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BY ALBERT AMATEAU The hole in the wall of the

Provincetown Playhouse got big-ger last week. And the resentment felt by preservation advocates and members of the Manhattan Borough President’s Task Force on New York University Development also got big-ger.

The task force met with Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president for community engagement, on Thursday afternoon Sept. 3 and toured the site at 133-139 MacDougal St., where

the university had promised to main-tain the walls and stage area of the 1916 theater renowned for the early productions of plays by the modern American master and Nobel Laureate Eugene O’Neill.

Hurley, who earlier last month had acknowledged responsibility for failing to warn the task force about the need to demolish part of the theater, presided over a task force meeting at which the members did not hesitate to fault N.Y.U. and bring up the earlier conflicts between the

school and its Village neighbors.“N.Y.U should never have made a

promise to preserve the theater walls if they didn’t know that they could keep it,” Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and a member of the task force, said later.

“If this were an isolated instance, it would be one thing,” Berman said. “But the same thing happened at the

BY ALBERT AMATEAU Calvin Gibson had an

anniversary of sorts on July 24 — not a celebration exactly — but it marked an event that could have been his last.

It was a year since a

disturbed resident of the building on E. Seventh St. where he has lived for 16 years shot him six times.

“It was my good fortune not to die,” he told two

Slowly healingafter a shooting, glad to be alive

Task force and Stringer hitthe roof over playhouse wall

Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki

Creativity fl ows at HOWL FestArtists worked on their pieces at Art Around the Park on Sunday at the HOWL Festival. White paper was hung on Tompkins Square Park’s outside fence and each artist got a section to create whatever he or she wanted. The festival also featured hip-hop music and jazz, a reading of the event’s namesake, Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl,” plus over-the-top performance-art theater. For more photos, see Page 36.

BY PATRICK HEDLUND When a real-estate devel-

oper acquired a block-long residential complex on Ninth Ave. in Chelsea in 2007, he wasted no time in outlining plans to clear out the longtime mom-and-pop businesses on the ground fl oor in favor of high-end retail.

Now, nearly two years after the purchase, the fi rst new tenant has arrived. Subway — a fast-food chain that’s diffi cult to classify as high-end, even by the loos-est defi nition of the term — recently took over the space between 17th and 18th Sts. occupied for more than three decades by Chelsea Liquors.

While many would not argue that a liquor store serves some greater com-

munity good than a sand-wich shop, nearby neigh-bors nonetheless mourned the loss of the familiar face behind the counter, who started working there in 1974 and stayed until his fi nal days last November. Subway, on the other hand, just earned the distinction of ranking No. 2 for having the most chain stores citywide, with 361 across the fi ve bor-oughs and 151 in Manhattan alone, according to a report by the Center for an Urban Future.

At a rally held last year in support of the string of shops on the block, Chelsea Liquors owner Brian Rhee said that his new landlord planned to more than dou-

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SENIOR SCARE? Secret Service agents paid a visit to The Caring Community’s Center on the Square last Wednesday morning, and they weren’t interested in partici-pating in any of the place’s myriad of interesting activities for seniors. Rather, they came to check out a cyber threat. According to Rick Hill, who started attending the center in June, the two agents, both men, dressed in casual plain-clothes, fl ashed their badges and ID at the front desk, then went in to speak with Laura Marceca, the center’s able direc-tor. “Their vibe was very friendly and professional,” Hill said. “They were here because they got a report that something had been sent from the center, threatening some high offi cial. Apparently, they know what computer it was sent from and when it was sent. … I said, ‘Wow, Big Brother.’ ” The agents spoke with Marceca for 10 minutes, then left. The Secret Service must have a backlog of suspicious e-mails to check out: Hill heard that the one from the center was sent back in March. Marceca confi rmed Hill’s report, saying, “Your inquiry about U.S. Secret Service agents visiting the center is true. They approached me last week to investigate an e-mail that was sent from one of the senior center computers to a government offi cial. I really don’t know much more, because they really didn’t get into it with me.”

BEARS FIGHT FOR TURF: It’s not wise to rile bears — especially the leather bears. The Standard Hotel and its owner, Andre Balazs, have evidently been taking a P.R. beating after Scoopy reported last week that the Mayor’s Offi ce told organizers of the West Village Leather and Bear

Street Fair they can’t use W. 13th St. between Washington and West Sts. because the new hotel objects. Following our report, Robert Valin, executive director of Leather Weekend, told us the hotel’s managing director, Ian Nicholson, reached out to him, and that a sit-down was set for this week. The hotel people now claim they had no idea the leather fest was being booted off the block — though Valin the previ-ous week had told us the Mayor’s Offi ce clearly said the hotel didn’t want the S&M confab there. “When I spoke to the Standard…they said they were surprised about the [Scoopy’s] article,” Valin said last Thursday. “At this point, I don’t know who’s telling the truth and who’s not. … They say they’re all about diversity. All of a sudden they’re like, ‘Maybe we can make this work.’” A hotel spokesperson said, “They [the hotel] are speaking with them [the leather bears] and there is hope they will not move the festivities.” In fact, the real reason the bears were going to be banished from the block may be because the hotel is hosting a major fest of its own: The Standard Hotel is “headquarters” for the Food Network’s NYC Wine and Food Festival, from Oct. 8-11, according to the event’s Web site. But it shouldn’t be a problem, Valin said, since, “Half of these bears are chefs anyhow.” Nevertheless, the Mayor’s Offi ce is asking Valin if the fetish-friendly fest — expected to draw up to 500 to 1,000 bears — can be held another weekend; but Valin said he specifi cally picked Sun., Oct. 11, during Columbus Day weekend because it’s a good travel time — plus it’s too late to change the date. Valin said the abuse may have been too extreme this year, even for the BDSM festival, and that it might have to be cancelled. “I’ve told everybody, at this point it’s not happening,” he said last week. Ironically, he noted, the bears — hairy, beefy, beer-drinking gay guys whose fashion accessory of choice is a leather chest harness — will need a hotel as their event grows, and the Standard would be perfect. Except those fl oor-to-ceiling, untinted glass windows that the Standard’s guests have been turning into a kinky peep show for High Line parkgoers could be a little problematic. “I think I would request that the bears get higher fl oors — we are sexual men,” Valin said.

9/11 CONSPIRACY MOVIE NIGHT: Now that Van Jones is out of a job as President Obama’s green-jobs czar, after conservatives hit the roof over Jones having signed a 9/11 Truth petition, he probably has some time on his hands. So he might want to swing by Tompkins Square Park on Fri., Sept. 11, at dusk and check out the outdoor screening of “9/11 Mysteries” just to get a better sense of what that peti-tion he signed was all about. The “professionally produced” documentary seeks to “explore anomalies and expose the lies and truth behind the collapses” of the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Members of NYC CAN will be on hand to collect signatures for a ballot initia-tive to create “a truly independent 9/11 commission” that will investigate the events of the attack, or should we say,

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visitors last week. He often laughs when he talks about the near-fatal incident: “I don’t know why, I guess it’s because I’m past it. And to tell the truth, I must have some selective amnesia because I know a lot of the circumstances only because people told me — police and neighbors,” he said.

After a month in Bellevue Hospital undergoing more operations than he likes to remember and five months at Coler-Goldwater hospital on Roosevelt Island learning to get back on his feet, Gibson, 52, still uses crutches to get up and down to and from his fourth-floor apartment between Avenues C and D.

Another grim reminder of that terrible Thursday morning last year is a 9-milli-meter bullet fragment lodged in his lower left jaw.

“In time, I want it taken out,” he said. “I don’t know how I can volunteer to have another operation, but it might give me trouble later,” he added. “I can balance without crutches for short walks and in a month I want to be able to walk with a cane,” he said.

At Coler-Goldwater, specialists gave him the option of learning to use a wheel-chair or crutches. He tried them both and decided on crutches.

“I got some negative reactions using

a wheelchair on the island,” he said. “People would look and draw back as if I was dirty. So I said ‘Give me those crutches.’ ”

Gibson has nothing but praise for the rehabilitation at Coler-Goldwater but he was eager to leave the place.

“It’s a nursing home and a sanitar-

ium full of very old people who were depressed, people with Alzheimer’s, peo-ple screaming in the middle of the night,” he recalled. “After five months I had to go. They told me I had to be able to walk up four flights, and I had to show them I was able to do it.”

On the day he was shot, he left home at 7:30 a.m. because he had to take some books to his son, 15, a summer-school student at LaSalle Academy, at Second St. and Third Ave., who had phoned him from a nearby store.

“I came back home about 8 or 8:30 and

went to the store for coffee to bring to my brother, who was asleep in my apartment,” he said. “He was staying with me while his apartment was being fi xed up.”

Before Gibson got to the iron gate in front of his stoop, the son of a downstairs neighbor came from between parked cars across the street screaming and shooting.

“I got shot in the hip, it locked and I couldn’t move. But he kept on shooting so I made myself fall,” said Gibson. “The shooting stopped. Then he started shooting again at the guy in the bodega next door.

“I’ve known him since he was a teen-ager; he must be almost 30 now,” Gibson said of the shooter. “I think I remember him leaning over my body. I played dead. They told me he tossed his gun into the back of his van and then went to the police station [Housing Authority P.S.A. 4 at Eighth St. and Avenue C] and gave himself up.”

Gibson said the suspect, Jesus Ortiz, had six prior arrests, including two for menacing another tenant in the building.

“When he was a kid, other teenagers would manipulate him and get him into trouble for things they did,” he recalled. “He was going to a clinic on St. Mark’s Place before the shooting last year. He’s being held in a sanitarium — I don’t know where, but if he comes back I don’t want to be here. This is not healthy.”

The building in which Gibson lives is one of 11 in the East Village that UHAB, the Urban Homesteading Assistance

Board, has been renovating since 2002, Gibson said.

“It was supposed to have been done in 2004 and we were supposed to have been a co-op by then,” he said. “But the contrac-tors have been incompetent. They’ve done more damage than renovation. It’s a disas-ter but we’re stuck with it,” said Gibson, who was a freelance demolition worker before the shooting.

Unable to work at his trade, he subsists on a disability check of $761 per month. In July, a year after the shooting, the New York State Crime Victims Board awarded Gibson $270 and authorized his use of food stamps.

He would have had to fi le a notice of claim 90 days after the injury if he wanted to claim damages from the city, but he was in Coler-Goldwater at the time and missed the chance. He said friends told him that Ortiz had bought the gun online from craigslist.

“I need an advocate to help me,” Gibson said. “I don’t want to go on welfare. My parents and my grandparents never went that route and neither will I.

“I want to get some cash together and open a business,” he added.

Patti Kelly, owner of Kelly Glass Studio, a stained-glass studio, on E. Eighth St., said Gibson’s friends are planning a benefi t for him on Nov. 16.

“He’s a great friend and neighbor and we’re so glad he’s still with us,” Kelly said.

Slowly healing after shooting, he’s glad he’s alive

Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert

Calvin Gibson at home on E. Seventh St.

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ble his rent — from $2,400 to $6,000 — a decision that ultimately led to Rhee’s depar-ture less than seven months later.

“There’s two other delis [on that block] that make sandwiches,” said Miguel Acevedo, president of the tenant association at the Fulton Houses, the public-housing complex across the street from the strip of Ninth Ave. stores. “Subway is just competing against these small businesses that have been there for years,” he noted.

Acevedo attended another rally outside Chelsea Liquors last year to tout a proposal aimed at preserving small businesses by requiring landlords and tenants to submit to mediation and arbitration if the two parties can’t agree on a fair rent. The leg-islation, introduced by Upper Manhattan Councilmember Robert Jackson, initially received a cool reception from some of his Council colleagues for its possible implica-tions on the free market. Seen as a form of commercial rent control, the bill was subsequently amended to remove the por-tion calling for set rent increases that would have been triggered if arbitration proved unsuccessful.

“This is the mildest thing ever presented to the City Council,” said Steve Null, the director of the Coalition for Fair Rents, who helped write similar legislation in the 1980s

that fell short of passing by one vote. With the predetermined rent increases outlined in the original measure excised from the new ver-sion, Null explained that the “Small Business Survival Act” currently only seeks to resolve rent disputes through a third party.

“It’s common as apple pie to use arbitra-tion,” he said. “Almost all contracts call for arbitration mediation.”

After a lengthy hearing on the issue, the revised proposal won over former critics like Brooklyn Councilmember David Yassky, chairperson of the Council’s Small Business Committee, as well as his four colleagues on the committee. The bill currently has sup-port from 33 councilmembers — enough to pass — but still faces one major roadblock at City Hall.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn has refused to bring the bill to a vote, citing the possible legal implications it presents as a regulatory measure.

“If I’m not sure to a reasonable sense that the action the Council is taking is legal, I have to be cautious, because you don’t want to create hope you’re not sure you can sustain,” Quinn said, adding that attorneys continue to research the proposal.

However, advocates for the legislation claim that Quinn is just acting as an agent for Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who would likely veto the bill if it were adopted.

“Quinn will never regulate the land-lords — she’s their player,” Null charged.

“Everybody seems to get it except for Quinn and the mayor.”

Queens Councilmember Tony Avella, a Democratic candidate for mayor, went so far as to stage a boycott at the Council’s Aug. 20 meeting in response to Quinn’s unwillingness to bring the measure up for a vote. While his protest ultimately failed to recruit other councilmembers, the message was clear.

“Obviously, [Quinn’s] not even listening to her own members,” Avella said. “The real-estate industry and the landlords control the legislation in this city. She’s not about to turn away that money.”

Quinn contended that whereas a “hous-ing emergency” must be proven to jus-tify residential rent regulations, no similar method exists for identifying a comparable situation in the commercial market.

“So if you did the Small Business Survival Act, the legal question we’re trying to answer is, without the kind of construct like that…are you engaged in some level of taking of the owner’s private property right?” Quinn said.

The speaker did make small business preservation a centerpiece of her State of the City address earlier this year, unveiling initia-tives to fast-track the permit-application pro-cess for startup companies and coordinate the city agencies to expedite inspections.

“I’m extremely anxious — almost kind of obsessed with the idea — of fi nding

something that is legally doable that will bring relief to small businesspeople and their rent,” Quinn said. “But it has to be some-thing that I have some sense of confi dence will stand up.”

Null and Avella both scoffed at the speaker’s proposals, viewing them as inca-pable of preventing the continued displace-ment of mom-and-pop businesses.

“They’re going to do whatever it takes to protect the landlords,” Null said of Quinn and Bloomberg. “Their dog-and-pony show has run out of dogs and ponies.”

Avella believes the city’s numerous small businesspeople — many of them operating in the outer boroughs — will make their voices heard come Election Day.

“They have to exercise the political power they have,” he said.

Even Acevedo, one of Quinn’s most ardent local supporters, differs with the speaker on this issue.

“Maybe she should sit down with Councilmember Jackson and discuss with others how this bill can be tweaked,” he said. “That’s the only way it’s going to happen.”

