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A grim picture at artists’ homes on the Hudson

BY SAM SPOKONY As people across the city continue to recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, residents of a historic West Village artists’ housing complex have been getting some much-needed help from local politicians and bands of volunteers.

Westbeth Artists’ Housing, a 384-apartment complex at 55 Bethune St., was hit especially hard by the storm, even as most of the West Village

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An Obama supporter rejoiced in Times Square on Tuesday night.

Obama surges to re-election in wake of superstorm Sandy

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Downtowners flocked to the polls in droves Tuesday to help elect President Barack Obama to a second term. With the hardship of Hurricane Sandy and the crushing blackout only several days behind them, many cited the president’s response to the disaster and his better position generally on climate change versus Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Voters — especially women — also said they feared Romney would reverse the country’s progress on social issues and threaten women’s right to choose.

Turnout was very heavy in spots, with waits of an hour to an hour and a half at some polls. Doris Diether, in her 80s,

one of the city’s longest-serving community board members, voted at an N.Y.U. building on Washington Square, where she said the wait was an hour and a half, but she got to cut the line.

“They let me go to the front because I’m a senior citizen and I have a cane,” she said.

A registered Republican, she said the choice was clear for her, and it wasn’t Romney.

“He was here during the blackout,” she said of Obama. “He had something to say about it. The other guy didn’t have anything to say.”

There was an hour wait to vote at the McBurney YMCA, on 14th St., where

the line stretched down to Sixth Ave., around the corner and all the way up to the $1 pizza store.

Similarly, Jennifer Schwartz, a student who had just voted at the Y, asked who she had blackened the oval for, said, “Obama — sure. Yeah, I feel with Sandy, too. I’m going to say it, ‘global warming.’

It’s kind of crazy that it happens two years in a row... . He did a good job.”

Sandi Bachom, a filmmaker who quipped she was “on an apology tour” because of her name, was indignant over the Republicans’ positions on women’s issues.

was spared from significant damage.

The complex, which opened in 1970, is well known as a provider of affordable housing for artists and their families. Famous former residents include photographer Diane Arbus, jazz composer Gil Evans and painter Robert De Niro, Sr., the father of actor Robert De Niro. Westbeth was declared

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On flooded avenue, shop owners are trying to stay afloat

BY SAM SPOKONY Small businesses are slowly coming back to life along Avenue C, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy brought unprecedented levels of flooding to the busy street.

As the recovery process continues, it’s clear that while virtually every store owner prepared in some way for the storm, which struck on Oct. 29, most were

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shocked by the extent of the impact. Even though only the upper third of Avenue C lies within Zone A — the area the city placed under mandatory evacuation, because of its susceptibility to flooding — stores on almost every block of the street suffered.

And while the flooding swept evenly throughout

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Grassroots site raises green for storm recovery in East Village

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Waterfront parks got whacked East River Park lost a number of large trees in the superstorm, especially around the park’s “dance oval,” which is marked by Diana Carulli’s new painted labyrinth. This tree, nearby, actually had been hollowed out by major termite damage before the storm, so its trunk just snapped in the storm. “It was on its last legs,” said one amateur tree buff who was checking it out. Surrounding trees, on the other hand, were ripped out of the soil by the roots by the powerful winds. Hudson River Park, which has smaller trees, fared better in the foliage department, but some piers suffered damage, the worst being Pier 40, whose transformer needs to be taken apart and repaired. This may take two to four weeks. The Trust is searching for a large generator to power the pier in the meantime. It’s unclear when the pier’s ball fields will reopen.

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BY SAM SPOKONY A grassroots fundraising Web site started by an East Village woman has become a surprisingly powerful tool in helping her neighborhood recover from Hurricane Sandy, raising more than $9,000 in only five days.

Jenny Adams, 32, saw firsthand the storm’s unprecedented flooding from her apartment on E. Eighth St., between Avenues C and D, and was immediately struck by the devastating aftermath — her building’s super’s basement apartment was completely destroyed by the surging waters.

So on Nov. 3, five days after the storm swept through, Adams — a freelance journalist originally from Alabama who has lived in the East Village since 2009 — created a page on gofundme.com, which allows users to accept donations directly through the site. She explained that, originally, the fundraiser had a goal of $1,000, mainly to support her super and provide a small amount of other assistance to the neighborhood.

But just hours after creating the page, which she dubbed the Alphabet City Rescue Mission, Adams realized she’d underestimated the opportunity.

“I was sitting in a bar with my roommate, and I looked down and saw that we’d gotten $600 in four hours,” she said. “He told me I should change the goal to $10,000, just so people wouldn’t stop at $1,000. I changed it, but I never seriously believed the site would reach that total.”

Now, only days later, the Alphabet City Rescue Mission is close to doing just that. By Thursday evening, $9,017 had been raised, and Adams said that the donations had come from as far away as New Orleans, England and Nepal, in addition to many from New York.

Especially surprising has been the low number of donors compared to the high total so far. Ninety-two people have contributed so far, making for average donations of nearly $100.

Adams said on Wednesday that she had already spent about $3,200. The money has gone toward a wide variety of uses, including hot meals (for both local soup kitchens and other affected areas, like Staten Island and Coney Island), batteries and power strips, and winter necessities, like blankets, coats and mittens. She added that some of the blankets and clothing items have been delivered directly to people in need, especially at the many East Village public housing buildings that are still without heat.

In addition, Adams said that The Wayland, a bar at E. Ninth St. and Avenue C, is now an instrumental part of the relief effort. The bar and its owners and employees faced their own massive flooding issues after the storm, but they have since become a kind of home base for the Alphabet City Rescue Mission by providing space for Adams to store supplies. Some of the employees have also helped with purchasing groceries for donated meals.

“Instead of worrying about their own damage, they took care of their community,” Adams said, “and that’s pretty amazing.”

Adams added that The Wayland reopened Wednesday night, and that she hopes local residents will show the bar the support it deserves as it emerges from a tough couple of weeks.

To donate to the Alphabet City Rescue Mission, visit www. gofundme.com/1g96zs&aff=GFMse. To join as a volunteer, e-mail jennyadamsfreelance@gmail.com .

