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C.B. 2 chairperson
forcefully answers
hospital haranguers
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
At what point does
the reality sink in that St.
Vincent’s Hospital is gone
and that the Village, unfor-
tunately, likely won’t be get-
ting a replacement hospital
with an E.R. anytime soon?
For activist Yetta Kurland
and the Coalition for a New
Village Hospital, the answer
is — not yet.
Kurland and her die-hard
coalition members turned
out at Community Board
2’s full board meeting last
Thursday to keep up the
pressure for a new hospi-
tal to replace St. Vincent’s,
which closed half a year ago
under a massive $1 billion
debt.
Speaking during C.B.
2’s public session, coalition
members pleaded, demand-
ed, vented, cursed and
painted doomsday scenarios
of what will happen if there
isn’t a new hospital in the
Village.
Countering Kurland and
the coalition’s charges that
Continued on page 10

See ya later C6-1;

Photo by Tequila Minsky
New rezonings O.K.’d
The man behind the masks
Haitian master mask maker Didier Civil has been busy constructing masks and puppets for Sunday’s Greenwich
for East and West
Village Halloween Parade, which will feature giant puppets Baron Samdi and Gran Brigette. See Page 18. BY ALBERT AMATEAU W. 10th and W. 12th Sts.,
The City Council on imposes height limits of 80
Wednesday approved two feet on new construction,

Rebel with a constant cause: new development and

land-use regulations, one
for the Far West Village
and the other for the
and eliminates a current
bonus for commercial uses,
such as hotels, provided in
the district’s previous zon-

Memories of Michael Shenker Third and Fourth Aves.

BY SARAH FERGUSON
Here are the images that flashed
in my brain the day I learned that
squat “godfather” Michael Shenker had
died:
Michael in a Santa Claus hat, lean-
ing out the window of a vacant apart-
ment above Life Cafe where he and
some homeless guys had staged a one-
day squat to protest the warehousing of
apartments around Tompkins Square,
screaming “Merry Christmas!” to the
cops and media, “Housing should be
free!”
Michael in a sombrero hat waving
at the cameras from one of the broken-
out windows in the old glass factory on
Avenue D, as a cavalcade of cops and
fire engines bore down on the building,
exhorting, “It’s beautiful up here, I can
feel revolution in the air!”
Or was that what he was yelling
from the fire escape of his former squat
on E. Eighth St. back in 1989, during
that infamous protest when buckets
of piss were poured on the cops and
city workers to stave off the building’s
demolition?
Or when he was holed up in that
ABC Community Center on E. Fourth
St. and Judith Malina of the Living
Theatre and Joseph Papp of the Public
Theater crossed police lines to deliver
sandwiches that Shenker hauled up in
a bucket?
The details of each episode have
corridor of the East
Village, intended to pro-
ing.
The Third and Fourth
Aves. corridor rezoning,
blurred, but the image of Michael — tect the character of the which covers parts of eight
exhilarated, giddy even, in his defiance two neighborhoods. blocks bounded by E. 13th
— is the same. The Far West Village St. on the north, E. Ninth St.
As I’ve wandered the East Village rezoning, which covers parts on the south, Fourth Ave.
the last few weeks, attending one of six blocks bounded by
Shenker memorial after another, these Washington, Greenwich, Continued on page 9
images keep coming — quick screen-
shots of a man who lived a life of
protest and struggle — Michael shout-
ing and screaming but always quick to
KOCH PEERS INTO
smile, crack a joke, seeking humor in ‘HEREAFTER’
even the most desperate situations. PAGE 26
I don’t mourn him as a close friend
but as a trickster presence I always
thought would be here on the Lower
EDITORIAL,
East Side. Because, as a writer, I grew LETTERS’
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SCOOPY’S some instances, we think it is wise for there to be a pres-

ence from our Public Safety Department.”

NOTEBOOK ED GOLD MEMORIAL: A memorial for the late

Community Board 2 member and early V.I.D. stalwart Ed
Gold will be held on Sun., Nov. 14, starting at 1 p.m.,
at N.Y.U. Law School’s Greenberg Lounge in Vanderbilt
SALUTING THE Hall, on Washington Square South, between MacDougal
FLAGS: There’s no lon- and Sullivan Sts. Council Speaker Christine Quinn will
Home of the NFL Sunday Ticket, ger any excuse for not
knowing where Hudson
present a Council proclamation to representatives of
N.Y.U. and Columbia Journalism School at the service,
College Football, Premier League Square is, at least not which are major beneficiaries of scholarship bequests.
Soccer, MLB Playoffs + World Series when you’re actually Speakers will start at 1:30 p.m.
Private Party Room avail. / happy hour 4 -7 Mon. - Fri. in it. The Hudson
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SUNDAY
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PLAN B: L.E.S. Slacktivist John Penley has made a
Mon-Sat 11-7 • Thurs ’ t il 8pm • Sun 11-6
slight change of plans for the finale of his Halloween eve-
ning “protest/fiesta” in Tompkins Square Park. Angered
by a recent Community Board 3 resolution seeking to
regulate amplified punk rock concerts in the park, Penley
FLOORING & RENOVATIONS? and others at the rally will ask the question, “Whose
park?” except they will insert some choice adjectives in
between “whose” and “park.” The protest will start at 7
• Installation, Repair & p.m. Penley had originally announced that at midnight
“we will go to the apartment of the person behind this.”
Sanding of Wood Floors (Burning torches were optional.) But he said a female
• Finished Carpentry Work friend who puts on performances in the park dissuaded
him from going to the apartment in question because it
• Built in cabinets & Kitchens will be late at night and the person is a woman. “Contrary
to public opinion, when people give me advice, I actually
Senan Clancy Contracting listen to it,” Penley said. Instead, Vlad Teichberg will do
another “culture jam” projection, beaming images onto
917-549-5518 a nonresidential building located somewhere around the
clancy62@optonline.net park’s perimeter. Doing projections onto a residential
building could technically be construed as harassment,
Penley said. The images will be a history of the neighbor-
hood, he said, including shots of Tompkins Square Park,
housing issues, squatters and the 1988 park riot.

FIG(URING) NEWTON: So, we were asking ourselves,

why WAS Jeremiah Newton evicted from his office at
New York University with the indignity of having the
school’s security guards watching over him? Scoopy
reported last month how Newton, an executive board
member of the Stonewall Veterans Association and a
producer of the new film about Warhol superstar Candy
Darling, had so rudely received the boot. John Beckman,
N.Y.U.’s spokesperson, provided an answer, sort of. IN THE HEART OF GREENWICH VILLAGE
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POLICE BLOTTER
Graffiti writer slain
A dispute between two graffiti writers
over a woman ended with the stabbing
death of one of them around 5:30 a.m.
Mon., Oct. 25, in the second-floor stair-
way at 272 E. Seventh St.
The suspect, Jairo Pastoressa, 25,
turned himself in to Ninth Precinct police
and was arraigned on a second-degree
murder charge on Tuesday. He was in jail
in lieu of $5,000 bail pending a Fri., Oct.
29, court appearance, said a spokesper-
son for the Manhattan district attorney.
The victim, Christopher Jusko, 21,
of 882 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, was
pronounced dead at the scene after hav-
ing been slashed in the neck and stabbed
in the back, police said. Pastoressa, a
resident of the Seventh St. building, had
issued a challenge over the phone to the
victim and was waiting for him when he
arrived, according to prosecutors at the
Tuesday arraignment.
Pastoressa had an 8-inch kitchen knife
while Jusko was unarmed and did not
physically threaten Pastoressa, according
to police. But Pastoressa’s lawyer, Spiro
Ferris, said the defendant may have acted
in self-defense and asked that he be placed
on suicide watch while in jail, according
to a Daily News item. Police were waiting
to question the woman who was believed
to have witnessed the stabbing.
Jusko, who frequented E. Seventh St.
in recent years, and Pastoressa were mem-
bers of the same graffiti crew, neighbors
said. According to reports, Pastoressa
was an “apprentice” to Antonio “Chico”
Garcia, the legendary Lower East Side
graffiti muralist. A call to Chico was not
returned by press time.
Stanton St. gunfire
Photo by Jessy Dunn
Two men and a woman were hit in The body of stabbing victim Christopher
a hail of gunfire on Stanton St. near Jusko lay on E. Seventh St. on Monday
Attorney St. around 9 p.m. Tues., Oct. morning during the crime-scene
27. Police did not release the names of investigation. At right, suspect Jairo
the victims, a woman, 53, found lying on Pastoressa was arraigned in court on
the sidewalk in front of a liquor store at Tuesday on a second-degree murder
183 Stanton St., and a man, 43, whom charge.
police found lying in the intersection.
The other man, 35, also not named, was had not been apprehended at press time,
found later in a doorway. They were might have been arguing with one or
taken to the hospital in stable condition. more of the victims before the shooting
Police said later that the suspect, who started. A witness said that she heard
six shots being fired, prompting several
passersby to run for cover, according to
a New York Times item. Another wit-
ness said he heard a car speeding away
after the shots, the Daily News reported.
Police did not say what might have pro-
voked the shooting.

14th St. gun slay Photo by Jefferson Siegel

Patrons of the crowded diner at 109 W.

14th St. just west of Sixth Ave. ducked
for cover when a gunman fired five shots
into the back and head of a Brooklyn man
around 4:45 a.m. Sat., Oct. 23.
The victim, Corey Scott, 28, with three
bullet wounds in his back and two in his
head, was declared dead at the scene. Scott
had been arrested in 2004 on murder and
robbery charges, but was acquitted. He
was stabbed in 2007 in Fusion, a W. 28th
St. club, and served a year in prison for a
2008 robbery, according to a New York
Post item.
The Good Stuff Diner is popular with
revelers on their way home after clubbing
in Chelsea and the Flatiron District.
Surveillance videos from the diner show
the victim arriving with a group of friends
and confronting another group sitting in
the back, according to the Daily News.
One member of the other group stood
up and Scott confronted him. After the
shots were fired, the other group and the
shooter fled from the diner, according to
the item. There were no arrests by press
time Wednesday.
Village View raid
Police raided an apartment at 430 E. Sixth
St. in the Village View co-op complex around
1 p.m. Wed., Oct. 26, a witness said. The offi-
cers, clad in protective gear, removed several
items from the building. Police were unable to
give any further information by press time.
Manholes blow
Two Con Edison manholes on E. Ninth St.
at First Ave. exploded around 12:40 p.m. Tues.,
Oct. 26, and left more than 200 customers
without electricity for several hours. The service
was restored by early evening, Con Ed said.
Soho assault
During an argument between two home-
Continued on page 9
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Critical Mass of cash for 83 arrested bicyclists
BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Eighty-three cyclists arrested between
2004 and 2006 during Critical Mass rides
won a $965,000 settlement of a federal law-
suit last week.
The settlement of the civil wrongful
arrest action, which did not include rid-
ers arrested during the 2004 Republican
National Convention, means the 83 cyclists
will receive awards of from $500 to $35,000.
Their lawyers, David B. Rankin and his firm,
Rankin & Taylor, along with Gideon Oliver
and Rose Weber, will share $550,000.
Although Time’s Up!, the environmental
direct action group that publicizes Critical
Mass rides, hailed the settlement as a victory,
Barbara Ross, a plaintiff and Time’s Up!
spokesperson, said the Police Department
continues to show up in disproportionate
numbers at the monthly rides that start at
Union Square.
“In October 2004 over 700 police were
assigned to just one Critical Mass ride,” Ross
said. “The pattern continues even though
they haven’t been making arrests recently.
The number of officers intimidating riders
— including scooters, unmarked cars and
police making videos — often exceed the
number of riders.”
Ross said Critical Mass cyclists obey regu-
lations on lights and front and rear reflectors
on their bikes, and stop at red lights.
“Police persist in mischaracterizing us as
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The rides that take place the last Friday
of each month currently attract 20 to 40
cyclists depending on weather. The rides
have no leaders or set route and generally
last no more than an hour and a half, Ross
said.
This Friday’s Halloween Critical Mass
ride could attract as many as 60 cyclists,
weather permitting, Ross said. Ross was
arrested in a February 2005 ride and made
11 court appearances before all charges
against her were dismissed in April 2006.
“Mayor Bloomberg’s tacit endorsement of
Ray Kelly’s anti-biking policing is out of step
with the mayor’s stated support for a safe
environment for cyclists,” added Brandon
Neubauer, another plaintiff.
Nevertheless, Bill DiPaola, Time’s Up!
director, said the settlement, signed by fed-
eral Judge P. Kevin Castel, was “a victory
for a wide range of cyclists who realize the
potential for a safer, more bicycle-friendly
city and who keep on riding in the face of
years of unjustified harassment and arrests
by N.Y.P.D.”
In a prepared statement, a city Law File photo by Jefferson Siegel
Department spokesperson said the settle- Sharon Blythe, five months pregnant, being arrested at the August 2005 Critical
ment “is in the best interest of all parties.” Mass ride. Her father, Art D’Lugoff, the late Village Gate impresario, was furious at
The statement noted the arrests occurred the police over the arrest, saying she had respected all laws.
before parading-without-a-permit regula-
tions were amended to define a parade as 50 challenge to the Police Department’s effort or selectively enforce that regulation, and
or more persons. to police Critical Mass bike rides, ruling any other bicycle-related offenses, against
“Since that amendment, a federal district that the parade regulation is constitution- Critical Mass riders,” the Law Department
judge has resolutely rejected a broad-based al and that the city does not improperly statement said.
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POLICE BLOTTER
less men at the corner of Thompson and
Bleecker Sts. around midnight Thurs., Oct.
21, one of them hit the other over the head
with a bottle. Steve Johnson, 51, told police
he thought the victim, 61, was about to pull
a knife. Johnson was charged with second-
degree assault.
Basement plantation
Police raided 127 Rivington St. near
Essex St. around 11:41 p.m. Mon., Oct. 18,
and found 446 marijuana plants, eight grow-
ing lamps and three water chillers in the
Height caps for 3rd/4th Aves. and also in Far West Village
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on the west and Third Ave. on the east,
establishes contextual zoning with maximum
allowable building heights on new construc-
tion. However, the rezoning allows higher
residential density if a developer elects to
accept an “inclusionary zoning” bonus in
exchange for providing permanently afford-
able housing in the project.
The Council’s action on Tuesday came
as a relief to West Village preservation
advocates who feared the development of
properties at 145 Perry St., at the corner of
Washington St., and at 685 Washington St.,
between Charles and Perry Sts.
“Miraculously, the two rezonings will
be taking effect without any new develop-
ment slipping in under the wire since they
were first officially proposed,” said Andrew
Berman, executive director of the Greenwich
Village Society for Historic Preservation.
The property at 145 Perry St. was pro-
posed more than a year ago for a hotel and
townhouses under the location’s previous
C6-1 zoning. Although the site is within
the Greenwich Village Historic District,
the existing buildings’ demolition was
approved because the city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission found that the
current buildings and lots on the site did
not make a significant contribution to the
historic district.
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declared not a significant contribution to the
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Quest, 45, a resident of 153 Norfolk St. who
rented the Rivington St. basement, to return
to the basement plantation and arrested him
for criminal possession and criminal sale of
marijuana.
Murder sentence
Michael Chin Lenahan, 31, was sen-
tenced to 19 years to life in prison on Fri.,
Oct. 22, for the October 2007 murder of
his girlfriend, Lorna Santiago, in the apart-
ment in Confucius Plaza on Bowery between
development under the old zoning more
than a year ago.
“G.V.S.H.P. reached out to the city and
local elected officials a year and a half ago
to ask for the area to be rezoned,” Berman
said. “It took a year before the city even
began to act.”
The new C6-1A zoning will impose height
limits on new development of between 40
feet and 65 feet at the street wall, with a
total height limit of 80 feet after setbacks. In
addition, a bonus for commercial and com-
munity facilities development is eliminated
under the new zoning, and the overall bulk,
aside from height, is nearly 40 percent less
than it would have been under the old zon-
ing, Berman said.
The Third and Fourth Aves. corridor pro-
posal, developed by Community Board 3 with
the Department of Housing Preservation and
Development and the support of elected
officials, replaces the old C6-1 zoning with
a new C6-2A.
Almost all the existing buildings conform
to the new zoning’s height and bulk limits,
except for the 26-story building constructed
under the old zoning on E. 12th St. between
Third and Fourth Aves. and purchased by
New York University earlier this year for
$134 million as a student dormitory.
Although the maximum F.A.R. (floor
area ratio) for new residential development
is higher in the new zoning to encourage
developers to include permanently afford-
able housing, the new zoning establishes
street wall heights and a maximum building
height of 120 feet, compared to the old zon-
409 E 14th St., Suite A
(Near 1st Ave.)
Canal and Division Sts. where he lived with
his grandmother. Lenahan was convicted of
killing the victim and hiding her body under
a pile of clothes where his mother found it a
few days later and called police.
Health-accounts hijinks
A former employee of Continuum Health
Partners’ billing office on Water St. was
arrested Mon., Oct. 11, for stealing a total
of $9,000 from more than 100 credit card
accounts that he opened using information
he gathered while working at the office, a
spokesperson for the Manhattan district
attorney said. Eric Wolfe, 36, was being
held in lieu of bail pending a Nov. 11 court
appearance. Investigators looking into the
thefts, between Aug. 24 and Sept. 8, traced
them to the computer terminal where Wolfe
worked when he was employed by the office,
ing, which had no street wall requirements
or maximum heights.
Speaking of the Third and Fourth Aves.
corridor zoning, Berman said, “The rezoning
will ensure that nothing like the 26-story
N.Y.U. mega-dorm on E. 12th St. will ever
be built in this area again.”
Berman recalled that the corridor rezon-
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which bills patients of Beth Israel and St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt hospitals and the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Wolfe was in
jail in lieu of $50,000 bail pending a Nov. 3
court appearance.
Designer fraud
Police arrested Daniel Burns, 22, around
4 p.m. Fri., Oct. 22, at the Jeffrey store, 449
W. 14th St. in the Meat Market district, and
charged him with grand larceny for trying
to pay for a bag, a long wool scarf and a
Chanel wallet with a total value of $4,520
with an American Express card that was not
his. In addition to the card, the suspect had
a Maryland driver’s license that was not his,
bearing the same name as on the credit card,
police said.
Alber t Amateau
ing, first proposed in 2006 with C.B. 3, was
not included in the 2008 East Village rezon-
ing, despite being supported by Manhattan
Borough President Scott Stringer.
“But with the help of Councilmember
Rosie Mendez, the city relented in 2009 and
agreed to support the zoning change for the
corridor,” Berman said.
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C.B. 2 chairperson responds to hospital haranguers

