She’s all
baseball, p. 21
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In front of the Christopher St. PATH train station on a recent Saturday night. Many young gays and lesbians come
to the Village from New Jersey via the PATH.
Crackdown on Christopher St.
after string of violent incidents
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
It was a recent Saturday night
shortly after 10 p.m. in Greenwich
Village and two police officers were
sitting astride their horses, George
and Billy, on Greenwich St. just south
of Christopher St. They were part of
a unit of five mounted officers who
have been assigned to help patrol the
Christopher St. area on weekends in
the wake of a recent rash of violent
assaults. A pair of tourists were petting
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High Line opens;
Greenway raises
parks to a new level
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
AND PATRICK HEDLUND
The first segment of
the High Line park opened
on Monday with a ribbon-
cutting ceremony includ-
ing Mayor Bloomberg and
other officials, along with
Joshua David and Robert
Hammond, who 10 years
ago began promoting the
idea of converting a der-
elict, elevated railroad into a
park-in-the sky.
A class of 22 first-grade
students from P.S. 11 in
Chelsea was among the
gathered officials, Friends of
the High Line and press cel-
ebrating the June 8 opening
of the park segment between
Gansevoort St. in the Meat
Market and W. 20th St. in
Chelsea.
Construction crews were
With longer lease
at Pier 40, would
Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki
Related re-emerge?
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Concern is brewing over
Pier 40 once more, after the
Hudson River Park Trust
passed a resolution to ask
the state Legislature to
extend the lease term for the
huge W. Houston St. pier
either George or Billy on his forehead. Christopher St. He proceeded down
Suddenly a dark-haired man in a the sidewalk and brought the powerful
baseball cap ran up to one of the and imposing animal to a halt next to
officers and could be overheard say- a group of more like 15, not 30, black
ing something about a group of “30” men seemingly peacefully congregating
people hanging out up the block, that by a chain-link fence across the street
it was really bad, come quick. Based on from the PATH station entrance and
his excitedness and urgency, the man Chi Chiz, a bar that caters to black
didn’t appear to be a police officer, but gays. The officer talked to them and the
perhaps a resident or merchant. men dispersed without incident.
One officer immediately started his
horse at a walk and hung a right onto Continued on page 18
June 10 - 16, 2009
also on hand ready to con-
tinue working on the sec-
ond segment of the elevated
park, between W. 20th and
W. 30th Sts., with 2010 as
the target completion year.
The project’s third and
final segment loops west
around the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
rail yards at W. 30th St.
and goes up to W. 34th
St., where the old rails dip
below the street across
from the Javits Convention
Center. But the third seg-
ment’s future is uncertain.
“We will be working
very hard to make it part of
the park, but it belongs to
the M.T.A. and it depends
on what’s going to happen
there,” Bloomberg said of
Continued on page 34
from 30 years to 50 years.
Opponents of The Rela-
ted Companies’ failed
Cirque du Soleil/Tribeca
Film Festival plan for the
pier fear that with a lease
Continued on page 5
EDITORIAL,
LETTERS
PAGE 22
CABARET
CONFAB
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SCOOPY’S Grillo and Silvera. Gerson, in a phone interview, acknowledged

giving “friendly advice” to both about mounting challenges, but
he said the decision to run was made by the candidates.
restaurant/bar owner and former C.B. 1 member, are also run-
ning for the seat. Chin and Kim lead the fundraising race so far,
with $108,000 and $71,000, respectively, followed by Gerson

NOTEBOOK
GLEASON SHOCKER AT D.I.D.: Pete Gleason won
the endorsement of Downtown Independent Democrats last
week, delivering a body blow to the re-election efforts of
Councilmember Alan Gerson.
D.I.D. is considered by many to be the most important politi-
cal club in the Council’s First District because it covers most of
the area’s Lower Manhattan neighborhoods. As a practical
matter, the endorsement means club volunteers will be helping
Gleason collect signatures over the next few weeks to be on the
ballot for the Sept. 15 Democratic primary, but perhaps more
important, it means primary voters who have not tuned in to
the race yet will see some of their most politically active friends
and neighbors out campaigning for Gleason, an attorney and a
former police officer and firefighter.
“I’m stoked,” Gleason said immediately after beating Gerson
in the vote, held at St. Anthony’s Church on Houston St. the
night of Tues., June 2. “This is tremendously important. It sends
a clear signal that new leadership is needed.”
D.I.D.’s endorsement helped Gerson narrowly win the
Council seat in 2001, when he was one of seven Democrats
vying for the open seat. He has won the club nod each time since,
including in 2003, when he handily beat Gleason in the endorse-
ment vote and in the primary.
In more recent years, however, Gerson has lost the support
of some Downtown political leaders who previously helped him
get elected, including Sean Sweeney, Julie Nadel, Adam Silvera
and Jean Grillo.
Gerson also lost support in the club because many members
believe he put up two of his political allies, Noel Jefferson and
Avram Turkel, to run as Democratic district leaders against
The official vote tally was 62 for Gleason and 54 for Gerson,
with their three opponents and “no endorsement” splitting the
remaining 8 votes. The numbers were slightly different in the first
count, tallied by two different people, with Gleason getting 65
votes on both counts and Gerson getting 56 and 57.
Bob Townley, a Gerson supporter, said he thinks Gerson is
having more trouble getting re-elected this time because people
had been expecting to get a new councilmember due to term
limits. Citing the dire economy, Gerson voted last year to extend
limits for the Council, the mayor and other officials even though
he had previously said at various times over the years that he
would not support overturning voter referenda on the matter
without a new referendum.
Townley, who runs Manhattan Youth, a Tribeca-based
children’s organization, also thinks Gerson is more vulner-
able because there are a lot of new residents who have moved
Downtown in the last few years and don’t know Gerson well.
“There is a spirit of change,” Townley said as the club ballots
were being counted. “Alan has to work hard — there’s a lot of
new people in the community.”
Townley said Gerson should be re-elected because of his
experience helping Downtown, both in the Council and leading
Community Board 2 before that.
“I think Alan deserves four more years because of his original
commitment of the last 20 years.”
Nadel said she continues to like Gerson personally, but he’s
“totally disorganized,” echoing a common criticism of him.
“People deserve better. I would try anybody else.”
She said she feels Gleason is the strongest opponent right
now, but she said she ultimately could end up supporting a differ-
ent Gerson opponent as she learns more about them.
Margaret Chin, a former executive with Asian Americans for
Equality; PJ Kim, a former Community Board 1 member who
has administered anti-poverty programs; and Arthur Gregory, a
($26,000) and Gleason ($23,000). Gregory has not yet filed
fundraising figures.
Money is not expected to be an issue because the city’s gener-
ous matching fund law makes it relatively easy to raise enough
money to run a credible campaign.
The opponents point to their individual experience as being
right to lead the Council, and criticize Gerson for not effectively
using the bully pulpit to get more for a district that includes the
World Trade Center site.
Townley and other Gerson supporters say he was a steady
force after 9/11 and continues to fight hard throughout the
district, which includes Battery Park City, the Financial District,
the South St. Seaport, Tribeca, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho and
Noho, as well as the South Village, Washington Square and most
of the Lower East Side.
Gerson, who insists he is stronger politically than he ever was,
said the endorsement loss was “disappointing,” but he said there
were several contributing factors that lessened its significance.
He said Gleason “stacked” the club, although Gerson acknowl-
edged it was not a violation to get new members to join the club
six months in advance before the vote as Gleason did.
“This club does not represent the district,” Gerson said of
D.I.D., adding he had won most of the other political clubs’
endorsements.
Gerson said there were potential voting irregularities since his
side was denied access to the D.I.D. membership list before the
vote, a charge echoed by a few other Gerson supporters.
Sweeney, the club’s president, said under the bylaws, mem-
bers can view the list with advanced notice, but the Gerson camp
did not make such a request before the vote.
Gleason’s people had their own criticism for Gerson, namely
that he distributed his own publicly funded Council newsletter at
a political event where he sought an endorsement.
Gerson said he did not print any extra newsletters for the
event and it was not passed out to all club members as campaign

BROADWAY literature, but merely made available to some who were there.
He said he takes “whatever newsletters I have to wherever I go.
PANHANDLER It was not widely distributed [at the meeting.]”
Gleason was surprised by the explanation.
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money for political purposes is against the law — and that’s

Annual exactly what he did. Case closed.”

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Rudin does some surgery, chopping off another story
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
The Rudin Organization showed the
Landmarks Preservation Commission on
Tuesday the newest version of the resi-
dential side of the St. Vincent’s redevelop-
ment project with a scaled-down Seventh
Ave. apartment building.
The tower proposed for the east side of
Seventh Ave. between 11th and 12th Sts.
was reduced in height by 15 feet — equiv-
alent to one story — to 218 feet from the
previous, 233-foot-tall version.
It was the second height reduction for
the largest proposed residential build-
ing on the east side of the current St.
Vincent’s hospital campus. The original
height of 265 feet was reduced to 233
feet last year.
The changes presented on June 9 to the
L.P.C. followed some of the suggestions
that Landmarks Commission members
made at a May 12 L.P.C. meeting. In addi-
tion to the height reduction of the large
residential building, Dan Kaplan, the F.X
Fowle architect for the residential compo-
nent of the hospital project, said the five
townhouses proposed for 11th St. would
line up straight in the newest design,
rather than follow the zigzag alignment
of the previous plan. The townhouses —
set back 9 feet from the property line to
provide front gardens — would also have
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pital complex that are to be preserved and
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of their current detail than in the previous
design, Kaplan said. The bronze doors of
the Nurses Residence on 12th St. would
remain. The penthouses on the Raskob
building on 12th St. and on the Spellman
building on 11th St. will be lower and
wider than they are now.
Because St. Vincent’s is in the
Greenwich Village Historic District,
L.P.C. is responsible for reviewing wheth-
er any changes, demolitions and new
construction are appropriate. Last month,
the commission approved the demolition
of the O’Toole building on Seventh Ave.’s
west side to make way for a new 299-foot-
tall, 21st-century hospital on the site. The
approval followed L.P.C. granting of a
hardship application by St. Vincent’s.
Landmarks Chairperson Robert
Tierney on Tuesday said the commission
would study the new design for the proj-
ect’s residential side and have at least one
more hearing, possibly as early as Tues., The newest, lower design for the tallest residential building the Rudin Organization
June 16, before the commission votes on would build as part of the St. Vincent’s Hospital rebuilding project. The view is from
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dential sides will require zoning changes nity board hearings with a final decision hospital, has filed a lawsuit challenging
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Trust resolves to ask for longer lease for Pier 40
Continued from page 1
change, the “Las Vegas on the Hudson”
scheme could rear its glitzy, high-impact
head again.
In the past five and a half years, two efforts
by the Trust to find private developers to repair
and revamp the 14-acre Pier 40 have sunk.
As part of the second effort, which capsized
last year, The Related Companies proposed its
Cirque du Soleil-centered plan that would have
drawn millions of people to the pier annually.
But Related couldn’t make its plan’s financials
work within the 30-year lease requirement of
the Trust’s request for proposals, or R.F.P., for
the pier. Related insisted on a 49-year lease,
and, as a result, was disqualified by the Trust
in March 2008. This second R.F.P. process was
formally closed six months later, when the Trust
rejected a lower-impact, community-friendly
collaboration by the Pier 40 Partnership and
Urban Dove/CampGroup, featuring two or
three public high schools and possibly a new
private high school. The Trust believed this last
proposal’s financials would not work.
Meanwhile, the pier, desperately in need of
renovation, continues to deteriorate. And so, at
last month’s Trust board of directors meeting,
former state Senator Franz Leichter proposed
the board ask the Legislature to amend the
Hudson River Park Act to allow a longer lease
on Pier 40 — of 50 years. Taking many commu-
nity members and park advocates by surprise,
Leichter’s idea was not listed on the meeting’s
agenda and was introduced as “new business.”
“We’re really handcuffed with that 30-year
lease,” Leichter told his fellow board members.
“I think we really need to lift that restriction,
and more important, move ahead on Pier 40.”
Leichter said 160 parking spaces on the
pier have been taken out of use because
of the roof’s crumbling condition, and that
unless something is done, more parking
spaces will soon be lost — or worse.
“The piles are in bad shape,” he said of the
metal supports on which the pier sits. “We may
even have a situation where we have to close
munity,” Taylor said. “We have to do something,
and I think it’s a great idea,” she said.
Joe Rose was the only board member who
spoke up about discussing the idea with local
park advocates first to get an “appropriate
consensus.”
‘Pier 40 has been such a
problem because there has
been so much opposition
by the community.’
Diana Taylor,
chairperson,
Hudson River Park Trust
“If the [Hudson River Park] Advisory
Council has a concern about [extending] the
lease, let’s hear their reason why,” Rose urged.
However, Taylor said no consultation with
the community or any consensus was needed
before the Trust voted.
“There will be opposition — this is New
York City,” she stated. However, she added, “I
agree we should work with the other groups,
and maybe get a letter from them, too.”
Taylor said she would authorize the
Trust’s staff to draft a letter to legislators
seeking the 50-year lease and also direct the
staff to work with the Friends of Hudson
River Park — the park’s chief advocacy
group — “to bring them along.”
However, Rose said, he understood the
park’s advisory council was supposed to give its
assent to these sort of changes.
Leichter disagreed, saying, “I certainly don’t
like the idea that action taken by this board
requires the approval of the advisory council.”
In the end, the resolution passed unani-
mously.
commercial development.
Schwartz noted he was told by a Trust
official that the pier is now losing $600,000 a
year because so many parking spaces have been
taken off line because of the decaying roof.
“I think there’s almost a conscious resolu-
tion on the part of the Trust to let the pier
deteriorate to justify a longer lease,” he offered.
It’s unclear whether the lease extension
would be passed in Albany. The pier is in
Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s district, and
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told The
Villager he would defer to her on it.
“I don’t know what Deborah’s view is on it
yet. She hasn’t told me,” Silver told The Villager
when queried about the lease proposal last
week. “But it’s in her district — and the [assem-
bly]member is closer to it.”
Silver said that “maybe there’s a compro-
mise” that could be included in a new Pier 40
R.F.P. process, but didn’t mention specifics.
He said the legislative session should end
on June 22 — though possibly June 23 — and
that there’s no chance the amendment would be
“sneaked in” before the session’s end, as some
park advocates fear.
“We never sneak anything in,” Silver
stressed. “Any bill goes before the substantive
committee.”
Glick said her office had been getting “a lot
of calls” after the Trust’s board meeting. The
callers expressed concern about a Pier 40 lease
extension, and were saying, “Don’t do anything
that opens the door to Related,” she said.
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Glick emphasized that lengthening the lease
was Leichter’s idea, not hers.
Glick, too, spoke to Leichter prior to
the board meeting, and said he told her the
Trust might possibly need to put some addi-
tional restrictions on Pier 40’s use along with
extending the lease.
Meanwhile, Glick said, she told Leichter
that “a lease extension doesn’t address an
emergency.”
“The real question is how do we get the roof
fixed to preserve revenue for the pier?” Glick
told The Villager. “Over 40 percent of the park’s
operating budget is generated by Pier 40. Forget
the pier’s development for a minute — it is an
immediate, emergency safety issue and affects
the park’s revenue stream.”
Plus, Glick added, in the current economy,
many development projects are on hold.
Glick last year expressed qualified sup-
port for a longer Pier 40 lease, such as for a
school, but definitely not to enable megade-
velopment of the pier.
Last week she said, “Longer lease terms are
not necessarily my first choice, in general.”
Asked if she thought an amendment to
the park act could conceivably be slipped
through by the end of session, Glick said, “I’ve
been here long enough to know that anything
could happen. ... Sometimes things happen
quickly. ... This is the sort of thing that’s a little
more complicated because of its long history
and the general care that was taken with the
legislation.”
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“I’ve been told by one of the more influential
legislators that it would be helpful if we had an
expression of support” for the lease extension,
Leichter said, not naming the legislator.
Of those park piers that are slated for com-
mercial uses — to generate revenue for the park
— initially all had 30-year leases under the park
act, as Leichter explained it. In order to qualify
for historic preservation credits, the lease for
Pier 57 — which has a unique, floating caisson
support system — was extended several years
ago to 49 years, he noted. An exception was
also made for Chelsea Piers, which got a long-
term lease before the Hudson River Park was
even formally established.
Diana Taylor, the Trust’s chairperson, agreed
a resolution requesting a longer lease on Pier 40
is needed — especially because the community
has been a stumbling block.
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6 June 10 - 16, 2009
St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral was filled to capacity on Sunday for a celebratory Mass by Archbishop Timothy Dolan. At right, Dolan, standing on the edge of a raised platform,
spoke with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his wife, Veronica, after the Mass.
Dolan celebrates ‘200 years of love’ at Old St. Pat’s
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Archbishop Timothy Dolan led Mass
at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mott St.
on Sunday, kicking off a celebration of the
200th anniversary of the historic house of
worship.
The cathedral’s cornerstone was laid in
1809, and it took six years to complete
the structure, which is why the bicenten-
nial recognition will last, not one, but six
years. The church served as the New York
Catholic Diocese’s first cathedral until the
new St. Patrick’s at 50th St. and Fifth Ave.
was completed in 1879. In the early 1800s,
Old St. Patrick’s congregation was mainly
Irish, but also French, German and some
Spanish. Today the cathedral is in what’s
now known as Nolita, and the Masses are
held in Chinese, Spanish and English.
The cathedral was packed to capacity
last Sunday as Dolan, New York’s newly
appointed archbishop, entered to a swell
of applause, waving to his left and right,
and passing under the drawn swords of the
Knights of Columbus.
In his remarks, Dolan said he had been
honored to visit the crypt beneath the cathe-
dral that morning, where his early predeces-
sor archbishops lay entombed.
Dolan summed up the cathedral’s history
as “two hundred years of love, service, fam-
ily, solidarity and community.” But he added,
“We can never allow the church we love just
to become a museum, or just to become a
memory. We are alive.”
Dolan said he was so proud of the old
cathedral that he would ask Pope Benedict
to elevate it to a basilica, sparking applause
from the congregation.
“I just think it deserves it,” he said, cit-
ing “endurance” and “faith.” Mentioning
the early cathedral community’s “tenaci-
ty,” he recalled how the Ancient Order of
Hibernians had defended the church in the
face of anti-Catholic mobs who sought to
burn it down.
Remarks were also given by the church’s
other religious leaders in both Chinese and
Spanish. The church’s current pastor is
Monsignor Donald Sakano.
Afterward, Dolan exited out through the
front door, again to heartfelt applause.
Sister Kathleen Marie Aucoin, a member
of the Sisters of Charity — the religious
order that used to run an orphanage at what
is now Old St. Patrick’s School — was vis-
ibly moved, a tear streak under her eye.
“This is home,” Aucoin said. “This is our
cradle.”
Among the prominent officials attending
the Mass was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
“It was an awe-inspiring event,” Kelly said
afterward. “The church is beautiful, I hadn’t
been it for a few years and it just sort of hit
me again what a beautiful church it is.”
A group of three women in their 70s
and 80s who grew up together on Mott St.
— Millie Scarpulla, Jean Licari and Fonsina
Pumilia — came back for the event, in one
case traveling two hours. They recalled
going down into the crypt as kids and bap-
tisms and marriages in the cathedral.
Asked later about the fate of another
Downtown Catholic church, Our Lady of
Vilna on Broome St. in Soho, Dolan told
The Villager he was sure his predecessor,
Cardinal Edward Egan, made the right deci-
sions. More than two years ago, the arch-
diocese closed Our Lady of Vilna, citing its
damaged roof and a dwindling congregation.
But the church’s former members and its
Villager photos by Jefferson Siegel
supporters in the city’s Lithuanian commu-
nity contend it is repairable and that it still
had a healthy-sized congregation. They filed
a lawsuit against the archdiocese last year to
reopen the church.
“After eight weeks, I’m hardly versed
in all the particulars,” Dolan replied when
asked about Our Lady of Vilna. “At a curso-
ry glance, I would say that the decisions that
Cardinal Egan reached were very sane.”
Told that Our Lady of Vilna’s supporters
want to meet with him, hoping he’ll be more
sympathetic than Egan, Dolan responded,
“I’m always happy to meet with everybody,
but if it’s to change the decision Cardinal
Egan made, it might not be that productive.”
The celebratory Mass was followed by a
parade up Mott St. that included everything
from Civil War re-enactors representing
New York’s Fighting 69th regiment to floats
sponsored by Little Italy restaurants with
smooth-crooning singers. Old St. Patrick’s
School’s float, designed by Macy’s, featured
students sitting at antique desks. On a float
bringing up the rear was a 10-foot-high
scale model of the star of the hour — Old
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Public housing tenants vow a dogfight over pet rules

