BY ALBERT AMATEAUComptroller Bill Thompson made

a stop in Greenwich Village last week in his campaign to unseat Mayor Bloomberg and heard a dozen angry shop owners talk about things that make small business a precarious way to make a living.

The list was long and the emotions ran high at the July 29 gathering at Tea & Sympathy on Greenwich Ave. where merchants told Thompson about out-rageous increases in commercial rent, real estate taxes, water rates, sanitation and parking tickets, not to mention bicycle lanes and street fairs.

“This is a chance for me to hear from you,” said Thompson, adding that the city has focused on large busi-nesses and neglected small local busi-nesses, which employ half of the city’s workforce.

He heard plenty, including an out-burst from Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett — who with his wife, Nicky Perry, owns Tea & Sympathy — calling Council Speaker Christine Quinn “a whore.” Kavanagh-Dowsett added, “You can quote me on that,” and after the embar-rassed laughter died down, he said he would “drop my trousers and she can kiss my ass.”

Thompson blushed and murmured, “You don’t want to be saying that,” but Kavanagh-Dowsett, persisted, say-ing Quinn was “sold for services ren-dered,” for her support of Bloomberg’s move to overturn term limits.

Kavanagh-Dowsett on Friday apolo-gized in an e-mail to Quinn, saying the comment was a bad joke and “a pathet-ic attempt to get a laugh out of a couple of people.” His e-mail also recognized Quinn’s efforts in helping make sure

that Village children, including his own daughter, had kindergarten seats in the district in September.

Thompson also called Quinn’s offi ce, and Thompson’s campaign manager Mike Murphy issued a statement that the comptroller had great respect for Quinn and that Kavanagh-Dowsett’s comments at a public event were “inap-propriate and offensive.”

Among the merchants at the forum, Nathaniel Garber Schoen, who runs Garber Hardware, at 710 Greenwich St., a family business in the Village for 125 years, said his share of his landlord’s latest real-estate tax increase amounted to an 80 percent to 90 per-cent increase in his annual rent.

“I don’t mind running the city like a business,” Schoen said. “But it has to

BY JULIE SHAPIROAn increasingly belea-

guered Alan Gerson faces a new challenge in his bid for re-election to the City Council after the Board of Elections removed his name from the ballot last week.

Gerson is already con-fronting four opponents in a Democratic primary race that appears unusually close for a two-term incumbent. But those opponents are

Access denied! Gerson gets hit by petition glitch

Tea & Sympathy’s owner teesoff on Quinn while Bill blushes

Villager photo by Tequila Minsky

Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett, far left, after having called Council Speaker Christine Quinn “a whore” for her stance on term limits, then pointed toward a Villager reporter and photographer and shouted, “You can quote me on that.” Comptroller Bill Thompson, far right, looked stunned. Kavanagh-Dowsett’s wife, Nicky Perry, is second from right.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Bang the drum softly —

or better yet, not at all.That’s the message police

and some neighborhood residents recently have been sending to drummers in Washington Square Park.

An unanticipated effect of the May reopening of the park renovation’s phase one is that the number of drum-mers in the world-famous park has exploded, while the volume of their albeit unam-plifi ed music has skyrock-eted, according to residents.

Meanwhile, one of the drummers says they’re being targeted by a stealth unit of cell phone-camera-wield-ing seniors who are liter-ally recording their every rim shot. But he and his

band mates say Washington Square is a historically important public space for musicians and must be pre-served as such.

Dancing to the beat of a different drummer entirely is former Mayor Ed Koch, who says drums should be banned in parks.

“I’m against drumming in any local park,” said Hizzoner, who lives on Fifth Ave. right off the park. “I think that disturbs in an unreasonable way people who come to enjoy the park. I am for folk singing. …

“You can’t dream when people are drumming,” Koch said. “Parks are supposed to be places where people can

Park neighbors want drummers to just beat it

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STRICTLY BID’NESS: It seems the Meat Market just wasn’t big enough for two improvement districts. That’s apparently the reason why a Meat Market Business Improvement District never got off the ground. Meanwhile, a new High Line Improvement District is being proposed to extend all the way down to Horatio St., taking in the Meat Market. Asking property owners to pay two annual assessments was getting to be a bit much. But one result is that the traffic-calming struc-tures and pedestrian spaces in Gansevoort Plaza and along Ninth Ave. south of 14th St. don’t have any main-tenance funding stream, with no BID yet in place; so, the tree planters are collecting everything from empty Patron tequila bottles to batteries, old cigarette packs and plas-tic water bottles and cups, while the slab seating struc-tures have been tagged with graffiti, and no one seems to be cleaning it all up. On the other hand, the plaza area north of 14th St. on Ninth Ave. is kept immaculately, with movable seats and chairs, the main difference being that it’s maintained with funds from a group called the Chelsea Improvement Project, which includes Chelsea Market and other local businesses.

FRANKLY SPEAKING: By chance we happened to tune into Malachy McCourt’s radio show on WBAI on Saturday morning, when his guests were brother Alphie — who has written for The Villager — and Mike, from San Francisco. The talk, of course, was all about the death of “the brother Frank.” Malachy noted that a move is afoot — “afoot, afoot, afoot!” chimed in Mike — to rename one of the schools in

the reorganized Brandeis High School on the Upper West Side after Frank. That would be unusual, Malachy said, since no New York City public schools are named after an actual teacher, which Frank was, at Stuyvesant High School and before that on Staten Island, before he shot to fame with the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angela’s Ashes.” A bigger challenge, though, will be the brothers’ desire to rename the school they all attended in Limerick, Ireland, after their old-est sibling. There are still many in Limerick who will never forgive McCourt for what he wrote about them — plus there always were a bunch of jealous sorts in positions of power there, Malachy said.

FADING PICTURE? Superstar photographer Annie Leibovitz is in deep fi nancial distress, and is being sued for repayment of a $24 million loan, according to an article in The New York Times. The picture is so bleak that she may lose her three Village townhouses on Greenwich St. Leibovitz originally had only purchased two of the buildings for $4.15 million, but ended up buying the third for $1.87 million after the owner sued because she had damaged a party wall during renovations.

DODGE PARKS IT: Dodge Landesman recently dropped out of the Democratic primary race against incumbent Rosie Mendez in the Second City Council District, meaning that, well, Mendez no longer has a primary race. According to his campaign life coach, Gil Horowitz, Landesman’s bid for the East Village seat was always about setting the stage for a more meaningful run four years from now. After all, by then he’ll at least be out of high school — in fact, even almost out of college. Horowitz said Landesman’s mom also supported his decision to fold his campaign tent — for now, that is. In the meantime, as Scoopy reported two months ago, Dodge’s dad, Broadway theater producer Rocco, is making news after President Obama tapped him to head the National Endowment for the Arts.

THE ‘CHICKENHAWK’ HAS LANDED: After one of the Tompkins Square Park red-tailed hawks surpris-ingly dropped in last month at nearby Birdie’s restaurant and landed on a local blogger’s chicken lunch, the bird was caught by a cook and, according to news reports, sent to the A.S.P.C.A. But Pharaoh Masters, the restaurant’s co-owner, said the daily newspapers didn’t get it quite right. The bird, which had a broken wing, was fi rst taken by his ex-partner, Pnina Peled, to the Bird Rescue Foundation at 87th St. and Columbus Ave., and from there was transferred to a rap-tor preserve in New Jersey. Yeah, but there’s no barbecued chicken out there. ...

THE LATEST ‘GOSSIP’: The hottest show on TV, or so we take it from the local gossip pages, “Gossip Girl” — about prep school kids who are never seen in school — was fi lming Monday on the western edge of Soho around MacDougal and Prince Sts. Hillary Duff was said to be a special guest star. The fi lming was centering around Hundred Acres res-taurant on MacDougal St. when we walked by. It seemed there were more production assistants than we’ve ever seen at one of these affairs. One of them warned us, “Don’t watch the show — they say it lowers your I.Q. by 5 points.”

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now the least of his worries as he scrambles just to be on the ballot.

On July 29, one day after he was denied access to the ballot, Gerson said the Board of Elections was acting incorrectly based on a technicality and he would be restored to the ballot soon.

“The short story is, this time next week it’ll be history,” Gerson said. “I’m confi dent this will be corrected in the next few days.”

Gerson’s optimism didn’t quite pan out, and this week he remained off the ballot with no chance of getting on until Aug. 12, when Judge Edward Lehner will hear a ref-eree’s opinion on the case.

The trouble started when Gerson submit-ted the stacks of petitions he had collected from supporters. He submitted about 7,000 signatures, far more than the 900 required. But in at least one volume of signatures, col-lected by the Harry S. Truman Democratic Club, the printer made an error in Gerson’s address, Gerson said. Rather than listing the address as 505 LaGuardia Place, on some of the pages the printer listed it as 1505 LaGuardia Place.

When the Board of Elections wrote Gerson about the mistake, he sent one of his cam-

paign volunteers down to fi x the error. The volunteer, who is an elections lawyer, crossed off the extra “1”s but forgot one key thing: At the bottom of the amended cover sheet, he was supposed to write, “This is to certify that I am authorized to fi le this amended cover sheet” and then sign and date it, said Valerie Vazquez, a Board of Elections spokesperson.

Gerson said the volunteer realized his mistake while he was still in the building and tried to correct it, but the Board of Elections would not allow the volunteer to do so.

“You only have one opportunity to cure a defect,” Vazquez said, adding that the cover sheet “was not presented to the board in accordance with the rules.”

As a result, the Board of Elections did not allow Gerson on the ballot on Tues., July 28.

Gerson’s lawyers are now arguing his case before Leslie Lowenstein, a referee that Judge Lehner appointed to hear the matter. Gerson testifi ed before Lowenstein on Tues., Aug. 4, and Lowenstein will hear additional testi-mony on Aug. 6.

Lawrence A. Mandelker, an election lawyer Gerson hired, said the Board of Elections was wrong to ask Gerson to submit an amended cover sheet in the fi rst place, since there was no problem with the original cover sheet.

The board could have just discounted the petitions with the incorrect address, which would have left more than enough signatures to qualify the councilmember for the ballot, Mandelker said.

The goal of election law is to prevent fraud, “and here, there was no fraud,” Mandelker said. “It’s an outrageous thing, and I don’t think the court would stand for it for one second.”

While Gerson also blamed New York’s notoriously arcane and complicated election laws, some of his opponents in the First Council District race said the problem typi-fi ed what they called Gerson’s disorganiza-tion, which has been a frequent complaint of many during his tenure.

Pete Gleason, one of the opponents, released a statement slamming “Gerson’s his-tory of sloppy work, lateness and passing-the-

buck behavior.” Gleason’s press release noted that Gerson unsuccessfully fi led objections to Gleason’s petitions when he ran against Gerson in 2003.

Raymond Dowd, Gleason’s lawyer, fi led a court action to keep Gerson off the ballot, a case that referee Lowenstein is also weigh-ing. At a hearing Tuesday, Dowd said Gerson purposely misstated his address, with “clear deception and intent to confuse the Board of Elections.” He accused Gerson of fraud, an issue Lowenstein will take up in more detail at another hearing Thursday.

Gerson spent about an hour on the wit-ness stand at Tuesday’s hearing but offered little new information. He frequently said he could not recall the dates and contents of conversations.

Gerson isn’t the only candidate to have trouble getting on the ballot in the First District. Challenger Arthur Gregory is also off after Gleason objected to Gregory’s peti-tion signatures. The Board of Elections found that of the 1,100 signatures Gregory submit-ted, only 830 were valid, which is fewer than the 900 required.

“I’m going to try to fi nd 75 more,” Gregory said, adding that some of the disqualifi ed signatures were from people who lived just outside the district.

The Board of Elections will hear Gregory’s case on Wed., Aug. 5. If they decide to keep him off the ballot, he said he won’t appeal but will run for the Council seat as an inde-pendent instead.

“It might even be more fun that way,” Gregory said.

The two additional candidates for Gerson’s seat — Margaret Chin and PJ Kim — are also locked in a battle over petition signatures, with Chin claiming that 5,000 of Kim’s 5,500 signatures are invalid. Lowenstein, the refer-ee, is also hearing this matter and will submit an opinion to Judge Lehner for a hearing on Aug. 12. Unlike Gerson and Gregory, Kim remains on the ballot despite the challenge, at least for now.

A. Joshua Ehrlich, Chin’s lawyer, accused Kim of fraud on the petitions, saying some signatures appeared forged. In response, Jerry Goldfeder, Kim’s lawyer, said Ehrlich’s accu-sations amounted to nothing more than “a fi shing expedition.”

In addition to challenging Kim’s petitions, Chin released a statement saying she was not surprised to learn Gerson failed to get on the ballot.

“He shouldn’t be on the ballot anyway,” she said, “because in any other year he would be term-limited.”

Gerson voted in favor of a Council bill last year that extended term limits for city offi cials, including the mayor, the borough presidents and city councilmembers, such as himself.

Gerson, who is a lawyer, defended his decision not to go down to the Board of Elections himself when the issue with the petitions fi rst came to light last week.

“I’m not an election lawyer, I didn’t think it was necessary, and my fi rst priority remains the business of my district,” Gerson said.

Access denied! Gerson ballot petition fl ub

Villager photos by Milo Hess

Councilmember Alan Gerson got drenched with a water gun over the weekend at a Burmese Water Festival in Chinatown, above. Below, some of the possible super-soaker suspects?

‘I’m confi dent this will be corrected in the next few days.’

Alan Gerson on July 29

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Sprays sales senior

A man walked into Paracelso, a cloth-ing boutique at 414 West Broadway, at 3:30 p.m. Tues., July 21, grabbed the 70-year-old saleswoman, shook her vio-lently, pepper-sprayed her and fl ed with $100 that he took from a cash box and three blouses from the hangers, police said. The suspect was described as white, about 30, 6 feet 4 inches tall and 220 pounds with long black hair.

