The Villager, July 11, 2012

Vaudeville with variety, p. 15

Volume 82, Number 6 $1.00

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July 12 - 18, 2012

Spirit of ‘Ernie’ and his grin shone at Tex-Mex cafe

BY MICHELE HERMAN If the far West Village were a sovereign nation and Tortilla Flats its capital, the flag would be flying at half-mast this summer to mark the death of 95-year-old actor Ernest Borgnine. Through his unlikely friendship with t h e l o n g - l i v e d Te x Mex joint at 12th and Washington Sts., Ernie

was our honorary neighbor who happened to live in L.A. The relationship began as an in-joke, but tellingly it was never a mean one.

Sure, just saying the word “Borgnine� — so perfectly matched with the famously ugly, gap-toothed mug — wins an easy laugh.

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Photo by JK Canepa

Bill Di Paola and Laurie Mittelmann, the co-founders of MoRUS, gardening in La Plaza Cultural, at Ninth St. and Avenue C. Community gardens — a very visible form of reclaimed urban space — are an integral part of the new museum’s mission.

Museum on activism claims its place in the East Village

BY SAM SPOKONY What gives Bill Di Paola the right to think his museum is more “real� than anyone else’s, anyway? “It’s real because I’ve got a shovel in my hand!� he said, laughing, as he heaved a load of sand into a pit at La Plaza Cultural, one of the East Village’s most historic community gardens.

To his right, Laurie Mittelmann followed with her own shovelful. The two of them had walked down the block to the garden after cleaning

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floors all morning at their new Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), which is getting ready to open soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing the work ourselves,â&#x20AC;? said Di Paola, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to show the stories of the everyday people of this community who did it themselves.â&#x20AC;?

Those stories â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of East Village activists, squatters, environmentalists and other leaders of all stripes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will soon be told at MoRUS, of which Di Paola and Mittelmann are co-founders.

And while the neighborhood certainly has changed in recent decades, the spirit that went into shaping it seems to remain alive and well.

MoRUS is located in the storefront of the legendary C-Squat building at 155 Avenue C. The museum seeks to present the history of various community struggles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first, to revitalize the East Village and Lower East Side, after many buildings and lots were neglected

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Westbeth, the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residence converted 40 years ago from the old Bell Laboratories complex, has recently completed a $9.8 million financing agreement for a long-needed maintenance project.

The agreement with Signature Bank became final last month after a yearlong process to determine how to finance urgent maintenance of the five-

building complex, whose oldest structure was built 150 years ago.

The process involved input from consultants, local elected officials and the residential tenants association, said Ronni Denes, president of the Westbeth board of directors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This loan is critical to renewing our aging infra-

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Peed-off crusty threatens senior, trashes his glasses In another troubling incident in Washington Square Park, on Sunday afternoon a “crusty traveler punk” harassed a senior in the park’s fountain.

Around 3 p.m., as several dozen people sat around the fountain watching two toddlers frolicking in the water, a crusty type entered the fountain with his dog and sat down. The dog proceeded to spread its legs and urinate into the water.

Several people gasped but the only person to speak up was an elderly man who had been sitting nearby with a woman on the steps inside the fountain.

The senior told the crusty he should stop his dog from urinating and remove the pet from the fountain. The crusty punk yelled back at the senior, “It’s a dog, it’s an animal!” The senior said he didn’t care, just get it out of the water.

As the crusty verbally threatened the senior, yelling he would punch the old man out, the senior took his cell phone and said he was calling the police. The crusty said as soon as the older man was done calling, he would knock him out. Then the punk approached the senior and, screaming, shoved him and tore the old man’s sunglasses off, throwing the glasses into the water and stomping on them.

The crusty again verbally threatened the senior before leaving the fountain and walking over to join several other crusties on a nearby bench.

Several minutes later, two men who had been sitting on the bench with the crusty with the dog walked over to the fountain, sat just behind the senior and started verbally intimidating him by screaming, “Hey, I’m just sitting here.”

At this point the senior and his female companion chose to leave the fountain. As they walked east out of the park, the first crusty approached them, yelling at them again before walking away. Then the young crusties gathered back on the bench, laughing.

During this whole time there were no police officers or Park Enforcement Patrol officers visible in the area.

Fifteen minutes later, a PEP S.U.V. came into the park from the south entrance. The vehicle stopped by a group of musicians playing quiet jazz music. A PEP officer got out of the S.U.V., approached them and advised them that they could continue playing but had to turn off their small amplifiers. The officer was unaware of the earlier incident.

Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo said no complaint was filed with the Sixth Precinct about the incident with the crusty.

As for what the crusty did to the senior, del Pozo said, it could be classified as criminal mischief “or at least harassment,” a misdemeanor.

Asked if it was an arrestable offense, he said, yes.

“If somebody was the victim of a crime in the park, we urge them to come forward,” he said.

Although some locals complain the crusties are “belligerent” and are ruining others’ park experience, del Pozo said, “The crusties — we can’t just kick them out of the park.” His officers patrol the park, he said, and will do enforcement against individuals “when they’re in violation of park rules or committing some crime.”

Rumors had falsely linked the crusties to an assault in the park the previous Sunday. In fact, that incident involved a dispute between two older, local homeless men. One struck the other, 44, over the eye with a metal pipe, drawing lots

of blood, according to police.

On June 15, three crusties, using white paint, splattered graffiti — some of it obscene — on the front of St. Mark’s Church, at E. 10th St. and Second Ave., before fleeing. Police canvassed the area but didn’t find them. A group of crusties hangs out in front of the church in Abe Lebewohl Park.

Top: A crusty traveler punk enters the Washington Square fountain with his dog, which spreads its legs and urinates. Middle: After an elderly man tells the crusty to stop his pooch from peeing, the crusty screams at and verbally threatens the senior. Bottom: The crusty shoves the senior, rips his sunglasses off his face, then (not shown) throws them into the fountain and stomps on them, breaking them.

July 12 - 18, 2012

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NOTEBOOK PEA SOUP P.U.! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to change the Washington Square Park fountain water! It was green and soupy looking when we went by on Monday. Obviously, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t because it was St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. It was algae. The water jets spurting up from the fountain even had a distinctly green tinge. According to a frequent parkgoer, it had been that way a few days. A Parks Department spokesperson said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water system uses bromine as an algaecide/ disinfectant. We will refresh the system to ensure it remains fully functional.â&#x20AC;? We looked up â&#x20AC;&#x153;bromineâ&#x20AC;? online, and apparently it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not the algae â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was what was causing the bleach-like odor in the fountain plaza: In Greek, bromine means â&#x20AC;&#x153;stench of he goats.â&#x20AC;?... Also, three port-a-potties were recently installed in the park, so at least there will be somewhere to go during the next year while the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfort station is being rebuilt. We hear Parks initially balked at installing them because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a pain to maintain.

CONGRATS! When we called Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo this week we heard a loud wail at the other end of the phone. No, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a police siren â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it was Rex, the new baby boy born in May to del Pozo and his wife, Sarah.

Rex joins big bro, Zane, 4½. The Sixth Precinct commander shared a cute anecdote about his latest â&#x20AC;&#x153;member of the squad.â&#x20AC;? On New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve, a Barrow St. woman participating in a noisy, late-night, Occupy Wall Street march through the Village â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drumming, chanting, the works â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was arrested for disorderly conduct for making a racket. When the activist subsequently learned del Pozo had a new baby, she gave him a gift â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a little, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-sized drum. Asked if he felt the woman was trying to ensure his son grows up to be an

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Occupier, del Pozo said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was great. My older son has been driving me crazy with it.â&#x20AC;?

that the place will â&#x20AC;&#x153;reopen as a sort of fancy restaurant,â&#x20AC;? with the Bowery Poetry Club only operating on weekends.

CHIC HOT WHEELS: According to the Sixth Precinct, on Tues., July 3, an emotionally disturbed person got into the parking garage at 3 Sheridan Square and stole a car belonging to JeanMarc Houmard, the owner of Indochine, the famed restaurant and nightlife spot on Lafayette St. The First Precinct recovered the brown â&#x20AC;&#x2122;89 Mercedes Benz convertible at Varick and Clarkson Sts. The suspect has been indicted for the car theft.

KITTY-CATTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; AROUND: We bumped into Doris Diether of Community Board 2 in Washington Square Park the other day and she proudly told us she has a new 10-week-old kitten to replace her feline friend Mr. Bip, who recently passed away at the prodigious age of 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a wild kitten,â&#x20AC;? she told us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of a litter of six from a feral cat from someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure I can tame it down eventually. His name is Lucky.â&#x20AC;? Lucky is being followed everywhere by Dorisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other cat, Missy, which is freaking out the young feral feline.

SLASH ROCKER: After we heard about punk rocker Harley Flanagan trying to slash up the Cro-Mags at Webster Hall last week at a hard-core show in the CBGB Festival, we reached out to Laraby Bishop-Sharp. We remembered her telling us she dated one of the Cro-Mags back in the day. (We met Lara a few years ago at the Christodora House at a protest by a group of homeless middle-aged â&#x20AC;&#x153;L.E.S. Slacktivistsâ&#x20AC;? who were calling for Michael Rosen to adopt them, since Rosen had helped raise several local boys from the neighborhood.)

Anyway, we thought she had possibly dated Flanagan, but we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dated Parris [Mitchell Mayhew], NOT Harley,â&#x20AC;? she e-mailed us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Parris and I are still very close friends. I DO have one thing to say... Harley has kids. Those kids just lost their father. And, what their father did is all over the media. That sucks for the kids, big time! The entire situation is really sad.â&#x20AC;? According to the New York Natives Web site, Flanagan claims he acted in â&#x20AC;&#x153;self-defense.â&#x20AC;? NYN says it will have an exclusive interview with him soon.

B.P.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; PEOPS OUT: The last art show at the Bowery Poetry Club as we know it is by Fly, who is exhibiting her PEOPS, and had an opening party there Sunday for her â&#x20AC;&#x153;PEOPS #7â&#x20AC;? zine.

BoPo, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known to some, will close for renovations early next week. B.P.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bob Holman dropped in to perform at Flyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show, along with poet Hettie Jones. Holman has posted a statement on the placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Web site, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rumors of the Bowery Poetry Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death are greatly exaggerated!â&#x20AC;? We hear from a source

LAGUARDIA LEASE WORRIES: As we were chatting with Diether, Ray Cline came by. He was heading to a meeting with N.Y.U. representatives on the issue of renewing 505 LaGuardia Placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ground lease. Cline wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feeling too upbeat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They keep asking us to give up all our rights for the next 30 years,â&#x20AC;? he said. One provision N.Y.U. is requesting, for example, he said, is that if even one tenant in the Mitchell-Lama building sues the university, then that caseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outcome would affect every single other tenant in the place â&#x20AC;&#x201D; i.e. all or nothing.

SOHO PLANTER WARS: A â&#x20AC;&#x153;peaceful protestâ&#x20AC;? is set to occur Sat., July 14, at 102 Prince St., from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. against the strategic placement of anti-artist-vendor planters on the pavement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Huge planters have been placed on the sidewalk illegally to evict veterans, artists and people who desperately need to earn a very modest living,â&#x20AC;? an expected protester e-mailed us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vendors bring customers to the area, helping all the business people.â&#x20AC;?

CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the obituary on Steve Ben Israel by Bill Weinberg in our June 7 issue referred to him as Ben Israel throughout. However, Ben was his middle name. As Weinberg explains it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is Hebrew for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;son,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; so everyone thought his surname was Ben Israel, as in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Son of Israel.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it.â&#x20AC;? Israel was definitely a son of the Village.

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Con Ed lockout enters week two as heat wave passes

BY LIZA BÉAR In a clear instance of “1 percent” hauteur, Con Ed C.E.O. Kevin Burke locked out 8,500 members of Local 1-2, Utility Workers Union of America, when contract negotiations broke down 10 days ago over pensions, sick leave, raises and a sevenday advance notice for strikes.

The lockout began as a heat wave threatened to put a strain on the grid and shortly before the Fourth of July holiday. Among the key sticking points: Con Ed wants to change the kind of pension benefits that union workers get from a fixed benefit based on a portion of their salaries to a 401K-type of benefit. The utility also wants to cap raises for workers in the top 20 salary brackets and to fire workers whose sick leave exceeds six months.

With the union’s four-year contract due for renewal on July 1, the lockout is now in its second week.

In a new development on Monday, John Melia, spokesman for Local 1-2 U.W.U.A., said Con Ed is trucking in replacement workers.

“Now we have out-of-state scabs arriving, and that’s extremely provocative, to say the least,” Melia told this reporter. “The workers are from Virginia and Alabama and they’re showing up with their own rigs from out of state. That’s strikebreaking in the extreme. It’s provoking types of reactions one hasn’t seen since the 1930s, practically. I mean, they’re on a dangerous course.”

Asked what expectations the union had for the contract negotiations, which were due to resume on Tuesday, Melia said the union hadn’t heard from the company yet.

Photo by Liza Béar

A locked-out Con Ed worker yelled, “Scab!” as she pointed out one of the replacement workers entering the Con Ed building on Irving Place.

“Let’s hope they show up tomorrow and want to talk,” he said.

This is the first labor lockout at Con Ed since 1983.

Contrary to claims later made in a July 5 New York Daily News full-page ad by Con Ed, the company gave no advance

notice to the workers about the July 1 lockout, and two days later the company canceled these workers’ health benefits.

Five thousand supervisors from the company’s management ranks have been brought in to replace the locked-out workers.

The locked-out union members include many front-line workers who deal with outages and power emergencies in dangerous situations that desk managers are not equipped to deal with.

Since the lockout, there have been reports of two Con Ed workers suffering third-degree burns.

“There may be other injuries,” Melia said, “but the company’s not forthcoming with us, they’ve thrown us out of work.”

