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BY LINCOLN ANDERSONSeeking to help break the decades-

long deadlock that has gripped the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area in an exasperating paralysis of parking lots, a new group of young Grand St. residents has emerged backing a novel idea — compromise.

In that respect, the position of Sustainable Housing And Retail Expansion, or SHARE, is very much in line with the thinking of Community Board 3’s Land Use, Zoning, Public & Private Housing Committee. Working

with a cross section of key commu-nity stakeholders, the C.B. 3 commit-tee is near to approving redevelop-ment guidelines for the sprawling site, known as SPURA for short.

Brett Leitner, 37, who lives in the Seward Park Co-op on Grand St., founded SHARE six months ago. In sales at HBO, he’s lived in the co-op nine years. His wife has lived there since 1983 when she emigrated from Russia at age 10. They have two small children and reside in the same apart-ment his wife grew up in.

“We believe that compromise on SPURA is the only way,” Leitner recently told The Villager. “These der-elict lots — it’s a shame, and it’s hold-ing the neighborhood back,” he said of the open-air parking lots on the vacant blocks between Essex and Clinton Sts. and Delancey and Grand Sts. south of the Williamsburg Bridge.

In short, Leitner said, the Grand St. area “won’t be a 21st-century neigh-borhood” until the parking lots are

New group is working to getSPURA out of park, into gear

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU The cleanup of about

10,000 gallons of heating oil remaining in the soil from the December 2009 leak from two tanks under Washington Square Village is scheduled to begin, weather permitting, on Jan. 5, 2011.

An advisory committee of Washington Square Village residents, Community Board 2 members and representa-tives of elected offi cials, as well as New York University

executives and the cleanup contractors, will be walking through the site in front of Washington Square Village buildings Numbers 3 and 4 on Bleecker St.

“We anticipate that the cleanup will take three to four months, weather per-mitting,” said Gary Parker, N.Y.U. director of gov-ernment and community affairs.

The Dec. 26, 2009, leak

Oil-leak cleanupfuels concerns of N.Y.U. tenants

BY ALINE REYNOLDSThousands of 9/11 sur-

vivors’ wishes came true last week when Congress passed a modifi ed version of the James R. Zadroga 9/11 Health Bill. Last Thursday, all the key players held a press conference in Lower Manhattan in front of the new 7 World Trade Center to praise the bill’s passage.

After several exchanges with Republican lawmak-ers, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand finally man-

aged to reach a bipartisan agreement with Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi. Earlier in the week, Coburn had threatened to delay the bill in the Senate.

Gillibrand and Schumer said that, in the last 24 hours before the bill’s passage, the Republicans negotiated “in good faith” to create a fi nal workable package.

The bill “will protect the health of the men and

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Keep on toboggan; Spray it, don’t say it (Blizzard!)During Sunday night’s blizzard, a father valiantly pulled his son on a toboggan through Washington Square Park, above. The boy may have been overheard yelling, “Mush!” Monday, in the Meat Market, a blower sent snow arcing over Ninth Ave., below.

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NEITHER RAIN, NOR SLEET NOR SNOW — THE SHOPPING MUST GO ON: As we were walking to work Monday morning, a stroller talking into his cell phone voiced our very thoughts: “Spring Street’s a pedestrian mall.” Indeed, cars were few and far between on the still-somewhat-snow-covered, Soho cross-town street. Perhaps not surprisingly, though, those ubiquitous shop-pers were still out and about with their shopping bags, hitting the outlets and boutiques, even as gusts of wind were sending some of their hats fl ying. Amid the snowy hush, the French tourists’ accents were even more notice-able. We guess if you come all the way from La France, and shopping in Soho is on your agenda, a blizzard isn’t going to stop you, n’est ce pas? Anyway, so there at last was a pedestrian mall — even if just a snow-day one — in Soho, and our thoughts turned to Sean Sweeney. About three years ago, Director Sweeney and his Soho Alliance vehemently opposed, and ultimately deep-sixed, a Department of Transportation proposal to turn Prince St. into a part-time pedestrian mall. Actually, though, it turns out Sweeney has a sensitive pedestrian side, after all. He said he really enjoys walking around Soho and Tribeca at Christmastime, because the streets are so empty and tranquil — and even turned down a cousin’s Christmas invite so he could stretch his legs around his Downtown ’hood. And he planned to go out Monday and stroll about in the snowy streets. On another note, he noted it was the fi rst time in 18 years that he had cancelled his Community Board 2 Landmarks Committee meeting.

TREE SELLER CUTS OUT EARLY: By chance we hap-pened to be passing by St. Mark’s Church on Second Ave. Thursday evening and came upon a sight that would sadden the heart of any Christmas lover: Working in the freezing cold, Roger von Baust and his crew were breaking down their tree-selling operation early and getting ready to drive off. Though he thought he’d gotten the correct clearances, it turned out von Baust didn’t have the required permits for several structures he had on the sidewalk. After Community Board 3 acted on complaints it received, von Baust had recently gotten a $1,500 ticket. With the potential for more tickets running as high as $5,000, he had one thought: Outta here! Von Baust had a storage trailer and a fairly large warming hut for his workers, plus a port-a-potty, all situated

around the nexus of Abe Lebewohl Park, the church fence and the nearby sidewalk. The Department of Transportation, in fact, determined there was suffi cient sidewalk room for pedestrians to pass by, but, well, regulations are regula-tions, and he lacked permits. In the past, from what we understand, the tree vendor would put his trailers in the parking lane. But with the new dedicated Select Bus Service lane — which von Baust called, “the red zone” — that was no longer possible. The veteran spruce seller said he doesn’t want to make a big deal about what went down, since he hopes to return to the location next year. “We’ll just have to do something entirely different, that’s all,” he refl ected. “If a permit would be needed to erect the hut, we’ll do that.” Sadly, he said, he actually lost money on the trees this year, due to the economy: People just weren’t spending as much. In past years, buyers would come up and say, “I want a 6-foot tree,” and pay the cost, he said. But this year, they’d just say, for example, “What can I get for $25 or $30?” If there was any consolation, following a report by DNAinfo about his being ticketed, von Baust said there was an outpouring of neighborhood support. Local fi refi ghters even gave him a delicious, stationhouse-cooked meal complete with all the fi xings. We’ve already probably written more about this than von Baust would have wanted, so we’ll stop now. But we wish him well for next holiday season and hope it goes more smoothly — and profi tably.

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women who selfl essly answered our nation’s call in her hour of greatest need,” Gillibrand and Schumer said in a written statement.

The bill came down to its fi nal days for passage, as lawmakers were about to go on Christmas recess and reconvene on Jan. 5, when a new, Republican-dominated House of Representatives would have likely blocked the legislation from a vote.

Schumer on Thursday referred to the bill’s passage as a “victory lap.”

“Unlike a victory lap when you run a race, where you just feel good, this one matters,” he said. “This victory lap saves lives.”

The New York healthcare clinics that the law will fund, Schumer continued, now have their work cut out for them.

“We have to make sure that this law, when it’s enacted, provides the best healthcare for everybody,” he said.

Schumer was joined by a host of elected offi cials and advocates at Thursday’s press event. One of them was John Feal, president of the FealGood Foundation, who compared the strenuous fi ght for the bill’s passage to warfare.

“While we lost a lot of battles along the way, we came back on the bus last night know-ing we had won a war,” he said at the press conference.

It was a battle that looked quite bleak at

times, according to Community Board 1 mem-ber Elizabeth Williams, who spoke at the press conference on behalf of Catherine McVay Hughes, vice chairperson of C.B. 1. The long fi ght, Williams said, made the victory all the more gratifying.

Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, one of the bill’s chief proponents since its inception, said

the triumph was undoubtedly the proudest moment of his 34-year career in government.

“For seven years, we have struggled to pass this bill that would provide justice to these heroes and survivors,” he said. “And, today, we redeem the honor of the United States and demonstrate that our nation does not forget those who have served.”

The bill’s passage, Nadler added, doesn’t come a moment too soon. The plight of 9/11 responders and survivors, he said, is “very seri-ous and immediate.”

“Thousands are sick and, until now, justice has seemed so far away,” he said.

Councilmember Margaret Chin, chairper-son of the City Council Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment, said in a statement that the law’s passage is a “the fulfi llment of a promise to our men and women in uniform, and to the heroes of September 11th, who we will never forget.”

Mary Perillo, a 9/11 survivor, breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the news at home in her loft at 125 Cedar St., which faces the World Trade Center.

“I feel like I can exhale for the fi rst time,” she said, adding, “I know if I have trouble inhal-ing in the future, maybe, there’ll be healthcare, at least if it’s in the next fi ve years.”

Perillo has recently had trouble breath-ing when climbing subway stairs. She went for a preliminary checkup at Bellevue Hospital Center, which has a healthcare clinic that will be funded by the new law, but decided not to return for a lung-function test.

“I think I was waiting to fi nd out if there was going to be a place to go for much longer,” she said. “Now I know the clinic is funded, I will go back — I will take the stress test, I will take the breathing test, and we’ll fi nd out how I’m doing.”

The healthcare clinics, she added, now have the opportunity to prove their value to the law’s opponents.

“Maybe we won’t have to go through this nightmare to try to get it approved for another

fi ve years,” she said. The politicians are indeed convinced that

Congress will reauthorize the bill in 2015. “We feel confi dent that after the program

has been in effect — how effi cient it is, how well it works, how many it treats — it’ll be far less politically controversial,” said Ilan Kayatsky, a spokesperson for Nadler. And, generally speaking, it’s a lot easier to reau-thorize a bill than get it to Obama’s desk the fi rst time around, according to Bethany Lesser, a Gillibrand spokesperson.

In the meantime, the lawmakers and those with health issues from 9/11 are reveling in the victory, even though the law isn’t quite what they envisioned it to be.

“On a scale of one to 10, this bill is a seven,” Feal said. “If we came home with nothing, we would have had a zero. And zero doesn’t save lives.”

The legislation will provide continued medi-cal care to workers, residents and students who were injured on 9/11. The bill, fi rst introduced in early 2004, was approved last Wednesday by a voice vote in the Senate and a 206-to-60 vote in the House of Representatives. The bill was then shipped to Hawaii for President Obama to sign into law, and is scheduled go into effect in late spring 2011.

The bill’s new version lowers the available health and compensation funds from more than $6.2 billion to $4.3 billion, compensates 9/11 survivors for the next fi ve years rather than the next eight, and caps the amount awarded to attorneys that represent the sick survivors in court.

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Congressmember Carolyn Maloney was elated at the 9/11 health bill’s passage.


BY ALBERT AMATEAU In the last executive action of his

administration, Governor David Paterson vetoed a six-month moratorium on hydrofracture gas drilling, known as fracking, in New York State.

Instead of the broad moratorium that environmental advocates and local elected officials have been demanding, Paterson issued an executive order on Dec. 11 imposing a temporary ban on horizontal fracking.

