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BY KARA BLOOMGARDEN-SMOKE “When I was a small child, I used to walk through

Prospect Park with my grandfather. I thought he was magic because the squirrels always followed him,” said Susan Goren. She later learned that her grandfather had dropped nuts as they walked all along.

Although Goren has always noticed squirrels, it wasn’t until she went on disability three years ago following various health problems and unexpected surgeries that she began to bring nuts and water, as well as attention, to the squirrels in Washington Square Park on a daily basis.

Goren spends about $150 a month on feeding squirrels. “I had to start ordering online, because around here they

charge a lot for a pound of nuts, and that will last me less than a week,” she explained during a recent visit to the park. “I can order online in bulk, but I don’t have room in my apartment to store 25 pounds of nuts.”

Goren is planning to share the order with a fellow Washington Square Park squirrel feeder.

Goren and a friend did a squirrel taste test with almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts and acorns. The critters take the acorns every time, although acorns are not always available.

In the fall, Goren imports acorns from the playground outside of the McDonald’s on W. Third St. There are also a few oak trees in Washington Square Park that produce the squirrels’ favorite food.

Like all rodents, squirrels’ teeth keep growing and they have to continuously shave them down. Goren says that sometimes you can hear the squirrels making scraping noises on harder nuts like almonds and hazelnuts, which means that they are fi ling their teeth.

“When I started, I used to get bitten, but I haven’t been bit all year — knock on wood,” Goren said. “Bites hurt like the devil. They have a very sharp set of teeth. They are rodents, after all.

“They don’t have rabies,” she added. A friend of hers went to St. Vincent’s after getting bitten

and the doctor said not to worry about rabies upon hearing the type of animal bite.

When a tree limb was cut down and the squirrels’ nest box fell, Goren fed the babies with a syringe fi lled with puppy food every two hours and was “heartbroken” when the babies didn’t make it.

BY DOTTIE WILSONDing, dong, the Bald

Man’s dead! At least in the East Village he is. Max Brenner, the extremely popular chocolate-themed restaurant with locations throughout the world, has

recently disappeared from the busy corner of Second Ave. and E. Ninth St. Poof!

Though I never once dined at the famous “Chocolate by the Bald Man” corporation,

Bald Man invasiongot seriously hairy;At last, he’s gone

Maybe it’s nuts, but they call her ‘The Squirrel Whisperer’

Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel

Susan Goren and a furry friend in Washington Square Park.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSONCharging the Grand St.

bicycle lane is endangering both seniors’ safety and local stores’ and restau-rants’ survival, Chinatown residents and merchants joined Councilmember Alan Gerson at Mott and Grand Sts. last Friday, call-ing for modifications to the new-style lane. Gerson also said the Department of Transportation must do more community outreach and consultation before installing new bike lanes.

According to Gerson and Project Open Door, which provides social ser-vices at 168 Grand St. for Chinatown seniors, two months ago a senior from the organization was knocked unconscious on

Grand St. by a cyclist who didn’t stop for a red light.

On the other hand, the lane’s critics also contend it is underused. One local merchant claimed he had stood at the intersection for two hours but seen only five bikes go by on the bike lane. Yet right as he said this, one bicycle was passing by and within 30 seconds, another two came along.

Gerson said the seniors dislike that the parking lane on the street’s south side has been moved sev-eral feet out into the street to create a protected bike lane by the curb. Having the parking by the curb provided a protected area

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PIER PRESSURE: Yetta Kurland has been taking her campaign for the Council District 3 seat to the streets — and to the piers and the dog runs, too, but it hasn’t always been easy. She said she recently tried to hand out her political lit-erature on the Charles St. Pier in Hudson River Park but was told by an offi cer that she couldn’t because the pier is operated by “a conservancy.” Actually, the pier and park are run by an authority, the Hudson River Park Trust, but we have heard before that political leafl eting isn’t allowed there. … Things went better on Kurland’s “District Dog Crawl,” during which she made the rounds of neighborhood dog runs, and vowed to fi ght for more of them and also for passage of animal welfare legislation. Kurland — who is strongly angling for the animal lovers’ vote — brought along her two adopted Italian grey-hounds, Sal and Luca, and she and her workers handed out dog bandannas with “Yelp for Yetta” printed on them.

AND THE (WEB) HITS KEEP COMING: The Council District 3 debate that The Villager held on Aug. 13 continues to get wider and wider attention. In addition to the more than 225 people who attended the actual debate between Kurland, Christine Quinn and Maria Passannante-Derr, thousands more read our full report on the debate in our Aug. 19 print edition. Plus, as of Tuesday, 8,000 people had viewed the video of the full, 90-minute-long debate posted on our Web site at www.thevillager.com, while 4,700 had read the article online . ... This week, Quinn told us that there were two people she had “barred” from the debate: her father and her partner, Kim Catullo. “I was afraid my father would be uncontrollable — ‘You’re not being nice to my daughter!’” she confessed to us.

AN-TI-CI-PAYUH-TION! Life on the East Village streets is hard for a homeless pooch, but hot dogs from Ray’s Candy Store on Avenue A make it a little easier. This was Jesse Jane’s third furter of the day from Ray on Saturday, above. Dogs like Ray, for obvious reasons. “Once I had fi ve dogs lined up here [at the counter] all eating ice cream — there were no people in the store, just dogs,” Ray recalled.

MOVIN’ ON UP? Three local Vietnam War-era veterans will camp out next to the Christodora House at Ninth St. and Avenue B Friday evening starting at 8 p.m. to highlight the plight of the homeless, namely themselves. “We’re going to ask Michael Rosen to adopt us — me, Jim Power and Biker Billy,” L.E.S. Slacktivist leader John Penley explained. Penley said he hasn’t actually read Rosen’s new book, “What Else but Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse,” in which Rosen recounts the story of how he and his wife opened their home to a group of local youths. “I heard reports. People said it’s not bad,” Penley said of the book. “We’d

like to move into the penthouse, too — if he wants three new sons... . We’re not all that young!” Penley added that the camp-out concept is being well received: “A lot of people expressed gratitude that somebody’s doing something that’s a little radical this summer,” he said. We bumped into Power, a.k.a. the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” and his canine sidekick, Jesse Jane, on Saturday night and Power said he wasn’t sure he would join in, because he “can’t afford to get arrested again.” But Power was also shaken up over being beaten up the night before while he was sleeping on the street; as has reportedly been an ongoing problem all summer, a roving band of young toughs has been perpetrating attacks on the homeless sleeping around Tompkins Square Park. Power said someone who is known in the park basically sicced the kids on him. One of his wrists was in an ace bandage and the other arm had a bunch of fresh, bright-red cuts. “Jim’s pretty traumatized after he got beat up,” Penley said, though assuring Power will be there Friday night to do a planned Obama mosaic light pole. ... As for the violence, in general, we felt that the vibe on Avenue A seemed a bit hostile on Saturday night. And then the next morning, we opened the newspaper to read that Eric “Taz” Pagan, a bouncer at Forbidden City lounge and a local resident, had been shot outside the place, just a few blocks from where we had been standing only moments earlier, another senseless murder by gun.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUVillage neighbors, postal union representa-

tives and elected offi cials rallied in front of the West Village post offi ce last week to protest the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to close the station in October.

The full-service post offi ce at 527 Hudson St. is one of fi ve stations in Manhattan, includ-ing the Pitt St. post offi ce next to the Seward Park Co-op on the Lower East Side, and 14 total in all fi ve boroughs proposed for closing because of decreased mail volume and a corre-sponding decline in revenue for U.S.P.S.

It is the second time in two years that the West Village station has been threatened. In 2007 the full-service post offi ce was scheduled for conversion to an automated center that would not be able to issue postal money orders. After protests led by elected offi cials, full ser-vice remained with automatic machines added. About a year ago, the station was closed for several months for a $250,000 renovation.

Congressmember Jerrold Nadler and Clarence Wall, executive vice president of the postal workers union in the New York metro area, told the Aug. 20 rally at the Hudson St. post offi ce that the union believes there is no economic justifi cation for closing the station.

“I’m not convinced that these closures would create real relief from the Postal Service’s budget crisis,” said Nadler, adding, “As far as I can see, the cuts are akin to moving furniture around on the Titanic.”

Nadler announced that he was sponsoring two bills in Congress. The intention of one bill would be to save U.S.P.S. $3.5 billion per year in operating expenses. The other bill would require U.S.P.S. to fully justify station closings and service consolidations, and would require hearings and a public assessment of the need for a station closure or consolidation.

Wall said that if it were not for $2 billion that Congress last year forced U.S.P.S. to prepay into its employee health insurance, the Postal Service would have shown a surplus this year.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, whose district includes the West Village, told the rally that revenues alone couldn’t measure the importance of local post offi ces.

“Local post offi ces keep us in touch with our friends and families,” she said. “Can you imagine what Christmas would be like without a post offi ce near where people live? They are a necessity. A post offi ce is like a community cen-ter where people meet their neighbors. Closing post offi ces needs to be done with a scalpel, not a machete,” Quinn said.

State Senator Tom Duane, whose district includes the West Village, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, representing Clinton and the Upper West Side, and State Senator Daniel Squadron, whose district includes the Lower East Side and most of the East Village, also spoke at the rally. Staff members for Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Richard Gottfried were also at the rally.

Nadler said the privatization of the U.S. Postal Service a decade ago into a private public-benefi t organization that receives no subsidy from federal tax funds was a big mistake.

“Mail service is a public good. It’s as old as the United States — started by Benjamin Franklin,” he said, adding, “It was an illusion to believe that the Postal Service could sustain itself.” He acknowledged, however, that there does not appear to be support in Congress to reverse the privatization. “That may change if there are many more station closings,” he said.

At the end of last month, representa-tives from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Offi ce led a rally in front of the Pitt St. post offi ce protesting the station’s planned closing. The Pitt St. station, at 185 Clinton St., leases it premises from the Seward Park Co-op.

The West Village station in July began distributing questionnaires to its patrons as part of the review of the potential closing. But many Villagers felt the questions were rigged to show that the nearby post offi ce at 201 Varick St. could serve West Village residents.

Steve Gould, a staff member of Visiting Neighbors, which serves elderly Village resi-dents, said the organization has many clients in the West Village who are older than 80.

“They can’t be asked to walk to Varick St., more than seven blocks further away,” he said at the Aug. 20 rally.

Harry Malakoff, a real estate broker and W. 12th St. resident, recalled that when he was a college student 40 years ago, his political-science professor told the class that one of the duties of a congressmember was to make sure the district had a post offi ce.

Albert Bennett, a Morton St. resident and member of his block association, said the West Village station is necessary for the association to send its monthly newsletter to residents.

“Closing the station would be the death of the Morton St. Block Association,” he said.

Jo Hamilton, chairperson of Community Board 2, said, “We fought the battle two years ago to save the West Village post offi ce. Community Board 2 is very, very strongly behind our congressman’s calls to save that post offi ce. Whenever I go there, it’s always crowded, which shows how heavily it’s used.”

A U.S.P.S. spokesperson said none of the city’s 14 threatened stations would be closed until after a review of the situation is com-pleted Sept. 30 and hearings are held for each closing.

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Residents say saving local post offi ces, like the Hudson St. station, above, as well as the Pitt St. station, is a priority.

Congressmember Jerrold Nadler said the privatization of the U.S. Postal Service a decade ago into a private public-benefi t organization that receives no subsidy from federal tax funds was a big mistake.


BY ALBERT AMATEAUAnti-noise and air-traffi c safety advo-

cates joined elected offi cials at a Tuesday hearing by the City Council Transportation Committee on improving air safety fol-lowing the Aug. 8 helicopter crash with a private airplane over the Hudson River in which nine people were killed.

The crash involving a sightseeing helicopter from the W. 30th St. heliport in Hudson River Park provoked repeated demands Tuesday for banning such tourist fl ights, and inspired more demands for closer Federal Aviation Administration control over chopper and pri-vate planes fl ying beneath 1,100 feet.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer proposed separate altitudes — 1,100 feet for small planes and 500 feet for helicop-ters — which prompted boos and jeers from audience members long concerned about helicopter noise.

Stringer, however, also proposed a morato-rium on sightseeing fl ights.

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried sub-mitted a statement that said, in part, “We do not need sightseeing helicopter rides. … [W]hatever sightseers spend on a helicopter ride they would eagerly spend on some other activity.”

Under the settlement of a 2008 lawsuit by Friends of Hudson River Park, sightseeing fl ights from the 30th St. heliport will cease as of April 1, 2010, and the number of tour-ist fl ights from W. 30th St. was reduced to 25,000 fl ights in the year that ended May 31 and to 12,500 for the coming year. Matthew

Washington, Friends deputy director, told the committee the lawsuit was fi led to elimi-nate the noise that disturbs park users.

“While our suit was not based on spe-cifi c air-traffi c concerns, we hope these efforts will aid in a reduction of potential dangers,” he said.

