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Airbnb bills are still up in the air.......................page 3HealthPlex E.D. to open next week..................page 4Say it ain’t faux — Simulacrum City..............page 13

Zephyr Teachout blows into primary, pressuring Gov. Cuomo on his leftBY LINCOLN ANDERSON

Downtown progres-sive Democratic club members were hav-

ing a hard time finding rea-sons why they should sup-port re-electing Governor Andrew Cuomo to another term. More to the point, there were too many reasons

not to back him, they felt, such as his support for char-ter schools, his acceptance of the Independence Party bal-lot line and his indecision on hydrofracking, just to name a few.

In fact, some clubs — including Village Inde-pendent Democrats and

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Final frame is playedat famed Bowlmor Lanesas condos keep rollingBY ZACH WILLIAMS

Even on the evening of Mon., July 7, the final day of a 76-year run,

much remained the same at Bowlmor Lanes.

The elevator attendant ran the antique cab up to the second floor of 100 Univer-sity Place, as he had for de-

cades. Dance music played loudly. The lights were dim and couples romanced be-tween turns. Monday night business appeared slow but steady as the dozen lanes on the second floor gradually became filled with patrons. The walls were festooned with celebrity autographs

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Greenhouse courts neighborswith ‘new concept’ early hoursBY SERGEI KLEBNIKOV

Af t e r c l o s i n g f o r “ r e b r a n d i n g , ” v iolence-plagued

nightspot Greenhouse will continue with its attempts to reopen, this time reportedly with a “new concept.”

The Varick St. nightclub has had a troubled history. In late April, the club was forced to shut down after its liquor license expired. A renewal application was filed with the State Liquor Authority, which after several months

has yet to reach a decision. Separately, Greenhouse

has also applied to the city Department of Consumer Affairs for a cabaret license, which is needed to allow pa-tron dancing at the club.

At a Community Board 2 S.L.A. Committee meet-ing last month, Greenhouse representatives surprised everyone with a presenta-tion on their reopening plans that opponents described as “bizarre.” The discussion focused on the club’s appli-cation for a cabaret license,

for which C.B. 2’s role — as usual — would be to give an advisory approval or denial.

Speaking for Greenhouse were the club’s lawyer, Mon-te Albers de Leon, and Eric Biberman, who described himself as the club’s new special events manager. They said that the club plans “a completely different method of operation” in order to win community support.

The two representatives explained that the club want-

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Shola Olatoye, chairperson of the New York City Housing Authority, paid a surprise vis-it on Wed., July 2, to the East Village’s First

Houses, as part of a renewed effort by the city agency to establish “better relations and trust” with its tenants and staff.

Olatoye, a Mayor de Blasio appointee who has been on the job a bit more than 100 days, toured the NYCHA housing development, on E. Third St. and Avenue A. Opening in 1935, the First Houses were the nation’s fi rst public housing development.

The chairperson visited the apartment of a 92-year-old resident, and then met with the tenants council to fi eld questions and respond to concerns.

During that meeting, Olatoye told Brenda Santi-ago, the tenants council president, that these grass-roots meetings were “important to my learning experience and a way to build more trust between tenants and us.”

Yet, she said, the Housing Authority’s fi nancial picture was challenging.

“We lost half of our federal funding in 1981,” she explained. “And yet we have a signifi cant aging population that needs special care, and many build-ings that are over 80 years old and in need of repair.

“Our greatest challenge is to make sure that the New York City Housing Authority is here for the next 100 years in order to provide affordable hous-ing to the poor,” Olatoye stated. “Our primary task is to focus in on ways of getting resources to contin-ue our work.”

The chairperson said there are currently more than 150,000 people on a waiting list for NYCHA apartments, and that this list is growing daily.

She also stressed that the mayor wants to ensure that NYCHA developments don’t become “discon-nected islands” within the surrounding community.

“The mayor has asked us to fi gure out ways to contribute to the community,” Olatoye said, “and that is now part of our mission, along with preserv-ing NYCHA housing for future generations.”

New NYCHA chief talks about trust at First Houses

NYCHA Chairperson Shola Olatoye, front right, spoke with a resident, 92, in the First Houses back yard, as Brenda Santiago, the tenants council president, listened in.

Olatoye spoke with workers inside the future home of the St. Mark’s Bookshop, in a First Houses retail space on E. Third St. The bookstore is slated to reopen at the new location later this month.

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SOMETHING IN THE AIRBNB? At the Village Independent Democrats’ May 30 endorsement meeting, Assemblymember Keith Wright spoke on behalf of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s re-election bid. That much we understood. What we eventually didn’t quite get, though, was when Wright started riffi ng about other various issues he’s been dealing with and specifi cally got on the topic of Airbnb. He held up his smartphone to show that The New York Times’s then No. 1 article, as he put it, was “Airb-nb takes to the barricades,” about the home-shar-ing-style hotel operation’s ongoing battle with state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “Airbnb is a big outfi t, but basically they promote illegal ho-tels,” the Manhattan Democratic County leader told V.I.D. “I think people have a right to know if the people in 5A are...[involved in] drugs, a brothel or any illegal activity.” Then, in the part that puzzled us, he emphatically stated, “I’ve had this bill for two years — the bill ain’t going anywhere. I’m holding the bill — ain’t going nowhere.” Wright, who is chairperson of the Assembly’s Housing Committee, noted he had, in fact, even just held an anti-Airbnb press conference with Congressmember Charles Rangel and state Senator Liz Krueger. However, just a week later, on May 6, the Daily News report-ed that a coalition of affordable housing advocates, labor unions and tenant associations — dubbed the Real Rent Reform Coalition — is fi ghting two bills that seek to loosen restrictions on using Airbnb in New York. The bills would both exempt so-called “good actors” from a 2010 law targeting illegal ho-tels that prohibits renting apartments by the night. As the News reported, “One bill — sponsored by State Senator Martin Golden and Assemblymem-ber Keith Wright — seeks to help ‘legitimate in-dividuals’ who lease their apartments as vacation rentals. Another bill — sponsored by State Senator Diane Savino and Assemblyman Karim Camara — would make exceptions for ‘individuals that rent out their own units to help make ends meet and earn extra income.’ ” We asked Michael McKee, one of the city’s longtime leading tenants activists, what he made of it all, and he, too, indicated it doesn’t make sense. Basically, he said, if Wright doesn’t in-tend to move his own bill, why the heck is it even on his desk? More to the point, McKee told us, Airbnb is pouring millions of dollars into its campaign to loosen the rules that currently make what it does illegal, and that includes heavy lobbying of elected offi cials in Albany. McKee added the decision po-tentially would ultimately come down to the old

“three men in a room,” meaning Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver would be calling the shots for the Assembly. “It ultimately does not matter what Keith Wright says or does with his bill,” McKee scoffed. “If Airbnb wins a bill at the end of session, it will be a negotiated bill — negotiated behind closed doors by Silver and the other legislative leaders. It will not be Keith’s bill and Keith will not be in the loop.” A Silver spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Well, the legislative session just ended, and we haven’t heard of any negotiated bill — so apparently the Airbnb debate continues to hang in the air. And, speaking of hanging, so do Airbnb’s plentiful P.R. ads, blanketing the subways, featuring the operation’s smiling, happy “hosts” — in-your-face evidence of the mega-bucks P.R. campaign of which McKee spoke. Local pols apparently aren’t too reassured by Wright’s words, either. On June 4, a dozen of them signed a joint letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, expressing their concern that if the two bills are passed, they would “gut the city’s enforce-ment system, and have serious repercussions on the housing and homelessness crisis in New York City.” The signatories, who asked for de Blasio’s help in keeping Airbnb in check, included Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, state Senators Brad Hoylman, Liz Krueger and Bill Perkins, and Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Richard Gottfried, among others — but not Wright, which somehow doesn’t surprise us.

BRING THE NOISE: Extell will start pile-driving on its Lower East Side residential project, at Cherry and South Sts., at the former Pathmark site in seven days. The developer’s decision to split off its afford-able housing component into a separate building still has many in the community steamed. Howev-er, an informational meeting on Tuesday night with about three dozen local residents was cordial. There was discussion of installation of vibration sensors, among other things.

PIE MAN’S PLAINT: The news that No. 9 Bleecker St., the former Yippie headquarters, will be a hipster boxing gym/party space isn’t sitting well with Aron Kay. Known as the “Yippie Pie Man,” the peaceful Kay has always made his points with pies — not punches — thrown in the faces of the likes of Phyllis Schlafl y, William F. Buckley and former Mayor Abe Beame. Joey Goodwin a.k.a. “Soho Joe” and John Galliano, of the Unruly Heir fashion com-pany, have leased out the building and, along with another partner, are recasting it as the NYC Over-throw boxing gym, after the name of the Yippies’ gonzo newspaper, Overthrow, which was published out of the location. In a video, Goodwin explained the place will be “paying homage to what was here before. It’s going to be boxing meets punk rock/Downtown New York.” They recently held a “Fri-day Night Throwdown” there for a release party for Transmission magazine. “I’m taking a wait-and-see attitude,” Kay said. “I’m not happy about it. I feel I’ve been exiled from a space — by the real estate maggots.” He noted that Dana Beal, the Yippies’ leader, can’t even step foot inside the place because he has a restraining order against him. “Will they let me come and do my political work in there?” the Pie Man asked of the fashionista/pugilists.

CORRECTION: In the June 26 issues of The Villager and East Villager, in the real estate article “Hell’s Kitchen moves up to the head of the pack,” Gotham West’s address was given incorrectly as 420 W. 45th St. The correct address is 550 W. 45th St.

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ed to open at 4 p.m. (instead of 10 p.m.), and have a happy hour, serve dinner and become a place where lo-cal residents could enjoy hanging out. In addition to those additional ear-ly-evening hours, Greenhouse would remain a nightclub from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., they said.

However, their application to D.C.A. for a cabaret license ran into opposition from local residents and neighborhood associations who want the club closed for good. The C.B. 2 committee advised against the appli-cation, telling the Greenhouse reps that they would need to clarify details about the club’s new model or else they would have to withdraw.

According to Sylvia Beam, presi-dent of the Vandam St. Block Associa-tion, Greenhouse lawyer de Leon told the C.B. 2 committee that the night-club was waiting for papers to get signed, and “couldn’t disclose any-thing at this point.” Beam also noted

that the club was illegally operating without a cabaret license, since its pre-vious one expired two years ago.

“Besides the new hours, we ha-ven’t seen anything concrete,” said Richard Blodgett, who lives near the club, which is at Varick and Charlton Sts. He added that Greenhouse has re-peatedly made excuses that there are “new principles involved,” despite refusing to reveal additional details. “They need to show us what is going to change,” he told The Villager.

Greenhouse withdrew its caba-ret-license application to D.C.A., but reportedly plans on re-filing. There is another C.B. 2 committee meeting at which it can provide further informa-tion scheduled in late July.

The application is “sitting in lim-bo,” explained Blodgett, but he thinks that “clearly they will re-file.”

The S.L.A. has yet to reach a deci-sion on Greenhouse’s application to renew its liquor license. However, Blodgett and other locals suspect that the prolonged decision period means

the S.L.A. will most likely renew the license.

Greenhouse is currently owned by Larry Hughes, a former basketball player with the Knicks, and Hirokuni Sai, a Japanese businessman. Ac-cording to new manager Biberman, Hughes and Sai should not be held responsible for the club’s many prob-lems, since they are hands-off owners.

The two owners are never pres-ent for any of the hearings and are “passive investors who don’t get in-volved,” according to Blodgett. Several people present at last month’s meeting requested but were reportedly denied the e-mail addresses and contact infor-mation of the two owners.

Biberman said that the prior man-agement should be held accountable for the club’s many problems in recent years, and that they have been fired. However, this is a story that neighbors have heard repeatedly from Green-house — that is, blame everything on prior management.

