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The Congregation Versus the Community

Village Halloween Parade Faces Obstacles in Comeback The Town & Village Synagogue

Churches and synagogues throughout Manhattan are finding their financial plans thwarted by preservation efforts By Megan Bungeroth

t’s hard to argue against preserving the city’s historic, soaring monuments to God. Churches and synagogues throughout Manhattan have been targeted by preservation enthusiasts since the city first created the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965. They have good reason: without landmark status protection, surely many of these places, which give religious congregations a home and neighborhoods an inimitable character and sense of history, would have been torn down

long ago. The side not often heard above the rallying cries of well-meaning preservationists, however, is that of the actual church or synagogue members. The landmark process, meant to protect and preserve historical assets that theoretically belong to everyone, can sometimes end up displacing the very people who hold the actual deeds to these properties and destroying the community that resides within the building in order to preserve its facade. On the Lower East Side, a well-known synagogue is hoping to avoid a landmark designation that some in the community are eager to obtain. The Town & Village Synagogue on East 14th Street has occupied a building for decades that has been technically calendared (meaning that a vote was already taken to schedule a hearing) by the Landmarks Preservation Commission since 1966, though a hearing was never Continued on page 8

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After its ﬁrst cancellation in a three-decade history last year, the parade is struggling to ﬁnd enough money to raise itself from the dead By Omar Crespo

he Village Halloween Parade has had quite the rough year. Last year, hurricane Sandy left the costumes, floats, and music inoperable. This year, organizers have been forced to turn to Internet crowd funding in hopes of keeping the event going. Sandy left the parade in dire need of donations and funding, which left its organizers in a state of limbo. Jeanne Fleming, the parade’s head coordinator for the past 33 years, is optimistic the event will come together for this year’s Halloween. “We hope so,” she said. Because of the unintended shutdown of the parade last year, the event coordinators have had to try and recoup the losses suffered. The parade committee turned to the popular crowd-sourcing website

Kickstarter, which helps artists fund their creative pursuits through public monetary pledges. The Kickstarter campaign, which began on September 16, has been slowly making its way to the $50,000 green-light goal. If the full amount isn’t pledged by a October 21 deadline, the parade won’t get any of the funds. Fleming said that compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who have attended and enthusiastically supported the parade over the decades, “the Kickstarter response has been lukewarm.” As of press time, the campaign had raised $41,975 from 732 backers, and five days left. The $50,000 collected this year will go to investment insurance for the businesses and individuals who donated last year but did not get a parade. Before this new digital venture, support for the parade came in the form of sponsorship from companies, businesses and TV licenses, as well as from grassroots-level funding such as children selling cookies or restaurants donating food. Recently, the Greenwich VillageChelsea Chamber of Commerce, which represents small businesses in the downtown area, announced that the Rudin Family Foundations and the Association for a Better New York will give a $15,000 matching fund if the parade Continued on page 8

NEIGHBORHOOD CHATTER Somehow, Meade’s was able to persevere Downtown Biz Hosts through the storm and lived to tell the tale. “Nice Try Sandy” Party Today things are back to business as usual, Meade’s, a locally-owned bar and restaurant at 22 Peck Slip at the South Street Seaport, is throwing a bash to celebrate its survival one year after Hurricane Sandy nearly destroyed it forever. Owner Lee Holin recalls surviving a 5-foot storm surge of ocean water and a harrowing three weeks of no electricity, broken equipment, not to mention punctured spirits as well as other mishaps brought on by the storm. “I thought that we were going to be out of business forever,” said Holin. “It took us 2 weeks to re-open and 8 months to get it back together.” Holin, 37, praises his fearless crew for much of his success. “Every single one of our employees showed up every day to work, not sure if at the end of it all, they would still have a job or not.” Unlike 80 percent of the businesses in the area, Meade’s was able to overcome the disastrous storm. They operated by candlelight without heat or hot water, with no register (they could only accept cash), with an iPod in a martini shaker – to enhance the acoustics as their only source of music. Without any of the normalcies of a bar/restaurant, not even any electricity to perform their typical day to day operations, the severely handicapped restaurant barreled onward through trying times.

with just a few small wounds - reminders of the storm that almost took them down for good.

On Tuesday, October 29th, from 5 p.m. – midnight, the bar revisits the ordeal. One part re-enactment, one part party, Meade’s will recreate the atmosphere of Superstorm Sandy with an evening gathering featuring free food, $3 beers and more.

Council Approves New Business District in Soho The City Council approved a measure to establish the SoHo Business Improvement District (BID), a public-private partnership designed to provide better services for businesses down an overcrowded stretch of Broadway. The project, which follows Broadway from Houston Street to Canal Street, has been years in the making. After an initial proposal was met with resistance from Community Board 2 and local residents, concerned that business interests were overrepresented, an amended plan began making its way through the Council in 2011. After the Finance Committee approved the plan on October 9, the full council followed suit a few hours later. The BID will collect assessments from all commercial property holders along the so-called “Broadway Corridor” to pay for sanitation services, street maintenance, and snow removal. Pedestrian congestion will also be a top priority for the group, which has promised to manage the effects of street vendors along the area’s crowded sidewalks. Pending approval from Mayor Bloomberg—whose office submitted a memorandum supporting the plan to the council—the SoHo BID will become the 65th such district in the city.

Meade’s owner Lee Holin stands beside a reminder of Superstorm Sandy

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CRIME WATCH Watch Heist A man shoplifted an expensive watch. At 11:45 AM on Friday, October 4, a man entered a jewelry store on Broadway and asked about some watches in the front display. The store clerk assisted the man, who tried on three watches. After putting the third watch on the man’s wrist, the clerk went to close the display case, at which time the man ﬂed the store without paying for the tony timepiece. The store clerk and a 46-yearold male witness chased the robber south on Broadway and west on Vesey Street, but lost him in the crowd. Video of the theft may be available. The watch stolen was a Breitling valued at $10,000.