Con Ed operates as a virtual monopoly, with state-regulated earnings. In the company’s view, that is justification enough for reducing pension benefits. But critics charge the utility has no fiscal reason to do so.

While Con Ed claims its executive pay is in line with that of other utilities, C.E.O. Burke received total compensation of almost $11 million in 2011, nearly three times the median utility industry C.E.O. compensation of about $4 million.

Burke’s 2012 Forbes ranking for C.E.O. pay is higher than those of his peers at Bank of America, Caterpillar, General Electric, General Mills, Intel and UPS. Burke is paid $4,800 an hour. Nevertheless, he has asked shareholders to approve another pay raise at the same time that he seeks to cut benefits for union workers.

The picket line continues outside Con Ed headquarters at Irving Place and 14th St., just east of Union Square.

Green thumbs hope N.Y.U. plan is seriously pruned

BY ERICA RAKOWICZ “This expansion plan is N.Y.U. on Viagra and the community needs the morningafter pill,” said Sara Jones, chairwoman of LaGuardia Corner Gardens.

The gardens, at LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and Houston Sts, is in jeopardy if New York University’s 2031 plan is approved, according to Jones and her fellow green thumbs.

LaGuardia Corner Gardens are home to a diverse group of gardeners, with individual plots, featuring individual plant preferences.

Many community members — including a large number of N.Y.U. faculty living nearby — oppose the university’s development plan, according to Rhoma Mostel, because they fear that the garden and nearby community areas would be adversely impacted.

“You have to see what we all see. You have to come and sit in the garden, see the green, breathe the air,” Mostel said about the benefits the green oasis offers.

The gardens’ health and beauty are due to the passion, dedication and sweat the volunteers pour into them each season, making it an undeniably important community asset. Indeed, its value is recognized by visitors from both near and far.

“Visitors will walk around the garden path and ask what we’re growing,” noted Barb Cahn. “Once I had a visitor who asked from outside the gate if I was growing mint, and I said, ‘Yes, here’s a sprig.’ ” But the gardeners fear the N.Y.U. 2031 plan — which would develop a new building on the adjacent Morton Williams Associated supermarket site, plus up to

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LaGuardia Corner Gardeners, from left, Ellen Resnick, Barb Cahn and Sara Jones.

three other buildings — would deprive the community and visitors alike of a treasured swath of nature.

“The plan doesn’t directly address taking the garden down,” Jones acknowledged. “But, they’ve said they can stage their construction here, which would end up killing it.”

Construction staging on the gardens would mean bulldozers and other heavy equipment rumbling through the carefully cultivated plots. In addition, construction sites often attract rodents, and then poison is used to kill the rodents, which could cause an environmental disaster, the gardeners noted.

“Squirrels might eat the rats who ate the poison, and then the red hawks who nest here will eat those poisoned squirrels and it just throws everything off balance,” said Ellen Horan, the gardens’ vice chairperson.

In addition, if the proposed buildings are built, a shadow would be cast over the gardens, making it difficult for the current plants to stay alive, should they even survive the construction process.

“It’s like they’re going to make this atomic bomb to destroy the rest of the area,” Horan said of the dreaded 2031 scheme.

New Yorkers for Parks, in a statement released at the recent City Council hearing

on the N.Y.U. plan, said its supports 2031, with a few conditions, including the preservation of LaGuardia Corner Gardens.

In order to preserve the gardens, there have been talks about modifying them, such as by adding shade-tolerant plants. Yet, that would limit the gardens and detract from their native appeal, say the gardeners.

“Trees take so long to grow,” Jones said.

“It’s not like we can rebuild this in a day.”

“The apple tree predates the garden — how could you get rid of that?” asked Mostel.

The urge to safeguard the superblocks’ community spaces — such as the gardens — drove many to attend the recent Council meeting to testify against the N.Y.U. plan and show their opposition.

Actor Matthew Broderick testified at the hearing, recalling playing baseball on the superblocks as a kid and how important that had been to him.

“This garden is a way for the community to follow the seasons,” Mostel said. “You accumulate knowledge from watching the garden grow with time.”

Jones teaches children about the garden while giving them tours and discussing the benefits a garden provides. She said some of the children never realized apples come from trees and not the supermarket.

A question Jones asks the children is, “Why do we need trees?”

“They usually respond with ‘food’ and ‘flowers,’ so I ask them again — but tell them to take a breath first,” Jones said. The kids soon catch on to the fact that trees are needed for cleaner air, and they recognize the importance of a neighborhood garden.

“It’s like I can see the light bulb over their heads,” Jones said.

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Spirit of ‘Ernie’ and his grin shone on W. 12th St. Continued from page 1 Not long after the restaurant opened in 1983, then-manager Steve Pagnotta (the tall, goofy one in the pj’s), took to paging Ernest Borgnine during lulls in the music for no particular reason beyond this: “He always just reminded me of the real people I grew up with. They were more like Ernie Borgnine than Paul Newman or Charlton Heston.”

Some families collect duck decoys; at Tortilla Flats they began collecting Ernie paraphernalia. They anointed the red booth against the back wall the Ernest Borgnine booth (across from the blacklit Elvis booth). In 1993 they began the annual Ernest Borgnine nights, with Ernie haikus and look-alike contests and “Pin the Grin on Ernie.” Prospective waiters knew to bone up on their Ernie trivia or they wouldn’t get the job.

Ernie eventually got wind of all this and stopped in unannounced to find out who these Borgnine-worshiping nuts were. The party occupying his booth immediately made way. Legend has it that everyone stood and clapped for 10 minutes.

After that, Ernie came by whenever he was in New York. He flew the place’s managers to L.A. for his birthday parties and treated them like royalty. Jean Bambury, the no-nonsense, golf-playing co-manager and co-owner, came home looking increasingly glamorous after each trip — Ernie’s wife, Tova, has her own cosmetics line. Jean, who writes the hilariously literary descriptions of the nightly specials (which some would argue are better than the specials themselves), developed a happy side career writing copy for Tova’s company.

Like Ernie, you wouldn’t necessarily peg the managers as big-hearted at first glance. Co-manager and co-owner Andy Secular can often be seen looking putupon while talking into his cell phone to his suppliers or the plumbers or his relatives (whom he loves). Jean has a cool and cerebral manner, and after years of working the Saturday night shift, she has (understandably) taken to working in the nice quiet office. But we’ve lived across the street from the restaurant since 1985 and (mariachi buses and generations of squealing bachelorettes in tight dresses notwithstanding) we know them as the best kind of neighbors — kind and decent and generous.

For me, it all began with a step stool.

Andy won’t remember this, but 20-odd years ago he was standing on one outside the restaurant fixing something. It happened to be the same model we have, lopsided because it was missing the same foot ours was missing. He didn’t even know me, but he pried off the remaining foot and gave it to me, so both our stools would be balanced.

The friendship was cemented over the kids’ menu, which used to have pictures

The Ernest Borgnine booth at Tortilla Flats. After his death on Sunday, a memorial was added, including small Day of the Dead-style sugar masks, votive candles, flowers and a T-shirt.

of dinosaurs. One day our older son wrote in big letters along the border, “This menu is boring.” Jean came by and agreed.

Create a better one, she said (including his younger brother in the offer, because she’s no dope) and I’ll pay you $100.

Their menu, still in use after many years, was rich with connect-the-dots, a word search and riddles. True to her word, Jean whipped out a wad of cash and counted out the bills. We tried to repay Jean and Andy by baking them birthday cakes. They comped our entrées. We planted flowers in their tree pits. They brought us free margaritas. We sent them postcards from vacation. They kept refilling our chips and salsa. We had the kids update the menu. They showered us with calendars, toys, a Jose Cuervo pool float.

We knew we were licked.

The regular rhythms of far West Village life: Gay Pride, the Westbeth basement sale, Hula Wednesdays at Tortilla Flats, pumpkin-carving night the Wednesday before Halloween. When late winter settles in, I find myself composing Ernie haiku during idle moments.

A good friend of ours who moved to Virginia eons ago still describes his dream evening this way: eating a big plate of gooey, cheesy Tortilla Flats food and playing a round of bingo.

A sweet little girl in our building looks forward to her regular weekend brunch all week; “quesadilla” was among her first words.

We’ve watched generations of wait staff come and go, and can still name our favorites: Wilson, Judy, Julie, Marantha, Roy. The year-round staff is remarkably stable — John’s been the bartender and

Luis the busboy forever. All these years of living right across the street, all these

years of loud rock-and-roll mix tapes inside the doors, and they’ve never kept us up at night, something we wish we could say about our other Washington St. neighbors.

I learned of Ernie’s death on Monday morning, which felt right because Mondays Andy works the lunch shift. I stopped by while walking the dog, as I do every Monday, and offered my condolences. I thought about how we all came to Ernie in different ways: Kids knew his sillier TV work that spanned the half-century from “McHale’s Navy” to “SpongeBob”; movie buffs admired the seemingly effortless way he could play the gentlest butchers and the meanest S.O.B.’s; and those who felt trapped inside an unfortunate exterior saw him as a poster child for grinning and accepting what you’ve been given to work with.

I realized that the long entwining of the restaurant and the actor was far more than a goof. The people who have kept this place going for almost 30 years — long after the other inexpensive, kitchy ’80s places of its cohort faded away — knew a kindred spirit when they saw one. Andy had been talking to reporters all morning, so he had had time to sort through his emotions. When I told him I was sorry for his loss, this is what Andy had to say: “He was just the nicest, most decent and genuine guy.”

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Museum on activism claims its place in East Village Continued from page 1 to the point of arson and collapse in the 1970s, and then to maintain what had been saved, when city officials tried to evict squatters and demolish gardens in the ’80s.

Roughly a dozen squats, including C-Squat, have lived to tell the tale, after the city relented about a decade ago, in a deal allowing those occupying the salvaged tenements to become legal owners. La Plaza Cultural survived in a similar way, after court battles between activists and building developers culminated in a 2002 legal settlement that saved scores of other community gardens.

It’s the work that went into these and other successes, the museum’s founders said, that needs to be remembered.

“We want to educate people who aren’t familiar with this, and might not have thought this kind of change could be possible,” said Mittelmann. “But we’re also trying to teach the people who live in the community, who might not know their own history.”

The museum will also document battles that were lost, or are still ongoing, such as the effort to reclaim the old P.S. 64 — the former CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center — on E. Ninth St. at Avenue B as a community space.

The museum’s indoor space is being outfitted to display a wide range of archival images and videos, documenting the role East Village and Lower East Side activists have played in preserving what stands today. Those diverse dynamics will blend iconic work — from the likes of photographers Harvey Wang, Marlis Momber and Maggie Wrigley — alongside lesser-known ’80s artifacts, like the Eviction Watch list, which was a written list of phone contacts that allowed community members to call one another quickly, to act when a garden or squatted building was in danger of being cleared out by the city.

Di Paola is also the executive director of Time’s Up, an environmental group that has taken part in many of those struggles, and recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Aside from donating many of the group’s archives to MoRUS in order to help the museum’s collection, he plans to feature archival material from other environmentalists who worked to

Photo by Sam Spokony

Bill Di Paola, in the still-under-construction MoRUS space in C-Squat’s storefront, talks about the new museum’s concept and the neighborhood’s history.

save community gardens.

Those exhibits, Di Paola said, will be as diverse as those of the other activists, including groups like Earth Celebrations — which used colorful costumes and seasonal pageants to draw attention to the value of gardens — and direct-action organizations, like More Gardens, which worked with Time’s Up for years to save gardens from destruction, going as far as locking them down to keep out developers or police.

Mittelmann and Di Paola hope to open the museum space within a month, and are currently working with volunteers to complete necessary renovations and installations at C-Squat.

But MoRUS will contribute much more than a series of indoor displays, according to its co-founders.

“The building is important to what we’re doing, but it’s just a space,” Di Paola said.

The museum will also offer educational tours — both by foot and by bike — and workshops throughout the neighborhood’s gardens and former squats.

And even though MoRUS hasn’t yet opened its doors, some of those tours

have already begun to take place. One that was given several weeks ago, to 30 students from Innovation High School in the Bronx, seemed to exemplify one of the most basic purposes of the museum — using the work of the past to inspire change in today’s generation.

“They didn’t even need to see the inside of the museum,” said Di Paola, as he finished shoveling the last of the sand at La Plaza Cultural. “We showed them pictures from the area, had some local historians come in, took them into this garden. Basically, through the museum’s connections, we were

able to get them to places they would normally not get to see.”

“And the teacher told us that she might want us to help set up a composting program on the top of their school,” Mittelmann chimed in, “which is awesome.”

Di Paola nodded vigorously.

“That’s always been the idea,” he said.

“This is all just a conduit to teach people about sustainability, and to learn from the work that was done to save this community.

We don’t know what people are going to do after they leave, but maybe it’ll inspire them to take similar steps.”

Photo by Tequila Minsky

You can’t keep a good pop-up down For the second consecutive summer, a “pop-up cafe” has popped up outside Local cafe, on Sullivan between Prince and Houston Sts. Looking like a small, outdoor patio, with wooden-bench seating and a large shade umbrella, it takes up two parking spaces. Although a number of local eateries applied for the pop-ups last year, Community Board 2 O.K.’d only this one. The other proposed locations generated complaints from neighbors, who felt the street-side cafes would bring noise and block traffic. Local’s pop-up cafe is open for all to use, and no food purchase is required. The structure is closed off each night.

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POLICE BLOTTER Chelsea homicide

Clinton St. stabbing

A resident of the Elliot Chelsea Houses was shot to death around 2:07 a.m. Mon., July 9, outside of 415 W. 25th St. near Ninth Ave., police said.