Governor Paterson’s executive order, which does not cover shorter, vertical fracking wells, imposes the less-compre-hensive drilling ban until July 1, 2011. However, environmental advocates have suggested that because Paterson’s term as the state’s chief executive ends Dec. 31, his executive order would also expire on that date.

The vetoed moratorium, which passed both the state Assembly and the state Senate, would have been valid as a state law until May 15, 2011.

Environmental opponents, including a group known as Frack Action and the Natural Resources Defense Council, as well as local state legislators, protested the veto on Dec. 13 in front of the Governor’s Manhattan office on Third Ave.

“I am disappointed that Governor Paterson has decided to veto such impor-tant legislation and has instead opted for a scenario that creates an easily exploit-able loophole,” said state Senator Liz Krueger in a Dec. 13 statement.

“This legislation was drafted to ensure that we put a temporary hold on all drill-ing that could do irreparable harm to areas of the state,” Krueger said. “The executive order that the governor signed gives us some delay on some types of drilling, but it still leaves the state vul-nerable to overzealous gas companies who wish to make up for the ban on hori-zontal drilling by increasing the number of vertical wells.”

The process involves drilling into the Marcellus shale formation that lies beneath the 27 Southern Tier counties of New York State near the Pennsylvania border, including the six counties that

comprise the New York City watershed, which supplies 90 percent of the city’s drinking water, all of it unfiltered.

The wells are first drilled down verti-cally between 3,000 feet to 6,000 feet to the shale formation and then horizontally for thousands of feet in order to inject millions of gallons of water under high pressure and laced with a cocktail of toxic chemicals to fracture the shale and release methane gas trapped in the rock.

Opponents of fracking contend the process poses unacceptable risks to groundwater. The Bloomberg administra-tion and the City Council last year called for a ban on fracking in the New York City watershed, specifically. However, the drilling moratorium that Paterson vetoed, as well as his executive order that replaces it, apply to hydrofracture drilling throughout the state.

The Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York State has insist-ed that fracking has been done with-out risk of harming the environment. Moreover, the association contends that a fracking ban would eliminate $1 mil-lion in annual state revenues from drill-ing fees and would risk the loss of 5,000 industry jobs. Hundreds of millions of dollars in lease payments and royalties to landowners and tens of millions in dollars in tax revenues to local towns and counties would be threatened by a frack-ing ban, the association said.

The relatively new fracking process, pioneered by Halliburton, the drilling company, was exempted from most fed-eral restraints in 2005. In September 2009 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an 800-page supplemental draft gener-ic environmental impact statement on proposed guidelines for hydrofrack-ing. Environmental advocates, however, said the proposed impact statement was largely written by gas companies. The review has not yet been completed.

But in response to the opposition by New York City officials who said frack-ing posed a danger to the city water sup-ply, the state D.E.C. commissioner issued an executive decision removing both the New York City and the Syracuse water-sheds from the environmental review. The decision required gas drillers in those watersheds to undertake supple-mental environmental reviews for each well, a process that would increase the cost of each well and discourage drilling in the watersheds.

In addition, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has been holding hear-ings over the course of the past year in connection with a nationwide report assessing the impact of fracking on water supply. The E.P.A. intends to submit tes-timony to a science panel for a report to be completed in 2012.

Activists, pols say Paterson watered down fracking ban

‘I am disappointed that Governor Paterson has decided to veto such important legislation.’

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redeveloped, revitalizing the neighborhood. (C.B. 3 is also adding the Essex St.

Market buildings, between Houston and Rivington Sts., into the SPURA mix for pos-sible redevelopment, though they weren’t part of the original renewal area.)

Other prominent SHARE members include Michael Tumminia, former president of Seward Park Co-op’s board of directors; Dave Bolotsky, who lives in Hillman Houses; and Jac Zagorry, whose wife is a Seward Park Co-op board of directors member.

Leitner said SHARE’s members, in large part, are emblematic of a group of new professionals, many in their 30’s, who have moved into what was formerly known as Co-op Village, the four Grand St. co-ops — Seward Park, Hillman, Amalgamated Dwellings and East River Housing, with a total of 4,500 units.

“We represent a growing population of the Grand St. co-ops,” he noted.

These four developments were originally built by trade unions as affordable, limited-equity housing, but in the late 1990’s they all went market rate.

As part of “slum clearance” renewal, old tenements on the SPURA site were razed in the late 1960’s, displacing around 2,000 resi-dents — many of them low-income — and a variety of small businesses.

Ironically, a stumbling block to SPURA’s redevelopment has been opposition from some Grand St. co-op residents to low-income and affordable housing on the site who fear it would lower their property values.

A MIXED-USE PROJECT

Under the latest version of the C.B. 3 guidelines — which the committee is expected to vote on in January — about half of the remaining space on the fi ve vacant SPURA parcels would be developed with 1,000 units of housing. Of that amount, 500 units, would be market-rate housing, while the other 500 units would be a mix of affordable housing, with 20 percent moderate-rate housing, 20 percent low-income units and 10 percent low-income units for seniors. Forty percent of the site would be

developed for retail and commercial use. “It’s completely balanced,” Leitner said

of C.B. 3’s guidelines. “The way they are shaping up and the way they are formulating is exactly in line with the goals of SHARE. They generally have taken the community’s interests into account. This has been a bottom-up process. I give a lot of credit to C.B. 3 for making progress on breaking the impasse that has stymied this process for 43 years.” He called David McWater, the com-mittee’s chairperson, “a real leader.”

Leitner said about 350 people, mostly from the Grand St. area, have signed a peti-tion by SHARE — either on paper or online — calling for compromise, mixed-use devel-opment and “progress” at SPURA.

“They want to see something happen,” he stressed.

Leitner personally said he thinks a movie theater would work well as part of the com-mercial development, noting the Lower East Side once boasted fi ve cinemas. He added that while his understanding is that two other prominent community leaders who are not part of SHARE — Heshy Jacob and Joel Kaplan — are open to a Costco or Wal-Mart on the site, he opposes such big-box retailers, feeling they would harm local small merchants. In fact, the C.B. 3 guidelines ban big-box stores, though make an exception for a large movie theater.

Referring to Kaplan, who is the executive director of the United Jewish Council of the Lower East Side, and Jacob, the manger of East River Housing, Leitner said, “They seem to be focusing only on retail — no housing on SPURA.” He called Kaplan and Jacob repre-sentative of “a strong minority” in the co-ops.

The two are allies of Sheldon Silver, the powerful Assembly speaker and long-time Grand St. resident. For years, Silver has been perceived as opposing low-income development on SPURA, though he has done so in more of a Sphinx-like, taciturn

manner, rather than overtly. “Sheldon Silver has certainly played a coy

game of not taking any kind of leadership position on getting involved in the SPURA debate,” Leitner observed. “That’s smart politically — SPURA is sort of the third rail. I certainly hope if C.B. 3 passes the guidelines that he supports it,” he said of Silver. “I hope he doesn’t side with a narrow bloc or interest group against C.B. 3 if they pass it.”

SQUADRON: ‘CLOSER THAN EVER’

On the other hand, Leitner said he felt state Senator Daniel Squadron should be commended for weighing in on the SPURA debate at last month’s C.B. 3 committee meeting.

“We’re closer than we have ever come to reaching community consensus for this site,” Squadron said in his remarks then. “That’s because of the work the Community Board 3 committee is doing. I look forward to continuing to work with the community in the days and weeks ahead to try and make a positive conclusion a reality.”

“I feel very encouraged by Senator Squadron as a member of SHARE,” Leitner stated.

Leitner said he also understands the con-cerns of housing advocates, like Good Old Lower East Side, or GOLES, that are trying to maximize the amount of affordable units in any redevelopment plan.

“I am acutely aware that not all gentrifi ca-tion is positive,” he noted. “Some of the older residents of the neighborhood feel that gentri-fi cation has pushed out long-term residents.”

At the same time, Leitner said, his wife recalls when she was growing up that the neighborhood was not as safe as it has become today.

“What really sustains a neighborhood are families and children and safety — and that’s

what we’re seeing on the Lower East Side,” he said. “People are taking root here.”

He noted he and his wife are planning to send their 3½-year-old daughter to a local pub-lic school, and recently toured the alternative Earth School in the East Village. The Grand St. newcomers are deeply invested in the commu-nity and in shaping its direction, he stressed.

“Let’s have as much community engagement as possible to work together to fi gure out what will position this neighborhood for a brighter future, as a place to live, to work,” he said.

The moderate-income housing in the guidelines, in particular, would be a positive addition, he noted, feeling it would be a sta-bilizing element for the community, provid-ing housing for working-class families.

A reason market-rate housing must be in the mix is that it would pay for the affordable hous-ing, Leitner noted, adding that the SPURA plan is supposed to be fi nancially self-sustaining. According to Leitner, the idea is for the city to sell the Seward parcels to developers at a “huge discount,” which would, in turn, subsidize the construction of affordable housing.

IMPACT ON PROPERTY VALUES?

Leitner said he hears some neighbors in the co-ops arguing that adding more low-income housing on SPURA would decrease area property values. But he countered, “The parking lots that are there now are a drag on property values.”

The key, again, to freeing SPURA from its inertia, Leitner said, will be compromise, some-thing C.B. 3’s McWater has also stressed.

“GOLES is probably not going to get all the affordable housing they’d want, but they’re going to get a lot,” Leitner said. “Heshy and Joel might not get all the commercial and retail they’d want, but they’re going to get a lot. We have a very supportive agency with Bloomberg, and if this chance is lost, who knows what another administration will do?

“It’s a very diverse neighborhood and it’s a very historic neighborhood. And to develop SPURA at the expense of one group over another would not be keeping with the historic and diverse nature of the commu-nity,” Leitner added.

He said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that C.B. 3 will vote to pass the current guidelines.

“I don’t think a better deal is coming,” he stressed. “This is by far the best process

Compromise is key at SPURA, says new group SHARE;

‘Sheldon Silver has certainly played a coy game of not taking any kind of leadership position on getting involved in the SPURA debate.’

Brett Leitner

‘They want a site 70 percent low-income — I oppose it. We don’t live in Russia or China.’

Heshy Jacob

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Photo by Tequila Minsky

SHARE founder Brett Leitner standing outside a section of the sprawling open-air parking lots on the undeveloped Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.


and the guidelines are the best solution that we’ve seen in 43 years.”

Leitner said SHARE’s members and the co-ops’ new generation of owners are also indicative of a mindset change in the Grand St. co-ops, traditionally known as an Orthodox Jewish enclave. Many of the new-comers are Reform or Conservative Jewish or mixed-faith couples.

“The Jewish identity of the Lower East Side is alive — just in a new and more moderate way,” he explained. At the same time, he said, this new outlook is not “liberal social activist,” but “moderate-minded...left of center.”

“I consider myself a neighborhood activ-ist, but I don’t consider myself a socialist,” Leitner said. “I’m not a union member — I’m a Democrat. I’m an Obama supporter.”

C.B. 3’s McWater said SHARE, though a new group, is defi nitely a key part of the mix on SPURA.