Ken Paskar, a Lower East Side resident and a general aviation pilot for 30 years, told the committee that the F.A.A. has rules for fl ights at all altitudes, but at 1,100 feet and below, the agency does not require private pilots or helicopter pilots to fi le fl ight plans or be in radio contact with fl ight controllers. The “see and avoid” rule governs low-altitude air traffi c.

Paskar, a volunteer representative with the F.A.A. Safety Team but testifying as a private citizen, said rules for the Hudson River corridor could be improved. He noted that in the Washington, D.C., area the F.A.A. requires general aviation pilots to take a course on “see and avoid” rules. Paskar said a similar course should be required of pilots fl ying the Hudson River corridor.

Congressmember Jerrold Nadler submit-ted a statement calling on the F.A.A. to use its authority to control airspace below 1,100 feet. Nadler repeated his demand that small air-craft must install a Traffi c Collision Avoidance System and a Mode C transponder, which make low-altitude aircraft aware of each other.

Joy Held, president of the Helicopter Noise Coalition, said sightseeing copters are “utterly unnecessary, dangerous, noisy, a seri-ous security risk and they cause pollution.”

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this place gave me indigestion, headaches even. While nearby mom-and-pop establish-ments struggled to stay afl oat, Max Brenner was constantly packed, mostly with tourists. These people would come all the way to the East Village — just to eat at a chain restau-rant. I didn’t get it.

And with childhood diabetes on the rise, as well as obesity, I thought “society” was sup-posed to be eating more sensibly. But not at this joint. Struggling with menus the size of a hefty coffee-table book, its carefree patrons were devotees of a restaurant defi ned by indulgence, i.e., dessert for breakfast, lunch and dinner and drinks. In this land of “sugar on fat, on top of sugar on fat” (read “The End of Overeating” by David Al Kessler), this was an altogether obscene environment.

On the Internet, I was astonished at the humongous number of adoring fan sites this eatery had from all over the world. (There was also at least one “hate” site). Yet, as with the other big-box retailers, banks, hotels and dorms that threatened to overtake the essence and historic nature of a neighborhood, the big, brown head of the Max Brenner franchise stuck out like a sore thumb. Cyberspace and reality were clearly at odds.

The restaurant’s outdoor tables, usually loaded with out-of-towners, took up an unusu-ally large portion of sidewalk, and this annoy-ing protrusion provoked many a resident on his or her way to and from the Astor Place or Eighth St. subways. On Friday and Saturday nights, human gridlock was the norm.

To make matters worse, I was partially to blame for this mess! Shortly after M.B.C.B.B.M. opened in 2006, two people came knocking on my apartment door bearing chocolates, cook-ies and gifts, along with a petition to allow a nearby sidewalk cafe. I hungrily/greedily accepted the free goodies, and then (doh!) stupidly signed a document that gave no clue whatsoever as to how big a space they would gobble up. Greed was not good.

Consequently, I guess, a crazy person from a nearby apartment building started to get sick and tired of the music from the place’s

outdoor speakers. He hated getting woken up every morning and night by the loud, clanking metal chains and padlocks that were used to prevent the theft of their ugly tables and chairs. Employees from the restaurant who took their breaks at the entrance of his building — smok-ing and laughing it up till all hours, and acci-dentally buzzing his apartment by leaning on the intercom buttons — drove him nuts. This guy was not a happy camper.

At fi rst he tried to combat the problem by throwing water and garbage out the window, which offered immediate relief. But since the noise just kept coming back, he began to wage a war of revenge. While taking his big black dog out for its nightly walk, he would purposely bump into the outdoor cafe’s guard rails — alarming customers, knocking over drinks and causing disharmony. On a busy and crowded weekend, this could have been forgiven, since there’s so little room on the block to begin with, but not with this guy “or his little dog!” (Actually, it was a well-fed

Labrador retriever whose big tail could wipe out a chocolate milkshake in one happy fl ash.) When this insane neighbor told me he had moved on to slashing the chocolate invader’s vinyl guard rails with a knife (think shower scene from “Psycho”), I really started to worry — and prayed that these hostile transgressions were committed when no one sitting there.

Earlier this year, the mutilated structures were replaced with metal versions, but now all that remains are rust-colored stains on the

sidewalk, evidence of the scene of more than one crime. I suspect the above-mentioned scary person has either moved or been incarcer-ated or is in/on ecstasy — or some other drug.

On the extreme opposite end of the spec-trum, however, is a man (I’ve never met) who I’m positive is totally distraught over the Bald Man’s abrupt departure. He’s what I call one of the many “recurring characters” in the neigh-borhood. A heavyset guy with long, brown hippie hair, he would sit there for hours, all by himself and always facing west, with a white, plastic takeout bag and beverage on the table; rarely did you ever see him actually eat. And day in, day out, this dude looked absolutely miserable — utterly defeated by life. His entire persona just screamed “sad sack.”

Other neighbors and I have had discus-sions about what must have caused such extreme depression, and why of all the places in the neighborhood he chose to frequent this one so often. Was this poor guy in mourning or shock, i.e. had his entire family been murdered at a different fast-food chain? Maybe his wife left him for another man, someone who had (“the horror”) no hair? Perhaps being around all those happy-go-lucky tourists was some form of radical therapy! The answers to these life mysteries will never be known. Like Max Brenner, this tragic head case simply disappeared overnight.

I contacted M.B.C.B.B.M.’s corporate offi ce to fi nd out what happened. Despite the economic recession, I thought surely a company as big and successful as theirs would survive. Then again, my observations were mostly of the exterior, sidewalk activ-ity, not the large amount of square footage within. And it wouldn’t have surprised me one bit if the owner of this heavily traffi cked piece of real estate jacked up the already-astronomical rent. Maybe the corner itself was cursed; the previous tenant spent a fortune renovating and outfi tting the space with top-of-the-line equipment and light-ing, and then suddenly closed after just one month. They left practically everything behind, including their plants, which were left to freeze and die — except for a tall, heavy tree I rescued after agents on the premises allowed me take it.

As a fan of various historical and preserva-tion organizations (see sidebar below) and the East Village Community Coalition, as well as a resident for almost three decades, I embrace a signifi cant “shop local” philosophy. However, I do admit to once paying a brief visit to this awful operation. It was a hot and humid day — as usual, I was wearing all black — and even though I was just a short distance away from my sixth-fl oor walk-up, I urgently needed a dose of fresh, cold air conditioning. Entering Max Brenner through the front door on Second Ave., I experienced approximately 8 seconds of purposeful bliss, and then immediately exited via their emergency side door onto E. Ninth St., right around the corner. This shortcut was both delightful and spiteful, but sadly, no alarms went off. Yet they should have. This time I was the alien invader.

According to their spokesperson, it turns out that Max Brenner — which, by the way, is not a real person’s name — after having opened two restaurants in New York City in 2006, has decided to pull all resources from their East Village location and focus on their Union Square spot, while “expanding our chocolate culture throughout the United States.” Right. Gobbledygook meets mumbo jumbo, crass tourist attraction be gone.

Ding dong, says the wicked witch of the East, the sidewalk has been reclaimed. Veselka (est. 1955) is across the street, the quintes-sential East Village Meat Market but one door over. B&H Dairy, Stage, Cinderella and Toy Tokyo — and a precious handful of wonderful, local East Village and Lower East Side baker-ies, restaurants and specialty shops — are still holding on. It’s a merry ol’ day!

Hopefully, the new tenant on the block won’t be as scary as the big, bad Bald Man — another business like this guy’s would feel like getting hit by a fl ying house — or some fatso named Duane Reade! Better get out those horizontal-striped Oz socks just in case.

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Photographer-curators James and Karla Murray provide a window onto the rich cultural experience of New York City as seen through its neighborhood shops in their book “Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York.” Through panoramic photo-graphs, portraits of individual storefronts and interviews with shop owners, their book reveals how neighborhood stores help set the pulse, life and texture of their communities. Join the Murrays and local storefront own-ers for a visual walking tour of Greenwich Village and a discussion about the city’s loss of small mom-and-pop stores. Co-sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Neighborhood Preservation Center.

The bald truth about life next to a choco chain Continued from page 1

Max Brenner, and his logo, recently vanished suddenly from Second Ave. and Ninth St.

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where they might actually be implemented someday soon. The Police Department has already signed off on one proposal, known as “The Protrusion Bill,” Gerson reported this week. This regulation would change the way sidewalk widths are measured — for example, in Soho, the measurement would be from the edge of any “bubble-glass” coverings or metal plates outside buildings to the curb. In spots without such special plates or sidewalk structures, the measure-ment would be as it always has been, from the building wall to the curb. This new rule “would eliminate virtually all of the vend-

ing on those narrow sidewalks in Soho,” such as Spring and Prince Sts., Gerson said, later downgrading that slightly to say that “major parts” of these streets would be off limits to vendors. Vendors on West Broadway, where the pavement is wider, would be less affected. Yet another Gerson-backed regulation — still in need of Police Department approval — calls for signage and lightly colored curb markings that would show where vendors could legally operate. Finally, a third proposal by the Lower Manhattan councilmember is the so-called “20/20 Law,” under which there would be 20 linear feet of space for vend-ing along a sidewalk, followed by 20 feet of open space and so on.

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local residents against bicyclists — and this is so unnecessary,” adding, “There’s no question there’s been an increase in crashes between people and bikes since the lane came in.”

The lane should detour onto Kenmare St. between Lafayette St. and Bowery, as proposed by the Little Italy Merchants Association, Gerson said.

However, the councilmember was chal-lenged at the press conference by sev-eral young bike-friendly journalists, one of whom was reporting for Streetsblog. Caroline Samponaro, director of bicycle advocacy for Transportation Alternatives, also pulled up on her bike and debated the councilmember. The pro-bike bloggers and Samponaro said that, according to D.O.T., accidents have decreased on the street by 30 percent since the protected lane’s installation.

Samponaro added that she had attend-ed four Community Board 3 meetings at which the bike lane had been discussed prior to its implementation, and that residents’ and merchants’ suggestions had been incorporated into the design. She demanded to know why Gerson didn’t think the community board process was a

sufficient community process.“The community board supports this

project,” she stated.

Gerson countered, “They support it with modifi cations.” He said he intends to intro-duce a bill to require greater community

involvement before any streetscape chang-es, such as adding bike lanes — or “what happened on Broadway with the bump-outs and the Rutgers St. confi guration.”

Gerson said the bill would require “adequate notice, a comment period and a post-implementation review period.”

Afterward Samponaro said of Gerson, “He should be called out for using com-munity process as a front. Ultimately, this is a safer street because of what they’ve done here.”

Grand St. in Chinatown and Little Italy has traditionally been a “market street,” Gerson noted. After the press confer-ence, a Little Italy merchant who didn’t give his name said he supports the bike lane, but changes are needed to help local merchants. Noting that the parked cars in the buffer lane currently can stay there 18 hours a day, he said there should be a two-hour limit. Also, parking should be allowed on Grand St.’s north side at night instead of having no parking there, he said.

“You can’t ‘X’ cars out of the city,” he said. “You need cars for people to come in.”

The lane traverses C.B. 2 as well as C.B. 3. Jo Hamilton, C.B. 2 chairperson, said she looks forward to having a dia-logue with Gerson about the issue.

“In general, Community Board 2 has been very supportive of D.O.T.’s efforts to create a safe biking culture in the city,” she said.

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During a press conference at Mott and Grand Sts. at which critics of the new bike lane said it is underused, a number of cyclists passed by, including the woman above. A motorized hand truck, at left, was also using the lane, easing sidewalk congestion.

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HIGH LINE PUTS ON BRAKES A controversial plan calling for a tax

on residents and property owners near the High Line to help pay for the elevated park was dropped last week after neigh-bors apparently came out against the proposal.

According to Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit organization that oversees maintenance and management of the West Chelsea green space, the concept of imposing taxes on building owners based on their proximity to the High Line caused enough of a stir to table the plan for now.

“Friends of the High Line and the District’s Steering Committee sought broad community input on the idea of creating an Improvement District to help the City’s new High Line park,” read a statement from F.O.H.L. “The Steering Committee reached out to the larger High Line community, so that their responses would help determine whether to move forward. Following these public outreach efforts, it was decided to put the proposal on hold. While many strongly supported the concept, important concerns were also raised.”

The proposal, modeled after the city’s business improvement district program, sought to raise $1 million from various property owners for daily upkeep of the park running between Gansevoort and W. 30th Sts. The plan called for charging either a 3- or 9-cent tax per square foot for buildings located near the High Line, running for almost 20 blocks along the length of the former railroad viaduct.

“Friends of the High Line has always been a community organization, and the members of the Steering Committee are community members first and foremost,” the Friends’ statement continued. “Friends of the High Line will continue to work with the community to develop a diversi-fied revenue stream for the High Line’s future, so that the park can always be maintained and operated at the level nec-essary to make it a treasured asset to its community and to the city as a whole.”