Acevedo added that he still keeps in regu-lar contact with Rhee, who has expressed interest in opening a new shop in the neigh-borhood.

“If they became part of our community, they’re family to us — they’re just not people out of business,” Acevedo said. “Let’s keep them in the community.”

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Councilmember Tony Avella, a mayoral candidate, stood outside the City Council chambers during an Aug. 20 meeting to protest the proposed bill’s not being sched-uled for a vote.


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BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a forum on Fri., Aug. 28, hosted by

FIERCE, a Chelsea-based advocacy group for gay youth of color, District 3 City Council candidate Yetta Kurland repeatedly signaled her personal identifi cation with the struggles those young people face. One of her oppo-nents, Maria Passannante-Derr, who has at times clashed with the group in her role on Community Board 2, voiced her respect for FIERCE’s goals, even as she challenged them to aggressively seize opportunities already available to impact policy debates.

The third candidate in the race, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has served the district — which runs from the West Village north to Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen — since 1999, did not attend, citing a scheduling confl ict.

FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment) focused the discussion on its ongoing efforts to preserve and enhance the West Village and the Hudson River piers in Lower Manhattan as safe havens for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, many of whom travel from other parts of the city and region to socialize openly with their peers. The questions, posed by FIERCE members Elegost Rosado and Chris Baez, probed the candidates’ views on tensions between the youth, on one side, and neigh-borhood residents and police, on the other, and on recurring debates about expanding

the hours, access and services available for young people on the piers.

A lesbian, who mentioned she is 41, Kurland, a civil rights attorney, established from the start a simpatico with fellow L.G.B.T.Q. community members roughly a generation younger. As part of its effort to

embrace youth of varying gender identities, FIERCE typically asks speakers at its events to state their “preferred gender pronoun” or P.G.P., by which they wish to be identifi ed.

Passannante-Derr, also an attorney, was initially caught off guard by the question, saying she wanted to be called “Maria.” Prompted again, she said that “her” is her P.G.P. Kurland answered the same question by saying audience members could apply any gender identifi cation to her they wished, adding later, “I am in a lot of ways gender-nonconforming.”

Passannante-Derr, at other points, was proactive in embracing goals in line with FIERCE’s agenda. For example, she called for an inspector general in the public schools to investigate harassment and discrimination against queer students. She said she “fi rmly believes” any redevelopment approved at W. Houston St.’s Pier 40 will include a 24-hour drop-in center for L.G.B.T.Q. young people. And she pledged that, if elected to the Council, she would make discretion-ary “member item” money available to the group.

Kurland seconded her rival’s commitment on Pier 40, and on many broad policy ques-tions, the two candidates largely hit the same notes. Many of their differences emerged when they got down to specifi cs. On several occasions, Kurland emphasized two lead-ing themes of her campaign — that choices need not be made between polarized options and that public decision-making must be more open and transparent. Speaking to the simmering tensions in recent years between L.G.B.T.Q. youth of color and more affl u-ent and less racially diverse neighborhood residents, she said, “I want to fi nd a way for us to dialogue better with the greater com-munity. I think we’ve been put into a false dichotomy where it’s ‘the bad kids versus the bad community residents,’ and I don’t think that really exists, and the way we’re going to do that is to roll up our shirtsleeves, with

respect for all of us.”At the same time, Kurland argued, the

procedures in place for approving how land regulated by the city, such as the piers, can be used — governed by the uniform land use review procedure, or ULURP — disenfran-chise certain portions of the community, in this case, the FIERCE constituency.

“The ULURP system that happens now oftentimes excludes community involve-ment,” she stated. “We need to fi nd creative ways to bring everyone to the table.”

Passannante-Derr took great exception to Kurland’s assertion.

“I disagree with your fi rst statement that the ULURP process is not all-inclusive of the community,” she said. Passannante-Derr pointed out that approval is generally an eight-month effort that involves numerous levels and agencies of government, all of them open to public input. Expressing her confi dence that a 24-hour drop-in center at Pier 40 could and should result from the process, she said, “With your support and your participation, at the [community] board, at the borough president level, at City Planning and the City Council, that will hap-pen. But you have to be at the hearings with your testimony. ... It’s a lot of work.”

FIERCE challenged Passannante-Derr to explain why, during the debate several years ago about the Christopher St. pier’s cur-few, she supported the relocation of the L.G.B.T.Q. night scene to Pier 54 at W. 13th St., which the group said was out of the way, less safe, and inherently a temporary fi x, given the likelihood of redevelopment there. The candidate responded that the proposal “was not in any way disrespectful,” but rather aimed at opening up space for young people wishing to stay out later than the park’s 1 a.m. curfew. Ending discussion of the topic in something of a stalemate, Passannante-Derr said, “If it’s still unacceptable, I’d like to know why it’s still unacceptable.”

But when asked about opportunities for making more-affordable food available in the park around the Christopher St. Pier, Passannante-Derr laid responsibility back at FIERCE’s feet.

“Why don’t you start something down there?” she asked. Then, recalling that the group is nonprofi t, she added, “Maybe you could have a separate, for-profi t organiza-tion that would provide food down on Pier 45 [the Christopher St. Pier].”

Desireé Marshall, the evening’s “refer-ee,” read an e-mail from Quinn, expressing her regret at missing the event and recall-ing efforts her offi ce had worked on with FIERCE in recent years.

Kurland, in turn, used regretful tones in noting the Council speaker’s absence.

“I am saddened that she is not here,” she said of Quinn. “L.G.B.T.Q. youth have been ignored for too long. And you deserve to have all three of the candidates here tonight. ... We need our elected offi cials listening better.”

Passannante-Derr passed on that chance to take a swipe at Quinn, but later said, “Years ago I supported Chris. I thought she was a reformer.”

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BY JEFFERSON SIEGELCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, whose district

includes the West Village and Chelsea, was the target of a protest last Wednesday night when she arrived for a meet-and-greet at a Jane St. gathering.

The protest drew 15 people to the corner of Jane and Hudson Sts., near the entrance to 61 Jane St., bearing signs reading, “Chris Quinn Is in the Mayor’s Pocket” and “Donations or Kickbacks?” Participants were incensed over Quinn’s role in helping extend term limits.

“When term limits were overturned with Christine Quinn’s compliance, I was deeply offended by it,” said Rosemary Kuropat, a 25-year Hudson Square resident. Kuropat held a large sign reading, “Quinn Dumps on Hudson Square,” a reference to the city’s plan to build a three-district Department of Sanitation garage at the west end of Spring St.

Donny Moss was one of the protest’s organizers. “She’s blocked every animal-protection bill introduced

at City Hall since she’s become speaker,” Moss said. In the 2009 “Humane Scorecard” compiled by the

New York League of Humane Voters, Quinn ranked among the bottom five councilmembers in voting for or sponsorship of legislation to help animals.

When Quinn arrived at 7:30 she was greeted with chants of “No third term!” as she walked into the lobby.

After Quinn went inside, the protesters marched north on Hudson St. past the Hotel Gansevoort, then continued up Eighth Ave. to 23rd St. while chanting, “Christine Quinn has got to go!”

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Fight turns fatal

Daniel Abbastante, 35, was charged on Wed., Sept 2, with manslaughter after a fi ght with a fellow resident of the Bowery Residents’ Committee shelter, 317 Bowery at Bleecker St. The suspect was fi ghting in the shelter with Paul Green, 39, around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, knocked him to the fl oor and kicked him several times, according to wit-nesses. Green declined to press charges and was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he died at 12:14 a.m. on Wednesday. Police then returned to the shelter and arrested Abbastante.

Knife to the throat

A resident of 247 W. 11th St. told police a man who followed her into her building when she got out of a cab at 12:40 a.m. Thurs., Sept. 3, pulled a knife, threatened to slit her throat if she screamed, and took her bag with a BlackBerry phone, bank cards and ID and fl ed. The suspect was described as a black man with braided hair, about 5 feet 11 inches tall and 170 pounds.

Burglar’s key fi nd

A burglar opened the door of a fi fth-fl oor apartment at 720 Greenwich St. with the spare key the resident left under the front-door mat around 12:46 p.m. Sun., Aug. 30, police said. The thief made off with a laptop MacBook computer valued at $3,500 and $120 in cash, police said.

Bagel beating

Three men were charged with beating a man who spent too long in the men’s room of a bagel shop at 120 University Place on Friday night Sept. 4, police said. Osman Jalloh, 19; Amadou Diallo, 21; and Mohammed Sow, 21, were charged with second- and third-degree assault and were paroled pending a Dec. 2 court appearance, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Offi ce.

Argued, then attacked

A man, 22, told police that a stranger

who started an argument with him at 2:45 a.m. Mon., Aug. 31, near the corner of W. 14th St. and Eighth Ave. punched him, knocked him down and kicked him in the head. The assailant fl ed into the subway sta-tion on the northeast corner, police said.

Bad party girls

A man coming out of a Meatpacking District club told police three women approached him at 5 a.m. Sun., Sept. 6, asked him if he wanted to party with them and then took him in their car to a bank A.T.M. at 423 W. 14th St. to draw some money for the party. Two of the girls accom-panied him to the A.T.M. and massaged him to get him in the mood for the party, accord-ing to police. They returned to the car and drove for a while until the driver stopped the car and told him the party was over. They made him get out and drove off, leav-ing him in the street minus his wallet, the cash and the A.T.M. card. He phoned police, who later arrested Tiffany Raspberry, 21; Subhanna Beyah, 21; and Barbara Labady, 27, and charged them with robbery. The victim discovered later that three unauthor-ized withdrawals were made just after the incident.

‘I will shoot you’

A man walked into the HSBC branch at 769 Broadway near Ninth St. at 12:38 p.m. Sat., Aug. 22, told a teller, “Yeah, I want change,” then passed her a note that said, “Don’t panic, I have a gun. I will shoot you and security on the way out. Don’t hand me the dye pack.” After the teller turned over $2,058 in loose bills, the robber asked, “You got any more 50’s?” and then left, turning north on Broadway, police said. The robber was a black man, about age 35, 5 feet 9 and 200 pounds.

9th St. bag grab

A resident of 60 E. Ninth St. at the corner of Broadway told police that two or three men followed her as she entered her build-ing at 2:30 a.m. Mon., Aug. 31, when one of them grabbed her bag and they all fl ed. The robbers escaped into the subway station on Broadway at Eighth St. A token booth clerk at the Astor Place station recovered the bag, police said. The bag’s contents — a cell phone, driver’s license and bank card — were not recovered.

‘I got your phone’

Two men assailed a woman as she was entering her residence at 252 W. 14th St. at 4:10 a.m. Sat., Aug. 22, police said. One suspect got inside the building, but the vic-tim and witnesses held the door to keep the other suspect out. The suspect outside the door said, “I got your phone, bitch.” Police came by and arrested the two suspects, Randy Moreno, 25, and Eric Moreno, 23, and charged them with robbery.

Boutique boosters

Four men walked into the Massimo Bizzocchi boutique at 433 W. 14th St. at 4:45 p.m. Fri., Sept. 4, and two of them engaged the employee in conversation while the other two went to look around. The employee told police that the store security camera caught one of them stuffi ng two pairs of women’s denim shorts into a paper bag and leaving without paying the $270 total price.

Stagehand victim

A woman stagehand who was taking equipment out of a theatrical prop store at 14th St. near 10th Ave. and loading it into a van around 10 p.m. Tues., Sept 1, discovered that a thief had entered the van and made off with her wallet with credit cards, an iPod, a digital camera and $60 in cash, police said.

Mugging trio

Two men and a woman engaged a woman victim in conversation at 4:20 a.m. Fri., Aug. 28, at Washington Square West and Washington Place, when one of the men put a chokehold on the victim while the second man pulled a knife and grabbed her bag, police said. The man tugged at the bag and said, “Let it go, let it go,” according to police. The three assailants fl ed with the bag, containing a camera, a BlackBerry, a driver’s license and $9 in cash, police said.

Woman is attacked

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Chatham Square. A retired police offi cer saw the assault and called police, who arrested the suspect on Mott St. Corchado is believed to be involved in two similar incidents, and was charged with attempted robbery, bur-glary and attempted sexual abuse.

Cheese-’n’-chorizo con

A food delivery driver told police he made a stop at the Norwood Club, 241 W. 14th St., around noon, Wed., Aug. 26, load-ed a food order onto a hand truck and went to the rear of the club. He shouted down a stairway that he had a delivery and a man come up and signed for it. The deliveryman then asked to use the bathroom, but when he returned he found the hand truck and the

food were gone. He later learned that the Norwood Club reported that no delivery was made of 15 pounds of sheep’s milk cheese, 10 pounds of chorizo (sausages), a pound of anchovies, olives, tuna and other food items valued at a total of $447. The hand truck was also gone.

Hudson Square mugger

A woman, 35, was walking on Hudson St. near Broome St. at 6:45 a.m. Fri., Aug. 28, when a man wielding a knife stopped her, police said. The robber made off with the victim’s cell phone, driver’s license and bank card.

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BY WILL GLOVINSKYOn one recent day last month a cyclist

cruised northward past 11th St. along a major downtown avenue. His pace was leisurely, his manner relaxed. He did not swerve to avoid any jutting car doors or constantly jerk his head back to look out for taxis.

He didn’t have to. He was riding on Eighth Ave.’s new “cycle track” protected bike lane, and a buffer zone of parked cars stood between him and the afternoon traffic.

Across the sidewalk, however, Vincent Kim peered out at the lane from behind the counter of Imperial Vinters, a wine and liquor store on 11th St.

“I don’t like it,” Kim said, shrugging. “It’s good for bikers, but you lose park-ing, and deliveries are hard. The delivery truck has been ticketed for unloading in the lane.”

The fine was $115, paid by the delivery company.

Over the last two years Eighth and Ninth Aves. have received protected bike lanes, a design previously untested in American cities, which provides a dedi-cated lane for cyclists that is separated from traffic by parked cars. The design also uses a slew of innovations, such as sidewalk-island “pedestrian refuges,” left-turn lanes and bike-specific traffic signals to defuse intersection conflicts. With their novel lanes, Eighth and Ninth Aves. are acting as petri dishes in the city’s experi-ment to make bicycles a mainstay of the urban commute while chipping away at the dominance of cars.

“The lanes set a new standard for phys-ical separateness,” said Wiley Norvell, a spokesperson for Transportation Alternatives, a bikers’ advocacy group that championed the design.

But as cyclists rejoice over the new lanes, merchants like Kim whose shops line the bike path are less enthused.

“It’s not a boon to business,” said James Waits, owner of House of Cards and Curiosities on Eighth Ave. at 12th St.

Tony Juliano, director of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, said that both he and the merchants he represents “completely understand the need to reduce vehicular traffic,” but remain concerned about the potential adverse effects on business.

He noted that when the Ninth Ave. lane opened, some merchants report-ed 20-to-30 percent drops in business. Juliano said no such reports had come in from Eighth Ave., but said that other fea-tures could still hinder businesses.