Cell-phone snatch

A woman talking on her cell phone on Wooster St. between Spring and Prince Sts. around 8:45 p.m. Thurs., July 30, had it snatched from her hand by a man who fl ed west on Spring St., police said.

Friend attacks her

An Upper West Sider, 20, told police she went to a bar with an acquaintance during the early hours of Sat., July 25, when they began to argue on Hudson St. between Charles and W. 10th Sts. She said the sus-pect, Michael Toles, 28, grabbed her left arm and slapped and punched her repeatedly. He was charged with assault.

Let’s make a deal

A man who discovered that his cell phone was missing while in a pizza place on Houston St. near Ludlow St. around 11:30 p.m. Sat., July 25, dialed his cell number and heard a man demanding $125 for its return. The victim agreed and arranged to meet the suspect on Avenue D at Eighth St., but called police, who also showed up and arrested Damon Bradley, 35, of 108 Avenue D, charging him with larceny.

Face the music

Police arrested Jacob Figueroa, 32, dur-ing the early hours of Sun., July 26, and charged him with beating a street musician who was playing a harmonica at the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Sts. Figueroa, of the Bronx, grabbed the harmonica and threw it on the pavement and then punched the victim and hit him over the head with a bottle, according to the charges. He was being held in lieu of $7,500 bail pending an Oct. 21 court appearance on charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon — the bottle.

Wolf pack corralled

Police arrested Michael Massey, 21; Dennis Chach, 34; Eric Sattler, 21; and Steven Stanislawczyk, 21, at 4:40 a.m. Sun., July 26, and charged them with beating and robbing a man, 24, on Eighth Ave. at W. 14th St. Massey was being held in lieu of $1,000 bail and the other defendants were free on parole pending an Aug. 12 court appearance.

Celeb drug bust

The federal Drug Enforcement Admin-istration arrested Cameron Douglas, 30, son of actor Michael Douglas, on Tues., July 28, in the Hotel Gansevoort in the Meat Market in connection with a crystal methamphetamine deal, according to an article in the New York Post. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce in Manhattan declined “to confi rm or deny reports of cases under investigation.” In 1999 when Cameron Douglas was a deejay at The Tunnel nightclub in Chelsea he was arrested with an accomplice for trying to buy cocaine, according to reports. The Aug. 4 Post article said Cameron Douglas had been staying in a room rented by his father at the Hotel Gansevoort, 18 Ninth Ave. at 13th St.

Gansevoort nose job

A woman patron of the Hotel Gansevoort bar at 18 Ninth Ave. told police that another woman at the bar punched her in the face at 3:45 a.m. Mon., July 27, and broke her nose. The victim, 29, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital for treatment. Stacy Ramos, 25, was charged with third-degree assault.

‘I’ll shoot you’

After two muggers approached a man walking on Second Ave. near E. Sixth St. at 5 a.m. Thurs., July 30, one reached into his shirt and said, “Give me everything you’ve got or I’ll shoot you,” according to reports. The accomplice grabbed a wallet with $320 and a cell phone from the victim, 35, and both suspects fl ed.

Now he’ll pay

A man who ran up a $155.50 tab for food and drinks at Garage, a restaurant at 99 Seventh Ave. South, at 10:11 p.m. Thurs., July 30, walked out without paying. Police charged Gary Harris, 48, with theft of services.

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BY LINCOLN ANDERSONWhat’s the definition of a crusty? The

question was posed during a discussion on “Crusty Row” in Tompkins Square Park on a recent Sunday afternoon.

“A crusty drinks copious amounts of malt alcohol,” offered a man who said to call him Lump, in his 20s. On the other hand, Lump said, “A gutter pirate does everything.”

Roaming around and being homeless are often part of the equation, too.

“I live wherever I am — usually a junk-yard,” Lump said.

Another man, who gave his name as Road Runner, age 21, said he planned to hop a freight train up to Montreal soon, but that the rails have become “hot.”

“Just want to ride free,” he said.A spotlight was focused on Crusty Row

— near the park’s southwestern corner — and its denizens after the May 9 death of Lesia Pupshaw, a neighborhood woman who was part of the park’s drugs-and-drink-ing scene. Although Pupshaw, 26, who lived on E. Sixth St., was reportedly badly injured in a clash with local youths the night before her death, the medical examiner ruled last month that her death was caused by “acute intoxication” from the combined effects of alcohol and multiple drugs — opiates, Xanax and methadone.

Darren, 36, said he’s been around awhile and knows the score. Talk to me, he said.

Back in ’94, he used to be a “pitcher” for GQ, a brand of crack, at 12th St. and First Ave. He was making $300 to $600 a

night dealing on the street corner. He wasn’t shy about talking, even if it

was to a police officer, though the “offi-cer” said he was, in fact, a reporter.

“Newspaper, officer — I don’t give a s--t. I already did my time,” Darren said, his breath smelling of alcohol.

Darren has his culinary-arts degree, hopes to be a head chef and lives with his girlfriend, Ingrid, in a “couples shelter” in Queens.

“I do do heroin now,” he said. “I’m start-ing on methadone tomorrow.” He planned to enter a program run by Greenwich House on Cooper Square. Methadone “is

like free heroin,” he noted.Darren said he gets heroin — he didn’t

reveal where — and sniffs it “right here,” on Crusty Row.

Every day, he’s on Crusty Row, he said.

“I’m ashamed of it, bro,” he admitted. “But I have a habit. I wake up sick every day.”

Beyond being sick for a fix, he has hepatitis C.

Ingrid, 33, like Darren, wants to get off heroin. She had already started on methadone that Friday.

“We’ve been around the block. We know what’s going on,” Darren said.

“He lost a job, we lost a child — and we took a little break from life,” Ingrid explained of why they’ve been on drugs.

Darren said he hoped to recruit other members of Crusty Row to join them in the methadone maintenance program.

“As drug addicts ourselves, we’re going to try to help them,” he said.

By his estimate, there are 60 to 80 junkies who hang out on Crusty Row, though not all at once. On the recent Sunday, only about 25 were there, sitting on the benches, or milling around on the park path.

“Three-quarters of these cats are out there spare-changing right now,” Darren explained.

A bag of heroin costs $10, he said; ten bags are a “brick.”

“Most of these cats are using 10 bags a day,” he noted. “Most of them need to do eight bags before they even feel anything.”

The drug users panhandle about $60 to $100 a day to support their habits, accord-ing to Darren. Though, he added, a bit derisively — making a phone with his hand and putting it up to his ear — some of them can just call their parents and have them send money.

Heroin was in the news again recently after Dash Snow, 27, the privileged young artist rebel from a well-known family, fatal-ly overdosed in a hotel room at Lafayette House on E. Fourth St.

As for the crusties, the bathrooms at McDonald’s and Starbucks in Union Square are popular places to shoot up, since they’re not for patrons only, Ingrid noted.

A young guy without a shirt on made a show of being anguished that the methadone program wouldn’t take him — “because I’m too young,” he wailed.

But Ingrid knowingly said, it’s because he didn’t show ID and because he doesn’t really want to take methadone anyway.

Darren playfully put the man in a head-lock, telling him he better join the pro-gram.

A police officer strolled through the row at one point, quipping a bit with the group as he inspected one crusty’s belong-ings on a bench. Later on, a patrol car cruised slowly through the lane.

A guy with a bandanna on his head joined the group and sat up on the top of a bench, his presence creating a bit of buzz. The night before he had been arrested for disorderly conduct for shouting at cars on Avenue A, Ingrid said with a smile.

She clearly gets a kick out of the char-acters on Crusty Row, like one man who always tries to convince police his bottle of vodka is Vitamin Water. She smiled at the ridiculousness of it all — then added quickly, “It’s depressing.”

The interview would cost $1, Darren said. Photos would cost a couple more. That would pay for a tasty slice of pizza later, Ingrid quickly offered, saying she was looking forward to it.

Don’t worry, Darren assured, the money wouldn’t go toward drugs.

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BY DUNCAN OSBORNEThe defense for Jeromie Cancel, the man

accused of killing Pace University student Kevin Pravia inside his W. 15th St. apart-ment, will argue that he suffered from a “cognitive disorder” and “neuropsychiat-ric abnormalities” when he strangled the 19-year-old gay man to death on Aug. 30 last year.

In a July 13 letter to State Supreme Court Justice Rena K. Uviller, who is trying the murder case, Cancel’s attorney wrote that the “psychiatric evidence is to be presented in connection with the affi rmative defense of lack of criminal responsibility by reason of mental disease or defect and in connec-tion with the affi rmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance.”

Cancel, 23, faces one count of felony murder, meaning he allegedly killed Pravia in the course of committing another felony. If the defense is successful, the lack of criminal responsibility could excuse him entirely, though he would likely be held in an institution until he is found to be cured of his condition. If a jury believes the extreme emotional disturbance defense, the charge against Cancel would be reduced to fi rst-degree manslaughter. The maximum sentence for felony murder is 25 years to life in prison, and the maximum for the man-slaughter charge is up to 25 years in prison, with the requirement that the offender serve six-sevenths of the sentence before becoming

eligible for release.Cancel’s attorney, Michael Alperstein,

wrote that the psychiatric evidence might be used “in connection with any other defense not specifi ed in the statute, including the inability of the defendant to form a specifi c intent.” Alperstein added, “The defendant is presently undergoing neuropsychological testing in order to more fully assess Mr. Cancel’s condition. He reserves the right to make timely amendment to this notice when further information is obtained.”

Alperstein forwarded three studies to this reporter that were authored by Dr. Dorothy O. Lewis, a professor at Yale University who has studied aggressive or homicidal young offenders. In her research, Lewis has found high rates of often-undiagnosed psychiatric disorders as well as evidence of brain dam-age and other defi cits that may have contrib-uted to criminal behavior.

In hearings, Alperstein has said that his client has a long history of psychiatric problems, including at least one suicide attempt.

“Since he was 10 years old, my client has been in numerous psychiatric institu-tions,” Alperstein said at a July 7 hearing. Alperstein also noted hospitalizations at the Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn and an unnamed institu-tion in Queens. When he subpoenaed his client’s records from the city Department of

Education, Alperstein received 350 pages of documents refl ecting his client’s time spent in special-education classes.

In his 10 statements to police, including videotaped and written confessions, Cancel can be perceived as either monstrous or psy-chologically unbalanced.

He was arrested on Sept. 2, 2008, in Queens for allegedly burglarizing his father’s home. In the course of admitting to that

crime, he announced to police that he killed Pravia.

“I see you have no murders in this pre-cinct,” he told a police offi cer from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood. “I murdered someone in Manhattan. If you don’t believe me, it’s in the newspaper. The kid’s name is Kevin.”

Cancel and Pravia met in Union Square, where the 19-year-old allegedly bought cocaine from Cancel on the night of the slaying. They then walked to Pravia’s 15th St. apartment, between Seventh and Eighth Aves., to use the drug. When Pravia, who was allegedly drunk at the time, passed out, Cancel began to rob him, the defendant said. He explained the killing by saying, “I was bored, so I decided to go back into the apartment and kill him.”

In his statements to police, Cancel alleg-edly gave details of the crime that only the killer would know and pointed police to other evidence that supported his confes-sion. These admissions reached a point where Cancel appeared to grow tired of making them. Late in the day on Sept. 2, Cancel said to a detective, “Why do I have to do this? I killed him. I strangled him. I’ve been telling you this all day.”

In his fi nal statement, as he was being taken in front of news crews, Cancel said, “Are those cameras for me? Can you hand-cuff me in front so I can throw gang signs? I don’t have any remorse. I’d do it again.”

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BY JERRY TALLMER In the pitch black 3 o’clock in the

morning of June 5, 1968, after I’d been up most of the previous 24 hours putting together and writing a backgrounder on the Valerie Solanas who had shot Andy Warhol the day before, the telephone rang. It was Sid Zion. “You better get your ass out of bed and go down to the paper,” he said. “Bobby Kennedy’s just been shot, out in Los Angeles.”

This was printer’s-ink Sidney talking — Sidney the newspaperman [who at that moment had no newspaper of his own to write the story in.]

There were — and are, to this minute — a large number of other Sidney Zions, well befitting Sidney’s own large, joyous, explosive physical self. There is Sidney the lawyer, Sidney the reporter, Sidney the columnist, Sidney the sometime magazine editor, Sidney the novelist, Sidney the Roy Cohn autobiographer, Sidney the diehard New York Giants football nut, Sidney the jazz and Sinatra and Tony Bennett and any other uncrapped-up-music nut, Sidney the enthusiast of good food and good drink, Sidney the restaurateur (as owner/host of, briefly, in the early 1980s, Broadway Joe’s on 46th St.’s Restaurant Row), Sidney the smoke-wreathed scorn-

er of the Smoke Fascists, Sidney the man-about-town habitué of Gallagher’s, Elaine’s, the Players’ Club, the Yale Club, etc., Sidney the possessor of a fine eye for female grace in any form, Sidney the to-the-death partisan of embattled Israel, Sidney the equal-opportunity pomposity piercer, Sidney the anecdotalist, Sidney the inside-story truth-teller — and, of course, Sidney Zion, husband, father, grandfather, widower, bitter-end crusader for medical and hospital reform.

* * *

That’s how a piece of mine began in Thrive magazine a couple of years ago, when dead was the last word one would ever apply to Sid Zion, my amazing friend for the more than 45 years since we fi rst met on the old, wondrous Dorothy Schiff New York Post. But now Sidney is gone, at 75, this past Sunday afternoon, August 2, 2009. So, if I may, here are a few other bits and pieces from that portrait in Thrive:

To Sidney, a story was a story, and…[the irony] was that Robert F. Kennedy — under whom the pre-journalistic Sidney Zion had worked, as a young lawyer in the U.S. Attorney’s Office back in New Jersey — was one of the people in this world Sid Zion most feared and detested. The further irony is that when, in 1971,

three years after that assassination in Los Angeles, Sidney had a huge scoop on his hands and, again, nowhere to break it.

