BY ALBERT AMATEAU The Children’s Aid

Society is considering the sale of its buildings on Sullivan St. where it has been a part of the Village for more than a century.

In a letter to families who take part in the soci-ety’s Arts and After-school Program and the New Acting Company classes and productions in the Sullivan St. complex, the center’s executives said the decision was not fi nal but is under “serious consideration.”

If the society decides to sell the buildings at 219 Sullivan St. and 175 Sullivan St., it is likely that its Arts and After-school Program and the New Acting Company would close after June 2012.

“We are aware that this news will come as a shock to many,” said a Nov. 28 letter signed by Richard Buery, the society’s president and chief executive offi cer, and Bill Weisberg, chief operating

Citing less need,Children’s Aid mayleave Sullivan St.

BY LESLEY SUSSMAN A civic association that wants to

create a Chinatown business improve-ment district ran into some strong resistance at Community Board 3’s full board meeting on Tues., Nov. 23.

Members of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation’s BID Steering Committee were scheduled to appear at the board’s 6:30 p.m. meeting at P.S. 20, 166 Essex St., to elicit C.B. 3’s support for the plan.

But before they even had an oppor-tunity to make their presentation, steering committee members found themselves under attack by a member of C.B. 3’s Chinatown Working Group and representatives of the Coalition Against the Chinatown BID, a busi-ness and property-owners group that does not believe Chinatown should

have a business improvement district — known as a BID, for short — of any kind.

The Chinatown Partnership L.D.C. is seeking a BID designation because a $5.4 million government grant that has paid for extra street cleaning and garbage pickup is about to expire. Community leaders are concerned that Chinatown would revert to the conditions that pre-vailed before the cleanup program began.

The new BID would be a public-private partnership in which property owners would pay annual assessment fees for extra cleanup of Chinatown’s streets and for other business improvements. It would also advocate for a fair share of government services for the district.

Landlords may pass on the assess-ment to their commercial tenants. Residential properties are assessed at a lower rate than commercial ones,

and properties owned and occupied by nonprofi t groups do not generally pay an assessment. At least 50 percent of property owners must approve of the plan, though generally BID’s are only started when there is much more sub-stantial support.

The BID’s board would be responsible for developing the budget and determin-ing the rate of assessment needed to fund the services provided by the BID. Property owners would on average pay an assessment of approximately 3 to 5 percent of their annual property taxes.

Members of the Coalition Against the Chinatown BID, however, contend that hiring a private street-sweeping service that would be paid for by BID revenues is not the sole solution for Chinatown’s sanitation problems, and

In Chinatown, groups battle over a proposal for new BID

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Oil’s well that starts well On Wednesday, the fi rst evening of Hanukkah, youngsters at My Little School, a preschool at Gymboree, at 100 Reade St. in Tribeca, had an olive oil-making and Hanukkah party. They used the oil they made to light the meno-rah, above. See Page 7 for more photos.

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that the Chinatown Partnership L.D.C. is not qualifi ed to advocate for government services. They also noted that since the 1990’s, Chinatown-area property owners have twice rejected BID’s.

The fi reworks started early at the C.B. 3 meeting when the evening’s fi rst speaker blasted the Chinatown Partnership for not participating in the efforts of C.B. 3’s Chinatown Working Group, a com-munity-based planning initiative for the Chinatown area.

Rob Hollander, a C.W.G. member, said that the Chinatown Partnership was being “divisive” by not participating in the group’s efforts to form a comprehensive development plan for the area.

“I’m concerned about this BID,” Hollander said. “We have, right now, a Chinatown Working Group where all the different voices in the area are coming together for the fi rst time. Instead, they’re bypassing the Chinatown Working Group and creating a division,” he said of the Partnership.

Hollander was followed by several speakers from The Coalition Against the Chinatown BID. Jan Lee, a coalition orga-nizer, charged the L.D.C. with misus-ing grant money in its quest to form a Chinatown BID.

He said that the Partnership had received millions of dollars in post-9/11 grant money from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation based on spe-cifi c tasks it would accomplish.

“But instead of adhering to their orig-inal mission, [the L.D.C.] has squan-dered public funds in pursuit of forming a Chinatown BID, which is not what their grant money was for,” Lee charged.

Lee added that more than 150 business-es — many of them along the critical Mott St. commercial corridor — have signed a petition opposing the BID.

“We do not agree with this attempt to ‘unify’ Chinatown under a pay-to-play system of politics,” Lee asserted. “The dubious track records of many BID’s in the city stand as testimony against a BID for Chinatown.”

Philip Grossman, an attorney for the coalition, joined in the attack. He told C.B. 3 board members that an analysis he made of the Chinatown Partnership’s expendi-tures revealed that only 31 percent of its $5.4 million Clean Streets Program grant

was being used for sanitation purposes.“It’s outrageous and unreasonable,”

Grossman said. “They’re going to waste any BID grants they get. It’s a bad idea to let the Chinatown Partnership go through with its plan.”

A Chinatown Partnership spokesperson later denied the charge. He said Grossman had failed to look at the records of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which, as part of an arrangement with the L.D.C., was “making payments directly to the contractor” in charge of the cleanup effort. “Those payments were not refl ected on the C.P.L.D.C.’s books,” the spokesper-son added.

David Louie, a Chinatown Partnership steering committee member and chairper-son of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York, also denied the charges, and said it was time for opponents of the BID plan to “calm down.”

“I’ve heard a lot of unkind and untrue remarks,” Louie told C.B. 3 board mem-bers. “A BID is the best way to improve the quality of life in Chinatown. The BID would not be a dividing factor but a unify-ing one. It’s unkind and unfair to say we don’t have a broad spectrum of support.”

Louie added that in surveys taken on the proposed BID, 97 percent of commu-nity property owners who voted declared their support for a BID. Another 600 business owners and residents wrote let-ters of support, he said, including longtime community groups, such as the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Chinatown American Legion post and the Canal St. Jewelry Association.

Louie was joined by Patrick Yau, executive director of the First American International Bank, who said the

Partnership had put together a “broadly based group in support of this plan, and we’ve submitted documents to show the support we have.”

Yau said Chinatown’s top three commu-nity needs were sanitation, affordable hous-ing and jobs. In other surveys conducted by the Chinatown Partnership, he said, “The overwhelming issue for all respondents was improving Chinatown’s sanitation.

“That’s why clean streets will be our number one mission, along with advo-cating for more government money for Chinatown,” he added. “We just want to keep our community clean, something we’re already doing successfully under a government grant that is about to expire.”

Also supporting the BID plan was City Councilmember Margaret Chin.

“For Chinatown, it’s a moment of self-determination,” she said. “I urge Community Board 3 members to be sup-portive of the BID.”

Chin later said charges that the Chinatown Partnership L.D.C. was being divisive by not participating in meetings of C.B. 3’s Chinatown Working Group were simply untrue.

“This BID group has been working on this for the past four years — long before the Chinatown Working Group was even organized,” she noted.

Gigi Li, co-chairperson of the Chinatown Working Group, said the clash of opin-ions about the BID was not tearing the Chinatown community apart.

“There are very strong opinions on both ends,” Li said. “And I would welcome a presentation by them in front of the mem-bers of the Chinatown Working Group. That would show an additional level of outreach to the community.”

Li added that she had already invited Wellington Chen, the Partnerhship’s exec-utive director, to attend the Chinatown Working Group’s next meeting.

“He has an outstanding invitation to come before us, but is not required to do so,” she said.

Li said the whole issue will be discussed in greater depth at C.B. 3’s upcoming Economic Development Committee meet-ing, when the committee will recommend what position the full board should take on the matter.

The current government grant award-ed to the Chinatown Partnership L.D.C. expires Dec. 31. The Partnership must not only get approval for the BID plan from Community Boards 1, 2, and 3, but also from the City Council. The fi rst-year BID budget would be $1.3 million, the vast majority of which would be used for side-walk cleaning and trash removal.

The boundaries of the BID district cur-rently under consideration are Broome St. on the north; Broadway on the west; Allen and Rutgers Sts. on the east; and White, Worth and Madison Sts. on the south.

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Chinatown groups battle over a proposal for a BID

Photo by Lesley Sussman

Saying clean streets refl ect well on Chinatown, members of the Chinatown Part-nership Local Development Corporation turned out to back the BID plan at C.B. 3’s Nov. 23 meeting.

‘I urge Community Board 3 members to be supportive of the BID.’

Councilmember Margaret Chin

BY LESLEY SUSSMAN At its October full-board meeting,

Community Board 3 considered a proposal for the construction of a statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen to be erected on the traffi c island at Canal and Baxter Sts. in Chinatown to cel-ebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution in 1911.

C.B. 3 gave its support to the resolution that called for the creation of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen statue. The measure was presented by Gary Tai, assistant to the president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, at 62 Mott St., who said his civic group is awaiting city approval for the site.

“We wish to honor one of the most important fi gures in modern Chinese his-tory as soon as possible,” Tai said, “as next

year is the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

“This statue, which would be erected adjacent to the Chinatown information kiosk, would become another world-famous land-mark in New York City’s bustling Chinatown community and, undoubtedly, a favorite with tourists,” Tai said.

He added that the statue would be designed by the New York City architec-tural fi rm of T.C. Ho, at 33 Bowery, the fi rm which designed and engineered the statues of Confucius and Lin Ze Xu in Chinatown. Ho is also the president of the New York Viet-American Lions Club.

Tai added that much of the memorial’s funding would come from money donated by Sun Yat-sen’s granddaughter.

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‘If these walls could talk’A new mural, above, by Kenny Scharf, went up on the “graffi ti wall” at East Houston St. and the Bowery last week. The man pictured is an assistant, not Scharf. The juxtaposition of a heap of garbage and the Monopoly game’s Rich Uncle Pennybags character, below, at Cleveland Place in Nolita could certainly be viewed as an ironic commentary on our current economy.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDSThe New York City Housing Authority

has neither the funds nor the personnel to implement all the security measures its resi-dents want, such as monitored cameras and an enhanced Resident Watch program. Yet crime has risen by 2.8 percent in Lower Manhattan’s public housing developments over the past year.

NYCHA’s Safety and Security Task Force, created last year, is reviewing security and police issues to improve its services. The task force will soon release a report documenting NYCHA’s security problems and solutions. But under the current system, many public housing residents are afraid.

At 2:53 a.m. on Sept. 1, armed men con-fronted Smith Houses resident Anthony Evans, 28, in the playground facing the complex’s 46 Madison St. residence. Evans was shot in the head, torso and right arm. He was taken to Downtown Hospital, where he was pro-nounced dead.

Surveillance cameras recorded the crime but were unable to produce a clear image of the perpetrator. Residents of the housing develop-ment argue the cameras are unreliable guards against crime.

“Nobody’s monitoring those cameras, so it doesn’t make me feel any better one way or the other if the cameras are here,” said Mary Daez, a Smith Houses resident.

“If they had somebody looking at those cameras, and there was a fi ght escalating, then maybe they could have said, ‘Listen, there’s a fi ght beginning at such and such a place, send a patrol car,’ and that could have been stopped,” said Mariainez Quinonez, another resident.

Cameras indeed prove more effective when they are manned, according to Deputy Inspector Thomas Hogan, who as the commander of Police Service Area 4 is responsible for the security of 25 Housing Authority developments. A recent analysis conducted by the Police Department revealed a dramatic drop in crime after cameras were installed.

But camera protection doesn’t come cheap. The technology is expensive, Hogan said, and “paying police offi cers to just sit there and watch would be cost-prohibitive.”

This explains why out of NYCHA’s 334 developments, only 15 — including Lillian Wald Houses in the East Village — have cam-eras that are monitored 24 hours a day by the police.

“Deciding which developments got them was based on crime and cost of installation,” said Hogan of the manned cameras.

Other local developments, such as Seward

Park Extension on the Lower East Side, don’t have any cameras at all. Carmen Ortra, ten-ants association president at Seward Park Association, who has been fi ghting for cameras for the past year, was told in the spring that NYCHA doesn’t have the money to install them.

“If we have cameras in the building, even if they’re not watched every second of the day, at least if something happens, someone could go back and look at the tape and see what’s going on,” said Tamara Johnson, 32, a Seward Park Extension resident.

‘NO MONEY FOR CAMERAS’

Former local Councilmember Margarita Lopez, who is now a NYCHA board member, contended that cameras are only instrumental in identifying the perpetrators and don’t neces-sarily prevent the crimes from taking place.

“NYCHA never had money for cameras,” Lopez said. “That is, again, another dream that doesn’t have funding attached to it.”

Local elected offi cials, such as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Councilmember Margaret Chin, secured funding for the cameras for 12 Lower Manhattan developments.

“I hope very much they’re going to do it for us,” Ortra said, noting few residents volunteer to monitor the lobbies. She planned to bring up the subject in a recent meeting with Chin.

“We’ll look at how many entrances [the development] has, how many cameras it needs, and fi gure out if we can get it into budget this year,” said Jake Itzkowitz, Chin’s spokesperson. So far this year, Chin has secured $800,000 for cameras for three developments — Rutgers, Vladeck and LaGuardia Houses — which are supposed to be installed between now and June 30 of next year.

“The priority for [the councilmember] is that residents in her district are safe,” Itzkowitz said. “Right now, cameras are the best way to do that.”

Councilmember Rosie Mendez and Borough President Scott Stringer have also

provided funds for surveillance cameras. Mendez, however, points out that there’s competition for a limited amount of funds. This year, for example, her allocations went toward fi nancing a handicap-accessible ramp at Lillian Wald Houses and security cameras for two of four buildings at Campos Plaza. Baruch Houses, on the other hand, put in its request for cameras too late, and so missed out on the money. Mendez also points out that some residents might take issue with surveillance cameras, feeling they violate their civil liberties, so these considerations must be taken into account, as well.

Around 20 older women and men sat in the small, stark lobby of 45 Pike St. in Rutgers Houses on a recent Friday evening. They were chatting and reading newspapers. They were without weapons or other protec-tive gear.

But guards they were. Like others who serve on Resident Watch in NYCHA develop-ments, most of them were there to fulfi ll fed-eral community-service requirements. Under law, all NYCHA residents have to perform a

minimum of eight hours of community service per month, such as Resident Watch, as a term of their lease.

The Tenant Patrol program, founded in 1968, was renamed Resident Watch this year.

NYCHA spokesperson Eric Deutsch explained, “While residents have volunteered for more than 40 years to enhance the safety and security of their communities, Resident Watch is a response to residents’ requests to improve collaboration among them, NYCHA and the N.Y.P.D., and to fi gure out how best to reduce crime in public housing.”

Smith Houses senior resident Rosa Ramerez, who patrols her building, said she hasn’t witnessed any major crimes during the time she has served. Criminals avoid the build-ing because “they know we’re here,” she said.

