. In Maryland and Washington State, voters must decide whether to retain marriage-equality laws approved earlier this year by their Legislature and governor. In Maine, gay advocates are going back to the ballot to reverse a 2009 voter initiative that overturned the marriage-equality law enacted earlier that year. And in Minnesota, despite the pro-marriageequality posture of Democratic Governor Mark Dayton, the L.G.B.T. community must fend off a right-wing effort to write discrimination into that state’s constitution.

This year, however, may be best remembered for the gay marriage question finally reaching the Supreme Court.

Ready or not, gay marriage's time in front of the conservative Roberts court may be at hand.

This Pride we’re all reminded of the blessings of living in interesting times — and of goals still to be obtained.

letters to the editor Who would Jesus evict?

Big respect in the big house

To The Editor: Re “O.W.S. ‘Duarte 8’ are sentenced” (news article, June 21): It is disappointing, but not surprising, to read that Trinity chose to prosecute Occupy Wall Street activists, with one protester sentenced to 45 days at Rikers, for “trespassing” on a vacant lot that Trinity got for free and is not currently using.

Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, who was the first to scale the fence and arrested on the preposterous charge of “trespassing” on his own denomination's property, got it right when he addressed the Court: “Is [Trinity] a corporation worried about fiduciary interest or a portion of the Body of Christ?”

Unlike the other religions and denominations who legally purchased their land with the nickels and dimes of poor immigrants, Trinity got its land for free from the British, who stole it from the Dutch settlers under threat of massacre.

Further, in the early part of the 20th century, Trinity cruelly evicted thousands of impoverished tenants living in its residential properties on the Lower West Side in order to pave way for the many commercial buildings that are there now, the basis of Trinity’s enormous wealth.

At one time Trinity provided several houses of charity Downtown to provide aid to the poor, the downtrodden, the oppressed. Now it has none.

Trinity has now shown its true colors with its dispossession of the O.W.S. folk — who are fighting for social and economic justice — for the “crime” of occupying a vacant lot that Trinity got for free, and with one activist, Mark Adams, sentenced to 45 days in Rikers.

We wonder where Jesus will be this Sunday: in the front pew of Trinity or in the Rikers jail cell with Mark Adams?

To The Editor: Re “Living with Bill — the prisoner of Eighth Avenue” (Gay Pride section article, June 21): Cullum was a remarkable figure at Lewisburg. He was at the same time highly visible and unintrusive, which is quite a trick. Everyone respected him, guards and inmates alike.

He once walked into a housing unit where a new young gay inmate had been harassed and threatened by a group of fauxmacho hard heads, screamed at them for five minutes, and they just stood there, hung their heads and took it. There were no more problems.

All those tough guys, with their swagger, their scowls, their talk and their bad attitude — every one of them knew that Cullum was stronger than any of them. I never heard anyone say a harsh word to him, and I knew a lot of people who would have had a much rougher trip without him.

When he got out, he went right to work getting his life back on track, despite the encumbrances the prison system imposes on its clients in order to assure repeat business.

I would note, however, that Bill pursued no overt political agenda at Lewisburg, gay, left or otherwise. He instead focused on dignity, fairness, civility and respect — all commodities generally in short supply inside a jail or out; but all those there knew well that Bill offered them without qualification to anyone. I think the place might have been a lot more fractious without him, and certainly a lot less tolerable.

Sean Sweeney

To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. is risking its intellectual and fiscal health” (talking point, by An N.Y.U. Faculty Member, June 21): It does not reflect well on a university when a faculty member fears retribution for speaking out. I am a faculty member at N.Y.U. School of Medicine, and in June of 2010 we did a survey of the tenured faculty and asked whether fear of retribution was a barrier to speaking out. There was an overall 56 percent response rate to the survey. A whopping 52 percent of those who took the survey indicated that they would hesitate to speak their mind for fear of retribution. And these are tenured faculty members!

Better to go with the flow To The Editor: Re “Baldwin threatens Villager photog” (news brief, June 21): You know, if Mr. Baldwin and his bride-to-be had just smiled and then ducked into a cab they would have had a much better photo on the cover of the paper. There are times that it is wiser to simply go along with events than to grow angry, get frustrated and then totally blow it.

Burt Kozloff

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By JERRY TALLMER When I close my eyes and bear down, I can see two men in what used to be called plus fours — golf knickers — standing on a patch of grass beside a road, or perhaps a railroad track, engaged in casual political conversation.

One of these men is my father, Albert F. Tallmer, then some 37 or 38 years old.

“I don't know,” he is saying to the other golfer, “but this young Roosevelt [then 48 or 49 years old and governor of New York State] might just be able to get us out of this mess.”

By “this mess” my father meant the Great Depression.

It is the first time in my own then quite young life that I have — so far as one can at this vast gap remember — been aware that someone named not Theodore but Franklin D. Roosevelt might one day be running for president of these United States of America.

Quick cut to another image perhaps a year or two later. It is Election night, 1932, three years and three months after the violent stock market crash which has plunged this nation and much of the rest of the world into nightmare. Men who once had plushy jobs are selling apples on many a street corner. Men who had even plushier jobs are jumping out of high windows — a weird prelude to the very different and much higher windows of 9/11/2001. And I, way back there in boyhood, am sitting listening to the radio — a cathedral-arched ancient Atwater Kent — with tears cascading down my cheeks.

I am crying because Gee Gee is crying because poor nice President Herbert Hoover is getting trounced all across the map of this country. Mr. Herbert Hoover, who sees a rainbow in the sky, will not be re-elected president.

So let's have another cup of coffee, and — thank you, Irving Berlin — let's have another piece of pie. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just been elected 32nd president of these United States. The take-charge Democrat has beaten the do-nothing Republican.

Gee Gee — my surrogate mother — very much wanted the Republican to win. Gee Gee’s actual name is Blanche Avalony, because she is married to an Italian-American white man. She is a tiny, carrottopped, colored woman who lives with her husband and a small dog on 112th St. in Harlem, but she was born and bred in North Carolina and knows in her bones that Republicans are far less prone than Democrats — Southern Democrats like evil old whiskey-drinking John Nance Garner, Roosevelt’s running mate — to hang black men from the nearest tree, and worse. One of these days not far off, Billie Holiday will sing a song about all that. It withers the soul to this day.

So Blanche Avalony, who came to work to take care of me and my parents' household when I was born, and stayed in that employ until my father died 30 years later, did not want Roosevelt to beat Hoover in 1932, even if she a long time later may have quietly changed sides.

My father made no bones about whom he was for when, four years later, 1932 closed in. As the cliché goes, he threw his straw hat into the ring for Roosevelt. Which takes us to another picture in my head, four years later still. October 31, 1936. Madison Square Garden, the old (but not oldest) Garden at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue, where our city's ugliest, skyscraping office building stands today.

On Tuesday morning, November 2, 1936, Americans from coast to coast will start going to the polls. Now, in the Garden, F.D.R. is closing out that year's presidential

‘Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.’

Franklin D. Roosevelt

campaign with the greatest, most fiery speech of his life — again an extraordinary prelude or pre-vision of things to come in this insane election year of 2012, seven and a half decades later, here is the core of it. Makes me shiver just to type it: “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

Get that: And I welcome their hatred ….

Roosevelt is saying all this, and I am standing on a wooden folding chair in the Garden in the midst of 18,000 people, clutching my father’s shoulder and

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screaming my head off. I used to write about that chair so often that my buddies used to say: “Here comes Jerry with that chair again,” so I put it on ice, so to speak. But when I listen to the derangements and racist foamings and cockamamie outright lies of the whole friggin’ crew from Palin to Paul to Newt to Mitt and back again, it's time once again to drag out that good old rickety wooden contraption and stand on it.

Another much-revisited picture in my head: Times Square a few nights later — Election night, 1936. I am there, my father is there, and a half a million other people are there.