MORE MACDOUGAL SQUATTERS As the city begins to take action on an

abandoned Soho property that has been left to deteriorate for decades on MacDougal St., squatters and vandals have allegedly returned despite efforts to prevent access to three-story structure.

The property, at 43 MacDougal St. at the corner of King St. in the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District, had been left to rot for years before the city fi nally began fi ning the owners and pursued a lawsuit to

compel them to make repairs.The city also responded by boarding up

the building’s broken windows and install-ing scaffolding around the structure, but the latter apparently has only helped squat-ters set up camp inside the hollowed-out townhouse.

“The sidewalk shed, which was built one year ago by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to protect passersby, has allowed ease of access for squatters and vandals into and out of the building,” read a letter from Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, to several city agencies. He explained in a separate note that the squatters — who neighbors and G.V.S.H.P. staff have seen living inside the property — face “very real health and safety dangers, including the very real possibility of accidental fi res.”

Additionally, new graffi ti recently appeared near the building’s third-fl oor fi re escape, and a pool of water has built up on the roof that could cause structural damage.

“I was grateful to learn in June that the Landmarks Preservation Commission had fi nally begun initiating a Demolition by Neglect case against the building’s own-ers,” Berman added in his letter, describing the action taken by L.PC., which includes levying substantial fi nes against the owners, site visits, evaluation and a lengthy legal process. “However, the beginning stages of this process have been slow,” Berman added, “and we are concerned that the building will continue to deteriorate and pose an increasing health and safety threat to neighbors while we wait for the case to take shape.”

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saga is probably the best Soho preservation-ists could have asked for: Another bakery committed to continuing the diminutive Prince St. store’s legacy will take over at the landmark location.

The eco-friendly Birdbath bakery, which has two locations in the Village, recently negotiated to lease the nearly 90-year-old Vesuvio space after a series of unrelated reopenings failed and the store stayed empty for more than a year.

The new bakery will debut in October, according to New York magazine, which interviewed Birdbath proprietor Maury Rubin on the planned move.

“It’s an heirloom, it’s a treasure, it means the world,” he told the magazine. “That I have a chance to have my bakery be in it is a gift.”

Rubin will reportedly remove Vesuvio’s historic, coal-burning ovens to ease the landlord’s fi re concerns, but otherwise plans to keep as much of the old shop intact as possible — one of the main reasons he was chosen as the next tenant.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAURose Pascale, the East Harlem activist and daughter

of Italian immigrants who is remembered in the Village for her service four decades ago as the beloved commu-nity liaison to Community Board 2, died Aug. 14 at the age of 92. She was the window of Pete Pascale, executive director of the SCAN/LaGuardia Memorial House on E. 116th St., and worked by his side at the settlement house for many years.

A Republican, she was appointed in 1969 by Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a Democrat, as commu-nity liaison to the Greenwich Village community board. She also served the two succeeding Manhattan borough presidents, Democrats Andrew Stein and David Dinkins, until she retired in 1986.

“She was a lovely lady, always with a smile and she never got upset,” recalled Rita Lee, an aide to Councilmember Alan Gerson. Lee recalled that when Rose Pascale was fi rst appointed as Sutton’s emissary to the Village, com-munity boards had no budgets, no typewriters and no offi ces. “She was the Community Board 2 offi ce, working in the Municipal Building,” Lee said. “Rose would bring armloads of correspondence and records to the board meetings and committee meetings wherever they were held.”

Lulu Evans, Rose Pascale’s daughter, recalled at her funeral on Aug. 20 that she overheard Rose taking a call from a Brooklyn resident who needed help and had heard that Rose was someone who would help anyone who needed help.

“She worked for years with the Greenwich Village

community board and when [the Borough President’s Offi ce] transferred Rose to a Midtown board, all of Greenwich Village was furious and in an uproar; so Rose was assigned back to the Village and had to tend two boards,” Evans added. “Rose had such good friends in the Village, like Doris Diether, Rita Lee, Maggi Peyton and Tony Dapolito.”

In connection with her work in the Village, Rose became associated with Father Robert Lott, associate pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, who founded The Caring Community senior-services organization in 1973. When Lott was transferred in 1987 to a church in East Harlem, Rose joined his new organization developing affordable housing for seniors and low-income families.

Rose was born Sept. 30, 1916, in New Brunswick, N.J., to Elizabeth and Louis Capaldo, immigrants from Melfi , Italy. The family moved to East Harlem when she was 3 years old. She had to quit school after the eighth grade in order to work to help her family, her daughter said.

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An off-duty bouncer at Forbidden City, 212 Avenue A near E. 13th St., was shot to death in front of the bar at 4:25 a.m. Sun., Aug. 23, and the suspect in the shooting was arrested that evening, police said.

The victim, Eric Pagan, 42, of 725 F.D.R. Drive, near E. Sixth St. in the Lillian Wald Houses, was shot in the face when he intervened in an argument in front of the club. The incident started after a white van brushed by two patrons who were leaving the place. The two patrons started to argue with the driver of the van, who pulled a handgun and fi red two rounds, hit-ting Salvador Moran, 30, in the right hand and grazing the neck of Robert Calbo, 31, according to police.

Pagan, a single father of a teenage girl and boy, was in the bar but not on duty and ran out. He was shot after confronting the shooter, who fl ed in the van, according to witnesses. Pagan died on arrival at Bellevue Hospital.

Louis Rodriguez, 29, of 452 E. 117th St., was arrested around 8:30 p.m. Sunday and charged on Monday with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He was identifi ed in a Daily News article as hav-ing served nearly fi ve years in prison on an assault charge in the Bronx.

Moran and Calbo were taken to Bellevue in stable condition.

Bag grab and grope

Police arrested Gustavo Martinez, 20, shortly after 2 a.m. Mon., Aug. 17, and charged him with robbing and sexually abus-ing a woman on Second Ave. near E. Third St. The suspect, a Yorkville resident, simu-lated a gun, snatched the victim’s bag and pushed her into a building vestibule, where he groped her, police said. The victim punched the suspect in the face, and her boyfriend arrived and held the suspect for police. Martinez was being held in lieu of bail pend-ing a Sept. 16 court appearance on attempted robbery and sexual abuse, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney said.

E. 12th St. mugging

Two men and a woman surrounded a man on E. 12th St. near Second Ave. at 4:45 a.m. Sat., Aug. 22, and demanded his shoes, according to police. The victim, 29, refused, and one of the suspects punched him and took an unspecifi ed amount of cash. The three were arrested soon after and one of them, Glenn Williams, 24, of Brooklyn, was charged with robbery. He was being held pending a court appearance on Aug. 28. Another defendant was charged with

a lesser offense and was sentenced to time served awaiting hearing. The woman was not charged and released.

Close shave on Bowery

A disturbed man attacked a woman who was walking with friends on the Bowery near Bleecker St. on Thursday afternoon Aug. 20, police said. The suspect, Donald Scawright, 47, a resident of the shelter at 317 Bowery, hit the woman, 63, with a can of shaving cream and then hit her in the head with a backpack, police said. After police arrived, the suspect punched the arresting offi cer, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Offi ce. Scawright was charged with assault and resisting arrest.

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A suspect asked a man at W. Fourth St. and Sixth Ave. for a cigarette at 4:15 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 20, but suddenly punched him in the head and fl ed, police said. The victim, 40, was treated for minor injuries at St. Vincent’s Hospital.

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Two men, one of whom said he was a police offi cer and fl ashed what purport-edly was a badge, stopped a man at 4:30 a.m. Tues., Aug. 18, frisked him and took a money clip and $200, police said. They walked away, but one suspect, Ronald Webb, 42, of the Bronx, was arrested later and charged with second-degree robbery and impersonation of a police offi cer, according to a spokesperson for the Manhattan D.A.

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Burglars broke into two apartments undergoing renovation in a building on Sullivan St. near Houston St. on Friday evening Aug. 7 and made off with unspeci-fi ed construction tools. Witnesses said they recognized the suspects as former workers on the renovations, according to reports.

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BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK “To wipe your mouth, take the napkin

from your lap, dab it around your mouth, don’t rub. Then lay it back down on your lap,” explained Tom Gold, former New York City Ballet principal dancer, as he demonstrated the proper way to perform this sequence. Listening attentively were two young men to whom Gold was teaching for-mal dining etiquette at a luncheon in June at the Friars Club on E. 55th St. These partici-pants were not the big engines of enterprise — at least not yet. They were 14-year-old eighth graders, the 2009 graduating class from George Jackson Academy, located at 104 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village.

After spending the last four or fi ve years at the insular world of George Jackson — which offers grades 4 through 8 — the boys, who are some of the city’s best and bright-est middle-schoolers, requested the lesson in order to be prepared to fi t into the next phase of their academic lives. They are head-ed to the real world of high school at such faraway prep schools as Andover, Concord Academy and St. Mark’s in Massachussets, St. Andrew’s in Delaware, Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut and local elite high schools, like Stuyvesant, Bard, Poly Prep, Browning, Calhoun and Bronx Latin on par-tial or full scholarships.

“We are very proud of their achieve-ments,” said David M. Arnold, head of school. “We give them the tools they need

and the character, strength and confi dence to succeed in all different kinds of environ-ments.”

Dining details are just another challenge to these students’ inquiring minds. Apart from the exacting traditional school curricu-lum, they also studied such subjects as Latin, adolescent psychology, astronomy, social jus-tice, comparative religion, civics, economics and architecture. Some learned to play string instruments and participated in choral work in partnership with Juilliard; others wrote and performed their own plays through the Theatre Development Fund.

What future fi ction writer Brandon Lara of the Bronx, who is going to Brooklyn Friends, took away from the etiquette les-son was “a lot of important rules, like you should make everybody comfortable if you are the host.”

Making people feel comfortable is one of the hallmarks of George Jackson, which is based on the De La Salle tradition of educat-ing the whole child, Arnold explained.

“Matters of the heart and spirit are as important as academic rigor,” he said. “They take a lot of care for younger peers, peers and the school itself. It becomes an exten-sion of home. By the time they leave here, they are completely connected for life.”

George Jackson Academy was founded by Brother Brian Carty, founder and prin-cipal of the private, independent, nonsec-tarian De La Salle Academy, established in 1984, a middle school on W. 97th St. for academically gifted boys and girls from low-income families. Carty named the East Village academy in honor of one

of his former students at the now-defunct Monsignor Kelly School on W. 83rd St. — George Jackson, former C.E.O. of Motown Records and fi lm producer, who died in 2000 at age 42.

Shortly before the Harlem-born-and-bred, Harvard-educated Jackson died, he and Carty were lamenting the fact that there weren’t enough eligible boys for De La Salle, and they believed a single-sex middle school would benefi t them. Even though very little, if any, of the pledged $10 million from Jackson’s Hollywood friends, entertainers and Harvard materi-alized after his funeral, Carty began the school six years ago on a wing and a prayer and the determination to honor Jackson’s memory. He raised the money from many of the same sources that funded De La Salle. This fall, enrollment stands at 137 African-American, Latino and Asian stu-dents, who make the long trek from the South Bronx, northern Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

Both De La Salle and George Jackson are need-blind institutions. In other words, they will not turn down any child who is qualifi ed if his family can’t pay the tuition, “which is all of them,” noted Susan F. Siegel, the academy’s director of develop-ment. The school, which does not have an endowment, has to raise a “bare-boned budget” of $2 million every year. The biggest line item is for private bus trans-portation for the fourth and fi fth graders. Although the tuition averages $14,000 per

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George Jackson Academy students made a toast, with soda, to their continued academic success during a formal dining etiquette luncheon at the Friars Club.



child, parents pay what they can, typically $100 a month for 10 months.

“Compared to private school tuition of between $28,000 to $35,000 annually, we are half and have probably the same or a better education,” Arnold stated. “For example, our students develop a mastery of Spanish far superior to any private school. The intellectual foment of the kids is really inspirational. It’s a joy to teach because they raise their hands and ask so many questions.”

During the academic year Arnold teach-es a course on how to navigate the high school placement process, and for the man-datory July summer session he instructs in great books. The school employs 16 teach-ers, many of whom are De La Salle alumni, plus a cadre of volunteers who are experts in their fi elds, like digital photography and computer technology.

“Our requirement is if they have a pas-sion for the subject and can convey it to the kids,” said Arnold.

Admittedly, the academy focuses on a pre-select group of top students drawn from the city’s public schools.

“We try to catch these boys before they become disaffected from learning,” said Arnold. “Oftentimes schools, rather than being a springboard to greater success and happiness, become an inhibitor. You are sometimes putting yourself at risk if you allow your intelligence to come out. The

kids bully you.” However, the vetting process is “tough

as nails,” the head of school said. First, there is a written exam, an IQ test and a reading test. Most are reading two years above their grade level.

“If you have a great IQ but you can’t read, you can’t keep up with the academic demands,” Arnold said.

Next, they are put through a day of simulated classroom activities, includ-ing math, puzzle solving, writing and commenting on poetry and collaborative assignments to observe how they interact with each other. The fi nal tier is interview-ing the parents.