On the other hand, bike enthusiasts argue that the lanes should increase busi-ness for adjacent shops.

One cyclist, Rashad, who paused for a few minutes to talk as he cycled the Eighth Ave. lane, said that it should bring new business to shopkeepers.

“Whatever falls on the lane — I go to those stores,” he said.

None of the merchants interviewed for this article said that they would directly link any decline in business to the bike path, though some said it was difficult to untangle the impact of the bike lane from the general economic downturn.

Or, as Waits put it: “It’s sort of like standing on the deck of a boat during a storm and wondering if you’ve wet your pants.”

Other problems are easier to discern. The design has cost the west side of Eighth Ave. quite a few parking spaces due to the left-turn lanes and pedestrian refuges, and, of course, delivery trucks must contend with a lack of loading space and an increase of tickets for standing.

One shop, though, seems perfectly suited to the new lane. Organic Avenue, a naturalist-lifestyle store between Jane and Horatio Sts. that distributes vegan raw food and organic clothing, uses a bike service to deliver its products, there-by integrating its organic approach into transportation and, incidentally, introduc-ing a new use for the bike lane.

Alexandra Chavez, a clerk at Organic Avenue, added that the bike lane offers a new way for customers to reach the store.

“People get off their bikes and come in,” she said.

But, at least for now, Organic Avenue remains an exception to the standard business model, and Juliano of G.V.C.C.C. said that he wishes the Department of Transportation were more amenable to the needs of the business community. He said he was happy that businesses were alerted and consulted regarding the Eighth Ave. lane, but remained disap-pointed by the large “footprint” of the lane.

“I wish the D.O.T. could examine alternatives that aren’t as wide,” he said, referring to the generous 10 feet allotted to the bike lane. “It changes the character of the street.”

When told of this complaint, Norvell of Transportation Alternatives conceded that the lanes were rather wide, but said that the width was mandated by the Department of Sanitation, which needs enough space to send a street sweeper down the lane.

“Other cities have small street sweep-ers,” he said. “New York doesn’t.”

Norvell explained that the Eighth Ave. and Ninth Ave. lanes were purposely overbuilt in the same way the Brooklyn Bridge was overbuilt to err on the side of caution.

“These lanes are the first of their kind, and they were over-designed to be extra safe,” he said. “There’s a learning curve with streets like this. It takes a few years for people to use this in a confident and predictable way.”

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BY CLAUDE SOLNIKWhen Raymond Blount was killed on

13th St. in the summer of 1991 after a fi ght in a Union Square nightclub, his friends were just a few feet away. Some helped whisk him off to a hospital, and one ended up hospitalized after being attacked.

But years after Mr. Blount’s death, they took turns on the witness stand last week in a Manhattan court to tell a judge the man convicted of the shooting 18 years ago wasn’t the killer — and that they had been insisting on that fact for years.

Fernando Bermudez, 40, is serving a term of 23 years to life after his photo was selected by witnesses in police custody for a homicide following a fi ght at the Marc Ballroom, a Union Square club.

But at a hearing before Justice John Cataldo last week, a procession of people who said they stood a few feet from Blount and the shooter insisted the wrong man was convicted of the crime.

“He’s taller than the guy who actually did the shooting,” Terrence Hall, one of Blount’s friends, said of Bermudez, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall. “He [the shooter] wasn’t that tall. He must’ve been fi ve-eight or fi ve-nine.”

Barry Pollack, the lead attorney in the motion, along with co-counsel Lesley C. Risinger and Michael Risinger, asked Bermudez to stand, as he would do repeat-edly at the hearing.

“He wasn’t that tall,” Hall repeated as

Bermudez rose and returned to his seat beside his pro bono attorneys.

When Hall was asked minutes later if he was sure Bermudez wasn’t the shooter, he gave a brief response.

“Positive,” he said.The defense argues Bermudez may bear

some facial resemblance to the shooter, which accounts for the selection of his pho-tograph. But they argue he is far taller, wasn’t at the scene, knew nobody at the scene and was caught up through mistaken photo iden-tifi cation. Prosecutors argue the identifi ca-tion should stand, and previous efforts have failed to overturn the conviction.

But Justice Cataldo a few weeks ago ordered a hearing regarding whether there should be a new trial after defense attor-neys presented evidence indicating that wit-nesses who had picked Bermudez’s photo sat together and conferred before photo arrays and lineups were done.

That would compromise the indepen-dence of identifi cations, Cataldo said when he granted the request for a hearing as to whether to overturn the conviction.

Justice Cataldo in his ruling also pointed to evidence that the main witness, the only prosecution witness who said he knew the shooter, committed perjury. Efrain Lopez told police in a videotaped interview that a friend of his nicknamed Wool Lou was the shooter. He in court repeatedly identifi ed Mr. Bermudez as Wool Lou. But defense

and prosecution now agree Wool Lou — the name of the person Lopez originally said committed the crime — is someone else.

Although much of the hearing, at least initially, focused on the handling of photos that witnesses said were passed around and discussed, the most dramatic testi-mony occurred as Blount’s friends told their

account of the murder, insisting the man convicted could not have committed the crime. The witnesses, called by the defense, said Bermudez, who is far taller than the man they saw commit the crime, wasn’t the person they saw pull the trigger.

Nikosi William Boyce, who described himself as Blount’s best friend, testifi ed he saw the shooter, a thin Hispanic man with a goatee, a few feet away. He insisted Bermudez wasn’t the man.

“They had a big mob of people,” Boyce said. “But I could look directly and see who the shooter was.”

Assistant District Attorney Peter T. Casolaro argued Boyce indicated he focused on the gun and might be mistaken, while Boyce insisted height alone made it clear Bermudez wasn’t the shooter.

“I’m looking at the gun,” Lawrence Darden, whose nickname was “Truth,” said later, noting the shooter wore a white T-shirt, blue-jeans shorts and white sneakers and socks. “I didn’t even see the person’s face.”

But he, too, indicated the shooter was about 5 feet 7 inches and 150 pounds, while Casolaro said confusion and time could cloud memory. Darden, who is 6 feet 4, said he looked down at the shooter, whereas Bermudez is closer to his own size.

“Why are we even still going through this?” Darden asked. “He’s not the indi-vidual.”

Darden described a night of pandemo-nium and mistakes extending to information about who had been murdered. He returned from the hospital where his friend had died, only to fi nd out word got out that he himself had passed away.

“Somebody called my mother’s house and told her I got killed,” Darden said. “She was relieved. I wasn’t [relieved].”

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Raymond Blount, said police, convinced they had solved the case, seemed eager to identify Bermudez as the shooter after his photo had been picked.

“He kept pointing at the picture,” Thompson said of how one offi cer handled the photo array. “He was like, ‘What about Number 2?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know him.’”

Thompson said the lineup was a similar process, with police making it clear who they believed committed the crime.

“The cop was pointing at Number 2,” Thompson said of the lineup. “I said, ‘No. That’s the guy in the picture.’”

Thompson said he would eventually say Bermudez was the shooter “so I could go home,” while Casolaro questioned why someone would implicate an innocent man simply so they could leave.

“This was murder and you picked Number 2 because you wanted to go home?” he asked, to which Thompson replied, “Yes.”

“You pointed to a totally innocent guy and identifi ed him as the murderer of your friend,” Casolaro continued.

“Yes,” Thompson said. “Everything I did I was forced to do. I didn’t want to go to court. I was dragged out of my room and told what to say.”

Police arrested Thompson at home as a material witness and took him to court to testify.

“They said, ‘If you don’t go, we’re going to drag you over there,’” Thompson said.

“One cop sat on my bed.”Thompson said, even though he identifi ed

Bermudez in the original trial, Bermudez couldn’t be the shooter: “The dude was my height,” he said of the gunman.

He said the prosecutor indicated he could help him with other cases. But Casolaro said gun and robbery charges against Thompson were dropped before the trial.

“I had another case,” Thompson said. “My case wasn’t dismissed.”

Casolaro also questioned why Thompson wouldn’t tell priests, lawyers or friend about all this.

Thompson, who has since obtained a degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said he told his girlfriend, repeating, “I was forced to lie.”

Frank Marchany, who was stabbed the night of the shooting, identifi ed the photo of Bermudez as that of the shooter, both while in police custody and at trial. He said, at the time, he thought the face in the photo was that of the shooter, but no longer believed that to be the case.

Marchany said when he saw other, simi-lar headshots of young Hispanic men, he saw others that also resembled the shooter. Marchany said after fi nally seeing Fernando Bermudez standing, rather than seated in a lineup, there was no doubt that he couldn’t be the gunman.

“I couldn’t believe he was that big,” Marchany said of Bermudez, who repeat-edly rose and sat during the hearing at Pollack’s request. “The dude I remember wasn’t that big.”

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20 September 9 - 15, 2009

BY PATRICK HEDLUNDDespite opening to the public back in

April, Pier 64 celebrated its offi cial coming-out party on Thurs., Aug. 20, with a cadre of local advocates and elected offi cials on hand to fete the new waterfront mall that spent more than two decades in the making.

The group gathered at the end of the 500-foot pier between W. 24th and 26th Sts. to share memories of the Chelsea waterfront’s genesis through the years from all but for-gotten to one of the most active stretches along the Hudson River.

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried credited a “relentless army of community organizers” with pushing for the revitaliza-tion of the West Side waterfront, which will also see two adjacent piers open next year along the Chelsea portion of the 5-mile-long Hudson River Park.

“This is as great an example of West Side vision and West Side activism as any one we have ever seen,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn of the local effort to create public, passive-use park space at the once bustling port.

The celebration was also attended by state Senator Thomas Duane, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development. Also joining in the festivities were Connie Fishman, president of the Hudson River Park Trust; Robert Trentlyon, founder of

the Chelsea Waterside Park Association; John Doswell, a founding chairperson of the Friends of Hudson River Park; Matthew Washington, deputy director of the Friends; and longtime community activ-ists Ed Kirkland, Doris Corrigan and Lee Compton.

“I am really proud to be a part of this fam-ily,” said Stringer, a former Upper West Side assemblymember, who previously worked with Gottfried on issues related to the Hudson River Park. “So many of you have really gone beyond the community-organizer mold and have really created magic,” Stringer told the assembled park advocates.

Duane — who worked on waterfront issues as a community board member, dis-trict leader, city councilmember and state senator — praised the persistence of park activists in realizing their goal.

“We waited a long time, and it’s worth it,” he said of the project, adding, “it’s spectacular, it’s beautiful, it’s amazing. We should be very proud of ourselves.”

Many of the speakers, including Duane, reserved the highest praise for Trentlyon, who helped lead the charge to redevelop the Chelsea waterfront throughout the 1980s and ’90s.

“This is more than Hudson River Park adding another pier to the park,” Trentlyon said in his remarks. “It’s about tearing down the wall that has kept Chelsea locked off from its waterfront for close to two centu-ries.”

He recounted the riverside’s evolution from an economic engine serving the mari-time industry to the traffi c initiatives that

included the West Side Highway and the High Line railway. But for most of that time, residents on the Lower West Side remained removed “from their rightful possession of the Hudson River,” Trentlyon noted.

“In fact, the lack of contact with the river made many Chelsea residents forget one of

the great rivers of the world was just a few blocks away, or even forget they lived on an island,” he said.

But now, in addition to the opening of Pier 64, Trentlyon noted that the High Line has been reimagined as a popular public park and Pier 57 at W. 15th St. is slated for redevelopment.

“The wall has fallen down,” he said, “and Chelsea residents are united with the Hudson River once again.”

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‘Tearing down the wall’ along Chelsea’s waterfront

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From left, Doris Corrigan, John Doswell and Ed Kirkland at the offi cial dedication on Aug. 20 of Pier 64, which has been rebuilt as a public pier as part of the Hudson River Park.

‘The lack of contact with the river made many Chelsea residents forget one of the great rivers of the world was just a few blocks away, or even forget they lived on an island.’

Robert Trentlyon

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Villager photo by Isaac Rosenthal

Photo shows the remnants of MacDougal St.’s Provincetown Playhouse, in background, but with a large section removed from its northern wall. As can be seen from the photo, the rest of the site is being prepared — with a new foundation — for construction of a new building for N.Y.U. School of Law.

Poe House [in 2002] and the Palladium [in 1995]. It’s consistently apparent that N.Y.U. cannot keep its word.”

David Gruber, chairperson of the Institutions Committee of Community Board 2 and a task force member, also took N.Y.U. to task.

“If they could move the Temple of Dendur from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum, I don’t see why N.Y.U. couldn’t preserve four walls of a 90-year-old theater in a project across the street from its law school,” Gruber said. He wanted the task force to be more vigilant about N.Y.U. development in general, especially in the uni-versity’s plans for the N.Y.U. Center for Academic and Spiritual Life on Washington Square South on the site formerly occupied by the N.Y.U. Catholic Center and acquired by the university from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York last year.

Shaan Khan, of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s staff, said on Tuesday that the task force was meeting this week to review both the Provincetown Playhouse and the N.Y.U. Spiritual Life Center.

The task force has made several design suggestion for changes to the proposed Spiritual Center, and N.Y.U. is

scheduled to show the task force and Community Board 2 its response to those suggestions at the end of this

month, Khan said.Regarding the Provincetown Playhouse, Stringer told

The Villager on Tuesday that he was focusing on the issue with “laser-beam” intensity.

“I expect N.Y.U. to live up to every promise it made,” he said. “I have enormous respect for [N.Y.U.] President John Sexton and for the community leaders who fought N.Y.U. for years. But when N.Y.U. makes a mistake, my role is to protect the interests of the community.”

Stringer said he was upset not only that N.Y.U. failed to let the task force and C.B. 2 know about the breach in the Provincetown Playhouse wall for about three weeks, but that the trust between N.Y.U. and the Village com-munity that the task force has developed over the past three years was compromised.

“The mistake was made and N.Y.U. will have to work hard to regain the community’s goodwill,” Stringer said.

Jo Hamilton, chairperson of Board 2 and a member of the task force, who was out of town on Sept. 3 when the task force met, recalled on Tuesday that C.B. 2 passed a resolution earlier this year approving the N.Y.U. plan for a new building for its law school at 133-139 MacDougal St. on the promise that the interior walls of the historic theater would be preserved.

“The fact that the wall was partly demolished was a big failure,” Hamilton said. “We need to be more careful and demand more assurances about future projects.”

Task force and Stringer hit roof over playhouse wallContinued from page 1

‘If they could move the Temple of Dendur from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum, I don’t see why N.Y.U. couldn’t preserve four walls of a 90-year-old theater in a project across the street from its law school.’

David Gruber,

Community Board 2

22 September 9 - 15, 2009

BY JACK BROWNResidents are increasingly concerned

about the epidemic of scoffl aw cycling plagu-ing the city’s streets and sidewalks. The pre-vailing anarchy creates an ongoing sense of jeopardy for many that deprives us of peace of mind and jacks up the stress level in an already high-stress environment.