My father and I fight our way to where we can have a good view of the Election Scoreboard on the facing of The New York Times building at the south end of Times Square. In my dad's hands are a pencil or pen and a copy of the Literary Digest, a magazine then famous for its political polls, this year of 1936 not least, when it has predicted the victory of Alfred M. (“Alf”) Landon, Republican governor of Kansas, by a healthy margin over incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt.

As the returns are posted, state by state, on the Times’s electronic scoreboard — this is before television, you understand — my father jots down the result on his open copy of the Literary Digest while — normally a very soft-spoken man — he crows aloud: “Minnesota! Let’s see, Minnesota! Landon to carry Minnesota by 100,000 votes. Why, what have we here…?”

In the end, as all the world knows, Alf Landon won only two of the then 48 states, leading to the timeworn adage: “As Maine goes, so goes Vermont.”

Jump to college and a college daily newspaper, four years later.

That year, 1940, the hate-Roosevelt crowd has invented a new bugaboo that threatens the very pillars of the republic. It's called The Third Term. Surely the U.S. will tumble into chaos, dissolution and bad breath if any mortal (sick, diseased, traitorous, un-American, crippled) male continues to steer the ship of state through the reefs of Communism. In print and on the air (radio) you read / hear: “No Third Term” as often as you hear about Buck Rogers in the 21st century, Jack Armstrong, AllAmerican boy, gobbling his Wheaties, or Little Orphan Annie and “Arf!” says Sandy.

Well, none of it worked. Wendell L. Wilkie, a fellow somewhat along the lines of Mitt Romney, but nicer, took 10 states instead of just two, but 10 wasn't enough. And the next morning the banner headline that greeted the several thousand predominantly rock-ribbed Republican readers of The Dartmouth was “ROOSEVELT GETS THIRD TERM.” I am only sorry that neither my father nor Gee Gee — nor, for that matter, my mother — lived to see a black American elected president. They would all have liked it fine.

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Ira Blutreich Doris Diether

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2 0 June 28 - July 5, 2012 Notice of Qualification of Abbott Capital Private Equity Investors GP 2012, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/17/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1290 Ave. of the Americas, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10104. LP formed in DE on 5/16/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 Notice of Formation of MVG 60th Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/06.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 950 3rd Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 Notice of Qualification of Walton/Isaacson, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CA on 11/1/05. 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. CA and principal business address: 15260 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 2100, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. Cert. of Org. filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 Notice is hereby given that license #1263639 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 507 Columbus Ave., New York, NY 10024 for on-premises consumption. 507 Columbus Avenue LLC d/b/a Casa Pomona.

Vil: 06/21 - 06/28/2012 MONKWELL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2012. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 54 W. 87th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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402 E. 80TH STREET REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 318 E. 80th St., NY, NY 10075. General Purposes.

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CREDIT RESOLUTION COLLECTIONS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/03/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yisroel Ackerman, 98-01 67th Ave No. 10-D, Rego Park, NY 11374.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Unit 4303 SoHo LLC. Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/07/2012.

Office location: County of New York. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Adu Advaney 243 Spring Street, Unit 4303 New York, NY 10013.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of Bull Wheel Development LLC Art. of Org.filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/15/12. Office location: NY Co. SSNY has been designated for serv. of process. SSNY shall mail copy of anyprocess served against the LLC to 230 W. 79th St. # 31N, NY, NY 10024.Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Qualification of 10 SOUTH STREET SUBTENANT, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of 41 HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Peter L. Hessellund-Jensen, 521 Fifth Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10175-3399. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of THE PARK AVENUE HEART AND RHYTHM CENTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 791 Park Ave., #1C, NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of 513 YELLOW APPLE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Alan J. Marcus, Esq., 20803 Biscayne Blvd., Ste. 301, Aventura, FL 33180. 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: Real estate rental.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of GENMAR I LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Jan M. Gennet, 19 E. 88th St., #12E, NY, NY 10128. 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION of ML Hospitality LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: ML Hospitality LLC, 520 West 43rd St, #5T, New York, NY 10036.Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of 92 Equities AR1 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/9/12. 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 NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Qual. of 2nd Avenue Properties Realty LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/12/11.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Qual. of 5 Beekman JV LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/14/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 3/8/12.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Qual. of 5 Beekman Property Owner LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/17/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/10/12.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION of MVM Hospitality LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: MVM Hospitality LLC, 57 Kenmare St, #11, New York, NY 10012.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Notice of Qual. of 105 West 57th Street Holdings, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/13/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 1/30/12.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016, 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Notice of Formation of On The Ground Events LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/2/12. 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 125 E. 12th St., PH A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Notice of Formation of L.N. AND N ENTERPRISES. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/12.

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 David Kelner, 815 W. 181st St., Ste. 6H, NY, NY 10033. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Carmella Danzo, active member of St. Anthony’s and feast, 93 OBITUARY Carmella Danzo, a Village resident who made her home for many years on Thompson St., died June 2 in Memorial Hospital, in Easton, Maryland, at the age of 93.

“She was ill for three months and died in my arms,” said her daughter, Nancy Cossu, of Tilghman Island, Maryland.

She moved with her husband of 72 years, Dominic, 97, to Londonderry, Easton, Maryland, in 2008 to be near their daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Born one of eight children to Catherine and Donato Sabato in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Carmella graduated from Dunmore High School in 1937 and met her future husband, who was visiting a cousin who had married her older sister.

They were married in 1939 in Dunmore and lived for a few years in Binghamton, N.Y., before moving to the Village.

She began working in 1957 for Manufacturers Hanover Trust, which became part of JP Morgan Chase, and rose to be manager of the stock transfer department until she retired in 1986.

She also worked for the Board of Elections at a Sullivan St. polling place for many years.

Active in St. Anthony’s Church, she helped with the annual Feast of St. Anthony. She was also devoted to the Rosarian Society at St. Joseph’s and visited hospital patients and home-

Carmella Danzo.

bound neighbors.

“She loved going out ‘with the girls’ in the Village and later in Londonderry,” her daughter said, adding, “Everybody loved her.”

Crocheting, cooking and baking for friends were her hobbies.

In addition to her husband and her daughter and son-in-law, a son, Daniel Danzo, of Gerrardstown, West Virginia, and daughterin-law survive, along with several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Two brothers, Salvatore Sabato and Peter Sabato, also survive, along with several nieces and nephews.

A funeral Mass was held at St. Peter and Paul Church in Easton on Fri., June 8, and burial was June 10 in Calvary Cemetery in Queens.

Perazzo Funeral Home, on Bleecker St., was in charge of arrangements in New York.

Pulling the plug on the Fillmore FLASHBACK In a total bummer, man, for live-music fans, the July 1, 1971, issue of The Villager reported that Bill Graham was shutting down his renowned Fillmore East. The article's punctuation-challenged headline, “Graham Closes Fillmore East, He Blames ‘Corporations’ ” made it clear how the rock impresario felt about things.

A Yiddish theater transformed into a popular rock venue, the Fillmore, at 105 Second Ave., had become a mecca for East Village nightlife since its opening in 1968.

But, according to Graham, the emergence on the rock scene of “corporation officers and stockholders who happen to have long hair and play guitars” led him to leave the business. The article noted that he was also closing down the Fillmore West in San Francisco.

“The whole rock scene is becoming too big a business,” he said, bemoaning the disappearance of what he called “real musicians.”

As reported by The Villager, hordes of long-haired youths frequently lined the sidewalk outside the theater to hear their idols for free, thanks to the place's giant sound system — which could handle 20 mikes and 26 speakers.

However, the article noted, “Confrontation between Graham and the Hippie East Village community became more and more frequent

The Fillmore East and a vintage car with fins.

as ticket prices rose to offset demands of music ‘corporations.’ ” In its three-year life, the famed Second Ave. music venue hosted performances by rock, jazz and folk stars, including the likes of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band.