“I’m home, and Libby is 5 years old,” Sid said during a recent evening of inter-view and recollection — Libby, the red-headed daughter of Elsa and Sidney Zion, restless, gifted Libby who would go into New York Hospital with a fever one night in 1984, when she was 18, and be dead, there in the hospital, by morning. “I go to Gallagher’s, and everybody is talking about who could it be that leaked that Pentagon [Papers] stuff? I get a big list of possible names from the Washington Post, eliminate the faux guys, and center on a couple of Jews.” In the center of that center: Daniel Ellsberg. “I come home and say: ‘I’ve got the biggest story, but nobody wants to hear it.’ And Libby says: ‘I’ll hear it, Daddy.’ And Elsa says: ‘Why don’t you call up Barry Gray?’ ”

So he did, and on Barry Gray’s radio show Sid spills his scoop to all the world — and the sky falls down… . “Blacklisted for six years because I broke a true story. So all those years I had to go back and practice law.”

What fi nally breached the ban was in the New York Times Magazine…Sid’s June 1981 j’accuse on how disk jockey Alan Freed and the record companies and

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BY BRUCE POLIWillem Kwist, a legally blind and deaf professional

waiter and a Village rooftop gardener for nearly 50 years, died of lung cancer June 2 at the age of 78.

He took up gardening in the 1970s and produced a showcase roof garden at 110 Christopher St. in the Village where he had moved in 1961. He worked as a waiter from 1962 to 1991, mostly at the old Americana Hotel in the Times Square area and later in the Sheraton.

Born in 1930 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with 10 percent vision due to optical atrophy, he developed

pneumonia and asthma and had four near-death hospi-talizations in the first five years of his life.

In 1940, when he was 9, the Nazis bombed Rotterdam, destroying the city. Willem and his best friend, Pete Van Holstein, played in the ruins for several years.

“We were practically the only people there,” he recalled. He and his family survived because his father worked in a grocery, and they had access to fresh fruit and vegetables. At 15 he answered a call for an elevator operator at the Hotel Rotterdam, learning to sense where the elevator stopped on the floor.

For his garden on Christopher St., he built floor planking, garden boxes and a fish pond on the roof, while raising exotic birds in the basement. Kwist would plant 400 tulips in April, irises in May and an azalea tree and numerous flowers and plants from all over the world throughout the spring, summer and fall. He also built apartment shelving, several photographic darkrooms and many wooden furnishings for friends.

Kwist also developed a broad and sophisticated knowledge of music, especially jazz. In addition to plants and trees, he knew a great deal about birds. His spirit of

sharing was enormous. He volunteered at various gar-dens and park organizations.

In 1989 his beloved roof garden was ordered removed by a new landlord, and Kwist donated the entire project to a school in Brooklyn. His friends Idi Henderikse and Ray Kurby, high school teachers in Williamsburg, had just started a school garden on Powers St. Kwist not only donated all his plants, 20 tons of soil and tools to the school, but came along to supervise and take care of the garden. It has transformed the neighborhood.

His Village and Williamsburg friends had a memo-rial service in the Powers St. garden in Williamsburg on July 18. His body was cremated last month and the ashes were sent for burial to his lifelong friend Josephine Heilmeier, in Akron, Pa.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUElizabeth Jane Allison, a Village resident

who for years wrote a daily column entitled “Hoosier in Manhattan” for the Indianapolis, Ind., newspapers, died July 20 at the age of 97.

Born in Spencer, Ind., she became a Villager by choice, having moved to the neighborhood more than 60 years ago.

Known from childhood as Jane, she was a girlhood friend of Nina Mason, who in 1941 married Eugene Pulliam, publisher of a chain of newspapers from Indiana to Arizona.

At Jane’s viewing last Monday at Perazzo Funeral Home on Bleecker St., neighbors and friends recalled her as an enthusiast for theater and cabaret performance and an animal lover devoted to Ninabel, her Maltese.

Oscar Moore, a freelance theater critic and a former partner with Hubert Des Forges in a kitchenware boutique on W. 10th St., recalled that Jane helped them fi nd an apartment in the building where she lived on the northeast corner of Washington Square Park.

“She was a great theatergoer and she loved opera,” Moore said. “She had a pretty good voice, too, but she sang only occasionally at par-ties after a drink or two of her favorite — vodka with a just a splash of ginger ale.”

Donald Smith, a cabaret agent and founder of the Mabel Mercer Foundation, met Jane

Allison about 45 years ago at a gallery. “She went everywhere, looking for people

from Indiana for her column,” Smith said. “I worshiped Cole Porter — he was a Hoosier, born in Peru, Indiana — and I had a party on his birthday every year since his death. Jane would come to all of them.”

Shawn White, who was the housekeeper for Jane Allison’s University Place apartment for the past decade, was a fount of knowledge about his late employer and dear friend, Janie.

“Nina Mason Pulliam was her late boss and dearest friend since the 1920s when they both worked for the magazine Farm Life, which went under when the Depression hit,” he said.

White said Jane would occasionally talk about her three ex-husbands and her near husbands, most of whom had Indiana in their backgrounds.

“She married an elderly man whose fam-ily had music publishing connections. I don’t remember his name, but she showed me his pic-ture and he was really old,” White said. “I asked her why she married him and she said, ‘For his money.’ Then she was married for a while to Wad Allen, a musician who was a friend of Hoagy Carmichael [a popular songwriter]. They were both from Indiana.”

She was last married to Patrick McGuff, White said. At one point she was engaged to an Indiana doctor, Stanley Davis, who boasted to her that he was having Frank Lloyd Wright design his house.

“But she said, ‘I like Colonial’ and the mar-riage just didn’t happen,” White said. “There was also a Pakistani who died in a plane crash. She told me she almost killed herself over him,” he recalled.

In a 1980 “About New York” column in The New York Times by William E. Farrell, Jane Allison told about her love for New York City and about her fi rst published writing — the society column for the Spencer Evening News when she was 10. She also told Farrell that when the Andrea Doria was struck in 1956 and the survivors were brought to the Manhattan

docks, she was told to interview the four Hoosiers on board.

“I was so scared I’d miss them. I made a big sign saying ‘Hoosiers here,’ and they came,” she told Farrell.

According to a résumé that she left with her executor, Catherine Fitzsimmons, she worked for Voice of America in New York in 1949 and worked for the Indianapolis Times in 1941-’42. From 1937, when she graduated from DePauw University, to 1941, she was the auditorium program director for the William H. Block Department Store in Indianapolis.

“I helped arrange such daily attractions as book reviews, fashion shows, concerts, plays, travelogues, etc. and the two hour-long radio programs emanating from the auditorium,” she wrote in the résumé.

Even after her “Hoosier in Manhattan” col-umns were discontinued she continued to write things for Pulliam papers until about 1990.

“In the last few years she was very frus-trated with her decline and was at times diffi cult beyond description,” White said. “Now that it’s over, I believe it was because she loved life so very much and saw it was coming to a close.

“I miss the Janie that was funny and happy, and yet I know that nothing lasts forever. I was lucky to have known her,” he said.

Two nephews, David Allison of Texas and Eric Allison of Florida, and a niece, Julie Allison of Gig Harbor, Wash., survive. Jane’s ashes are to be buried in the family plot in Spencer, Ind.

BY ALBERT AMATEAUFrederick T. Rinckwitz, who was born in

the Village and lived there until he moved about three years ago with his wife, Betty, to her hometown in Guntersville in northeast Alabama, died on July 14 in their home in Alabama. He was 91.

He served in the Army Air Corps dur-ing World War II for four years and then returned to his parents’ home on Perry St. and his job on the Manhattan waterfront, where he was a union representative of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks.

Shortly after his marriage to the former Betty Bain, he was elected vice chairman/treasurer of the national board of the union and had to move to Cincinnati, Ohio, where the union headquarters was located.

“One of the smartest things he ever did was to continue to pay the rent-controlled rent on the Perry St. apartment,” his wife said. “Four years later the union moved its headquarters to New York and Fred and I returned to his childhood home.”

He was the son of Frederick (Fritz) Rinckwitz, a German immigrant, and Mary Brereton Rinckwitz, whose family had roots in New York City since the American Revolution. His mother’s Brereton grandfa-ther fought in the Civil War.

“That connection gave Fred a lifelong interest in the Civil War. He was extremely knowledgeable about the subject,” his wife

said. Fred wasn’t a joiner but he fully sup-ported his wife’s participation in Village community affairs, she said.

“When he was 88, those 52 steps up to the fourth fl oor became too much for his emphysema and his legs,” Betty said. She persuaded him to move to Alabama where she had many relatives.

In addition to his wife, a sister, Betty DeSimone, of New York, survives. His funeral was Fri., July 17, and burial was in the Bain family cemetery in Alabama.

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EDITORIALTalking drums

Drums are the world’s oldest and most basic musi-cal instruments. Be they African, Latin, rock and roll or jazz, drums provide a beat and rhythm that connect with the very pulse of our own being — making us tap our feet, nod our head or get right up and dance.

More than for just making music, though, drums were employed for thousands of years by indigenous peoples to communicate over long distances, as well as to organize and rally troops during war — hence the expression “the drums of war.” In other words, drums can be extremely loud and their sound can carry.

That’s what some residents around Washington Square Park, as well as some park users, have been experiencing and complaining about recently, follow-ing the reopening of the park’s completed phase-one renovation in May. Since then, the park has seen a boom in usage, but also, for some reason, an infl ux of drummers. Perhaps it’s because the park’s plaza area has been leveled out, which not only allows safe access for wheelchairs, but a nice, fl at area to set up elaborate drum kits.

On recent weekends, rock-style drummers have plopped down their drum sets right in the park and started wailing away like Keith Moon and John Bonham. Whatever one thinks of those immortal rock drummers, the fact remains that, for many people, having an impromptu, blaring rock concert in Washington Square Park on weekends, or any other days, is inappropriate — certainly without the play-ers fi rst obtaining a proper permit from the Parks Department. Again, even though these drums are not amplifi ed, they can be quite loud, which, for many people, is bound to disturb their park experience, not to mention the quality of life of those living around the park.

Also adding to the noise phenomenon has been one drummer who everyone — from the Parks Department to other park drummers to even people who opposed the park’s renovation — agrees is way too loud. Because this individual is creating such a racket, it’s having the result of bringing all the park’s drummers under scrutiny. Now a band of cell-phone-camera-packing residents is collecting “evidence” against the drummers, and there is reportedly a peti-tion to boot out all of the park’s percussionists. Police have been warning drummers that they have to tone it down, making the park’s regular musicians fear they’ll be ticketed or have their instruments confi scated.

The fact is that Washington Square Park is a world-renowned location for live music. But, the fl ip side is that the music can become a nuisance if it gets excessively loud. Thus, the musicians have to make an effort to keep their volume at a reasonable level.

In the 1950s and ’60s, beatniks played folk music in the park, mainly on acoustic guitars, with the occasional bongo. But drum kits with guys playing like KISS or Megadeath — it’s just not the right place for it.

In short, it’s a delicate balance. The “pots-and-pans guy” is too loud. The Mötley Crüe-style drummers are too loud. But an acoustical jazz group like the Park Foundation seems fi ne. Public music performance is an integral part of Washington Square Park — but, as the Parks Department says, the decibel level can’t be “unreasonable,” otherwise it impacts the experience of others who don’t necessarily want to hear the music.

We’re optimistic, however, that if the “pots-and-pans guy” stays away, things will work out, the sweet and “reasonable”-volume music will continue and everyone will be able to enjoy the park.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORC.B. 2 unfair on street fairs

To The Editor: Re “S.V.A. gets stonewalled?” “Tefl on Stonewall?” and

“Can’t say no to Stonewall” (Scoopy’s Notebook, July 15, July 22 and July 29) and “A job well done” (editorial, July 15):

The ongoing saga in Scoopy’s Notebook about the street fair application for the Stonewall Veterans’ Association, and your editorial paean to the new, improved Community Board 2, has made intriguing reading. This week’s Villager brings news that Stonewall Veterans have at last had their applica-tion approved.

In The Villager’s July 15 issue, Scoopy quotes C.B. 2’s Street Activities Committee Chairperson Evan Lederman as saying, “A lot of these street fairs tend to be run by shell organizations, and one or two people pocket the money and split it with the promoter. ... We view this as a public incon-venience — you’re shutting down public streets to profi t. It’s basically fraud.” The latest Scoopy, on July 29, quotes Lederman saying, “I think there’s an abundance of fraud and misuse of public streets.”

One would expect, then, to see “an abundance” of recom-mendations of denial of street fair permit applications from the committee. But board minutes prove otherwise.

In the fi ve-month period from January 2009 to May 2009 (the latest minutes available on the C.B. 2 Web site), a total of 42 new and renewal street activity applications were approved or conditionally approved. Make that 43 since the Stonewall Veterans approval. Two applications from last February’s hearing were denied. One was a new application by Integral Yoga Institute and another was for a renewal of a one-block, one-day festival that has been going on without complaint for the past 14 years. The Integral Yoga applica-tion was denied, in part, due to the board’s belief that the festival would support the institute’s for-profi t activities. The application of our club, the Women’s Democratic Club, was the only renewal application recommended for denial, as of the end of May.