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NOTEBOOK KOCH’S CABIN FEVER: Former Mayor Ed Koch stuck it out during the first two days of the blackout at his Fifth Ave. digs by Washington Square Park, but then he just couldn’t take it anymore. “I was getting cabin crazy, as Charlie Chaplin called it, in a movie I never stop recalling, in which he was required to stay in Alaska all winter,” Koch, 87, told us. (Ironically, Chaplin’s “Cabin Fever” is the mayor-turned-movie reviewer’s “all-time favorite” flick.) “So I decided to walk down 16 flights — and I did,” he said. “It took a half an hour.” Koch said a building concierge with a flashlight helped him down. In fact, following the blackout, Koch noted, “I saw my doctor for a normal checkup, and he said, the fact that I was able to walk down 16 flights means I’m much stronger physically than he thought.” The former mayor had the worst blackout combo — no electricity coupled with no running water, not to mention no heat. “I got into bed and assumed the fetal position,” he said. “I slept a lot. I had orange juice, which held up for two days. I didn’t eat much, but I had food. I ate tuna fish — good, old, reliable tuna fish — out of a can, without mayo, very bland.” As for combating the darkness, he said, “I don’t believe in using candles, it’s dangerous.” He did have a working land line, though, and could make calls. “God bless the phone company,” he said. After he bailed, he spent a couple of nights on the East Side with colleagues from his law firm.

GLICK SMOKED OUT: Assemblymember Deborah Glick would have stayed at home in the Village through the whole blackout, but she was driven out by noxious fumes from a diesel generator that was being operated inside the building, in violation of city regulations. “I think that the deli was using it, but they denied it,” Glick told us. “It is illegal to use it indoors. … In the morning, I took my partner — who has a sensitive respiratory system — and two cats out of the area. I evacuated my family, we were overcome by fumes.”

MEIER BUILDINGS MIRED IN IT: It’s not immediately clear why, but the Richard Meier-designed glass towers at Perry St. are going to take quite a long time rebounding from the storm surge. When we biked by there on Sunday night, and went to poke our head in one of the buildings, a guard from each lobby quickly converged on us and said that no one can enter the tony towers right now. The elevator shafts were flooded, we were told, and the buildings only got power back Sunday. But there’s a lot of repair work ahead and the luxury high-rises won’t be back open for “four to five months,” one of the guards told us. “The restaurant in the building across the street, it’s a mess,” he added. “Everyone lives here — Calvin Klein, Denzel Washington,” he said, adding, “of course, they have other places.” Nearby, at Barrow St., 28 ground-floor apartments at the West Village Houses were evacuated due to flooding. State Senator Tom Duane has assisted residents with applying for FEMA rent assistance so they can stay elsewhere during the cleanup. Meanwhile, although the front facade falling off an illegal hotel in Chelsea during the storm made headlines, less well known is the fact the back wall of a building at 401 West St. sloughed off during Sandy into an adjacent construction site on Charles St. The Department of Buildings has banned anyone from entering the West St. building. As for the Meier buildings, Assemblymember Glick guessed they might have more of their electrical systems located in the basement than most buildings.

HEROIC HURLEY — SCAREDY-CAT DOGS: Not surprisingly, a debate is raging over whether New York University

did enough to assist people other than its own faculty and students during Lower Manhattan’s post-Sandy blackout hell. A member of N.Y.U. FASP (Faculty Against the Sexton Plan) — the group suing the university over its South Village mega-expansion plan — fired off an angry e-mail blast to FASP members, saying, in part, “What’s happened here is a disgrace — and everybody knows it.

While N.Y.U.’s students sat playing video games in pampered isolation, the ‘neighbors’ in Washington Square Village and elsewhere, faculty included, were struggling without food or water, in the dark. No one from Team Sexton even thought to organize the undergraduates to help get people through this crisis. As long as those young customers could shower and snack and text away (amenities provided so that parents wouldn’t think to sue), the Team was perfectly content to let all others rot.” N.Y.U.’s buildings were kept powered thanks to the university’s new, improved co-generation plant. However, Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president of government relations and community engagement, and Judith Chazen Walsh, a longtime Washington Square Village resident and a plaintiff on the suit against N.Y.U.’s 2031 development plan, tell a different story than the FASP foes. Hurley said that starting the Thursday morning after the hurricane, she led a group of 65 students and faculty from N.Y.U.’s Nursing School through 505 LaGuardia Place, Washington Square Village and other N.Y.U.-owned buildings knocking on doors and checking if there were residents who needed help. (505 LaGuardia Place, an affordable Mitchell-Lama high-rise, is not owned by N.Y.U., unlike the neighboring Silver Towers.) Residents were first asked if they were O.K., given water and supplies, and professionally assessed. If they required medical attention, there were professional nurses and social workers among the crew who could provide prescription medications. “For the next 48 hours, we had people up and down the stairs,” Hurley said. In all, they visited more than 100 apartments.

Speaking of 100, among those who stayed in place at 505 LaGuardia were former Councilmember Alan Gerson and his parents, Sophie and Herman — Herman having hit the century mark earlier this year. During the blackout of 2003, Herman, then 91, walked up 20 flights of stairs to his apartment. “He’s always been in great shape. He was a runner,” the late Keith Crandell told The Villager back then. However, FASP says N.Y.U. should have shifted some elderly residents, who didn’t have power, heat or running water, in 505 and W.S.V. to a reported 30 vacant apartments in Silver Towers. But Hurley said the residents didn’t want to move, and also that moving them down many flights of stairs lit only by glowsticks and flashlights might have been more risky. “It made more sense to leave people in place than to move them,” the N.Y.U. veep said.

Plus, she added, “No one was asking to leave.” In the end, the medical professionals determined that two residents should be removed to the hospital for health conditions.

Hurley also noted that the university did open up its Bobst Library during the blackout for people to charge their phones and use bathrooms, and that many others used the exterior outlets on the Kimmel Center to charge their phones and laptops. (Hey, can we do that when it’s not a blackout too?) As of Wednesday, 60 N.Y.U. students who live in areas that were devastated by the hurricane or who just didn’t want to deal with five-hour, Sandy-aggravated commutes, were sleeping nights on cots in Coles gym.

Walsh, meanwhile, raved of Hurley’s efforts, “Alicia was amazing.” Actually, the rent-stabilized W.S.V. tenant, 75, got to crash on a couch in Kimmel for two days since she’s an N.Y.U. retiree, having worked for the university 50 years. This privilege was only open to people with university ID, like retirees. Asked if other community members could have slept in there, too, Walsh said, well, it was pretty crowded. “N.Y.U., as far as taking care of the community and their students, they did a great job,” she said.

“I just said to Alicia, ‘If we could tear up 2031, we’d be BFFs.’ … When N.Y.U. does good, we compliment them,”

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Obama surges to win on women’s issues, climate change Continued from page 1 “This is the most important election in my lifetime and I’m 68,” she said. “When I was a girl abortion was illegal — and what these people are trying to do with vaginal probes, ‘legitimate rapes.’