“If they don’t have support at home, their parents are not involved or utterly clueless, no matter how motivated the kids are, left to their own devices, they will get into mischief and avoid work,” Arnold explained.

This year, 100 boys applied, and they accepted 33 — 18 for the one-section fourth grade and 16 for the fi fth grade, which has two sections.

So are the kids prepped to meet the preps? (Bravo’s reality show “NYC Prep” is every kid’s worst nightmare.)

“Most of them do very well because they keep in touch with us,” said Siegel, the director of development. “They have developed the confi dence and character to call people out on things and not fall into negative behavior. They get here early enough. By third grade, we can recog-nize certain qualities in a kid, and these

qualities are nurtured. They are all little Obamas, ready to change the world.”

Arnold, who is a product of an all-boys school, is aware of some of the criticism leveled at single-sex schools. He described

his own experience as “a highly competi-tive pressure cooker. Instead of teaching boys how to work with and support one another, we were taught to beat the hell out of one another,” he recalled. “The cul-ture in this school is so antithetical to that highly rapacious individualism.”

Siegel cited a seven-year study, which

included George Jackson Academy, just being completed by a prominent research-er at New York University’s Steinhardt School.

“The conclusion was that a certain subset of boys will thrive in this kind of setting and should be given every opportu-nity,” she said.

Emmanuel Ntow from the Bronx, who wants to become an electrical engineer, is headed for the Calhoun School on the Upper West Side, his fi rst choice.

“In this small school I got more atten-tion and help, and it has taught me to strive better,” Ntow said. “My brothers around me were also there to help during troubled times.”

For Austin Pu of Forest Hills, Queens, bound for the Upper East Side’s Trevor Day School for math, science and engi-neering, the etiquette lesson taught him “to try and not make a fool of myself.”

What George Jackson taught Pu was what being a brother was all about. And with that, he extended his hand to shake this reporter’s and went off to join his brothers for a fi nal farewell.

George Jackson Academy, 104 St. Mark’s Place. Telephone: 212-228-6789. Web site: www.gjacademy.org . On Sat., Sept. 19, the St. Mark’s Block Association will hold a block party, proceeds from which will go to the school. In addition, the school is seeking donations of high-quality books in very good condition, levels 5th to 10th grade, for its growing library.

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‘Compared to private school tuition of between $28,000 to $35,000 annu-ally, we are half and have probably the same or a better education.’

David M. Arnold,

head of school,

George Jackson Academy


East Village photographer Q. Sakamaki, who was in Detroit earlier this year to document the recession and the troubled state of the auto industry, recently returned there to continue his coverage of the ongoing economic crisis. This page, clockwise from top: Detroit police guard-ed GM’s headquarters as, nearby, demonstrators with the People’s Summit, a four-day protest event, called for bailouts for people, not corpora-

tions; a People’s Summit participant; a man scavenged metal from an abandoned house, an illegal but common practice in a city lacking job opportunities. Opposite page, clockwise from top: Trying to make ends meet, Jeremy, left, and Jess, both 26, picked beans in their backyard garden, where they and their housemates grow organic vegetables to eat, as well as sell for a living; Kevin, 42, a squatter, smoked in the abandoned house where he lives; a homeless man danced with an activist at a week-end soup kitchen that also distributes free clothes.

Return to Detroit: Things aren’t getting any betterNATION

Villager photos by Q. Sakamaki


BY HARRY BARTLEMuch to the delight of parents and

children throughout the East Village, the Tompkins Square Park playground reopened last month after almost a year under con-struction. Designed by Parks Department architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, the $1.1 mil-lion renovation has outfi tted the playground with state-of-the-art jungle-gym structures and a distinctly modern sensibility.

Before being closed for restoration on Aug. 25 of last year, Tompkins Square’s main playground had fallen into a state of semi-decay marked by broken slides “fixed” by construction netting and a noticeable shortage of swings. The play-ground was originally scheduled to reopen this spring “at the latest,” according to a statement Wittwer-Laird made to The Villager last October; but an extended

delay left locals crammed into Tompkins Square’s other, smaller playgrounds up until July 16.

“The wait certainly was frustrating,” said Eileen Johnson, director of the Little Missionary Day Nursery on St. Mark’s Place, who uses the playground quite a bit as part of the nursery’s daily activities. Johnson said she often noticed a complete lack of activity during the construction. “After September, there were long periods of time when no work was being done at all,” she said.

Worried that the play area would not reopen by summer, Johnson began a corre-spondence with the Parks Department.

“They gave me one date after another [for the playground’s reopening] and kept miss-ing them,” said Johnson, who has been tak-ing nursery schoolchildren there since 1987. “Finally, I started asking parents to call 311 and complain. That’s when things seemed to start moving.”

With the neighborhood’s prime play-ground off limits for so long, East Village parents like Marnie Ann Joyce had to search elsewhere for play areas suitable for her chil-dren, ages 2 and 6.

“We found other places to go,” said Joyce, “the playground on First St. and First Ave., mostly. The other Tompkins Square Park playgrounds were overcrowded and overfi lled with bigger kids who overwhelmed my little ones.”

Wittwer-Laird, who has two children of her own, ages 6 and 7, and has long been a

frequenter of the park herself, attributed the missed deadlines to Mother Nature.

“Weather played a huge role in the delay,” she wrote in an e-mail. “This was one of the rainiest winters and springs on record. The new safety surface could not be installed until the subsurface was suffi ciently cured and dry and the temperatures were consis-tently warmer.”

Both Joyce and Johnson, however, had trouble buying that explanation.

“There was a lot of time before the rainy days came when work just stopped,” said Joyce. “It was too long to be without such a major part of our children’s lives.”

Although it may have been a long time coming, many parents seem to agree that the redesign is ultimately a success. Sarah Roebuck, mother of 3-year-old Axl, has turned the trip to the park into an almost daily routine.

“We love the new playground,” said Roebuck.

Pam Strohm-Gorden, Axl’s grandmother, added, “The only thing is that everyone seems to love it, so we have to get there pretty early to avoid the crowds.”

Indeed, on two recent visits to the park, the spacious playground was jammed with kids chasing, climbing and yelling to their heart’s content.

Renovated for “environmental, aesthetic and, above all, safety reasons,” the new play-ground features separate structures for both little and big children, eco-friendly sprin-klers, an all-new sandbox, child-oriented benches, a popular rubber safety surface and other interesting additions.

“The benches are great,” said Joyce, refer-ring to the small, shaded benches and swing-ing chairs located in various spots around the playground. “They allow the kids to take a small break without coming over and whining to their parents, so they can keep

playing, but in a calm and relaxed way.”The redesign also took care to fence off

the playground’s infamous “Pee-Pee Tree,” a popular spot among younger users to relieve themselves without having to interrupt play for too long. However, there are two other trees that playground parents have specu-lated may assume the role of the Pee-Pee Tree in the near future.

Despite its spiffy new look, the play-ground is not without its faults, in the view of parents. Several were quite upset with the proximity of the new sprinklers to the sandbox, which has led to clogged drains and some awfully dirty clothes.

“At fi rst they had people there telling kids not to mix [the sand and water],” said Johnson. “Then they had people there sweeping out the sand. But now, there’s no one.”

One problem, if not the biggest, concerns the new climbing walls — short, little walls with small, hand-sized rocks scattered across them. Not that there’s anything wrong with climbing — though it seems the walls largely go unused — but they block sight lines for naturally anxious parents that need to keep an eye on their children.

“With all of those solid walls everywhere you can’t see through any apparatus to see a kid who might be on the other side,” said Joyce. “This is the main thing that makes me not want to spend a lot of time in this park. Instead of sitting, relaxing and keeping an eye on my kids, I’m either completely losing track of one or the other or walking around to fi nd one, only to fi nd that I’ve lost the other in the meantime.”

All things considered, though, the reno-vation seems to be a welcome improvement to Tompkins Square.

“I can remember when we were picking up syringes from under the mats in the ’80s,” said Johnson. “It sure looks better now.”

New Tompkins Square playground is an overdue hit

Photos by William Alatriste, NYC Council

Councilmember Rosie Mendez channeled her inner kid on some new, state-of-the-art play equipment at the offi cial ribbon cutting for the Tompkins Square playground renovation last week, above. Below, former Giants running back Tiki Barber tried out a slide. Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, Borough President Scott Stringer and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe were among other offi cials also at the event.

‘The wait certainly was frustrating.’

Eileen Johnson,

director,

Little Missionary Day Nursery


Top photo by Harry Bartle. Bottom two photos by William Alatriste, NYC Council

Kids are working all the angles in new playgroundChildren in the renovated Tompkins Square playground can take their pick from low rock-climbing walls and jungle-gym-like structures to a spray fountain.


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EDITORIAL

IRA BLUTREICH

Safer demolitionsFor many of us, the vivid memories of the 9/11

attack will always be there. As we approach the eight-year anniversary, there are also still physi-cal reminders of the tragedy hovering over the World Trade Center. The two remaining buildings that were damaged on that day — the former Deutsche Bank building and the City University of New York’s Fiterman Hall — are literally the biggest reminders.

Demolition of Fiterman began about a month ago and deconstruction at the trouble-plagued Deutsche Bank building could finally be resum-ing next month. Since two Greenwich Village-area firefighters were killed battling a blaze at the Deutsche Bank building more than two years ago, we’ve learned to be skeptical about any claims about bringing this dangerous hulk down. But we’re pleased that preparatory demolition work began this week.

More important, some of the long-overdue safety improvements for demolition and construc-tion projects appear to be working effectively, but more needs to be done. There was, of course, no need to wait for the tragic deaths of Firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, Jr., who were stationed at the firehouse at Houston St. and Sixth Ave., to begin taking safety more seriously: Community leaders and Downtown Express, our sister publication, warned about safety problems before the deadly fire — but any time safety is increased, it potentially saves lives.

There were many preventable reasons for the firefighters’ deaths, but at the top of the list was the broken standpipe that was never inspected or repaired. Firefighters were sent into a “death trap” without a water source, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is still investigating the case.

At Fiterman Hall, work was stopped a few weeks ago when the standpipe failed a test. That’s how things are supposed to work. As a building is being dismantled, the standpipe must be cut repeatedly and, in turn, tested repeatedly.

More troubling are the cigarette butts recently found at Fiterman. Smoking was prohibited at the Deutsche Bank building because of the flam-mable materials, but workers typically smoked there and a cigarette started the blaze, according to investigators. Fiterman no longer has flam-mable materials needed for the abatement of toxic materials because demolition did not begin until the abatement in the building was finished — another post-Deutsche reform. Smoking may not be as hazardous there as it was a few months ago, but it is still dangerous and is prohibited for a reason. Last year, inspectors found cigarette butts at the Deutsche Bank building, and one of our photographers got a photo of a construction worker smoking while working on One World Trade Center, even though smoking is prohibited throughout the site.

If no-smoking rules are flouted at high-profile sites at and near the W.T.C. where inspectors are on site, it seems likely that there are more viola-tions elsewhere around the city.

Building safety appears to be getting better, but clearly more vigilance and enforcement are needed. Construction work is dangerous enough. Lax enforcement only increases the risks.

It would be funny — if it wasn’t so sad.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORKurland shone at debate

To The Editor: Re “Quinn on hot seat in debating Passannante-Derr and

Kurland” (news article, Aug. 19): Yetta Kurland is clearly the better candidate! She asks

the hard questions, listens and engages the audience. Quinn repeatedly agrees with her, while giving open-ended answers and refusing to take responsiblity for the overdevelopment and rampant displacement of the district on her watch.

The article fails to mention that 75 percent of New Yorkers did not want Quinn and the mayor to extend term limits; and the police permitting scheme approved by Quinn has chilled political dissent and forced citizens to fi le for permits to exercise their right to free speech.

Quinn championed the destruction of the Union Square north plaza, and approved miles of luxury condos with no regard to the resulting effect on existing communities’ schools, utilities, traffi c and transportation. Derr is too rabid and withdrawn to lead. Kurland on Sept. 15!

Susan Howard

Alphie’s column was a gift

To The Editor:Re “My brother Frank: The teacher who walked beside

me” (Memorial, by Alphie McCourt, Aug. 19):Alphie, thank you for writing something so real. Thank

you for bringing us into the room with you and into your thoughts and memories around Frank. It is these things that are of real value. I breathe a deep breath of fresh air. It is such a pleasure to be free of cloying sentimentality.

Marta Szabo

We’ve got problems

To The Editor:Would someone please explain to me how Mayor Bloom-

berg creates these oxymoronic catchy titles for himself?First, he is the “Education Mayor” — for kids without

schools. Then, he is the “Good-For-Business Mayor” — and I just see more and more empty store windows.

What about that plant-a-million-trees for PlaNYC? Guess what? I just noticed today that no one in his administration

seems to know that once the trees are planted they need watering. The trees on Eighth Ave. in my neighborhood around 12th St. seem to be dying.