The Coalition Against Rogue Riding (CARR) was formed by a number of neigh-borhood organizations — including the Greenwich Village Block Associations and Soho Alliance — to focus on calming the streets and sidewalks through better traffi c management. CARR advocates an increase of an evenhanded enforcement of the vehicu-lar laws.

In May the results a rigorous study con-ducted in April by the departments of soci-ology and urban affairs of Hunter College was issued. “Biking Behavior in Midtown” observed 5,275 cyclists at 45 intersections between 14th St. and 59th Sts. and First and Tenth Aves. It was found that nearly 38 percent of observed cyclists did not stop at red lights. Nearly a third did not use a desig-nated bike lane. More than 17 percent were either riding the wrong way, or at various times both with and against traffi c.

This hard data gives a representative portrait of what causes the sense of anarchy.

However, it does not portray the multitude of hits and nears misses that have gone unreported over the years and that activate the adrenalin of the fi ght-or-fl ight mecha-nism and challenge peace of mind. It does not indicate the deaths. Professor Peter

Tuckel is the principle investigator. To locate the study, go to the blog site “Commuter Outrage” and fi nd “Academic Study,” where a direct link can be found.

On June 18, after addressing the Village Alliance (Eighth St.) business improvement district, featured speaker Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner of the Department of Transportation, was given a copy of the study. Despite a D.O.T. representative’s assurance that the department would have a response to the study by the next day, none was forthcoming. Previously, in a phone message, an agency representative said that “enforcement” was the responsibility of the Police Department.

On July 19, the New York Daily News ran a piece about the death of Stuart Gruskin.

Gruskin was a well-liked senior V.P. of Valuation Research. He grew up in New York and was a graduate of N.Y.U. Stern School of Business. On April 28 he was knocked down by a delivery rider cycling the wrong way on W. 43rd St. Three days later he died in Weill Cornell Hospital of head trauma. The bike had no brakes. The rider wore no helmet. The bike was without horn or bell. Rogue rider Alfredo Geraldo was hit with three violations. No criminal charges were fi led. Geraldo has disappeared.

A $20 million lawsuit has been fi led against the Call Cuisine Catering Company. Gruskin’s widow says that busi-nesses that offer incentives for rush delivery bear a big responsibility. She says that the lawsuit is fi led to draw attention to the need for regulation, responsibility and bicycle safety. The Gruskin family is also establish-ing a foundation to address this problem. Ironically, the suit was fi led on July 8. This was the day that Commissioner Sadik-Khan declared that New York was the “bike capi-tal of the world” after completing 200 miles of bike lanes.

The traffi c safety department of the Manhattan South police command, which encompasses the area of the study, was informed of the fi ndings. A plan was devel-oped with Manhattan South precinct chiefs for a “sustained step-up in an evenhanded enforcement” of the vehicular laws. After two weeks, there were no measurable results.

Chief James Tuller was recently pro-moted from Manhattan South to head Transportation at One Police Plaza head-quarters. CARR provided a copy of the Hunter College study. A request was com-municated to Chief Tuller that he take the Gruskin tragedy into account and declare rogue riding a “quality of life” issue and “refocus” enforcement of the vehicular laws throughout the fi ve boroughs. The response from Chief Tuller’s offi ce was a suggestion that CARR work through Manhattan South.

The offi ces of state Senator Liz Krueger, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and Councilmember Jessica Lappin responded to CARR’s request for action. Kavanagh and Krueger undertook the revision of S7851, which had been introduced in 2002 by Krueger. The Vicarious Liability Bill makes a business owner fi nancially responsible for the actions of a delievery agent. Councilmember Lappin is the chief sponsor of Intro No. 624, a similar bill that has been in limbo in the Transportation Committee, headed by Councilmember John Liu. Liu and Speaker Christine Quinn are responsible for bring-ing it to the fl oor for a hearing. If a version of this bill had been law and enforced, the tragic death of Stuart Gruskin might have been avoided.

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The elderly are vulnerable. Parents fear for children’s safety. Pets are in peril.


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BY JERRY TALLMERFor sheer shocking irony, nothing much can beat the

opening sentence of “The Man in the Glass Booth,” a novel by the actor Robert Shaw (subsequently made by him into a play).

It was that sentence — “Jesus Christ, the Pope has forgiven the Jews!” — that fl ashed through one’s mind on being hit by the headline on Page A5 of The New York Times of Tuesday, September 1, 2009 — 70 years to the day of the German invasion of Poland that started World War II.

“Russian Premier,” read the headline, “Calls Nazi-Soviet Pact in World War II Immoral.” Jesus Christ, the Pope has forgiven the Jews.

And the second thing that fl ashed through my mind, see-ing that headline, was my father walking in that heat back across the bus-stop square in Augusta, Maine, a newspaper folded under his arm. It was a drenching hot, hellish hot day, around noon, and the date must have been August 25, 1939, since Google tells us that Ribbentrop and Molotov had done the dirty deed the day before, August 24, 1939.

My father and I were traveling, by bus, from one Maine camp to another Maine camp — from Menatoma, where I had spent three or four excellent summers, to Tripp Lake Camp, which was owned and run by two of my aunts, Cyd and Eva, along with Kitty Stern, the wife of J. David Stern, publisher of the New York Post (before he sold it to Dorothy Schiff).

The trip was broken midway by a 15-minute rest stop at a square in Augusta. I stayed in the bus. My father went across the square to get a newspaper and some Fatima ciga-rettes. The only paper he could fi nd was William Randolph Hearst’s Boston Herald.

When my hot, stoic father came back and opened the paper to show me the headline — what on the Post would have been called “the wood,” the 3-inch, all-caps, eight-column front-page head — I experienced the worst moment in all my life. On a level, anyway, with the Sunday evening in 1967 on which the telephone rang and it was my college roommate — her lawyer, Craig Kuhn, in Pittsburgh, saying: “Your mother died today.”

I really mean that. “REDS-NAZIS SIGN 10-YEAR PACT,” the headline shrieked, not just all caps but in (add ironies) vivid red. And it was at that moment that I — the young half-assed home-grown New York non-party high-school radical — realized that this world was not at all a nice place, and was probably never going to be one. Our savior of last resort — Lincoln Steffens’s “I have seen the future, and it works” — was just as rotten as all the rest.

David Low, the great British political artist, put it all into a famous cartoon in which Hitler and Stalin are bow-ing to one another like those two sycophants in a Paul Klee etching, with the corpse of Poland at their feet. “The scum of the earth, I believe,” says Mr. Hitler. “The bloody assas-sin of the workers, I presume,” says Mr. Stalin.

If I had any lingering daydreams about the Soviet Union as the hope of mankind, those illusions were soon to be wiped away by the writings of Arthur Koestler, George Orwell, W.H. Auden and others.

So 70 years after the Nazi-Soviet 10-year nonaggression pact that cleared the ground for the World War II that started one week later, and the invasion of Russia one year later, Russia’s prime minister Vladimir V. Putin — to grease the skids for a diplomatic visit to Poland — announces that the Nazi-Soviet pact was indeed...immoral.

I don’t put that word in quotes because The Times didn’t.

On September 1, 2009, my son Matthew e-mailed me,

for the occasion, a poem so titled, one he knows I’ve revered for going on 70 years. Here is one small piece of it:

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky. There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. Auden spent many years late in his life trying to

expunge, to renounce, the last line there. Most of us choose to keep it in. It may or may not be true, but it is not, in any event, immoral.

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Is Spitzer coming back? ... Some people are getting excited.

Vote on Tuesday On Tuesday, April 15, New Yorkers will go to the polls

to cast their votes in the primary elections. We urge all our readers to exercise their democratic franchise.

This year sees some pivotal races in The Villager’s cov-erage area. In Council District 1 — which covers Lower Manhattan, the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho/Noho and the South Village — last week we endorsed Margaret Chin. Again, in our view, Chin is the most qualifi ed to lead among the fi eld of fi ve candidates, including the incum-bent, Alan Gerson. Gerson should have been term-limited out of offi ce, but instead cast a key vote in favor of extend-ing term limits for himself and his Council colleagues. One’s stance on term limits, however, is not the ultimate litmus test. But we do feel the district needs fresh leader-ship and new commitment — and Chin will bring that.

Gerson has had eight years in offi ce, but many feel he has not been effective enough in getting things done during all those years. Chin would bring new energy and, without a doubt, much better organization. Simply put, it’s high time for a real change in District 1, and we back Chin to bring about that change.

Another race that is drawing interest is in District 3 — covering Greenwich Village, Hudson Square, Chelsea, Clinton, Flatiron District, West Midtown and Murray Hill — where Christine Quinn is up for re-election. As City Council speaker, Quinn pushed the term-limits exten-sion through the Council, allowing herself — and her ally Mayor Bloomberg — a chance at a third term. Once more, though, the term-limits issue is not the fi nal deciding factor in our endorsement. To be clear: In no uncertain terms, we opposed the legislative overturning of term limits; though we do support extending them to three terms — since we think it would result in more effective government — but only if done so by a voter referendum.

As for Quinn’s relationship with the mayor, while it certainly can benefi t her district, at times it admittedly has been too close. Should she be re-elected, we hope to see her stake out more independent positions, so that the Council is a bona fi de check in city government’s system of checks and balances. Again, we support a full investigation of the City Council’s “slush gate,” and are eager to see the results as soon as possible.

But, despite her fl aws, Quinn remains the best can-didate by far in her race. Maria Passannante-Derr and Yetta Kurland, for all their strengths, simply don’t have anywhere near the experience or political skills and savvy that Quinn brings to the table. Quinn is a champion on tenant issues, L.G.B.T. issues, senior issues, parks. Even one of her fi ercest critics fl at-out admits Quinn is “the best politician in the race.”

Yes, Quinn can defi nitely improve, such as, for start-ers, by ensuring that the Department of Sanitation garage planned at the west end of Spring St. is only built to house two Sanitation districts’ garages — not three. The Sanitation garage is an issue, for example, where she shouldn’t merely be an enabler of the mayor, but should take a more forceful role in the negotiations — and in fi nd-ing a true, workable solution. And one can be found.

In District 2 — the East Village, Union Square and East Side up to the mid-30s, excluding Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village — we endorse Rosie Mendez for re-election. She’s done a good job, knows her district and cares about it and her constituents. Her challenger, Juan Pagan, has deep roots in the neighborhood, but lacks the political know-how and ability of Mendez.

The Villager again urges our readers to go to the polls and vote Tues., Sept. 15. For those wishing to view our more detailed, complete endorsements from last week for the City Council races in the First, Second and Third Districts, as well as the full videos of the candidates debates we organized in the First and Third Districts, visit www.thevillager.com and www.downtownexpress.com .

EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOREditorial can’t justify Quinn

To The Editor: Re “Christine Quinn for City Council in Third

District” (editorial, Sept. 2): Your endorsement of Christine Quinn for a third

(effectively stolen) term works so hard to communicate balance and yet fails so miserably.

Though I am proudly lesbian, I grow tired of this notion that Quinn’s hold on office is a referendum on our futures. We will not be fully free until we are able to throw out the gay and lesbian bums just as readily as we are the ones who don’t look or think like us.

Quinn has supported a Police Department-promulgated law to prohibit public assemblies of 50 people or more, though the right to free assembly is a cornerstone of our constitutional democracy, and despite the fact that there is a strong tradition of group assembly as a means to progress in the gay and lesbian community.

Beyond gay and lesbian issues, Christine Quinn has failed me, too. She has consistently championed over-sized developments that do not ensure the vitality of city life. And yes, Quinn did address this at The Villager’s Council District 3 debate, but with the development bubble over, her concern is closing the barn door long after the horse has run free.

While I can applaud your comments on the Department of Sanitation garage and salt shed slated for Spring St., you failed to acknowledge how little Quinn has done to put this project on a proper track. Irrespective of the undeniable fact that she could stop this half-billion dol-lar, oversized and environmentally abusive plan from going forward, she has not done so. Instead, she has pit-ted community board against community board, and hid-den behind a settlement between the city and the Friends of Hudson River Park regarding Gansevoort Peninsula.

The two-district Hudson Rise alternative proposal, the only impediment to which is a place to site the third district, would be a positive legacy for Quinn. Instead, she has opted to surrender (again) to Mr. Bloomberg, just as she did on term limits.

Ultimately, all that communities really have is the advocacy of their City Council representative, a pro-cess that has been abandoned by Quinn and generally explained away as result of the pressures of her role as speaker. But we District 3 residents didn’t elect her as speaker; we elected her (and yes, I did vote for her the last time around) to be our representative to the City Council.

In that role, she has failed. She is unavailable and

haughty; Quinn’s staff actually threatened to cancel a meeting on the Sanitation facility on Sept. 2 if I attended because I have been outspoken in my criticism.

This election confronts us with the opportunity to eliminate the further harm that Christine Quinn will do with an undeserved third term and, we can hope, rein-vigorate the City Council to serve in its power-balancing role against a mayor who is willing to spend any amount of money to buy support or, at minimum, silence.

There is no doubt that Christine Quinn is the best politician in the race. But she is also all that is wrong with politics: Yet to find a principle she is unwilling to abandon, though righteous and confirmed in her right to lead.

Rosemary Kuropat

Speaker, mayor and the police

To The Editor: Re “Christine Quinn for City Council in Third District”

(editorial, Sept. 2):Your endorsement of Christine Quinn cites the many

things she has done for the constituents in her district. It fails, however, to look at her larger role as Council speaker, where instead of serving as a foil to billionaire Mayor “Bloomingdale”’s designs that have transformed our city into a shopping mall for condo owners, she has been a rabid cheer-leader of this development for developers: The uncontested sale of Stuyvesant Town to Speyer, the unforgivable Soho Trump Hotel that has forever marred Downtown’s low-rise skyline, the taxpayer-fi nanced Yankee Stadium and the recent Coney Island zoning changes that will transform this piece of authentic New York into a Nike/Disney store are just four obvious examples.

Perhaps even more egregious is Speaker Quinn’s blessing of the New York Police Department’s unconstitutional “stop and frisk” policy that criminalizes a half a million black and Hispanic men every year for simply being black and Hispanic. This and her deafening silence on the N.Y.P.D.’s draconian persecution of Critical Mass bikers, as well as Republican Convention protesters swept up in People’s Republic of China-style mass arrests, should give all voters serious second thoughts about re-electing her for yet another term.

Carl Rosenstein

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BY MARIANNE LANDRÉ GOLDSCHEIDERIn Central Park the other day I was talking with an

acquaintance about my recent visit to Vermont. The con-versation shifted to an article on bedbugs that appeared in The New York Times real estate section on Sun., Aug. 23.

“Of course I read it,” said my interlocutor. Then she looked at me suspiciously, adding, “Don’t tell me you have them.”

I nodded. Thereupon she jumped up with a cry of horror and in an anguished voice called from a distance, “I have so much clutter, if I ever get them I’ll die.” She examined herself anxiously and, choking up, said that she couldn’t talk to me anymore.