“The government doesn’t have any business in my vagina, thank you very much,” she declared. “The Republicans are all for small government, except when it comes to my vagina.”

Don Hogle, a brand strategist, waiting on line outside the Y, also said he was planning to fill in the Obama oval. He said the economy ultimately “takes care of itself,” but climate change needs to be addressed.

“We experienced that last week,” he said.

“We’re completely unprepared and we have one of the largest population centers on the coast that’s vulnerable.”

His white clerical collar gleaming crisply as he waited in the long line, Associate Rector Stephen Holton of Grace Church said, compared to Romney, “I think Obama is the only one who’s thinking about the country as a whole. He’s thinking about the poor and people that don’t have healthcare.”

Bobbing up and down in the cold with her baby in a carrier beneath a special extra-large coat, a woman who didn’t give her name said, “I’m usually not a single-issue voter. But the whole issue of abortion, if Romney is elected it could set us back decades.” She said it was “important” that she was actually holding a

‘I think you’re going to see more cooperation from the Republicans — if they don’t, they’ll lose even more seats.’

Ed Koch baby as she made her pro-choice remarks, adding, “But I still believe in the right not to have one.”

Rich and Shelley Barnett, retirees who both formerly worked in finance, said they were concerned about Romney’s nebulous plans for Medicare for people over age 55.

“I don’t know how if you cut spending it helps the economy revive,” she said.

“If you have Romney it’s an invitation to recession,” he said, adding, “The economy is better now than when Obama came in.

Consumer confidence is up. The NASDAQ is at its highest level in 15 years and the Dow is up 100 percent since 2008. Five and a half million jobs have been created since the middle of 2009. When Obama came into office we were losing 800,000 to 900,000 jobs a month.”

So was anybody in the line outside the McBurney Y planning to vote for Romney? Jeff Edelstein broke out laughing at the question.

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

Associate Rector Stephen Holton of Grace Church said Obama is thinking about the country as a whole.

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Rapper Busta Rhymes voted in Tribeca on Election Day.

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The line to vote outside the McBurney YMCA on W. 14th St. stretched to Sixth Ave. and then halfway up to 15th St.

“In this line?” he asked with a smile.

“Pretty unlikely. Go uptown — but not on this side,” he said, waving toward the west, “that side,” he said, waving toward the Upper East Side. A laid-off editor, he’s studying library information at Pratt down the block. “At least it’s still words,” he said cheerfully.

One man, though, who voted at the Boys and Girls Republic poll site on E. Sixth St. expressed ambivalence about both Obama and Romney. When asked who he inked in the oval for, he spelled out the name Virgil Goode, apparently feeling the candidate, who ran on the Constitution Party line, was that obscure.

A Riis Houses resident who works in a deli on E. 14th St., he said, “Frankly, I just had it with both parties. They both stand for the same crap.”

Former Mayor Ed Koch helped the Obama effort in Florida the week before the election.

He did two robo-calls for the president, TV segments and op-eds in the Sun Sentinel and Jerusalem Post.

“It was a blowout victory for President Obama,” Koch said the day after the election. “He won the popular vote — which no one thought he would — as well as the battleground states. I think the Republicans lost because of their positions on wanting to privatize Social Security and Medicare and because they ignored the needs of women and the needs of Hispanic voters. The Republicans need to recognize it’s to their benefit to cooperate rather than to hold back the flood of legislation that Obama has offered to help the country. I think you’re going to see more cooperation — if they don’t, they’ll lose even more seats.”

Congressmember Nydia Velazquez said she was not only thrilled at Obama’s re-election but that four Democratic women were added to Congress and also that 75 percent of Latinos, according to exit polls, went for Obama.

“This election, I hope, turned the page on the Tea Party period of American politics, and

now we can move forward to find solutions,” she said.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick said, “I think people were smart and realized what we were being offered was a third Bush term.

They realized we are digging our way out and this wasn’t a time to return to failed policies — a return to the 1940s and ’50s on social issues, to attack contraception. Ninety-eight percent of women of childbearing age, at some point, use contraception. I don’t think that a lot of guys understand how viscerally enraging those policies are. Good progressive men understand these policies one way, but I don’t think they grasp the depth of anger that they engender.”

Elsewhere, Rich Caccappolo, a leading figure in Greenwich Village Little League and a member of Community Board 2, joined Bob Kerrey on the trail in his Senate bid in Nebraska, helping Kerrey with the IT side of his campaign. But the political comeback effort by the former New School president and former Nebraska governor and senator was thwarted by Republican Deb Fischer.

With Obama cementing his leadership by winning a second term, fittingly, this upcoming inauguration won’t see a repeat of the scandalous “drunken Negro head cookie” that Ted Kefalinos whipped up for Obama’s first inauguration after he beat the pastry chef’s candidate of choice, John McCain. The bizarre, splotchy chocolate gouache creation sparked outrage, protests by the New Black Panthers and a boycott by P.S. 41 students. But he won’t be cooking up his controversial cookies again this time — at least not in the Village. Kefalinos was evicted at the end of the summer from his Greenwich Ave. storefront, which is being filled by a Thai restaurant.

“He was behind on rent like crazy,” Angel Torres, who does maintenance for the restaurants on the block, said of Kefalinos. “He was going to retire. He didn’t pay the rent for months, so he was evicted.”

Walking by the storefront on Tuesday, Mariette Berowitz said she never cared for Kefalinos’s pastries or for him.

“I never liked it,” she said. “I’m so glad he’s out — you know, schadenfreude?”

However, Torres said, “I did like his cookies.”

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Arts orgs offer deluge of grants after storm ‘Early’ exit polls

BY SAM SPOKONY Arts organizations from around the city and the nation are swiftly responding to the needs of artists affected by Hurricane Sandy, by offering emergency sources of funding that are similar to those tailored for damaged businesses.

The main differences between that funding and most business-related funding, though, is that the arts organizations are offering grants rather than loans — the grants don’t need to be paid back, and they’re also generally given in much smaller amounts than the loans.

But large nonprofits — ones not involved in actually giving the grants, but which have massive networks of contacts — are aggressively reaching out to the many artists within Downtown, Brooklyn or other affected areas to inform them of what could be career-saving funding, and to encourage them to apply.

For the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, that effort to inform Downtown artists began earlier this week, even as the nearly 40-year-old organization remains displaced from its home building near the Financial District.

The L.M.C.C. building, at 125 Maiden Lane, near Pearl St., sustained extremely heavy flood damage in the storm, according to Kay Takeda, the organization’s director of grants and services. Takeda said it’s unclear when the nonprofit, which provides a wide range of services (including grants for normal artist projects, rather than emergencies), will be able to return home, since the damage is apparently still being assessed.