An N.Y.P.D. offi cer who requested ano-nymity confi rmed that residents sitting in groups in the lobby deter crime.

“If the residents send the message that they care about their building, someone who appears they don’t belong in the building will say, ‘Hey, these people are watching,’” the offi cer said.

Lourdes Leung, head of the Rutgers Houses Resident Watch, said numbers make a big dif-ference.

“We have a big group here, so usually noth-ing happens,” Leung said.

Daez, who serves as the Smith Houses Resident Watch chief, organized a recogni-tion dinner on Nov. 13 at St. James Church to encourage the program’s 100 volunteers in their efforts.

“We’re working now in conjunction with the Borough President’s Offi ce and the politi-cians to try to get an [additional] stipend for the residents here, to show appreciation and hopefully get others involved,” said Daez.

However, as with the cameras, NYCHA doesn’t have the funds to cover such expenses.

“It would be asking us one more time to get money out of a tree that doesn’t give you blood,” said Lopez.

She emphasized the importance of resi-dents participating in the program, whether

Housing Authority tenants want cameras, more security

Photo by Aline Reynolds

Carmen Ortra, Seward Park Extension T.A. president, right, with T.A. Vice President Deborah Givens, has been fi ghting for years to get surveillance cameras installed.

St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers is seeking to retain CB Richard Ellis to market its Manhattan real estate assets, accord-ing to St. Vincent’s spokesperson Veronica Sullivan, who issued a brief e-mail press release Wednesday afternoon.

On Wednesday, St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers fi led a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to retain CB Richard Ellis, Inc. as real estate adviser for the disposition of its Greenwich Village campus.

“St. Vincent’s is exploring all options available regarding the Manhattan campus to maximize value for all of its stakehold-ers,” said Mark Toney, chief restructuring

offi cer of St. Vincent’s.The property, which occupies eight build-

ings, at Seventh Ave. between 11th and 12th Sts., represents a signifi cant source of value for St. Vincent’s bankruptcy estate, Toney said.

St. Vincent’s Hospital closed at the end of April with $1 billion in debt.

CB Richard Ellis, an internationally rec-ognized fi rm, is well established in the New York market and accustomed to developing and implementing real estate strategies for complex sale transactions, the press release said.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court will consider the request at a hearing this month.

St. Vincent’s looks to marketformer Village hospital campus

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‘Preserving safety is the responsibility of NYCHA tenants, not just the police.’

Margarita Lopez

6 December 2 - 8, 2010

they get paid or not. The more that residents monitor their own developments, the less likely crimes are to occur, she said.

“Preserving safety and security is the responsibility of NYCHA tenants, not just the police,” noted Lopez.

But Michael Steele, president of the ten-ants association at Rutgers Houses, pointed out that guarding buildings is potentially dangerous, and that even additional stipends are unlikely to attract many newcomers.

“Nobody wants to put their life on the line, and that’s basically what you’re doing,” Steele said.

And some tenants said they don’t feel any safer with residents on patrol.

“They’re little old ladies,” Johnson said. “If you’re at gunpoint, what’re you going to do? Sit there and try to call the cops?”

“You going to run and save somebody? No,” said Stephanie Ortiz, a former Resident Watch volunteer at Smith Houses.

The security program, Ortiz added, typi-cally ends at 9 p.m., when the residents return to their homes, after which most of the crimes occur.

The tenant patrol volunteers at Rutgers Houses were shaken by a May 30 incident, when one resident stabbed another with a kitchen knife. The incident happened after the volunteers had fi nished their shift.

VERTICAL PATROLS

In 1995, NYCHA entered into a mutual agreement with the city to allocate an annual sum, currently $73 million, to provide above-baseline police services for its tenants.

“This means that NYCHA is entitled to receive an enriched level of police ser-vices compared to other landlords in the city,” explained Sheila Steinback, a NYCHA spokesperson.

Beginning at the ground fl oor, offi cers work their way up the stairwells of the proj-ects, interrogating any loiterers they encoun-ter along the way. Since only 72 offi cers are available to patrol the roughly 170 build-ings in Lower Manhattan, the police focus their efforts on housing developments where crimes have recently transpired.

“We’re taught to ask three questions: ‘Do you live in the building?’ ‘Are you visiting someone in the building?’ ‘Do you have any legitimate business in the building?’” the police offi cer said of how they approach loiterers. If the person refuses to answer the questions, he or she could be arrested for trespassing.

But residents and advocates claim the police are intimidating and harassing resi-dents rather than protecting them.

“Tenants don’t feel they’re receiving the special police services they pay for,” said Marquis Jenkins, a community organizer at Good Old Lower East Side, or GOLES, an East Village-based housing and preservation organization that advocates for tenants’ rights. “They’re more afraid of police services than they are of the drug dealers,” Jenkins said.

Ismael Sidibe, 23, a Seward Park Extension resident of seven years, was recently detained at his building’s entrance by police offi ces for trespassing.

“I told them I live upstairs,” Sidibe said. “They said they didn’t care about where I live, they just took me to the precinct.”

The police source maintained that loiter-ers aren’t legally required to show identifi ca-tion, and that the offi cers are only trying to do their jobs.

“The reality is, there are a lot of bad guys out there,” the source said. “There are some people that just don’t like the police.”

COMMUNITY POLICING

In 1990, Mayor David Dinkins estab-lished a community-policing program, in which police offi cers were assigned to spe-cifi c housing developments, enabling them to form a rapport with the residents. His successor, Rudy Giuliani, did away with the program in 1995, when NYCHA’s police ser-vices merged with the N.Y.P.D.’s in an effort to combat serious crime.

Some of NYCHA’s residents long for a return to the kind of community policing Dinkins instituted. Rutgers Houses resident Dorothea Cody said under the Dinkins pro-gram the police “knew who everyone was.”

Efforts are being made to alleviate the problem. At the Sept. 30 Smith Houses Tenant Association meeting, state Senator Daniel Squadron asserted that, though the N.Y.P.D. can’t revert back to community policing, those tight relationships can be re-established.

Police Lieutenant Steve Nusser offered his cell phone number to the residents in attendance at the T.A. meeting.

“We have to work together,” Nusser told the residents.

“We need as much information as pos-sible from you,” he continued. “You’re the people that live here. Everything people tell us, we appreciate it and we’re going to act on it. If we don’t get that information, it makes our job a lot harder.”

Saturday, December 11, 2010Noon to 5:00 PM • 133 MacDougal Street

New York University invites you to this open house at the newly

re-furbished Provincetown Playhouse! Come tour the historic

theatre and see a new exhibition featuring archival images of some

of the most famous playwrights and actors whose productions

are part of the theatre’s near 100-year history. Light refreshments

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From playwrights Eugene O’Neill and Susan Glaspell in

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Shaw at mid-century, and to Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Charles

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Residents want more securityContinued from page 5

Photo by Aline Reynolds

Tamara Johnson, a Seward Park Extension resident, said the develop-ment needs surveillance cameras.

December 2 - 8, 2010 7

A very pressing matter at the start of HanukkahOn the fi rst evening of Hanukkah, youngsters at My Little School, a preschool at Gymboree, at 100 Reade St. in Tribeca, used olive oil they made to light the menorah. Michoel Albekurk, above right, led the spellbound children through the oil-making process. Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of one day’s supply of oil that miraculously lasted not one but eight nights.

Photos by Tequila Minsky

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Dutch-police dustup

An employee of the Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C., and his Dutch friend were arrested after a fi ght outside Arthur’s Tavern, 57 Grove St., during the early hours of Sun., Nov. 28. Rob Van Der Hoek, 30, a consular offi cial at the embassy, and his friend Kristopher Rendon, 31, both resi-dents of Bethesda, Md., were charged with assault. Two women, identifi ed in a New York Post article as Lenneke Veeninga, Rendon’s wife, and Roos Kouwenhoven, Van Der Hoek’s fi ancée, were also involved, according to the Post, but were not charged. The incident began around 1:30 a.m. when the suspects learned that Arthur’s, a jazz club, does not take credit cards. They said they couldn’t pay cash and argued with the waitress. The argument turned physical and carried outside when police came to break it up. Police said the suspects attacked them, but Van Der Hoek and Rendon claimed they were beaten by police, according to the Post. The two men were released on $1,500 bail pending a Dec. 3 court appearance.

Billy bank bustalujah

Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Life After Shopping took his angel choir on a protest march from Columbus Circle to the UBS bank building on Sixth Ave. at 52nd St., on the biggest shopping day of the year, the Friday after Thanksgiving. They demonstrated against the Swiss bank for its fi nancing of mountaintop-removal coal min-ing. Police arrested Talen around 4:30 p.m.

and took him to “The Tombs,” at 100 Centre St., where he was held 18 hours. Billy told The Villager that police at the scene said they just wanted to take him aside and talk to him, but they handcuffed him and took him Downtown in a police car. Talen quoted the judge at his 11 a.m. misdemeanor trespass arraignment on Sat., Nov. 27, as asking why he wasn’t issued a summons instead of being put through the system. Norman Siegel will represent Reverend Billy at his Jan. 11 court appearance.

Holiday home invader

Police arrested Damont Green, 27, on Sun., Nov. 28, and charged him with the burglary and robbery of a woman in her bed-room at 55 Morton St. around 5:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The victim, 27, woke up to see a man holding a knife, police said. She struggled with the intruder, sustaining an injury to her leg, and the man fl ed after tak-ing unspecifi ed items. The victim was taken to Beth Israel Hospital in stable condition. Green is being held pending a court appear-ance on burglary, robbery causing an injury, credit-card grand larceny, criminal trespass and possession of marijuana.

Left Mom, 93, on fl oor

Police arrested Gordon Dowling, 57, of 175 W. 13th St., on Nov. 23 and charged him with leaving his mother, 93, in the

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apartment they shared for at least two days, lying on the fl oor in a soiled nightgown amid feces and mold. An Emergency Medical Service team found her helpless on the fl oor while Dowling was in the apartment and making no attempt to help her, according to the complaint. Dowling was charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of an incompetent and physically disabled, elderly person. Dowling, who is represented by a court-appointed attorney, was released on his own recognizance pending a court appearance on the charges.

Domestic assault

Police arrested Sebastian Caldwell, 28, on Fri., Nov. 26, and charged him with stran-gulation and assault for choking and beating his girlfriend in their apartment on E. 11th St. at Avenue A at 2 a.m. Wed., Nov. 2. Caldwell was also charged with choking and beating the victim on July 15.

Wicked mug shot

A patron of Wicked Willy’s bar, 149 Bleecker St., got into an argument with two other patrons around 4:30 a.m. Sun., Nov. 21, and one of them smashed him in the face with a beer mug. The other suspect punched the 37-year-old victim in the eye and both assailants fl ed, according to reports.

Religion rip-off

A visitor from Cincinnati told police on Fri., Nov. 26, that as soon as he discovered his wallet was gone around 3:52 p.m. he returned to the True Religion clothing bou-tique at 132 Prince St., where he last had it two hours earlier. A surveillance camera at the shop recorded two men kicking a wallet

on the fl oor and hiding their faces as they picked it up and walked out. The victim lost $600 in cash and various credit cards.

Women wallet stealers

A saleswoman at LePage New York, the gift shop at 72 Thompson St., told police she was busy taking care of a crowd of shoppers on the afternoon of Fri., Nov. 12, and discov-ered when most of the crowd had left around 2 p.m. that her wallet had been stolen. The victim said she suspected that two women who were among the last to leave had made off with her wallet with $15 in cash, her MetroCard and credit cards.

Chanel bags went

The manager of What Goes Around Comes Around, the boutique at 351 West Broadway between Grand and Broome Sts., told police that two Chanel bags with a total value of $4,950 were stolen from a display case around 2:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 26. The shop was so busy that employees were unable to see how the bags were stolen, police said.

Rock-a-bye bag

A female Hudson Square resident told police she was in Don Hill’s, the music club at 511 Greenwich St., during the early hours of Fri., Nov. 19, and had put her bag on the fl oor by her chair around 1 a.m. When she bent to pick it up a half hour later, she discovered it had been stolen, along with $220 in cash, diamond earrings valued at $300, her Apple cell phone, credit cards and house keys.

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Precinct beefs up dinner detail The Annual Sixth Precinct Police Roast Beef Dinner will be held on Tues., Dec. 7, from 6

p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Our Lady of Pompei Senior Center, Father Demo Hall, at Bleecker and Carmine Sts. Food has been donated by local merchants and will be served by members of Greenwich Village’s Sixth Precinct. Admission is $12 at the door. All proceeds go to The Caring Community’s operating fund. For more information, call Sandy Gabin at 212-989-3620.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU The New York State Assembly voted 93 to

43 shortly after midnight on Monday in favor of a six-month moratorium on hydrofracture gas drilling in the state.

The vote during the last minutes of the legislative session this year, follows a similar moratorium passed by the state Senate in the summer. The resolution needs the signature of Governor Paterson to ban the process known as fracking until May 15 of next year.

Paterson is expected to sign the morato-rium soon.

“Even with the tremendous revenues it would bring in, we’re not going to risk public safety or water quality,” Paterson said last week in an interview on fracking.

Welcomed by city offi cials and environ-mental advocates as an important but stop-gap measure that protects New York City’s Delaware-Catskill watershed from poten-tially toxic chemicals, the moratorium was denounced by gas and oil companies as “a job killer, an Upstate business killer and potentially an industry killer.”

But Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Tuesday, “I will not let anything stand in the way of making sure all New Yorkers have clean, safe water. By preventing hydrofracking from moving ahead without careful study, we have protected our water supply and served notice to the industry that the health and safety of New Yorkers is our top priority.”

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said

in a joint statement with James Gennaro, chair-person of the City Council’s Environmental Committee, that the moratorium was an important step forwarding protecting New York City’s drinking water. The Council last year called for a ban on fracking in the water-shed area, which supplies 90 percent of the city’s drinking water, all of this unfi ltered. The other 10 percent of the city’s drinking water passes through a Bronx fi ltration plant. The temporary moratorium goes further and bans the drilling process throughout the state.

Fracking involves horizontal drilling into the Marcellus shale formation, which lies more than 5,000 feet beneath New York State’s 27 Southern Tier counties near the Pennsylvania border, including the six counties that include New York City’s watershed.

The process calls for injecting millions of gallons of water laced with a cocktail of toxic chemicals under high pressure to fracture the formation, releasing natural gas trapped in the shale.

“It is the fi rst time any state in the country has passed any kind of moratorium on this gas drilling technique,” Quinn said. “As accounts of contaminated water, soil and air due to hydraulic fracturing come in from across the country, New York is in a unique position to show much-needed leadership on this issue,” Quinn said.