BY RITA WU NYCHA had given the impression dogs, but on more important issues.
A petition against the New York City that as long as applications were submit- “There are people that are there that
Housing Authority’s new ban of dogs ted by the May 1 deadline, dogs above don’t pay rent, are back in rent,” Kanielle
weighing above 25 pounds and three the 25-pound limit or from the three said. “They have court dates. They have
breeds — pit bulls, Rottweilers and banned breeds would be grandfathered drugs going in and out of their house.
Doberman pinschers — is now online, in. However, a number of tenants with It’s known that there’s been drug trans-
and public housing residents who love dogs in these categories reportedly have actions, been arrested for drugs, kids
their pooches are rallying around the had their attempts to register their pets taken away by A.C.S. [Administration
cause. rejected. Some of these residents have for Children’s Services]. It’s all over the
“These types of regulations unfair- already received notices from manage- place. There’s no cameras. Nobody cares
ly discriminate against responsible dog ment asking to discuss their tenancy, about the real issues, like broken doors,
guardians who reside in NYCHA and according to the policy’s critics. broken elevators, broken hallway lights.
serve only to brand public housing resi- Angel Seda, a community organizer It’s dangerous. But they’re complaining
dents and their pets as vicious and out of with GOLES (Good Old Lower East about pit bulls or dogs over 25 pounds.”
control,” the petition states. Side), a neighborhood housing and pres- Amarilis, a resident of the LaGuardia
The petition also asserts that tenants ervation organization, created the peti- Houses who also only gave her last
were not properly notified of the new tion based on tenants’ input from weekly name, depends on her German shepherd,
pet policy. Journal, the NYCHA newslet- Sunday meetings. Jubilee, for more than just companion-
ter, did not disclose the new regulations “We’re really hopeful that if we can ship.
until its April issue, a month before the get the door open to at least start talk- “I have a lot of illnesses and that
policy was set to go into effect. A good ing about this policy again, to protect causes depression,” she said. “And if it
number of housing developments had not the homes of residents who have tried wasn’t for my dog, I wouldn’t be going
received mail notification. Also, because to register and have been denied, we’ll out there. I wouldn’t be an activist right
the information was available only in be able to come up with a real solution now. These are things she is making me
English, non-English-speaking residents and, hopefully, a format to take other do. I’m more active. I’m more social.
were unaware of the proposed change. policies that might be discriminatory in That’s what dogs do. They bring a lot of
The petition suggests extending the NYCHA, and really think about how do joy into people’s lives. It’s really unfair
deadline for the policy’s implementa- we create real solutions to these prob- if you think about it. That’s the bottom
tion to May 1, 2010, revoking the bans lems — because NYCHA is public hous- line.”
on specific breeds, removing the weight ing, housing for the public,” Seda stated. Seniors, in particular, also are often
caps, including pet owners in the cre- “It’s not only the management’s respon- very attached to their canines.
ation of a new pet policy and stopping sibility or the chairperson of NYCHA’s “Old people, they don’t have any fam-
any evictions as a result of the new board responsibility to run public hous- ily, they don’t have any protection. They
policy. ing. The residents have to have some of don’t have any companionship,” said a
Villager photo by Rita Wu
tenant from the First Houses who did not
want to be identified.
Kanielle with her blue-nosed pit bull
There have been claims of dogfights
Denim.
and aggressive dog incidents, but so far
that responsibility.” there has been nothing to back that up,
Many residents feel it’s not the size the tenant said.
of the dog or the breed that’s the prob- “Whether it does happen, no one real-
lem but the owner. They want to “come ly knows,” the tenant said. “They have
up with some realistic solutions that to give us some information before they
don’t demonize pet owners or criminal- make a statement like that. We haven’t
Family Child Care (FCC) Re cr ui t me n t Campaign ize dogs,” the petition notes. They feel seen what the statistics on dogfights on
NYCHA should provide handouts on NYCHA property are, the complaints
Join the Family Child Care (FCC) Ini t iat i ve sponsore d by NYU and coordinate d
how to be a good pet owner, offer dog- that have been registered at the man-
by Uni ve rsi t y Se t t leme nt (US), a we ll-e s tablishe d prov ide r of child
training classes, create dog runs and ager’s office. Dogfight incidents happen-
de ve lopme nt and child care se r v ice s in Lo we r Manhat tan. install surveillance cameras. Reprimands ing on NYCHA property reported to the
should come in the form of education on police — we haven’t heard of any. It’s all
The NYU/US FCC Initiative seeks to recruit, train and support individuals the issue. speculation. If NYCHA wants us to have
interested in providing high quality, home-based child care services to NYU “Some support in an area where you trust in them, they have to give us that
faculty, staff and students. might not have that much information information.”
on how to change the situation or make Howard Marder, a Housing Authority
If you have the interest, dedication and commitment to provide child care it different always becomes a great way spokesperson, in an interview a few
services from your home, we will provide the following: to heal what the person has done to the weeks ago, said, “The [new pet] policy is
• Support in obtaining, completing and meeting licensing requirements neighborhood,” said Seda. a request from residents, resident leaders
• All necessary and ongoing training for your professional growth Kanielle, who only gave her first and the N.Y.P.D.”
• Grants to purchase equipment and materials
name, a resident of Bracetti Plaza, a However, activist Seda has a problem
NYCHA development at Avenue C and with that statement.
• Support from an Early Childhood Teacher
E. Third St., has a pit bull named Denim “There’s just way too much involve-
• Referrals from NYU families seeking child care services
who is almost 2 years old. Kanielle said ment from police in creating the laws
• Guidance, training and support in managing a profitable business the dogs being targeted by the Housing and the policies at NYCHA,” Seda said.
Authority are scapegoats. “There should be no police involvement.
For more i nf or m at ion, “There are dogs out there that are There should be more resident involve-
c al l: (212) 453-4524 vicious — I’m not saying that they’re ment. The Police Department having a
not,” she said. “But they come in every part of the decision-making doesn’t make
breed and every size. They used to blame sense. Bring in the A.S.P.C.A. Bring in
the Dobermans in the ’70s, Rottweilers anybody. Bring in Cesar Millan, the Dog
in the ’80s, and now it’s pit bulls. It’s not Whisperer.”
even the dog’s fault how they come out. For more information about the peti-
It’s the owner’s.” tion go to www.petitiononline.com/
She feels the focus shouldn’t be on NYCHAPPE/petition.html.
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Chinatown traffic project now appears to be stalled

BY JULIE SHAPIRO
The city will not begin reconstructing
Chatham Square this summer, after the unpop-
ular plan drew months of criticism from the
community and elected officials.
The city insisted this week that the delay
does not mean the $50 million project is
shelved, but officials would not say when the
work would start. Several people said that the
project is unlikely to move forward anytime
soon.
“I don’t think they’re going to do anything
anymore,” said Justin Yu, chairperson of the
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Yu met with D.O.T. Commissioner Janette
Sadik-Khan and other high-level D.O.T. staff
last week to discuss the Chatham Square plan.
“Definitely she said they would reconsider it,
review it,” Yu said of Sadik-Khan.
Yu is one of many Chinatown leaders who
oppose the city’s proposal for the compli-
cated seven-way intersection. The city wants to
realign the streets that feed Chatham Square,
connecting East Broadway to Worth St. and
the Bowery to St. James Place. The plan would
cut Park Row out of the intersection, essential-
ly making permanent the post-9/11 decision to
close the street to protect One Police Plaza.
Chinatown advocates spoke out against the
city’s plan immediately when the city began
pushing it late last year. The advocates were
concerned that the city’s traffic and pedestrian
improvements would be outweighed by the
negative impact of the three-year construction
on local businesses. When the city decided
to move ahead with the reconfiguration any-
way, residents and business owners banded
together, holding rallies and gathering petition
signatures.
“I guess D.O.T. got the message,” Yu said.
This week, the city acknowledged the delay
in the project, but denied that anything beside
the schedule had changed.
“The project is not suspended or shelved,”
said Scott Gastel, a D.O.T. spokesperson.
“We are working on some timing and coor-
dination issues,” he added in an e-mailed
statement.
Gastel would not say when construction
contracts would go out to bid or when work
would begin.
The city previously said it was essential
for construction to begin this summer, so
that the intersection would be able to handle
an increased flow of cars during Brooklyn
Bridge work starting next year. Gastel would
not say how the Chatham Square delay
would impact the bridge work.
Since the bulldozers won’t be arriv-
ing in Chatham Square anytime soon,
Councilmember Alan Gerson said the com-
munity now has time to work with D.O.T. on
a plan that makes everyone happy.
“It’s a wonderful victory for the com-
munity,” said Gerson, who protested the
Chatham Square plan last month with
Comptroller Bill Thompson. “This gives us
a chance to regroup.”
Jan Lee, a Chinatown activist and owner
of an antiques store, also was glad the project
is on hold, but said it’s important to remain
vigilant. Lee heard from a citywide official that
D.O.T. is only delaying the project to avoid
widespread protests during election season.
If Mayor Mike Bloomberg gets re-elected
this fall, “this project starts the day after,” Lee
said, based on what the city official told him.
Lee hopes the delay will give the Civic
Center Residents Coalition time to build
support for their alternate plan, which would
leave the intersection largely as is, reducing
the project’s scope, cost and duration. The
plan, endorsed by Community Board 3,
would add a new one-lane road directly con-
necting St. James Place to East Broadway but
would leave Park Row in its central position,
in the hope that it will one day reopen.
In a seven-page letter to C.B. 3 last month,
Luis Sanchez, D.O.T.’s Lower Manhattan bor-
ough commissioner, said the community alter-
native plan would provide some relief to the
traffic that snarls the intersection, but wouldn’t
work as well as the city’s plan. Sanchez also
said the city’s plan improves pedestrian safety,
while the community’s plan doesn’t.
C.B. 3’s Chatham Square Task Force,
which relied on the expertise of traffic con-
sultant Brian Ketcham, also recommended
that the city add a second eastbound lane to
Worth St.
In his May 1 letter, Sanchez agreed that
widening Worth St. would improve traffic
flow, and he said the city’s original plan
included that. The city also wanted to add a
third southbound lane to Bowery.
But the problem is that widening the
streets would cut into park space that has
both state and city protections, Sanchez
wrote. In late 2007, D.O.T. asked elected
officials if they would support removing
some park space for traffic improvements,
and they did not support it, Sanchez said.
Now, redesigning the intersection would
require another five to seven months of
work, Sanchez wrote.
“It is simply too late to consider such
a fundamental change to the design,” he
wrote.
However, Gerson said Chatham Square’s
current work delay gives the city more than
enough time to get approval to remove a
small amount of park space and redesign the
intersection. Gerson supports demapping the
park areas — which are basically concrete-
topped plaza spaces — and he expects that
it would take no more than a few months to
do so, especially since the city is adding more
park space elsewhere in the design.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who
has a large say in whether the park space is
demapped, has not seen any specific propos-
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Adams, Silver’s spokesperson. In general,
D.O.T. should work with the community
to reach a consensus for Chatham Square,
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er at The Falls, at 218 Lafayette St., where
St. Guillen was last seen alive. Her bound
and gagged body was found in the wetlands
off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. DNA
evidence on the blanket the victim was
wrapped in was crucial in the conviction.
Daniel Dorrian, 36, manager of The
Falls at the time of the incident, also tes-
tified and acknowledged that he failed to
tell police that he had ordered Littlejohn
to help St. Guillen out of the bar. Dorrian’s
family also owns Dorrian’s Red Hand on
E. 84th St., where Robert Chambers,
convicted in the 1986 “Preppie Murder”
case, met his victim. The Falls went out
of business shortly after the St. Guillen
murder.
Littlejohn is scheduled to be sentenced
July 8.
 June 10 - 16, 2009 13

