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Mob trashes man’s car, with him in it, at Fashion’s Night

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Soho and Noho residents have had their complaints about Fashion’s Night Out in recent years, saying the annual event floods their neighborhood with noisy, tipsy revelers who leave trash- and urine-strewn sidewalks in their wake.

But things reached a new low last Thursday evening, after a massive street party at Broadway and Bleecker St. spilled into the road

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Carved into their hearts On Tuesday, the 9/11 attack’s 11th anniversary, some family members left flowers and small American flags in the grooves of the names of their loved ones carved into the memorial at Ground Zero.

Frack opponents fight back by filing suit, blocking dig

BY LIZA BÉAR Saying the Spectra natural gas pipeline — now being constructed underneath Hudson River Park at Gansevoort Peninsula — poses grave dangers to the West Village and the city at large, neighborhood activists and environmentalists are ratcheting up their protests.

Last Thursday, a five-person blockade prevented a digging machine from operating on the Gansevoort construction site.

In addition, a lawsuit has been filed in State Supreme Court, seeking a temporary restraining order to force Spectra Energy Corp to cease construction.

Work on the pipeline began in July

after Spectra subsidiaries Texas Eastern Transmission LP and Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC got a green light from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in June, over the objections of the environmental group Sane Energy Project and others.

Prime environmental concerns over the pipeline are the potential dangers of leaks and explosions and the presence of radon in the natural gas, which is “fracked” gas being transported from the Marcellus Shale. Extracted by hydrofracking, the gas is up to 70 times more radioactive than the natural gas from Texas and Louisiana that New York currently uses:

It’s methane and contains radon. Radon is known as a “sink gas” because it’s heavy; it has a half-life of 3.85 days and takes two months to break down completely into (still-radioactive) polonium and lead.

However, Mary Lee Hanley, a Spectra spokesperson, said in an e-mail, “Texas Eastern, a division of Spectra, has measured the levels of radon in its system and in the natural gas supplied by Marcellus Shale producers. These samples were collected and analyzed by independent experts. The samples confirmed that the level of radon in this natural gas is

around 11 p.m. and a local resident — a brain surgeon driving home from work — endured a harrowing ordeal.

Partiers surrounded the man on Broadway in his white Audi, and some of them started jumping up and down on the vehicle while the driver was still inside, with one eventually kicking in the front and

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Hotel project would damage Merchant’s House, antis warn

BY SAM SPOKONY Nearly 100 people packed into the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s public hearing on Tuesday afternoon to rally against a proposal to build a nine-story hotel next to the landmarked Merchant’s House Museum on E. Fourth St. Dozens of the museum’s supporters, including City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, representatives of the Merchant’s House, architectural experts and preserva-

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tion advocates, stepped up to a podium and gave testimonials on behalf of their cause.

Meanwhile, Gary Spindler — the owner of the proposed hotel site and a partner in its development — scoffed and snickered at some of their words from his seat several feet away.

“The Merchant’s House is more than just a building,” Mendez told the commission members. “It’s so important, in

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NOTEBOOK A VOICE OF CONCERN: We received a phone message on Tuesday from a person who did not leave his name, but the voice mail sounded distinctly like the very distinctive voice of none other than Mayer Vishner himself. The former Yippie and L.A. Weekly editor said, and we quote, “The people at the LaGuardia Corner Gardens who are determined to support the vermin — the pigeons, the rats, the sparrows and mice — have extended their vermin support to the mosquitoes by putting out four illegal bird baths.” Vishner — or someone who sounds eerily like him — said the garden’s treasurer should be asked if people who contribute money thinking that they’re fighting N.Y.U.’s mega-development project on the South Village superblocks know, in fact, “that it will be used to pay for the health fines” from the West Nile virus that these bird baths will surely cause.

FRANKLY SPEAKING — CHARLEMAGNE: Roll the credits for the former XXX-rated video store at the northeast corner of Greenwich and Christopher Sts. We were recently checking out the building permits on the plywood fence that surrounds the storefront space and noticed they said, “no change of use.” So, we wondered, was all this renovation — it’s been going on for a while — just for a swank new porn store? No, it turns out that while “no change of use” means the so-called “use group” will be the same, the type of tenant will be different. Namely, the new occupant will be Charlemagne, a bistro — and (we’re taking a wild guess, here) a French bistro, by the sound of it. We tracked down Jason Hennings, the contractor who is overseeing the space’s rehab, and he filled us in a bit on the project. “It’s a brasserie,” he said. “It’s going to be a casual restaurant, not a formal restaurant. It was formerly a restaurant in the past. We were finding little nuances in the paint, little details in the ceiling and the floor.”

These details — including tinwork in the ceiling and classic

“black-and-white hex flooring” — are being incorporated into the refinished space. We don’t even want to imagine what was in the layers Hennings and co. had to dig through to reach the original floor. Suffice to say, the property’s porn period likely won’t be incorporated when the place is reborn as a brasserie.

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PUNISHING NEW COLUMN: Speaking of S&M, we noticed that Don MacPherson has recently written a new political roundup-type column. You could say he “penned it from the penitentiary,” because that’s exactly what he did. The online version of his Soho Journal features a new piece by the former Community Board 2 member who nearly became the board’s chairperson some seven years ago. MacPherson, who was involved in the S&M scene and loved to whip, flog and pinch politicians for their wrongdoings, is cooling his heels in jail after submitting — that is, his guilty plea to a massive Hamptons mortgage scam. We couldn’t reach him or his wife for comment by press time.

REMEMBERING JESSIE: A memorial service for Soho artist Jessica Dworkin, a.k.a. Jessie Blue, 58, who was killed by a tractor-trailer on Mon., Aug. 27, at the corner of Sixth Ave. and Houston St., will be held Tues., Sept. 18, at 10 a.m., at Greenwich House’s Our Lady of Pompei Senior Center, at 25 Carmine St. For information, contact Sandy Gavin at 212-989-3620.

TAKE TWO: We bumped into Steve Englander, the director of ABC No Rio, at the Two Boots Pizza 25th anniversary concert at the East River Park band shell the other week, and he gave us the update on the project to totally rebuild the alternative arts center, at 156 Rivington St. Basically, he said, instead of doing it in phases, as originally planned, they tried to bid out the project as one job. But all the bids came back too expensive — about 30 percent too high. So now it looks like they’ll be segmenting the project again and rebidding the work, hopefully soon. As for the concert, the crowd was loving it. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars were rocking both reggae and African tunes, and doing some amazing dance moves to boot.

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Mob trashes driver’s car during Fashion’s Night Out Continued from page 1 rear windows before police finally arrived to quell things.

An unidentified cyclist helped escalate the incident. It was unclear if the driver and cyclist had had an altercation before the cyclist decided to block the man’s car and then start taunting him derisively.

The incident was captured on a video posted on Gothamist. Police are seeking the cyclist to charge him with criminal mischief and inciting to riot.

The driver was identifi ed by Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance, as Mitchell Levine.

Levine agreed to give this newspaper his account of what happened, providing that details about his personal life or where he lives were not printed. He said he fears for his safety after last Thursday night’s incident.

Levine said his drive home that night had taken him through the Meatpacking District — where he had seen many Fashion’s Night Out revelers — and across 14th St., then down Broadway on his usual route home. He stopped at the light at Broadway and Bleecker. The huge street party had taken up most of Broadway and only the far right lane was open.

Police estimated the crowd at several hundred to 1,000 people.

The cyclist, who was sporting a pink shirt, eyeglasses with red frames and a beard, was partially blocking the only available lane and, according to Levine, wouldn’t move. It wasn’t clear if the cyclist was possibly trying to “cork” the street, something cycling activists sometimes do to “take back the streets,” albeit briefly, from automobiles.

Levine said he just sat there for a minute and didn’t make any hostile movements toward the cyclist. But then Levine waved his hand to the left, indicating the biker should move that way to let him through.

At that point, according to Levine, the cyclist gave him the finger, then put his bike up against the front of the car, and started yelling at him, “This is not Virginia!

This is not Alabama, motherf-----!”

Levine said he kept his windows up with the A/C on, and never said a word to the cyclist.

The cyclist’s intent may have been to paint Levine as some sort of Southern redneck, when in fact, he’s a native New Yorker. His Audi has New York license plates. But the cyclist’s taunts may have been intended to incite the crowd, which was heavily African-American. Levine said it’s possible the cyclist may have been trying to paint him as “the other.”

The crowd quickly engulfed his car and individuals started pounding and jumping on it.

Fearing for his life, Levine called 911.

Eventually, one man standing on his hood kicked toward Levine’s face and crumpled the car’s front window. Then, with a back kick of his heel, he completely knocked out

Levine’s back window.

Levine said he just stayed in the car and made eye contact with no one.

People were pounding on his side windows with their fists but were unable to break them.

As things spiraled out of control, he contemplated “the worst-case scenario,” as he put it, a step he didn’t want to take — “I just floor it and get out of there and people die.”

Luckily, Levine said, a woman, “a good samaritan” in the crowd, started to help clear a path in front of his vehicle, helping him inch his car forward. He was able to get his car down to the corner of Houston St. when he heard the sirens of police cars responding to the scene.

Levine felt the police response was slow, but admitted it’s hard to gauge time in the middle of a riot.

He said his car — a four-year-old, used midlevel model — suffered about $10,000 worth of damage, and he’ll have to replace the hood, roof and basically the whole car body. Luckily, his insurance will cover most of it. He didn’t suffer any injuries himself.

Jika Gonzalez, a Columbia Journalism School student, happened to be passing by on her way from an assignment, and got photos of Levine’s car under assault. She said she didn’t arrive early enough to witness if there had been an altercation with the cyclist.

“I didn’t know what started it,” Gonzalez said. “At first, they were running on the car and dancing on it. Then they started pounding on it, and a lot of people were cheering. Some were videoing it.”

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Fashion’s Night Out revelers jumped on top of Mitchell Levine’s Audi on Thursday night at Broadway and Bleecker St.

Levine with his damaged car after getting free of the crowd.

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Former New York Rangers star Sean Avery, left, buddied up with elite photographer Douglas Friedman at the Obama fundraiser.

Fashionable Obama fundraiser As the nation prepares for November’s presidential election, Barack Obama got a stylish fundraising boost on Saturday night at a star-studded East Village gay bar.

The Eastern Bloc on E. Sixth St. — which is co-owned by Ben Maisani, better known as Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend — raked in Democrat cash from an array of high-profile fashion designers, editors, models and photographers, all of whom enjoyed the night’s other featured attraction: a bunch of poleriding go-go dancers, scantily clad in Obama-themed boxer briefs and thongs.

One face that stood out in the crowd was former hockey goon Sean Avery, who was enjoying his recent retirement and seemed well on his way to becoming a true fashionista.

The event stayed true to the Obama campaign’s grassroots mantra — a $100 minimum donation seemed relatively small considering the VIPs in attendance — but the final total was nothing to sneeze at; Darren Dryden, the bar’s other co-owner, said that they’d raised $12,000.

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Frack opponents fight back with a suit and protests Continued from page 1 at or below the levels assumed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy reports, and the level presents no significant health risk. These findings and expert reports were submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in July 2012 and are available on the FERC Web site.”

The direct action by Monica Hunken, Sandra Koponen, Lopi LaRoe and two other activists took place as part of the Sept. 6 morning rally organized by the newly formed Occupy the Pipeline, an offshoot of Occupy Environmental Solidarity. (The rally was the first of two that day; the second, at 6 p.m., was twice the size.)

At the first rally, about 40 protesters, many wearing white lab coats or hazmat suits, stood behind the white outer lines on either side of the highly trafficked Hudson River Park bike lane, holding large orange mesh banners saying, “No Pipeline,” and cardboard signs bearing the radioactive symbol. They handed out fliers to joggers, skateboarders and cyclists.

As the crowd chanted, “New York City, Shut It Down, New York Ain’t No Fracking Town,” at 9:30 a.m., Hunken, Koponen and LaRoe waited for the backhoe to dump its load of rubble into a parked red pickup truck, then crossed the low concrete wall around the construction site, ran across the dirt and swiftly ensconced themselves right under the machine’s raised scoop, holding up signs and signaling to the operators not to swing down again. When asked to leave by a security guard and a park official, they refused. About eight police officers arrived shortly and discussed the situation with a National Lawyers Guild liaison while the three women, who had by now been joined by two men, held a mic check.

“I’ve never been so angry so early in the morning,” said Hunken. “I’m sick and tired of this filthy extraction industry taking and taking…destroying property values, our water, our homes.”

Koponen, a musician who lives at 14th St. and Seventh Ave., said, “I am here because I don’t want to live where the water is contaminated, the air is unbreathable and people don’t care for the environment. We should resist using fossil fuels, divest from fossil fuels and put it into energy that doesn’t destroy the planet.”