Vincent’s. I implore the board not to follow
Continued from page 1 suit,” he said, referring to the Mafia’s “code
of silence.”
the board hasn’t advocated strongly enough Gaylord said not having a full-service
for a hospital, later in the meeting, C.B. hospital in the Village puts the population
2 Chairperson Jo Hamilton read aloud a at risk for numerous diseases, rattling off a
lengthy, three-and-a-half-page statement. lengthy list, including cholera, polio, swine
She chronologically listed all the work the flu, bird flu, West Nile Virus — “and things
board has done on the issue, starting with that we don’t know about yet.”
holding public hearings on St. Vincent’s Another speaker declared, “Right now
planned rebuilding plan, then trying to keep in France people are taking to the streets.
St. Vincent’s from closing, and then respond- We need to take to the streets over St.
ing to that loss. Vincent’s!” he exhorted, as coalition mem-
“I do want to remind you that Community bers applauded their support.
Board 2 has been leading on this issue since Quoting Yogi Berra, lifelong Villager
2007,” Hamilton stressed. Yet, she added, Thomas Cahill declared of the struggle for
the board’s recommendations are only advi- a hospital, “It ain’t over till it’s over. Believe
sory, so its powers are limited. me, this ain’t over!”
Hamilton later said she felt the statement A woman whose first name was Pamela
— which she read during her “chairperson’s expressed indignation that the state is work-
report” segment of the meeting — was need- ing on a plan to bring Off-Track Betting out
ed because community board members have of bankruptcy but the government didn’t bail
told her they’re “confused” by the quixotic out St. Vincent’s.
coalition’s incessant demands on the board. “All the elected officials, they’re not
Kurland, in her remarks at the meeting, returning my calls. Does anybody give a f---?”
stated accusingly that there hasn’t been a she said angrily.
meeting of the C.B. 2 St. Vincent’s Omnibus Evette Stark held up a Xeroxed copy of
Committee “for literally three months,” and this newspaper’s editorial from last week’s
asked why that was. Photo by Lincoln Anderson
issue, entitled “Healthcare realities,” which
She further asked the board what action argued that it’s, unfortunately, futile to keep
An ambulance stripped of its St. Vincent’s Hospital decals parked on W. 12th St.
it has taken to reach out to the city’s Law calling for a new hospital given the current
near Seventh Ave. Like the rest of the former hospital’s property, the ambulances
Department for assistance in getting a com- state of healthcare and the economy.
are being sold off to help satisfy St. Vincent’s $1 billion debt.
munity committee involved in the Bankruptcy “I just want to know why Community
Board 2 put this out,” Stark asked of the
Court process that is determining the fate of editorial. “It seems to be an attack on the
the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus coalition. ... It’s very strange.”
on Seventh Ave. at 12th St.; that point Hamilton later said C.B. 2 did not distrib-
was part of a resolution C.B. 2 passed in ute the editorial, but that the board invites
August that was drafted by board member people to leave informational material on the
17th Annual Race to Deliver Arthur Schwartz with Kurland’s support.
The August resolution also included what
table in the back of the meeting room, noting
that’s one of the board’s functions.
Kurland touts as a “land lock” provision In her chairperson’s report, Hamilton
also noted how C.B. 2 had held firm in sup-
port of St. Vincent’s when many Villagers,
opposed to the hospital’s rebuilding plans,
‘There’s a lot were saying it should relocate out of the
neighborhood.
of misinformation being “We have used every mechanism avail-
able to a community board, limited as our
circulated by people who powers are,” Hamilton said in her statement.
“We have held public hearings (in fact the
God’s Love We Deliver came late to the fight.’ only public hearings), written resolutions,
emcee’d rallies, written letters, met with
Jo Hamilton healthcare professionals and reached out to
the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of
Commerce to gauge the impact of the clo-

MILEWALKRUNAMs+IDS&UN2UNSTARTSATAM sure of St. Vincent’s on local businesses.
for the hospital property, but which C.B. 2 “We have been consistent and strong in
November 21, 2010 - Central Park Chairperson Hamilton has called “a made-up our position that we need a full-service hos-
word — a meaningless phrase.” The August pital. Nobody needs to tell us how to lead!
Help us continue to provide meals and nutrition counseling to men, women resolution, Hamilton said, merely reaffirmed “Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinfor-
and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-altering illnesses. the board’s support for a hospital at the St. mation being circulated by people who have
Vincent’s site. come late to the fight,” she said.
“Let’s be clear on this — we have not As for engaging with Bankruptcy Court
www.racetodeliver.org locked the land,” Hamilton re-emphasized at
last week’s meeting. “There is no such thing
about the St. Vincent’s property, Hamilton said
C.B. 2 has consulted with bankruptcy lawyers
in zoning.” who explained that since the board isn’t a credi-
“I implore you to continue the St. Vincent’s tor, it has no standing in the case. Nevertheless,
God’s Love We Deliver !VENUEOFTHE!MERICAS.EW9ORK.9
Omnibus Committee,” said Villager Chris C.B. 2 has made its position known to the court
sWWWGODSLOVEWEDELIVERORG
Gaylord, during the public session, echo- in letters and resolutions, she added.
ing Kurland. “It appears our political lead-
ers have taken omerta with regard to St. Continued on page 21

Rebel with many causes: Memories of Michael Shenker
Continued from page 1
up alongside Michael Shenker. I was 22
when I began covering the rabble of disaf-
fected squatters, artists, politicos and home-
less folks who had carved out what felt like
a Left Bank autonomous zone in the heart
of Manhattan. Writing in the late 1980’s
— first for a small alternative weekly called
Downtown and then for the Village Voice —
I spent countless hours following Shenker
as one of the instigators of this dissentious
movement, diligently transcribing his ideal-
istic schemes, then struggling to reconcile
them for a more skeptical readership in
print.
“Come on, Sarah, you know what this is
about,” he would sometimes chide, chafing
at my efforts to get him to put into words
why he was protesting. He knew a partisan
when he saw one. He saved his true elo-
quence for the dailies.
Back then, folks really did view the L.E.S.
as a center of urban resistance. Shenker was
no ideologue, but he readily understood that
seizing property was a vehicle to empower
people, and fought for the squats with a near
lunatic tenacity. I vividly recall the hours
I spent holed up in the dark with him and
several other squatters in his apartment on
E. Seventh St., watching the demolition of
319 E. Eighth from his back window. By
midnight the block looked like the Gaza
Strip, with huge clouds of dust and the
gaping maw of No. 319 and the other half-
demolished buildings lit up by the cops’ klieg
lights, and scores of riot police patrolling the
show. Still Michael, dressed in a tuxedo vest,
was plotting a last-ditch charge to get back
into the building.
A REBELLIOUS KID
Where did Shenker’s passion come from?
I can’t fully answer that. I know he came to
the L.E.S. in the early 1970’s at age 15, flee-
ing his childhood home in Great Neck, Long
Island, though he never explained what
made him leave. He said he was a rebellious
kid looking to become a musician, enthralled
with the crazy scene going down at places
like the Fillmore East, CBGB and Max’s
Kansas City. He hung out with the Yippies
during the big anti-Vietnam War demos in
D.C., lived on the streets for a time, cleaned
urinals at McSorley’s, even, I’m told, turned
some tricks on the West Side when things
got rough.
Apartments were cheap back then, so it
was easy to get by doing odd jobs. (At one
point he lived in an apartment on E. Fourth
St. above Madonna.) A true libertine, he
picked up a taste for dope, which no doubt
led to his contracting hepatitis C — though
he kicked his habit by the mid-1990’s and
remained an avid 12-stepper until his death.
His passion for squatting seems to have
evolved from necessity, coupled with a kind
of pit-bull conviction about the righteous-
ness of his cause. In 1984, a fire destroyed
much of the building where he was living off
Michael Shenker building his apartment in the formerly burned-out 209 E. Seventh
St. in the 1980’s.
Avenue B, and the rent had tripled to the
point that he’d stopped paying, so the land-
lord wanted him out. Around the same time,
a friend named Natasha turned him on to the
wave of squatting happening in Europe and
elsewhere. So they broke into a boarded-up
building at 319 E. Eighth St.
By then, others were homesteading in the
neighborhood, and the area was so bombed-
out that fixing your own place instead of
paying rent to a slumlord must have seemed
like a natural. The difference, of course, is
that Shenker homesteaded without official
sanction.
His conviction hardened as real-estate
prices surged in the neighborhood and the
city and private developers sought to recoup
properties left fallow for so long. The first
big battle was over Tya Scott’s squat on E.
Eighth St., which the city tore down after a
Photo by Fly
bulldozer nicked the facade while clearing
the lot next door. I remember Shenker and
a group of others using an old wooden joist
like a battering ram and running at a line of
cops to bust down the door like a pack of
crazed Vikings.
BATTLE OF EIGHTH ST.
Then there was the epic showdown at
319 E. Eighth St., which came under threat
after it was damaged by a fire in the spring of
1989. By then, Shenker had already moved
to another squat on E. Seventh St. But he
helped orchestrate a fight to save No. 319
that shut down the block for a week as sup-
porters frantically sought a court order to
block the demolition.
I can’t recall if Shenker was on the roof
October 28 - November 3, 2010 11
when his housemate Willie Butler shimmied
up the fire escape and dumped buckets of
fermented piss on the cops and city workers
who were setting up scaffolding in prepara-
tion to tear the building down. Or if he was
downstairs as squat preacher Frank Morales
and several others lassoed the scaffolding
and yanked it down amid the chaos of the
cops and workers fleeing all that piss. But
it was such a deftly orchestrated David and
Goliath maneuver, I had to cheer (even as I
felt for the workers splattered in pee).
This was after the 1988 Tompkins Square
Park riot, and after the “Eviction Watch”
phone tree had evolved to the point where
if a building was under threat, the squatters
could get a couple dozen supporters to hit
the streets within an hour.
I remember eavesdropping as Shenker
and others fought over tactics in closed-door
meetings. Or hearing him soapbox atop a
milk crate on the corner of Seventh and
A. For a movement that always claimed to
be without leaders, artist Seth Tobocman
credits him in his graphic novel “War in
the Neighborhood” as a “maestro” of street
actions.
He was a key player in the struggles to
defend the burgeoning homeless encamp-
ment in Tompkins Square and sought to
integrate homeless activists in the squat
buildings. His aim was to pose squatting
as an answer to the homeless crisis in New
York City, then a hot-button issue; and also
because Shenker and others viewed the
battles over the park as a “wedge” to drive
down real estate values in the neighborhood
while taking heat off the squats themselves.
It’s a debatable point. Yes, the battles
in and around the park kept the cops busy.
But they also tarred the squat community as
a bunch of rabble-rousing troublemakers,
giving the city more justification to boot
them out.
THE ABC OCCUPATION
There were times when Shenker’s cru-
sades seemed to me utterly quixotic. In the
fall of 1989 as the police sweeps of the park
were in full swing, Shenker helped lead an
effort to squat an abandoned school on E.
Fourth St., dubbed the ABC Community
Center. Several of the park’s “Tent City”
homeless activists had returned from a pro-
test march to Washington and were itching
to take a building. Shenker readily joined in
the takeover, the riotous eviction battle and
subsequent reoccupation — camping out at
ABC for several weeks through the dead of
winter.
Although it won initial support from
folks like Malina and Joseph Papp, the ABC
occupation was never more than a symbolic
fight. The building, already slated for hous-
ing for seniors, was a cavernous wreck that
as winter wore on, felt like a giant icebox
— colder inside than out. Most of the home-
less bailed when they figured out they were
warmer in the park, leaving competing fac-
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‘We never went down easy’
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To me it felt like a mediagenic gambit
from a movement stuck on repeat, looking
to recapture the glory that activists had felt
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— instead of doing the harder day-to-day
work of renovating and securing one’s own
building.
There’s no question Shenker riled the
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Lower East Side’s old-guard housing activ-
ists, who resented young squatters tak-
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had dibs on. Shenker readily dismissed
their complaints: “There isn’t a square inch
of sidewalk in this city that some dog
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“He’s kind of like a gerbil,” Michael
shrugged with a smile.
After a fire gutted much of the squat
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Shenker was infamous for his ability to
hotwire a building by going down the
manhole and reconnecting the current
from the street. It was his classic touch to
leave a bottle of scotch in the hole for the
Con Ed workers who would be dispatched
to disconnect the power once the city
caught on.
“Michael knew those blue collars would
be savvy enough to understand the ges-
ture,” said former squatter and electrician
Art Cabrera. “If the Con Ed workers were
mean, they would cut the wires inside the
pipe, and it would be a bitch to recon-
nect,” Cabrera explained. “But if they were
merciful, they would leave enough wire
that it would be easy.”
But eventually the Con Ed workers grew
tired of having to disconnect Shenker’s
handiwork. Comic book artist and fellow
squatter Fly remembers watching Shenker
tear through wet cement that Con Ed
workers stuffed inside the conduit pipe
outside 209 E. Seventh St. They even left
a note: “Dear Michael, if you go down this
manhole one more time, we will lock you
up.”
“I told him he should frame it,” laughed
Fly. Needless to say, Shenker got the power
back on.
Shenker also schooled other squatters
in how to wire their places safely.
“See Skwat would have probably burned
down if it wasn’t for Shenker. He helped us
so many times,” said Peasant Shane, who
lives at the now-legal punk homestead at
155 Avenue C.
And he continued helping out young
squatters even after he was diagnosed with
stage 4 liver cancer in May.
“Just two or three months ago, I saw
him in Brooklyn coming out of a crawl
space black with soot because he was wir-
ing up the building,” said his friend Jim
Simopoulos. “He kept doing it until the
end. And just a few weeks ago, he was here
playing piano on the corner of E. Fifth St.
Even though he was in a lot of pain, he just
kept doing it.”
DEFENDING THE GREEN
Shenker saw an implicit connection with
squatting and the fight to save community
gardens, most of which began on squatted
land. In 1998, he helped found the activ-
ist group More Gardens! after the Giuliani
administration announced plans to sell off
more than 400 green spaces citywide. In the
process, he helped embolden the gardens
fight with his go-for-broke tactics and street
theater.
“He helped inspire us to fight,” said Brent
Sharman of the former Esperanza Garden on
E. Seventh St. For nine months, Shenker and
the other More Gardens! activists and sup-
porters camped out and fortified the garden
with an array of eclectic structures, includ-
ing a giant wooden “coqui” frog where they
slept. When the bulldozers came, Shenker
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Photos by Lara Mullarkey