But the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York on Tuesday called on Governor Paterson to veto the moratorium,

which could halt all fracking for natural gas in the state, not just in the Marcellus formation.

“It could result in the potential loss of 5,000 industry jobs, threaten the future of more than 300 businesses and temporarily eliminate $1 million in annual revenue that the state collects from traditional drilling per-mit fees,” the association said in a statement. “Hundreds of millions in lease payments and royalties to landowners and tens of millions in tax revenues to local towns and counties in the state also will be lost during this moratorium,” the association said.

However, Ling Tsou, a Lower Manhattan resident for 40 years, said she became con-vinced in the summer of 2009 that fracking was a public health danger and not the eco-nomic boon that supporters claim it is.

“It’s not an Upstate-Downstate issue,” she said on Wednesday. “If you count the expense of cleaning up after accidents and repairing the roads that will be damaged by heavy truck traf-fi c, and add up all the other costs, it’s not such a great economic benefi t. We should explore more sustainable and environmentally safe energy,” she added.

While oil and gas advocates say that drill-ing has been done safely for years in the state, Silver said, “When it comes to keeping pol-lution and dangerous chemicals out of our water, there is simply no acceptable level of risk.” Silver thanked Assemblymember Robert Sweeney of Long Island for sponsoring the moratorium and organizing its passage this

week.Assemblymember Deborah Glick was

among the co-sponsors of the bill, which also had the support of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

In September 2009 the state Department of Environmental Conservation issued for review an 809-page draft supplemental generic envi-ronmental impact statement on hydrofrack-ing rules. But New York City offi cials and environmental advocates protested that the guidelines were largely written by gas drilling companies.

Last April, D.E.C. decided to remove the New York City watershed and the Syracuse watershed from the generic fracking review and required gas drillers in those watersheds to undertake supplemental environmental reviews for each well.

Environmental advocates acknowledged that although the D.E.C. decision would discourage fracking in the two watersheds, there was nothing to stop the agency from issuing a subsequent executive decision including the watersheds in the review once it is fi nal.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has been holding hearings over the past year preparing for a nationwide report assessing the safety of hydrofracking. A sci-ence panel is expected to draft the report early next year and complete it in 2012. Silver has said that he favors a statewide ban on fracking until the E.P.A. issues the fi nal report.

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offi cer. “The programs are wonderful and the staff is comprised of supremely talented and caring people,” the letter continued.

The society, dedicated in 1853 to help poor children thrive, now has 45 locations in the fi ve boroughs and Westchester. The Children’s Aid Society has been in the Village since 1892, and was named in 2005 as the Phillip Coltoff Center in honor of the society’s retired president. The early-childhood annex was opened at 175 Sullivan St. 20 years ago, and the main center at 219 Sullivan St. was renovated in 1994.

“This is really heartbreaking,” Buery said on Wednesday. “We constantly struggle with diffi cult decisions about which services are most closely aligned with our mission. We will be working hard to support families and staff through this transition.”

In a Nov. 30 news release, Buery fur-ther said, “While the Greenwich Village community shows a continued demand for quality and affordable early-childhood and after-school programs, the neighborhood has changed radically in the 119 years since this center opened, and it’s clear the community no longer needs us in the way that higher-

poverty New York neighborhoods do.” The society board of trustees, which

meets on Dec. 16, must ratify any decision to sell the Village buildings.

Buery said on Wednesday that it was very early in the process and the society has not yet hired a broker. But he acknowledged that the society has received offers to buy the Village properties.

The buildings are located within the area that the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation originally proposed for the South Village Historic District. Although the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one-third of the proposed district, the Children’s Aid Society buildings were not included in the designation.

“The loss of the Children’s Aid Society, an institution which has been in this com-munity for over a century, would be tragic,” said G.V.S.H.P Executive Director Andrew Berman in a letter to L.P.C. “If its buildings were to be sold prior to landmark designa-tion, it would likely lead to their demolition and replacement with either a condo or dormitory high-rise, which would compound the tragedy. We are urging the city to keep its long-overdue promise and move ahead with consideration of this area for landmark designation right away.”

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A nanny, left, talked to a receptionist at the Children’s Aid Society on Wednesday after bringing two young West Villagers over to use the society’s playroom.

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when I was going to write my memoirs,” said Terry, a retired singer and emcee who toured with a troupe that entertained U.S. servicemen in bases around the world.

Rose, who is hard of hearing and has a little trouble making herself understood by strangers, introduced the reporter to Venice Daniel, her homecare attendant for the past eight and a half years.

“She’s my good girl,” Rose said, put-ting her arm around Daniel.

“My mother and Rose were first cous-ins,” said another guest, Judy Markowitz. “That makes us second cousins.”

Rose and her late husband, Lewis Padawer, who owned a carpet store on Fourth Ave. and E. 12th St., used to live in Flushing years ago, Markowitz said.

“Rose used to entertain there on a lavish scale. She was a lively hostess,” Markowitz recalled.

“I don’t dance anymore,” said Rose. “I can’t kick as high as I used to.”

Rose was born Rose Anolik in Trakai, near Vilnius in Lithuania, her son said. She came to the U.S. when she was 6 years old with an aunt.

“She had three brothers and two sis-ters who lived to maturity,” Gerald said. “I think there were other siblings who died as children,” he added.

Rose’s father, who owned a bathhouse in Pittsburgh, came over to the States a short time later.

“I’m from Pittsburgh, where people are nice. They smile, not like New York where everybody is grouchy and dull,” Rose said. “Don’t be dull,” she advised the reporter and suggested that he and Grace Main, the downstairs neighbor, might get together.

“Rose used to work in Kaufman’s Department Store in Pittsburgh,” Markowitz said. “My Uncle Jack and Lewis Padawer were best friends. They went to Pittsburgh to visit Rose’s family and that’s where they met,” Markowitz said.

“He stayed in Pittsburgh until Rose said ‘Yes,’ ” Gerald said.

Lewis Padawer was born in Memphis, Tenn., in a family that immigrated from Galicia in Eastern Europe. When Rose said, “Yes,” he brought her to New York where he was in the carpet business and where they raised three daughters and a son. Lewis died in 1977 at the age of 69.

Rose is a little uneasy about the future when she gets old.

“You’re going to have to find a good home for me,” she told her son and daughter. They assured her she could stay where she has lived for the past 35 years with Venice to take care of her.

“Oh it can’t last forever. But it [the

‘good home’] has to be Jewish. I’m a Jewish girl still,” she said.

Nevertheless, Rose values her inde-

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From left, Gerald Padawer, his mother, Rose Padawer, and Venice Daniel, Rose’s homecare attendant for the past eight and a half years, at Rose’s 105th birthday party three weeks ago.

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was razed. For her part, Hurley said, Berman “dealt himself out of the conversation” on the Provincetown Playhouse’s renovation a long time ago, and that she didn’t understand why he was getting into such detailed criticism now. “Whether or not Andrew thinks this was a success is irrelevant,” she said of the theater project, adding she never saw Berman’s let-ter to Sexton. “The university is not going to be negotiating with Andrew Berman in any realm,” she added. “He’s incapable of nego-tiating. At this point, it is irrelevant whatever Andrew Berman says.” The preservationist wasn’t buying N.Y.U.’s seat-ends story, blasting back, “I fi nd it amazing that N.Y.U. is embark-ing on a 20-year, 6-million-square-foot, multi-multi-million-dollar expansion plan, but can’t fasten 1940’s seat ends to new seats.” Hurley said the tweaking of the seat-ends scenario was broached with Stringer’s Community Task Force on N.Y.U. Development, at a meeting that Berman missed. But Berman told us he only missed one of the task force’s 50 meetings, and that his representative at that meeting, as well as others who attended it, reported there was no mention of any change regarding the seat-ends scheme. At any rate, Hurley said the community can come see for themselves and decide whether they approve of the renovation job, when the university hosts an open house at the “refurbished” Provincetown Playhouse,

on MacDougal St. between W. Fourth and W. Third Sts., on Sat., Dec. 11, from noon to 5 p.m. There will be free cider and cookies and live piano music. A new exhibition on the theater’s history will also be on view in the Provincetown Playhouse’s lobby.

JORMA PLAYS GREENWICH HOUSE: The Greenwich House Arts Benefi t, on Thurs., Dec. 9, at the Greenwich House Music School will be a true community effort, and will have a special guest this year. The event will feature local restaurants and musicians at a cocktail hour, followed by an exclusive dinner performance by Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His performance at Greenwich House will follow two shows celebrating his 70th birthday at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side.

Unfortunately, the dinner for the Greenwich House Arts Benefi t is nearly sold out, with board members already reserving the remaining few. Tickets, $150, for the cocktail reception — featuring music by members of the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra — are available online at http://www.greenwichhouse.org/_blog/GH_News/post/An_Evening_for_the_Senses_to_Benefit_Greenwich_House_Arts/ or via a link on Greenwich House’s home page, www.greenwichhouse.org . Tickets can also be ordered by calling 212-991-0003 ext. 403.

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By Emma DeVito

A Time for Giving

For those of us who work at not-for-profit organizations to provide care and help to some of New York City’s neediest residents, these are extremely difficult times.

Most all of these organizations rely first and foremost on government funding, primarily Medicaid, to offer care. For long-term care providers such as VillageCare, this includes Medicaid funds for nursing homes, home care, assisted living, adult day health care and a wide range of HIV/AIDS services for those who have no resources of their own to access these programs.

As I’ve discussed here previously, long-term care providers have faced a tremendous load of cutbacks in state funding. Over the past three years, overall the loss of financing for long-term care programs is approaching $1.5 billion, which came in a total of nine rounds of cuts by the State.

In a few short weeks, we’ll have a new Governor, and he has targeted Medicaid as one of the areas that he will look at in seeking to find “savings” to close the State’s $9 billion-plus deficit in the 2011-12 fiscal year.

To me, the situation is dire, because so many of the organizations that have been impacted by cuts since 2007 are not-for-profits. These organizations serve your friends, your families and your neighbors, often with care that is innovative and responsive to individual needs. I fear that another round of significant cuts will severely harm the safety net that not-for-profits are primarily responsible for – jeopardizing both quality and availability of care.

I have always gravitated to the not-for-profit sector, coming to VillageCare almost 19 years ago. What motivated me most at the time was the death of a good friend from AIDS.

We have amazing people working for VillageCare – they are extremely committed and passionate about their work, and I see every day the positive impact that our services have on those we serve. The dedication of our staff has, in turn, been an inspiration to me.

Just as other not-for-profit providers, we serve some of New York’s frailest, and impoverished, citizens. If we don’t do it, there really isn’t anywhere else for these people to turn. We’re their safety net.

This is where you come in.As much as our community relies on the everyday work of charitable organizations

and care providers, they also rely on you, especially in this era of considerable cutbacks in governmental funding.

Through your donations, you can help sustain the many worthwhile organizations in Greenwich Village and its surrounding communities that have a mission of community service. Community support for these organizations is vital in this day and age. In some cases, I believe that without an outpouring of help now in the form of private donations, some doors are going to have to be closed by some care providers.

That would be such a loss to our community, and especially for those who are in need of care and services.

I realize that these have been difficult economic times. But I also know that New Yorkers are among the most generous people in the nation when it comes to supporting charitable organizations.

Those donations are extremely important today, and there’s not a single charitable organization in our community that isn’t facing a crisis in funding, including VillageCare. Each one needs the help and support of the community.

These organizations care deeply about the needs of those who have considerably fewer resources than most of us are fortunate to have. If there is a particular community need that you would like to support, you don’t have to look far for a not-for-profit that is working hard to meet that need. And you can be sure that they need your help.

Please take time this year to show how much you care.All not-for-profits are struggling desperately to continue to provide the basic care and

services that many of our New Yorkers require – especially for frail older adults, persons living with HIV/AIDS and others with disabilities and chronic conditions.

Let’s show those who are in need that they are not alone.If you aren’t already a regular donor to charitable organizations, I urge you to find

one that supports a community need that resonates with you, and give as generously as possible.

This may be as important as anything else you do as we approach the end of 2010.Thank you.(Ms. DeVito is president and chief executive of f icer of not-for-profit VillageCare,

which serves some 10,500 persons annually in community-based and residential care programs for older adults and those living with HIV/AIDS.)

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N.Y.U. ‘super’ errors In two separate editorials in 2004, our newspapers

called for the 50-foot-wide strips of city-owned prop-erty on the eastern and western edges of New York University’s two South Village superblocks to be trans-ferred from the Department of Transportation to the Parks Department. Dating back to a resolution passed in 1992, Greenwich Village’s Community Board 2 has long been on record supporting this transfer, which would protect the strips from development.

D.O.T. ownership of the strips doesn’t block their development, whereas if Parks owned them, the state Legislature would have to approve any sale.

Mapped as roadbed despite their current, lush, leafy state in many sections, these properties remain from planning czar Robert Moses’ plans to widen these streets for the never-built Fifth Ave. connector to the unrealized Lower Manhattan Expressway.

With the university now pushing ahead with its ambitious N.Y.U. 2031 expansion scheme — whose epicenter is the two superblocks — these strips are a key battleground between the university and the community. However, showing N.Y.U. woefully lacks offi cial support for acquiring the strips, a phalanx of local politicians will assemble Sunday at a 1 p.m. rally on LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and W. Third Sts. to voice support for C.B. 2’s resolution that the parkland strips be preserved. The residents group Community Action Alliance on N.Y.U. 2031 will join them.

N.Y.U. wants to acquire these strips for its super-blocks plans. Specifi cally, the university hopes to incor-porate the current Mercer-Houston Dog Run site into the footprint of its “Zipper Building,” planned on the site of its current Coles gym on Mercer St. N.Y.U. says that by using this strip area, it could bring back some form of Greene St. on Coles’s west side — which was demapped under the superblocks’ original urban renew-al plan — increasing the width of the obscure alley there now. If N.Y.U.’s strips bid is rejected, though, from what we’re told, the university wouldn’t redesign the “Zipper” project, but would build it the same size — just without widening the Greene St. pathway.

As we editorialized six years ago, the university doesn’t deserve these strips, for one, for failing to step in and fi x up the dilapidated and sunken playground and seating areas on Mercer St. between Houston and Bleecker Sts. Yes, D.O.T. owns these strips — but given that N.Y.U. was always rumored to be stymieing the strips’ transfer to Parks, ultimately, the university is responsible for them.