After all five had spoken, they stood up and left the construction site, but almost immediately Hunken and Koponen returned and were promptly placed under arrest and taken away in patrol cars. They were charged with trespassing and released from the Sixth Precinct after two hours.

On Wed., Sept. 12, activists returned to Gansevoort for more protest actions. Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., six activists skipped past the security guard and entered the Spectra construction site. According to reports, some of them chained themselves to various equipment with bike locks. One man, Dave Publow, climbed onto the arm of a Caterpillar at the peninsula’s far end; firefighters used a ladder to remove him, and he was then arrested. LaRoe climbed onto the rocks at the property’s edge and held a “No Spectra” sign; she was handcuffed and carried away in a police car. The four

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Three anti-pipeline protesters on Sept. 6 briefly blocked a construction shovel from digging into Gansevoort Peninsula.

others were also arrested.

Driving the natural gas “gold rush” are two assertions: that natural gas is clean, and that supplies are basically inexhaustible.

Among the public health hazards cited by environmentalists are the hydrofracking process itself, which was developed by Halliburton. The fracking fluid injected into a minimum of 1.7 million gallons of water per well contains 596 toxic chemicals, including benzene, toluene and glycol ethers, which are known carcinogens.

This toxic fluid is pumped at high pressure into the ground and used to break up the shale.

A high percentage of these toxic chemicals remains in the gas as it then travels.

However, Hanley, the spokesperson for Spectra, said the company has a good track record.

“Spectra Energy has been operating safely in the New York-New Jersey region for more than 60 years,” she said.

While Spectra previously claimed that natural gas resources in the U.S. would last 100 years, the Energy Information Administration released a report this January with drastically lower estimates. The agency’s 2012 estimate of 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the America is down 40 percent from the 2011 estimate of 827 trillion cubic feet. And the revised estimate for natural gas reserves in the Marcellus Shale, which runs under parts of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, is now 141 trillion cubic feet of gas, representing a 66 percent drop from the 2011 E.I.A. estimate of 410 trillion cubic feet.

The proposed 20-mile, high-pressure, 30 inch pipeline, would extend the existing transmission network at Bayonne, N.J., through Staten Island and Jersey City, cross the Hudson River at Linden, N.J., where there is an “M

and R” (metering and regulating) station, and emerge on the Gansevoort Peninsula in Manhattan, before tying in to the Con Ed distribution system. Con Ed, whose pipes are 24-inch maximum, would construct the last 1,500 feet of the pipeline.

According to documents Con Ed filed with the New York State Public Service Commission in 2009, 32 percent of its 4,300 miles of gas mains in the city and Westchester County were cast iron and 30 percent were unprotected steel.

Special precautions must be taken with gas pressure fluctuations operating in very old gas pipes, as New York’s are.

The petition filed last Wednesday by lawyers on behalf of Sane Energy Project and five other organizations, along with individual petitioners, in New York Supreme Court seeks a temporary restraining order against the Hudson River Park Trust; Spectra Energy Corp; Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; and Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC. The petitioners include United for Action, Village Independent Democrats, NYC Friends of Clearwater, NYH2O, Food and Water Watch and seven West Village residents, one of whom, Ynestra King, is disabled and already inconvenienced by the construction because she uses her wheelchair on the park’s bike path as an alternative to riding it on crowded sidewalks or dangerous streets.

Among the lawyers representing the petitioners are Yetta Kurland, a civil rights activist and Chelsea resident.

Basically, the petition attempts to override federal approval for an easement granted to Spectra by the Trust with a lawsuit at the state level because due process was not respected. The State Environmental Quality Review Assessment (SEQRA) was not conducted and construction of a pipeline is not a legitimate

park use, the petitioners charge.

Clare Donohue, a founder of the lead plaintiff Sane Energy Project, said, “During the public comment period there were 5,000 comments, of which only 22 were in favor of the pipeline, among them Mayor Bloomberg, and all the others except one were people involved in the construction of the pipeline.”

The Trust received $2.8 million from Spectra for a 30-year easement right to run the pipeline under Gansevoort Peninsula.

“The existence and operation of the Spectra pipeline itself, and the pipeline connection to Con Ed’s existing distribution system, will result in permanent and significant safety hazards, to residents of the area, those who use the park, and those who drive or commute via West St., which runs along the park,” the lawsuit says.

In related news, the state Department of Environmental Conservation was expected to decide on whether high-volume hydrofracking can be done safely in New York. But on Mon., Sept. 10, Governor Cuomo announced on an Albany radio station that there are no immediate plans for a decision on whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in New York State and that, whatever the decision, he expects lawsuits to follow it.

Critics of the Spectra pipeline believe that what drives Mayor Bloomberg’s approval of the proposed Gansevoort easement is a desire to promote hydrofracking here and create a need for natural gas. There are newly enacted city laws banning the use of No. 6 heavy-duty oil fuel and replacing it with No. 4 by 2013, and the much more refined No. 2 by 2015, or with biodiesel or natural gas. However, critics believe that the efforts should go into renewable energy sources instead.

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‘Glove Bandit’ guilty The bank robber known as the “White Glove Bandit” pleaded guilty to holding up two Greenwich Village banks on Tues., Sept. 11, in Manhattan Federal Court.

Michael McManus, 43, had been arrested in Tompkins Square Park in April, and was turned over to the F.B.I. due to his long record of robberies, which date back to 1992. The day before his arrest, McManus robbed an H.S.B.C. bank on Broadway and E. Ninth St. at gunpoint, after having robbed the same bank in January, according to court documents.

He also struck twice at the Citibank on LaGuardia Place, first in February and then in March.

McManus faces up to nearly 16 years in prison, and will be sentenced on Dec. 13.

Copped subway copper Police and the Metropolitan Transit Authority are investigating anonymous claims that a Sept. 7 fire in the DelanceyEssex Sts. subway station was started by thieves who have been stealing copper from around the train tracks.

An M.T.A. official said that while the claims are being treated seriously, the agency does not know who provided the tip about the alleged wire theft operation — which was widely reported in the media on the day of the fire. The official added that nothing like this has been observed in any other area subway stations.

The Sept. 7 fire forced the M.T.A. to suspend service on the J, M and Z lines for several hours that afternoon, and firefighters had to evacuate about 500 passengers from the station. No one was injured.

Sex assaulter sentenced Michael Torres, who in February sexually assaulted a woman in the subway station at Bowery and Delancey Sts. after threatening her with a knife, was sentenced to at least 13 years in prison on Tues., Sept. 4.

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Phillip Vinson, 25, shouldn’t have been too shocked to find himself under arrest for criminal possession of a weapon on Wed., Sept. 12, when police found 15 electric stun guns stashed in his car.

Vinson had been pulled over around 3 a.m. for making a right turn without signaling at the corner of Weehawken and Christopher Sts., near the West Side Highway, police said. When the officers asked him to step out, they saw two Taser-style guns clipped to his belt — and the other 13 turned up when they searched the car. After being arrested, Vinson admitted to having just transported the electrical weapons over state lines.

Also among his possessions were a set of brass knuckles and a glass jar that allegedly contained marijuana.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested for robbery on Mon., Sept. 10, after using a needle to threaten a man in a West Village pizza shop.

The teen, whose name was not released, allegedly accosted the victim, 30, around 4 a.m. in Karavas Pizza, at 72 Christopher St., and said he would stab him in the neck if he didn’t cough up a MetroCard and $20, police said.

The perp was arrested at the scene after officers nearby heard the commotion and responded.

Peeping Tom flushed out Duwayne Chance was charged on Mon., Sept. 10, with unlawful surveillance, burglary and criminal trespassing, after photographing women in a Flatiron District bakery’s bathroom multiple times.

Chance, 43, started his pervy peeping in July, according to court documents, when he allegedly peeked over a bathroom stall in The City Bakery, at 3 W. 18th St., and snapped cell-phone photos of a woman as she was pulling down her pants and underwear. He was also caught sneaking out of the same bathroom on Sept. 4 by the bakery’s custodian, which led to Chance’s arrest.

Chance has 20 prior arrests, according to the New York Post, and is also facing a grand larceny charge dating from last October, when he allegedly stole a woman’s wallet while she was in a restaurant bathroom.

Purse pickers John Bailey, 35, was nabbed by police after lifting an unsuspecting Louisiana tourist’s wallet in a swanky Meatpacking District nightclub on Thurs., Sept. 6.

Around 3 a.m., a bartender at Tenjune, at Little W. 12th St., saw Bailey digging through the woman’s purse and then trying to get away with the wallet. The employee tipped off a bouncer, who stopped the thief and handed him over to police.

Annmarie Kerr, 36, was busted on Tues., Sept. 4, after snatching a wallet and iPhone from another woman’s purse at a West Village bar.

Kerr snuck out of Off the Wagon, on MacDougal St., with the stolen goods after concealing them in her own purse. But she was caught later that night after the victim reported the larceny and police canvassed the area.

Up in smoke Police arrested Michael Sewa, 18, for showing a fake driver’s license after being caught smoking pot near Washington Square Park on Sun., Sept. 8.

Sewa was spotted walking down Minetta Lane with a lit joint in his hand at around 3 a.m., and when officers approached, he tried to flee on foot, according to the report.

He was caught after leading them on a brief chase — and when asked for I.D. offered a forged Pennsylvania license.

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The flea market at Mary Help of Christians was closed for good on Sunday as the church celebrated its final Mass.

Mary Help of Christians closes after 100 years on E. 12th St.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Finding spiritual solace and finding vintage treasures will no longer be occurring — at least not in an organized manner — on Avenue A between 12th and 11th Sts. The final Mass at Mary Help of Christians Church was held this past Sunday, and the flea market on the church’s parking lot had also closed for good.

The Catholic Archdiocese is selling off the prime East Village property at Avenue A, which also includes the Don Bosco Salesians rectory adjacent to the church and the church’s former school on E. 11th St., which closed in 2006.

Mary Help of Christians’ worshipers will be moving to nearby Immaculate Conception Church, at 14th St. and First Ave., where the flea market will also relocate and start up again the first week in October.

Mary Help of Christians was built about 100 years ago. The archdiocese closed it as a regular church five years ago, saying the number of worshipers didn’t justify keeping it open. However, the church did continue to hold Sunday Mass — at first, one Mass in English and one in Spanish — and more recently, only one in Spanish.

The Masses typically drew about 80 to 100 people.

Joseph Zwilling, the archdiocese’s spokesperson, did not confirm if a deal had been made yet for the Avenue A property, only saying, “It’s been on the market to be sold.”

He said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if some of the Mary Help of Christians congregants also wind up at St. Brigid’s Church, which is slated to reopen soon after a lengthy renovation.

“We do not have a specific date yet, but

we do hope for it to open sometime this fall,” Zwilling said of the historic “Irish famine church,” at Eighth St. and Avenue B. In addition, the congregants of St. Emeric’s Church, at the far east end of E. 13th St., whose parish is being merged with St. Brigid’s, will also be worshiping at the renovated Avenue B church.

Several years ago, St. Ann’s Church on E. 12th St. was closed and redeveloped as an N.Y.U. dorm, with only the church’s front wall left standing.

Basically, one could say the East Village’s “wandering Catholics” have been moving from church to church as one or another house of worship closes.

“It just shows how ‘overchurched’ we were down there — St. Emeric’s, St. Ann’s, St. Brigid’s...,” said Zwilling.

Referring to the East Village’s so-called “national parishes” that catered to specific ethnic groups, the spokesperson said, “One was founded as an Italian parish, one was founded as a German parish, one was an Italian parish,” all of which left the neighborhood with an overabundance of churches, in the archdiocese’s view.

After Mary Help of Christians was closed in 2007, Antonia Fisher was given the keys and put in charge of opening and closing the church for Sunday Mass. Last Sunday, she opened the place’s front doors for the last time around 10:15 a.m. She attended the E. 12th St. church for more than 40 years.

“All my kids came here,” she said, “and they got married here. They did everything — communion, confirmation... . I’m here since 13 years old. My three grandchildren

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came up through third grade, till the school closed. I went to school here.”

A retired nurse, Fisher lives nearby at E. 12th St. and Avenue C. “Believe me, it is tough,” she said of having to leave the building. “Something that you know inch by inch, and square part by square part, it’s very hard to leave it.”

After the final Mass, as congregants shared a meal of slices of 6-foot-long Subway sandwiches, rice and beans and roast chicken, Fisher walked the aisles with teary eyes, greeting friends.

Judy Aponte, another longtime member of the church, also helped ready it for the final service.

“I feel heartbroken,” she said. “I feel like I lost some family. It’ll be very hard to walk by here and not see this building anymore — we know the Church is not a building, but this is where we did everything. It’s going to be hard, because the Hispanic community is breaking up.”

The main Mass at Immaculate Conception is in English, and the church is creating a chapel in its basement for the Mary Help of Christians worshipers to hold their Spanish Mass.

“A lot of people are unhappy that they’re not giving us a Mass proper in the new church,” she said.