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Makeup Takeup A man stole a bag at a photo shoot. At 4:55 PM on Sunday, October 6, a 33-year-old woman placed her bag down on the sidewalk and began a photo shoot on the northeast corner of Spring Street and Wooster Street. While she was taking photos of her subject, a 23-year-old woman, a man walked over, took the photographer’s bag, and walked away northbound on Wooster Street. Items stolen were two iPhone 5’s valued at $850, $448 in cash, makeup powders valued at $400, a Dior makeup palette costing $270, a bag of lipsticks priced at $250, a small blue Coach bag valued at $180, a red leather DKNY purse costing $100, an iPhone 5 charger worth $25, various credit and debit cards, plus the photographer’s Romanian passport and USA work permit. The total stolen amounted to $2,523.

No Help A man stole a woman’s purse in the subway. At 1:15 AM on Saturday, October 5, a 60-year-old woman entered the subway at the William Street and Fulton Street Station. As she was walking onto the mezzanine, she heard her train arriving and started to run to catch it. Then she fell. She was approached from

behind by a 20-year-old man, who asked if she would like help getting up. She refused. He then took her purse from the floor and fled onto the A/C train platform. The woman chased him onto that platform, when a witness saw the man running to the Fulton Street J Train exit, where it is believed he fled to the street. The woman was treated for a twisted ankle. The items stolen were a white gold necklace with diamonds valued at $900, $500 in cash, a snake yellow gold necklace with diamonds costing $500, white gold heart earrings valued at $400, a tan Coach bag costing $300, a Tiffany necklace/bracelet worth $300, a Metro PCS phone priced at $199, small silver earrings costing $120, a Brown coach wallet valued at $100, various debit and credit cards, plus the woman’s New York State driver’s permit and health benefits card. The total stolen came to $3,319.

Livery Sleight of Hand A livery driver switched credit cards on a tourist, enabling unauthorized charges. At 10:15 PM on Friday, October 4, a 34-year-old female tourist from Mexico City, Mexico got into a black Town Car at Seventh Avenue and Bleecker Street and asked to go to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. When they arrived,

the driver asked for her credit card. The driver swiped the passenger’s Citibank card on an iPhone credit card attachment and asked her to enter her personal identification number. She did so, and the driver handed back a different Citibank card, a switch she did not notice at the time. She later learned that $1,000 had been withdrawn at various ATMs, and two charges totaling $40 had been made as well. The location and times of those charges were unknown at the time of her police report.

Lost, Then Found A man was arrested after stealing another man’s duffel bag. At 9 PM on Friday, October 4, a 39-year-old man left a duffel bag unattended at an establishment on Pine Street while he went to use the restroom. When he returned, he found that the duffel bag and its contents were gone. Fortunately, his stolen laptop had tracking software installed. A 23-year-old man was apprehended, arrested, and charged with grand larceny on October 5. The items he was charged with stealing were a Lenovo laptop valued at $1,000, a Verizon MiFi costing $200, an external hard drive worth $200, Nike Air Max sneakers costing $125, and Disney shorts valued at $35. The total take came to $1,560.

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Repeated clashes lead community board to suspend neighborhood group By Daniel Fitzsimmons

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Saturday, close to midnight on the Lower East Side, in an area known to some who live here as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hell Square.â&#x20AC;? Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington is a mecca of nightlife, with roving bands of 20-somethings pinballing between bars on either side of the street. For some the night has just begun. For others itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winding down, or should be, as evidenced by a puddle of vomit in the gutter. One woman dressed in a frog suit tries to climb the barbed-wire fence into the Banksy painting on Ludlow before a friend convinces her to come down. A man in a white polo shirt stumble-walks against traffic, trying to hail a cab. The street is packed with a constant convoy of taxis and the sidewalks are clogged with smokers or those waiting in line to get into one of the more popular bars. One Ludlow Street resident unlocking the door to her apartment says the noise doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trouble her, but adds that she lives in a rear-facing unit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know the noise bothers the people that live right above the street,â&#x20AC;? she says. The name Hell Square comes from Curbed founder Lockhart Steele, and according to the definition on the real estate website, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to be taken literally â&#x20AC;&#x153;especially during evening hours.â&#x20AC;? It encompasses the roughly nine square blocks bordered by East Houston and Delancey Street between Allen and Essex Street. For Diem Boyd, who lives on Rivington between Essex and Ludlow - what she calls the entrance to hell - the party-centric scene has become such a detriment to her quality of life that she founded the LES Dwellers in 2012, a group dedicated to fighting what they see as the proliferation of clubs, bars and rowdy nightlife in the area that they call home. Since then, the Dwellers have worked with Community Board 3 in tandem, if not always in harmony, on State Liquor Authority licensing applications. A September meeting of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SLA Licensing Committee resulted in an angry confrontation between committee member David McWater - who owns bars in Manhattan outside of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territory - and members of the Dwellers. McWater cited friction with the group as a factor to his resignation later that month. In comments to Our Town Downtown, board manager Susan Stetzer said the Dwellersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suspension is an effort to get the group to operate in a transparent and collaborative manner as per the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidelines for block associations. CB3 declined an opportunity to discuss the issue further.