The fi rst, stunning superblock setback, of course, came last week, when N.Y.U. announced it was abandon-ing its plans to site a fourth tower — 400 feet tall — with-in the landmarked Silver Towers complex. N.Y.U. had to withdraw after Henry Cobb, partner of the complex’s legendary designer, I.M. Pei, wrote the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission last month, calling the site inappropriate. As Cobb wrote: “…[A] fourth tower is profoundly destructive to the landmarked entity, because it closes a composition that was intended to be open and upsets the carefully considered balance between solid and void.” As for the university now developing a shorter building of equal square footage on its Morton Williams supermarket site at the block’s northwest corner, Cobb stated in his letter, “Ideally the corner building would be designed so as to make it more responsive to its neighbors and to the landmarked entity.”

Cobb’s eloquent letter is a road map for how N.Y.U. must proceed. In short, N.Y.U. must scale back its plans for the superblocks, which simply cannot handle 2 million-plus square feet of new development. Indeed, “responsive” and “balance” are the key words N.Y.U. must be supremely mindful of as it moves forward.

EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORTea Partier takes on Glick

To The Editor:Re “Tea Party’s brew doesn’t go down well Downtown”

(news article, Dec. 25):No, Assemblymember Glick, we Tea Partiers did not say

we don’t want government to touch our Medicare. Rather, we said fi rmly, we want our elected leaders to abolish Medicare. And while they’re at it, abolish Medicaid, as well, and completely privatize Social Security.

We want the government to get the hell out of our lives. Don’t tax us, and don’t give us any stupid entitlement pro-grams. Fund defense against radical Islamic terrorists, run the post offi ce, take care of the national parks, secure our borders and that’s about it.

Eric Dondero

Schwartz’s ‘whine’ wasn’t fi ne

To The Editor:Re “It’s time for Obama and us to get back to basics”

(Progress Report article, by Arthur Z. Schwartz, Nov. 18):Mr. Obama and Mr. Schwartz, being so far left of center,

feeling the ineffable rightness of their cause, became so paro-chial in their view, they did not raise up their heads and smell the stench of dissatisfaction and dismay, but went on their way, smug and self-righteous, devoid of awareness of what is and what is not. Mr. Schwartz’s whine, sad to say, reveals that after the shellacking, he still is tone deaf. Too late to save ACORN, as the squirrels have devoured it.

Bert Zackim

Pit bulls terrorize at Tompkins

To The Editor:Five dogs and three people have been brought to the hos-

pital after pit bull attacks in the Tompkins Square dog run in the past two months. This is too much for this community to handle and I fear their level of frustration is about to blow.

Folks are standing around the dog park bracing them-selves for the next pit bull attack. I have witnessed folks carrying knives into the park to protect themselves and their dogs from out-of-control pit bulls in the dog run.

Other individuals are standing around discussing ways

to kill a pit bull with a shovel to get it to release its grip on their dog.

I certainly don’t condone this behavior. I would not advise anyone to intentionally harm a dog at the run, lest one fi nd oneself in more trouble than the negligent owner who brought the dog into the run in the fi rst place.

However, I would be acting irresponsibly as a community volunteer if I did not bring to people’s attention the degree to which individuals now feel they must go to protect them-selves.

Details of attacks:1.) A couple entered the dog run with their senior

Doberman, which was attacked by a pit bull named Bean. The Doberman received $6,000 worth of injuries. Both of the Doberman’s owners were bitten and went to the hospital. A lawyer for the Doberman’s owners reported that the wife may require plastic surgery to her breast, which was bitten by the pit bull. Police arrived on the scene.

2.) Mable, an English spaniel, was attacked in a clampdown bite from a pit bull. Vet bill to be determined. The owner was not able to get the pit bull owner’s ID or information.

3.) John and his dog Jesse, a foxhound mix, were both bit-ten by an unneutered, brown pit bull that was accompanied by three teenagers. The vet bill for Jesse was $215. However, John had to go to the hospital for bite wounds and under-went a round of 10 rabies shots. John reported that after the attack the teenagers told him, “Our pit bull is the toughest in the park and could kill any dog there.”

4.) Oriol’s dog, a cocker spaniel, was attacked by a gray male pit bull being walked by a woman named Geona. The cocker spaniel required two surgeries to close wounds and remove dead tissue. The vet bill so far is $4,500. The pit bull owner refuses to pay the bill. Police arrived on the scene.

5.) A couple came in with a gray male pit bull and took out a Frisbee. Kuma, a small cattle dog, picked up the Frisbee and the gray pit ran over and grabbed it tug-of-war style, then attacked Kuma. The pit bull clamped onto Kuma and would not let go. The male owner had to strangle the pit bull to get it to release its grip as the small cattle dog dangled from its mouth. Kuma received multiple bites and puncture wounds. The vet bill pending. Police arrived on the scene.

Every time a pit bull attacks, it further maligns the breed and puts us closer to breed-specifi c legislation in our state.

Representatives from animal-control agencies must visit the Tompkins Square dog run as soon as possible to defuse the situation and bring much-needed education to pit bull owners about safe handling of their dogs.

Many pit bulls use the park without incident each day. However, clearly, there is a pattern to note, since nearly all of

IRA BLUTREICH

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Let it Snow!Enjoy ski season, even after surgery

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While we all hustle about getting prepared for the holidays, thoughts of a new year loom over our heads. Usually those thoughts – at any age – are of shaping up and feeling healthier. We all want to live longer, happier, more productive and energetic lives and to do so we need to be the best we can physically.

That’s why we at ThriveNYC visited with personal trainer Harry Hanson who prides himself in the number of fi t and happy “Boomers” he exercises every day. Hanson believes in cardio and strength training as the key to strong bones and longer, happier lives.

We also see the merits of fresh air and fun activities. I hobbled around the city myself for years, feeling older, weaker and less happy because of a deteriorating knee. I started saying “No” or mostly, “Uh, too busy” when friends asked me to join them for a drink, dinner, a movie, shopping or a walk around town. I made excuses that I didn’t need to go to the store or that I could substitute or subsist. I was in denial. What I was doing was not getting the most out of my life because it hurt to walk and climb stairs. My excellent orthopedic surgeon, Kenneth E. McCulloch, said these wise words: “You’ll know when it’s time.” I fi nally had to admit it was and I’m so sorry that I waited as long as I did. My knee operation was a life-changer and last season I was back on skis. I’m looking forward to the snow again this winter.

The not-so wise say this is the gray, glum season but we say bundle up and enjoy the cold, fresh winter air. Walking around our colorful city at this time of year is uplifting and the fi rst steps to a fun, fi t and fantastic New Year.

Have a great holiday and happy New Year.

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ski again.I ripped my right knee while hop-

ping rocks, boulders really, climbing Longs Peak in the Rocky Mountains, as a 19-year old college student.

I had my meniscus removed less than a year later and arthroscopic surgery nearly 20 years ago. I’d been limping around in denial ever since.

Now I was stretching and fl exing with two interns outside the operating room at New York Downtown Hospital talking about our favorite skiing spots. I felt great. My knee felt fl exible, fi rm and without pain. At the moment, all the aches and groans that go with pounding the pavement were gone. All the canceled dates and missed opportunities because I didn’t want to trek up and down subway steps were forgotten.

I was energized. I was convinced was healthy.

I was about to have knee replacement surgery.

I was about to bolt. Thankfully, I didn’t because four

months later, I was cross-country skiing across a beautiful, snow-covered mead-ow upstate. I was gliding through more than a foot snowfall, early for the season. I was creating a path, enjoying the view and watching my dog race ahead then drop on his back and make doggie snow angels.

We were on state land, carving trails and looking longingly south at the Alpine runs on Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills. I hadn’t dared ski downhill in a few years, knowing that my achy knee might let me down.

The next month, December, dreams of downhill danced in my head. I pushed through three times a week physical therapy, earning kudos and a scaled-back schedule.

February 2010. I was shushing down intermediate trails of freshly fallen snow at Shanty Creek Resort in northern Michigan.

And I was pain-free.

I was a downhill skier!At my side was Randy Anderson, a level

three Nordic and Alpine instructor and member of Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) for more than 30 years. With his guidance and encouragement, I challenged myself to take on slopes I never thought I would ski again.

The day before I warmed up and prac-ticed with a two-hour trek on some of the resort’s 31 km of cross-country trails. I reverse snow-plowed (ski tips out, heels in) up a small incline. I fl oated across a fi eld and trudged through the woods.

I started my downhill morning being outfi tted with a new set of parabolic skis, the wider, shorter boards which have replaced the longer, narrower skis I have. Just gliding over to the bunny slope I noticed a difference. A larger “sweet spot” makes skiing a breeze, turns grace-ful and balance better. These babies were easy to handle!

I effortlessly got on the rubber “people mover” – an escalator-like conveyor belt that hauls you up the tiny bump of a hill. I disembarked without diffi culty but at the top I froze, nervously looking down the slope.

Could I do it? Fear hotly shot through

my spine. The only way out was down. My self-talk went from take your time, stop if you feel scared to when doubt, sit it out. I slowly began my descent, making long, wide, loopy fi gure S-s in the snow.

It was just like getting back on a bicycle.

After a couple more runs, I was sail-ing down the hill, stopping with a jaunty turn. I was back!

Randy said it was time to tackle a begin-ner run so off we went to one of the moun-

tain’s two double lifts. Again, at the top, I shakily looked down the slope then, encour-aged, eased into a slow, controlled drop.

“Best way to stop, especially after a knee replacement, is to snowplow,” advised Randy who some of the time watched me as he skied backwards down the run. “Or take one ski out of the trail and single plow. Snow plowing uses hips.”

He also championed the new para-bolic skis. “They are best, especially if you’ve had knee injury or replacement. There’s less stress on joint, because you don’t have to work as hard at turns and they are more forgiving,” he explained.

The turns were smooth, easy. I dusted away the fresh powder in my path. My confi dence grew with each turn, every run. Randy said I was ready for interme-diate trails. And off we went.

With two mountains and 49 runs, more than 67-percent of them beginner and intermediate level, my adventure was limitless. The 450-feet of vertical terrain and long, winding runs – the longest at 5,280-feet – gave my intermediary skills plenty of options.

My day was perfect: downy snow-fl akes the size of silver dollars sailed through the sky creating a fresh, fl uffy carpet under my skis.

My confi dence renewed, I know I’m ready for whatever snow this winter brings.

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Back On The TrailAfter knee replacement, I wondered, would I ever ski again?

“You can do anything you did before,” said my orthopedic surgeon, Kenneth E. McCulloch, M.D., who has his own practice in Manhattan and operates at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases and New York Downtown Hospital, where I had my knee replacement surgery.

Surgeons divide activities into low-impact and high-impact and most don’t recommend high-impact for their knee replacement patients. Nordic or cross-country skiing is a low-impact sport while downhill, which places more pressure and stress on the knee joint, a high-impact one.

But Dr. McCulloch says factors such as the strength of your thigh muscles, the skill of your surgeon and the qual-ity of your replacement can get you back to as active a life as you once enjoyed.

“I tell patients the fi rst six weeks are recovery time,” says Dr. McCulloch who graduated Princeton, Columbia and Stanford (among others) and is a board certifi ed hip and knee surgeon.

“Three to four months after surgery is for learning how the knee functions,

taking long walks, moderate hikes, golfi ng and low-impact exercises. After that, if you have your quad muscle strength and range of motion back, there’s no reason not to experiment with what sports you can do.”

Dr. McCulloch says key to a well-functioning knee replacement is a good fi t. That’s why he performs a custom cut procedure based on a MRI – a 3-D image of the knee that maps out the cuts on a computer.

“This gives you the best possible alignment, maximum longevity and increases the activities you can do.”

Key is physical therapy following surgery and building strong quad mus-cle strength.

“Take activities step-by-step, increasing your strength, control and work up to tolerance,” he adds. “Start with low-impact outdoor sport like cross-country skiing.

“Success is part what the surgeon does and part what the patient does. The harder the patient works (at physi-cal therapy and strength building) the better the results.”

Shanty Creek ResortsThree villages (Summit, Cedar River and Schuss) with three hotels (Summit Hotel

& Conference Center, Cedar River Lodge and Schuss Mountain) make up Shanty Creek Resorts, surrounding Lake Bellaire in northern Michigan’s Antrim County. Building started in the 1960s and last year saw a $10-million renovation of one facility. While the resort has more than 600 rooms and four restaurants, the vibe is comfortable, non-crowded and low-key.

A year-round family fun center with golf, swimming and summer sports, Shanty Creek is best known for is wintertime activities. Snowshoe and Nordic ski trails wind through the woods. Three terrain parks and one half-pipe cater to snowboarders while downhill skiers have 49 runs on two mountains to schuss.

For those who want to relax, try dog-sled and horse-drawn sleigh rides. And, there’s always the spa. Visit: www.shantycreek.com

Go For It!

Photo courtesy Shanty Creek Resorts

The old gang enjoys a photo break during a great ski day on Schuss Mountain.

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A Go-to Chef Shares His SuccessChef Bernard Ros’s secret to a long, happy life is in his kitchenBY ROWANN GILMAN

If you’re looking for information about the food business in New York City, Bernard Ros is your go-to guy. But if it’s good food, easygoing neighborhood-y feeling and recession-proof prices you’re after, his res-taurant, Meli-Melo, is the place to be.

Meli-Melo roughly translates as “mélange,” in this case, a mix of French and Italian cuisines that combines the best of both, with a few fl ourishes tucked in. The restaurant’s hand-painted wall mural says it all: maps of France, Italy, China, and England accompanied by portraits of native fi sh swimming in the surrounding ‘seas.’

Ros arrived in the U.S. a little more than 40 years ago to see the 1967 World’s Fair, and decided to stay. Immediately, his innovative cooking style caught on

and he was able to start the fi rst of fi ve restaurants that he has, at one time or another, created all over town. East side, west side, upper west down to Tribeca and now the Madison Park area, Ros has gentrifi ed his chosen neighborhoods with his uncluttered, fl avor-centric menus.

As executive chef and exclusive pastry chef, Ros is a believer in letting the taste of the main ingredient shine through, without the interference of heaps and foams of cover-up fl avors. Considered to be one of the most creative chefs in the city, he is also known to be among the most good-hearted people in a hard-driving business.

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BY JANEL BLADOWIf you want to feel younger, exercise.

That’s the philosophy of personal trainer Harry Hanson who sees seniors as his favorite clients.

“Boomers are loyal clients,” he told Thrive. “They never leave you as long as you do the job they want. They care about being fl exible, not getting injured, slowing aging process and stay-ing healthy. They are great clients to have.

“Some come to lose weight or lower blood pressure or cholesterol. All this can be done with a combined program of strength training, cardio and diet.”

Hanson became a trainer 25 years ago after a man approached in him Washington Square Park and offered him a job. He was 225-pouns with 6-percent body fat. He didn’t even know what a personal trainer was.

“At that time it was extremely trendy,” he says. “People sat around at dinner parties and said they had a personal trainer. Now it’s built into your lifestyle. I was one of seven guys hired, from the dozens who applied.”

