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BAN plans to keep

the building boom
on Bowery at bay
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
The Bowery Alliance of
Neighbors (BAN) last week
presented a plan to limit
the size of new buildings
and preserve traditional
commercial uses on the east
side of the Bowery between
Canal and E. Ninth Sts.
The alliance, which
includes artists, loft dwell-
ers and local merchants, has
been calling for preserva-
tion of the east side of the
thoroughfare for the past
three years as new high-rise
residential and hotel tow-
ers have been threatening
to overwhelm the low-rise
character of Bowery.
“This is the first step in
gathering support for the
plan,” said Anna Sawaryn,
president of BAN, who led
Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki the group’s June 16 forum.
Christopher Park in Sheridan Square around 10 p.m. on a recent Saturday night.
“We intend to present it
eventually to Community
Board 3 and ultimately to
City Planning.”
The preservation plan
developed for BAN by
Doris Diether, a neighbor-
hood zoning consultant and
Community Board 2 mem-
ber, calls for an 85-foot
height limit on new build-
ings in a 100-foot-wide cor-
ridor on the east side of
Bowery. The plan includes
lot-coverage rules for resi-
dential and commercial
development and a ban on
demolition of specific build-
ings of special significance.
To protect commercial uses,
there would be restrictions
on residential conversion of
commercial space.
Continued on page 42

Gay bars and neighbors say, A middle school

‘Anything goes’ has got to go at Sports Museum
is not a big hit
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
The head of a volunteer anti-
crime group is demanding a strict 10
p.m. curfew on the Christopher St.
Pier and a complete lockdown of the
Christopher St. PATH station on week-
ends. Meanwhile, a leading transgender
activist is saying all of the Christopher
St. area’s quality-of-life issues stem
from one thing, drugs — and that she’s
ready and willing to assist in solving
the problem any way she can.
As for the Sixth Precinct’s Deputy
Inspector Raymond Caroli, he said
police are going to continue the plan
they unveiled last month; plus, they’ve
recently begun locking Christopher
Park, a source of bad behavior and
crime, earlier on Friday and Saturday
evenings.
More than 100 people filled the
basement of Our Lady of Pompei Christopher St. Patrol, said that while
Church at Bleecker and Carmine Sts. much talk is made of providing a “safe BY ALBERT AMATEAU The site, however, is at 26
last Wednesday evening at the Sixth space” for gay and lesbian youth, local AND JULIE SHAPIRO Broadway in the Financial
Precinct Community Council’s monthly merchants and residents need a safe The city Department of District where the Sports
meeting. space, too. Education last week offered Museum of America closed
After a spate of assaults a month “Close the Christopher St. Pier at Village parents anoth- earlier this year. Parents
ago, including two stabbings and a 10 p.m.,” Poster declared, as most of er possible venue for the are eager to find space for
gay-bashing incident, Caroli put into the audience applauded. “Close the Greenwich Village Middle
place a series of new measures. These PATH station on the weekends — you School. Continued on page 4
included light towers at two key inter- eliminate 50 percent of the problem.”
sections, a mobile command post at The pier and the Hudson River Park
Greenwich and Christopher Sts. and a currently have a 1 a.m. curfew. EDITORIAL,
unit of mounted police on weekends to As of now, police are starting with LETTERS
provide “omnipresence.” The precinct closing something significantly smaller,
also recently received 18 new officers. but which is said to have a big impact PAGE 12
Although neighborhood residents on neighborhood conditions, namely
said they’re seeing — and hearing — a Christopher Park in Sheridan Square. ARTIST’S
difference, some think even stronger Caroli said police recently obtained the EMPOWERING
measures are needed to control crime, key to the little triangular park and are
noise and crowding.
ARMOR
David Poster, president of the Continued on page 6 PAGE 34

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made a direct request to them [Snyder’s campaign], so
I think that came about from someone inquiring if she
would be interested.” He said he hadn’t seen the Politicker
item, and asked us to read it to him over the phone. Since
it only cites a “campaign source,” MacPherson said, he
doesn’t hold anything against Snyder, and would be happy
to interview her if she’s willing. He did say that for any
D.A. candidate, “I would hope that the standard would
be innocent until proven guilty.” MacPherson has already
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others that it was “balanced.” As for all the unflattering
newspaper articles about him, he noted that his landlord,
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WHERE THERE’S A WILL...? Legendary Cooper
Square housing activist and literary agent Frances Goldin,
85, has had a really rough time lately. First, she suffered
a heart attack at her East Village home — on May Day,
ironically. “I should have been marching,” she said. Always
“strong as a horse” her entire life, she said, it was a shock
to be stricken. She received two stents at Beth Israel, and is
now on the mend back at her place. Making matters worse,
though, a lawyer she asked to draft her will in September
who said it would take just a month, still hasn’t produced
Millstone, at a couple of Coalition for a District Alternative
meetings and thought he was “a really hot leftist,” as in he
talked a good progressive game. Plus, he came highly rec-
ommended by her yoga teacher. But Millstone has turned
out to be a total bust, despite having cashed her $250 first
payment, she said. “I’m 85 years old. I had a heart attack.
I need a will,” Goldin fumed. “I have threatened him with
going to The Villager. The guy is a menace, and I don’t
want anyone else to get rooked.” We called Millstone and
he wouldn’t answer whether he planned to write the will or
return Goldin’s paperwork. In fact, citing “confidentiality,”
he wouldn’t even say if Goldin is his client. Did he even
know who Frances Goldin was? “I can’t tell you a thing,”
he replied. Losing our patience, we said forcefully that, in
our view, he should either do the darn will already or give
back Goldin’s stuff A.S.A.P., considering her age and health
condition. Millstone went silent and was unable to speak
for a minute or two; we heard him breathing heavily into
the phone. Asked if he was O.K., he responded, “I’m fine.
... I’m sure there are answers to this, but they haven’t come
right to me. ...” Millstone said he would only talk to us if
we had Goldin’s written authorization in an e-mail. Goldin
did so, and we called Millstone again, twice, but he didn’t
call back.
TREE FOR TOM: Warren Allen Smith of Jane St.,
who has a Stonewall exposé in our Gay Pride section this
week, said the planting of a tree down by the courts on
June 8 to mark the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine’s
death received no media coverage. Smith, a writer and
outspoken atheist, wielded a shovel at the planting for
Paine, who practiced deism — the belief in human reason
over the concept of God. Known as the “Father of the
American Revolution” for his pro-independence pamphlet
“Common Sense,” Paine died in Greenwich Village at 59
Grove St. Because of his unpopular religious views, only six
people attended his funeral. After they planted the sapling
Downtown earlier this month, the commemorators sang
“Tom Paine’s Bones.”
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‘Spirit of Stonewall’ lives on in protest over permits

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL
A group of 75 people marched through the West Village
Friday night to protest a regulation requiring groups of 50 or
more people to obtain a permit before gathering.
The “Parade Without A Permit” was organized by the
Radical Homosexual Agenda, which organized a similar
protest in 2007.
“Nothing’s changed, that’s part of the problem,” said
Jessica Rechtschaffer, an R.H.A. member since the group’s
founding in 2006. “It’s really a failure on the part of the city’s
leadership to protect basic civil rights.”
Benjamin Shepard held the lead banner as the march
proceeded through West Village streets filled with Friday
night revelers.
“Forty years after Stonewall, we’re still out here,” he
said. “If we don’t have freedom of assembly, we don’t have
democracy.”
Toward the end of the hour-long protest, which saw the
march proceed down the middle of several streets, a small
number of police appeared. They walked alongside the
march until it ended at the Christopher St. Pier. There were
no arrests.
The regulation, first issued in 2006 with a cap of 30
participants, was modified to 50 after an outcry from
activists and several city councilmembers. Many in the
march criticized Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the
first openly gay City Council speaker, for agreeing to the
regulation.
As a result of the rule, originally intended to control
the monthly Critical Mass bike ride, the 5 Boro Bike Club
and several other parties filed a lawsuit challenging the
regulation in Federal Court. There were four days of hear- Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel
ings last month. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has not yet ruled The protesters circled the Washington Square fountain Friday night before marching out of the park and through
on the suit. the streets of the West Village.

A passion for justice.

The experience to deliver it.

“I want to build a District

Attorney’s office that’s defined
not by how we handle the big,
high profile cases, but by how we
handle the tens of thousands of
cases each month that won’t ever
get written about—cases that don’t
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Parents challenge D.O.E.’s Sports Museum school play
Continued from page 1
G.V.M.S., which currently shares the over-
crowded school building at 490 Hudson St.
with P.S. 3, but they are reluctant to send
their sixth graders out of the neighborhood.
Will Havermann, a D.O.E. spokesperson,
confirmed on Wed., June 17, that the city
was close to an agreement on the former
Sports Museum space near Bowling Green
and that the location would have room for
the 220 Greenwich Village Middle School
students.
Indeed, the Sports Museum has room
for 1,000 school seats, according to Paul
Goldstein, director of Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver’s Lower Manhattan District
Office.
Rebecca Daniels, president of the District
2 Community Education Council, which cov-
ers the Village as well as Lower Manhattan,
Chelsea and the Upper East Side, said that
while the Downtown location is far from
the West Village, G.V.M.S. parents would
have to consider it as a possibility. Daniels
said the District 2 C.E.C. would meet with
G.V.M.S. and Clinton School parents this
week about 26 Broadway.
“The ideal place would be 75 Morton
St., which is not completely off the table,”
Daniels said, referring to the state-owned
building three blocks from the Village mid-
dle school’s present location. Village parents
ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ
Democratic State Committeeman
Greenwich Village, Soho, Tribeca
and elected officials identified the Morton
St. building nearly two years ago as a poten-
tial middle school space, but the facility has
possible code problems and would require
extensive renovation. The transfer of part
of the building from state to city ownership
was also uncertain, and the space might not
be available for two years.
Daniels said that John White, the D.O.E.
official who has been dealing with over-
crowding in District 2, suggested last week
that 26 Broadway could accommodate the
Greenwich Village Middle School and the
Clinton School for Writers and Artists, the
latter being a middle school that shares
space with P.S. 11 in an overcrowded school
building on W. 21st St. between Eighth and
Ninth Aves. in Chelsea.
Daniels noted that there are already
four middle schools in Lower Manhattan
and only one in Greenwich Village. She
suggested that alternate space for G.V.M.S.
could be found in Legacy High School at 34
W. 14th St., where a middle school on the
state’s Schools Under Registration Review,
or SURR, list of failing schools is also
located and scheduled to close.
“It would make more sense, because
it’s in the Village,” Daniels observed of the
Legacy High School space.
Ann Kjellberg, a Village parent and mem-
ber of the Public School Parents Advocacy
Committee (P.S.P.A.C), said, “It’s great for
there to be a middle school down there [at
26 Broadway], but we need a middle school
in our neighborhood and G.V.M.S. was
founded as a middle school for the Village.
Having schools in your neighborhood is a
reasonable expectation.”
Kjellberg said P.S.P.A.C. was disappointed
last week when Mayor Bloomberg won half a
victory in his campaign for mayoral control
of the city’s schools when the state Assembly
voted to extend the 2002 measure.
P.S.P.A.C. and other parent organization
have been demanding more parent input in
the school system, and lobbied against the
mayoral control extension, which is stalled
in the dysfunctional state Senate.
The Assembly, however, voted 121 to 18
on June 17 in favor of the bill sponsored by
Speaker Silver. But all 18 dissenting votes
came from city legislators.
“Assemblymember Deborah Glick did us
proud by voting against the bill that contin-
ues mayoral control without the addition of
meaningful checks and balances,” Kjellberg
said of Glick, who represents Greenwich
Village.
Mayoral control expires at the end of
this month if it is not renewed, and State
Senator Daniel Squadron became the first
Democratic sponsor this week of the Senate
bill, which is one of the issues that prompted
Governor Paterson on June 23 to call the
Senate into special session.
State Senator Tom Duane told The
Villager that he thought mayoral control was
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“a fait accompli.” However, he said he tried
to get a shorter renewal period than the six
years in the Assembly bill.
“We also have to find a better way to
get parents more influence on the Panel for
Education Policy [the governing body of the
Department of Education] and empower
parents citywide,” Duane said.
P.S.P.A.C. also vainly urged the City
Council last week to defeat the five-year
school capital plan, saying that it was based
on a grossly underestimated school enroll-
ment and would result in overcrowded class-
rooms.
But Council Speaker Christine Quinn
said in a letter to school advocates that a
“no” vote would leave no time to come up
with a new plan by the June 30 deadline for
renewal of mayoral control. She also said
the City Council had to vote “yes” or “no”
and could not approve parts of the plan and
disapprove others.
The capital plan was approved last week
with only 9 dissenting votes, including Alan
Gerson, who represents the First Council
District covering Lower Manhattan and
the South Village, and Robert Jackson of
Northern Manhattan, who is chairperson of
the Council’s Education Committee.
“We applaud their courage and integrity
for standing up for New York City children
so that they can eventually receive their con-
stitutional right to an adequate education,”
Kjellberg said.

Leichter loses vote, defends Pier 40 lease maneuver
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
“Not happy” at all that an appointee of
his on the Hudson River Park Trust led the
state-city authority’s surprise move to seek a
longer lease for Pier 40, Borough President
Scott Stringer responded strongly during the
past week — both with words and action.
“That’s on my watch. I’m not happy about
it,” Stringer said, addressing Community
Board 2’s full-board meeting last week.
“That’s on my watch — It will not happen
again. It was unacceptable.”
On Tuesday, Stringer went even fur-
ther, taking disciplinary action, stripping
the appointee, former state Senator Franz
Leichter, of his voting privileges on the
Trust’s board of directors. The borough pres-
ident appoints three of the board’s 13 mem-
bers, and the governor and mayor appoint
the rest. Under the Hudson River Park Act,
only two of the B.P.’s appointees are allowed
to vote on a rotating, annual basis. Lawrence
Goldberg will retain his voting privileges
and Pam Frederick, not Leichter, will now be
allowed to vote during this current rotation,
Stringer said in a brief e-mail letter yesterday
to Diana Taylor, the Trust’s chairperson.
Critics accused Leichter of trying to
get an amendment slipped into the park’s
governing law during the busy period right
before the end of the legislative session.
But the whole issue became moot earlier
‘I urge the Trust board to
rescind its resolution and
work with the Advisory
Council, local commu-
nity board and community
groups…before it engages
the state Legislature in
changing or amending the
Hudson River Park Act.’
Borough President Scott Stringer
this month when a coup disrupted the state
Senate, bringing business to a halt. There is
currently no bill to extend Pier 40’s lease,
much less any sponsors of the bill in either
the Assembly or state Senate. And yet, the
Trust’s resolution to seek a longer Pier 40
lease remains active.
Leichter, for his part, says he doesn’t
understand what all the upset is about and
that a longer lease is needed, or the deterio-
rating pier — a third of whose metal sup-
port piles are badly corroded — may be lost
entirely. In an interview on Sunday, he told
The Villager he’d support adding restrictions
in an amendment to the Hudson River Park
Act pertaining to Pier 40’s lease, such as
that the pier couldn’t be an entertainment-
based complex or “a South Street Seaport”
or have big-box stores. But Leichter said he
didn’t think it would be appropriate to add
language to the act stipulating that the pier’s
sprawling, heavily used courtyard sports
‘I spoke to all the
legislators. No one said
it was a terrible idea,
“Don’t do it.”’
Franz Leichter
field must be retained exactly where it is,
since that would be “legislating design.”
Leichter is considered a veritable “Father
of Hudson River Park” for having co-
authored the park’s founding legislation in
1998 along with Assemblymember Richard
Gottfried; in fact, it was originally called
the Leichter-Gottfried Act. But the Trust’s
recent Pier 40 lease resolution — and, more
than anything else, the behind-the-scenes
way in which it was approved — has sparked
a furor among park activists.
At the Trust’s May 28 board meeting,
Leichter brought up a piece of “new busi-
ness” that had not been listed on the meet-
ing’s agenda: He urged the Trust to ask the
state Legislature to lengthen Pier 40’s lease
from 30 years to 49 years, saying it’s the
only way to attract a developer to repair the
crumbling 14-acre pier. Two requests for
proposals, or R.F.P.’s, issued in the past five
years by the Trust to find a developer for the
pier both collapsed.
The board passed the resolution unani-
mously — but community members were
outraged, fearing a longer lease would reopen
the door for The Related Companies to put
a glitzy “Las Vegas on the Hudson”-style
entertainment complex on the W. Houston
St. pier. The resolution, at the very least,
should have been discussed first with the
Hudson River Park Advisory Council, park
activists say.
Speaking at C.B. 2 last Thursday night,
Stringer expressed concern, if not outright
anger, at the process by which the resolution
was approved. The issue isn’t the length of
the lease, but the lack of community review,
Stringer said.
“That may be good, or that may not be
good,” he said of a 49-year lease at Pier 40.
“That may be acceptable on Pier 57 [at W.
16th St.].” But the lack of public review of
the proposal was “unacceptable,” he said.
The day before the community board
meeting, Stringer had made his feelings
known to the Trust in a lengthy and sharply
worded letter to Taylor, which he concluded
by urging the Trust to “rescind” the resolu-
tion.
“The long history of R.F.P. processes for
Pier 40 shows that a careful re-evaluation of
June 24 - 30, 2009 5
that the Trust’s voting on the resolution
without the advisory council’s prior review
violated the park act. Plus, he said, he talked
about his idea with many individuals, inter-
ested parties and the affected politicians.
“I discussed it with all the elected offi-
cials — including Stringer,” he said. “It
was in the air. This didn’t come out of left
field.” Leichter noted he had discussed the
idea in a meeting with Stringer and his two
other appointees to the board, Frederick and
Goldberg.
“I would say there was generally a sense
that this wasn’t a big deal and it needed to
be done,” Leichter said. “Nobody said, ‘I’m
totally against it.’ I spoke to all the legisla-
tors. No one said it was a terrible idea,
‘Don’t do it.’ ”
He said he sent Taylor an e-mail a few
weeks before the meeting, saying he thought
the lease should be modified.
Yet, Leichter — and some of those he
Former state Senator Franz Leichter spoke with — said that in their talks togeth-
er, he never indicated if he would actually
how best to develop the pier is warranted,” ask the board to pass the resolution. Hence,
Stringer wrote. “While a longer lease term is why the Trust’s vote caught so many off
likely to increase interest in future R.F.P.’s, guard. As for why the resolution wasn’t
the Trust board should only move forward listed on the meeting agenda, Leichter said
after the community has been notified and that was the Trust staff’s decision, and that
given an opportunity to provide input. they would have to explain that.
… The Advisory Council was established “It should have been [on the agenda],” he
by the Hudson River Park Act to provide said. “The staff didn’t want to put it on the
advice and recommendations to the Trust agenda. They thought it was more appropri-
board on all matters regarding the plan- ate to do it this way.”
ning, design, construction and operation of Phone calls to the Trust seeking com-
Hudson River Park. … Consequently, the ment were not returned by press time.
lack of open dialogue with the Advisory Leichter also said the park adviso-
Council is contrary to the spirit and the ry council would be able to lobby the
intent of the Hudson River Park Act. Legislature, too. Asked if he thought the
Furthermore, the discussion of the resolu- Legislature would weigh the advisory
tion at the Trust board meeting in May — a council’s views as heavily as those of the
public meeting — should have been on Trust board, Leichter said yes, and then
the meeting agenda to inform the public some.
that the Trust board would be discussing “You think [Assemblymember] Deborah
a resolution on the lease extension. I urge Glick and the Legislature will take the
the Trust board to rescind its resolution opinion of the Trust board more seriously
and work with the Advisory Council, local than the advisory council and their constit-
community board and community groups uents? I don’t think so. We weren’t trying
to better understand and seek to address to sneak anything in,” he said.
community concerns before it engages the “I don’t know what the big fuss is
state Legislature in changing or amending about,” Leichter continued. “We have
the Hudson River Park Act.”
Leichter told The Villager he disagrees Continued on page 32
On the 40th Anniversary
of Stonewall, David Weprin
would like to wish the
LGBT Community a
happy Gay Pride Month
David Weprin
for New York City Comptroller
www.davidweprin2009.org | Paid for by Weprin 2009
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Cops have key, will close small park on weekend eves