Father Joseph O’Meara, who used to give the Mass in the former St. Ann’s in the 1950s, gave the final Mass for about 200 people at Mary Help of Christians, speaking mostly in English. In between his words, a small church choir sang in Spanish and played music — with guitar, two tambourines, a triangle and the steady percussive beat of wood sticks.

Speaking beforehand, Marlena Palacios, a teacher, said she doesn’t know yet which East Village church she’ll call her new spiritual home, and will check each one out.

“I will go where my heart is,” she said.

She’s still upset about what happened to St. Ann’s.

“Unfortunately, St. Ann’s is not there,” she said. “I refuse to pass by that block because I think what they did is a joke — to just leave that little piece there — and I’m an N.Y.U. grad. I thought it was just me, but a lot of people don’t like it — you don’t have to be Catholic.”

She said she wished New York could be more like Europe and preserve its history.

“This is destroying [the neighborhood] — the East Village lost its churches,” she said. “This is not the East Village of 20 years ago. It’s so crowded now, you have to cross the street. People smoking on the sidewalk day and night. It’s extremely overcrowded — and they want to have more. Mothers with their strollers have to swerve around people.”

Among the worshipers at the last Mass was Sister Domenica, who was the Mary Help of Christians School principal for six years, and a first-grade teacher there for 18

years before that.

“Oh, it’s heartbreaking,” she said.

Recalling her teaching days, she said, “We had 75 students in a class. It was tough — but we had the parents behind us. If they were naughty, their parents got after them.”

Anthony Contrino, who attended the school from third to eighth grade, said, “You should have seen it here in the 1950s when they had bingo here — it was in the church basement, in the auditorium and on three levels across the street in the convent on Saturday nights.” Through bingo, the church was finally able to pay off its mortgage debt in the 1960s.

Evangelina Romero, a lawyer, wrote the canon appeal to try to save the church.

“I was hoping to get married here, but it’s not going to happen now,” she said.

As usual, Manuel Albino performed his duties as Mary Help of Christians senior altar server. At 38, he’s kept at it long after most altar boys have “aged out.”

“Most people don’t think about what a spiritual experience it is, because it’s usually associated with boys,” he said.

Asked if he knew details of the church’s rumored sale, he said, “It’s a mystery,” adding, “and I have connections at 1011,” referring to the archdiocese’s headquarters at 1011 First Ave. Also at the fi nal Mass was Suresh Dianand, who grew up in the East Village and attended both the church and school with Albino until he moved to Brooklyn as a young teen.

“I grew up here before it was the East Village,” Dianand noted with a chuckle. But he left the Catholic Church and instead today attends Judson Church on Washington Square South.

“I’m gay,” he said, “and I’m not going to go to a church that doesn’t accept me for who I am.” As for why he came back this time, he said, “For a special occasion, I would step foot into a Catholic church — but as regular parishioner, no.”

Meanwhile, people who arrived at the flea market Sunday found an empty blacktop lot behind a locked chain-link fence.

Marie McGovern, who lives in the women’s shelter at Avenue B and 10th St., said she regularly shopped at the flea market.

“Oh yeah, I like their clothing,” she said. “I’d buy utensils.”

Lauren Zlasko, who was on her way to a nearby community garden, said it was a real vintage market.

“It was affordable — it wasn’t like Brooklyn Flea,” she said.

A man with an Eastern European accent who came by looking for computer parts said, “At the store, they charge $40 for the charger. Here you could get for $5.”

M.J. Fernando, from Sri Lanka, who works in a Midtown video store, was hoping to buy “some fishing machine — two or three.” He made as if to turn a fishing reel to help explain.

“I send to my country,” he said. “My friend told me before, have here.”

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Bar district still on ice, for now

BY SAM SPOKONY East Villagers hoping for the creation of a nightlife district zoning plan — one that would separate rowdy bar crowds from frustrated residents seeking peace and quiet — will be left unsatisfied for the moment. “It’s not going to happen now,� said Richard Ropiak, who co-chairs Community Board 3’s Economic Development Committee. “There’s been a discussion, but it hasn’t led to any actual proposals.�

The latest installment of that ongoing discussion took place at the committee’s Sept. 5 meeting, when a representative of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, a recently formed lobbying coalition, came to comment on the prospect of a nightlife district.

The talks never advanced because the committee and the Alliance seem to agree that the neighborhood’s current layout makes the plan’s basic idea unfeasible. “The East Village is too much of a mixeduse district, in that it densely combines the commercial and residential elements,� said Rob Bookman, the Alliance’s counsel and a former head of the New York Nightlife Association. “I’ve been dealing with these types of discussions for 30 years now, and it’s just not realistic for that neighborhood.�

Bookman added that this kind of rezoning scheme requires a lot of municipal planning before any proposal can even been made. In short, he said, it would be impossible to retroactively create a nightlife district in an area

that has been mixed-use for many years.

Susan Stetzer, C.B. 3 district manager, who had previously spoken in support of the plan, declined to comment on where the discussion stands now.

Despite the situation’s seeming futility, Bookman maintained that the Alliance hasn’t shut the door. “We want to be a part of every conversation, and we responded because the community board reached out to us,� he said. “As long as they want to talk about it, we’re willing to talk.�

Ropiak assured that his committee would continue exploring alternate ways to provide some degree of relief to East Villagers fed up with the recent influx of bars and nightclubs, many of which are populated by 20-something revelers who noisily flock there from throughout the city and often leave trash and vomit in their wake.

With that conflict in mind, Bookman said, community leaders may find the solutions they seek by working toward a different goal: commercial rent control. “I think the community activists are just frustrated with the concept of free-market real estate,� he said. “Right now, there’s nothing preventing a landlord from doubling or tripling their rent when the land gets hot, and that’s why you see these big establishments coming in to replace the smaller stores that can afford it.�

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Hotel would damage the Merchant’s House, antis warn Continued from page 1 fact, that [the buildings] that go on either side of it are equally important.”

Opponents of plans for constructing the hotel at 27 E. Fourth St. — which would first involve the demolition of a small garage currently on that lot — have continued to push two main arguments ever since the idea was presented to the community in May. First and foremost, they say, the demolition of the adjacent garage and subsequent construction of the hotel would present an unacceptably grave risk to structural integrity and interior design elements of the Merchant’s House, which has remained virtually untouched since it was built in 1832.

Second, they claim that the black, steel-andglass exterior of the hotel, along with its relatively towering size — the Merchant’s House, which sits at 29 E. Fourth St., is only three-and-a-half stories tall — would be an inappropriate addition to the block.

“It would irrevocably alter the experience of the visiting public,” said Pi Gardiner, the museum’s executive director. “27 E. Fourth St. was specifically included in the Noho Historic District Extension to protect this portion of the street from future and potentially unrestricted development. A nine-story building butting up against the Merchant’s House, so grossly out of scale with it, would brutally shatter this mid19th-century vision.”

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At Tuesday’s Landmarks public hearing, Councilmember Rosie Mendez testified against current plans for a hotel next to the Merchant’s House Museum, as Phil Murray, left, a member of the hotel project’s design team, listened.

The lot’s presence within the Noho Historic District Extension is also the reason this particular project requires approval from the L.P.C. before it can go forward.

Citing a resolution passed by Community Board 2 in May, many of those who spoke at the hearing asserted that, if the L.P.C. were to approve the proposal, it should at least limit the hotel’s height to four stories.

Another point repeated throughout the hearing was one first mentioned by Mendez in her testimonial — that the proposal should not be approved without a formal amendment to the

developers’ plan that would require them to pay for any and all damages to the Merchant’s House caused by their project.

Although Spindler did not speak during the hearing, which lasted several hours, two members of his design team — Ed Carroll of SRA Architects, which is leading the project, and Phil Murray, a structural engineer — gave a presentation seemingly geared to assuage the activists’ concerns.

Carroll claimed that the hotel would indeed blend in appropriately and would “have an opportunity to be a part of the urban landscape of the area,” because its height would be equal to or less than some other existing buildings nearby.

But in doing so he often referred to the surrounding area as a whole, rather than the m museum’s E. Fourth St. block, which opposing architects say requires a more precise approach. “[The hotel project] displays a complete misunderstanding of what Noho is, and particularly of the eastern portion of the block on E. Fourth St., which is low-rise residential and has been since the 19th century,” said architect Alexander Neratoff, who has consulted for the Merchant’s House and done work on its neighbor at 25 E. Fourth St. “It memorializes this distinction between the high-rise industrial buildings that you see along Lafayette and Broadway and the low-rise, earlier structures that exist along the eastern portion of Noho.

To push the boundary of the high-rise build-

ings over closer to the Merchant’s House is completely contrary to what the whole concept of a historic designation is.”

Murray, in his portion of the developers’ presentation, said that seismographs and other monitoring equipment would be used during both the project’s demolition and construction phases, in order to minimize negative impact. In addition, he said that the foundation work would be done in a piece-by-piece fashion, rather than all at once.

When asked by an L.P.C. member whether the construction would cause damage to the adjacent structures, Murray stated that he believed that the level of damage would be “minimal.”

But in a testimonial later in the meeting, ornamental plasterer David Flaherty disagreed.

“The plaster work in the Merchant’s House is the absolute best that survives in the city, and it’s my guess that [if the hotel is constructed], you’re going to see more damage to it than you did in the 1980s,” said Flaherty, who has done plaster work for the White House and the U.S. State Department, and has authored a book on the subject.

He was referring to the demolition of 31 E. Fourth St. in 1988, which caused nearly $1 million dollars worth of structural damage to the Merchant’s House and forced the museum to close for two years.

The L.P.C. made no explicit comments on the developers’ presentation, and has not yet set a date for its decision on whether or not to approve the developers’ proposal.

Of course, not everyone who came to support the Merchant’s House Museum, which authentically displays the domestic lifestyle of a wealthy 19th-century family, was an architectural expert.

Philip Scandura, a retired high school history teacher who has been a tour guide at the Merchant’s House for the past 12 years, attended simply because he loves the building, and is worried about its survival.

While waiting in the hallway before the L.P.C. hearing began, he recalled taking his students on walking tours through that neighborhood during his 30-year tenure at Stuyvesant High School.

“I would take them first to the Tenement Museum, and then we would go up to the Merchant’s House in order to see the contrasts that existed within 19th-century social life,” Scandura said. “It was fantastic.”

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A map by Trinity Real Estate showing the proposed rezoning area and commercial buildings of more than 70,000 square feet that would be “protected” since razing them would require a 1-to-1 replacement of commercial space in new buildings.

C.B. 2 starts ULURP review of Hudson Square rezoning

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Supporters and opponents of a rezoning for Hudson Square turned out last Thursday to air their views at a town hall meeting held by Community Board 2.

The meeting was part of C.B. 2’s role under the city’s seven-month-long ULURP, or Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, required for rezonings and other projects of significant scope.

The proposed rezoning area is roughly bounded by Canal St. on the south; Hudson and Greenwich Sts. on the west; Houston St. on the north; and Sixth Ave. on the east.

Trinity Real Estate, the area’s major property holder, is proposing the rezoning. Carl Weisbrod, a consultant for Trinity, presented the plan, laying out its key points. These include adding height limits where none currently exist, increasing the area’s residential population and, in turn, its retail options, and generally making it more of a 24/7 neighborhood.

Right now, Weisbrod said, Hudson Square is dominated by hotels, which draw a transient population and taxis, crowding the streets.

Hotels are “sterile,” he said, lacking groundfloor retail to enliven the street.

Currently, there are no restrictions on demolishing the area’s trademark old warehouse buildings, he added. And having no height limits produced the 450-foot-tall Trump Soho condo-hotel, at Spring and Varick Sts., he noted.

The residential occupancy in Hudson Square is now 12 percent, he said, adding that rezoning the area to allow residential use would boost that to 25 percent, assuming the area’s “maximum build-out.”

Under the rezoning, if commercial buildings of more than 70,000 square feet are demolished, the replacement would have to include a 1-for-1 replacement of commercial space, which Weisbrod called a “very strong disincentive” to demolition. Smaller buildings, however, would be ripe for razing for new residential projects.

Gregg Pascarelli of SHoP Architects, which is assisting Trinity on the rezoning, said the idea is for new projects to have high street walls, “keeping the character and feeling” of Hudson Square.

Trinity is proposing 320-foot height caps for new construction on wide streets, with an F.A.R. (floor area ratio) of 10 for nonresidential buildings. A bonus of 2 F.A.R. for adding a plaza or atrium would be eliminated. The residential F.A.R. would be 9, but bonusable up to 12 by including affordable housing; this formula would also apply to mixed-use buildings.

At least 50 percent of new buildings’ groundfloor street frontage would have to be filled by retail uses to add life to the streets.

On narrow streets, building heights would be capped at 185 feet.