Opposition continues against the

club in the wake of the two applica-tions. Neighbors have been expressing opposition at C.B. 2 meetings, as well as starting letter campaigns to Gover-nor Andrew Cuomo and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

Even the Hudson Square business improvement district, Hudson Square Connection, has condemned the night-club. Not only is it unusual for a BID to oppose a local business, but in this case, one located in a property owned by one of the BID’s own board members.

In addition, the Trump Soho con-do-hotel, on Spring St., wrote a strongly worded letter to the S.L.A. in opposition to Greenhouse’s liquor-li-cense renewal application.

The only comment Greenhouse could give The Villager on the situa-tion was made by de Leon.

“The corporation is currently work-ing with the community and is look-ing forward to providing its neigh-bors a level of service they can be proud of,” he said.

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Neighbors slam club’s ‘new concept,’ want place shut

Here’s to your HealthPlex! New E.D. set to openThe new Lenox Hill HealthPlex, at 12th St. and Seventh Ave., in the renovated former St. Vincent’s Hospital O’Toole Building, was dedicated in a ceremony on Wednesday morning. The $150 million facility includes the city’s first freestanding emergency department — with no hospital beds on site — which will operate 24/7, 365 days a year. This first part of the HealthPlex will be opening next week, possibly Tuesday, according to a North Shore-LIJ Health System spokesperson. More parts of the HealthPlex will be coming online in the near future. In the photo above, at the ribbon-cutting, from left, were Glennda Testone, executive direc-tor of the adjacent L.G.B.T. Community Center; state Senator Kemp Hannon, chairperson of the state Senate Health Committee; Borough President Gale Brewer; Assemblymember Deborah Glick; state Senator Brad Hoylman; Dr. Eric Cruzen, the HealthPlex’s director of emergency medicine; Alex Hellinger, the HealthPlex’s executive director; William and Phyllis Mack, the philanthropists whose names adorn the building; Michael Dowling, president and C.E.O. of North Shore-LIJ Health System; Mark Claster, chairperson of NS-LIJ’s board of trustees; Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, chairperson of the Assembly Health Committee; and City Councilmember Corey Johnson.

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Pink boxes proliferate throughout Lower East SideBY ZACH WILLIAMS

W ithin 30 minutes via bi-cycle, The Villager found nine illegal sidewalk

clothes-and-shoes-donation boxes around Delancey St., but their origins and charitable legitimacy remain un-clear.

The boxes are pink and operated by Our Neighborhood Recycling, with a phone number listed below the group’s name. State business registra-tion records link them to an apartment in Jamaica, Queens, as a limited-liabil-ity corporation.

A call to the number listed on the boxes was answered by a call center in Carlstadt, N.J., where a woman took a message, which was not returned by press time. The unidentifi ed woman said she had no information on what Our Neighborhood Recycling LLC did with the donations.

While repeatedly declining to di-rectly address questions concerning these pink bins, Department of Sani-tation spokesperson Kathy Dawkins

said owners of illegal donation bins have 30 days to remove them once they are spotted by the department.

“The placement of collection bins by any person, other than a govern-ment or governmental agency, or its contractors or licensees, on any city property, property maintained by the city, or on any public sidewalk or roadway is prohibited,” she said in an e-mail.

On Sunday, The Villager noticed that a pink box, located at the north-west corner of Wyckoff and Bond Sts., in Brooklyn, just north of the Gowanus Houses, had been plastered with Department of Sanitation stick-ers, saying it was illegal and subject to removal by the department.

But none of the pink boxes ob-served by The Villager on the Lower East Side bore such stickers. Accord-ing to Dawkins, clothing-box confi s-cations are already up citywide — 125 this year compared to only seven in 2013.

She declined to comment on wheth-er enforcement or the number of bins

had increased this year, but did add in a subsequent e-mail that the de-partment has received about 160 com-plaints citywide this year, specifi cally, regarding the pink clothing recepta-cles.

A representative of Viltex, a for-profi t company that organizes do-nations for charities, told The Villager on July 8 that the company does not manage any receptacles in Manhattan

south of Harlem, though their recep-tacles are pink.

Local blog Bowery Boogie high-lighted neighborhood concerns on July 9 that the bins’ operators seek to turn a profi t for some from the dona-tions of others.

With reporting by Lincoln Anderson

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and old news clippings, as well as oversize fl at-screen TVs.

But despite the typical buzz of ac-tivity and the clatter of bowling balls slamming into pins, the longest con-tinually operated bowling alley in New York City closed at 1 a.m. the next morning to make way for new condominiums.

“It’s a painful loss,” said Bowlmor owner Tom Shannon.

Bowlmor operated at the location since 1938. And it was here, under Shannon, that recreational bowl-ing as we know it today was trans-formed.

Among the famous who laced up bowling shoes there were Richard Nixon, Jimmy Fallon, Uma Thur-man, Julia Roberts and Paul Shaffer.

Business fl ourished during the 1940s until the 1960s, when a decline hit both the sport and the city. A chance birthday party held there in the mid-1990s inspired Shannon to re-imagine the space, he said.

This was where bowling alleys be-came a bit pricier and more akin to a disco club than the previous busi-ness model, where bowling leagues dominated, according to Shannon.

“I made bowling expensive,” he quipped.

Bowling alleys now emphasize fun and entertainment rather than exclusively athletic competition.

He realized such a vision in 1997 when he bought the venue through a $3,000 downpayment on a $2 mil-lion loan with 17 percent interest. What had been a dilapidated bowl-ing alley losing money became the model of what is now the largest bowling empire in the United States with more than 265 locations.

Critics at the time said the low ceilings, “rickety elevator” and on-

going decline of bowling leagues would make it diffi cult to turn a profi t on University Place, Shannon said.

“When I bought it, we were doing a million dollars a year,” he said. “Within four years, we were doing 10 million, so they weren’t exactly right.”

However, the building hosting the recreational hub for the glitterati

and neighborhood residents alike is owned by real estate developer Bil-ly Macklowe, a man with business ambitions of his own, who decided not to renew Bowlmor’s lease on the space.

According to Shannon and local media, the site will be redeveloped as residential condominiums. An offer of $20 million for two fl oors of the building did not pique Mack-lowe’s interest, Shannon said.

A Macklowe spokesperson de-clined to comment on the future of 110 University Place.

The last night of business, though, featured little evidence of the im-pending closure. The raucous mix of black lighting, Justin Bieber tunes, drinks and bowling attracted new patrons, even as employees huddled to exchange fi nal refl ections on what 110 University Place had meant to both their company and their friend-ships.

Brooklyn residents Olga Skyba and Samuel Weisman were there for the romance as well as sport. They said they were unaware that Bowlmor would be closing its origi-nal location on the very fi rst day that they came there. The ambiance de-fi nes the venue, Weisman said.

“I like it better here, the music, at-mosphere and everything,” he said. “I’ve been to other bowling alleys in Brooklyn, but this seems to be nicer actually.”

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Final frame is played at famed Bowlmor Lanes

Bowling at Bowlmor Lanes on its last night on University Place.


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Meatpacking tenderizer

On Tues., July 1, a man was hit in the face with a metal meat ten-derizer at Macelleria restaurant on Gansevoort St.

A male victim, 35, stated that he got into a verbal argument with Oscar Orellano, 29, in the basement of the restaurant at 6:25 p.m. As the argu-ment heated up, Orellano picked up the meat tenderizer and reportedly hit the other man on the forehead, causing lacerations and bleeding.

Police arrived on the scene, and recovered the weapon as the victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Orellano was arrested and charged with felony assault.

Forged driver’s license

Police said officers pulled over Deonarine Singh, 26, at 1:45 a.m. last Wed., July 2, while he was driving along Christopher St.

Police found him to be in pos-session of a forged Maryland driv-

er’s license, and he was charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony.

Hot wheels

Last Saturday, a man was observed at 7:35 p.m. riding a Citi Bike against traffic and running red lights along Bleecker St., according to police.

When police stopped the man, identified as Naquan Edmundson, 22, they found that he did not have a Citi Bike card authorizing his use of the cycle. A Citi Bike employee confirmed that the bike had been stolen earlier that afternoon from its docking station at Carmine and Bleecker Sts.

Police arrested Edmundson, who had an active warrant and was in possession of the stolen bike — val-ued at more than $1,000 — on felony charges.

Whole Foods shoplifter

A man was arrested last Sunday

at 6:40 p.m. for attempting to steal several items from the Whole Foods Market on E. 14th St. at Union Square.

Police received a phone call from the supermarket, as the man was observed removing perishables and putting them into his backpack with-out paying. When stopped by police, the individual was found with the shoplifted items stored in his bag.

James Vigliotti, 47, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for attempted petit larceny.

Counterfeit clothes

Police said a man was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for sell-ing knockoff clothes on W. 14th St. with counterfeit trademarks for the company Burberry on them.

On Mon., July 7, a man identi-fied as Javed Muhammed, 41, was observed selling the garments — 13 dresses and one button-up shirt — outside of the Z & Z Luggage & Gift Shop.

Police arrived at 3:20 p.m. and

charged Muhammed with forgery and fraud. Harry Cheng, a Burberry agent from Allegiance Protection Group Inc., confirmed that the mer-chandise was counterfeit.

Relish, ketchup and slash

On Tues., July 8, at 9 a.m., a man was attacked by a knife-wielding hot dog cart vendor while he was walking along LaGuardia Place at W. Houston St., police said.

The victim reportedly told police that Mohamed Ismail, 47, slashed his left arm with a knife from the hot dog cart, causing a laceration and bleeding. Police arrived on scene to arrest Ismail, as the victim was able to identify his attacker before he was treated by E.M.S. medics and trans-ported to Beth Israel Hospital. Ismail was charged with felony assault. The reason for the assault wasn’t imme-diately clear.

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Victor Greer, 46, was arraigned in court in Manhattan on criminal weapon-pos-session charges last Thurs., July 2, after he was arrested at 1:15 a.m. the pre-vious day driving through the Village with guns and ammo and a note saying he wanted to “die in combat,” according to law enforcement. The Pennsylvania man is an unemployed civil engineer. According to the Daily News, Greer was initially stopped after police noticed him going the wrong way up southbound Seventh Ave., at the intersection of Grove St. When officers approached the rented 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, the News reported, they noticed a box of ammunition and a 25-round clip in the back seat and took Greer into custody. A .40-caliber hand-gun, AR-15 assault rifle, .45-caliber rifle and 12-gauge shotgun were in the car’s trunk, police said. A note found on Greer reportedly stated, “I want to die in com-bat so I can go to Heaven and [be] next to God,” according to police. The News reported that Greer’s mother said he had not left his room much in the past two years, and did not have a history of violence.


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N .Y.U.’s Office of Civic En-gagement recently awarded nearly $100,000 in grants to

87 community-based nonprofit or-ganizations. The grants were given out at a June 3 ceremony to nonprof-its with “missions to serve the local community in Lower Manhattan,” according to New York University.

The ceremony was presided over by Lynne Brown, senior vice pres-ident for university relations and public affairs; Alicia Hurley, vice president for government affairs and community engagement; and Bill Pfeiffer, director of the Office of Civic Engagement.

The event was “very upbeat,” ac-cording to Phil Lentz, the university’s Director of Public Affairs, and every organization receiving an award was represented.

“NYU and its employees are proud to give back to the Lower Manhattan community,” Pfeiffer said in a press report.

Money was raised through the N.Y.U. Combined Campaign and the T.G. White Fund.

The N.Y.U. Combined Campaign is an annual employee donation for university faculty, staff and admin-istrators. The T.G. White Fund was

established by longtime Greenwich Village resident Theodore Greeley White, who died in 1913, and is ad-ministered by the N.Y.U. Office of Civic Engagement.