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For Boyd, 43, who has lived in the area for 25 years, her group has every right to petition the SLA to advance its agenda. She called the reasons for her Dwellersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suspension â&#x20AC;&#x153;a seemingly arbitrary and capricious decision.â&#x20AC;? Boyd said the suspension poses no threat to the viability of the Dwellers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are soldiering on as we always have,â&#x20AC;? said Boyd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will not compromise on our mission.â&#x20AC;? According to the their website, the Dwellers are made up of Lower East Siders who are fighting against the â&#x20AC;&#x153;continual increase of violence, noise, illegal activity, drugs, health and sanitation issues, disrespectful crowds, and lack of consumer diversity in our communityâ&#x20AC;? that resulted from the concentration of nightlife in Hell Square. The website gathers user-submitted video of drunken brawls and other misdeeds by the rowdy crowds that frequent the neighborhood. The Dwellers claim that Hell Square is home to 38 bars that are open until 4 a.m. and whose side effects include fights, massive littering, morning puke puddles and an unreasonable amount of late-night noise. One of the Dwellersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; main issues is that bars who habitually break the terms of their liquor license or are found to be serving alcohol to minors receive no punishment and continually have their licenses renewed. In an interview, Boyd encouraged an investigation to determine whether CB3 is engaging in a sort of spot-zoning for bars: keeping the most rambunctious in a certain part of the LES while discouraging their formation in others. According to Boyd, for this and other reasons, the Dwellers decided to work independently of the board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not prohibitionists, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not saying no bars, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying you should follow the law,â&#x20AC;? Boyd said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you should be shut down.â&#x20AC;? Back in Hell Square, a group of young women in three-inch heels wobble into traffic trying to cross Essex Street. One LES resident having a smoke outside of Sons of Essex - one of the more low-key bars in the area - says the scene gets pretty wild around 3 or 4 a.m. outside of places like Fat Baby on Rivington Street, with people stumbling out of the bars and puking against walls and in the street. Tension between the Dwellers and CB3 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t likely to end anytime soon. Both groups appear to be at an impasse, as the Dwellers show no sign of tiring and CB3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suspension runs through the end of December. Meanwhile, hordes of thirsty young revelers will continue to frequent this beehive of bars on the Lower East Side, oblivious to the war being waged over their right to lift a pint or two - or 10.

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OUT & ABOUT Movie Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with the Directors Critics at the Sundance Film Festival gave the Special Jury Award to this documentary, which follows two middle-class black students, over twelve years, at a posh Upper East Side school over twelve years. One subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, who directed the film, will answer questions after the screening. IFC Center 323 Sixth Avenue, 4:05 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., $13.50 www.ifccenter.com/films/american-promise/

Saturday, Oct. 19 Music from Ireland As part of the CMJ Music Marathon, an annual showcase of new bands featuring over 1,300 artists, the Red Lion will host four Irish bands for a free day of music. Slow Skies, Cat Dowling, We Cut Corners and Kid Karate are this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guests. The Red Lion 553 West 51 Street, 2:00 p.m., free www.irishartscenter.org/music/showcase_2013. html

Friday, Oct. 18 Uncorked Comedy at City Winery Guest comics at this regular series have ranged from Comedy Central stars to Late

Night regulars. Sit back, laugh, an enjoy one of City Wineryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house-barreled wines, or a selection from their expansive, affordable wine list. City Winery 155 Varick Street, 11:30 p.m., $8 www.citywinery.com

Pablove Shutterbugs Gallery Show Celebrate the New York graduates of Pablove Shutterbugs, The Pablove Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photography program for children and teens living with cancer. Enjoy a very special exhibition of our

studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work and a silent auction of professional works by Herb Ritts, Reagan Louie, Carrie Yury, Jeff Antebi, Michael Muller, Jeff Bridges, and more. Lu Magnus Gallery 55 Hester Street, 4:00pm-8:00pm, free pablove.org/nyshow

Sunday, Oct. 20 Family Fit Day Get everyone moving at this fun event that encourages you and your brood to get fit together! Bring your kids ages 2 through 12 for activities like rock climbing, relay games, and marital arts sparring. Healthy munchies provided. 14th Street Y 344 East 14th Street, 10:00 a.m., $35 per family www.14StreetY.org/fitday

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spiritedâ&#x20AC;? Walking Tour Historians from the Merchant House Museum will guide guests through Noho on a tour of long-gone local notables, including Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving. And to get you in the Halloween spirit, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stop by the site of one of the most infamous murders of 19th century New York, among other haunted locales. Merchantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Museum 29 East 4th Street, 1:00 p.m., $10 www.merchantshouse.org

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Jon Sands hosts a reading and artist round table to support the New York Writers Coalition, a progressive group of writers and poets that provides free creative workshops. In attendance will be authors Ben Dolnick, Avra Wing, Angel Nafis and more, all in the cozy surroundings at KGB Bar KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street, 7:00 p.m., $10-$20 (suggested) nywriterscoalition.org

A peerless titan of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie inspired thousands of trumpeters, composers, and musicians of all stripes. Join some of his most loved contemporaries and admirers— including Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Heath, and Freddie Hendrix—for a joyous, swingin’ night honoring the great one. The Blue Note 131 West 3rd Street, 8:00 p.m. (show time), $35 www.bluenote.net

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A Conversation with Alan Greenspan

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Community Board 1 Monthly Meeting

For nearly twenty years, Alan Greenspan sat in one of the most powerful seats in American government, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Since his departure, he’s had the time to write about what exactly went wrong leading up to the Great Recession. He’ll speak about his new book with journalist Sebastian Mallaby, of the Council on Foreign Relations. Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th Street, 7:00 p.m., free store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/ event/80651

Monday, Oct. 21 A Panel on Crowdsourcing Trying to get a project, start-up, or charity off the ground? Learn about how to crowdsource funding for your business at this panel, sponsored by the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, featuring guests from NYU, Indiegogo, and Rockethub. After the panel discussion, network with likeminded entrepreneurs and nosh on hors d’oeuvres. Wix Lounge 235 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, 6:00 p.m., $50 letscrowdsource.eventbrite.com