My first experience with bedbugs — wanzen is what we call them in German, with great disgust — was dur-ing the Second World War in Prague. I was a child and I had no idea that I am one of a good number of people who are completely insensitive to their bites — no marks, nothing. I remember my mother accusing the upstairs neighbors of shaking their bedclothes out of the window. I don’t remember how we got rid of them. There were much worse things happening.

The critters are nocturnal, so you rarely see them. When in New York, weeks after 9/11 in 2001, one was crawling over the Village Voice I was reading, I squished it, saw blood, was disgusted and had no idea what I had seen. It became horrifyingly obvious a week later, when a friend and I picked up the wonderful king-size futon I had recently purchased. We will never forget the sight.

Instantly, we decided to remove futon and frame. I had to call to our assistance a maintenance man in my new building. We dragged the scene of horror to the basement. I hurried to hardware stores asking for bedbug killer and was told that, “There are no bedbugs in New York. All we can give you is roach spray — good luck.”

That was 2001. We sprayed the area and I assumed that would be it. Since the evidence had been exposed, I had to speak to the manager. She calmly told me, “Our cleanest tenants have them. Don’t worry. I’ll send the exterminator.” Casually, he came. Alas, before too long one was crawling along the yellow part of a sleeping bag; I’d bought a foam-rubber mattress and was now sleeping on the floor. A Dutch friend stayed with me and was bit-ten. I realized that I had a problem.

I was 69 then. A good friend who knew that bedbugs have been in New York for a long time promised to help. I went away for the summer. Only recently did he tell me of the heroic, labor-intensive measures he took. I didn’t see one again until June 16, 2009. I squished it, saw my blood, smelled its sickening odor, recoiled in horror and decided to believe it was one deluded specimen venturing out in daylight, which of course they are not supposed to do.

The more rational part of my mind knew better, but

the other part did not want to know. I was sleeping on a futon again. My good friend of yesteryear was not avail-able. I saw nothing.

Then the present manager slipped a note under the door: “Bedbugs have been sighted. We’ll be placing strips. If you see one, notify us immediately.”

Two white strips were placed — one under my bed, the other in the living room. Ostrich that I am, I could not face checking them myself. In the middle of August I again lifted the futon and again recoiled in dismay. It was Friday. I decided to give myself until Monday before announcing them to the manager. All weekend long I could only think one thing. I spoke to no one about it, being keenly aware of the disgust they cause even among

those who don’t itch and develop welts. Since early childhood, books have been my refuge.

A dissertation could easily be written on “Bedbugs in Literature.” In Germany they are associated with World War II. I have read countless accounts of the war, and bedbugs loom large.

Monday, my day of disclosure, came. “Are you sure?” asked the manager. “I’ll send the

super tomorrow to verify.”“I’m sure,” I said in a very small voice.Then, she said cheerfully, “You’ll have to wash every

last stitch in your house, remove futon, frame and bed-ding. And bag all books, anything in drawers. Do you have family to help you?”

My two sons, living in western Massachusetts, hardly have the time to rush to my assistance.

The manager smiled: “Don’t worry, don’t panic, we’ll help you to find help.”

Crestfallen, I returned to the scene of infestation — a war zone now! I would have loved to head for the hills,

NOTEBOOK

Luckily, not affected by the bites, but grossed out, nonetheless.



At the HOWL Festival in Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, Village View resident Hildegarde Forde showed off a rare four-leaf clover she plucked in the park. According to folklore, the fi nd is supposed to bring good luck.

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but I had to face the disaster. I had to face my errant ways of not dealing with it on June 16.

On Wednesday the super came. I was at my most con-trite, ready to confess every last sin. He brought black garbage bags. In went my pillows, my blanket, sheet, all I’d been wearing recently. The bag was sealed and I was told to wait for a man to remove it. I was shaking.

Then the manager came with the exterminator. He saw me trembling, and looked at my beautiful photo-graph of an egret. He told me he was a nature boy and to please stop shaking.

“Leave your books on their shelves, I’ll be back in a week,” he said. “Wash everything, bag all you can and stop worrying.” He would be back twice more in two-week intervals. I rushed out of the house.

Help came in the form of a lovely young woman from the Midwest who I have known for several years. My subsidized housing on E. Fifth St., the best New York provides for the aged, has a laundry room with seven

washing machines and four driers. I have never done so much washing at one time. I am an old European with two peasant grandmothers.

My house guest cheerily encouraged me to get rid of all the clothes I never wear, books I’ve read and will never read again, and the endless tomes I’ve written in the past nine years that no one will ever read. Clothes, books I’ve read, I have no trouble discarding. My writ-ings would be harder to part with.

The super and two of his men came, dressed in pro-tective plastic suiting, to remove the futon, my very last ever! They disassembled the frame. That is where the bugs were crawling. The super held a can of spray in his hand. When they left my floor was a sea of spray. As quickly as I could I fled once again to my oasis in New York: Central Park.

Then I bagged and bagged and bagged. I now live sur-rounded by more than a dozen black plastic bags. I docu-mented the scene with my video camera. For a week I had lived in fear and trepidation of not doing all I could. I did not sleep the night before the exterminator came. I wrote in my notebook from 7 a.m. until he came at noon. My “cooperation” earned the approval of the manager. I breathed a sigh of relief, asking a last question, “When can I un-bag?”

“In six weeks,” said the exterminator. I began shaking once again when he threw in, “But you can take out a few things you urgently need.”

Bedbugs are still on my mind. I’d love to find an ento-mologist who could tell me all there is to know about the behavior of these tiny creatures that are the source of so much consternation.

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BY JERRY TALLMER The two brothers, Teddy and Jimmy,

have not seen or talked to one another for 33 years.

Jimmy went out to California and became a hotshot lawyer. Teddy, four years older, remained in New York City where they were born and hustled his way into his 40s as a fast-talking thief and gambler.

Now their bad-tempered, abusive Irish-American ex-bookie father — the root of their separate problems, and separate memo-ries — lies dead in his coffi n, awaiting burial. Lo and behold, here comes unexpected Jimmy, all the way from California, walking through the door of the funeral parlor.

Recovering from his surprise, Teddy says: “Why don’t you go over there and say hello to Pop. He’s dying to see you.”

And if you’d like to know how that fraternal mishigas spins out, you can make your way to the Manhattan Theatre Source, where Derek Murphy’s “A Short Wake” is stirring up dark Irish waters September 10-26 as an entry in the 1st Irish 2009 theater festival.

Ireland doesn’t breed more playwrights than any other country. It just seems that way. Especially now and in New York, where that second annual 1st Irish to-do brings us the works of 21 very alive Irish or Irish-bred dramatists at 12 Off-Broadway venues, most of them in the Village, from September 1 to October 4.

That’s right — the second annual “1st Irish 2009 theater festival,” which is how they bill it, the fi rst such charivari having been last year’s 1st Irish 2008 New York theater festival.

If you see what I mean.It makes good sense, anyway, to

Limerick-born, New York-based George Heslin, prime mover of 1st Irish both 2008 and 2009 and founder/artistic direc-tor of the Origin Theatre Company, a springboard for launching new European playwrights in America.

“It’s all about risk-taking,” says Heslin. “People send in scripts, we select and then connect them to companies here.”

Among those connections: the sparkling Irish Repertory Theatre on West 22nd Street, the busy little Manhattan Theatre Source on MacDougal Street, the Gene Frankel Theatre on Bond Street, Players Theatre and Players Loft on MacDougal Street, St. Peter’s Rectory on West 20th Street, NYU Glucksman Ireland House in Washington Mews, Vineyard Theatre on East 15th Street, and the elegant, warm-historied Players Club on Gramercy Park South.

Also the Mint Theatre, on West 43rd Street, the 59E59 Theatres on East 59th Street. Borders Bookstore on Columbus

Circle, the American Irish Historical Society, and the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Some 375 actors, writers, directors, designers, stage managers, etc., are about to be involved this year.

Among the plays on this round: Sebastian Barry’s Dublin love story, “The Pride of Parnell Street”; Billy Roche’s small-town “Tales From Rainwater Pond”; Mark Doherty’s “Trad,” about some very, very old folks; Paula Meehan’s semi-autobiographi-cal inner-city “Cell”; Dermot Bolger’s eerie post-mortem “Walking the Road”; Barbara Hammond’s Shavian-sounding “Beyond the Pale”; Conor McPherson’s tense, oft-revived “The Good Thief.”

Plus a gender special, September 2-20 at 59E59 Theatres, Origin Theater Company’s presentation of “Spinning the Times,” — world premieres of five short new plays by five Irish women: Geraldine Aron, Lucy Caldwell, Rosalind Haslet, Rosemary Jenkinson, Belinda McKeon.

Which brings us back to “A Short Wake” and Derek Murphy, the Dublin-born self-described offspring of “a hard-drinking electrician” father. Murphy’s tormented “Wake” came out, in disguise,

from an exchange of recollections he’d had three years ago with one of his three sisters. “What our memories were, and how different.” (The playwright has no brothers, and that electrician father is still alive — in hospital. “A few too many cocktails,” says the son.)

“I could tell ya a story,” says Murphy, and then — prodded by an interviewer — tells it.

“One Sunday when we were kids our father set about taking all of us to see ‘The Sound of Music’ followed by a restaurant after the movie. But this one sister couldn’t eat her [midday] Sunday dinner. Our mother [also still alive] was a terrible cook anyway.

“Our father flew into a rage, grabbed my sister’s plate, hurled it into the gar-bage, and we all followed him out of the house, leaving that sister sitting there. She was still there at the kitchen table when we came back from the movie and the restaurant.

“But my father felt guilty, and the next day he took her all alone to a restaurant; for the meal she’d missed.

“Well, 20 years later I got talking with her about that incident. She said: ‘Oh no, we all went to ‘The Sound of Music’ and

that restaurant, don’t you remember? It was just a lovely day.’

“Whereas I” — says the Derek Murphy of 2009 — “clearly remembered the events of the day before. It goes to show you what tricks memory can play.”

Murphy came to the United States in 1985, after college, “when there wasn’t much going on in Ireland and I was estranged from my father.” Pause. “So I ended up married [to Martha Fioravante] and the father of two, in Staten Island.”

And writing plays that burn deep — and bitterly funny — if “A Short Wake” is any guide.

(TEDDY has pulled out a gun, there in the funeral parlor, and points it first at Jimmy, then toward the casket.)

JIMMY: What are you doing, Teddy? You expecting him to wake up? Why did you bring it here?

TEDDY: I bring it everywhere, the OTB, Dunkin’ Donuts, The Blarney Stone [a pub], confession, the post office.

JIMMY: Wait a minute, you go to confession?…I don’t know what’s more fucked up, you going to confes-sion, or you taking a gun to confes-sion…What are you going to do, shoot the priest if he gives you too many Hail Mary’s?

TEDDY: That would be a sin… JIMMY: You need serious help. TEDDY: I know. That’s why I go

to confession. Sometimes I confess your sins.

For a full schedule of the 2009 fes-tival plus any other information, go to www.1stirish.com. The 1 there is a numeral 1.

VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENT“A Short Wake” not here for longSecond time a charm for 1st Irish 2009 theater fest

Photo by Michael Priest Photography

Brandon Williams, left, as Jimmy; Peter Bradbury as Teddy

A SHORT WAKEPart of the 1st Irish 2009 theater festival, Sept. 10-26 (www.1stirish.com)

By Derek Murphy

Directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser

With Peter Bradbury and Brandon Williams

A Tweiss production, September 10-26

At Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal Street

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BY SCOTT STIFFLER

AUTOMATS, TAXI DANCERS AND VAUDEVILLE: EXCAVATING MANHATTAN’S LOST PLACES OF LEISUREDavid Freeland (New York University Press)

From the melancholy giveaway phrase in the title (“Lost Places”), you might expect David Freeland’s excavation of NYC’s bygone hotspots to be steeped in sepia-toned regret for an era of simpler pleasures. Only a reader made of stone will be able to resist the occasional long-ing for what used to be; but overall, Freeland’s headfirst dive into the past makes the experience seem utterly con-temporary, vital and alive. He brings a scholar’s knowledge and a native New Yorker’s passion to the table. The result? Readers will come as close as one can to experiencing what it was like to be there in the heyday of The Atlantic Garden, The 1893 Chinatown Theater, Tin Pan Alley, Horn & Hardart’s (the original NY Automat), and The Orpheum Dance Palace. It’s proof positive that in a culture saturated by images, words still reign supreme when it comes to transporting us

back to a specific place in time. SPEED SHRINKINGSusan Shaprio (St. Martin’s Press)

A follow-up to her 2005 memoir “Lighting Up” (which chronicled addic-tion to smoking, drinking and drugs), “Speed Shrinking” is longtime Village res-ident Susan Shaprio’s debut novel. Set in Greenwich Village, it chronicles the emo-tional meltdown and the long trek back to relative sanity experienced by Julia Goodman. When her shrink and her best friend both ditch NYC at the same time she’s set to plug her new self-help book on beating sugar addiction, Goodman suc-cumbs to a cupcake binge; then goes on a desperate “speed dating”-like search for a new shrink. For our July 29, 2009 profile on the author, visit www.thevillager.com and do a search for “Speed Shrinking.”

GOVERNORS ISLAND: THE JEWEL OF NEW YORK HARBOR Ann L. Buttenwieser (Syracuse University Press)

Urban and waterfront planner Ann Buttenwieser’s new book merges a tecchie’s geekish attention to detail with a historian’s sense of time and place. From that unlikely equation comes an utterly satisfying exami-nation of the fascinating past, present and future of Governors Island — that unas-suming patch of land nestled in the waters between Manhattan and Brooklyn which still, for some reason, remains fi rmly off the radar of many NYC residents. The book’s impressive, exclusive collection of maps, photographs and fi rst-person accounts from the early 18 century to good old 2009

would be the perfect companion for one fi ne fi eld trip before the island before closes for the season on October 11.

STORE FRONT: THE DISAPPEARING FACE OF NEW YORK James T. & Karla L. Murray (Gingko Press)

Certain blocks in neighborhoods all over the city have NY looking less like Gotham and more like a ghost town. Authors James and Karla Murray have heard that song before. Their book connects the shuttering of street level businesses with a greater loss of self and soul — while celebrating how neighborhood stores of the past and pres-ent have set the pulse, life, and texture of their communities. From the exploration of blocks that haven’t changed in a century to the documentation of disappearing signage, architectural adornments, and window dis-plays, the authors consistently demonstrate a love for the city that’s stronger than mere brick and mortar.