Hanson got certifi ed and stayed at that Soho gym for 10 months before opening his own studio.

“My fi rst client was Tom Cruise. He wanted me to become his exclu-sive trainer but I have a business here, family. We still get together sometimes when he’s in town.”

Today Hanson, the married father of an 18-year old daughter and a 13-year old son, has fi ve studios – three in Manhattan, one in Boston and one in a private fi rm. He also owns two personal trainer schools – The Academy, in New York City and Boston.

“We are state licensed and interna-tionally accredited. We graduate about 200 students a year and have 97-percent placement.”

But unlike most personal trainers, Hanson is driven not to bulk up young, athletic bodies (although he has plenty of those clients too!) but to strengthen older ones. That’s why he offers a senior discount at all of his studios.

His senior program incorporates a basic routine that is a total body work-out. He believes that if you train two, three times a week, working on differ-ent parts of the body – chest, shoulders, back, biceps, core and legs – you get the proper workout to slow the aging process.

“Pilate’s, yoga, core classes, are all good but strength and resistance train-ing are the best way to slow aging, stimulate cells and stay stronger longer,” he says.

Why is it important to exercise with age? “Every cell, fi ber, tendon, ligament

gets weaker as you get older,” Hanson explains. “The more sedentary you are, the faster your body dies. Exercise slows down aging process, constantly strength-ens every cell.

“There are so many benefi ts from exercise: lower cholesterol, lower blood sugar, rids the body of toxins, makes the heart stronger, burns calories, improves digestion, clears mind, makes you feel good about yourself,” he lists.

“Strength training also strengthens bones to fi ght osteoporosis and prevent hip, knee and leg injury and improves bone density. You’re never too old to build bone density.

“I’ve had clients come in with a slight curvature of spine, back pain. Exercise can help ward off scoliosis. Stronger core muscles make bending easier. Stronger muscles mean a better quality of life.

“Most people don’t know how to pick up things the right way and often hurt their backs then can’t pick up groceries, their grandchildren.”

Hanson believes that with exercise you can cut down the number of visit you make to the doctor, saving you money in the long run. And by working with a per-sonal trainer, you are less likely to injure yourself while working out than you are alone in a gym or at home.

Women are more likely to come to personal training than men, says Hanson. “Men think they can do it on their own but they can’t. Women, on the other hand, fi nd when they work with a personal trainer that they’ve been using too much weight or not enough, and learn the correct range of motion. There are so many variables. This is why people hire trainers.”

Hanson told Thrive about one client, a very obese woman who came to him and said that she wanted to fl y to Paris and walk around the City of Lights at least once before she died.

“She arrived the fi rst time by car ser-vice,” he remembers. “She was in such bad shape that we had to help her up the stairs. She couldn’t climb them by herself. That was fi ve years ago. She’s

been to Paris fi ve times since.”He says the key to a successful work-

out is motivation. “Exercise will make you happier, increases confi dence, help you feel better about yourself, and feel stronger,” he says.

Diet, he offers, is another important factor. He recommends seniors fi rst see a doctor for blood tests and to check sugar and cholesterol levels. “Then, simply stay away from sugar! There’s absolutely zero benefi t in sugar. Seniors should also cut back on carbs, anything made with fl our. I’m not saying never eat it, but I believe in moderation to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle.”

His recommended carbohydrates: oat-meal, brown rice and sweet potatoes.

“One time a week, eat whatever you want. Other six days, only those carbs. Give yourself a cheat day or cheat meal to look forward to. It makes it easier to be more disciplined.

“This is my life,” he continues enthu-siastically. “I’m here to help people. I’m not a model or an actor. I’m here to help people feel good about themselves.”

And with that, he cites another client as an example.

“A 72-year old woman, her husband had been in a nursing home, started to workout. She started to feel bet-ter, feel better about herself. Now she’s met a guy and is in love. At 72! Exercise does that. It gives us all the confidence, well being, positive out-look. Imagine meeting someone and falling in love at 72?”

For more information on senior dis-counts or to schedule a session, visit: www.hansonfi tness.com.

Move It!Live longer, stronger and happier

Photo by Janel Bladow

Harry Hanson, personal trainer

hall for anyone looking for a job, recom-mendations, referrals, gossip, and industry news. Out comes the Rolodex; phone calls are made, appointments set. What’s more, before Ros places a chef, he trains him in his own kitchen, sharing his recipes, teach-ing the prospective chef how to prepare them, and offering sound business advice. He will even train the wait-staff. Most executive chefs guard their recipes with their lives, but Ros believes that no one is in business to do a bad job. Well-trained employees carry that message with them.

“The eyes eat fi rst,” Ros says. In other words, food must be appealing to the eye as well as the palate and for that reason he emphasizes plating and presentation. In the old days, when service was per-formed tableside, often in the form of showy fl ambés and individual carvers, food didn’t have the same appeal on the plate. When composed for presentation in the kitchen, it comes to the table as a

complete visual experience. “People aren’t interested in elegant din-

ing the way they used to be,” says Ros. “They don’t want to get dressed up for dinner. The hardships of the economy push change, and you must adapt with your pocket, not your palate,” he adds. “You’ll notice that the places opening now are burger restaurants and tacquerias that offer low-cost, casual, homey food. Before the recession, restaurants in need of a pick-me-up might count on changing the chef, moving to a new location, or checking out what the competition is up to.

“These days, you have to be more fl ex-ible—develop new, less-expensive menus, offer comfort foods. We serve a $22 three-course lunch and a $24 complete dinner, and our menu lists six or seven appetizers and entrées that include wild-caught salmon, hanger steak, cod, strip steaks, and half a dozen pasta dishes” as well as other familiar and comfort-able foods for which his customers make repeat visits. There is always a Special of the Day and a Vegetarian option.

Part of the way Ros keeps his costs down is by visiting the Hunt’s Point Market every day to stock up on his pre-ferred ingredients rather than order them from an industry service. As a result of Ros’s’ savvy, the 40-plus years he’s been in business he’s accumulated customers who are now like family. “The idea is to be able to feel that anyone can walk in and fi nd something they’d like to eat,” he says.

How does Ros, who is 65, stay as ebullient and active as anyone in the restaurant business has to be? “You have to eat your cake and enjoy it,” he says metaphorically. Ros feels that it’s all in your head: “It is very stressful to have a restaurant and you have to be up on your game. Don’t aim to project plans on your neighborhood. Instead, switch your rifl e from your left hand to your right hand. Be fl exible. I’m always waiting for sun-shine to walk through the door,” he says, “so give your local restaurant a chance.”

Meli-Melo is located at 110 Madison Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets.

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BY MICHELE HERMANIn the spring of 2006, when my cost-conscious Manhattan

mom cohort learned that Trader Joe’s — the national chain known for high-quality food at rock-bottom prices — would fi nally establish a Manhattan beachhead, we were primed. One friend plastered herself against the front window to monitor the store’s progress like one of those stuffed animals with suction cups on its paws. On opening morning, another mom arrived at P.S. 3 with Trader Joe’s malted milk balls already in hand. Here, take one, she said, practically pushing them into our mouths, as over the moon as a new dad with a box of cigars.

I fell hard myself. Among recent life-altering borough improvements, I rank the arrival of Trader Joe’s right up there with the new cantilevered segment of the Riverside Park bike path and the parent coordinators in the public schools — the departing chancellor’s one, indisputably great contribution to the system.

This is not to say it’s been easy — shopping at the mini-Manhattan version of a normal Trader Joe’s can be some-thing of a hero’s journey, complete with the call to adven-ture, the supreme ordeal of the line, and the triumphant crosstown return across 14th St. with the elixir (32 ounces of maple syrup for the price of 16 at the Greenmarket!) strapped onto my bike.

I know I’ve fallen smack dab into a demographic and I know I’m straight out of the book “Stuff White People Like.” But really — what’s not to applaud about a store full of fresh and affordable good food (but not scary upper-echelon-foodie good, like that new store on Hudson St. that specializes in salt)? What’s wrong with a store where, even when the line follows the entire periphery of the store and spills onto E. 14th St., the staff never grows surly? Who wouldn’t want to pay the same amount but get twice as much vanilla extract, holistic dog food, grape tomatoes, Irish breakfast tea, eggs?

I could go on. For quite a while. The dirt-cheap salsa autentico tastes almost as fresh as my favorite, Tortilla Flat’s; the citrus shampoo makes my kids smell like a grapefruit orchard; the hummus comes in almost as many varieties as white paint at Janovic Plaza. The cheap cartons of M.S.G.-free chicken broth. The big ziploc bags of brown sugar that never hardens; the milk that stays fresh for a

week; the bran cereal a third the price of All-Bran; the Hanukkah gelt.

Not everyone shares my ardor. My husband, for one, isn’t buying. I think he’s jealous. The more demented I grow about Trader Joe’s the more he defends Western Beef, which he used to spend half his time maligning. He started to notice the Trader Joe’s bills on our shared credit-card account. Of course, I explained. What you never saw was the even greater amounts of cash I used to dispense to other local merchants — a 20 here to the drug store, a 20 there to various health-food stores with their various loss leaders, an occasional 10 to Gourmet Garage and D’Ag’s.

Actually, I’m lying. It’s what we addicts do to protect our habit. I do buy more at Trader Joe’s, all kinds of good-ies I would never consider anywhere else. Why? Because they’re under one roof and they’re cheap and good and I have a good warm feeling because I always run into an old friend or two. So I bring home apple-cured bacon, brickle-like grahams that make Nabisco’s seem like par-ticle board, palmiers, candied ginger, sorbet, frozen bake-yourself mini-croissants, brioche, sweet-crunchy-salty trail mix, chocolate. My old life had room for two kinds of nut staples: walnuts and peanuts. Now I keep toasted almond slices, shelled pistachios and mixed nuts so fancy they have no peanuts at all in the freezer alongside the spare bag of chocolate chips and the extra pound of butter. And, though we tend to eschew prepackaged dinners, I do sneak the coconut curry Thai chicken sticks and the pleasingly slip-pery pot stickers into our regular menu rotation.

Anyway, my husband talks out of both sides of his mouth. I see him there on the sofa when 10 p.m. rolls around. When a commercial comes on NY1, he moseys to the kitchen. We both know he’s hoping to fi nd a nice puffy bag of thick, ridged potato chips, or white cheddar corn puffs, or at the very least some restaurant-style tortilla chips. There’s an unasked question on his lips, the same hopeful one the kids ask regularly: “Going to Trader Joe’s soon?” And let’s not kid ourselves — on the day I make the trek, they love me better.

Not all the products (as he is quick to point out) are fi rst rate. The peanut butter is weirdly runny. At the bot-tom of the cheddar twists there can be an alarming amount of oil; the cereals are too sweet. But Trader Joe’s keeps prices low and excitement high by instantly discontinuing anything that doesn’t pull its weight in sales to make way for new products. I understand — it’s the same system I developed at Christmas and birthday time when the kids were young: Before anything new came in, something old had to go out.

The policy is adhered to without mercy, providing a fi ne lesson in the Buddhist art of nonattachment. Goodbye chocolate-hazelnut spread that was cheaper and slightly more pleasingly fi lberty than Nutella! Goodbye sun-dried tomato pesto, Parisian twist Danish, pierogis, pack of eight colored candles for $1.50!

In the four years I’ve been braving traffi c to get to the E. 14th St. Trader Joe’s, I harbored one dream: a bigger store

on the West Side. Last summer it arrived with no fanfare whatsoever, in half the former Barnes & Noble space on Sixth Ave. and W. 21st St. It’s much like a Trader Joe’s in Anywhere But Manhattan, U.S.A.: big, roomy, deep, with an enormous panhandle in the back just for the dairy cases.

At the East Village store, by the time I got to the check-out, the other people on line felt like the guys in my pla-toon. I knew the faces and piercings of all the employees.

Now a funny thing has happened. I zip to the Chelsea store midday midweek when there’s no line. It’s so big that it’s possible not to touch a single customer. The staff hover on the horizon like fi gures in a Brueghel painting. It’s almost too easy, and I no longer feel heroic on the ride home. It’s also impersonal and a little suburban. But I can live with that.

The thing that worries me is the butter. The price has gone up from $2.49 to $3.29 a pound, and the sticks have suddenly become short and squat like European butter. I’m waiting for an e-mail reply to my query, which I know will come, because Trader Joe’s is the kind of company that sends chummy e-mails. At least so far.

There are few things I love more than Trader Joe’s chewy bocconcini, but one of them is the hope the company gives me for that elusive third way. Usually, you have to pay a price to get a bargain. At the Burlington Coat Factory on the next block, you have to sift through a hundred of last season’s crappy, unloved acrylic remainders. H&M is cheap, but that’s in part because the fabric is so thin and someone is no doubt getting exploited.

Five years into its Manhattan run, Trader Joe’s is still occupying the perfect niche between the little hippie-dippy California convenience chain it once was and the mega-corporate, upscale sell-out I hope it will never become. The company wins and the consumer wins. I have only one remaining wish: that it fi nd its way into neighborhoods in far more desperate need than mine for good, fresh food.

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these dogs have been placed in negligent hands by New York City Animal Care & Control or its affi liated rescue agencies.

Let’s work together to put an end to this needless carnage before the situation escalates.

Garrett Rosso

Yes, Bettina, Hudson Square is real

To The Editor:Re “There’s no Hudson Square” (letter, by Bettina

Goldstein, Nov. 4):Perhaps it’s because the holiday season is rapidly

approaching, but when I read Bettina Goldstein’s letter regarding Hudson Square, I thought of a letter received by The Sun in 1897 from a young girl named Virginia.

So with all due respect to the brilliant editors of The Sun, who so powerfully assured the 8-year-old girl, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” it seems appropriate to say, yes, Ms. Goldstein, there is a place known as Hudson Square. It exists as certain as the creative energy that fl ows through the minds and souls of the people who work here, in the synergistic relationships developed among the companies based here, and in the light-fi lled streets characterized by the warmth and charm of a small town.

And in the months and years ahead, as the neighborhood continues to progress, soon the streets will have a look and

feel that distinctly defi nes Hudson Square, as well.

Ellen BaerBaer is president, Hudson Square Connection

Cobb’s letter is spot on

To The Editor:Re “N.Y.U. scraps plans for fourth tower in landmark site

after I.M. Pei objects” (news article, Nov. 18):Henry Cobb’s letter is a gem. It explains the beauty of

University Village and provides an understanding of why building a tower on the supermarket site will also be destruc-tive of the integrity of University Village.