The N.Y.U. Community Fund has given out more than 1,600 grants to local organizations over the last 33 years, totaling near $2.6 million. A group of volunteers from each school within the university se-lects the awards for the Community Fund by scoring proposals from the local nonprofits. Awards were fo-cused on groups providing support in five areas: arts and cultural pro-grams, at-risk children and youth programs, homelessness and hunger prevention, education and literacy programs, and low-income health services.

Among local groups that won awards this year were the Education-al Alliance, Cooper Square Commit-tee, Manhattan Youth, GO Project, Bowery Mission, Bowery Residents’ Committee, VillageCare, Greenwich House, Hetrick-Martin Institute, Chelsea Opera, Cherry Lane The-atre, Fourth Arts Block, NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Gilda’s Club, God’s Love We Deliver, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Theater for the New City, and Third St. Music School Settlement.

N.Y.U. pitches in for nonprofits

On Tues., July 1, around 5 p.m., a fire broke out on a rooftop at 151 W. 10th St., at the corner of Waverly Place. Several fire trucks quickly arrived and the flames were speedily extinguished. Tom Bernardin, who was inside Julius’ bar across the street, ran out and snapped this shot. “I heard it might have been caused by a cigarette butt,” he said, “that there were dead, dried-out plants on the roof. The fire was put out with a minimum of water, so the apart-ments were not damaged. The fireman went up and sprayed something on it.”

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Friends, family, neighbors and local politicians recently gath-ered at Kenmare and Elizabeth

Sts. as the city paid one of its high-est, and most visible, honors to Janet Freeman — co-naming the street cor-ner for the late community activist.

A resident of the neighborhood for more than 40 years, Freeman died in 2011 at age 60. She lived in a graffi -ti-covered storefront apartment on Elizabeth St.

Freeman was a tenant advocate, dedicated and tenacious, helping her neighbors save their homes when faced with harassment and possible eviction.

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Maria Muetes, of Housing Court Answers, one of the co-naming’s sponsoring organizations, said Free-man could always be counted on when it mattered.

“She was the only one person there through all the meetings and court hearings,” she said.

City Councilmember Rosie Men-dez, who was friends with Freeman, shared with her a passion for tenant organizing.

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She was known for assisting any-one who was in a vulnerable housing situation, and was often referred to as “the woman on the bicycle with a cig-arette in her hand.”

She worked with Met Council, Cooper Square Committee, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES). Universi-ty Settlement and the Coalition for a District Alternative (CoDA). Freeman also helped create the Lower East Side Co-op Watch, the Croman Tenants Association and Justice for Lincoln Swados.

“People in the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Chinatown,” Mendez said, “can accredit Janet for organiz-ing tenants threatened by aggressive landlords and ravenous developers, as she helped the average citizen un-derstand the interworkings of hous-ing court. Janet’s passing was a huge loss for tenants everywhere.”

That sentiment was echoed by Sook Ling Lai, director of Chinatown Head Start, another sponsoring organiza-tion of the street co-naming. Lai said Freeman worked to maintain an intact neighborhood that was appropriate for children. In some cases, that meant fi ghting off bars and night spots that wanted to open in the area, like Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce nouveau-style burlesque club.

Adverse to bureaucracy, Freeman channeled her intellect, dedication to ordinary people, thoroughness and accurate research into an unbroken series of actions and campaigns for more than three decades, working as a free agent or volunteer.

Among those who also spoke were Borough President Gale Brew-er, Councilmember Margaret Chin, housing advocates Valerio Orselli, of Cooper Square Mutual Housing As-sociation, and Damaris Reyes, of GO-LES, along with Georgette Fleischer, founder of Friends of Petrosino Square, another sponsoring organiza-tion, and family friend Sylvia Morse.

Janet Freeman Way honors tireless tenant advocate

Holding up an honorary co-naming sign that was given to Freeman’s fami-ly members, from left her brother, Ed, Councilmembers Rosie Mendez and Margaret Chin, Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney and Freeman’s sister, Pixie.

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It’s about local news

To The Editor:Re “Villager owners buy newspaper

group” (news article, July 3):Moving to a central location helps

the bottom line, but I’m not sure it helps make a local paper a truly local paper.

As to consolidating Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Manhattan papers under one roof, I think we get it — build a New York City paper to challenge the Daily News and The Post. Let’s hope it paves the way for a paper that delivers actual news (not Post news — mere incitement on issues that we need thoughtful delib-eration about), investigative reporting that challenges the real powers that be (the 1%) and factual information for readership.

What will matter is how much autonomy, intelligence and integrity

the reporters are allowed or encour-aged to exhibit — not necessarily who owns the paper.

I guess this ends News Corp.’s foray into influencing political outcomes through local media. It was a smart strategy for molding viewpoints to their corporate ends. It’s just that once you forget that local papers are loved because they are local — you kind of miss their point.

K Webster

How about Staten Island?

To The Editor:Re “Villager owners buy newspa-

per group” (news article, July 3):Before moving to Staten Island in

1989, I’d spent most of my life in the Village, where I was both a reader of and contributing writer for The Villager.

Perhaps you would consider a Staten Island publication? The Staten Island Advance is putting its resourc-es into downsizing print publishing in favor of a digital version.

Much as I love trees, I also favor print publications. In junior high school, I sold The New York Times to classmates. Out here on Staten Island, our own poetry program, Ten Penny Players, celebrates its 35th year of poetry publication today.

There is much value in the word printed on paper, archived in libraries (public and private).

Staten Island sorely needs indepen-dent publications bringing the print-ed page to residents and workers.

Barbara Fisher

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BY BILL WEINBERG

After more than a generation of living on E. Fourth St. in the East Village, I feel more and more like I’m in the old joke about the

city slicker who asks the farmer for directions on a country road. Punch line: the farmer says, “Oh yeah, you make a left where the old red barn used to be.” The irony is that this native New Yorker “is” the old farmer in the joke.

This past month, I was hit with a triple wham-my. Three longtime businesses that had been there as long as I could remember closed their doors for the last time. The 2nd Ave Launderette, where I’d been washing my clothes for years, run by very sweet Puerto Rican folks, was forced to close by rising rents. Ditto the check-cashing place on 14 St. where I’d been paying my utility bills for years.

Yet, somehow it’s the place I frequented the least that hits me the hardest.

Plantworks had been on my block for 40 years… . It stuck it out through the rough desolate years of the late 1970s and ’80s, when this stretch of the East Village was still called The Bowery and con-sidered a “bad neighborhood,” before it became gentrified “Noho.” Now Plantworks is also being forced out.

I hadn’t actually bought anything there since I procured my indestructible mascot, a golden pothos I call Arnold, some 15 years ago. But the owner was a familiar face, who I’d passed almost every day for a sizeable chunk of my life. I final-ly learned his name when I spoke to him for this column, approaching him as he stood outside his now near-empty storefront, on the final days of a clearance sale.

His name is Chris Baptiste, and he came from Trinidad to open Plantworks back in the 1970s. It had been at its current location on E. Fourth St. be-tween Bowery and Lafayette St. for 30 years, and was at another location on Waverly Place for some 10 before that. He had hoped to find a third loca-tion and stay in business, but is starting to despair of this.

“We cannot get a space,” Baptiste told me. “Banks and Wall Street and CVS and Duane Reade — they are the only ones who can survive.”

Baptiste said the building, which is now a co-op, had tripled the rent on his storefront to $15,000 a few years ago. (It had been a mere $3,000 when he opened.) It is now being jacked up to $40,000 — more than he can afford. With no lease, he has no recourse.

“I’m 74,” said Baptiste, obviously struggling for some optimism. “I can still work. I’d like to contin-ue working. One door closes and another opens.” But he admitted: “Small businesses are in big trou-ble in Manhattan. Manhattan is becoming a place to come and work and then go home to the Bronx or Brooklyn. It’s just for the rich and the tourists.”

And Plantworks is to be replaced, Baptiste says, by yet another gym. There is already a gym right around the corner on Cooper Square West, in the new luxury development that went up a few years ago...and another one around the other corner, up Lafayette St….and yet another one where Tower Records used to be, directly across Lafayette. And another one two blocks to the east, on E. Fourth St. near Second Ave. Is the market really not saturat-ed yet? I find myself wondering: How many nar-

cissistic yuppie masochists can there be in Noho?But what hits closer to home still is the news,

reported in the New York Post last week, that the former Yippie Cafe, over on Bleecker St., is to be re-placed by a boxing gym. The cafe had been closed for several months, as creditors repossessed the building and evicted Yippie Holdings — a surviv-ing fragment of the Yippie radical youth movement of the 1960s. I spent much of my own youth among the latter-day Yips at the notoriously malodorous hangout that we called “Number 9” back in the ear-ly ’80s. This was the most gutting line in the Post story: “The new gym will be called Overthrow NYC — a reference to one of the alternative news-papers the Yippies published from Number 9.”

Overthrow is where I cut my teeth as a journal-

ist. The first reporting I ever did — on the anti-nu-clear movement, Native American resistance to mining schemes, revolutionary struggles in Cen-tral America — was for the radical rag published on the third floor of Number 9. Now the name is to be appropriated by a joint catering to yuppie nar-cissists with some kind of prole pretensions — the kind who would patronize a boxing gym?

O.K., I hadn’t gone into Number 9 very much since it was resurrected as the Yippie Cafe a few years ago — I found some of the personalities that hung out there to be deeply annoying. But I still felt a pang at its demise. For me, it was rather like that of Junior’s cheesecake emporium on Brook-lyn’s Flatbush Ave. I hadn’t gone into the joint in years, viewing cheesecake as a decadent indul-gence. But its closure still hurt, as a landmark I had known all my life disappeared from the cityscape. With Number 9, it felt like a part of my past was being erased.

It was with this despairing attitude that I dropped by the former Number 9, to speak with Joey Goodwin, the young entrepreneur behind the new “Overthrow” boxing gym. I found him to be a likeable and straightforward kind of guy.

“I found the [Overthrow] magazines covered in cat piss,” he told me. “The name is powerful and has a history behind it.”

Goodwin said he grew up in Florida but has been living at various locations around Down-town Manhattan for much of his life, and was long a fixture playing basketball at the court on Sixth Ave. and W. Fourth St. He admits he expects a “white-collar clientele,” and that’s “not the an-swer the Yippies want to hear.” He insisted, al-most apologetically, that he is very “liberal” — not seeming to get that, for the anarchist Yippies, this was a term of opprobrium. He tells me he bought a copy of Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book” to get up to speed on the Yippie ethos. To my relief, he said he intends to erect some kind of marker or exhibit on the premises explaining the name and the building’s counterculture history.

But he also admitted that he sees “John Varva-tos as a model” — the fashion boutique in the site of the old CBGB, which is self-consciously cash-ing in on the rock ’n’ roll image and mystique.

A particular sinister characteristic of post-mod-ern or “too late” capitalism is its relentless dis-placement of organic social realities with the pre-packaged oxymoron of pseudo-authenticity — as when Starbucks pushes out Greenwich Vil-lage coffee shops, or the Subway chain pushes out authentic New York sandwich joints. This is an appropriation and privatization of what Walter

Benjamin identified as the “trace” of authenticity — the false promise that entices us into complicity in the destruction of our own culture. Or, as Jean Baudrillard observed: “Everything is replaced by its own simulacrum.”

There are some other obvious and very irritat-ing examples. The upscale DBGB bar and grill in the new luxury development a block down from the former CBGB site is also shamelessly exploiting the legacy of the legendary, defunct rock club.