HONEST SID: MEMOIR OF A GAMBLING MANRonald Probstein (iUniverse Books)

Honored scientist Ronald Probstein grew up in a Times Square hotel room, occasionally hobnobbing with Depression-era gamblers, gangsters, boxers and bookies. Later, while working on his doctorate at Princeton, he rubbed elbows with Albert Einstein and John Nash. The inspiration for that impressive journey? His dad, “Honest Sid” — a former professional baseball player and quintessen-tial American optimist turned professional gambler and down on his luck dreamer whose love of the easy dollar was eclipsed only by the investment he made in his son. Probstein’s recollections of Sid shows how a kid can go from a world of horse parlors and transient hotels to a lifetime of academic achievement and scientifi c excellence.

HISTORIC PHOTOS OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGETurner Publishing

In an August 26, 2009 Villager article (available online at www.thevillager.com), Jerry Tallmer noted the one glaring omission in “Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge” was “any photography credits whatsoev-er (except one passing reference to Lewis Hine). This is the real crime in a book like this.” Good to note, then, that Tallmer’s com-ment was balanced by praise for the crisp renderings of “photos, drawings, engravings; the great bridge itself, in every phase of con-struction including a cover illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper of fi ve workmen with painting gear in hand, cling-ing like fl ies to a spider’s web of cables high, high over the East River.”

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Photo by Andreas Feininger

133rd Street nightclub, circa 1940 (courtesy of The New York Historical Society)

Book cover image courtesy of Syracuse University Press

Map: Currier & Ives ca. 1877; Book Cover design by Michael J. Walsh

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A GUIDE TO GANGSTERS, MURDERERS AND WEIRDOS OF NEW YORK CITY’S LOWER EAST SIDEEric Ferrara (The History Press)

Fourth generation Lower East Sider

Eric Ferrara (founder of the East Village History Project and East Village tours) knows his way around the neighborhood’s lurid past. His exploration of the “soul and spirit of the slum” gives readers a street by street, section by section dissection of

“what was once one of the most murder-ous neighborhoods in the United States.” Ferrara skillfully documents an era when the neighborhood was a brutal, bloody battleground where “the rules of property and propriety” no longer applied. Despite the violent subject matter, you’ll likely emerge with an appreciation for its vicious bygone residents — and an equal amount of gratitude that you got to know them from a safe distance.

I SPEAK OF THE CITY: POEMS OF NEW YORKStephen Wolf (Columbia University Press)

In 1977, Chicago native Stephen Wolf moved to the Lower East Side — blocks from where his grandparents once lived. After decades in the city, he’d become editor of the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Taking readers on a chronological journey from 1569’s “The Complaint of New Amsterdam to its Mother” all the way to works written in the aftermath of 9/11 (“Lured Beneath Your Golden, Calling Lights”), this meticulously curated anthology captures NYC’s notable and forgotten moments of transformation, gentrifi cation, triumph and disaster. Each selection is prefaced by brief, insightful Wolf-penned introductions which provide a window into the minds of poets who’ve been “inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.”

THE ORACLE OF STONE STREETThomas Quealy (iUniverse)

Thomas Quealy’s sad, surreal, ultimately uplifting comic novel gives the LES and the Village a run for their money when it comes to neighborhood crazies and strange occurrences. The titular character (ORACLE: a mind-read-ing, Bud Light-drinking feline) is the tip of the iceberg. Also along for the ride are an iguana, a squirrel and a dog — all of whom play a role in helping those who frequent Ulysses (a Wall Street bar whose denizens are in free fall along with the stock market). Not enough eccentrics for you? There’s also the matter of a lovelorn witch, a kickboxer turned attorney, a security broker who longs to dance and a Su doku-obsessed busboy.

LOSERS LIVE LONGERRussell Atwood (Hard Case Crime books)

Longtime East Village resident and author Russell Atwood’s follow-up to his cult fave “East of A” (as in Avenue A) once again charts the twisted adventures of detective Payton Sherwood — who prowls the still-mean streets of the East Village in his quest to solve the murder of legendary private eye George Rowell. This time around, Sherwood navigates Avenues C and D and elsewhere. Along the way, a runaway investment scam artist, a drug-addled reality TV star and a

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Book cover image courtesy of The History Press

Author Ferrara explores the “soul and spirit of the slum”


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bewitching beauty ensure our man Sherwood once again fi nds himself knee-deep in a pig pile of murder, lust and greed.

CROSSING WASHINGTON SQUAREJoann Rendell (New American Library)

Joann Rendell’s second novel returns to the location of her fi rst: Manhattan University. This time around, two women “are compelled to unite their sense and sensibilities.” That book jacket quote, and the author’s invocation of a Jane Austen passage just prior to the fi rst chapter, hints at the sly bending of Austen-era stories of star-crossed love, manners, ambition and tragedy. Will Sylvia Plath scholar Professor Diana Monroe or young upstart Prof Rachel Grey win the heart of the Carson McEvoy (the brash, brilliant visiting Harvard profes-

sor)? An unexpected trip with some under-grads to London and a life-threatening experience forces the two rivals to change their hearts and minds.

ON THE WALL: FOUR DECADES OF COMMUNITY MURALS IN NYCJanet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman (University Press of Mississippi)

This insanely comprehensive, loving-ly researched, beautifully rendered work deserves a space on your coffee table this fall; and a permanent place of honor on your bookshelf. It’s packed with dozens of color photographs showing murals all over the city in their brilliant prime — and loaded with scholarly, passionate insights which chart the mural’s role as a source of community pride, politics, activism and art. We could gush all day about “On the Wall” — but then there would be nothing left for next week’s feature on the murals, the book, and its authors.

AMERICAN CHINATOWN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF FIVE NEIGHBORHOODSBonnie Tsui (Simon & Schuster)

Travel writer Tsui’s new book reveals America’s most famous Chinatowns (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Las Vegas) and provides an evocative impression of the lives of those living within these well-known but largely undiscovered cities-within-cities. Join Tsui for a look at the vibrant microcosm of this uniquely American phenomenon when she appears at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen Street) at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15. Free admission (donations accepted).

THE LOWER EAST SIDE REMEMBERED & REVISITED:

HISTORY AND GUIDE TO A LEGENDARY NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOODJoyce Mendelsohn (Columbia University Press)

This updated, expanded edition of the classic 2001 walking tour guidebook chron-icles the waves of immigration to the Lower East Side — focusing on the enduring impact of a Jewish presence upon the LES. It also, in Mendelsohn’s own words, “exam-ines the dynamics of the neighborhood as it reinvents itself and becomes a place of stark contrasts between locals and new-comers, existing low-scale buildings and newer towers.” What toll have the luxury condos, expensive hotels and youth culture taken? Hear it from the author herself: 6:30pm, September 23, at Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts (172 Norfolk Street in New York City).

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“EXTRACT” (-)My recollection of Labor Day weekends

in the past is that they brought us several blockbuster fi lms. This holiday weekend, there were none. I chose this movie because it seemed the least dreary of the lot, and I thought it might have possibilities. What a mistake. “Extract” is awful. Intended as a light, soft-porno-motivated fi lm, it turned out to be crude and with little humor.

Joel (Jason Bateman), who owns a bot-tling plant, is denied his marital expecta-tions by his wife, Suzie (Kristen Wiig). She pulls the drawstring on her sweatpants every evening at 8:00 p.m. — and if Joel is a minute late arriving home, there is no party. Joel discusses his dilemma with a bartender friend, Dean (Ben Affl eck, total-ly unrecognizable in his scruffy beard), and tells him that he has relied on mastur-bation for months. Believe me, this is ugly stuff and a turnoff.

A beautiful grifter, Cindy (Mila Kunis),

who is willing to con or steal from anyone, appears on the scene. An accident occurs at the factory involving Step (Clifton Collins Jr.) who loses one testicle with the other barely hanging on. At Cindy’s urging, Step threatens a million dollar lawsuit. This, of course, would not be possible in most if not all states, because of Workmen’s Compensation laws that limit recoveries so as to prevent such injuries from overwhelm-ing a business. But facts are not important in this intended but failed erotic comedy.

Aside from his business problems, Joel embarks on a plot suggested by Dean to hire a gigolo, Brad (Dustin Milligan), to seduce Suzie. Brad, one of the dumbest gigolos you will ever meet, is very successful in his advances — having 15, count them, days of coital triumph.

This is one terrible movie that succeeded in making sex unappetizing. I won’t tell you how it ends. If you decide to see it, you deserve to suffer.

1hour, 30 minutes; Rated R; Comedy. Playing at, among other places, Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston St.). For screening times, call 800-326-32646; also at City Cinemas 123 (1001 Third Avenue). For screening times, call 800-326-32646, x2705.

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Book cover photo courtesy of James and Karla Murray

The neighborhood store front: Gone; but not forgotten?

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GROOVALOOIf watching “Groovaloo” is as much fun as saying it three times fast, you’re in for a very good time. Find out for sure when some (or all?) of the The Groovaloos (an innovative 25-member L.A.-based dance crew) kick off the Joyce Theater sea-son. The Groovaloos’ perfor-mance fuses hip hop and freestyle dance with spoken word poetry, and music — all used to tell the tale of how the cast realized their hopes and dreams by shaking their groove things. Sept 15-27 at The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Ave, at 19th St). Tickets: $59; $35; $19; $10. Tues–Wed, 7:30 p.m.; Thurs–Fri, 8 p.m.; Sat, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sun, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Call 212-242-0800 or online at www.Joyce.org; visit www.groovaloo.com

GREAT EVENINGS IN THE GREAT HALLThe Cooper Union’s performance series “Great Evenings in the Great Hall” kicks off its fall roster with “Workers’ Rights.” Tony nominee Maria Tucci leads the cast as they recreate the stirring words of radicals and reform-ers (including Clara Lemlich, Mother Jones and Andrew Carnegie) who made their mark during the defining decades of the American labor movement. Historic pho-tographs and period music from the NYC Labor Chorus complement the powerful oration. Free; Thurs, Sept 17, 6:30 p.m. at Cooper Union, Great Hall (7 East 7th St, btwn 3rd and 4th Aves). For info, 212-353-4195 or www.cooper.edu.

TASTE OF THE VILLAGEThe Village Alliance wants you to help celebrate the completion of phase two of Washington Park’s restora-tion — while raising funds for park maintenance. How? By eating food from Village restaurants, drinking wine from Long Island vineyards and being merry with the people of all ages, talents and interests who frequent one of American’s ultimate urban parks. The seventh annual “Taste of the Village Benefit for Washington Park” lets you sample edibles from the neighborhood, while providing the opportunity to work it off with a walk in the park. September 16, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Washington Square Park. $40. Call 212-777-2173 or visit www.villagealliance.org.

HARBOR DAY400 years after Henry Hudson’s historic journey of discovery, NY400 Week gets its Dutch pride on with a slew of activities which won’t cost you a dime. Harbor Day spans six major waterfront sites: The Battery, Battery Park City, Hudson River Park, Governors Island, Brooklyn Bridge Park and Snug Harbor. Spectators, linked to each location by boat rides and free bike rentals, can view a flotilla of historic Dutch sailing ves-sels, consume lots of you-know-whats at the Oyster Festival, or simply make like Henry H. and take in the still spectacular view of the Hudson. Sun, Sept 13. For a complete list of activities, visit www.ny400.org or www.nycgo.com/harborday.

GAY MARSHALLUnabashed Francophile Gay Marshall audi-tioned for the part of Morales during the origi-nal run of “A Chorus Line” — with a number from famed French songbird Edith Piaf. She got the part. Later, she’d play Grizabella in the original Paris production of Cats. Now, Marshall reprises her acclaimed Piaf concert (“Queen of Heart”) — which shatters the popular perception of Piaf as a tragic figure by accentuating her joyous, mischievous side. All that, plus Marshall translated many of the songs herself (about half are in English). Sept 15, 22, 29 at 7 p.m. and Oct 1, 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd St.). $25 cover, 2 drink minimum. For reservations call 212-206-0440. Visit www.gaymarshall.com.

Photo by Clayton Cotterrell

Don’t even think of going Dutch: free bike rentals.

Photo courtesy of the Village Alliance

From 2008’s event. You can’t eat just one. . .so why even try?

Photo by Drew. S. Harris

Gay Marshall: from Morales to Grizabella to Piaf

Photo by Leonard Xu

Two of The Groovaloos, shaking their groove things

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32 September 9 - 15, 2009

BEAUTY EMPOWER-MENT, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/17/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Arnie Herz, Esq. 14 Vanderventer Ave., STE 255 Port Washington, NY 11050. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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JUNKO Y. CUSICK CON-SULTANTS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 425 Fifth Avenue #19D New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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THE ROMERO FIRM LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/27/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Custodio Anibal Romero 271 W 47TH Street Suite 44B New York, NY 10036. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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WORKLAB CONSULT-ING, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/9/2009. 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 21 East 10TH Street, APT. 11C New York, NY 10003. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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FAIRWAY FUND VIII LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/31/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kriss & Feuerstein LLP C/O Kenneth P. Horowitz 360 Lexington Avenue 12TH FL New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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FIXITSOLIFE LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/7/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 34 West 12TH ST APT 3R New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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MODOLOGY, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/19/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Ohanes Gara-bedian 204 West 14 Street, #3D New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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WARCOMM, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/20/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Wayne A. Ross 158 West 144TH Street, Suite 5B New York, NY 10030. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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SLR LEASING LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/6/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Scott Roth 800 6TH Avenue, APT 27E New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF JUN GROUP

PRODUCTIONS, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/30/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Connecti-cut (CT) on 12/13/2005. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to THE LLC 21 West 39TH Street, Suite 4A NY, NY 10018. Arts. Of Org. fi led with CT Secy. of State, 30 Trinity Street Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF LRZ STRUC-

TURED CAPITAL, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 06/04/09. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Enterprise Asset Management, Inc., Attn: General Counsel, 521 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1804, NY, NY 10175. 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 National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, Cnty. of Kent, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SC STUDIO NEW

YORK LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/21/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: Moses & Singer LLP, Attn: Ross J. Charap, 405 Lex-ington Ave., NY, NY 10174. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF NEWRO PROPERTY

LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/22/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 19 W. 34th St., NY, NY 10001. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BELLAFARE LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/20/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Bellafare LLC, 261 W 28th St, #3A, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF VIP SPECIAL

SERVICES, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF INDIGO SHOWROOM

LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 06/03/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 545 8th Ave., Ste. 14NC, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BREAD AND BUTTER

MARKETING, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KIMMERICH, LLC

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

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

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ISABEL SCHAREN-

BERG CREATIVE MAN-

AGEMENT LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GRAMERCY PSY-

CHOLOGICAL SERVICES,

LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LEWIS JACOBSEN

ARCHITECT LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF OR BOOKS LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SHAHIN GHARIB MD,

PLLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GOTHAM WELLNESS

ACUPUNCTURE, PLLC

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

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ESV SAILING

LLC

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

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 867 MADISON,

LLC

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

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NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: NIELSEN MOBILE, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MTI SHOWSPACE

GP LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MTI SHOWSPACE L.P.