Costumes, kilts and hayrides at Bleecker Playground

Sunday’s Halloween Festival at Bleecker Playground featured a dangerous-looking trio of “Mortal Kombat”’s Subzero, the Grim Reaper and a stick-wielding genie type, above
left. Their menace was offset by the charms of several princesses and a whiskered cat, above right. The Flying Karamazov Brothers performed songs, below, and everyone
could enjoy a real hayride drawn by two humongous horses.
14 October 28 - November 3, 2010
Enter the dragon: To slay one, he had to be one, too;
Continued from page 12
locked down using a “sleeping dragon” — a
metal tube cemented into the earth. “They
had to jackhammer and then carry him out,”
recalled More Gardens! co-founder Aresh
Javadi.
Michael sought to bring similar direct-
action energy to the antiwar movement —
with less success. He had little patience with
the big antiwar coalitions like United for
Peace and Justice, which he saw as too timid
and predictable. He helped found the group
No Blood for Oil! and was arrested numer-
ous times both outside and inside the United
Nations — friends say he once managed to
infiltrate the Security Council chambers.
Perhaps that was what earned him a spot on
the N.Y.P.D.’s list of “most dangerous” anar-
chists in the lead-up to the 2004 Republican
National Convention — an absurd tag to
those who knew him.
NO SAINT, BUT A SLAYER
How to reconcile the generous, any-
thing-goes Michael with the guy who
in recent years became so incensed by
the sound of his upstairs neighbor Dan
Yafet’s children playing above him that
he harassed Yafet at work and even had a
friend call Yafet’s parents in New Jersey to
Happy Halloween from MANATUS.
No tricks, just our tasty treats.
Full bar
and
outdoor
patio!
Our 19th Year!
Photo by Arrow
Michael Shenker in a light moment, of which there were many.
complain?
Many of Shenker’s closest friends split
with him over the issue of how much ex-
squatters should be able to profit from
their buildings once they were converted to
low-income co-ops. Shenker fought vocif-
erously against the resale restrictions that
the Department of Housing Preservation
and Development and the nonprofit spon-
sor group UHAB (Urban Homesteading
Assistance Board) were attempting to
impose. After so many years hearing him
declare “housing should be free,” it seemed
incongruous that Shenker felt he should be
able to sell his former squat apartment for
something close to market rate.
Admittedly, the initial sale restrictions
of $5,000 per “zoning room” were quite
severe — far less than what most squatters
had invested in their units, let alone what
other H.D.F.C. buildings are allowed. But
Shenker still bristled at the eventual com-
promise restrictions of roughly $30,000
per zoning room.
Friends say Shenker’s brush with death
after being struck by an S.U.V. in 2005 had
a big impact on his thinking. He suffered
serious head injuries and spent several
months recuperating in the hospital.
“For a while, he was worried he might
not be able to function on his own,”
recalled Morales.
“I think, rationally, he tried to justify it
as, Why shouldn’t squatters have the same
rights that everyone else does?” Morales
said of Shenker’s stance on his right to
www.manatusnyc.com profit from his apartment. “But I think,
emotionally, he was coming from some-
place that he would have to take care of
himself down the line and might need to
sell his place to relocate somewhere else.”
ONCE A SQUATTER…
Yoga instructor and longtime L.E.S. resi-
dent Steve Prestianni, a.k.a. Paz, who also
lives at No. 209, said he aligned with
Shenker’s view: “It was a little about the
money. He felt like he was getting old and
might need to be taken care of at some point.
But it was more like, Who are they to tell me
what I am allowed to sell or not sell for? I
mean, what squatter ever readily accepted
being regulated?”
I could sense Seth Tobocman struggling
to reconcile Shenker’s position in the eulogy
he delivered at El Paradiso on E. Fifth
St., one of the many community gardens
Shenker’s activism helped save.
Tobocman, who organized for many years
with Shenker, compared his fallen comrade
to a dragon slayer.
“What kind of person kills a dragon?”
Tobocman asked, speaking from a bullhorn
to the 200 people milling on the grass. “Is
a dragon killer a saint who does this out of
love for all humanity, seeking no compensa-
tion for himself? I don’t think so. To kill
a dragon you have to be a bit of a dragon
yourself. You don’t kill a dragon out of the
kindness of your heart.
“Maybe a man kills a dragon because he
wants an apartment of his own, which he
builds with his own hands, which no one can
take away from him,” Tobocman suggested.
“Where he can cook his meals and entertain
his friends. Where he can play his piano and
sing songs that other people might think
are corny. Maybe he attains these things
for himself, and in so doing, attains them
for his whole community. And maybe he’s
enlightened enough to realize he can’t do
this alone.
“So Michael Shenker killed the dragon
and saved the village and won the castle,”
Tobocman concluded. “Not all of us agreed
with his political decisions. But Mike never
let anybody make his decisions for him.
Mike was a free man, and that’s about the
best you can get.”
It was a roundabout way of acknowledg-
ing that there may have been much self-
interest driving Shenker’s crusade for the
squats and the park and the gardens. But
then what successful social movements don’t
have self-interest at heart?
At his best, Shenker transcended selfish
motives and fought for a community he loved
and the principles he believed in. Yes, he lost
many battles, but he also accomplished more
than any of us would have expected.
ONE LAST MARCH
So it felt like a familiar ritual when more
than 100 people gathered in the center of
Tompkins Square on Sat., Oct. 16, then set
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Folk songs, planting bulbs and a ‘Squatter Opera’

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off on a funeral march around the neighborhood, accompa-

nied by an anarchist brass band playing New Orleans-style
spirituals. Except this time, many of the squatters in the
crowd were pushing baby strollers instead of barricades.
And unlike the old days, the cops showed little interest in
policing the crowd, even when the marchers invaded the site
of a former community garden on Avenue C that was bull-
dozed for condos. A security guard shrieked as the marchers
clawed up a patch of weedy earth and planted a “spiral” of
Allium bulbs in Shenker’s honor.
After stops on Eighth and Seventh Sts., the march con-
cluded on E. Third St. at Maryhouse, the soup kitchen and
theater run by the Catholic Worker.
People sang folk songs and listened to old tapes of
Shenker banging out rhythm and blues on the piano —
reminding me of the early days of squatting, before all the
bars saturated the nabe, when folks here used to entertain
themselves.
Though I knew Shenker was involved with the Living
Theatre, it was surprising to learn that he was a musical
director for the troupe from 1989 to 1993 — during some
of the most contested years of the squatting movement.
But it makes sense, his frenetic merging of art and activ-
ism.
This past Sunday, friends hosted a benefit at the Sixth
Street Community Center to raise funds for Shenker’s final
expenses. There were performances by close friends like Eric
Drooker and Stephan Said — and a balletic “interpretation”
of a scene from Shenker’s “Squatter Opera.” Shenker staged Photo by Sarah Ferguson
the opera in 1994 at the Theater for the New City, but was A memorial to Michael Shenker outside 209 E. Seventh St., the tenement he helped bring back from a charred
apparently too busy living his art to complete it. shell.

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Artists with lens and brush

Photographer Q. Sakamaki, with his wife,
CLAYTON’S PAGE Kuniko, in an early 1990’s photo, above,
has been an East Villager since the mid-
’80’s. A Japanese native, Sakamaki began by photographing the AIDS crisis, the
nightclub and gay scenes, squatters and Tompkins Square’s “Tent City.” He then
evolved into an elite conflict photographer, covering global war zones. His work has
been published widely, including frequently in The Villager and East Villager, garner-
ing many prestigious awards. Carlucci Bencivenga, right, was a charismatic creator in
graffiti, video, new sound, painting and sculpture and a Lower East Side arts luminary.
He died September 2007 in his Stanton St. studio at age 38. A Bronx native, he was
a member of the Morris Park Crew of graffiti bombers, going by the tag ELF MPC or
ELF One. He was a School of Visual Arts graduate.
B’ball City scores its financing
BY ALBERT AMATEAU rent is $150,000, plus a percentage of gross
Bruce Radler, who has been trying income above a threshold amount.

Nearly $5 million in ... for nearly 10 years to open a seven-court

Basketball City franchise on Pier 36, popu-
larly known as the “Banana Pier,” on the East
“We’re pleased that Shelly Silver has
asked for Pier 36 money to go to maintaining
the public waterfront,” Victor Papa, president

appliance rebate money River, has finally got his game together.
Radler and the city announced on Oct.
18 that financing for the $13 million project
of Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, said.
“I’ve been talking with Radler, and from the
kind of guy he is, I don’t have any reason not