Continued from page 1
closing it “around nine-ish,” a half-hour after
dusk on Friday and Saturday nights. That
comes as good news to owners and operators
of two gay bars fronting on the park.
“This is a park that no one can sit in
and enjoy because of these bums that sit
there and menace everyone and defecate,”
said Charles Rice, owner of The Monster
bar. “Finally, someone is closing the park
by 9 p.m. — it was staying open till 1 a.m.
Panhandlers come [from the park] and ask
for cigarettes, and if they don’t give them,
they threaten to throw a brick through the
window. Please don’t stop — a lot of us are
afraid,” Rice told the police.
“You’re going to continue to see that park
closed more regularly,” Caroli assured.
Complaints continued about dangerous
streets at night.
Matthew Fletcher, a bartender at The
Duplex, said a month ago he was assaulted
by three young men as he was walking home
to his residence on Jones St.
“They didn’t steal anything from me.
They just wanted to hit me,” he said.
He pointed a finger at Christopher Park
as a key trouble spot.
“I don’t understand what’s going on with
this park,” he said. “They come into my busi-
ness. They bring in their violence and their drug
use — and it’s getting worse and it’s got to stop.
I’m really upset. I’m just sick of the violence.”
One woman said she lives on the 15th
floor but can still hear noise from the park,
sometimes at 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Darleen Rubin, a longtime Christopher
St. resident, said the new police tactics are
working and have decreased “the noise and
the violence that we have endured...for 30
years. The screamers, however, are still very
much around when you’re not around,” she
told the police. “The attitude used to be —
worldwide — anything goes on Christopher
St., you can do anything you want. Not
anymore, because of your presence. I’m very
grateful for all the deployment.”
However, Maureen Remacle, head of
the community council, said it’s not just
Christopher St. but the entire Village that
has a freewheeling reputation.
“I’ve heard people say, ‘We can do any-
thing — it’s Greenwich Village,’” said
Remacle, who lives on another busy night-
life corridor, Bleecker St. “You have crime
basically due to the fact that we are a tourist
destination.”
Caroli noted that the previous week,
police had handed out leaflets regarding
public disorderliness and quality of life.
While he said the precinct has traditionally
been a place for gay youth to congregate,
police intend to enforce quality of life, such
as, for example, telling crowds not to block
street corners.
“It’s not harassment — it’s just enforce-
ment,” he said.
Mariah Lopez, a transgender woman who
was a founder of FIERCE, a group that advo-
cates for gay and lesbian youth, said police
should focus on targeting drugs, which will
solve the other problems.
‘I’ve heard people say,
“We can do anything —
it’s Greenwich Village.”’
Maureen Remacle,
Sixth Precinct Community
Council president
“There is one quick solution,” Lopez
said, “get the drug dealers — instead of
stigmatizing my community. We are not all
criminals.”
“Cruising on the stoops” will be around
long after everyone in the meeting is gone,
she said, but the drugs should and can be
eliminated. She said a certain gay bar on
Christopher St. is the main source of the
drugs. Lopez said she can help police and
residents attack the drug dealing since she
knows the street’s culture so well, and is will-
ing to do whatever it takes to lend a hand.
Caroli noted arrests in the precinct by the
narcotics unit are up 12.5 percent compared
to last year.
John Blasco, a current FIERCE member,
told the meeting that understanding and
cooperation are needed.
“I went down to the Christopher St.
Pier when I was 16 years old because that
was the only place where I felt safe,” he
said. “You have to understand that all
the L.G.B.T.Q. youth that are down there,
they’re part of the community, too. I think
we have to stick together — not separate,
but stick together.”
One woman who gave her name as
Maria, a resident of West Fourth St. between
Barrow and Jones Sts., said she has to leave
her home for work at 4:15 a.m. When she
was younger, she said, she wouldn’t even
have noticed all the noise and nocturnal
activity, but her feelings have changed.
“I’m afraid,” she said, “and there are
times I stay in my apartment, and I listen to
the noise and I listen to the screams. I hear
grunts and groans — and I don’t know what
it is. When I come out, they’re on the corner
counting their money — our entrepreneurs
taking care of their business.”
After the meeting, Lopez the transgender
activist, said she felt many in the audience
were “old — and scared,” though quickly
adding, “And they should be scared.”

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A young woman on her way home to her Village View
residence in the East Village entered the elevator in her
building at 6:30 p.m. Thurs., June 18, when a stranger
armed with a knife followed her and demanded money,
according to a Village View neighbor. The robber told the
victim not to look at him or he would kill her, took her
possessions and fled.
Cop impostors
Police are still looking for two men wanted in an April
26 robbery on E. 14th St. in which they told a victim they
were police officers and then robbed him. The suspects
approached the victim, 22, near E. 14th St. and Avenue
B, said they were police and began to search him, police
said. They then forced the victim to an A.T.M. and made
him withdraw $400, which they took before fleeing, police
said.
Wicked acts
Police arrested Mario Espinoza, 21, and charged him
with stealing $386 and a credit card from a fellow patron in
Wicked Willy’s, 149 Bleecker St., at 3:32 a.m. on Sat., June
20. The victim, 30, reported the theft shortly before 7 a.m.
On the night of June 9 a man described as 6 feet 2 inches
tall and weighing 190 pounds walked up to a 22-year-old
patron of Wicked Willy’s, reminded him that they had previ-
ous argument in another bar, and then punched the victim
in the face and fled.
Burglar leaves early
A burglar removed the deadbolt from the front door of
Market Table diner at 54 Carmine St. sometime between
midnight Sun., June 14, and 5:43 a.m. Monday and tried
to force open the cash register, but fled without taking
anything, police said. An employee discovered damage on
Monday morning and called police.
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Armored-car guard faker
Police arrested Jesus Bailey, 21, on Sat., June 13, and
charged him with posing as an armored-car security
guard in the 2007 theft of more than $120,000 from two
stores, one on East Broadway in Chinatown and the other
on St. Nicholas Ave., in Washington Heights.
Bailey, dressed in a Rapid Armor Corp. uniform and
carrying a gun, made a pickup with an unidentified
accomplice of about $30,000 from a store at 88 East
Broadway under the Manhattan Bridge on Aug. 31, 2007.
The store discovered the ruse 15 minutes later when the
real Rapid Armor guard turned up.
The following day, Sept. 1, 2007, Bailey again dressed
as a Rapid Armor armed guard, picked up about $90,000
from a business at 1395 St. Nicholas Ave. at 180th St.,
according to the charges filed by the Manhattan district
attorney.
Bailey is being held pending a July 15 court date on
charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of a
weapon.
‘What are you looking at?’
A doctor who just moved to Manhattan was beaten
and robbed while walking on E. 13th St. near Third Ave.
Sunday night, June 21. The victim, 27, said he noticed
a group of men on the other side of the street when one
of them crossed to his side and said, “What are you
looking at, white boy?” The suspect then punched him,
took his money and continued to hit him. The victim
sustained a broken nose and a broken jaw, according to
a New York Post item. There was no arrest and police
are investigating.
Burglar beats it
A burglar made his way into Negril Village restaurant,
70 W. Third St. at Thompson St., shortly after 5 a.m. Sat.,
June 20, when a member of the cleaning crew taking out
the garbage saw him and told him to leave. The burglar,
described as a man in his 20s, punched and kicked the
worker and fled.
Bakery bandit
A man wielding a handgun walked into a bakery on First
Ave. between 13th and 14th Sts., around 8 p.m. Mon.,
June 15, threatened a woman employee with the gun and
demanded money, police said. He fled with about $1,000
from the cash register.
Cell-phone snatch
A New Jersey woman, 23, was talking on her cell phone
while walking south on LaGuardia Place around 5:40
p.m. Mon., June 22, when a teenager ran up from behind,
grabbed the phone and kept on running, police said. A wit-
ness gave chase, caught up with suspect at Bleecker St. and
held him for police, who charged Jamin Yaport, 16, with
grand larceny.
Arrested for robbery
A visitor from Brookline, Mass., was walking on the
northeast corner of Gay St. and Waverly Place at 2:50 a.m.
Sun., June 21, when a man armed with a box cutter forced
him to give up his wallet and digital camera, police said. The
suspect fled as a police officer arrived and gave chase. The
officer apprehended Rinaldo Colon, 37, and charged him
with robbery. The victim’s wallet and camera were recovered
from the suspect, police said.
Meat Market ‘valet’
A man set up traffic cones in a Gansevoort District drive-
way in front of 26 Little West 12th St. at 6:42 p.m. Fri., June
19, and stood in the traffic lane waving oncoming cars into
his “parking space” and demanding a fee. Police arrested
Raymond Kilgore, 44, and charged him with fraudulent
accosting.
High Line bike theft
A man chained his bicycle to a pole near the W. 16th St.
stairway to the High Line at 1:30 p.m. Sun., June 14. He
went up for a walk in the new elevated park and returned a
half-hour later to find the chain cut and the Cannondale bike
valued at $1,000 was gone, police said.
Taggers arrested
Nicholas Greer, 28, of 500 E. 12th St. at Avenue A, was
arrested along with Glenford Bowman, 31, of Brooklyn, at
3:30 a.m. Sun., June 7, in front of the gas station at 70 10th
Ave. near 15th St., tagging the station with spray paint,
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POLICE BLOTTER
police said. They were found with more than four men. Jarvis Mitchell, 35, of the Bronx,
eight ounces of marijuana and charged with was charged with possession of stolen
its possession as well as the graffiti offense. property after police discovered the car
he was driving had been stolen. The three
passengers, Tamir Tanner, 23; Derrick
Moses, 31; and Craig Henderson, 41, were
Laptop burglar given desk-appearance summonses.

The resident of a fourth-floor apartment

at 207 W. 14th St. near Seventh Ave. went
out on Friday morning June 12 and returned
at 3:12 a.m. Saturday to find the front door
open and five laptop computers stolen,
police said.
Stolen car
Police stopped a speeding car on West
St. at W. 15th St., weaving from lane to
lane at 2:45 a.m. Sun., June 7, and arrested
Gang of Four
A group of four men in the mezzanine
of the subway station at Eighth Ave. and
14th St. started arguments with two victims
in the station at 2:45 a.m. Sun., June 14,
police said. The gang punched and kicked
a Brooklyn man, 21, and a Manhattan man,
20, police said.
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D.O.T. big wheel: City could be the ‘biking capital’
BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL
The Village Alliance’s 16th annual meet-
ing last Thursday saw the presentation
of the first annual Norman Buchbinder
Preservation Award and Janette Sadik-Khan,
the Department of Transportation commis-
sioner, give an update on the “greening” of
the city.
The preservation award is named after
the late Norman Buchbinder, a principal of
Buchbinder & Warren real estate company.
Buchbinder, who died two years ago, was a
founder of the Village Alliance as well as a
co-founder of the Union Square Partnership,
the city’s first business improvement district,
or BID.
The first annual award recognized New
York University for its restoration of five
historic buildings on the north side of Eighth
St. between University Place and Fifth Ave.
The buildings, originally constructed as
townhouses in the 1830s, were remodeled
into apartment buildings in 1916.
Accepting the award was Lori Mazor,
N.Y.U.’s associate vice president for plan-
ning and design. In thanking the alliance,
Mazor recalled how she often admired the
buildings before she started working for
N.Y.U.
“We are really proud that you hold us to
a high standard,” Mazor told the alliance
members. Presenting the award was author
Tony Hiss, the resident member of the alli-
ance’s board of directors. He is also the son
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are Village residents.
of Alger Hiss, who in 1950 was convicted of Sustainable Streets program. The program’s
spying for the Soviets but always maintained goals are to ease city traffic with a “green”
his innocence. approach to transportation while simultane-
Before the award presentation, D.O.T. ously improving the city’s quality of life.
Commissioner Sadik-Khan, a Village resi- Sadik-Khan, who was appointed by
dent, gave a detailed overview of the agency’s Mayor Bloomberg in 2007, opened her pre-
sentation by outlining D.O.T.’s focus, which
has shifted from treating the streets as “utili-
tarian corridors” to public spaces and places
for social and economic exchanges.
Sadik-Khan said Bloomberg’s PlaNYC
initiative, a sustainability program for the
city’s future, emphasized both expanding
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strategies,” including bicycling and conges-
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Sadik-Khan said peak-hour parking pric-
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Village and Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Cycling, she told the audience, adds both
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presence. The number of people bicycling to
work has doubled since 2000. When Sadik-
Khan announced a ribbon cutting in a few
weeks to mark the 200th mile of new bike
lanes, the room erupted in applause.
The key to increasing ridership in the
bike lanes will be building more protected
lanes, another comment met by applause. In
the past two years, protected bike lanes have
appeared along Ninth Ave. in Chelsea and,
most recently, along Eighth Ave. from the
West Village to Chelsea.
Another benefit of protected bike lanes is
a 50 percent reduction of pedestrian injuries
from traffic, she noted. Sadik-Khan said a
two-way bike lane will be tested later this
summer on Kent Ave. in Brooklyn.
The room again broke into applause
when Sadik-Khan looked ahead to the
next phase of green transport, a public
bike-sharing program. As she spoke, a
slide of bikes with a yellow checker-cab
design appeared on a screen. She compared
the plan to a similar project in Paris that
resulted in a seven-fold increase in biking
there after the first year.
Sadik-Khan said she’d be traveling to
Montreal this week to examine their “Bixi”
bike-sharing program. Bixi includes 3,000
bikes available at 300 locations throughout
Montreal. Fees range from a $5 daily rate to
an annual $78 subscription. “Bixi” is derived
from the words “bicycle” and “taxi.”
Another D.O.T. initiative is a proposal
before the City Council requiring all new
office buildings to include indoor bike park-
ing.
Sadik-Khan discussed the successful rec-
lamation of outdoor spaces for public use,
including building public plazas in Times,
Herald and Madison squares, and on lower
Ninth Ave. in the Meatpacking District.
“So far, so good,” she said of the Times
Square experiment, which will be reviewed
at year’s end. Other recent on-street innova-
tions have included stylish bike racks, bus
shelter kiosks and pay toilets. Another well-
received project was the “Summer Streets”
program last August, where an avenue-wide
corridor from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd
St. was closed to motor vehicles for three
Saturdays in a row. “Summer Streets” will
be repeated this year.
Sitting in the back of the room listening
intently was Jane McCarthy, a Village resident
and member of Community Board 2’s Traffic
and Transportation Committee. McCarthy is
Sadik-Khan’s mother and looked every bit
the proud parent.
The Village Alliance is a business improve-
ment district covering Eighth Street from
Second Ave. to Sixth Ave. and along Sixth
Ave. down to W. Fourth St. The alliance is
sponsoring several upcoming events, includ-
ing this week’s Gay Pride Week, a summer
series of free walking tours and September’s
Taste of the Village, a food-sampling fund-
raiser for Washington Square Park.
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BY PATRICK HEDLUND
SMALL BUSINESS ‘EXTORTION’
Small business owners across the city
are being forced by landlords to pay money
under the table or face losing their stores,
a group of mom-and-pop store advocates
charged at a rally on the steps of City Hall
last week.
Led by Queens Councilmember Tony
Avella, a candidate for mayor, the group
condemned the practice of landlords
demanding additional payments on top of
rent to secure leases for tenants.
“These businesses who contribute to
the economy in the city — who are the
backbone of every neighborhood in this city
— must be protected,” said Avella, who has
requested a federal investigation into the
practice. “The real estate industry in this
city and the unscrupulous landlords must
be regulated.”
According to a recent survey of 1,200
Hispanic small business owners, conducted
by the U.S.A. Latin Chamber of Commerce
and the Bodega Association of the United
States, nearly a third responded that their
landlords demanded additional money as a
condition to continue or begin lease nego-
tiations.
“We believe this number is higher,
because many small business owners did
not understand the confidentiality of the
survey and were afraid to get in trouble,”
said Miguel Peribanez, president of the
chamber of commerce.
“We’re not going to recommend any
immigrant make business here in New
York because it’s so risky right now,” added
Ramon Murphy, president of the Bodega
Association.
The survey also found that 87 percent of
Latino-owned small businesses felt they had
no rights during the lease renewal process
and 92 percent believed that the process
favored landlords so much that they abused
their power.
In response, Avella wrote a letter to the
U.S. Attorney’s Office in both the Eastern
and Southern New York Districts asking for
an investigation into this “illegal activity.”
“This is clearly a case of extortion, since
the small business owners have no alterna-
tive but to pay this money or lose their
entire business, which many have worked
years to build,” Avella stated in the letter.
Councilmember Robert Jackson of Upper
Manhattan introduced a bill last year that
would force tenants and landlords into bind-
ing arbitration to negotiate a fair lease agree-
ment if they can’t come to terms. Beyond
that, the measure proposes setting rent
increases that can’t exceed a certain percent-
age to ensure small business stability.
While the problem has affected immi-
grant-heavy communities more acutely,
neighborhoods like Greenwich Village have
also suffered, explained former Community
Board 2 Chairperson Maria Passannante
Derr, who participated in the rally.
“It’s pandemic at this point citywide,”
she said. “There are up to 12 stores on
Hudson St. alone that are empty, and the
Village is starting to look like a ghost
town.”
Derr, who is also running for City Council
in the Third District, supports Jackson’s bill
and criticized some elected officials’ recent
efforts on behalf of small business as not
going far enough.
“I don’t think it’s an extreme remedy,”
she said of Jackson’s proposed legislation,
which is viewed as a form of commercial
rent control. “I think it’s a good step for-
ward.”
BANKRUPT IN SOHO
The fate of a Soho residential project is
in question after developers of the planned
seven-story building declared bankruptcy
last week.
The proposed 58-unit project, slated for
a parking lot at the corner of Canal and
Grand Sts. in the Soho Cast-Iron Historic
District, sought to emulate the character of
the neighborhood through its aluminum-
panel facade.
Brooklyn-based developer Judo Associates
received approval for the project, dubbed 1
Greene St., nearly two years ago. The devel-
oper filed for bankruptcy protection last
week, Crain’s reported.
Designed by architect Gene Kaufman,
the building would contain a total of
80,000 square feet and has been valued
at $25 million. The site currently houses
a parking lot.
HUDSON SQUARE CHIC
Celebrated fashion designer Brian Reyes
has moved his eponymous label to Hudson
Square as part of a five-year lease agree-
ment.
The deal gives Reyes 4,553 square feet
at 304 Hudson St., between Spring and
Vandam Sts., nearly quadrupling the size of
his former Flatiron offices.
The designer, who spent the last few
years on lower Fifth Ave., had previously
stated his desire to work out of space closer
to his Tribeca home. Reyes now joins fashion
tenants Y’s America (Yohji Yamamoto) and
Atelier Fashion at the address.
“Hudson Square has established itself
as a center for creative businesses from
broadcasting and advertising to fashion,”
said Jason Pizer, a senior vice president
of leasing for building owner Trinity Real
Estate, in a statement. “Mr. Reyes has an
exceptional reputation and a growing brand,
and we are delighted to welcome him to our
neighborhood.”
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EDITORIAL
Break W.T.C. stalemate
Relying on a judge or an arbiter to resolve the
World Trade Center impasse is a worst-case scenario.
It would likely mean more delays and may not lead to
a real resolution at all. The physical and financial com-
ponents of the W.T.C. are so complicated that each side
would undoubtedly continue to argue about who was
fulfilling the terms of such a judicial decision.
An amicable, fair compromise is the only way out
of this mess. The Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, which owns the site, started the negotiations
with a reasonable position, but that reason is run-
ning into the real-world complications of rebuilding
the W.T.C., and needs to be readjusted. The Port
Authority’s refusal to take on risk to finance a specula-
tive office building in order to help a private developer
is justifiable. But the problem is there does not appear
to be a feasible Plan B other than to look at holes in the
ground for a few more decades, build a memorial to
the thousands of 9/11 victims adjacent to a construc-
tion disaster area, and maintain indefinitely the open
wound that we Lower Manhattan residents and work-
ers have lived with for the last eight years.
Since the construction of Tower 2 can’t happen with-
out the Port Authority’s assistance, W.T.C. developer
Larry Silverstein has to put up more money on the front
end and has to be willing to transfer a significant amount
of the upside to the agency at the back end. It’s clear that
Silverstein has upped his offer some, but since many of
the negotiation details have stayed behind closed doors,
it is impossible to know how far he has gone.
Silverstein has already recouped most of his investment
in the W.T.C., so he has many millions to gain and little
to lose when his Towers 2, 3 and 4 are built. The Port
Authority has already agreed to help him build No. 4,
and both sides have agreed to put off No. 3. The author-
ity should get large ownership stakes or the equivalent in
Towers 2, 4 and possibly 3 if it takes on the debt obliga-
tions needed to keep construction going at the W.T.C.
The public authority, which often seems more power-
ful than the governors to which it reports, should use this
additional revenue on things connected to its core mis-
sion, such as transportation improvements Downtown;
but it should also support an important project it has
helped delay, the W.T.C. Performing Arts Center.
The Port Authority’s temporary retail “podium”
idea for two of the tower sites does not seem feasible.
How do you get an investment of hundreds of millions,
if not billions of dollars on supposedly interim struc-
tures, and attract desirable tenants? Can you redesign
the plan for the podiums — low, three- or four-story
structures — without setting the other projects like
the train station and the memorial back years? Would
the podiums become obstacles to building towers even
when the economy rebounds?
Mayor Bloomberg, who sided with the Port
Authority three years ago in the last big dispute with
Silverstein, is nevertheless completely skeptical of the
podium idea — and so is virtually everyone else, save
for the authority and its associates.
The mayor and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
deserve enormous credit for fighting for a fair com-
promise. The Port Authority should give up on the
podiums and make a new counteroffer to get Tower 2
and the site built. And Silverstein needs to absorb more
of the risk of this deal, and reward the authority for the
risks it runs in guaranteeing the financing.
No one wants to see the terrorists’ destruction lin-
ger for generations.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Takes swat at Soho ‘gadfly’
To The Editor:
Re “Trump ‘Traitors’” (Mixed Use, June 10):
Over the past few years, I’ve written regularly for
The Villager, enjoying every moment of it. It is crucial
to have a newspaper that is focused on the issues of the
neighborhood that we all love. Now, however, I work
full time at the Soho Partnership and I am writing to
respond to the recent attack from “neighborhood gadfly”
Sean Sweeney.
I was the member of the development team that spoke
with Trump Soho and encouraged them to become mem-
bers of the Soho Partnership. And, regardless of what my
personal political feelings toward Trump may be, I was
happy to do so.
The money — money that Trump would be spending
elsewhere otherwise — was going to a good cause. You
see, the Soho Partnership is not merely a “quasi-business
improvement district.” It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit orga-
nization that has been in existence for more than 17
years, dedicated to fighting homelessness in New York
City. The men and women who sweep the streets in
Soho come to the Partnership from homeless shelters
and drug-treatment centers all around the city and the
incredibly hard work they put into cleaning is only one
part of a comprehensive vocational rehabilitation pro-
gram aimed at helping them transition into a full-time
job and a new life.
It is unfair to put such a burden of responsibility on a
small nonprofit organization, especially in this financial
climate. We need money to continue our services — ser-
vices that have helped more than 800 recovering home-
less men and women facing harsh realities that make
the average Soho neighborhood complaint seem fairly
trivial. The responsibility of the Soho Partnership is to
the well-being of recovering homeless men and women
in New York City. That is the bottom line. We do not
have the luxury of sitting back, wringing our hands and
criticizing anyone who presents us with an opportunity
for support.
The Soho Partnership did not build the Trump Soho
building. We took no part in advocating its concep-
tion over the past few years. Yes, we sent out an e-mail
publicizing their contribution to us. Their motivations
for helping us are irrelevant, as are our opinions about
Trump.
If you have a problem with the presence of Trump
Soho, by all means keep voicing it. And if you want to
question the system we have in place rendering small
IRA BLUTREICH
Thompson is counting on the “Star Trek” vote.
nonprofits at the beck and call of their donors, go ahead.
But it seems to be a waste of time and just a case of good
old-fashioned ire to direct your resentment at an organi-
zation that helps hundreds of individuals every year and
wants to ensure that those crucial efforts don’t fall victim
to the recession.
I am all for protecting the character of Soho, but
don’t vilify one of New York City’s most valuable human-
services organizations in the process.
Lucas Mann
Mann is membership manager, Soho Partnership
On the wrong track
To The Editor
Re “Off and rolling” (editorial, June 17):
At first glance, the High Line appears as innovative and
green as anyone could hope for. But did you know that all
the benches, decking, chaise lounges and bleacher seating
throughout the park are composed of ipê, a rainforest wood
ripped out of the Amazon?
The ipê tree grows throughout the Amazon at an average
of one to two trees per acre. Criminal cartels, which control
most logging operations there, build an extensive network of
illegal roads to extract these scattered, high-demand trees;
for every ipê tree that is logged, an estimated 28 other trees
are destroyed.
Friends of the High Line have ordered tens of thousands
of board feet of ipê for their project. Even worse, they’ve
turned one of today’s most-watched public works projects
into a global advertisement for tropical deforestation. Friends
of the High Line have become enemies of the rainforest.
It’s not too late for them to act responsibly. If they use
alternative materials — like recycled plastic lumber or sus-
tainable domestic hardwood — for the two sections of the
High Line still awaiting construction, they can send a power-
ful message about the need to protect rainforests and battle
climate change.
The United Nations Environment Program states that an
area of rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed every
second — that’s an area the size of Manhattan every three
hours. It’s incumbent upon those of us from the neighbor-
hood to act responsibly — to speak out, to spread the word,
to withhold funds from Friends of the High Line until they
face up to the biggest challenges of our time.
Continued on page 31
Continued on page 12
 June 24 - 30, 2009 13