In the resolution passed by the board at its Feb. 19 meet-ing, the committee claims that our club does not have a con-nection to the community, although we were founded in the Village in 1993 and have made it our home base since then. The president and treasurer have both lived on W. 12th St. for well over a decade. In fact, our fi rst street fair application was made at the suggestion of the late Reggie Fitzgerald, and he and the late Tony Dapolito walked us through the process and recommended our promoter, Clearview Festivals. Mr. Lederman asked for a list of members who live in the dis-trict, and I faxed this information to the committee within the week. This was apparently ignored. Contrary to what the

resolution asserts, I described in detail the voter registration and campaign activities that we conduct at the festival.

Most disturbingly, the resolution further states that “the representatives of the local community, including residents and local businesses, have questioned the legitimacy of this organization in the past.” Who are these representatives, and when is “in the past”? We have appeared at several committee hearings in past years and been approved for renewal, even in years when other festivals — San Gennaro, Mulberry Mall (both approved conditionally this year) and the Stonewall Veterans — were questioned as to their legiti-macy, and subsequently approved. No such questions were raised about us at those hearings. In any case, off-the-record, anonymous questions about an organization’s legitimacy should not form the grounds of a board resolution. Perhaps the anonymous questioners of our legitimacy are past politi-cal opponents. It’s certainly true that some of those on the membership list I furnished the committee were associated with C.B. 2 in former days.

Scoopy’s July 15 column also notes, “The street fairs generally pull in about $8,000 to $10,000, which the orga-nizers split with the promoters.” That may be so for groups with multi-block and/or multi-day fairs, but our festival has typically made us a little more than a tenth of that amount, and the city makes far more from the street activity fee than we do. No one pockets the money. It goes into the club’s bank account.

In years past we have been asked to appear before the committee on the same night as other political clubs in the area. This year we were the only political organization on the agenda. (This may have been because all the other political organizations were asking for multi-block approvals, while we were asking for our usual one block.) The committee actually asked for proof of our 501(c)(3) status, which does not apply to political organizations (since we advocate spe-cifi c legislation and endorse political candidates).

So what has the committee accomplished? They have succeeded in giving outright or provisional approval to 43 of the 45 organizations that applied through May of this year, including groups whose controversies have been the cause of some very raucous committee hearings in past years. They have endorsed the kinds of multi-block and multi-day fairs that are always targets of community com-plaints. They have endorsed fairs for political organizations like Stonewall Democrats and GLID, whose roots in the district run no deeper than ours.

Our one-day festival has always been held on Astor Place, a nonresidential block, late in October or early November, with no neighborhood complaints. We have

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BY KATE WALTERAs I walked past the windows of Macy’s and saw the

display for the “Summer of Love,” I’m not sure what freaked me out more — that Woodstock occurred 40 years ago this August or realizing that Joe has been dead two decades. The two are connected in my head since Joe was my boyfriend who took me to the legendary festival. We knew each other so long ago that we were both still straight.

We met at the Jersey Shore in 1968 when my sorority rented a house in party town Belmar. Joe’s best friend Timmy was dating a sister, and the guys visited on weekends.

Joe liked it when I was at the house because I brought cool records — like Cream’s “Wheels of Fire.” I liked it when Joe was at there because he brought pot. He was older than me, out of school, had his own apartment and drove a motorcycle. Joe said he dug me as soon as he read the bum-per sticker on my car, “Stick it in your ear.”

Joe was over six feet tall — black hair, dark eyes, kinda hairy and a bit chubby — a bear (not my type at all.) When we fi rst met, his locks were longer than mine. He had wire-frame glasses, like his idol, John Lennon, and wore vests with fringe.

Once we started dating, Joe became my guide into the radical ’60s. He led me from the repressive climate of my Catholic women’s college with its soirees and corny tea parties into the exciting world of alternative culture. Since Joe was the music editor for The Aquarian, a popular under-ground paper, we went backstage at concerts and were regu-lars at the Fillmore East. Nothing could have kept us two rockers from this three-day event. We even had tickets.

Joe picked me up at the Shore in his black Kharman Ghia convertible on August 15, 1969. When we arrived Upstate late Friday afternoon, cars were lined for miles along Route 17B, the road that led to the site in White Lake. We dumped the car along the roadside, trying to remember where we parked, sighting a red barn up the hill as a marker. We grabbed our camping gear and followed the crowds on down to Yasgur’s farm.

That evening Joe and I trudged around looking for Timmy and his girlfriend. We had plans to meet at the information center. Timmy had just been drafted into the Army, which meant going to Vietnam. He was scheduled to leave that Monday. We had to fi nd him. But as we crested the hill, I saw the mobbed information tables and hundreds of people

waiting to use the pay phones. Forget calling my parents as promised. Forget fi nding friends in this sea of look-alike people, so we dejectedly gave up, got a good spot to watch the music.

I became totally excited as I viewed the freaky crowds. At my conservative college, I felt like a weirdo, an oddball, but here were tons of kids like me. Later that night it started to drizzle and then pour while we huddled together and watched Melanie and lit candles in the rain. When we got too wet, we retreated to the tent.

The next morning, Joe and I were sliding up a muddy road and through synchronicity, we bumped directly into Timmy. We started hugging, switching off.

“We got stuck in crazy traffi c last night,” he said. “Every

f-----g freak from the Northeast must be here.” It was rainy and slippery and we were wet all the time, even in the tent, which was collapsing. Our sleeping bags got soggy and I didn’t rest much. But who wanted to doze while the super groups of rock were playing all day and night. Everything got behind schedule because they kept stopping the show for thunderstorms and torrential rains.

By late Saturday night, we were exhausted and retreated to our leaky tent. We could still hear the music, so we hung out near the fl ap, drinking red wine and listening. Janis Joplin was whipping herself into a frenzy on “Piece of My Heart.” I loved Janis and wanted to be outside watching,

NOTEBOOK40 years later, I won’t go back to Yasgur’s farm

SCENE

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Villager photo by Milo Hess

Richie Havens, right, the opening act at the original Woodstock Festival and a longtime Villager, played a concert in Battery Park on July 23 as part of the rock festival’s 40th anniversary.

I became totally excited as I viewed the freaky crowds. Here were tons of kids like me.

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be fair to everyone, small businesses as well as big corporations.”

Perry reported that her share of the real-estate taxes on one of her three locations on Greenwich Ave. was $115 in 2000 and had jumped to $10,000 last year.

Shop owners also insisted that unreason-able civil summonses and fi nes have become a source of revenue for the city instead of a means to enforce environmental and traffi c rules.

Steve Saunders, owner of the antique store End of History, at 548 Hudson St. near Perry St., reported that he has received $300 fi nes from the Department of Sanitation time after time and has spent days in court fi ghting them.

“They [inspectors] don’t have ticket quotas but they do have performance goals, which amount to the same thing,” Saunders claimed. He also complained that the city gives large corporations tax breaks and does nothing for small busi-ness owners.

Kavanagh-Dowsett recalled that a Department of Health inspector issued an $800 fine because an employee was drinking tea while standing in the Tea & Sympathy kitchen. The summons was issued because tea is a food under city reg-ulations that prohibit eating in restaurant kitchens, he learned later. After spending hours before a Health Department court he got the fine reduced to $400, he said.

While some of the shop owners said they had “good landlords” who imposed reasonable rent increases, there were stories about triple-rent increases. Daniel Neiden, a Perry St. resident who stopped by to offer some sympathy, suggested that the city could broker an agreement with landlords to limit commercial rents.

But Thompson said the idea of com-mercial rent regulation has been around for 40 years and he advised the gathering, “It’ll never happen.”

However, Thompson suggested the possibility of tax abatements for own-ers of retail properties in certain zones, “and making sure they are passed on to the tenants,” he stressed. Thompson also noted that the sharp increase in water rates is threatening to put laundries out of business. He said the water rate increases should have been half of what

was imposed.Shop owners also protested that bicy-

cle lanes have made deliveries difficult if not impossible. A pizzeria on Greenwich Ave. that used to depend on cabbies stop-ping at the curb to get a quick slice has lost the trade and is closing shop, some-one reported. Thompson agreed that bike lanes have been a nightmare in places like Astoria and in Manhattan, especially on Grand St. in Little Italy.

Kevin Brynan, owner since 1992 of

Mxyplyzyk, the gift shop at 125 Greenwich Ave., said that with the increase in the number of vacant storefronts, it would be logical to expect commercial rent to decline, “but that’s not happening,” he said.

Merchants at the gathering complained that chain stores and high-end retailers are content to pay outrageous rent just to have a presence in the Village.

“It’s like an expensive billboard to them,” one storeowner said.

At the mention of street fairs, the common response was, “Oh, don’t get me started!”

“People are furious about the way their neighborhoods are disappearing,” said Perry. “The city used to be about neigh-borhoods, but it isn’t anymore.”

Thompson, who said he would return to Greenwich Ave. sometime in the fall, said, “You can run the city as a business, but you have to remember the city is people and neighborhoods.”

Thompson says he would do more for local merchants

Villager photos by Tequila Minsky

Village merchants, as well as some residents and activists who also stopped in, aired their concerns to mayoral candidate Bill Thompson last Wednesday. Merchants said increases in property taxes and water taxes have been hard to bear. Above, Daniel Neiden, a Perry St. resident, made a point, as Peter Gonzalez, owner of Johnny’s Bar, listened. Below, Kevin Brynan, owner of Mxyplyzyk, left, listened as Irene Kaufman, a local schools advocate and Neiden’s wife, spoke and other merchants listened.

Continued from page 1

‘You can run the city as a business, but you have to remember the city is people and neighborhoods.’

Bill Thompson

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BY PATRICK HEDLUND

YOUNGWOO WINS PIER 57

The Hudson River Park Trust awarded Youngwoo and Associates the development rights for Pier 57 last week, paving the way for the upstart West Village-based develop-er to realize its innovative design for the W. 15th St. pier.

The expected designation of Youngwoo came after competing bidders The Related Companies and a joint ven-ture between the Durst Organization and C&K Properties showed tepid interest in redeveloping the 375,000-square-foot pier.

“[Youngwoo’s] combination of imaginative architecture and creative uses enjoys strong community support, ensur-ing that Pier 57 will become a centerpiece of Hudson River Park and the western anchor of the thriving Meatpacking District,” read a statement from Diana Taylor, the Trust’s chairperson.

The developer’s plan includes a strong arts emphasis, with dedicated space for galleries, exhibitions, auctions and entertainment, as well as a permanent outdoor venue for the Tribeca Film Festival on the pier’s roof. The design also provides for a 170,000-square-foot, covered, open-air public market programmed and managed by Urban Space Management and housed, in part, in recycled shipping containers.

Youngwoo — once considered the long shot versus mega-developers Related and Durst/C&K for the right to rebuild the pier — also received nods from the Pier 57 Community Advisory Working Group and Community Boards 2 and 4, with the latter authoring a letter to the Trust explaining the reason for its endorsement.

“C.B. 4 agrees with the Working Group and the great majority of people in the neighborhood from whom we heard that Young Woo’s proposal for the pier is the most appropriate for the Hudson River Park and the commu-nity,” the board’s letter stated. “A market composed of small vendors and artists and artisans will nicely compli-ment [sic] the Chelsea art gallery district nearby and enrich the identity of the area and the Park while not encouraging large amounts of automobile traffi c nor causing a major impact to the parkland in front of the Pier.”

The letter also cites the aesthetic appeal of Youngwoo’s proposal, noting the reuse of the shipping containers and creation of 2 acres of park space on the pier’s roof. Other features include restaurants and an “Underwater Discovery Center” in one of the pier’s underwater caissons, and the project’s estimated cost is $210 million — by far the least expensive of the three proposals.

The Trust’s selection follows on the heels of the devel-oper’s blockbuster purchase of A.I.G.’s twin Financial District high-rises in early June for a reported $140 million in partnership with a Korea-based bank.

“When [Youngwoo] had the public meeting, it was like music was playing when they were describing their pro-posal, and the other two [developers] were pretty much the same old thing,” said Working Group and Community Board 4 member Robert Trentlyon. He explained that Yongwoo’s plans for the roof and traffi c considerations — as well as its decision not to include a banquet hall, which appeared in both Related’s and Durst’s proposals — pushed Youngwoo to the top.

However, Trentlyon added, “On the whole business of saving as much history as possible, [Related was] by far better than anyone else.” He noted that Related’s much-maligned bid to redevelop Pier 40 off of W. Houston St. did not contribute to any residual resentment of the developer.

Trentlyon also cited Youngwoo’s environmentally

conscious reuse of the shipping containers as “something that’s very much in people’s minds now.”

“This project is so Chelsea,” he continued. “It really fits in with the arts community; it fits in with Chelsea Market; it fits in with the whole dynamism of West Chelsea. I think it will be a great addition.”

N.Y.U. WATCH: INTERFAITH FILINGS

New York University recently fi led plans with the city to build an 11-story religious center in the Village despite previ-ously proposing a building nearly half as tall.

According to a July 23 application with the Department of Buildings, N.Y.U. is seeking to construct a 72,861-square-foot, multiuse faith facility at the corner of Washington Square Park and Thompson St. But the original proposal, unveiled in early June, showed a six-story, 61,000-square-foot building with a 4.9 F.A.R. (fl oor area ratio). Under the current zoning, N.Y.U. can construct a building of up to 6.5 F.A.R. (nearly 80,000 square feet) as of right, but the univer-sity stated in June that it opted instead to build a structure using a 4.9 F.A.R. — about 18,000 square feet and one story lower than what is allowed.

The school stated then that a shorter, squatter building with wider fl oor plates would better suit the needs of the center, which will house N.Y.U.’s four chaplains — Jewish, Protestant, Catholic and Muslim — together for the fi rst time at the same location.

However, the university’s application with D.O.B. requests a 5.75 F.A.R. featuring fi ve more stories and nearly 12,000 more square feet than was initially offered.