She explained, though, that in the meantime one of L.M.C.C.’s primary missions will be to connect artists with grants that accurately match their needs and qualifications.

“We have a huge list of artists who sign up with us, and we just sent out an e-mail to everyone,” Takeda said. “We’re one of a number of arts organizations that’s been doing

that, and we’re all just trying to share the info.”

The New York Foundation for the Arts, a statewide group that has provided financial aid and other services for 40 years, has taken a similar, network-based e-mail approach. N.Y.F.A., based in Brooklyn’s DUMBO, also faced some displacement issues after the storm, and its executive director, Michael Royce, announced Monday that the organization had finally returned to its home offices that day.

Between the two organizations and the e-mails they sent out to members, the list of possible funding sources is certainly expansive, and it includes options for artists of virtually any discipline.

Downtown-based groups that are currently offering emergency grants include Adolph & Esther Gottlieb, which is based in Soho and provides funding to visual artists; The Artists’ Fellowship, which is based in Greenwich Village and provides funding to painters, graphic artists, printmakers and sculptors; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, on the Upper West Village, which provides funding to avant-garde artists of various disciplines.

PEN American Center, which has a national reach but is based in Soho, also offers emergency grants for authors through its PEN Writers’ Fund.

Other organizations that can supply funding are located as far away as Tennessee, Texas and California.

N.Y.F.A. is also encouraging artists across the city to fill out its recently created post-storm survey, which will allow the organization to better understand what kind of damages have been sustained within the arts community.

Artists who wish to take the N.Y.F.A. survey should visit surveymonkey.com/s/HurricaneSandyRecovery. For more information and complete lists of sources of emergency grants for artists, visit lmcc.net or nyfa.org.

BY JOSH ROGERS Mitt Romney was doing much better down on Wall St. than at a West Village polling site, fourth graders discovered Tuesday in their exit polls.

“It was mostly Obama in the first [West Photo by Josh Rogers Village] location,” said Aidhan, Alexa and their teacher Alexa, 9, a fourth grade Ella Moran after conducting their student who was sur- Wall St. exit poll. veying voters on “The Street” for the Little Red School House in The Village. “It’s more Romney down here.”

Asked why she thought President Obama was getting less support in Lower Manhattan, she said “maybe people in different locations have different views.”

Her classmate and partner from Battery Park City, Aidhan, 9, was finding much the same thing. He was also discovering something that many a reporter has learned on a chilly election day — it can be difficult to get voters to talk.

“Some of them said, ‘Private,’” he explained.

His teacher, Ella Moran, helped organize the poll. Later in the day the students were going to have their own election to see which Hurricane Sandy relief charity would benefit from a student fundraiser.

Alexa, a thoughtful girl who expressed sympathy when she was told The Villatger’s office had been flooded, was also pleased to hear she looked to be 9 since she is often mistaken for a second grader. Told that she may reach an age where she wished to be younger, she had a quick reply: “I know, I know.”

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On avenue that flooded, merchants try to stay afloat Continued from page 1 the area between around E. Fifth and E. 14th Sts., the restoration of electrical power along Avenue C has been less uniform.

Power returned at different times for different buildings, but a few buildings still didn’t have power back.

Over all, most merchants were reopening their doors, or least preparing to.

The Barnyard Cheese Shop, on Avenue C between E. Ninth and 10th Sts., reopened on Tuesday after its building had gotten power back the previous day.

“But we’re still getting our feet back on the ground,” said Alex Lake, a manager at the four-year-old shop, which sells artisanal cheeses, meats and sandwiches. “At this point it’s about reordering the things we lost, and reorganizing everything else.”

Lake explained that the shop’s basement had been flooded up to its ceiling, ruining a refrigerator and its entire supply of frozen meats, a compressor used for cheese processing, and paper goods, such as napkins and plates. But he added that virtually everything upstairs, within the actual storefront, made it through undamaged — and he and other employees are optimistic about a relatively quick recovery.

Around lunchtime on Tuesday, it was clear that the Barnyard Cheese Shop was back on the map, as hungry local residents

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At the Avenue C Pharmacy, many signs of flood damage remain. Behind the caution tape is merchandise ruined by the rising water, and deodorizing powder on the rug is being used to kill the water’s lingering smell.

and other regular customers filed in and out.

“Everybody’s happy to see that we’re still here,” Lake said with a smile. “The neighborhood is being incredibly supportive.”

The recovery process will be much more difficult for the Alphabet City (ABC) Beer Co., on Avenue C between E. Sixth and Seventh Sts. Although that portion of the street lies within Zone B — an area that the city believed only faced a potential flooding risk from a Category 2 or higher hurricane

(Sandy was only a Category 1 before being downgraded to a superstorm), the business faced massive damage.

“We lost almost everything we had,” said Zach Mack, a co-owner of the establishment, which sells hundreds of craft beers, as well as craft meats and cheeses. “I never expected this kind of damage…it was surreal.”

ABC Beer Co. also had severe basement flooding during the storm, and lost most of its craft beer inventory, its entire beer tap system, an ice machine, a walk-in refrigerator, all paper and plastic supplies, and all of its meats and cheeses. After recounting all of the losses, Mack sighed and added, “It’s been a long week.”

The business has been open since it regained power last Saturday night, Mack explained, just to retain some semblance of cash flow. But it’s currently offering a very limited selection — only the bottled beers that are stored in refrigerators upstairs, within the store’s main area.

Another major obstacle is that ABC Beer Co. opened very recently, in May, so it’s not as firmly entrenched as many other longstanding businesses in the area.

“We were doing so well in the months before the storm hit,” Mack said, “but we’re just not very well established yet in terms of finances. We just paid for this equipment months ago, and now it’s gone.”

To offset the business’s losses, Mack said, he would be applying for emergency small business loans that are being offered by the city, state and federal government. By Tuesday, he had already prepared applications for loans through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as the U.S. Small Business Administration, which allows any size business to borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged equipment, inventory and other assets.

In addition, Mack said he is looking into applying for a loan through the program run jointly by the city’s Department of Small Business Services and the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which offers loans up to $25,000.

But while the current outlook is some-

what grim, Mack echoed sentiments from the Barnyard Cheese Shop, stressing that he has gained great strength from helpful and engaged members of the East Village community.

“The people here have been great,” he said, “and so many members of the neighborhood have been very active in stopping by, setting up some donations for us, and just trying to help us get back on our feet.”

Mack added that, even though it will be difficult, he hopes those collaborative efforts will allow ABC Beer Co. to celebrate its sixmonth anniversary on Nov. 14 with a grand reopening.