A pop quiz on the Greenwich Village Middle School

TALKING POINT
BY JENNY KLION
It’s well past midnight, and I find myself cramming for
an exam in a course I didn’t realize I’d registered for. Earlier
this evening, I attended a last-minute review session at my
daughter’s middle school. The special guest was J.W., a well-
mannered company spokesperson from the Department of
Education who was addressing the community’s concerns
about the required (re)move(al) of the school from its cur-
rent location atop P.S. 3 on Hudson St. Let’s review the top-
ics for the coming year:
Q: What is the name of the only public middle school in
Greenwich Village?
A: Greenwich Village Middle School.
travel alone down there because of it?
A: Yes, 75 Morton St., directly around the corner from
G.V.M.S.
No talking, please.
Q: In your own words, describe the D.O.E. guy’s take on
the long-running community desire to move G.V.M.S. to 75
Morton St., particularly at this point in time, when the trans-
fer of space is now being securely mandated by the city?
A: The space needs work, and it’s too much of a hassle.
Settle down, now, folks. Please. Last question, to the
woman in the jeans and sweatshirt, stewing in the corner.
Q: Who owns the property on 75 Morton St., and/or use
the word “irony” in the following sentence:
A: New York State, but the building has been taken off
the market, and is not available for purchase because they
would not be able to get a good price for it now.
Q: Again, in your own words, what are the three
biggest variables in the following equation? Available
school space + a state-owned building = a new home for
G.V.M.S.
A: Money. Politics. Middle school children left behind.
Testing begins this September, for the following school
year.

Q: Which school is being forced out of its current space

because the overflow of incoming P.S. 3 and P.S. 41 kin-
dergartners is creating an immediate and pressing problem
for local taxpaying West Village families who can no longer
afford to send their children to private elementary school?
A: Greenwich Village Middle School.

Q: Will any of these incoming kindergartners be going to

middle school someday, and if so, will any of them still be liv-
ing in Greenwich Village, and if so, might any of their families
expect to have an available middle school in their historic
neighborhood that is one of the landmarks of not only New
York City, but New York City education (e.g., N.Y.U.)?
A: Yes. Absolutely.

Q: Give an example of one location in Greenwich Village

proper that D.O.E. is suggesting would be a suitable space
for a Greenwich Village Middle School future site.
A: N/A

Pencils down. Five-minute break.

Q: What are the locations of D.O.E.-suggested space

options for G.V.M.S.? Give at least one example this time,
and feel free to add comments to your answer.
A: 26 Broadway, a privately owned and D.O.E.-pre-
empted, leased building in a high-rise industrial complex. No
comment, see below.

Q: How many Hollywood studio executives does it take

to screw in a light bulb?
Q: Does it have to be a light bulb?
A: Yes! Greenwich Village Middle School has to remain
in Greenwich Village.

Q: Are there any other possible locations besides the very Villager photo by Tequila Minsky

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The facade is ripped off an S.R.O. landlord’s neglect

BY SHEILA MCCLEAR
The front door to 150-152 W. 14th St.
has been hastily boarded up. Someone has
parked a shopping cart full of empty cans
in front of the building while paying trib-
ute at the adjacent adult video store.
Across the street there’s a new cube-
shaped structure with fl oor-to-ceiling
windows advertising “Full Floor Lofts
Immediate Occupancy.”
Welcome to the past and future of W.
14th St.
The single-room-occupancy, or S.R.O.,
apartments at 150 and 152 W. 14th St.
near Seventh Ave. sit empty. Inside the
run-down five-story building lies the detri-
tus of dozens of lives disrupted midday
after tenants were forced to evacuate on
May 7 due to a crack in the facade deemed
immediately dangerous. Given until 8 p.m.
to collect their things, some were just
returning from work when they were told
to gather what they could and leave, or be
removed by police.
Now, nearly seven weeks after being
forced to vacate their $400-a-month
rooms, the evacuees are still homeless.
They’re couch-hopping, living in a resi-
dential motel or staying in one of the
other buildings owned by their landlord,
Stanley Wasserman of SW Management
LLC. Finding another place to rent would
require them to give up their rent-stabi-
lized status.
Tenants charge that the building has
been neglected for years. A September
2007 Department of Buildings viola-
tion cited a “failure to maintain exterior
defects” after inspectors “observed buck-
ling and bowing of facade and broken
sills,” according to the department’s Web
site. Another violation this February found
a “failure to maintain bldg wall(s) or
appurtenances” and exterior bulging, as
well as loose mortar joints.
Residents have brought a lawsuit in
Housing Court to order Wasserman to
make the necessary repairs for them to
move back in, but the process is slow. The
real story, tenants claim, is that Wasserman
is trying to empty the S.R.O. of its residents
by allowing the structure to deteriorate. If
a building is vacant, the landlord needs no
permission to tear it down — and W. 14th
St. is prime real estate that could turn a
better profit with market-rate units.
The building’s rooms are modest: They
don’t contain kitchens (some residents
used hot plates), and there’s a shared
bathroom and shower down each hall.
But the apartments were safe enough, and
provided residents a place, albeit small, to
call their own in the middle of an expen-
sive island closed to many working-class
renters.
“Some of my friends would come over
and ask how I could live in a place so
small,” said Dan Turchek, a 37-year-old
Villager photo by Patrick Hedlund
The building at 150-152 W. 14th St.
sports a white tarp after its facade was
removed last month.
bookstore clerk who has lived there for
10 years. “But it’s my own space, and it’s
in Manhattan.” Turchek is currently living
in the Yale Hotel on the Upper West Side,
where the city is paying for his shelter.
The Yale isn’t for everyone. Notorious
for its ramshackle conditions, roaches and
late-night fights, some of the displaced
residents instead chose to sleep on friends’
empty rooms. He’s been staying in another
Wasserman building since the evacuation,
at 148 W. 14th. He described his new
residence as equally run-down and full of
violations.
“Two tenants have no electricity,” he
said. “They run a wire from the hall into
their rooms.”
Wasserman has about 70 buildings in
Manhattan and the Bronx, but his only
S.R.O.’s are the addresses on W. 14th
St., plus another in Midtown. He did not
return several calls for comment, and
residents say both he and the building
manager regularly hang up on them. His
attorney, Martin Meltzer, said Wasserman
does not discuss cases under litigation.
“[Wasserman] wants to throw up his
hands and say they can’t [repair the build-
ing],” Blankely said. “I’m told that facades
can be put up in three or four days. We have
engineers that would do it pro bono, but we
can’t even get access to the buildings.”
According to D.O.B., the building
appears structurally sound, although the
facade must be immediately fixed and
more inspections are needed.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
has taken a hard line on Wasserman,
whose building is in her district. She co-
wrote a letter with other elected officials to
a number of government agencies, as well
as going to the source.
“We’ve also reached out to Wasserman
directly to tell him to do the right thing

Downtown
couches. The Yale is particularly intimidat-
ing for women staying alone.
Claire McGibney, 61, lived in the 14th
St. S.R.O. for 14 years. She works at the
and live up to his legal obligations,” Quinn
said. She hasn’t yet received a response.
“He absolutely appears to be attempt-
ing to warehouse [the buildings],” Quinn

Day Camp
Bed Bath & Beyond at 18th St. and Sixth
Ave., and said she invested about $5,000
in her room over the years.
“I put in a ceramic tile floor, white
cabinets, a stainless-steel bar sink… . It
Why send your child on a long, hot bus ride looked like another world, my place,”
she explained. “When the head of the
when all you need is right here? Department of Buildings saw my room
f New Downtown Community Center and P.S. 234 home locations. [during the evacuation], he looked at me
f Private pool. and said, ‘What are you doing here?’
f Outdoor ball fields. “I said, ‘Sir, this is what affordable
f Field sports, karate, computers, arts, crafts, movement, more! housing is in this city.’ ”
f Experienced administrators, teachers and childcare professionals. McGibney has been staying with friends
f Transportation below 23rd Street with many pick-up locations. and co-workers rather than at the Yale,
f Generous counselor-to-camper ratio. and she’s slept in at least four places since
f K through 6 program. the May evacuation.
f Nature Camp option for grades 5 to 8. “I’m not living — I’m existing,” she
said. “Wasserman was derelict in all
Available sessions respects. Warehousing in the city should
June 29 through August 14 be stopped.”
June 29 through July 24 Susanna Blankley, a tenant organizer
July 27 through August 14 for the West Side S.R.O. Law Project, who
August 17 through August 21* is working with Wasserman’s tenants, said
* special add-on week, see this situation follows a trend with S.R.O.
registration form for details landlords.
“They do different things to get tenants
Open house: 6 pm out, like warehousing the buildings,” she
April 7 and 28 said. “When the building is empty, the
120 Warren St. landlord doesn’t have to get permission to
demolish it.”
Five years ago, Victor Luna, a 27-year-
212-766-1104 x250 old freelance clothing designer, was one of
www.DowntownDayCamp.com the last tenants to move into the building
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added. “We have to be vigilant in our
efforts not to lose any existing affordable
housing, particularly S.R.O.’s, which are
among the most affordable. … The reality
is there are landlords out there who are
bad people.”
Fearing the plight of No. 152 could be
in their future, too, the residents of 215 W.
14th St. recently met at the Hudson Guild
Community Center in Chelsea. They also
live in an S.R.O. owned by Wasserman,
and don’t want to find themselves in the
same situation in a couple years.
“We have similar structural problems
as 152, just not as severe — yet,” said one
resident. “The building has been neglected
for 20 years… . I believe in my heart that
they do want us out.” The tenants also
pointed out the building’s proximity to
dormitories of New York University and
The New School.
So far, the residents have written a let-
ter listing the violations that have not been
dealt with.
“We’re not asking for anything huge,”
another tenant said. “We’re aware of the
kind of building we live in.”
For now, 150-152 W. 14th St. remains a
mausoleum of lives interrupted. The build-
ing’s facade has been completely removed,
with only a white tarp protecting the front
rooms from the elements. For now, the
future of the building, and its residents,
remains in limbo.
GAY PRIDE
June 24 - 30, 2009 15

A special Villager supplement

Pages 15 to 30

Out on the boardwalk, Page 22

Activist is in tune, Page 17 The Door is open, Page 24

16 June 24 - 30, 2009

I wasn’t quite at Stonewall, but it changed my life

BY TIM GAY
I remember when Judy Garland died but
I don’t recall Stonewall. After all, I was not
quite 14 back in June 1969.
But a year and a couple of months later,
in the fall of 1970, I was voraciously read-
ing about homosexuality, the Stonewall Inn
Riots, the Gay Liberation Organization, the
Mattachine Society and Judy Garland — all
thanks to a high school librarian who quietly
stocked the shelves with “liberal” books and
magazines.
And less than 10 years later, I was 24,
living with a boyfriend in New York City,
and suddenly enjoying the excitement of
what I now know was the end of the early
gay liberation era.
“It’s a bagel place!” I said when my boy-
friend showed me where the Stonewall Inn
had been on Christopher St.
“That’s New York real estate,” Michael
explained. “At least it hasn’t been torn down
and replaced by a condo — yet.”
We were on our way to a public hearing
at St. Vincent’s on the proposed gay and les-
bian sculptures for Sheridan Square. I wasn’t
expecting the heterosexuals’ repulsive and
vituperative effluence.
There was bedlam and screaming, hands
waving and homemade placards smacking
people. And that was just the heterosexuals.
A woman in a green polyester dress
pointed her finger at me and screamed,
“Your lifestyle is unnatural!” So I replied,
“My lifestyle’s more natural than your hair
color.”
Could this be the birthplace for les-
bian and gay freedom? This isn’t Texas or
Missoula, for goodness sakes.
I had read a lot and experienced a lot
about my sexuality by the time I came to
New York. It was either read and learn, or
die a slow death, I later understood.
The first article I read about gays was in
Harper’s Magazine in the fall of 1970. The
cover photo was the torso of a man with a
beefy, pumped-up arm who was wearing a
gingham dress. I remember the article as
being dark and menacing, full of fear about
homosexuals. The author said he would rath-
er his children commit suicide than be gay.
(As an adult, I learned that this article,
“Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual
Identity,” by Joseph Epstein, is one of the
linchpins in galvanizing the movement against
what would become known as homophobia.
As I understand it, Joseph Epstein is, to this
day, an unrepentant homophobe.)
But that article gave me a sense of power.
I was a 15-year-old boy who could possibly
become one of these men who cause fear and
pandemonium. It explained why I was above
and beyond the simple minds of the other
boys. As a homosexual, I was supernatural
and gifted, like the Greeks and the Romans,
writers and poets, artists and thinkers.
I read more — letters blasting the edi-
tor of Harper’s for that very article, stories
Tim Gay
in The Atlantic, Life, the Saturday Evening
Post, articles and books on sexuality and ado-
lescents (“Summerhill School” by Alexander
Neill was extremely helpful).
Even back then, homophobia (a new
word in 1971) came to the lesbian and
gay movements. I read that the women’s
movement rejected the lesbians, and that
the lesbians rejected the gay men, and that
everyone rejected the drag queens.
So, Rolling Stone magazine covered
the fourth Gay and Lesbian Pride March in
1974. After marching down Fifth Avenue,
lesbians and gay men blocked the drag
queens and transgender people from the
stage at Washington Square. But to save the
day, down Fifth Avenue came Bette Midler
in feather boas, riding on the back of a red
Cadillac Eldorado convertible. She came
up on stage and sang “You Got to Have
Friends.”
Or at least that’s how I remember the
article. I’d like to find it someday, but my
search engine just won’t dig it up.
I came out in 1979, when Susan and I
got a divorce (she came out, too, and ran off
with Mitzi). That was the “Donna Summer
summer” of “Bad Girls,” my first non-farm
pair of Levi 501s, and my first crew cut since
the third grade.
And, I was working at the National
Catholic Reporter, sort of the Village Voice
of Catholic journalism back then. We cov-
ered the shooting of Harvey Milk and Mayor
Moscone in November 1978 and the “White
Night Riots” in May 1979, when Dan White
was all but forgiven for the murders. I would
later have a companion who was there that
night. He ignited a San Francisco police car as
an officer pounded a billy club into his ear.
None of that would have been possible
for me or about 50 million other lesbians
and gays and transgenders if there hadn’t
been the Stonewall Riots.
But at times I do wish we had a nice
bagel place on Sheridan Square.