A university spokesperson explained that the applica-tion’s plan was modifi ed because N.Y.U. needed to submit a proposal it knew would be rejected in order to pursue a

zoning variance with the Board of Standards and Appeals. The school requires the variance since its intended design doesn’t conform to current setback and open-space requirements. An as-of-right building under the zoning would not be practical for N.Y.U. because the required setbacks would make the structure become increasingly narrow as it rises, leading to fl oor plates too small for N.Y.U.’s purposes.

But since the original six-story plan also doesn’t conform to current requirements, university-development watchdog Andrew Berman wondered why N.Y.U. didn’t simply fi le an application refl ecting that design proposal.

“As far as I know, they are still pursuing the variances for the lower, fatter building. But why are they fi ling permit applications for this taller, higher-F.A.R. building that they said they don’t want to do?” said Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation. “Is it to hold the threat of the possibility over the public’s head?”

Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U.’s vice president of government affairs and community engagement, said the university remains committed to its goal of constructing the six-story building and that it will be fi ling plans for both versions with D.O.B.

“The reality is we’re trying to do this right, we’re trying to get this building right, we’re trying to get this building lower,” she said. “If people want to use this as a sticking point, fi ne — let them. They’ll be outliers once again.”

She added that the level of scrutiny preservation advo-cates employ when reviewing N.Y.U.’s development plans is “always amazing.”

“At this point,” Hurely said, “it’s somewhat ridiculous to say the university is trying to pull a fast one.”

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Villager photo by Ramin Talaie

Neda will never be forgotten Last Thursday, a silent vigil marking the 40th day since the tragic killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Iran was held in Union Square, where people held up NEDA signs with a photo of her face. Similar ceremonies were held around the world. While simply standing in the street, Soltan was shot in the chest by government militia. When her murder surfaced on the Internet it sparked international condemnation. The sponsor of last Thursday’s event was the New York chapter of the group Where Is My Vote?

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N.Y.U. Photo Bureau, Poyo Furlong

No bones about it: Mercerrun is looking magnifi centThe Mercer St. Dog Run, at the northwest corner of Mercer and Houston Sts., reopened on July 15 after repairs funded by New York University. The run abuts N.Y.U.’s Coles Sports Center and was constructed when the gym was built in the 1980s. About 200 dog owners, mostly from Soho and Noho, are signed up as users of the run. Over time, however, it had fallen into signifi cant disrepair. The strip of property was once home to tenement buildings that were razed decades ago, and the subsurface was never properly fi lled in, so the dog run had sunken in spots. N.Y.U.’s four-week repair effort brought the entire asphalt surface to an even grade, created a slope for water drainage, replaced the fence and installed new benches. Beth Gottlieb, president of the Mercer/Houston Dog Run Association, said, “One word: Wow! The renovated run is just wonderful. What a pleasure to walk on the fl at expanse of asphalt, and no more worries about tripping. We’re grateful to N.Y.U.” Gottlieb and her dog Romeo are longtime users of the run. The reopening included “doggie bags” and raffl e items from two local businesses, Towne House Grooming and The Pet Bar.

By Emma DeVito

Health Reform Neglecting Senior Needs

The forgotten segment of health care in the national health reform debate is long-term care.

For those who aren’t sure what long-term care is, it is the numerous services that are arrayed to help maintain individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities that limit, sometimes severely, the ability to take care of oneself.

Long-term care can be intensive, such as skilled nursing and medical care delivered in a nursing home, and it can be temporary, such as the period of rehabilitation from either a surgical intervention or an event triggered by a medical condition, such as a stroke. Besides nursing homes, long-term care services include home health care and home care, assisted living, adult day health care and short-term rehabilitation, among others.

When you drill down into long-term care, you also find specialty services, such as those for Alzheimer’s’ disease and dementia, and Parkinson’s.

What you don’t find is a rational, national way to pay for it.And, you won’t find that in any health care reform proposal either, at least not to any

great extent.Oddly enough, what you will find, though, are suggestions that there should be cuts

to Medicare, with the savings being used to help finance overall health care reform. Medicare, ironically, is the one major federal government program that directs resources toward the health needs of those 65 and older, as well as certain persons with disabilities. Even Medicare, though, has little to offer to cover the costs of long-term care.

With Congress adjourned until after Labor Day, there is an opportunity right now to contact our elected federal representatives to urge them to protect Medicare and to engage in efforts to address our long-term care needs.

August is a critical period. During the time Congress is in recess, Senate and House members will be hearing from many constituencies about health reform. If you are concerned about the needs of long-term care, and about providers such as Village Care of New York, which has served the downtown and West Side community with important senior care services for more than 30 years, now is the time to make sure you are heard.

There is a huge gap between the public’s expectations about how long-term care needs will be addressed in health reform and what’s in the various legislative proposals under consideration.

Surveys have shown that as much as 85 percent of Americans believe long-term care should be part of reform, and 58 percent oppose cutting Medicare to pay for reform. Yet the various reform proposal before Congress at best make only modest advances in addressing the needs of long-term care, and at worst look to cut Medicare rates to help pay for the overall cost of reform.

President Obama recently met with AARP members where he got an earful about the need to protect Medicare, and he told the organization that “nobody’s talking about reducing Medicare benefits.” Nonetheless, he didn’t back away from the concept of “cost-containment” saying that he wants to get rid of “waste” and that he has also targeted the higher payments that insurance companies get for Medicare Advantage plans over original Medicare.

The devil is in the details too, and other proposals that are being bandied about include taking final authority about Medicare payment matters out of the hands of Congress and giving it to a government “commission.”

While no one may be “talking about” Medicare benefit cuts, the consequences of some aspects of the proposals before Congress raise the real prospect that cuts to this important program for older adults could occur in a forum where neither the public nor Congress have a say.

If we are to make sure that health care reform offers real help and relief for individuals who need long-term care, and for their families, now is the time. Moreover, health reform must not come at the expense of frail seniors through damaging cuts to Medicare that would undermine nursing home care and home care services, which millions of Americans rely on.

If you want to help, we’ve set up an easy way for you to do that at Village Care of New York’s website where you can find information to send to your House representative and to Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Go to www.vcny.org and click on the link under “Contact Congress on Health Reform” and you’ll be taken to a page that will help you write to our members of Congress by email.

(Ms. DeVito is the president and chief executive officer of not-for-profit Village Care of New York.)

rock and roll and other noises have been destroying [America’s jazz and pop heri-tage — one of the most provocative pieces the Times Mag has ever printed, and the one that drew the most mail...]

[The one great plus that came out of] the cruelly indecisive 1995 trial in the wrongful-death case of Zion v. New York Hospital…is the enforced reduction — the “Libby Zion Law” — of the sleepless working hours of interns and residents at hospitals in New York State. …

Sidney E. Zion….was born in Passaic, New Jersey, November 14, 1933; he shares November 14 as a birthday with Mamie Eisenhower, Prince Charles and, guess

who, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy… . Elsa — half Irish, half German and a dab of Scottish — was a graduate of Bard College. “She knew all about writers, from Bard. The fi rst thing she ever said to me was: ‘Thank God, you’re not a writer… .’ ”

* * *

So now they are gone, all three. And Sid and I can stop quarreling about Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama, both of whom Sidney hated (as enemies of the Jews).

Water under the bridge, Sidney. Though I will hear your booming, iconoclastic comment all my days, you have left me bereft, and Frances, who adored you, far more than bereft. Sail on, great friend. Happy landings.

Sidney Zion, writer, iconoclastand no less than Rabelais rebornContinued from page 8

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BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN In an exhibition that is largely focused on prints but also

includes a handful of unique drawings, William Bennett Gallery aims to make another case for Salvador Dalí.

The premise of the show, which according to the gallery owner Mr. William Bryan Ledford “is the result of a year’s worth of research and 8-10 months spent sourcing and acquiring the art,” is refl ected in its title. It was inspired by one of the artist’s most famous paintings, 1931’s “The Persistence of Memory” — suggesting that Dalí continues to inspire an eclectic audience.

Twenty years after his death (on January 23, 1989), the Spanish artist is known as much for the strikingly bizarre images that helped to defi ne Surrealism as for his eccen-tricities. Dalí was an incredibly skilled draftsman equipped with a fascinating imaginative mind — but he was also an extrovert who created a colorful, scandalous persona that provoked the public’s attention. Dalí’s taste tended towards

the excessive, and he often proclaimed a strong passion for everything luxurious and gilded. He romanticized the unknown and hence, the exotic. He cherished everything oriental, be it in clothes, accessories, or to the extent that he claimed Arabian ancestors (descended from the Moors).

In life, as well as in art, Dalí was calculatedly controver-sial. One of his most shocking decisions perhaps, especially to his fellow artists, was his refusal to explicitly denounce the Franco regime. In her book “Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War,” Robin Adèle Greeley describes how the lead-ing surrealist André Breton accused Dalí of defending “the Hitler phenomenon.” Though Dalí responded by saying, “I am Hitlerian neither in fact nor intention,” the rift deepened and he was eventually expelled from the Surrealist group.

It is ironic that while Dalí’s ambition to become one of the art world’s fi rst pop-cultural icons was realized, it also aided in diminishing his credibility as a serious artist. His most famous paintings date from the fi rst half of his life, in particular the 1930s and 1940s. After fl eeing Europe during World War II (he lived in the US between 1939 and 1948), his fame began to increasingly overshadow the quality of his work.

Today, as the omnipresence of the mere image of the man — his slicked-down hair, curly waxed mustache, holding his famous gold-headed cane — has begun to fade, our focus shifts back towards his work. Without the constant distrac-tions of media hype, we fi nd ourselves able to contemplate Dalí’s works in its various facets and recent exhibitions, (such as the superb “Dalí: Painting & Film,” which was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with

the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2007 and 2008).

Dalí’s output and versatility remain astonishing. Besides painting, drawing, and sculpture, Dalí also worked in fi lm, photography, and printmaking. Joan Kropf, Curator of Collections at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL (a nonprofi t institution not affi liated with any commer-cial enterprise) points out that Dalí explored printmaking as early as “while at school in the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid in the early 1920s.” While he engaged in print-making periodically throughout his life, it was especially in later years (when faced with the rising costs of his increas-ingly luxurious lifestyle) that Dalí devoted himself more and more to this medium that allowed him to produce multiple works in a short period of time. “As was common with all of the prolifi c artists of the 20th century,” according to Mr. Ledford, Dalí “worked with various printers on his editions. Most of his editions were ‘original,’ meaning that he did the work on the stones or plates. On rare occasion he worked with printmakers to produce cooperative prints.”

At William Bennett, a generous selection of Dalí’s print portfolios, including “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1969) and “Divine Comedy” (1960), are on display. Mr. Ledford points out that “Dalí’s work does play a big part of the gallery mission, which is to help collectors (young and old) acquire important works from renowned 20th century masters.” The gallery has myriad proof of the artist’s lasting

VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENTTwo decades after his death, Salvador Dalí persists Exhibition focuses on lesser-known medium of prints

Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

“Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska” — from “Memories of Surrealism”

Continued on page 18

Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

“Surrealist Flower Girl” — from “Memories of Surrealism”

PERSISTENCE OF DALIThrough September 3

At William Bennett Gallery

65 Greene Street

212-965-8707 or www.williambennettgallery.com

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ability to draw large crowds as he, according to Mr. Ledford, “probably accounts for 75% of all our visitors, but only for 20-25% of our business.”

“Persistence of Dalí” offers a whole range and we are invited to examine Dalí’s various styles and progressions within this medium. The quality of the prints, many of which were commissioned, varies greatly.

According to Joan Knopf, Dalí’s “editions are uneven-ly regarded. Some are esteemed, others have created controversies.” In “Memories of Surrealism” (1971), we find Dalí incorporating some of his signature vocabulary from the 1940s, such as the elephant (a recurring image that first appeared in his 1944 painting “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening”). The portfolio, which includes 12 hand signed lithographs, is less satisfactory and almost feels like a clichéd comment by Dalí on Dalí. It is less a testament to innovation and more the regurgitation of a vocabulary gathered from the past: crutches, clocks, and butterflies. One cannot help but wonder if this work was done with a keen eye for its commercial value.

But there are some prints that provide a glimpse into the artist’s soul. One of the best examples is a portfolio from 1979, entitled “The Art of Love – L’art d’aimer.” The portfolio here is “one of only nine sets in the world that were reserved for Dalí and other people associated with the publication of the portfolio,” said Ledford.

Another 144 sets were made for the public. It is a body of work which, along with all of Dali’s authentic prints and editions, is very well documented in two different sets of catalogues raisonné published by the Salvador Dali Archives and by Prestel.

“The Art of Love – L’art d’aimer” pays homage to Ovid’s “Ars amatoria,” a poem that was published in Rome around 1BC. Here, Dalí has translated Ovid’s les-sons on love, seduction and intrigue into a colorful tour de force. Everything feminine is accentuated. Comprised of etchings, lithographs, and woodcut engravings, it is not only one of the most rare books by the artist, but one of his most lyrical efforts in this medium. The works are sensual, playful and show a quality unknown from most of his early paintings: a tenderness of sorts and a loose caressing of the form that differs greatly from his signature style known to feature crisp images rendered with Renaissance-esque precision. But there also is a notion of nostalgia inherent in these works, evoked by dark overtones. Perhaps it reflects Dalí’s awareness of entering the last phase of his life or the decreasing health of his longtime partner and wife Gala,

who would die only a few years later in 1982.“Biblia Sacra” (1964) was originally commissioned by

one of Dalí’s leading patrons, Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, in the attempt to bring Dalí back towards Catholic ide-als. The five-volume work, which took the artist six years to make, is shown in its entirety — including 105 original lithographs. It is the largest issued suite of the Spanish master’s work. The original illustrations were completed between 1963 and 1964, with a combination of gouache, watercolor, ink, and pastel.