“I think SHARE plays a very important role and is a signifi cant player, as they rep-resent much of the changing demographic of the co-ops,” McWater said.

SPURNS SPURA PROPOSAL

However, Jacob, for starters, expressed skepticism about SHARE’s petition, noting some entries are signed “anonymous.” About 15 of the roughly 120 signatures listed on SHARE’s Web site are anonymous.

Next, Jacob tallied the amount of affordable housing that, in fact, has been built on parts of the SPURA site since the 1960’s: 600 low-income units by Grand St. Guild Housing; 360 low-income units at Seward Park Extension public housing; 180 units in the Hong Ning senior residence; 125 units at the United Jewish Council’s Bialystoker senior residence; plus, two old buildings that weren’t razed under the urban renewal with a combined 75 units, for a total of 1,340 affordable units. If, under the C.B. 3 guidelines as now construed, a total of 1,000 units are added, with 300 of those being low-income, then, when all is said and done, SPURA will effectively be 70 per-cent low-income, Jacob calculated.

“They want a site 70 percent low-income — I oppose it,” he stated bluntly. “That’s not called integration. That’s called segregation. … If you added 1,000 market-rate units, the

site would still be 53 percent low-income.” “We don’t live in Russia or China —

people live where they can afford it,” said Jacob, who is not known for his political correctness. “I’d like to ask the mayor, how many low-income people live in his neigh-borhood? None.”

Jacob added that the site couldn’t have been all low-income back when it was razed since there were white people and Jews who lived there, and there were many thriving syna-gogues on the Lower East Side at that time. So, it’s a fallacy that a full 2,000 units of affordable housing must be replaced, he asserted.

He further said it would be a fi nancial error for the city to sell the SPURA sites for below market rate. Instead, he suggested, the properties should be sold for maximum value, and the developers could then build the low-income housing somewhere else.

In the current economy, Jacob said, “It’s criminal for the city to sell this property for less than full value.”

BACKS RETAIL, COMMERCIAL

The Grand St. leader argued that the Lower East Side already has one of the state’s highest percentages of low-income residents, so what’s really needed is jobs, not more low-income housing. There were an array of businesses on the SPURA site when it was razed, he noted.

Pointing to another commercial lack, he added, “There’s no nightlife on Grand St.”

Twenty years ago, Jacob recalled, he pro-posed a plan to make SPURA into a sweep-ing “international mall,” with restaurants, shopping and entertainment.

The idea was for a mix of cuisines and entrepreneurs, Jacob said, “Jews, Italians, Chinese, Hispanic, black, Polish, Russian, Mexican, Cuban — a beautiful quilt rep-resenting all the ethnic groups.” The city, though, didn’t bite.

Returning to the present, Jacob said, yes, he would, in fact, support a Costco or Wal-Mart at SPURA, but he added, “I would require them to say, 50 percent of people that work there would be from the Lower East Side.”

He denied that the blocks of vast parking lots are bringing down the value of units at the Grand St. co-ops, where two-bedroom apartments are currently going for $500,000 to $600,000, on average. In fact, he noted, units at Seward Park Co-op — the develop-ment closest to the parking lots — are selling for 10 percent more.

CLAIMS ‘75 PERCENT’ SUPPORT

A leader in the Grand St. Orthodox com-munity, Jacob, who lives in Hillman Houses, is the manager of East River Housing and also president of Hatzolah volunteer ambu-lance service. He downplayed his leader-ship role, but did state, when he comes out publicly and in earnest with his position on SPURA, “75 percent of people in the area”

Opponents aren’t so sureContinued from page 6

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‘I think SHARE is a signifi cant player, as they represent much of the changing demographic of the co-ops.’

David McWater


will be standing with him.Although he is a close ally of Silver, Jacob

said he couldn’t offer any insight into what position the speaker will take on SPURA.

“I know nothing about what Shelly Silver is going to do,” he said. “Shelly will make his deci-sion when he wants to. He’s one of the smartest men in the world that I know. There are peo-ple who have underestimated him and found they’ve been on the short end of the stick.”

U.J.C. Director Kaplan echoed Jacob, saying what’s needed at SPURA is “Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.”

“We need to maximize job development, and we should keep some open space,” he said. “What was there before was jobs and stores — only Rite Aid has been added.”

Kaplan said he would support so-called 80/20 housing on the site, a mix of 80 per-cent market-rate, plus 20 percent affordable units, with the developer receiving tax incen-tives for building the affordable units. This is how many developers build nowadays, he noted, since it actually is more profi table than 100 percent market-rate projects.

Kaplan is a member of McWater’s C.B. 3 committee currently working toward fi nal-izing the SPURA guidelines. Right now, he said, he would vote for 80/20 housing plus commercial development at SPURA. Although big-box stores aren’t allowed under the guidelines, he said he personally is not against the idea of having them there.

‘EVERYONE’S TALKING NICELY’

Kaplan had high marks for the process so far, noting, “The best part is that every-one is talking to each other nicely. For that I

have to give credit to David McWater, [C.B. 3 Chairperson] Dominic Pisciotta and John Shapiro.” Shapiro is a facilitator who has been hired by the city to help the board with the SPURA process.

In response to Kaplan, McWater noted, “The deal on the table will mostly be 80/20 and includes a remarkable amount of com-mercial space and economic development — around 600,000 square feet.”

As for GOLES, asked what the minimum amount of low-income housing the guidelines would have to contain to get the organization’s O.K., Joel Feingold, GOLES’s land-use orga-nizer, said he couldn’t say yet.

“We are holding a member summit on Jan. 8,” he said. “After that, we’ll have a public

position on depth and breadth of affordability, among many other concerns.”

Meanwhile, SHARE’s Leitner warned that either the advocates for or the opponents to low-income housing could bring the whole process crashing down. He and his group — from their position fi rmly in the center of the debate — will continue to advocate for compromise.

“I hope the better angels of everyone’s nature who has an interest in SPURA will win,” he said, “and that will lead each stake-holder to some compromise.”

It appears GOLES may be hoping to delay C.B. 3’s vote until February in a last-ditch effort to get more affordable housing in the guide-lines. But Leitner said, unless GOLES has really identifi ed a way to fi nance that additional hous-ing, then it’s not worth postponing the vote.

As for Silver and Grand St.’s “old guard,” Leitner vowed they’ll regret it if they frustrate this latest promising SPURA effort.

“If Sheldon Silver does manage to sink this, there will be political ramifi cations,” Leitner stated.

“We’re growing — they’re shrinking,” he said of the new Grand Streeters, like those in SHARE, versus Silver’s traditional voter base.

“It will be noticed” if the anti-affordable housing faction defeats the SPURA proposal, he stressed. “He’s not elected for life. He’s not king for life,” Leitner said of Silver.

SILVER SPEAKS... BRIEFLY

On Wednesday, in response to the East Villager’s request for his position on SPURA and the current C.B. 3 guidelines for its devel-opment, Silver, through a spokesperson, issued the following statement:

“I have great respect for the members of Community Board 3 and for the process that is taking place to form a consensus about the future of Seward Park. I think it is important to allow that process to be completed before commenting.”

BROKER ON PROPERTY VALUES

Meanwhile, Bob Perl, an East Village real estate broker, said the claim that this latest SPURA proposal would bring down prop-erty values is absurd.

“It absolutely will not lower property values compared to what exists there now,” he said of the guidelines’ development mix. The parking lots are “a wasteland,” he said, separating Seward Park Co-op from the rest of the dynamic Lower East Side.

Perl said the proposed housing mix is much more “gentrifi ed” than what’s typically found in the surrounding neighborhood for about a 1-mile radius.

“It will greatly improve property values in the surrounding area,” he said. “It will be a vibrant, fully occupied, residential, com-mercial development.”

Even if the new housing were 100 percent market rate, that would only cause a “mini-mal” bump up in property values compared to the 50 percent market-rate plan, and would actually have more impact on local retail, he said.

Perl added that part of why the Lower East Side is special is precisely because it is not homogeneous.

“It’s a great mix of socioeconomic levels,” he said. “That’s why many people move there. This is real New York. That makes it one of the best neighborhoods in New York.”

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Meaty Pop Art heist

Burglars who broke into the third-fl oor loft apartment of Robert Romanoff, 39, president of Nebraska Meat Corp., at 55 Gansevoort St., sometime between Nov. 23 and Nov. 28 made off with artwork by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein valued at $750,000.

The thieves, who broke through a hallway wall into the Meatpacking District apartment, also stole watches and other jewelry and took the video recorder from the apart-ment’s surveillance cameras while Romanoff was away on vacation, police said.

The residence is in a fi ve-story building served by an eleva-tor that requires a key to operate and opens directly onto the sidewalk, according to a Daily News article. A cafe is on the ground fl oor, a restaurant is on the second fl oor and a club is located in the basement. A stairway connects the club, cafe and the restaurant but does not go as far as the third-fl oor location of the burglary, according to a New York Post item.

Police said the stolen works, two of which are 4 feet long, include “Thinking Nude” and “Moonscape” by Lichtenstein and “Camoufl age,” a set of eight signed prints, plus “The Truck” and “Superman” by Warhol, along with an oil paint-ing, “Live Cat,” by Carl Fudge.

Rolex, Patek Philippe and Cartier watches were among the stolen jewelry items, according to reports. The Romanoff family owns considerable property in the Meat Market dis-trict, but the family wholesale meat businesses today are located in the Bronx and New Jersey.

Police are asking the public for information about the burglary and the location of the stolen artwork. Tips should be phoned to Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or reported to www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text-messaged to CRIMES (274637) and entering TIP577.

Scary Soho suspect

William Woodruff, 20, was arrested on Dec. 22 and charged with three robberies in Soho and Tribeca.

The suspect was charged with trying to rob the Citibank branch at 127 Hudson St. near Beach St. on Dec. 20. He approached a teller’s window around 4:15 p.m. and said, “This is a robbery. Give me all of your large bills. Don’t do anything stupid,” according to the complaint fi led with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. When the teller refused to comply, the suspect repeated the demand but the teller refused again and the suspect fl ed.

Woodruff and another defendant, Charles Smith, are charged with robbing the Choice Forex Currency Exchange, 401 West Broadway at Spring St., around 3:55 p.m. Dec. 7, the District Attorney’s Offi ce said. Smith stood watch at the door while Woodruff went to a teller’s window, sprayed a fl ammable liquid in a teller’s face, pulled out a lighter and threatened to blow up the building unless he was given

money. He took $1,000 and fl ed with Smith, running north on West Broadway, police said.

On Dec. 4 Woodruff and another unidentifi ed accomplice stopped a pedestrian on Sullivan and Spring Sts. around 12:45 a.m. when Woodruff pulled a handgun, grabbed the victim’s jacket and forced him to surrender $80, according to the charges. Woodruff and the unidentifi ed accomplice fl ed.

Police apprehended Woodruff and Smith around 1 p.m. Dec. 22 while they were peering into the window of the Forex Exchange at 401 Broadway, according to the charges.