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community,” Radler told Crain’s New York
Business.
Assemblymember Sheldon Silver, whose
1993 lawsuit blocked the city from converting
Pier 36 into a gas station for city vehicles, and
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rent from Basketball City to maintain other
Lower East Side waterfront sites. The annual
to believe him,” said Papa. “The only problem
is that agreements with private operators who
lease public facilities like Pier 36 are practi-
cally nonbinding. So we have to rely on the
good faith of the private entity. But we do
have the help of Silver and other elected offi-
cials to act as watchdogs,” said Papa.
Basketball City formerly operated under a
bubble tent on top of Pier 63, at W. 23rd St.,
for nine years until it was forced to leave in
September 2006 when the pier became part
of Hudson River Park. Basketball City also
operates sports facilities in Boston, Atlanta,
Chicago, Los Angeles and Irvine, Cal.
United Fund Advisors arranged the financ-
ing for the Pier 36 project using a federal tax
credit program intended to spur develop-
ment in low-income areas. The city will
contribute $2.7 million for heat, ventilation,
plumbing and structural costs. Basketball
City will put in about $8 million to build the
courts, featuring composite wood floors and
solar panels for green energy.
The courts will be on a single floor and
accommodate volleyball, badminton, dodge
ball and indoor soccer. The facility will be
home court for 28 public high schools that
do not have their own gyms. Basketball City
will also provide free public access to the
promenade along the pier’s waterside edge.
October 28 - November 3, 2010 17
18 October 28 - November 3, 2010
Didier Civil with molds he made for creating papier-mâché heads for giant puppets of
Baron Samdi and Gran Brigette.
Oh, that Vodou that you do(u);
Mask guru gets in Village spirit
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
When Jeanne Fleming, the Greenwich
Village Halloween Parade’s director for the
past 30 years, heard that Haiti’s cherished
annual pre-Lent carnival had been can-
celed after this January’s earthquake, she
immediately wanted to involve Haiti in this
year’s Village parade.
“We were reaching out to another car-
nival culture,” she explains. To Fleming,
Halloween is America’s version of carni-
val.
Fleming researched Haitian carnival
and found artist and master mask maker
Didier Civil from the city of Jacmel, two
hours south of Port-au-Prince. Jacmel,
which was also damaged in the quake, is
the soul of Haiti’s carnival and known for
its incredibly costumed processions.
Civil was invited to artistically and
authentically head up the presence of
Haitian traditions for the Village Halloween
Parade. For years, he’s been making masks
for groups of carnival marchers. As a boy,
he learned his art from Jacmel master mask
artist Lyonel Simonis.
Before the earthquake, Civil also taught
and worked with children — paying them
for their help — in the courtyard of his
home, now destroyed. Civil envisions an
expanded art school in Jacmel where chil-
dren can learn arts and crafts, eventually
to have a means of economic support.
Since arriving in the U.S. from Haiti in
late September, Civil has been working in
a barn/workshop near Rhinebeck, creating
the figures that will lead the parade. He
sculpted 3-foot heads from clay to be used
as the molds for the papier-mâché heads of
Baron Samdi and Gran Brigette, the chief
Vodou gods of the cemetery.
The finished heads were attached to
16-foot puppet bodies. Baron Samdi is
Photo by Tequila Minsky
wearing his black coat and bowler hat,
carrying the gavel of justice. Wife Gran
Brigette, toting a cane, is clothed in the
holiday’s traditional purple with black and
white trim.
In Haitian Vodou ancestors are honored
on Nov. 1, on Gede (pronounced Ge-day),
when especially these two Vodou gods
— with authority over the cemeteries —
appear.
Gede coincides with the Mexican holiday
Day of the Dead that also celebrates the
departed. Nov. 2 in Haiti is the day devoted
to Catholic saints; Vodou and Catholicism
coexist.
A huge chili pepper (Brigette and Baron
like hot stuff) and a massive papier-mâché
alcohol bottle (the sacrament for ceremo-
nies) and a grave, tomb and coffins carried
by zombies will also be part of the Haitian
contingent.
On working on the theme of the Haitian
gods of the cemetery Civil said, “I’m not a
Vodou practitioner, but I’m Haitian.” He
understands Vodou and its symbols and
signs.
Every year at the parade starting point,
drummer and Vodou priest Bonga per-
forms a small ceremony and creates a
design for Gede, a veve, on the ground.
The Haitian contingent of puppets, plus
skeletons, will begin the procession.
Upfront will also be Nadia Dieudonné,
dancing as Baron Samdi, and rara band
Jharara, playing their traditional Haitian
rhythmic one-toned horns, to lead off the
expected 60,000 revelers.
Said Fleming, “We will fully feel the spirit
that night.”
Anyone in costume is invited to attend.
People start gathering south of Spring St.
and Sixth Ave. at 5:30 p.m. The parade
begins at 7 p.m., Sun., Oct. 31.
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BY ALBERT AMATEAU
The new VillageCare Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
had its official opening Thursday morning Oct. 21 at 214 W.
Houston St., west of Sixth Ave. The six-story, state-of-the-art
building, with accommodations for 105 inpatients, will be
ready for its first residents the second week in November.
The new building replaces the old Village Nursing Home at
Hudson and W. 12th Sts.
VillageCare President Emma DeVito welcomed more
than 100 guests to the opening of the community-based not-
for-profit facility.
Guests of honor included state Senator Tom Duane, chair-
person of the Senate Health Committee; and Assemblymember
Deborah Glick, who recalled the long planning process that
went into the creation of the first newly built nursing center
for Manhattan seniors in 50 years.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn could not attend,
but her aide Noah Isaacs presented a Council proclamation
honoring the occasion.
Mayor Bloomberg also sent a message of congratulations
to VillageCare, which serves 13,000 people a year, including
seniors at the new building and people living with H.I.V./
AIDS at other Downtown locations.
Four floors of the new building will accommodate short-
term rehabilitation patients; one floor will have accommoda-
tions for palliative care and end-of-life patients. Rooms and
staff will provide cardiac, joint-replacement and amputee
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and their visiting friends and families. A ground-floor gym
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The new building replaces a parking garage that was for-
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C.B. 2 chairperson responds to hospital haranguers
Continued from page 10
In addition, Hamilton said, despite the
claims of some — notably Kurland — that a
health-needs assessment isn’t needed for the
former St. Vincent’s catchment area, in fact,
an assessment is needed. Hamilton said that
David Sandman, executive director of the
Berger Commission, last week told C.B. 2 that
the commission “did not conduct a classic
community health needs assessment. Such an
assessment,” Hamilton said, “would include
factors such as demographics, morbidity and
mortality rates, disparities and service gaps.
Importantly, it would examine the entire spec-
trum of health services, including preventive
care, primary care, chronic care, acute care
and long-term care services.”
Hamilton stressed that while some charge
the community doesn’t have to prove the
need for a hospital, but, rather, that the state
must prove why a hospital isn’t needed, so
far that argument has “fallen on deaf ears”
in the courts.
Also, countering those who call the needs
assessment a waste of money, Hamilton
noted it isn’t costing anything. Hunter
College School of Public Health and North
Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
are doing the study pro bono, under the
guidance of healthcare professionals, elected
officials and appropriate community organi-
zations, she said.
“If we are to have a new urgent-care cen-
ter or a new hospital and/or emergency room,
we need a data-driven analysis of the commu-
nity’s healthcare needs to get the best, most
Mendez says proposed public-smoking ban a real drag
BY LESLEY SUSSMAN
Just when you thought it was at least still
O.K. to enjoy a leisurely smoke in a park,
on the beach or in some other public space,
now the city wants to make it illegal for ciga-
rette and cigar puffers to do so. And the new
prohibition has City Councilmember Rosie
Mendez smoking mad.
An aide to Mendez appeared before
Community Board 3 on Tues., Oct. 26, to
urge the full board to join the councilmem-
robust facility possible,” Hamilton said.
“Moving forward, our board will remain
vigilant, and act responsibly — whether the
issue before us is the future of the St. Vincent’s
site, or continuing our commitment to advo-
cate for a new hospital and appropriate levels
of healthcare services in our community.”
Asked later why she felt it necessary to give
the statement at the meeting, Hamilton said,
“The reason I did this is because a lot of board
members had expressed confusion — asking
why these people keep coming back to us.
We’re only a community board — these people
keep coming back and demanding things.”
Hamilton said she’s hopeful the Village
will get a new hospital, but noted, “At this
point, nobody’s come forward. There are no
credible offers at this time” by sponsors to
create a new hospital.
The focus is now on the health-needs
assessment, she reiterated.
“Here we are now six months later and I
want to know where our community is get-
ting its healthcare needs met, where people
are going, what’s missing, what we need to
be advocating for.”
Brad Hoylman, chairperson of the
board’s St. Vincent’s Omnibus Committee,
said Hamilton wants the committee to meet
in connection with the health-needs assess-
ment, which could be completed in the next
few months.
“We have been working really hard on
this, but nothing [is] public right now,”
Hoylman said. “We’ll be holding the meeting
when there is information to share.”
C.B. 2 member Ian Dutton said the com-
munity board has done all it possibly can.
ber in opposing the proposed ban on smok-
ing in New York City parks, beaches and
other city-operated recreational facilities.
The measure is currently under discussion
by the City Council.
The new legislation, named Intro 332, was
introduced on Sept. 15 by Mayor Bloomberg
and various members of the City Council. It
would affect more than 1,700 parks, play-
grounds and recreational facilities, as well as
the city’s seven beaches, which span 14 miles
“I stand with Jo 110 percent in representing
that the board has been involved since at least
2007 in taking any step possible to ensure that
we retain our hospital,” Dutton said. “We all
live in the neighborhood and have depended
on the life-saving services of St. Vincent’s as
much as all of our neighbors, and are just as
sickened with the outcome as the loudest per-
son shouting at our public hearings.”
On Wednesday morning, Kurland sent
out an e-mail expressing disappointment
that a health needs-assessment meeting she
thought was scheduled for the following day
at Congressmember Jerrold Nadler’s office
had been moved and that Nadler’s office
wasn’t giving out the new location, and that
the meeting wasn’t public.
Kurland reiterated her vehement opposi-
tion to a needs assessment, but said that, if
one is occurring, then the community must be
centrally involved to ensure that there are no
“backroom deals where the real estate inter-
ests or other private interests determine the
landscape of public healthcare, rather than
public need determining public healthcare.”
Hoylman, who chaired the meeting of
what’s known as the Community Health
Needs Assessment Steering Committee, con-
firmed the venue was changed — but to pro-
vide space for the public, and that they only
heard at the last minute that members of the
public wanted to attend. The new venue was
250 Broadway, and the meeting was actually
held Wednesday, not Thursday, he noted. It
was the committee’s second meeting.
“The previous meeting room at
Congressmember Nadler’s office was too small
to accommodate the public,” Hoylman said.
of shoreline.
The proposal follows on the heels of a
smoking ban implemented by the city six
years ago that drove tobacco smokers out of
bars and restaurants to enjoy their favorite
addiction on the sidewalk.
In a compromise measure, one New York
City lawmaker has suggested there be desig-
nated outdoor smoking sections in the city’s
parks and beaches. Councilmember Peter
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“It’s not a public meeting, though, rather a
working group meeting of healthcare and
social service experts, elected officials and
community board representatives. But we
worked to make sure there was some space in
case members of the public showed up.”
Hoylman said materials from the meeting
would be posted on Community Board 2’s
Web site by Thursday. The steering commit-
tee will “go on the road” in coming months,
seeking more public input, he said.
“This is going to be a very transparent
process,” he assured.
In a statement on Wednesday, Nadler said,
“Today, the planning committee for the commu-
nity health-needs assessment — which is made
up of a wide range of representatives from
community stakeholder groups and elected offi-
cials — came together to begin organizing this
assessment. I believe that this critical assess-
ment will lay the groundwork for the next steps
in restoring a hospital to the community.
“Today’s meeting was an early step in
a process that is designed to ensure com-
munity input into the assessment and to
reflect the healthcare needs of the entire
affected community. This involvement will
be achieved both through the current broad
community representation on the steering
committee and through public meetings in
the coming weeks and months.
“Since we were first informed of the prob-
lems at St. Vincent’s on the eve of its closure,
I have been fighting alongside the community
for a full-service hospital for the Lower West
Side,” Nadler said. “We must continue to
move forward collectively toward that goal,
using any tools available to us.”
percent of each park would be a designated
smoking area.
At the C.B. 3 meeting, Mendez aide
Michele Burger told the board “Rosie
believes that this new proposal infringes
on civil liberties. Besides, how can it be
enforced?”
Acting C.B. 3 Chairperson Gigi Li said
the board would take up the matter at a later
date before making a decision on whether to
support Mendez’s position.
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EDITORIAL
Vote ‘yes’ on 1 and 2
When New Yorkers go to the polls on Tues., Nov.
2, on their ballot’s back they’ll find two important
referenda.
Question 1 asks if voters support returning to the
term limits previously approved twice by the electorate
— before Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council in
2008 legislatively changed them to three terms.
If voters say “yes,” they back returning to two terms
for city councilmembers, borough presidents and the
mayor, city comptroller and public advocate. In addi-
tion, if this referendum passes, the Council would be
barred from legislatively overturning the voters’ will on
term limits — the “loophole” that allowed term limits’
extension.
To vote “no” means keeping the current three-term
limit for councilmembers, B.P.’s and citywide elected
officials; also, the Council would still be able to legisla-
tively modify term limits.
We support term limits, and, in fact, feel three terms
is better than two since it allows politicians to become
more skilled at their jobs and, thus, better representa-
tives; it also lessens the pressure of having to look for
their next job, letting them focus on their districts.
Our greater concern, though, is that the Council,
with a powerful mayor, never again thwart the voters’
will by legislative fiat. For this reason, we support vot-
ing “yes” on Question 1.
Question 2 has seven items, ranging from disclo-
sure of independent campaign spending and increasing
ballot access, to making conflict-of-interest training
mandatory for city employees.
We agree with critics who say this question packs
too many items, to the point of confusion. Nevertheless,
we support voting “yes” on Question 2.
We endorse the idea that groups spending more
than $1,000 on “independent expenditures” — such
as “robo-phone calls” or TV commercials — for or
against a candidate should report this information to
the Campaign Finance Board, which would make it
public.
We also like the idea of decreasing the number of
petition signatures needed to get on the ballot — since
this would yield a wider pool of candidates, including
more from outside traditional political circles.
Over all, however, this Charter Revision Commission
process was far too rushed. New Yorkers haven’t had
enough time to consider what they’ll be voting on.
Traffic relief in sight
Electronic tolling offers a bright ray of hope that
Downtown Manhattan will soon be relieved of the
unfair burden of truck traffic it currently endures. The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority is researching
cashless tolling for bridges and tunnels, and if findings
are positive, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler says he’ll
consider introducing legislation to restore a two-way
toll on the Verrazano Bridge.
Traffic backups at toll plazas — the reason Staten
Islanders got the toll changed to one-way in 1986 —
wouldn’t occur with an electronic system. Meanwhile,
a two-way toll would curtail truckers’ using Downtown
Manhattan as part of their no-tolls route, which unduly
impacts communities like Chinatown and Soho.
We hear it’s likely electronic tolls will be implement-
ed, making us optimistic for a two-way Verrazano toll.
There’s no downside anymore to a two-way Verrazano
toll — except for trucking companies, who will lose
their free ride through our communities.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
How quickly things change
To The Editor:
Re “Healthcare realities” (editorial, Oct. 21):
I don’t get it! The rich people, real-estate people and most
New York City politicians were so loudly clamoring that the
O’Toole Building be torn down, and that a $950 million,
32-story, “state-of-the-art boutique hospital for the 21st
century” be built at Seventh Ave. and 12th St. to meet the
needs of the Village community for years to come. Now, the
very same people are telling us that New York and the West
Village have no need for a hospital in that area after all, and
that the city’s other hospitals can well absorb the patients no
longer served by St. Vincent’s.
It doesn’t compute, to my mind, that in November 2009
the politicians and real-estate people said the West Village
community needed not just any old hospital but an approxi-
mately $1 billion hospital on that exact spot. No place other
than Seventh Ave. and 12th St. would be appropriate for
an absolutely needed, Level 1 trauma hospital to serve the
entire West Side from 59th St. to the Battery! And now, “Just
take a cab crosstown to Beth Israel if you’re in trouble” is
their attitude.
I do hope that you are wrong and that the powers
that be will serve our needs by getting a good hospital
for the West Village within a reasonable amount of time.
Elizabeth Ryan
Dream of a new hospital
To The Editor:
Re “Healthcare realities” (editorial, Oct. 21):
“With West Chelsea’s building boom and the Hudson
Yards’ development, a new hospital will be needed even
more in our area,” your editorial states.
This tells me that you believe that a new hospital is
needed. I agree.
Carol Venticinque
Tallmer mines pure gold
To The Editor:
Re “From night into day in Chile at the San Jose Mine”
(talking point, by Jerry Tallmer, Oct. 21):
EVAN FORSCH
Thank you, Jerry, for your wonderful article.
I am the mother of the grandson of Orlando Letelier. The
beauty of the Chilean spirit has shined brightly and over-
come the dark years of Pinochet.
Monica Mercedes Perez Jimenez
Obama critic is outraged
To The Editor:
Re “Pages from an unwritten diary: Dickering and hating”
(talking point, Oct. 7, by Jerry Tallmer):
Tallmer writes: “In their heart of hearts, if they could
lynch him, they would. Strange fruit all over again.”
These words — directed at anyone with the temerity to
oppose our current president — were evidently deemed fit
to print by your publication; which isn’t all that surprising,
given the number of infantile screeds authored by the same
gentleman that you’ve published in the past. But this little bit
of hate-filled lunacy takes his offensive act to a whole new
level. I think the word “disgusting” captures it best.
I’m not sure when my subscription ends, but feel free to
stop delivery immediately. That’ll be the last issue I read of
your ridiculous paper.
James Slater
Quinn showed her backbone
To The Editor:
We often hear TV pundits bemoan the fact that politi-
cians today lack the backbone to make tough decisions. It is
safer to ignore a problem today and blame someone else for
the consequences tomorrow.
Well, I’m writing to say that we have a real leader in our
midst. Someone who lived up to the high ideals of her office
and took a stand on an issue that is both controversial and
complicated. I’m talking about Council Speaker Christine
Quinn’s decision to oppose legislation that would have forced
businesses to provide paid sick days to their employees.
The Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
joined a coalition of business groups that worked tirelessly
to identify and communicate the adverse and unintended
consequences of this bill. Had it become law, it would have
forced many businesses to freeze hiring, eliminate jobs, cut
Continued on page 24
 October 28 - November 3, 2010 23