There are still more depressing examples else-where on the Lower East Side. The Eastville Gar-dens housing development on E. Seventh St. is thusly named because it is on the former site of the beautiful Esperanza Garden — which was bull-dozed in February 2000 to make way for the hous-ing development! Or the interior concrete court-yard in the shape of a Tao symbol at the housing project on Eldridge St. — where the heart of old Adam Purple’s Tao-shaped Garden of Eden used to be before it was destroyed to make way for the housing project in 1986.

Is this the Commissioner Bratton we once knew?

IRA BLUTREICH

The East Village is replaced by its own simulacrum

Like a punch to the gut: The Yippie Cafe will

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TALKING POINT


Downtown Independent Democrats — had recently voted “no endorse-ment” in the Democratic primary for governor, an unusual move in such a high-profile race.

One factor in D.I.D.’s snubbing of Cuomo was the governor’s role in the recently revealed “secret M.O.U.” (memorandum of understanding) to transfer $100 million worth of devel-opment rights from Pier 40 to the St. John’s Center site in Hudson Square.

Assemblymember Keith Wright, speaking on behalf of Cuomo, had made a personal plea to V.I.D. at their April 30 endorsement meeting.

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“I know that Governor Cuomo’s in favor of medical marijuana,” Wright responded, though adding, “I don’t know if medical marijuana is a lit-mus test for progressives.”

It was Cuomo who passed gay marriage in New York, Wright not-ed. But the skeptical questions con-tinued.

Finally, Wright conceded, “The governor has some great progressive credentials. He also has some good moderate credentials. And he de-serves to be re-elected.”

But V.I.D. was not convinced.

A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

But then, after losing out to Cuo-mo for the Working Family Par-ty’s ballot line in late May, Zephyr Teachout announced she was consid-ering running as a Democrat, and — true to her name — it’s been like an uplifting breeze of fresh air for local progressives.

V.I.D. will hold a do-over this Thurs., July 10, on whether to en-dorse for governor, and, this time, it sounds like Teachout has a good chance of winning their nod. Sim-ilarly, D.I.D. also plans to recon-vene and reconsider whether to en-dorse, and is doing so only because Teachout — a Fordham University law professor who worked on How-ard Dean’s campaign — has entered the race.

Meanwhile, two other local clubs have already endorsed Teachout — Coalition for a District Alterna-tive, the leading East Village politi-

cal club, and the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, a gay organization led by Allen Roskoff.

However, the Village Reform Democratic Club, a more moderate club, at least by Village standards, is supporting Cuomo.

On June 12, Teachout came to V.I.D.’s membership meeting to in-troduce herself and her candidacy. She hadn’t yet actually committed to entering the primary, saying she would do so in the next few days, after seeing how her fundraising was going. She was excited, she said, but wanted to make sure she could “make a credible run,” as she put it.

However, the next day, she went all in. And she’s been busy collecting petition signatures to get on the bal-lot ever since.

This Thursday, by the midnight deadline, according to her cam-paign treasurer, Arthur Schwartz, Teachout will present her petition signatures, and there should be no problems.

“She’s well over 45,000. She need-ed 15,000 statewide,” said Schwartz, the West Village’s Democratic dis-trict leader.

MAKES PITCH TO V.I .D.

A polished, upbeat and confident speaker, Teachout told V.I.D. at their June 12 meeting what many of them had wanted to hear from a guberna-torial candidate.

Starting out talking about her background, in a light tone, she not-ed that, “‘Teachout’ is not an invent-ed name in the ’60s, despite what you might think.”

She grew up in a small town in Vermont, where her father teaches law and her mother is a judge.

In 2004, she was the director of on-line organizing for Dean’s surprising presidential campaign.

“It’s the kind of campaign I want

to run, but make it better,” she said.She said she’s been a New York

resident for five years. This spring, the Working Families Party asked her about running for governor.

“I had thought about running for office before,” she told V.I.D. “If I hadn’t been approached, I probably would have waited a few more years. But New York has a very long tradi-tion of electing people who have not spent as much time in New York, even not as much as I as I have.

“Honestly, I really want to do this,” she said. “The Working Families Par-ty approached me in late March, and I thought about it for 30 seconds… .”

She got 45 percent of the W.F.P. vote — even with Mayor de Blasio making phone calls to lobby on Cuo-mo’s behalf to curry favor with the governor.

“I am a Democrat,” she noted.

PLANS TO PRESSURE CUOMO

During her speech at V.I.D., Teachout said that while she planned to be “in it to win it,” she also hoped to pressure Cuomo on the issues. A strong run by Teachout, even if she doesn’t win, could put a dent in Cuo-mo’s presidential ambitions, many say, denying him the overwhelming mandate he wants.

“I would love to be the governor of New York,” Teachout said. “But I would also like to get this governor of ours back inside the Democratic fold, get a little discipline, actually listen to the deep, very heartfelt con-cerns of the Democrats of this state.”

She hammered Cuomo on frack-ing, saying she hopes that during the campaign he will “feel pressure” to announce a ban on the hotly debated drilling technique. The governor, she declared, should “commit to protect-ing our state from poison, and com-mit to sustainable energy — sun, so-lar and wind — that would not only

create a sustainable state, but also create jobs.

“It is embarrassing that New York is not leading on this,” she said of sustainable energy. “It is the gover-nor and his interest in himself and his big donors that is keeping us from doing that.”

She also hit Cuomo on education, charging that he has “completely abandoned schools.”

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

Similarly, she criticized the gover-nor on campaign finance laws, accus-ing him of not living up to his prom-ises to pass “some serious reform on public financing of elections,” while he personally can rely on big-bucks contributors.

“He seems quite happy with the current position he’s in,” she said of Cuomo. “He needs to make just a handful of phone calls to some of the richest people in world history — many of whom are not Democrats — and see where that gets him.”

She continued that she’s “com-pletely committed” to home rule on issues affecting New York City, which would give the city — instead of the state — control over its own housing laws, for example.

“The idea that you can’t be solv-ing these very serious problems that you see?” she said. “It’s a deep philo-sophical commitment of mine.”

On healthcare, she stated, “I am committed to single-payer, that’s what I want to get to. … The number of hospitals that have closed under Cuomo’s watch is quite depressing,” she added.

‘GONNA TELL THE TRUTH’

“My commitment in this cam-paign is — I’m gonna tell the truth,” she told V.I.D. “I believe that right now there’s just a sense that not only is politics distorted by money, but political language is distorted — and we don’t gain anything by that.”

Also, she hopes to help grow the progressive movement in New York State, which admittedly might take a little time. It’s all part of her vision — for now, as well as the near future.

“One of the goals is to actually bring out the progressive New York-ers who feel totally forgotten and ignored right now,” Teachout said. “That may not happen in one [elec-tion] cycle — but I’d like it to happen in one cycle. That means talking to far more people under 40 than poli-ticians usually do. That means going

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to communities that aren’t usually gone to.”

$5 DONATIONS ARE FINE

As for her fundraising, she said the first two weeks she would start out with higher-dollar donors.

“But after that, as much as possi-ble, I want to engage people to bring in the $5 donations,” she said, refer-ring to smaller contributors.

“I’m not going to turn down any $120,000 contributions,” she noted, adding, “but my heart is in engaging people, both as volunteers and con-tributors.”

However, speaking to the Jim Owles Club, Teachout said, by ne-cessity, she’ll keep her public mes-sage simpler, sticking to three main themes: anti-corruption, education and the economy. She expects her media coverage will be limited, so plans to streamline her soundbites.

Her running mate for lieutenant governor is Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor who is a leader on Internet neutrality. Teachout told The Villag-er that — as seen with Senator Eliz-abeth Warren — it just seems to be a time when candidates — like herself and Wu — are increasingly emerg-ing from academia to confront the entrenched problems in our political system.

CONNECTS WITH LOCAL CLUBS

Her message is clearly resonating with Downtown progressives.

Sean Sweeney, a leading D.I.D. member, said Teachout seems to be a shoo-in for when they take another try at endorsing for governor.

“I fully expect her to be endorsed,” he said. “Cuomo has engendered a lot of antagonism amongst the D.I.D. grassroots, while Zephyr better em-bodies their beliefs.”

Sweeney also cited Cuomo’s “resis-tance to taxing the wealthy.”

And on medical marijuana, he said, “The problem with his bill is you can’t smoke it.” The new law al-lows medical pot to be ingested only in nonsmokable form, such as pills, oils and vapors.

Sweeney conceded that, in his opinion, voting for Teachout is “a protest vote,” but that nonetheless her campaign can hurt Cuomo.

“If she gets 25 or 30 percent, that’s embarrassing,” he said, noting that, in any race, the typical protest vote is only around 15 percent. “She could bloody Cuomo’s nose, which would certainly affect his ability to garner the Democratic nomination in 2016.”

Teachout, for her part, told the Jim Owles Club, “I know I’m an under-dog — there’s a difference between an underdog and a protest candi-date.”

CODA BLOWN AWAY

Meanwhile, Ayo Harrington, co-president of Coalition for a Dis-trict Alternative, said, again, where-as her organization had a “laundry list” of issues with Cuomo, they re-ally liked what they saw of Teachout when she recently came to speak to them. About three-quarters of CoDA members subsequently supported the upstart candidate for governor.

“Some of the members cited a num-ber of reasons why they were disap-pointed with Cuomo,” Harrington said, “which included the premature disbanding of the Moreland Com-mission, budget maneuvers regard-ing the [state-versus-city] inequities in education — basically Cuomo’s response to the C.F.E. [Campaign for Fiscal Equity] agreement — and sup-port for charter schools over regular public schools.

“She was just forthright and real-ly refreshing,” she said of Teachout. “And when she said that she believes that education is the infrastructure of democracy — I knew at that point that she was someone that I wanted to support.”

But does Teachout have a chance?“I don’t know,” Harrington admit-

ted. “But CoDA is very grassroots, and we stand by principles which she seems to champion.”

REMEMBER...CHRIS QUINN?

For his part, Roskoff, of the Jim Owles Club, said Teachout can’t be counted out — that she could very well pull off a stunning upset, just as de Blasio did against Christine Quinn in last year’s mayoral race.

In a release, Roskoff said, in part, “Zephyr Teachout embodies the progressive ideals of the Jim Owles Club and has articulated a vision of economic equality for all New York-ers. Her bold ideas, including reduc-ing the prison population by grant-ing clemency to those too harshly sentenced are being ignored by the powers that be. … Governor Cuomo has been heartless in his refusal to grant anyone in prison clemency.

“We disagree with him on char-ter schools and his refusal to allow New York City to raise the mini-mum wage and to increase taxes on the wealthy. Cuomo’s watered-down version of allowing for the ridicu-lously limited use of medical mar-ijuana is something you would ex-pect in Texas. …

“While we recognize the gov-ernor’s role in achieving marriage equality, we are not a single-issue organization,” Roskoff said. “We ex-pect a sizable portion of the L.G.B.T. establishment and political organi-zations will endorse Cuomo, as they did Christine Quinn. We believe, however, that the community is to the left of these organizations — as was proven in last year’s mayoral race. At this point in the mayor-al race, Quinn had the most mon-ey and was far ahead in the polls. History has been known to repeat itself.”

FACING A ‘FORMIDABLE FOE’

However, one V.I.D. member, re-questing anonymity, said, while Teachout seems to have a lot to of-fer, the timing of her candidacy — and the high office she’s ambitiously running for — are problematic for him.

“I like her stand on the issues,” he said. “I find her to have a good presence. She’s a dynamic speaker. I’m just concerned that her first cam-paign is for governor against a very formidable opponent.”

TREASURER: SHE’S MONEY

Meanwhile, Teachout campaign treasurer Schwartz — like Roskoff

— also strongly feels she’s no mere protest candidate, but the real Mc-Coy.

“The people who are giving her money don’t consider her a protest candidate,” he said. “There’s a lot of money coming in.”

All that cash has been going right out, since it’s been a big petitioning effort to get on the ballot, he noted.