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

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

HARLEM, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHAMPION PARKING

77 LLC

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

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NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: STYX SPV-1, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RENEWABLE COM-

MUNITIES, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/30/2009. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Renew-able Communities, LLC c/o Law Offi ces of Howard Goldman 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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PIG & OX PICTURES, LLC

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

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ADVANCE YOUR IMAGI-

NATION LLC

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

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MIMI & ME LLC

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

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LEGAL NOTICE

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

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TION OF EXCELERATE

DISCOVERY, LLC

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

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TION OF BLUE SPRING

SHIPPING COMPANY

LIMITED

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ORIZZONTE CON-

STRUCTION INTERNA-

TIONAL LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/30/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him is C/O the LLC 55 Broad Street 15E, New York, N.Y., 10004. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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ROLLER RINK 515 LLC

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

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TION OF ARCHER SPE

OFFSHORE I, L.L.C.

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

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CROSSBOR-

DERS, LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KOTP INVESTORS

I LLC

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF THE LAW OFFICE

OF FIONA OLIPHANT,

ESQ., LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/16/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: PO Box 250166 New York, NY 10025. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CLARITY SOLU-

TIONS GROUP LLC

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

Vil 8/12-9/16/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JUNOON NYC LLC.

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

Vil 8/19 – 9/23/09

DREAMS ANIMATION LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

D & C MCKEEGAN LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

MHT VISIONS LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

BOMBSHELL TAXI LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

EXPERT NETWORK GROUP, LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

FANTASTIC PAW, LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

MS. TEASE DANCE STU-DIO, LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SECOND BUTTON

LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF C/S 12TH

AVENUE LLC

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

Vil 8/19-9/23/09


TION OF DEAN FOODS

OF WISCONSIN, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/09. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/27/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. 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. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09


TION OF MAN INVEST-

MENTS (USA) LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/4/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Illinois (IL) on 3/14/98. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the IL address of LLC: The LLC, 123 N. Wacker Drive, Ste. 2800, Chicago, IL 60606. Arts. of Org. fi led with IL Secy. of State, 501 South Second St., Springfi eld, IL 62756. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/19-9/23/09

NAME: GENERAL PROD-

UCTS COMPANY, LLC

Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 07/20/08. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig-nated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 237 East 18th Street, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/26/09 – 9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC 16 WEST 36TH

STREET, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/09. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ganfer & Shore, LLP, 360 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017 Duration perpetual. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26/09 – 9/30/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF MEN IN BLACK

STAFFING LLC Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/8/2009. Offi ce location: Queens Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/2/2009. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C/O Business Filings Incor-poration 187 Wolf Rd Ste 101 Albany, NY 12205. DE address of LLC: 108 West 13th St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

BLACK WOLF CAPITAL, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 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 8/26-9/30/09

JENNIFER ROSS DESIGN LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jennifer Ross 500C Grand ST. #3F New York, NY 10002. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

CHAOS INDUSTRY, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/28/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State Street Albany, NY12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Corporation Service Com-pany 80 State Street Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

OMERGE ALLIANCES, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/22/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 345 West 145TH Street STE 6B1 New York, NY 10031. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

THE LAW OFFICES OF VIJAY BHAGWATI PLLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/21/2009. 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 8 Baker Street Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

BLACK WOLF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/12/2009. 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 St Albany, NY 12207 Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Corpora-tion Service Company 80 State St Albany, NY 12207.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

BLACK WOLF CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/12/2009. 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 St Albany, NY 12207 Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Corpora-tion Service Company 80 State St Albany, NY 12207.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

BLACK WOLF PART-NERS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State St Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Regis-tered Agent: Corporation Service Company 80 State St Albany, NY 12207.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

CHATSWORTH VEN-TURES LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/2/2009. 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 25 West 31 ST., 11TH FL. New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

IMEK LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Erik A Kaiser 10 West Street 29A New York, NY 10004. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CAPITAL MERCURY

SHIRTMAKERS LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/07/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 350 Fifth Ave., Fl. 70, NY, NY 10118. 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 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF COLONY

FINANCIAL MANAGER,

LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/07/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 06/23/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Dept. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St.-Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CLOUD M1, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/24/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Cloud M1, LLC, 449 West 125th Street 3B, New York, NY 10027. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF PROTOTYP3 D., LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/20/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: PRO-TOTYP3 D., 31 Union Square West, Studio 3D, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY. NAME: B &

H PHOTO VIDEO PRO

AUDIO LLC.

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/20/09. 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, 420 9th Avenue, New York, New York 10001. Purpose: For any law-ful purpose.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CAMERON

CAPITAL LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/2/2009. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal busi-ness address: 321 Silverrod Court, Paramus, NJ, 07652. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 2/12/2008. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 321 Silverrod Court, Paramus, NJ, 07652. NJ address of LLC: 321 Silverrod Court, Paramus, NJ, 07652. Articles of Formation fi led with Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, Dept. of the Treasury, P.O. Box 002, Tren-ton, NJ 08625. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF DHJV COM-

PANY LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 8/7/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One Discovery Pl., Silver Spring, MD 20910. LLC formed in DE on 4/24/09. 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: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF APOLLO PHILAN-

THROPY PARTNERS, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/3/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Corporation Ser-vice Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: NY TRIO 343 OWNER

LLC

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 7/14/09. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 7/10/09. County off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of pro-cess to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, regis-tered agent upon whom pro-cess may be served. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/26-9/30/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #1230358 has been applied for by Savory & Sweet LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 450 West 33rd Street NY, NY 10001.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #TBA has been applied for by 27 Faja Foods on the Hudson, Inc. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on prem-ises consumption under the ABC law at 27 Desbrosses Street NY, NY 10013.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #1230455 has been applied for by 339 Broadway Corp. to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 339 Broadway NY, NY 10013.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #1229914 has been applied for by Tradiz-ione Corp. to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 247 W 35th Street 14th Floor NY, NY 10001.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #1230107 has been applied for by Garrity Walsh Corp. d/b/a Affair on 8th to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 35 West Eighth Street NY, NY 10011.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #TBA has been applied for by 812 Broadway Inc. d/b/a Karaoke Boho to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 196 Orchard Street NY, NY 10003.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a license, #1229969 has been applied for by TPHG, Ltd. d/b/a 315 Park Avenue to sell beer only at retail in a restaurant. For on prem-ises consumption under the ABC law at 315 Park Avenue South NY, NY 10022.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09


that a License #1221342, has been applied for by Flor De Mar Inc., to sell, wine, beer & liquor, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 484 Amsterdam Ave, New York City, NY, 11372, for on-prem-ises consumption.

9/2/09 & 9/9/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALVORD RECORDS,

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/05/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: 338 E. 15th Street, Ste. 2C, New York, NY 10028. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

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

34 September 9 - 15, 2009

P U B L I C N O T I C E SNOTICE OF FORMATION OF EM GLOBAL MAR-

KETING, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/21/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: EM Global Marketing, LLC, 2727 Ocean Parkway, Suite A4, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

ALEX LAYMAN IMAG-ING, LLC

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 7/6/09. NY Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, c/o Alex Lay-man, 170 E. 116th St., NY, NY 10029 General purposes

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

ACCELAPAYMENT LLC

a foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) fi led with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/2/09. NY offi ce Location: New York. SSNY is desig-nated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 105 E. 34th St., Ste. 163, NY, NY 10016. General purposes.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DESIGNER PAGES

ONLINE LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 06/04/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 21 Penn Plaza, Ste. 1000, 360 W. 31st St., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BREAKTHROUGH COLLEGE COUNSEL-

ING, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/31/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 205 E. 59th St., Apt. 16A, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EATALY WINE LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/20/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: C/O B&B Hospitality Group, Attn: Riva Horwitz, 45 E. 20th St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LHIW HESTER LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: John Newhouse Esq., 3 W. 35th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW YORK ADMIS-

SIONS, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 08/04/09. 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, 1182 Broad-way, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NYC – SHORT TERM

RENTALS LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/21/09. 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, 220 Riv-erside Blvd., Ste. 22-F, New York, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KAYBRI REALTY LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 08/18/09. 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, 337 E. 41st St., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF EYE CANDY LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/18/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 03/03/09. Princ. offi ce and DE address of LLC is: 111 E. 23rd St., NY, NY 10010. NYS fi ctitious name: FRESH & FAST LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Arts. of Org. fi led with State of DE, 1220 N. Market St., Ste. 806, Wilmington, DE 19801. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PCBV LIMITED LIABIL-

ITY COMPANY

Certifi cate fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/08/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC, 7014 13th Street, Brook-lyn, NY, 11228. Name/address of each general partner avail-able from SSNY. Purpose: To engage any lawful act or activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF COBALT BAL-

LOON LLC

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/30/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC org. in DE 4/27/06. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 E. 53rd St., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF MARATHON CREDIT DISLOCATION

FUND GP, LLC

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/23/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/22/09. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Attn: Gregory L. Florio, One Bryant Park, 38th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF TALF ADVAN-

TAGE FUND, LP

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/29/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP org. in DE 4/23/09. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Attn: Thomas Pearce, 437 Madi-son Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE offi ce addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-ington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

DAVID OLIVER COHEN FILMS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/23/2009. 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 21 E. 22ND Street, #4L New York, NY 21401. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

JM&S BRANDS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/22/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 1 Irving Place, Ste V27D New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Regis-tered Agent: Graham Jonas 1 Irving Place, Ste V27D New York, NY 10003.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

FAIRWAY EVANSTON LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/25/2009. 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 1250 Broadway STE 1203 New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

HILLARY LEFEBVRE

MEDIA LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/30/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Hilary Lefebvre Perry 62 West 62ND Street Apt. 3G New York, NY 10023-7007. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09


TION OF DOUBLE J

CONSTRUCTION SER-

VICES, LLC

authority fi led with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/23/2009. Juris. of Org: NJ fi led 10/14/2005. NY off. Loc. In NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 5 Shady Ridge Court Colum-bus, NJ 08022. Arts of org. on fi le with NJ Secretary of State 125 West State St P.O. Box 300 Trenton, NJ 08625-0300. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09


TION OF AMERICAN

FARMLAND ADVISOR

LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 8/14/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/13/09. NY 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.: 10 E. 53rd St., 29th Fl., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Gen-eral Counsel. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Arts. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF AMERICAN

FARMLAND COMPANY

L.P.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 8/18/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 8/14/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 10 E. 53rd St., NY, NY 10022, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. avail-able from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that license number 1230359 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Con-trol Law at 34 8th Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10014 for on-premises consumption. 34 8TH AVENUE LLC

Vil 9/2/09 & 9/9/09

NAME OF LLC: COOPER-STEIN HOLDINGS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led Dept. of State of NY on 7/27/09. Offi ce location in NY: NY County. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Attn: Theo-dore Max, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10112, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF QUIK PARK BPC TEN-

ANT LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N. (SSNY) on 7/16/09. 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: The LLC, 247 W. 37th St., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil 9/2-10/7/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE NEW DISCOV-ERYCAR & LIMO, LLC

Article of Organization fi led with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/21/2009. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been des-ignated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Offi ce address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC upon him is C/O the LLC 147 Post Avenue, New York, NY 10034. Date of Dis-solution: (If Applicable). Pur-pose of LLC: to engage in any lawful activity. Street address of Principal Business location is 147 Post Avenue New York, NY 10034.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

STICKHEAD MEDIA LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/8/2009. 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 328 East 74TH ST., Suite 1C New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

44 CLOTHING COMPANY LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/1/2009. 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 Lumbert Slade 15 Saint James PL Apt. #5G NY, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Regis-tered Agent: Lumbert Slade 15 Saint James PL Apt. #5G NY, NY 10038.

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BUSINESS CAPITAL SOLUTIONS 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 Michael Caronna 100 Neptune Ave. Woodmere, NY 15598. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09


TION OF MOORING TAX

ASSET GROUP, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/19/09. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Virginia (VA) on 01/29/97. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 8614 Westwood Center Dr., Ste. 500, Vienna, VA 22182. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. VA addr. of LLC: 8614 Westwood Center Dr., Ste. 650, Vienna, VA 22182. Arts. of Org. fi led with Joel H. Peck, Clerk of the Commission, PO Box 1197, Richmond, VA 23218. Purpose: To service tax and water and sewer liens.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF HERO WARDROBE,

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/29/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Hero Wardrobe, LLC 573 Grand Street Suite D-1706 NY, NY 10002 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF HORIZON VIEWS, LLC

Art. of Org fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/25/06. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Harry Fried, 39 W. 37th St, New York, NY 10018. Pur-pose: any lawful activities.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RINCKER LAW, PLLC

a professional service limited liability company (PLLC). Articles of Organiza-tion fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/20/2009. 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: Cari Rincker, 165 East 90th Street, Suite 2A, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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TION OF DO NOT DIS-

TURB T ASSOCIATES,

LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept.

of State on 8/13/09. Offi ce

location: NY County. Princ.

bus. addr.: 54 Thompson St.,

NY, NY 10012. LLC formed

in DE on 6/12/09. 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: c/o

The Corporation Trust Co.,

1209 Orange St., Wilming-

ton, DE 19801. Arts. of Org.

fi led with DE Sec. of State,

401 Federal St., Dover, DE

19901. Purpose: all lawful

purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CENTURY TOWER

ASSOCIATES NY LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

7/24/09. Offi ce location: NY

County. SSNY designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served. SSNY shall mail

process to: c/o The Olnick

Organization, Inc., Executive

Offi ce, 135 E. 57th St., 22nd

Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose:

any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF REGISTRA-

TION OF CUTTITA LLP

Certifi cate fi led with Secy.




agent of LLP upon whom


served. SSNY shall mail pro-

cess to: The LLP, 128 E. 35th

St., Ste. 100, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: practice the profes-

sion of law.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF PNT SHELL HOLD-

ING LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.




agent of LLC upon whom


served. SSNY shall mail pro-

cess to: c/o Tucker Distribu-

tion, 250 Passaic St., Newark,

NJ 07104, Attn: Len Carpen-

tieri. Purpose: any lawful

purpose.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF HONEY MANAGE-

MENT, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/3/2005. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o William B. DeBonis, 400 Central Park West, Apt. 6N, NY, NY 10025, who is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Term: until 12/31/2045. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF FLEURS DE COR, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 110 West End Avenue, #14C, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF BLUE ROCK PROPER-

TIES, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/21/06. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Blue Rock Proper-ties, LLC, 72 Orchard St., Ste. 10, New York, NY 10002. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF VESTA CAPITAL

PARTNERS LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Wachtel & Masyr, LLP, 110 E. 59th St., NY, NY 10022, Attn: William H. Langston, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/9-10/14/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GUNN LANDSCAPE

ARCHITECTURE, PLLC

a professional service lim-ited liability company (PLLC). Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/28/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The PLLC, 38 W. 32nd St., Ste. 604, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: practice the profession of landscape architecture.

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September 9 - 15, 2009 35

Chris always came through

To The Editor: Re “Christine Quinn for City Council in

Third District” (editorial, Sept. 2):As we approach next week’s primary

election, it’s easy to focus on just one spe-cifi c neighborhood issue, like a new building going up on your block or construction on a local school. In doing so we ignore the many issues that affect the entire city, but have a huge impact on life in our community.