There is a lot at stake: Why N.Y.U. must build here

TALKING POINT
BY JOHN BECKMAN
In his unceasing campaign against responsible growth,
Andrew Berman is right about one thing: There is a lot at
stake. But it’s not the scary story he keeps telling.
The piece of New York University’s proposal against
which Andrew Berman has been lobbying most furiously
boils down to this: four buildings constructed over the next
two decades on property that N.Y.U. already owns, and on
which there are already five large towers.
That’s it.
Andrew Berman thinks this effort will change the charac-
ter of these blocks. We do, too — for the better. Let’s be real:
The truly sweeping transformation of the superblocks is not
what will happen over the next 20 years; it’s what happened
50-plus years ago when urban renewal razed nine blocks of
buildings, disrupted the grid and created the superblocks
and towers we know today.
It comes down to this: Not all
space is fungible.
inability to deliver on lab space, on adequate office space
or on a decent place to live. New York will be worse off,
not better, with a less successful N.Y.U. Thoughtful people
understand this.
At heart, even Andrew Berman acknowledges that: He is
O.K. with N.Y.U. building new facilities, just not on its own
longtime footprint. Let’s examine that.
Lay aside that N.Y.U.’s plans in the Village focus on its
own footprint, mostly property it has owned for many years.
Lay aside that N.Y.U.’s proposals involve no use of eminent
domain. Lay aside that N.Y.U. is only seeking to make use
of the developable square footage already available on the
blocks, and no additional square footage beyond that. Lay
aside all those important points.
It comes down to this: Not all space is fungible. There’s
a reason why your kitchen isn’t in a different building down
the block from the rest of your apartment: It doesn’t make
sense, and it doesn’t work. The same is true for a university:
If one has to move from class to class, if one has to consult
with colleagues, if one has to have access to the library
between classes, or if one participates in an interdisciplin-
ary research group, then the flippant suggestion that N.Y.U.
can simply build academic space somewhere — anywhere
— else becomes obvious for what it is: misguided at best,
and willfully misleading at worst. “Anywhere but Greenwich
Village” is not a plan; it’s a slogan, and it’s a recipe for harm-
ing our research, teaching, learning and the building of our
scholarly community.
We disagree with the assertions that N.Y.U.’s plans will
hurt the Village; in fact, we are fully mindful that there are
limits, and we have taken steps in our planning to acknowl-
edge them and live within them. We are affirmatively and con-
scientiously doing most of the development near Washington
Square on our own property, and we are situating fully half the
square footage we think we’ll need outside the neighborhood,
in locations where it makes academic sense.
There is a lot at stake, to be sure: If we are careless
with how we treat our city’s important intellectual, cultural
and educational institutions — the institutions that offer
good jobs, that bring in the talented and the energetic, that
will keep New York City at the forefront of a knowledge
economy — there will be harm: to the future of both the city
and the Village.
Beckman is vice president for public affairs and chief
spokesperson, New York University

In carrying out these proposals over the next couple of

decades, N.Y.U. will provide a space for a new and much-
needed elementary school for the neighborhood; create new
green space and recreational space where there is none now;
alter the landscaping of the two superblocks so that under-
used areas of open space are actually accessible to the public;
and help meet N.Y.U.’s academic needs for the future.
And there’s a broader point: Greenwich Village, like all
our neighborhoods, is part of a city. If Greenwich Village is
going to prosper, the city will need to prosper. That’s going to
require a talented workforce and people with ideas.
In other words, exactly the kind of people that major,
thriving universities around the globe attract.
N.Y.U. has come a long way as a university — from a regional
university to a major research university of significant interna-
tional stature. It’s a rare achievement in the field of higher educa-
tion, and we think most New Yorkers look at it with pride.
But from our experience with St. Vincent’s Hospital,
we in the Village know all too well that institutions are not
immortal. Just a few short months ago, that hospital was
being pilloried for its development proposals; who in the
neighborhood doesn’t miss St. Vincent’s now?
N.Y.U. has half the academic square footage per stu- Photo by Jefferson Siegel
dent of Columbia, one-quarter of Harvard’s and one-sixth N.Y.U.’s southernmost superblock, viewed from the corner of Mercer and Houston Sts., with Coles Gym in the
of Yale’s. We are not proposing to reach their levels, but foreground and Silver Towers looming behind. The university plans to add two buildings to this block: a 400-foot
these are the institutions with whom we compete to attract tower, part faculty residence and part hotel, and a mixed-use building housing 1,400 first-year students that
faculty. New York City and Greenwich Village have extraor- would replace Coles.
dinary appeal to faculty, but they will not overcome an

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We’re Going Batty for Halloween
Critical Mass makes cycling safer
TALKING POINT
BY BARBARA ROSS
As a longtime volunteer with Time’s Up!, a volunteer-
run environmental organization that promotes group bike
rides to enhance cyclist safety, I was excited to read about
the success of the recent Upright Bicycle Ride that drew a
large number of cyclists of all types and ages, celebrating the
WE DELIVER wonderful aspects of cycling in New York City. However,
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for fun and for safety, just like those on the Upright ride.
Critical Mass participants are neither “renegade” nor advo-
cate for chaos and disorder (which N.Y.P.D. spokesperson
Paul Browne incorrectly describes as “anarchy”). Yet, the
N.Y.P.D. likes to advance these false and inaccurate charac-
terizations in order to justify their wasteful and unconstitu-
tional tactics used each month to harass the ride participants.
In fact, Paul Browne’s baseless claims are continually proven
false as they are challenged and defeated in civil, criminal
and traffic court. Even N.Y.P.D Commissioner Raymond
Kelly admitted under oath that Critical Mass cyclists are no
different than any other New York City cyclists.
Dating back to 1993, Critical Mass in New York City
has made numerous positive contributions to our city’s
move toward sustainability and its transformation into a
safer, more bike-friendly place to live. Publicizing N.Y.P.D’s
fabrications about Critical Mass’s purpose and history not
only spreads misinformation about its participants, it also
rewrites history in a way that new riders, many probably
on the Upright ride, will be unaware that the safer biking
environment they now take for granted was made possible
in large part by the grassroots changes by the Critical Mass
rides.
That’s why we want to set the record straight.
Bike riding in New York City during the Nineties was
far more dangerous than it is now. There were few bike
lanes, and cyclists had no voice in policy decisions. The first
Manhattan Critical Mass emerged to promote cycling visibil-
ity and safety by riding together in a group. These monthly
rides were safe and fun for all participants. Steadily, more
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benefits, move out of the city or even fold.
Make no mistake, all the business leaders we work
with respect and value their employees, and no one
wants an employee to come to work sick. Most busi-
nesses provide paid sick leave, shift swapping or some
method to protect the income of a worker when he or
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new cyclists were attracted to New York City streets on those
monthly Friday night group rides. Many gained the skills to
become everyday cycling commuters.
By early 2000, New York City Critical Mass had gained
significant popularity and had ushered in the beginnings of
biking as a viable transportation option for city residents.
With its celebratory spirit and safe community environ-
ment, the number of ride participants continued to grow,
which helped build a strong grassroots voice for nonpollut-
ing transportation. Riders of all types — weekend cyclists,
families, bike commuters, messengers, novices and racers
— gathered together the last Friday of every month, as they
do in hundreds of cities around the world, to celebrate the
joys of urban cycling.
With the Republican National Convention coming to
New York in the summer of 2004, the N.Y.P.D. politi-
cized Critical Mass. Without warning or justification,
the N.Y.P.D. harassed Critical Mass riders with arrests,
tickets, undercover agitation, a lawsuit and even steal-
ing legally locked bikes and using other dangerous
and unconstitutional tactics to squelch the burgeoning
movement. The cyclists acted in solidarity and continued
to ride. The N.Y.P.D.’s harassment campaign toward
Critical Mass resulted in a global media exposé of the
N.Y.P.D.’s intimidation, as well as a string of legal victo-
ries for cyclists and legal defeats for the N.Y.P.D.
The cycling community’s determination to make posi-
tive sustainable change grew and their ability to negotiate
with the city for safer streets strengthened. When Mayor
Bloomberg appointed bike-savvy D.O.T. Commissioner
Janette Sadik-Khan in 2007, her powerful vision quickly
took shape in the form of new bike lanes, bridge access and
other groundbreaking improvements to the bicycle infra-
structure.
Today New York City’s streets are a safer place to ride
than they were when Critical Mass started 17 years ago.
All New Yorkers enjoy the benefits of this environmentally
responsible vision.
We are hopeful that the police harassment will end, and
that there is more appreciation for the kind of positive prog-
ress that is making New York a truly bicycle-friendly city. It
would not have been possible without Critical Mass partici-
pants who exercised their right to ride and were early vision-
aries in the movement for an environmentally sustainable
city. We continue to ride and invite everyone to join us.
she gets sick.
The speaker explored all aspects of this issue and, like
Mayor Bloomberg, concluded that this bill is not in the best
interest of workers or businesses. Her thoughtful decision
will save jobs and give our economy the opportunity to
grow.
We stand in full support of Speaker Quinn’s decision to
oppose this legislation.
Tony Juliano
Juliano is chairperson and president, Greenwich Village-
Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
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A ‘Swan’ is Bourne
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BY SCOTT STIFFLER
A swan on a lake is the elephant in the
room — in Matthew Bourne’s gay reboot of
Tchaikovsky’s sacred cow.
Although the notion of muscled, sexually
menacing male swans haunting the uneasy
dreams of a handsome prince doesn’t have
quite the same taboo impact it did during
its 1998 award-winning Broadway run, the
show still packs a feisty wallop — and not
just because of the queer novelty factor. In
this version, the princess-turned-bird is a
male swan who catches the eye of a prince
grappling with his sexual orientation.
Speaking of elephants in the room, let’s
just put it on the table from the get-go,
okay? There are other juicy matters at work
here — but the surface of this “Lake” is
all about bare chests, tight asses, feathered
short pants cut just below the navel and
sweat dripping from muscles built for plea-
sure. And why not? Apart from the veneer of
respectability that comes with the purchase
of a ticket, more than a few culture vultures
go to the ballet for the same reason men go
to car shows — to ogle the bodywork on this
year’s model.
Choreographer/Director Matthew
Bourne drags that lurid motive out of the
closet and into the swan-white light of day.
From the very first scene (which finds our
titular winged creature hovering ominously
above the posh bed of a writhing prince),
Bourne forces us to confront the hypocrisy
of applauding male dancers for their mas-
culine athleticism while snickering at the
inherent femininity of their career choice.
Anyone coming to the table with that sort
of baggage is likely to undergo a quick and
lasting conversion. Judging from the stand-
ing ovation given at the curtain call, audi-
ence members gay, straight and all points
in between emerged from the experience
These lake-dwelling swans are in town only through Nov. 7.
fully invested in the queer ratcheting up of
an already tragic narrative that milks love,
longing and loss for all it’s worth.
That said, it’s important to note that
despite the meaty homo spin, this produc-
tion spends a tremendous amount of time
obsessing over the ways in which jealousy
and ambition toss a wrench into best laid
plans. Around every corner, it seems, the
compulsory duties of both prince and queen
are stinging reminders that the connection
they long for is doomed by a variety of covert
agendas lurking behind social niceties com-
ing from servants, advisors and potential
suitors.
Set and costume designer Lez
Brotherston’s floor-to-ceiling white col-
umns and brick walls (with the occasional
red royal banner) enforce the notion that
everybody’s isolated to some extent from
the people and things they think will make
them whole. Likewise, the rituals per-
formed by servants in Act I’s bedroom and
palace scenes hammer home the fact that
this prince lives in a black and white world
that won’t tolerate anyone who steps out-
side their appointed role.
Newsflash, young prince — that hand-
some stranger who literally whisks mom off
her feet at Act III’s Royal Ball? He may look
like the swan of your dreams, but the only
thing you’ll get from giving him a public
display of affection is the wrath of your for-
merly fawning subjects and an express trip
to the nuthouse.
At least there’s some comfort to take in
the knowledge that before everything goes to
hell in Act IV’s climactic bedroom scene, our
prince evolves from closet to curious to proud
Mary — and, along the way, manages more
than one dance in the dark with the dude of
his dreams. That this happens in public on a
moonlit night is a sly nod to the grand tradi-
tion of cruising for gay sex in the wee hours as
respectable society sleeps. It’s in this moment
(the whole of Act II — “A City Park”) that
Bourne delivers some of his most iconic visu-
als and powerful choreography.
As the prince assumes the position of
voyeur, the main man swan and his 14-mem-
ber entourage preen, pose, jump and joust in
a prolonged sequence that seems to require
almost superhuman endurance. Fortunately
for the viewer, it’s incredibly easy, and fun, to
watch (one audience member said it inspired
feelings of “adulation and awe”).
As the lead swan courts his curious
prince, a four-pack of underlings sit, turn
their sweaty backs to the audience, stare
upwards towards the full moon and strike a
muscular pose — which, with hands clasped
firmly behind their backs, makes their shoul-
der blades look like a pair of (metaphor
alert!) clipped wings.
By this point, the notion of two men
dancing as a romantic couple — or a group
of men stomping their feet as a declara-
tion of sexual power — seems downright
uneventful. Yet that long-delayed moment
of first physical contact between prince and
swan earns an audible gasp (which has more
to do with empathy rather than being titil-
October 28 - November 3, 2010 25
Photo by Bill Cooper
lated by the notion of same-sex intimacy).
By the time Act II is over, the exhausted
dancers and onlookers alike have earned
their intermission. Speaking of exhaustion,
it’s worth noting that you’re likely to see
different lead dancers at any given perfor-
mance. At the two I saw (Oct. 15 and 24),
Richard Winsor & Jonathan Ollivier played
The Swan/Stranger, and Simon Williams &
Dominic North played The Prince. Consistent
in both performances were Nina Goldman as
The Queen and Madelaine Brennan as The
Girlfriend.
Although I brought a pen and notebook
on Oct. 24, I’m proud to admit the purpose
behind my second viewing was to ogle 15 fit
British lads in feathered short pants. But at
both performances, it was Brennan who stole
the show with her depiction of a low-class
social climber who sets her sights on the
prince and utterly destroys her chances by
going on a date (chaperoned by the Queen)
during which she nibbles on snacks, talks on
her cell phone and generally makes a spec-
tacle of herself. It’s a comedic performance
of great economy and skill, which would be a
starmaking turn even if she hadn’t danced a
single step (which, of course, she does).
So there you have it. Bourne manages to
deliver a “Swan” with bankable gay appeal
in which a genuine biological woman damn
near eclipses the lavender love story as
danced by over a dozen perfect specimens.
With so much gender role mishegoss going
on throughout, that unexpected turn of
events seems perfectly natural.
26 October 28 - November 3, 2010

CPR. From that point on she is obsessed with but I was irritable, so it may have affected
the hereafter and wants to write about it. my opinion of the movie.