“It’s a stretch,” he said, “but we’ll try.”

Even as many area businesses face similar recovery issues, it’s apparent that not all storeowners think cash loans are the best way to help them re-establish financial security.

Prakash Deshpande, who has run the Avenue C Pharmacy, at E. 11th St., for 32 years, explained that he simply can’t afford to take on tens of thousands in loans at this point. His business already paid back around $500,000 in loans recently, after an expansion of its space. The pharmacy also functions as a large convenience store, selling a variety of everyday products.

“The fact is that we just don’t need cash as much as we need the replacement inventory,” Deshpande said, adding that, along with 9 feet of basement flooding, the hurricane caused more than 2 feet of flooding in the store itself, ruining thousands of items on the shelves.

He suggested that FEMA should institute a program to provide emergency grants specifically for small businesses that receive their merchandise through wholesalers.

“What would really help would be if we could give FEMA our account information, and our wholesaler could just bill FEMA for the replacement inventory we need,” Deshpande said. “That’s the kind of help we need, and I know that would get us back into business.”

Avenue C Pharmacy has been open since Monday, the same day its power was restored, but storm damage is still alarmingly evident throughout the store. Yellow “caution” tape currently blocks off several whole aisles, which contain racks of products soaked by flooding but yet to be removed and thrown away.

The smell from the dirty water that coursed up from the basement also still lingers, and Deshpande pointed out the deodorizing powder that he and has staff had rubbed into the store’s rugs to try to freshen the air. A few customers were buying items on Tuesday afternoon, but, perhaps due to the remaining eyesores, there didn’t seem to be much business being done.

While it was unclear if any shopkeepers still lacked power by the midweek, some residential buildings along Avenue C were still in darkness.

As this reporter walked down the street on Tuesday, a resident of 116 Avenue C, between E. Seventh and Eighth Sts., was speaking with Con Edison workers who had just arrived in a truck outside his building.

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POLICE BLOTTER Bar bullies busted Police busted two weapon-wielding thugs early on Wed., Oct. 31, after they reportedly went out of their way to start trouble in a Greenwich Village bar.

Shane Mecgiollioa, 35, and Joseph Delgado, 48, may have been looking to party when they strolled into Wicked Willy’s bar at 149 Bleecker St. around 3:45 a.m. But they certainly didn’t get one, as the owner of the establishment told them it was closed.

With aggressive and threatening demeanors, the two men stuck around the bar anyway, police said, prompting an employee to call 911. When officers arrived, they found that Mecgiollioa was packing a knife and Delgado was brandishing a blackjack. Both men were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

Was this burglar just craving a late-night burrito?

Cops busted Jens Iversen, 43, early on Sunday morning, after he broke into the Chipotle fast-food restaurant on Broadway, near West Houston St. Sixth Precinct officers responded after the building’s alarm system went off around 4:45 a.m., and they spotted Jensen rummaging around within the store, with the front doors still locked from the inside, according to the police report. Once they gained access, the officers quickly cuffed Jensen, and upon further investigation they realized that he’d forced his way in through the building’s emergency side door.

Cops said that Jensen had ripped the alarm system console from the wall before attempting to ransack the burrito joint — since apparently he didn’t realize that it would still go off, thus sealing his spicy fate.

Ninth Ave., police said, and lifted her unattended handbag from a chair while the woman was out on the dance floor.

After the victim had realized her purse was missing, she was walking toward the bathroom and spotted Izzo, who was attempting — poorly, based on the police report — to conceal it under her coat.

Grimm, who was standing nearby, gave his crony some helpful hints, telling Izzo to “hurry up” and “hide the bag,” according to the report. But the victim was wise to the scheme, and, after a brief dispute, snatched back what was rightfully hers. The problem, she soon realized, was that Izzo and Grimm had swiped her cell phone and credit card from the bag before handing it over.

But in a final twist, cops stopped Izzo and Grimm on the street — it’s unclear why — just seconds after they’d bolted from the bar with the loot. Once they saw the victim in pursuit, and the phone and credit card in Izzo’s hand, the officers arrested the devious duo for grand larceny. And to top it off, they also found an alleged crack pipe in Izzo’s pocket.

Bag stealers bagged

Guard truck kills senior

A thieving co-ed tag team bit off more than they could chew during a night of purse snatching in the Meatpacking District, and ended up in cuffs early Sunday morning.

Ann-Marie Izzo, 22, and Steven Grimm, 21, targeted a 26-year-old woman in Gaslight bar, at W. 14th St. at

A National Guard truck hit and killed an 82-year-old man as he was crossing a busy Chinatown street on Tuesday afternoon.

Kwok Fu, of Flushing, was run over by the truck near the intersection of Canal and Centre Sts. around 1:30 p.m., police said. Fu was rushed to New York Downtown Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

No criminality is suspected, and police said the investigation is ongoing. According to the Daily News, the driver ran a red light, not wanting to be separated from his convoy.

National Guard trucks have been present throughout Downtown — as well as in other boroughs — since Nov. 1, when the Guard began delivering food, water and supplies to people affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Burrito burglar gets fried

Sam Spokony

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Continued from page 3 Walsh said. “When they make egregious errors — we sue.” Although, from the sound of it, Hurley was heroic during the blackout, the same unfortunately could not be said of certain wet-nosed residents of Washington Square Village. “Dogs didn’t want to go down the stairs in the dark.

The dogs were scared,” Walsh said. Judy Magida had a hard time getting out until her canine companion, Cello, finally mustered the guts to go down. As dogs dug in their heels at stair landings, nerves became frayed. Walsh said she heard one man screaming at his pooch, “Goddamit!!! Go down the stairs!!!” There was one tail...er tale...of hound-related heroism, however.

One resident has a dog with only three legs and a friend used a scarf to create a sling, allowing the disabled dog to make it down.

Sandy really socked it to the Far West Village. On Sunday, a generator was thrumming outside The Jane Hotel attached to large yellow ducts, which, we’re guessing by the fact that the tubes felt warm to the touch, were blowing warm air into the place’s basement to help dry it out. Meanwhile, down on Clarkson St. , porn customers needed to be packing cash since the West World Video store’s A.T.M. was knocked out by the flooding. Community Board 2 recently voted to recommend denial for a Scores-like strip club planned for the space.