Robert Healy, 67, font of local political history

OBITUARY
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Robert J. Healy, whose knowledge of
political lore and gift for gab were legendary
in Democratic Party circles in Manhattan
and beyond, died on Sat., May 30, at Calvary
Hospice in the Bronx at 67.
Born and raised on W. 15th St. to a
longshoreman’s family, he lived for several
years with his mother in the Robert Fulton
Houses in Chelsea and for the last 10 years
in St. Margaret’s House, a senior residence
on Fulton St.
“He was a political maven and raconteur
extraordinary,” said Alan Flacks, a political
blogger and member of the Three Parks
Democratic Club on the Upper West Side.
“If you wanted to know who were the can-
didates in the Democratic primary in the
Fifth Civil Court District in Kings County in
1990-something, he could tell you,” Flacks
said.
“Anywhere I went — to a Democratic
Party dinner or event — I’d see him, even in
Queens, he was there,” said Carlos Manzano,
a former president of the McManus Midtown
Democrats and candidate for City Council in
1999 and for Manhattan Borough president
in 2005.
“I don’t remember a conversation
with him that wasn’t delightful,” said
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried. “He
was something of an iconoclast and he had
very smart observations about politics and
policy that made a lot of sense.”
Robert Healy was a member of several
Democratic political clubs. Louise Dankberg,
president of the Tilden Midtown Democrats
on E. 19th St., recalled that Healy was a dili-
gent member of the Tilden club’s executive
committee. “He came to all our events and
knew everything and everyone, especially in
judicial politics,” she said.
He was also a dues-paying member of the
Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, accord-
ing to Doris Corrigan, State Democratic
Committee member. “I think he first
belonged to the Horatio Seymour Club,”
she said, referring to the Tammany club in
Chelsea that dissolved in the 1960s.
Jim McManus, whose grandfather found-
ed the club of the same name, said Healy
kept up with the ins and outs of Democratic
politics and generously shared his knowl-
edge.
Sean Sweeney, president of Downtown
Independent Democrats, said that in a recent
conversation, Healy told him he had a few
Caribbean governments as lobby clients.
Other friends said he was a lobbyist for
healthcare industry clients, and no one was
sure if he had a law degree.
“Everybody knew Bob, but nobody really
knew him,” was the comment common
among his friends.
Healy had been in poor health since last
December when he was found in his room
at the St. Margaret’s residence after having
fallen and struck his head. He had been hos-
pitalized since then and was later discovered
St. Mark’s Greenmarket grows
The St. Mark’s Church Greenmarket,
which opened on May 26, this year
boasts new farmers and expanded space
onto Second Ave.
The Greenmarket operates every
Tuesday from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. through
Dec. 29 at E. Tenth St. and Second Ave.
and new farmers will join as the season
progresses.
The Greenmarket will present free
events, including chef demonstrations and
raffles, throughout the season. WIC and
Senior Farmers Market Nutrition checks
are accepted from July to November at all
Greenmarkets.
to have a brain tumor.
A sister, Katherine Kearney of Garnerville,
N.Y., survives, in addition to five nieces and
nephews and 10 grandnieces and grand-
nephews. Redden’s Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Correction
An article in the June 3 issue of
The Villager erred in stating that the
Greenwich Village Historic District was
the city’s first historic district. Simeon
Bankoff, executive director of the
Historic Districts Council, e-mailed The
Villager to say the first historic dis-
trict was Brooklyn Heights, designated
in 1965. The Greenwich Village district
was the 11th district designated in New
York City, although it is the largest. The
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Silver proclaims The Villager’s ‘doing a wonderful job’
In recognition of the Better Newspaper Contest 2008
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Downtown Express and the two papers’ ongoing coverage
of the community, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on
June 5 issued an Assembly proclamation for each paper.
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The club’s owners also allegedly owe untold
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16TH
ANNUAL
MEETING

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All aboard the High Line

First graders from P.S. 11 in Chelsea helped with the ribbon cutting for the opening
of the High Line park’s first section Monday.

Property Owners, Retail & Commercial Business Owners, A passion for justice.
Residents, Friends & the Community are invited to celebrate The experience to deliver it.
the 16th Anniversary of the BID where this year’s highlights
will be reviewed & next year’s plans revealed.

Thursday, June 18, 2009, 6–7:30 pm

The King Juan Carlos 1 of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
(between Thompson & Sullivan Streets)
Guest Speaker:
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, NYCDOT “I want to build a District
Topic: Sustainable Streets: Greening NYC from Top to Bottom Attorney’s office that’s defined
not by how we handle the big,
Program: high profile cases, but by how we
handle the tens of thousands of
• Presentation of the First Norman Buchbinder cases each month that won’t ever
Award for Building Restoration in the get written about—cases that don’t
involve infamous acts or famous
Greenwich Village Historic District
people, but whose outcomes mat-
• FY 2010 Budget Presented ter every bit as much.
• Introduction of new Directors “I’ll never forget that as your
next DA.”
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Girl snatches purse
Police are looking for a teenage girl in
connection with a May 13 purse snatching
on the Lower East Side that resulted in the
victim’s falling to the sidewalk and suffering
a head injury. The woman victim, 47, was
walking in front of 62 Hester St. between
Ludlow and Orchard Sts. at 1:35 p.m.
when the suspect, described as a Latino girl
between 15 and 17 years old with brown
hair, ran up behind her and grabbed her bag,
knocking her to the ground, police said.
The incident was classified a robbery
because the victim was physically injured.
Phone the N.Y.P.D.’s Crimestoppers line at
800-577-TIPS (8477) or submit information
about the suspect online at www.crimestop-
pers.com.
Another A.T.M. gone
An automated teller machine with an
undetermined sum of money was discovered
missing on Friday morning June 6 from in
front of 602 E. 14th St. near Avenue B,
police said. Police said they were investigat-
ing the theft but were unable to say how
the A.T.M. was spirited away. On April 21,
Valentine Garcia, of Queens was arrested in
connection with the theft of several A.T.M.’s
on the Lower East Side and elsewhere by
knocking them down with a white van and
driving off with them. Garcia was being held
pending a July 28 court appearance.
Wash. Sq. attack
Police arrested James Riddles, 40, shortly
before 9 p.m. Thurs., June 4, and charged
him with attempting to rob a man, 27, who
was talking on his cell phone at LaGuardia
Place and Washington Square South.
Riddles, a Bronx resident, punched the vic-
tim in the face, pulled a knife and demanded
the victim’s wallet, but fled without taking
anything, police said. Riddles was being
held in lieu of bail pending a June 10 court
appearance.
Bashed bouncer
Police arrested Daniel Menendez, 22, at
2:50 a.m. Sat., June 6, and charged him with
assault and possession of a controlled sub-
stance during a confrontation with a bouncer at
Woody McHale’s bar, at 234 W. 14th St. Police
found an unspecified quantity of marijuana on
the suspect while he was being charged with
punching the bouncer in the face after the vic-
tim refused to let him into the bar.
Called his bluff
A man walked into the Capital One
Bank branch on Sixth Ave. at W. Fourth
St. shortly after 9 a.m. Thurs., June 4, and
passed a note to a teller asking for $800,
and saying, “I don’t want to kill myself.”
The robber, described as blond haired and
middle aged, then put a razor to his wrist,
but fled when the teller refused to respond
to the threat.
Stolen property
Police responded to a report of a strong-
arm robbery of a man at Avenue A and
East Houston St., at 11:30 p.m. Sun., May
31, where the victim, 23, told officers that
two teens beat him and stole his cell phone.
Police later arrested Joshua Igartua, 18, and
a younger teen whose name was not released
because of his age. Igartua was charged with
possession of stolen property after the cell
phone was found on him. He was being
held in lieu of bail pending a July 8 court
appearance.
June 10 - 16, 2009 17
Hit peacemaker
Two men walked into a store on Henry
St. near Catherine St. at 9:40 p.m. Fri., May
29, greeted the owner, then hit him over
the head with a chair and fled, police said.
The victim told police that he had broken
up a fight the day before between the two
suspects and a third man.
Mugged on Mott
Two suspects ambushed and robbed a
man, 77, as he was walking up to his third-
floor apartment on Mott St. near Grand St.
around 7:45 p.m. Sun., May 31, police said.
The suspects waylaid the victim on the stairs
between the second and third floors. One
suspect put a hand over the victim’s mouth
while the other went through the man’s
pockets and took $250 in cash.
Driver hits officer
A driver who was pulled over at Watts
and Thompson Sts. for a traffic violation at
7 p.m. Mon., June 1, sped off while the traf-
fic agent was writing a summons, according
to police. The side-view mirror struck and
injured the agent’s hand. The driver has not
been apprehended.
Alber t Amateau
18 June 10 - 16, 2009

Crackdown on Christopher St. after violent incidents

Continued from page 1

“He said we can’t stand here,” one of the

men said afterward.
“It’s a public street, ya?” added another,
but didn’t put up any protest to being moved
along.
This sort of police activity — moving
along crowds, breaking up knots of people
— is likely to be seen more frequently along
Christopher St. this summer.
After a recent spate of assaults and mug-
gings that have shaken the Christopher St.
area — and with the hot weather coming
and the accompanying droves of nighttime
revelers expected soon — police are beefing
up their presence along what they call the
“Christopher St. corridor” and neighboring
blocks.
The police response is partly due to
complaints from residents and businesses —
notably the neighborhood’s gay bars, who
say they are suffering because of what’s hap-
pening in the streets.
The Sixth Precinct recently received 18
new officers, increasing its manpower. In
addition to the mounted officers, two new
light towers, one at Christopher and Hudson
Sts. and the other at West Fourth St. at Sixth
Ave., illuminate the street. A mobile com-
mand center is now posted on Christopher
St. between Washington and Greenwich Sts.
to coordinate area anticrime efforts. Finally,
a mobile surveillance watchtower may also
be brought in to provide “eyes in the sky,”
according to Deputy Inspector Raymond
Caroli, the precinct’s commanding officer.
Concern over the recent crime, as well as
street conditions in general, dominated the
Sixth Precinct Community Council meeting
two weeks ago, as Caroli laid out the new
plan and listened and responded to resi-
dents’ and merchants’ pleas for help.
Robert Ziegler, manager of Ramrod and Boots and Saddles gay bars, says the
crowds of gay and lesbian youth on Christopher St. are hurting local bars’ business.
Mounted police on duty on Friday and Saturday nights are providing “omnipresence” along the Christopher St. corridor,
according to Deputy Inspector Raymond Caroli of the Sixth Precinct.
Caroli reassured people at the meeting
that police have a firm handle on things.
“I think one assault is too much,” the
deputy inspector said, “but if you put it in
perspective, I don’t think it’s out of control. In
the last month, all of these assaults have hap-
pened along Christopher St. or within a few
blocks of Christopher St.” Caroli referred to
two stabbings, one bias incident — in which
a gay man was attacked by a group of men
as he was trying to get into a cab at Sheridan
Square and fell and struck his head — as well
as some slashings and fights.
As of the meeting two weeks ago,
there had been 43 assaults this year in the
‘My idea is to get the
crowds moving and out of
the area as expeditiously
as possible.’
Raymond Caroli,
6th Precinct commander
Greenwich Village precinct; ten of those
were against officers as they were making
arrests and the suspects fought back.
Caroli pointed out that the precinct last
year had fewer assaults — under 100 —
than any year since 1990. So, the percentage
increase in assaults this year compared to
last year needs to be put in context, he said.
“Statistically, I knew this year was going
to be a challenge,” the precinct commander
said, “to do better than that 18-year low.”
In short, Caroli asserted, the precinct
actually has had “a very low number of
assaults” so far this year.
Plus, officers are giving out more tickets
than last year, he said: In the month prior
to the meeting, Sixth Precinct officers wrote
353 summonses for such offenses as public
Villager photos by Q. Sakamaki
urination, open alcohol containers, pan-
handling and unreasonable noise — a 40
percent increase from the same month last
year, he said.
Overall arrests are also up sharply com-
pared to last year, according to Caroli.
The added manpower of 18 more officers
“is going to have a huge effect on [reducing]
these incidents” in the Christopher St. area,
Caroli said.
“I’m not just targeting Christopher St.
because it’s there,” he explained of the new
crackdown on the famous gay boulevard.
“That’s where the assaults are happening.
My idea is to get the crowds moving and
out of the area as expeditiously as possible.
Those who are enjoying themselves is all
well and good. But those who are hanging
out to do the bad stuff” police will work to
move out or arrest, he stressed.
Dave Poster, head of the Christopher
St. Patrol, a volunteer anticrime group that
walks the area with the Guardian Angels,
said he felt the new police efforts would send
a clear signal:
“Anything goes here doesn’t go any-
more,” Poster said. “Anything goes isn’t
business as usual.”
But he said more help is needed from
the area’s politicians. Noting it’s an election
year, Poster urged people at the meeting to
write and e-mail their local politicians and
“demand that something be done.”
Charles Rice, owner of The Monster on
Grove St., said his customers and employees
are at risk when they leave the gay bar in the
early morning, because muggers and others
are lurking in and around Christopher St.
Park.