KOCH None of the stories are complete, but they

contain many charming vignettes, e.g., George
taking an Italian cooking class where he begins
Now to the mangy plot. Frank (Bruce
Willis), a retired CIA agent living in
Cleveland, Ohio, is in love with Sarah

ON FILM a romance with his cooking partner, Melanie

“HEREAFTER” (+)
A neighbor recently asked me if I had
seen this film, which she described as “inter-
esting.” By that word, I assumed she really
didn’t like it — but when she said she did, I
decided to see it. In addition to being inter-
esting, “Hereafter” is a delightful, sensitive
and poignant movie.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the picture
contains three independent stories involving
a number of unconnected people whose lives
ultimately intersect. It reminded me of a Robert
Altman “Nashville,” although his pictures usu-
ally include strong narrative subplots. Eastwood
deliberately avoided intense dialogues in this
movie, focusing instead on mood, understated
emotion and brilliant imagery.
George (Matt Damon), who lives in San
Francisco, travels to London to get away
from his brother Billy (Jay Mohr). George is
a bona fide psychic who receives messages
from the dead. He has come to view that
ability as a curse rather than a gift, and he no
longer wants to engage in “readings.” Billy
wants him to continue in the business, which
has been profitable for the two of them.
Marcus (Frankie McLaren), who appears
to be about 12 years old, lives in London.
His twin brother, Jason, has died and Marcus
Matt Damon in “Hereafter.”
is removed from the custody of his drug and
alcohol addicted mother. In London, Marcus
recognizes George as a psychic he has seen on
a website. He wants to meet with him, hoping
that he can help him connect with his deceased
brother. George refuses, but that does not
deter Marcus — who waits all night in the cold
hoping that George will relent. He does.
Marie (Cecile de France), a truly gorgeous
woman, is a famous television commentator
in Paris. She and her boyfriend are on holiday
in an unnamed East Asian country where a
tsunami takes place. Marie almost drowns,
indeed probably does, but is resuscitated by
(Bryce Dallas Howard). Every member of the
cast performs their role sensationally, particu-
larly Frankie McLaren as young Marcus.
This movie, without the action, violence
and profanity of today’s films, is a surprising
winner. I saw it at the AMC Loews Kips Bay
15 (570 Second Ave., at 31st St.).
Henry Stern said: “This is an old-fashioned
movie which I found interesting, despite the
essential morbidity of the subject. Once you
suspend disbelief and accept the premise that
Matt Damon has conversations with the dead,
you can enjoy the interaction of the characters
and sympathize with the protagonist — whose
social life is precluded when girls learn of his
strange powers. Poor Matt. All the actors are
engaging, and for a couple of hours you believe
that all this is really happening. How much
more can one ask of a movie?”
Rated PG-13. Runtime: 2 hours, 6 min-
utes.
“RED” (-)
A near-slapstick production with an
alleged plot, this film is a farce — which
is difficult to do well. I did not enjoy this
picture, but fairness dictates that I tell you
I had a bandage over one eye as a result of
skin surgery the day before. I was in no pain,
(Mary-Louise Parker) — whom he has never
met. Sarah works in a Kansas City office
that distributes his pension checks. Frank
regularly destroys the checks he receives in
the mail so that he will have a reason to call
her and request replacement checks.
Frank is targeted for death. Why, he
doesn’t know, and that becomes his quest. We
are told that he is a CIA retiree and RED,
which means “Retired and Extremely
Dangerous.” Frank is the subject of an attack
and on the run. He seeks out Sarah to protect
her and is joined by his old friends who are also
RED. They include Joe (Morgan Freeman),
Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen
Mirren). William (Karl Urban) is the enemy,
and Ivan (Brian Cox) is Victoria’s ex-lover
and a former KGB operative.
The running joke is that the young agents
pursuing the REDs are inferior. A tremen-
dous number of bullets are fired from lethal-
looking machine guns, yet there was nothing
exciting or frightening about the action. But
remember, it is a farce.
I have seen all of the stars in this film in
truly excellent movies, which I fondly recall
years later. I forgot this movie as soon as I left
the theater. I saw it at the AMC Loews 19th
Street East 6 (890 Broadway, at 19th St.).
Rated PG-13. Runtime: 1 hour, 51 min-
utes.

144th Annual Juried Exhibition

American Watercolor Society
Call for Entries!
April 5–May 1, 2011
Digital and slide entries accepted.
New student category!
For details download prospectus at
www.americanwatercolorsociety.org
Contact American Watercolor Society
info@americanwatercolorsociety.org
212.206.8986

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31

Come see and be seen and

Celebrate the Night of Nights!

Costume Parade & Live Bands

Miracles & Monsters
HOT FOOD AND HOT ENTERTAINMENT

Bandstage on E. 10th St at 4:30pm

DOORS OPEN 7:30pm

ALL TICKETS $20

Theater for the New City 155 1st Ave. at East 10th St.
for Info call (212) 254-1109
Tickets available online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net
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Halloween Things: Last Rites

Scary stuff between now and Oct 31
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

For more Halloween events, go to www.villager.com and

search for “So much to do, it’s scary.”

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Edgar Allan Poe came into this world in 1809 and left
it in 1849 — but his macabre tales refuse to die. This
Halloween, Pluto Unleashed Productions will celebrate Poe’s
creepy legacy with a theatrical exploration of one of his best-
known short stories (adapted by Matt Connolly and directed
by John Zurek). “The Fall of the House of Usher” concerns
a spooky old house, a brother mourning his dead (?) sister,
and various creepy goings-on as experience by a narrator
whose curiosity soon proves ill-advised. FREE (donations
accepted). Oct. 31, 7 p.m. at Le Petit Versailles (346 E.
Houston St. at Ave. C). For info, call 212-529-8815 or visit
www.petitversailles@earthlink.net.

TNC ANNUAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL

While other once-hip neighborhoods lurch towards
respectability, it’s nice to know that vast parts of the East
Village still delight in flying their freak flag high and proud Photo courtesy of Friends of Hudson River Park
all year long. But once a year, Theater for the New City From 2009: The Kidz are all right. See “Halloween Kidz Karnival.”
throws a Halloween bash where even the locals seem to cross
the line separating eccentric from insane. It’s here that you’ll
find the most imaginative, outrageous Halloween costumes
in town. Join in the fun as you do some ballroom dancing,
vie for prizes, sink your fangs into Halloween delicacies and
fall under the enchanted spell of freakishly talented local art
stars as they perform for your viewing pleasure.
Outside, bluegrass and jazz bands mingle with jugglers,
fire-eaters and storyweavers. The fresh air entertainment
is capped by “The Red and Black Masque” — an annual
Medieval ritual show performed by torchlight. Inside, vam-
pire Richard Weber awakens from his undead slumber to
serve drinks at the Champagne Bar. The annual 12-category
costume judging begins at midnight with the “Monsters and
Miracles Costume Parade” (during which revelers are invited
to march past a panel of celebrity judges).
Oct. 31, at 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th St. & the block of
E. 10th St. btw.1st and 2nd Aves.). Outdoor entertainment
from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 p.m.). At the Ball,
costume or formal wear required. To order tickets ($20),
and for more info, call 212-254-1109 or visit www.theater-
forthenewcity.net.

BOO(ZY): AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING AND Photo by Chad Heird

SPIRITS
Does the drinking of spirits give one the ability to more
effectively channel the spirit world? Keep telling yourself
that, buddy. At least nobody at this event will debate that
wonderful new excuse for being a little blotto while enjoy-
ing the legitimate theater! “Boo(zy)” features stories by five
Chicago-based writers as performed by five NYC actors.
Each one of their stories will be paired with a drink that
“best embodies” the theme. Oct. 28 and 29, 9 p.m. at the
DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th St.). For tickets ($18, $15 for
students/seniors), call 212-868-4444 or visit www.smart-
tix.com. Specialty cocktails are $4-$8. No drink minimum.
Drinks will be allowed in the theater.
MIKE DAISEY: BARRING THE UNFORRSEEN
Storyteller Mike Daisey’s ultra-seasonal monologue delves
into the reasons why we tell ghost stories — by telling ghost
stories! Along the way, the graveyard-fresh ground covered
by Daisey includes nuggets from the history of spiritual-
ism, dirt on the tortured life of H.P. Lovecraft as well as
more than one Maine ghost story. Nightly at 8 p.m. Oct. 26
Welcome to My (Victorian) Nightmare: See “Steampunk Haunted House.”
through Oct. 31, at IRT (154 Christopher St., #3B). For info
and tickets ($25), visit www.brownpapertickets.com or pur-
chase at the door one hour before curtain. Also visit www.
irttheater.org or www.mikedaisey.com.
STEAMPUNK HAUNTED HOUSE: BEAUTIFUL
DREAMER
Immerse yourself in a neo-Victorian experience that’s
more about terrifying dreamscapes and elegant horrors
than temp workers dressed like blood-soaked zombies. This
edition of the Steampunk haunted house has the theme
“Beautiful Dreamer.” Audiences will wander the premises
until one by one, they find themselves alone. From that point
on, you’re on your own. Will you be able to figure out how
to navigate the twisting hallways, looming balconies and
labyrinthine cellars? We hope so, because every manner of
mechanical apparitions, wraithlike sleepwalkers and pow-
ered beasts will be trying to prevent your escape. Children
under 8 won’t be admitted. It would probably damage them
for life. Oct. 29 & 30, 8-11:30 p.m. and Oct. 28 & 31, 6-9:30
p.m. at Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement (466
Grand St. at Pitt St.). Prices vary according to date (and
student status). For info and to purchase tickets, visit www.
steampunkhauntedhouse.com.
KID-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES
HALLOWEEN KIDZ KARNIVAL
Those feisty rebels from Friends of Hudson River Park are
the mad minds behind this family-friendly event — whose
frightening spelling errors are enough to turn a prim school-
marm white as a ghost. The activities and attractions you’ll
find at “Halloween Kidz Karnival” include face painting, mask
decorating, wax hands, cotton candy and rides. The Striking
Viking Story Pirates will perform Halloween-themed improv
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Last call for Halloween scares
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shows throughout the day (most activities are
for the 3-12 set). Some activities are free and
select activities will cost $2. Oct. 31, 12pm
to 6pm, at Pier 86 (at 46th St., at Charles St.,
in Hudson River Park). BONUS ACTIVITY:
Visitors who come in costume to the Intrepid
Air and Space Museum on Halloween will
receive 50% off general admission to the
Museum Complex’s “spooktacular” Hauntings
on the Hudson Halloween Festival. For more
info on the Karnival, visit www.fohrp.org
20TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S
HALLOWEEN PARADE
It was already a tradition ages ago. But this
time around, the annual Greenwich Village
Children’s Halloween Parade celebrates its
20th year. As always, costumed children
(ages 3-12) and families will march around
Washington Square Park — then enjoy candy,
face painting and rides. The NYC-based chil-
dren’s band Jeremy Plays Guitar will perform,
followed by entertainment from NYU music
groups, cheerleaders and dance teams. Oct.
31. The parade starts at 1:15 p.m. (marchers
start gathering at 1 p.m., and the festivities
end at 4 p.m.). The parade assembles along
Washington Square North, near the Arch —
and ends at LaGuardia between Washington
Square South and W. 3rd St. (where various
activities await the children).
LOWER EAST SIDE KIDS TRICK OR
TREATING TOUR
City Food Tours is sponsoring this excursion
that dispenses fantastic treats that aren’t usually
dropped in your bag by the neighbors. Curious?
Of course you are. That sweet tooth will be
tamed with creamy cupcakes, gourmet donuts,
birthday cake cannoli, yummy cookies and good
old-fashioned candy. This 1-hour walking tour is
for kids 5 through 12 — in costume — who are
accompanied by an adult. Oct. 31, at 12 p.m.
The price is just one penny per kid, and $35 for
adults. For more info, visit www.cityfoodtours.
com/newyork or call 212-535-TOUR.
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books have inspired a generation’s worth of
sleepless nights. Meet the author (along with
fellow creepy lit authors Jennifer Allison
and Ryan Brown) when they appear (out
of thin air) to promote the release of “Fear:
13 Stories of Suspense and Horror.” Stine
edited the anthology, and all three authors
contributed a story. Each of them will read
their contribution, and all will be available
to take questions from the audience and sign
copies of their books. This event is appropri-
ately frightening — and appropriate for ages
12 and up. Free. Thurs., Oct. 28, 5-7 p.m.
at Books of Wonder (18 W. 18th St.) For
more info, call 212-989-3270 or visit www.
booksofwonder.com.
HALLOWEEN HI-JINKS
ON THE HIGH LINE
This Halloween celebration for families
comes with a warning: Watch out for the
giant spider that’s taken over the High Line!
Even as you read these words, a group of
mad scientists and schoolchildren from P.S. Photo by Allison Smith
3, P.S. 11 and P.S. 33 are working to create a Little Red Riding Hood and friends enjoy the 2009 Children’s Halloween Parade.
12-foot long spider puppet made of recycled
materials. That gruesome creature will be
installed in the rafters of the Chelsea Market
Passage just in time for the Friends of the
High Line Halloween event (a free party at
which families can decorate spooky animal
masks and dance to bluegrass music by
the Cleek Schrey and the High Line Dance
Band). Coming in costume is encouraged!
Oct. 31, 1-4 p.m. at the Chelsea Market
Passage (on the High Line, at W. 16th St.).
HalloWHOA!
Manhattan Youth and the Story Pirates
present this silly and scary interactive haunt-
ed house. The 30-minute show (with special
performances for both adults and kids under
5) will frighten and amuse, as you explore a
world of secret passages and mind-bending
puzzles. The audience will determine such
plot points as whether the Wolfman howls
at the moon or pours everyone tea and tells
a story! Through Oct. 31, at the Manhattan
Youth Downtown Community Center (120
Warren St.). General admission is $40, with
special packages available at $60 & $100. Photo by Nadia Kitirath
For tickets, visit www.hallowhoa.com or From 2009: Revelers await judge’s prize decisions following the Monsters
call 347-8-STORY-8. and Miracles Costume Parade. See “TNC” on page 27.