The victim, Dante Sanders, 19, found with four bullets in his chest, was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His assailant had escaped and police were investigating the case. Sanders was identified in a New York Post item as having an arrest record for trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Police responded to a stabbing at 250 Clinton St. at Cherry St. in the LaGuardia Houses shortly before 6 a.m. Tues., July 10. The victim, who did not immediately cooperate with police investigating the incident, was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one was arrested and police are investigating the case.

Seek cop shooter Police were still seeking the gunman who shot a police officer while he was on a vertical patrol of 64-66 Essex St. in the Seward Park Extension on the Lower East Side around 3:45 a.m. July 5.

Officer Brian Groves, 30, a seven-year New York Police Department veteran and father of two children, was saved by his bulletproof vest, which stopped the bullet fired from about 8 feet away, police said.

Groves fired four shots at the suspect before the officer realized he had been hit. It is not known if the gunman sustained any injury before he fled. Groves later collapsed from the pain of the impact of the bullet, estimated to be between .25 and .32 caliber.

Groves and his partner, Erick Corneil, both Housing Bureau police, were responding to suspected narcotics activity in the Housing Authority development’s stairwells. A vertical patrol starts at the top floor of a building’s staircase and ends at the ground floor.

Groves saw the suspect with a silver handgun when he opened the stairwell door on the 22nd floor of the Essex St. building. He shouted “Gun!” and began chasing the suspect, who turned between the 18th and 19th floors and fired at least one shot. The bullet embedded itself in the Kevlar vest, less than an inch from Groves’s heart, police said.

In the investigation that followed, two men were seen being led away in handcuffs, but no charges have been filed yet in the case, police said.

Elite cheats Seventy-one Stuyvesant High School students, involved in a cheating scandal discovered last month, will have to take their state Regents exams over again. Six of them face suspension from the elite school.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced on Mon., July 9, the preliminary findings of the investigation into the cheating.

Nayeem Ahsan, 16, a junior at the public high school, was forced out of the school for using a cell phone to send photos of Regents exams to several friends. Five of the six students facing suspension had ties to Ahsan and the sixth is in trouble regarding a different cheating incident, according to a Daily News item.

Most of the 71 students who have to retake the tests, which could be as early as August, are juniors.

Subway death An unidentified victim was electrocuted when he fell from the platform of the B and D station at Grand St. at 12:35 a.m.

Sun., July 8. The victim, 28, apparently drunk when he fell, was declared dead at the scene.

The complaint says the blonde student was drinking from an eight-ounce can of Murree Beer, a Pakistani import. But Murree beer only comes in 500-milliliter cans, although they do have an 11-ounce can of nonalcoholic beer, Richman noted.

Willis is also charged with giving police a fake name, “Katherine Kelly,” before owning up to being the 20-year-old celebrity daughter. The case comes up again in court on July 31.

Soho shoplifters Motorcycle-truck crash A rider of a motorbike observed weaving in and out of traffic on Mon., July 9, crashed into a truck at the corner of Rivington and Clinton Sts. around 2:25 p.m., police said. The victim, who was not identified, was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a broken leg.

The management at the Chanel boutique at 139 Spring St. discovered around 12:33 p.m. Sat., June 30, that a silver Chanel bag valued at $5,100 had been stolen from a display table.

Two suspects entered the True Religion boutique, 132 Prince St., around 4:28 p.m. Wed., July 4, stuffed six pairs of jeans with a total value of $1,710 into a shopping bag and managed to leave the place, one at a time, without paying for the items.

Women severely beaten

Sounds of Bottle attack

Two women were severely beaten shortly before midnight Sat., July 7, by four men who fled from the limousine in which they were all riding at Canal and Washington Sts., police said.

The victims were taken to Bellevue with severe but nonfatal injuries. One of the suspects was described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds. The victims told police the ride was organized by a man named Billy and the limousine left the scene to return to Billy, but his address was not known.

Three suspects were arrested in SOB’s (Sounds of Brazil), the club at 204 Varick St. around 12:45 a.m. Fri., July 6, for punching a victim and hitting him over the head with a bottle.

Harvendee Singh, 32, Bhanwar Nayyar, 26, and Milan Singh, 22, were charged with assault.

Cro-Mag attack

A woman told police she parked her car in front of 95 Vandam St. around 10:40 a.m. Sat., July 7, left her bag in the vehicle and locked it. She returned at 3 a.m. the next day to find the car still locked but her bag with her iPhone was gone.

Harley Flanagan, 42, a former member of the hardcore punk band the Cro-Mags, invaded the band’s dressing room at Webster Hall before their 8:15 p.m. appearance at a Fri., July 6, concert and attacked two band members with a hunting knife and bit one of his victims.

Flanagan, the Cro-Mags former bassist and a founding member, had fallen out with the group, which was appearing in the E. 11th St. venue at a CBGB Festival concert honoring the Bowery rock club that closed in 2006.

Band member William Berario, 45, sustained a slash above his right eye and a bite mark on his cheek. Michael Couls, 33, the Cro-Mags’ current bassist, sustained cuts on the arm and the abdomen. They were taken to Bellevue Hospital.

Police handcuffed the crazed Flanagan to a chair and carried him out, taking him to Bellevue for observation. He was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and weapons possession. The concert was cancelled.

Clean break

Alber t Amateau

Bottles rain down Police, including an N.Y.P.D. helicopter, responded to a hail of glass bottles raining down onto W. 12th St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves. around 9 p.m. Tues., June 26. No one was hurt and there were no arrests.

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Quest for emergency A/C Beer-bust defense will ‘die hard’ Scout Willis, a Brown University student and daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, is contesting a misdemeanor charge that she was drinking from a can of beer last month in the Union Square subway station. Her lawyer, Stacey Richman, is asking the Manhattan district attorney to “Show me the beer.”

With a heat wave gripping New York last week, the city opened cooling centers in air-conditioned public community centers, senior centers and public libraries for people without access to a cool place or at risk of heat-related illness. The sign above pointed toward the Caring Community at Greenwich House’s Center on the Square, on Washington Square North.

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EDITORIAL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Lead on 9/11 museum

High time N.Y.U. gave back

Write on! Thanks a lot!

It will have been 11 years this September since the day terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent civilians and firstresponders at the World Trade Center, and we still won’t have a museum to commemorate their deaths.

The reason for the delay in completing and opening the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero — what boils down to inflated egos clashing over a money dispute — is disgraceful. The museum’s opening in time for the 11th anniversary was supposed to be a crucial step toward solidifying Downtown’s post-9/11 regrowth and healing.

In the current financial standoff, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is demanding $156 million from the 9/11 Memorial Foundation, while the Foundation is claiming some $150 million for expenses largely resulting from construction delays. The Foundation blames the Port Authority for instigating the delays, and the Port Authority faults the Foundation for not coming up with adequate funding for cost overruns tied to the museum.

As a result, construction at the site has practically ground to a halt.

The holdup in the museum’s opening is all the more troublesome, because the targeted completion date for the National September 11 Memorial Museum was originally 2009. What’s more, neither the Port Authority nor the Foundation has announced a new deadline for opening the museum.

It’s deceptive of the Port Authority to continue to assure the public that a resolution is in sight without offering any indication of when an agreement will be reached.

Julie Menin, former Community Board 1 chairperson, has rightly stated that the leaders of the city and both states should convene a meeting with all the relevant players and demand that no one leave the room until a consensus is reached.

Indeed, the Port Authority and the Foundation must be willing to reach a compromise on financing the remainder of the museum’s buildout. Otherwise, both sides risk undergoing a formal mediation process that could prove costly, lengthy and potentially unsuccessful. And if mediation fails, the dispute could go to the courts, and the museum’s opening would be stalled even further.

The museum’s upkeep shouldn’t even be discussed until a hard-and-fast deadline is set for the site’s completion.

Governors Cuomo and Christie have dropped the ball on the project thus far. The governors’ recent press statements on the issue — specifically, their proposal to create a new governing board to run the memorial — show that they’re not thinking constructively about the issue at hand. On this latest diversion, Mayor Bloomberg is right that the 9/11 Memorial and Museum should be overseen by the Foundation in order to help insulate the site from the political process.

Governor Cuomo has offered no possible solution to the conflict, and dismissively told a reporter in January that the Port Authority was on the verge of litigation against the Memorial Foundation.

Mayor Bloomberg has a strong track record on the project to date, having revived the Foundation when it was practically dead in the water. In his capacity as chairman of the Foundation, a position he’s held since late 2006, the mayor has raised more than $430 million for the memorial — $15 million of which came from his own pocket — and has helped to oversee its day-to-day operations.

It’s high time for all three officials to end the paralysis and to lead. They need to cut a deal, set a new deadline for the opening — and meet it. The longer we wait, the harder it will be for our community and our nation to recover from the trauma of Sept. 11, 2001.

To The Editor: Re “ ‘It’s gone too far’; Broderick brings down the N.Y.U. house” (news article, July 5); and “Chin must reduce N.Y.U. 2031 project’s scale” (editorial, July 5): After repeated, unequivocal “no’s” to Community Board 2 on the same topic, N.Y.U.’s Alicia Hurley, under pressure, muttered a vague and dubious “We’ll work with Councilmember Chin’s office” in response to Councilmember Comrie’s question at the City Council public hearing regarding whether the space allocated for the Bleecker building would remain permanent space for the community if a school isn’t constructed there.

No matter what the result is of the N.Y.U. 2031 plan, the space for the Bleecker building must not revert back to N.Y.U. As you stated in your editorial, this space must be designated as permanent space for community use.

After nearly 50 years of inappropriate, bulky buildings and broken promises to the community that has provided the setting for N.Y.U.’s success, the time is long overdue for the university not only to receive far less than what it is asking for, but for the university to give the community the space it rightfully, and unequivocally, deserves.

To The Editor: Re “Just Do Art!” (July 5): Thank you, Scott Stiffler and The Villager, for the nice write-up in the “Just Do Art!” section. It’s nice to be featured in arguably the finest weekly in all of New York!

Robin Rothstein Rothstein is a member, Community Board 2 N.Y.U. Working Group and Social Services & Education Committee

You gave Chin the road map To The Editor: Re “Chin must reduce N.Y.U. 2031 project’s scale” (editorial, July 5): I’d like to praise your editorial staff for finally seeing how out of proportion N.Y.U.’s grandiose 2031 ULURP proposal really is.

Definitely, Councilwoman Chin should take your editorial seriously.

Thank you also for suggesting the elimination of the Mercer St. Boomerang building and the downsizing of the Zipper building.

The so-called public school site absolutely should be deeded over to the city for either a school or community facility, otherwise it will again revert to N.Y.U. and not be built.

As for 505 Laguardia Place, its affordability is already being affected in current negotiations in which N.Y.U. claims it can ask for an annual rental of up to $3 million. The property was “given” to N.Y.U. by the city at a very low cost and should be transferred to the 505 co-op at a reasonable cost.

Again, thanks to Matthew Broderick, our Village hero, for his strong support.

Sylvia Rackow

Dan Davies

O.K., let’s take a deep breath…

To The Editor: Re “LUNGS breathes new life into local community gardens” (news article, July 5): Thanks to The Villager for calling attention to garden activism in our neighborhood. It was a pleasure to be interviewed, along with photographer Shell Sheddy and LUNGS founder Charles Krezell, in our community garden, De Colores.

That being said, I have a few important clarifications to make. First, membership in LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) and membership in GreenThumb community gardens in New York City are two different things. It is not in the spirit of LUNGS to collect any fees or dues from participants. There are no requirements per se to participate in LUNGS — no fees, no contracts to sign and no work required, though volunteerism is welcome.

LUNGS is a neighborhood group united to support the diverse life of all the gardens through workshops, cultural events and gatherings.

LUNGS does not have a treasurer. I am the treasurer of De Colores Community Yard, a GreenThumb garden that receives small monetary contributions from gardeners for general maintenance, and asks gardeners to commit to a couple days per season of watching and caring for the garden during open hours and work days. But, again, there are no contracts involved in garden membership at De Colores.

Finally, the future of the gardens is a constant concern, which is one of the reasons we formed LUNGS, a group that spreads awareness about the latest developments in garden preservation.

Elizabeth Ruf-Maldonado

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Gentrification, genocide and the shadow of Bialystok TALKING POINT

BY BILL WEINBERG Today I walked by the Bialystoker Center old folks’ home on East Broadway — or, rather, the building that used to house it. It now sits vacant, a note to former employees from the 1199 hospital workers’ union taped to the door of the stately 1920s edifice. The door is framed by a facade with symbols representing the 12 tribes of Israel and their names in Hebrew — designed to look like an archeological relic, it is now ironically on the way to becoming one itself.

A pending decision from the city Landmarks Preservation Commission may save the structure from demolition, but the Bialystoker home closed last year and new owners reportedly want to demolish it to build condos on the site.

The home’s aging inhabitants were relocated to other facilities, outside of the neighborhood where they had lived their lives.

There are just a few other relics from the old Jewish Lower East Side that still survive on the surrounding blocks — most notably Kossar's Bialys on Grand St., purveying that more soulful alternative to the bagel that also takes its name from the Polish city of Bialystok.

That city, precariously situated on the Russo-Polish borderlands, has seen more than its fair share of history. When my great-grandfather left at the turn of the century — arriving on the Lower East Side via London — Bialystok was part of the Russian empire, and among the most vibrant centers of European Jewry. Jews constituted the city’s majority, and a textile industry funded Jewish institutions and a Yiddish press. Just 50 years later, there would be far more Bialystoker Jews in New York than in Bialystok.

Rebecca Korbin’s book “Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora” tells us that the forerunner to the Bialystoker Center was the Bialystoker Bikur Holim — a Hebrew term meaning “charity” or “caregivers” — established in 1896 to assist immigrant Jews arriving in New York from the Eastern European city. A pogrom in Bialystok in 1906, with some 90 Jews killed, sped the exodus to New York. The city passed to the reconstituted state of Poland after World War I, and saw a renaissance of Jewish culture.