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C.B. 2 starts ULURP review of Hudson Square rezoning Continued from page 13 However, at Duarte Square, which is a Trinity-owned development site at Canal St. and Sixth Ave., Trinity is proposing to construct a 430-foot-tall residential building, with a 444-seat public elementary school in its base.

Pascarelli said this spot is “different,” since it’s surrounded by broad streets and is near subway stations and the Holland Tunnel. If the rezoning is approved, this building could be built in a year or two, Weisbrod said. Trinity is required to include a public park in the project.

Weisbrod said the rezoning plan is the product of years of work and is “thoughtful and balanced.”

Tobi Bergman, a C.B. 2 member, asked where the height cap of 320 feet came from. Pascarelli gave a rather long explanation, saying it came from the Department of City Planning, and Bergman said he didn’t think his fellow board members would be satisfied with that answer.

Weisbrod said another goal would be to see if a connection from Hudson Square to Hudson River Park at Spring St. could be made, but that the state Department of Transportation would need to O.K. it. Currently, a crosswalk to the park is located just a block south of there at Canal St. Big-box stores of more than 10,000 square feet would be forbidden, except for a supermarket, which the community wants, Weisbrod added.

As for a school not being included in Trinity’s hoped-for building at Duarte Square, Weisbrod

said that possibility would be “extremely remote.”

Phil Mouquinho, a lifelong area resident who has operated P.J. Charlton restaurant on Greenwich St. for decades, said he likes the rezoning scheme.

“The Sanitation garage that is on Spring St. would not be there if we had a stronger residential community,” he said.

Also favoring the rezoning was the 20-yearold HERE theater at 145 Sixth Ave. “For an organization like ours, it’s important to have supporters in the neighborhood,” said the theater’s director, Kristin Martin, in a statement read by a HERE staffer.

But Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said while G.V.S.H.P. thinks a rezoning is needed, the proposed height caps are too high. Also, he said, the rezoning would put development pressure on the unlandmarked portion of the proposed South Village Historic District, so that area must be landmarked quickly.

Hudson Square “is going to become a bustling, attractive, hot area that’s going to spill over to the South Village,” he warned.

Jacques Torres, who has a chocolate store at Hudson and King Sts., said a similar rezoning was done in DUMBO, where he has another store, and the neighborhood character there remained the same.

“There’s not enough residential for businesses to succeed,” he said of Hudson Square.

Jerry Gottesman of Edison Properties, which owns Manhattan Mini Storage and Edison

Park Fast, said his company has issues with the rezoning, chalking it up to its being a “private rezoning” being pushed by Trinity, as opposed to coming from City Planning.

Anthony Borelli, Edison’s vice president for planning and real estate, later said they feel, for example, the requirement for 50 percent retail along the ground floor on Dominick St. — where Edison has a parking lot between Varick and Hudson Sts. — doesn’t make sense since this small, two-block-long street will “never be a retail corridor.” Also, because the parking-lot block is narrower than average from Dominick St. to Spring St., it won’t be possible for them to build two quality residential buildings there, one on each side of the lot. Instead, they’d prefer to build one good building, and create a public park on Dominick St., Borelli explained.

Objecting to the rezoning even more strongly was John Sore of Shalimar Management, which owns the empty lot at 100 Varick St., between Broome and Watts Sts. Shalimar hoped to build a hotel there, but now it won’t be allowed under the rezoning. Also, Sore objected that Trinity plans to include this block in so-called “Subdistrict B,” a lower-density area, where heights will be capped at 120 feet, while Trinity’s own Duarte Square project will be in the taller “Subdistrict A.” The F.A.R. for 100 Varick St. would be only 5.4, with a 1.8 F.A.R. bonus for including affordable housing.

“Two blocks to the north is the Trump Soho, and two blocks to the south is the building that Trinity wants to build,” Sore said indignantly,

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saying Trinity would unfairly shave Shalimar’s development rights.

Mary Ann Arisman, co-chairperson of the St. Luke’s Place Block Association, said of the proposed height caps, “It’s just too high. It would turn the neighborhood into something resembling Midtown. We urge the community board to protect what is most important to our neighborhood — the low scale.”

Zack Winestine of the Greenwich Village Community Task Force, while saying he approved ending “the hotel abuses” in Hudson Square, said he was worried about having to fill all those retail spaces under the rezoning.

“We’re gonna get banks, we’re gonna get drug stores, we’re gonna get chains unless steps are taken,” he warned.

Mindy Goodfriend, who owns a fairly small, L-shaped building at the southeast corner of Spring and Hudson Sts., said she could see the building becoming “very charming as residential.”

David Reck, former chairperson of C.B. 2’s Land Use Committee, noted he pushed for rezoning the first section of Hudson Square in 2003. Of the current rezoning effort, he said more people are behind it than just Trinity.

“Over all, the vast majority of people who are in Hudson Square favor this rezoning,” he said, adding, “The changes that are going on in Hudson Square are inevitable.”

Board 2’s Hudson Square Working Group will have a meeting on the proposed rezoning on Wed., Sept. 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fire Museum, 278 Spring St., third floor.

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Danny Frost and Alexia Simon Frost, with their dog Leo, are opening a unique new dog daycare and social club on Avenue A.

Dog club is new experience for both mutts and masters

BY SAM SPOKONY Danny Frost and his wife, Alexia Simon Frost, love toting their bubbly 3-year-old, Leo, around the neighborhood, but they wouldn’t deign to treat him like a baby.

And while they’re happy to give him a bath, pat him on the head and offer a few words of endearment, they certainly don’t stoop to coddling him too much.

Why would they? Leo isn’t a toddler; he’s a dog — a Toy Australian Shepherd, to be exact — and he’s growing up just fine without all the superfluous bells and whistles that are often heaped upon his highfalutin counterparts, those pampered pooches of the city.

That’s just one of the reasons why the East Village couple will be unveiling Ruff Club, a members-only dog daycare and human-friendly hangout that they think will be a breath of fresh air for both dogs and their owners.

“The traditional model is basically to place dogs into ‘childcare,’ and the whole atmosphere is very juvenile,” said Frost, 29, who is also a campaign finance attorney. “We want to create an environment in which dogs are treated with individuality and respect, rather than being infantilized.”

Ruff Club, which is currently under

construction, is expected to open by early November at 34 Avenue A. Most of the space will go toward a glass-enclosed back area that can hold up to about 40 dogs, all of which will lounge or play under the watchful eyes of animal handlers who will be handpicked and directed by the husband-and-wife team.

But the idea of a different approach to dog daycare also has more humanfriendly implications. In addition to all the appropriate canine amenities, the space will feature free Wi-Fi and a social club-like seating area that will cater to local dog owners who want to meet their neighbors, or perhaps just take advantage of the Internet access while relaxing with a complimentary cup of coffee.

“When we were looking at other daycares, we noticed that they didn’t have really any conduits for conversations with other dog people,” said Simon Frost, 29, who was formerly a talent manager in the hospitality industry and is now an East Village dog walker. “This can be a way to create new relationships or share ideas, and it will be the only dog-friendly space we know of in which people can actually get some work done while they wait.”

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C.B. 2 raises the curtain on a new cultural alliance

BY BETSY KIM “I feel like the city is dominated by real estate, that all the politicians are beholden to the developers, that Mr. Bloomberg has never seen a development that he doesn’t like,” said Soho resident Carol Stein.

On Wed., Sept. 5, Stein responded, along with 70 other people, by joining a night out in support of preserving Downtown local arts.

Instead of a bar crawl, participants in the Community Board 2 Happy Hour Theatre Crawl imbibed local culture. Tour guides led the group on historic neighborhood walks to four Downtown theaters, where the community enjoyed wine and snacks and met artistic leaders.

At the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, at 224 Waverly Place, a crew was finalizing the set of a bombed-out, dilapidated East Village apartment. A dirty bathtub surrounded by plaster chips took center stage, with lights pouring through windows, creating a twilight haze. Adam Rapp’s play “Through the Yellow Hour,” re-creates the aftermath of a war, which the U.S. has lost.

Robin Rothstein, a C.B. 2 member, spearheaded the event, organizing the crawl with fellow board members Chenault Spence and Susan Wittenberg and people who work in theater. It’s part of a new community boardarts alliance that Rothstein has dubbed “CB 2 Cult.”

“We all wanted you to come and see these theaters,” Rothstein told the group. “We just

Photos by Tequila Minsky

A volunteer pointed out historical sites as the CB 2 Cult Happy Hour Theatre Crawl wended its way between the playhouses.

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be thankful that they are still here because so many of these smaller theaters are going away.”

Spence reminded crawlers of historic Downtown playhouses that have closed, including the Sullivan Street Playhouse, Circle in the Square and the Bowery Lane Theatre.

“I know there’s a lot of theater I haven’t seen and I thought it was a good way to meet some of the creatives and eccentrics in the neighborhood,” said David Kaye, a Sullivan St. resident. “I feel like some of the fiber of the neighborhood is endangered, so I wanted to come out, show my support and get involved.”

Sayar Lonial, N.Y.U.’s director of community affairs, who joined the tour, stressed that the university is a partner in the community.

When asked how New York University’s plans to develop about 2 million square feet of additional space in the Village fit in with the event’s theme of preserving the neighborhood’s character, Lonial answered, “I’m not really interested in having that conversation.”

He said, for questions of that nature, it would be better to call John Beckman, the university’s spokesperson.

“I’m here to partake in a cultural walk that’s sponsored by the community board and I think is open and free to the public,” Lonial said.

“We’re members of the public and we’re going to partake in it and celebrate the culture that exists in the Village and see what we can do in the future to continue to support culture and support the community that we live in.”

For her part, Stein said, “It’s the heart of Downtown Manhattan, which has been overrun by real estate interests and big-time money and our cultural soul is being bought out from under us. So, I am thrilled to have something positive happen for a change.”

The Cherry Lane Theatre, at 38 Commerce St., provided a backstage tour. Its artistic director, Angelina Fiordellisi, said Downtown the-

ater is about “creating art and offering artists venues to express themselves, especially now, when our world is so tripping upside down.”

The theater almost shut down in 2010, due to financial pressures. But Fiordellisi slashed programs, eliminated staff, took in rentals and after two years paid the theater’s quarter-million-dollar debt. She hoped the crawl would introduce people to the Cherry Lane.

HERE, at 145 Sixth Ave., is presenting master puppeteer Hanne Tierney’s adaptation of a Chinese fable, “Strange Tales of Liaozhai.”

Kristin Martin, HERE’s artistic director, said the venue offers high-quality, hybrid work at an affordable ticket.

“We’re not Broadway once a year,” she said. “We’re somewhere that there’s interesting things happening and you can come by and there’s something exciting to see and you can afford to do it.”

At the New Ohio Theatre, at 154 Christopher St., artistic director Robert Lyons explained after his playhouse lost its lease in Soho in 2010, it reopened at The Archive last year. It now enjoys a below-market-rate rent of $3,800 per month, with a 10-year lease. The city had negotiated a deal with Rockrose, the building’s developer, to dedicate this space to community use in perpetuity.

Lyons pointed out that the New Ohio showcases plays that would otherwise probably never be seen in New York, including its current production of “The Eyes of Others,” by Bulgarian playwright Ivan Dimitrov.

“I’m never surprised with Robin and her ability to organize people,” said Sarah MalloyGood, state Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s community liaison, commenting on the event’s success. “I hope that they are able to continue the momentum and bring forward more tours in the future.”

Villager Janis Brody, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, was drinking in the pleasures of the dramatic tour.

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Mob trashes driver’s car during Fashion’s Night Out Continued from page 4 She said that when Levine finally got out of the car, “he seemed even more mad at the police at that point” for not arriving faster.

Gonzalez figured it took police about 10 minutes to arrive on the scene after the revelers started hopping on the car, but like Levine, she said it’s hard to judge time in the midst of a chaotic situation.

Deputy Inspector Brando del Pozo, Sixth Precinct commanding officer, said police arrived three minutes after Levine’s call and five minutes after someone in the crowd called 911. The scene was brought under control within 20 minutes, and it took about another 20 minutes for everything to completely calm down, he said.

There were two arrests of individuals who impeded police from getting people back onto the sidewalk.

Police have issued a “Wanted” poster for the bicyclist and the individual who broke the car windows, he said.

Soho residents charge this year’s Fashion’s Night Out was undermanned by police.

However, del Pozo said, “The events of Fashion’s Night Out span over four police precincts and are not particularly associated with disorder.”

As for what sparked the incident between the cyclist and driver, del Pozo said, “The whole matter is under investigation.” But he added, “Dr. Levine was an innocent person driving down the street, minding his own business. If we can be certain of one thing, he was not at fault. We’re looking for anybody who was responsible for starting the incident or damaging property.”

As for how police will handle Fashion’s Night Out in the future, del Pozo said, “We’ll evaluate the shifting of the character of the crowd and that will be taken into account in our staffing estimates next year,” he said.