GIVE HIM A HAND: We bumped into WestView publisher George Capsis outside the P.S. 41 poll site on Election Day, as he was locking up his bike and getting ready to go inside. We asked him more than once who he was voting for but he wouldn’t tell us. He also noted his newspaper doesn’t endorse candidates, only causes — though he said Yetta Kurland has been badgering him for an endorsement. Meanwhile, Capsis

said the city two months ago decided not to press charges against him stemming from an incident earlier this year when he slapped a police officer in the face, prompting the officer to haul off and sock Capsis, 84, in the eye, shattering his glasses and leaving him with a nasty shiner. “He was a small cop and he had an ego problem,” Capsis stated of the Sixth Precinct officer. Capsis said he had simply been out for a bike ride to relax when

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the police van cut him off in the Bleecker St. bike lane. It had already been a frustrating day for him, as he described it, e-mails not returned for stories and so forth, and he suddenly just saw his hand — as if disembodied and with a mind of its own — rising and slapping the cop. Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo, the precinct’s commanding officer, subsequently visited Capsis at his home to talk things out. Village Democratic State Commiteeman Arthur Schwartz said he would represent Capsis in court, and that Capsis might sue. Capsis is still considering what to do, but said it’s not about the money, but the principle.

CORRECTION: In last week’s article in The Villager on the idea of adding storm surge barriers to protect New York City, the description of the second alternative, which would include creating a barrier from the Rockaways to Sandy Hook, failed to note there would also need to be another barrier at Throgs Neck.

Also, the article stated that New York City was in the top fifth of 140 ports worldwide for storm surge vulnerability, but it should have said we are No. 5 in vulnerability out of 140 ports.

Merchants try to stay afloat Continued from page 6 The resident, who has lived there for more than 20 years and identified himself only as Robert, said his building was still without power. He said the Con Ed workers told him that power was never restored because his building’s electric meter and other equipment were located in the basement — thus being submerged in floodwater — and will all have to be replaced.

But the Con Ed workers said the utility company was allowing them to bypass the ruined meter in order to restore power to the building more quickly, before the replacement actually happens. They also explained that the replacement could take a while because it needs to be done by an independent company, rather than Con Ed itself.

“It’s a pain in the ass,” Robert said, “but at least Con Ed is making the adjustment to bypass the meters, so it won’t take as long as it would’ve if we had to wait for the replacement.”

One of the Con Ed workers also said that the majority of the remaining power outages

in Manhattan at this point could be attributed to basement meters that were destroyed by flooding. Only 400 people in Manhattan were still without power as of Wednesday, according to a Con Ed release.

And speaking of power loss and subsequent resilience, there was at least one Avenue C small business that rose to the challenge of supplying neighborhood residents with alternative light sources throughout the blackout crisis.

Santos Variety Shop, between E. Fifth and Sixth Sts., actually stayed open every day after the storm struck — even though it didn’t have power — in order to sell muchneeded candles to residents who hadn’t prepared for the power outage beforehand.

Laurie Diaz, an employee of the store, which has been in business since 1990, explained that so many large candles were sold immediately after the storm that there were barely any left by the following week. But even though the conditions were difficult for the tiny shop, she said the added work was worth it.

“At least we were able to give light to others,” she said.

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1st Precinct officer died saving family at his Staten Island home

STILL GIVING.

The First Precinct, which serves the southern tip of Manhattan, is in mourning during this post-hurricane period, having lost one of its own the night of the storm surge. Police Officer Artur Kasprzak, 28, a six-year department veteran, died while helping seven family members to safety inside his flood-ravaged home on Staten Island during Hurricane Sandy.

With water rapidly rising, Kasprzak, who was off duty, safely got six adults, including his mother, father and fiancée, plus a 15-month-old boy into the attic. He then told one of the women he was checking on something in the basement and would be right back. A surge of water overtook him and he wasn’t able to escape. When he didn’t return, 911 was called to report him missing.

Police Emergency Service and scuba units quickly responded, but couldn’t access the home since there were live power lines in the water. A search commenced as soon as the house was safe to enter. The officer’s body was located Tuesday in the basement, around 7 a.m., unconscious and unresponsive. E.M.T.s pronounced him dead at the scene.

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First gun buyback on L.E.S. takes 50 weapons off street

BY SAM SPOKONY Police recently took 50 guns off the street at the Lower East Side’s firstever gun buyback event.

Local elected officials and community leaders had called on the Manhattan district attorney and the Police Department to bring the program — which has been used in other crime-heavy areas of the city — to their neighborhood after a recent surge in shootings.

At a press conference held during the Oct. 28 event, District Attorney Cy Vance said that the gun buyback would be instrumental in curbing handgun violence, which has led to 154 people being shot in Manhattan so far this year, 19 of them fatally.

“There is literally nothing more important than getting guns off our streets, out of our communities, and out of the hands of kids,” Vance said. “And programs like this will help to prevent future shootings.”

At the buyback event, which was held in the Rutgers Houses Community Center at Madison and Rutgers Sts., local residents were able to give away working handguns — anonymously and with no questions asked — in exchange for a $200 bank card. Rifles and shotguns were also accepted, and could be exchanged for a $20 bank card.

The event was held by the Seventh Precinct, which has jurisdiction over most of the Lower East Side.

Nearly all of the 50 guns received on Oct. 28 were handguns, including 30 revolvers and 14 semi-automatic pistols, police said.

Of the semi-automatics, police added, four had been altered — including one that had been fitted with a threaded barrel to hold a silencer — and one was a TEC-9, a model that was made in the ’80s and early ’90s and is commonly used by criminals because it is easy to convert into a fully automatic weapon.

The press conference was held inside the Seward Park Community Center, next door to the public housing development where Police Officer Brian Groves was shot in July while patrolling a building.

Groves’s bulletproof vest saved his life, but the shooter has yet to be identified.

Vance and the politicians in attendance — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Councilmember Margaret Chin — mentioned the attack on Groves several times, and also noted the fatal shooting of Charles Fernandez several weeks ago outside a barbershop on Forsyth St. “In each of those incidents, innocent members of the general public were put in harm’s way, and it’s because we have too many guns on our streets,” Silver said.

“When so many people are carrying guns, no one is safe, not children, not adults, not families, no one.”

Also attending the event were Gigi Li and Susan Stetzer, the chairperson and

district leader, respectively, of Community Board 3.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was scheduled to attend the press conference, but could not show up because of the department’s preparations for Hurricane Sandy, which struck the next day. In a statement released on Mon., Oct. 29, Kelly said that voluntary gun buybacks — along with police stops and undercover operations — are a key part of why the city is on track for a new record low in murders this year, despite the Lower East Side’s recent uptick in gun violence.