Armed and mysterious

James O’Donnell, 39, who was arrested on March 16 on St. Mark’s Place with a dagger in his belt and a backpack containing handguns and a silencer, was indicted for crimi-nal possession of weapons in connection with a stash of unli-censed guns and daggers that he had in his rented Manhattan Mini Storage locker at 220 South St. near Pike St.

O’Donnell told State Supreme Court Justice Bart Stone on Thurs., Dec. 23, that he had been in the military for two years but declined to be more specifi c. Authorities in Germany have a fi le on O’Donnell with 20 arrests but there is no U.S. record of him, according to a Daily News article. The indictment charges that O’Donnell has two 9-millimeter handguns, a .22-caliber pistol, three silencers, an electronic stun gun and several daggers in the South St. Mini Storage locker, along with more than 300 rounds of ammunition.

Dragged by mad cab

Police arrested a cab driver on East Houston St. on Sat., Dec. 18, and charged him with robbery, assault with a motor vehicle and reckless endangerment for stealing a cell phone from a passenger and then dragging the victim for 14 blocks after closing the window on the victim’s arm.

The driver, Eddy Brizard, 56, found a cell phone that the passenger left in the cab and demanded $20 for its return, police said. The passenger replied he did not have $20, and the driver refused to return it. When the passenger put his hand in the driver’s window to retrieve his phone, the driver raised the window, catching the victim’s arm and drove off, dragging the victim about three-quarters of a mile until police made the arrest around 4:50 a.m. on East Houston between Elizabeth St. and Bowery.

The passenger sustained nerve damage to his arm, police said.

GameStop game’s up

Police arrested Samuel Ebanks, 16, on Wed., Dec. 22, and charged him with trying to rob the GameStop store on E. 14th St. at University Place. Ebanks and an unidentifi ed accomplice walked into the GameStop around 7 p.m. Sun., Dec. 19, and announced, “I have a weapon. Everyone put your hands up. Put the money in the bag.” The pair, however, fl ed while waiting for people to comply with the demand. Ebanks was arrested three days later. The accomplice has not been apprehended.

B & N bust

An employee of the Barnes & Noble store at 105 Fifth Ave. at 18th St. stopped Edward Hooper, 32, around 9 p.m. Wed., Dec. 22, as he was leaving the store without paying for seven textbooks he had taken from a shelf and stuffed into a bag. Hooper was charged with larceny.

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New Year’s wishesBefore we even realized it, the end of another year

has snuck up on us. And so it’s time to refl ect on some of the major, ongoing stories that occupied us in 2010 and that will assuredly top our list once again in 2011.

For starters, the potentially largest development scheme of all is, of course, New York University’s 2031 expansion plan. As part of its ambitious growth agenda, the university seeks to add 6 million square feet, including up to 2 million on its two South Village superblocks.

N.Y.U. simply must scale down its superblocks plans. Yes, perhaps on some architect’s table somewhere it might somehow have appeared that a fourth tower — 400 feet tall, no less! — could be jammed into the landmarked Silver Towers complex on Bleecker St. But Architect I.M. Pei, Silver Towers’ designer, and his partner, Henry Cobb, recently made it emphatically clear that it was the wrong spot for a new tower — only confi rming what neighbors and preservationists were saying all along.

Yes, N.Y.U. can build “as of right” on its Morton Williams supermarket site. But any development there — just as on the Coles gym site, also on the southern superblock — must be reasonably sized and contextu-ally designed. N.Y.U.’s upcoming ULURP will deter-mine if, and how big, it can build at Coles.

Also in the South Village, the Landmarks Preservation Commission must quickly designate the rest of the pro-posed South Village Historic District. The Children’s Aid Society’s recent decision to sell its Sullivan St. buildings has highlighted the risks of leaving this low-scale area unprotected against potential overdevelopment.

This past year was devastating for Lower West Side healthcare with St. Vincent’s Hospital’s closing. The health-needs assessment now underway is, in our view, required to make the best case for whatever level replacement health facility we can hope to get, from a full-service hospital on down. Lawsuits aren’t working. And the recent New York Post report that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is mulling buying the St. Vincent’s site and restoring a hospital is, so far, unsubstantiated. Political opportunists have been exploiting this emotional issue; what we need instead is cooperation and a realistic appraisal as to what’s truly achievable.

We’ll continue to cover the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. Led by Community Board 3, conscientious develop-ment guidelines have taken shape. Both affordable-housing advocates and Grand St. co-op owners must compromise. We call on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to back the emerging consensus plan and be a leader on this issue. Mixed-income and mixed-use development at SPURA will increase, not decrease, property values.

Politically, it’s also essential that Silver back the reforms being pushed by Ed Koch and others: indepen-dent redistricting, a GAAP budget and ethics reform. Albany is long overdue for reform.

We support the proposed Chinatown Business Improvement District. Yes, BID’s can admittedly cause economic upscaling and affect small merchants. But this will basically be a cleaning BID, which Chinatown needs.

We hope ’11 sees progress at Pier 40, at W. Houston St. in Hudson River Park. The massive pier, a treasured community amenity, needs millions for urgent repairs. Absent a new R.F.P. to fi nd a compatible developer, money must somehow be located. We hope Friends of Hudson River Park in a new private fundraising role can help meet this need.

Finally, we look forward to the increasing acceptance of the growing bike lane network. Bike lanes making our city more livable, safer, healthier. But cyclists must be considerate of pedestrians — especially the elderly, who move slowly and fear serious injury from falls.

We’ve barely begun and it’s already shaping up to be an exciting and busy 2011. Happy New Year!

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The new year cannot come fast enough for some people!

IRA BLUTREICH

Party was well deserved

To The Editor:Re “EXTRA! C.M. holiday party” (photos, Dec. 23):The Villager, East Villager and Downtown Express are

the most informative and insightful publications in Lower Manhattan. You also set the standard for community news all over the country. Best wishes for another great year.

Lawrence White

Make crossing West St. safe

To The Editor: As a result of the death of pedestrian Marilyn Feng

on Feb. 13, 2009, the Battery Park City community was reminded of the unusually short time of traffic light intervals to cross treacherous West St.

In response, the Department of Transportation increased the timing so one could cross without running a sprint. Recently, again owing to community concerns, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation provided a $1.2 million grant to station crossing guards at the intersec-tions at Chambers St. and southward on weekdays during normal business hours only, and not inclusive of weekends.

Without notifying the community, D.O.T. has once again restored the short time intervals to those that were

in effect in February 2009. All you have to do is watch those hard-working guards urging people to walk faster.

Let’s hope that Community Board 1 and our local repre-sentatives take to task those responsible, and restore intervals that allow all to safely walk — not run — across West St.

John Brindisi

College, combat connection

To The Editor:Re “A streetcar named Pearl Harbor: Getting onboard”

(notebook, by Jerry Tallmer, Dec. 16):I love this account of Tallmer’s Dartmouth doings around

the time of Pearl Harbor. Being a Dartmouth guy myself, with a father, Class of 1936, who served in North Africa and Europe, and having just written a World War II-oriented novel, all this is fascinating to me. Nice writing, too.

Dave Bergengren

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Enjoying an alternative Christmas Eve in Christiania

BY LAURIE MITTELMANNEnter this bustling, smoky auditorium on

Christmas Eve and a scruffy man wearing a verdant green suit, a fl oppy velvet hat and a satin tie will shake your hand and kiss you on the cheek.

He’ll say, in Danish, “Happy Christmas Tree Day, though we don’t have a Christmas tree.”

Thomas Leth, a 29-year-old freelance photographer, came in and quickly found what he was looking for — a family away from his family to share warmth and inti-macy with on the holiday. He had arrived in the heart of Christiania, a neighborhood of squatters in the center of Copenhagen where a community founded on reclaimed land, impromptu street theater and plain, old free-wheeling can’t help but welcome strangers.

“I’m here to avoid a lonely Christmas,” Leth said, in between mouthfuls of pork tenderloin, red cabbage and potatoes with gravy.

Leth was one of more than a thousand people who came to attend the dinner, which the city of Copenhagen funded along with Christiania, a village of about 850 adults and 200 children living on 85 acres of land in the quiet borough of Christianshavn.

For some people, Christiania is a place to party. Tables with hash dot the commercial zone near the public entrance, the infamous “Pusher Street.” But for others, the village is simply a place to relax, free of traffi c and its accompanying noise, pollution and danger.

Leth sat cross-legged against a wall in the Gray Hall, which was packed on Christmas Eve with Danes biting into chocolate heart-shaped cookies, leaning back in folding chairs with fat, glowing joints and scooching between tables with steaming cups of coffee and tea. He smoothed his shaggy hair away from his face and stared out at those passing before him.

“People want to enjoy another type of Christmas here,” Leth said, with a tug at his bootlaces. He straightened his legs and rest-ed his feet against one of the wooden beams supporting the building, which the Danish military once used for training horses. “It’s what Christiania is about — creating a new meeting place for outcasts or strangers — people who don’t conform.”

Indeed, Christiania is so open that it can

sometimes be hard to tell who actually lives there and who doesn’t. Erik Bowbender, who donned a bright orange suit and helped greet and direct guests at the Christmas Eve dinner, used to work driving a bus between Christiania and Copenhagen’s railway sta-tion.

“I saw these old Christianites who I had seen for many years and I thought had houses somewhere in Christiania, but they didn’t,” he said. “They came in every morning on the train and then were sit-

ting down at the bar all day, talking with friends.”

Christiania started in 1971, when locals spotted apples growing on trees amongst disused army barracks and crawled through a hole in a fence to pick them. They stumbled upon dozens of buildings equipped with furniture, tools, dishes, silverware, tea and coffee, and called the area a “forgotten city.” Those in need of homes barricaded its roads, outlawed cars, guns and hard drugs and moved into the dilapidated horse stables, laboratories and offices.

The community runs without elect-ed officials. Instead, residents gather in large meetings in the Gray Hall, where consensus rulings determine the squat’s policies. Sometimes discussions go all night without agreements being reached, however, leaving conflicts to be mediated in Christiania’s bathhouse.

For families and loners alike, spirits remained lighthearted in the Gray Hall on

Christmas Eve. At the end of one table, a middle-aged man wearing a fur hat with a pin that said “LUST” on it sat fingering a handful of marzipan candies.

“I ate dinner here tonight, went home to smoke a joint and nap, and returned,” the man said, with a sip of herbal tea. He swayed to a rock band performing near the front of the room, on a stage backed with a wall of multicolored flowers. More than a hundred white paper butterflies hung from the auditorium’s ceiling, along with several white dresses glowing from lights mounted inside them.

When Leth finished his pork dinner, he rushed for a second plate. Volunteers served 1,500 meals over the course of the evening, including vegetarian ones, with baked polenta topped with pesto, tofu spring rolls and carrot salad with pump-kin seeds.

Even dessert promised something for everyone’s taste, with countless varieties of cookies, pastries and cakes. Volunteers also poured rice pudding into bowls from a massive vat, and garnished the warm, creamy dessert with spoonfuls of cinna-mon and sugar. An elderly, white-haired woman peered out from behind spectacles and said, “Oops,” when she dumped nearly half a cup of the topping into a young girl’s dish, smiled and pushed it toward her.