Del Pozo is an avid cyclist himself, logging 100 miles per week on his bike.

Asked his thoughts on the cyclist’s actions in the incident with the car, del Pozo said, “I have no idea what was going on in that bicyclist’s head,” adding, “He obviously brings a lot of baggage to his bicycling.”

The street party had started at the southeast corner of Bleecker St. and Broadway. A white stretch limo was parked there, with music blaring as the crowd danced around it. As the crowd grew, they eventually spread onto Broadway, taking over more and more lanes of traffic.

A Swatch store is located on that corner, but employees there said it had closed, as usual, at 9 p.m. on Fashion’s Night Out. Speaking this week, Zainah S., 30, who

works at the store, said she actually was out on the street at the time of the incident, but was farther down, near Houston St. “I think it was just that a lot of these shops were open and serving alcohol and people got crazy and generally intoxicated,” she said. As for the attack on the car, she said, “It seemed like a miscommunication and then people started dancing and getting crazy.”

She said she didn’t know anyone in the crowd, but that some of them might have been “Soho kids” who visit the neighborhood from other parts of the city.

Teddy Jam, 25, another Swatch employee, said there hadn’t been any celebrities at the location that night to draw people there.

Sweeney, the Soho Alliance director, said local residents have had it with Fashion’s Night Out. He hopes to organize a multiagency meeting to implement measures to keep the event from getting out of hand again in the future. Fashion’s Night Out started four years ago fairly innocuously, but already many Soho residents are wearying of it.

“What we’re calling for is that they ban the booze,” Sweeney said. “Anyone giving out free booze should be checking for ID.” The boutiques also need security for the evening, he and other residents say.

The excitement of Fashion’s Night Out just seems to drive people crazy.

Two years ago, Sweeney was walking to Fanelli’s for a beer during the event when dozens of people came racing around the corner.

“It was like being in a buffalo stampede,” he recalled. “Someone said, ‘Kanye West is around the corner — maybe not.’

“It’s become not fashion, it’s become party central,” the Soho activist said. “It’s like Bourbon Street.”

Sweeney points the fi nger at Anna Wintour, one of the movers behind the annual fashion-themed event, who lives in the Village but was attending a Midtown event last Thursday night.

“Anna Wintour, she goes Uptown and escapes this mess that she creates,” he said. “Vogue had some big Midtown event and she escapes the havoc that she creates down here — and we’re stuck with this mess.”

Councilmember Margaret Chin said Fashion’s Night Out has gotten out of control and needs better policing.

“We will not stand idly by while our access to our homes is blocked and mobs take over our streets,” Chin said in a statement. “There has to be a better way to make Fashion’s Night Out a safe and profitable event for New York City and the Soho community.” Chin reportedly raised the issue in a conversation with the mayor and Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Tuesday.

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In a reportedly spontaneous event, a mini-American flag was burned at Sunday’s Tompkins Square Park 9/11 punk concert. Aron Kay, a.k.a. the Yippie Pie Man, held the flag as a crusty caught a light, and Chris Flash, one of the show’s organizers (in navy blue T-shirt), took photos. Flash said the organizers didn’t support or oppose the flag-burning — which the Supreme Court has ruled is free speech. Kay addressed the assembled anarchists about a punk with a swastika tattoo who had infiltrated a park show’s mosh pit a few weeks earlier and tried to instigate violence; a multicultural crowd of punks had immediately chased the man out of the park after he scuffled with a Hispanic headbanger.

Last Sunday, Kay, whose mother survived the Holocaust, warned that any Nazi punk who dares come to a Tompkins show would be kicked out and “thrown in a pile of dog s---!” As for the music, the bands included The Comrades, Man’s Gin, The Alienz, David Peel and the Lower East Side — who played their classic hits “Have a Marijuana” and “Die Yuppie Scum!” — Jennifer Blowdryer and The Non-Prophets. Other highlights included L.E.S. Jewels urinating against a tree, and later dropping trou and flashing the crowd.

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Dog club is a new experience for mutts and masters Continued from page 15 That tech-centric perspective also includes other unique aspects, like an iPad kiosk at which Ruff Club members will be able to check in if they’re in a hurry while dropping off their dog in the morning. The couple also hope to use a live-streaming Internet feed to host public events that could eventually include practical workshops and lectures from animal experts. And if some owners feel the need to check in on their faithful companions throughout the day, the live stream will also allow them to view the dog daycare area in real time from their computers.

Frost said it took about a year just to find a space suited to realizing their entire business concept, and before signing the lease for 34 Avenue A in June, that address was itself under much community scrutiny.

In keeping with its recent defensive stand against large bars and nightclubs in the East Village, Community Board 3 had in 2011 killed a collaborative attempt — by the owner of Two Boots Pizza and a concert promoter — to turn the then-vacant space into a music venue and restaurant. The lot had been unused since 2010, when its former tenant, the Aces & Eights Saloon, shut down.

Ruff Club’s owners, who have been East Villagers since 2006, have been well aware of current tensions within the neighborhood that have pitted disgruntled longtime residents against high-profile bar owners and the boisterous young crowds that flock to them. But the couple feel confident their business will integrate smoothly into the community.

“We’re proud to be a part of what we consider to be local retail diversity,” Frost said. “We’re going to provide

services for people who actually live in the neighborhood, as opposed to people who come just to binge drink on the weekends.”

The community-oriented approach will include a focus on accepting a diverse group of dog owners as members, they explained, to capture the true spirit of the area. In addition to taking what Frost called a “democratic approach” to Ruff Club membership applications, which will be available online within a few weeks, he and his wife will offer a handful of scholarships for low-income families who have rescue or service dogs, as well as those with military, police or fire department backgrounds.

And even though their space is still more than a month away from opening, the couple has already started forming some helpful neighborhood ties. Ruff Club will co-sponsor the 22nd annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade, which will occur Oct. 20 and helps raise funds for maintaining the park’s dog run. The canine club is also partnering with Mighty Mutts, a dog adoption drive based in Union Square Park, and Ollie’s Place, a cat adoption center that will be reopening at its

430 E. Ninth St. location this year.

But as all the business preparations are made, and the couple continue to navigate through East Village politics, they always remember that one of the most enduring ideas behind Ruff Club has been simply to create a more engaging, personal dog daycare experience — one that allows both dogs and people to get the treatment and service they deserve, rather than what’s cutest or least time-consuming.

“A friend of ours once told us that leaving his Jack Russell terrier at a traditional daycare felt like dropping his clothes off at the dry cleaner,” Frost said. “We’re just trying to change that experience.”

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EDITORIAL Night out of control Fashion’s Night Out can be a great event for New York City, but last Thursday’s incident in Noho shows it can also get out of hand. The mix of free alcohol given out by the fashion boutiques and the excitement of the evening can, under the wrong circumstances, turn ugly.

That’s unfortunately what happened at Broadway and Bleecker St. last Thursday when a street party grew too big, and a cyclist with a bad attitude — clearly emboldened by the crowd’s numbers — decided to victimize a local resident.

Mitchell Levine, a brain surgeon in a local hospital, was simply trying to drive home from work. The street party had gotten so massive that it blocked all but one lane on Broadway. We don’t know for certain whether or not there was some sort of altercation between the driver and the cyclist. Levine said there was none.

But from the video of the incident, the cyclist is clearly uninjured, looks relaxed, is smiling and keeps gesturing and pointing at Levine’s car, as people from the crowd start to hop on it, then run across it and dance on it, and finally kick in its front and rear windows. Clearly, Levine did nothing to deserve this.

We were a bit disappointed after calling some of our cyclist activist friends and asking for their take on the incident. They said, in their view, the cyclist did nothing wrong. But clearly, this guy escalated the situation. Police are now looking for him and have issued a “Wanted” poster with his face on it. The cyclist and other individuals who precipitated the incident or were involved in it are being sought for criminal mischief and inciting a riot.

The Soho Alliance is calling for a meeting with various relevant city agencies — including Sanitation, Police and SAPO (Street Activity Permit Office) — to create some policies so that another riot doesn’t occur, and also to address ongoing problems, such as noise and garbage, with Fashion’s Night Out. There should be more security and people should be carded before receiving free alcohol at the fashion boutiques, they say. These are reasonable ideas.

Was police manpower too light? That question is now being asked. By chance, we strolled by the street party about 15 or 20 minutes before Levine drove into it, and we have to admit, we were a bit surprised that police had not already responded. The party was already spilling into Broadway at that point, taking up one or two lanes, and the sidewalk was completely packed with people. People were having a great time, sure — but the numbers simply got too large.

This wasn’t the first time issues have been raised about the event. In the past, ACE has complained about what a chore it is to clean up Soho’s trash-strewn streets after Fashion’s Night Out. ACE cleaned the streets again after this year’s event.

Councilmember Margaret Chin is calling last Thursday night’s incident “totally unacceptable,” and this week talked with Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn about the mayhem surrounding Fashion’s Night Out. The councilmember was planning to follow up with an official letter to the mayor.

Chin is reportedly considering closing side streets to traffic and employing a wristband system to prevent underage drinking.

Clearly, as Fashion’s Night Out’s reputation has grown it is getting more unmanageable. Better safeguards need to be put in place. Again, this can be a wonderful event for the city and the fashion industry — or it can be a qualityof-life nightmare. We’re looking forward to what improvements Chin, the Soho Alliance, Community Board 2 and city agencies can come up with and implement to ensure this remains a fun, peaceful event. If that can’t be done, then many Downtown residents, no doubt, will ask that this event go elsewhere.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Housing is in the mix To The Editor: Re “It’s mutiny on the waterfront as Durst pitches Pier 40 plan” (news article, Sept. 6): The Durst Organization and the Hudson River Park Trust are both working to ensure that Pier 40 will remain open and generate necessary revenue not only for the pier itself, but for the entirety of the Hudson River Park. We are studying a range of possibilities for Pier 40 — including the viability of housing and other uses — and look forward to working with the community in the weeks and months ahead.

Douglas Durst and Madelyn Wils Durst is chairman, The Durst Organization; Wils is president and C.E.O., Hudson River Park Trust

she have stayed silent? This is an utter embarrassment.

Where are the Pier 40 ideas, and where is the money? That question goes out to the assemblymember, and to folks like Mr. Capsis, who continue to promote ideas with no backing or interest from principal parties — which we worked so hard to get with Major League Soccer.

There must be some local with political ambition — and ideas — willing to wage a bona fide write-in campaign for this seat. My Greenwich Village landlord, who is a Republican, is running for a state Senate seat in Westchester, and is fanning the flames of this Assembly sex-harassment debacle in his campaign, and he is right.

Not a bad man, but a dyed-in-the-wool free-marketer who seeks to end rent-regulation and has large holdings in the Village. Is he even on our assemblymember’s radar, and what is she doing to help the Democratic candidate in Westchester overcome this threat?

Patrick Shields

Jessie article gave comfort Glick isn’t part of the solution To The Editor: Re “It’s mutiny on the waterfront as Durst pitches Pier 40 plan” (news article, Sept. 6): Assemblymember Glick’s relevance continues to wane. She simply has lost the ability to think ahead, to think innovatively in any fashion. She’s spending her summer having some friend make a ridiculous drawing of Pier 40 to show what “shouldn’t be,” and focusing with insane intensity on fighting housing, rather than doing the job we elected her to do — which is to seek, present and promote fiscally prudent and actually possible alternatives.

“Great potential for natural light” on Pier 40, she says? What is this, her living room?

Why isn’t she out in Silicon Valley talking to venture capitalists about funding for what could be the world’s greatest renewable energy research and development facility, one where wind-, solar- and water-driven technologies could all be tested (and manufactured) in one place? The greatest research center in the world, with a park and fields...a triumph. Where is her ambition?

Or how about remembering when we brought it up years ago that production professionals seemed to think that the river presented impossible-to-overcome attenuation issues for recording?

Elected officials in other cities and states are out there, hungry, traveling, finding, lobbying for and creating renewable energy, biotech, Internet and medical research facilities, while Glick is beginning to favor, after all of this fighting, what essentially will amount to a mall.

Hey, Deborah, you want presenters for the pier — go get them!

All the while she’s staying silent on Sheldon Silver’s use of taxpayer money to pay off victims of an old-school bully and sexual predator.

We know now that she will not protect women: What would she have done if the victims were members of the L.G.B.T. community? Would

EVAN FORSCH

To The Editor: Re “Neighbors mourn Soho’s Jessie Blue, cry street is unsafe” (news article, Sept. 6): It gives me such comfort to see that my sister Jessica had such wonderful friends that loved her. I so wish I could have been there amongst all of you to share Jessica stories. She would have loved that you were all together celebrating her life. I know she loved you all as much as you loved her. Thank you, Tequila, for telling this story and sharing it with me.

I hope that because of this tragedy and your writing about it something gets done about that intersection so that no one else gets hurt or ever has to face the heartbreak that Jessica’s family and her wonderful friends have had to endure.