Lorenzo Ligato

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Mixed Media Reimagined Four galleries push envelope, provoke

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

“GOOD FOR YOU SON”

Canadian artist Patrick Lundeen’s first NYC solo exhibition takes seemingly disparate objects (think flags, posters, keyboards, magazine pages) and combines them into sixfoot-tall, neon-colored canvas anthropomorphic masks. Inspired by his interest in (or obsession with?) the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island denizens and outsider art motifs, Lundeen’s masks manage to both amuse and menace. Accompanying the exhibition is a seven-inch vinyl record by The Oblique Mystique — Lundeen’s three-man rock band.

As for what this all means, you’re on your own.

However, the artist does tip his hand regarding the exhibition’s title. “Good For You Son” references a line from an unintentionally funny commercial that was the source of constant childhood mockery for Lundeen. In the spot, a father praises his offspring’s wise choice to take out life insurance. By referencing that dubious praise (both in the title of his exhibition and on an Oblique Mystique track), the artist cleverly calls attention to his own worthy achievement, while also mocking its value.

Through July 28, at Mike Weiss Gallery (520 W. 24th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.).

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm (and by appointment). For info, call 212-691-6899 or visit mikeweissgallery.com.

and profane implications. Laura Ortiz Vega reimagines her personal photographs of graffiti, utilizing the artisanal techniques of the native Huichol Indians of central Mexico — and Vadis Turner’s ceremonial adornments are partnered with destructive agents to generate compositions that address dual identities.

Through July 7, at Lyons Wier Gallery (542 W. 24th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm. For info, call 212-2426220, email gallery@lyonswiergallery.com or visit lyonswiergallery.com

“THE THIRD MEANING II”

RH Gallery, which opened in 2010 with a group exhibition — “The Third Meaning” — comes full circle (or, full sequel?). This summer, “The Third Meaning II” further explores the original’s quest to “reveal layers of meaning through process and form.” Coined by French literary critic and all-around deep thinker Roland Barthes as a term to represent that which exists without a direct, material source, the 17 artists who’ve contributed work to this exhibition seek to reveal “a third order of meaning, beyond the obvious and the symbolic.” To that end, Shao Fan’s “Ming-style Foot” (pictured) bridges past and present by employing the traditions of ancient Chinese periods, such as Ming Dynasty wood construction, with contemporary subjects and materials.

Through Sept. 6, at RH Gallery (137 Duane St., btw. Church & W. Broadway).

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-7pm, Sun.-Mon. by appointment. For more info, call 646-4906355 or visit rhgallery.com.

“KENJI NAKAYAMA”

The first New York solo exhibition by Japanese-born, Boston-based artist Kenji Nakayama — simply entitled “Kenji Nakayama” — is a presentation of his complex photorealistic, hand-cut stencil, spray enamel, acrylic and mixed media paintings of street scenes. “My process is like dust,” says the artist. “Each little grain and speck adds up, and soon becomes a mountain.” The subject matter may be that of urban chaos, but Nakayama’s intricate technique (original, hand-cut, multi-layer stencils become one complete image when illuminated with colorful spray enamel) casts a meditative spell of contemplation and calm.

Through July 7, at Woodward Gallery (133 Eldridge St., btw. Broome & Delancey Sts.).

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm, Sun., 12-5pm.

Call 212-966-3411 or email art@woodwardgallery.net. To access selected works online, visit woodwardgallery.net. Large scale spray paint and hand cut stencil paintings by Nakayama are featured at the Four Seasons Restaurant (99 E. 52nd St., btw. Park & Lexington Ave.), throughout the summer.

Image courtesy of the artist & Mike Weiss Gallery

Patrick Lundeen’s “Mad Mask, Ugly Monkey” (2012, Acrylic on magazine paper; 17 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 2 in). See “Good for You Son.”

Image courtesy of Woodward Gallery, NYC

Kenji Nakayama’s “SoHo Collage” (2011, spray paint with multi-layer stencils and enamel on hard board; 28 x 42 inches/71.1 x 106.7 cm). See “Kenji Nakayama.”

“MATERIAL MATTERS”

In the group exhibition “Material Matters,” Lyons Wier Gallery brings together four female artists who use common mixed media (thread, ribbon, discarded clothing, beads, resin) to bring a fresh interpretation to their chosen mediums. Contemporary notions of identity are explored by transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Stephanie Hirsch appropriates iconic, once-rebellious, rock-and-roll images and re-infuses them with personal mantras.

Rocio Infestas creates small-scale resin sculptures whose baby-like forms have both divine

Courtesy of RH Gallery and the artist

Shao Fan’s “Ming-style Foot” (2009, Bubinga wood). See “The Third Meaning II.”

Image courtesy of the artist & Lyons Wier Gallery

Laura Ortiz Vega's "Guadalajara Sunday" (2012, Thread & beeswax on board; 18 x 24 in/45.72 x 61 cm). See “Material Matters.”

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Church of Stop Shopping to protest pipeline Rev. Billy, on fossil fuels and special songs ART/ACTIVISM REVEREND BILLY & THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR PRESENT: NO PIPELINE, AT THE HIGH LINE

Sun., July 1, at 1pm (doors open at noon) At the Highline Ballroom 437 W. 16th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.

For tickets ($12), call 212-414-5994 or visit highlineballroom.com Appropriate for all ages. Lunch and spirits served Visit revbilly.com Photos by Sophie Molins

BY SCOTT STIFFLER “It strikes at the heart of our ability to control the places in which we live.

It’s a test. They think they can force this on us…and if they do, they can force a lot.” That ominous warning of bigger and bolder corporate things to come flows from Reverend Billy’s assessment of a plan by Spectra Energy Corp to construct a 20-mile natural gas pipeline stretching from Linden, NJ to Gansevoort Street.

To thwart the Spectra project — or at least throw the righteous light of activist shame on it — Reverend Billy is planning to lead locals on a march to “where that pipeline is supposed to surface, in the Meatpacking District.”

Equal parts parade, protest and performance, this group trek to the pipeline’s outcropping will cap an afternoon “service” designed to both enlighten and enrage. They’re calling it “Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir Present: No

Above and below, Reverend Billy’s pristine white suit gets the fossil fuel treatment during a 2011 oil-themed protest at London’s Tate Modern. On July 1, the Reverend and his Stop Shopping Choir will hold a Sunday service meant to shout out Spectra’s pipeline plans.

Pipeline, at The Highline.” That’s Highline as in the Ballroom — not High Line, as in the nearby elevated park. Both venues are in danger, warns the Reverend. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission calls the pipeline “safe” — but Reverend Billy is using far less generous words. “We will say ‘yes’ to solar panels on our rooftops, and we will say ‘no’ to dangerous fossil fuel. That’s the devil.”

The increasingly likely prospect of a natural gas pipeline snaking its way through West Chelsea is just the latest marriage between corporate interests and fossil fuels to merit the Church of Stop Shopping’s wrath (it’s been years since they’ve moved beyond exclusively protesting conspicuous retail consumption).

Previously, Reverend Billy — an outspoken hydrofracking opponent — has

traveled to West Virginia for a show of solidarity with locals who were protesting the removal of mountaintops for mining purposes. At this time last year, the Reverend and his choir brought their original blend of performance art, community activism and political satire to London’s Tate Modern gallery. “We were invited by a group of seven activist organizations who are opposing British Petroleum giving money to this illustrious institution and putting their logo on the front of it,” recalls the Reverend — who, in a few weeks, will once again return to London for a solo performance at St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace (located in the

heart of the Financial District).

As for the July 1 Highline event, Reverend Billy notes that there will be material specific to their latest endeavor. “We have a new song, in which we sing to Spectra,” he says. “It’s called ‘The River Song,’ and it’s a cross between a gospel song and a hex.