Now he is going to be tough on the M.T.A. just after a ceiling at the 181st St. I.R.T. station collapses. Has he been dong anything regarding the M.T.A. during his reign?

Please, I need help, I just have a graduate degree. Anyone out there?

Pamela L. La Bonne

A ‘certain kind of Jew’?

To The Editor: Re “Thanks, Budd, for everything, even for Sammy

Glick” (Memorial, by Jerry Tallmer, Aug. 12):It is appalling that Jerry Tallmer should identify Sammy

Glick as a “certain kind of Jew” who could have come out of the “cartoons in Julius Streicher’s Nazi newspaper... .” Streicher’s “cartoons” portrayed Jews not primarily as greedy and unprincipled but as lethal and sordid parasites who sucked the blood, gold and vitality out of the German nation (and made it lose World War I) and who therefore had to be eliminated from society.

This, of course, is a recognizable, updated version of the medieval European myth accusing Jews of draining the blood of kidnapped Christian children to use for the production of matzo for Passover. This “blood libel,” as it became called, was cynically employed to justify and incite pogroms in Europe for centuries — even as late as 1946 in Kielce, Poland (source, for those inter-ested, is Nora Levin’s “The Holocaust”), and still circulates.

Ruthless as Glick may be, he does not descend to the level of the mythological anti-Semitic stereotype of bloodsucker in Streicher’s propaganda. One wonders whether Tallmer actu-ally saw some of Streicher’s bilge before he leaped into print.

Tallmer implies that Glick’s merciless, unethical and exploitative behavior in climbing the ladder of success derives from his being a Jew; a “certain kind of Jew” is still a Jew — someone who has Jewish ancestry and is a product of Jewish history and culture and a member of the Jewish people.

What he does not say is that Glick is an assimilationist Jew — one who has rejected and discarded Jewish culture and its behavioral norms and, instead, has chosen to model himself on a certain type of man in the majority culture. In his case, it is the rapacious, capitalist robber baron of the late 19th century.

Tallmer should have identifi ed Glick as being a man who chose the worst type in American life to emulate, not as a ste-



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Let pilots keep on fl ying free in Hudson corridor

BY IAN DUTTONOn July 26, a tragic crash on the Taconic Parkway in

Westchester County claimed eight lives, four of them chil-dren. The Taconic Parkway is heavily traveled and was designed in the 1920s and ’30s when current traffi c volumes and speeds were not imagined. This is no cruise through Iowa cornfi elds; a driver must pay attention and be prepared for the unexpected. Because of these conditions and the his-tory of multiple fatal crashes every year, after the most recent well-publicized crash, local and federal elected offi cials held a press conference to demand that no more cars be allowed on the Taconic.

In our own backyard, in a recent one-year period, Houston St. had three separate crashes each of which resulted in the death of a cyclist. In an average year, dozens of pedestrians are treated for injuries when struck by cars and trucks while just trying to cross this thoroughfare. Wisely, a coalition of our representatives expressed outrage and called for the closure of Houston St. to all traffi c in order to stop the carnage.

And on the Cross Bronx Expressway, besides the hundreds of collisions that take place every year, children in neighboring communities have the highest rates of childhood asthma in the U.S. To prevent thousands of innocent kids’ lives being so negatively affected, there is an uproar as public offi cials call for a ban on driving on the Cross Bronx.

Of course, I’m being facetious. Despite the clear dangers faced by motorists and innocent bystanders alike, no elected offi cial ever gets up and says that we should close a road-way, even after clear patterns of tragic impacts. Can you say, “Queens Boulevard?”

Contrast this with the July 8 collision over the Hudson River of a Piper Lance and a Eurocopter sightseeing helicop-ter. While certainly a great tragedy, this was the fi rst midair collision in the Hudson Visual Flight Rules, or V.F.R., corridor since 1963 — nearly 50 years ago — and only the third fatal general aviation accident in New York City since 1990. Yet a stream of elected offi cials, many of whom I otherwise hold in high regard, have been angling for time in front of a camera to tell you that, before any investigation has been completed, they know the right solution: Ban the fl ights, close the cor-ridor.

This is what is known as a “windshield perspective.” These elected offi cials are probably quite familiar with driving, and though they consciously know cars kill more Americans each and every month than were lost in the tragedy of Sept. 11, they accept the collateral damage because it is familiar. I’d also guess that these same elected offi cials have not under-taken fl ight training and thus are unable to relate to concepts such as see-and-avoid, positive-control airspace or the role of a fl ight plan to Instrument Flight Rules, or I.F.R., versus V.F.R. aircraft. As a result, they make suggestions that are either irrelevant to the scenario or don’t refl ect the risk at hand.

Mayor Bloomberg, on the other hand, with his experience as a pilot and familiarity with the Hudson V.F.R. corridor, was brilliantly rational in his comments just hours after the accident. What happened was extraordinarily rare and presents a much lower risk to the public than, say, lightning strikes. Nonetheless, the aviation community thoroughly investigates each and every crash with a scientifi c precision,

and this process will likely generate specifi c recommenda-tions that deserve careful consideration.

As has been reported, it is possible to fl y over the Hudson River at altitudes below 1,100 feet without any specifi c requirements to be in contact with air-traffi c control. This, in essence, is what is meant by the term “V.F.R. corridor.” There is nothing unusual with this at all; in fact, many large cities have such corridors to segregate small aircraft proceed-ing on their own from commercial aircraft operating to and

from the major airports. Indeed, you can fl y over almost all of the United States without talking to an air-traffi c control-ler except in the proximity of the busiest airports. Airspace where contact is required is actually the exception.

Compare this to driving: Who is “controlling” your actions as you cruise along at 75 miles per hour on the thruway? Who is responsible for your separation from other vehicles? When you change lanes, shouldn’t there be someone giving you permission to do so? When driving, you may be just feet from the nearest car, while when fl ying, it’s exceedingly rare to be within a mile of another aircraft. And probability is on your side: It’s a big sky, even in the most congested areas. The National Transportation Safety Board reports that in the week preceding the Hudson crash, each day an average of 225 aircraft fl ew in the corridor. Even if you limit “day” to 12 hours, that’s less than one aircraft every 3 minutes. Count how many cars pass you on the West Side Highway every 3 minutes — and they are all at the same altitude.

In the wake of the crash, some statements from our local offi cials are simply offensive. Though I hold Manhattan Borough President Stringer in the highest regard, for him to state, “Amateur hour in the sky is over,” shows that he has no connection with the aviation community. If by “amateur,” he means inexperienced or untrained, I question whether he means the 30-year veteran Piper pilot or the 2,700-hour commercial helicopter pilot. The extensive training and test-

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Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas

After the midair crash 1,100 feet over the Hudson River on July 8, a tire from the small Piper Lance plane land-ed in Hoboken, N.J.

Mayor Bloomberg, with his pilot experience and familiarity with the V.F.R. corridor, was brilliantly rational speaking after the accident.



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Aviva CantorCantor is the author of “Jewish Women, Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life.”

It’s the same old N.Y.U.

To The Editor: Re “Provincetown drama encore as theater’s wall partly

removed” (news article, Aug. 19):With the discovery of the partial demolition of the walls

of the Provincetown Playhouse theater which it promised to preserve, New York University has now reprised its lamen-table behavior with the Poe House in 2002. There, too, N.Y.U. struck a deal with the community in which it promised to pre-serve a segment of this historic structure within its new Law School building. But when the scaffolding came down, N.Y.U. claimed it was not feasible to preserve and reuse the promised sections of the building, to the outrage of many.

What’s interesting in this case is that N.Y.U. had claimed that it had done a thorough engineering evaluation of the entire historic Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments building (of which the small theater it promised to preserve comprised less than 6 percent), and that this evaluation pro-vided irrefutable evidence that the building was not structur-ally capable of being reused for the new Law School offi ces the university wanted to build on site.

Yet somehow it now seems the engineer’s evaluation missed that the walls of the theater that N.Y.U. was promising to preserve might not be able to be saved. N.Y.U. held out this promise as part of the basis upon which it received approvals for this project from many of its supporters. Even those of us who did not buy N.Y.U.’s argument and lobbied instead for preservation and reuse of the entire building — which the New York State Historic Preservation Offi ce ruled was quali-fi ed for listing on the State and National Register of Historic Places — acknowledged that the plan to preserve the build-ing’s theater section was a step forward from N.Y.U.’s original plan to demolish all but the tiny theater entry facade.

Now it would seem that N.Y.U. either hid the fact that it could not keep the promise upon which the approvals it sought were given, or at the very least failed to do due diligence to see if this commitment was one it was really in a position to make.

This comes on the heels of the discovery that N.Y.U. is seeking building permits for a taller and larger structure at the former Catholic Center site than it claimed it plans to build there; the reasons for this are still unclear, but the university’s claim that it had to fi le such permit applications in order to pursue a variance for the shorter, smaller building it promised to pursue have been refuted by the Department of Buildings.

Is this really the new N.Y.U. transparency, or just the same old N.Y.U. dishonesty?

Andrew BermanBerman is executive director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Fooled by N.Y.U. again

To The Editor: Re “Provincetown drama encore as theater’s wall partly

removed” (news article, Aug. 19): When the Historic Districts Council heard about the deal

struck with New York University about “preserving” the Provincetown Playhouse, it felt like déjà vu all over again. More than seven years ago, a similar “preservation” solution was proposed and agreed upon for the Poe House; in that case, the university was going to rebuild the facade using the original bricks. Well, one thing led to another and the original bricks weren’t in good enough shape or perhaps there weren’t enough of them after the demolition. So alter-nate bricks were found and a strange homage to a federal rowhouse was constructed on W. Third St., perhaps 100 feet west from where the original historic building stood. Take a walk down W. Third St. sometime and see for yourself how well that “preservation” solution worked.

Therefore, when H.D.C. heard about the Provincetown compromise, we were rather wary of it. The issue is not and never should have become the design of the replacement building. The issue was the preservation of what N.Y.U. President Sexton once called “the fragile ecosystem” of the Village. The preservation solution was remarkably simple — the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments should have been preserved, both on the site’s merits, as well as an anchor for a long-desired South Village Historic District, a goal N.Y.U. had professed to support.

Instead, a long-winded argument was made about the site’s historic integrity and alterations that were made 50 years ago robbing the site of its historic character. Balderdash. The theater was still the Provincetown Playhouse, which still had a strong, if not completely unbroken, 70-year history as a major theatri-cal center, which was proudly proclaimed in the Playbills of shows produced there until N.Y.U. closed the place’s doors to the public. That was the fi rst step — soon the building became inadequate for the university’s needs and a perfectly fi ne his-toric building had to be replaced with a historicist building.

Never fear, though. N.Y.U. reassured the concerned community that the complex’s heart — the Provincetown Playhouse itself, which even the university’s consultants admitted had signifi cance — would remain intact, if not untouched. Too bad no one walked down the block to Poe House to see how well that turned out.

Simeon Bankoff Bankoff is executive director, Historic Districts Council

Park acoustics are totally off

To The Editor:Re “Park neighbors want drummers to just beat it” (news

article, Aug. 5):Let’s remember that the acoustics in Washington Square

Park have been completely changed with the new design. We now have a vast, barren plaza with no trees or buildings as sound buffers around the plaza and fountain. This space is now also completely open to Fifth Ave. and Thompson St. for miles of sound travel. This problem was predicted and ignored by the Parks Department at many pre-design meetings.

The exceptional ruckus caused by the “pots-and-pans guy” was a terrible disturbance and, thankfully, it has been eliminated. But banning all drums in the park is not an acceptable solution. A big part of the charm and character of Washington Square is the variety of musical groups and spontaneous entertainers. In fact, a 10-year-old relative of mine is always dazzled by fi nding “a virtual music gallery” on a walk through the park, each group a different style without overwhelming the nearest one, or so it was.

The installation of trees might be a good idea for the plaza, even if they must be in tubs. But the problem does need solving. With all the experts and money involved, it

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BY JERRY TALLMEROn page 27 of a new book of old pictures of the Brooklyn

Bridge, there is a photograph that might pull you up short, shock you and blow you away.

For just that tiny instant, you may think you’re staring at the front facade of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France — with two high-arched medieval cutouts for win-dows. But no, this is in fact the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge under spiky, thorny construction circa 1874, linked only by steel cables to the much similar Brooklyn end, or tower, slightly to the right across the river in the background.

Suddenly, looking at this image, I remember the only time I ever met Samuel Beckett: one night in Paris in 1964, with the Nobel prizewinner to be, warmed up on the red wine of the workman’s restaurant he had chosen, magically educating me at some length on the genius of Viollet le-Duc, the architect who had restored Notre Dame and much else of that era.

Okay, back to Brooklyn. To my mind, the Brooklyn Bridge is not, as it’s so often labeled, “The Eighth Wonder of the Modern World,” it’s the First Wonder, bar none, come one come all.