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AIDS activist says fight’s ‘bigger than marriage’

BY JOHN BAYLES
It’s impossible to pigeonhole Charles King, executive
director of Housing Works. He’s a pioneer, a radical, a
respected voice in the L.G.B.T. community and a veteran
of both the local and national effort to provide housing
and resources for people living with H.I.V. and AIDS.
He’s one of the only openly gay men living with H.I.V.
who is in charge of an AIDS service organization. He’s
also the son of a Southern Baptist preacher from Texas
and is a Yale graduate. And when he begins speaking
about the gay community and AIDS, you feel as if you’re
being preached to, perhaps because King is an ordained
minister himself who still teaches a Sunday Bible-study
class to his clients and speaks with a slow, committed,
thoughtful cadence.
“What I find very frustrating about the organized gay
community,” said King, “is all too often it’s about what
‘I’m not getting.’ ”
King believes the gay rights movement is self-centered
of late, focusing on results without paying attention to the
systemic problems that have necessitated the fight. What’s
frustrating to King is the inability, in his eyes, of the
majority of the gay community to connect their struggles
to the struggles of others.
“It’s not being able to translate,” said King. “The rea-
son you’re not getting ‘it’ is because there are people out
there who fundamentally think you’re different and you
don’t deserve it.”
He said it’s the same mindset that leads to black people
not getting it and to poor people not getting it. For King,
the fight for gay rights, and the fight to provide services for
people living with H.I.V./AIDS, cannot be separated from At the recent graduation ceremony for Housing Works’ job-training program, Housing Works Executive Director
the bigger fight to end racism and sexism and class warfare. Charles King was flanked by Grammy nominee Maiysha, left, who performed, and singer Nona Hendryx of
It was a combination of all of those individual struggles Labelle, who spoke at the graduation.
that ultimately put King in the position he’s in today.
“It’s more than connected,” King said of Housing him an activist. For King, being gay is not reason enough, a healing community — sometimes a secular version of
Works and his own experiences. “To me, my experience and neither is AIDS. As a New Yorker in the ’80s, King what I honestly believe the church should be.”
of marginalization and stigmatization, and all that comes saw the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic take shape within segments In 1990 King and three other ACT UP members estab-
with that, made me very much appreciate other people in of the gay community that had previously been silent and lished Housing Works as a reaction to the treatment of
the world who are marginalized and stigmatized.” mostly invisible. homeless people living with AIDS, particularly in the
King didn’t come out of the closet until he saw a fellow city’s housing program.
preacher, at a Baptist Church in Connecticut, die of AIDS. “The system was stratified by class, race and percep-
King went to visit the man in the hospital and offered to tions around mental illness and substance use,” said
pray with him, but the man said it wouldn’t do any good, ‘In a way, AIDS was an King.
because God was punishing him for being a homosexual. At the time, the only existing housing programs
King told him that was impossible, because if it were indictment of a lot of more- required people to be sober for 120 days and excluded
true then King would be lying in the hospital bed next to “active users,” a phrase King said was “code” for heroin
him. In quick order King went to his church and told his well-to-do gay New Yorkers.’ users and crack addicts.
minister he wanted to resign and he didn’t want to put the “A white gay man partying on the weekend doing 10
congregation through the controversy that would come lines of coke — you still fit in,” said King.
along with his coming out. He was convinced to stay at Charles King The problem was that at the time, when the average
the church for six months, however, to lay the foundation diagnosis after contracting AIDS was six months to live,
for an AIDS ministry before he left. the system required spending four of those months look-
Prior to that, when he was working at a church in “In many ways, AIDS was kind of an indictment of a ing for housing and trying to stay clean.
San Antonio, King went out of his way to begin busing lot of the more-well-to-do gay New Yorkers,” said King. Today Housing Works is the largest AIDS service orga-
poor Chicano children from the barrio to Sunday school, “At the time, they weren’t activists. They were working nization in the country and perhaps the most recognized
children who previously had been systematically ignored on Wall St., with their share houses on Fire Island and voice in the fight to provide housing for people living with
by the ministry. f---ing at night in the bathhouses. Otherwise they were in H.I.V./AIDS, including still-active drug users. Since its
“Whether it’s poor black and Chicano kids living in the the closet. They only became activists when AIDS forced inception, the organization’s health clinics, job-training
barrio who aren’t welcome in the First Baptist Church in them into it. program and housing programs have assisted more than
a town in east Texas, or abused children at a children’s “So many people said, ‘Now we got the drugs and we 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with
home in Round Rock,” he said, “my identification with can go back to the way we were,’ without learning the les- H.I.V./AIDS.
those folks started first with my own experience.” son that our society is fundamentality flawed.” Housing Works will have a float in Sunday’s Gay Pride
When he was a young man in divinity school at Yale, During the ’80s King found a home with ACT UP, March, and if King had his way, the banner would be a
King’s father wrote him a letter “disowning” him, some- an AIDS activist group that became infamous for their call to action and might read, “Look at the bigger pic-
thing King said happened numerous times for various protests. He saw in ACT UP a community similar to the ture.” During a time when the most visible fight within the
reasons not much different from being a typical, rebel- church, but that actually practiced what it preached when national gay community is revolving around equal rights
lious teenager. But when he received this letter, he felt it came to acceptance. relating to marriage, King believes it’s bigger than that.
compelled to give his father a better reason and decided “Yes, it was full of rage and anger and all of that, but “If you think it’s about gay marriage,” King said, “if
to write his own letter, resulting in the severing of all there was a tremendous amount of healing as well,” said you’re part of the gay community, and that’s what you
familial ties. King. “The camaraderie, the brotherhood, the bond that think it’s about, then you don’t get it. Because as much
King is an activist at heart; it just so happens he’s a gay took place in that space — that’s something that I’ve very as it is important to achieve gay marriage, what it’s really
man living with H.I.V. It is not that being a gay man made forcefully brought to the vision Housing Works. We are about is human dignity.”
18 June 24 - 30, 2009

FIERCE switches from protest signs to PowerPoint

BY JOHN BAYLES
To hang out at the office of FIERCE on
W. 24th St. is to witness a convergence of
worlds: The world of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, the
world of political activism and the world of
ideas, among others, all collide on a daily basis
in between the office’s bright-pink brick walls.
Last Thursday FIERCE (Fabulous
Independent Educated Radicals for Community
Empowerment) held a Campaign Steering
Committee meeting at their office and 20
members and staff between the ages of 15 and
25 broke into groups to discuss their strategy
for an upcoming Community Board 2 meeting.
One member suggested using a megaphone
during the public comment session and every-
one talked about it and it seemed like a good
idea. Then a voice from a distant cubicle yelled,
“In New York you need a permit for that.”
They discussed doing phone banking one
day next week to get West Village residents to
come to the meeting or to write letters on their
behalf. One member said he couldn’t because
he had to go Six Flags.
This is the world of FIERCE, where a tight-
knit staff of young adults oversee a nonprofit
group that is ultimately run by its members,
the average age of which is roughly 18. At 8
p.m. in the evening when the typical young Villager photos by John Bayles
adult or teenager might have been at home
FIERCE members strategize at their headquarters before a Community Board 2 Waterfront Committee meeting.
on Facebook or in a bar or club or doing just
about anything other than discussing strat- The group was founded in 2000 and its (L.G.B.T.Q.) youth of color in New York City. development.
egy for how to best utilize a public comment mission is to foster the leadership and power While its mission has remained constant, its Two requests for proposals, or R.F.P.’s, for
period, the FIERCE office was buzzing. of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer strategy is always evolving. Pier 40 have been issued and closed by the
“We change our strategy based on what’s park Trust over the past six years and FIERCE
happening,” said Desiree Marshall, FIERCE’s has been in lockstep with the community as
lead organizer. Executive Director Rickke they opposed various plans submitted by pri-
Mananzala said the strategy all along has vate developers. FIERCE doesn’t want to see

We Proudly Salute been to “redefine the notion of community”

not only for L.G.B.T.Q. youth of color but
for all people.
“The new thing we’ve added to the mix
the waterfront drastically transformed and
the one place where many queer youth go to

is working to propose policy around public-

‘We’ll certainly protest
The Gay Community space development,” he explained.
“What’s happening” now for FIERCE is
a coordinated effort to have the West Village when we need to, but
community’s voice more than just considered
when it comes to redeveloping Hudson River we’ll be doing it in a
As Your Good Neighbor Park.
FIERCE’s baby is the Christopher St. Pier, way that shows we’re
Pier 45, or simply “The Pier” as it’s known
in the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Since the ’60s viable stakeholders in
In The Village the pier has been a gathering place for gay
and lesbian youth who feel uncomfortable the community.’
elsewhere.
In addition to working to improve con-
ditions on the Christopher St. Pier — par-
Rickke Mananzala,
ticularly in the evenings, from increasing
bathroom access to getting better-quality
FIERCE executive
food-vending carts — FIERCE also has been
focusing on the nearby, far larger Pier 40’s
director
redevelopment.
When the Hudson River Park Trust
first began talking about redeveloping the feel at home just disappear. But more than
14-acre Pier 40 at W. Houston St. back in that, they don’t want to see the park gobbled
2002, FIERCE began lobbying for a 24-hour up by a developer that doesn’t have the com-
L.G.B.T.Q. drop-in center, where young kids munity’s best interests at heart.
could access resources and services, such In the beginning, FIERCE showed up at
as counseling, or just hang out with friends public hearings and community board meet-
in a safe, comfortable place. Drop-in center ings en masse, with signs and banners and
130 BLEECKER STREET or not, however, FIERCE’s main concern is T-shirts. They were angry and they were loud
maintaining public access to the Village piers
212-358-9597 and Hudson River Park in the face of private Continued on page 19

Desiree Marshall, lead organizer of FIERCE.
Continued from page 18
and they let people know exactly what they
wanted, whether it was to protest a curfew on
the pier or to demand more police account-
ability in the face of harassment. But as things
evolve in the park, so does FIERCE. Recently
they joined with the Urban Justice Center, a
group that lends legal expertise to nonprofits.
Earlier this year, along with U.J.C., FIERCE
issued its first “white paper,” detailing exactly
what they believe the park Trust should pay
attention to moving forward.
Marshall said it was a deliberate move to
put down the protest signs and pick up the
PowerPoint presentations. But she was quick
to make clear that the “R” in FIERCE stands
for “radical” and they will always be a radical
group regardless of how much they cater to
the system, such as using legal language to
make a point instead of activist rhetoric to
make demands. Marshall said simply the fact
that they are young and they are demanding
to be heard makes them radical.
Azrael Morales is 22 and has been a
FIERCE member for a little more than a
year.
“Even though I’m 22, and a lot of [the
members] are much younger, we have a
cause, we have something to fight for and we
want to be heard,” he said. “I’ve learned that
I can be taken seriously.”
At the heart of FIERCE is the belief that
everyone has a voice and everyone should be
counted. When he joined, Morales said he
didn’t know much about the issues with the
waterfront.
“Desiree said they’re proper protocols,
that we don’t want to just come out like angry
people,” said Morales. “We want to do it in
the proper way and show we’re also part of
the community.”
Mananzala also spoke to the idea of
becoming more organized.
“That shift has helped us clarify what our
goals are,” said Mananzala. “We’ll certainly
protest when we need to, but we’ll be doing it
in a way that shows we’re viable stakeholders
in the community.”
June 24 - 30, 2009 19
Together we
will fight for and
achieve marriage
equality.
Together we will
achieve needed
health care and
funding for LGBT
services.
HAPPY PRIDE !
Currently, the redevelopment of Pier 40
lies in limbo. So without an R.F.P. open at the
moment, FIERCE finds itself left looking at
the bigger picture. Mananzala said the long-
range goal was to get the youth drop-in center
Maria Passannante-Derr
on Pier 40. If that doesn’t happen, he said
whatever goes on the pier, FIERCE wants to
ensure that the community has a say.
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community,” he said. “Are we offering solu-
tions that are just benefiting us or ones that
will benefit everyone in the community? That
has shown the community that we’re serious
about saving it,” said Mananzala.
On Thursday it was decided they would
try to bring at least 35 members to the meet-
ing the following Monday; power in numbers.
Someone made the suggestion to lower the
number because having too many “kids”
could be a bad thing and would look too
“immature.”
Marshall reminded everyone that FIERCE
owed its existence explicitly due to that train
of thought.
“Our members are so used to being dis-
missed so quickly, or not even asked,” said
Marshall. “It’s like we’re not even acknowl-
edged. As youth, that’s what were taught:
We should be seen and not heard. And when
we’re heard too loudly, we’re doing some-
thing wrong.”
When the road to equality looks long,
The Christopher St. Pier is also a recruit- remember how much ground we’ve covered in 40 years.
ing ground of sorts for FIERCE. Because so
many L.G.B.T.Q. youth of color hang out As we now inch closer to equality,
there, it’s a natural means of increasing the let’s celebrate our victories and renew our fight!
group’s membership base. John Blasco, 20,
runs the base-building component at FIERCE.
He was at the pier two years ago when a
member of the organization’s outreach team
approached him, and he just recently made
Happy Pride,
the transition to staff. Because FIERCE is a
membership-led organization, his peers had Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick
to vote on his promotion.
“For me and for my friends, before we Proud to be a leader in our march toward equality.
came into the organization we didn’t know
much about what was going on,” Blasco said. 853 Broadway, Suite 1518, New York, NY 10003
“We didn’t know about the redevelopment at Tel: 212-674-5153 / Fax: 212-674-5530
Pier 40. Besides the amazing energy and just glickd@assembly.state.ny.us
feeling safe, we’ve learned so much.”
20 June 24 - 30, 2009

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GET USED TO IT.

Photo by Warren Allen Smith

Sylvia Rivera, left, and Stephen van Cline

Figuring out the real riots

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I “outed” a straight. Not a gay. A straight!
Listen up.
After what some of us considered “just a
happening” in June 1969 at the Stonewall, not
what one day would be credited with being a
turning point of the contemporary gay rights
movement, several of us participants formed
Veterans of Stonewall (V.O.S.) in the mid-
1990s.
Stephen van Cline volunteered to head the
group, Sylvia Rivera volunteered to help raise
funds and threw a party complete with enter-
tainment, and I volunteered to be treasurer,
after finding that money from Sylvia’s party was
spent without any record of where it went.
With the less than $50 profits from the
party that I was given, I started a Veterans of
Stonewall checking account at Amalgamated
Bank, insisting that both the president and
the treasurer had to sign all checks. Except for
meeting annually and marching at the front of
at least five of the annual gay parades, however,
V.O.S. transacted no further business.
Meanwhile, the bank charged monthly fees
for such a small account, and when the fees rep-
resented more than the interest received, I sug-
gested to van Cline that we close the account.
As treasurer I started by interviewing all
prospective members, separating them into (a)
were definitely there that week; (b) were not
there but had been to the bar a little or a lot;
and (c) were simply friends of our group.
Van Cline’s written statement to me indi-
cated that he clearly was in the first group:
“The first night was probably the most dra-
matic and the most meaningful to me, because
that was the night I was directly involved. My
lover and I were stunned and thrilled to see our
own kind talking back, berating the cops, and
throwing pennies. After seeing the gratuitous
bloody beatings in front of us and being called
names, we began throwing bricks and cobble-
stones at the bar, which suddenly became the
Saturday, which we observed from the relative
safety of the Rivera Cafe, was more violent and
chaotic with more people, including outsider
agitators. The third night was reported to be
less violent. I got up early Monday morning
(June 30th) in my apartment, a few blocks away
on 15th Street, to the sound of heavy rain. I
returned to my other art gallery in the country
and the rain continued through Tuesday (July
1st). Many say the rain kept people from return-
ing to riot. It is my opinion that we were going
about getting the week rolling and involved in
endless discussions of the meaning of what had
happened. We did not get angry again until
word got around, and the newspaper reports
about the riots had widely circulated. Quite a
few people returned on Wednesday (July 2nd).
My only direct experience with activities that
night was seeing bloodied people lying on the
7th Ave. sidewalk and against the buildings
around the corner from the bar. There was
action on Thursday night (July 3rd).”
Van Cline, however, was nowhere to be
found. I could not get through to him by
telephone or e-mail to sign the check. When I
snail-mailed him to the addresses of van Cline
& Davenport, Ltd., 1581 Route 202, Suite 179,
Pomona, NY 10970; and to 3257, Route 10,
Ashland, NY 12407 (518) 734-4357, asking
him to phone or write, the letter to Ashland was
returned, “Not Known.”
Thus ended V.O.S.
My 1969 Stonewall friend Danny Garvin
had always been skeptical — he is one of the
few who really were there on the first night,
although hundreds claim they were. So was
another veteran, Jim Fouratt, who believes
that not even Sylvia Rivera was there the first
night.
Part of the mystery was solved on April
15, 2006, when van Cline called me from
(201) 337-4446 and said, “Yes, I am a big
fake. I was trying to write a novel. I am
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not gay, but in order to obtain information
about what it was like to have been gay in
the 1960s, I joined the veterans groups.
Only Sylvia Rivera saw through me, and I
don’t know why she didn’t expose me to the
others of you. Not only am I not gay, I have
two children who now are in their 30s. My
name is not Stephen van Cline but, no, I will
not tell you what it really is. My business,
van Cline & Davenport, Ltd., is called that,
but Davenport also does not exist. I did have
an art gallery fairly near the Stonewall, so
technically I was near the riots when they
occurred. But I was not involved and the
information I wrote for you and which you
put up onto the Web should be removed,
for it is not true. William[son] Henderson, I
think, is an even bigger fake. He could have
been a character in my novel. … Yes, you
have every reason to be angry with me, and
I regret that the Amalgamated Bank account
was depleted because you could not find me
and checks required both our signatures. At
least we meant well to make sure that funds
would be honestly accounted for. Yes, I have
a terminal liver illness and the prognosis
is that I will live only a few more years —
that is why I wrote you, in order to clear
my conscience. Am I religious? Well, I’m a
Christian Scientist. No, I gave up on writing
the novel. I did learn how difficult life was
for homosexuals, but I am truly sorry to have
posed as one and deceived all of you.”
If you Google van Cline and his appraisal
company, you’ll find that he’s apparently still
in business. Was he threatened with death by
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someone who, like Sylvia, doubted he was
involved except for the prospect of making
money? Does he really have two children,
and was he really a novelist? Journalists in
the Pomona and Ashland areas might well
do an investigative column about all this.
So what are my thoughts on the 40th
anniversary? First, although I’m a gay jour-
nalist who has outed a few gays in my British
column starting back in 1996, I never imag-
ined I’d ever out a straight, if indeed that’s
what van Cline is.
Second, I am honored at being called a
veteran of the event that transformed the gay Adult medicine
civil rights movement into one that caught Contraception (birth control)
the world’s attention. It’s as important as Emergency contraception (plan B)
my also having been a veteran who led his
company in 1944 onto Omaha Beach in GYN exams
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Third, the building that houses the present
Stonewall had two sections, and the original
Male exams
bar with the two jukeboxes was in the build- Prenatal care
ing just to the east of where the present bar is. Pediatric care
It was here that many of us called home — a
place where you could slow dance with old
STD counseling and testing
or new friends, where we couldn’t care less
that it was grimy and Mafia-connected, for it
was home base. Before the building’s two sec-
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Out on the boardwalk, they’ll be having some fun

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS Do you notice a difference from before and coming here
BY RITA WU now?
I believe it’s the same way. You can’t really say the
pier is actually for gay people. It’s for everyone. It’s more
casual now. Less violence. It’s real nice.
What do you do while you’re here?
I converse with my peers. If I’m single, I try to min-
gle.
just to see so many of us in this light and how we can
come down here and be just free about it and don’t have to
worry about anybody with gestures and making comments
and frowning, you know. I believe that this is a good place
for us. And I hope it stays here.
Is there anything about the pier you would change?
The rodents. There are big rats that come out of that
grass over there. And more stores that are convenient,
instead of us walking all the way up there to the store.

Is it easy to meet people here?

I mean, basically, if you could converse. If you could

start a good conversation, then of course you can meet
anyone. This is the reading level I’m on. [Takes out “A - Z
Encyclopedia of Serial Killers” from her bag.] He [Jeffrey
Dahmer] wanted someone to be around for companion-
ship. That’s why I’m not judgmental, because you can’t
judge someone. Basically, a lot of people have a lot of
problems, a lot of issues from their childhood. Especially
minorities; they can’t go to psychologists and different
stuff like that to be evaluated at a young age. So, there-
fore, I understand what he went through. He was a can-
nibal. He was just looking for companionship.

Are there other neighborhoods you like to hang out in?

I mean I don’t really hang out because of my age. I don’t

hang out on the block. I’m a minority and the way that I
dress I will be stopped by the D’s — detectives, decoys.
Plus I blow marijuana. I don’t care if it’s on tape. We need
to legalize it, Obama. But, anyway, this is what I do. If I
come to the Village I’m going to Henrietta Hudson’s. It’s a
bar, different races. You have to be 23 or older. It’s a good
crowd. It’s the type of crowd I like to hang around.

Tiffenay Black Do you see regulars out here?