John Rhea, chairperson of the New York City Housing Authority, who was expected to attend, was also absent due to storm preparations — and while he certainly had good reason to be elsewhere, one community leader thought Rhea should have at least made his presence felt, in an area of public housing that has been struggling with safety issues this year. “[Rhea] should’ve at least sent a representative,” said Mike Steele, who has been the tenant association president of Rutgers Houses for the past seven years.

Steele’s development is still waiting for two of its five buildings to receive muchneeded and long-awaited security cameras, and Steele added that NYCHA may simply be waiting for backlash over that issue to blow over.

“I think NYCHA didn’t want to send anybody because they thought they were gonna get railroaded,” Steele said. “With all this stuff that’s been going on with them, with the cameras, and with all the elected officials there today, they thought they were gonna get hammered.”

None of the people who handed in guns at the Oct. 28 buyback on Essex St. wanted to comment on why they were doing so.

Most looked nervous as they entered and exited the community center. One man paced back and forth on the sidewalk, scoping out the area to see if anyone was watching him, while talking on his cell phone and then getting picked up by a friend who had been parked down the block.

Alex Lugo, 25, who has lived in Rutgers Houses all his life, was passing by the gun buyback event and said he firmly believed the process couldn’t really be totally anonymous.

“They’re going to take their names somehow, or get some other information, and I think they’re really doing this just so they can put the stats in their database, in order to figure out how to monitor the area and who to watch for,” Lugo explained.

But while he disagreed with the method, he added that he thought the overall idea was positive, and he acknowledged that the motives are good.

“In the end,” Lugo said, “the cops just want a safer neighborhood, and so do we.”

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EDITORIAL Let’s get to work With President Obama’s historic re-election the time has come to turn the page in Washington and work toward getting our country back on track. Republicans harped that the president had four years but didn’t do enough, but they were an obstacle to him every single step of the way. If, during the next two years, Republicans don’t become more cooperative, they will, no doubt, feel the repercussions at the voting booth. America is sick and tired of the “Politics of No” and it’s now time to turn the corner toward job creation and economic recovery.

Hurricane Sandy is being given some credit for Obama’s win, in that he showed leadership in addressing the crisis, and also because the disaster slowed Romney’s momentum and muted his negative attacks. Obama’s acknowledgement that climate change is real made a difference for many voters — especially in New York City and the metro region, where we experienced firsthand the superstorm’s devastating impact. Living — no, surviving — without electricity, heat, hot water, cell phones and computers, elevators and, in many cases, cold water, too, for the better part of a week brought home the reality that the oceans are rising and that, as of now, we are simply woefully unprepared for it.

Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo did a great job sounding the alarm and calling for mandatory evacuation of Zone A throughout the city. The mayor was a steady leader throughout the crisis — as he was the year before when Hurricane Irene nearly blew into town.

However, the 14-foot storm surge was simply far greater — about 2 feet higher — than anticipated, flooding the E. 13th St. Con Ed power plant and plunging Manhattan south of 39th St. into extended darkness.

Now that Obama thankfully has a mandate to lead us through a second term, it’s up to our government at all levels to address the threat of storm surges to our city and figure out how we can prevent this from happening again.

This editorial is being written from MetroTech, just over the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, where NYC Community Media has relocated until our Canal St. office — whose basement (containing our electrical and IT systems) was flooded — is ready to be reoccupied. That will be a few weeks. But the storm and blackout have left some wondering about Lower Manhattan’s long-term future. In short, if Wall St., for one, keeps being flooded, will the financial sector stay here? New Orleans used to be the financial capital of the South until the levees failed and the financiers abandoned it.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick has gone as far as to say there should be no more new construction in Zone A. Of course, the real estate industry, after Sandy, immediately said that people will keep building and living on the water, knowing the risks, because the coast always will have its allure. At a certain point, however, living by the water could become untenably dangerous unless something is done.

Yes, it would cost billions to build storm surge barriers in the harbor to protect the city, but, again, think about the price tag of future storm damage. Some think creating wetlands could also blunt the impact of hurricanes, though one wonders if this really fits in a built-up area like Manhattan.

Glick also says the flood-zone map needs to be re-evaluated, and she’s right. Just take Westbeth, which is just outside Zone A, but was one of the hardest-hit locations on the Lower West Side.

We’re thankful to Brooklyn’s Community News Group for graciously giving us desks to work from until we return to Downtown Manhattan. We’re also grateful to CUNY Journalism School for giving us use of their newsroom last week to put out a post-Sandy issue of The Villager.

We’re New Yorkers, and we pick ourselves up and carry on. Just like after 9/11 — it’s just what we do. But even New Yorkers can only bear so much.

New York is the greatest city in the world, and, in our view, Downtown Manhattan the jewel in the crown — but we have just seen, painfully, frighteningly, how very vulnerable we are.

Steps must be taken to ensure our city’s future viability.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A cooler spot for ice

A few facts lost in surge

To The Editor: Re “Ice, ice baby: Con Ed chips in with chilly chunks” (photos, Nov. 3): This certainly didn’t help those of us further Downtown and west of Union Square. They easily could have put an ice center in Ruth Wittenberg Triangle at the intersection of Sixth and Greenwich A ves. Lots of space to serve this part of the community!

Imagine my amazement as I was walking the dog down 10th St. to see a sign on the window of 18 W. 10th St. that said “Free Power.” The bottom apartment had a generator and they were not only providing the neighbors with power to charge phones, iPads, computers, etc., but they were also giving out coffee, tea, milk on ice, various breads and bagels. By the third day they were also providing various cereals.

I could not find out who the person was, but they need to be commended for their community spirit and for making us smile in gratitude.

To The Editor: Re “Area to get power back, but will city get surge barriers?” (news article, Nov. 3): Thank you for an excellent article on storm surge barriers. I wanted to make two corrections.

The most important one was when you mention the two possibilities for storm surge barriers, the second alternative is described as having a barrier from the Rockaways to Sandy Hook. You should have included a second barrier at Throgs Neck. Both alternatives have Throgs Neck as one set of barriers.

The other error was that you stated New York City was in the top fifth of 140 ports worldwide; it should have said we are number five in vulnerability out of 140 ports.

Norma Courrier

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Notes from the disaster zone; A survivor sounds off TALKING POINT

BY BILL WEINBERG Well, I’m back on my computer after four days of the electricity being out in Lower Manhattan, and finding my rage level is even higher than usual. Where to even begin?

For starters, with the most obvious reality.

I am 50 years old and grew up in New York City. Never in my life have I experienced a storm of anywhere near this magnitude (actually prompting the mayor to announce a “mandatory evacuation” of low-lying areas) until Hurricane Irene last year — and now it just happened again, even worse (much worse) one year later with the Hurricane Sandy “Frankenstorm.” Pretty ominous evidence that something is way out of wack.