Søren Raa, 60, who has helped orga-nize the Christmas Eve dinner since 1982, dressed for the evening with a red tweed coat over a bright blue shirt and a snow-man tie. He stood at the back of the Gray Hall with a tall glass of beer when the night wore on and the hall emptied of visi-tors from Copenhagen and Jutland.

“The worst day for a lot of people with-out relatives is Christmas Day and night,” he said. “It’s terrible to be alone.”

Di Ponti, 28, who moved to Copenhagen from Portugal six years ago to study how people share knowledge online, was one of 150 volunteers who made the event a success. Toward the end of the night, she perched on a wooden trunk behind the dessert table, munched on a spring roll and laughed with friends who had served food beside her that evening.

“I don’t like normal Christmas. It’s a lot of pressure with the gifts,” she said, adjust-ing her top hat. “When I came here, I saw that it could be something beautiful again.”

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A band performed on Christmas Eve at the Christiania squatter community in Copenhagen.

‘I don’t like normal Christmas. When I came here, I saw that it could be something beautiful again.’


from the two tanks put about 16,000 gal-lons of No. 6 heating oil into the boiler room and ground beneath the landscaped area between the university-owned residential complex and the sidewalk.

About 5,000 gallons were removed in an emergency cleanup soon after the leak, Parker recalled. Preparing for the deeper cleanup included devising a plan, getting it approved by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, and engaging certifi ed contractors, Parker said. D.E.C. approved the cleanup plan in September.

Nevertheless, the Washington Square Village Tenants Association’s environmental committee will be keeping a close eye on the process, said Judy Magida, co-chairperson of the committee with Barbara Backer.

While N.Y.U. has made public an exten-sive report to D.E.C. outlining remediation plans, tenants have told the university they want a hotline system of communication that residents can use in emergencies.

“This was totally lacking when the origi-nal oil spill happened, leaving residents uninformed and apprehensive,” the tenant leaders said, regarding a hotline.

The work will entail the removal and cleaning of the two 20,000-gallon under-ground storage tanks and an excavation to a depth of 30 feet to remove oil-contaminated

soil, according to documents.The extended project site, bounded by

Mercer, W. Third and Bleecker Sts. and LaGuardia Place, will require closing of a lane of Bleecker St. and protection of infra-structure. A Con Edison electrical vault and cables are adjacent to and above the two tanks. Moreover, the underground Minetta Stream is about 1,200 feet north of the site and fl ows west to the Hudson River.

Contaminated water and earth will be containerized for removal, and while uncon-taminated earth may be used as backfi ll, the top 4 feet of the excavation must be new soil, according to documents. Underpinning and support of the adjacent buildings will be a critical element of the job.

The D.E.C.-approved plan specifi es the contractor use certifi ed dust-control proce-dures and provide odor control. N.Y.U. will also monitor vibrations and ground move-ment in the buildings adjacent to the excava-tion, and if they exceed allowable standards, alternative methods will be used.

“We’ve been living on top of this soil for a year,” said the tenants association leaders in an e-mail to residents. “How will we be protected from fugitive dust emissions and organic vapors? The air quality in the hall-ways of the buildings was periodically moni-tored during the emergency cleanup but has not been monitored since,” the letter says.

The association is also worried about the buildings’ stability.

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BY TRAV S.D. Happy New Year! Hard to believe, but

this marks the one-year anniversary of this little column, such as it is. It’s been a year full of burlesquery, bawdiness, bunkum and butt-kickin’ — and I haven’t even started talking about the shows I saw yet!

I fi nished off 2010 by seeing a rather odd hodgepodge of productions running the gamut from high seriousness to low silliness. “Emancipatory Politics” by Old Kent Road Theatre (oldkentroadtheater.com) was an earnest splicing of free-form fantasy and autobiography with more valleys than peaks — but plenty of risk-taking, and that was the whole point.

On the other hand, Metropolitan Playhouse’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” took chances just by existing, and the gamble paid off richly. This historical anti-slavery melodrama directed by Alex Roe ought to become a permanent part of their repertoire. Overcome with holiday spirit, I also took in Theater for the New City’s “A Christmas Carol” — written, directed by and star-ring Zen Manley. Zen’s performance as Scrooge was a tour de force in the grand old 19th-century tradition of spirit gum and scenery chewing. I lapped it up like so much Christmas pudding with booze poured all over it. Lastly, I caught the Downtown Clown Revue (newyorkdowntownclown.com) in its new incarnation at Dixon Place. The monthly showcase for red-nosed insid-ers is well worth checking out. On the night I attended, Big Apple Circus’s “Grandma” showed up for a special unannounced per-formance.

As for what to see in the coming month? How about starting with what you missed last year? From Jan. 6-15, Horse Trade Theater Group will present “2010 Encores” — a festival of shows that were hits for the company during the past season. Almost everything in the festival sounds interest-ing to me, but here are some stand-outs: Most notable perhaps is “The Event” (Jan. 10 & 14) — written and directed by John Clancy, former artistic director of the Present Company and the New York International Fringe Festival. This meta-physical “journey beyond the fourth wall” was a hit of last year’s Fringe Festival, and stars Clancy’s frequent collaborator, the always excellent David Calvitto. Also in the lineup (Jan. 7 & 9) is “Legs and All” — a terrifi c clown piece by Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante, which I saw back in March. The duo work wonders armed only with a large box and the hilarious pliability of their bodies, which at times seem to do impos-sible things. It even has romance!

Based on my knowledge of their past work, I can also recommend Martin

Dockery’s “Wanderlust” (Jan. 8 & 15), Tanya O’Debra’s “Radio Star” (Jan. 7 & 14), Michael Birch’s “One Man Hamlet” (Jan. 8 & 14) and Radiotheatre’s version of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” (Jan. 8, 9 & 10). This festival alone ought to keep you busy! For info and tickets, go to horsetrade.info.

Not to be outdone, P.S. 122 will be run-ning its 6th Annual COIL Festival, “fea-turing hits from past, present and future seasons” (Jan. 5-15). Of the 17 shows in the schedule, several caught my jaundiced eyed. Of particular interest (Jan. 5, 7, 9 & 11) is “Stories Left to Tell” —a revived pre-sentation of unpublished and unperformed works by the late Spalding Gray, read by downtown pillars Bob Holman (the man behind the Bowery Poetry Club), actress Kathleen Chalfant, comedienne Hazelle Goodman and playwright Ain Gordon. The original production premiered two years ago to great acclaim at the Minetta Lane Theatre with some of the same cast. Gordon will be presenting another work in the festival as well. “A Disaster Begins” (Jan. 10) promises to reveal secrets connected with the Galveston Flood, one of the worst natural disasters in his country’s history. I saw Gordon’s “Birdseed Bundles” at Dance Theatre Workshop years ago, featuring the great Lola Pashalinski. His writing is sharp and insightful, and this one should also be

a safe bet.I also have my sights set on “Green

Eyes” (Jan. 5-10, 12-15). It’s the New York premiere of a Tennessee Williams rarity that was fi rst published in 2008. Director Travis Chamberlain and I both worked as bookers at Galapagos a few years back. Much confu-sion and not much hilarity ensued as a result of our common fi rst name. But the main reason I’ll be attending is the show descrip-tion — which tells of a “ravenous Southern woman determined to satisfy the darkest recesses of her most deviant desires.” The site-specifi c show actually takes place in a room at the Hudson Hotel. How kinky is that? Info on these and other shows in the COIL Festival are at ps122.org.

Also returning this year is the Under the Radar Festival (Jan. 5-16), curated by Mark Russell (formerly of P.S.122) and billed as a “Festival Tracking New Theatre from Around the World.” This looks to be one of their best efforts in years, with 13 foreign countries represented among the festival’s 20 productions, and several local stars beef-ing up the New York presence (including Suzan-Lori Parks, JoAnne Akalaitis, David Greenspan and Taylor Mac).

Most exciting to me personally, though, is the presence of the great Reggie Watts. I had occasion to watch this force of nature perform back in October at the New York Theatre Review launch party. Like all great

performers, he’s impossible to describe. Visually, he resembles Alexandre Dumas. His act is a mash-up of human beatbox and other music parodies, and a stream of consciousness comic monologue that calls to mind everyone from Groucho Marx to Taylor Meade. The current piece “Dutch A/V” (Jan. 5-16) is a bit of multi-media involving video taken in the Netherlands with collabora-tors Tommy Smith and Brendan Kiley. The Netherlands: That’s where they have all that legal marijuana isn’t it? I rest my case. For more info on the 20 Under the Radar shows at each of their eight venues, go to under-theradarfestival.com.

In the club and variety worlds, a number of announcements grabbed my attention. On Jan. 8, ukulele warbler Sweet Soubrette will be launching her new CD “Days and Nights” with a performance at Bowery Poetry Club. Also known as Elia Bisker, don’t let the “sweet” in the soubrette’s sobriquet fool you. Her comic love songs are dark and biting, even if the singer seems lithe and gentle as can be.

The legendary Joey Arias will be tak-ing his act to Le Poisson Rouge (Jan. 10). A drag performer/ performance artist who fi rst made his mark in the halcyon days of the 1980s, he’ll be singing that night with musical director Ben Allison. Lastly, don’t miss my favorite ventriloquist lady — Carla Rhodes — as she does her monthly rock and roll show at Arlene’s Grocery on January 23 (for info, carlarhodes.net and arlenesgrocery.net). How hot is Carla? Let’s just say she’s helping me get over that thing I used to have for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop.

See you next month!

Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Horse Trade are go Ready/Set for fests, a ukulele warbler and our favorite ventriloquist lady

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Kim Noble, titular star of “Kim Noble Must Die” (in P.S. 122’s COIL Festival).

In the club and variety worlds, a number of announcements grabbed my attention. On Jan. 8, ukulele warbler Sweet Soubrette will be launching her new CD “Days and Nights” with a performance at Bowery Poetry Club.


BY MARTIN DENTON, of nytheatre.com

There’s a kind of theatre where the audi-ence sits in the dark — and from the comfort and safety of their seats, they watch a story unfold on a stage in front of them.

But bluemouth inc. does not do that kind of theatre.

There’s another kind of theatre, a kind I fi nd myself preferring more and more, where the audience enters a space — one that may not be a traditional theatre space at all — and fi nds itself pulled into an experience that stretches and enlarges them. We’re talking total immersion in a new environment with a new set of rules, like dropping into someone else’s dream for a couple of hours and soaking up the strangeness and awe and unexpected patterns and twists of fancy and intellect.

This is what bluemouth inc. does. Their theatre is one of complete engagement on the part of audience members and performers alike. It’s not bland, planned interactivity like “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.” It’s about being an active participant. It’s about being present.

New Yorkers will get their next glimpse at an original bluemouth inc. show when Incubator Arts’ Other Forces Festival and The Performance Project @ University Settlement present “Dance Marathon” — beginning January 6 at University Settlement’s space on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side.