Our post-religious, all genders, all races chorus is definitely full of the spirit right now. We’re going to sing that, and we’re gathering many different kinds of ecoactivists.” Strength in numbers, Reverend Billy asserts, is the only way to counteract well-funded corporate interests. “The creative destruction of the earth by fossil fuel extraction,” he says, “must be stopped.”

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BY KAITLYN MEADE & SCOTT STIFFLER SARAZAD AND THE MONSTER-KING This reimagining of Scheherazade and “1001 Arabian Nights,” written by E. J. C. Calvert and directed by Justin Lauro, introduces 9-yearold Sarazad — who escapes bullying at school by retreating into Storyland. There, she meets the grouchy Monster-King and wins his friendship by telling him fantastic stories.

When Sarazad returns to school, her experiences with the Monster-King (and her newfound confidence) help her triumph over adversity. Through Sun., July 15, on Sat. and Sun. at 1 & 4pm. At Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich and West Sts.). For tickets ($18) or more info, call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

NEW YORK CITY FIRE MUSEUM Kids will learn about fire through group tours led by former NYC prevention and safety firefighters. The program — which lasts approximately 75 minutes — includes classroom training and a simulated event in a mock apartment, where a firefighter shows how fires can start in different rooms in the home. Finally, students are guided on a tour of the museum’s first floor. Tours (for groups of 20 or more) are offered Tues.-Fri. at 10:30am, 11:30am & 12:30pm. Tickets are $3 for children and $5 for adults — but for every 10 kids, admission is free for one adult. The museum offers a $700 Junior Firefighter Birthday Party package, for children 3-6 years old. The birthday child and 15 guests will be treated to story time, show and tell, a coloring activity, a scavenger hunt and the opportunity to speak to a real firefighter (the museum provides a fire-themed birthday cake, juice boxes and other favors and decorations). The NYC Fire Museum is located at 278 Spring St. (btw. Varick and Hudson). For info call 212-691-1303 or visit nycfiremuseum.org.

THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM The Skyscraper Museum’s “Saturday Family Program” series features workshops designed to introduce children and their families to

the principles of architecture and engineering — through hands-on activities. On July 14, “Trash Factory” will talk about how architects recycle old warehouses into new buildings. On July 28, kids ages 8-12 are invited to learn about the science behind the structures in “Skyscraper Physics,” complete with demonstrations from the educators at the museum. During “So Sew Tall,” on August 12, children will design factories to manufacture their own product, like those in the Garment District, in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit “Urban Fabric.” All workshops take place from 10:30-11:45am, at The Skyscraper Museum (39 Battery Place). Registration required. Call 212-945-6324 or e-mail education@skyscraper.org. Admission: $5 per child, free for members. Museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Museum admission: $5, $2.50 for students/seniors. For info, call 212-945-6324, visit skyscraper.org or email education@skyscraper.org.

Through Jan. 6, 2013 at the American Museum of Natural History (79th St. and 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 information, call 212-769-5100.

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 ages 4-10, “Weekly Poetry Readings” on Saturdays 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.

POTTED POTTER: THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE — A PARODY

BY DAN AND JEFF Former BBC hosts Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner create comedic magic as they attempt to “pot,” or condense, all seven Harry Potter books into a 70-minute, family-friendly show. An Olivier award nominee for Best Entertainment and Family Show, this chaotic musical tribute directed by Richard Hurst has charmed audiences of all ages on London’s West End and is now making its New York debut. Through Aug. 12, Tues., 7pm; Wed., 2 & 7pm; Thurs., 7pm; Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2, 5 & 8pm; and Sun., 2 & 5pm. At the Little Shubert Theatre (422 W. 42nd St., btw.

9th & 10th Aves.). For tickets ($40-$100) call 212-239-6200 or visit telecharge.com.

For more info: pottedpotter.com or facebook.com/pottedpotter.

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 new 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 alien-like fish illuminate the dark.

HOUSE OF GHOSTLY HAUNTS Cardone The Magician’s spook show will continue to electrify audiences as Canal Park Playhouse once again extends its run, now through July 31. The vaudeville-style act features razor swallowing and spirit conjuring — and ends in 10 minutes of complete darkness. Appropriate for ages 7 and up.

Tuesdays, 7pm, at Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich & West Sts.).

For tickets ($20), call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE MUSEUM During regular Museum hours (Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 12-5pm), visit the Junior Officers Discovery Zone, designed for ages 3-10. It is divided into four areas (Police Academy, Park and Precinct, Emergency Services Unit and a Multi-Purpose Area). Each has interactive play experiences for children to understand the role of police officers in our community. For older children, there’s a crime scene observation activity, a physical challenge similar to those at the Police Academy and a model Emergency Services Unit vehicle where children can climb in, use the steering wheel and lights, hear radio calls with police codes and see some of the actual equipment carried by the Emergency Services Unit. At 100 Old Slip (btw. Front and South Sts.). For info, call 212-480-3100 or visit nycpm.org. Admission: $8 ($5 for students, seniors and children; free for children under 2).

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Throughout the summer, Governors Island joins CMA to present the Free Art Island Outpost — where kids ages 1-12 can participate in a variety of activities (everything from craft stations to sound design). Every Sat. & Sun., through Sept.

16, from 11am-3pm (at buildings 11 & 14 — in Nolan Park, on Governors Island).

CMA is located at 103 Charlton St., (btw. Hudson and Greenwich Sts.). Museum hours are Mon. and Wed., 12-5pm; Thurs.-Fri., 12-6pm; Sat.-Sun., 10am-6pm. Admission: $10; free for seniors and infants (0-12 months). Pay as you wish on Thurs., 4-6pm. For group tours, call 212-274-0986, ext. 31. Call 212-274-0986 or visit cmany.org for more info.

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Explore painting, collage and sculpture through selfguided art projects at this museum dedicated to inspiring the artist within. Open art stations are ongoing throughout the afternoon, giving children the opportunity to experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper and found objects.

CMA’s new exhibit, “Art Forms: 75 Years of Arts Education,” displays children’s artwork from the collections of celebrated arts educators Leon Bibel, Henry Schaefer-Simmern and Sona Kludjian. The works, dating from the 1930s and 1960s, are juxtaposed with contemporary creations by NYC public school students. “Art Forms” runs through Sept. 30.

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The Distances Intimacy Creates

André Téchiné explores the violence lovers and families commit FILM UNFORGIVABLE

Directed by André Téchiné Based on the novel by Philippe Djian Adapted by Mehdi Ben Attia and André Techiné At IFC Center 323 Sixth Ave. at W. Third St. Opens June 29

BY GARY M. KRAMER Gay filmmaker André Téchiné opens “Unforgivable,” his intriguing new drama, by quickly establishing the central importance of each of the four main characters.

Francis (André Dussollier) is a celebrated crime writer looking for a rental property in Venice. He meets Judith (Carole Bouquet), a real estate agent, who suggests a place on the nearby island of Sant’Erasmo. Francis, in turn, suggests she move in with him.

Judith, who is bisexual, weighs his proposition in a conversation with her ex, Anna Maria (Adriana Asti), a private detective.

We then see Anna Maria meeting with her troubled son, Jérémie (Mauro Conte), who is soon to be released from prison.

Deep romantic and emotional attachments among these characters come to light over the course of this subtle and engaging — though somewhat likely for some inscrutable — film. Téchiné presents a series of episodes exploring issues of love, trust, and absence. The director deftly traces the ebbs and flows of love — both sexual and parental — mirrored by the waves that surround Venice. However, fair warning to audiences — considerable concentration is required to mine all the meaning in this story.

“Unforgivable” features two plotlines,

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Carole Bouquet as Judith in André Téchiné’s “Unforgivable.”

both involving investigations. One concerns the disappearance of Francis’ daughter, Alice (Mélanie Thierry). He hires Anna Marie to search for her, and she travels to France to do so. This narrative, however, is quickly jettisoned for another, when Francis hires Jérémie to follow Judith, whom he has married but suspects of cheating on him. A low-key but compelling chase through the streets and waterways of Venice ends with Judith confronting Jérémie — and the two beginning a sexual affair.