But economic hard times there in the early 1920s (including a famine) saw New York’s Bialystoker Center organizing charity drives for kin back in the old country.

In 1927, the Center became an old-age

home, and the currently threatened building was erected. But the Center continued to publish the Yiddish-language journal Bialystoker Stimme (Bialystoker Voice).

The Center and the community it anchored south of Grand St. became known as “New Bialystok” — a term that took on greater poignancy as the Nazis seized Poland, establishing a ghetto for Bialystok’s Jews in 1941.

The instating of this new order was announced with the torching of Bialystok’s synagogue, with some 2,000 Jews inside. The following year, the Germans began deporting the ghetto’s inhabitants to the Treblinka death camp.

August 1943 saw a brief Bialystok Ghetto uprising, inspired by the one put down three months earlier in Warsaw. But with just one machine gun, a few pistols and some Molotov cocktails among several hundred would-be insurgents, the revolt did nothing to slow the extermination. By the time Russian troops liberated the city in July 1944, the Jewish population had contracted from perhaps 100,000 to just over 100.

There was actually an effort to rebuild an open Jewish community in Bialystok immediately after the war, as Jewish refugees who had fled east into Russia returned to the city.

But an outbreak of new pogroms in Poland put an end to this, and nearly all of the surviving Jews departed — many for Palestine, with immigration restrictions now in place in the United States. (Contemporary leftists who view Zionism only as a neocolonialist conspiracy need to grapple with this history.)

The some 40,000 Bialystokers of Lower Manhattan became, more than ever, keepers of the flame. But there was also a Bialystoker community in Melbourne, Australia; a Bialystoker agricultural commune in Argentina; and an Israeli village of Kiryat Bialystok.

European totalitarianism has often — probably, too often — been invoked in polemic around the class and social struggles that have shaped New York’s cityscape. When I was a kid growing up in Queens in the 1970s, we once drove up to take a look at what had been my Italian mom’s own childhood neighborhood in the South Bronx — then devastated by arson and what was called “urban blight.”

After viewing a landscape that resembled Berlin in 1945, my mom said, “It’s like we’re living in a Communist country.”

At the time, I didn’t quite get it, since it was clear to me even then that this was a social pathology endemic to capitalism. Only later, when I read Orwell’s “1984,” with its Member of the New York Press Association

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A decade later, I was hanging with squatters and anarchists on the Lower East Side, as rising rents and “redevelopment” were fueling displacement of the neighborhood’s workingclass and Latino residents. A popular anarchist slogan was “gentrification is genocide.” After the Tompkins Square riot of August 1988, the graffito “1988 = 1933” appeared on neighborhood walls — a reference to the Reichstag fire and Hitler’s rise to power.

In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the neighborhood at that time — the homeless everywhere, the AIDS crisis at its worst, displaced residents forced into disease-ridden city shelters — the gentrification-is-genocide formulation didn’t seem that much of a stretch.

This rhetoric takes on a grim irony in the case of the Bialystoker Center. The Jewish presence has entirely disappeared from old Bialystok, and now the last remnants of the Bialystoker legacy in Lower Manhattan are threatened.

Actually, the gentrification never quite reached the Bialystoker enclave — until now.

The Seward Park housing complex between Grand St. and East Broadway has served as something of a bulwark blocking gentrification’s advance from the rest of the Lower East Side. (My “Hagstrom Five-Borough Atlas” shows the “East Village” beginning at Houston St.) The Bialystoker community has dwindled due to age and attrition — those who could seeking the proverbial greener pastures. (My own great-grandfather was there but briefly; by the time I came into existence in the 1960s, he was already living in Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway neighborhood.)

As the old Jewish community slowly shrinks in this enclave, the Chinese are rapidly expanding. The Bialystoker district has nearly been absorbed into Chinatown — Hebrew and Sinitic characters adorning adjacent storefronts. This juxtaposition is especially evident where the historic Moorish-themed Eldridge Street Synagogue stands alongside a storefront Buddhist temple. But the synagogue (while still consecrated) is as much a museum as a house of worship these days; the Buddhist temple is very much in vivo.

Two generations ago, Jews had receded from Alphabet City as Puerto Ricans moved in — a process sometimes punctuated by violence.

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In the old Bialystoker enclave, the dwindling Jews and the burgeoning Chinese alike stand to lose their turf if the “redevelopment” wave reaches this southern extremity of the Lower East Side. It would be a perverse twist if gentrification’s first foothold in the deepest part of the old Jewish L.E.S. — the triangle between Grand and Essex Sts. and East Broadway — should be at the site of the old Bialystoker Center. And even if condos are inevitably to occupy the site, destruction of the venerable building would compound the injury with a gratuitous insult to the Bialystoker legacy.

Hopefully, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will rule the right way, and fend off this final act of cultural cleansing.

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Delivering for schools, seniors, nonprofits and more TALKING POINT

BY MARGARET S. CHIN On June 28, the New York City Council passed the city’s budget for Fiscal Year 2013. This year’s budget was unique in many respects.

In my three years serving on the City Council, I have never seen so many community members raise their voices against the mayor’s cuts to childcare, after-school and essential services in our city.

With your help, the Council was able to restore massive cuts to after-school and childcare programs in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. In fact, our community actually gained an after-school program, which will serve P.S. 126. I want to thank everyone that came out to show their support over the last few months: We could not have done it without you.

I would like to take this opportunity to update residents on the exciting capital projects and programs that I was able to fund in this year’s budget. This year, I was able to secure $3.9 million to fund capital projects in District 1 and nearly half a million dollars for youth, senior and cultural programs in our community. This is in addition to contributions from Speaker Christine Quinn and my colleagues in the Council’s Manhattan delegation, which will also support programs and services in Lower Manhattan.

I am happy to announce several large capital grants to improve our Downtown schools and ensure our students have the best learning environment possible. The number one request from our elementary schools is for upgrades to existing technology. This year, P.S. 134 will receive new laptops and printers; P.S. 137’s computer lab will be upgraded; P.S. 20 and P.S. 2 will receive SmartBoards; and P.S. 142 will receive new classroom computers. These improvements will be accomplished with grants from my office ranging from $40,000 to $75,000.

In addition, P.S. 130 will receive new desktops in their com-

puter lab, as well as new technology to specifically serve specialneeds classes. P.S 124, the Yung Wing School, will receive $100,000 for building renovations and technology upgrades; and P.S. 110 will receive funds to conduct a study of potential building improvements, including a green roof. M.S. 131 students and their parents will receive computer workshops through a partnership with the Computers for Youth Foundation.

I am also pleased to allocate funding to five local high schools: $60,000 to Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law for upgrades to its art room; $58,000 to L.E.S. Prep for a new P.A. system; $35,000 to Marta Valle High School for the creation of a video production studio; $45,000 to New Design High School for technology upgrades; and $75,000 to University Neighborhood High School for upgrades to its library and media center.

In this year’s budget I also funded several important improvements to our neighborhood. Sara D. Roosevelt Park will receive $500,000 for new bathrooms; Forsyth Plaza, alongside and underneath the Manhattan Bridge, will receive $200,000 for its streetscape and improvements; DeSalvio Playground in Soho will receive $70,000 toward its play area; and the Lower East Side Business Improvement District will receive $138,000 for safety and lighting improvements on Delancey St. To help combat a string of robberies in Chinatown’s Jewelry District, I will provide $100,000 for Police Department security cameras on Doyers and Catherine Sts. and along the Bowery. In addition, I have allocated $12,000 to New York City Housing Authority tenant associations in our district to help pay for family days and other events.

As always, it is imperative that we support the local organizations and nonprofits that aid underserved communities in our district. In the year ahead, Chinatown Manpower Project will receive a capital grant of $83,000. Citywide capital grants were also awarded to Henry Street Settlement, for $500,000;

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 8

More on Colombo shooting

ning away. He captured some of the madness. Aldo’s position is Joe Colombo was a courageous man helping the ItalianAmerican community. According to Aldo, many Italians loved and supported Joe Colombo for his political message.

Clayton Patterson

To The Editor: Re “Shooting that shocked the Village and made headlines” (Flashback, July 5): Get a copy of the book “Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side,” edited by Clayton Patterson. Read the article “Documenting the Italian-American Civil Rights League,” by Aldo Tambellini.

Aldo had permission from Joe Colombo to document the events that day. Aldo got there just as the shooter was run-

E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to lincoln@thevillager.com or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 515 Canal St., Suite 1C, NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confirmation purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not publish anonymous letters.

Educational Alliance, for $2.25 million; and the Lower Eastside Girls Club, for $910,000, to allow these organizations to continue their good work in the community and citywide.

Additional grants will support local organizations that serve those in need, including Asian Americans for Equality, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), Manhattan Legal Services, MFY Legal Services, NYLAG, MET Council on Jewish Poverty, New York Rescue Mission, Urban Justice Center, and Tenants and Neighbors. This year, I will also continue my support for Charles B. Wang’s hepatitis B awareness and prevention program, the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on H.I.V./AIDS, and for the New York Alliance Against Sexual Assault.

Once again, I was happy to support an array of senior services in our community. Discretionary grants from my office will support programming at Chinese-American Planning Council, Educational Alliance, Grand Street Settlement, Greenwich House, Greater Chinatown Community Association, HamiltonMadison House, Henry Street Settlement, Japanese American Social Services, University Settlement, and the Institute for Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly. This funding will help provide E.S.L. classes, adult computer classes, art classes, transportation, meals and a variety of recreational activities to help keep our seniors active and healthy. In addition, grants were provided to the Mott St. and LaGuardia Senior Centers through New York Foundation for Seniors, as well as to the United Jewish Council, to support their adult lunch program.

It’s equally important to provide programs and services that cater to our youth and keep them safe and engaged in the afterschool and summer months. I am pleased to provide funding to support Asian Professional Extension’s test preparation and basketball program; the Youth Leadership Program run by Asian American Coalition for Children and Families; L.E.S. Girls Club; the Sol Lain Athletic Club; New York Junior Tennis League; and the YMCA. American Ballet Theatre’s “ABT at School” and Chess in the Schools will introduce public school students to new and exciting activities; and the violin program at Hamilton-Madison House and instruction in traditional Chinese instruments at the Mencius Society will help inspire a new generation of musicians.

It is incredibly important to me that all our kids have a safe and secure environment to turn to for support. To this end, I have funded programs for L.G.B.T.Q. youth at Chinese-American Planning Council and the Hetrick-Martin Institute on Astor Place; as well as after-school programs that provide prevocational and work-readiness training for homeless youth and for blind and visually impaired young people.

This year, I was happy to support Downtown Community Television Center with $40,000 toward upgrades to its postproduction equipment. DCTV also received $75,000 in citywide funding from the entire Council. Soho Think Tank, which promotes independent theater, received a $32,000 capital grant. In conjunction with my colleagues in the Manhattan delegation, $1.1 million in capital funding was provided to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. In the year ahead, discretionary grants will support the Soho Repertory Theater, New York Asian Women’s Center, and the Washington Square Association Music Fund’s free concert series.

Over the last three years, the amount of resources available to our community has continued to grow. I remain dedicated to fighting for the resources to support the projects and programs that keep our community strong and vibrant.

Chin is city councilmember for the First District (Lower Manhattan, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and parts of Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and East Village)

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Soho bakery rolls, but luckily only a few blocks away

BY TEQUILA MINSKY Early every morning, sculptor Rosemarie Castoro would buy a walnut-and-raisin roll at Grandaisy Bakery on Sullivan St. and read her New York Times — that is, when her paper wasn’t stolen from outside her door.

Her backup was always Gran Daisy’s house copy, which was amicably shared.

The longtime west Soho resident, like many other denizens of the neighborhood, found this routine a perfect way to start the day.

Not quite a cafe, Grandaisy Bakery did sell coffee, espresso and tea that customers would drink with their rolls and Grandaisy’s other offerings, in the few chairs inside or sharing the outdoor benches.

Take-outs included breakfast and lunch sandwiches on their chibatta rolls, olive rolls, pizza bianca — a flatbread — cheeseless pizzas and several varieties of breads with real taste, including the dense seven-grain or the crusty sourdough Pugliese.

Local restaurants got their daily bread at Grandaisy, and customers came from far and wide to buy bread.

However, on June 30, the shop’s doors closed for good.

Grandaisy’s short-term lease on Sullivan St. had been extended more than once as the property’s owner has been readying to develop a 15-story building there.

The shop’s owner, Monica Von Thun Calderón, who kept this location when there was a split between the partners of the old Sullivan Street Bakery, stopped by on the place’s last day to share memories — 18 years’ worth; the bakery opened in 1994. It was at this very storefront that local artisanal baking started, which “provided momentum to the nascent bread revolution in New York,” the good-bye note posted on the door stated.

The flier also directed readers: “Follow us to our new headquarters a few blocks south at 250 West Broadway on the corner of Beach Street.” It’s just a five-minute walk, across from Tribeca Park, at the intersection of Sixth Ave.

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Monica Von Thun Calderón, Grandaisy Bakery’s owner, left, and Rosemarie Castoro schmoozed about days past on the shop’s last day on Sullivan St., June 30.

That location for the business has been around for a few years and is where the baking takes place.

Meanwhile, regarding the retail shop’s relocation,

for regulars who found the simple, local camaraderie or purchase part of a daily routine, adaptation is the name of the game.

Photos by Toni Dalton

Pompeii Red redo at Palazzo Chupi Well, the mystery is over. Julian Schnabel is indeed repainting his whimsical Palazzo Chupi, at the far west end of W. 11th St., with a fresh coat of Pompeii Red. The sandstone-colored layer that had recently been applied is apparently just a primer — which presumably will keep the reddish shade from fading again this time. The vividly colored condo tower was unveiled five years ago, but the unusual hue soon faded to a washed-out pink. Last August, scaffolding started going up around the building amid speculation that a new “Pompeian paint job” was in the works.