“At Gay Pride, she was very well received,” Schwartz added. “She was slapping five and taking pic-tures with people the whole route.”

As Roskoff noted, primary elec-tions can be surprising.

“Once she gets on the ballot and she gets her word out — it’s a very liberal electorate in the primary,” Schwartz said. “And if she polls over a certain number — 5 or 10 percent could be enough by early August, but I think she’ll be higher — then the networks will make Cuomo par-ticipate in a debate with her. … And that will be interesting.”

DÉJÀ LIU (ALL OVER AGAIN)?

But while some leading Downtown Democratic clubs are championing Teachout, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the ultimate barometer for this election. After all, last year, V.I.D., D.I.D. and CoDA all backed John Liu for mayor in the primary, feeling he was the most progressive candidate. But hamstrung by a cam-paign finance scandal, Liu wound up finishing fourth.

And while many Downtowners detest charter schools, even Keith Wright said the main problem, for him, isn’t charters per se, but co-lo-cating them in buildings with regu-lar public schools.

“Co-locations have torn at the fab-ric of my community,” the Harlem legislator told V.I.D. “I’m not against charters. [But] co-locations are horri-ble.”

And, in fact, many inner-city fam-ilies see charters as a pathway to a better life for their children.

And we still don’t know where Cuomo will come down on fracking. And, well, some medical marijuana is better than zero medical marijua-na, some might say. In short, many moderates might see Cuomo more favorably.

V.R.D.C. BUCKS THE TREND

In that vein, Ray Cline, a leading member of the Village Reform Dem-ocratic Club, said they don’t share the same view of the governor as “more radical” local political outfits, and won’t be holding a revote in light of


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Zephyr Teachout in Chelsea on a 14th-floor deck at the Caledonia, overlooking the High Line after her endorsement interview with the Jim Owles Club. The endorsement inter-view was held in a community room located off of the deck.



A beautiful day Upstate, and almost a victory…

Super-luxe building soaring next to God’s Love

BY TIM GAY

T here we were, on June 14, a beautiful early summer after-noon, drinks in hand, small-

talking and air-kissing on the man-icured meadow rolling away from the great stone barn at Grasmere in Rhinebeck.

This magnificent estate was built by Janet Livingston Montgomery, just after her husband, General Richard Montgomery, died in the Revolution-ary War.

The lady built it on her land, hun-dreds of acres, bequeathed by her grandfather, Colonel Henry Beek-man. The colonel’s father, William Beekman, was one of the earliest im-migrants in North America, sailing to New Amsterdam in 1647.

Janet Livingston Montgomery’s brother, Robert Livingston, was part of the “Committee of Five,” including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jef-

ferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence. Robert Livingston later administered the oath of office to President George Washington.

The estate has roots in our histo-ry and heritage. It was also here that Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky held their wedding rehearsal dinner on July 30, 2010.

Looking around, I was part of a gathering of definitely established, stylish and well-to-do women and men, professionals and artists, mu-sicians and writers, perhaps a politi-cian or two. But we were much more colorful than our parents and siblings would be at the country club cocktail reception.

We were there for the Empire State Pride Agenda’s “Hudson Affair,” and we were raising money to continue the cause for the passage of progres-sive equal-rights legislation for all the L.G.B.T. communities in New York State.

And I thought to myself, “Wow! It wasn’t that long ago we had a hard time even booking a dining room in a

Chinese restaurant. And here we are, at one of the most historical places of our nation.”

We were on the eve of two victories — passage of GENDA (the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act) and of the legislation to rid the state of “gay conversion therapy” practices — and both were shockingly killed by the New York State Senate on the last day of the legislative season.

Here in the Hudson Valley, we have a great congressmember, Sean Patrick Maloney, who has brought home fed-eral dollars to help our Sandy-related damages, and to boost our local in-dustry. And we have Sean Eldridge, a strong, youthful entrepreneur who helped a lot of our local-origination food companies become strong re-gional businesses.

That both men are gay and both are married is almost beside the point. (Sean Patrick Maloney and his long-term partner Randy Fiorke just got married.) They are both leaders and public servants in the best of U.S. tra-dition.

It was only 11 years ago that the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimi-nation Act (SONDA) became law in New York State. And that took way too long. Next year, we’ll be there again for GENDA and to protect our our young from cruel mental torture.

And we’ll be there slowly and forcefully hammering away at those small-minded state senators who are afraid of transgender empowerment, and opposed to protecting the young and the change that is inevitable.

I’m a lucky older gay man, fortu-nate to be alive today, out in society, and seeing what was unimaginable. And the best thing is that we don’t have to be in a dark back dining room anymore.

A longtime gay activist, Gay lived in Chelsea from 1980 until this year, and now lives in the Sundown Wild Forest section of Catskill Park. Formerly Man-hattan deputy chief clerk of the New York City Board of Elections, he is currently the deputy commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

The skyline is rapidly changing around Spring St. and Sixth Ave.

On the corner, God’s Love We Deliver is rebuilding and vertical-ly expanding its Soho headquarters.

Meanwhile, just to the north — and getting a boost from a transfer of air rights from the do-gooding, hot-meals provider — One Vandam, a new 25-unit luxury apartment building, is swiftly rising.

The 14-story project’s Web site lists

four units still available, including two penthouses with four bedrooms each. One penthouse has 5,300 square feet and is going for $28 million, the other, with 3,400 square feet, is priced at $15 million. Two units on lower floors are being offered for a mere $6.2 million and $6.5 million.

A group of residents called the South Village Neighbors is still to bat-tling the project.

“We have recently retained new counsel and continue to explore legal remedies to the dubious air rights trans-

fer that permitted this massive, out-of-scale and out-of-context building,” said Micki McGee. “The challenges are for-midable in such a fight, and the failure of the Landmarks Preservation Com-mission to protect the full South Village as a landmarked district in time to pre-vent this calamity is one that is likely to impact residents for years to come.

“The entire South Village, includ-ing the triangle South of Houston St., should be landmarked immediate-ly to prevent further damage to this beautiful, low-scale residential neigh-

borhood,” McGee said. “This is not a place for towers. Not at 180 Sixth Ave. [the actual address of One Vandam], not at 78 Sullivan St., and not on an-other lot in our beautiful, but vanish-ing, neighborhood.

“The ad copy for One Vandam is ‘SOHO. ELEVATED.’ We say the South Village is being decimated,” McGee said.

“God’s Love We Deliver should rightly change their name to God’s Love We Develop for their part in this disaster of overdevelopment.”

NOTEBOOK

World Cup’s ups and downsColombians watching the World Cup on LaGuardia Place celebrated a goal during their country’s very physical match against Brazil, which saw super-striker Neymar sidelined with a bad back injury. The tournament’s host team had the last laugh, winning 2-1 — though, only to go on to be humiliated 7-1 by Germany in the semifinals.

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BY PUMA PERL

Anyone remember the song, “Po-etry In Motion,” recorded by a guy named Johnny Tillotson? The

opening lines are

Poetry in motion, walking by my sideHer lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide

Motion and locomotion — a natural connec-tion between words and music. Any good song-writer feels it, and the best poets develop their own rhythms whether they take it to the stage or leave it on the page. So why do so many of my rock and roll friends believe that they don’t “like” poetry, even with the likes of Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Jim Carroll spinning around on their turntables? (Yes, the hard-core crowd loves its vinyl.)

For many of us, our first exposure to poetry took place in the schools. We were force-fed stan-zas and forms, some of it in Old English that we didn’t even understand — and it definitely didn’t rock. It didn’t even move. I remember memo-rizing pieces like “Invictus” and “In Flanders Field.” The first is about awaiting death. In the second, poppies cover the graveyard. Words to rock a 12-year-old heart. Sure, there was always one cool jeans-clad English teacher who includ-ed Dylan in the syllabus, but I never had a sin-gle class with that dude. I’m not sure if he even existed in my working class, inner city school. The closest I got was a middle-aged woman with shoe polish hair. It was rumored that she’d been observed wearing a black jumpsuit and reading poetry to some guy in a Village coffeehouse. Maybe it was the Dylan dude.

So how did I find poetry anyway? The short answer is that I was an undercover nerd who sneaked out to libraries in neighboring areas where nobody would see me. I’d watch the F train from my window and eventually start-ed riding it randomly, often winding up in the

Eighth Street Bookshop, located on, of course, Eighth Street, in the heart of the Village (back in the days when it still had one). Upstairs, in the poetry section, there were these little City Lights Books that could fit right into your pocket — just a theory, of course, although I’m pretty sure the statute of limitations has passed. Ginsberg, Cor-so, Diane DiPrima. Ferlinghetti. Motion. I read all of the Beat poets, and started to hear those bongos and saxophones between the lines. Late one school night, I accidentally tuned in to Sym-phony Sid on my little clock radio and discov-ered Billie Holiday singing “Willow Weep for Me.” That was a pivotal moment for a dorky, yet rebellious, seventh grader.

There are as many ways to combine spoken word and music as there are ways to create po-ems. On June 20, I checked out a show a young friend, Sam Hariss, had put together at Bowery Electric’s Map Room (327 Bowery, btw. Second &

Third Sts.). Sam deejays the Friday Happy Hour, which he renamed “Wham Bam Raff & Sam” — Raff being the gorgeous bartender, Mary Raffa-ele, a founding member of the late ’80s/early ’90s all-girl metal band known as Cycle Sluts from Hell. Sam plays bass in several bands, in-cluding Kee Cartel, led by Jeff Ward who is also a prolific writer and the author of several books, including “Parasite: Joyous Flashbacks Amidst a Crystal Meth Nightmare.” Jeff suggested that a few poets be invited to the gig, which also in-cluded The Nuclears, Stiletto, and the Bowery Boys. After a stripped down set by The Nuclears, and a rocking one from Stiletto (which included a cover of “Dead Flowers” with guest vocals by Jeff Ward), poet Tessa Lou Fixx opened for Kee Cartel. She allowed her still, ethereal presence to capture the audience before proceeding with a slow, thoughtful delivery of two pieces. The

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longer one, “Organic Heroin,” set up an original song, “Transatlantic Tales,” written by Jeff Ward. Almost hypnotically, she told of “women on the street, tied to their ankles…open-hearted, crying for it.”

It’s that open-hearted thing that hit me the hardest. Her piece not only provided a contrasting seg-ue to the driving beat provided by two bass players (yes, two), but complemented the sensibilities of the Jeff Ward songs as well as the camp/glam vibe. An interesting aside is that Tessa actually knows the subjects of the opening song, but, according to the songwriter, she “doesn’t know she knows.” The members of Kee Cartel are Ward, Hariss, and Cynthia Ross, of The ‘B’ Girls. Russ Brazello of Stiletto and the Bowery Boys sat in on drums.

Several songs in, poet Verless Doran stepped into the corner of the room, wearing his usual Bud Lite baseball cap and jeans. The poem he chose is called “7:30 AM Pines Motor Lounge Blues.” Doran’s Ten-nessee twang and killer words en-title him to call almost anything he writes the blues, especially when it’s a country boy’s love song. He is equal parts storyteller, poet, and hillbilly from hell. This one brings you close to tears, as he describes the hooker “hiding from old Leadbelly...the girl who looks like the blues for real…she’s the quiet girl, used to sit behind you in homeroom.”

This room filled with rockers qui-eted as soon as he began reading and seemed to join in a collective sigh followed by an explosive cheer as he ended and the band immediate-ly launched into a new tune written by Jeff Ward, called, appropriately, “How Could You B-Girl.” Follow-ing their set, I honored a last-min-

ute request from Jeff and Sam and stepped up to the podium and per-formed a piece called “The Perfect Man.” Again, the crowd immediate-ly fell silent and paid attention to the reading. It’s a funny piece, and they laughed in all the right places — giv-ing the next band, The Bowery Boys, a chance to set up, and providing a segue into their set of original work by leader/guitarist Joff Wilson, as well as some covers. Joff’s lyrics paint pictures through color and im-age — “Rochester Grey” is a good example — and they were the per-fect choice to close a night of poetry and rock and roll.