I have been following bluemouth inc. — and a dedicated fan of their work — ever since they arrived in New York back in 2005. The company began in Canada, where they’ve been performing since 1998 (winning a Dora Award in 2004 for one of their most ambi-tious works, “Something About a River”). Two of the four founding members are Canadians — Lucy Simic, an interdisciplin-ary artist interested in text and movement, is from Vancouver; and Richard Windeyer, who is a composer and sound/visual artist, is from Peterborough, Ontario. The other two are Americans Stephen O’Connell (from New Jersey; a dancer and creator who has worked with The Wooster Group, among others) and Sabrina Reeves (from Massachusetts; a pho-

tographer, writer, actor and videographer). O’Connell and Reeves found themselves in Canada in the 90s. Mysterious theatri-cal alchemy brought the four together, and they’ve been making remarkable, visceral, unforgettable theatre ever since.

Joining these original core members is Toronto native Ciara Adams, who is also a pri-mary creator and director with the company.

The way I got to know about bluemouth inc. was pure serendipity. I got an email in September 2005 inviting me to review “LENZ” — the New York City debut of a company that was in the process of relocat-ing to the Big Apple. The thing that piqued my interest was the location: “LENZ” was being staged in the Ye Olde Carlton Arms Hotel (a lesser-known haven for artists along the lines of the Chelsea Hotel), near Baruch College.

For “LENZ,” bluemouth inc. rented three rooms in the hotel, on different fl oors. When you arrived at the performance, you were put into one of three groups. Each group was then sent to one of the three rooms. The story was experienced in three different orders, as these groups trooped to the next and then the next location over the following hour. In one room we found Reeves as Iris (Jacob Lenz’s sister), telling us about her family and her brother. In another room was a fi lm projected onto a low coffee table, with much of the dialogue in French and English (which we heard via headphones), supplying backstory about the title character. In the last room was Lenz himself (played by O’Connell), at the very edge of sanity (the room was pitch black when we entered it, and quite quickly Lenz

left it screaming, forcing us to follow him out into the hallway).

I had never seen anything like “LENZ” before — a startlingly coherent narrative, once you pieced together its three disparate scenes; but more than that, a play about itself, about the experience of witnessing and absorbing life among other live beings.

I have learned that these ideas — common experience, playing witness, being aware of yourself and others — are the themes that run through bluemouth inc.’s work. Indeed, their company motto is: “What level of expe-rience are you committed to having?” I have seen them transform a deserted downtown offi ce building into a dreamscape/playground (2006’s “What the Thunder Said”); a barber shop on the edge of Chinatown into a side-show of American male archetypes (2007’s “American Standard”); and a converted Brooklyn church into a courtroom where the Wolf (from “Peter and the Wolf”) is put on trial (2009’s “How Soon Is Now?”).

I should add that bluemouth inc.’s work isn’t just cerebral and philosophical; it’s high-energy, thrillingly entertaining, fi lled with music and movement and video, constantly shifting, constantly surprising. Check out their website (bluemouthinc.com) to see some samples of what they do.

The next bluemouth inc. opus is coming to NYC in January 2011, for a woefully limited run at University Settlement. I can’t wait. It’s their “Dance Marathon” — a piece they premiered in Toronto as part of Harbourfront Centre’s 2009 World Stage, and subsequently presented at The Cork Midsummer Festival and the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad last

winter. It’s scheduled to tour Australia this spring, at the Dance Massive Festival in Melbourne and the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania.

“Dance Marathon” is inspired by a strange cultural phenomenon during the Great Depression, where people competed for prizes by dancing for hours on end, fi ght-ing exhaustion to keep moving on the dance fl oor. O’Connell emailed me this description of bluemouth inc.’s take on this concept: “A genuine endurance contest and staged per-formance, hopeful amateurs mix with blue-mouth inc. performers under the direction of fl oor judges and the merciless movement of the clock to shape participation theatre. Those with two left feet can simply sit back to enjoy the fancy footwork.”

The audience engagement element in “Dance Marathon” seems pretty clear-cut. I’ve seen O’Connell, Simic and their col-leagues dance; the audience members who will get a chance to be their partners are in for a major treat.

What I don’t know — and am keenly looking forward to — are the layerings of unexpected happenings that are sure to be part of “Dance Marathon.” Bluemouth inc. shows always startle, always jolt. The press release begins with these two sentences:

Registration for “Dance Marathon” begins at 7:30pm and the event starts promptly at 8pm.

Please wear comfortable shoes for danc-ing.

I’m ready.

Come dancin’ — says bluemouth inc. ‘Marathon’ recalls endurance events of days gone by

Photo by Gordon Hawkins

Marathon moves: Back where we started, here we go round again.

DANCE MARATHON210 minutes

January 6, 7, 8

Registration/Orientation begins at 7:30pm. The event starts promptly at 8pm. Wear com-fortable shoes for dancing.

At University Settlement (184 Eldridge St. at Rivington St.)

For tickets ($20), call 212-352-3101.

Visit bluemouthinc.com, incubatorarts.org & universitysettlement.org.

THEATER


MARK TWAIN: A WONDERFULLY FLAT THING Kids who may not be old enough to read Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” can get to know the quintessential American humorist — and discover the wonders of children’s theater — all in one fun, creative experience. “A Wonderfully Flat Thing” is a modern twist on Twain’s short story “A Fable.” The adaptation finds Twain and his animal friends on a journey of self-discovery and magic. Puppets, dance, music and interactive video are the new tricks that help bring this old writer into the modern age. Manju Shandler, who created masks and pup-petry for “The Lion King,” designed the puppets. Recommended for ages 3 and up. Sat., Jan. 8 & 15 at 11:30am, 2:30pm & 5pm and Sun., Jan. 9 & 16 at 11:30am & 2:30pm. At The 14th Street Y’s newly renovated LABA Theatre (344 E. 14th St. btw. 1st & 2nd Aves.). For tickets ($15), call 212-780-0800 or visit www.14StreetY.org/AWFT.

ANGELINA BALLERINA: THE MUSICAL Anything can happen in the world of chil-dren’s cartoons: Dogs talk, daffy ducks spar with rascally rabbits and an aardvark named Arthur goes to school. But writer Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig came up with something special when they introduced us to a mouse who loves ballet. Now, that mouse (star of her own PBS series) comes to life — and comes to a stage near you — in “Angelina Ballerina: The Musical.” As the curtain comes up, everyone at the Camembert Academy is all aflutter because a special guest is coming to visit. Angelina and her friends (Alice, Gracie, AZ and Viki) are excited to show off their hip-hop, modern dance, Irish jig and ballet skills — but will Angelina get that moment in the spotlight she’s hoping for? This show is appropriate for children ages 3-12. Jan. 8 through Feb. 19, Saturdays at 1pm & 3pm and Sundays at 1pm. At the Union Square Theatre (100 E. 17th St. btw. Union Square East and Irving Place). For tickets ($39.50-$65), call 1-800-982-

2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. Also visit angelinathemusical.com.

MANHATTAN CHILDREN’S THEATRE Imagination reigns supreme in the produc-tions of this theater company whose ninth season is dedicated to classic stories and characters (with a twist!). Through Jan. 2, it’s the world premiere of Chris Alonzo’s “Lula Belle in Search of Santa.” From Jan. 8 through Feb. 28, MCT’s version of “Little Red Riding Hood” has a pair of bungling wolves trying to outfox that little hood-wearing smarty as she makes her way to Granny’s house. Later in the sea-son, look out for MCT’s revved up, wise-cracking, revisionist takes on “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and “The Complete

Works of the Brothers Grimm (Abridged).” Performances are every Sat. and Sun., noon and 2pm. At Manhattan Children’s Theatre (52 White St., btw. Broadway & Church Sts., 2 blocks south of Canal St.). For tickets ($20 general, $50 front row), call 212-352-3101 or visit www.theater-mania.com. For school, group or birthday party rate info, call 212-226-4085. Visit www.mctny.org.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS Explore painting, collage and sculpture through self-guided arts projects. Open art stations are ongoing throughout the after-noon — giving children the opportunity to experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper and found objects.

Sat., Jan. 1, from noon to 5pm, the “Kurt Schwitters-inspired Collage” activity gives visitors ages 4 and up the chance to use the artwork of Kurt Schwitters as a start-ing point for their own collage. On Sun., Jan. 2, from noon to 5pm, the “Giacometti Inspired Sculpture” event encourages those ages 5 and up to create an arma-ture — then cover the surface to create elongated fi gure sculptures like Alberto Giacometti. Regular museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-5pm; Thurs., 12-6pm (Pay as You Wish, from 4-6pm). Admission: $10. At the Children’s Museum of the Arts (182 Lafayette St. btw. Broome & Grand). Call 212- 274-0986 or visit www.cmany.org. For group tours and visit, call 212) 274-0986, extension 31.

POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE’S COPS & KIDS BASKETBALL SEASON Registration for the Police Athletic League’s (PAL) Cops & Kids Program is open through Jan. 10. Manhattan young people, ages 14 to 17, are encouraged to participate in the upcoming winter basketball season. Each year, 825 New York City Police Officers volunteer their time to coach and play bas-ketball, volleyball, soccer, softball and flag football. One of PAL’s signature programs, Cops & Kids will help you perfect your half-court shot. To sign up, call 212-477-9450, ext. 389. Visit www.palnyc.org.

DEAR EDWINA This heartwarming show about the joys and frustrations of growing up has our spunky heroine (advice-giver extraordinaire Edwina Spoonable) sharing her wisdom on everything from setting the table to making new friends. That it’s done through clever, catchy and poignant songs makes the experience enjoyable and engaging for kids who know what Edwina’s going through as well as adults who remember what it was like. Through Feb. 25 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th St.). For tickets ($39), call 212-239-6200. For groups of 10 or more, call 646-747-7400. Visit www.dearedwina.com for additional details and full schedule.

For the kids!Youth activities for idle hands

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Finding magic, in a mirror: See “A Wonderfully Flat Thing.”

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TERESA & SERENA WU, AT POSMAN BOOKS

We all know mom knows best — but what’s so special about what an Asian-American mom knows? Teresa and Serena Wu have the answer, and they’ll be doling out bits and pieces of it when they read from their new book “My Mom is a Fob: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom.” Fob, by the way, is a short & snotty way to say “Fresh off the boat” — but don’t think for a minute that means mom is unin-formed. So what if she still makes Peking Duck instead of turkey on Thanksgiving? So what if she owns a giant cleaver, wears a plastic visor for an evening stroll or takes 24 more napkins than she needs at Chipotle? She’s no fool. As for the authors, the Wu sisters (through their hit blog) have seized ownership of that derogatory “Fob” term, by applying it to the ways Asian moms adapt to American culture. Such nice girls. Meet them both on Wed., Jan. 5, 6pm, at Posman Books in Chelsea Market (75 Ninth Ave. btw. 15th & 16th Sts.). For info, call 212)-627-0304 or visit posmanbooks.com.