Téchiné creates a palpable mood of despair and longing as both Francis and Judith wrestle with their physical and emotional isolation from each other. In

several marvelous scenes, we see Francis spying on his wife using binoculars and Judith swimming alone. The dramatic tension is teased out by the question of whether the characters provoke each other by their actions. Does Francis’ surveillance of Judith prompt her to sleep with Jérémie? Are his provocative actions a ploy to cure his writer’s block? And what are the ramifications of Judith’s affair with her ex-lover’s son? The film reveals most of these answers in due time, and it remains spellbinding throughout.

Watching these complex characters and their daily routines is absorbing. Scenes of Judith working at her agency and Jérémie playing with his dog reveal details about them that magnify — though at times also refract — what we learn about them in their interactions with Francis and Anna Marie. “Unforgivable” unpeels like an onion, revealing multiple layers and measuring the distance between parents and children and between lovers over the course of more than a year. Francis’ separation from Alice and later Judith has its parallel in the distance between Anna Marie and Jérémie.

Téchiné is really delving into a deeper theme, however, one that emerges from the film’s most interesting sequence. One night, Jérémie is followed by — or perhaps lures — a gay man through the canals of Venice. When the stranger makes a pass at him, Jérémie throws him over the bridge into the water. A later scene shows the

stranger chasing Jérémie and exacting a violent revenge on the gay basher. Francis witnesses the mayhem and advises Jérémie, “Violence against other people, setting out to wound or maim them, is unforgivable.”

The film is really about the violence — whether physical or emotional — that people commit toward others. Alice’s disappearance upsets her father; Francis has Judith followed because he is emotionally vulnerable; Judith’s behavior irritates her lovers; Anna Maria is pained by the actions of both her ex-lover and her son; and Jérémie can be an abuser. Téchiné shows without telling, letting viewers grasp the meanings behind each character’s actions as well as their consequences. Francis, Judith, and Jérémie are all, in their own ways, seductive and sinister.

“Unforgivable” benefits from a quartet of strong performances. Bouquet is particularly alluring in the pivotal role of Judith.

A scene where she wears a blonde wig and fights with Francis is terrific; we see how her identity is mutable and she will not be controlled by others. As Francis, Dussollier manages to project both a wise voice of reason and an insecure lover and father. In support, Conte makes an indelible impression as the beguiling Jérémie. He engenders sympathy even when he is most despicable.

Téchiné may deliberately obfuscate in “Unforgivable,” but the connections he creates sneak up on viewers. In the process, the film provides satisfying insights into human behavior.

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Just Do Art!

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

THE GREENWICH VILLAGE-CHELSEA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: INAUGURAL CHELSEA BAZAAR

As if reasonable prices and fresh products weren’t enough, The Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce is about to give you plenty of other good reasons to shop local — when they bring together over a dozen area merchants for their Inaugural Chelsea Bazaar. The budding annual summer fair will feature vendor booths on the ground level, with live entertainment and beer- and winetasting at the lower level (the first 1,000 people to arrive can stop by the Welcome Table and receive a free alcoholic drink voucher). Among the other attractions: The Spot Experience will be providing free on-site doggy day-care and raffling off prizes ranging from $100 to over $1,000 in value; Lucky 777 Chili (Greenwich Village’s first chili parlor) will be on hand to heat things up; and at the Affinia Manhattan Hotel booth, you can enter to win a complimentary night’s stay. Only Hearts, Bite Me Cheesecakes, Crunch and CitySights NY are among the other participants.

Free. Sat., July 14 — from 11am to 8pm — at the Altman Building (135 W. 18th St., btw. Sixth & Seventh Aves.). For info, visit villagechelsea.com, call 646-470-1773 or send an email to info@villagechelsea.com.

Select performances will feature short acts by guest artist “occupiers.” On July 1, Zachary James (Lurch in “The Addams Family”) will sing patriotic songs. During the July 5-8 period (exact dates TBA), investigative economic and political journalist Greg Palast will conduct a talk-back with the audience that addresses parallels between the Panic of 1819 and today’s economic meltdown.

Closes Sun., July 8. Performances are Thurs.-Sun., 8pm.

At Medicine Show Theatre (549 W. 52nd St., near 11th Ave.; 3 Floor). For tickets ($18, $15 for students/seniors), call 212-868-4444 or visit smarttix.com. For more info, visit medicineshowtheatre.org.

MARK TWAIN’S NEW YORK WALKING TOUR

It’s been 115 years since the great Mark Twain fired back at a newspaper’s premature obituary by describing the report of his death as “an exaggeration.” Today, the oft-quoted (and censored) American humorist is best remembered for his tales of life on the Mississippi — and his status as an early adopter of contempt for Congress. “Suppose you were an idiot,” Twain speculated. “And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

With the job approval of Congress polling below 20 percent, modern Americans are in lock step with the man who was born Samuel Clemens. Hear more of the author's choice comments on the people who make our laws, when writer and Twain scholar Peter Salwen takes you on a walking tour of Lower Manhattan. “In his day,” notes Salwen, “Twain was New York's best-known celebrity. At the same time, the city itself (and the people he met here) played a big part in Twain's own development as a writer and as a person. If Sam Clemens hadn’t come to our town when he did, it's fair to say there would be no Mark Twain — at least, not the Mark Twain we know and cherish.”

The “Mark Twain’s New York” tour begins at the site where Twain published his first book — and met his future wife. It ends at the mansion where he lived at the start of the 20th century. In between, there will be stops at over a dozen other places Twain visited, conducted business and/or caused enough trouble to make him (in his own only slightly inflated words), “the most conspicuous person on the planet.”

Tours, 90 minutes in length, take place at 1pm on the first Sun. of the month, through Oct. (July 1, Aug. 5, Sept. 2, Oct. 7). Meet at 500 Broadway (btw. Broome & Spring Sts.). To purchase tickets ($20), call 917-620-5371 or email mtny@ salwen.com. For more info, visit marktwainsnewyork.com.

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Sam I am: Spend 90 minutes in Lower Manhattan getting to know the New York of Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens).

Jam Stand proprietors Jess and Sabbs want you to know there's much more to life than grape jelly.

WALL STREET, A FARCE IN THREE ACTS

Long before occupiers were protesting Wall Street, artists were satirizing it. Now, the Medicine Show Theater company takes you back to the future — with its everything-old-is-newagain production of “Wall Street, A Farce in Three Acts.” Written and performed during a recession (the one that caused the Panic of 1819), the script was recently discovered at the New York Public Library. Lost to the ages, it seems, is any knowledge of the play having been performed since it premiered. Medicine Show’s adaptation of the breezy 90-minute script will include additional material (such as folk songs, show tunes and “hard times” songs from the 18th century up to the present).

Photo by John Quilty

Weathering the recession, 1891 style.

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Notice of Formation of 157 Hudson Acquisition LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. 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 Snitow Kanfer Holtzer and Millus, LLP, 575 Lexington Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 104th Street Construction LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/7/12. 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 Jonathan Rose Companies, 551 Fifth Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10176. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of BK BELTS 637 BROADWAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/10/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Mr. Jerry Kaplan, 8 Schindler Ct., Chatham, NJ 07928. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of CANDLEWOOD STRUCTURED CREDIT HARVEST GP, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/18/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/02/12.

Princ. office of LLC: 777 Third Ave., Ste. 19B, NY, NY 10017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Candlewood Investment Group, LP at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1110 Hudson St., Apt. #2A, Hoboken, NJ 07030. General Purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of 465 BROADWAY INVESTORS II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/10/12. Princ. office of LLC: Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A., 25 Main St., Hackensack, NJ 07601. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. 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.

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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.