That’s why I agree so strongly with The Villager’s assessment that Christine Quinn is the best candidate for City Council in District 3. In the last four years alone, Speaker Quinn has expanded the number of full-day pre-kindergarten seats and worked to improve test scores at struggling middle schools. She increased safety regulations to keep bars and clubs from bringing noise and violence into our neighborhoods. Chris stood up against hate crimes, and is fi ghting in Albany to bring marriage equality to New York State. She’s improved environmental standards and brought healthier foods into our schools and onto our streets. She’s helped reform campaign fi nance, and kept lobbyists from having too much infl uence over government. She’s balanced our budget without sacrifi cing safe streets and good schools. And she’s been working to create new jobs and help New Yorkers who are unemployed.

When it comes to the issues that are important to District 3, and to New York City, Christine Quinn has always delivered. I hope that on Tuesday, our neighbors keep that in mind and join you in supporting her for re-election.

Brad HoylmanHoylman is Democratic district leader, 66th Assembly District, Part A

It’s time to dump Quinn

To The Editor: Re “Christine Quinn for City Council in

Third District” (editorial, Sept. 2): I am disappointed that The Villager sup-

ports Quinn in spite of its acknowledgement that she has failed her constituents concern-ing the Spring St. Sanitation garage. The Villager credits Quinn on tenant issues and parks, but her stance — or lack of one! — regarding the Spring St. garage indicates that she has, in fact, abandoned her district on those issues as well.

The Spring St. garage would be located across the street from residential buildings, and the mammoth garage (more than 110 feet high before mechanicals) would effec-tively set up a barrier between the neighbor-hood and the Hudson River Park.

Furthermore, her lack of action on the

Spring St. garage is indicative of her envi-ronmental neglect. Quinn agreed to place-ment of a 5,000-ton salt shed at Spring St. in addition to a three-district garage. Salt dispersed from the shed will be corrosive to buildings, damage nearby parks and, most important, create a health hazard to fami-lies and their pets. The 500-plus daily trips to and from the garage would add to the already-high levels of traffi c in the area and further deteriorate the air quality.

Quinn’s lack of support for the com-munity’s alternative, Hudson Rise, refl ects her ethical failure and fi scal imprudence. Hudson Rise would mitigate some of the traffi c and air concerns by reducing the garage size and adding a rooftop park, and it would cost less than the city’s proposal.

It’s time we had a representative who represented us. I say, “Dump Quinn.”

Denise Levine

Quinn fi ghts for tenants

To The Editor:Re “Christine Quinn for City Council

in Third District” (editorial, Sept. 2):I was glad to see The Villager endorse

Speaker Christine Quinn for re-election to the City Council this year. As you noted, she has been a tremendous leader in the fight for tenant protections, pass-ing important legislation like the Tenant Protection Act and the Safe Housing Act. But it isn’t just about legal protec-tions. In the last 10 years, Quinn has been a leader in the fight to protect affordable housing in the Village.

As a resident of Westbeth, I saw first-hand just how critical it is to have some-one fighting to keep our homes affordable. Had we lost our tax abatement, many Westbeth artists would have been priced out of our community. Christine Quinn stood with us every step of the way to make sure this didn’t happen. Just a few months ago, she led the effort to renew our tax abatement and keep our rents affordable for another 40 years.

When The Related Companies proposed a 15-story glass tower for the Superior Ink site, Christine Quinn helped us fight the proposal and forged a compromise that led to a much more acceptable building.

As apartments have gotten more and more expensive all over Manhattan, it’s absolutely critical that we have leaders who know how to keep our neighborhoods affordable. Speaker Quinn has proven she can do just that, and she’s exactly the per-son we need to keep up that fight for the next four years.

I often say to friends who disagree with Christine on an issue or two, “If we had to have 100 percent agreement on everything, we’d all be single.” As you said in your endorsement, “Quinn is the complete package; she has the experience, the skills and the commitment that the dis-

trict needs.” I, and many of my neighbors, couldn’t agree with you more.

George Cominskie

Doing Bloomberg’s bidding

To The Editor: Re “Christine Quinn for City Council

in Third District” (editorial, Sept. 2): I am shocked by The Villager’s endorse-

ment. Simply put, Quinn serves Mayor Bloomberg and has abandoned her commu-nity. I personally sat in a meeting with her regarding the Sanitation garage and I said, “If you stand up to the mayor, you will be a hero to the community.” She replied, “I’m not interested in being a hero.” She then went ahead and voted for the garage.

Aren’t our representatives supposed to sup-port our best interests? The reason she didn’t is because every insider knows Bloomberg wants the garage. That’s ridiculous and not someone who should be elected as a represen-tative of a community. How can you endorse a candidate that is Bloomberg’s lackey?

Christopher Brown

Save the bears!

To The Editor:Re “Balazs whips bondage bash”

(Scoopy’s Notebook, Sept. 2):I commented last year about the

“Leather Fest” being moved to a more obscure location, W. 13th St., and nobody else had anything to say about it. Now, the leather community is being forced someplace else again, perhaps even more obscure?

Apparently it is O.K. to have pride in who you are, and be accepted as who you are, as long as you are one of the pretty people. Leather folk and “bears” don’t fit that mold, so we are relegated to the back alleys and out of sight.

How many more years until they just give us a small island out in the Hudson River where we will never be seen or heard from again?

Richard Hunt

Leather forever!

To The Editor:Re “Balazs whips bondage bash”

(Scoopy’s Notebook, Sept. 2):Our community is under attack again.

We are being punished by a money-hungry community that wants us to be invis-ible. Yes, I have fond memories of every Sunday afternoon when daddies and their boys were seen up and down Christopher St. We had friendly bars, clubs, shops and

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Above, Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel. Below, Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki

A young artist learns, while another’s legacy enduresAbove, on Saturday, at Art Around the Park at the HOWL Festival at Tompkins Square Park, Rolando Vega, right, discussed art with a fellow East Village artist, Scarlet Potts, 6. Below, also on Saturday, a group vending cupcakes and sweets passed an Art Around the Park painting in memory of the late Valerie Blitz. A painter, actress and activist, Blitz, who had AIDS, died July 28 at age 52. According to the Indypendent, Blitz was heavily involved in the Lower East Side art space ABC No Rio in its early days, exhibit-ing her paintings and performing there. She appeared in more than 40 fi lms, including Ari Roussimoff’s “Shadows of the City” and Michael Brynntrup’s “Die Botschaft” (“The Message”).

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neighbors. Pride is more then one or two days a year. It is a community of loving, caring people who demand respect. We are being made into pariahs.

In leather and pride.

Lenny Waller

Hey Bullwinkle, I’m smart!

To The Editor: Re “Maybe it’s nuts, but they call her

‘The Squirrel Whisperer’” (news article, Aug. 26):

I loved the “Squirrel Whisperer” story, but there was no mention of how incred-ibly intelligent these little guys are. Some years back, I trained a family of three or four to come right up to my rear window and take an unshelled peanut from my fingers. It got so that when I raised the window, they recognized the sound and would come from all around, including the roof of a nearby building, to have a bite. Other times, out of the blue, one of them would come to the closed window and stand on the sill at full height, peering in to see if I was around. They don’t live much longer than three years, I’m told,

and I’m not patient enough to train the new crop.

Same thing in Madison Square Park, where the squirrels are well acquainted with the habit of humans feeding them. If I made a clucking noise, they’d hop across the lawn from great distances, climb the wire fence and perch on top to take the unshelled peanut from my fingers. But I’m not clear on city policy about feeding them. On at least one occasion, a park official told me I was breaking the law. And I saw signs there and in other parks that say don’t feed the squirrels. Why would this be?

Bruce Haxthausen

Squashes squirrel jab

To The Editor: Re “Maybe it’s nuts, but they call her

‘The Squirrel Whisperer’ “ (news article, Aug. 26):

Just to clarify a few incorrect state-ments made in this article:

First, the squirrels in Union Square Park are not starving. I sell my artwork in Union Square and every time I go out to sell, I bring nuts and water with me and have “regular customers” coming back

and forth all day. I lay the nuts out on one of my bins and provide a nut buffet for them.

Second, having just confessed to bring-ing nuts to the park for the squirrels, it is illegal to feed them. There are big, green signs posted throughout the park stating this. Squirrels are considered wildlife and wildlife must not be fed, according to the law. Technically, I’m not feeding them — they’re stealing from me.

Miriam West

Providence the next Poe?

To The Editor:“Provincetown drama encore as the-

ater’s wall partly removed” (news article, Aug. 19), by Al Amateau on demolition of part of the Playhouse north wall, misses some key points for people in the com-munity who have lived through N.Y.U.’s past performances. Without getting into Alicia Hurley’s comments — “My office should have known about it and takes full responsibility for the communications gap” — and Borough President Stringer’s comments about failure to consult the community regarding N.Y.U. embarking “on a new path of transparency and dia-logue with neighbors,” the missing link is that the community has been conditioned by N.Y.U. over some two generations, or more than 40 years, to place little cre-dence in the university’s statements and more in its actions.

It was merely a few years ago that John Sexton — after his series of town hall talks, in which he had spoken about the Village’s fragile ecosystem — sprung the monstrous, 26-story, 700-room, E. 12th St. dormitory on this very ecosystem. This was followed shortly by N.Y.U.’s par-ticipation in Borough President Stringer’s Task Force on N.Y.U. Development as a signatory to the “planning principles,” one of whose major points stressed “reuse before new development.”

And so the very fi rst project that N.Y.U.

brought before the task force was demolition and redevelopment of the full Provincetown block front. It took some major effort, prin-cipally by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, to convince N.Y.U. to preserve the historic theater in footprint and volume — with the theater’s four walls and surviving artifacts — after failing to get the university to commit to preserva-tion. Absent from the initial discussion was N.Y.U. rising to a higher standard, as would befi t an institution claiming world-class sta-tus, to preserve an American cultural icon instead of taking the easy way out through demolition rather than preservation.

We now are involved in what amounts to a sequence of errors and omissions on Provincetown regarding structural facts that were supposed to have been vetted back in 2008 when the project was presented to the task force, and a breakdown in communica-tions within the N.Y.U. administration in explaining this problem to the public and why partial demolition is proceeding. For those who were present at the construction of the new Law School building that was to preserve the Poe House several years back, this seems like history repeating itself. Poe ended up as a brick facade and plaque appendage compared to the original prom-ises N.Y.U. made on its proposed preserva-tion. Again, absent was the call to a higher standard in preserving a legacy in American culture, as debatable as it may have been. Who else but a major “world-class” educa-tional institution could heed this call?

This is why there is still great skepti-cism on the part of task force members, including myself, and the general public and explains why N.Y.U.’s so-called “trans-parency” and “harmonious relations” with its neighbors are regarded as a myth. The only transparency, in fact, is that N.Y.U. has unveiled its space needs for 2031 and the 6 million square feet total, or 3.6 million square feet slated for the core campus area. It is this magnitude of space slated for the core that causes great anxi-ety to N.Y.U.’s neighbors as the university expands its hegemony over the Village and

lished, lawful way of life. Transportation Alternatives — the pedestrian and bicycle advocacy organization that has promoted bike lanes, bike racks, indoor parking and other amenities — says it wants to double the number of commuter cyclists, currently 185,000, according to T.A., in the next two years. D.O.T.’s focus is on the establishment of bike lanes, which are causing contro-versy, and encouraging people to lounge in lawn chairs in Times Square. The neglect of enforcement toward a standard of traffi c safety seriously calls the priorities of this administration into question.

The elderly are virtually housebound. Parents of young children are deeply con-cerned for their safety. Animal compan-

ions are in peril. The atmosphere of the sidewalks and streets resembles the Coney Island boardwalk carnival live-target paint-ball game “Shoot The Freak” — and we, the people, are the freak. It is a version of homegrown terrorism.

In a recent paper, “A Mayoral Directive,” Transportation Alternatives calls for the establishment of an “Offi ce of Traffi c Safety” by December 2010. Given the ongoing crisis, such an offi ce would be appropriate. However, CARR recommends, in the near term, that the “moving violations unit” be restarted. This would not require legislation. The resulting enforcement would require will, commitment and common decency.

Brown is a founder of Coalition Against Rogue Riding and a former owner of The Hi Ho Cyclery bike shop, at 165 Avenue A.

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Index No. 307303/09- Date Summons fi led 07/02/2009 Plaintiff designates NY County as the place of trial – The basis of venue is: CPLR 509 Summons with Notice: Plaintiff resides at: 6883 Claret Circle, Fayetteville, NY 13066 To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HERBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plain-tiff’s Attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York): and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. To the above named def: this summons is served upon you by publication. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Address: Law Offi ce of Geleen Rose Ortiz, P.C. 11 East Broadway, Suite 10A, New York, NY 10038. NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL § 170 subd. (2) – Abandonment The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dis-solving the marriage between the parties in this action.

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its fast-disappearing “fragile ecosystem.”

Martin Tessler

No Tennessee in ‘Greatness’

To The Editor: Re “Last call for FringeNYC” (arts article, Aug. 26):I once served as Tennessee Williams’s assistant. I met him

a year after the Vancouver production of “The Red Devil Battery Sign,” and continued in that position for six months, through the staging of his last new play produced during his lifetime, “A House not Meant To Stand” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Since I now live in Stone Mountain, Ga, I have been unable to witness Mr. MacIvor’s play onstage, but some time ago, received a copy of the manuscript. I can say that what-ever merits “His Greatness” has, they do not include insight into the nature, life or poetic core of Tennessee Williams — in his later years or at any other time. I did not recognize Tennessee Williams in Mr. MacIvor’s play.

Additionally, the Young Man is not the type of “young man” Mr. Williams would have associated with at all — I had considerable experience dealing with Mr. Williams’s “young men.”

Whether The Assistant refl ects my personal qualities or not, I’ll leave to others to decide.

Although I cannot speak for them, the Williams scholars with whom I have been in contact and who have seen or read “His Greatness” are of the same opinion of Mr. MacIvor’s play.

My memoir of the six months I worked for Tennessee Williams will be released by Alyson Books in hardcover in April 2010. I do not mention this as commercial promotion — it’s months too early to pre-order — but to let your read-ers know that the record will be set straight.

By all means, enjoy Mr. MacIvor’s play — as simply a piece of theater — but please reserve judgment on the nature of Tennessee Williams. There must be a reason Mr. MacIvor takes great pains not to mention Tennessee’s name or the titles of his plays. I write this with all sincerity.

Scott Kenan

Shut up, you hockey pucks!

To The Editor: Re “Puck it! Not your average beer league in Tompkins

Square” (news article, Aug. 19):I love how the Rehabs can’t even just keep their whin-

ing to themselves, or to the league Web site, or to the league message board. Now they have to start complain-ing in local papers.

Hacksaw

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