I caught up with Jeff Ward to talk about his thoughts on poetry, rock, and the show. “Songs are my poetry,” he said, noting, “I always add the music later. Music gets in the way of really hearing the words at times. Although I like extended readings, it also works well to have

short bursts of poetry and music to switch attention and mood.” Asked what his dream spoken word/mu-sic set would be, he replied, “My fantasy would involve Mumia Abu Jamel and The Last Poets…and I’d tap along on bongos.” Hey now!

As the night ended, I stood out-side for a while with Verless Dor-an. Even leaning against the rail, he towers over most people — and that boy can lean. We were occasion-ally interrupted by members of the audience, as well as by residents of several nearby shelters asking for change. The upscale Bowery den-izens hurried by. “I like the poetry that’s not what people study in high school,” said Doran. “People back home, they don’t read Shakespeare.” By the next day, he had a new poem illustrating what he meant and de-scribing his lean: “Bonnaroo on the Bowery.” This is a short excerpt from the opening stanza:

this dude camepushing his bicycle up to meoutside the Bowery Electricwhere bands and poets playfor peanuts, and lessfor smilesand the way a foot tapsagainst a wood floorsticky with a thousandspills and secretionsthe way a head swayshypotizedthe way arms swing likedrunk angels towardrusted pipes and wiresdangling overheadlike old clockworks

And he concludes:

and the sound of comingwas always more like the bluesthan rock and rolland the lights went down once moreand came up againjust like they always do.

Just another night on the Bowery, sort of what it used to be, and a lit-tle like it is going to be. An 18-year-old plays in three bands, including one with a former B Girl. A 22- year-old bass player curates and deejays the show, and also plays in three bands. A metal goddess serves up drinks. The lead guitarist of Kee Cartel writes novels as well as songs and the Bowery Boys’ lead guitarist paints pictures, both met-aphorically and literally. The poets photograph the session and this writer multi-tasks as best she can throughout the evening.

And the lights went down once more.

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“The Wham Bam Raff & Sam” Happy Hour takes place every Fri., 5-9 p.m., at the Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, btw. Second & Third Sts.). Live music in the Map Room is of-ten included, free of charge. On July 11, The Sad Bastards of Brooklyn — a side project of vocalist Char-lene McPherson and guitarist Mo Goldner of the New York City band Spanking Charlene — will perform an acoustic set of covers of “some of the saddest songs ever” by artists including Bob Dylan.

Puma Perl is a widely published poet and writer, as well as a performer and producer. She is the author of two chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections: “knuckle tattoos” and the recently published “Retrograde” (great weather for MEDIA press). “Puma Perl’s Pandemonium,” a quarterly event, brings spoken word together with rock and roll. As “Puma Perl and Friends,” she performs regularly with a group of excellent musicians. They will appear at Sidewalk Cafe (94 Ave. A, at Sixth St.) at 10 p.m. on July 25. Produced by AHPresents, it is a sec-ond book release party for Retrograde (bands start at 7 p.m. and include the Downtown Pidgeons, the Joey Kelly All-Stars, Red Gretchen and Dirty & Naughty). No cover, no minimum, all ages welcome. Perl’s video links and event updates can be found at puma-perl.blogspot.com.

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Sam Hariss deejays Bowery Electric’s Friday Happy Hour, redubbed “Wham Bam Raff & Sam.”


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BY SCOTT STIFFLER

Like the noonday sun bear-ing down on a treat from the Mister Softee truck,

time has been melting away the New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory Festival — its annual summer-time showcase, where emerging and established companies devel-op their work.

Already chipped off the Ice block: Rady&Bloom’s June 25 – 28 production of “The Upper Room,” in which quirky small town char-acters, electronic music, and su-pernatural tales tackled global warming. From July 2 – 5, the Car-roll Simmons collective’s “Too Many Lenas” brought an absurd sense of parody to the “relatable” comedy of Lena Dunham — with a coven of Dunhams buckling under the strain of being them-selves for a living. These shows are over, but not to despair: true to the nature of a work-in-prog-ress production, they’ll likely be back soon (to learn about the art-ists and track future productions: RadyAndBloom.com, CarrollSim-mons.tumblr.com).

Four Ice Factory productions remain. Through July 12, “Feath-er Gatherers” is set in a fictional 1960s Serbia and influenced by Yugoslavian Black Wave film and vaudeville. An eight-piece band

and theatrical crew known as The Drunkard’s Wife rethinks Stra-vinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat” in a manner akin to “a village wed-ding and the 1968 Paris student riots.” Access some of their mu-sic, at thedrunkardswife.band-camp.com. The festival is round-ed out with two works based on documented facts, and another that’s strictly gonzo fiction.

From July 16 – 19, Live Source, a group of theatre and film art-ists, brings their highly stylized performance method to “The In-credible Fox Sisters.” Based on a true story that remains clouded by fantastic claims and multiple recantations, the controversy be-gins in Hydesville, NY, circa 1888 — when two sisters convince their older sibling (then the town, then the nation) that they can commune with the dead. “There is quite a market for strangeness these days,” says a doctor (and budding tour manager) who’s more P.T. Barnum than altruistic M.D. The two younger sisters be-came the darlings of America’s budding spiritualism movement — and perhaps the first casualties of reality star culture. Eventually revealed as hoaxters, they both died soon after (one from alco-holism).

Like the sisters’ alleged par-lor tricks, the script (by Jaclyn Backhaus) takes liberties with the truth — and in doing so, adds an effective layer of complexity to the uneasy sibling dynamic and the enduring question of whether paranormal forces were at work alongside good old-fashioned greed. No matter the nature of their power, Live Source’s ver-sion of the Fox sisters are effec-tive mediums for examining the ease with which we permit our-selves to believe when there’s money, power, or peace of mind to be gained. Visit Live-Source.org for more info.

From July 23 – 26, the Asian American theater company Sec-ond Generation Productions (2g.org) presents “Galois” — and al-though they’ve only made a syn-opsis available to the press, the stamp of Sung Rno on this pro-

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duction gives it a sight-unseen vote of confidence. Rno, after all, was the man behind “Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen” — the 2001 FringeNYC Excellence for Over-all Production award-winner that took a self-described “mathemat-ical-theoretical” approach to the waking world love triangle and the inner life of Korean surrealist writer Yi Sang. In his latest proj-ect, Rno once again contemplates the intersection of doomed rela-tionships, art, and politics — as lived by a brilliant-but-unappre-ciated man who died young (Yi Sang succumbed to tuberculosis at 27, while in a Tokyo jail cell, and the title character of this new work met his doom at 21).

Expanding upon the life of mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832), Rno elevates the “ge-nius of abstraction” to rock star status, by melding the music of Aaron Jones with his own book and lyrics. The result is a “rock & roll expression” of “contradictory passions.” Locked in conflict with teachers unable to understand and unwilling to nurture his ex-ceptional talents, Galois meets Stephanie at a gathering of Pari-sian student radicals (“they both like explosions and singing,” the synopsis declares). A botched entrance exam to the premiere science school in France, partici-pation in street riots, and a stint in jail are followed by a duel in-sisted upon by Galois (to avenge a perceived insult to Stephanie’s honor). Just before that fateful ex-change of gunfire in a field outside of 1830s Paris, the mad/brilliant young man secures his legacy by putting down on paper the theo-ry of Galois groups — alternately baffling and fascinating algebra students for years to come.

Untimely death is played for kicks — and often done with ka-rate chops — in the Ice Factory Festival’s final entry (July 30 – Aug. 2). It’s a currently untitled offering from writer Qui Nguyen and director Robert Ross Parker, the prolific brains behind Vam-pire Cowboys. The once-scrappy, now-iconic troupe has earned their cult following by bringing comic book, grindhouse, sci-fi, and hor-ror sensibilities to their pulpy tales of everyday people thrust into su-pernatural quests. It’s hardcore nerdcore, yes — but you don’t nec-essarily have to drool over vam-

pires, werewolves, zombies, high-stakes stage combat, and profane puppetry to enjoy the ride.

Camp with consequence is what they do best. The deaths (of-ten accompanied by dismember-ment and gore) earn a laugh from the audience, yet still manage to

take a lasting, emotional toll on the surviving characters. There’ll be no time for tears for the chosen one from this new project. Set in a utopian future, Vampire Cow-boys’ “sacrilegious action-ad-venture play” compels a young lady in possession of extraor-

dinary powers to murder those who would usher in hell on earth. Yikes! Visit vampirecowboys.org, where you won’t find any fur-ther details on their latest bloody slugfest — but you will get a very good primer on what to expect, based on past productions.

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L to R: Elizabeth Trieu, Tessa Skara and Sam Corbin, in “Too Many Lenas.”

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There is, quite literally, noth-ing like writer/director Richard Linklater’s latest fea-

ture. The conceit is simple — the film follows the life of Mason Jr., a young boy from a broken home, as he grows into a young man in Texas. Within this framework, though, lies a quiet tour de force of innovative production and sto-rytelling techniques — an intimate epic that muses on what it means to mature and discover who you are.

It’s impossible to discuss “Boyhood” without first considering its unprece-dented production. In order to show the development of its main character, Linklater shot the movie over a period of 12 years, allowing him to grow up on screen. Texas native Ellar Coltrane played Mason from age six onward, filming scenes that trace his journey from elementary school student to col-lege freshman.

Growth and development perme-ates all other aspects of the movie, as the world slowly shifts from landlines to iPhones. Right from the outset, the film whisks viewers back to the not-too-distant past by using period-ap-propriate pop songs (the strains of Coldplay’s “Yellow” are put to par-ticularly good use in the opening mo-ments), while characters reference cur-rent politics and fads (the War on Terror and Britney Spears, to name a couple). Though it’s a kick to get glimpses of politics and pop culture from the past decade, Linklater avoids nostalgia just for the sake of it — instead, allowing the film’s in-the-moment reflections on the cultural climate to invoke realism and universality.

The success of “Boyhood,” however, is not contingent on the novelty of its

production, but on the story Linklater and company chose to tell. Since his iconic 1991 feature, “Slacker,” Linklater has consistently subverted traditional narratives in order to tinker with more challenging, experimental structures. “Boyhood” may be his greatest use of this method to date. While it fits snugly in the “coming of age” genre, it is any-thing but ordinary. Eschewing clichéd milestones of youth, Linklater focuses on the day-to-day minutiae of grow-ing up and small snapshots of highly particular moments in time. These vi-gnettes never give the film much nar-rative thrust, but they all inform one another, creating a larger mosaic of Mason’s young life, showing how his experiences shaped him into the intel-ligent young man he becomes.

The cumulative effect is akin to hav-ing an introspective browse through a family photo album, reminiscing on formative influences and experiences to better understand oneself. The film vividly captures the confusion and motivations of childhood, while tem-pering it with the benefit of adult hind-sight and understanding.

The principle cast is excellent at grounding the movie. Every character is fully realized, and each actor digs into their increasingly nuanced rela-tionships and internal lives as the mov-ie marches on. Patricia Arquette brings depth and a deft touch to the role of Olivia, Mason’s divorced mother. Her character’s efforts to improve her fam-ily’s lives provides the film with some

of the most emotionally vulnerable and affecting moments. Ethan Hawke, a Linklater regular, plays Mason Sr. as a flawed yet loving father, and gives the movie a lot of heart and energy. Lo-relei Linklater (the filmmaker’s daugh-ter) as Sam, Mason’s older sister, is an effective female counterpoint to Mason (far more talkative than her brother, her rapier wit the yields some big laughs).