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Nash and pros put on a show at Showdown charity game SPORTS

BY BEN TOCKER In the midst of Euro Cup fever sweeping the city, NBA star Steve Nash held his annual Showdown in Chinatown charity soccer event at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Wed., June 27.

The Showdown, now in its fifth year, raised money for the Steve Nash Foundation, which provides assistance to underprivileged children.

The star-studded event featured NBA players Elton Brand, Mike Dunleavy and Danny Green, as well as soccer pros Jimmy Conrad, Mo Edu, Salomon Kalou, Robbie Rogers, Carlos Ludi and Emerson Boyce. Other athletes from both sports came to show their support on the sidelines, including seven-time NBA All-Star Grant Hill and international soccer superstars Thierry Henry and Guiseppe Rossi.

Marc Stein, senior basketball writer at ESPN, scored the game’s first goal. NBA analyst Simone Sandri added one of his own. Nash, a two-time Most Valuable Player renowned for his passing skills on the basketball court, showed his versatility on the field by deftly evading defenders and setting up a handful of goals in a

Photo by Ben Tocker

NBA superstar Steve Nash can dribble soccer balls as well as basketballs.

7-6 victory.

Throngs of soccer fans filled the bleachers to capacity and lined up to peer through the fences surrounding the park. Like last year, Nash — who lives in Manhattan during the off-season and regularly plays soccer in city parks, including at Pier 40 — chatted playfully with local fans about his impending free agency and his possible decision to join the Knicks.

Speaking to the media after the game, Nash wouldn’t divulge many details of his negotiations with several teams.

“I would think I’d meet with them if they’re interested,” he said of the Knicks.

“I’m looking forward to seeing which teams are interested and what they have to say.”

He wouldn’t deny interest in the Knicks’ new neighbors in Brooklyn either, calling the revamped Nets and their spanking new arena “another exciting opportunity.”

The proud Manhattanite added: “Brooklyn is beautiful. I think a lot of guys will find out about Brooklyn.”

Ultimately, of course, not long after the Showdown, Nash wound up signing with Los Angeles. But he’ll always have Sara D. Roosevelt Park for his off-season soccer workouts.

Westbeth secures funds for critical structural work Continued from page 1 structure to secure Westbeth’s future for another generation of artists,” Denes said. “We now have the resources to address many of our most pressing needs, beginning with repairing the facade and replacing roofs.”

Bids for the facade repair, required by Local Law 10, and roof replacement are to be solicited soon, said Steven Neil, executive director of Westbeth.

The complex, which was designated a city landmark last year and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has at least a dozen roofs at various levels, including the roofs on elevator structures, Neil said.

Two roofs at Westbeth had been replaced previously, one six years ago. The other, of red Spanish tile, was restored 15 years ago, Neil said. Moreover, The New School’s graduate theater department, which leases the two-story theater on the Bank St. side of the complex, has repaired the theater roof, Neil noted.

Westbeth is also nearing completion of a $3.5 million weatherization project, funded mostly by a grant from the federal Department of Energy, administered by the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal. The weatherization project includes overhauling Westbeth’s heating and hot water systems, refurbishing the ventilation system and providing residents with free, energyefficient refrigerators and lighting fixtures.

“These improvements are expected to create significant energy savings and contribute to the greening of Westbeth by switching from No. 6 to No. 2 heating oil and to natural gas in the near future,” Denes said.

But there remains further work, estimated at $20 million, to be done in Westbeth’s long-term restoration

A view of the southeast corner of the one-square-block Westbeth artists complex. The route where the High Line’s tracks used to cut through one of the buildings on the second floor is still visible.

and repair program, Denes said. That work will eventually involve the replacement of nearly 3,000 windows in the complex, said Neil, noting that Westbeth has about six different sizes of windows.

The complex of interconnected industrial buildings — from West to Washington Sts. between Bethune and Bank Sts. — was where Bell Laboratories pioneered in the development of sound recording, television and transistors from 1924 to 1966.

The oldest building dates to 1860. Western Electric, Bell’s manufacturing affiliate, came onto the site in 1896 and 1903. More buildings rose in 1924 and 1926, and in the 1930s there were additions and alterations.

In 1933, the New York Central’s West Side Improvement (commonly known as the High Line) had a Washington St. spur that went through one of the buildings at the second floor. But this section was decommissioned after Westbeth took over the property.

The nonprofit Westbeth Center for the Arts was founded by Roger Stevens, a theater producer and founding chairman of the National Council for the Arts (later renamed the National Endowment for the Arts), along with the philanthropist Jacob M. Kaplan.

Westbeth acquired the complex in 1967 when Bell vacated the site and went to New Jersey.

Designed by Richard Meier, the conversion of laboratory and industrial buildings into artists’ living/work space was completed in 1970. The square-block complex now has 383 units, an art gallery, a theater and a community room off a large plaza on the Bank St. side of the complex. The Brecht Forum, a venue for leftist politics and culture, is also a tenant.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Westbeth last year received Landmarks Preservation Commission designation as a city landmark.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT What happens to a raisin in the sun?

At ‘Clybourne,’ it dries into algebra THEATER CLYBOURNE PARK

Written by Bruce Norris Directed by Pam MacKinnon Through Sept. 2 At the Walter Kerr Theatre 219 W. 48th St. (btw. Broadway & Eighth Ave.) For tickets ($30-$127), call 212-239-6200 or visit telecharge.com Photo by Nathan Johnson

L-R: Frank Wood, Annie Parisse, Christina Kirk, Jeremy Shamos, Damon Gupton and Crystal A. Dickinson.

BY JERRY TALLMER On the evening of March 11, 1959 (at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway) an actor named Sidney Poitier leaped down from the stage to lift a brown, skinny brand-new playwright named Lorraine Hansberry — a Greenwich Village waitress then two months short of her 30th birthday — over the footlights amidst the roar of "Author! Author!" that had exploded as the curtain descended on opening night of her breathtaking “A Raisin in the Sun.” In a Houston, Texas suburb one year and two months later — May 16, 1960 — a boy named Bruce Norris was born. He would grow up to be an actor-turnedplaywright whose Pulitzer- and Tony-winning “Clybourne Park” is umbilically and purposefully connected to Lorraine Hansberry's half-century-earlier “Raisin in the Sun.” “I was fixated on that play,” Norris has said, “because it had that great slapping scene where Lena [the powerhouse Mama Younger] slaps Beneatha [the rebellious Hansberrylike 20-year-old daughter] and makes her say: ‘In my mother's house there is still God.’ ” The link between the two plays is a meachy little white man named Karl Lindner — a white man who comes to try to bribe a black family not to move into the house they've just bought in the white Chicago suburb of Clybourne Park — only to be reborn as a sort of doppelganger called just plain Karl in the first half of the Norris play. This Karl is a grouchy, bitterly disgruntled white homeowner in Clybourne Park who is selling his house to a black family (the unnamed “Raisin” family) come hell or high water — not for idealistic reasons, but quite the opposite.

The plot gets even more complicated (though clear enough on stage) when the actor (the excellent — but they're all excellent — Jeremy Shamos), whom we've just seen as Karl, now appears as a hard-bitten cynic named Steve who smokes out the racism (including black anti-white racism) of a long since gentrified interracial Clybourne Park. The issue now is the height of the rooflines in that tight-knit community. But underneath that crisis is — you guessed it — what somebody might speak of as “enlightened racism.”

Pam MacKinnon, the 44-year-old director of “Clybourne Park,” may know Bruce Norris as well as anyone on earth.

“He went to an ostensibly desegregated but de facto seg-

regated Houston high school,” says MacKinnon. “He thought the film of ‘Raisin’ was fantastic, and then learned it had been made from a play.

“As a white boy and man-to-be and aspiring actor, he realized the only role in ‘Raisin’ he’d ever get to play was Karl Lindner. And he saw his parents and his parents' friends in Karl Lindner. So he hooked into [Lindner] in two different ways.”

“I identified with Karl and I identified with all of my culture” — white suburban culture — Norris has revealed. What took the scales off the future playwright's eyes was reaching maturity in a big city called Chicago.

This playgoer hates to say it, but Lorraine Hansberry's Karl Lindner (vividly remembered from that Barrymore Theatre over all these years and preserved forever on film by John Fiedler) is a great deal more discreet and therefore more insidious — more dangerous — than Bruce Norris's purely angry armchair-anchored Karl.

But then discreet is hardly the word for this hard-bitten drama that has men and women, some white, some black, throwing the ugliest words in the language at one another by way of racism in disguise, only to bring down the house — not a dwelling place but the howling ha-ha-ing audience — with the ugliest word of all, spoken in the play by a pissed-off young black woman.

Frank Rich, drama critic gone politico-socio essayist, did an endless piece in New York Magazine heralding “Clybourne Park” for telling us fellow Americans in theatrical code what one thought was already plain as day — or dark as night. Night in a gated community, for instance, at somewhere called Sanford, Florida, or almost anywhere in the great state of Arizona, or along hundreds of the frisky sidewalks of good old New York, or anywhere and everywhere the ultimate object of all that hatred is a Negro president of the United States that Mama Younger — and Lorraine Hansberry — never lived to see.

My question — one of my questions: Does laughing at this so-called comedy's exposures of racist and economic and social hypocrisies remove the poison of racism from one's own innards? Which is a point within a point, if you see what I mean.

I made a big mistake in the run-up to this dispatch.

An unfair mistake. I reread "A Raisin in the Sun." Virtually every line set emotions afire in a way a hundred "Clybourne Parks" could never do (or, to be fair, would never want to do).

Try this for size: MAMA YOUNGER: No…something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too.

Or this: KARL LINDNER: You see in the face of all the things I have said, we are prepared to make your family a very generous offer…

BENEATHA: Thirty pieces and not a coin less!

Or this: BENEATHA (vis-à-vis her wrecked brother, Walter Lee Younger): Love him? There is nothing left to love.

MAMA: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Pam MacKinnon of Evanston, Illinois and Buffalo, New York has been good friends with Bruce Norris (of Houston and Chicago) ever since they each moved to New York City 16 or 17 years ago and their careers began to take off.

“Clybourne Park” may be built like an algebraic equation — the same seven actors of Act I gerrymandered into precisely seven other roles 50 Pirandellesque years later — but if you listen hard you may also catch some phrases in Act II borrowed from the above-mentioned president's 2008 election campaign.

“All I knew about ‘Clybourne Park’ until about three years ago,” the director says, “was that it was loosely, loosely, loosely based on ‘Raisin in the Sun.’ ” So, Ms. MacKinnon, does “Clybourne Park” leave you feeling more pessimistic or optimistic?

“Oh, it depends. Each time I watch it I bring something of myself to it. Some days I come away with lots of hope. Other days I certainly do not have that feeling. I think it's interesting that at the end of the play, Bruce brings together its most optimistic and most pessimistic characters.”

Fifty-three years ago I walked out of the Barrymore Theatre at the end of the performance as if in a trance. The girl who was with me said four words: “I'm all shook up.” I think it will be a good long time before “Clybourne Park” shakes me up like that.

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Just Do Art! EXHIBITION: “STEAMPUNKINETICS”

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

The last time Bruce Rosenbaum descended upon Gotham’s cobblestone streets, it was that bygone era known as winter 2012 — when he curated an exhibition at Soho’s Wooster Street Social Club. Tricked out with all manner of gauges and gears, the highly stylized collection of cell phones, chairs, bicycles and desktop workspaces made perfect sense among the tattoo parlor’s buzzing metal machinery. Now, the prolific and visionary Rosenbaum returns (this time to Tribeca) to once again push the envelope of the already boundary-shattering world of Steampunk.

“Steampunkinetics” is an exhibition of over 40 kinetic sculptures by 18 artists inspired by (and entrenched in) the Steampunk aesthetic. The still-evolving genre — which has grown from a literary device to a rich subculture encompassing everything from fashion to visual art to home design — mashes the Victorian industrial aesthetic with elements of contemporary technology and futurism.

The result, as seen in “Steampunkinetics,” is a forwardthinking yet retro-informed take on everything from the functional (lighting and musical instruments) to the fantastical (time machines and airships).

Free. Through Sept. 2: Mon.-Sat., 10am-7pm & Sun., 11am-6pm. At AFA (54 Greene St., at Broome St.). For info, call 212-226-7374 or visit modvic.com, afanyc.com and steampuffin.com.

Photo by Gary Sullivan

Compelling form, forward-thinking function: Bruce Rosenbaum and Gary Sullivan’s Steampunk Wedding Time Capsule unlocks its mementos at a future point of your choosing. Until then, a countdown feature on the antique grandfather clock chips away at the due date.

Photo by Gary Sullivan

In the lower portion of the clock, letters and small mementos can be deposited and stored.

Photo by Katy Ru

HAPPENINGS — AT HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE

Theatre of the Oppressed performs at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, on July 24.

A fine selection of books (the kind with hundreds of pages instead of one screen) is just the tip of the iceberg that keeps Housing Works Bookstore Cafe afloat. Lingering, socializing and contemplation are encouraged by a series of events offering everything from author meet and greets to lit-themed performances. Staffed almost entirely by volunteers, 100 percent of the profits support the Housing Works mission to fight homelessness and AIDS. On Tues., July 17, a panel addresses the social relevancy of comic books. On hand will be writer and former crime reporter Dennis O’Neil and photorealistic artist Neal Adams — whose collaborative efforts returned Batman to his brooding roots. Also on hand will be writer Christopher Irving and photographer Seth Kushner — whose “Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics” outlines the genre’s history through Irving’s interview-based essays and Kushner’s photography.