Just Do Art!
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
UG! COMEDY SHOW!!
Todd Montesi and Justin Murray have
picked up stakes and moved their weekly
comedy show to MUG Lounge. Unchanged
is the unhinged nature of the hosts and
their revolving rouges gallery of upcoming,
established, and deeply troubled comedians.
At 8 p.m., Tuesdays at MUG Lounge (448
E. 13th St. btw. 1st & Ave. A). No cover,
1-drink minimum ($3 drafts, $4 wells till
10 p.m.). For info & reservations: 646-
746-1357. Check out www.youtube.com/
MONTIKILLAVISION.
BOXING GYM
A very long time before Reality TV
made stars out of simpletons willing to be
their shallow selves as the cameras rolled,
documentarian Frederick Wiseman was
letting his camera roll — without coach-
ing his subjects or manufacturing conflict.
Although the footage that made it into his
often epic-length films was highly subjec-
tive (according to his own likes, dislikes
and the dictates of pacing), Wiseman’s out-
put strived to be as objective as possible.
His latest work, clocking in at a slim 90
minutes, is set inside the Austin, TX-based
Lord’s Gym (run by professional boxer
Richard Lord — www.lordsboxing.com).
As days melt into weeks and months, we
eavesdrop on the Lord’s regulars. What
you don’t get much of, however, is the vio-
lent result of their growing skills (the only
footage of two guys actually going at it in
the ring happens very late in the game).
Most of the film is devoted to repeat skill-
building sessions punctuated by occasional
conversations and interactions (only a
few of which provide a window into what
drives these people). It’s worth your time,
though. Just immersing yourself momen-
tarily into the world of Lord’s is enough
to give you a profound appreciation of the
boxer’s obsessive nature.
Not Rated. 90 minutes. USA, 2010. At
IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave. at W. Third
St.). For info, call 212-924-7771 or visit
www.ifccenter.com. On Thurs., Oct. 28
(at the 7:50 p.m. showing), Michael Tully
(“Hammer to Nail”) and Steve Lott (The
Boxing Hall of Champions and former
Assistant Manager of many champion
boxers like Mike Tyson) will be on hand
after the screening for a Q&A with the
audience.
PANEL DISCUSSION & WALKING
TOUR: JEWS & CHINESE FOOD:
Chinese food and the Chosen People
go together like Christmas and Christians.
Maybe that’s why Jews crowd Chinese
restaurants on December 25. But their
love of Asian cuisine doesn’t begin or end
on that specific date. A trio of authors
will discuss the chosen food of the cho-
sen people. Those panelists are: Jennifer
8. Lee (author of “The Fortune Cookie
Chronicles”), Professor Donald I. Siegel
Gonna make you sweat: See “Boxing Gym.”
“Burned Hearts” (“Les Coeurs Brulés”). See “First Moroccan Film Festival.”
(author of “From Lokshen to LoMein: The
Jewish Love Affair with Chinese Food”)
and Andrew Coe (author of “Chop Suey:
A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the
United States”). The culinary conversa-
tion takes place at the Museum of Jewish
Photo courtesy of Zipporah Films
Image courtesy of the Moroccan Film Festival
Heritage. Following the discussion, the
Museum of Chinese in America will lead
a walking tour of Chinatown. Tickets for
panel are $10 ($7 for seniors/students,
$5 for Museum members) For tickets, visit
www.mjhnyc.org or call 646-437-4202.
October 28 - November 3, 2010 29
For the walking tour, $15 ($12 students/
seniors, $10 for Museum of Jewish Heritage
and Museum of Chinese in America mem-
bers). Pre-registration for the walking tour
is required; space is limited to 50. To
register, use the same phone/website info
provided for the panel discussion. This
event is co-sponsored by the Museum of
Chinese in America.
FIRST MOROCCAN FILM FESTIVAL
Be among the first to sample films from
the first U.S. Moroccan Film Festival. It’s
a perfect introduction for those who have
heard of Hollywood and Bollywood, but
wish to learn more about Mollywood.
Opening night, the film “Burned Hearts”
makes its East Coast premiere. This
drama chronicles the struggle of one
Europeanized Moroccan to come to terms
with his religious and ethnic identities.
On Oct. 30, nine dramatic, documentary
and comedic films will have their U.S.
premiere (English subtitles). Proceeds
from the Festival go to the High Atlas
Foundation (HAF), a nonprofit dedi-
cated to community development in
rural Morocco. Oct. 29 & 30 at Tribeca
Cinemas (54 Varick St., at Laight St. —
one block below Canal). For a complete
schedule and to purchase tickets, visit
www.highatlasfoundation.org.
EAR TO THE EARTH
This year, the annual “Ear to Earth”
festival of sound, music, and ecology takes
on then theme of “Water and the World” by
using compositions, installations and pre-
sentations to explore the current states of
water and our social and cultural attitudes
towards it. Melting ice and rising sea lev-
els, access, privatization, pollution, storm
intensity and salinity are just a few of the
thorny issued dredged up by this ambitious
fest. Oct. 29 at 8pm, it’s the world premiere
of Kristin Norderval’s “Tattooed Ghosts”
along with Matt Rogalsky’s “Memory
Like Water.” Oct. 30 at 8pm, “New York
Soundscapes” offers three world premieres:
Miguel Frasconi’s “Inside-Out.” Aleksei
Stevens’ “Standing Water: Sound Map
of the Gowanus Canal, 2010” and Paula
Matthuson’s “Navigable.” Nov. 1, it’s the
world premiere of Charles Lindsay and
David Rothenberg’ “Western Water” along-
side Andrea Polli and TJ Martinez’s docu-
mentary “Dances with Waves.”
The festival runs through Nov. 1, at the
Frederick Loewe Theater (35 West 4th St.),
the Greenwich House Music School (46
Barrow St.), White Box (329 Broome St.)
and Kleio Projects (153 1/2 Stanton St.).
Tickets for events at Greenwich House
and White Box are $15 ($10 for EMF
Subscribers and seniors, $5 for students).
Free admission to events at the Frederick
Loewe Theater. A Festival pass is $30. For
a full schedule and details on the above-
mentioned events, and for more info, visit
www.emfproductions.org or call 888-749-
9998.
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34 Fl., New York, NY 10017.
DE address of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BETTER CHOICE
VENDING LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
7/30/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 60 Demopo-
lis Ave., Staten Island, NY
10308. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF JUNE PLUM CLOTH-
ING LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 3/4/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to: 6
W.20 St. 8 Fl., New York, NY
10011. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF NEUROSPORT
NYC, LLC.
Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/26/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Geor-
gia (GA) on 8/4/10. SSNY
designated as agent for ser-
vice of process. SSNY shall
mail process to: 1163 John-
son Ferry Rd. #100, Marietta,
GA 30068. GA address of
LLC: 1163 Johnson Ferry Rd.
#100, Marietta, GA 30068.
Art. of Org. filed with GA
Secy. of State, 2 MLK Jr. Dr.,
Atlanta, GA 30334. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LE PALAIS DES THES
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/13/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to c/o Deborah A. Nil-
son, PLLC, 10 E. 40th St., Ste.
3310, NY, NY 10016. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF TIAA-CPPIB
COMMERCIAL MORT-
GAGE COMPANY REIT
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/18/10. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 12/16/09.
Princ. office of LLC: 730 Third
Ave., NY, NY 10017. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to c/o Corpora-
tion Service Co., 80 State St.,
Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE
addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. of Org. filed with
Secy. of State of the State of
DE, Div. of Corps., John G.
Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal
St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BROOKFIELD
HH POOLING VEHICLE
L.P.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/16/10. Office location: NY
County. LP formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 09/01/10. Princ.
office of LP: c/o Brookfield
Asset Management Inc.,
Three World Financial Cen-
ter, 200 Vesey St., 10th Fl., NY,
NY 10281-1021. SSNY des-
ignated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to the LP at the addr.
of its princ. office. Name and
addr. of each general partner
are available from SSNY. DE
addr. of LP: c/o Corporation
Service Co., 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. of Org. filed with
State of DE, Secy. of State,
Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898,
Dover, DE 19903. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF C PETTEL LLC,
Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 8/5/10. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to Attn: Christine Ettelson,
300 Mercer St., #8I, NY, NY
10003. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ARE RETAIL MAN-
AGEMENT, LLC,
Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 7/15/10. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to c/o
Nat. Reg. Agents, 875 Ave of
the Americas, NY, NY 10001,
the Reg. Agt. upon whom
proc. may be served. Pur-
pose: any lawful activities.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SERENDIV
CAPITAL MANAGEMENT,
LLC,
Authority filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 11/6/09. Office loc.:
NY County. LLC org. in DE
11/4/09. SSNY desig. as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of proc. to Attn: Dilan
Siritunga, 767 5th Ave., 12th
Fl., NY, NY 10153. DE office
addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville
Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE,
Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE
19901. Purp.: any lawful
activities.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF WOLFE WORLDWIDE,
L.L.C
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
07/14/2010. 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: WOLFE
WORLDWIDE L.L.C 150 East
56th Street, Suite 12E, New
York, New York 10022, Atten-
tion Scott Wolfe. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
LIAO JIE LLC
Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State
of NY 06/18/2010. Off. Loc.:
New York Co. SSNY desig-
nated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy of
process to THE LLC, 90 Gold
St. Apt 14D, New York, NY
10038. Purpose: Any lawful
act or activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF VELOCITY
MANAGEMENT GROUP,
LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
9/1/2010. Office location: NY
County. Principal business
address: 527 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022. LLC
formed in Pennsylvania (PA)
on 03/31/2010. 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: Veloc-
ity Management Group LLC,
c/o Philip Elias, 625 Liberty
Ave. 24th Floor Pittsburgh,
PA 15222. PA address of
LLC: 625 Liberty Ave. 24th
Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
Articles of Formation filed
with PA Secretary of State,
Division of Corporations, 401
North St. Room 206 Har-
risburg, PA 17120. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 382 CPW LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/24/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Wachtel & Masyr,
LLP, One Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza, 885 Second Ave., 47th
Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CHELSEA BUSI-
NESS AND PROPERTY
OWNER’S ASSOCIA-
TION, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/10.
Office location: NY County.
LLC formed in Delaware (DE)
on 1/1/10. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o National Regis-
tered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave-
nue of the Americas, Ste. 501,
NY, NY 10001. DE address
of LLC: c/o Capitol Services,
Inc., 615 South DuPont Hwy.,
Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Secy. of
State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE
19903. Purpose: any lawful
act or activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CA 543 LICENSING
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/14/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o The LLC, 1407
Broadway, 41st Fl., NY, NY
10018. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BLDG PRINCE LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/18/2005. Office location:
NY County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: Lawrence P.
Wolf, Esq., Six Hemlock Hills,
Chappaqua, NY 10514. Term:
until 12/31/2095. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NAME OF FOR. LLC:
GOTHAM ASSET MAN-
AGEMENT, LLC.
App. for Auth. filed NY Dept.
of State: 9/8/10. Jurisd. and
date of org.: DE 8/13/08.
Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of
State designated as agent
of foreign LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. The Sec. of State
shall mail copy of process to
princ. bus. loc.: 535 Madison
Ave., 30th Fl., NY, NY 10022.
Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is:
615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover,
DE 19901. Auth. officer in DE
where Cert. of Form. filed: DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF AHR LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 8/5/10. NYS fict.
name: Delaware AHR LLC.
Office location: NY County.
LLC formed in DE on 4/15/10.
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.: 50 W. 57th St., Fl. 15,
NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o National Registered
Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree
Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.
Cert. of Form. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CJD LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 8/5/10. NYS fict.
name: Delaware CJD LLC.
Office location: NY County.
LLC formed in DE on 4/15/10.
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.: 50 W. 57th St., Fl. 15,
NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o National Registered
Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree
Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.
Cert. of Form. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CTAM GRANT
LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/14/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 9/13/10. 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
address: 599 Lexington Ave.,
NY, NY 10022. DE address
of LLC: c/o The Corporation
Trust Co., 1209 Orange St.,
Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec.
of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover,
DE 19903. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF DUNE ROAD
DESIGN LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 8/4/10. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LLC formed
in DE on 4/15/10. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
and shall mail process to the
principal business addr.: 50
W. 57th St., Fl. 15, NY, NY
10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o
National Registered Agents,
Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste.
101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF GRAMERCY-
ONE, LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/15/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 8/18/10. 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.: 257 Park Ave. South,
Floor 10, NY, NY 10010, Attn:
Neil Kurlander. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o The Corporation
Trust Co., 1209 Orange St.,
Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF QUOGUE VEN-
TURES LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 8/4/10. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LLC formed
in DE on 4/15/10. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
and shall mail process to the
principal business addr.: 50
W. 57th St., Fl. 15, NY, NY
10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o
National Registered Agents,
Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste.
101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 9/30-11/4/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LITTLE LIME DRESS,
L.L.C.
Arts of Org filed with the
Secy of State of NY (SSNY)
on 8/30/10.Office location:NY
Co. SSNY designated as an
agent upon whom process
may be served and shall mail
a copy of any process to the
principal business address:
20 Beekman Pl, Apt 3F, NY
NY 10022. Purpose: any law-
ful act.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
THE STEKETEE FIRM LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 8/26/2010.
Office in Albany Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Randall
Steketee 190 Avenue B Suite
1B New York, NY 10009. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
DAV WORLDWIDE LLC
art. of org. filed Secy. of
State NY (SSNY) 8/31/10.
Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to: Sujit Singh,
606 W 42nd St #512,NY, NY
10036. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF MOAL, LLC.
Authority filed with NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 8/26/10.
Juris. of org: CA filed: 5/18/10
NY off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to principal
address in CA: 1630 Stewart
St, Ste 120, Santa Monica,
CA 90404. Arts of org. on
file with SSCA, 1500 11th St,
Sacramento, CA 95814 Pur-
pose: Any lawful purpose.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
DOME ARCHITECTURE,
DESIGN AND ENGINEER-
ING GROUP, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
09/08/10. 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, 139 Fulton Street, Suite
214, New York, NY 10038.
Purpose: Architecture and
Engineering.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DARYL WEIN FILMS,
LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
04/17/08. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: PO Box
20097 WVS New York, NY
10014. Purpose: To engage
in any lawful act or activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BD 39TH STREET
HOLDINGS, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
07/14/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
c/o Wellington Hotel, 871
Seventh Ave., NY, NY 10019.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
c/o Holland & Knight LLP,
Attn: M. James Spitzer, Jr.,
Esq., 31 W. 52nd St., NY, NY
10019. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CERBERUS
BUSINESS FINANCE,
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/20/10. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 07/23/10.
Princ. office of LLC: 299 Park
Ave., 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10171.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
Seth P. Plattus, c/o Cerberus
Business Finance, LLC at the
princ. office of the LLC. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation
Service Co., 2711 Centervile
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, John G.
Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal
St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF 11 WEST 30TH
STREET - THIRD FLOOR
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/20/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
c/o Howard L. Zimmerman
Architects, P.C. Attn: Howard
L. Zimmerman, 11 W. 30th
St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10001.
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. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
APP FOR AUTH FOR
PIKE STREET FISH FRY
NYC, LLC
filed with Sec. Of State of
NY (SSNY) 7/28/10. Off: loc:
NY County. LLC formed in
WA on 7/07/10. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to The LLC, 1005
East Pike Street, Seattle, WA
98122. Arts, Of Org. filed with
WA Sec. Of State, 801 Capitol
Way S., Olympia, WA 98504-
0234. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
GOOD FRIENDS AND
BUSINESS PARTNERS,
LLC.
Art. Of Org. filed Sec. Of
State of NY 06/24/10. Off. Loc
.: New York Co. SSNY desig-
nated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy
of process to The LLC, C/O
Brock Gavery, 1005 East Pike
Street, Seattle, WA 98122.
Purpose: Any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DAILYDIARY, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/5/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 350 W. 42nd St., Ste.
58C, NY, NY 10036. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DRWVENTURE, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/23/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 250 E. 63rd St., Apt.
610, NY, NY 10065. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF MODERN MAN-
HATTAN LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/24/10. Fictitious name in
NY State: Ligne Roset LLC.
Office location: NY County.
LLC formed in Pennsylvania
(PA) on 4/13/10. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: 4131 Main St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19127. PA
address of LLC: 1 W. Sunset
Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118.
Arts. of Org. filed with PA
Secy. of State, 401 North
St., Rm. 206, Harrisburg, PA
17120. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF RSO CONSULTING
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/17/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Raoul Oreskovic, 300
Lexington Ave., Ste. 17, NY,
NY 10168. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SABRETOOTH
YIN ONSHORE FUND,
L.P.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/17/10. Office location: NY
County. LP formed in DE on
9/16/10. SSNY designated
as agent of LP upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the principal office of
LP: 405 Lexington Ave., 50th
Fl., NY, NY 10174, Attn: Erez
Kalir. DE address of LP: 615
South DuPont Hwy., Dover,
DE 19901. Name/address
of each genl. ptr. available
from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed
with DE Secy. of State, PO
Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF FIBERMEDIA
GROUP, LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/17/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 200B Meadow-
lands Pkwy., Secaucus, NJ
07094. LLC formed in DE on
7/30/10. NY Sec. of State des-
ignated agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served and shall mail
process to: c/o CT Corpora-
tion System, 111 8th Ave.,
NY, NY 10011, regd. agent
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Sec. of State, 401
Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 10/7-11/11/10
BUSINESS FOR CRE-
ATIVES, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 9/30/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to MaiaT. Spilman
116 West 23rd Street, 5th Fl
New York, NY 10011. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
GREYCORDUROY LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/15/2003.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 55 W