Tobi Bergman

Bootleggers are not artists

To The Editor:Re “Art squeezed out of the parks” (letter, by Robert

Lederman, Nov. 25):Mr. Lederman makes some good points in his letter, but

as usual he misses the point as well.It is true that Mr. Benepe has a tin ear when it comes to

the issues of artists or art in the parks. At the same time, he does have the evident propensity to sell out the parks to private retailers who take up much more space than private,

individual, legal vendors. Mr. Lederman’s photos illustrate that nicely.

You can go all the way back to the removal of Bob Bolles’s public sculptures in the small park at Broome St. and West Broadway to see that Mr. Benepe is more likely to destroy a local artistic heritage than to preserve it. In spite of support from the community, the sculptures were removed, with only one minor piece returning to its origi-nal location, and then only after years of arm-twisting by community members.

Now Mr. Benepe has attempted to institute a new policy that would harshly restrict the numbers of “artists” in the parks. This overkill policy is clearly unconstitutional and has led to more expensive legal battles for the city. Unfortunately, this policy affects everyone who sets up a display in the parks in exactly the same manner. In other words, an outright art bootlegger gets the same treatment as a bona fi de artist. The motive to remove them all and to privative the parks is obvious.

This brings us to the real problem and the one glaring omission from Mr. Lederman’s comments. It is a fact that after all these years of strife, no one seems to have the guts, brains or willpower to simply be guided by the judge’s words in the court fi nding that gave artists their rights in the fi rst place. Art, he ruled, is painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. An artist is a person who creates art.

Until someone in a position of authority gains the back-bone to actually do something about art bootleggers and illegal vendors, Mr. Benepe and Mr. Lederman will carry on with their war, while true artists, other legal vendors and the public will continue to be caught in the middle. Same old, same old, as they say.

Lawrence White

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VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENTBY TRAV S.D.

November was such a busy month that I only saw one show from last month’s column: but I saw it 50 times. The show, of course, is Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” — playing at 3LD Art & Technology Center (www.3ldnyc.org) through December 10. I would love to give it a glowing review, but seeing as how I am in it that might be construed as more than usually biased. Therefore, we turn our attention to the virgin snows of December….

I am luridly expectant at the prospect of seeing “What She Knew” — playwright and critic George Hunka’s retelling of “Oedipus Rex” from Jocasta’s point of view. In this production, the “First of the Red Hot Mamas” will be played by Gabriele Schafer. Schafer is best known as one half of the company Thieves Theatre, which she ran for many years with her husband Nick Fracaro, and was most notorious for a theatre piece they did in the early 90s in which they lived in a teepee at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge for several months. More recently, I saw Schafer play both Hamlet’s father and mother in a Butoh-influenced version of the Shakespeare play (“Q1: The Bad Hamlet” — produced by New World Theatre). The hair-raising performances I saw makes me to think there couldn’t be a better person to do an “erotically transgressive” one-woman show about Oedipus’s mother. The pro-duction is under the rubric of Hunka’s company, Theatre Minima, and will be playing at Manhattan Theatre Source, December 1-11. For more info: www.thea-treminima.org.

I am also happy to report that Theatre Askew’s “Horatio’s Rise” — written and directed by Jason Jacobs — opens at The Cell (www.thecelltheatre.org) on December 1. Producer Tim Cusack has been doling out tidbits about the show to me for over a year knowing as he does of my abiding interest in all things 19th century. The titular “Horatio” is, of course, Alger — author of scores of rags-to-riches novels that were consid-ered inspirational in their day, if a bit preposterous in our own. In Jacobs’ play, a teacher introduces a wayward student to “Ragged Dick.”(Stop giggling now. I mean it!) From what I can glean, the play has serious overtones without ignoring the unavoidable humor inherent in some of Alger’s work. Having enjoyed several of this company’s productions, including “I, Claudius,” “Cornbury” and “A Night in the Tombs,” I feel comfortable giving this one an advance “thumbs up.” The run is just one week, ending on December 5. For tickets and info: www.theatreaskew.com.

November 2 through 11, the Incubator Arts Project will be presenting “Emancipatory Politics” — written and directed by Eric Bland and his company Old Kent Road Theater. I’d previously seen and enjoyed Bland’s “The Protestants” — which had its absurd aspects, but it looks as though he is embracing Incubator Arts’ experimental mandate and trying some new things, including puppets and “movement through the space” in this “collage-like” story about a bunch of radi-cal leftists in Arizona (don’t they know that’s McCain country?) Of the cast, Becky Byers, Gavin Starr Kendall, Iracel Rivero, and Alexis Sottile are well-known and heavily endorsed by me. The others approved by association. The production will be at St. Mark’s Church. There’s more info available at www.incubatorarts.org.

Several shows at Theater for the New City this month tickle my fancy. First, there’s the annual return of the seminal Off-Off Broadway company Bread and Puppet Theater. This is the 39th year the company has come back to TNC, and it’s always impressive to see those eerie, gigantic, medieval-looking puppets

move about TNC’s cavernous Johnson Theatre. This year’s production is entitled “The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland and the Decapitalization Circus.” Hmm…. wonder if it will be political? The produc-tion runs December 2 through 19. Also opening on the 2nd is Matt Morillo’s “Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues.” While its tagline, “Even though it’s a play, it doesn’t suck” strongly inclines me to throw their press release in the wastepaper basket, its prom-ise of “foxy, urban women” in (let us not forget) “low rise jeans” has convinced me to do the big thing and give the produc-tion a second chance. This is the show’s second NYC revival since its premiere in 2006, and it has been produced as far away as Australia, so someone must like it. “Angry Young Women” runs through December 12. “Dollface” — opening on December 23 — is less interesting for its concept (a Queens woman enrolls in a comedy class and then gets involved with a jewel heist) than for its personnel. Several of the collaborators have interest-ing music biz credits on their resumes. Co-composer Rob Hyman is a founding

member of The Hooters and songwriter of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” His collaborator, David Forman, has written and recorded with Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Aaron Neville, Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, Maryann Faithfull, Levon Helm, Taj Mahal and others. “Dollface” runs through January 16. For info on all three of these shows as well as others at TNC, go to www.theaterforthenewcity.net.

“Mapping Mobius” at LaMaMa E.T.C.’s First Floor Theatre promises to be a trip-py experience. Taking as its inspiration the eponymous, technically impossible “strip,” it’s supposed to describe what happens when a scientist delves into a model of his own mind, presumably wind-ing up in some sort of feedback loop. Far out! (If the fuzz is reading this, I didn’t inhale.) At any rate, if you too want to have your mind blown, “Mapping Mobius” — by The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) — is playing December 2 through the 19.

On December 6, Terranova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group is

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Susie Perkins carries a heavy burden (see Theater for the New City).

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presenting “Bug Out!” — a bill of ten-minute plays inspired by the word “bug.” If you’re not a fan of creeping insects, don’t fret. The organizers have given the artists wide latitude as to how to interpret their mandate and the products of their imaginations are just as liable to include irritated humans, or hidden recording devices. The quintet of young scribblers includes Lauren Feldman, Andrew Kramer, Nick Mwaluko, Leah Nanako Winkler, and Halley Feiffer (daughter of Jules and a multitalented artist in her own right. She not only writes, but acts. You may have seen her in “The Squid and the Whale”). “Bug Out” plays one night only, December 6, at HERE Arts Center. For more info, go to www.terranovacollective.org.

December 7 through the 15, the Kraine Theater will be the site of “The Corporate Personhood Play Festival.” I like the name and the theme of this festival very much (it refers to recent legal decisions that make it possible for corporations to commit all manner of calumnies under the pretense that they possess the same rights as individual human beings). The fest includes nine short plays in two sepa-rate bills, and to give you a fl avor, here’s a description of “Oh, Donna” by the excellent young playwright Lucille Scott Baker: “A

young heiress (and friend of Paris Hilton) who has organic tendencies with organic juice and a few secrets, takes over the world’s third largest communications com-pany.” I’m there! And lest there be any doubt about the subversive tendencies of this festi-val, all shows are FREE! Why, it’s downright un-American. “The Corporate Personhood Play Festival” is a co-production of Horse Trade Theater Group and The Subjective Theatre Company. More info at: www.subjectivetheatre.org.

Finally, I would be remiss in my duty as a corrupter of public morals if I didn’t recommend these sick, twisted holiday shows. December 3-11, one of the funni-est performers I know — Bradford Scobie — brings his “Moisty the Snowman Saves Christmas” to Dixon Place. This parody of Rankin-Bass holiday specials, penned by and starring Scobie, was a hit of last year’s NY Musical Theatre Festival (www.nymf.org) and also stars the great Murray Hill, among others. For info: www.dixon-place.org.

December 10-30, End Times Productions — the folks who brought you “Manson: The Musical” — return to Ace of Clubs with their 4th annual “Naked Holidays.” This “Yuletide Bacchanalia” promises an array of comedy sketches involving Adolph Hitler, the Tea Party, and, by my count, 13 scantily clad showfolk. Talk about roasting chestnuts! For tickets: www.endtimesproductions.org.

Over at PS122, December 15-19, you can catch “Brothers and Sisters and Motherf**kers.” This solo show — featur-ing one Jibz Cameron as Dynasty Handbag — takes us to a Handbag Family Holiday Dinner featuring “hatred, drugs, murder, spi-der, old babies, secrets, the devil, grandma and explosives.” For info: www.ps122.org.

And on December 14, don’t miss me as the titular slasher in “Jack the Ripper’s Holiday Spectacular” — along with my chorus of cuties, The Bleeedin’ Tarts, piano man Albert Garzon of Ixion Burlesque, country duo the Tall Pines, contortionist Amy Harlib, burlesque side show art-ist Foxxx Trot and music hall chanteuse Lorinne Lampert. It’s all at Bowery Poetry Club. Be there or be square! See you next year!

December Downtown Theater: Hot, Hot, HotContinued from page 17

I am luridly expectant at the prospect of seeing “What She Knew” — playwright and critic George Hunka’s retelling of “Oedipus Rex” from Jocasta’s point of view.

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In an experimental ant colony, a worker ant worships a Queen Ant after the Queen gives a motivational speech. See “Mapping Mobius” on page 18.

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BY JERRY TALLMERThink of it this way:An actor is but a particle of a person,

unless of course he (or she) is several par-ticles of several persons — in, for instance, a staggeringly brainy play by Tom Stoppard

that stirs together quantum mathematics, particle physics, love, death, espionage, a London swimming pool and a handful of post-Shakespearean twins who may or may not be double (or triple) Cold War secret agents — theirs and ours.

The play is called “Hapgood” — which is also the masculine-sounding name of its undeniably feminine heroine and her even more feminine quasi twin sister.

We are never told what dire nuclear secrets are in a briefcase that keeps changing hands in and around the dressing rooms of that London swimming pool, just that those secrets are dire and that one of the partici-pants in this hugger-mugger is referred to as Russian One.

“We call this man Russian One,” says a typical Stoppard notation, “because he is Russian and because there are going to be two of them.”

“Hapgood” was written in Orwellian 1984 — 18years after the “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” that put Stoppard on the map

as an upcoming playwright of consequence. That was also, as it happens, one year after U.S. President Ronald Reagan launched his pie-in-the-sky Star Wars anti-missile pro-gram.

To Craig Smith and Elise Stone, stars of another kind, the acting kind — they are also two of the prime movers of the seven-year-old Phoenix Ensemble — no play could be more timely. Indeed Smith and Stone, husband and wife, are saying this to me just a day or two after one lone U.S. senator — a Republican gentleman from Arizona — has thrown a screw-you-Obama monkey wrench into any renewal or extension of the nuclear-reduction START treaty.

“Stoppard is such a careful playwright,” says big, sensible, graying Smith — who in this “Hapgood” portrays Blair, the head of a CIA-type London-based intelligence opera-tion that has Lily Hapgood (i.e., short, dark, beautiful, fi ery Elise Stone) as one of its most prized agents.

“With particle physics,” says Smith, “once something is observed it is changed.”

Einstein in a nutshell?“Absolutely. Meta-theater.”“Which changes from night to night,”

says his wife.“I am not a mathematician,” voracious

reader (of everything) Stoppard told an interviewer for the Paris Review in 1988, “but I was aware that for centuries math-ematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties — axioms — that led to others.

“But then, in a sense, it all started going

wrong, with concepts like non-Euclidean geometry — I mean, looking at it from Euclid’s point of view. The mathematics of physics turned out to be grounded on uncertainties, on probability and chance. And if you’re me, you think — there’s a play in that.”

From non-Euclidean geometry it was, for Stoppard, just a hop, skip and jump to quantum mechanics. “So I started reading about that.”

And came up with, Stoppard style — uncertainties, probability and chance as such things might apply to characters who, in Smith’s words, “are able to and not be there.”

As, for instance, if you’re twins. One of a pair of twins.

Russian One, for instance — is he or isn’t he? Mrs. Hapgood, for instance — is she or isn’t she? And what will she do — which Hapgood will she be — to get her kidnapped son back from the bad guy(s)? The kid is, 11-year-old Joe (13-year-old actor Jack Tartaglia), a British schoolboy as Czech-born Stoppard was once himself a British schoolboy.

Except that Joe’s father just happens to be Joseph Kerner (actor Joseph J. Menino), Soviet nuclear physicist and double (or

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triple?) defecting secret agent.Which is how Stoppard writes plays.

Wheels within wheels. A riddle within a mystery within an enigma.

So: Is she is or is she ain’t? Is the brisk smooth Hapgood the same physical entity as the slipshod, druggy, beatnik Hapgood, played by Elise — is she a twin or is she not?

“I have a very small window of opportu-nity,” says Ms. Stone of hers and the play’s climactic double-exposure moment. “I only have seconds.”

“As long as it takes to do a really fast costume change and let your hair down,” says the sturdy Midwesterner who married this vibrant girl from the Bronx back when they were acting together for all those years at the late Eve Adamson’s now defunct Jean Cocteau Repertory in the Bowery Lane Theater on the corner of Third Avenue and Bond Street.

“Which is now an upscale retail store,” Stone informs me. But back in the day, Cocteau Rep devoted itself to serious pro-ductions of serious plays old and new, of many genres, including this one — a year-to-year wide-ranging nourishing spectrum you could seldom fi nd anywhere else in town.

“Were you ever in Kaliningrad?” Kerner

asks the unmarried Hapgood he still loves so much, as they watch their son Joe kick a rugby ball past the goalie into the net.

“Í was born in Kaliningrad,” Kerner tells the boy’s mother. “So was Immanuel Kant, as a matter of fact. There is quite a nice statue of him. Of course, it was not Kaliningrad then, it was Konigsberg, seat of the Archdukes of Prussia. President Truman gave Konigsberg to Stalin. My parents were not consulted and I missed being German by a few months.