Come together with neighbors and local reps to discuss issues pressing the community and learn about new developments coming out of the various CB Committees. A Public Session at 6pm will precede the official agenda. (The district covers Manhattan south of Canal Street.) 4 World Trade Center aka 150 Greenwich, 6 p.m. www.nyc.gov/html/mancb1/html/home/ home.shtml

New York Festival of Light New York City will join the ranks of many other cities around the world with the launch of ‘First Light’. Attendees will be treated to a small flavor of things to come. Local politicians, designers, artists and festival supporters will be attending, expressing their love of light and their desire to propel New York onto the world stage as an iconic member of the world lighting festival community. Elizabeth Street Gardens 209 Elizabeth Street, 6:00pm-9:00pm, free anyvite.com/events/home/illdtk16vt

When acclaimed poet Nomi Stone visited the small island of Djerba, Tunisia, she discovered ancient history: the remnants of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, dating to the fifth century B.C. In this intimate reading, she will present poems inspired by those encounters, a rare look into a unique and faraway world. Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, 7:00 p.m., free (RSVP recommended) www.cjh.org/event/2311

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raises an equal amount within a week, giving a significant relief to the parade organizers and all those who have been on the fence about the parade’s comeback. The committee that organizes the parade is made up of a small group of individuals who oversee sponsorships, donations, and word of mouth advertising. Most have been working for the parade for a substantial number of years. Matthew Fass, the music director of the parade for eight years, said he has “lots of faith that it’s going to happen,” with regards to the potential success of the Kickstarter campaign and the re-opening of the parade. The community response for the parade has been largely positive. But as expected with large events in such a compact area of the city, inconveniences do arise. Janelle Richards, who used to work at the Tri-Rite Deli on West 4th Street and 6th Avenue, said that “for two years, I had

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to walk from 14th Street down” to her job because the public transportation was not as efficient during the event. Lareina Phelan, a local actress, said “I don’t see myself going back” on account of the hectic crowd, but she said she loved the experience of attending. Other community responses reflected a similar ambivalence. Kata Verma of Fabulous Boutique Inc. on Macdougal Street believes the parade is “fun” and “brings more business” but that “sometimes it’s very noisy.” “The parade came from a 60s grassroots mentality,” said Fleming, of creating something which gives back and that everyone can enjoy. Zoe Edelmin, 18, of Washington Square West believes the parade to be “crucial in bringing together the neighborhood.” With just a little over a week to raise a little under $10,000, the costumed ghouls and goblins that have rambled through the streets yearly will have to stay put just little longer to know whether they could continue their spectacle this year.

five years as it traveled along the his block of West 10th Street. Some of the images have been hand-painted, while the majority are in black and white as originally shot. There are 113 photographs in all, along with text and image notes by the photographer. The photographer will be donating 50% of the profits from each version of the book to the organization that runs the parade. For more information about the book, go to www.Treatersnyc.com.

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scheduled. “Potential designation has arisen within the last two years,” said Cynthia Weber, a co-chairperson of the Town & Village Health Committee who is involved with the synagogue’s leadership. “We in that period have been undergoing some serious planning for the growth and future of our congregation and for the structure that we would need to contain our current programming and growth.” That search lead to an exploratory listing with the real estate firm Massey Knakal, showing the building going for $13,950,000; that lead to coverage on the Lower East Side blog EV Grieve, which alerted the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), which alerted the Landmarks Preservation Commission. “The building has always been on our radar,” said Andrew Berman, president of the GVSHP. “We certainly had no idea that there was a possibility of plans to tear it down. As soon as we were aware, we brought it to the commission’s attention, because it’s technically been on their docket for almost 50 years now.” But Weber stressed that the synagogue isn’t actually for sale; they are looking at all possibilities and are eager to find a way to accommodate their growing congregation. While a hearing has been scheduled for the end of October on the synagogue, they’re hoping that they can find an alternative plan that would maintain the historic elements without getting an official designation as a landmark. “We’re trying to look in the broadest possible way at the options,” Weber said. “That is a spectrum that has to include potentially anything that ranges from selling the building to building up and out on site.” She said that having conferred with other religious organizations that have received landmark status, the congregation hopes to avoid the additional paperwork, time and attention that working within landmark guidelines would bring. “We are a modest congregation, we’ve come through some recent hard times that were made even harder because we have such dynamic programs,” Weber said, mentioning that they have an active LGBTQ outreach program and a program for recent Russian Jewish immigrants as examples of the kind of work they do in the community. “If this was a world with unlimited resources and we could carry out our mission and the LPC could carry out its mission, we’d all be happy. We believe in the beauty and integrity and the upkeep of our building. But we have hard decisions to make.” Berman said that he’s reached out to the synagogue to offer his organization’s assistance; the synagogue has agreed to meet in November, after the scheduled hearing date at the LPC. “Landmark designation in this case could