14th St. #9R New York, NY
10011. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
KAREN HURLEY LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 8/31/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Robert Blocker
556 Speedwell Ave Morris
Plains, NJ 07950. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF KIDS IN SPORTS LI
I LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
07/27/10. 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: Kids
In Sports LLC, 251 East 77th
Street, Suite CB, New York,
N.Y. 10075 Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF MANHATTAN
WATERFRONT AND
FERRY TERMINAL
DEVELOPMENT FUND,
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/28/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
299 Broadway, Ste. 1220, NY,
NY 10007. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to c/o New York City
Regional Center, LLC at the
princ. office of the LLC. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF THREAD MAS-
TER GP LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/28/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 06/21/10. Princ.
office of LLC: Scott Booth,
101 Park Ave., 33rd Fl., NY,
NY 10178. 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., P.O. Box 898, Dover,
DE 19903. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF COSMOS
SOHO OFFICE LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/20/10. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 9/20/2010.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: Attn: Mory Amaro, 75
Greene St., NY, NY 10018,
also the address of the prin-
cipal office. Address to be
maintained in DE: c/o Nation-
al Registered Agents, Inc.,
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 law-
ful activities.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF THE LAW OFFICE OF
SYLVIE L.F. RICHARDS,
ESQ., PLLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/14/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 710 West End
Ave. #16C, New York, NY
10025. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SHATIN LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
1/22/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 128 Charles St.
#11, New York, NY 10014.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF KAFKACARE MEDI-
CAL, PLLC,
a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on
08/30/2010. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to:
133 East 58th St. Ste 304,
NY, NY 10022. Purpose: To
Practice The Profession Of
Medicine.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF VANDERRA
MANAGEMENT L.L.C.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/24/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Texas
(TX) on 8/28/07. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to the TX address of
LLC: Attn: Chelsee Murphy,
4021 Highway 377 South,
Fort Worth, TX 76126. Arts.
of Org. filed with TX Secy. of
State, P.O. Box 12887, Austin,
TX 78711. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF TREADWAY HOLD-
INGS, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
9/24/10. 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: The LLC, 2350
Broadway, Apt. 1112A, New
York, NY 10024. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF STERLING PRIVATE
HOLDINGS, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/1/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o Hitchcock & Cum-
mings LLP, 757 Third Ave.,
25th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BROOKFIELD
MULTIFAMILY CAPITAL
LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/23/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 200 Vesey St.,
11th Fl., NY, NY 10281. LLC
formed in DE on 6/14/10. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o Corporation Ser-
vice Co., 80 State St., Albany,
NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC:
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
October 28 - November 3, 2010
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF DUNKIN
LENDER LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/24/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 55 E. 59th St., 17th
Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed
in DE on 9/21/10. NY Sec.
of State designated agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: c/o CT
Corporation System, 111 8th
Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd.
agent upon whom process
may be served. DE addr. of
LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Cert. of
Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/14-11/18/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has
been applied for by Zaitzeff
3 Corporation d/b/a Zaitzeff
to sell beer, wine, and liquor
at retail in a restaurant. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC law at 194 E
2nd Street a/k/a 18 Avenue B
NY, NY 10009.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Ichiban 71
Clinton Inc. d/b/a Patate Fel-
lows to sell beer, wine, and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at 71
Clinton Street NY, NY 10002.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by St. Mark Pho
Corp. d/b/a Pho 32 and Shabu
to sell beer and wine at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 13 Saint Marks
Place NY, NY 10003.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Chelsea Enter-
tainment Group LLC to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 222 West 23rd
Street NY, NY 10011.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Les Gastro,
LLC to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at
101 Rivington Street NY, NY
10002.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by MKT Group,
LLC d/b/a The Tippler to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 75 Ninth Avenue
NY, NY 10011.
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
31
WINDOWS OF AGATE,
LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 9/15/10.
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 Karina Glasser, 29 W.
138th St., #4B, NY, NY 10037.
General Purposes. Latest
date to dissolve 12/31/2040
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
YANG FAMILY CAPITAL
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/25/10. Ofc in NY Cty. SSNY
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to C/O United
States Corporation Agents,
Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202,
Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose:
General.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ADVANCED RISK
SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/30/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
c/o ARM-Capacity of NY, 90
Broad St., Ste. 1503, NY, NY
10004. 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 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 60 GUILDERS PRO-
DUCTIONS, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
08/31/10. 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: 60 Guil-
ders Productions LLC., 77
Bleecker Street #602, New
York, NY 10012. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
CHINA MAIN STREET,
LLC
art. of org. filed Secy. of
State NY (SSNY) 9/2/10. Off.
loc. in New York Co. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to: 212 E.
87th St, 3A, NY, NY 10128.
Purpose: Any lawful pur-
pose, managed by 1 or more
members.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
PAULA GANTZ PUBLISH-
ING CONSULTANCY, LLC
art. of org. filed Secy. of
State NY (SSNY) 9/14/10. Off.
loc. in New York Co. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to: c/o Paula
Gantz, 210 W. 90 St, 4A, NY,
NY 10024. Purpose: Any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
32 October 28 - November 3, 2010
NOTICE OF FORMATION
HANEROT MERGER
VEHICLE, LLC
art. of org. filed Secy. of
State NY (SSNY) 9/28/10. Off.
loc. in New York Co. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to: John S.B.
Older, 144 E. 44 St, 7th Fl, NY,
NY 10017. Purpose: Any law-
ful purpose, management
vested in managers.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
VERITY WINES LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with
the Sec of State of NY on
6/23/2009. NY Office location:
NEW YORK County. SSNY
is designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail a copy of any pro-
cess against the LLC served
upon him/her to Steven R.
Doran, 40 E. 89th St., apt.
12a, ny, ny 10128. General
Purposes.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BE WELL ANIMAL
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
99 Washington Ave. #805A,
Albany, NY 12210. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PAYNE NYC LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
114 Horatio St. PH4, NY, NY
10014. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GOLDSTEIN FAM-
ILY LLC.
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 05/07/10. Office location:
New York County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, 420 9th
Avenue, New York, New York
10001. Purpose: For any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
511 NINTH AVENUE
ASSOCIATES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/6/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to The LLC
355 Lexington Avenue, 17th
Fl New York, NY 10017. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DELANOR, KEMPER
& ASSOCIATES NY, LLC
Arts of Org filed with Sec. of
State of NY (SSNY) 10/7/10.
Office in NY Co. Principal
location: 5030 Broadway Ste
621, NY, NY 10034. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process to reg.
agent National Corporate
Research Ltd., 10 E 40th St-10-
th Fl, New York, NY 10016.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
E OF FOR. LLC: NOVA-
TRIX USA, LLC.
App. for Auth. filed NY Dept.
of State: 9/8/10. Jurisd. and
date of org.: DE 7/1/10. Cty
off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State
designated as agent of for-
eign LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. The
Sec. of State shall mail copy
of process to: The LLC, 30 W.
61st St., Unit 20-C, NY, NY
10023. Addr. of foreign LLC
in DE is: National Corporate
Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont
Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth.
officer in DE where Cert. of
Form. filed: DE Sec. of State,
401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MDP VI HOLDING
CO LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/5/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o Millennium Part-
ners, 1995 Broadway, 3rd Fl.,
NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that license number 1248364
has been applied for by the
undersigned to sell liquor at
retail in a restaurant under
the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
trol Law at 551 Hudson St.
New York, NY 10014 for on
premises consumption. 551
Hudson Restaurant LLC
Vil 10/21-10/28/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF FLORANAMEL LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 6/14/10.
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: c/o Sandra Viana,
Esq., Withers Bergman LLP,
430 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY,
NY 10022. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF THIRTEENTH FLOOR
GROUP, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 5/28/10.
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 busi-
ness addr.: Thirteenth Floor
Group, 880 Third Ave., 13th
Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF LYXOR/EVA
PENTANGLE PARTNERS
FUND LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 10/4/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 4/15/10. 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.: c/o Lyxor Asset Man-
agement Inc., 1251 Ave. of
the Americas, 46th Fl., NY,
NY 10020. DE addr. of LLC:
c/o The Corporation Trust
Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Cert. of
Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, P.O. Box 898, Dover,
DE 19903. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ATLAS RAIL-
ROAD CONSTRUCTION,
LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 9/24/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in FL on 7/26/10.
NY Sec. of State designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY,
NY 10011, regd. agent upon
whom process may be
served. FL and principal busi-
ness addr.: 7411 Fullerton
St., Ste. 300, Jacksonville, FL
32256. Arts. of Org. filed with
FL Sec. of State, Tallahassee,
FL 32314. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/21-11/25/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT
a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Salo Madison,
Inc. to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at
72 Madison Avenue NY, NY
10010.
Vil 10/28-11/4/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT
a license, #TBA has been
applied for by A Square B Inc
d/b/a Murphy’s Tavern. to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 6 Stone Street NY,
NY 10004.
Vil 10/28-11/4/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT
a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Beecher’s
Handmade Cheese NY LLC.
to sell beer, wine and liquor
at retail in a restaurant. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC law at 900
Broadway Store 1 NY, NY
10003.
Vil 10/28-11/4/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT
a license, #TBA has been
applied for by DLP Group,
LLC. to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at 132
9th Avenue NY, NY 10011.
Vil 10/28-11/4/10
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT
a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Café Crystal
Inc. d/b/a Café Kristall. to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 499 Broadway
NY, NY 10012.
Vil 10/28-11/4/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF INTEGRATED
MERCHANDISING SYS-
TEMS LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/07/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/31/01. Princ.
office of LLC: 437 Madison
Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to c/o Corpo-
ration Service Co., 80 State
St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.
DE addr. of LLC: c/o, 2711
Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Secy.
of State - John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GARAGE MEDIA NY
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/05/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to c/o Davidoff Malito
& Hutcher LLP, Attn: Mark
D. Geraghty, 605 Third Ave.,
34th Fl., NY, NY 10158. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LOVE ROCKS NY LLC.
Art. of Org filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/17/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 201 E.77 St. #3F,
NY, NY 10075. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
NY MOHS LASER DER-
MATOLOGY, P.L.L.C.
art. of org. filed Secy. of State
NY (SSNY) 9/24/10. Off. loc.
in NY Co. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to: Margaret Davino,
120 Broadway, 14th Fl, NY,
NY 10271. Purpose: Practice
Medicine, members name/
address on file w/SSNY.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
SHIR PROPERTIES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 9/9/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Gabriel Dagan
331 East 51st St New York,
NY 10022. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
25 PARK BRIDGEHAMP-
TON, LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 8/9/10.
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 Hugh Janow, Esq., Law
Offices of Hugh Janow, LLC,
One Blue Hill Plaza, Ste. 1006,
Pearl River, NY 10965. Gen-
eral Purposes.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF
509 FIFTH AVENUE
ASSOCIATES OWNER
LLC,
Auth. filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 8/23/10. Office loc.:
NY County. LLC org. in
DE 6/8/10. SSNY desig. as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of proc. to 1140 Ave of the
Americas, 11th Fl., NY, NY
10036. Reg. Agt. at such addr.
upon whom proc. may be
served is Norman Sturner.
DE off. addr.: 160 Green-
tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE
19904. Cert. of Form. on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any
lawful activities.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF W
144 VENTURE LLC,
Auth. filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 9/8/10. Office loc.:
NY County. LLC org. in DE
12/28/09. SSNY desig. as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of proc. to c/o Dalan Mgmt.
& Assc., 134 W. 25th St., NY,
NY 10001. DE off. addr.: 160
Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover,
DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any
lawful activities.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF
MIDSUMMER SMALL
CAP ADVISORS, LLC,
Auth. filed Sec’y of State
(SSNY) 8/10/10. Office loc.:
NY County. LLC org. in
DE 8/5/10. SSNY desig. as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of proc. to Att: Michael A.
Amsalem, 295 Madison Ave.,
38th Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off.
addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville
Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE,
Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE
19901. Purp.: any lawful
activities.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
96 ST LOAN, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/18/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Kriss &
Feuerstein LLP C/O Kenneth
P. Horowitz 360 Lexington
Ave, 12th Fl New York, NY
10017. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CFD70 ASSET INVES-
TORS, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
09/08/10. 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:CFD70
Asset Investors, LLC, 350 E.
54th Street, Suite 2A, New
York, NY 10022. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HUDSON HAR-
BOR CAPITAL LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 10/8/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 10/6/10. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail process
to: c/o Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP, Four
Times Square, NY, NY 10036,
Attn: James M. Schell. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-
ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Cert. of Form. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BLACKBERN
PARTNERS LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 3/18/10. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 1/7/10. NY
Sec. of State designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
addr.: 295 Madison Ave., 24th
Fl., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Jona-
than Bernstein, regd. agent
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o
The Corporation Trust Co.,
1209 Orange St., Wilming-
ton, DE 19801. Cert. of Form.
filed with DE Sec. of State,
401 Federal St., Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 10/28-12/2/10
COMPROMISE CITATION FILE:
2006 702/A
SURROGATE’S COURT ---
NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK,
BY the Grace of God Free and Independent
To: Vanessa Goebel if living and if dead, to her
heirs at law, next of kin and distributes whose
names and places of residence are unknown and
if she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to
her executors, administrators, legatee, devisees,
assignees and successors in interest whose names
and places of residence are unknown and to all
other heirs, whose names and places of residence
are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be
ascertained.
A petition having been file by Doris Johanson
Goebel who is domiciled at 330 East 38 Street,
#39D, New York, NY 10016.
You are hereby cited to show cause before the
Surrogate’s Court, New York, County at 31 Cham-
bers Street New York, on November 23,2010 at
10:00am in room 509 why a decree should not be
made in the estate of Alexander William Goebel
lately domiciled at 330 East 38 Street, #39D, NY, NY
10016,granting the following relief as requested in
the petition.
WHY the Executrix should not be authorized and
empowered to compromise and settle a certain
claim for the wrongful death of the decedent,
against Dr. Vogel, Dr. Bernstein and Beth Israel
Medical Centre for the sum of $475,000.00 to
discontinue the action for conscious pain and suf-
fering, and WHY the entire recovery of $ 475,000.00
should not be allocated to the cause of action for’
decedent’s wrongful death, and WHY the provisions
in the Letters of Testamentary heretofore issued to
your petitioner on February 21, 2006 restraining
the Executrix from compromising or collecting
upon the aforesaid claim should not be modified
to permit said compromise, and WHY the filing of a
bond should not be dispensed with, and WHY the
account of Doris Johanson Goebel, as Executrix
in this proceeding, should not be judicially settled,
and WHY defendant, Dr. James Vogel, Dr. Stephen
Bernstein and Beth Israel Medical Centre or FOJP
Service Corporation, Hospital insurance company
should not pay to the firm of James LeBow, Esq.,
out of the proceeds of the settlement for the claim
of wrongful death, the sum of $131,250.00 as and
for attorneys’ fees, together with disbursements
of $8,273.75,and WHY, the balance of the settle-
ment, to wit the sum of $ 335,476.25, should not be
distributed to those distributees having sustained a
pecuniary loss as follows: 100 % of the balance to
the Executrix, Doris Johanson Goebel and accord-
ing to SCPA/EPTL §2402 filing fee of $625.00 accord-
ing to the schedule based upon the gross value of
the compromise settlement. WHY the claim of the
Department of Social Services in the amount of $
-0should not be rejected, and WHY the claim of
-0-should not be rejected as a non distributee, and
WHY the claim of -0-in the amount of $ should not
be rejected, and WHY upon payments as herein-
before mentioned by the said defendant, or defen-
dants insurance company, the Insurance Company,
the petitioner, as executrix of the goods, chattels
and credits that were of N/A, deceased, should
not execute and deliver to the said defendant, Dr.
James Vogel, Dr. Stephen Bernstein and Beth Israel
Medical Centre, or defendant’s Insurance Com-
pany a full, final and complete release in the claim
against the them; arising out of the aforesaid cause
of action together with any other papers necessary
to effectuate said compromise.
Dated; Attested and Sealed, Hon. Surrogate Kristin
Booth Glen
October 21, 2010 Jane Passenant, Chief Clerk
Petitioner Doris Johanson Goebel
Telephone Number 917-868-4002
(Note: This citation is served upon you as required
by law. You are not require to appear. IF you fail
to appear it will assumed you do not object to the
relief requested. You have a right to have an attor-
ney appear for you)
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