“Well, in Immanuel Kant’s Konigsberg

there were seven bridges. The river Pregel, now Pregolya, divides around an island and then divides again, imagine nutcrackers with one bridge across each of the handles and one across the hinge and four bridges on to the island which would be the walnut if you were cracking walnuts.

“An ancient amusement of the people of Konigsberg was to try to cross all seven bridges without crossing any of them twice. It looked possible but nobody had solved it” — and then, fi nally, years later, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler proved it can’t be done.

All of which, Stoppard confessed to the Paris Review interviewer, replicates — or is replicated by — all that who’s-got-the-briefcase wild-goose-chasing in and around those swimming pool lockers in Act I.

Which is also how Stoppard writes plays. Crossing over unseen rivers to imagi-nary islands via impossible bridges.

Though the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is a communal organization “with around seven artistic directors,” Smith admits he might have been the fi rst to come up with the idea of doing a group reading of “Hapgood” to hear how it might go across in 2010.

Stoppard — though Smith and Stone never met him or even talked with him — was no stranger to them. They’d been in lots of his stuff at the Bowery Lane. And

indeed, over the years, I myself have been engrossed and delighted by Cocteau Rep’s attentions,” and “Night and Day.”

In short, “Hapgood” fi ts perfectly into the Phoenix Ensemble’s dedication to what Smith defi nes as “language-oriented intel-ligent theater — classic classics and modern classics.”

The Smiths live in the East Village, not far from the theater where they go to work nightly in “Hapgood.” (They also go to work in daytime jobs, always have, to pay the rent, he for a publishing house, she as a teacher.) If Lily Hapgood has one child, well, the Smiths have three, two boys and one girl, all three from Ethiopia.

Toward the end of “Hapgood,” physi-cist Kerner is applying an anecdote about world-famous physicist Niels Bohr to explain the uncertainty principle.

“Niels Bohr,” he says, “lived in a house with a horseshoe on the wall. When peo-ple said, ‘for God’s sake, Niels, surely you don’t believe a horseshoe brings you luck,’ he said, ‘no, of course not, but I’m told it works even if you don’t believe it.’ “

So much for Bohr via Kerner via Stoppard. Seems to me I’ve heard that same story before, only then it was Einstein’s wall on which the horseshoe hung.

That’s what’s called the Double Uncertainty Principle.

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Stoppard’s spy thrillerContinued from page 19

So: Is she is or is she ain’t? Is the brisk smooth Hapgood the same physical entity as the slipshod, druggy, beatnik Hapgood, played by Elise — is she a twin or is she not?

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UNSILENT NIGHT 2010Phil Kline’s annual holiday event takes

place in more than 27 cities around the world — and with a stat like that, you know NYC is among the unusual suspects. “Unsilent Night 2010” — the local version — is celebrating its 19th year of gracing our good town with a boombox parade that defi es description, logic and expectations. This participatory experience lets marchers become their own roving sound sculpture — as they swarm through the streets of the Village blaring recordings on cassettes, CD’s, mp3’s and, of course, the humble but proud boombox. Kline describes the experi-ence as “like a Christmas caroling party except we don’t sing, but rather carry boomboxes, each playing a separate tape or CD which is part of the piece. In effect, we become a city-block-long stereo system.” Free. Sat., Dec. 18, 7pm. Gather at the arch in Washington Square Park, and less than an hour and mile later, end up in Tompkins Square Park. For info, visit www.unsilentnight.com.

CHANUKAH AT THE NEW SHULThe New Shul goes invites you to “Do the

Light Thing” by helping to create a public light sculpture in the heart of Greenwich Village that will shine a light on the miracle of Chanukah and send a message of hope and peace to the world. Dance to the music of Sasson, sing some Chanukah songs, keep warm with a cup of steaming hot chocolate and taste tradition with a delicious potato latke from CuisinEtc Catering & Special Events. FREE. Sat., Dec. 5, 5pm at the Arch Plaza in Washington Square Park (the area between the arch and the foun-tain). Visit www.newshulblog.blogspot.com.

CHANUKAH FESTIVAL: FIRE ON ICEWhat holds eight candles, is really cool and

comes to us courtesy of the folks who promise you “Judaism with a smile?” It’s a Menorah that a sculpturer will carve out a 500-lb. block of ice — the main draw of Chabad’s “Chanukah Festival.” Other activities include the consumption of delicious hot latkes and the decorating of doughnuts — plus music and all-ages crafts & activities. On Sun., Dec. 5. At 3pm, enjoy the sculpturing and activities. The Menorah lighting ceremony takes place at 4:30pm. At P.S. 89 (201 Warren St.). Free admission. For info, call 646-770-3636. Visit www.chabadofwallstreetnyc.com.

THE TRINITY CHOIRThe 2010-2011 concert season is distin-

guished by the debut of Julian Wachner — principal conductor of the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. The Choir’s annual destination event, on Dec. 12 and 13, is a presentation of Handel’s “Messiah.” For other upcoming performances, please visit www.trinitywallstreet.org. With the exception of “Messiah,” concerts will be presented on Thursday evenings.

Can’t make it? All performances other than “Messiah” on Dec. 12th will be available for viewing via live webcast at www.trinitywall-street.org. The Trinity Choir will also perform free preview concerts at 1pm on most show

days. Concerts begin at 7:30pm, (except for “Messiah” on Dec. 12, which starts at 3pm) at Trinity Church (Broadway, at Wall St.). For individual concerts, $20 general admission. $10 student/senior tickets are available only at the door. Tickets for “Messiah” range from $30 to $50. To purchase, visit www.trinitywall-street.org/tickets or call 212-602-0800.

HOLIDAY EVENTS AT THE MERCHANT’S HOUSE MUSEUM

Do you pine for a holiday experience that harks back to those days of old — as in, say, the mid-19th century? If so, look no further than the Merchant’s House Museum. Built in 1832, MHM exists year-round as a lovingly curated time capsule offering a glimpse into the lives — and mindset — of the prosperous merchant-class Tredwell family (whose various members occupied the house for nearly a century).

Dec. 2 through Jan. 10, the exhibition “Christmas Comes to Old New York” uses recreated scenes of holiday preparation to reveal how modern holiday customs came to be. Included with regular museum admission ($10, $5 for students/seniors). Tues., Dec. 7 from 6-8pm, the “19th-Century Holiday Party” lets you enjoy holiday decorations, savor festive delicacies, drink from the “Bowl of Bishop” and join in the caroling. ($25, free for MHM members.) Reservations required. On Fri., Dec 10 at 7pm, “To All, Wassail: A Concert of 19th-Century Holiday Songs & Stories” features The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (MHM artists-in-residence) in a concert of vocal quar-tets, solos, holiday readings and sing-alongs ($25, $15 for MHM members). Reservations required. On Dec. 17, 18 & 19, “An Old Fashioned Christmas in New York: Tours by Candlelight” offers tours beginning every 20 minutes, Fri., 6-9pm, Sat. & Sun., 4-8pm. The halls will be decked and the rooms lit by fl ickering candlelight as costumed actors relate the Christmas tradition of mid-19th century New York ($20, $15 for children 12 & under, $10 MHM members). All events take place at the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. Fourth St. btw. Lafayette & Bowery). For info and reservations, call 212-777-1089 or visit www.merchantshouse.org.

Just Do Art!COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

Photo by Isaac Rosenthal

Chelsea Rittenhouse and Andres Gonzales.

NUTCRACKER IN THE LOWERLike a fruitcake wrapped in ribbons and given to you annually by your least favorite rela-

tive, self-professed “daring and new” productions of “The Nutcracker” come our way every year and immediately proceed to overstay their welcome. So get a jump on the holiday glut and get your bad Downtown-minded self to the limited-time-only Urban Ballet Theater ver-sion. “Nutcracker in the Lower” brims with salsa, krumping and hip-hop. The party scene, traditionally depicted as an opulent 19th-century Ball, becomes a holiday salsa party. Native American and African styles reinvent the Angels’ and Arabian divertissements of the second act — with enough classical ballet to retain the ballet’s traditional fl avor (Tchaikovsky’s original score remains largely intact throughout).

Performances are Dec. 2, 3 at 7:30pm, Dec. 4 at 3 & 7:30pm and December 5 at 3pm. To purchase tickets ($20), visit www.theatermania.com or call 212-352-3101. Group & family discounts are available. At Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement (466 Grand St. at Pitt). Visit www.abronsartscenter.org and www.urbanballettheater.org.

MUSIC FESTIVAL, AND HOLIDAYS, IN WASHINGTON SQUARE

The Washington Square Music Festival will put you in the proper holiday mood — not too early, and not too late — when it presents a concert offering strings, winds and piano (with guest artists Stanley & Naomi Drucker, clarinetists). This FREE concert features music by Telemann, Mozart and others. Fri., Dec. 10, 8pm at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (371 Sixth Ave. at Washington Place). For info: 212-252-3621, or www.washingtonsquaremu-sicfestival.org.

The Washington Square Association offers two chances to sing yuletide carols in down-town’s historic park. The WSA, by the way, is the organization that provides that spectacular 45-foot Christmas tree under the Arch (lit for the season between the hours of 4pm and 1am). The Washington Square Park Arch is located at the foot of Fifth Ave., one block south of Eighth St.

On Tues., Dec. 7 at 6pm, song leader Mary Hurlbut (accompanied by The Rob Susman Brass Quartet) will lead you in the singing of holiday songs (complimentary songbooks provided). Santa Claus has promised to appear and help the children in the illumination count-down. On Christmas Eve (Fri., Dec. 24 at 5pm), gather again at the Washington Square Arch and join The Rob Susman Brass Quartet as everyone sings carols (those free songbooks will be there too, compliments of the WSA). For info: 212-252-3621.

Photo by Ken Howard

Washington Square’s the place to be for holiday activities!

Photo courtesy of the Merchant’s House Museum

Just like the ones we used to know: Holidays at the Merchant’s House Museum.

22 December 2 - 8, 2010

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF INTEGRATED MERCHANDISING SYS-

TEMS LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/07/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/31/01. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 437 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpo-ration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State - John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GARAGE MEDIA NY

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/10. 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 Davidoff Malito & Hutcher LLP, Attn: Mark D. Geraghty, 605 Third Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10158. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LOVE ROCKS NY LLC.

Art. of Org fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/17/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 201 E.77 St. #3F, NY, NY 10075. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION NY MOHS LASER DER-

MATOLOGY, P.L.L.C.

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 9/24/10. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Margaret Davino, 120 Broadway, 14th Fl, NY, NY 10271. Purpose: Practice Medicine, members name/address on fi le w/SSNY.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

SHIR PROPERTIES LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/9/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Gabriel Dagan 331 East 51st St New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

25 PARK BRIDGEHAMP-TON, LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 8/9/10. 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 Hugh Janow, Esq., Law Offi ces of Hugh Janow, LLC, One Blue Hill Plaza, Ste. 1006, Pearl River, NY 10965. Gen-eral Purposes.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 509 FIFTH AVENUE

ASSOCIATES OWNER LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/23/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/8/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1140 Ave of the Americas, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10036. Reg. Agt. at such addr. upon whom proc. may be served is Norman Sturner. DE off. addr.: 160 Green-tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF W 144 VENTURE LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/8/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 12/28/09. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to c/o Dalan Mgmt. & Assc., 134 W. 25th St., NY, NY 10001. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF MIDSUMMER SMALL CAP ADVISORS, LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/10/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/5/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Michael A. Amsalem, 295 Madison Ave., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

96 ST LOAN, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/18/2010. 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 Ave, 12th Fl New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CFD70 ASSET INVES-

TORS, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/08/10. 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:CFD70 Asset Investors, LLC, 350 E. 54th Street, Suite 2A, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF HUDSON HAR-

BOR CAPITAL LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/6/10. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Four Times Square, NY, NY 10036, Attn: James M. Schell. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF BLACKBERN

PARTNERS LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 3/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/7/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: 295 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Jona-than Bernstein, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 10/28-12/2/10

CHEF WANG’S HOUSE,

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/30/2010. 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 88 7th Avenue New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TAMOBO VENTURES

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/4/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 500 W.43 St. #35D, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF KISSING CLUB, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/25/09. 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: KISS-ING CLUB LLC, 30 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF PRINCIPIA

PARTNERS LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/20/94. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 156 William St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10038. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF PUNCHCUT

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Cali-fornia (CA) on 9/13/02. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 170 Maiden Lane, 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94108, also the address of the principal offi ce and the address to be main-tained in CA. Arts of Org. fi led with CA Secy. Of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any law-ful activities.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SK GREENWICH

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 2/14/06. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Phillips Lytle LLP, 437 Madison Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Diversifi ed Corporate Services Inter-national, Inc., 508 Main St., Wilmington, DE 19804. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 427 FULTON RETAIL

REALTY LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/18/09. 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, 39 W. 37th St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RIOS & MCGAR-

RIGLE, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/10. 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 Michael D. Parker, Esq., 1391 Main St., Ste. 610, Springfi eld, MA 01103. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF LG GP, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/7/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 150 E. 58th St., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 South DuPont Hwy. Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALI-FICATION OF THE

BROADSMOORE GROUP, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/23/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 711 Fifth Ave., Ste. 405, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 30 W 89 REALTY, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 9/21/10. 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: The LLC, 30 W 89th St., NY, NY 10024. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HOTEL 57 UNIT

III, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 280 Chestnut, Westmont, IL 60559. LLC formed in DE on 9/21/10. NY Sec. of State designated 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. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/4-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF PARK 185TH

LLC.

Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/4/08. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/4/07. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. DE address of LLC: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROSA PRIME PRO-

DUCTIONS LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 75 West End Ave. #C10M, NY, NY 10023. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF PARK 18 WEST

LLC.

Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/4/08. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/4/07. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. DE address of LLC: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF BRONX PARK-

ING GROUP LLC.

Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/15/08. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/08. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. DE address of LLC: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 164TH BX PARKING,

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/19/03. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 2 Sherman Ave., NY, NY 10040. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF S3 CAPITAL

HOLDINGS, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/06/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 590 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

12PT PRINT LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/20/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 1675 Richmond Rd., Staten Island, NY 10304. Pur-pose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF COVALENT, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/01/10. 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: The LLC, 245 W. 55TH ST STE 1104, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity

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JANET MOY, M.D., LLC

Notice of the formation of the above named Profes-sional Limited Liability Com-pany (“PLLC”) Articles of Organization fi led with the Department of State of NY on 7/29/2010. Offi ce Loca-tion: County of New York. . The Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) has been designat-ed as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served to: Wormser, Kiely, et al.., Attn Thomas L. Fuerth, Esq., 825 Third Ave., 26th Flr. NY NY 10022. Purpose: to practice medicine

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

SNAP CLEANING, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/12/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Robert Wittish 646 Long Island Ave Deer Park, NY 11729. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF SAVANNA

FUND II REIT, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/28/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 09/23/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 10 E. 53rd St., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10022-5056. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Div. of Corps., Secy. of State, DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF FORMA-

TION OF GOOD MOOD

RECORDS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 9/21/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: 251 W. 95th St., #3S, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF FMS NIAGARA,

LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 920 Win-ter St., Ste. A, Waltham, MA 02451. LLC formed in DE on 10/19/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Cor-poration System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF WARBURG PIN-

CUS PRIVATE EQUITY (E&P) X-B, L.P.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/6/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 10/5/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Coun-sel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/11-12/16/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PAPA STANLEY LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/10. 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 Jerome J. Caulfi eld, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, 2 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY. NAME: SHEF-FIELD FIFTY M ONE P

ONE, LLC.