Tasha, left, and Pinky enjoyed hanging out and socializing on the Christopher St. Pier.
“I’m concerned there are these guys out-
side giving hand signals to each other, letting
them know that there are guys leaving with
money,” Rice said. “There are prostitutes
and hustlers watching who’s coming out.”
The area is basically out of control, as
Rice sees it, and gets even worse during the
Gay Pride festivities.
“There are young things getting off the
PATH train that don’t even know their
sexual orientation,” Rice said. “Pride used to
be fun — but it’s now like apocalypse.”
Rose Mezzatesta, an artist who lives on
Christopher St., said, “Christopher St. is
literally under siege by gangs. There are girl
gangs and there are boy gangs — and they’re
fighting a turf war to sell drugs.”
She suggested the Port Authority close
the Christopher St. PATH entrance to stem
the tide of youth flooding into the neighbor-
hood.
“The Parks Department is going to be
pressured at some point about closing the
pier,” Mezzatesta added, referring to the
Christopher St. Pier.
Since Hudson River Park’s Greenwich
Village section opened in June 2003, the
beautifully redone pier has only grown in
popularity among gay youth, for whom it
has been a traditional stomping ground and
safe haven.
Robert Ziegler, manager of Ramrod, a
gay bar at Christopher and Weehawken Sts.,
said he was happy about the strengthened
police presence, when a Villager reporter
spoke to him at his bar on the recent Saturday
night. As opposed to pointing to specific
incidents of crime, Ziegler expressed con-
cern about the general tone of the street.
“Thank God,” he said of the police initiative.
“The kids are very rowdy. They run in here and
yell and scream. People don’t want to come
down here. They close the park at 1 a.m. and
the kids don’t have anywhere to go. The kids
are underage. They can’t go in the bars. They
go up and down the street in groups of 15.
‘We only come down
here to have fun,
not start violence.’
Maddness
They don’t get out of your way. I walk in the
street, I just don’t want a problem.
“I think most of them are from New
Jersey,” Ziegler said. “You can be gay, but
respect the neighborhood.”
Meanwhile, Weehawken St. “is like a
hooker street,” he said, where transgender
prostitutes occasionally knock out his lights
to better ply their trade.
In short, Ziegler said, Christopher St.’s gay
bars are hurting in tough economic times, and
a major reason is the street scene. As a result,
a number of the bars — Ramrod, Boots and
Saddles, the Hangar and Ty’s — have banded
together to form a coalition to survive. They’re
taking out joint advertisements in local news-
papers and teaming up on a float for the Gay
Pride march, among other ideas.
“If we lose the bars, we don’t have
Christopher St. anymore,” Ziegler said. “Two
Potato, we lost. Sneakers, we lost.”
Villager photos by Q. Sakamaki
The former Dugout almost went under
as a gay bar location, but it was recently
revived as Ramrod, he noted.
Badlands, the gay video store formerly
just east of Ramrod on the West Side Highway,
closed six months ago. Ziegler said he was
hoping to rent the space and put another gay
bar there, but can’t find out what’s going on
with the property. The former Sneakers is
going to be some sort of museum devoted to
a local artist, he said he’d heard.
Vogueing on Hudson St. after the Hudson River Park’s curfew.
June 10 - 16, 2009 19
A sign on the former Badlands announced
“Store for Lease” and gave a phone number
for Weinberg Properties. A woman who
answered the phone there Monday said she
was the owner, Weinberg, but wouldn’t give
her first name.
Asked about her plans for the location,
she said, “I don’t want to comment.”
While Christopher St.’s bars are trying
to hang on, Ziegler said, many gay bargoers
now prefer to hang out in Hell’s Kitchen, at
newer places like The Ritz, therapy, Posh
and HK Lounge.
Nearby, two friends, Daniel, 18,
and Byron, 19, paused at the corner of
Weehawken St. to do a romantic pas de deux
for The Villager’s photographer. Asked about
the complaints — voiced by others as well as
Ziegler — that the young gays hog the side-
walk and won’t move out of the way, Daniel
responded, “I think they should move.”
But he wasn’t talking about the gay
youth moving over on the sidewalk, but
local residents moving — as in, out of the
neighborhood.
“I think they should move, because this is
our place where we get to be us,” he said.
A group of lesbian friends hanging out
on the Christopher St. Pier, drinking what
they said was “soda” out of styrofoam cups,
agreed some of the youth ought to behave
better. In fact, they had been discussing it
among themselves.
“It’s exactly what we were saying earlier,”
said Maddness, 24, wearing a tan baseball
cap. “We have mature adults and young
kids down here.” The immature kids are the
problem, she said, adding, “We only come
down here to have fun, not start violence.”
Her friend Pinky, 26, wearing a red base-
ball cap and with heavily tattooed forearms,
gestured to some garbage on the pier’s lawn
next to the bench they were sitting on.
“You see this right here,” she said disap-
provingly. “The people from this neighborhood
Continued on page 20
20 June 10 - 16, 2009
Assaults are up, but prostitution’s becoming scarcer
Continued from page 19
don’t do that.”
However, Tasha, 21, who was wearing neon
green hoop earrings and sported a more femi-
nine style, said she didn’t feel the neighborhood
was too accepting.
“I feel like I’m under surveillance by police,”
she said.
Maddness was psyched for Gay Pride, when,
she said, “They be butt naked down here.” She
said she had a 3-year-old daughter through a
sperm donor, but wouldn’t bring her to the pier,
because the environment isn’t good for kids.
Mira, 20, was on the pier with another
group of women, a mix of lesbians, straights
and bisexuals, from New Jersey.
“We’re from across the pond,” she quipped.
“This is where you get to relax,” Mira said
of why she likes to come to the Christopher St.
Pier. “I think this is like one of the coolest places
on earth.”
Bob Morris, a writer who lives on Perry St.
and was walking his dog past the pier around
12:30 a.m., dismissed the fuss about the gay
youth as way overblown. He’s gay himself, he
noted.
“Nobody’s going to bother you,” Morris
said. “These are gentle kids with big mouths.
No one’s going to hurt anybody.”
According to Poster of the Christopher St.
Patrol, one activity has actually decreased —
prostitution. Transgender hookers used to troll
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the Meat Market, but that area’s transforma-
tion into an entertainment district drove them
south into the Village’s quiet streets, for a time.
Christopher St. used to have young male prosti-
tutes, but not anymore, Poster said. The current
prostitution scene is basically transgender pros-
titutes along Greenwich and Washington Sts.
north of Christopher St., but the numbers really
seem to be down, Poster said. And whatever
prostitutes remain are mainly coming out late
at night, he added.
On the recent Saturday night when The
Villager was out reporting, just one obvious
transgender prostitute was spotted around
Charles and Greenwich Sts., and said not to
take her photo. She was seen later on further
north standing on a street corner a block south
of the Meat Market. It wasn’t clear if another,
friendlier transgender who passed by along
Greenwich St. was a prostitute or not. She said
she could use some head shots from the photog-
rapher since she was a model.
On Wed., June 17, at 7:30 p.m., a forum
on West Village crime will be held in the
basement of Our Lady of Pompei Church, 25
Carmine St. The forum is being sponsored
by the Sixth Precinct Community Council,
Community Board 2, City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn, State Senator Tom Duane and
Assemblymember Deborah Glick.
For more of Q. Sakamaki’s photos of the
Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki
Christopher St. nighttime scene, go to www.
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Little Leaguer loves the game and loves a challenge
SPORTS
BY RITA WU
Gabrielle Brown started playing base-
ball at age 7. She tried her hand at fenc-
ing, ballet and other activities. But “only
baseball really worked” for her, she said.
Now 15, Gabrielle plays for the Jazz in the
Greenwich Village Little League’s Senior
Division. She usually plays second base or
right field but loves playing catcher. She
has always been the only girl on all the
Little League teams she’s ever been on, but
this year she’s the sole female in the entire
division.
This isn’t a problem for her. So far,
everyone — friends, family, coaches and
‘Softball is a stereotype in
itself — made by men who
didn’t want girls to succeed
to a high level.’
teammates alike — has been supportive.
For Gabrielle, she’s just playing baseball.
“When I’m in the batting cages, hitting
and improving my skills, there are times
where I’ll just go into this zone where I like
forget about who I am and forget about
everything else,” she said. “It’s just a really
nice feeling. Then I’ll come home and be
like, ‘Oh no, I have three hours of home-
work.’ But you forget about all that when
you’re playing baseball.”
It wasn’t until recently, while writing a
paper about debunking stereotypes, that
she realized that she was debunking a ste-
reotype by just playing baseball. Unlike so
many other girls her age who had dropped
out of Little League completely or switched
to softball, Gabrielle’s love for the game
had made her immune to pressures or
doubts.
“Softball is a stereotype in itself,”
Gabrielle said. “The ball is bigger, the base
paths are closer together, pitchers throw
underhand — made by men who didn’t
want girls to succeed to a high level.”
One of her shining moments was the
first time she played catcher. The first-string
catcher had broken his ankle and was out
for the season. The player her team got
to replace him was a no-show. The coach
approached Gabrielle and said, “You have
good hands, you know the game, you’re
gonna play catcher.” All in all, she did a
good job. But, for Gabrielle, what was most
inspiring was being thrown into a situation
in which she was inexperienced and having
to prove to herself that she could do it. And
she did.
A huge Yankees fan, she was on cloud
nine after meeting Joe Torre at the Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade. Gabrielle looks
up to the former Yankee skipper and con-
June 10 - 16, 2009 21
Villager photo by Rita Wu
Gabrielle Brown demonstrates the fundamentals — a level swing and keeping her eye on the ball.
siders him a role model.
“He managed to lead a team with
such great stoicism,” she said. “He really
managed to handle the players and get a
trust aspect going and realize that players
weren’t robots. And he really emphasized
the human aspect of the game.”
Gabrielle in her own right is a role
model.
Her coach Ray Scardapane said,
“Gabrielle is a very hard worker, who is
highly motivated, and she is very athletic.
Her enthusiastic demeanor and work ethic
are a huge plus for the team. She accepts
the challenge of playing against the boys,
and although in some instances presented
with strength inequities — such as a pitcher
throwing 85-plus miles per hour — she
never backs down.”
Besides playing ball, Gabrielle spends a
lot of her time, as she says, “eating facts on
baseball.”
“Anything I could get and I got a lot,”
she said of her baseball knowledge. “Did
you know that there are 108 stitches in a
baseball?”
Her other true passion is acting. She is
currently studying drama at LaGuardia Arts
High School on the Upper West Side.
“I was definitely a star in the womb,”
she said.
In the meantime, Gabrielle has one more
year with the G.V.L.L. Senior Division,
after which most players move onto high
school or college ball. She’s hoping she can
do the same. She’s waiting for the chal-
lenge — another opportunity to prove that
she can.
22 June 10 - 16, 2009
EDITORIAL
Process at Pier 40
Over the years we’ve repeatedly called for the Hudson
River Park Trust to work more closely with the commu-
nity, no more so than on the intractable, yet critical, issue
of Pier 40.
The enormous, 800-foot-by-800-foot, three-level, for-
mer shipping pier on the Hudson at W. Houston St. has
been the subject of two failed redevelopment attempts
within the past half decade alone. Meanwhile, Pier 40
needs immediate repairs — millions of dollars worth of
them — for its corroded metal support piles and deterio-
rating roof.
One hundred and sixty parking spaces — nearly a
tenth of the pier’s total — are now unusable because of
the pier’s continued decay and its rotting roof. As a result,
about one-tenth of the revenue the pier produces for the
park has also been lost, which is a serious concern since
Pier 40 produces 40 percent of the park’s revenue.
Last year, the second failed Pier 40 request-for-
proposals process saw The Related Companies unable to
make its plan’s financials work within the R.F.P.’s require-
ment for a 30-year lease. Dubbed “Las Vegas on the
Hudson,” Related’s plan would have included a Cirque
du Soleil and movie theaters and venues for the Tribeca
Film Festival, drawing 2 million to 3 million visitors per
year to the pier, changing the character of both the park
and surrounding neighborhoods.
Diana Taylor, chairperson of the Trust’s board of direc-
tors, and other Trust board of directors, including the
current and former Parks commissioners, Adrian Benepe
and Henry Stern, clearly favored the Related scheme,
feeling it was the only financially viable plan and that,
well, a circus and glitzy entertainment uses were appro-
priate for Hudson River Park at Pier 40. But because the
plan didn’t work financially within the 30-year lease term,
it was eliminated from the running.
The Trust then gave the Pier 40 Partnership, a com-
munity-based group, and the Urban Dove/Camp Group
team several months to collaborate on a joint proposal
that included the novel idea of schools on the pier, along
with sports uses, while retaining the pier’s central court-
yard sports field space as sacrosanct.
This plan seemed to us like the perfect solution for
the pier. But as the economy started to cloud, the Trust
pulled the plug on the R.F.P. process, claiming this last
plan wouldn’t work. As she announced the R.F.P. was
closed, again, Taylor said the Trust would probably have
to request a longer lease.
At the Trust’s May 28 board meeting, urged on by for-
mer state Senator Franz Leichter, the Trust unanimously
resolved to seek a change to the state Hudson River Park
Act to allow a longer, 50-year lease.
While a 49- or 50-year lease at Pier 40 is O.K., it must
only be for the right use — not, for example, to enable a
mega-entertainment complex like Related’s plan. In short,
the Trust must work with local elected officials, park
advocates, Community Board 2 and other stakeholders
to craft an R.F.P. with terms acceptable to the community.
The two main requirements should be to retain the court-
yard field and provide space for public schools. An R.F.P.
that stipulates keeping the field should deter another
Cirque du Soleil proposal.
If our local elected officials feel the community is
onboard with a new Pier 40 R.F.P. — that the Trust has
tailored the R.F.P. to satisfy the community — then surely
they will support a lease extension. Again, the lease’s
length isn’t the issue: The use is the issue.
Let’s not put the cart (the lease extension) before the
horse (crafting an appropriate R.F.P. that results in an
appropriate use).
Changing the park act first, without the community’s
support and approval, will just lead to more delays and
greater costs, only putting Pier 40 at even greater risk.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘Club DKNoise’
To The Editor:
Re “Def Jam party was deafening, Donna Karan nabes
complain” (news article, June 3):
Thank you for covering the problems that Donna Karan’s
studio causes for our community.
How can Donna Karan consider herself a friend to this
neighborhood while she continues to erode our quality of
life? I was surprised to read that she was actually present at
the Def Jam concert. She was probably there for a few hours
at most, while I endured two days of sound checks and two
nights of thunderous music.
Ms. Karan must know that there are children living in the
buildings directly across from and next to her building.
Should we really tolerate this noise because the worst
of it is over by 11:30? My apartment was shaking! I made
numerous calls to 311 during the daytime sound checks and
the nighttime performances.
As there are frequent events in that space, it has become
standard procedure for large moving trucks to noisily unload
equipment early in the morning (sometimes arriving as early
as 6 a.m.) and noisily reload late at night after the events.
The large garage door to the main space creates a nightclub
with a wall open to the outside. Even when the garage door
is closed, the music is so loud that it drowns out TV or music
in my apartment.
This activity does not belong in a residential neighbor-
hood! When did she get permission to run a nightclub on
this block?
Katherine Rachlin
Praying for some quiet
To The Editor:
Re “Def Jam party was deafening, Donna Karan nabes
complain” (news article, June 3):
Immediately after your article and editorial hit the stands,
a makeshift sign (scotch tape and white printing paper)
was posted on the side door of Karan’s complex at 711
Greenwich St. at Charles St. The sign reads, “This is a sacred
place. PLEASE ENTER IN SILENCE.” With this mentality,
one wonders how serious the Karan camp is taking the issue.
I took a photo of it. As of the morning of June 6, the sign
remains.
Charles Amann
IRA BLUTREICH
Paterson pulls the rug out from under police and firefighter pensions.
Cat was a gracious guest
To The Editor:
Re “Pretty Boy, the Mayor of E. 7th, is mourned; He was
one cool cat” (news article, June 3):
My wife and I were graced by his presence one evening
while dining outside at 7A about six months ago. Hizzoner
Pretty Boy was a very gracious table guest and happy for any
scraps we gave him from our table. R.I.P. Pretty Boy.
Adam Lenovitz
A sensitive subject
To The Editor:
Re “N.Y.U. reveals plan for spiritual center on Washington
Sq.” (news article, June 3):
When we read your article on the New York University
religious center building, there was no mention of the
architects involved. As one of us is a retired member of the
art community, we are particularly sensitive to the absence
of credit for artists of every kind. For example, in the TV
coverage of the new Reagan sculpture there was no credit
mention of the sculptor’s name, another faux pas. Please be
more sensitive to artists.
Irwin and Marilyn Horowitz
Editor’s note: Yes, that information should have been
included in the article. The architects of N.Y.U.’s new Center
for Academic and Spiritual Life are Machado and Silvetti
Associates, LLC
Fountain is not a pool
To The Editor:
The renovated sections of Washington Square Park
look great. It is wonderful to see people enjoying the park,
including the newly renovated fountain. The other day I
noticed families with small children in bathing suits laying
out towels in the sun for a city version of a day at the beach.
Many children and adults were splashing in the fountain. I
have a concern, though, about the children who play in the
fountain.
Continued on page 32
 June 10 - 16, 2009 23