With the heterosexuals, no. On the weekdays, a lot of

TIFFENAY BLACK
27, lives in East New York,
works at Fresh Direct
Why do you like coming to the pier?
It’s the people. It’s the life. Doesn’t even matter if it’s
lesbians, gays. It’s good vibes, basically.
How does your neighborhood treat you?
I just go to work and go home. I don’t chill outside,
because it’s dangerous the neighborhood I’m in.
Does it have to do with your sexuality?
No, I don’t even think my sexuality has anything to
do with it because from what I’ve learned a lot of people
appreciate it. It’s 2009, like c’mon, you don’t have cable?
You don’t watch “The L Word”? You know what it is
already. That’s just how it is. I’m not afraid. My neighbor-
hood is good besides the crime.
How long have you been coming here?
Wow. I’ve been coming to the pier since my junior high
school years. That’s what? Since ’96.
How often do you come here?
When I’m off of work. When I get the time. When the
weather’s nice, like now. Close to summer.
the high school kids be out here like after school.
What about residents complaining about the noise the
gay youth make when they leave the pier after the park’s
1 a.m. curfew?
Oh yeah, you pay thousands of dollars in rent, you
don’t want all that noise. It’s like living next to a train sta-
tion. Why would you want that? I’d curse their ass out.
What was your best experience here?
Finding a job at Crazy Nanny’s; now it’s Luke and
Leroy’s. This was around 2003. That was the best, to be
just working in the limelight. I met a lot of stars. I met
Queen Latifah. I met an artist by the name of Monifah.
I saw a lot of NBA, WNBA stars. Different things like
that.
The worst experience?
The worst experience I can say, maybe Pride, fights
breaking out.
Do you think this will always be a gay meeting spot?
A lot of gay kids I have talked to say that they come
here because they feel they aren’t accepted in their neigh-
borhoods. And that’s true. I have one little girl here who’s
younger than me who told me she looks up to me, and I
told her don’t say that. But in all reality, I think for me,
bringing her out here opened her to a whole new concept
Darius Brown
DARIUS BROWN
30, lives in Harlem, works as a production associate
at a TV network
CORNELIUS JONES
31, lives in Harlem, works as an actor
JOAN HENRY and MARSHA MILLS
Both live in Brooklyn
Why do you like coming to the Village?
D.B.: I like it ’cause it’s calming. It’s not like New York. I
like to bring the dog, usually. I just think it’s peaceful. I like
to come and feel comforta ble and see other gay people.
And it’s just feels free sometimes to be myself and the pier,
too. I just like to come and catch the rays of the sun and
walk with the breeze. Makes me feel like I’m in California
or something, gives me the best of both worlds. You have
the water and you have the people and you walk back to the
Village and its congested and, you know, it’s fun.
The neighborhood has been changing in recent years, with
all the new high-priced condos along the waterfront, espe-
cially. How is that changing things in your view?
D.B.: I would hope that the people that do come down
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here, the people that move here, ’cause I know that this
is like a jewel to be right here on the water, that they
respect the community and they understand that this is a
haven for a lot of people, you know, especially implants
coming from different parts of the city, different cities
and states that aren’t comfortable being who they are, can
come down here and be comfortable and, you know, just
be free.

A few years ago, the Hudson River Park Trust consid-

ered putting up gates to keep all the gay youth leaving
the park at 1 a.m. from exiting onto Christopher St.
What do you think of that?

D.B.: I think the beauty of New York is that everybody,

even the rich and the poor, everybody lives amongst one
another. Everybody is able to thrive in the city whether
they’re gay or straight, black or white, Asian. That’s the
beauty of the city, it’s a tossed salad. ... Go get a mansion
and put gates around that. Don’t come to the city and try
to put up gates.

C.J.: This is a public place. Let it just be what it is.

Don’t take things away from people. You got money,
move Upstate somewhere, get your nice little land, get
your acres, make your own little pond if that’s what you
want, make life somewhere else. Don’t take what’s been
established, what’s been a sort of haven for people, a
safe place for the young kids to come and be themselves,
don’t take that away, ’cause you know there’s nowhere
else for people to go. Or if you want to find a balance,
come out here and talk to people. Find an agreement.
Work with the community.
D.B.: It’s like Chi Chiz bar. I think it’s been a relic
in the community. I think they’ve been trying to close it
for years. But initially, through ignorance, I didn’t like
to come to the bar ’cause it was a hole in the wall. But
then I started going and met the people there, really
good people that have been coming there for years. It’s
like they, you know, this is a part of their life. They like
this bar, they come, the drinks are cheap, they play good
music, they shoot pool in there, and it’s like a neighbor-
hood hangout for these older gay guys. I feel like you
said, that if these people actually came out and met some
of these kids.
C.J.: Talk to people. You cannot judge a book by its
cover.
D.B.: Yeah, they’re up there on their 17th-floor con-
dos judging.
C.J.: I mean we all have our own little, I guess, snap
judgments of people, but you never really know who
people are till you actually go and talk to them. Like we
just met these two women [Henry and Mills] out here
today.
D.B.: If we talk to each other we’ll find out that we
are a lot more similar than we are different.
M.M.: It’s like what you said with these condos. Soon
it’s gonna change. Soon it’s just gonna be people with
money over here.
Marsha Mills
M.M.: We have to create another gay town ’cause M.M.: I don’t even remember at 5. I don’t remember
remember, they create this for us and now this is chang- 5 years old.
ing. Look at Brooklyn, it’s changing. They’re gonna make
it another mini-Manhattan. So maybe we’ll find a place J.H.: I remember. You know what? I was in love with
in Brooklyn, and then maybe they’ll come and take that my teacher and I was like, “Oh, my God,” you know.
away, too.
How did you hear about the Christopher St. Pier?
J.H.: Oh man. I don’t know. One day I just passed and
I saw over here and I walked and “Oh, gay people. Ooh,
thank God.” I said, “Yeah, my people,” and that’s how I
started to come here.
M.M.: You know what they should do? They should
put a nice monument of two men or two women up here
in the middle to let them know that this is gay land right
here. ... Everybody comes here and they know that this is
their place. All they see is the monument and they know
that this is home. I feel that they should do that. I’ve
always thought that. It could be done if everybody wants
it. We could sign a...
D.B.: Petition.
M.M.: Also, if you’re curious too, you can come down
here to see if your heart really beats for the same or the
opposite. But you know, it takes one look to know if
you really like someone the same, you know, that’s all
it takes.

D.B.: They are gonna try to make it private.
C.J.: Yeah, and they’re not gonna wanna be amongst
us. It’s like, “We’re amongst the commoners. We don’t
like that.” That’s the truth.
J.H.: Gay thing is not a game or a tested thing. You
gay, you gay — that’s the way I see it. I was 5 years old
and I knew I was gay.
M.M.: Five years old!

J.H.: If they take it over we have to find a gay town C.J.: I knew I was gay at that age, too.
— and when we go to that town, they come and buy it
out again. J.H.: Excuse me, but I’m gay. I was born gay.
Cornelius Jones
24 June 24 - 30, 2009
Through The Door, finding a place to grow and learn
BY GABRIEL ZUCKER
“When I first came to New York, I
didn’t have a lot of sense of direction,” said
Brandon Butler, a 19-year-old student at
Columbia, who goes by the name Paris. “I
was in need of help.”
As Butler tells it, he found that help at
The Door, a comprehensive youth services
center based in Soho. “The Door was a place
for me to be myself, and an opportunity for
me to help out other youth,” he said.
The Door, founded in 1972, provides ser-
vices in several areas, including adolescent
healthcare, careers and education, mental
health, creative arts and legal services. But
for some of The Door’s regulars, one of its
biggest assets is the role it plays as a haven
for gay and lesbian youth like Paris.
“Everyone accepts you here,” concluded
Paris with a smile.
“Safe space is always an issue for
L.G.B.T.Q. kids,” explained Karen Remy,
The Door’s director of mental health and per-
sonal development, who oversees much of the
organization’s L.G.B.T.Q. programming. And
The Door is a substantial safe space, too; the
center fills several floors of a large building on
Broome St., between Sixth Ave. and Varick
St., open to youth from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. “I don’t know how
many square feet we are,” laughed Remy.
Although it features a good deal of
L.G.B.T.Q.-specific programming, The Door
maintains an inclusive philosophy in its work.
“What’s unique is the fact that our
L.G.B.T.Q. services are integrated into the
youth population at large,” said Remy. Queer
youth “participate in the gamut of things we do
here. We’re like a little microcosm of society.”
“The Door’s L.G.B.T.Q. programming is
unique because it reaches so far beyond
just that population of young people,” said
Dianne Morales, The Door’s executive direc-
tor, in a statement. “While we have developed
targeted programming for the L.G.B.T. popu-
lation — like the Kiki Function and some of
our workshops and peer groups — even our
overall programming reflects the L.G.B.T.Q.
youth we serve, just as it reflects our Latino,
black, Asian, foster care, immigrant and
court-involved members.”
Still, The Door’s specifically L.G.B.T.Q.
programs are quite popular, bringing in 465
participants in the last 11 months. Many of the
programs are forums dealing with L.G.B.T.Q.-
related issues, including Love, Sweat and Tears,
which discusses adolescent relationships; the
Gay-Straight Alliance; and GenderWhere,
which explores issues related to sexuality.
For Morales, the program that “most reflects
our philosophy in working with the L.G.B.T.Q.
community” is the Kiki Function. In association
with a handful of other youth service providers,
The Door holds mini-balls with competitive
voguing, intended for gay youth who aren’t old
enough to attend balls throughout the city. But
The Door’s balls are unique.
“When we started having these mini-balls,
we realized that they’re very competitive and
could be intimidating for young people who
don’t know how to dance or who’ve never seen
this before,” Morales explained. “We found a
way to flip the system and turn these contests
into a really positive experience for everyone
involved. Now Kiki Functions include work-
shops on learning the basics and we’ve begun
to nurture a group of young leaders in the com-
munity who go out to other organizations and
help them run positive competitions.”
Many of these L.G.B.T.Q. programs exist
thanks to the work of youth who frequent
The Door.
“It’s youth-oriented programming — pro-
grams that young people at The Door ask for,”
said Remy. “In many cases they help to facili-
tate. We make them part of the planning.”
Paris has taken the spirit of involvement to
heart; just a year and a half after first coming to
The Door, he is integral to much of the orga-
nization’s L.G.B.T.Q. programming. He spoke
with particular energy about his work on the
Kiki Function.
“We teach them the basic elements of the
ballroom scene, and how to have self-esteem,”
he said. “We let them know that, no matter
who you are, as long as you try, you can always
become better.”
Paris was also an instrumental part of the
planning for The Door’s L.G.B.T.Q. prom last
Friday — “The theme we are going for is ‘A
Night in Egypt,’” he explained — and the orga-
nization’s elaborate Pride March float, which has

  


won the Best Float prize two years in a row.
“When The Door started marching in the
parade they started out just holding a banner,”
laughed Remy. This year, youth at The Door
have choreographed their dance to Beyoncé’s
“Single Ladies,” she said, adding that “we’re
going for our third in a row.”
“This year we’ll be taking the prize
again,” Paris assured.
Meanwhile, for his next plan, Paris is
getting a step team together. He has been
stepping for 10 years.
“I do it very well,” he said, smiling mod-
estly.
The Door also does crucial outreach
work on the Christopher St. Pier, tradition-
ally a hotspot for L.G.B.T.Q. youth, on
Friday and Saturday nights. The work began
in 2006, with a grant from the City Council,
after complaints from residents and busi-
nesses in the area about noise from young
people hanging out in the area.
The Door’s outreach specialists provide
counseling and referrals to the young people
on the pier. The work is especially important
because many of those L.G.B.T.Q. youth are
homeless or street-involved. Forty percent of
New York City’s homeless youth are L.G.B.T.Q.
In the last 11 months, The Door has made 1,300
outreach contacts on and around the pier.
Aside from the benefits to the L.G.B.T.Q.
youth themselves, community members say
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I stand with you for full marriage equality.
Warm wishes for a terrific Pride celebration!
Alan J. Gerson
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(212) 788-7722 / FAX (212) 788-7727
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the organization’s outreach efforts have been very effective in

addressing the original complaints.
“My view is that the work they did has been fabulous. It would
be 10 times worse if it weren’t for them,” said Arthur Schwartz,
chairperson of Community Board 2’s Waterfront Committee.
“They’ve made an impossible situation manageable.”
He noted with relief that funding for The Door’s outreach
work had found its way into the 2009-2010 city budget.
The Door’s work on the pier, according to Remy, has made
many in the community “look to us as advocates.” She noted that
the organization had been invited to a pre-Gay Pride safety forum
with the Police Department, M.T.A. and Port Authority.
Back at The Door on a recent afternoon, the building’s
open, brightly painted ground floor was teeming with young
people. Several huddled around a game of Bingo, while
several more availed themselves of the organization’s Dance
Dance Revolution (DDR) video-game machines, which are
“very popular,” said Remy. In various corners, others pored
over homework assignments.
As Remy walked through the building, she was greeted by
smiles and high-fives from the young people who have gotten to
know her during their years at The Door.
“It’s about providing a space for young people that is safe, and
that has caring and trustful adults — about being a trustful adult
to these people,” she said. “It’s an honor when young people let
you take that role.”
For Paris — who said he spends time at The Door when-
ever “it doesn’t interfere with my scheduling” — what this
place and its staff provide is something he couldn’t have
done without.
“I’d probably be at home sitting in front of the TV watch-
ing something,” if not for The Door, he said. And if this
Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas
welcoming refuge had not been there at all?
“I would probably be stranded out in the streets.” Young adults relax and socialize in The Door’s ground-floor space with a game of bingo.

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Mom gets it, but marriage not in fashion with all
BY KATE WALTER
I can’t say I was shocked that Dick
Cheney came out in favor of gay mar-
riage.
My 87-year-old traditional Irish
Catholic mother has also come a long way
since I came out to my parents more than
30 years ago. She too gets what it’s like to
have a gay daughter.
Just last summer when I went to the
Jersey Shore to spend a few days at the
family beach house, my mother got more
clues when we took a jaunt together.
Whenever I go down the shore, I fit in a
trip to my favorite thrift shop in nearby
Manasquan, where I score my college
teacher wardrobe. I was a frugal person
way before the recession started. I discov-
ered this place years ago with my fashion-
plate ex, who was a collector into buying
and reselling. Now I go there with my
elderly mother and later I model my pur-
chases for my clotheshorse 17-year-old
niece. Shannon tells me if her Aunt Kate
is on the right track. I smile when I get
compliments from colleagues, “Nice, very
chic,” about my designer pants or shirts
that cost five or six dollars.
“When do you want to go to the shop?”
Mom asked as soon as I got settled in.
She liked going to this resale place, too,
so we made plans for the next morning.
I live in the West Village and don’t own
a car, but visiting at the beach was one
of the rare occasions when I drove. My
mother’s driving scared me and since she
encouraged me to “keep my hands on the
wheel,” I adjusted the seat and we were
off. Soon we were over the bridge and into
the next county. The thrift shop parking
lot was packed, odd for a Monday.
Turns out it was a special donor day
with extra workers. We went to the town
lot.
The store is a nonprofit run by friend-
ly volunteers from the Visiting Nurses
Association of New Jersey; it’s a long,
roomy building, like a big garage. The
clothes are neatly organized by size; the
place has dressing rooms, even a bath-
room. The items are cheaper than the pop-
ular Housing Works stores in Manhattan.
While browsing here, I was not likely to
find a vintage black Eddie Bauer T-shirt
(like I did in the city) but this preppy,
upscale town was perfect for business
casual attire.
After shopping for almost an hour, I had
tried on — and rejected — eight pairs of
pants, but I scored a pair of mauve Gloria
Vanderbilt jeans with a snug and sexy fit. I
usually check out with more than one item
but every visit is different. My mother
was in another aisle and I walked over
to see if she was finished. I was almost
ready to leave but planned to take one
last sweep through the pants.
When I returned to that rack, I heard
Kate Walter
one worker say to another, “Did you see
Ellen get married on TV? That gave me
the creeps. Did you see it?” she repeated,
goading her co-workers to resonate with
her homophobia, “It was creepy.”
I looked right at her. She had dyed
blonde hair and was about my age — in
her late 50s.
“So Ellen DeGeneres got married. Well,
good for her,” I said in a loud snappish
tone. “I think that’s terrific.”
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up. I was wearing baggy surfer shorts, san-
dals and a hoodie; my hair was a mess. She
obviously never expected anyone to call
her on her prejudiced opinion. It felt as if
this volunteer was perfectly comfortable
tearing apart my life and the consequences
of my not being able to get married in New
York or New Jersey. I would have carried
on more had my mother not been on the
premises, but I decided not to cause a
scene. I’d gotten my point across and
hopefully she’d think twice before mouth-
ing off like that in public. I was stunned
and couldn’t imagine anyone saying some-
thing that offensive in my neighborhood.
Made me glad I live in the Village.
Her use of the word “creepy” infuri-
ated me. Her personal revulsion at two
women being together upset me more than
the tired religious or political opposition.
What could be creepy about two women in
love getting married? Why shouldn’t gays
and lesbians have the same rights as every
other American citizen? (I would be bet-
ter off financially if my ex and I had been
legally married. New York City’s domestic
partnership was a joke.)
On the other hand, I thought it
was cool that we had a lesbian with
such iconic status that she was recog-
nized by her first name — like Oprah,
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Madonna or Cher. And it was great that
we had gay celebrities making their com-
mitment public. Ellen and Portia had
been married in August in a small ceremo-
ny and Ellen waited a few weeks to release
a wedding video on her show.
It was scary to wonder what the rest of
the country thought if this was the opinion
of a charity worker in a blue state with
civil unions for queer couples. The town
where this exchange took place was only
a few miles from Asbury Park, whose real
estate renaissance was spearheaded by
artists and gays. Monmouth County was
known to be gay friendly.
I barely remember paying for the jeans,
and when we got back to the car, I was
visibly shaken.
“What’s the matter?” said my mother.
“You seem upset.”
“Some stupid woman made a nasty
remark about Ellen marrying her girl-
friend, and I told her off.”
“Oh,” said my mother, who was used
to her volatile middle child. “Some people
are not ready for that yet.”
“Are you?” I asked as I peeled out of
the parking lot.
My mother never answered but I
recalled how a few years ago she instantly
got the ramifications of my breakup. (“It’s
just like getting a divorce,” she said at the
time.)
supportive. My widowed mother became
my role model for grieving. If she could
survive the death of her husband of 57
years, I could get through my trauma. Her
concern changed our relationship, and we
got closer. So I knew that if I ever tied the
knot, my mother would be there. St. Mark’s Church celebrates
“Slow down,” Mom ordered. “We’ll Gay Pride Month
have an accident. You could have ignored
that lady.” Sunday, June 28 at 11 a.m.
“And let her get away with it?” I said as
I merged into traffic. “That’s not me.”
My mother was correct — I could have This Gay Pride Service will feature:
ignored the remark, but I felt compelled Musique led by Mary Seymour, Renoly Santiago,
to respond. I would have felt worse if I
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Earl Giaquinto, Miss Velvita Louise a.k.a. James Solomon
I wanted to start my mini-vacation but I Benn, Jahneen, Larry Marshall, Nanette Natal
refused to let this incident spoil my beach
break.
Since that encounter in the thrift shop,
The Vissi Dance Theater
voters in California (who presumably with excerpts from “Butch Queen in Pumps”
shared that woman’s opinion) overturned Courtney Ffrench, Artistic Director
gay and lesbian marriage at the ballot box
and protests erupted around the nation. I
was at City Hall screaming my head off. The Rev. Winnie Varghese, Priest in Charge
Last month, the California Supreme Court Jeannine Otis, Music Director
upheld that ban, and thousands protested St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery
at Union Square, decrying that decision
and demanding marriage equality in New
York State. Join Us in Celebrating Life!
When I do meet the next Ms. Right,
I expect to have the same options as my
straight siblings. Just for the hell of it, I’d
like to return to that store and browse for
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131 East 10th St. at 2nd Avenue
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Assembly Member
Dick Gottfried
wishes you a
Happy Pride!
• Representing Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen,
Midtown, Murray Hill, and part of the
Happy Gay Pride Month!
Join us & celebrate after the parade! Lincoln Center area
• Chair, NYS Assembly Health Committee
Ju d so n Memoria l • Same Sex Marriage bill, co-sponsor
Church
55 Washington Square South
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Judson Church joins the LGBT other services for the LGBT community
community in celebrating
Gay Pride Week! Dick Gottfried’s Community Office:
Join us Sunday’s at 11:00 242 West 27th St., ground floor
June 28 Guest Preacher – Paul Bradley
“Pride Outside Our Comfort Zones” Ph: 212-807-7900
Whoever you are, wherever you are on life’s journey,
you are welcome at Judson! E-mail: gottfrr@assembly.state.ny.us
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Find it in the archives Pioneering institute is still

www.THEVILLAGER.com
going strong after 30 years
Happy Gay Pride to All! BY RITA WU
A trailblazing facility when it was created, the Hetrick-
Martin Institute this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
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Gay Located on Astor Place near Broadway, the institute offers
academic-enrichment and job-readiness programs, ranging
from college prep classes, an on-site G.E.D program and
computer training to career counseling and in-house intern-
ships. Also available are a variety of art and culture courses,
including dance and theater.
Supportive services include free weekday meals, coun-
seling and help finding housing. Last year, Hetrick-Martin
assisted more than 1,000 L.G.B.T.Q. (lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and questioning) youth and their families.
WE DELIVER COMPLETE DINNERS As part of Hetrick-Martin Institute’s 30th anniversary,
CALL:677-3820/475-9828 a roundtable panel discussion was held two weeks ago with
106 West Houston Street 677-3820 475-9828 founding and current staff members to look at the organiza-
tion’s impact on L.G.B.T.Q. youth and to examine what has
and hasn’t changed in the past three decades. In 1979, two

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Dr. Emery Hetrick, a psychiatrist, and Dr. Damien Martin, a
professor at New York University, created the Institute for the
Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth. In 1988 it was renamed
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entire facility, but the Department of Education operates the
school, and accepts applications for prospective students.
H.M.I. began as an advocacy program.
“It started as an answer to a social vacuum,” said Thomas
Krever, H.M.I.’s executive director. “This was the ’70s. No
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vacuum. They filled the void. So the first services were mental
health, counseling, crisis management — you know, people
needing a place to sleep, young people considering suicide.”
Today the Hetrick-Martin Institute is essentially a full-
service program, though it does not provide overnight beds.
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one was thinking about L.G.B.T. young people, at least not health professionals and an after-school service. H.M.I. works
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wanted to provide support and social services to underserved
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said. “They will travel further for the same service. And if you
think about why that is, when you’re dealing with issues of
sexuality or gender identity and you are not out, it’s not safe
to go to Boys and Girls Clubs or your YMCA or your local
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political infighting” (talking point, by Paul tion of spiritual shepherds to their flock.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bronx cheer for the other guy.