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Notice of Qualification of 465 BROADWAY PROPERTY INVESTORS II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/10/12. Princ. office of LLC: Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A., 25 Main St., Hackensack, NJ 07601. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. 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: 05/31 - 07/05/2012 HTGG Realty Co., LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/7/2012 Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Ganfer & Shore, LLP, 360 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LOST BEARER SHARE CERTIFICATE

FILE NO. 3204-11.

Notice is hereby given that Bearer share certificate no’s 1 representing (a total of) 6,000 common shares of the par value of USD

CITATION

1,00 each and in the capital of Andre Development Corp NV, a limited liability company, existing under the laws of Curacao, having

SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY

its statutory seat in Curacao, and principal place of business at Schottegatweg Oost 44, Willemstad, Curacao, and registered with

Notice of Qualification of 565 9TH STREET LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/16/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/08/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Edward A. Vergara, Esq., Withers Bergman LLP, 430 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of the State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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General Purposes.

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

the Curacao Chamber of Commerce & Industry with file number 11616 (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) were reported

BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT,

lost on about February 12, 2012.

Anyone with any knowledge of the present whereabouts of the share certificate is requested to contact the Company’s Managing Director at the address mentioned below as soon as possible but no later than July 31, 2012.

TO: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Attorney General

If no information is received by July 31, 2012, the Company’s Managing Board proposes to cancel the above mentioned certifi-

of the State of New York,

cate. After the cancellation of the above mentioned share certificate no 1, no rights can anymore be derived from the original

Stephen Warshaw, if living, and if dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence

share certificates towards Andre Development Corp. NV. Curacao Corporation Company N.V. Schottegatweg Oost 44 Telephone:

are unknown, and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assign-

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

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO L AW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on

31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, 10007, seeking letters of administration c.t.a. in the estate of Laurence Warshaw.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from PC Festivus Lessee, LLC to continue to,

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County at Room 503, 31 Chambers Street,

maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 870 Seventh Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

New York, on August 8, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., why a decree should not be made in the estate of Laurence Warshaw lately domiciled

REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

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at 127 Grand Street, New York, New York, admitting to probate as a will of real and personal property the paper writing dated April 25, 2000 (copy attached) and ordering that letters of administration c.t.a. issue to the Public Administrator of New York County.

Dated, Attested and Sealed June 7th, 2012. (L.S.) HON. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate, New York County.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO L AW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, July 5th, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Covadonga, Inc to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 763 Ninth Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. REQUESTS FOR

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.

COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER

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Publ ic Notice s NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Iskounen & Co., LLC

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of SSCI Real estate LLC

Notice of Qualification of FB STRATEGIC PARTNERS LLC

Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/3/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC: 167 Perry St #3M, NY, NY, 10014.

Principal business address: 237 Park Ave, 9th Fl, NY, NY, 10017. Purpose: any lawful act. 1893994 Vil: 06/07 - 07/12/2012

App for Authority filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/13/12. Office location: NY County, LLC formed in DE on 11/28/11. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom process may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC: Harvard Business Services Inc 16192 Coastal Hwy Lewes DE 19958. Principal business address: 200 E 33rd St #31J, NY NY 10016. Cert of LLC filed Secy of Srate of DE located: Harvard Business Services 16192 Coastal Hwy Lewes DE 19958. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/12/09.

Princ. office of LLC: 299 Park Ave., NY, NY 10171. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Douglas A. Raelson, General Counsel, Fisher Brothers at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Entertainment Benefits Group, LLC App for Authority filed with Secy of State (SS) of NY on 9/29/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in FL on 1/4/10. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom process may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC: 19495 Biscayne Blvd, Ste 600, Aventura, FL 33180, which is also the FL address of LLC. Cert of LLC filed with SSFL located: PO Box 6327 Tallahassee, FL 32314. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of URBAN EXPLORERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/17/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Moses & Singer LLP, 405 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10174, Attn: Daniel S. Rubin. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Gallery 544 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: c/o Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 W. 24th St., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of LT 424 LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/10/12.

Princ. office of LLC: c/o Lord & Taylor, 424 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10018. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John M. Manos at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with c/o Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Wilmington, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Engagemint LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/9/12. 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 Chester Yee, 115 E. 9th St., Apt. 8F, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualifica-

Notice of Qualifica-

tion of Balance

tion of BASE Spy

Water Company, LLC

Craft, LLC

Authority filed with NY Dept.

Authority filed with NY Dept.

of State on 5/11/12. Office

of State on 4/11/12. Office

location: NY County. LLC

location: NY County. Princ.

formed in DE on 3/7/07. NY

bus. addr.: 1800 Post Oak

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 39 W. 32nd St., Ste. 1504, NY, NY 10001, Attn: Martin Chalk, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-

Blvd., Ste. 450, Houston, TX 77056. LLC formed in DE on 7/25/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-

ton, DE19801. Cert. of Form.

ton, DE19801. Cert. of Form.

filed with DE Sec. of State,

filed with DE Sec. of State,

401 Federal St., Dover, DE

401 Federal St., Dover, DE

19901. Purpose: all lawful

19901. Purpose: all lawful

purposes.

purposes.

Vil: 06/07 - 07/12/2012

Vil: 06/07 - 07/12/2012

Notice of Qualification of Centerbridge Special Credit Partners II, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/28/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 11/22/11.

NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 375 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10152. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. 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, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/07 - 07/12/2012

Public Notice Board of Standards & Appeals Public Hearing July 17, 2012. 1:30PM, 40 Rector Street, 6th Floor, Hearing Room E Manhattan, for Premises: 25 Great Jones Street /22 Bond Street, Manhattan Calendar No. 43-12-BZ Applicant: Raymond H. Levin.

Description: Variance (72-21) to permit the construction of a residential development of approximately 30,792 sq. ft. on a 25’8” x 200’2” through lot which does not comply with the use or bulk regulations for the M1-5B zoning district.

Vil: 06/28- 07/12/2012

Vil: 06/07 - 06/28/2012

2 8 June 28 - July 5, 2012 Notice of Formation of The Katherine Hanner Consulting LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/24/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 545 W. 111th St., Apt. 8B, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of CREATIVITY IS EVERYWHERE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/10.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 244 5th Ave., #2228, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of New Suffolk Land Co. II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/05.

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 CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of Teamwork Management Three, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12.

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, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 Notice of Formation of Teamwork Management One, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12.

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, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 Notice of Qualification of Teleport Communications America, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/7/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One AT&T Way, Bedminster, NJ 07921. LLC formed in DE on 5/25/12. 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Public Notice s

Notice of Qualification of Warburg Pincus XI (E&P) PartnersA, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/8/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 5/3/12. 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: all lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 Notice is hereby given that a Hotel Liquor license, #TBA has been applied for by Soho New York Lodging LLC d/b/a Hotel East Houston to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 151 East Houston Street New York NY 10002 Vil: 06/28- 07/05/2012

Notice is hereby given that summer license numbers (1) 1264119 and (2) 1264123 have been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine at retail at 2 Kiosks at Battery Park, NY under the alcoholic beverage control law at (1) The Bosque Area Fountain Kiosk and at (2) The Bosque Area Carousel Kiosk for on premises consumption. THE CLEAVER COMPANY, INC. d/b/a (1) Table Green & (2) Table Green Cafe.

Vil: 06/28- 07/05/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LtB associates, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/08/12. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent uponwhom process against the LLC may be served.

The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against theLLC is to: The LtB associates, LLC, 101 Maple St. #3, Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION of PINO GOMES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/22/12 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: PINO GOMES LLC, 212 East 88 Street, Apt. 1C, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 SPEYER MERIDIAN, LLC, a domestic LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/10/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Bruce S. Monteith, 235 E. 40th St., Apt 41E, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

YTR 54 EAST LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 415 E. 54 St., Unit 9F, NY, NY 10022, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Metropolitic LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12.