Melissa Dworkin

Go get ’em, Ed! To The Editor: Re “The Koch Factor” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Aug. 30): Thanks to our Ed Koch. The key battleground states are about to experience the full political force of the Village’s own Ed Koch, the best campaigner for President Obama and the Democrats.

Thanks, Mayor Koch, for taking that tough assignment. You are direct and right to the point when you say, “The Republicans have raped the country and the middle class.”

Lorraine Colville

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Let’s return to the vision of the Hudson River Park TALKING POINT

BY TOM FOX In 1992, New York City and State embraced a new concept in urban park development and much of the nation’s park community watched with hope.

Accepting the recommendations of a joint panel established to plan the future of the West Side waterfront, they agreed to build a new waterfront park that would be self-sustaining.

The Hudson River Park turned a decaying and dangerous waterfront into one of the most desirable places in the city. The park has protected a critical estuarine habitat, preserved the city’s maritime heritage and enhanced lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, particularly those living in adjacent neighborhoods that were among the city’s most parkstarved communities. It’s often been described as the 21st-century equivalent of Central Park.

Similar to the creation of Central Park, replacing the tow pounds, bus and sanitation garages and abandoned piers with the a park has had a tremendous economic impact as well, burnishing the image of our city, increasing tourism and enhancing the value of the adjacent real estate.

The original cost estimate for the 5-mile park was $500 million. The city and state pledged $200 million toward the initial construction capital and agreed to split the remainder equally. To ensure that the park didn’t compete with other city and state parks for scarce public resources, Hudson River Park was designed to support its own maintenance, operation and capital replacement from a variety of revenue sources that would be dedicated to the park.

The initial plan was to preserve existing commercial activities in the park, such as the Circle Line, World Yachts and the passenger ship terminals in Midtown.

Piers in three locations, comprising about 10 percent of the park, were set aside for maritime- and recreation-related development to complement the park, bring people to the waterfront and generate revenue.

The Chelsea Piers, the first of these development areas, opened in 1994.

The last piece of the financial puzzle was to capture a portion of the appreciation of inboard real estate within three blocks of the park. Numerous studies showed that creating new parks increased adjacent real estate values and the property along the West Side was underdeveloped when the park was proposed.

Housing, offices and hotels — thought better located inboard where there was existing infrastructure — were prohibited in the park.

However, the range of financing mechanisms recommended for the park weren’t implemented. The

Hudson River Park Trust, the entity established to build, maintain and operate the park, has been unable to secure the funding originally planned for the park.

Interagency turf battles prevented the Midtown piers and the millions in revenue they generate annually from being transferred to the park. Until now, no effort was made to capture the appreciation of inboard real estate values.

Plans for residential use would stir the environmental activists who beat Westway and mire the park in litigation.

That has made it impossible to manage the property properly. For example, Pier 40, a 14.5-acre pier designated as a development area, has generated more than $80 million since the park’s inception. But with less revenue than originally planned, the Trust had to use that money for operations instead of reinvesting to maintain Pier 40’s pier-shed building. Preventative maintenance is far less expensive than major repairs.

Now Pier 40 needs tens of millions of dollars for repairs. Threats to close this important recreational resource unless residential development is allowed there are wrong. Residential development in the Hudson was a bad idea when the park was first proposed. The city is pushing the redevelopment of the Midtown rail yards and the rezoning of Hudson Square Downtown. Both projects are adjacent to the park — and it’s adjacent to the park, not in the park, where the residential development belongs.

The foundations required for residential towers in the Hudson would be tantamount to landfill, and the shadows cast by high-rise buildings would impact a vital fish sanctuary and also park users. The residents in the new buildings would feel a proprietary sense of ownership over the park, which could be in conflict with the idea of baseball and soccer teams playing outside their windows.

The debate over landfilling 200 acres of the Hudson to create an underground interstate highway paralyzed redevelopment of the West Side waterfront for more than 15 years. Plans for residential development in the Hudson would certainly stir the environmental activists who defeated Westway and mire the park in unnecessary controversy — and litigation — for years.

It’s time to return to the original vision of the

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Hudson River Park. Transfer all the waterfront property within the park’s boundaries, and the revenues they generate, to the Trust. Redevelop Pier 40 properly.

Establish a Neighborhood Improvement District to generate additional revenue from the inboard property owners adjacent to the park, and ensure that both the Hudson Yards and Hudson Square make major contributions to the park each year.

New Yorkers wouldn’t plan an apartment complex in Central Park, and we should ensure that we don’t put one in the Hudson River Park either.

Fox was a citizen appointee to the West Side Task Force in 1986; a citizen appointee to the West Side Waterfront Panel from 1988-’90; the first president of the Hudson River Park Conservancy (which completed the Hudson River Park’s concept and financial plan) from 1992-’95; a member of the Hudson River Park Alliance (which supported the Hudson River Park legislation) from 1996-’98; and a board of directors member of the Friends of Hudson River Park until 2011.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To The Editor: Congratulations to Robin Rothstein for a terrific CB 2 Cult Theatre Crawl.

And rousing applause to the founders, artistic directors and staff of HERE, Cherry Lane, New Ohio and Rattlestick theaters, who warmly welcomed us and told us about their exciting and interesting performance schedules for the 2012’13 season. We Villagers are so very lucky to have this wonderful cultural scene right in our neighborhood. Put Off Off Broadway theater on your calendar this year; you’ll be glad you did.

too complicated to just say that Julius Nash was “fired” in 1962 for a falsified teacher application. As Cold War fears intensified, hundreds of teachers answered “no” to “are you now or have you ever been…?” — a question that should never be asked in a democracy. Julius Nash was fired for standing up for his rights.

Hundreds of teachers were called in and subjected to intrusive “interviews,” many, including Julius Nash, more than once. He was suspended without pay in 1955, and the seven years that followed before he was “fired,” as the article phrases it, were grueling ones for him and his family. Along with other teachers in the same position, he was subjected to the hyped-up media coverage of the time.

It’s well worth noting that the Board of Education eventually apologized for those investigations.

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When teachers were purged To The Editor: Re “Michael Nash, record-keeper of the left, dead at 66” (obituary, Aug. 23): Over all, Gary Shapiro's obituary on Mike Nash was a good tribute.

But things back in the 1950s were far

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VILLAGER ARTS &ENTERTAINMENT Jazz and indie music: Best of fests, and all the rest Autumn brings new, established artists Downtown

BY SAM SPOKONY With another sweltering city summer in the can, there’s a whole lot of awesome music on the way this fall — and it’s coming from a variety of artistic sources, both established and unexpected. While summer’s festivals brought some of the industry’s top names outdoors, the coming season will draw great international talent to concert halls big and small, throughout the Downtown area. What follows is a preview of some of the best live listening available through late November.

I’m keeping it cheap for you, because I didn’t move on up to this tiny, three-floor walkup in Bed-Stuy by just throwing my money away, did I? This fall, we’ve got great shows, series and festivals in the Tribeca and the Village (East and West) that range from $20 all the way down to free of charge. And once November hits, the dog days will feel pretty distant — in fact, it’ll probably be cold enough by that point for you to take the cash you’ve saved on cover charges to warm up with a few shots of vodka. But, as they say, that’s a different story, for a different day.

In any case, here are my picks for the season — featuring some of my favorite players, alongside a few I just recently caught wind of. Keeping an open mind has always worked for me — so my very

first fall recommendation would be to do just that, as you look for new music to dig.

JAZZ Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka might not play jazz per se, but she performs in ways that will captivate and engage any fans of intelligently improvised music.

Using electronics and multiple microphones to warp her instrument’s tone or create new sounds altogether, Zabelka floats through the many stylistic worlds of contemporary art music while maintaining the distinct spirit of jazz. She’ll play a solo set at one of my favorite havens for experimental music, University of the Streets (130 E. Seventh St., btw. First Ave. & Ave. A), on September26 at 8pm.

Tickets are $10, and can be purchased at universityofthestreets.org. For more info on the artist, visit miazabelka.com.

Another foreign talent, Israeli guitarist Oz Noy, developed his natural virtuosity to such heights that he became one of the most in-demand studio musicians in his country by the time he was only 24. Since moving to the New York in 1996, Noy has brought his genre-bending sound — which is based in jazz but touches on funk, rock, blues and R&B — to bear with top artists like John Medeski, Dave Weckl, Chris

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After years of success in both classical and jazz, pianist Donal Fox will play a solo set at 92Y Tribeca on November 3.

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Violinist Mia Zabelka will bring her innovative violin improvisations to University of the Streets on September 26.

Botti and Eric Johnson. Don’t miss him at 55Bar (55 Christopher St., btw. Sixth & Seventh Aves.) on September 27at 10pm, where he’ll be playing with an all-star trio including bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased at the door. For more info, visit 55bar.comand oznoy.com.

October10 would have been pianist Thelonious Monk’s 95th birthday. Monk, who died in 1982, left his eternal mark on modern jazz by creating and performing in a musical language all his own. So on the anniversary of Monk’s birthday, Arts Brookfield continues its annual “Counting Down to 100” series with a free concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey St., btw. North End Ave. & West St.) that will bring together five of today’s top pianists to pay homage to a master. The show, which takes place from 12-3pm on October 10, features Michael Cochrane, Jean-Michel Pilc, Manuel Valera, ElioVillafranca and James Weidman. And while you still have another five years to go before Monk’s 100th, with a lineup like that and no cover charge, I’d recommend making every birthday count.

For more info, visit artsbrookfield.com.

Most serious musicians, regardless of their level of talent, shy away from making equal contributions to the fields of jazz and classical. But pianist Donal Fox

has been doing just that for decades, and has found just as much success in composing — with the St. Louis Symphony and Harvard University, among others — as in improvising on the keys. This year, he will lead off the month-long “Four for the Apple” series at 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St., btw. Desbrosses & Vestry Sts.) with a solo set on November 3 at 8pm. Fox’s performance, titled “Inventions in Blue,” should give a perfect taste of his deftly nuanced jazz style, while also showcasing the control and precision of his classical training. For more info, visit myspace. com/donalfoxprojects.

The three other concerts in the “Four for the Apple” series feature the Fonda/ Stevens Group — an accomplished quartet that specializes in blending the various idioms of modern jazz, on November 10; pianist Michele Rosewoman and her soulful, bass-less trio on November 17; and PUBLIQuartet, a string quartet that performs both traditional chamber music and contemporary compositions, on November 24. Tickets for the first three shows in the series are all $20 in advance and $25 at the door, and tickets for the November 24 show are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. To purchase tickets, or for more info, visit 92y.org/tribeca.

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Which do they love more: the music, or each other? Decide for yourself after seeing the husband-and-wife team of Barnaby Bright at 92YTribeca on November 9.

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INDIE If you’re feeling adventurous towards the end of September, you can explore some of the best music you’ve never heard at the NYC New Music Festival — a massive five-day program with stages at 27 venues throughout the East Village, West Village and the Lower East Side. The festival, which takes place from September 26-30, features upand-coming indie artists from both New York and the rest of the nation, including tinges of rock, pop, folk, blues and more. For info, visit nycmf.com.

Amidst the wide selection, my personal recommendation would be to check out Elephants Gerald at the Kraine Theater (85 E. Fourth St., btw.

Second Ave.& Bowery) on September 30 at 8pm. The folk-Americana duo from Baltimore brings an earthy, organic sound that goes well alongside introspective lyrics and good guitar interplay. Tickets for that show are $8 at the door, but prices for the festival’s other venues vary, and all-day passes are also available online. To buy tickets or learn more, visit ssa.cc/nycsch.html. For info on “elephants,” visit elephants-gerald. com.

A more established voice on the indie-folk scene has been Alex Brown Church, who leads the (currently) sixpiece group Sea Wolf. With haunting harmonies, unexpected instrumentation and an intimate sound, the band has been following a Bright Eyes-esque trail since 2007 — and Church has succeeded in his own right, penning a tune for the

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Singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church will lead indie-folk mainstay Sea Wolf in a show at (Le) Poisson Rouge on October 19.

second installation of the Twilight movie series (2009’s“New Moon”). Sea Wolf’s a new album, “Old World Romance,” came out on September11. So after grabbing the record, you can see the band live at (Le) PoissonRouge (158 Bleecker St., btw. Sullivan & Thompson Sts.) on October 19 at7pm, alongside supporting acts Jim White and Hey Marseilles. Tickets cost $15, and can be purchased lepoissonrouge.com. For more info, visit seawolfmusic.com.

And one more great indie-folk choice this fall — for those seeking something a bit farther Downtown — is 92Y Tribeca’s double offering of Barnaby Bright and Liz Longley on November 9 at 9pm. First of all, Barnaby Bright is basically the cutest thing ever. It’s a husband-and-wife team (Nathan and Rebecca Bliss) who sing soft melodies to each other, intertwining and harmonizing over lush guitar backgrounds. Bring a date. You can’t beat that — not to mention the fact that both members of Barnaby Bright have some pretty solid classical music training behind them,

and that their songs have been featured on national TV shows like “ER” and “Days of Our Lives.” For more info, visit barnabybright.com.