DeRienzo, June 17):
What a mess! Hopefully, they can get their
acts together and get back to providing listeners
with good material. Or, they could always do a
It is more about fleecing the flock for the
benefit of hierarchy. Forget the distinction
between good and evil and only meditate
about the almighty dollar. It is high time
Continued from page 12 pay-per-view smackdown to raise money! for parishioners to stand up for their rights
Sylvia Rackow against the greed of the anointed prelates!
For more info on New York City’s addic- Aton Edwards
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Tim Doody Healy had sense of absurd

Shrink is a head case
To The Editor:
Re “Gerson Rashomon” (Scoopy’s
Notebook, June 17):
I just read Scoopy’s latest news about a
Gerson-Horowitz incident which apparently
happened two weeks ago. My own experi-
ence with Mr. Horowitz about a week ago at
a St. Joseph’s Church concert is that he’s got
a nasty temper and has very little respect for
women of whatever age.
I have previously noted that Mr. Horowitz,
perhaps because he is a psychologist, has an
enormous need for attention. I shall there-
fore assume that Mr. Horowitz gave the story
to Scoopy to boost himself for throwing a
cell phone.
The whole article just indicates how silly
things can get, how unruly Mr. Horowitz
acted toward Sophie Gerson and how in
need of publicity the Gleason campaign
seems to be. So here’s a huzzah for Alan
Gerson for his defense of his mother! And a
To The Editor:
Re “Robert Healy, 67, font of local politi-
cal history” (obituary, June 10):
I read Bob Healy’s obituary in The
Villager with shock and sadness. Bob knew
the judicial candidates better than rotisserie
players know the ball players.
But Bob had a keen sense of the absurd. He
wanted it understood that he was not related
to Martin Healy, the district leader who was
indicted for taking a bribe from a friend of the
famously vanished Joseph Force Crater.
In filming Bob after a McManus Club func-
tion for my movie on Judge Crater’s disappear-
ance, however, I told him that he was headed
to the spot where Crater was last seen. Bob
said that he was waiting for the same cab.
Billy Sternberg
Ay, ay, ay, WBAI!
To The Editor:
Re “WBAI at the turning point after
Shocking comment
To The Editor:
Re “WBAI at the turning point after
political infighting” (talking point, by Paul
DeRienzo, June 17):
What WBAI needs is an electrician to
wire Bob Fass’s control panel in a manner
that each time he censors me he gets a pro-
gressively stronger electric shock.
A. J. Weberman
Church hierarchy fails us
To The Editor:
Re “Dolan celebrates ‘200 years of love’
at Old St. Pat’s” (news article, June 10):
Beginning with Cardinal Egan and then
the pope and now Archbishop Dolan,
the faithful of the closed Our Lady of
Vilniusw Church have appealed to a mute
wall. Their only hope to save their house
of worship rests in the secular court.
Forget the empty talk about the devo-
The row over Park Row
To The Editor:
Re “Chinatown traffic project now appears
to be stalled” (news article, June 10):
The good news is there is a delay, thanks
in part to Councilman Alan Gerson. I
don’t know if it is true that if Mayor Mike
Bloomberg gets re-elected in November
this project will start the day after, as was
told to Jan Lee by a city official, but this is
the first time I am considering not voting
for Mayor Bloomberg.
Ora Gelberg
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Continued from page 5
a 49-year lease for Pier 57. We have a
49-year lease for Chelsea Piers. You can’t
get financing for a 30-year lease. We’re
going to keep the field, and the commu-
nity wants to kept the parking.”
While Leichter said he felt keeping the
sports field in the pier’s courtyard “tends
probably to be the preferable place,” he
said he didn’t feel the park act should be
amended to mandate that.
“I don’t think the legislation should
define the design of Pier 40,” he said. “It
can lay down principles.”
He admitted if the Trust issues a third
R.F.P. that Related could well come back
with its Cirque du Soleil mega-entertain-
ment complex plan. Last year, Related
was disqualified from the running when
it said it couldn’t make its financials work
within the pier’s 30-year lease restriction
and needed a longer lease.
However, Leichter denied there’s any
ulterior motive to cater to Related by
changing the lease term. And he said the
idea to ask the Legislature to change the
lease length was his own idea, strongly
denying that he was “a stalking horse for
anybody.”
“The idea that this is to pave the way
for Related is totally absurd,” he said.
“I don’t like the Related proposal. …
Everybody agrees an educational institu-
tion would be appropriate.”
Leichter said he personally is not a big
fan of the parking on the pier, but under-
‘As a borough president
appointee to the Trust,
Senator Leichter should
be listening more to park
users and the community.’
Tobi Bergman,
P3 president
stands that the community wants it. The
pier, in his view, would then need “one
other use” to help generate revenue for
the park. Of what that other use might be,
he said, “Whatever we do, we want some-
thing that’s acceptable to the community.”
Prodded a bit for his view, he said a
waterfront or maritime museum would be
“great,” adding that the best uses would
have some relation to the river.
Schools on the pier are not a sure bet
anymore, either, he pointed out, since
with the real estate slump, more locations
are available.
Leichter offered that a longer lease, as
opposed to just helping Related, would
actually aid “smaller groups, more inno-
vative,” who would have a better chance
at landing the lease.
“It wasn’t just Related that wanted
a 50-year lease,” he noted, adding that
developers behind another contending
plan, The People’s Pier, had also preferred
a longer lease.
He revealed that the Trust is also
contemplating developing its own plan
for the pier. He didn’t provide details,
but from the sound of it, the Trust would
come up with the plan, but not build it
on its own, instead enlisting an outside
developer.
“I want to see this park get built —
hopefully before I die,” Leichter stressed.
“We’ve come a long way. It’s exceeded my
expectations. Pier 40 has been a stum-
bling block. The pier’s in deteriorating
condition. We’re losing parking spaces.”
Tobi Bergman, president of P3, a group
advocating for youth sports in Greenwich
Village, took issue with Leichter’s saying
the advisory council can now lobby the
Legislature after the Trust has passed the
resolution.
“It’s basically ridiculous to say the
advisory council can weigh in later,”
Bergman said. “The advisory council was
created as part of the Hudson River Park
Act as an advisory body to the Trust, not a
lobbying group to the Legislature.”
As for Leichter saying the park act
shouldn’t dictate that the field stay as is,
Bergman said, “Thousands of happy users
of Pier 40 want the courtyard fields pro-
tected. Protecting the courtyard fields also
defends the park and the community from
mega-development of the pier while leav-
ing plenty of space for park-compatible,
income-generating uses. It’s not about
legislating design. It’s about working with
the community to find a unified way to
move forward. As a borough president
appointee to the Trust, Senator Leichter
should be listening more to park users
and the community.”
Arthur Schwartz, the advisory coun-
cil’s president, forwarded to The Villager
an e-mail he sent to Leichter, which said,
in part: “Franz, there was no more of an
emergency now than at any time in the
last year. This just seems like a way to
get a quick end-of-session, middle-of-the-
night bill from the Legislature. You know
that you got the Hudson River Park Act
passed by building support and consen-
sus; in fact, an affirmative vote from C.B.
2 was key to getting Assembly Speaker
Silver’s blessing. What everyone objects
to is an open-ended 49-year lease that
would allow a Related-type project, as
opposed to one like The People’s Pier.”

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Strong, searching women at the core of ‘Heart’
Characters interlock ‘like a surprise jigsaw puzzle’
BY JERRY TALLMER
Eric Lane writes a play like a magic
lantern.
At least “Heart of the City,” his new play,
is like a magic lantern; Ingmar Bergman’s
magic lantern — a scene here, a scene
there; two people, one person, three peo-
ple, four people, piece by piece notching
together. Then, suddenly interlocking like
a surprise jigsaw puzzle. Instead of beauti-
ful Swedes, however, you have ordinary
Americans; New Yorkers — male, female,
or in between; riding the #4 train in from
Brooklyn to Manhattan; or waiting inter-
minably for the doctor who’s to deliver
the good verdict, or the bad; or taking off
your shoes to relax in a massage chair in
a hi-tech store under the eyes of a pretty
salesgirl; or experiencing love through
a window in the gaze of a soulful boa
constrictor; or going with your brother to
divide up all the stuff in that house where
Mom, the survivor from Eastern Europe,
lived and reigned for 43 years.
To me, the moment that jolts the whole
play into life, like an unforeseen synthesiz-
ing burst of electricity, is the contact at the
feet of Simon Bolivar between Jemma (a
14-year-old loner smarter than her years)
and Elizabeth (a good-looking 40-something
waiting for her date with a guy who is late).
Elizabeth fixes her lipstick. Photo by Jeramy Peay

Marcia Jean Kurtz and Martin LaPlatney

JEMMA: that shit’ll kill ya.
ELIZABETH: Excuse me?
JEMMA: Lipstick. There are studies. Lab
rats. The shit they developed, you don’t
wanna know.
ELIZABETH: You’re right, I don’t.
JEMMA: Government studies. Big bucks
for putting Revlon on rat lips. Some world,
huh?
ELIZABETH; I suppose. Look, do you
know what time t is? (Jemma extends her
arm, showing her watch.)
ELIZABETH: Thank you.
JEMMA: You like Bolivar?
ELIZABETH(Re the watch): Yes, it’s
lovely.
JEMMA: Not the watch. The General.
Simon Bolivar. Big-ass statue and nobody
even bothers. El Liberator. The George
Washington of South America. Won inde-
pendence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia,
Ecuador, Venezuela, and Peru. You want a
tic-tac?
ELIZABETH: No thank you. If you don’t
mind…Why don’t you go away?…I’m sure
there’s another plaque somewhere in the
park you can memorize. Bethesda Fountain
or Cleopatra’s Needle. A wealth of informa-
tion for a young girl of your perspicacity.
JEMMA: Nah. I’m meeting somebody.
ELIZABETH: He won’t show.
JEMMA: He’s a she.
In fact the she is this very Elizabeth, and
the gentleman Elizabeth is waiting for is not
only very well known to the 14-year-old but
he has dispatched her there to let Elizabeth
know that he, her date, won’t show.
‘I love writing teenage characters. They
seem to talk to me,” says playwright Lane,
who declines to give his own age but can
hardly be much more than twice a teenager.
During rehearsal the actors loved that scene
so well, he says, that it was dug into and
developed further.
The Bolivar statue is where Sixth Avenue
dead-ends at 59th Street. How well does
Lane know that spot?
“I’m sure I’ve walked past it many times,
like any other place in New York City,” he
says. “Beautiful and amazing places you
never notice. Well, this once I was out on a
date there. My date said: ‘Let’s meet at the
statue of Bolivar.’ ” Pause, pause. “It was
the best part of the date.” A guy/guy date, if
anyone wants to know.
Do you still take the #4 train to
Manhattan?
“Not for a while. I now live in Sunnyside,
Queens”— with partner Bob Barnett, a sce-
nic artist and set designer. “The #7 train.”
Real people crisscross everywhere, like
beating hearts, behind the characters in
“Heart of the City.”
First there is Sue, also known (and
separately played) as Shoshana, her younger
self in the Old World, but now raging with
impatience in the new against the oncoming
of that dark night.
Is Sue in any way the playwright’s mother
— the Phyllis Lane to whom he dedicates
this work “with love and gratitude”?
“Yeah, definitely,” he says. “Part my
mother, part my grandmother, part my aunt.
My mother wasn’t an actress, though she did
appear in Edgar’s Teenage Charm School
radio show. I see pieces of my family mem-
bers, pieces of my friends, pieces of myself,
everywhere in here.
“So Sue is part my mom, part my grand-
mother Fritzi Kramer, part my great-aunt
Sue Wischer. There was a time two years
ago when they all passed away, my mother,
my grandmother, and my aunt. A period of
intense emotion and grief and joy and dis-
covery and love.”
And your father?
“He had already passed away. He was
Burt Lane. Who did different things at dif-
ferent times. In the textile business. Or on
a Mrs. Smith’s Pie route. Or running a live
THEATER
HEART OF THE CITY
Written by Eric Lane
Directed by Martha Banta
An Orange Thought production
Through June 28, at the Theatre at 30th Street
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(212) 868-4444, or smarttix.com.
poultry market in Harlem, Amsterdam and
125th Street. Yeah, sure, I worked there —
as a cashier; Thanksgiving and Christmases
during high school and college.”
Brooklyn-born, he grew up in Wantagh,
Long Island, “ten minutes from Jones Beach.”
College was a BA from Brown University.
He’s written about a dozen plays, and has a
whole correlative career as co-editor (with
Nina Shengold) of 11 Penguin and Vintage
volumes of other people’s plays.
I think somebody ought to put “Heart of
the City” between book covers.
34 June 24 - 30, 2009
Questioning gender, confronting fear
Tribeca sculptor conceives armor as empowering corrective
ARTIST PROFILE
BY ELENA MANCINI
Upon meeting Tribeca sculptor Linda
Stein for the first time, one is struck by
the contrast of her no-nonsense New
York spunk and the genuine warmth
of her personality. Stein was hosting a
book party at her intimate Reade Street
gallery. In a low-key, approachable style,
she gave the guests a brief introduction
of the original and compelling art work
that hung on her walls—which consisted
of life-size feminine torsos made of brass,
copper, sheet metal and wood or paper.
Some were minimalistic in both form
and matter, made from organic materials
like stone, bone and beech wood; others,
richly bejeweled and mixed into a hodge-
podge of objects drawn from the everyday
matter of post-industrial life and spiritual,
archetypal textual matter and imagery.
She called the sculpture series female
knights of protection.
Stein, who was born and raised in the
Bronx and seems as comfortable wield-
ing heavy machinery as she is handling
delicate parchment paper, is hardly the
image of stereotypical feminine vulner-
ability. Sacha Baron Cohen was quick to
find this out the hard way by inviting her
to participate in a bogus panel on third
world women’s rights for his film and title
role, “Borat.” When Stein caught on to
the travesty, she let Baron Cohen have it
and stormed off the panel.
And yet, it was her sense of dire vul-
nerability (experienced during the 9-11
attacks on the World Trade Center)
that took her in a new and unexpected
direction — from abstract to figurative
sculptor.
Stein, whose studio-gallery is located
at a stone’s throw away from Ground
Zero, was already at work when the
planes attacked the Twin Towers. Upon
hearing the sounds of the crashes, she
and a few of her assistants ran northward
holding hands to escape from what Stein
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mistakenly thought was a bomb attack on
the towers.
At the time, she also ran a premiere
calligraphy business above her gallery and
had been a Tribeca resident since the late
seventies — but was forced to relocate
to the Upper-East side for eight months.
Even though the traumatic experience
prevented her from sculpting for a full
year, the artist was determined to return
to Tribeca.
She explained that what initially
attracted her to the neighborhood three
decades ago was the fact that it had many
artists, lofts and wasn’t yet commercial-
ized. “Tribeca now has thousands of art-
ists living in its lofts and apartment spac-
es,” Stein observes. “So many celebrities.
There are more theaters and performance
spaces, and even restaurants catering to
artists.” As for the Tribeca art scene, Stein
weighs in on the gender element: “With so
many experimental artists here, I would
guess/hope that, as a demographic group,
we are more open to gender fluidity and
less prone to stereotypes and sexism than
in more conservative neighborhoods.”
Evaluating the relative merits of the
Tribeca art scene shows how far the area
has come since Stein first contemplated
moving here — when a cop helped her
overcome concerns about the gritty and
still largely under-populated area. Stein
recalls the policeman telling her, “Lady,
there’s nobody here, it’s the safest place
around.” Even though the neighborhood
has significantly gentrified since then,
Stein still loves it because of the large art
scene and the liberal mindset.
When Stein returned to making art
after 9/11, she soon discovered the need
to confront fears with symbols of empow-
erment. Describing her creative process
as being in the driver’s seat (but as the
chauffeur, not always as the conscious
and willful driver), she noted that while
her previous subjects were abstract in
character and mostly horizontal in form,
her new sculptures began to take on ver-
tical forms and to resemble human-like
Photo courtesy of Stein Studios
Linda Stein, with (K)Night Figure 470
(2004; wood, metal, leather, fiber,
stone)
figures in armor.
A passionate feminist and a member
of the respected Veterans of Feminists of
America organization, Stein had strong
reactions to what she terms as the post-
9/11 masculinization of war by the Bush
administration and expresses these in
her art. She was appalled by the gender-
stereotyping in portrayal of heroes and
victims in the media and among those in
political office.
The male images of 9/11 were predom-
inately those of strong, sacrificing heroes,
while the female faces of the attacks
consisted almost exclusively of the 9/11
victims and widows. It was as though
the service and valor of the hundreds of
female first response workers who had
risked their lives and rescued the lives of
many received virtually no recognition, let
alone the celebratory gratitude that was
directed to their male counterparts, Stein
explained.
Stein’s sculpted armor is conceived
in part as a corrective to this. Though,
it initially troubled her at first that her
sculptures seemed to invoke militancy
(Stein has been a life-long pacifist), she
came to realize that the power expressed
by her knights was not about violence or
bravado, but about strength and empow-
erment. The knights did not contradict
peace; rather, they create a relationship
of compassion between the armored and
those they seek to protect. As Stein
expanded on this idea of armor bestow-
ing the positive qualities of safety and
valor, she began to bring powerful, female
non-violent icons from her childhood,
such as Wonder Woman. Eventually, the
invocation of female power in Stein’s
work extended beyond the popular super-
heroine to include the Japanese anime
character Princess Mononoke and the
Japanese goddess of justice and compas-
sion, Kannon.
But irrespective of whichever power-
ful, peaceful icons Stein summons into
her sculptural pantheon, what seems to
matter most to the artist and gender activ-
ist is introducing a new paradigm of pro-
tection: one that is peaceful, empowering
and transcends gender.
In recent years, she has been exploring
direct, interactive contact between her
art and the public. Fascinated by the pos-
sibilities of tricking the body by optical
and sensory illusions and the empowering
psychological states that can be generated
by them, Stein has been designing her
sculptures to be both displayed and worn.
She also hopes her armor will be worn
and experienced as a possibility to escape
the male-female binary and experience
more the fluidity of gender.
Most recently, the sculptor has been
inviting the public, men and women alike
to don her armor, dance in it and expe-
rience it as a second skin. Stein aptly
calls this experience “body-swapping.”
She explains: “By wearing my sculptural
knights, men and women can body swap
genders and personas, feeling empowered
and expansive.”
At a recent body-swapping event, danc-
er Josie M. Coyoc (of Pilobolus Dance
Company) performed a graceful, ritual-
like dance to hypnotic Oriental rhythms
as she wore Stein’s sculptures and carried
a scepter in both hands. Coyoc seemed at
one with the armor and moved as though
she deeply identified with the powers of
the icons she was wearing.
Later, the women and men at the party
began to try on the armor. Some moved
around sheepishly at first, while others
immediately abandoned themselves to the
feelings and experience of standing taller,
wider and harder. Others still were happy
to simply enjoy the sensory experience
of the armor and moved as though the
armor liberated them to dance and move
expressively.
Besides admiring the aesthetic beauty
of Stein’s sculptures, Coyoc admitted to
wanting to own one of Stein’s sculptures
for practical reasons as well: “I want to
own one so that I can put it on when I
need to give a difficult speech or ask for a
raise and have no problem asking for what
I want. And I’d probably get it too.”
So, if you’re looking to experience
what it’s like to have someone have your
back, Stein’s got you covered.
Stein’s art and armor can be expe-
rienced at her 200 Read Street gallery,
year-round, by appointment. For upcom-
ing showings and events, visit her website
at http://lindastein.com.