Collectively, they are totally believ-able as a family, and help to expand the scope of the film — allowing it to ex-amine parent/child dynamics, sibling relationships, the effects of divorce, and more. Yet the show ultimately be-longs to Coltrane’s Mason. Through serendipity, the young boy of the open-ing reel grows into a highly capable ac-tor, and his transformation from wide-eyed child to an intelligent young man with a burgeoning interest in art is amazing to watch. Coltrane’s low-key charm and charisma help make Ma-son an engaging character to follow, and his performance is one of the most emotionally complex depictions of a teenager on screen — all grand ideas, yet frustratingly inarticulate.

And though “Boyhood” is ambi-tious in concept and execution, it plays like classic Linklater through and through. His dialogue, as always, feels real and naturalistic — even when the characters begin to wax philosophic, it retains its well-observed, colloquial Texan flavor. His direction is unobtru-sive, but elegant. High and low angle shots are repeatedly used to place the

audience in the mind of both parent and child, and show how their rela-tionships shift with time. Elsewhere, Linklater’s signature walk-and-talk tracking shots, a mainstay of his “Be-fore” trilogy, find a welcome home. Throughout it all, Linklater and cine-matographers Lee Daniel (a longtime collaborator) and Shane F. Kelly find the beauty in the film’s lived-in loca-tions, suburban idyl, and sprawling Texas landscapes. The care put into every aspect of the production gives the film a genuine sense of warmth and compassion, drawing you into its world and allowing the audience to appreciate every moment (the sizable running time breezes by).

It is, in short, something of a culmi-nation of Linklater’s work to date — a capstone of sorts for one of America’s best, most overlooked directors. It’s a masterpiece, sure, but it never an-nounces itself as such. On paper and in theory, the film is a truly monumen-tal achievement, but its greatest feat is how personal and small-scale the film feels. While it has the swollen running time and heady themes more familiar to biblical and historical epics, it never becomes overblown or pretentious — in fact, the film is as unassuming and charming as Mason becomes through the years. This accessibility is key to the movie’s greatness. Whether one’s childhood and teenage years are in the distant past, or fresh in the mind, “Boyhood” is a relatable, beautiful, and emotionally satisfying whole.

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FILMBOYHOOD

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NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CERBE-RUS SWC LEVERED OPPORTUNITIES GP,

LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/19/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LLC formed in DE on 6/13/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Seth P. Plattus, c/o Cerberus SWC Levered Opportunities GP, LLC, 875 3rd Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address. DE address of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 07/03 - 08/07/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF NEW YORK

FORTUNE GROUP LLCArticles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/14. Office loca-tion: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 40 WALL STREET, 28TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10005. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, THAT THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON Wednesday, July 30, 2014 AT 2:00 P.M. AT 66 JOHN STREET, 11TH FLOOR, ON A PETITION FOR J & H RESTAURANT ASSOCIATES, INC TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE AN UNENCLOSED SIDEWALK CAFÉ AT 65 SHERMAN AVE IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

Vil: 07/10 - 07/17/2014


NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF S GROUP

MANAGEMENT, LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF M. MARTIN

NEW YORK LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/11/14. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 515 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Alex Gaines at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CONSILIO

SERVICES, LLCAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/09/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/23/14. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Cen-terville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilm-ington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF BNT HOLD-

INGS LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/11/14. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Proskauer Rose LLP, Attn: Ivan Taback, Eleven Times Sq., NY, NY 10036. 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. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 3400 LAW-

SON BLVD LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/14. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Davis & Gilbert LLP, 1740 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF WARBURG PINCUS XI (LEXING-TON) PARTNERS - A,

L.P.Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/16/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LP formed in DE on 4/16/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Gen-eral Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF WARBURG

PINCUS PRIVATE EQUITY (LEXINGTON)

XI - A, L.P.Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/16/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LP formed in DE on 4/16/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Gen-eral Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl.ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF SOLENIS

LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/30/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LLC formed in DE on 4/30/14. 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 Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE and principal business address: 500 Hercules Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NAME OF LLC: RELE-VANCE CONSULTING,

LLCArts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 6/6/14. Office loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Alba-ny, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/26 - 07/31/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF COMMUNITY

NEWS GROUP, LLCArticles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 9, 2014. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been desig-nated 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: Community News Group, LLC, 515 Canal Street Unit 1C, New York, NY 10013 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 2065 WALTON AVENUE MANAGING

MEMBER LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/16/14. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o B&B Sup-portive LLC, 419 Park Ave-nue South, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF WEEN &

KOZEK, LLC, A PRO-FESSIONAL SERVICE

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (PLLC).

Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/4/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Sec. of State designat-ed agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 150 Broadway, Ste. 1920, NY, NY 10038, principal busi-ness address. Purpose: practice law.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF THIRTEEN PARTNERS PRIVATE

EQUITY 3 GP, LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/27/13. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Princ. bus. addr.: 830 3rd Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 6/17/13. 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 Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

NOTICE OF QUAL-IFICATION OF TICO

INVESTMENT VEHICLE IV, LP

Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/3/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LP formed in DE on 5/14/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 590 Madison Ave., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10022, prin-cipal business address. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all law-ful purposes.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF NEWYO-

RK.COM ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT

GROUP, LLCApp for Authority filed with Secy of State (SS) of NY on 8/21/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/5/12. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess against LLC: 19495 Biscayne Blvd, Ste 600, Aventura, FL 33180, which is also the FL address of LLC. Cert of LLC filed with SSDE located: 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/12 - 07/17/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF TICKET-SATWORK – PLUM

BENEFITS, LLCApp for Authority filed with Secy of State (SS) of NY on 4/17/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/31/14. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess against LLC: 19495 Biscayne Blvd, Ste 300, Aventura, FL 33180, which is also the FL address of LLC. Cert of LLC filed with SSDE located: 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/12 - 07/17/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF AR NEWYO-

RK 1, LLCArts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/2/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Princ. bus. addr.: 1430 Spring Hill Rd., Ste. 300, McLean, VA 22102. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/12 - 07/17/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CCATT LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/20/13. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Princ. bus. addr.: 1220 Augusta Dr., Ste. 600, Houston, TX 77057. LLC formed in DE on 11/14/13. NY Sec. of State desig-nated 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: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/12 - 07/17/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF POLYPLEX

USA LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/25/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LLC formed in AL on 7/19/11. 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 Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. AL and principal business address: 3001 Mallard Fox Dr. NW, Decatur, AL 35601. Cert. of Org. filed with AL Sec. of State, 100 N. Union St., Ste. 770, Montgomery, AL 36104. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/12 - 07/17/2014

HOK 2 LLC

Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of

State of NY 6/4/14. Off.

Loc.: New York Co. SSNY

designated as agent upon

whom process against it

may be served. SSNY to

mail copy of process to

The LLC, c/o Lisa Lou, 95

Colon Ave., Staten Island,

NY 10308. Purpose: Any

lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/19 - 07/24/2014

MACNEE LLC

Arts. of Org filed NY Secy

of State (SSNY) 5/09/14.

OFC in NY Co. SSNY

design. Agent of LLC

whom process may be

served. SSNY shall mail

process to 119 Bank St,

#3H, NY NY 10014. Pur-

pose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-

TION OF 340E24 JV

LLC

Arts. of Org. filed with

Secy. of State of NY

(SSNY) on 3/25/13. Office

location: NY County.

SSNY designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be


process to: Benjamin

Shaoul, 594 Broadway,

Ste. 1010, NY, NY 10012.

Purpose: any lawful activ-

ity.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF FIREMON,

LLC

Authority filed with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

05/22/14. Office location:

NY County. LLC formed in

Missouri (MO) on 10/01/03.

SSNY designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be


process to: National Reg-

istered Agents, Inc., 111

Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011.

Address to be maintained

in MO: 120 S. Central Ave.,

Clayton, MO 63105 . Arts

of Org. filed with the MO

Secy. Of State, 600 W.

Main St., Rm. 322, Jeffer-

son City, MO 65102. Pur-

pose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 95TH STREET

REALTY COMPANY LLC

Cert. of Conversion filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/14, converting 95TH STREET REALTY COMPANY to 95TH STREET REALTY COMPANY LLC. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert Kantor, c/o Cityprop Management Corp., 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF FOR-MATION OF 102-116

EIGHTH AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC

Cert. of Conversion filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/11/14, con-verting 102-116 EIGHTH AVENUE ASSOCIATES, L.P. to 102-116 EIGHTH AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC. Office location: NY County. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o The Brodsky Organization, LLC, Attn: Daniel Brodsky, 400 W. 59th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful activ-ity.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF UB LLC

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/22/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Princ. office of LLC: 228 W. 47th St., NY, NY 10036. SSNY designat-ed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Hotel Edison at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 451 TENTH

AVENUE MEMBER LLCArts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/31/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Sec. of State desig-nated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 666 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Jeffrey Moerdler, Esq. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF FTI CON-SULTING TECHNOLO-

GY LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/18/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LLC formed in MD on 1/11/05. 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 Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. MD and princi-pal business addr.: 909 Commerce Rd., Annap-olis, MD 21401. Cert. of Org. filed with Custodian of Records, MD Dept. of Assessments & Taxation, 301 W. Preston St., Balti-more, MD 21201. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF QUALI-FICATION OF GOLD-ENTREE PARTNERS

LOAN FUND LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/12/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. LLC formed in DE on 3/31/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Attn: General Counsel, 485 Lexington Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10017, princi-pal business address. DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF HONDA AVIATION FINANCE

COMPANY, LLCAuthority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/20/14. Office location: NY Coun-ty. Princ. bus. addr.: 20800 Madrona Ave., Torrance, CA 90503. LLC formed in DE on 1/21/14. 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 Sys-tem, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CT Corporation Sys-tem, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/05 - 07/10/2014


ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2011-3734/A - CITATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York, Isa Schott, Elaine Zarief, Ellen Zarief, Barrow Grove Associates, Inc., Consolidated Edison Company of N.Y. Inc., Atlantic City Electric, GreatCall, Inc. Citibank, NA, for Citi Mastercard account #5424180829832762, Lucy A. Sourial, MD, Discover Card, for account ending in 4238, Bank of America, for account #4313072084419517, SLR Diagnostic Radiology, Citibank, NA, for account #63065506, DIRECTV. To Ellen Zarief, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, and if she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown; and to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Theodore Zarief, a/k/a Theodore L. Zarief, a/k/a Ted Zarief, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Theodore Zarief, a/k/a Theodore L. Zarief, a/k/a Ted Zarief, deceased, who at the time of his death was a resident of 77 Barrow Street, New York, New York 10014. A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on August 27, 2014, at 9:30 A.M. in Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA Section 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iii) that the claim of Barrow Grove Associates, Inc. in the amount of $3,244.50 for rental expenses associated with decedent’s apartment for the period March 2011 through August 2011, be allowed and paid; (iv) that the claim of Consolidated Edison Company of N.Y. Inc. in the amount of $60.36, be allowed; (v) that the claim of Isa Schott, if any, for reimbursement of payment of decedent’s funeral expenses, be rejected for failure to file a claim in accordance with the provisions of SCPA Section 1803(1); (vi) that the claims of Atlantic City Electric in the amount of $477.69, Great Call, Inc. in the amount of $ 180.51, Citibank, NA, for Citi Mastercard account #5424180829832762 in the amount of $18,449.59, Lucy A. Sourial, MD in the amount of $71.19, Discover Card, for account ending in 4238 in the amount of $1,247.16, Bank of America, for account #4313072084419517 in the amount of $3,984.09, SLR Diagnostics in the amount of $22.08, Citibank, NA, for account #63065506 in the amount of $3,806.91, and DIRECTV in the amount of $249.70, be rejected for failure to file and/or substantiate a claim in accordance with the provisions of SCPA Section 1803(1); (vii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (viii) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (ix) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or directed; and (x) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. Dated, Attested and Sealed. June 23, 2014 (Seal) Hon. Nora S. Anderson, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk. Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 22 Cortlandt Street, 16th Floor New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

Vil: 07/10 – 7/31/2014

Straight poop on toxo

To The Editor:Re “Claws came out as complex

fought over L.E.S. feral cats” (news article, July 3):

It is disgusting that toxoplasmosis continues to be used as a scare tactic by people who have obviously not researched how it is transmitted. In a nutshell, if you don’t eat cat poop or handle it, you will not get toxo. Period.