It is my own cathedral and always has been — par-ticularly in those years when that very bridge was not much more than a stone’s throw from where I was toiling on South Street for the New York Post.

It was in one of those years, 1983 (the bridge’s centen-nial) that there occurred a huge heart-stopping fi reworks display, along the BB and its support cables and up and down the river, to put to shame the few scanty fi reworks photos in the book at hand.

The book is “Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge.”It is — indubitably — a coffee-table book, but can serve

a useful service as such if people pick it up and leaf through who know nothing whatsoever about this First Wonder of our present world. It may set them wanting more. And worrying.

Because David McCullough, who gave us the brilliant real book about that wonder, “The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge” (Simon & Schuster, 1972) — is today telling us via Internet that the very existence of the BB is now in grave hazard; like the giant Buddhas the Taliban blew up in Afghanistan.

Nor does this book of photographs more than barely mention (and thank) Ken Burns for his superlative 1981 documentary fi lm, “Brooklyn Bridge,” crafted in large part out of McCullough’s masterwork, with McCullough himself as narrator and starring the voice of Julie Harris as Emily Roebling — riding across the bridge on opening day, May 24, 1883, with a white rooster on her lap. Some 150,000 people walked across it along with her.

But here’s what you do get in “Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge”:

A photo of the head and shoulders of John Roebling, the Prussian-born engineer and steel-cable manufacturer who had the whole dazzling idea of a vast suspension bridge (longest in the then world) across the East River.

A photo of John Roebling’s son Washington Roebling, a battlefi eld hero at Gettysburg who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, and who a few short years later took over when his father died in 1869 of an injury incurred early in the construction of the bridge.

Add ironies: Washington Roebling himself was knocked off the job — for good — by a crippling case of the bends (caisson disease) also incurred at (or deep under) the bridge.

For the remainder of the construction, he can only stare out at it from a window (we look out that same window via photo) some blocks away on Columbia Heights, while his wife Emily takes over as de facto chief engineer for the dura-tion of the great project.

And Emily? We get her portrait too, of course, one you have seen many times before — a smiling powder puff around a core of steel.

Photos, photos, drawings, engravings; the great bridge itself, in every phase of construction including a cover illustra-tion from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper of fi ve work-men with painting gear in hand, clinging like fl ies to a spider’s web of cables high, high over the East River. It reminds me of nothing so much as Margaret Bourke White’s daring shots of men in space atop the Empire State Building during the con-struction of that amazing project at the start of the 1930s.

Another: Master mechanic E. Frank Farrington, waving his hat with his right hand, to the (unseen) mob below, while his left hand clings to the attachment of the swing-seat he’s riding, like s tiny cable car, from one tower to another — to prove how safe it is!

Another: A drawing of the bridge’s fi rst jumper, a certain Robert Odlum, when in 1885 he drops to his death from high over the ferry and sailboats that are paying no attention whatsoever far below — as in Auden’s great poem, Musee des Beaux Arts.

In fact, the book in its entirety is a chronicle of overlap-ping, contrasting modes of transportation: sail, steam, side paddle, horse and wagon, cable car, railroad, automobile, sub-way train, and of course the good old, bad old, human foot.

One more: A movie poster for “It Happened in Brooklyn” (Sinatra, Lawson, Grayson, Durante, 1947) autographed by the fi lm’s songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne.

What you do not get in “Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge”:

Any paintings whatsoever of a subject hundreds of super-lative artists have addressed, from Joseph Stella to Andy Warhol to LeRoy Neiman and on up and down. Not to men-tion poets from Hart Crane to Marianne Moore to Vladimir Mayakovsky to Jack Kerouac and on up and down.

Any photography credits whatsoever (except one passing reference to Lewis Hine). This is the real crime in a book like this.

Still and all, a cathedral is a cathedral. When you turn to page 27, prepare to blink.

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Key fi gures gathered on the Brooklyn anchorage (1878)

“INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS” (+)I thought this fl ick was based on some historical facts. It

is not. It’s a spoof. If you view it as such and don’t get super-sensitive thinking one should be extremely careful when engaging in a spoof that involves elements of the Holocaust, you will enjoy this fi lm.

Interestingly, Brad Pitt’s performance does little to height-en the enjoyment. He portrays Lt. Aldo Raine, a Tennessee hillbilly in charge of eight Jews. The performance of Christoph Waltz, playing the Nazi Gestapo fi gure Col. Hans Landa, is the highlight of the fi lm. His ability to convey courtliness and sympathy and then go to commit the cruelest of horrors is simply superb.

The plot is simple. The U.S. Army authorizes Lt. Raine (Brad

Pitt) to take eight Jews with him, parachute into Germany and then simply kill Nazis. He states that each of them owes him 100 Nazi scalps before they are through with their campaign. They proceed to kill their share of Nazis and literally scalp them.

The Jew hunter, Col. Hans Landa, pursues Jews in occu-pied France. There is an enormously touching scene show-ing a French farmer giving up the Jews he had hidden in his house out of fear that he and his three daughters would be killed. The heroine is a Jewish woman, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), who does us all proud. A fi ctional fi nale involves an apparently successful effort to kill Hitler, Bormann, Goering and Goebbels at a French theater. The fi lm at that point becomes a rollicking musical without the music. All I could do was hum “Springtime for Hitler,” which I liked immensely.

Quentin Tarantino, writer and director, did it again.PT said: “I didn’t really enjoy the fi lm, although it was

very well produced and quite realistic except for the outra-geous bits: Brad Pitt as a hillbilly, Jewish soldiers trying to pass themselves off as Italian fi lmmakers, and other unreal-

KOCH ON FILM



BY ELENA MANCINIP-Star Rising is the story of a second

chance that emerged from a Harlem hous-ing shelter, “a rose in concrete,” as director Gabriel Noble refers to the character and talent of child rapper P-Star (on which his feature documentary is based).

When Noble met Priscilla “P-Star” Diaz and her father/manager/former hip-hop hopeful Jesse Diaz at a rapper debut dance party in NYC, he knew immediately that P-Star was not just a kid with a lot of spunk — she had a story that was worth telling.

At the time, she was all of nine years old. What struck Noble about P-Star (apart from her tender age and the fact that she was out at a party past midnight on a school night) was “the aggressiveness of her fl ow, charis-ma, her street smarts and her fi re.” As Noble describes it, he wanted to learn “where that cadence was coming from.” Coupled with P-Star’s precociousness and passion for performing was also the consciousness of wanting to bring forward the dream that had seemingly eluded her father.

Five years have passed since Noble’s fi rst encounter with the Diaz family. During that fi ve year period, Noble (with the help of pro-ducer Marjhan Tehrani) has spent four years getting to know the family intimately and fi lming them for this tour-de-force feature

documentary. The process of fi lming brought Noble and the Diaz to form a close bond. Noble described it as feeling like a member of their family. The comfortable rapport between the director and the family certainly comes across in watching the documentary. All of the family members seemed at ease playing themselves. Their interactions with

one another appeared natural and candid throughout. This sense also remained strong in moments that highlighted character weak-nesses, poor judgment, disappointments and defeats.

Particularly noteworthy in this regard was Jesse Diaz. Armed with scant resources and cast in an emotionally challenging famil-ial situation, this single father did not have an easy time at bringing up two young

daughters who longed for their absentee, crack-addled mother. Jesse’s parenting style might be unorthodox, but his straight talk and refusal to whitewash his checkered past for their benefi t is a testament to his love and unwavering devotion.

As much as the story depicts the perks and pitfalls of launching and managing a career in the New York City hip-hop scene, it’s even more a story about a family’s strug-gles to fulfi ll a dream without present for one another and sticking together. The Diaz family brings its both its love for one another and its baggage to the well documented risks and gains of child stardom. It learns many lessons along the way.

P-Star must learn to temper her pluck and talent with her need to just be a kid. Jesse must come to accept that despite his commitment to confronting the pressures and responsibilities that come with dual role of manager/father, the intervention of hum-bling realities cannot be prevented. Solsky must learn the importance of self-expression in a shadow role. While this is in many ways a distinctly New York story, its disarming authenticity and emotional rawness give it universal appeal. Noble, whose future projects include a documentary on gypsy children in Romania, tells P-Star’s story with sensitivity and respect.

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Rooftop Films presents P-Star, under starry sky2009 Tribeca Film Festival fl ick gets Brooklyn premiere

Photo courtesy of Rooftop Films & the fi lmmaker

P-Star dancing in foreground, looming large in background

istic fl ights of the fi lmmaker’s fancy. I just couldn’t reconcile the serious parts of the fi lm such as the giving up of the hidden Jews with the comedic elements.”

1 hour, 52 minutes; Rated R.

At the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 (850 Broadway). For screening times, call 1-800-326-3264 x628. For the Box Offi ce, 212-253-6266. Also at, among other places, Chelsea Clearview Cinema (260 West 23rd Street). For screening times, call 212-777-3456 x597. For the Box Offi ce, call 212-691-5519.

“DISTRICT 9” (-)This horror/sci-fi fi lm received kudos

from the critics, some giving it four stars. Ridiculous. Stay away.

The picture reminded me of the serials or chapters that I watched as a child every Saturday afternoon. For one dime I saw two fi lms and also received a free soda and a comic book. Of course, “District 9” cost a lot more to make because of the technology involved.

A spaceship, unable to move from its posi-tion in the sky, appears over Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1980s. The alien craft is invaded by members of the South African military and police force who fi nd a million

or so creatures onboard that look like insects and to some like crustaceans.

The extraterrestrials are initially treated humanely and placed in a refugee camp known as District 9. Relations deteriorate and they are soon viewed as social outcasts and referred to as prawns, a slur. In an apparent allegory, the treatment toward the aliens by the blacks and whites of South Africa, with their history of Apartheid, becomes brutal. A war is declared to get rid of them and they are moved to an undesir-able slum area.

I frankly thought it was all ridiculous, particularly so when an attempt to add a “buddy” component was introduced. One of the aliens, Christopher Johnson (Jason Cope), tries to help Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who was in charge of the aliens’ care. After accidentally becoming infected, Wilkus starts to turn into an alien and Johnson promises to cure him.

I repeat. Stay away. This movie is an enormous waste of time and they don’t hand out free sodas or comic books.

1 hour, 53 minutes; Rated R .

At the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 (850 Broadway). For screening times, call 1-800-326-3264 x628. For the Box Offi ce, 212-253-6266. Also at, among other places, Chelsea Clearview Cinema (260 West 23rd Street). For screening times, call 212-777-3456 x597. For the Box Offi ce, call 212-691-5519.

Koch on FilmContinued from page 25

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FILM


BY SCOTT HARRAHThis provocative show, based on a true story about “two

days in the last years of the life of playwright Tennessee Williams,” is one of the undisputed highlights of the 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s brilliant script, the stellar performances of the three cast members and Tom Gualtieri’s tight direction create a top-notch bio-drama about one of America’s most celebrated, controversial the-ater icons.

“His Greatness” is not offi cially about Williams. The Broadway/Hollywood legend’s name and play titles are never mentioned, and the lead character is simply called The Playwright (Peter Goldfarb). However, Daniel MacIvor covers all the notorious territory about Williams’s private life — from his alleged problems with alcohol and drugs to his failed attempts at writing in his later years.

The story takes place in a Vancouver hotel room circa 1980, as The Playwright prepares for the opening of a new, updated version of an old play. “His Greatness” focuses on the complicated symbiotic relationship between the writer and his high-strung, devoted assistant/lover (played with aplomb by Dan Domingues). Troubles abound when a calcu-lating hustler (the superb Michael Busillo) is hired to escort the old man to the gala opening.

Goldfarb is fi rst-rate as The Playwright — playing him as a lovable yet sad person on a path of self-destruction. Dan Domingues is totally incandescent as The Assistant. He brings down the house with his manic mannerisms as he delivers MacIvor’s beautifully written dialogue. When The Playwright complains about pain in his soul, The Assistant quips, “That’s not your soul — it’s your hangover.” The Assistant is the only one who can get The Playwright out of bed and keep him sober enough to get through a radio interview and the opening of the play. Domingues portrays The Assistant as a compassionate but frustrated man who tries desperately to help the egotistical, deluded author over-come his battle with alcoholism and drug addiction so he can maintain both his career and dignity.

“His Greatness” doesn’t solely rely on the sordid aspects of Williams and his personal problems. There’s also great detail on why critics were so fascinated with his female characters, and what he really thought of such theatrical peers as Arthur Miller. Ultimately, however, “His Greatness” is a portrait of a once-great writer’s decline and why so many people turned on him in the end — showing exactly why the real life of Tennessee Williams was every bit as tragic as his plays.

SCATTERED LIVESWritten, directed and choreographed by Yoshihisa Kuwayama

A 2009 New York International Fringe Festival presentation

A presentation of Samurai Sword Soul, in association with The Present Company

At the Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street, third fl oor

Aug 28, 9:30 p.m.; Aug 29, 4:30 p.m.