9/11 Truth comes home; Pols back new investigation

TALKING POINT
BY FRANK MORALES
It’s spring 2009 in New York City and an unannounced
U.S. government plane streaks across town. Recollecting the
horrors of 9/11, the incident scares the heebie-jeebies out
of the citizenry. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer,
while attending an April 18 “Tour of the Battenkill” annual
bicycle race in Cambridge, N.Y., responds to a question
regarding efforts here to establish a new 9/11 investigation.
Lending his qualified support to such an inquiry, he says that
he’s positively disposed toward a new investigation into the
events of 9/11, though his support for such a probe would
depend on the form it would take. “I think it’s not a bad
idea,” he said. “You know, you’ve got to do it in a good way,
but, yes, I’d be for it.”
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for her part,
recently joined her colleague and also recommended a fresh
look at the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Commenting on May 27
to a young reporter who had suffered the loss of a loved one
during 9/11, she responded to the question of a new inves-
tigation by suggesting that “another review, or a fuller hear-
ing” is warranted, especially given the number of questions
put forward by victims’ families that remain unanswered.
“I think those questions should be answered,” Gillibrand
stated. She went on to affirm that, “It’s important that every
family member have every question answered.”
Schumer and Gillibrand are not the first to call for a
new (real) investigation of into the crimes 9/11. The list is
long and it’s growing. A small sampling of some of the more
notable adherents to this call include former President Jimmy
Carter, who when asked if he’d support family members who
want a new investigation into 9/11, stated, “Yeah, I don’t
have anything to do with it, but I certainly would. It would
be nice.” Former Senator Mike Gravel, who brought the
Pentagon Papers to the U.S. Congress long ago, supports the
idea as well. As does his friend Daniel Ellsberg, the military
analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee wants to see a new
investigation, as does former Minnesota Governor Jesse
Ventura. Ventura and other members of Political Leaders for
9/11 Truth (including Curt Weldon and Cynthia McKinney)
are “calling for a new, independent investigation of 9/11 that
takes account of evidence that has been documented by inde-
pendent researchers but thus far ignored by governments
and the mainstream media.”
On the international front, former Italian President
Francesco Cossiga, U.K. Member of Parliament Michael
Meacher, Japanese Diet member Fujita Yukihisa and former
German Defense Secretary Andreas von Buelow have all
expressed support for a new inquiry into the Sept. 2001
attacks. So has British M.P. George Galloway, who put it
this way: “The failure of the Bush administration to properly
investigate, maybe for self-serving reasons, because it would
have shown them to be monumentally incompetent, or
something more sinister than that, is another argument that
is beginning to be established. investigation of 9/11 “was flawed” and, consequently, “there
“We don’t know everything,” Galloway said, and because
“there are lots of questions,” there is “definitely the need for
needs to be another one, and the best place to have it is New
York City.”
more investigation.” Well, apparently there are many who live and work here
The noted author Gore Vidal, prior to the last elections, in New York City who think the same thing. In fact, 45,000
stated, “I think one advantage of having a Democratic House of them and counting! An organization called NYC CAN, or
of Representatives after the coming election will be that we the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (nyc-
can have a new commission investigate 9/11 and the events can.org), composed of family members, first-responders and
leading up to our attacks on two innocent countries, Iraq survivors, has gathered some 45,000 signatures toward a
and Afghanistan. It’s about time that we begun to clean up ballot initiative for this coming November 2009. The initia-
our own house before we find that an international tribunal tive would allow the voters of New York City to sanction a
has summoned our leaders to The Hague in chains to put new investigation of 9/11, an investigation with teeth, with
them on trial.” subpoena power and with a scope of inquiry that promises
Why, even Lee Hamilton, ostensible co-chairperson of to leave no stone unturned.
the federal 9/11 Commission, the body tasked with getting In a sense, although NYC CAN takes no position regarding
to the truth of what happened — which many now feel was the facts of the case, calling only for a new inquiry, it appears
set up only to concoct and rationalize the official story in the to represent the global “9/11 Truth Movement” come home.
first place — even he admitted that their own commission Having spread its critical spirit and zeal for an honest render-
was “set up to fail.” ing of this most heinous crime, its truth has comes marching
Finally, let’s not forget, as Ralph Nader has reminded home, home to New York City, to the scene of the crime, come
us, that the Bush “government didn’t even want to have an home in the form of a movement for a new investigation.
inquiry” at all. And let’s not forget that the inquiry the 9/11 Given the energy and support behind its efforts, NYC CAN
Commission did eventually carry out — with ground rules just may succeed in putting the matter of an authentic investi-
set up by its executive director, Philip Zelikow, a Condi Rice gation of 9/11 on this November’s ballot, and in the process,
confidant — insured, according to Nader, that “they weren’t open up the mother of all cans of worms.
going to name names, or hold anybody responsible.” “So
right from the get,” said Nader, the government-sponsored Morales is a member of 9/11 Truth
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Euna Lee, 36, and
Laura Ling, 32, in
Washington Square
Park, Danielle Chang
placed flowers for her
friend Ling. Monday
a North Korean court
sentenced the women
to 12 years hard
labor. The pair were
captured March 17
on the China/North
Korea border while
reporting a story
either on female
trafficking or North
Korean refugees.
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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A ‘good, tough, poetic fictional take’ on traumatic slaughter
Playwright mines insight from the unknown
BY JERRY TALLMER
Jessica Dickey was on a treadmill and watch-
ing television when word of the Amish murders
broke on the screen; right in front of her nose
and across the nation.
The TV was attached to the Brooklyn
YMCA’s treadmill. “It went like choong! right
in front of me,” she vividly remembers.
A gunman had invaded a one-room school
in the tiny community of Nickel Mines in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there shot
to death five children — all girls — ages 6 to
13 (having first ordered all the boys out of the
premises).
This was on October 2, 2006. “Treadmills
and television, two of the irregularities in my
life,” says the seriously beautiful golden-
blonde Jessica Dickey with a good-humored
shrug; but there had been nothing at all
good-humored or funny about her reaction
to the traumatic slaughter at Nickel Mines,
or the way the TV commentators on every
channel chewed the whole thing over and
over and over, extracting the last drop of
sensational juice — “dissecting everything,
adding detail after detail”— for the next 24
hours.
“I usually find it very easy to look away, but
with this one I couldn’t look away. I guess you
could say I was grabbed and held by it,” says
actress-cum-playwright Dickey, who is perform-
ing all seven of the interlocking roles of ”The
Amish Project,” her own good tough poetic
fictional take on what happened that day in
2006 in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania — the state
where she herself had been born and bred —
and what perhaps lay, sexually and otherwise,
behind the those killings.
But the sexual questions are very obliquely
put.
“That’s right,” she says — and then, with a
laugh: “What am I talking about? In rehearsals,
that’s all we talk about.”
Not laughing: “Something about the Nickel
Mines crime deeply disturbed and saddened
me. Before Nickel Mines I’d been writing a play
personally, for myself. ‘The Amish Project’ was
the first piece of writing I really put out into
the world.
“Wrote the first draft from December 2007
to January 2008, submitted it to The Fringe
[New York International Fringe Festival] in
February 2008, and it was accepted in May.
Went very fast, actually; I didn’t think anything
in theater could go fast.”
ANNA, age 14, to the gunman: “Sir,
please shoot me first.”
VELDA, age 6, sister of Anna: “Please
shoot me second.”
And he did, and he did.
You create those imagined children amaz-
ingly, said an admiring journalist.
Jessica Dickey, who wrote and stars in “The Amish Project”
“Thank you,” said the young woman who,
so to speak, brought them into the world, and
portrays them — little Velda with just a hint of
a lithp —and their killer and the killer’s wife and
everyone else.
The Nickel Mines bloodbath of October 2,
2006, would not have been quite so disturbing
if it had not been perpetrated against a peaceful
self-sealed community like the Amish — about
whom the rest of us know very little.
Playwright Dickey invents a character — an
“Our Town”-type historian named Bill North —
to tell us something about the Amish:
Okay, first of all, you need to under-
stand
most people think that Amish is just
Amish,
that they’re all alike.
But see, that’s not exactly true.
Some Amish use a computer for busi-
ness (battery powered), some don’t…
So while on this side of the cultural
fence the Amish appear
“all alike”
(via their common symbols,
such as bonnets and buggies),
the truth is there are infinite varieties
in how
each district negotiates being Amish
in a modern world.
“The Amish Project” was workshopped at
the Cherry Lane Theater. The play touched
writer Dickey’s literary agent, Morgan Jenness,
who moved it along. Its director then and since
is Sarah Cameron Sunde. About a week before
Photo by Chia Messina
the opening of last year’s Fringe production,
playwright and director went together to Nickel
Mines to see what they could see.
As opposed to Moisés Kaufman’s “Laramie
Project,” which had a team interviewing dozens
of residents of the town where college student
Matthew Shepard had been crucified on a
Wyoming fence by two drunken homophobes,
Dickey and Sunde “didn’t try to talk to anyone.
We just looked.”
There was a logical reason for such limita-
tion. Or a logical barrier: “The dichotomy
between something that happened” — i.e., real-
ity — “and then the play” [i.e., something imag-
ined]. “I didn’t want to bring them together.”
But just looking had its own messages. That
one-room schoolhouse, for instance, was no
longer there.
The Amish had torn it down one week after
the killings, and would presently build a New
KOCH
ON FILM
“THE ART OF BEING STRAIGHT”
(+)
This film, which runs only 70 minutes,
is about the lives of young men and women
who travel to Los Angeles looking for work.
Some pair off and others hang out together.
The young man most admired for his hetero-
sexual activities is Jon (Jesse Rosen, who also
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Directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde
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Hope schoolhouse elsewhere.
“As if saying: ‘We don’t want to remember
this.’ There’s now just a little field, hard to find,
where the old school was. And three maple
trees left standing to mark the spot.”
Like the clump of trees at the Bloody Angle
— the High Water Mark — at Gettysburg?
“Yes, like that.”
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, just above the
Mason-Dixon Line and next door to Gettysburg,
is Jessica Dickey’s hometown. She was born
there — to a social worker mother, a gym
teacher father — on a September 19th, she says,
stopping short of giving the year.
“I mean I already admitted I was on a tread-
mill,” she ventures, handing over any further
defense of the matter to a pair of astonishingly
blue-on-blue eyes.
She earned her BFA from Boston University,
alongside a year at LAMDA, London’s Academy
of Music and Dramatic Art.
She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancé, actor
Jerry Richardson, and is at work on a new play,
“Yellow,” inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (1891) — brought up
to date and to “an unlikely relationship between
an American woman and a Bosnian man” who
survived the concentration camp at Omarska.
I don’t know if there are any children in it. If
there are, they will be worth a look and listen.
wrote the script and directed the movie). It
turns out, Jon is sexually confused. He is
taken to bed by his boss, Paul (Johnny Ray
Rodriguez), head of the advertising firm for
which Jon works. Jon finds the experience
enjoyable.
Those looking for heavy homosexual or
heterosexual sex won’t find it in this mod-
est film, and viewers will be disappointed if
they are seeking vicarious sex as onlookers.
However, those wanting to see a film dealing
with the subject of homosexuality — there
being so few in mainstream theaters — will
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Russian artist: cartoons are protest, not pop
Utopian wonderland charged with political energy
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Claire Oliver Gallery is currently featur-
ing a site-specific installation by the Russian
artist Georgii “Gosha” Ostretsov — who
has been part of the Moscow art scene since
the mid-1980s. Eclectic, and as visually
overwhelming as it is enticing, “Coolville”
is comprised of painted, mural-sized can-
vas comic strips that sparkle through vivid
color and form. Arranged along the walls,
suspended from the ceiling, and contrasted
with the occasional life-size figurative sculp-
ture, the paintings have not only taken over
the gallery’s exhibition space; they’ve trans-
formed it into a science fiction wonderland.
When asked how the concept for
“Coolville” developed, Ostretsov explains
that it began with his search “for the mean-
ing of the word ‘beautiful’ on the Internet.”
Using the Russian to English dictionary, “the
word ‘Coolville’ came up and the beautiful
Utopian village in the gallery” got its name.
Despite a sense of playfulness, the mood
here is serious and the tone satirical (an
“enduring characteristic of Russian culture”
according to the press release). Ostretsov’s
world is one charged with political energy
and rebellious spirit. In this project, the
biggest challenge (besides creating an entire
utopian city in the middle of a gallery space)
was “to explain the story of the Russian art-
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Although he has exhibited extensively
in Russian and Europe, “Coolville” marks
Ostretsov’s U.S. debut — a fact which has a
keen impact on this particular project. While
as a conceptual artist Ostretsov expresses
his ideas in various forms, “Coolville” aims
to combine Eastern and Western ideas.
Ostretsov draws inspiration from the early
19th century literary works of Gogol, the
absurdist’s writings and the theatre of
OBERIU (a short-lived avant-garde grouping
of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s
and 1930s) — as well as from the seminal
narrative installation works by the Russian-
American conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov.
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style derived from Pop Art and Western com-
ics — which Ostretsov views as a “universal
language between Eastern and Western cul-
tures.” Indeed, they are easy to follow and
comprehend, as their narratives unfold in a
largely visual manner.
However, to Ostretsov (who was born in
Moscow in 1967), there is another impor-
tant aspect. “In the Soviet Union, comics
were prohibited as capitalist propaganda,”
he explains. The Bolsheviks had banned
comics due to their “bourgeois” Western ori-
gins. Despite occasional appearances in chil-
dren’s magazines like “Murzilka” or “Veselie
Kartinki,” they continued to exist largely in
the underground — until the Perestroika era
in the late 1980s. It was because of their
controversial if not secretive status that
Ostretsov, became “attracted to comics as an
antagonistic way to express [himself].” They
were not a part of the everyday, but instead
contained a taste of revolt. Cartoons are not
“pop but protest!” as Ostretsov puts it.
“Coolville” is a bizarre realm, where the
artist takes on the role of a superhero. In his
hands, art becomes a powerful tool against
all kinds of evil, enabling him to wrest con-
trol from a reviled regime and create a new
world. It is a story of struggle, victory and
progress. But the struggle to push ahead is
not without its emotional challenges, and
Ostretsov occasionally masks his superheros
as to provide them with an extra layer of
protection (or, as he admits, to establish a
barrier fear; the artist manifests as a protec-
tor or teacher to society at large).
When asked what kind of teachings his
superheroes might like to convey, he explains
that he would like to “show a way how
people could live tomorrow.” Pondering
that every day there emerges new examples
of how this futuristic life might materialize,
he wonders if the destruction of patriarchal
superiority and its replacement with a matri-
archal system could be the answer. Ostretsov
argues that the most important requisite of
a leader should be a general love for the
people. As women give birth to boys and
girls, and so have been equipped by nature
to love members of both sexes equally, they
might be the solution.
Image supplied by the artist
“Coolville” is part of Ostretsov’s ongo-
ing New Government project, on which he
has been working since the late 1990s as
a commentary on the nature of power and
despotism in post-Soviet Russia. Based in a
Euro-Christian culture, Gosha’s heroes “rally
against ternary and The New Government
[and] through comics this story can be eas-
ily told.” In the past he stated: “As the acting
organ of power, the New Government must
demonstrate its operative status; closely watch
over the mass media, so that the reality of
The paintings have not
only taken over the
gallery’s exhibition space;
they’ve transformed it
into a science fiction
wonderland.
historical events does not undergo distortion;
react quickly to disasters; carry out a policy
of scientific-technological progress; provide
for the evacuation of the globe’s population in
the event of planetary catastrophe; vigilantly
ensure general adherence to the Constitution;
act as a punitive power; give some attention
to the development and support of cultural-
educational activities; and engage as much as
possible the intellectual potential of man.”
This summer, more can be seen of
Ostretsov’s work as the artist will represent
The Russian Federation in the 53rd Venice
Biennale. For the biennial, which runs from
June to November, Ostretsov has put together
an autobiographical installation in which he
“constructed the house where [he] lives and in
the last of six rooms sits a self-portrait robotic
sculpture who draws an eternal ‘0’ on the
table. This symbolizes both infinity and noth-
ingness. By making art I cheat death — It will
live on past me.”
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Talking about the Tonys, two weeks before