‘Grandmother of the French New Wave’ delivers unique autobiopic
Calling into question memory, fantasy, reality
ARTIST PROFILE
BY RANIA RICHARDSON
Known as the “Grandmother of the French
New Wave,” Agnes Varda has been a prolific
director since the 1950s — when she belonged
to an artistic circle that included Francois
Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In her new
autobiographical film, “The Beaches of Agnes”
(Les plages d’Agnès) 80-year-old Varda pieces
together a cinematic scrapbook to recap her
colorful life and career.
The Villager spoke to Varda about her
film, in a small conference room above the
Film Forum theater — where “The Beaches of
Agnes” is set to screen from July 1 through 14.
Clad in purple from head-to-toe (and acces-
sorized with ethnic jewelry), her famous soup
bowl haircut is dyed red, with white roots
growing out in the shape of a cap.
“I’m an unidentified flying object,” the
petite filmmaker says in accented English,
“And so is this film. This is not reportage. It
is not a documentary. It’s not a fiction.” As an
experimental director, Varda works in both fic-
tion and nonfiction. “The Beaches of Agnes” is
a combination of both. She revisits important
places from her past — mostly beaches — and
also recreates images from memory or fantasy,
to illustrate key periods in her life.
“I included people to represent moments in
my life, not just because they are my friends,” she
says, referring to the numerous celebrities and
figures in cinema that are sprinkled throughout
the film (including her fellow Left Bank direc-
tors — Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and her late
husband, Jacques Demy). Most surprising are
clips of Gerard Depardieu and Harrison Ford,
who she filmed in their first roles.
“I see big blockbusters and enjoy them,
but I want to use cinema for something more
complex, like life,” she says. “I see cinema as a
puzzle of bringing pieces together, like a land-
scape and a face. My new film is my portrait;
an unfinished portrait, I’ll say.”
Born in Brussels in 1928 and named
“Arlette,” Varda showed a burgeoning inde-
pendent spirit at age 18 when she legally
changed her name to “Agnes” after a Greek
paternal aunt she never met.
Self-taught and unconventional, Varda
developed her unique style from a background
in still photography that followed art history
studies at the Ecole du Louvre. Her great-
est influence was the surrealist movement in
painting and writing, with its emphasis on free
association and unexpected juxtapositions. “I
was trying to make a new language and rein-
vent reality,” she says. Although her new film
had a solid art house run in her home country,
she admits that since her work is not in the
mainstream, it doesn’t make much money.
As a rare female filmmaker working since
the 1950s, Varda has no counterpart in the
United States. She says, “There were other
women working in film in France when I
began, but I was the first to fight for a new
kind of cinema. I pushed other women to
join. Now we have more. There are many
directors and editors. Not only that, but mix-
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ing and sound ladies. I pushed them. I said,
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life. In 1958, unmarried and pregnant with
her first child, she made “Diary of a Pregnant
Woman” (L’Opéra mouffe) which featured the
nude profile of a pregnant woman, decades
before Demi Moore posed for the cover of
“Vanity Fair.” Her most famous work from
1962, “Cleo from 5 to 7” (Cléo de 5 à 7) is a Written & Directed by Prisca Ouya
real time countdown of the two hours before Additional text by Benjamin Marcantoni
a woman is to learn from her doctor if she
does indeed have cancer. In 1976, she made Music by Richard Cohen, Benjamin Marcantoni, Pline & Yukio Tsuji
“One Sings, the Other Doesn’t” (L’une chante, Choreography by Prisca Ouya, Gervais Tomadiatunga,
l’autre pas) a seminal film set amidst the
nascent women’s movement in France.
Prince Dethmer Nzaba, Lungusu Malonga and Potri Ranka Manis
“I am a feminist. I believe in the struggle for June 25-28, 2009 / Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 / Sunday at 2:30
women’s rights and women’s body integrity,”
she says, and then bemoans the current back- CAST: Nasiba Abdul-Karim, Tommy Agarwal, Nia Austin-Edwards, Inderia
lash to the kind of feminism she fought for, Carr, Sheila Dabney, Alexis Doster-Pennerman, Angela K. Harmon, Aïda
exemplified by the “invasion” of pornography Issaka, Lungusu Malonga, Benjamin Marcantoni, Valois Mickens, Allon
on French television. Morgan, Rachida N’Gouamba, Deadra Renne Nelson Mason, Nayel Amira
So self-determined is the feisty director,
that in 28 years of marriage, Varda never
Nelson-Young, Prisca Ouya, Chaney Pollard, Tiffany Rose, Fitz Sam,
collaborated with her husband, who directed Rohiatou Siby, N’tifafa Akoko Tete-Rosenthal, Jojo Tosin and Kat Yew
“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” and is a key
figure in the history of cinema. “Why should
I work with him?” she asks. “I wouldn’t give La MaMa La Galleria ~ 6 East First Street NYC
TAINTED LOVE from Visual AIDS
him a screenplay until I was almost finished.”
Their only joint effort was “Jacquot,” a trib-
ute to him, based on his memoirs, and com- Curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon
pleted just after his death in 1990. In “The
Beaches of Agnes” Varda discloses for the first Featuring: Luis Camnitzer, Jose Luis Cortes, fierce pussy,
time that her husband died from AIDS. When General Idea, Gran Fury, Matt Lipps, Catherine Lord,
she hears his name, her demeanor visibly
changes. Her eyes well up and she looks down
Charles Lum, Ivan Monforte, Wu Ingrid Tsang
at her gold wedding band. “Since Jacques June 25-28, 2009 / Thursday - Sunday 1-6 pm
died, I never wear other rings,” she says.
“The Beaches of Agnes” runs July 1-14 at
Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street, www.
filmforum.org) www. THEVILLAGER .com
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KIDS
CUPCAKE KIDS JULY COOKING
CAMP Each day will focus on a different
cuisine-Italian, Mexican, Asian, Mediter-
ranean, and American. The child will learn
about the region, the foods and cooking
techniques. Students will learn about
choosing ingredients, menu planning,
basic knife skills, and how to work safely
in the kitchen. $550 for the 5-day session.
Open for children 8-13 years old. Monday
to Friday- the week of July 6th. 9:30 A.M.
to 12:30 P.M. 275 West 12th Street. 646-
789-5554 cupcakekids.com
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Preschool-
ers from 3 to 5 years old and their par-
ents/caregivers can enjoy new and classic
picture books, action songs, and related
activities and meet other preschoolers
in the neighborhood. July 1, 2 P.M. The
New York Public Library- Jefferson Mar-
ket Brach, 425 Avenue of the Americas
(212) 243-4334 www.nypl.org
KIDS AT WORK NYC-SUN SES-
SIONS Sun Sessions are fun and high-
energy music and movement classes for
children up to age 4. Two teachers, includ-
ing a live guitarist, will greet your children
a colorful 30-foot parachute under a large
shady tree for 45 minutes of music. Drop-
in: $25 per class, 4 - 7 classes: $20 per
class, 8 or more classes: $18 per class.
Regular classes run June 2-August 13.
Riverside Park, Hudson River Park and
Washington Square Park. 347-933-8293
kidsatworknyc.com
EXHIBITS
AVEDON-A COLLECTION OF FASH-
ION PHOTOGRAPHS This exhibition,
shown in memory of the Late Mr. and
Mrs. Comfort, is a extraordinary tribute to
the best in fashion photography. Through
August 28. Stanley & Wise Gallery, 560
Broadway. 212-966-6223 stanleywise.
com
THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE
(AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE
CENTURY BY LEO FITZPATRICK) This
exhibition documents the deterioration of
America at the turn of the century. The art-
ist traveled across the country 8 times to
complete his documentation of landscapes,
street corners and aging architecture.
Through July 4th. Fuse Gallery, 93 2nd Ave.
212-777-7988 or fusegallerynyc.com.
SINGING HER TO SLEEP This exhibi-
tion will present new art by Jack Long.
June 27-July 15. Opening reception for
the artist June 27, 6.30-10 P.M. Giant
Robot New York, 437 E. 9th Street
(between Ave A and 1st Ave) 212-674-
GRNY grny.net
CLAIRE SHERMAN, MARIA E.
PIÑERES AT DCKT CONTEMPO-
RARY These are two solo exhibitions:
new paintings by Claire Sherman and new
needlepoint works by Maria E. Pineres.
June 26 - August 22. Opening June 25,
6-8 P.M. DCKT Contemporary, 195 Bow-
ery. 212.741.9955 dcktcontemporary.com
MID-19TH CENTURY UNDER-
WEAR Take a peek at rarely seen
‘unmentionables’ of the 1850s and 60s,
including a lady’s chemise, corset, draw-
ers, stockings, and cage crinoline. $8
General, $5 Students & Over 65. Exhibi-
tion opens July 9th. Merchant’s House
Museum, 29 East Fourth Street. mer-
chantshouse.com
THEATER
TAMUR LENK In this play, a group of
occultists attempts to channel the spirit
of Tamburlaine, the great Turkish war-
rior “Tamur Lenk” $12. June 25-July
12. Thursday-Saturday 8 P.M. Sunday 3
P.M. Theater For The New City, 155 First
Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
212-254-1109 theaterforthenewcity.net/
tamur
THINGS OF DRY HOURS This play,
set in Depression-era Alabama, tells the
story of an African American out-of-work
Sunday school teacher and member of
the Communist Party, who life gets turned
upside down when he takes in a mysteri-
ous white factory worker on the run. $65.
CheapTix Sundays, $20.00 (all tickets
for all Sunday evening performances at
7:00pm; tickets are available in advance
and must be purchased in person.) Stu-
dent tickets, $20.00. New York Theatre
Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street www.
nytw.org 212-780-9037
TOMANDO CAFE This theatrical scrap-
book of a black Puerto Rican woman’s fam-
ily in the 1950s is told through magical real-
ism, storytelling, myth, poetry and music,
with a liberal dose of strongly brewed
coffee. Written, composed and performed
by Subway Diva Rosateresa Castro-Vargas.
General admission $12. Through June 28
Thurs.-Sat. 8 P.M Suns 3 P.M. Theater for
the New City 155 First Avenue (between
9th and 10th Streets) 212.254.1109 theater-
forthenewcity.net
WAKING UP WITH STRANGERS An
American student in Berlin analyzes
the death of Heinrich von Kleist and it
affects his life in more ways than one.
June 29-July 2. 8 P.M. $18. S12 students/
seniors. The Kraine Theater. 85 E. Fourth
St. horsetrade.info
COMEDY CENTRAL AT CRASH MAN-
SION It’s a performance that includes
standup comedy and veriety shows. $5,
June 29 ( every other Monday) Crash
Mansion, 199 Bowery, 212-982-0740
crashmansion.com
MUSIC
SUNDAY BRUNCH AT THE BLUE
NOTE JAZZ CLUB It’s a possibility to
enjoy a jazz performance and a Sunday
brunch at the same time. $24.50 includes
brunch, the show and a drink. Sundays,
12.30 and 2:30P.M, The Blue Note Jazz
Club, 131 E. 3rd St bluenote.net/newyork
MUSIC ON THE OVAL This unique out-
door summer concert series brings the
sweet sounds of rock, funk, reggae, and
soul to the famed Stuyvesant Town Oval
every Wednesday night through July 15.
Free. 7 P.M. pre-show 6 P.M. The Stuyve-
sant Town Oval- between 16th and 18th
Streets and Avenues A & B (the entrance
is off First Avenue and 16th Street) 212-
598-5296 stuytown.com
HIROMI-YOUNG WOMAN’S
BLUES A performance of Japan’s it-girl
of Jazz. $20-$30. July 1, 8:00P.M. and
10:30 P.M. The Blue Note Jazz Club, 131
E. 3rd St bluenote.net/newyork
TREVOR EXTER, STEVE WAITT AND
THE NEW YORK HOWL This performance
is a presentation of what beautiful music you
can create with the cello. July 1, 10 P.M.
18-minimum age. ( Le) Poisson Rouse, 158
Bleecker St, lepoissonrouge.com
BRASIL GUITAR DUO A performance
of one of the most critically acclaimed
guitar duos of the generation. Free tickets
available after 4 P.M, day of the show, at
the box office. June 29, 7.30 P.M. Michael
Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce
St. rivertorivernyc.com
ROB PLATH AND TONY O’NEILL- A
NIGHT OF ANARCHY It’s a night dedi-
cated to two authors, whose lives have
influenced their writings. July 8, 7-9 P.M.
KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, 212-505-3360 kgb-
bar.com
THE SHARP THINGS/SANGSARA A
double performance-two bands, whose
music sounds like you are driving along
the beach in a convertible. $12, June 29,
7 P.M. Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. joes-
pub.com 212-967-7555
FUNKBOX This is a performance by DJ
Tony Touch. You must be over 21 to enter.
$10, Sunday, 10 P.M. The Sullivan Room,
218 Sullivan St, 212-252-2151 sullivan-
room.com
MADOU SIDIKI DIABATE This lunch-
time performance of an artist highly
respected for his command of the tra-
ditional kora repertoire, combines jazz
sensibilities and foreign influences with
the Malian sound. Free. July 8. 12.30-
1.30 P.M. Zucotti Park – formerly the Lib-
You Read It...
And so did thousands
of our Readers.
THE LISTINGS
erty Plaza Park (Broadway and Liberty St)
artsworldfinancialcenter.com
EVENTS
FREE HEARING SCREENINGS AT THE
LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEAR-
ING Every Wed. from 12-2 P.M. and every
Thurs. from 4-6 P.M. Call or email to sched-
ule an appointment. LEAGUE FOR THE
HARD OF HEARING, 50 Broadway, 6th Fl.
917-305-7766, appointments@llh.org.
MIND-BODY STUDIES IN PERFORM-
ING ARTS FESTIVAL The Arts-in-
Education Division of Greenwich House
Music School offers a unique program
of Mind-Body Studies in the Performing
Arts. Participants will learn new skills
and perspectives in the area of wellness
to quickly improve technical and perfor-
mance abilities with increased flow, bal-
ance and emotional connections. $275
plus $25 registration fee. June 26-28.
Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich
House Music School, 46 Barrow Street,
For information/registration on this pro-
gram, call (212) 242-4770 or mbspafest@
gmail.com. myspace.com/mbspafest
PRIDE MEETS THE STREETS Dance,
sing along, celebrate and bring your own
lawn chair. Come by E. 4th Street for an
afternoon of rainbow kite flying for kids, a
costume shop and special events and per-
formances including: V-Love, transgender
cabaret artists, HyperGender Burlesque,
rock band, Tongue in Public, Dred, a solo
performance about gender. June 27,
3:00PM-7:00PM E. 4 Street (between 2nd
Avenue & Bowery), fabnyc.org
THE REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET
Expect and share free food, skills, music,
clothing books, other things--and fun! This
is an open participatory event. Some groups
and individuals are planning to bring and
share food, clothes, skills, music and things
and there is always space for you to do the
same. 3:00- 6:00 P.M. Judson Memorial
Church, Meeting Room- 243 Thompson St.
myspace.com/anewworldinourhearts
ADULT DODGEBALL This recreational
event takes place every Monday, 7 P.M.
Registration may be required. Phone:
You Saw It...
To advertise call 646-452-2496
(212) 242-5228, Phone 2: (212) 242-5418.
Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, 3 Clark-
son Street @ 7th Avenue South. nycgov-
parks.org/facilities/recreationcenters
NOTES ON COOKING: A SHORT
GUIDE TO AN ESSENTIAL CRAFT Lau-
ren Braun Costello, co-author of Notes on
Cooking will read from her new book and
lead a discussion of the culinary craft.
Free food samples will be served. Free.
June 23, 7:00 P.M. The Strand, 828 Broad-
way, 212-473-1452 strandbooks.com
LAST
CHANCE
SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH
NIGHT Queens Shakespeare makes its
Manhattan debut with an encore engage-
ment of it acclaimed production of Wil-
liam Shakespeare’s romantic comedy
classic. $15. Through June 27, Wednes-
day-Saturday 7 P.M., Saturday matinees
3 P.M. The Flea Theater- 41 White Street
(between Broadway & Church) 212-352-
3101 theflea.org
AND DON’T
FORGET…
35TH ANNUAL STUDENT RECITAL AT
THE NY CHINESE CULTURAL CEN-
TER Dance and art come together as
students present the traditional Red Ribbon
Dance, Ballet and Tai Chi as well as visually
inspiring Dunhuang. $20, $15 for groups 10+.
June 28, 2 P.M. BMCC Tribeca Performing
Arts Center-199 Chambers Street (between
Greenwich and West St.) For tickets call:
212-220-1460 tribecapac.org
LISTINGS REQUESTS for The Villager
may be mailed to Listings Editor at 145
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
10013-1548 or e-mailed to listingsedi-
tor@gmail.com. Please include listings
in the subject line of the e-mail and pro-
vide the date, time, location, price and a
description of the event. Information must
be received two weeks before the event
is to be published. Questions? Call 646-
452-2507.
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THE LIST
A
VIOLENT KIN

MUSIC
For years, our neighbors up north have been send-
ing us some of America’s most beloved comedians.
COMPILED BY This summer, though, they’re giving us the gift of
SCOTT STIFFLER music — in the form of a band we just might not
Scott@thevillager.com send back. Canada’s Violent Kin is moving to NYC for
the summer — and taking up residency at Fontana’s

ART (105 Eldridge Street) for a series of concerts ($7;

9:00p.m., July 1st, 8th, 15th). They’ll also perform a
July 30th Midnight show ($8 admission) at Arlene’s
Grocery (95 Stanton Street). For a sneak preview of
what you’ve been missing — and what you’re likely
to see this summer, go to www.myspace.com/violent-
kin. Access “Electrons” from their “available soon”
Photo by MakiFotos CD “Bitter Blood” and discover what deserves to be a
Canada’s loss is NYC’s gain stateside summertime hit.