Poetry suited Dalí’s lifelong interest in dreams and nightmarish scenarios. “Divine Comedy” (1960) was another commission, this time from the Italian govern-ment. It is based on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem envi-sioning the Christian afterlife. Dalí himself thought of this depiction of the journey from Hell to Purgatory and into Paradise, as one of his most successful print suites. “Paradise Lost” (1974) is Dalí’s interpretation of John Milton’s poem concerning the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man. In ten color etchings, he has captured in sharp, assured lines the temptation of Adam and Eve by

the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The compositions are simple and Dalí’s use of color is sparse and unusually restrained. It is an elegant body of work, aiming to illustrate and interpret Milton’s masterpiece rather than to replace its text with visuals.

No matter how complicated, celebrated or even disliked by some, Dalí was and remains a force. That he was a visionary is undeniable and that his work continues to fas-cinate older and younger generations alike is a fact. There is great feeling in much of his work and a strong sense of Romanticism especially in later years. Though Dalí’s body of work does by no means need to be re-discovered, its evaluation, in particular in regard to his prints, still seems a continuous process.

A visit to William Bennett Gallery in August or to the Salvador Dalí Museum year round (which holds an exten-sive collection of the artist’s prints) offer two more acces-sible opportunities to experience Dalí’s different efforts in this particular and much lesser known artistic medium.

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Salvador Dalí persistsContinued from page 17

Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

“Dressed in the Nude in the Surrealist Fashion” — from “Memories of Surrealism”

Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

“It Was Then That Love Enjoyed Waging War” — from “The Art of Love”

August 5 - 11, 2009 19

BY JERRY TALLMER Cusi Cram didn’t know what she’d done

until she’d done it — that is to say, until she was halfway through writing a play centered around two sisters named (out of thin air) Tess and Emma.

Tess and Emma! Thomas Hardy and Gustave Flaubert! English literature, French literature! Why of course — the parents who had so messed up the lives of these two siblings (just by ushering them into the world) should be a couple of late, unlamented professors of literature at Sarah Lawrence.

The very title of the play itself, “A Lifetime Burning,” has been plucked out of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.”

And there are other dibs and dabs through-out; a housekeeper named Mrs. Pierce, whose summarizing line (“We’ve endured”) harks back to, well, great literature.

New York’s Primary Stages opens its 25th anniversary season — a season celebrating women playwrights — with the world premiere of Cusi Cram’s “A Lifetime Burning.”

The play’s four characters, sparring and jabbing away under Pam MacKinnon’s direc-tion, are self-involved nuthouse-prone Emma (Jennifer Westfeldt) — aspiring writer and occupant of a Mott Street loft made possible by the money Daddy secretly left her; no less self-involved Tess (Christina Kirk), Emma’s sober-sided older sister — who now bitterly regrets having opted for marriage, comfort, kids, the suburbs; Alejandro (Raul Castillo), Emma’s 19-year-old East Harlem sex toy; and British-born Lydia Freemantle (Isabel Keating), a cold-blooded, highly successful, Chanel-garbed book editor.

There in her loft, with its $4,000 Eva Zeisel coffee table and Noguchi sofa, Emma has thought up a source of income once Daddy’s dough runs out. She will write — in fact she has written — a book-length memoir about her struggle as a part-Inca, part-Cherokee slum-bred waif who rose up from the street and drugs and rape and hunger and everything terrible in East Harlem.

Lydia Freemantle will publish it — in fact has published it, to the tune of several million best-selling copies (and even more millions of resultant dollars).

Then the truth hits the fan — and Lydia Freemantle wants the money back. And you don’t play games with Lydia Freemantle, even in the cheap, mass-market Payless shoes that so fascinated Lydia when Emma fi rst walked in the door.

Thereby lies a play. An often quite glib, quite sassy, quite “with it” lemon-fl avored comedy.

For instance:

TESS: We are the stars of our own stupid movies.

EMMA: So, I’m just a walk-on in your movie?

TESS: If only…You and Alejandro went dancing. And he made you an honorary Inca?

EMMA: The story doesn’t go in order…

* * *

LYDIA FREEMANTLE [before the expo-sure]: Emma darling, fi ction is for writers…If you want to be a novelist keep doing that and come back to me in two years, fi ve years, ten years…Write your Proustian moment about race and identity in New York that all comes together in an East Harlem Starbucks…Please by all means do it, someone has to.

* * *

LYDIA FREEMANTLE [after the expo-sure]: So, we have documented proof that over [the] last 15 years Emma has been institution-alized at least fi ve times for bipolar disorder.

EMMA: I prefer “manic depressive.” “Bi polar” sounds like something a sexually ambig-uous bear suffers from.

And that’s before Alejandro, infuriated at being used, throws Emma down and screws her — rapes her — his way, on that $4,000 Eva Zeisel coffee table. There is, by the way, a real Eva Zeisel. She’s 103 years old, and came to a rehearsal to see her coffee table.

During an interview, this journalist had occasion to say to Ms. Cram that he’d read “A Lifetime Burning” not once, but twice.

And? The fi rst time I thought it was a smartass

play. And?The second time I thought it was a smartass

play — with smarts.“I like ‘smarts,’ ” the playwright said with

satisfaction. She had written this one very quickly — a

fi rst draft in seven weeks. Indeed, she had set it as a model in the “Fast First Draft” playwriting course she conducts at Primary Stages on West 38th Street and, summers, upstate.

The spark for the whole thing had been a 2008 story in The New York Times about a woman named Margaret Seltzer who’d had to own up the fakery of her best-selling memoir “Love and Consequences” (about growing up as a part-Cherokee member of a tough South Central Los Angeles gang). Her sister turned her in as a fraud.

There was also the James Frey fake-memoir worldwide scandal, and many others that fol-

lowed. “Every six months a new one; almost an epidemic,” says Cusi Cram.

“There’s also been a lot of loss in my own life in the last couple of years,” says the play-wright whose mother (Lady Jeanne Campbell) died in the fall of 2007.

Yes, the Lady Jeanne Campbell who was married for 10 minutes — well, a couple of years — to Norman Mailer. The one whom Mailer proudly used to say was his toughest wife.

Lady Jeanne Campbell, also the mother of actress Kate Mailer (Cusi Cram’s “very close” half-sister), was a red-faced force of nature whom you’d never forget if you’d ever met her; a force of nature who, it was alleged, had gone to bed with John F, Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Fidel Castro in one single year.

“She may not have been the most respon-sible mother,” says daughter Cusi, “but she sure was fun. Joie de vivre.”

And who was Cusi Cram’s father? “That’s really a complicated question,” says

Cusi. She herself, at any rate, was born September

22, 1967 in the old, no-longer-existing LeRoy Hospital on East 61st Street (“a place people used to go to dry out.”). She grew up on 72nd Street between fi rst and Second Avenues and now lives in the West Village with husband

Peter Hirsch — a writer and producer of the PBS children’s program “Arthur” (Cusi writes for it too.) “We’ve known each other since I was 10.”

Norman Mailer has gone now too. Any thoughts?

“Norman was always very, very nice to me.”

Somebody could write a play about all this, don’t you think? Maybe somebody will. As Lydia Freemantle is far from the fi rst to point out, truth is stranger than fi ction.

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A LIFETIME BURNINGWritten by Cusi Cram

Directed by Pam MacKinnon

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BY LEONARD QUART Andrew Bujalski is the elder statesman —

and arguably the most gifted — among a group of writer-directors (including Aaron Katz, Joe Swanberg, and the Duplass Brothers) who are part of the loosely defi ned mumblecore move-ment. Bujalski has said he regards that move-ment as an imposed rubric that the fi lmmakers shy way from.

Still, the fi lms collectively share an intimate, low-key, performance-based aesthetic as well as minimalist, open-ended narratives. They focus on the everyday problems — usually about the relationships of young, middle-class college grads whose days are spent in conversation. The majority of the characters are smart, slight-ly adrift, somewhat faltering in speech (a great many unfi nished sentences and uncomfortable silences) and generally unsure of themselves. Mumblecore fi lms are made on tiny budgets with non-professional casts, without special effects or stylistic virtuosity, and are completed with an ethic of self-help and collaboration.

Bujalski notes that he really wouldn’t know how to direct professionals. He feels his set is an intimate one, and his directorial method is built on “exploration and personal rapport, not craft.” For Bujalski, “the casting is the movie.” The presence of non-professionals and the intimate set, however, does not mean the fi lms

are exercises in improvisation. Bujalski writes full screenplays where, despite some liberty for the actors to improvise, “the fi lms follow the structure of the written scenes.”

Bujalski — a 32 year old Harvard gradu-ate — has made three fi lms: “Funny Ha Ha” (2002; the fi rst mumblecore fi lm by general consensus) “Mutual Appreciation” (2005), and his latest: “Beeswax.”

“Funny Ha Ha,” Bujalski says, was made without any concern about marketing it to an audience. He thought he could make a fi lm, if it was cheap enough, which would be a fi lm “he would like to see.” Of course, he wound up paying a price — by having to be his own distributor.

Of the three fi lms, “Funny Ha Ha” is the most decidedly minimalist. It centers on a group of recent college graduates who spend their days doing little but drinking beer and wasting time. The fi lm’s protagonist, the luminous Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), takes alienating temp jobs and generally seems lost. All her relationships with men are ungainly, including an old friend who makes an awkward pass and one work-mate, Mitchell (played seamlessly by Bujalski) — a passive-aggressive whose yearning for the disinterested Marnie and turns hostile, despite his trying to maintain a courteous surface. Little happens in the fi lm except for Marnie’s painful encounter in a supermarket with her heart’s desire, Alec (Christian Rudder) — who has his new wife in tow. Despite his marriage, Alec continually makes moves towards Marnie, and then retreats. In the fi lm’s fi nal scene, Alec and Marnie are together; equivocally bonding and separating without any clear conclusion (another characteristic of mumblecore fi lms).

“Mutual Appreciation” (2005) takes place in Williamsburg and focuses on the experience of Alan (Justin Rice), an indie rock musician who tends to undermine his chances for mak-ing the right musical contacts. All the while, he’s trying to suppress his growing attrac-tion to a very sharp Ellie (Rachel Clift) — the girlfriend of Alan’s shambling best friend Lawrence (Bujalski).

Bujalski’s talent for using his camera’s pen-etrating eye to evoke his characters’ unstated emotions distinguishes this subtle fi lm. All three of his characters are self-absorbed, attrac-tive people who project the kind of complex ambivalence that mainstream fi lms (usually dependent on predictable behavior) rarely aspire to.

Bujalski’s third fi lm, “Beeswax,” takes place in Austin, Texas (where Bujalski now lives). It’s directed in the same diffi dent style as his fi rst two fi lms. The difference is, these char-acters are a bit older and have work lives that are more structured—and the story itself has a touch of a narrative hook (what Bajulski somewhat facetiously calls a “legal thriller”). The fi lm’s nominal plot is driven by a legal suit that is never defi ned and never comes to a dramatic conclusion. The central characters

are two extremely close twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren (played by real-life twins Tilly and Maggie Hatcher)

For Bujalski, “There wouldn’t be a fi lm without the Hatchers.” Jeannie, a paraplegic who handles her disability without an iota of self-pity or self-consciousness, owns a vintage clothing store (the object of the legal suit). Lauren is between jobs, but is con-templating an offer of work in Africa. The fi lm has a number of secondary characters that are given some psychological depth, like Merrill Jeannie’s old boy friend — a law student who provides her with legal advice and emotional support.

Bujalski sees “Beeswax” as a fi lm “where everything is connected and disconnected.” It’s a fi lm where nothing is spelled out, and if there are no grand revelations, imperceptible emotional changes do occur in the lives of the twins. The feeling of real people struggling with signifi cant life choices is successfully conveyed in a quietly indelible fashion.

Bujalski may have made his last mum-blecore fi lm. He has an agent, and has already written a few Hollywood screenplays. Bujalski admits he would like to have a “career,” and try his hand at conventional fi lms. He is anxious to have “the learning experience,” but, at the same time, “do something that is meaningful” if he gets mainstream work.

The fi lms he has made give him joy. He sees them as dealing with “dangling ques-tions” and not with “direct, but with tangled and confused communication.” The fi lms are basically about negotiation, so the characters “feel each other out in an extremely tentative language.” They don’t deal with the larger political and social world. Always at the cen-ter are the personal relationships; and in their breakdown and the attempt to fi x them, he sees the root of politics.

Bujalski knows his fi lms may be diffi cult to consume and digest, because they eschew conventional narratives; but he doesn’t see his fi lms as elitist (even if he knows he appeals mainly to an audience of cineastes). However, though his fi lms may lack breathless pace and stunning compositions, in their quiet way they are profoundly resonant and suggestive.

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Twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren navigate confl ict in “Beeswax”

BEESWAXWritten and directed by Andrew Bujalski

100 minutes; in English; not rated

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MANHATTAN’S LOST PLACES OF LEISURENew York City changes so much (and so often), it’s easy to muster dewy-eyed nos-talgia for the way things were last month. Fortunately, historian and author David Freeland has his sights set firmly on the long-lost past. His new book (“Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure”) explores a time when belated, beloved places such as the Atlantic Garden, Horn & Hardart’s Automat and the Doyer’s Street Chinese Theatre were hot spots. This free lecture by Freeland includes a slideshow and a Q&A session. Tuesday, August 11, 6:30 p.m.; at the Tenement Museum Shop, 108 Orchard Street. For more information, visit www.tenement.org or call 212-431-0233.