The boys of ‘Billy,’ ‘Godot’ mystery mucus, Egyptian gay director
BY DAVID NOH
The New Dramatists’ lunch (May 19)
at the Marriott Marquis paid touching trib-
ute to the late Horton Foote (1916-2009).
Present at the event were his children,
Hallie, Daisy and Walter, who, when their
father died last March, were the first to call
New Dramatists to tell them they wanted the
show to go on, regardless. Foote led a long,
exemplary life, both in and out of the the-
ater, and I will always treasure the memory
of meeting this courtly Southern gent dur-
ing the Off-Broadway run of “Dividing the
Estate.” He sat at the back of the theater for
every performance, admitting it was out of
“sheer egomania.”
This event, as always, was packed with
past and present Tony nominees. As much as
I adored Karen Olivo in “West Side Story,”
Haydn Gwynne deserves to win Featured
Musical Actress for “Billy Elliot.” She cre-
ated the role from the ground up and is in
the Marian Seldes –– whom she was talking
to –– tradition of great character actresses,
bringing real heart and truth to this some-
times overproduced show.
When I mentioned this, she said, “I’m
going to go and cry now… I started the show
in London in the very early stages, so I know
where the bodies are buried. I hadn’t done a
musical since ‘City of Angels’ in 1993. We
got the most fabulous reviews and ran for
eight months, but it never attracted the right
audience. If we’d first played at the National
Theatre and then transferred into the West
End it would have been better. Audiences
needed to know that it was very much a
O-kay. It kind of reminded me of when Brad
Wong became B.D. Wong in “M. Butterfly,”
some producer’s idea of throwing off the
scent in that prehistoric time when gender-
fucking was theatrically groundbreaking and
not a given.
Far more expressive was the delight-
ful, non-nominated David Bologna, who
plays Billy’s engaging cross-dressing friend,
Michael. When we were gay little boys, who
didn’t love to sneak into Mommy’s closet
–– I remember being so proud when I cre-
ated a bustle out of her bathrobe, and wish
I’d seen someone like Michael onstage back
then. Bologna said, “It’s a really fun role to
play. I see Michael as a crazy, eccentric guy
who isn’t into your typical sports, but he’s
okay, expresses himself, and loves it. I never
dressed up myself. I wasn’t a jock either, but
when I was younger I did like to sing and
dance.
“A lot of kids were at the ‘Billy’ auditions,
but for my callback, there were only twelve
of us. It was neat because they tried to make
it feel as lightweight as possible and not
like an audition –– to not put that stress on
us –– which was really good, as we weren’t
nervous or stressed out. Being in the show
is an incredible feeling, especially at the end
when I tell the audience to give me more DAVID SCHINEMANN
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sophisticated, thinking piece. That audience
does exist in London, but you have to tell
them that that’s what the show is, because
you don’t want to attract the wrong audience
who’ll think, ‘This is too heavy.’
“In London, we look to Broadway as the
birthplace of musicals. ‘Billy Elliot’’s suc-
cess is something we don’t take for granted,
because for us to bring this show here is like
an American company bringing Shakespeare
to Stratford-on-Avon. Broadway is where
this particular art form was born and thrives,
and we hold that in reverence. For instance,
when “The Producers” came over, people
could not wait to see it… and loved it!”
Gwynne’s character, Mrs. Wilkinson, is
an update of those terrific old ballet mis-
tresses with the pounding canes that Maria
Ouspenskaya and Judith Anderson once
played in film, but she said, “Maybe because
I’m not a dancer and I haven’t gone through
all that, I started more with my imagined
view of that woman and how she fits into the
story, and the way everybody is leading a sort
of disappointed life.”
The three “Billy Elliot” boys were prop-
erly be-suited and awestruck, their responses
filled with “Amazing!,” which Marian Seldes
had just informed me was the new “awe-
some.” Latin-looking David Alvarez was
especially cagey when I asked him what was
his background was. “Ballet.” “No, I meant
ethnically – Hispanic?” “I’m Canadian.”
formal ballet or tap, was actually an Irish
dancer, and that really helped with my tap.”
John Glover from “Waiting for Godot”
cleared up a pressing mystery for me, espe-
cially in these Swine Flu-scared days. What
was that mucus-y substance that kept drool-
ing out of his nose and mouth whenever
he was onstage? “Mucus! I just push it out
every night. Some nights I get more than
others. It’s all from the text. Estragon talks
about how Pozzo slathers. Someone equated
me with that horse in ‘Gone with the Wind’
Scarlett beats to death. Drool is drool.”
The divine Chita Rivera, the sexiest
woman in the room, still lovin’ the gay
cruises she gets booked on, was fascinated to
hear about my spotting Carol Lawrence and
Grover Dale taking the subway to the “West
Side Story” opening night party, and gave me
her honest but strictly off-the-record opinion
about this current production.
Lynn Cohen, familiar to many as Magda,
Cynthia Nixon’s nanny on “Sex and the
City,” is the always fun, unofficial hostess of
the press room, and told me, “I just finished
‘Chasing Manet’ with Jane Alexander and
am going to do a film next week with Chris
O’Donnell –– he better be cute! As for me
being in the next ‘Sex and the City’ movie,
from your mouth to God’s ears… I loved
doing the role. It’s the best because they’re
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Great Jones Repertory Company - Asclepius
Written & Directed by Ellen Stewart
June 11-14, 2009 / Thursday-Sunday at 7:30
BLUE DAY
Written & Directed by Alessandro Corazzi
June 11-14, 2009 / Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm / Sunday at 2:30pm
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June 11-28, 2009 / Thursday - Sunday 1-6 pm
Opening Reception June 5th, 6-9 pm
Poetry Electric ~ William Electric Black, Series Director
WHAT I HAVE LEARNED by Jeremy Lardieri
June 16, 2009 at 8:00pm
The Poet and the LumberJack
The Two Masks of Playwright Mike Gorman
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 8pm
Coffeehouse Chronicles - Chris Kapp, Series Director
LIVINIA CO-OP
Saturday, June 13 at 3pm
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Talking about the Tonys, two weeks before
Continued from page 27
all like a repertory company and Cynthia
is a great actress. I based Magda on my
grandmother from the Ukraine. You pull up
everything from the past.”
I ran into Martin Pakledinaz, Tony-
nominated for costume design for “Blithe
Spirit,” and he told me, “Dressing Angela
Lansbury –– how intimidating was that at
first? She’s such a style icon from ‘Mame,’
‘Manchurian Candidate,’ and ‘Murder,
She Wrote,’ in those simple suits which
are really not that simple to execute. She
couldn’t have been easier. She asked me,
‘What did you think of how Anthony
Powell dressed me in ‘Death on the
Nile’? And I said, ‘Wow, you want to
go that high, huh?’ So we went for it
and, regarding her Mrs. Lovett/ ‘Sweeney
Todd” braid buns over the ears, that was
her idea. I, too, mentioned the similarity
to ‘Sweeney,’ but she said, ‘No one will
remember that!’ She brought in a picture
of her nanny who wore her hair that way,
and that always stayed with her.”
Rupert Everett was very particular
about his costumes and fit, and remarked
that he had never had so many costume
meetings on any project. He specified no
smoking jacket, as that would look “too
gay.” Pakledinaz dressed Jayne Atkinson’s
ghostly Ruth in a similar tailored suit
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to what she wore in life: “They usually
bring her back in an evening gown, which
doesn’t make much sense,” while Christine
Ebersole discovered the after-life effect
of her ethereal chiffon sleeves in tech
rehearsal. “She just started playing with
her sleeves over her hands and said, ‘Look
at this!’ Those are the moments when a
designer goes, ‘Thank you, God!’”
Julie Halston, with her devastating,
desert-dry delivery, had everyone –– as
they say on Long Island –– hysterical
laughing, at her show at Birdland (May
19), with her accounts of growing up in
Comack, where she mistook her father’s
testicle during an Easter Egg hunt. (“I
don’t remember dye-ing a pink one?”)
Being Italian, she was once reduced to
childhood tears when class teasing forced
her to ask her mother if they were Mafia:
“Would we live in a shithole like this if we
were?” (Take that you broads from “The
Real Housewives of New Jersey” –– and
how much of a guilty pleasure is that hor-
ror show?)
Halston had the gayest night in the
history of the world when she went as
Liza Minnelli’s guest to the “first Barbra
Streisand Farewell Tour” at Madison
Square. Imagine massed hordes of people
davening at the sight of Liza, and then
having to stand guard in the public ladies
room for her (she was refused the usage
of Streisand’s private loo), while some
woman screams, “It’s Liza! I can’t pee!”
and, later, Richard Simmons, writhing
in agony on the floor in a red sequined
jumpsuit, shrieking “Barbra won’t see me!
Why?!”
BAM Rose Cinemas is presenting a ret-
rospective of Egyptian filmmaker Youssef
Chahine (1926-2008). Series curator
Elliott Stein, who will be speaking on
June 3, told me, “He was a leading direc-
tor in Arab cinema, making movies about
Israelis who fuck Palestinians, Muslims
who fall in love with English colonials
they’re supposed to kill. In his autobio-
graphical trilogy, ‘Alexandria… Why?’ he
depicts himself as being bisexual, and
there’s also his critique of Muslim funda-
mentalism in several films. These are very
ballsy things to do in movies financed by
the Egyptian government –– just to go out
in the world and survive assassination
after doing all that.
“As a filmmaker, his films are often
really rough but it’s the ballsy quality
about them which compels. That’s the one
adjective that really describes him to me.
His films are not hard-core, but it’s obvi-
ous what’s going on. There’s not much
real nudity, but there are gay romances
and affairs which are physical. How far
could he go? But he went as far as he
could. He played a depraved sex maniac
in his breakthrough film, ‘Cairo Station,’
a candy vendor who goes around killing
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appreciate this one, truncated and minimal-
ist as it is. “The Art of Being Straight” is
playing at the Quad Cinema on West 13th
Street in Manhattan.
“AWAY WE GO” (-)
Over dinner, after seeing this film,
my companions P.A. and P.B. said they
had contemplated leaving the theater dur-
ing the first 20 minutes. They eventually
became interested in the unfolding story.
I felt the same way at the beginning of
the picture, but leaving was not an option
since I had to report the facts to my read-
ers. Although I occasionally appreciated a
scene or a bit of dialogue, on the whole, I
thought the entire movie was a pointless
mess.
New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott
gave the film a far better, although nega-
tive, review than it deserved. He wrote,
“The smug self-regard of this movie, direct-
ed by Sam Mendes from a script by Dave
Eggers and Vendela Vida, takes a while to
register, partly because Ms. Rudolph and
Mr. Krasinski are appealing and unaffected
performers and partly because the writing
has some humor and charm.” Yet at the
end of his review, Scott brilliantly wrote,
“Does it sound as if I hate this movie?
Don’t be silly. But don’t be fooled. This
girls out of sexual frustration, and he’s
very good.
“Twenty years ago, I got an invitation
from Georgetown University to talk about
his films with him during a weekend ret-
rospective. I spent a lot of time with him,
had drinks, went to the Egyptian cultural
attaché where he was staying. He gener-
ally traveled with handsome young men.
Walter Reade had a retrospective on him
ten years ago, and already he was a little
shaky but he was okay, and we had coffee
and caught up. He died last year. The New
York Times obits for film are usually ter-
rible, but his was very good, the only one
I’ve ever seen by A.O. Scott, their first
string critic.
“He was a magnificent, formidable
figure of Arab cinema for more than half
a century, bursting with energy and force,
and very political towards the end, very
anti-Israel in terms of their foreign policy
toward Palestinians. But he had a lot of
Israeli friends, and his films were shown
in Israel, as well as gay film festivals
everywhere, extraordinary for someone
from Arab cinema. He was an outspoken
critic of Egyptian President Mubarak, as
well as American foreign policy. When
asked in an online interview whether he
thought Egypt would become more free
and liberal in the near future, his reply
was, ‘No, neither in the near nor in the
faraway future.’”
movie does not like you.”
The two leads, Burt (Jon Krasinski) and
Verona (Maya Rudolph), are excellent in
their portrayals of a young man thrilled he
is to become a father and a woman feel-
ing irritable and uncomfortable during her
pregnancy. The picture becomes a road flick
when the unmarried couple decides to drive
across the country to visit relatives and look
for a place to live. Among the cast of char-
acters they visit is Lilly (Allison Janney) for
whom Verona once worked. Lilly, who lives
in Phoenix, is a loud, uncaring woman with
respect to her own children. This is a very
different role for Janney from the character
she portrayed on “The West Wing” television
show. Another person Verona and Burt visit
is LN (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a disliked profes-
sor at a Madison, Wisconsin, university.
(An aside. In real life, Maggie Gyllenhaal
lives with her daughter and husband, Peter
Sarsgaard, in the Village, where I live.
Further, before going to see this movie,
I had lunch at Balthazar in Soho, and in
walked her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, with
his lady friend, Reese Witherspoon. This
review is beginning to read like a Page Six
item in the New York Post.)
Couples similarly situated may enjoy
the relationship between Burt and Verona.
I kind of liked them but not enough to
suffer all that accompanied them. “Away
We Go” is not a terrible movie, but for me,
seeing it was a waste of time.