Photo supplied by the artist

From Raimundo Rubio’s “Sodom & Gomorrah”

NO LONGER EMPTY
Walk the lean streets of New York these days, and you’ll see a
KING LEAR
New York Classical Theatre puts
a new spin on outdoor sum-
THEATER
mer Shakespeare productions
shocking amount of shuttered businesses — but it takes an
as they venture all the way
optimist, an opportunist or an artist to see those empty spaces
downtown to Battery Park. Their
as blank canvases. NO LONGER EMPTY is a group of curators
“King Lear” (the Bard’s vener-
and creators dedicated to presenting thought provoking exhibits
able tale of a royal family’s
in empty store fronts. Their inaugural exhibit happens at the
infighting and power grabs) is
Hotel Chelsea — which has seen its share of troubles lately
billed as “Free Theatre for All
(due more to landlord/tenant tensions than economic woes).
Ages.” To that end, they’re offer-
Temporarily taking over the spaces formerly occupied by Capitol
ing free Drama Workshops for
Fishing Tackle and Chelsea Healing, “The Ship of Fools” will
families, adults and kids ages
feature works from Chelsea Hotel residents Rita Barros, Linda
7-12 prior to the play (on June
and Lothar Troeller, and Sam Bassett — as well as some strange
25, June 30, July 2 and July
installations (such as the salt-encrusted window displays of
7. Meet inside Castle Clinton;
Raimundo Rubio). Through July 18, Wednesday through Saturday,
workshop runs from 5:00p.m.
11:00a.m to 6:00p.m.; at Hotel Chelsea, 222 West 23rd Street.
to 5:45p.m.). Then, at 7:00p.m.,
Visit www.nolongerempty.com.
enjoy “King Lear” by meeting in
front of Castle Clinton. You’ll
Photo by Miranda Arden
be led inside, where the play
Battle between Britain and France, in “King Lear”
begins. But you won’t stay put
VALERIE CAPERS for long. Every 15-20 minutes, the audience must walk to where the next scene takes place — with actors using the
The Pen and Brush castle, garden, trees, benches (and the occasional audience member) as scenery. For general Information and rainout
(Dedicated to women in info, call 212-252-4531 or visit www.newyorkclassical.org.
the visual, literary and
performing arts since
1894) hosts this perfor- SOHO AND TRIBECA
mance and awards pre- Long before the warm weather made walking in the city a plea-
sentation acknowledging surable experience, musician and sound artist Jeremy Dalmas
the work of jazz artist was hard at work creating a free MP3 musical audio tour of
Valerie Capers. Honored Soho and Tribeca. Now that summer is here, get some exercise
for her outstanding musi- while harvesting the fruits of his long labor (while learning for-
Photo by David Katzenstein
cianship, scholarship gotten and little-know information about the neighborhood). At
Valerie Capers
and performance career, tour’s end, you’ll end up at a picnic where you can hobnob with
Capers is not content to sit back and merely the artist, meet other tour-goers, work on communal art pieces,
MUSIC

accept an award. She’ll perform along with snack on homemade cookies and groove to the free sight of
TOUR
ensemble members John Robinson on bass, the setting sun. This ambient audio adventure (sponsored by
and Rudy Lawless on drums. Sunday, June 28, The Artistic Intervention Project) lasts two hours, and you can
3:00p.m. to 5:00p.m., at 16 East 10th Street. begin anytime between Noon and 5:00p.m. on June 27/28 and
Tickets are $15. For more information, visit July 4/5. Free; at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Spring
www.penandbrush.org or call 212-475-3669. Photo supplied by the artist Street. For technical information on how to take the tour, visit
Jeremy Dalmas, engaged in sidewalk solicit- www.theabsurdists.com/weknowthesecret.html.
ing (for art)
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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
PUBLIC NOTICES
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
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
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

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
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.
6/10-7/15/09
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
NOTICE OF REGISTRA-
TION OF MICHELMAN &
ROBINSON, LLP
Certificate filed with Secre-
tary of State of N.Y. (SSNY)
on 03/26/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLP upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLP, 15760
Ventura Boulevard, 5th Floor,
Encino, CA 91436. Purpose:
To engage any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
LUDLOW6 LLC
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC) filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 4/14/09.
NY Office location: New York
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC served upon him/her
to The LLC, 333 Hudson St.,
6th Fl., NY, NY 10013 General
purposes
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
ACCELAPAYMENT LLC
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC) filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 4/2/09.
NY Office location: New York
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC served upon him/
her to The LLC, 105 E. 34th
St., Ste. 163, NY, NY 10016
General purposes
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF AH 88 GREEN-
WICH LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/13/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 7/1/05. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: c/o National
Registered Agents, Inc., 875
Avenue of the Americas, Ste.
501, NY, NY 10001. Address
of the principal office: 45
Horatio St., NY, NY 10014.
Address to be maintained in
DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste.
101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Secy. Of
State, 401 Federal St., Ste 4.,
Dover, DE 19901 . Purpose:
any lawful activities.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SEG LATIGO
ADVISORS GP, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/19/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 03/31/09. Princ.
office of LLC: 590 Madison
Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
c/o Corporation Service Co.
(CSC), 80 State St., Albany,
NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,
DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State Div.
of Corps., John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NAME OF LLC: BIG SLIDE
ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State: 1/27/09. Office
loc.: NY County. Sec. of State
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served and shall
mail process to: 10 E. 75th
St., NY, NY 10021, Attn: Jer-
emy H. Schneider, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SALA ASSOCI-
ATES LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/14/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 2/27/07. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
addr.: 44 Still Rd., Ridgefield,
CT 06877, Attn: Louis Sala.
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 Fed-
eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/10-7/15/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has
been applied for by Water
Taxi Beach Governors Island
to sell beer, wine and liquor
at retail in a restaurant. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC at Governors
Island NY, NY 10004.
6/17/09 & 6/24/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #1226919 has
been applied for by Artifakt
54, Inc. to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at 54
Watts Street NY, NY 10013.
6/17/09 & 6/24/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #1226799 has
been applied for by Food 2
Lex LLC d/b/a TBD to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under
the ABC law at 2 Lexington
Avenue NY, NY 10010.
6/17/09 & 6/24/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, G748950 to be
assigned has been applied
for by the undersigned to sell
beer at retail under the Alco-
hol Beverage Control Law at
5923 7th Avenue, Brooklyn,
NY 11220 for on/off premises
consumption. Jerry Grocery
Store Inc.
Vil 6/17/09 & 6/24/09
NOOVU LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/9/09. Office
in NY Co. SSNY design.
Agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of pro-
cess to The LLC 151B Gates
Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
CAREY STRATEGIC
COMMUNICATIONS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/29/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Joseph
W. Carey Suite 12-A 211 East
53RD Street New York, NY
10022. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
FORTIUS PHYSICAL
THERAPY, PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/5/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 850
7TH Avenue Suite 406 NY,
NY 10019. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
AIRY TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/15/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 19
West 44TH Street, Suite 415
New York, NY 10001. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
DAHL LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 1/21/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 347 W.
36TH ST #1002 New York, NY
10001. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
176 CLOTHING LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/27/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 230
West 39 Street, 15 Floor New
York, NY 10018. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ASOLARE CAPI-
TAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/15/2009. Office location:
NY Co. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 5/8/2009. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to THE LLC
159 Bleecker Street, APT 4D
NY, NY 10012. DE address
of LLC: Corporation Trust
Center 1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts.
Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of
State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE
19903. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 5 GEMS LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/26/09. Office location:
NY County. Princ. office of
LLC: 145 W. 71st St., NY, NY
10023. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the princ.
office of the LLC. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF EAST 93RD
MANAGER LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
05/26/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 05/21/09. Princ.
office of LLC: 152 W. 57th St.,
60th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC at the
addr. of its princ. office. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation
Service Co., 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:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF HOBBS CIENA
DEVELOPER LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/04/09. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY,
NY 10010. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LAW OFFICES OF
ADAM R. SANDERS,
PLLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
05/29/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
PLLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the PLLC is to: Law
Offices of Adam R. Sanders,
PLLC, 419 Lafayette Street,
3rd Floor, New York, NY
10003. Purpose: To engage
in any lawful act or activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF VICEROY CONSULT-
ING LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/28/09. Office location: NY
Co. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, Attn:
Steven D Oppenheim, Esq.,
488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl.,
NY, NY 10022. Duration:
12/31/2059. Purpose: any
lawful activities.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CITY / COUNTRY
GARDENERS, LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/20/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, 200 W.
108th St., #10-A, New York,
NY 10025. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
June 24 - 30, 2009
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BROADWAY 36TH
REALTY LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
01/22/08. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: C/O Broadway
Export LLC, 57 W. 38th St.,
7th Fl., New York, NY 10018.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF RD WINTER
ASSOCIATES LLC
Application for Authority filed
with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 4/3/09.
N.Y. Office location: New
York County. LLC formed in
NJ on 2/13/2009. SSNY has
been designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. The
P.O. address to which the
SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
served upon him/her is C/O
the LLC: 41 Crestwood Drive,
Maplewwod, NJ 07040. The
Principal Business Address
of the LLC is: 41 Crestwood
Drive, Maplewwod, NJ
07040. Purpose of LLC: Mod-
eling Agency.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DIANNE B. COSMET-
ICS DISTRIBUTION LLC
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 5/6/09.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY has been designated
as an agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served, and the Secretary of
State shall mail a copy of any
process against the company
served upon him or her to
c/o Larry Kramer CPA. The
name and address in NY of
the company’s registered
agent upon whom process
against the company may be
served is Larry Kramer CPA,
575 Madison Avenue, 10th
Floor, NY, NY 10022. Pur-
pose: To engage in any law-
ful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF ANSON
STREET LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/29/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 625 Pilot Rd., Ste.
4, Las Vegas, NV 89119. LLC
formed in DE on 4/17/07. 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: 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:
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that license number 1226660
has been applied for by the
undersigned to sell liquor at
retail in a restaurant under
the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
trol Law at 110 John Street
a/k/a 3-5 Platt Street, New
York, N.Y. 10038 for on-prem-
ises consumption. 110 JOHN
STREET PUB INC.
Vil 6/17/09 & 6/24/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that license number 1220448
has been applied for by the
undersigned to sell wine at
retail in a restaurant under
the alcoholic beverage
control law at 271 Bleecker
Street, New York, N.Y. 10014
for on-premises consump-
tion. KESTE GROUP LLC
Vil 6/17/09 & 6/24/09
39
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF FRENCH BULL LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/11/02. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 161 E. 61st St., NY,
NY 10065. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF GLOBAL BIO-
FUND GP, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/25/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 2/23/09. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 787
Seventh Ave., 48th Fl., NY,
NY 10019. DE address of LLC:
Stellar Corporate Services
LLC, 3500 South DuPont
Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Secy.
of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HERSHEY
STRATEGIC CAPITAL, LP
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/20/09. Office location: NY
County. LP formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 5/15/09. SSNY
designated as agent of LP
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: 660 Madison
Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10021.
DE address of LP: Stellar
Corporate Services LLC, 3500
South DuPont Hwy., Dover,
DE 19901. Name/address of
each genl. ptr. available from
SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with
DE Secy. of State, Townsend
Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF OPTIMAL ASSET
SOLUTIONS LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
5/8/09. Office location: New
York County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: c/o The LLC, 600
Lexington Avenue, 4th Fl.,
New York, NY 10022, Attn:
Andrew Jones. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF MOULTON
POINT CAPITAL LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/12/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 5/4/09. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: 40 E. 78th
St., #10-C, NY, NY 10075. DE
address of LLC: 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
Secy. of State, 401 Federal
St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/17-7/22/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by La Lucha LLC
to sell beer only at retail in a
restaurant. For on premises
consumption under the ABC
law at 147 Avenue A NY, NY
10009.
Vil 6/24/09 & 7/1/09
40 June 24 - 30, 2009
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NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Piedmont
Hospitality LLC d/b/a Sorella
to sell beer, wine and liquor
at retail in a restaurant. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC law at 95
Allen Street NY, NY 10002.
Vil 6/24/09 & 7/1/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Citrine Lounge
LLC to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at 676
6th Avenue a/k/a 59 West 21st
Street NY, NY 10010.
Vil 6/24/09 & 7/1/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
That a license, #1223826
has been applied for by the
undersigned to sell liquor at
retail in restaurant / bar under
the Alcohol Beverage Con-
trol Law 95-16 Astoria Blvd.,
East Elmhurst, NY 11369 for
on-premises consumption.
95-16 El Sombrero Corp.
Vil 6/24/09 & 7/1/09
NAME: SHAH COMMU-
NICATIONS L.L.C.
Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State
of NY 01/08/09. Off. Loc.: New
York Co. Kamal Shah desig-
nated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy
of process to THE LLC C/O
Kamal Shah, 292 Fifth Ave-
nue, 4th Flr., NY, NY 10001.
Purpose: Any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
FIFTH AVENUE MAINTE-
NANCE LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/2/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to C/O Business
Filings Incorporated 187 Wolf
Road, STE. 101. Purpose:
Any lawful activity. Regis-
tered Agent: Business Filings
Incorporated 187 Wolf Road,
STE. 101 Albany, NY 12205.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
BP PANAMA LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/14/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 320
West 13TH Street, Suite 7B
New York, NY 10014. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF AULIS & CO., LLC
Cert. of Conversion filed
with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 05/15/09, convert-
ing AULIS & CO. to AULIS
& CO., LLC. Office location:
NY County. Princ. office of
LLC: 345 Park Ave., 5th Fl.,
NY, NY 10154. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Corporation Ser-
vice Co., 80 State St., 6th Fl.,
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF RESIDENTIAL
TELEVISION PRODUC-
TIONS LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/08/09. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 05/13/09.
Princ. office of LLC: 320 Roe-
bling St., #126, Brooklyn, NY
11211. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to Kathy A. Hobbs at the
princ. office of the LLC. DE
addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CAPE SAG ELITE
ASSOCIATES, LLC
Arts of Org., filed with NY
Sec. of State (“SSNY”)
04/15/2009. Office in New
York County; SSNY desig-
nated agent for service of
process with copy mailed to
Attn: Thomas J. Malmud,
Esq., Pryor Cashman LLP, 410
Park Avenue, 10th Floor, New
York, NY 10022, All lawful
business purposes.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PEACELOVE 1 LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
05/08/09. 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: Peace-
Love 1 LLC, Darada David,
206 East 87th Street Apt.
5B, NY 10128.Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: 603
ASSOCIATES, LLC
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 07/10/08. The latest date
of dissolution is 12/31/2108.
Office location: New York
County. SSNY has been des-
ignated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to
the LLC, 210 East 86th Street,
Suite 603, New York, New
York. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SANCUS CAPI-
TAL ADVISORS LLC
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 5/12/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC org.
in DE 5/8/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Attn: Olga
Chernova, 111 Wooster St.,
Apt. 6B, NY, NY 10012. 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 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF CRISPIN
CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY
FUND, L.P.
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 5/22/09. Office
location: NY County. LP org.
in DE 5/21/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to Attn:
Michael Cahill, 375 Park Ave.,
Ste. 1305, NY, NY 10152. 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 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF FIVE OTHER TEN
CONDOMINIUM LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/12/09. 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, 503 W. 27th
St., #4, NY, NY 10001. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 323 CONSULTING,
LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
04/08/09. 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, 10 W. End
Ave., Ste. 31B, NY, NY 10023.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NY ELIZABETH PROP-
ERTIES LLC
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 4/30/09.
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, 87 Elizabeth
St. #4D, New York, NY 10013.
Purpose: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
Villager photo by Isaac Rosenthal
were also offering free cookies.
NOTICE OF QUALIFI- NOTICE OF FORMATION
CATION OF EARL OF OF DIVINE CONSULT-
SANDWICH (350 PARK),
ING, LLC
LLC
Application of Author- Arts. of Org. filed with NY
ity filed with Secretary of Dept. of State on 5/28/09.
State of New York (SSNY)
Office location: NY County.
on 12/3/2008. Office loca-
Sec. of State designated as
tion: NY County. Principal
business address: 6052 Tur- agent of LLC upon whom
key Lake Road, Orlando, FL process against it may be
32819. LLC formed in Florida
served and shall mail pro-
(FL) on 11/12/2008. SSNY has
cess to the principal business
been designated as an agent
upon whom process against address: 254 W. 31st St., 10th
the LLC may be served. The Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose:
address to which SSNY shall any lawful activity.
mail a copy of any process
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, c/o Earl of Sandwich,
6052 Turkey Lake Road, NOTICE OF FORMATION
Orlando, FL 32819. Purpose:
OF GIRONA CAPITAL,
any lawful act or activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09 LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
NOTICE OF FORMATION
of State of NY (SSNY) on
OF DIVINE STRATEGIES,
5/26/09. Office location: NY
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY County. SSNY designated as
Dept. of State on 5/28/09. agent of LLC upon whom
Office location: NY County.
process against it may be
Sec. of State designated as
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
agent of LLC upon whom
cess to: The LLC, Attn: Jef-
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro- frey Ravetz, 498 West End
cess to the principal business Avenue, Unit 7-A, NY, NY
address: 254 W. 31st St., 10th
10024. Purpose: any lawful
Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose:
activity.
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09 Vil 6/24-7/29/09
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At left, the new Cooper Square Hotel rises high above the Bowery. At right, a map showing how the Bowery’s east side has been excluded from protective zoning districts.
BAN group plans to keep Bowery building boom at bay
Continued from page 1
The city has previously recognized the
historic significance of the Bowery by
protecting the west side of the boulevard
in the Special Little Italy District and the
Noho Historic District.
“The east side of Bowery should be
rezoned or it will become a wall of out-
of-scale luxury development that would
undermine the protective zoning in the
surrounding communities,” Sawaryn
said.
Last year’s 111-block East Village/
Lower East Side rezoning protected the
area just east of Bowery, but the east side
of the street itself was left out.
“We tried to get the east side included,
but it didn’t happen,” Sawaryn said.
“We felt it was important to preserve
the wholesale lighting, restaurant-supply
and jewelry businesses that remain on the
Bowery,” said Mitchell Grubler, a member
of BAN. “Rezoning was the only way to
do that before those businesses are forced
out by expensive high-rise development.”
Sawaryn noted that when the East
Village and Lower East Side were
rezoned, Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber
issued a letter calling for consultation
among the Department of City Planning,
Bowery neighbors and Councilmember
Alan Gerson, who represents the area, to
develop new zoning for the corridor along
the east side of the Bowery. Gerson told
the June 16 forum he intended to support
new zoning for the street’s unprotected
east side.
Diether developed the BAN plan as an
unpaid volunteer.
“It was simple. I just brought the pro-
visions of the Special Little Italy District
from the west side to the east side of
Bowery,” Diether said. She noted that 85
percent of the buildings on the street’s
east side already conform to the proposed
new zoning.
Other provisions brought from the
west side of Bowery to the east side
include 60 percent lot coverage for resi-
dential buildings and 70 percent lot cov-
erage for commercial buildings, which,
however, may cover the entire lot on the
ground floor.
Residential conversion of commercial
space would not be allowed except by
special permit by City Planning. But if
a commercial building had been occu-
pied as residential on Sept. 1, 1980,
City Planning could waive some require-
ments after review by the city Office of
Economic Development.
BAN has come up with 15 buildings of
special significance between Canal and E.
Ninth Sts. that it hopes will have protec-
tion against demolition under the new zon-
ing. Two of those buildings — 97 Bowery
at Hester St. and 357 Bowery between
E. Third and E. Fourth Sts. — were
calendared for Landmarks Preservation
Commission hearings this week.
Also of special significance are many
19th-century and early 20th-century
buildings from the days when “Bowery”
was a byword for louche entertainment.
The building at 101 Bowery, built in
1870, was Worth’s Museum of Living
Curiosities; 135 Bowery is a vacant
Federal-style building dating from about
1809 that has served as a hotel and in
1890 as Red, White and Blue, a gambling
den; 161 Bowery between Broome and
Delancey Sts. was built in 1895.
The Lower East Side’s German immi-
grant heritage is represented by 185
Bowery, a four-story building on the north
side of Delancey St. that was a location
of Germania Bank, which also built the
palazzo-style building at 215 Bowery on
the north side of Rivington St.
At 219-221 Bowery between Rivington
and Stanton Sts. is the Alabama, a Bowery
flophouse since 1967. It was built in the
19th century to a design by James Ware
as a hotel.
The Bowery Mission has occupied 227
Bowery since 1908. Built in 1879 between
Rivington and Stanton Sts., it has a
large stained-glass window on the second
floor. Bowery Mission also occupies 229
Bowery, built in 1840.
The much-altered building at 313-
315 Bowery was originally a hotel but it
was the home of the famed CBGB music
club until recently. The building at 319
Bowery, built in 1899 by Julius Blackwell
as a cigar factory and converted in 1926
as the Holy Name Mission, in 1962
became the Amato Opera, which closed
earlier this month.
Still existing in the shadow of the
23-story Cooper Square Hotel, nearing
completion, is a 19th-century row house,
which was review by L.P.C. but denied
landmark designation.
The St. Mark’s Hotel at 73 Bowery on
the south side of St. Mark’s Pl. was the
former Valencia Hotel and was the home
of the Five Spot jazz cafe. The Greek-
revival style building 23 Third Ave. on
the north side of St. Mark’s Pl. is also on
BAN’s proposed list of buildings of spe-
cial significance.
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