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be completely compatible with the synagogue’s plan to build out and expand their space,” Berman insisted. “There’s a potential for a win-win outcome here where everybody’s needs are met. Reverend Bob Brashear, the pastor of WestPark Presbyterian Church on the corner West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, finds himself and his congregation on the other side of the landmarking battle, having lost the fight against designation in 2010. At the time, the church was facing over $10 million in repair costs, including the need for a new roof, major exterior repairs, a new furnace and a fix of a plumbing system that had burst, and had hoped to find a development partner to tear down the building behind their sanctuary and construct new residential housing that would bring in the revenue stream they needed to fix the sanctuary and continue their mission. After local preservation groups, neighbors and elected officials put up a fight and brought the 19th century church before the LPC, the church became a landmark, despite Brashear’s continued and strident objections, warning that the church could become an empty shell of itself if the congregation could not afford to keep up a landmarked building. Now, three years later, West-Park is inching forward. They have a new boiler thanks to donations and continue to make repairs and search for funding to secure their future. “When structures and buildings have reached a certain quality of let’s say being part of the social cultural heritage of a particular neighborhood community, there is a responsibility to seek to preserve that,” Brashear said. “Along with that comes the responsibility and obligation to work with the congregation to make sure that the mission can be preserved as well as the structure. That so far has been a disappointment.” Brashear said that he gives a lot of credit to the work of City Council Member Gale Brewer, who fought to landmark the church but has also continued to advocate for it, and to the Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites program, which has also helped them to survive. That program has distributed over $8 million in grants to more than 700 congregations in New York State. “There’s a lot of hand-holding and technical help; we don’t just say ‘here’s the money, good luck,’” explained Peg Breen, president of the Conservancy. One of the reasons the program exists, she said, is that churches and houses of worship lack the resources to navigate the process of finding and securing grants and partners that can allow them to maintain their buildings and their programs. The scarcity of prime real estate in Manhattan also makes these places particularly vulnerable. “A couple of years ago, there were developers on the Upper West Side just knocking on doors saying, can we buy your church?” she said.

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Dee Dee Sharp Bridgewater returns to Broadway in Billie Holliday triumph By Armond White

t first Dee Dee Bridgewater’s impersonation of Billie Holliday in Lady Day at the Little Shubert Theater seems an odd misuse of talent in this Broadway production imported from its London run (where Bridgewater got an Olivier Award nomination). Bridgewater’s strong, tall stage presence and ringing voice deserves to be showcased in an original characterization-not competing with popular memory of an artistic legend. But as Lady Day holds forth, Bridgewater gets to prove her real talent as both singer and actress. She singlehandedly makes immediate drama of Holliday’s tragic flashbacks and well-known struggles.. This isn’t Billie as Diana Ross flamboyantly impersonated Holliday in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues (an inauthentic yet unique personification), nor is it the maudlin wreck that Lonette McKee presented in the 1987 Off-Broadway play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Bridgewater offers an older Billie, consciously carrying her troubles and her renown on her shoulders, yet still commanding a knowledge of song craft and sung-emotion. This self-knowing-demonstrated in the way she interacts with her band and manager, her fond recall of saxophonist Lester Young, her balance of deprecation and confidence--are like the psychological plenitude that August Wilson used to flesh out blues artist Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. In the second half of Lady Day, when Bridgewater has already established Holliday’s desperate need to prove her professionalism during the London leg of a European tour arranged to win-over those opponents withholding her cabaret card that would

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allow her to perform in the U.S., the boozey trepidation disappears and the play’s minidrama turns into a concert. This is where jazz pro Bridgewater blends a Holliday tribute with her own artistry. She keeps the twangy sing-song and madeto-order girlishness that were a transparent cover for pain and boundless vulnerability, but there’s thrill in Bridgewater’s precise histrionics. She sings so that we understand Holliday’s artistic victory over everything else that went wrong in her life. Purely thanks to Bridgewater, not the rehash of miseries in director Stephen Stahl’s banal, overlong book, Lady Day becomes an existential musical coup de theatre. This is only the second time I ever saw Bridgewater perform--the first was back in 1976 when I saw her Tony Award-winning performance in The Wiz. She had shown commanding grace that I always listened for in the jazz albums she recorded in the years afterward. Lady Day confirms that Bridgewater’s excellence in The Wiz was no fluke of pop casting; she’s still an impressive actresss. That’s why there is an August Wilson-intelligence to the multilayered way she presents Holliday. Bridgewater conveys complexity in the achievement of performance; above all, she gives a fresh appreciation of the hurt and joy that Holliday (ad libbing boldly and profanely to her audience) was able to produce. No doubt August Wilson would have appreciated a small miracle of Bridgewater’s: the play sets up “Strange Fruit” as a powerfully meaningful quasi-biographical statement in the first half but after leaping that hurdle, Bridgewater, in the second half, sings “God Bless the Child”--the greatest of all Holliday’s hits--even more profoundly. It’s not a social lesson but a testimony of life experience and Bridgewater, who can swing when necessary, makes its insight sharp and reverberant. Bridgewater rescues the Billie Holliday legend from cliché. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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By Caroline Birenbaum ine and decorative arts and high-powered single-owner collections predominate in New York auctions in the coming weeks. Here are the most enticing, which you can view during the free public exhibitions that precede each sale (see the websites for details). Browse the catalogs online; you may want to acquire some for future reference.

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The Oct. 23 auction of Important English & European Decorative Arts features gorgeous 18th- century furniture and a large Empire Savonnerie carpet. Stellar examples by important English cabinetmakers from the Collection of Niki & Joe Gregory (former Lehman Bros. President) will be sold on Oct. 24. Among Important Silver, Vertu & Russian Works of Art Oct. 29 is a charming Fabergé gold and enamel photograph frame set with diamonds. The Nov. 6-7 auction of Impressionist & Modern Art stars a private collection of European works from the early decades of the 20th century, including Balla’s 1913 “Automobile in corsa,” and top-notch paintings and sculptures from other major collections. There are delightful paintings by Zandomenghi and Sorolla in the Nov. 8 sale of 19th-Century European Art. Headlined by Warhol’s “Liz #1,” the Nov. 13-14 auction of Contemporary Art is designed to make a splash. Included are works from the Dia Foundation being sold to establish a fund for acquisitions, and 18 dramatic pieces of jewelry by Calder from the Makler Family Collection. Then, on Nov. 15, the first installment of a stupendous tribal art collection assembled over 50 years by the late art dealer Allan Stone offers rare Power Figures from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and important Oceanic and Indonesian objects. More African works, pre-Columbian and Native-American objects will be sold in November 2014.