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SHOPPING
Setting up for the ARC record sale
ARC RECORD SALE
The ARChive of Contemporary Music (a not-for-profit archive,
music library and research center) collects, preserves and
provides information on the popular music of all cultures
throughout the world. Their over three million sound record-
ings makes them the largest popular music collection on
Earth. Thursday, June 11, from 6:00p.m. to 9:00p.m., ARC
members can attend a pre-sale party and enjoy early bird
shopping. Not an ARC member yet? Just show up and join.
The rest of we civilians, though, are hardly shut out from
finding deals and steals. The regular sale happens June 13
through June 21, daily, from 11:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. Expect to
find tons of Broadway recordings (most for a buck), Jazz LPs,
world music, punk, DVDs and an “Astroturf Yardsale” of 50s
kitchen stuff and clothing. At 54 White Street (3 blocks South
of Canal between Church & Broadway; call 212-226-6967 or
visit http://www.arcmusic.org.
AESCLEPIUS
Who says there are no
new tales to tell? To find
one, La MaMa E.T.C. went
considerably far back in
time to come up with “the
first play to tell the story
Photo by Richard Greene
of the ancient Greek god
George Drance as
of medicine and healing.” Aesclepius and Denise
Conceived, written and Greber as Panacea
directed by the legend-
ary Ellen Stewart, “AESCLEPIUS” tells how the
son of sun god Apollo and mortal maiden Coronis
transcends to his rightful place in the heavens
THEATER
because of his great work in medicine. As achieve-
ments go, it’s not like he won American Idol — but
give Aesclepius a break; he was working in a less
enlightened era. May 28 through June 14 (7:30p.m.,
Thursday through Sunday) at La MaMa E.T.C. Annex;
66 East 4th Street). Tickets are $25 ($20 students/
seniors). To reserve, call 212-475-7710 or online at
www.lamama.org.
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WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL
No spring chicken but not yet ready for social security, the
Washington Square Music Festival remains healthy, strong
and vital as it celebrates its 51st season. The final concert
of that season sees Musical Director Lutz Rath playing The
Devil in Stravinsky’s “A Soldier’s Tale”—an adaptation of
a 1918 theatrical parable in which a soldier trades his
fiddle to the devil for a book that predicts the future of
the economy. Also on the bill: David Oei performs Brahms’
Piano Trio in C Major, opus 87; also, soprano Lucia Hyunju
Song performs Schubert’s “Shepherd on the Rock.” June
19; 8:30p.m.; Free; seating is first-come, first-served. At
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (371 Sixth Avenue).
Call 212-252-3621 or visit www.washingtonsquaremusic-
Photo by Ken Howard
festival.org.
Pianist David Oei performing with the Festival
Chamber Ensemble
GREENWICH HOUSE
MUSIC SCHOOL BENEFIT
Merely announcing a benefit for your good cause isn’t always enough to
get people out of the house and into the seats. Fortunately, Greenwich
House Music School’s fundraising event has the benefit of four char-
ismatic NYC cabaret legends who embody the spirit of excellence the
school seeks to instill in its pupils. That their musical selections pay
tribute to one of the American Songbook’s most cerebral, celebratory,
melancholy lyricist/composers doesn’t hurt either. “Come Rain or Come
Shine: Celebrating the Songs of Johnny Mercer” features performances
from Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso, Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch. If
your only recent exposure to roof-raising vocals is American Idol, come
see how the real pros nail a song and kill the audience. Proceeds benefit
the school’s music education programs and will assist with vital facility
upgrades. 7:30p.m., Monday, June 15, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38
Commerce Street. Tickets are $100 or $75; $250 gets you the show plus
admission to a post-event champagne reception with the artists. To
purchase, call (212) 991-0003, ext. 403. or online at Purchase online at
www.greenwichhouse.org/rainorshine.
Photo by Kit Kittle
Christine Ebersole
TEA CART STORIES
This performance art and site-specific installation project
by mixed media artist Michele Brody explores the cer-
emonies, traditions and values surrounding tea. Brody
invites you to step into her tea cart (parked across
from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s Visitor
Center). Once host and guest begin to sip, the pleasant
libation encourages confession and conversation. After
you’ve shared family stories as well as memories and
experiences dealing with tea (which are being recorded),
Brody will transcribe excerpts from the session onto
paper tea bags that have been steeped in tea leaves
— creating a visual memory of the shared experience.
The stories will be strung on a structure made of cop-
ART
Photo by Michele Brody
per pipes installed on an early 20th century pushcart
Tea, sympthy, and oral histoy
— located in the windows of 97 Orchard Street for
all to see. Brody’s tea cart, at 108 Orchard Street, will be open from 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. on
June 11 and 25 and July 9 and 23 (rain dates the following Thursday, if necessary; call 212-982-8420
or visit www.tenement.org for details).
30 June 10 - 16, 2009
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SUPREME REALTY
MANAGEMENT, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sect’y
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/15/2009. Office location,
County of New York. The
street address is: none. SSNY
has been designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Cilmi & Associates,
PLLC, 39 Broadway, 12th
Floor, New York, NY 10006.
Purpose: any lawful act.
Vil 5/6 – 6/10/09
PARK LAW FIRM PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 12/22/2008.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE PLLC 350
Fifth Avenue, Suite 5715 New
York, NY 10118. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
ARES GROUP PART-
NERS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/11/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to David Sajous
150 East 83RD Street #1B
New York, NY 10028. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
BLARGWARE LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/18/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Mark Schmit 36
ST. Mark’s Place Apt. 18 New
York, NY 10033. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
PRESCIENCE INVEST-
MENT GROUP, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/14/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Mr. Eiad
S. Asbahi 228 Park Avenue
South #28130 New York, NY
10003. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ESTCO LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
1/24/2006. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 1/23/1997 SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to The LLC 445
Park Avenue Ste 900 NY, NY
10022. Address of Principal
office: 445 Park Avenue Ste
900 NY, NY 10022 Arts. Of
Org. filed with DE Secy. of
State, P.O. Box 898, Dover,
DE 19908. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SULLIVAN
DEBT OPPORTUNITY
FUND GP, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
03/26/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 08/11/08. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC, 825
Third Ave., 37th Fl., NY, NY
10022. DE address of LLC:
c/o Corporation Service Co.,
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19801.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of the State of DE,
John G. Townsend Bldg., 401
Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ENDURA PROPER-
TIES LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
04/17/09. Office location: NY
County. Principal office of
LLC: 120 11th Ave., 5th Fl.,
NY, NY 10011. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to c/o Carter Ledyard
& Milburn LLP, Attn: Mary
Beth Werner Lee, Esq., 2 Wall
St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF WIN TEMP, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
04/16/09. Office location: NY
County. Principal office of
LLC: the LLC, Attn: President,
122 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10168.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
the LLC at the address of its
principal office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ETF CONSULTING
GROUP LLC
Art. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/14/09. Office Location: New
York County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
to: c/o The LLC, 140 Charles
St., 14E, New York, NY
10014, Attn: Robert Jaeger
and Daniel Jaeger. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
GOLDEN DOORWAYS
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/21/09.
Office in NY Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of pro-
cess to 51 MacDougal St.,
Ste 103, NY, NY 10012, which
is also the principal business
location. Purpose: Any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF STEWARTSOFT, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
03/10/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY has been des-
ignated 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: Cor-
poration Service Company,
80 State Street, Albany, NY
12207. Purpose: To engage in
any lawful act or activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF THE M. A. SULLIVAN
GROUP LLC
Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 4/13/09. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to M. A.
Sullivan, 155 E 4 St., NY, NY
10009. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF D. E. SHAW
REAL ESTATE PORTFO-
LIOS 12, L.L.C.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 3/2/09. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LLC formed
in DE on 10/23/07. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
and shall mail process to:
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120
W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY,
NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin,
General Counsel, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-
eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF D. E. SHAW
REAL ESTATE PORTFO-
LIOS 19, L.L.C.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 3/2/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 3/3/07. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: D. E. Shaw & Co.,
L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th
Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John
Liftin, General Counsel, regd.
agt. upon whom process
may be served. DE addr. of
LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF KURTZMAN
CARSON CONSUL-
TANTS, LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 4/16/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 2335 Alaska Ave.,
El Segundo, CA 90245. LLC
formed in DE on 5/24/01. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail process
to: CT Corporation System,
111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011.
DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all
lawful purposes.
Vil 5/6-6/10/09
GREAT CATERERS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/19/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 50
West 34TH Street, 3B7 New
York, NY 10001. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
PARK AVENUE PSY-
CHOLOGY PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY
Sec. of State (SSNY)
3/31/2009. Office in NY Co.
SSNY design. Agent of
LLC upon whom process
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to Dr
Sedighe Flugelman 445 Park
Ave 10TH FL New York, NY
10022. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
MY NYC LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/17/2007.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to The LLC
1 Maiden Lane 5Th Flr NY,
NY 10038. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity. Registered Agent:
Spiegel & Utrera, PA PC 1
Maiden Lane 5Th Flr NY, NY
10038.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NEW YORK HALLELU-
JAH COMPANY LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/26/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 2173
Third Ave #5 NY, NY 10035.
Purpose: Any lawful activ-
ity. Registered Agent: Kyoko
Uchiki 2173 Third Ave #5 NY,
NY 10035.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
BACKLIT PICTURES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/12/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Guillermo
Suescum 209 East 25TH
Street, STE 3A New York, NY
10010-3022. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HARMONY FILMS,
LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
02/23/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: Har-
mony Films, 165 W. 18th
St., 8C New York, NY 10011.
Purpose: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NAMYAC PROPER-
TIES LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
10/24/07. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Raymond Fares
Jr., 130 E. 72nd St., NY, NY
10021-4233. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF RAW US LLC
Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/18/08. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall
mail process to: 875 Ave. of
Americas #501, New York,
NY 10001. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF INDIGGO TWINS LLC
Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/13/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 236 E.74 St., #3R,
New York, NY 10021. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MANHATTAN RESTO-
RATIONS LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
07/11/08. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, 154 Orchard Street, #3,
New York, NY 10002. Pur-
pose: To engage in any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BLACKSTONE
REAL ESTATE SPECIAL
SITUATIONS (ALBERTA)
II GP L.P.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 4/8/09. Office
location: NY County. LP
formed in DE on 4/1/09. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LP upon whom pro-
cess against it may be served
and shall mail process to the
principal business addr. of
the LP: c/o The Blackstone
Group L.P., 345 Park Ave.,
NY, NY 10154. Regd. agt.
upon whom process may
be served: CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY
10011. 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 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF EXTRA SPACE
PROPERTIES THIRTY
SIX LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 4/27/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 2795 E. Cotton-
wood Pkwy. #400, Salt Lake
City, UT 84121. LLC formed
in DE on 4/23/09. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: c/o CT
Corporation System, 111 8th
Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-
eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ATLANTIC UKUS, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
3/16/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Jocelyn White, 273
W. 12th St., NY, NY 10014.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF TEXTILES SOURCING
AND SERVICES LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/15/08. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 1410 Broadway, 24th
Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BOTSARIS MORRIS
REALTY LLC AMENDED
TO BOTSARIS MORRIS
REALTY GROUP, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/3/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Attn: Guy Morris, 358
Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10001.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/13-6/17/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF NB ALTERNA-
TIVES HOLDINGS LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
04/27/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 02/19/09. Prin-
cipal office of LLC: 605 3rd
Ave., NY, NY 10158. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to c/o Corpora-
tion Service Co. (CSC), 80
State St., Albany, NY 12207-
2543. DE address of LLC:
c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,
DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. Jeffrey W. Bullock,
Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898,
Dover, DE 19903. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
XIV RIVER CONSULT-
ING LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/5/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to The LLC
200 Riverside Blvd #10A New
York, NY 10069. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
TEN90 SOLUTIONS, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/16/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to C/O David
Schanoes 150 Thompson
Street, Apt. 3C New York, NY
10012. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
TRIPLE T 143 HOLDINGS
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/24/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Mark Friedland-
er Esq 15 Maiden Lane Suite
2000 New York, NY 10038.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
GARY G. VENTER, FCAS,
CERA, ASA, MAAA, LLC
Company Articles of Org.
filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY)
3/12/2009. Office in NY Co.
SSNY design. Agent of LLC
upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Gary Venter 5
West 91ST Street Suite 6E
New York, NY 10024. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
TULLY’S BAKERY LLC
Company Articles of Org.
filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY)
4/17/2009. Office in NY Co.
SSNY design. Agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Helen
Tully Lewis 201 West 11TH
Street, APT #3G New York,
NY 10014. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF AQUA ROSA
ADVISORS, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/25/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 2/17/2009. SSNY des-
ignated as /agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Oded Lev-Ari 327
E 12TH Street-Ground Floor
NY, NY 10003. DE address of
LLC: 2711 Centerville Road
Suite 400 Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. Of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal
ST, Suite 3 Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LITTLE APPLES PHO-
TOGRAPHY, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
04/10/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: Little
Apples Photography, 160
Riverside Blvd., Apt 32A New
York, NY 10069. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 143 PROPERTIES LLC
Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
12/23/04. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC for service of
process. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 875 Ave. of Americas
#501, New York, NY 10001.
Present name of LLC: 143
Development Partners, LLC.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GO PRETTY LLC
Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy. Of
State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/09.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
888C 8th Ave. #106, New
York, NY 10019. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
247 REALTY ASSOCI-
ATES LLC
Arts of Org filed with NY Sec
of State (SSNY) on 02/26/08.
Office: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to: c/o Redi
Management Corp., 4 Wash-
ington Ave. South, Lawrence,
NY 11559. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF REALM PART-
NERS FUND LP
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/5/09. Office loca-
tion: NY County. Princ. bus.
addr.: 390 Park Ave., 16th Fl.,
NY, NY 10022. LP formed in
DE on 1/22/09. NY Sec. of
State designated as agent
of LP upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: c/o CT
Corporation System, 111 8th
Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LP: 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 5/20-6/24/09