Singer/songwriter Liz Longley only graduated from the Berklee College of Music two years ago, but she’s already well on her way to transitioning from academia to the pop music limelight.

Longley’s ability to craft great tunes has led to prizes in some of the nation’s top songwriting contests, and she also recently raised enough money — nearly $50,000 thus far — to record a new album without the help of a record label. And her instantly relaxing voice makes it all click. For more info on the artist, visit lizlongley.com. Tickets for the November 9 show are$10, and can be purchased online at 92y.org/tribeca.

And that’s that! Happy listening to all, and don’t forget to tip your bartender. If you have any questions, suggestions or hidden secrets about sweet shows on and under the Downtown radar, drop me a line at samspokony@gmail.com.

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She sings, she acts, she moves furniture!

Talented multitasker Lavin on Billy, the bossa nova and feminizing Fagen

TALKS & MUSIC PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST: STEVE BAKUNAS IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDA LAVIN Sun., Sept. 16 At Birdland (315 W. 44th St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves.) $25 cover For reservations/info, call 212-581-3080 or visit birdlandjazz.com “LINDA LAVIN…NOW” Mon., Sept. 17, 7pm & Sun., Sept. 23, 3pm At 54 Below 254 W. 54th St., (btw. Broadway & 8th Ave.) Cover Charge: $30 for bar seats $40 for main dining area $25 food/drink minimum For reservations, call 866-468-7619 For info, visit 54below.com or call 646-476-3551 To purchase the CD “Possibilities,” visit sh-k-boom. com/lindalavin.shtml Also visit lindalavin.com

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Check out the photo on this page. There’s Linda Lavin — working the tough and tart matriarch look — in a scene from her recent Tony-nominated performance in “The Lyons.”

You don’t get gams like that by sitting down or standing still. Okay, she’s sitting in the photo. But in all

fairness, that brief spate of inaction occurred while in character. Real life? That’s another matter.

Two times we’ve spoken with Lavin, and on both occasions she was immersed in the mundane tasks of everyday existence (doing laundry and moving furniture, respectively). But that didn’t stop her from dispensing showbiz anecdotes and insider analysis with the same gusto she brought to her domestic chores.

Heavy lifting done well (and with ease) is the takeaway one gets, whether watching Lavin prowl the Broadway stage as Rita Lyons, chat up the crowd between numbers at Birdland or navigate the intricacies of jazz and Broadway standards on her debut CD, “Possibilities.”

In the liner notes to that project (which takes its title from her signature tune in the Broadway production of “It’s a bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman”), no less than Hal Prince weighs in on Lavin’s formidable range.

“She had everything, that girl,” says Prince of Lavin’s rise from bit part to featured player in 1961’s “A Family Affair.” Brought in to direct as the show was floundering, Prince recalls being struck by Lavin’s “wonderfully unique singing voice, acting chops and — what else can you call it? — star quality.”

Fifty years later, the song remains the same. “Linda brings her prodigious gifts and uncommon intelligence to this material,” gushes Prince — an evaluation we can back up, having seen Lavin in concert at Birdland shortly before the 2011 release of “Possibilities.”

Besides understated, borderline melancholy takes on “It Amazes Me” and “Two for the Road,” Lavin finds room on the CD’s 12 tracks for the unorthodox. Coming at you from far left field, “Walk Between the Raindrops” is a cover from Donald Fagen’s 1982 solo album, “The Nightfly.”

Asked what inspired her to put a feminine stamp on the often lecherous voice of Steely Dan, Lavin observes that as both a singer and a lyricist, “Fagen is very masculine. I hear him all the time when my husband and I play him on road trips. His songs, they don’t speak of women’s lives, but still…I call him the ‘Lenny Bruce of music.’ I don’t understand everything he says, but I sure as hell love listening to it.”

Other uncommon choices on the CD include “There’s a Small Hotel” (which, best known as a duet, gets the solo treatment) and “It Might as Well Be Spring,” sung bossa nova style.

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Post-Lyons Linda is keeping busy Continued from page 27 “I do as much bossa nova as I can,” explains Lavin, “because of Billy.” That’s Billy Stritch, who serves as the CD’s arranger, musical director and pianist. “Billy,” gushes Lavin in full on Hal Prince mode, “is one of the greatest interpreters of Brazilian music that we have. He expresses it sensually, and beautifully. “ Lavin recalls how Stritch and Jim Caruso came to see a cabaret gig (at the nowdefunct Rainbow & Stars), and encouraged her. “I’ve known Billy and Jim since 1993,” says Lavin. “We’ve played and sung together

Just days before Lavin appears at 54 Below in support of her CD, she’ll be the first guest at her husband’s new Birdland series.

in our own living rooms since we’ve met.

They’re friends, and I’m a fan of them both.”

Soon, Caruso (who currently hosts Birdland’s Monday night open mic series “Cast Party,” with Stritch at the keys) was booking Lavin in the Poconos and Palm Beach. During that period, she notes, “my husband [Steve Bakunas] who is a rock drummer, became a jazz drummer. He became my drummer, and Billy took over as musical director. Then, I was in North Carolina doing a weekend, and my agent introduced me to John Brown [currently director of the Duke University jazz program, and also producer and bass player for “Possibilities”]. Five years later, he said, ‘You gotta do a CD.’ ” Just days before Lavin appears at 54 Below in support of her CD, she’ll be the first guest at her husband’s new Birdland series. Bakunas must have caught the multitasking bug from Lavin: His “Portrait Of An Artist” series has the host interviewing musical and theatrical veterans while painting their portrait.

As for Lavin, she’s already plotting her next recording. “I live in Wilmington [NC] when I’m not working in New York,” she explains. “Back in March, we did a concert with the 60-piece Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, [Birdland regular] Aaron Weinstein, Billy, Jim and [jazz guitarist] Bucky Pizzarelli. I would love to build on that concert for a new album.”

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DAVIDA SINGER READS FROM “PORT OF CALL” Performance artist Davida Singer’s latest collection of poetry has earned raves from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz. Positively swooning over “Port of Call,” he declared it “both autobiographical and historic, all movingly bearing witness to her time and ours.” See what all the fuss is about, when Singer (a former contributor to The Villager and its sister publication Gay City News) reads from “Port” with musical assistance from jazz/klezmer artists Frank London (trumpet) and Daniel Kelly (keyboard).

Drawing comparisons to Walt Whitman (for her ability to imbue personal observations with cosmic implications), Singer’s “Port of Call” meditates on matters of space and time, by charting “a woman’s metaphysical journey moving through eight transformational destinations — New York, East End of Long Island, Vermont, Millennium, Dementia, and beyond.” Past and present lovers, the mental decline of an aging parent and fragility as depicted by both global warming and a fractured pelvis all become metaphors for “a world of heightened disconnection,” where hope for the future is a dicey proposition. Got questions about any of that? Singer will take them all, we’re assured, after the reading!

Free (donations accepted). Fri., Sept.

21, 7-9pm, at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen St., btw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.). For info, visit bluestockings.com and davidasinger.com.

TENEMENT TALKS Nighttime temperatures recently hit the 50s, so it’s officially time to put away those fluffy summer beach reads and turn your attention to more cerebral page turners. But serious doesn’t have to mean somber. When it comes to making the intellectual downright interesting, nobody does it better than the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s “Tenement Talks” series. Their discussions, readings and historical lectures (almost always inspired by the written page) will nourish your heart, mind and soul as the leaves go through the motions of their annual downward spiral.

On Tues., Sep. 18, at 6:30pm, go behind the scenes (or at least the pages) of Aife Murray’s new book “Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language.” In conversation with Kathleen Hill, the author will provide a well-researched rebuttal to the notion of Dickinson as isolated genius — by revealing how the poet’s work was influenced and inspired by her longtime servant Margaret Maher.

On Thurs., Sept. 20, Hasia Diner introduces Tenement Museum VP Annie

Polland and Daniel Soyer for a talk on “Emerging Metropolis” — the second volume in their “City of Promises” series.

This one tells the story of urban Jewish immigrant society. Actors will join the authors, literally giving voice to the book’s primary sources.

On Tues., Oct. 9, a panel of ProPublica. org deep thinkers will discuss how disclosure, spending and political activity impact the efforts of social nonprofits involved in Campaign 2012. On Thurs., Oct. 11, author Eric Jay Dolin discusses his book “When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail,” which charts the convergence of pirates, the silk trade, missionary work and the British-Chinese Opium War of the 1840s. On Thurs., Oct. 18, Tenement Museum President Morris Vogel hosts historian Alice Kessler-Harris for a conversation about art, politics and culture (based on observations from the Kessler-Harris tome “A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman”).

All Tenement Talks take place at 6:30pm, at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s Museum Shop (103 Orchard St., SW corner of Delancey). Admission is free, and seating is available on a firstcome, first-served basis (to reserve a seat, call 212-431-0233, x259 and purchase a copy of the featured book). For more info, visit tenement.org. Visit the blog, at tenement.org/blog. For Twitter: twitter.com/ tenementmuseum.

SIXTH ANNUAL WESTBETH MUSIC FESTIVAL Finding enough talent to fill a three-day festival isn’t a very tall order, when the deep well you’re drawing from happens to be at an undisclosed location within the Westbeth Artists Housing Complex (the world’s largest artist community, with 1,000 artists in residence). Installment #6 of the annual Westbeth Music Festival honors the late Gil Evans, a longtime

resident of Westbeth. On the bill: a mix of musicians from a wide range of disciplines — including drummer Nasheet Waits (son of the late, great Freddie Waits), vocalist Eve Zanni and her quintet and classical selections from David del Tredici, Richard Hundley, Beth Griffith, and Jeffrey Middleton. In the new Martha Graham Dance Studio, Beth Griffith sings an hour-long piece by Morton Feldman and “Experiences No. 2” (for unaccompanied voice), by John Cage. The audience is encouraged (and, in fact, expected) to get up and dance to the rhythm and blues of Bobby Harden and his New York City Soul Band. As always, all events are free and children are welcome.

Fri., Sept. 21 through Sun., Sept. 23.

At the Westbeth Brecht Forum, Courtyard and Community Room (155 Bank St., btw. West & Washington Sts.). For info, visit westbeth.org.

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Arlene Gottfried, at the 2009 Westbeth Music Festival.

STRANGE TALES OF LIAOZHAI HERE launches its 20th Anniversary season in typically ambitious style, with a production from their Dream Puppetry Program (which gets its mojo from artistic director Basil Twist). Created and performed by master puppeteer Hanne Tierney — in collaboration with composer/musician Jane Wang and projection artist Hannah Wasileski — “Strange Tales of Liaozhai” fills the stage with an elaborately constructed counterweight system containing over 100 strings, which Tierney manipulates in full view of the audience. Adapted from 18th century supernatural Chinese folk tales, “Liaozhai” unspools with the help of lanterns, bamboo poles, magic pigeons depicted through hand-drawn projections and music from toy pianos and self-constructed instruments.

Through Sept. 22, Tues.-Sun. at 8:30pm and Sun. at 4pm. At HERE (145 Sixth Ave., one block below Spring St.). For tickets ($10 in advance, $20 day of show), call 212-352-3101 or visit here.org.

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On Sept. 21, poet/performance artist Davida Singer reads at Bluestockings.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to Att: Darren Berger, c/o Kane Kessler, 1350 Ave of the Americas, 26th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LANCASTER HOPE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/10/12. 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 174 E. 104th St., NY, NY 10029. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF LANA LUFT LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/25/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 1/17/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF LONG RIDGE OFFSHORE SUBSIDIARY HOLDINGS, LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/1/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 2/29/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Kevin Bhatt, 1120 Ave of the Americas, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRADING LIAISON LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/12. 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: 204 E 77th St Apt 3C NY, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act. 1936470.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KINGSLAND REALTY MANAGEMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gene Pullo, 500 Kingsland Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RSSM ADVISORY GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 757 Third Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 100172049. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRI VILLA AVENUE L.P. Certificate filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/30/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Project Renewal, Inc., 200 Varick St., NY, NY 10014. Name/ address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2072. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SWORDFISH REALTY LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/23/12.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One World Financial Ctr., NY, NY 10281. LLC formed in DE on 8/10/12. 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: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WILLIAMS FIELD SERVICES COMPANY, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: One Williams Ctr., Tulsa, OK 74172.

LLC formed in DE on 2/3/06.

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: 09/13 - 10/18/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN a License Number (PENDING) for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 79 St Marks Place, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. 79 ST MARKS PLACE, INC. Vil: 09/06 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Three Top Chelsea, LLC d/b/a The Commons Chelsea to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 128 7th Avenue New York NY 10011.