MUMMENSCHANZIf you’re old enough to remember Shields

and Yarnell — or have already seen Blue Man Group — or are discerning enough

to shun Cirque du Soleil, there’s a show in town that delivers the artful clowning, clever mime, surreal visuals and subversive humor you crave. Their current NYC gig is part of a national tour marking the renowned Swiss

performance troupe’s fi rst return to U.S. soil since 2003 — and features some of their most iconic performances and characters (plus a few new pieces). In a world where entertainment is more wordy and frenzied than ever, Mummenschanz’s throwback style of silent vignettes, fantastical characters and abstract shapes is a spectacle of simplicity that deserves to be seen (even if it can’t be heard). Through Jan. 8, at The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place, at Washington Square). For performance times,

and to order tickets ($45-$75), call 212-352-3010 or visit mummenschanzNYC.com.

THE ANNIHILATION POINT

The Berserker Residents come to us from Philadelphia. The three renegade time travelers in “The Annihilation Point” come to us from the year 3037 A.X. (“After Xenocide”). Although they’ve mastered

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The future is now: Bradley K. Wrenn in “The Annihilation Point.”

Continued on page 17


the art of millennium-jumping, it seems their gobs of knowledge and futuristic technology can’t help them shake off the mutants, fl esh-eating nanobots and inter-dimensional droid vigilantes hot on their heels. Will Astronaut Z, his cyborg com-panion Dr. Doomstache and alien advisor Gregory Tamborsky save humanity before it’s too late — or, seeing as they’re from the future, is it already too late? Physical theatre, puppetry, music, sketch and prop comedy conspire to deliver an immer-sive theatrical experience that’s amusingly apocalyptic. Sat., Jan. 8 at 7pm & 10pm; Sun., Jan. 9 at 6pm & 10pm; Mon., Jan. 10 at 8pm; and Thurs., Jan. 13 at 8pm. At the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St., corner of Pitt St.). For tickets ($15), call 866-811-4111 — and would it kill you to visit berserkerresidents.com?

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: OPEN HOUSE

When a new neighbor moves in, the burden is usually on you to show up with a plate of cookies and best wishes. This new arrival will take the wishes, but wants you to leave the cookies at home. They’ll be the ones serving up complimen-tary food — plus free performances and the chance to win merchandise and tickets to The Paul Taylor Dance Company. In the spirit of full disclosure by the new kids on the block, The Company will per-form Paul Taylor’s newest work, “Three Dubious Memories” — which will give the audience an opportunity to see the piece before it premieres at City Center. Taylor 2 will perform the classic “Airs.” It’s hap-pening in celebration of their new Tribeca studios. Free. Sun., Jan. 9, Noon to 4pm at the Paul Taylor Dance Company (551 Grand St., Second Floor). For info, call 212-431-5562 or visit ptdc.org.

TU B’SHVAT: WINTER GARDENJust as the French seem to have a word

for everything nowadays, the Chosen People have their own ramped-up take on a slew of beloved cultural observations (Purim lets kids have Halloween dress-up in March — and Hanukkah’s eight days of gift-giving rivals that singular night of presents under the tree). Now, get to know the not-so-famous observance of Tu B’Shvat. As explained by the folks at jew-faq.org, “Tu B’Shevat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat, is also known as the New Year for Trees.” It’s also known (accord-

ing to event organizers at Museum at Eldridge Street) as the Jewish Arbor Day. Family tree-making, genealogy workshops, plantings, food demos are used to unearth cultural roots and environmental heritage. An architectural tour highlighting the green restoration of the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue also puts a nice spin on the fast-rising star of this holiday. Sun., Jan. 23, 1-4pm, at the Eldridge Street Synagogue (12 Eldridge St btw. Canal and Division Sts.). For more info, call the Museum at Eldridge Street at 212-219-0888 or visit www.eldridgestreet.org.

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A traditional Tu B’Shvat seder with fruit, grains and other treats.

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One of the boys from Company B. See “Paul Taylor.”

BY SCOTT STIFFLERFaye Lane’s not just the gal who had the

hottest, sweetest, funniest show in this year’s FringeNYC festival — she’s also a 20-year resident of the Chelsea Hotel and has the secret to containing the common cold. The medicinal advice she gave during an inter-view following our recent viewing of her current show cut our usual sniffle/sneeze downtime in half. But that’s not why she’s at the top of this week’s A&E picks. Lane’s encore run of that FringeNYC hit (“Beauty Shop Stories”) is a perfect early evening activity for those who want to show their lingering out of town holiday guests (or themselves) why Broadway reg-ularly scopes, steals from and sometimes makes a star out of solo performers playing to intimate Off-Off Broadway houses.

As for what you get when the show starts: Lane takes you on a journey of discovery that

starts on the porch of her mom’s Texas beauty salon, makes an unexpected detour in Paris and ends up right here in NYC — where she fulfi lls her sober childhood vow to become a stewardess by day and an entertainer by night. Finding out how the dreams of a chubby outcast were achieved by the charming dish you see on the stage is what gives this solo performance its angel wings. Plus, it’s really funny — and cute bartender Byron makes a killer drink (the Moon Pie Martini) that’s as sweet and easy to digest as Lane’s life story. An added bonus: Cozy up to Faye after the show, and she’ll tell you the name of that highly effective cold & fl u medication.

Sundays at 5pm, through Jan. 9. At the Huron Club at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam St. btw. Sixth Ave. & Varick St.). For tickets ($25), visit www.ovationtix.com or call 866-811-4111. For all things Faye, visit www.beautyshopstories.com.

Faye Lane shines in ‘Beauty Shop Stories’


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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 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

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 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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF YUSON & IRVINE,

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/22/10. Offi ce location: 24 W 45th St., 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036, 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: Yuson & Irvine c/o The Company Corpora-tion, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ELADIAN PART-

NERS LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/01/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 750 Third Ave., Ste. 2300, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Peter R. Kent at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. 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., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 188 E. 76TH

STREET, LLC,

Application for Authority fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/12/2010. Offi ce Location: New York County. The Prin-cipal Business Address of the LLC is 404 South Beach Road, Hobe Sound, Florida 33455-2701. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC 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 c/o Gunster, Yoakley & Stew-art, P.A., Attn: Lisa Schneider, Esq., 777 South Flagler Drive, Suite 500E, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. LLC formed in Florida on October 13, 2010. Certifi cate of LLC fi led with Florida Secretary of State, 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee, Florida 32301. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION EYELEVEL RETAIL SOLU-

TIONS, L.L.C.

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 10/8/10. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to: The LLC, 6040 N. Cutter Cir, ste 309, Portland, OR 97217. Purpose: Any law-ful purpose.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CLINTON

LENDER LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/16/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Coalco NY, 505 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. As amend-ed by Cert. of Correction fi led with SSNY on 11/23/10, the name of the LLC is: PARK-SIDE LENDER LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

VIRTUOSO RESOURCES LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 9/29/10. 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 Harold Hagopian, 303 W. 66th St., #5JE, NY, NY 10023. General Purposes.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION CUCINELLI RETAIL SCP

LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 10/13/10. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to: att: Palma Settimi, 7 Sutton Pl, Brewster, NY 10509. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHIC ACCESSORIES

& DECOR LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EMYS CAPITAL LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/5/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 556 State St. #2DN, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF HEARTS OF PALM

(ASIA), LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/3/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 1411 Broadway, 23 Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ADKO PARTNERS

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/14/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 450 E.86 St. #26D, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

FL CAPITAL LIMITED

LIABILITY COMPANY

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/10/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Ron Hollands-worth 225 W 35th 8th Floor New York, NY 10018. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF YOMA, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 11/12/10. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. TX address of LLC: 3418 Lovers Lane, Dallas, TX 75225. Arts. of Org. fi led with TX Secy. of State, 1019 Brazos, Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11


TION OF BLACKROCK

CORE ALTERNATIVES FB

PORTFOLIO LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/15/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 40 E. 52nd St., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/09. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 100 Bellevue Pkwy., Wilmington, DE 19809. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11


TION OF HPM ADVI-

SORS LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/17/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 6 E. 43rd St., NY, NY 10017. LLC formed in DE on 10/20/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any and all lawful activity.

Vil 12/9-1/13/11

PARK BRIDGE SCR

WFCM 2010-C1 LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/15/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Robert J. Spinna, Jr. 560 Lexington Ave 17th Fl New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF PEONY 82, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. Office location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 909 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10021. 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, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11


TION OF SDUSA, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 12/17/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 801 S. Figueroa St., Ste. 2500, Los Angeles, CA 90017, also the address to be maintained in CA. Arts of Org. fi led with CA Secy. Of State, 1500 11th St., Sacra-mento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11AEG

ADVISORY SERVICES,

LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 10/29/10. 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 The LLC, 575 6th Ave., #7B, NY, NY 10011. General Purposes.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

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


NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RADIANT PIG BEER

COMPANY, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/01/2010. 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: Radiant Pig Beer Company, E 26th St, #5F, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF S.E.A. NICHE, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Chamberlain & Steward Associates, Ltd., 400 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Norman Volk, President. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC:

DKDOI GP LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 11/8/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 10/13/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 65 E. 55th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC: DKIL

GP LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 11/8/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 10/13/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 65 E. 55th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ERWIN PEN-

LAND LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/8/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o IPG, 1114 Ave. of the Americas, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MAGGY’S FUND LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/24/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal busi-ness addr.: 520 E. 86th St., Apt. 8A, NY, NY 10028, Attn: Patricia H. Nadosy, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Term: until 12/31/2060. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MARIA RODALE

CHELSEA ENCLAVE LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/30/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business address: 177 9th Ave., Ste. 4K, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HALPERN REAL ESTATE VENTURES, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 401 West St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE on 9/2/10. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. 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, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: real estate, invest-ments, management and related activities.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT

a license, #TBA has been applied for by Space NY 8 Corp. d/b/a/ Hirai Mong to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 12 St. Marks Place NY, NY 10013.

Vil 12/23-12/30/10

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT

a license, #TBA has been applied for by 344 Bowery Retail LLC to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a res-taurant. For on premises con-sumption under the ABC law at 344 Bowery NY, NY 10012.

Vil 12/23-12/30/10

ALVA CAPITAL, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/2010. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/6/2010. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC 347 W 57th ST 30B NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange ST, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF FLUSHING BAY

DEVELOPMENT LLC,

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/26/10. 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 Xiao Bo Zhang, 180 River-side Blvd., Ste. 12H, NY, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF NEZU ASIA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/3/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: David Snoddy, 590 Madison Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. 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 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 15 LITTLE WEST 12 OWNER

LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/6/09. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001. 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 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ST ANNES, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/18/10. 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: St Annes LLC, 110 Duane Street, PH3N, New York, NY 10007. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF STARR STREET PART-

NERS II LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/1/10. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 594 Broadway, Ste. 1212, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF KILOHANA

PARTNERS, LP.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/10. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Partnership, 351 Saint Nicholas Ave., Ste. 31, NY, NY 10027, also the principal offi ce address. DE address of LP: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., St 101, Dover, DE 19904. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VICTOR RPM, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 146 W. 57th St., Apt. 56C, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Moshe Shuster at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TWAIN WERKS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 202 Riverside Dr. - Ste. 9J, NY, NY 10025. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ECUA_COOL, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/27/2010. 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: ECUA-COOL LLC, 623 W 207th Street # BSMT, New York, NY 10034. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HARKELYN LLC.