NAGASAKIJoin Pax Christi Metro New York (part of the international Catholic peace movement) as they own up to the 64th anniversary of America’s bombing of Nagasaki, Japan — and the lessons learned — and advocate for the abolition of nukes. Watch the new film, “U.S. Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World.” Then, engage in a discussion facilitated by Cheryl Wertz (of Peace Action) and Sr. Mary Beth Moore (of the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives). Free. August 9, 2:30 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Greenwich Village Parish House (371 Sixth Ave). Call 212-420-0250 or visit www.nypaxchristi.org.

SAMMY VELVET After a nearly eight-year absence, talent-challenged cabaret crooner Sammy Velvet returns to the NYC stage for a one-of-a-kind per-formance that lovingly, comically, desperately recreates Act I of Liza Minnelli’s Tony Award-winning 2008 performance at The Palace Theatre. Equal parts strange, sur-real, silly, sexy and stupid, it’s a must-see event for anyone who loves cabaret; or com-edy; or show business train wrecks. That Velvet also happens to be Scott Stiffler, who happens to write the A List, is merely a happy coincidence. August 9, 5:30 p.m. and August 10, 7:00 p.m., at Don’t Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th Street. $5 donation; two-drink minimum (you’ll need it). For reservations, call 212-757-0788.

ANKUR SHAHIn 2006, Ankur Shah traced the route taken by Mahatma Gandhi during his 1930 protest of the British tax on salt. He carried no money and used only “otherworldly intuition” to acquire food and shelter — discovering along the way what remains of Gandhi’s influence upon the Indian countryside. The result was his novel, “Sometimes We Walk Alone.” Plan on making like Gandi by walking to the event sans cash? The sponsoring venue (a LES bookstore, fair trade café and activist center) promises “you will not be turned away from an event for having empty pockets.” Free (donations accepted). Sunday, August 9, 7 p.m. at Bluestockings; 172 Allen Street. Call 212-777-6028 or visit www.bluestockings.com.

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PIANO FESTIVALThrough August 16, Cornelia Street Café’s Piano Festival show-cases unique piano players and composers. Over the course of two weeks, you’ll see jazz, classical, chamber, four hand, solo, duo and trio piano music. Highlights include British piano darling Simon Mulligan and an 80th birthday tribute celebra-tion of piano legend Bill Evans. As always, a one-drink minimum per set. At The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street. For informa-tion on the Piano Festival (and other August mini-festivals), call 212-989-9319 or visit www.cor-neliastreetcafe.com.

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EXPERT ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTICS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/4/2009. 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 124 West 60TH Street Apt 35D New York, NY 10023. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

JFL GENERAL CON-TRACTING LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/15/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jose Lebron 601 W 113 Penthouse New York, NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF BDS TRADING,

LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/21/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/19/2009. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to THE LLC 159 Bleecker Street, Apt 4D NY, NY 10012. DE address of LLC: Corporation Trust Center 1209 Orange Street Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOLLISTER CON-

STRUCTION SERVICES OF NEW YORK, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/16/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: Heights Plaza, 777 Terrace Ave., Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIBRIS HOLDINGS

LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/23/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 24 Fifth Ave., #705, NY, NY 10011. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ANVAYA, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/05/07. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 205 E. 85th St., Unit 15H, NY, NY 10028. 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, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with The DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY. NAME: LSJC JV GROUP, LLC

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secre-tary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/22/09. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 200 Central Park South, #20A, New York, New York 10019. Purpose: For any law-ful purpose.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KYLE DEWOODY LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/24/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 334 Bow-ery, #2F, NY, NY 10012. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Doug-las Gladstone, Esq., Goldfarb & Fleece, 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PETER FLOM CON-

SULTING LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/25/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: 515 West End Ave., Apt. 8C, NY, NY 10024. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF D. E. SHAW AQ-SP SERIES 14-02,

L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 5/11/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/18/08. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin, General Counsel, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF D. E. SHAW AQ-SP SERIES 6-07,

L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 5/8/09. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/16/07. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin, General Counsel, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HALSEY LANE

HOLDINGS, LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/24/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 900 Park Ave., NY, NY 10075. LLC formed in DE on 6/23/09. 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., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DUNN/BORIS PRO-

DUCTIONS, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/12/09. 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 princ. bus. loc.: c/o The LLC, 515 Park Ave., Ste. 20, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF O-CAP ADVI-

SORS, LLC

App. For Auth. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/8/2009. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. LLC formed in DE on 6/4/2009. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 140 E. 63rd St., Apt. 17C, New York, NY 10065, Attn: Michael Olshan. DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont High-way, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. fi led with DESS, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: to engage in any act or activity lawful under the NY LLC Law.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MMAC PRODUC-

TIONS, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/3/09. 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, 248 W. 60th St., NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/8-8/12/09

ROCK HOUSE GROUP LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2009. 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 Davidoff Malito & Hutcher LLP, Attn. Charles Klein, Esq. 605 Third Avenue 34TH Floor New York, NY 10158. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09ONE DAY PARTNERS,

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/12/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corpo-ration Service Company 80 State Street Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Corporation Service Com-pany 80 State Street Albany, NY 12207.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

ARC SOLUTIONS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/13/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andreas Ryll And Lisa Gottesman 201 East 77TH Street Suite 20B New York, NY 10075. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PHIPPS CG III, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY, NY 10010. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JOHN F. KRUSE, DDS,

PLLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/04/09. 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, 630 5th Ave., Ste. 1818, New York, NY 10111. Purpose: profes-sion of dentistry.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CCB STRATEGIES,

LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 04/24/09. 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, 1057 2nd Ave., Apt. 4B, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HFP INVEST-

MENT MANAGEMENT, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 06/04/09. LLC Formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/08. 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, 685 5th Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. Of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF ARTISAN

INVESTMENTS GP LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/30/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 875 E. Wisconsin Ave, Ste. 800, Milwaukee, WI 53202. LLC formed in DE on 3/26/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Corpora-tion Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

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

August 5 - 11, 2009 23

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF EAST RIVER RETAIL

SYSTEMS LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/22/09. 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: c/o The LLC, 450 7th Avenue, Ste. 1401, NY, NY 10123. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

NAME OF LLC: STRYJ,

LLC

Art. of Org. fi led Dept. of State of NY on April 14, 2008. NY county off. loc.: New York Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: Olshan Grund-man, Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, 65 East 55th Street, New York, NY 10022, Attn: Samuel P. Ross, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/15-8/19/09

A PROFESSIONAL SER-

VICE LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY:

Notice of Formation of A Pro-fessional Service Limited Lia-bility Company (PLLC)Name: Metropolitan Urology, PLLC Article of Organization fi led by the Department of State of New York on 5/6/2009 offi ce location: County of New York. Purpose: Medicine. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 242 East 72nd Street, Suite 1B New York, NY 10021.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

FOUR G 23RD STREET

REALTY LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/13/2008. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kimberly D Jus-tice Suite 4G 620 West 171 Street New York, NY 10032. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

MANHATTAN COVERS

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/23/2009. 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 1583 First Ave APT 4D NY, NY 10028. Purpose: Any law-ful activity. Registered Agent: Zbigniew Jakowiak 1583 First Ave, APT. 4D NY, NY 10028.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

FLORAWORKS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/4/2004. 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 366 Amsterdam Ave, #132 NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Alon Hacohen 366 Amsterdam Ave, #132 NY, NY 10024.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF BAM CAPITAL

HOLDINGS, L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/18/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/12/2008. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Bam Asset Management L.P. 135 E 57th Street, 27th Fl. NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange Street Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF COMPASS

FINANCIAL ADVISORY, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 02/23/09. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 825 Third Ave., Ste. 203, NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF WAVERLY CAPI-TAL MANAGEMENT, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/08/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/23/09. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 90 W. Houston St., Apt. 3B, NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to the LLC at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with State of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CITY FUELS LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/27/09. 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, 4353 Broad-way, NY, NY 10033. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF BEDFORD 61ST STREET ASSOCIATES,

LLC

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/9/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Nat. Reg. Agents, 875 Ave of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MC GREENPORT, LLC

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/1/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Metropolitan Council, 80 Maiden Lane, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: any lawful activi-ties.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF THE WEDDING

DIRECTOR, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/24/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to c/o CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any law-ful activities.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LU NING ARCHITEC-

TURE, PLLC

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 PLLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC is to: The PLLC, 55 E 87th St, 7M, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY. NAME: USA AUTO TRADERS LLC

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/19/09. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o The Law Offi ces of Spar & Ber-stein, P.C., 225 Broadway, Suite 512, New York, New York 10007. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PHILMEDIA, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

6/16/09. 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: Cliff Sloan c/o Phil-Media, LLC, 95 Morton St., NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any

lawful activity. Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF M AND B PARKING

LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

6/29/09. 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, 50-25 Bar-

nett Avenue, Sunnyside, NY

11104. Purpose: any lawful

purpose.

Vil 7/22-8/26/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that a license, #1228651 has been applied for by Fondue 26 LLC to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 122 W 26th Street NY, NY 10001.

Vil 7/29/09 & 8/5/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by 137 East 55th St. Inc. d/b/a Covet to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on prem-ises consumption under the ABC law at 137 East 55th Street NY, NY 10010.

Vil 7/29/09 & 8/5/09

ALPARI SECURITIES, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/30/2009. 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 14 Wall Street, Suite 5H New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF PUPS TO GO,

LLC AMENDED TO PUP

TO GO, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/21/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/2009. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Meena Manshara-mani 524 E. 72nd St #29C NY, NY 10021. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4 Dover, DE 19901. Registered Agent is Meena Mansharamani 524 E. 72nd St #29C NY, NY 10021 Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF FLY ON THE WALL

FILMS LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/09. 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 Altman, Greenfi eld & Selvaggi, 200 Park Ave. South, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABIL-

ITY COMPANY. NAME: BROADSWITCH MOBILE

LLC

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/16/09. The latest date of dissolution is 12/31/2060. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been des-ignated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Blueswitch, 61 Broadway, Suite 2710, New York, New York 10006. Pur-pose: For any lawful pur-pose.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BARBARA L PORT-

MAN, LLC

Article of Organization fi led with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/26/09 Offi ce location NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Offi ce address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O the LLC 7014 13th Avenue. Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity. Street address of Principal Business location is: 860 Fifth Avenue. New York, NY 10065.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF POLYMODAL LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/09. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001, also registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF E-PLAY, LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/12/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in OH on 6/15/04. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. OH and principal business addr.: 1177 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, OH 43212. Arts. of Org. fi led with OH Sec. of State, 30 E. Broad St., Colum-bus, OH 43266. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF INTERNA-TIONAL HOUSE OF

PANCAKES, LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 2/26/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 450 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203. LLC formed in DE on 1/15/69. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-ration 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.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HARVEST

PARTNERS, LP

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 7/14/09. NYS fi ct. name: New Harvest Partners, L.P. Offi ce location: NY Coun-ty. LP formed in DE on 3/3/06. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: Harvest Partners, LP, 280 Park Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HIGHLAND PROJECT

CAPITAL GROUP, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/14/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Ser-vice Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF TRAINING

CONCEPTS CONSULT-ING, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on June 2, 2009. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Shira Bor-doloi, 126 East 57th Street, #3B, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KY 270 BROADWAY

LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/7/09. 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: c/o Fox Rothschild LLP, 100 Park Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 23NYC FIDI LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/1/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Filippo Cinotti, 50 Broad Street, Ste. 1911, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 7/29-9/2/09

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24 August 5 - 11, 2009

but my head was nodding. We’d been out in the rain and mud for over 12 hours. I’d slipped on my last dry T-shirt and passed out. We were too tired to do more than kiss good night. The next morning, we crawled from the tent, dirty and starving, when the Jefferson Airplane jolted us to life as Grace Slick ripped into “Somebody to Love.”

We left Sunday, early afternoon, with no dry clothes left. I was wearing Joe’s bell-bottoms, rolled up. He had brought more outfi ts. I wanted to stay later, but he had to work Monday and it was a long hike back to the car. I left the Woodstock Festival feeling elated: We could change the world, rearrange the world, just like Crosby Stills and Nash sang. Something inside me had shifted. I felt powerful. We turned on the FM radio as we got closer to the city and heard a million people were at the festival. We’d been part of history.

* * *

Three years after Woodstock, Joe came out. I was confused because he wanted men, not me. Although I was upset about losing my boyfriend, we remained friends. We were attracted to each other’s personalities, interests, tastes and sense of humor. A few years later, I came out too. (No wonder the

sex with Joe was never that good.) Having gay male friends made the transition easier. Joe escorted me to my fi rst gay bar.

I moved to the East Village, cut my hair short and began freelancing. Joe got a crew cut, contact lenses and lost weight. He moved Uptown and became a trade magazine editor. I thought we’d see each other more, but Joe was involved with his Fire Island friends and I got “married” to a woman. Although Joe and I didn’t hang out that often, we stayed in touch over the years. No question my life would have been differ-ent if we hadn’t met. While I was still in col-lege, Joe got me started as a music reviewer, which launched my career.

It’s hard now to conceive we were so innocent at Woodstock. No one would have believed that 20 years later, a sexually trans-mitted disease would kill off a generation of gay men, including Joe. It’s ironic that we were worried about our friends getting killed in an unpopular war in a foreign country. But in both cases, it took too long for everyone to wake up. If people had been more responsive in the early ’80s, Joe and I might be sharing Woodstock memories or checking out a new gay bar in Asbury Park.

* * *

In August 1994, I went back to Yasgur’s farm on the 25th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. But it wasn’t the same

without Joe. For many years, my partner and I had rented a rustic cottage in Sullivan County 20 minutes from the fi eld. So that Saturday we took off for White Lake, where 50,000 people were camped (illegally) for the 25th anniversary.

A decent-sized crowd, but nothing like the original and, contrary to rumors, no big groups showed up. We hit a little traffi c, but this time we parked close to the site.