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BY SCOTT STIFFLERThey drink! They fi ght! They repeat that process all day

and all night!Occasionally, the good, bad and confl icted Samurai pause

long enough to experience fl eeting moments of moral and philosophical clarity amidst the relentless bloodshed and power grabs. In the end, only a disembodied spirit and the drunken shell of a former great fi ghter remain to survey the damage and vow that their swords will only be used improve life rather than reign destruction upon the land.

That’s the fascinatingly complex moral drawn at the end of the simple story to be found in Samurai Sword Soul’s pro-duction of “Scattered Lives” — a fi ne example of minimalist technique made to serve the telling of an epic tale.

The bare, black box stage is fi lled only with three musi-

cians, a nine-member cast and their swords. They swords aren’t real, though; but the well-constructed props glisten with deadly implications and the resulting sound when blade meets blade, although not that of metal, lets you know in no uncertain terms that a battle is taking place.

The fi ght choreography, by writer/director Yoshihisa Kuwayama, is relentless, imaginative and effective in its implication of drawn blood and death (of which there is much!).

But along with all the violence you’d expect from a Samauri tale comes a thoughtful plot which sees two war-

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HIS GREATNESSWritten by Daniel MacIvor

Directed by Tom Gualtieri

A 2009 New York International Fringe Festival presentation

Presented by Adam Blanshay and Lyric Productions, in associa-tion with The Present Company

At the Cherry Lane Theater (38 Commerce Street)

Aug 27, at 3:45 p.m.; Aug 29, at Noon

For tickets ($15), visit www.fringenyc.org or call 866-468-7619.

Visit www.HisGreatnessPlay.com

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Tennessee Williams, sorta, center, in “His Greatness”

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The Samauri storytellers of “Scattered Lives”



ring factions duel to the death and a drunken clown achieve redemption. By the end, only the reformed drunk and the ghost of the good-guy master remain on stage to contemplate the way of the warrior and the responsibility that comes with the power to take a life with relative ease. That’s the unique, unexpected ingredient which makes “Scattered Lives” more than just a series of violent encounters.

UNION SQUAREDWritten by David S. Singer

Directed by Diana Basmajian

A 2009 New York International Fringe Festival production of the Present Company

At The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street)

For tickets ($15), visit www.fringenyc.org or call

(866) 468-7619. Visit www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com

Aug 26, 3:15 p.m.; Aug 27, 10:15 p.m.; Aug 30, 1:15 p.m.

BY SCOTT HARRAH Everything about David S. Singer’s Fringe Festival pro-

duction of “Union Squared” reeks of mediocrity — from the half-baked, formulaic “romantic comedy” plot to the one-dimensional characters (all of whom are absurd stereotypes).

This tale of “sex, money and massage therapy” has all the

elements of a traditional comedy of errors, but ultimately falls fl at due to trite dialogue, silly plot twists, and uneven performances from the cast.

Spoiled Wall Street stockbroker Brad (Levi Sochet) must deal with his meddling Jewish mother, Sophie (Anita Keal), when she informs him he’s going to inherit several million dollars that his late father socked away illegally in a Swiss bank account. Trouble arises when we learn that Brad is cheating on his devoted wife Rachel (Annie Meisels) with sexy blonde massage therapist, Shannon (Carlina Ferrari).

As Sophie, Anita Keal does her best to bring badly needed depth to the character; a warmhearted woman who wants the best for her son — and nothing to do with the

money his father made through unethical business practices. The problem is, as written by playwright David S. Singer, Sophie is a mere caricature of every Jewish mother; but not in a positive way. From her endless use of Yiddish words to her exaggerated mannerisms, she comes across as a cartoon rather than a believable lead character.

Levi Sochet is totally miscast in the role of Brad. He has zero chemistry with the rest of the actors, and is far from plausible as a greedy, oversexed, unfaithful husband. It’s a shame that Sochet’s comic timing is so off — because Meisels as Rachel and Ferrari as Brad’s mistress Shannon are far more competent actors. Unfortunately, the playwright has written their characters as oversimplifi ed ethnic clichés. Rachel is a nagging Jewish-American princess wife, and Shannon is an Irish-American with a drinking problem.

Director Diana Basmajian fails to make the cast gel as a cohesive unit. Even with more rehearsal time and better casting, it would likely be impossible to add much to this fl imsily-written play. Nothing in the hackneyed narrative is original. Everything about the show — from the opening when Brad learns about his father’s secret Swiss cash stash to the unfolding, unfunny marital infi delities of the couple — is predictable. “Union Squared” tries to be an intelligent adult comedy, but is in fact nothing but an amateurish string of moments about uninteresting people and their supposedly humorous daily lives.

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The hardworking, but doomed cast, of “Union Squared”


2009 DOWNTOWN MUSICFESTDowntown MusicFest, an effort from J&R Music to revi-talize lower Manhattan and encourage people to keep returning to the downtown area, accomplishes that task by making like the pied piper and luring crowds with free R&B, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Latin and pop music. Aug 27, meet and greet Surf music inventor Dick Dale and son Jimmy; 2 p.m. at the J&R store. Aug 28, in concert at City Hall Park, it’s J Moss and Grammy-nominated R&B and pop singer Mario. Aug 29, KRS-One and Buckshot are among the performers. Free. 5-7 p.m. on Aug 27, 28; 1-5 p.m. on Aug 29; at City Hall Park (across from 23 Park Row & Broadway). For more informa-tion, call 212-238-9000 or visit www.jr.com.

CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTCity Parks Foundation’s 17th edition of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival features two afternoons of free jazz headlined by Frank Wess Quintet and Cedar Walton Quartet — all in the service of paying tribute to the great Charlie Parker. Gary Bartz, José James, Aaron Parks, Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadores and the Dred Scott Trio. Free. Performances begin at 3 p.m. on Sat, Aug 29 (at Marcus Garvey Park (124th Street and Mt. Morris Park) and at 3 p.m. Sun, Aug 30 at Tompkins Square Park (E. 8th Street, between Aves. A and B).

LOSERS LIVE LONGERLongtime East Village resident and author Russell Atwood reads excerpts from his new novel, fresh off the truck from the nefarious souls at Hard Case Crime books. “Losers Live Longer” is the name of the book — and the name of the official book launch event. “Losers” marks the return of East Village private investigator Payton Sherwood. This time around, Sherwood is once again up to his knees in a pig-pile of murder, lust and greed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side (just when you thought they man-aged to make the place respectable). Atwood is joined at the event by fellow

pulp fiction writers Charles Ardai and Joe Guglielmelli. Free. Sun, Aug 30, 7 to 9 p.m.; at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street. Visit www.kgbbarlit.com

NIGHTSHIFT IIIThis group gallery show pulls back the curtain to reveal the talents of those who toil during the daylight hours as arts institution staff and/or artist assistants to big names in the established art world. By night, however, this sub-community spends their hours maintaining disciplined studio practices of their own. Show up and find out what they have to show for it — and you might just end up pinpointing that moment in time when the student becomes the master. Through October 6. Viewing Hours: Tues through Fri, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat, 1 to 4 p.m.; at Hudson Guild Gallery, 441 West 26th Street. Call 212-760-9837. At the closing party on Oct 6, 6 to 8 p.m., you can meet the artists and take in some performance art.

KEEPING THE INDEPENDENT FLAMEFirst Run Features gets a respectful retrospective, as the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates thirty years of fiction and documentary films from the company founded in 1979 by a group of film-makers dedicated to (OK, obsessed) with advancing the distribution of independent film. The gay his-tory documentary “Before Stonewall” is on the bill (Sept 3), as is “49 Up” (Aug 30, 31) — part of a decades-long doc which checks in with a group of Brits every seven years. Also included is a screen-ing of the Harlan Ellison cult fave “A Boy and His Dog” (Aug 26) and appearances from filmmakers. August 26 through September 4 at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street). Single Screening Tickets: $7; series Pass, for $40 admits one person to five screenings. For a complete schedule, visit www.filmlinc.com.

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Russell Atwood (foreground), pounding out some fresh pulp

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“Blue Tony” (2009)

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A middle aged participant of “49 Up”

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Jimmy (left) and Dick Dale

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TION OF VIP SPECIAL

SERVICES, LLC

Application of Authority fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/13/09. N.Y. Offi ce Loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in New Jersey, on 04/12/05. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon to the LLC: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Avenue of the Amer-icas, Suite 501, New York, NY 10001. The Principal Busi-ness Address of the LLC: 583 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ 07052. Purpose of LLC: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF INDIGO SHOWROOM

LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 06/03/09. Offi ce 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 8th Ave., Ste. 14NC, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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P U B L I C N O T I C E S


NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BREAD AND BUTTER

MARKETING, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 04/30/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Philip F. McGovern, Jr., Esq. Connoll Foley LLP, Harborside Financial Center, 2510 Plaza 5, Jersey City, NJ 07311. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KIMMERICH, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/15/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Herve N. Linder, Ernst & Linder LLC, 17 Bat-tery Pl., Ste. 1307, New York, NY 10004. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF M-K SOUTH BROAD-WAY ASSOCIATES LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 01/11/02. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: C/O Kenart Realties Inc, 10 W 47th St., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ISABEL SCHAREN-BERG CREATIVE MAN-

AGEMENT LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 06/04/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Marie-Isabel Scharenberg, 417 E. 6th St., #2, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GRAMERCY PSY-

CHOLOGICAL SERVICES, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/06/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 205 E. 16th St., Apt. 1A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEWIS JACOBSEN

ARCHITECT LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/20/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP, 250 Park Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10177. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF OR BOOKS LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/06/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Colin Robinson, 213 W. 21st St., #3B, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SHAHIN GHARIB MD,

PLLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/06/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Corpora-tion Service Comp., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: profession of medi-cine.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GOTHAM WELLNESS

ACUPUNCTURE, PLLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/01/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The PLLC, 96 Craft-sland Rd., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Purpose: profession of acupuncture.

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TION OF ESV SAILING

LLC

Authority fi led with the SSNY on 05/07/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 05/13/2008. SSNY is des-ignated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O the LLC, 225 Broadway, Ste 3407 , NY, NY 10007. Address required to be maintained in DE: 108 West 13th St. Wil-imington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation fi led with DE Div of Corps, 401 Federal St - Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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TION OF 867 MADISON,

LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 7/1/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 867 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10021. LLC formed in DE on 4/4/05. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corpora-tion Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: NIELSEN MOBILE, LLC

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 5/8/09. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 6/10/98. County off. loc.: New York Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Nielsen Mobile, c/o The Nielsen Company, 770 Broad-way, NY, NY 10003, Attn: Tax Dept. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MTI SHOWSPACE

GP LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/30/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, c/o Music Theater International, 421 W. 54th St., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Drew Cohen. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MTI SHOWSPACE L.P.

Certifi cate fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/2009. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LP, c/o Music Theater International, 421 W. 54th St., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Drew Cohen. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2108. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GENESIS PART-NERS REAL PROPERTY

HARLEM, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on June 12, 2009. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on May 15, 2009. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o GENESIS CORNERSTONE PARTNERS, LLC, 594 Broadway, Suite 1107, New York, NY 10012. DE address of LLC: c/o Karim Hutson, 55 Cascade Lane, Suite A, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 19971. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHAMPION PARKING

77 LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/10/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 655 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017. Pur-pose: any lawful purpose.

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NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: STYX SPV-1, LLC

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 6/23/09. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 6/19/09. County off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 299 Park Ave., NY, NY 10171. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/5-9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RENEWABLE COM-

MUNITIES, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/30/2009. Offi ce loca-tion: 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: Renew-able Communities, LLC c/o Law Offi ces of Howard Goldman 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/12 – 9/16/09

PIG & OX PICTURES, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/7/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 201 East 30TH ST. APT. 37 NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Robert Demarco 201 East 30TH ST. APT. 37 NY, NY 10016.