Susan LoeschLoesch is a member, Feline Rescue and Rehome (FuRR)

Lost cat colony’s lessons

To The Editor:Re “Claws came out as complex

fought over L.E.S. feral cats” (news article, July 3):

I’m wondering what the conver-sations were as this was happening to fi ght off the false scare of toxo-plasmosis. An article in The Villager as this was happening might have helped, versus reading about it after the fact. I’m not faulting The Villager, just wondering how “pub-lic” this all was.

It also looks like the cats’ area was pretty set off — there was grass and a gate. It’s hard to imagine that they were really bothering anyone and that their shelters could not have remained in place, even if basement access was cut off.

It’s sad that we live in a world where humans dominate every-thing. Real estate and those who hold it come above everything else, and consideration for other species, their lives and the enjoyment they

bring are not considered. I hope those who made these

decisions refl ect on this and how things might have been handled dif-ferently. There are far too many cats on death row at the city “shelter” (Animal Care & Control); dozens are killed almost every night due to abandonment of some kind, as well as the fallacy of “too little space.” Someday, New York City’s shelter system will be “no kill”; but, until that day, this goes on.

Perhaps in memory of Scrappy and the others, some of these cats and kittens now sentenced to death at A.C.C. could be relocated to Broome St. Alley and given a good home to continue the tradition of caring for Lower East Side cats and appreciating what they add to all our lives.

Cathryn Swan

Editor’s note: The Villager, in fact, did start reporting on the struggle to save the Broome St. Alley cats more than a month before their eventual demise. Despite ini-tially having reached out to The Villager asking that an article be written, the cat advocates subsequently turned skittish. In short, they asked that the article be held, fearing that its publication would wreck their tenuous negotiations with management to save the cats. As a result, the article was not published until the cat advocates gave the O.K. — which was after the feral cat colony was lost.

E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to [email protected] or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 515 Canal St., Suite 1C, NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confi r-mation purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, gram-mar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not publish anonymous letters.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Safer cyclingA new “protected bike lane” is being created along Hudson St. from Hudson Square up all the way through the Village, where it will connect with the existing, protect-ed bike lane in Chelsea on Eighth Ave. The lane, painted green, is similar to protected bike lanes on First and Second Aves. — and now on Lafayette St./Fourth Ave., too — which are buffered from motor traffic by a lane of parked cars.

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E VILLAGER


These are fast becoming meaning-less symbols, as their origins fade from memory. I try to tell myself this is a natural process that has been going on in New York City since the beginning. After all, the Bowery it-self is named for the Dutch word for farm — because it cut through what was the sprawling estate of Peter Stuyvesant. Who remembers that to-day other than history buffs? Or that Clinton St. (as well the new moniker for what used to be Hell’s Kitchen) is named for DeWitt Clinton, New York state’s early and infl uential gover-nor? Or that Morrisania in the Bronx is named for the aristocratic Revolu-tionary War hero Gouverneur Mor-ris? But these examples reveal more of an organic process rather than conscious acts of cultural appropria-tion.

A bitter irony of this process is that the hipsters (who followed the Beats, punks and Yippies) made the Bowery/Noho and the L.E.S./East Village fashionable for the more up-scale crowd that, in turn, followed them — and who are now making the enclave increasingly sterile and domesticated.

This process is also evident in the changing names of the business es-tablishments. The once-fashionable Bowery Bar (which was an aban-doned gas station when I moved onto the block) is today known simply as B-Bar, an admission that “The Bow-ery” is now déclassé — or that the cli-entele has changed from “slumming” edgy types to tourists and subur-banites. The slightly upscale Mexi-can joint a few doors down is called Hecho en DUMBO — a Manhattan business establishment named for a neighborhood in Brooklyn. This is an admission that the cutting edge of chic has long since jumped the East River. Another few doors down is the Deth Killers boutique (in the site of what was until recently an auto re-pair shop), which pitches its designer

jeans as “Bushwick style.”Us old-school hipsters who played

our paradoxical role a generation ago in making the district fashion-able have now become strangers in a strange land. Check-cashing plac-es are closing because yuppies pay bills online, and paranoiacs like me who prefer to pay cash are appar-ently seen as doomed to extinction. As for laundromats — I’m really not sure where yuppies are supposed to wash their clothes, but they clearly don’t want to live in the same neigh-borhood with anything so quotidian and working-class as a laundromat.

Chris Baptiste recalled the old days as we chatted in front of his empty storefront.

“This block — it was bad,” he said. “There were crackheads, violence, theft, arson. If you left a bicycle on the block, the crackheads would take it around the corner to sell it.”

I remember those times, and they were certainly challenging. Romanti-cizing squalor is clearly perverse. But back then, when my building was on rent strike because the landlord wasn’t doing any upkeep, we had a tenants association. It was faction-alized and dysfunctional, but it was capable of organizing an ultimately successful rent strike. (The city took over the building from the slumlord, ultimately fl ipping it to a new and more respectable landlord.)

Today, the notion of organizing the tenants in my building is unthink-able. They are mostly yups, who stay just a year or two, facilitating massive rent hikes with each new lease, and have contempt for the few rent-stabi-lized holdouts in the building, such as myself.

As to the bigger question of actu-ally trying to organize the neighbor-hood to protect small businesses and fi ght back the tide of luxury develop-ment, one wonders if it’s still possi-ble over to the east in Alphabet City. But I see few signs of potential here in “Noho.”

If anyone out there has any ideas, I’d like to hear ’em.

SIMULACRUM, continued from p. 13

East Village as simulacrum Teachout takes on Cuomo

Teachout’s late entry into the primary.“V.R.D.C. endorsed Cuomo for

governor as the best Democrat for the job,” Cline said. “As far as I know, we will not be reopening the endorsement process. Yes, there were some members of V.R.D.C. that didn’t want to endorse Cuomo for various reasons. We did a straw poll and they represented less that 15 percent.

“CoDA and Jim Owles are more radical in their opinions than we are,” he asserted. “I can only speak for myself, in that, I personally think he has done a good job. If you compare him to the Republican can-didate [Rob Astorino], he is far and away the best person for the job. Yes, you might have problems with some of his decisions, but that doesn’t make him a bad candidate.”

GLICK STICKS WITH CUOMO

And while local political clubs are being wowed by Teachout, elected

offi cials aren’t ready to toss Cuomo overboard. Assemblymember Deb-orah Glick’s home club is V.I.D., but she said she’s supporting the gov-ernor for re-election — though she hasn’t issued a formal endorsement statement.

“I don’t know her. I haven’t heard her speak,” Glick said of Teachout.

“When you’re a candidate, it’s one thing,” she noted. “When you have to govern, it’s different. Being governor is a tough job.

“I’ve certainly had my differences with the governor,” Glick said. “But, on balance, he has demonstrated that government can work, at a time when the opposition — and I mean the Re-publicans and conservatives — are saying that government can’t work and should be done away with. And through the fl oods and emergencies, he’s demonstrated that government can do things, and there’s a reason for government.”

However, she added, “I am sup-porting him, but I’m also hoping to convince him to ban fracking. I think a lot of anger comes from his indeci-sion on that, when the environmental and health issues are so clear.”


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While watching England lose to Uruguay — an ear-ly result that ended En-

gland’s World Cup hopes — a frus-trated fan at a pub just north of the East Village made a bet that the U.S. would win the World Cup before England would again. Although it sounds like a long stretch, especially since the English have won a World Cup before (in 1966) and practically invented the sport, this wager may become reality in future years.

The U.S. National Team’s round of 16 loss to Belgium on July 1 saw the U.S. bow out of the World Cup again, at the same stage of the tour-nament as they did four years ago. Harsh critics might say that the team hardly gained ground since last World Cup, and point to the familiar feeling of losing in the fi rst knockout round.

In a Facebook post, U.S. coach Jur-gen Klinsmann admitted that losing in the round of 16 meant that there was “a lot of hard work still ahead” for the team. After the charismatic German-born Klinsmann won the respect of U.S. fans this summer, most of his pundits have agreed that he is still the right man to lead the team. But the fact remains that out of four games in Brazil, the U.S. only won one game — in addition to drawing one and losing two others.

However, this year’s World Cup has given fans a glimpse of the fu-ture — of what U.S. soccer has the potential to be.

At the summer’s start, the Nation-al Team was faced with the prospect of surviving the “Group of Death” — with opposing teams Ghana, Portu-gal and Germany. In their fi rst game, the U.S. defeated Ghana 2-1 — the opponents who knocked them out in the last tournament — and racked up a surprising amount of TV view-ers. High viewership numbers con-tinued as the U.S. pulled off an up-set and advanced out of the Group of Death on goal differential with a 2-2 tie against Portugal and 1-0 loss to Germany, both good results con-sidering the quality of those teams.

The 2-1 loss to Belgium, which devastated fans all over the coun-try, was the second-most watched World Cup game, with 16.5 million U.S. viewers watching on ESPN, according to ratings data from Niel-sen Media Research. The game was only eclipsed by the U.S. team’s 2-2 tie with Portugal on June 22, which averaged 18.2 million viewers on a

Sunday. However, data focuses on homes rather than outdoor venues, restaurants and bars, so actual num-bers are reportedly even higher.

Such high viewership for soccer games is usually unheard of in the U.S., and these numbers are a tes-tament to the sport’s growth in our country.

“The game has defi nitely become more acceptable in the U.S.,” said Andy Scruton, chairperson of the board of the Downtown United Soc-cer Club youth league.

Over all, the U.S. team’s technical performance on the fi eld was less than stellar, according to some pun-dits. In the World Cup, the team was defi cient in passing and lacked indi-vidual talent in the attacking end. A team without these qualities simply is not a formula for success. Yet the U.S. displayed an ultimately pas-sionate and resolute performance. The team was very organized, and good defensively with outstanding goalkeeping from Tim Howard.

Howard put in a more-than-spir-ited performance against Belgium, holding back their repeated on-slaughts before the U.S. was fi nally eliminated in extra time. Howard’s 16 saves throughout the match is the highest number made by any goal-keeper in a World Cup match since 1966.

A day after the match, President Obama made an Oval Offi ce phone call to Howard and team captain Clint Dempsey, praising their lead-ership and the team’s performance. He commended the National Team for “making their country proud” in the World Cup in Brazil.

The U.S. will need to continue moving forward by developing our domestic league (M.L.S.) and by cre-ating a better youth system across the country.

“Youth development has to fo-cus on the fact that soccer is differ-ent from all other U.S. sports,” said Scruton, who is involved with run-ning DUSC’s prestigious youth soc-cer camp.

In several World Cups from now, America will undoubtedly be a big competitor, but there is a long road ahead until this becomes reality. It was a performance that “excited the nation,” as Scruton put it, yet far from the fi nished product.

Could this World Cup be a turning point for U.S. soccer? According to Reuters, the U.S. is reportedly plan-ning a bid to host the 2026 World Cup (with Mexico as a co-host). If this proves successful, the next 12 years may be just enough time for the U.S. to fully develop future stars, and 2026 the perfect time for us to conquer our fi nal sporting frontier and win the World Cup.

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