As we walked around, I was fl ooded with musical trivia about Joe: He felt so connected to the scene that he thought he’d die at 27, like Janis and Jimi and Jim. He was relieved when that birthday passed. His favorite group was The Who, and Joe missed my college graduation because he had tickets. I was pissed. We’d already seen them many times together. Joe loved that line “Hope I die before I get old.” It dawned on me that in a weird way, my friend Joe, the music fanatic who took me to Woodstock, fulfi lled that classic rock-and-roll wish.

Visitors wanted to be photographed next to a huge commemorative plaque dubbed the “Tomb of the Unknown Hippie.” Lots of families with kids. Middle-aged people touched the stone, made their babies touch it. Like a shrine, people left flowers, love beads, pictures, notes. I even saw an ACT-UP sticker. A local artist had set up a huge piece of poster paper, urging those who attended the original festival to sign our names

and record a message for those missing this reunion. The poster was going into a county museum I wrote the following:

Joe & Kate ’69 Kate ’94 Act Up.

Fight Back. Fight AIDS!

Afterward I wondered what Joe would have thought of my message. He was not that political in his later years. Joe lived for his summer house and the St. Mark’s Baths. After getting infected, Joe fought a brave two-year battle against AIDS, fi ling stories until the end, and dying at 43.

Back at the site, my partner wanted to take pictures. I was seeing ghosts as I imag-ined Joe coming down the path. I thought it might be fun to return here, but it made me depressed. I felt old. I felt queer. Everyone looked so straight. I wondered how many other people who attended the festival later came out like we did.

I could not help but note the Stonewall Riots and the Woodstock Festival occurred the same summer — 1969. Stonewall got less publicity then, but it seemed clear as I trekked through the crowds as an out gay person that the fi ghting on Christopher Street had more lasting impact than three days of peace and love. Yes, I had a blast at Woodstock, but part of me felt that in the summer of ’69, we’d missed the real revolution.

40 years later, I won’t go back to Yasgur’s farmContinued from page 13

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worked closely with a conscientious and professional promoter, but we are in no sense a “shell” organization, and take exception to this and the allegation of fraud. Scoopy reports that committee member Carol Yankay (not present at the February committee hearing) sensibly backpedaled on Lederman’s allegations by saying that no one is accusing Williamson Henderson, leader of Stonewall Veterans, of pocketing the money. That leaves our event as the only alleged “fraud” by a “shell” organization.

If the city decides to go along with C.B. 2’s recommendation on our festival, street life and traffic flow will not improve. The promoter will not be forced out of busi-ness. Our organization, while missing this opportunity to register new voters and call attention to women’s issues, will survive without our festival. But we believe the board’s decision was made on the basis of incorrect information and erroneous assumptions, and singles us out unfairly, and this entire saga has not inspired confidence.

Patricia S. Rudden Rudden is president, Women’s Democratic Club of New York City

So long, you Momofuku

To The Editor: Re “‘Hey, Momofuku, the pâté’s over!’

foie gras foes warn” (news article, July 29): As a native New Yorker, I was horrifi ed to

learn of foie gras from the Animal Protection and Rescue League banner and will never step foot in Momofuku or any other restau-rant that serves diseased liver from suffering ducks ever again. Thank you for having the courage and compassion to educate the masses about this unnecessary cruelty.

Lisa Shapiro

Cronkite in context

To The Editor:Re “Beyond the media hype: Cronkite

and the Vietnam War” (talking point, by Norman Solomon, July 29):

Personally, I was always against the Vietnam War, but to be fair, we’ve got put on some context here. Most Americans, certainly most middle-class, middle-age Americans of the 1960s, were for the war, believed the president and his cabinet and thought we were in something “win-nable.” They were the generation who,

when young, had fought World War II in a desperate struggle to save Western civilization, and we made it a success: thumpingly, resoundingly, crashbangingly. War could be good.

It took a while for Cronkite and his generation to realize this was an utterly different kind of war and the folks we were up against in Vietnam had a legiti-mate case for wanting us out. It’s hard to escape one’s youth. Most of us never do.

It is a credit to Cronkite and his coevals that they wrestled with their assumptions on so many great issues, not just Vietnam, and came to adjusted understandings that allowed the nation to evolve in a healthy way. Walter was a good man. R.I.P.

Jim Smith

Lederman, our leader

To The Editor: Re “Lederman’s legacy” (letter, by

Lawrence White, July 29): I have to respond to Mr. White’s scathing

indictment of Robert Lederman. For the record, I am an original artist who

has been showing and selling my work in Soho for almost 10 years. I am an enthusiastic mem-ber and supporter of A.R.T.I.S.T., the only organization that represents me and my inter-ests. We get the truth from Robert Lederman. Sometimes it isn’t nice, but it’s always the truth. He has been at the forefront of this issue

for more than 15 years, and he stays on top of it, keeping the rest of us informed. Through him, we are made aware of the underlying motives and political agendas of elected offi -cials, BIDS and other interests. How else could we have known that Gerson’s proposals would have destroyed the fundamental right to show our work on the streets and in the parks?

I know just about every artist who sets up on West Broadway at Spring St. and none ever supported Gerson’s proposals. We demonstrated at City Hall and spoke at public hearings against all of Gerson’s bills. Mr. White seems to think nobody is coming to Soho anymore. This comes as a shock to me, as today (Sat., July 25) I had pieces go to Spain, Italy and Ireland...as well as Chicago, Philadelphia and New Jersey.

I suggest that if not for Mr. Lederman, none of us (original fi ne artists) would be spending our weekends on West Broadway at all. All of us, including the talented Mr. White, are indebted to him for blazing the trail that we follow.

Ross Pilot

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26 August 5 - 11, 2009

dream and smell the fl owers.”Matt Vorzimer, 25, of Harlem, drums with the Park

Foundation, an acoustic jazz band that plays in the still-unren-ovated section of the park in a small oval on a pathway east of the fountain. The band often divides into two quintets jamming separately nearby each other, though both promoting their same $10 CD. They perform in the park up to seven days a week, up to eight hours a day, from 10 a.m. to as late as 6 p.m.

Vorzimer — whose very modest-sized drum kit includes a 14-inch bass drum, two small snares and a cymbal or two — said the controversy is being drummed up by a handful of disgruntled residents.

“We have a few haters,” he said. “There are like two or three people who continually make complaints. Now we hear there’s a woman with a petition with 1,000 names of people who want to kick all drummers out of the park. They’ve got these civilian-spy-cops running around and shooting photos of us; they’re these old ladies — possibly men — who want to see the culture disappear.”

However, Vorzimer did admit, “There’s a guy who plays pots and pans who’s insanely loud.” And Vorzimer noted that two weekends ago, “two dudes with heavy-metal drum sets” were in the park, thrashing out punk rock tunes.

The Park Foundation have played in Washington Square for three years, with a hiatus during the park’s renovation, during which they played in Central Park. Vorzimer said there now do, in fact, seem to be more musicians hitting the skins in the square.

“A lot of drummers have come,” he said. “It’s abnormal.”It seems that a few very loud drummers are causing a crack-

down on all of them.“We’re being told that we can’t play the music the way

we want to,” Vorzimer noted. “But if we have a crowd of 50 people, we want them to feel something.”

Police told them they have to keep the volume below a cer-tain decibel level, which, in turn, keeps down their profi ts.

“We can adapt to that, it’s fi ne,” Vorzimer said. “But we’re making less money.”

Police fi rst started talking to the drummers on July 10 about keeping down the noise, Vorzimer said. Things escalated to where police were confronting them every day. Finally, he said, a police offi cer recently told him drumming isn’t allowed in the park at all, and that he’d be ticketed if he continued.

The Parks Department’s park enforcement patrol, or PEP, offi cers aren’t hassling then, he said; rather, it’s police offi cers. However, the jazz group stresses they don’t want to focus on the PEP’s and police, but rather point out that it’s really just a small group of residents that seem be against them.

ANTI-DRUM DISCRIMINATION

Meanwhile, sax players, guitarists and others haven’t been getting warnings, Vorzimer noted. Drums are being singled out.

“In my mind, it’s the intrinsic American fear of the drum, that goes back to slavery,” he said, “of being fearful of the power of the drum.”

A longtime Washington Square tumbling act are also taking heat because of their drummer.

“You’ve got a situation where even Tic and Tac are under attack,” noted Vorzimer.

Gil Horowitz, presiding offi cer of the new Coalition for a Better Washington Square Park, confi rmed that drummers are the park’s new Public Enemy No. 1, as far as he and other resi-dents are concerned.

“Oh yes, we’re getting more complaints about that than any-thing,” he said. “More than the drug dealing — even more than the skateboarding on the new polished-granite benches, which is what bothers me most.”

Horowitz said his group doesn’t want to “change the cul-

ture of the park,” but that the renovated park just seems to be attracting a huge number of people, and along with it, more drummers.

“We never had the quantity of drums before and the vol-ume of drums before,” he noted. “People near the park can’t eat their dinner or play at home with their children.”

Horowitz noted that at a meeting he had a week ago with Deputy Inspector Ray Caroli, the Sixth Precinct’s command-ing offi cer, he told Caroli that residents want police to start cracking down on the deafening drums.

As Horowitz tells it, Caroli at fi rst said he wasn’t sure what he could do, stressing that the precinct’s primary focus in the park remains combating drugs.

Caroli must have done something, though, Horowitz said, “because the noise has been sharply curtailed in the park since last Tuesday.”

A phone call to the Sixth Precinct wasn’t returned by press time.

Horowitz agreed that the noisiest of the park percussionists was “the pot-and-pan guy,” followed closely by Tic and Tac.

“Tic and Tac are nice guys — it’s just they’re noisy,” he noted.

As for the identity of the woman doing the anti-drum peti-tion, Horowitz said he’d heard it was a Susan, but he wasn’t sure if it was Susan Goren — ironically, part of the group that fought and litigated against the park’s renovation — or Susan Furman.

THE MUSIC PATROL

Regarding the group who are conducting surveillance of the drummers, Horowitz said he knows one of them is named Bill and lives on W. Fourth St.

“Bill has an expensive camera — a good one with a tele-photo lens,” Horowitz said. “He may be using it to collect evidence to complain.”

Horowitz said the fact that even those whom he calls the “anything-goes-in-the-park people” are concerned about the drumming shows it’s a problem.

“It is not me!” said Goren, asked if she was the Susan gathering signatures for the anti-drum petition. The Villager couldn’t reach Furman by press time.

But Goren agreed that the drumming’s din has been rat-

tling the park and its surroundings.“What has gone too far is the guy with the buckets —

plaster buckets turned over, or whatever...Tic and Tac and the two jazz groups,” she said, apparently referring to the Park Foundation.

“The guys that play on the west side of the park are really good. They’re Japanese. They’re willing to use mutes on their instruments.

“Tic and Tac has a full set of drums — they’re really too loud. The guys on the east side are really too loud,” Goren said. “They hit their drums as hard as they can — and they’re ruining it for everyone.”

‘IT USED TO BE CONGAS’

Horowitz recalled that in the late 1950s or early 1960s, some drums were banned in Washington Square.

“Bongos were permitted. Congas were prohibited — because of the deep percussive sound,” he said. Plus, he noted, “Under Ed Koch as mayor, half the park was a quiet zone.”

Koch, however, said he didn’t recall any quiet zone or conga ban.

On Monday, around 1 p.m., the Park Foundation were playing in their usual spot. Vorzimer kept the rhythm along with David Speranza on standup bass, while trumpet players alternately soloed over the mellow groove. Vorzimer’s drum-ming wasn’t loud, and when Speranza soloed on bass, he played even softer, mainly doing unobtrusive rim shots and tinny hi-hat claps.

A small group sat listening quietly on the benches across the path. Occasionally, a listener or passerby would drop a buck in the band’s bag and offer a smile and compliments. The group makes $60 to $100 on any given day, Vorzimer said.

Jamal, one of the trumpet players, noted there’s a rich history of musicians performing in New York’s public spaces, in general, and Washington Square Park, in particular. But the people who backed the park’s renovation are calling the shots, he said, and they don’t like music and are “making it their park.”

“Thousands of people come to this park specifi cally to hear music,” Jamal pointed out. “There are very few parks like this in America, in the whole country. … Sonny Rollins played in the streets. Coltrane played in the trains.”

If the musicians are kicked out of the park, he said, “the next Coltrane” might never be discovered.

However, Bill Castro, the Parks Department’s Manhattan commissioner, said the musicians don’t have to worry — as long as they keep their volume at acceptable levels.

“There’s no difference between the Parks Department and the police on this,” he said of the noise enforcement. “In fact, the precinct commander and I spoke with Councilmember Alan Gerson on this last week.” However, he added, “The police are taking the lead on this.”

Basically, the music volume can’t rise to “unreasonable noise,” Castro stated. What constitutes unreasonable noise, he said, would be “if you can hear it outside the park, or if you can hear it in the park not too far away.” He didn’t say exactly how far away, noting that the sound of music played on grass wouldn’t carry as far as that of music played on a hard surface.

Castro said the Parks Department regulations apply to all musicians, not just drummers, but that one drummer has been the main problem at Washington Square lately. The pots-and-pans guy?

“He’s the one,” Castro said. “I don’t think there are more drummers coming — it’s just that one drummer.”

If musicians are too loud, offi cers will fi rst tell them to lower the volume, then, if necessary, tell them to stop; fi nally, offi cers will issue tickets if the musicians don’t comply, he said.

“We have a variety of combos and groups that have played there, and will continue to be there,” Castro assured of the park’s musicians. “But it can’t be unreasonable.”

Neighbors want drummers to beat it, just beat it

Villager photo by Lincoln Anderson

Members of the Park Foundation, from left, Jamal, Matt Vorzimer and David Speranza, playing in Washington Square Park on Monday.

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