Vil: 09/06 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for

by Magnums In Paris LLC d/b/a Montmartre to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 158 8th Avenue New York NY 10011.

Vil: 09/06 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a two year on premises license, #TBA has been applied for by 205 Thomson Street LLC d/b/a Toloache to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 205 Thompson Street New York NY 10012.

Vil: 09/06 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION FOR 231 EAST 111TH STREET LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 6/26/12. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 45 North Station Plaza, Ste 400, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LINDA RICH ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. 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, 200 W. 86th St., Apt. 14K, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACKSTONE REAL ESTATE PARTNERS VII.TE.8 L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/27/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/21/12.

Princ. office of LP: c/o the Blackstone Group L.P., 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Blackstone Real Estate Associates VII L.P., c/o C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., Corp.

Trust Cntr., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Manage assets.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WCS PRODUCTIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/20/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Irving Place, #V10B, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALENYA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/24/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JFK JAMAICA REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/12. 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 Allied Partners Management LLC, 770 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10065.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012

1485 HOLDINGS LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/30/12. 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, c/o Elizabeth M. Kovac, Esq., 90 Park Ave., Fl. 18, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SLC CORAM, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 7/20/12.

Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE): 5/16/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 217 E. 70th St., #627, NY, NY 10021.

DE address of LLC: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike, #301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CPC FUNDING SPE 1 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/24/12.

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: 09/06 - 10/11/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KWF DESIGN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/26/12. Office location: NY County. 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: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WEST 57TH HUDSON, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/21/12. Office location: NY County. 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 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF JEM VENTURES (NEW YORK) LLC Authority filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE 2/3/12. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 519 W 142nd St Apt PH, NY, NY 10031. Cert of LLC filed with Secy of State of DE located: DE Secy of State, Division of Corps, John G. Townsend Bldg, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 ORC 12 LLC Arts. of Org filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 6/1/12. OFC in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 5826 Tyndall Av Bronx NY 10471. Purpose: any lawful act.1928233 Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 860 SIGN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/15/12. 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 Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., Attn: Gary M. Rosenberg Esq., 733 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF GOODY5 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: 285 Central Park West, Apt. 3-S, NY, NY 10024. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mr. Ian R. Goodman, c/o Zukerman Gore Brandeis & Crossman, LLP, Attn: Jeffrey D. Zukerman, Esq., 11 Times Sq., NY, NY 10036. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WEST 12 ELEVEN C, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Pryor Cashman LLP, 7 Times Sq., NY, NY 100366569. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Lawrence Remmel at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 THE MARROW RESTAURANT, LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/26/12. 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, c/o Perilla Restaurants, 9 Jones St., NY, NY 10014. General Purposes.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CREATIVE X MEDIA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 38 W. 69th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10023-5261.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BITE COMMUNICATIONS LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/3/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 345 Spear St., #750, San Francisco, CA 94105. LLC formed in DE on 8/1/12. 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: 08/30 - 10/04/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACK SUB 2 LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State 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, NY 12207-2543. 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: 08/23 - 09/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PARTNERS GROUP HERCULES, L.P. INC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/09/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Guernsey on 01/12/12. Princ. office of LP: 1114 Ave. of the Americas, 37th Fl., NY, NY 10036. NYS fictitious name: PARTNERS GROUP HERCULES, L.P. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Partners Group (USA) Inc., 150 Spear St., 18th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Guernsey addr. of LP: Tudor House, Le Bordage, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1BT. Arts. of Org. filed with Her Majesty’s Deputy Greffier, Mrs. Helen Proudlove-Gains, Market Bldg., PO Box 451, Fountain St., St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 3GX. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012

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PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SILVER SUITES 7 WTC LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/09/12. Princ. office of LLC: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10007. 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: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with State of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BIG PROPERTIES HANA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/09/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 11 E. 44th St., Ste. 500, NY, NY 10017. 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 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: NY FURS, L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/06/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 216 West 30th Street, New York, New York 10001. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BRP VENDORS MASTER TENANT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/1/12. 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 BRP Development Corp., 18 E. 41st St., Ste. 1201, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NUCLEAR BLAST ENTERTAINMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/11/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Serling Rooks Ferrara McKoy & Worob LLP, Attn: Joseph Lloyd Serling, Esq., 119 Fifth Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF POWER STEWART LENDER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/28/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 9/27/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to c/o Hudson Realty Capital, 250 Park Ave. South, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10003. DE off. addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIMPLY WEB 2 LLC App for Authority filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/23/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in SC on 4/30/12. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. PO address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC: 114 Peachtree Ct, Orangeburg, SC 29118. Principal business address: 40 Worth St, NY 10013. Cert of LLC filed with Secy of State of SC located: 1205 Pendleton St #525 , Colombia, SC 29201.

Purpose: any lawful act.

1909092 Vil: 08/23 - 09/27/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF VERITAS, LLC. Fictitious name: Veritas JV, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/25/2012. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/20/2012.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. Principal office Address: 555 West 18th St., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10011.

Address to be maintained in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 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: 08/16 - 09/20/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW SUFFOLK LAND CO. II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/05. 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: 08/23 - 09/27/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LITTLE CIRCUS, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/12. 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: c/o the LLC 300 E 77th St, ste 4B NY, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act. 1927184 Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JORDAN BACKHUS STUDIO LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/02/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 45 Grove Street, #2B, New York, New York 10014. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CLAYTON BOOKS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/2/12.

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: Clayton Patterson , 161 Essex St, New York, NY 10002. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity, including but not limited to publishing and distribution of publications.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF IRON MULE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/17/2012. 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: Iron Mule LLC, 226 c/o Jay Stern, 226 West 17th Street, #3D, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 DRFT HOLDINGS LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/12/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Michael L. Landsman, Esq., 3 W. 35th St., 9th Flr., NY, NY 10001. General Purposes.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WB RESIDENTIAL REALTY MANAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/12. 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 Webb & Brooker, Inc., 2534 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., NY, NY 10039.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SHDP HZ LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/6/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 700 17th St., Ste. 2250, Denver, CO 80202. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SOULCYCLE WEST 19TH STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/17/12. 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 SoulCycle, LLC, 103 Warren St., NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NATIONAL RECRUITING NETWORK LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/9/12.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 307E 44th St, Ste 814, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE ILLUSTRATED COURTROOM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/5/12.

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 the principal business addr.: 26 Beaver St., #9, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/16 - 09/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 106 WASHINGTON PLACE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 122 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, LLP Attn: Lawrence Rosenbloom, Esq., 150 E. 42nd St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: REVERE GLOBAL ADVISORS LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/02/12. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, 156 West 56th Street, New York, New York 10019, ATTN: Charles A. Damato, Esq. Purpose: For any lawful purpose Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OTHERWORLD PICTURES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 622 E. 11th St., Apt. 9, NY, NY 10009.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SYCAMORE CAPITAL PARTNERS LP Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/18/12. Princ. office of LP: 410 Park Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10022.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, Attn: Stephen Schofield at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JUDITH CLURMAN LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on5/2/12. 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: Judith Clurman LLC, 75 East End Avenue, #9L, New York, NY 10028. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF JW DEVELOPMENT HOLDINGS, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/16/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/24/11.

Princ. office of LLC: 111 W. 40th St., NY, NY 10018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 254 ALMOND LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/23/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 254 5th Ave., NY, NY 10001. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, 156 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Bruce F. Bronster, Esq. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 371 BROADWAY HOLDINGS LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/29/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 575 Madison Ave., 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 6/26/12. 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: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AG DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/19/12.

Office location: NY County.

LP formed in DE on 3/1/12.

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 Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P., 245 Park Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10167. 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, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PHILLIPS EDISON & COMPANY LTD. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/23/12.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in OH on 9/15/99. 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.

OH and principal business addr.: 11501 Northlake Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45249. Cert. of Org. filed with OH Sec. of State, 180 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43215. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AG DIVERSIFIED INCOME MASTER FUND, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/24/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 3/6/12. 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 Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P., 245 Park Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10167.

CI addr. of LP: c/o Ogier Fiduciary Services (Cayman) Ltd., 89 Nexus Way, Camana Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-9007, CI. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State.

Cert. of LP filed with Registrar of Companies, Ground Fl., Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 08/09 - 09/13/2012

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

Vil: 09/13 - 09/20/2012

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on 09/26/2012 at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Pepe’s Rest. Group LLC to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 170 West 4th Street 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: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

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The city is failing to protect vulnerable road users drivers are rarely charged with a crime, their testimony is often taken as fact without further investigation, and their reasons are all too familiar: The cyclist swerved unexpectedly; the pedestrian fell in front of me. These should not be excuses. No one should die because they swerve to avoid a pothole or trip on a crack in the pavement. I am not blaming drivers. Neither drivers nor vulnerable road users should be in a situation where they might take a life or lose their own.

A primary reason New York City lacks the laws and infrastructure to protect vulnerable road users is that our public is not given the facts about these deaths.

Families of victims and concerned citizens routinely attempt to use a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to obtain N.Y.P.D. A.I.S. reports, yet few are successful. As transportation expert Charles Komanoff puts it, “Whatever the police think they’re protecting, the loser is the citizenry, which is being denied a potential gold mine of understanding past crashes and preventing future ones.”

In short, we need to know if the cyclist didn't swerve, if the pedestrian didn't fall, in order to have the facts to demand better infrastructure and laws.

We as a public — pedestrians, cyclists and drivers — need to unify around the issue of protecting vulnerable road users. We need to know exactly what happened to Jessica Dworkin so that we can attempt to prevent it from happening to anyone else.

SPIN CITY

BY KEEGAN STEPHAN On Mon., Aug. 27, Jessica Dworkin was hit by a tractor-trailer while crossing Sixth Ave. at Houston St. and killed. In a letter to The Villager, Carl Rosenstein (“The Angry Buddhist”) charged that, from the sound of it, the tractor-trailer must have been more than 55 feet long, and thus not permitted to drive in the city.

Eyewitnesses say she was crossing with the light. To date, the New York Police Department has issued only two summonses: failure to yield to a pedestrian, and failure to drive with due care — both violations, not crimes. And if history is any indication, no citizen will ever see the N.Y.P.D. Accident Investigation Squad (A.I.S.) report that could give the public the facts to prevent this type of tragedy.

This and every incident in which someone is killed by an automobile on our streets highlights our failure to protect vulnerable citizens, which our society prioritizes in most other spheres. From immigrant laborers to minors, we have infrastructure and laws to protect vulnerable citizens, proper enforcement of those laws, and thorough investigations of abuses. Yet when it comes to creating safe streets, we have nothing similar to protect vulnerable road users. Vulnerable road users are all of us who don’t drive cars, because cars protect their drivers and potentially harm others.

Jessica Dworkin was a vulnerable road user. We should not view her death as an “accident,” or claim she was at partial fault for putting herself in a dangerous situation, as we do all too often. Her death should be taken as seriously as the death of a child at the hands of an adult. We should proactively address all the failures that led to it: enforcement failures, infrastructure failures, legal failures and failures to provide the information needed to prevent future deaths.

Our law enforcement failed Dworkin. The trucker that killed her felt safe driving in our city without proper permits. I am not saying the N.Y.P.D. should stop every truck that enters the city. But I think it would be hard to argue that New York City does not have a culture where automobiles feel safe breaking traffic laws, even when doing so makes vulnerable road users feel unsafe.

Our infrastructure failed Jessica Dworkin. She was crossing with the light. We all know the scene far too well: Crossing as a pedestrian in a crosswalk or cycling in a bike lane when an automobile turns in front of you, nearly misses you, or worse, all because the automobile also has a green light and is not respecting your right of way. Residents near that intersection have proposed changes that might have prevented Dworkin’s death, such as pedestrian-only traffic lights. Imagine how much safer our streets would feel (and be) if cars had to stop, not just yield, as you crossed the street.

Our laws failed Dworkin. Despite teeming with pedestrians and cyclists, New York City lacks the laws that vulnerable road users enjoy in other places as diverse as Holland and Texas, both of which require automobiles to give 3 feet of space at all times.

And these pieces of infrastructure and laws are only the most basic. Many bike lanes in Washington, D.C., are in the middle of two-way streets, protected by concrete dividers on both sides, so neither pedestrians nor cars drift into them. In many European countries, when a collision occurs between an automobile and a vulnerable road user, the burden of proof is automatically on the automobile.

In New York City, the opposite appears to be true.

When vulnerable road users are killed by automobiles,

Photo by Peter Meitzler, Time’s Up! volunteer

A stencil for a slain cyclist in 2005.

Stephan is a member of Time’s Up!, a New York City-based cycling advocacy and environmental organization.

Photo by Clayton Patterson

Rockin’ Tompkins band shell CLAYTON

David Peel, at right, played the Tompkins Square Park band shell circa late 1980s at a concert protesting the Lower East Side’s gentrification.

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