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Examples of Important English, Continental & American Silver to be sold on Oct. 23 include elaborate creations by Lamerie, Schwestermüller, and Tiffany. Among works of 19th-Century European Art on Oct. 28 are three paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, notably Tissot’s tour-de-force,

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“In the Conservatory (Rivals)” that was gifted to the museum by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman, and twelve works being sold by the Toledo Museum of Art to benefit their Acquisitions Fund. On Oct. 29, the fourth sale of works from the late Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow’s renowned rare book collection comprises illustrated editions of the Neoclassical, Romantic, Symbolist & Modern Periods, such as a hand-colored copy of Blake’s “The Grave.” The Nov. 4-5 “tribute auction,” entitled “A Dialogue through Art,” contains works galore by Giacometti, Klee, Matisse, Picasso and others presented in a heavily annotated 2-volume catalogue celebrating the collection of the late Jan Krugier, who transcended his early experiences as a holocaust survivor to become one of the most important international art dealers of the 20th century. A monumental “Reclining Figure” by Henry Moore, 1967-70, to be offered in the Nov. 5-6 sale of Impressionist & Modern Art, will be installed in the Rockefeller Center plaza near Christie’s in late October. An auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art is slated for Nov. 12.

Swann (swanngalleries.com) Along with many ever-popular images, the Oct.18 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters from around the world contains rarities such as an enticement to take the new railroad to “Montauk Beach on the Slender tip of Long Island, NY,” circa 1929. Thereafter, book auctions alternate with prints, drawings and editioned sculpture. The Oct. 24 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books features fine private press books and richly illustrated works on Chinese ceramics. A very early impression of Rembrandt’s 1648 etching, “Self-Portrait Drawing at a Window,” and a complete set of the scarce second edition of Goya’s “Caprichos,” c. 1799, exemplify the Old Master through Modern Prints to be sold on Oct. 30. To commemorate the centennial of the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show, which exposed avant-garde art to the American public for the first time, a thematic auction on Nov. 5 is devoted to works by European and American artists who showed in The International Exhibition of Modern Art, held right across 25th Street at the 69th Regiment Armory. A diverse selection of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books on Nov. 12, and Contemporary Art on the 14th round out the mix.

Phillips NY (phillips.com) The Oct. 28 sale of prints and other multiples, entitled Editions, is a selection of bold contemporary images.

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JIM HALL: MODERN JAZZ GUITAR Clarinetist and Klezmer master David Krakauer

Klezmer in the Ghetto Krakauer expands the klezmer’s repertoire By Judy Gelman Myers

rowing up in New York City, clarinetist David Krakauer drew his inspiration from classical, jazz, and rock music. Twenty-five years ago, he got hooked on an “identity exploration thing” and began to study klezmer, the music of his Jewish Eastern European forebears. Today he’s known around the world not only for his mastery of klezmer clarinet but also for injecting hip-hop and rap into the klezmer repertoire. Thanks to Carnegie Hall’s neighborhood concerts and the support of Gale Brewer, David Krakauer and his Acoustic Klezmer Quartet delighted the audience with their twentieth-century-New-York renditions of standard klezmer tunes at John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater on October 6. “Foreign” influences like hip-hop aren’t foreign to klezmer music. While klezmer originated in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe, especially the Moldavian region of Romania, and was based primarily on Jewish liturgy and melodies employed for ecstatic communion with God, it also drew heavily from the secular songs and popular dance music of the surrounding cultures—Slavonic, Greek,

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Turkish, and, especially, Rom (Gypsy). In the US, it picked up elements of jazz and began to be heard not only at Jewish celebrations but in concert halls as well. Klezmer is best defined by the Yiddish phrase Lakhn mit trern (laughing with tears); klezmer musicians use special effects to create sobbing sounds, laments, and complaints. David Krakauer’s brand of klezmer, forged in New York City rather than the Pale of Settlement, is more “happy ghetto” than “shtetl wail,” as if he’s got all of the fun of Judaism and none of the pain, his clarinet his means of bursting through the universe with music pouring from his lips. The October 6 program included a medley that blended a klezmer Terkesh rhythm with a Sidney Bechet tune (Krakauer calls Bechet “my teacher, whom I never met”) and Krakauer’s version of a theme written by the extraordinary accordonist Emil Kroitor and brought to America from Moldavia in the 1990s by German Goldenstein, a man who had “eight hundred melodies in his head.” Throughout history, the Jewish tradition has renewed itself wherever it has settled—from Babylon to Cordoba to Bessarabia to New York—whether through exile or free choice. By means of his “identity exploration thing,” David Krakauer has come to exemplify this spirit of reaffirmation, wherever it will take him and his clarinet.