On Wed., July 18, “Copyright & Punishment in the Digital Age” has online entrepreneurs Drew Curtis (Fark.com), Erik Martin (Reddit) and Ken Fisher (Ars Technica) discussing intellectual property and fair use online. Rob Reid, whose new novel “Year Zero” brings an intergalactic perspective to these issues, moderates.

On Thurs., July 19 ($8 cover), the ongoing Moth StorySLAM series features 10 stories addressing the theme of “Show Tunes.” The best tale wins.

On Mon., July 23, “A Decade of Fluxblog Live: 10 Years of Perfect Tunes” features Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone Magazine), Au Revoir Simone singer Heather D’Angelo and others talking about one song from the decade 2002–12 as a way to mark the tenth year of Fluxblog (the first mp3 blog).

On Tues., July 24, Theatre of the Oppressed presents “Stigma and the City” — based on real events experienced by performers from Housing Works’ 13 Theatre Troupe (an ensemble of NYC artists living with, or affected by, HIV).

All events happen at 7pm (free unless otherwise noted), at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (126 Crosby St., btw. Prince & Houston Sts.). Hours: Mon–Fri., 10am–9pm and Sat.–Sun., 10am–5pm. For info, call 212-334-3324 or visit housingworksbookstore.org.

July 17: Dennis O’Neil, with collaborator Neal Adams, discusses the social relevancy of comic books.

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Photo by Seth Kushner

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Missing this one would be a true travesty Trav S.D.’s Vaudeville show gives variety back its good name THEATER THE NY MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL PRESENTS: “TRAVESTIES OF 2012”

Thurs., July 19 at 9:30pm; Fri., July 20 at 7pm & 9:30pm; Sat., July 21 at 6pm; Thurs., July 26 at 9:30pm; Fri., July 27 at 7pm & 9:30pm; and Sat., July 28 at 6pm At the 45th St. Theatre Upstairs (354 45th St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves.)

For tickets ($25), call 212-352-3101 or visit nymf.org Also visit travsd.wordpress.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Long before television — when the masses packed Lower East Side theaters yearning to be entertained on the cheap — they used to call it “Vaudeville.” By the time Ed Sullivan was bringing us plate spinners and the Beatles, it was called “variety.” Decades later, modern day torture sessions such as “The X Factor” and “America’s Got Talent” are trite travesties that make one long for the sophisticated

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stylings of Sonny & Cher or Donny & Marie.

Thank your lucky stars, then, for this fine publication’s very own Downtown theater columnist. Long before he landed that plumb gig, Trav S.D.’s American Vaudeville Theatre (AVT) was helping the format reclaim its rightful function as a source of diverse, high quality entertainment served in short bursts and at a breakneck pace.

As host of the proceedings, Mr. S.D. often employs the overinflated carnival barker banter of P.T. Barnum — but that’s where his clever ruse begins and ends. A typical AVT show delivers surreal comedy, music and a cavalcade of world-class (and irony-free) vaudeville, circus and burlesque performers who seem as if they’ve emerged from a 1920s Coney Island kinescope.

As part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), “Travesties of 2012” promises a diverse mashup of American entertainment styles in a revue format that’s both naughty and nostalgic. The cast, drawn from what Trav S.D. describes as “the cream of New York’s Vaudeville Aristocracy,” includes ventriloquist Carla Rhodes, clowns Jennifer Harder and Glen Heroy, operatic comedians Jenny Lee Mitchell & Dandy Darkly, rodeo rope artist AJ Silver, contortionist The Amazing Amy, mentalist/mind reader Rory Raven and performers from other NYMF musicals.

Trav S.D.’s next monthly Downtown theater column (a preview of August events) will appear in the July 26 edition of this publication. For more info on the history of Vaudeville, kindly consider purchasing Trav S.D.’s excellent book: “No Applause — Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.”

Photo by Carolyn Raship

Ukin’ ‘bout My Generation? Slightly insane impresario Trav S.D. brings the best of NY vaudeville aristocracy to the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

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BY KAITLYN MEADE & SCOTT STIFFLER S A R A Z A D A N D T H E M O N S T E R - K I N G This reimagining of Scheherazade and “1001 Arabian Nights,” written by E. J. C. Calvert and directed by Justin Lauro, introduces 9-year-old Sarazad — who escapes bullying at school by retreating into Storyland. There, she meets the grouchy Monster-King and wins his friendship by telling him fantastic stories. When Sarazad returns to school, her experiences with the Monster-King (and her newfound confidence) help her triumph over adversity.

Through Sun., July 15, on Sat. and Sun. at 1 & 4pm. At Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich and West Sts.). For tickets ($18) or more info, call 866811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

N E W Y O R K C I T Y F I R E M U S E U M Kids will learn about fire through group tours led by former NYC prevention and safety firefighters. The program — which lasts approximately 75 minutes — includes classroom training and a simulated event in a mock apartment, where a firefighter shows how fires can start in different rooms in the home. Finally, students are guided on a tour of the museum’s first floor. Tours (for groups of 20 or more) are offered Tues.-Fri. at 10:30am, 11:30am & 12:30pm. Tickets are $3 for children and $5 for adults — but for every 10 kids, admission is free for one adult. The museum offers a $700 Junior Firefighter Birthday Party package, for children 3-6 years old. The birthday child and 15 guests will be treated to story time, show and tell, a coloring activity, a scavenger hunt and the opportunity to speak to a real firefighter (the museum provides a fire-themed birthday cake, juice boxes and other favors and decorations). The NYC Fire Museum is located at 278 Spring St. (btw. Varick and Hudson). For info, call 212-691-1303 or visit nycfiremuseum.org.

C H I L D R E N ’ S M U S E U M O F T H E A R T S Explore painting, collage and sculpture through self-guided art projects at this museum dedicated to inspiring the art-

ist within. Open art stations are ongoing throughout the afternoon, giving children the opportunity to experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper and found objects. CMA’s new exhibit, “Art Forms: 75 Years of Arts Education,” displays children’s artwork from the collections of celebrated arts educators Leon Bibel, Henry Schaefer-Simmern and Sona Kludjian. The works, dating from the 1930s and 1960s, are juxtaposed with contemporary creations by NYC public school students.

“Art Forms” runs through Sept. 30. Throughout the summer, Governors Island joins CMA to present the Free Art Island Outpost — where kids ages 1-12 can participate in a variety of activities (everything from craft stations to sound design). Every Sat. & Sun., through Sept. 16, from 11am-3pm (at buildings 11 & 14 in Nolan Park, on Governors Island). CMA is located at 103 Charlton St., (btw. Hudson and Greenwich Sts.). Museum hours are Mon. and Wed., 12-5pm; Thurs.-Fri., 12-6pm; Sat.-Sun., 10am-6pm. Admission: $10; free for seniors and infants (0-12 months). Pay as you wish on Thurs., 4-6pm. For group tours, call 212-274-0986, ext. 31. Call 212-2740986 or visit cmany.org for more info.

THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM The Skyscraper Museum’s “Saturday Family Program” series features workshops designed to introduce children and their families to the principles of architecture and engineering — through hands-on activities. On July 14, “Trash Factory” will talk about how architects recycle old warehouses into new buildings. On July 28, kids ages 8-12 are invited to learn about the science behind the structures in “Skyscraper Physics,” complete with demonstrations from the educators at the museum. During “So Sew Tall,” on August 12, children will design factories to manufacture their own product, like those in the Garment District, in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit “Urban Fabric.” All workshops take place from 10:30-11:45am, at The Skyscraper Muse-

BOOKS AHOY! All aboard, little mermaids and pirates ages 3-10! The historic steamship Lilac is about to set sail. “Books Ahoy!” is a free festival sponsored by the Pen Parentis literary salon. Noteworthy authors will be reading, Bluestockings Bookstore (located at 172 Allen St.) will be selling books and kids can get their faces painted or work at an art table. The Lilac also offers free tours of the engine room (complete with a wooden captain’s wheel).

Free. From 2-5pm on Sat., July 28. The Lilac is moored to Pier 25 in Tribeca (at North Moore St.). For more info, visit penparentis.org or email info@penparentis.org.

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Literally Alive Children’s Theatre brings the rich culture and colors of Costa Rica to a Downtown stage.

TICO TALES Hear the call of the Quetzal bird and learn how Princess Cira was transformed into a volcano — without ever leaving the island of Manhattan! This new bilingual musical from Literally Alive Children’s Theatre, based on magical stories from Costa Rican folklore, encompasses everything from ancient creation myths to traditional songs and tribal dances.

um (39 Battery Place). Registration required. Call 212-9456324 or e-mail education@skyscraper.org. Admission: $5 per child, free for members. Museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Museum admission: $5, $2.50 for students/ seniors. For info, call 212-945-6324, visit skyscraper.org or email education@skyscraper.org.

POETS HOUSE The Poets House Children’s Room gives children and their parents a gateway to enter the world of rhyme — through readings, group activities and interactive performances. For children ages 1-3, the Children’s Room offers “Tiny Poets Time” readings on Thursdays at 10am; for those ages 4-10, “Weekly Poetry Readings” on Saturdays at 11am. Filled with poetry books, oldfashioned typewriters and a card catalogue packed with poetic objects to trigger inspiration, the Children’s Room is open Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Free admission. At 10 River Terrace. Call 212-431-7920 or visit poetshouse.org.

CREATURES OF LIGHT Descend into the depths of the ocean and explore the caves of New Zealand — without ever leaving Manhattan. Just visit the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit on bioluminescence (organisms that produce light through chemical reactions). Kids will eagerly soak up this interactive twilight world where huge models of everything from fireflies to alien-like fish illuminate the dark. Through Jan. 6, 2013 at the American Museum of Natural History (79th St. and Central Park West). Open daily, 10am–5:45pm.

Admission is $25, $14.50 for children, $19 for students/ seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the museum or at amnh.org. For more information, call 212-769-5100.

HOUSE OF GHOSTLY HAUNTS Cardone The Magician’s spook show will continue to electrify audiences as Canal Park Playhouse once again extends its run, now through July 31. The vaudeville-style act features razor swallowing and spirit conjuring — and ends in 10 minutes of complete darkness. Appropriate for ages 7 and up. Tuesdays, 7pm, at Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich & West Sts.). For tickets ($20), call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.

Through July 26, Tues.-Sun., at 11am.

At the Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St., btw. Bleecker & W. 3rd Sts.). Free tickets are available at the box office one hour before the show (limit, two tickets per person). For advance tickets, call 866-811-4111 or visit ovationtix.com. For more info, visit literallyalive.com.

T H E N E W Y O R K C I T Y P O L I C E M U S E U M D u ring regular Museum hours (Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 12-5pm), visit the Junior Officers Discovery Zone, designed for ages 3-10. It is divided into four areas (Police Academy, Park and Precinct, Emergency Services Unit and a Multi-Purpose Area). Each has interactive play experiences for children to understand the role of police officers in our community. For older children, there’s a crime scene observation activity, a physical challenge similar to those at the Police Academy and a model Emergency Services Unit vehicle where children can climb in, use the steering wheel and lights, hear radio calls with police codes and see some of the actual equipment carried by the Emergency Services Unit. At 100 Old Slip (btw. Front and South Sts.). For info, call 212-480-3100 or visit nycpm.org. Admission: $8 ($5 for students, seniors and children; free for children under two).

P O T T E D P O T T E R : T H E U N A U T H O R I Z E D H A R RY EXPERIENCE — A PARODY BY DAN AND JEFF Former BBC hosts Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner create comedic magic as they attempt to “pot,” or condense, all seven Harry Potter books into a 70-minute, family-friendly show. An Olivier award nominee for Best Entertainment and Family Show, this chaotic musical tribute directed by Richard Hurst has charmed audiences of all ages on London’s West End and is now making its New York debut. Through Aug. 12, Tues., 7pm; Wed., 2 & 7pm; Thurs., 7pm; Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2, 5 & 8pm; and Sun., 2 & 5pm. At the Little Shubert Theatre (422 W. 42nd St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.). For tickets ($40-$100), call 212239-6200 or visit telecharge.com. For more info: pottedpotter.com or facebook.com/pottedpotter.

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on Tuesdays at 8pm. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For info, call 212-252-3621 or visit washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org.

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VOICES OF WOMEN THE WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL The Washington Square Music Festival — under the auspices of the Washington Square Association and under the musical direction of Lutz Rath — is in the midst of its 54th season of free concerts.

The popular summer series began July 10, with the WSMF debut of conductor Michael Conley and the West Village Chorale. On July 17, the Washington Square Festival Chamber Ensemble presents an evening of Viennese chamber music (at St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Ave.). With David Oei on piano and Lutz Rath on speaker and cello, selections include Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor and Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon.

On July 24, the program “Music for Strings & Winds” features the Chamber Ensemble performing selections including Dvořák’s Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D for winds and strings, K.131. On July 31, the Deep Sahara Band performs music of West Africa (featuring band leader and vocal soloist Abdoulaye Alhassane). Both the July 24 and 31 performances happen in Washington Square, main stage, south of Fifth Ave.; rainspace, St. Joseph’s Church).

All concerts are free and take place

The Voices of Women — four professionally trained classical singers whose influences include opera, jazz, classical and cabaret — will present a new summer program featuring the works of composers Barbara Anselmi, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Flaherty, Stephen Sondheim and more.

Wed., July 19, 6:30pm at the Cornelia Street Café (29 Cornelia St.). Admission is $20, cash only at the door (includes a $10 food/drink credit). For reservations, call 212-989-9319. For more info, visit vowsingers.com.

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK(ING) LOT Why slum it among the flora and fauna of Central Park? See classical theater the way the Immortal Bard intended — in an empty parking lot on the Lower East Side. The Drilling Company’s 2012 “Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot” season is currently offering “The Merry Wives of Windsor Towers,” through July 28. Hamilton Clancy directs the enduring tale of class conflict and gives it a contemporary spin by placing the action in Windsor Towers — an imaginary condo that has just gone up on the Lower East Side. The comic hero, John Falstaff, is a classic LES real estate man always looking to score some

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Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure (lead guitar & vocals), Daniel "Dliz"Villeneuve (percussion) and other members of the Deep Sahara Band perform music of West Africa — in Washington Square, on July 31.