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/9/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY des-ignated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to attn. Lloyd Mark, 1186 Broadway #1043, New York, NY 10001. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROXIMETY SOLU-

TIONS, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ETF SPECIALISTS

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/10/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 Trapelo Rd., Lincoln, MA 01773. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TRIBECA HOUSE-

KEEPING SERVICES LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 105 Hudson St. #1B, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF BOKEH LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/10. 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: 55 Fifth Avenue, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11


TION OF MILESTONE

HORIZON LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/11/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o KVB Part-ners, 60 Broad St., Ste. 3502, NY, NY 10004. DE address of LLC: 1201 Orange St., Suite 600, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF CAM TASB,

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/8/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/17/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 101 Park Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10178, Attn: Paul Tanico. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11


TION OF CASTLEROCK

GLOBAL MACRO FUND,

L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 8/30/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Castle-Rock Management II, LLC, 101 Park Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10178. DE address of LP: c/o United Corporate Ser-vices, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF KOPLIK INTERNA-

TIONAL LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/3/10. 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, 600 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11


TION OF JUNIPER I,

L.L.C.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/10/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. loc.: 311 W. 43rd St., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Com-pany, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: real estate development and any other purposes permitted by appli-cable law.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RESTIVO EVENTS,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. 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: The LLC, 245 E. 25th St., #12L, NY, NY 10010. Pur-pose: any lawful purpose.

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NAME OF LLC: RIGBY

183 LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led Dept. of State of NY on 8/9/10. Off. Loc. in NY: NY Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: Hands-man & Kaminsky LLP, 900 Third Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF REEF SOLUTIONS,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/10. 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: Ben Serebin, 160 W. 96th St., #11M, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MMMM, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Ser-vice Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF AMERICOLD

MFL 2010 LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 10 Glenlake Pkwy., South Tower, Ste. 800, Atlan-ta, GA 30328. LLC formed in DE on 11/17/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF VALUE LINE

PUBLISHING LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/3/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/2/10. 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.: Value Line, Inc., 220 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Howard Brecher, Esq. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE PICKHOLZ LAW

OFFICES LLC, A PROFES-SIONAL SERVICE LLC

(PLLC).

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal busi-ness addr.: The Pickholz Law Offi ces LLC, 1140 Ave. of the Americas, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Jason R. Pick-holz, Esq. Purpose: practice law.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SO OTHERS MIGHT

SURVIVE, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/30/10. 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: So Others Might Survive, LLC, 7014 13th ave., Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF EASTSIDE HOME

REPAIR & IMPROVE-

MENT, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/05/10. 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, 568 Grand St. Ste 2002, New York, NY 10002. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

MELODY OF FLAVORS

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/22/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Melody A. Staz-zone 255 Cabrini Blvd. Ste 5F NY, NY 10040. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CBBJ, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/10. 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 Steven Golden, c/o CBIZ MHM, LLC, 1065 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF M & H 75TH STREET

HOLDINGS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 55 E. 75th St., NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Schwartz & Salomon, P.C., 225 Broadway, Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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


P U B L I C N O T I C E SNAME OF FOR. LLC:

WASHINGTON ST. 42A,

LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 10/26/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/17/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Jeff Silver, 14 Faulkner Lane, Dix Hills, NY 11766. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NAME OF FOR. LLC:

WASHINGTON ST. 42B,

LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 10/26/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/17/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Jeff Silver, 14 Faulkner Lane, Dix Hills, NY 11766. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LOFTS 21 LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 7/1/10. 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 Classic Group Inc., 4 W. 22nd St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF 58 FERRY RD

LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/15/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Whitsett St., Greenville, SC 29601. LLC formed in DE on 12/14/10. 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, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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TION OF 3 WTC MEZZ

2 LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/10. 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 address of LLC: 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.

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TION OF WORLD TRADE

CENTER HOLDCO LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/10. 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 address of LLC: 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.

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LEGAL NOTICETEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP

AND ALGONQUIN GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC

Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionDocket No. CP11-56 -000

Notice is hereby given that Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (“Texas Eastern”) and Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC (“Algonquin”), on December 20, 2010, fi led an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) for certifi cates of public convenience and necessity and for related authorizations for (i) the construction, ownership, operation and maintenance of Texas Eastern’s proposed New Jersey - New York Expansion Project (“NJ-NY Project” or “Project”), (ii) the construction, ownership, operation and maintenance of facilities by Algonquin, (iii) the lease of capacity on Algonquin’s system to Texas Eastern and (iv) the abandonment of certain existing Texas Eastern facilities in Docket No. CP11-56-000 (“Application”).

The NJ-NY Project facilities on the Texas Eastern system consist of the (i) installation of approximately 4.84 miles of 42-inch diameter pipeline that will replace certain segments of existing 12-inch and 20-inch diameter pipelines from the existing Linden Compressor Sta-tion in the City of Linden, Union County, New Jersey, to the existing metering and regulating (M&R) station 058 in the Borough of Staten Island, Richmond County, New York; (ii) construction of approximately 15.5 miles of new 30-inch diameter pipeline from the existing M&R station 058 through the Borough of Staten Island, New York, and the cities of Bayonne, Jersey City, and Hoboken in Hudson County, New Jersey, to the Borough of Manhattan, New York County, New York; (iii) removal and abandonment in place of approximately 8 miles of 12-inch diameter pipelines in the City of Linden, New Jersey, and the Borough of Staten Island, New York, and 20-inch and 24-inch diameter pipeline in the City of Linden, New Jersey; (iv) installation of receivers and launchers within the existing property line of the Linden Compressor Station in Linden, New Jersey, and within the property line of M&R station 058 in the Borough of Staten Island, New York, and remote controlled valves in the City of Bayonne, New Jersey and Jersey City, New Jersey; (v) installation of additional yard piping at the Hanover Compressor Station in Morris County, New Jersey; (vi) modifi cations to existing M&R stations in Union County, New Jersey, and in Richmond County, New York; (vii) construction of two new M&R stations at the existing Hanover Compressor Sta-tion in Morris County, New Jersey; (viii) construction of a new Bayonne M&R station at a location where the pipeline crosses the local distribution system, thereby allowing an interconnection with Public Service Electric and Gas Company (“PSE&G”) in Hudson County, New Jersey; (ix) construction of a new tap for a future Jersey City meter station and a point of interconnection with PSE&G, in Hudson County, New Jersey; (x) construction of a new Jersey City M&R station, and (xi) construction of a new point of interconnection with Con Edison at the Manhattan Point.

The NJ-NY Project facilities on the Algonquin system consist of installation of additional yard piping at the Cromwell Compressor Station in Middlesex County, Connecticut, and the Hanover Compressor Station in Morris County, New Jersey; and modifi cation of facilities to facilitate the interconnection with Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company in Mahwah, New Jersey and facilities to facilitate the interconnection with Millennium Pipeline Company, L.L.C., in Ramapo, New York.

The NJ-NY Project will: (i) provide new points of interconnection for existing and new customers, including New Jersey and New York local distribution companies, to deliver diverse sources of natural gas supply to high-growth New Jersey and New York markets, includ-ing a new direct pipeline connection to the Borough of Manhattan; (ii) expand access to multiple sources of natural gas supply utilizing Texas Eastern’s and Algonquin’s systems, thereby increasing supply diversity and improving operational performance and system fl ex-ibility and reliability; (iii) increase opportunities to eliminate existing operational constraints that will enable Texas Eastern and Algonquin pipelines to bring additional natural gas supplies to the New Jersey and New York metropolitan market, resulting in enhanced market competition, reduced price volatility and lower prices; (iv) mitigate the risk of severe disruption at Con Edison’s system that would result from a loss of an existing Manhattan delivery point; (v) provide new and existing electric generation facilities with greater sources of natural gas supply, in turn improving air quality and the reliability of the electric system; (vi) meet escalating residential and commercial demands for energy with clean-burning natural gas in the growing New Jersey and New York metropolitan area; (vii) provide new and enhanced energy infrastructure to support economic development in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area; and (viii) provide opportunities to improve regional air quality by utilizing clean-burning natural gas in lieu of fuel oil in existing and future residential, com-mercial and industrial facilities, thereby signifi cantly reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and other pollutants. The proposed in-service date for the Project is November 1, 2013.

Notice of the Application will be mailed to affected landowners, and local, state and federal governments and agencies involved in the Project. A copy of the Application and related resource reports are on fi le in the public libraries and/or local offi ces in communities impacted by the aforementioned facilities.

Texas Eastern and Algonquin will need to acquire permanent and temporary property interests from a limited number of landowners for the proposed facilities. A signifi cant portion of the proposed NJ-NY Project facilities will be within existing rights-of-way (“ROWs”), consisting of pipeline ROWs currently occupied by Texas Eastern or Algonquin, public roadways, railways, and/or other utility ROWs. Texas Eastern and Algonquin have made substantial efforts to ensure that the Project will have minimal impacts on landowners, com-munities and the environment.

For further information on becoming an intervenor or commentor in the FERC pro cess and/or to obtain FERC’s pamphlet entitled “An Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline on My Land? What Do I Need to Know?”, visit FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov) or contact FERC toll free at (877) 337-2237 or (866) 208-3372.

Texas Eastern and Algonquin are indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries of Spectra Energy Corp, a North American leader in developing infrastructure and connecting major natural gas supply basins to growing markets. Texas Eastern and Algonquin are engaged in the business of transporting natural gas in interstate commerce. Texas Eastern owns and operates an open access pipeline system extend-ing from south Texas and offshore Gulf of Mexico to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States. Algonquin owns and operates an open access pipeline system from New Jersey to Massachusetts, connecting with major transmission pipelines in the Northeast United States.

For more information, please contact: Franklin S. GessnerManager, Right-of-WayNJ-NY Expansion Project150 Warren StreetSuite 201Jersey City, NJ 07302Toll Free (888) 568-7269www.yesgaspipeline.orgwww.nj-nyproject.com

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Numbers of old-school Japanese woodsmen thin out East Village photographer Q. Sakamaki was recently in Tono, Iwate, Japan, where he documented a jidabiki, Moriji Kikuchi, 74, dragging timber out of a mountain forest by horse in the traditional method. In modern Japan, the jidabikis’ numbers are dwindling, yet their craftsman-like trade is still needed. Nowadays, jidabikis only take trees that have been thinned out from forests to allow them to grow better. High-tech machines have

diffi culty accessing the areas because the passes are too narrow. Kikuchi has been a jidabiki since age 16, nearly 60 years. Young Japanese, however, aren’t interested in the physically demanding, dangerous job.

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