NAME OF LLC: MY FAIR
ROSES, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State: 4/24/09. Office
loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served and shall
mail process to: c/o Business
Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste.
101, Albany, NY 12205, regd.
agt. upon whom process
may be served. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF FLEXIBLE
OPPORTUNITIES, LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 3/4/09. NYS ficti-
tious name: Flexible Opportu-
nities Fund, LLC. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LLC formed
in DE on 2/26/09. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to the prin-
cipal business addr.: 522 5th
Ave., NY, NY 10036. DE addr.
of LLC: c/o The Corporation
Trust Co., 1209 Orange St.,
Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF REALM PART-
NERS SUB-FUND LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/5/09. Office loca-
tion: NY County. Princ. bus.
addr.: 390 Park Ave., 16th Fl.,
NY, NY 10022. LLC formed
in DE on 4/30/09. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: 111 8th
Ave., NY, NY 10011. Regd.
agt. upon whom process
may be served: CT Corpora-
tion System, 111 8th Ave.,
NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of
LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ASTAR 325
ROUTE 17M - MONROE
LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 4/29/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 1114 Ave. of the
Americas, 39th Fl., NY, NY
10036. LLC formed in DE on
3/31/09. NY Sec. of State des-
ignated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY
10011, regd. agt, upon whom
process may be served. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-
ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
real estate investments and
finance.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF O-CAP GP, LLC
App. For Auth. filed with
Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY)
on 4/23/2009. Office loca-
tion: New York County. LLC
formed in DE on 4/21/2009.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: 140 E. 63rd St., Apt. 17C,
New York, NY 10065, Attn:
Michael Olshan. DE address
of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy.,
Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of
Form. filed with DESS, P.O.
Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: to engage in any
act or activity lawful under
the NY LLC Law.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CAPOSALDO 37TH
STREET, LIMITED PART-
NERSHIP
Certificate filed with Secy.
of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
1/8/09. Office location: New
York County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: Davis &
Gilbert LLP, 1740 Broadway,
New York, NY 10019. Name/
address of each genl. ptr.
available from SSNY. Term:
until 1/8/2089. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/20-6/24/09
NAME: STONE LANE
PICTURES, LLC
Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of
State of NY 02/05/09. Off.
Loc.: New York Co. Corpora-
tion Service Company desig-
nated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy
of process to THE LLC, C/O
CSC, 80 State Street, Albany,
NY 12207. Purpose: Any law-
ful act or activity.
Vil 5/27 – 7/1/09
MANGALA NAIK, PHYSI-
CIAN, PLLC,
Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec.
of State (SSNY) 7th day of
April, 2009. Office in New
York Co. at 630 1st Avenue,
Suite 31D, New York, New
York 10016. SSNY design.
agt. Upon whom process
may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to 630
1st Avenue, Suite 31D, New
York, New York 10016. Reg.
Agt. Upon whom process
may be served: Spiegel &
Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden
Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-
1100 Purpose: Medicine.
Vil 5/27 – 7/1/09
MIHARO GAMES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/6/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Orcun Koro-
glu 88 Edgecombe Ave Ap
2 New York, NY 10030. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
LAZ RESOURCES, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/4/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 205 W
57TH ST. 6AD New York, NY
10019. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
BULLSEYE VENTURES
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/26/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Jonathan Bull
56 Perry ST. APT. 1R New
York, NY 10014. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NANDITA KHANNA
ASSOCIATES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/24/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 160
East 38TH Street, #28H New
York, NY 10016. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF DCMF LIQUI-
DATING COMPANY LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/22/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 4/8/2009. SSNY des-
ignated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to THE LLC 461 Fifth
Ave, 10TH Flr NY, NY 10017.
DE address of LLC: Corpo-
ration Trust Center 1209
Orange Street Wilmington,
DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State John
G. Townsend Building P.O.
Box 898 Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF NB ALTERNA-
TIVES ADVISERS LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
04/28/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 02/19/09. Prin-
cipal office of LLC: 605 3rd
Ave., NY, NY 10158. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to c/o Corpora-
tion Service Co. (CSC), 80
State St., Albany, NY 12207-
2543. DE address of LLC:
c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,
DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. Jeffrey W. Bullock,
Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898,
Dover, DE 19903. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF CARBON
VISUAL EFFECTS LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/07/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 04/30/09. Prin-
cipal office of LLC: 180 Varick
St., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10014.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
c/o Corporation Service Co.,
80 State St., Albany, NY
12207-2543. DE address of
LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
Secy. of State, Div. of Corps.,
John G. Townsend Bldg., 401
Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: Design and
produce graphics for com-
mercial broadcasting.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SUITE ACCESS,
LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/13/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 05/01/09. Princi-
pal office of LLC: c/o Suite 850
LLC, 230 Park Ave., Ste. 850,
NY, NY 10169. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Attn: Marc Adel-
man at the principal office of
the LLC. DE address of LLC:
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts.
of Org. filed with Secy. of
the State of DE, Corp. Dept.,
Loockerman & Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SUPER LAW GROUP,
LLC
Art. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
3/23/09. Off. Loc.: NY Co.
SSNY designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served and
shall mail process against the
LLC to the principal business
addr.: 156 William St, Ste 800,
NY, NY 10038. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ANTIPODEAN
DOMESTIC PARTNERS,
LP
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 3/25/09. Office
location: NY County. LP org.
in DE 3/23/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to 499 Park
Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10010.
DE office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of LP on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Name/
addr. of each gen. ptr. avail.
at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF TOCQUEVILLE
GOLD PRIVATE EQUITY
GP, LLC
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 4/8/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC org.
in DE 7/23/07. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Attn: John
Hathaway, 40 W. 57th St.,
19th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE
office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activities.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF TOCQUEVILLE
GOLD PRIVATE EQUITY
FUND, L.P.
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 4/8/09. Office
location: NY County. LP org.
in DE 7/23/07. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Attn: John
Hathaway, 40 W. 57th St.,
19th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE
office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of LP on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Name/
addr. of each gen. ptr. avail.
at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF METROPOLI-
TAN REAL ESTATE PART-
NERS GLOBAL III, L.P.
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 3/2/09. Office
location: NY County. LP org.
in DE 2/26/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to Attn:
Felipe Dorregaray, 135 E. 57th
St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE
office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of LP on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Name/
addr. of each gen. ptr. avail.
at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GF INVESTORS, LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/01/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Emanuel Gerard, 1 E.
End Ave., NY, NY 10075. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SHANY LANDMARKS
LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/01/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 12 E. 86th
St., #727, NY, NY 10028. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF GRAND CEN-
TRAL OPPORTUNITIES
FUND, LP
Authority filed with Secy
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/12/08. LP formed in DE on
06/03/08. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LP upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LP, 230 Park Ave.,
Ste. 539, NY, NY 10169. DE
address of LP: 160 Green-
tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE
19904. The name & address
of each general partner is
available from SSNY. Cert
of LP filed with DE Secy of
State, 401 Federal St, Dover
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LOCUST VALLEY, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 4/22/09.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
addr.: c/o Jacobson Family
Investments, Inc., Carnegie
Hall Tower, 152 W. 57th St.,
56th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Pur-
pose: all lawful purposes.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF KONDAUR
VENTURES VIII OFF-
SHORE REO 1, L.L.C.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/12/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 4/30/09. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY
10011, regd. agt. upon whom
process may be served. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-
ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Cert. of Form. filed with DE
Sec. of State, Townsend
Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LEAD LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/23/2006. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Scott Martel, 245 East
54th Street, Ste 29B, New
York, NY 10022. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 5/27-7/1/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a Liquor License, Serial
#1226113, has been applied
for by the undersigned to
sell liquor under the Alco-
holic Beverage Control Law
at 435 Park Ave. South, New
York City, NY 10016 for on-
premises consumption.
Toon Thai Inc.
Vil 6/3/09 & 6/10/09
NOR JEWELRY LLC,
Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5th day of
February 2009. Office in New
York Co. at 72 Bowery, New
York, New York 10013. SSNY
desig. agt. Upon whom pro-
cess may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to 72 Bowery, New York,
New York 10013. Reg. Agt.
upon whom process may
be served: Spiegel & Utrera,
P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC
10038 1 800 576-1100 Pur-
pose: Any lawful purpose.
Vil 6/3 – 7/8/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SPYE DESIGN STU-
DIO, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
04/02/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, PO Box 1150, New
York, NY 10037. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BOTTOM LINE CON-
CEPTS LLC, A DOMESTIC
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with the
SSNY on 04/01/09. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to: c/o Feffer & Feffer,
LLC, 440 E 57th St. #18 C-D,
NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any
Lawful Purpose.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
June 10 - 16, 2009
MARTIGNETTI PLANNED
GIVING ADVISORS, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/30/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Anthony
Martignetti 900 Park Terrace
East 4TH Floor NY, NY 10034.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Registered Agent: Robert B.
Moy 575 Lexington Avenue,
23RD FLR NY, NY 10022.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF TEMPEST CAPITAL
ADVISORS, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
04/20/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: Tem-
pest Capital Advisors, LLC,
520 West 19th Street #5B,
New York, NY 10011. Pur-
pose: To engage in any law-
ful act or activity.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF T&L SPORTS
AND ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/15/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 04/24/09. Princ.
office of LLC: 275 Madison
Ave., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10016.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
the LLC at the princ. office
of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC:
2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-
ington, DE 19908. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State
of DE, John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF LEXINGTON
CAPITAL PARTNERS
VII, L.P.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 3/4/09. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LP formed
in DE on 1/15/09. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LP upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to the prin-
cipal business addr. of the LP:
660 Madison Ave., 23rd Fl.,
NY, NY 10065. DE addr. of LP:
The Corporation Trust Co.,
1209 Orange St., Wilming-
ton, 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 6/3-7/8/09
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NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 367 BROOKLYN, L.L.C.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/20/08. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 570 Lexington Ave-
nue, 40th Fl., NY, NY 10022.
Purpose: any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 2131 MERRICK LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/8/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, Attn: Jeff
Sutton, 500 Fifth Ave., 54th
Fl., NY, NY 10110. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/3-7/8/09
JADETRIBE, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/11/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to THE LLC
Kimberly Hartman 99 Bank
Street APT 2C New York, NY
10014. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
MEDITERRA COLLEC-
TION LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/18/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Sema Tekinay
300 East 56 Street APT. 28B
New York, NY 10022. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
THE TAX STRATEGISTS,
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/11/2003.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 2 Wall
St., Ste. 500 NY, NY 10005.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Registered Agent: Dan Korn-
blatt 2 Wall St., Ste. 500 NY,
NY 10005.
EISDORFER DENTAL
PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/5/09. Office
in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent
of LLC upon whom process
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to 121
E. 60th St., Ste. 7C., NY, NY
10022. Purpose: To practice
the profession of dentistry.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PANTOGA LLC
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 4/07/09.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY has been designated
as an agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may
be served. The address to
which SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC is to: The LLC, 4014
13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brook-
lyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
32 June 10 - 16, 2009

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR On a beautiful sunny day people climb over

Continued from page 22
I remember that when the original plans
for the renovation were being discussed,
someone in the Parks Department mentioned
at a Community Board 2 Parks Committee
meeting that the Parks Department wanted
to move the steps from inside the foun-
tain to the outside; doing this would dis-
courage people climbing into the fountain.
Councilmember Alan Gerson, among others,
objected and wanted the steps to be kept in
the fountain so that people could use it as a
stage for performances when the fountain
was off, and could also enjoy the water and
splash around when the fountain was turned
on.
The Parks Department argued that the
water was not clean, that it was recycled
fountain water that was not treated or puri-
fied. Fountains in the rest of the city have
steps leading up to the fountain. People
rarely enter into fountains in other parks.
The Parks Department could not install
water purification equipment to ensure the
safety of people playing in the water because
that would change the fountain into a pool.
Apparently, if it is defined as a pool it causes
a whole set of other problems, including the
requirements to regularly test the water and
have a lifeguard present.
The popular view won the day and the
steps remain going down into the fountain.
the low wall and enjoy the fountain from the
inside while many children, dogs and some
adults splash in the water. The presumption
by everyone is that the water is clean and
safe. The presumption is wrong.
The question now is what can be done.
I am most concerned about the children.
It seems to me, at a minimum, the Parks
Department needs to place signs around
or near the fountain warning parents that
the water may be contaminated. Perhaps
Councilmember Gerson or others who want-
ed the steps to go into the fountain could
come up with an idea to make the fountain
safe as well as beautiful.
Bob O’Sullivan
Skeptical on scores
To The Editor:
In your editorial “Keep mayoral control,
but with modifications” (May 27), you say,
“[R]eading and math scores are up and the
schools do seem better.”
Richard Mills, New York State commis-
sioner of Education, said that all the state
tests scores were up, not just New York
City’s, which he attributed to better test
prep across the state. Or perhaps the tests
were easier.
New York City school test scores are
administered and graded by the same entity
and with no independent oversight, so it’s
hard to verify the results; but school admin-
istrators have been fired for being caught
changing tests results, in order that their
schools are not punished, underfunded or
closed down.
The National Assessment of Educational
Progress, a more objective and independent
measure of student achievement, shows that
New York City results are flat, demonstrat-
ing no improvement. As Mark Twain says,
“There’s lies, damn lies and statistics.”
A. S. Evans
Mike isn’t accountable
To The Editor:
Your editorial “Keep mayoral control, but
with modifications” (May 27) argues, “If we
can’t hold the mayor accountable when there
are problems, we’ll have no one to blame but
ourselves.”
How, exactly, are we supposed to hold the
mayor accountable? Public school parents
are too small a minority in city politics to
affect the outcome of a citywide mayoral
election. The mayor “runs” on education
only in the broadest possible sense, manag-
ing, in Bloomberg’s case, with his millions,
to convince a lot of people who have noth-
ing to do with the schools that he is doing a
good job.
This is accountability?
This year, hundreds of children were
on waiting lists for their own zoned
kindergartens, after parents and elect-
ed officials had warned for years that
enrollments were swelling. Parents went
to the schools chancellor, they went to
our Community Education Councils,
they went to the central school board
(which Bloomberg unilaterally renamed
the “Panel for Educational Policy”), they
went to the City Council, and nothing was
done. More than 40 percent of New York
City public schoolchildren attend schools
in overcrowded buildings. Where’s the
accountability for that?
The Bloomberg administration has taken
responsibility for not a single one of its fail-
ures. For New York City public school par-
ents, “accountability” is a word that sounds
good in the newspaper, but in reality is an
empty promise. Without true checks and
balances, Bloomberg, like a king, is only as
accountable as he feels like being.
Ann Kjellberg
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the High Line’s northernmost section. The M.T.A. has des-

ignated The Related Companies to develop a project above
the rail yards, but Related has not yet decided whether to
preserve the High Line segment or take it down.
Bloomberg, however, had some definite good news for
the High Line. The city had just signed off on the sale of city-
owned land to the Whitney Museum for the new Whitney
Downtown to be built at the Gansevoort St. end of the
elevated park, the mayor announced.
The High Line park, with grand stairways at Gansevoort,
14th, 16th, 18th and 20th Sts., will be open to the public
seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Bloomberg called the park “a great gift to the city” from
Friends of the High Line, the largely volunteer organization
founded by David and Hammond, which will run the park
under the supervision of the city Department of Parks and
Recreation.
The park’s landscape design, by James Corner Field
Operations, Diller Scofidio Renfro, with plantings by
Piet Oudolf, “exceeds expectations,” the mayor said.
Segments one and two are projected to cost $152 mil-
lion and Friends of the High Line has raised $44 million,
the mayor said. The city has committed $112.2 million
to the project, and The Friends will be responsible for 70
percent of the cost of maintaining the High Line.
New York State recently provided $400,000, and dur-
ing the past couple of years kicked in $23.8 million.
Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, who togeth-
er donated $5 million to the High Line in 2006, more Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas
recently put up another $10 million, conditioned on a Parkgoers enjoyed a section of the recently opened High Line just north of 14th St. on Monday night. The park is
matching donation, which was met in short order by open seven days a week until 10 p.m.
Philip Falcone, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, and his
wife, Lisa Marie, the mayor said. project,” she told The Villager. “It’s been my number-one look and appeal of everything.”
Hammond recalled that the High Line was built 75 priority since the day I got appointed, so there’s tremen- On Tuesday, the High Line’s official opening day, a hand-
years ago to raise New York Central Railroad tracks off dous satisfaction in seeing this happen today.” ful of visitors took to the park in the morning despite inter-
the street where trains were a menace to pedestrians. The event evoked a more emotional response from mittent downpours.
David thanked Bloomberg for embracing an idea that Hammond, who said he’s recently been driven to tears Danielle Roberts and Michael Rodenbush made their
had been mocked by his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani. while witnessing the fruits of his labor. way down from the Upper East Side to take a tour, and said
Amanda Burden, the City Planning Commission chair- “I’ve been crying a lot,” he said. “My dad always said they’d trek down regularly because “it’s a destination.”
person, said that when she first came up to the High Line the best response to joy is tears, and that’s definitely “I think it’s really nice that they saved something that was
she knew that the city had to preserve an irreplaceable been happening.” an important part of the city’s history, and I think it’s really
part of the city infrastructure. The rezoning of the right For David, who has spent as much time atop the High well executed,” said Roberts, 45.
of way was a key piece of the project that is just being Line as anyone throughout the years, actually seeing the Ella Georgiades, a West Villager, came with her two
realized, Bloomberg said, noting that there are 33 new public take to the park has been his greatest reward. daughters, 2-year-old Tasha and 2-month-old Bea. The High
buildings recently completed or being constructed as a “It isn’t really complete until today, when the doors open Line is “completely awesome and very kid-friendly,” she
result of the rezoning. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took and people come into it,” he said. “It’s just so exciting to see said.
place under part of Andre Balazs’s recently completed people walking up the stairs and looking around and begin- “I didn’t quite get that it was going to be so landscaped;
Standard Hotel, which straddles the High Line at Little ning to use this park. It’s magical.” I thought it was just going to be like a walkway,” said
West 12th St. Balazs’s project, however, wasn’t affected The High Line represents another leap forward for the Georgiades, 31. “I got the whole park-in-the-sky, oasis
by the rezoning, which was only in Chelsea, north of fast-growing Meatpacking District, which rose in recent thing, but I didn’t think it would really work out. I think it’s
14th St. years from gritty to glam seemingly overnight. Annie worked out very, very nicely. It’s the kind of thing you’d see
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe was in his glory, Washburn, executive director of the Meatpacking District in Montreal, not in New York City.”
opening another park two weeks after reopening the Initiative, said the new public space will encourage a more Bethany Wall, a Jersey City resident, made a quick stop
renovated part of Washington Square Park and a few diverse crowd to explore the newly upscale area. over at the High Line in between work engagements in the
days after opening the rebuilt Harlem Piers on the “Hopefully, what the park will do is draw in the people area.
Hudson River. that feel that they can’t come to the neighborhood,” she “I love different perspectives of New York and also the
Congressmember Jerrold Nadler recalled 1983 when said. “And the neighborhood will then start to include more connection to history,” said the 48-year-old. “I will definitely
he joined the late Peter Obletz in an effort to save the people as a response to that.” come back here as a destination, myself and with others.”
elevated rail line that was being dismantled piece by Just-married couple James Lui and Cynthia Tsui had Patrick Shepherd, 29, an actor who was auditioning in
piece from Spring to Gansevoort Sts. planned to take their wedding photos nearby in the West a building that overlooks the park, came down after he saw
“We didn’t envision anything like this,” Nadler said. Village before getting the news that the park was already construction workers replaced by regular visitors that day.
Back in the 19th century, the state Legislature said open. He worried that, as a public venue, the park might suffer
that trains on 10th Ave. had to be preceded by a man on “It was easy enough just to walk up and see if it was from New Yorkers’ disrespect.
horseback waving a red flag or a lantern. In 1929, the open,” said Lui, who used to live with his wife in Chelsea. “Within in a week it’ll be all graffiti and spit and gum and
state authorized the West Side Improvement, popularly “We came right up, and it was amazing — it was really whatever else all over it, but for now it’s beautiful,” he said.
known as the High Line. beautiful.” Regardless, he predicted crowds will still flock from all over
Later on Monday, during an informal question-and- The two posed for shots along the length of the High Line to experience the High Line.
answer session, Burden ranked the park among the city’s as passersby congratulated them. “I definitely think that it’ll be a thing that tourists will
greatest achievements during her tenure. “Our photographer’s in heaven,” Lui added. “She really come check out when they’re in the city, because it’s unique,”
“This is without question — no contest — my favorite likes a lot of the angles, the perspectives — just the whole he said. “How many parks are in the sky?”
 June 10 - 16, 2009 35

Villager photo by Tequila Minsky

At High Line ribbon cutting on Monday, flanked by P.S. 11 students, from left, the students’ teacher, Farida Ahmad, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Robert Hammond
of Friends of the High Line, hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone, Josh David of Friends of the High Line (partially hidden from view), Mayor Bloomberg, Lisa Marie Falcone,
Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, Diane von Furstenberg and Borough President Scott Stringer.

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