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Voices of Women: Christina Rosas, Courtenay Schowalter, Melissa Gerstein and Elizabeth Eiel.

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primo land (and ladies).

Free. Through July 28, Thurs.-Sat., at 8pm. In the Municipal Parking Lot (at the corner of Ludlow & Broome Sts.). The running time is 2:30. For info, call 212-873-9050 or visit shakespeareintheparkinglot.com.

ALEC MAPA: BABY DADDY To enjoy Alec Mapa’s dirty, hilarious solo show, you don’t have to be a gay Asian star of stage and screen who hit midlife, married a Caucasian documentary film producer, adopted a lovable little African American boy and lived happily ever after in the hip, granolacrunching bubble of California. You just have to have an open mind…and you can do that, right?

“Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” — which had its NYC premiere back in February — is returning for four shows only, and has something to say to queers contemplating adoption, straight couples who are expecting and yes, even bitter singles who think they’ll need to exceed that drink minimum by a good five or six in order to enjoy a show about how lives are transformed by children. After coming clean about his trampy past (in graphic detail), Mapa goes for the jugular by tugging at the heart. Surrounded by LGBT families on a gay cruise, he and his partner (“Bullied” producer Jamison Hebert) jump through numerous hoops to adopt a five-year-old boy who shows up with his meager belongings in a trash bag and thinks he’s being abandoned every time somebody leaves the room for a glass of water. Later, recalling the verbal disciplining of his son in public, Mapa beams with pride when little Zion looks at him and deadpans, “And the Academy Award goes to…” — proving that whether through blood or adoption, all sons are destined to become their father…or fathers!

At 7:30pm on Thurs., July 19 through Sun., July 22. At the Laurie Beechman Theater (located inside West Bank Café, 407 W. 42nd St., at Ninth Ave.).

For tickets ($22, plus a $15 food/ drink minimum), call 212-352-3101 or visit spincyclenyc.com. Follow Alec on Twitter @AlecMapa, and visit alecmapa.com.

Photo by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation

Better than what you find in Cantral Park: see “Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot.”

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It’s a boy! Out, proud parent Alec Mapa’s solo show has wicked wit and a pure heart.

JAKE LAMOTTA AND DENISE BAKER IN “LADY AND THE CHAMP” For a “Raging Bull” whose power and fury couldn’t be contained, legendary boxer Jake LaMotta seems consigned — by fate or desire — to entertain while working in confined spaces. Decades after retiring from the ring, the former world middleweight champion and saloon owner spent time as a stand-up comic. His most recent project has been performed on the intimate stages of the Triad Theatre and Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency. Now, the show transfers to Off-Off Broadway for a limited run.

“Lady and the Champ” is an evening of songs, stories and videos created and performed by the legendary pugilist and singer Denise Baker — whom the smitten LaMotta (who just turned 90) affectionately refers to as his future seventh wife (“Lucky #7,” he’s

Photo by Barbara Lee

“Lady and the Champ” pairs boxing legend Jake LaMotta and cabaret sensation Denise Baker.

dubbed her). Six previous marriages ought to give you some idea of the colorful tales you’re in for when LaMotta spins ribald yarns of those years as a boxer — and a post-retirement life that’s become as legendary as his furious work in the ring.

In previews Thurs., July 19 at 7pm and Fri./ Sat., July 21-22 at 7:30pm. Opens Sun., July 22 (3pm); then, Fri. & Sat., July 27-28 at 7:30pm and Sun., July 29 at 3pm. At the Richmond Shepard Theatre (301 E. 26th St., at Second Ave.). For tickets ($25), call 212-684-2690.

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Farewell, LeRoy: The buccaneer in the white suit OBITUARIES

BY JERRY TALLMER With his pirate’s handlebar moustache and all-occasion, white-on-white suits, LeRoy Neiman always looked to me like nothing so much as a 19th-century Mississippi riverboat gambler. Or maybe Mark Twain in the guise of a deeply courteous, soft-spoken Mississippi riverboat gambler.

And it was true. His whole long life, which ended last month on Wednesday, June 20, at age 91, in the big beautiful old West 60s studio apartment he and his wife Janet had lived and worked in for more than 50 years — that entire life and unmatchable career had been from first to last a gigantic gamble.

A roll of the dice that is spelled out in detail, in LeRoy’s own voice — along with dozens of his quick-fire renderings, from Muhammad Ali to Samuel Beckett to Lenny Bruce to Joe Namath to Frank Sinatra to Darryl F. Zanuck to several hundred others and back again — in the big, beautiful, brand-new, autobiographical “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs” (Lyons Press, 340 pages, $29.95). He lived just long enough to see it at last in print. Clutched it happily in his hands as he faded away.

Who would have thought that pen, pencil, eraser, charcoal, enamel, oils, watercolors, pastels, crayons and even computerized, television-linked drawing tools would carry a 23-year-old U.S. Army cook in the invasion of Germany from painting longlegged, big-bosomed girls on mess-hall walls to fame, fortune and instant recognition everywhere around the world.

Which has put the snob’s stamp of “Not to be taken seriously” on Neiman’s forehead ever since.

The only untruth LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Runquist) ever promulgated that I know of was his age. He ultimately

LeRoy Neiman, with one of his paintings of Muhammad Ali.

knocked six years off of it. The irony is he didn’t have to. He was one of those people who are forever young, and as wide-eyed about his home territory — the worlds of sport and entertainment — as any father-deserted kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Saint Paul, Minnesota, ought to be.

Here he is, talking with me some years ago, when the elitists of art criticism were, as always, piling on: “For an artist, watching a Namath throw a football or a Willie Mays hit a baseball is an experience far more overpowering than painting a beautiful woman or a leading political figure.”

Of course he could do both, in the great tradition of, oh, Toulouse-Lautrec, for one, Francisco Goya for another.

Here he is on another day, speaking about his favorite of all milieux, the racetrack, in any country and in vivid color:

“[You] find the full range of social strata in one scene…and I’m there myself. I’ll place a few bets, have a few drinks. It’s a total experience” — one that made him, in semi-serious jest: “an Impressionist,” not to mention (pun coming!) a post -Impressionist, of the whole picture, what the shrinks and the highbrow critics call the Gestalt, a word I think LeRoy Neiman would know full well but never use.

To tell truth, he himself would put himself, privately, from time to time, in the fellowship of Da Vinci, Rubens, Tintoretto, Fragonard, Dufy, Van Dongen, Kokoschka, Bellows, Pollock and others of the trade, north, south, east, west.

In a word, everybody who ever partook in the fellowship of art. Once again, who’s to say nay? Just look him up in fifty, a hundred years.

If for nothing else, he has earned some degree of immortality by his loving, pulsating coverage through the decades, much of

it gathered right here at the Blue Note and elsewhere in the Village, of the great jazz musicians black and white — mostly black — of our times, almost all of whom would beat LeRoy to the finish line.

In a huge, splendiferous $3,750 LeRoy Nieman sketchbook of the two 1965 championship prizefights between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali (Clay changed his name between the fights), the ring ropes in the first encounter are red, the ropes in the second one — the weirdo match in Maine — are blue.

You catch things like that, I said to Neiman.

“Well, yes, I do,” he replied. After all, it was his profession.

Here is something else he once caught.

I don’t think LeRoy was wearing that Mississippi riverboat gambler’s white suit the first time I ever laid eyes on him, down in Florida in 1969. In fact I didn’t lay eyes on him at all at that moment because I was concentrating so hard on what two New York Post sports writers were telling me about Joe Namath and the upcoming Super Bowl III — the game Namath had guaranteed to win — that I didn’t pay the least attention to someone working away on a drawing board just to my right.

The next day I had a look at whatever the fellow had been doing. It was a drawing of an intense feature writer — somebody who looked rather like yours truly — scribbling away in a reporter’s notebook while coping with one cigarette drooping from his lip, another sprouting upward from between the fingers of his hand that held the notebook.

It would take five years before the chap in that drawing could thank LeRoy Neiman by kicking the habit cold turkey.

You ladies who made everything possible in LeRoy’s life and career — Lynn Quayle, Cara Zabor, Gail Parentau and Janet Byrne, the Irish girl he married back in 1957 and stayed married to for all the rest of his days — well, thanks and love to all of you too. Let the big guy sleep.

Maria Cardone, 69, loved Village and her top terrier

BY ALBERT AMATEAU Maria Cardone, a lifelong resident of Carmine St. in the Village, died June 13 at the age of 69. She had a heart condition and was homebound for the past few years, said her friend and former neighbor Justina Burton.

The only child of Hubert and Adeline Cardone, Maria went to Our Lady of Pompeii School around the corner from where she lived, and then to Cathedral High School for Girls, located at the time on Lexington Ave. and 50th St. across from the Waldorf Astoria. She graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame College in Staten Island.

“Maria raised a Lakeland terrier that won titles all the way up to the Westminster Dog Show in 1976,” Burton said.

“She wasn’t looking for a show dog; she wanted a pet that would be good in an apartment,” Burton said. Maria found that a Lakeland terrier would fit the bill — on the small side, independent but friendly and a dog that doesn’t shed if regularly groomed.

The breeder told Maria that if the female puppy she bought turned out to be show quality when matured, she would like to breed her but it’s hard to predict how a puppy will develop. The dog’s registry name was Kilfel Whycroft Sunflower but Maria named her Robin.

“Robin did grow up to be a beauty and sweet-tempered as well,” Burton recalled.

Maria trained Robin for the show-dog circuit, winning several prizes and qualifying for the Westminster show.

The title that Robin won in 1976 was “Best in Breed of the Opposite Sex,” said Burton. A male Lakeland won

“Best in Breed” that year and Westminster always awards a Best to a dog in the same breed of the opposite sex, she explained. After Westminster, Robin was bred and had at least one litter, said Burton.

Maria, who never married, took care of her parents until they died several years ago. She worked in the Disability Department of the Social Security Administration, retiring after 42 years.

“She loved the Village, where she had many friends,” Burton said.

An aunt, Jessie Seitz, of Arizona, survives, as do several cousins. Perazzo Funeral Home, on Bleecker St., was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Queens.

A memorial Mass will be held a 10 a.m. Sat., July 21, at St. Joseph’s Church, Sixth Ave. at Washington Place.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CENTERBRIDGE SPECIAL CREDIT PARTNERS II, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/28/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 11/22/11.

NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 375 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10152. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/07 - 07/12/2012

OUTLIER SKATEBOARD SUPPLY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/11. Office in NY County. 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, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOT PROPERTY PR, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/17/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LAX GROUP, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/01/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/12/12. Princ. office of LLC: 437 Madison Ave., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19801. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF IN8, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/26/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016. Principal office address: 11755 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 2000, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MSG HOLDINGS MUSIC, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/30/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/29/12. Princ. office of LLC: Two Pennsylvania Plaza, NY, NY 10121.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Hot Property PR, LLC 322 E. 93rd St. #12A, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF LISA ALEXIS JONES, P.L.L.C Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/16/12. Office loc.: NY County. PLLC org. in DC 4/26/04. SSNY desig. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1230 Ave of the Americas, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10020. DC office addr.: 1200 G St., NW, Ste. 800, Washington, DC 20005. Art. of Org. on file: Secretary of DC, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004, Purp.: to practice the profession of Law. Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MADISONPARK REAL ESTATE COMPANY LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/24/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/31/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Mitchell Holdings LLC, 815 5th Ave., NY, NY 10065, Attn: David Mitchell, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PRINCE STREET – SOHO, LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/23/12.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1032 LEXINGTON ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Restaurant Group, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 710, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TWIN LAKES GLOBAL STRATEGY FUND LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/22/12.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Howard Booth.

DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012

PROBATE CITATION FILE NO. 3204-11.

CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT,

TO: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Attorney General of the State of New York, Stephen Warshaw, if living, and if dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown, and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees, and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown, and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Laurence Warshaw, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by Ethel J. Griffin, the Public Administrator of the County of New York, with offices located at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, 10007, seeking letters of administration c.t.a. in the estate of Laurence Warshaw.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County at Room 503, 31 Chambers Street, New York, on August 8, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., why a decree should not be made in the estate of Laurence Warshaw lately domiciled at 127 Grand Street, New York, New York, admitting to probate as a will of real and personal property the paper writing dated April 25, 2000 (copy attached) and ordering that letters of administration c.t.a. issue to the Public Administrator of New York County.

Dated, Attested and Sealed June 7th, 2012. (L.S.) HON. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate, New York County.

Diana Sanabria, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court.

Name of Attorney: Schram & Graber, P.C. Address of Attorney: 350 Broadway – Suite 515, New York, N.Y. 10013, (212) 896-3310.

This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested.

Vil: 06/21- 07/12/2012

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July 12 - 18, 2012

PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ABBOTT CAPITAL PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTORS GP 2012, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/17/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1290 Ave. of the Americas, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10104. LP formed in DE on 5/16/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MVG 60TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/06. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 950 3rd Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WALTON/ ISAACSON, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CA on 11/1/05.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. CA and principal business address: 15260 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 2100, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. Cert. of Org. filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/14 - 07/19/2012 MONKWELL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2012.

Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 54 W. 87th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

402 E. 80TH STREET REALTY LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 318 E. 80th St., NY, NY 10075. General Purposes.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 CREDIT RESOLUTION COLLECTIONS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/03/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Yisroel Ackerman, 98-01 67th Ave No. 10-D, Rego Park, NY 11374. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Name: Unit 4303 SoHo LLC. Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/07/2012.