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ADVANCE YOUR IMAGI-NATION LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/22/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mirlet Auguste C/O Ayi-First Taste NYC 208 W. 29TH ST., Suite 406 New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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MIMI & ME LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/7/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 320 West 86 Street #5C New York, NY 10024. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: ONY Pro-tection, LLC. Articles of Orga-nization fi led with the Sec-retary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 7/15/09. N.Y. offi ce location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to ONY Protection, LLC, c/o Omni New York LLC, 885 Second Avenue, 31st Fl., Suite C, NY, NY 10017. Name/address of each member available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF EXCELERATE

DISCOVERY, LLC

Application for Authority was fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on July 30, 2009. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal business address: Piedmont Center North, 3575 Piedmont Road, N.E., Building 15, Suite 900, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. LLC formed in Georgia (GA) on August 25, 2008. 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 pro-cess against the LLC is to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Avenue, Suite 100, Albany, New York 12205. GA address of LLC: Piedmont Center North, 3575 Piedmont Road, N.E., Building 15, Suite 900, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Articles of Organization fi led with GA Secretary of State, Corporations Division, 315 West Tower, #2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1530. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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TION OF BLUE SPRING

SHIPPING COMPANY

LIMITED

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/19/09. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in Gibraltar 7/3/08. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to c/o CTC, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Gibraltar offi ce addr.: Helen Bonavia, 10 Blackwood Tower, Brymp-ton, S. Barrack Rd., Gibraltar. Art. of Org. on fi le: Regis-trar of Companies, Compa-nies House Gibraltar, 1st Fl., The Arcade, 30-38 Main St., Gibraltar. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ORIZZONTE CON-

STRUCTION INTERNA-

TIONAL LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/30/09. Offi ce 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 served upon him is C/O the LLC 55 Broad Street 15E, New York, N.Y., 10004. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/12-9/16/09

ROLLER RINK 515 LLC

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 6/25/09. NY Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 515 W. 18th St., NY, NY 10011 General purposes

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ARCHER SPE

OFFSHORE I, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 06/23/09. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 570 Lexington Ave., 40th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Joshua Lobel at the princ. offi ce of the LLC, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CROSSBOR-

DERS, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/29/03. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 207 W. 25th St., Ste. 507, NY, NY 10001. NYS fi ctitious name: CROSS-BORDERS OF NEW YORK, LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Production services.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KOTP INVESTORS

I LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 135 W. 18th St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to James A. Pappas at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/12-9/16/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF THE LAW OFFICE

OF FIONA OLIPHANT,

ESQ., LLC

Articles of Organization

fi led with Secretary of State

of New York (SSNY) on

04/16/09. Offi ce 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: PO Box

250166 New York, NY 10025.

Purpose: To engage in any

lawful act or activity. Vil 8/12-9/16/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CLARITY SOLU-

TIONS GROUP LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/1/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 3/25/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 298 Mulberry St., Apt. 7H, NY, NY 10012. Address of the princi-pal offi ce: 665 Broadway, Ste. 503, NY, NY 10012. Address to be maintained in DE: 615 South DuPont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. Of State, 401 Federal St., Ste 4., Dover, DE 19901 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JUNOON NYC LLC.

Articles of Organization Filed with Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 6/11/09. Offi ce located in NY county. SSNY has designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any pro-cess served against the LLC: Rajesh Bhardwaj, 56 Traut-wein Cresent, Closter, NJ 07624.

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DREAMS ANIMATION LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 590 Madison Avenue,21ST Floor Manhattan, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

D & C MCKEEGAN LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/6/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC Mckeegan & Shearer PC 192 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

MHT VISIONS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/19/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O Mona Tem-chin 509 East 81ST Street Apt 16 New York, NY 10028. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

BOMBSHELL TAXI LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/20/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 313 Tenth Avenue NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Evgeny A. Freidman 313 Tenth Avenue NY, NY 10001.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

EXPERT NETWORK GROUP, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/17/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC Attn Mark S Wolkstein 201 East 15TH ST APT 4C New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

FANTASTIC PAW, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/28/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Michael Grego-ry 360 West 21ST Street 2K New York, NY 10011. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

MS. TEASE DANCE STU-

DIO, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/27/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 129-08 7TH Ave, 1ST Floor College Point, NY 11356. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SECOND BUTTON

LLC

Art. of Org fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/27/09. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, 1350 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, Attn: Thomas G. Huszar, Esq.. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF C/S 12TH

AVENUE LLC

Authority fi led with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/2/02. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/31/02. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Peter Sharp & Co., Inc., 545 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Corpora-tion Service Co., 2711 Cen-terville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that license number 1229697 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 128 West 29th Street, New York, N.Y. 10001-5301 for on-premises consump-tion. BRISAM WEST 29 LLC d/b/a DOUBLETREE HOTEL MANHATTAN-CHELSEA

Vil 8/19/09 & 8/26/09



“I am not a rehabber yet, but every time I take care of new babies I get a little closer,” Goren said.

A squirrel rehabber is licensed by the state and must pass tests, submit references and have an interview in order to get approved. Certifi ed squirrel rehabbers are listed with the Center for Animal Care & Control so they can be called up if a motherless or injured squirrel is found.

When a squirrel recently got hit by a car, a rehabber kept the squirrel in a dark room and the animal recovered, Goren noted. If a squirrel is sick or injured, it can be taken to a veterinar-ian that specializes in wildlife.

“I took a squirrel in a carrier on the subway to a vet on the Upper East Side. The squirrel needed surgery but ultimately didn’t make it,” Goren recalled.

Goren once saw a dog kill a squirrel in Washington Square Park.

“There is a leash law for a reason,” she said. “A squirrel is just as sentient a being as a dog or a cat.

“I spend a couple hours a day watching them when I have time,” she said. “In the sum-mer, the days are longer so they stay out later. They don’t come out at night because they are scared of rats.”

Goren is not the fi rst local resident to spend time observing squirrels. “Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang

of Urban Squirrels,” considered an essential text, was written by Grace Marmor Spruch, a former New York University physics professor, and details Spruch’s observations from the win-dow of her Washington Mews apartment.

“The book is very accurate,” Goren said. “Everybody who feeds squirrels in Washington Square Park has a copy.”

There are reddish squirrels in the Hanging Tree in the northwest corner of the park. Someone told Goren that the squirrels’ color could be because of the reddish sap of the tree, and she thinks that it is a plausible explanation.

According to Goren, there are only four or fi ve black squirrels in Washington Square Park, but there are more in Stuyvesant Town and in Union Square, although she doesn’t know why.

“We have the fattest squirrels in the city in Washington Square Park,” Goren noted. “I’ve heard that the squirrels in Union Square are starving because nobody feeds them.”

There is no law against feeding squirrels. Councilmember Alan Gerson backed an anti-pigeon-feeding ordinance, but that does not apply to squirrels, explained Goren. Goren does not feed the pigeons, but she makes an exception for a white pigeon that somebody named Paz.

“Paz adopted me, I didn’t adopt Paz,” she said. “She is too well mannered, I think she might be from a pigeon coop.”

Local Parks Department offi cials are mostly supportive of Goren’s efforts. One Parks worker came by to tell Goren that he had seen a baby

squirrel in a nearby tree. Squirrels have babies in February or March

and then again in August and September. “There are new babies now; so the spring

babies have to learn how to cope on their own,” Goren explained. “They get pushed out of the nest to make room for the new ones.

“I saw squirrels screwing a few times,” she said. “It was the funniest thing on the planet. They were making babies!”

Goren estimates that there are between 75 and 100 squirrels in Washington Square Park. She can often tell them apart because of the markings on their faces.

“People ask if I give them names,” Goren said. “But there are too many for that!”

She improvised her own sound to attract the squirrels.

“The sound I make is not a squirrel noise, but they know it’s me and I won’t hurt them. I made it up because it echoes well.”

Goren feeds the squirrels on the east side of the park, along with what she says are half a dozen other people who do the same. The squirrel feeders split up the park into different sectors, which Goren explains began when the park was under reconstruction.

During the Washington Square Park phase-one reconstruction, a score of squirrels died, according to Goren.

“I think it is because years ago they didn’t put rat poison in boxes, it was just loose,” she said. “So maybe it was in the soil when they dug it up.”

Goren is a popular fi xture in Washington Square Park.

A student from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts recently used footage of Goren hand feeding the squirrels for a fi lm-class project and posted a clip of it online.

“The N.Y.U. fi lm students call me the ‘The Squirrel Whisperer,’” Goren said.

She is used to posing for pictures with the Washington Square Park squirrels.

“I am in more pictures taken by foreign tourists than anything. The Italians and the French love to take pictures of me feeding the squirrels.”

Call it nuts, but she is ‘The Squirrel Whisperer’Continued from page 1

Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel

One of Washington Square Park’s between 75 and 100 squirrels on top of one of the park’s squirrel houses.


Bravest really was

An off-duty fi refi ghter from Engine 10 on Liberty St. was in the Union Square subway station coming home from a party at about 10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 21, when he spotted a man lying on the tracks across from his platform. The fi refi ghter, Adam Rivera, 30, jumped down, ran across the track and pulled the victim to the platform, where two bystanders helped lift

him to safety as a train was pulling in. The res-cued man, Marco Delemo, 45, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital with serious head injuries, according to a Daily News article.

Meth mystery

An employee of a dog-grooming and day-care center at 41 W. 13th St. near Sixth Ave.

turned in a bag of what proved to be crystal methamphetamine to police on Thurs., Aug. 20. The employee found the bag a week ear-lier, according to reports.

Beers weren’t fl y

A Brooklyn man told police he was at a party at Kiss & Fly, 409 W. 13th St. in the

Meatpacking District, and drank two beers at 2 a.m. Wed., Aug. 12, passed out and woke up at 10:30 a.m. at the northwest corner of the West Side Highway at 40th St. to fi nd his iPhone and credit cards missing. There was an unauthorized withdrawal of $400 from a debit card and $300 in unauthorized charges on a credit card, according to police.

Albert Amateau

seems likely there is a sensible solution. This problem should also be a wake-up call to the Parks Department for the new location and design of the performance stage. Current plans appear to reduce and move that space and leave it wide open to LaGuardia Place, without sound buffers. It’s worth another analysis, before work begins, to avoid a repeat of environmental impact on this neighborhood and its residents and

merchants.But let’s not ban any musical instruments

because of design mistakes.

Mary Johnson

Our artistic void

To The Editor: Re “Nadler nets millions for the arts”

(news brief, July 29):

Congratulations to Mr. Nadler and to the many Downtown arts groups that will share in the funds Mr. Nadler was able to direct to them. This lifeline of shared wealth will be welcome to not only artists but to the the neighborhoods as well. The presence of artists is one of the fi rst signs of neighborhood resurgence, and these funds will keep that process on track.

However, Downtown public (as in street) artists are entirely left out of this process. They unwisely disbanded the only organiza-tion (S.I.A.C.U.) that exclusively represented fi ne artists (A.R.T.I.S.T. is a vending group), so public fi ne artists could not apply or qualify for these funds. Too bad, because without promotion or recognition, public artists simply fade into the haze of illegal vendors and bootleggers and therefore lose

visibility and the organizational framework necessary for recognition and control over their own destiny.

Good new for A.R.T.I.S.T. Bad news for public artists.

Lawrence White

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TION OF MEN IN BLACK

STAFFING LLC

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BLACK WOLF CAPITAL,

LLC

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LLC

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CHAOS INDUSTRY, LLC

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OMERGE ALLIANCES,

LLC

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BLACK WOLF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

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BLACK WOLF CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC

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BLACK WOLF PARTNERS,

LLC

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CHATSWORTH VEN-

TURES LLC

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IMEK LLC

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CAPITAL MERCURY

SHIRTMAKERS LLC

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NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF COLONY

FINANCIAL MANAGER,

LLC

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POLICE BLOTTERContinued from page 13

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ing required to obtain even a basic private pilot’s license stands in stark contrast to the minimal requirements required to legally drive a motor vehicle, even on a commercial basis, such as a taxicab. Further, I’d wager that at the moment you are reading this, there are multiple unlicensed drivers speeding along on our neighborhood streets; I’d be mortifi ed if a single unrated pilot fl ew the Hudson cor-ridor in the last month.

Congressman Nadler, otherwise a leader on transportation issues, also showed dis-appointing unawareness. His suggestions that pilots operating in the V.F.R. corridor are “unregulated” and that the corridor is “the Wild West” hardly refl ects the mas-sive Federal Aviation Regulations and Aeronautical Information Manual guid-ance that must be adhered to while fl ying. Is driving on a city street unregulated? Are there not speed limits, right-of-way rules and places you must not drive? These regulations apply even for the most basic fl ight and are barely the tip of the iceberg.

Flying in the congested New York air-space is unquestionably challenging and not for pilots who are unwilling to operate at the peak of their skills. Indeed, most pilots choose to avoid the area altogether, for it is no cruise around an Iowa cornfi eld. Sounds a lot like the Taconic Parkway or Cross Bronx, right?

Statistics and reality bear out, though, that the average New Yorker has much more to fear from that which we accept as every-day risk. Careful investigation may provide opportunities to make the Hudson corridor even safer, and the unrelated discussion of relocating the tourist heliport out of what has become valuable parkland is relevant.

However, we have the world’s safest aviation system because we use a scientifi c approach, not by looking for sound bites and reassuring politics. If, as asserted in this newspaper’s editorial column, this was “an accident just waiting to happen,” it sure waited a very long time.

Dutton is a member of Community Board 2 and a Newark-based fi rst offi cer on the Boeing 757 and 767 for a major airline and previously was a light-aircraft fl ight instructor.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

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THROPY PARTNERS, LLC

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of State of NY (SSNY) on

10/3/08. Offi ce location: NY

County. SSNY designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served. SSNY shall mail pro-

cess to: c/o Corporation Ser-

vice Company, 80 State St.,

Albany, NY 12207, registered

agent upon whom process

may be served. Purpose: any

lawful activity.

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