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: Keith Avila, 60 W 23rd St, Apt. 945, NY, NY, 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Qualification of CYRUS SPECIAL STRATEGIES FUND, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12.

Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. Princ. office of LP: 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to The Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Stephen C. Freidheim, 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: NANCY M. ROSEN D.M.D. PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/11/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, ℅ Nancy Rosen, 20 East 74th Street, 6A, New York, New York 10021. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Dentistry.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 DK 562 LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 05/31/2012 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, 223 West 115th Street, Suite 1, New York, NY 10026. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Formation of Midtown SC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

Notice of Formation of Bait & Tackle Realty, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/10.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles Milite, c/o Coffee Shop Restaurant, 29 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Formation of TI Ozone Park Storage LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1350 Broadway, Ste. 1010, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Qualification of Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/29/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: One Bryant Park, 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Qualification of Trian IR Holdco, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/21/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 Notice of Qualification of Brooklyn Pier 1 Residential Owner, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/6/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT06830. LP formed in DE on 4/23/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 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, DE19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

Awakening desire through diet Conversations With Health

Lindberg says, “[that] women tell me, ‘Oh, now I understand what men feel like.

I just have this desire constantly to have sex.’ It’s just sort of an animal thing.”

She says it’s common for women to feel

By Christopher Hassett slightly disoriented as their libidos come alive, because suddenly, quite often in a My sex drive of late has pretty much single day, so much begins to happen in vanished. I love my girlfriend and love their bodies that hadn’t notably happened being intimate with her. I’m just not feel- in the years or even decades prior. But ing any desire for sex. Is there anything take pleasure in the confusion, explore I can be doing with my diet that might its every shadow and nook, because change that? women on her diet say they’re reaching orgasm more quickly, with greater inten — Carolin, West Village sity and frequency, than they ever had before. They’re also saying, and Lindberg Diet truly is the miracle remedy for includes herself in this category, that nearly all that ails us. So it should come when combined with a daily regiment of as no surprise to hear that even the small- Kegel excercises they’re becoming sponest dietary tweaks can bring on noticeable taneously orgasmic as well. But Lindberg changes in libido. Simply eating well, notes that for increased libido alone, eating fresher, eating less, can enliven us perhaps minus on-the-spot orgasms, the sexually, if only in that we’re feeling better Kegels aren’t necessary. about ourselves: sexier, shaplier, sharper.

In order to bring all of this into being, But diet has significant physiological the daily dosage for fish oil needs to be affects as well, and it is in this area that quite high: 1,700 mg E.P.A. and 1,300 mg some compelling research has emerged D.H.A., while calcium, magnesium and in recent years. One study I found par- zinc, which you can get in a single capsule, ticularly interesting came out of research are normal daily allowances. It should be done by Marrena Lindberg, author of “The noted that some medical professionals Orgasmic Diet.” Though she’s not a doc- warn against “megadosing” on fish oil tor, Lindberg’s findings are gaining support because of its effectiveness in thinning the and some notable credibility in the medical blood, so if you have concerns in this area community, to the point where some of the it would be wise to consult with a doctor more forward-thinking nutritional schools or nutritionist before venturing in. are taking her work seriously.

With that said, research does show My opinion of her diet is that it’s valid that a diet high in omega 3 fatty acids if one wants to specifically address libido, raises dopamine levels in the brain, reguwhich is your concern here. However, lates serotonin, increases blood circulawhen considering good overall health I tion, and helps elevate mood, all of which think the diet falls short, since it recom- contribute not only to improved libido mends that at least 30 percent of calories but to overall mental health. The addiin every meal come from protein and 30 tion of magnesium and zinc is a complepercent from fat, with these calories pri- mentary one, since the two together help marily being derived from meat or dairy remove barriers in the blood that would sources. These pecentages, for my liking, otherwise limit the beneficial effects of are far too high, and the source of all that fish oil. Other barriers to these benefits fat and protein is, in my opinion, not only are, unfortunately, the usual suspects — misguided from an ethical standpoint caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Which but entirely risky when considering long- means most of us will find it impossible term health. to get through even the first day without Lindberg outright cautions against proving unfaithful to the cause. low-fat vegetarian or vegan ways of eatRemember, this is just one approach to ing because both, in her opinion, are tweaking your diet for the sole purpose of “libido killers.” Now, while it would be improving libido, and it’s effects (or lack of) my pleasure to argue against this claim, I can only be subjective. What works for many want instead to stay focused on the true may not work for you. If it doesn’t, then you intention of this column, which is to spot- should know that there are other changes light at least one non-pharmaceutical way you can make in your diet, both specific to awaken desire. If you are vegetarian or and general, that might similarly awaken vegan, I still think the main thrust of her long-dormant desires, and they would have diet might help in that goal. nothing to do with the use of fish oil. It could That main thrust, then, is a supple- be your most pleasurable pursuit: research, mental one. In other words, the critical experiment and have fun. players are supplements — omega 3 fish oil, magnesium, zinc and calcium. These Christopher Hassett is a columnist and supplements basically do all the work, natural healer living in New York City. with the actual food merely weighing in as Learn more about natural approaches support. With appropriate doses of each, to health at ThreePerfections.com. Do especially the omega 3, improved libido you have a question or comment for can occur in as little as one week for men Christopher? You can e-mail him at conand three to six weeks for women. versations@threeperfections.com It’s generally around this sixth week,

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letters to the editor Continued from page 18

Sexton as ‘academic Napoleon’ To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. is risking its intellectual and fiscal health” (talking point, by An N.Y.U. Faculty Member, June 21): I applaud the N.Y.U. faculty for speaking out (whether anonymously or not) against the ridiculous and fiscally irresponsible 2031 plan. N.Y.U. could have chosen to be an asset and proud partner of preservation in Greenwich Village, but instead it has opted for being a scourge, a destroyer and a detriment to this community and to New York City.

Under John Sexton’s leadership, N.Y.U. has torn down historically important sites and imposed architecturally unsuitable buildings on the neighborhood. And now, it proposes not only to build more ugly and out-of-scale structures, but to endanger the health of Village residents (many of whom are the university’s own employees) for a 20-year construction period.

Sexton is no less than an academic Napoleon whose megalomania has been allowed to run rampant for the past 10 years. He must be stopped before he destroys the neighborhood and his own university. I urge all concerned New Yorkers, whether they be residents of Greenwich Village or not, to join us on the morning of Friday June 29 for a rally and City Council public hearing.

This is our Battle of Waterloo — be there!

Marilyn Stults

Stadium is still kicking around To The Editor: Re “Park act bill stalls even without O.K. for Pier 40 housing” (news article, June 21): This summer the community as a whole needs to see a public presentation of an alternative for Pier 40 by Major League Soccer.

It’s time that MLS come directly to the community with the plan for a soccer arena that we have been hearing so much positive buzz about economically, particularly regarding pier repair.

If the stadium plan is viable, and more low-rise than housing, and usable by the community for the majority of the year, as we’ve been hearing, this would allow the community to affirm our support for Assemblymember Glick's respect for our opposition to housing on the pier. This would also allow us to respectfully pressure her with a consensus compromise solution for Pier 40.

Give us something to work with, MLS, so we can look at it, and if worthy, build a coalition to support it.

to serving the special needs of boys and young men proved to be distinct from the scope of B.G.C.A.’s mission, and in 2005 we amicably parted ways, although we remain mutually supportive and respectful of each other’s programming.

We don’t feel that our presence here on the Lower East Side puts girls at any disadvantage. Our current leadership is eager to begin discussions with the Girls Club regarding sharing resources and facilities, and developing some co-ed programming for teens.

B.C.N.Y. has the utmost respect for the work of the Girls Club, and we are certain that our organizations can work together to benefit the boys and girls in our community.