Office location: County of New York. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Adu Advaney 243 Spring Street, Unit 4303 New York, NY 10013.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 10 SOUTH STREET SUBTENANT, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 41 HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Peter L. HessellundJensen, 521 Fifth Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10175-3399. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE PARK AVENUE HEART AND RHYTHM CENTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 791 Park Ave., #1C, NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 513 YELLOW APPLE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Alan J. Marcus, Esq., 20803 Biscayne Blvd., Ste. 301, Aventura, FL 33180. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Real estate rental.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GENMAR I LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Jan M. Gennet, 19 E. 88th St., #12E, NY, NY 10128.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ML HOSPITALITY LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: ML Hospitality LLC, 520 West 43rd St, #5T, New York, NY 10036.Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MVM HOSPITALITY LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/27/12. 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: MVM Hospitality LLC, 57 Kenmare St, #11, New York, NY 10012.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ON THE GROUND EVENTS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/2/12. 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 125 E. 12th St., PH A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 2ND AVENUE PROPERTIES REALTY LLC

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 5 BEEKMAN PROPERTY OWNER LLC

Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/12/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served.

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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/17/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/10/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served.

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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 5 BEEKMAN JV LLC

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 105 WEST 57TH STREET HOLDINGS, LLC

Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/14/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 3/8/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. 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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/13/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 1/30/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served.

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: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF L.N. AND N ENTERPRISES. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o David Kelner, 815 W. 181st St., Ste. 6H, NY, NY 10033. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE KATHERINE HANNER CONSULTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/24/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 545 W. 111th St., Apt. 8B, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CREATIVITY IS EVERYWHERE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 244 5th Ave., #2228, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW SUFFOLK LAND CO. II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/05. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEAMWORK MANAGEMENT THREE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEAMWORK MANAGEMENT ONE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1201 Broadway, Room 300, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 92 EQUITIES AR1 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/9/12. 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 NRAI, 274 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Union Square Operating, Inc. to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 34 Union Square in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF THE PROPOSED REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

Vil: 07/05- 07/12/2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Board of Standards & Appeals Public Hearing July 17, 2012. 1:30PM, 40 Rector Street, 6th Floor, Hearing Room E Manhattan, for Premises: 25 Great Jones Street /22 Bond Street, Manhattan Calendar No. 43-12-BZ Applicant: Raymond H. Levin.

Description: Variance (72-21) to permit the construction of a residential development of approximately 30,792 sq. ft. on a 25’8” x 200’2” through lot which does not comply with the use or bulk regulations for the M1-5B zoning district.

Vil: 06/28- 07/12/2012

Vil: 06/28- 07/19/2012

July 12 - 18, 2012

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PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TELEPORT COMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/7/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One AT&T Way, Bedminster, NJ 07921. LLC formed in DE on 5/25/12.

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., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/21 - 07/26/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS XI (E&P) PARTNERSA, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/8/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 5/3/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful activity.

Vil:06/21-07/26/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LTB ASSOCIATES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/08/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as an agent uponwhom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against theLLC is to: The LtB associates, LLC, 101 Maple St. #3, Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PINO GOMES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/22/12 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: PINO GOMES LLC, 212 East 88 Street, Apt. 1C, New York, NY 10128.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 SPEYER MERIDIAN, LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/10/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Bruce S. Monteith, 235 E. 40th St., Apt 41E, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

YTR 54 EAST LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/12.

Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 415 E. 54 St., Unit 9F, NY, NY 10022, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF METROPOLITIC LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: Keith Avila, 60 W 23rd St, Apt. 945, NY, NY, 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CYRUS SPECIAL STRATEGIES FUND, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/12. Princ. office of LP: 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Stephen C. Freidheim, 399 Park Ave., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: NANCY M. ROSEN D.M.D. PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/11/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, Nancy Rosen, 20 East 74th Street, 6A, New York, New York 10021. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Dentistry.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 DK 562 LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 05/31/2012 Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 223 West 115th Street, Suite 1, New York, NY 10026.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MIDTOWN SC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/12. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated

as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BAIT & TACKLE REALTY, LLC

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TRIAN IR HOLDCO, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/25/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/21/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles Milite, c/o Coffee Shop Restaurant, 29 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TI OZONE PARK STORAGE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1350 Broadway, Ste. 1010, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HORIZONS ETFS MANAGEMENT (USA) LLC App. for Auth. filed with

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BROOKLYN PIER 1 RESIDENTIAL OWNER, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/6/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830.

LP formed in DE on 4/23/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premises license, #1263934 has been applied for by Manhattan Proper Concepts LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 6 Murray St. New York NY 10007.

Vil: 07/05 - 07/12/2012

Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/8/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/29/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One Bryant Park, 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 06/28 - 08/02/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 328 WEST 45TH STREET LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/18/2011. 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: 5201 Great America Pkwy, Ste 256, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SILVER LAKE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 331 W 57th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HAMILTON HEIGHTS REAL ESTATE LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/21/2012. 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: 425 Boylston St., 3rd Flr., Boston, MA 02116 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 LOVELY FRANCHISING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/30/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 313 W. 4th St., NY, NY 10014, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACKSUB 2 LLC Authority filed with Secy. ofState of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware(DE) on 06/19/12.

Princ. office of LLC: 11 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10010-3629.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WHITE HORSE PROPERTIES NEW YORK, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Richard R. Wagonheim, 2 Tudor City Place, Apt. 2AN, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NRELATE LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/20/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/20/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the principal office of LLC: 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TFC WEST 57 GC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/12. Office location: NY County. Principal business location: 387 Park Avenue South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 387 Park Avenue South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016, Attn: General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05 - 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 10396 HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o The Community Preservation Corp., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART PARTNERS, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/7/11.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 147 W. 35th St., Ste. 602, NY, NY 10001.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Justin Zamparelli, Esq., Withers Bergman LLP, 430 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MIS EAST SETAUKET, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/5/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Arun Jethani, 99 Madison Ave., Ste. 511, NY, NY 10016, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAMA 57 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o DeGaetano & Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/05- 08/09/2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1264042 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 37 West 24th Street, New York, New York 10010 for on premises consumption. Applicant-Jin Restaurant Management LLC d/b/a San Rocco Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1264315, has been applied for by Pachanga Inc & Corossol LLC, to sell wine and beer at retail in a cafe under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 450 Washington Street, New York, NY 10013 for on-premises consumption.

Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF U.S.-CHINA CULTURE COMMUNICATION LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/29/12. 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: 580 Main Street Suite752, New York, NY 10044. Purpose:To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 31 W 27 STREET LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/14/12. Princ. office of LLC: 50 California St., Ste. 838, San Francisco, CA 94111. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Organge St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NS PROJECTS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF R AND C SULLIVAN STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Imian Partners, LLC, 65 Locust Ave., Ste. 105, New Canaan, CT 06840. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WLB FAMILY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Davis & Gilbert LLP, 1740 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COHEN FILM PROJECTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 750 Lexington Ave., 28th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1264231 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 328330 W. 46th St., New York, 10036 for on-premises consumption. BRAZIL 46 RESTAURANT ROW INC. Vil: 07/12 - 07/19/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BROWN & BROWN OF MASSACHUSETTS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/1/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MA on 1/28/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. MA and principal business address: 181 Wells Ave., Newton, MA 02459. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Sec. of State, One Ashburton Pl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 07/12 - 08/16/2012

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Double play: Chelsea chips to synthetic ball gloves CLAYTON

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON When Stanley Bard managed the landmark Chelsea Hotel, just passing through the front door of the 12-story, redbrick building one could feel the energy the space exuded.

The walls were saturated with the art trophies Stanley had collected. Stanley would trade art for rent if the artist couldn’t pay, which eventually led to a significant collection.

My friend Linda Twigg, R.I.P., was a major player in the Downtown pot world. Her reputation was — cheat or rip her off and there will be a price to pay. Linda was also in the gambling business. She sold the usual gambling equipment, but what fascinated me was her chip-stamping machine, which embossed the value and the casino label onto clay chips. She had a list of major clients, as well as, some local ones, like Mickey “The Pope of Dope” Cezar, who ordered $100 chips that could be used to buy his marijuana.

Linda rented a room in the Chelsea that she used as a game room. Her main game was poker. This was a quiet, small, private, invitation-only game. I am not a gambler, but once in a while I would hang out and take photos.

Since Linda lived on the Lower East Side and not in the hotel, she let Herbert Huncke stay in her room at the Chelsea. His job was to keep the place clean, oversee the games, handle orders and sometimes follow up on one of Linda’s unusual demands. And he did!

Herbert, one the original Beats, was credited with coining the name “Beat.” He was the guide who opened the door to much of the illicit world these naive Beat writers so desperately sought to enter. Huncke also has the undistinguished reputation of being the one who turned William Burroughs on to junk.

In 1990 Huncke’s autobiography, “Guilty of Everything,” was published, and Linda honored his moment with a book-signing party in her Chelsea room. The room was filled with many of the underground creative-world luminaries: Bob Fass of WBAI’s “Radio Unnamable,” Roger Richards of Greenwich Village’s Rare Book Room, Louis Cartwright, Elsa Rensaa, Marty Matz, Ira Cohen, Jamie Rasin, Jeremiah Newton and others.

It was then that I met and became friends with Jeremiah, and we have remained friends. (I just recently showed his “Candy Darling Warhol Superstar Diary” show at the Clayton Gallery.) Jeremiah is one of the featured players in my “Captured” biopic and we have worked on many projects together.

Jeremiah produced the award-winning documentary “Beautiful Darling,” which was directed by Jamie Rasin.

Jamie and Jeremiah bought a house in Cherry Valley, New York. On the last weekend in June I went Upstate with Jeremiah to document some of his Candy Darling archive, which is going to either the Warhol Museum or Yale.

AND THEN — THE SHOCK OF THE GLOVE When I entered Jeremiah’s house I was completely bowled over. He had rented out a portion of the house to Scott Carpenter, a baseball glove maker. Since Elsa and I had made baseball caps, I immediately understood what was going on, and I thought, This is incredible.

Incredible for many reasons: It is a small, individually owned, private, manufacturing business; it is making an American product in Upstate New York; this is art, craft, a business and a small industry. What could be better?

Rebuilding America — independent, small-time business, not some international corporate conglomerate making its product overseas. I was enthused and had to meet this man.

It’s not easy to make products in America. I know that

Photo by Clayton Patterson

Scott Carpenter at work Upstate manufacturing his lightweight, microfiber baseball mitts.

with the Clayton cap, many of the materials that went into making the cap were becoming impossible to get in the States.

In Scott’s case, the microfiber material, which is most of the glove, is made overseas. There is no U.S.-made microfiber available. Most other ingredients, like felt, thread and so forth, are U.S. made. And I connected with his contribution to changing the direction of a piece of classic Americana. Baseball is as American as apple pie.

The Clayton cap changed the direction of the baseball cap by moving the embroidery off the front panel and peak to going around the whole cap. We were the first to put a label and a signature on the outside of a cap. We were the first to make custom caps, and we produced many custom caps. Scott’s glove, by switching materials from leather to a synthetic fiber, is creating the same level of change.

The years of developing this new idea have started to pay off. The Carpenter “synthetic leather“ glove is the only all-synthetic glove ever used in pro ball. The Baseball Hall of Fame honored the Carpenter glove by acquiring one for its permanent collection.

“The first Hall of Fame glove in 2008 was the first non-leather glove ever used in professional baseball,” Scott told me. “ ‘Professional,’ in this case, meaning the minor leagues. The 2011 Hall of Fame glove was the first non-leather glove ever used in Major League Baseball — as well as the lightest glove currently used in Major League Baseball, and a notable evolution of the glove.”

His glove uses no leather. The glove is made of a synthetic fiber produced by Clarino™, although when you look at the glove you would swear it was made of suede leather. People even pick up the mitt and smell it and think they’re smelling a new leather glove.”

The microfiber cloth is defined as a woven material and is much lighter than leather, about 5 to 10 ounces difference in weight compared to a traditional leather glove the same size. Ten ounces is about equivalent to carrying two baseballs. The Clarino™ microfiber is more durable and lasts longer than the traditional leather glove and doesn’t change shape or get the flat, relaxed form a worn, traditional leather glove does.

Each baseball mitt is custom-made to fit the wearer.

The customer follows the directions on the Web site and traces his or her own hand onto paper to mail in. This is used as the blueprint for each, one-of-a-kind glove.

Scott is a trained artist, and has also designed sneakers. I wanted to know what he thought the future of his glove was.

“I’m not against importing Carpenter gloves, which I may do in the future,” he told me. “Perhaps I’m exploring better alternatives to some of the negative connotations of globalization. I’m seeking an alternative ‘trade’ — commodity, consumption, materialism, American iconography — that might serve as a better symbol of America than whatever the World Trade Center had symbolized to terrorists on that day. I’m searching for a response to 9/11 without believing I’ve found it, or ever will.”

My own feeling is you build up America and you make the country stronger. American-made stops the need to war our way into other countries, resources, production and labor. You make it in America, you make America a friendlier, economically stronger country. Make it in America and we make America stand proud. We all benefit by making products in America.

Just as I saw the Clayton cap as a work of art, Scott sees his gloves as works of art. Scott and I hold the same view about art after the time of Warhol: Art went from being an independent, stand-by-itself item, all the work done by one person, to a mixture between a commercial product made publicly available, with multiple production, where others can work on it, but the art belongs to the person who came up with the original concept. This is similar to printmaking, or how things were done in the Renaissance, where the master did the initial work and many details were finished by hired staff.

Since the cap and now the glove are made one at a time, this will never be McDonald’s — but like Warhol’s soup can painting, the object is understood by everyone. The difference between our products and Warhol’s is Warhol copied someone else’s idea verbatim. We worked on an already existing item, but we changed the whole concept.

For more information on Scott Carpenter and his synthetic-fiber baseball gloves, visit CarpenterTrade.com.

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