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Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips

Shaky-Cam Politics Race and politics sink Captain Phillips

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aul (shaky-cam) Greengrass makes another mess of recent political history in Captain Phillips. This time Greengrass fakes a docu-drama about the 2009 incident when the Maersk Alabama ship, piloted by Vermont merchant marine captain Richard Phillips, was seized off Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eastern coast by Somali pirates, then rescued by the U.S. Navy. As in United 93, Greengrassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9/11 disaster-movie, Captain Phillips trivializes political crisis as entertainment. United 93 flopped because it had no star appeal, so Greengrass casts Tom Hanks to ensure audience identification--but for whom? The kidnapping and hostage scenario depends on a fundamental hero/villain contrast that also, unfortunately, becomes a racial contrast: White American Hanks vs. virtually anonymous Black African interlopers. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no getting around this even though the silly script by Billy Ray glosses global economy sentiments (about the Haves inevitably endangered/targeted by the Have Nots). The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculous suggestion that American capitalism invites hostile aggression was also implicit in United 93 and explains its fatal inability to rise about mawkishness. Greengrassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questionable political principles (he also directed the heinous anti-American thrillers Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone) leads to the duplicitous dramatic conceit of making the Somali pirates scary yet keeping their motives vague--and stereotypical. Few critics ever notice racism in such generic form. An early cut from Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; All-American White home life to Eyl, Somalia, and its violent, caterwauling tribes recalls a Michael Winterbottom cut--a facile edit contrasting superficial cultural and political extremes. This sets up Liberal sympathy and then insidiously

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uses that identification to power an underlying fear of the Other. The pirates are simply dark, skinny, wild-eyed, gibbering monsters. Greengrass and Ray barely distinguish between the four who board the Maersk Alabama carrying assault weapons (except the youngest, least aggressive pirate whose â&#x20AC;&#x153;sensitivityâ&#x20AC;? codes as gay, thus worthy of Liberal sympathy when he gets wounded). It is impossible to see the pirates as anything other than marauding blacks. As physical types, they all could have been played by the actor Michael Kenneth Williams, the scarfaced actor made famous by HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Wire, singled out by President Obama as his favorite character on the series--a commendation that frees Hollywood to reproduce more hideous black stereotypes. Shaky and unconscionable politics. This scarifying zombie look (in quadruplicate) carries disproportionate impact when the Somalis are characterized without specific family worries or thoughts. At best theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just inchoate terrorists like those Greengrass put onboard Unitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flight 93. Pretending doc realism is no excuse for this, especially when the music score brands the pirate scenes with jungle music and calm music for Hanks--except for his final crying jag. Although the confusion of racist stereotypes may overwhelm naĂŻve viewers, Captain Phillips is too damn obvious to be intense and the second half (set inside an orange-colored, covered lifeboat) is merely claustrophobic--what a waste of IMAX. Since Captain Phillips is unsatisfying as either documentary or drama, it merely implies a guilty connection between commercial shipping and U.S. military interests, then fails to explore or adequately contrast the economies of two distinct nations or deal with the crucial irony of American pop cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s violent attraction for the Third World. Captain Phillips is twisted, corrupt, lamely directed and finally, offensively simplistic. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

October 3-10, 2013

Provocateur Night Club

18 Ninth Avenue

Grade Pending (26) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room.

Po Restaurant

31 Cornelia Street

Grade Pending (33) - cold food item held above 41Âş F except during necessary preparation; appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding; live roaches present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.

Restaurant Grades The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygieneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website on October 4, 2013 and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/ doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. 10011 W. Village/Chelsea Naka Naka

458 West 17 Street

TBSP

17 West 20 Street

Woody McHaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

234 West 14 Street

Ciao for Now

107 West 10 Street

Grade Pending (24) - hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F; cold food item held above 41Âş F except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.

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24 West 8 Street

The Grey Dog

242 West 16 Street

Grade Pending (27) - food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room.

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Mansions Cater

80 Fifth Avenue

Pita Pan Cafe

273 Eighth Avenue

Chartwells

65 West 11 Street

Alison 18

15 West 18 Street

La Rosetta Wine Bar

243 West 14 Street

Village Yogurt

547 Sixth Avenue

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Left Bank

117 Perry Street

Dig Inn

350 Hudson Street

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Famous Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza

7 Carmine Street

Grade Pending (9) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS Market Table

54 Carmine Stree

Arbor Bistro

226 West Houston Street

Grade Pending (46) - cold food item held above except during necessary preparation; food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Nourish Kitchen + Table

95 Greenwich Avenue

Grade Pending (26) - Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Aroma

36 East 4 Street

Grade Pending (17) - cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

12 Street Ale House

192 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (23) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Red House Restaurant

203 East 14 Street

Grade Pending (25) - hot food item not held at or above 140º F; cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

The Loop

173 3 Avenue

Grade Pending (24) - cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation; food not cooled by an approved method ; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Cibar – Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon

56 Irving Place

Grade Pending (27) - cold food item held above 41º except during necessary preparation; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas

Umi Noie

86 East 3 Street

Grade Pending (2) - accurate thermometer not provided in refrigerated or hot holding equipment. A

10012 SoHo The Grisly Pear 107 Macdougal Street

Arturo’s

106 West Houston Street

Il Mulino

86 West 3 Street

Grade Pending (20) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

City Grit

233 Mott Street

Terra Blues

149 Bleecker Street A

Bohemian New York

57 Great Jones Street

Elsewhere Espresso

335 East 6 Street

Triona’s

237 Sullivan Street

Mumbles

200 East 17 Street

Vesuvio Bakery

160 Prince Street

Grade Pending (16) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Paul & Jimmy’s 123 East 18 Street Restaurant

Blue Haven

108 West Houston Street

Paul’s Da Burger Joint

Salud Soho

107 Thompson Street

Grade Pending (9) - food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Grade Pending (26) - cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination

Peix Bar de Mariscos

151B Elizabeth Street

131 2 Avenue

218 East 14 Street Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins

Grade Pending (21) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Little Italy Pizza II

122 University Place

Grade Pending (26) - live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Pop Pub

41 East 11 Street

10003 Union Square/Noho Heartland Brewery

35 Union Square West

Closed (40) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Atlas Cafe

73 2 Avenue

Closed (51) - cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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Nevada Smith’s 100 3 Avenue

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Grade Pending (24) - food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS Bar 13

35 East 13 Street

Grade Pending (35) - Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Ward III

111 Reade Street

Grade Pending (21) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Kanoyama

175 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (50) - hot food item not held at or above 140º F; cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment; appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding; sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Paesano’s

136 Mulberry Street

Delight 28 Restaurant

28-30 Pell Street

Grade Pending (17) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Sheraton Tribeca New York Hotel

370-372 Canal Street

Trattoria Il Mulino

36 East 20 Street

Joes & Misses Doe

45 East 1 Street

215 East 4 Street

Grade Pending (31) - hot food item not held at or above 140º F; cold food item held above 41º F except during necessary preparation; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

10009 E. Village In Vino

Kelly’s

12 Avenue A

Grade Pending (23) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Reported October 4-11, 2013 Neighborhood

Apt.

Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Battery Park City 225 Rector Place

#16E

$789,000

225 Rector Place

#10A

$850,238

Related Sales

225 Rector Place

#9B

$653,241

Related Sales

30 W St.

#Ph3b

$1,700,000

Keller Williams

Chelsea

Address

Owner

133 W 22 St.

#12D

$4,000,000

Town Residential

148 W 23 St.

#7Hj

$1,450,000

Charles Rutenberg

120 W 18 St.

$2,600,000

345 W 14 St.

#8B

$3,080,206

Corcoran

628 E 14 St.

$340,000

Spark Properties

70 E 10 St.

#3B

$1,600,000

Corcoran

Wechsler

120 First Avenue

Kool Bloo/ Table 12 Diner

188 Avenue A

Purple Ginger

507 East 6 Street

226 E 12 St.

#5G

$268,000

Argo Residential

La Lucha

147 Avenue A

226 E 12 St.

#6J

$489,000

Halstead Property

San Loco

151 Avenue A

224 E 14 St.

$1,260,000

Corcoran

1 Ave. B

#4B

$810,000

Sotheby’s International

220 E 5 St.

$1,735,000

Douglas Elliman

Sushi Lounge

E Village

132 St Mark’s Place Grade Pending (26) - cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation; food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Financial Distri

75 Wall St.

#30C

$1,695,386

Douglas Elliman

75 Wall St.

#28C

$1,664,838

Douglas Elliman

88 Greenwich St.

#727

$534,000

Town Residential

120 Greenwich St.

#3C

$755,000

Stribling

Babel

131 Avenue C

A 10/04/2013

123 Washington St.

#43F

$1,400,000

Corcoran

Alphabet Cafe

600 East 14 Street

Grade Pending (4) - non-food contact surface improperly constructed.

75 Wall St.

#25E

$800,000

Douglas Elliman

El Rinconcito Restaurant

408 East 10 Street

Flatiron

10013 Tribeca

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

OUR TOWN DOWNTOWN

15 William St.

#34D

$860,000

Core

141 Fifth Ave.

#21

$3,300,000

Douglas Elliman

7 E 14 St.

#1109

$995,000

Douglas Elliman

650 6Th Ave.

#6J

$1,450,000

Sotheby’s International

108 5 Ave.

#12C

$1,200,000

Sotheby’s International

40 W 15 St.

#1A

$1,610,000

29 E 22 St.

#9N/S

$5,850,000

5 E 22 St.

#20D

$2,100,000

Halstead Property

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Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

99 John St.

#1803

$1,340,000

Luiman Real Estate

71 Nassau St.

#7D

$865,000

Town Residential

150 Nassau St.

#6E

$725,000

Corcoran

7 Lexington Ave.

#5C

$620,000

Sotheby’s International

340 E 23Rd St.

#4H

$925,000

Citi Habitats

Greenwich Villa

101 W 12 St.

#14Z

$532,500

Warburg

Lower E Side

Noho Soho Tribeca

BUILDING

AWARDS

Apt.

Gramercy Park

THE

SERVICE WORKERS

Address

25 W 13 St.

#4Gn

$430,000

Corcoran

39 E 12 St.

#103

$2,200,000

Halstead Property

77 Bleecker St.

#1029E

$1,200,000

180 Thompson St.

#5B

$749,000

Douglas Elliman

39 E 12 St.

#410

$690,000

Halstead Property

49 W 12 St.

#9A

$431,000

0.5

Akam Sales & Brokerage

23 Waverly Place

#3P

$825,000

Corcoran

40 5 Ave.

#3B

$3,125,000

Brown Harris Stevens

63 E 9 St.

#9K

$940,000

Halstead Property

455 Fdr Drive

#A2005

$950,000

Douglas Elliman

78 Ridge St.

#2G

$560,037

Kian Realty

154 Attorney St.

#203

$905,000

Douglas Elliman

75 Ludlow St.

#4C

$1,275,000

Halstead Property

473 Fdr Drive

#L1702

$600,000

417 Grand St.

#F806

$750,000

1 Bond St.

#3A

$7,200,000

Sotheby’s International

112 Prince St.

$4,400,000

73 Mercer St.

#5S+

$3,100,000

356 Broadway

#4B

$1,419,690

Town Residential

260 W Broadway

Multi

$7,150,000

Modlin Group

57 Reade St.

#21B

$2,375,000

Brown Harris Stevens

57 Reade St.

#7E

$2,065,000

Cantor And Pecorella

472 Greenwich St.

$1,400,000

Halstead Property

250 W St.

$1,352,236

Cantor And Pecorella

200 Chambers St.

#Phb+

$2,800,000

W Chelsea

450 W 17 St.

#2009

$4,550,000

Douglas Elliman

W Village

41 Jane St.

#2C

$725,000

Douglas Elliman

380 W 12 St.

#6C

$1,755,000

Cooper & Cooper

105 Morton St.

#4A

$921,500

Town Residential