Helen Frank Frank is communications manager, Boys’ Club of New York

Angry Buddhist hits the streets To The Editor: On Fri., June 15, at 2:30 p.m., just as the crush hour began, N.Y.P.D. traffic agents completely blocked off Canal St. with barrels and cones to all vehicles exiting the Manhattan Bridge. All traffic was funneled up Chrystie St. and then onto Broome St. Broome was already choked from handling the entire volume of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Walking through Chinatown and Little Italy, every cross street stretching from the Bowery west was paralyzed. Delancey St. was completed gridlocked back over the Williamsburg Bridge.

Road-raged drivers, stewing in their air-conditioned nightmare, completely ignored traffic signals, and pedestrians were fair game. This forced traffic pattern has been implemented on a regular basis for an indeterminate amount of time.

When I asked the traffic agents why the shutdown of Canal St., they laughed at me and said, “Who are you to ask?” They also

refused to identify themselves or their commanding officer. They did threaten to have me arrested. It’s a good thing I didn’t make any furtive movements.

These traffic agents who were “just following orders” exemplify the arrogance of government under the Bloomberg regime. This tone begins at the top. Civil servants must be just that — civil.

The closure of Canal St. is complete madness. Whoever is responsible at the Department of Transportation or N.Y.P.D. Traffic should be relieved of command. If this were done in the private sector, those responsible would be fired. D.O.T. and N.Y.P.D. Traffic’s policies in and around Soho during the Bloomberg years have been disastrous. The implementation of concrete islands for tour buses along Broadway, narrowing it to one lane has exacerbated traffic conditions terribly.

Commissioner Sadik-Khan missed the grand opportunity of installing protected bike lanes the length of Houston St. during its extensive reconstruction. And the wild, two-lane turn for cars from Lafayette onto Broome will ultimately lead to a pedestrian death.

How about a traffic agent at gridlocked Broadway and Broome? Why do all of our elected officials ignore Soho’s plight? Why do powerful Assembly Speaker Silver and Council Speaker Quinn look the other way? This was once a grand neighborhood. It has become an urban nightmare. I think of moving every day.

Carl Rosenstein, a.k.a. the Angry Buddhist E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to lincoln@thevillager.com or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 515 Canal St., Suite 1C, NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confirmation purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not publish anonymous letters.

Patrick Shields

Boys and girls together To The Editor: Re “Helping girls gives rewards corporate world never did” (Volunteers section article, June 14): I was very intrigued by your recent article about Mariana Salem and her volunteer work with the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

The Girls Club is a vital member of the Lower East Side community, and we at The Boys’ Club of New York salute their accomplishments.

However, I wanted to take a minute to correct an important inaccuracy in the article: It is not true that B.C.N.Y. chose not to merge with Boys & Girls Club of America in 1986. As a matter of fact, B.C.N.Y., which was founded on the Lower East Side in 1876, was a charter member of B.G.C.A. for almost 20 years. B.C.N.Y.’s decision to maintain our historic commitment

Uncovered: Books, haircuts and history

Photo from Tequila Minsky

The alteration of a narrow two-story building at 17 E. 13th St. between Fifth Ave. and University Place last week revealed two signs from long ago. Carol Greitzer, a former city councilmember and an ever-alert Village preservation advocate, told the newspaper about a sign saying Childrens Hair Cut on the first floor and the Erskine Press sign on the second floor of the former restaurant. The building dates from 1911 when the Erskine Press moved there from 22 E. 17th St. The founder, Archibald Erskine, was a carpenter born in Scotland in 1830. He went into the printing business sometime before 1897. George C. Erskine conducted the business after him. Erskine Press was last listed in the Manhattan telephone book in the 193334 edition. An Erskine Press is currently located in England, specializing in the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.” The history of the barbershop was not immediately known.

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Getting around Manhattan, but not by taxi or train SPORTS

By Terese Loeb Kreuzer One way to pass a beautiful summer day in Manhattan is to swim around the island. That’s what 73 people from 10 countries elected to do around 10:20 a.m. on Sun., June 23, when they jumped into the Hudson River in Battery Park City’s South Cove and headed downriver on a 28.5-mile swim. There were 38 solo swimmers ranging in age from 17 to 59.

The rest were members of relay teams.

The first around-Manhattan swim took place in 1915, according to Morty Berger, the founder of NYC Swim, which sponsors the race and 10 other New York City swimming races annually. Over the years, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim was held sporadically Berger said, until the early 1990s when it again emerged as a fixture on New York City’s summer calendar. It has been there ever since.

For open-water swimmers, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim is considered one of the big three that make up the “Triple Crown,” indicating the highest level of achievement. The other two races are the 21-mile trip across the English Channel and the 20-mile race from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Los Angeles coastline, where complications can include whales, dolphins, jellyfish and sharks.

Large and poisonous marine life in Manhattan waters is minimal, but swimmers do have to contend with cruise ships, ferries and commercial boats that create chop in their wake. They also have to contend with

tides and currents on the Hudson.

Around a dozen of this year’s marathon swimmers were Triple Crowners, said Berger, including those who had already earned the title and those who were swimming in the Manhattan Marathon in order to claim it. He said that every year enrollment for the race fills up within an hour after it opens. It costs just under $2,000 to participate — plus transportation and room and board for several days.

Seven hours, 30 minutes and 26 seconds after leaving South Cove, the first swimmer returned. Abby Nunn, 22, from Richmond, Va., came in more than 17 minutes before the second-place finisher, Javier Gutierrez, 38, of Marina del Rey, Calif. Not having seen Nunn, Gutierrez asked, “Am I first?” when he touched the finish line.

“You’re the first man,” he was told.

Nunn just graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where she had the highest grade-point average of any senior varsity athlete. She majored in the history of science and medicine and plans to enter the University of Virginia Medical School in the fall.

She started swimming when she was 5 and started competitive swimming at 16.

Prior to the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the longest open-water race in which she had ever participated was 12.5 miles.

“I can’t believe that I made it!” she said of the Manhattan swim. “I just wanted to finish. I wasn’t thinking about a gold place or anything. I just wanted to get around.”

She said that she found the Hudson “pretty choppy.” She had been told it would

Photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer

Yale graduate Abby Nunn, 22, of Richmond, Va., placed first in the 2012 Manhattan Marathon Swim on Sunday.

be an easy ride down the Hudson but, she said, “That’s not what I experienced. In the last half hour, I kept saying to myself, ‘Keep swimming! Keep swimming!’ When I was fighting really big waves at the end, I started to feel fatigued, but for the first six hours, I felt great.”

The last person to come in was Steve

Steve Faulkner, 50, of Barrie, Ontario, was the last to finish the Manhattan Marathon Swim as dusk was falling. With tears in her eyes, his mother, Annette, waved him in to the finish line with her Canadian flag.

Faulkner, 50, of Barrie, Ontario. It took him 10 hours and 12 minutes to do the circumnavigation. The last previous swimmer to complete the course had arrived more than half an hour before.

By the time Faulkner approached North Cove in Battery Park City, around a quarter mile from the finish line, the sun was setting. The tide that had given the other swimmers an extra push down the river had turned and he was swimming against it.

A Police Department scuba team and a Coast Guard vessel accompanied him and people on shore yelled encouragement.

His mother, Annette, said he had given her a Canadian flag and asked her to wait for him at the last turn and wave it.

“When I see you,” he said, “I'll know I'm almost there.”

She said she waited for him for hours.

“I was afraid he wouldn't be able to finish,” she said. “This meant so much to him. He worked so hard for this.” She had tears in her eyes.

When Faulkner arrived at the finish line, he was hardly able to walk, but he was smiling.

After the race, as Bob Needham, 59, of Lake Oswego, Ore., toweled off, someone remarked to him, “There are probably very few people in the world who could do what you did today.” He agreed.

“The community of open-water swimmers is a small one,” he said.

The next NYC Swim event will be the Statue of Liberty race on June 29, which will take 401 swimmers on a three-quarter-mile course around Liberty Island. It will be followed by the Brooklyn Bridge swim on the morning of July 15.

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