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/15/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Levy & Halperin, LLP, 381 Park Avenue South, Suite 713, New York, New York 10016. Purpose: For any lawful pur-pose.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 70

BROAD LLC.

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/13/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o 142-03 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York 11354. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

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

December 2 - 8, 2010 23

CHRISTINA CARRAD,

CREATIVE ARTS THERA-

PY, PLLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/20/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC 250 West 22nd St 4D New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

ADVENT INVESTIGA-

TIONS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/1/2010. 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 15 W 39th St 11th Fl New York, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

SOHO 2205 LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/12/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jajan, PLLC 110 Wall Street, 11th Fl New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

SOHO 1905 LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/12/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jajan, PLLC 110 Wall Street, 11th Fl New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10FOUR HUNGRY STOOG-

ES LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 9/16/10. 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 David Lincoln Ross, 445 W. 23rd St., Apt. 5A, NY, NY 10011. General Purposes.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF MAKIRAN

PROPERTIES LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/25/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/03/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Key-Ventures, Inc., 445 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SHERIFF LUCY LLC,

a domestic LLC. Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/30/2010. NY offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 156 Ludlow St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10002, Attn: J. Glancy, princ. ofc. address of LLC. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROPOINT CLAIM

SERVICES LLC.

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/28/10. 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: ProPoint Claim Services LLC, 111 N. Canal St, Ste 801, Chicago, IL 60606. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF BOP 245 PARK

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/12/10. Princ. Offi ce of LLC: 200 Vesey St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10281-1021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the Princ. Offi ce of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Cor-poration Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PXA LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/02/10. 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: The LLC, 330 E 75th Street, #5B NY, NY 10021. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ENTIOLE LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/2/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 15 W.72 St. #19F, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF (BE) MUSED ENTER-

TAINMENT, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/27/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St., Alba-ny, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MORK CONSULTING,

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 20094, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MANHATTAN SNOR-ING AND SLEEP CENTER

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/10. 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 LLC, 262 Central Park West, Ste. 1H, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 247 AVENUE U PART-

NERS LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/6/06. 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 Wachtel & Masyr, LLP, 110 E. 59th St., 28th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/18-12/23/10

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a petition from Sunfl ower Restaurant Associates, Inc., to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 361 Green-wich Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the proposed revocable consent may be addressed to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer

Vil 11/25-12/2/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF AG CORE PLUS

REALTY III EMPLOYEE INVESTMENT PRO-

GRAM, L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/01/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/15/10. Princ. offi ce of LP: c/o Angelo, Gor-don & Co., L.P., 245 Park Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10167. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-ington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF KORTRIGHT

OPPORTUNITY FUND LP.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/05/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/03/10. Princ. offi ce of LP: 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partner-ship at the princ. offi ce of the LP. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Matthew B. Taylor at the princ. offi ce addr. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HIGH 10 MEDIA LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 590 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Pavia & Harcourt LLP, Attn: John R. Firestone, Esq., 600 Madison Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GERSON GLOB-

AL ADVISORS, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/09/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 70 E. 55th St., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o The Ger-son Group, LLC at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. 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, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ORANGE KITCHEN ENTERTAINMENT, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/23/10. 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: 233 W 77th Street #10E, New York, NY 10024. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

SOLEDAD O’BRIEN PRESENTS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/4/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 142 W. 26th St., Apt. 5, NY, NY 10001, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any law-ful purpose.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RL ORGANIZATION

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/19/10. 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: The LLC, 888c Eighth Avenue, Suite 355, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

RICHARD SHUBACK,

LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 9/22/10. 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 Feuer & Orlando, LLP, 350 Fifth Ave., Ste. 7116, NY, NY 10118. General Purposes.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GLOBAL DIRT MOVIE,

LLC.

Arts Of Org. fi led with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/10. 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: 300 W. 106th St., NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF VISION REAL ESTATE

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 304 Mulberry St. #LE, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Present name of LLC: James Joseph Real Estate LLC.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF 625 GIFTS LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/4/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 701 7th Ave. #4W, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF 123 WAVERLY AVE

LLC,

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/7/03. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 331 W. 57th St., #301, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, number 1249018 for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant/billiards hall under the Alcoholic Bever-age Control Law at 500 W. 207 Street for on premises consumption. Euro El Tina Restaurant Lounge and Bil-liards Corp.

Vil 11/25-12/2/10NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SERIN CAPITAL, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/11/06. 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: Serin Capital, LLC, 156 5th Ave, Ste 1234, NY, NY 10010. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

ASCOT CAPITAL LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 7/29/10. NY Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any pro-cess against the LLC served upon him/her to Amarjit S. Bhalla, Ascot Properties, Ltd., 46 Trinity Pl., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10006. General Purposes.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SGRC 1482 LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/21/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Bettina Equities Company, LLC, Attn: Legal Dept., 230 E. 85th St., NY, NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PH8 PLANTATION2,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/26/10. Office location: New York County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Cooley LLP, 1114 Avenue of the Ameri-cas, NY, NY 10036, Attn: Peter Mansbach. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NIGHTSHIFT LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/5/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF THE JACKSON GROUP HOLDINGS LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/10. 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, 1407 Broadway, 38th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEISHA REALTY, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/26/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o DeGaetano & Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CANDLEWOOD

INVESTMENT GROUP, LP.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 6/4/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: The LP, 777 Third Ave., Ste. 19B, NY, NY 10017, Attn: Michael Lau. DE addr. of LP: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. avail-able from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/25-12/30/10

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th Floor, on a petition from Meath Trails, Inc., to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 61 Second Avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the proposed revocable con-sent may be addressed to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer

Vil 12/2-12/8/10

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Vai Enterprises LLC to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 105 Thompson Street, NY, NY 10002.

Vil 12/2/10-12/8/10

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Gong Hey Fat Choy LLC to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 245 Bowery (entrance on Stanton Street) NY, NY 10012.

Vil 12/2-12/8/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF NORTH PARK PRES-

ERVATION CLASS B LIM-

ITED PARTNER, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

11/16/10. Offi ce location: NY

County. Princ. offi ce of LLC:

60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY

10023. 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 Co., 80 State St., Albany,

NY 12207. Purpose: Any law-

ful activity.

Vil 12/2/10-1/6/11

KMR LLP

Notice of Reg. fi led 11/17/10

NY Sec. of State (SSNY).

Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig.

agent of LLC upon whom

process may be served.

SSNY to mail copy of pro-

cess to 440 Park Ave. S., NY,

NY 10016, also the princi-

pal business loc. Purpose:

To practice Certifi ed Public

Accountancy.

Vil 12/2/10-1/6/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that license number 1249507

been applied for by the

undersigned to sell liquor at

retail in a restaurant under

the Alcoholic Beverage Con-

trol Law at 233 5th Avenue,

New York, N.Y. 10016 for

on-premises consumption.

Mosex Exhibit 1 LLC d/b/a

Museum of Sex

Vil 12/2-12/9/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF FIND. EAT.

DRINK. LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

11/9/10. Offi ce location: NY

County. LLC formed in Dela-

ware (DE) on 4/29/10. SSNY

designated as agent of LLC

upon whom process against

it may be served. SSNY shall

mail process to: Nicholas

Bumstead, 161 W. 16th St.,

Fl. 7, Ste. H, NY, NY 10011. DE

address of LLC: Capitol Ser-

vices, Inc., 615 South DuPont

Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts.

of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of

State, 401 Federal St., Dover,

DE 19901. Purpose: any law-

ful act or activity.

Vil 12/2/10-1/5/11

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

24 December 2 - 8, 2010

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

FILE NO. 1212-2009SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT,

To:The heirs-at-law, next-of-kin and distributees of Mary McCardle, deceased, if living, and if any of then be dead, to their heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successor-in-interest, whose names and post offi ce addresses are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, A petition and account having been fi led by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, having her offi ce at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007,

YOU ARE HERBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York, County of New York, at the Surrogate’s Court Building, 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York 10007, on February 4, 2011, at 9:30 a. m., Room 509, why the account of the Public Administrator of the County of New York, a sum-mary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the Estate of Mary McCardle, deceased, who at the time of her death was a domiciliary of 225 East 81st Street, Apt. 8, New York, New York 10028, should not be judicially settled; why the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney of the petitioner for legal services rendered to petitioner should not be approved; why a hearing should not be held to establish the identity of the decedent’s distributees or that the funds may be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance and why such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper should not be granted.

Dated, Attested and Sealed, November 15, 2010

(L.S) Hon. Nora S. AndersonSurrogate, New York County

June CohnDeputy Chief Clerk

Attorney for Petitioner: Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq.Address: 90 Broad Street, Suite 1700, New York, New York 10004-2286Telephone: (212) 363-2500Note: This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear; however, if you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

Vil 12/2-12/23/10

ACCOUNTING PROCEEDINGFILE NO. 1683-09

CITATIONTHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

By the Grace of God Free and Independent

TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York – Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Cecilia Scott, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, benefi ciaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Cecilia Scott, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 405 E. 63rd Street, New York, New York. A petition having been duly fi led by Ethel J. Griffi n, Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an offi ce at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Sur-rogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on January 4, 2011, at 9:30 A.M. in Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named person(s) be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA Section 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefi t of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that the claim of New York – Presbyterian Hospital in the amount of $ 660.00, and the claim of Weill Cornell Medical College in the amount of $ 650.00, be allowed; (v) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (vi) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vii) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or directed; and (viii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. Dated, Attested and Sealed. November 5, 2010 (Seal). Hon. Nora S. Anderson, Surrogate. Jane Passenant, Chief Clerk. Law Offi ces of Peter S. Schram, P.C., Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County, 350 Broadway, Suite 515, New York, New York 10013 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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PROBATE CITATIONFILE NO. 2010-3693

SURROGATE COURT NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

By the Grace of God Free and IndependentTo the heirs at law next of kin, and distributees of Kitty Weiss, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. Public Administrator and Attorney General of New York State.A petition having been duly fi led by Leo Vaz, who is domiciled at 117-01 Park Lane South, Apt. C4K, Kew Gardens, New York. You are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate Court, New York County at 31 Chambers Street, Rm. 503, New York, NY on January 21, 2011 at 9:30 am on the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Kitty Weiss lately domiciled at 222 East 93rd Street, Apt. 38K, New York, New York 10128 admitting to probate a Will dated January 19, 2006 a copy which is attached, as the Will of Kitty Weiss deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that letters testamentary issue to Leo Vaz.Dated, Attested and Sealed November 5, 2010SurrogateHon. Nora S AndersonDeputy Chief ClerkJana CohnAttorney for PetitionerJon C. Biondo, Esq.Attorney for PetitionerTelephone Number 212-532-2456222 East 31st Street, Main Level, New York, New York 10016Address of Attorney(Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.)

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BY J.B. NICHOLAS Frequently, I tell people that my life is crazy,

just freaking crazy. If you ask me why I say that, typically, I’ll spit out some gibberish about fi nd-ing myself engaged in some kind of debauchery on the margins of society and the city, then standing next to some celebrity or king, with me reeking — of one thing or another — from the night before. Basically, living the high and low life, one subway or bike ride at a time. Often, I fear, it doesn’t make sense. But for this installment of Paparazzo Diary, I’m going to let the photos do the talking. Here, a sample of pictures from the last 10 days of my life.

PSYCHEDELIC TEA PARTY

It was supposed to be a simple night out. A friend’s birthday in his DUMBO loft. But then I got there early and dis-covered that another friend, who lives in the same building, a building in which some barefoot girl I met on the train years before once lived, was having a mushroom tea party. I go there and people are upside down doing yoga. Then they brought out coolers of the stuff, and shamans who blessed the tea as they handed out brim-ming cups of the holy concoction.

CHARLIE SHEEN’S HOOKER

Capri Anderson is her porn name. Last Monday she charged about the city trying to get the 12K that Sheen apparently promised her for her companionship a few weeks back, fi rst telling her tale on “Good Morning America,” then to N.Y.P.D. detectives whom she met at her lawyer’s offi ce. The highlight of my day was getting “parked-in” by an S.U.V. driver in front of Trump International Tower just as Miss Anderson took off up

Central Park West with my competition in tow. After I banged on the S.U.V.’s back windshield to get him to move, the driver — fresh from the Jersey Shore — hopped out, pulled a badge and said, in no uncertain terms, “I’m a cop! I’ll f------ kill you!”

“Yeah, whatever man. Can you just move your truck? I’m trying to work here.”

BODY-SLAMMED BY BIEBER

Tween pop sensation Justin Bieber was in town last week to sell his new book — this is his second — “First Step 2 Forever.” I caught up with him outside his Midtown hotel where, as he walked past his fans to his waiting S.U.V., one of his bodyguards grabbed me by the shoulders and body-slammed me into the side of the vehicle. My reaction? I kept shooting. Isn’t this the same kid that just did an anti-bullying P.S.A.? The cops refused to charge him.

S.J.P. FLASHPOINT

J.B.’s people weren’t the only ones throw-ing ’bows at the paparazzi last week. So, too, were Sarah Jessica Parker’s. As she exited the preview premiere of the new “Spider-Man” show on 42d St., her bodyguard panicked in the face of scores of theatergoers and two paparazzi, knocking down an old lady and ripping the fl ash off of my camera. Again, the cops wouldn’t do anything. I hope they cut me as much slack if I’m ever accused of breaking somebody’s something. I doubt it, though.

SUDDENLY — GWYNETH

On Monday, I was outside the Ace Hotel, at 29th St. and Broadway, staking out a French fi lm producer with an alleged newly acquired taste for drugs and hook-ers. Suddenly, out came Gwyneth Paltrow, walking with her younger brother, Jake. Sheer beauty and no drama — nothing more to say.

The agony and the ecstasy: A snapshot of my life

Photos by J.B. Nicholas

Capri Anderson hides from the camera, right before her lawyer, right, smacks Paparazzo Diary with his briefcase.

Gwyneth Paltrow and her brother on W. 29th St.Justin Bieber — before P.D. was body-slammed.

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