But first let’s talk about that “mandatory evacuation” of “Zone A” — the low-lying, shorebound parts of the city, including Lower Manhattan’s Alphabet City. It is true that it was “mandatory” in name only — no effort was made to enforce it — but even using the word sets a very dangerous precedent for abuse of executive powers. I’m unswayed by the argument that those who stayed (the big majority, it seems) were potentially putting first responders at risk. First, many simply had no place to go, and call-ins to WNYC from those who went to city-provided shelters indicated that they were ill-provided (some didn’t even have cots!), and some even violent.

More importantly, a look at what happened in New Orleans after Katrina — as well as what has been happening in Lower Manhattan already without a disaster during the past 20 years — will clue you in as to why working-class residents have a stake in resisting even ostensibly temporary displacement. Even without an enforced evacuation, the flooding of the East Village — the loss of several days worth of business as well as lots of spoiled produce — may help push some of the neighborhood’s remaining family-owned ethnic eateries out of business, to be replaced by yet more overpriced, pretentious yuppie joints. A further blow to the erstwhile working-class character of the Lower East Side.

One of my neighbors, who lives in a HUD building for seniors and the disabled, called me upset in the middle of the second night of the blackout, some 24 hours and change after the 14th St. Con Edison plant blew

and Lower Manhattan was plunged into darkness. She said that the building superintendent, backed up by representatives from the city Office of Emergency Management, knocked on her door, shined a flashlight in her eyes and ordered her out on no notice, saying “We’re evacuating!” This after building management took inadequate precautions to prepare for such contingencies — e.g. not purchasing an emergency generator after the 2003 blackout, despite promises to do so. My friend is disabled, and had no ability to walk down nine flights, much less in the dark — and much less still to spend days in a shelter not prepared to accommodate her special needs. However, the building’s residents simply refused to leave, preferring to face the prospect of being left with no services. So, again, the order was ultimately an empty one.

If you needed any more evidence of the class implications of “mandatory evacuation,” just turn to Hizzoner’s own words. At a press conference on the eve of the storm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded to a reporter’s question about how Sandy would affect the prisoners on Rikers Island. After assurances that the facility would remain “secure,” he stated: “Don’t worry about anybody getting out.”

Gee thanks, Mr. Sensitive! I guess it didn’t occur to Mike that we might be concerned about prisoners left to die, as happened in New Orleans. (Human Rights Watch reported in the wake of Katrina that the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Department abandoned hundreds of inmates for four days as the flood waters rose; they weren’t finally evacuated until the water in the city’s jails had reached chest level.)

Bloomberg also said that all heat, hot water and elevators would be shut down in city Housing Authority buildings in the evacuation zone, adding, “If you live in Zone A, and you haven’t evacuated yet it is crucial you do so.”

Yet those in private buildings didn’t lose these services (at least not until the lights went out, when it was beyond anyone’s control). And everyone on the Lower East Side knows how much the real estate interests would like to get rid of the big public housing projects east of Avenue D — that last insurmountable obstacle to eastwardcreeping gentrification. If this “mandatory evacuation” thing becomes a yearly ritual, it seems nearly inevitable that one year the Member of the New York Press Association

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Sitting in the cold and dark without Web access as Alphabet City was flooded (I live three blocks west of Zone A), I was obsessed by dark imaginings of the Indian Point nuclear power plant (just 30 miles up the Hudson River) going the way of Fukushima.

(Recall that the disaster at Fukushima was not caused by earthquake damage, but by the tsunami flooding out the emergency generator, causing the reactor to go out of control when the electricity went down.) And it turns out we really did have a near miss at another area nuke plant.

The Oyster Creek plant in Forked River, N.J., was placed on “alert” by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as water

rose outside the facility, threatening the cooling system. An “alert” is the secondlowest designation in the N.R.C.’s four-tiered warning system, with the highest being a “general emergency.” Forked River is some 80 miles from New York City, which is still much closer than Fukushima is to Tokyo.

Authorities took the precaution of shutting down some (not all) of the reactors at Indian Point, Nine Mile Point near Syracuse, N.Y., and the Salem plant on the Delaware River in New Jersey. My morbid fantasies were not, it seems, so far-fetched.

And another, lesser, industrial disaster actually happened. New Jersey environmental officials reported as the storm hit that a

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Proud, political — G.O.P. transvestites

BY BOB KRASNER When Linda Obuchoska walked into Washington Square Park one day five years ago, she had no idea that a chance meeting and a snapshot photo would turn into a friendship and a documentary about, yes, Republican cross-dressers.

Her film explores a world of elderly, heterosexual, right-wing men who spend their leisure time dressed as women.

An editorial and fine art photographer with years of newspaper experience, Obuchoska met “Jeanette,” whom she remembers as a “vision in white go-go boots,” while hanging out with a friend in the park. An impromptu photo shoot led to years of camaraderie and a photographic collaboration that evolved into a documentary.

Like many of the film’s other subjects, Jeanette, a former C.E.O., began cross-dressing late in life. He’s a staunch Republican who opposes gay marriage and was married for 50 years. (His late wife supported his obsession.) Obuchoska has spent the last few years seeking out likeminded cross-dressers and exploring their apparent contradictions.

The trailer features, among others, a former green beret in a wig and a dress espousing the virtues of Sarah Palin.

Obuchoska has teamed with filmmaker Mark Brady and launched a Kickstarter

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Linda Obuchoska, left, and “Jeanette” meet again in Washington Square.

fundraising campaign to finish the project. About a week is left for people to contribute.

Although many viewers’ first reaction is, “Hysterical!” the filmmakers aren’t out to laugh at anyone. “These people are very sweet and genuine,” said Obuchoska. “Through them I have learned to be tolerant of others’ beliefs.

I want to show their humanity.” To see the trailer and donate to the Kickstarter effort, go to http://www.kickstarter. com/projects/29842304/republicanparty-cross-dressers http://www.obuchoska.com .

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Rallying in the Face of Chaos

By Emma DeVito When Sandy struck New York City, thousands of frail and vulnerable residents – many of them older adults – were at risk of being in harm’s way.

Many of these individuals were in nursing homes, home care, assisted living and other programs that are often their lifeline. Much of this care is provided by community-based, not-forprofit organizations.

Sandy threatened to cut off that lifeline for an untold number of these at-risk residents.

That didn’t happen, but only because of the extraordinary efforts exerted by health care workers, particularly those who provide direct care, to answer a call to duty.

At VillageCare, where we provide services to more than 12,000 persons each year, the challenges last week were huge.

Before the storm, we made every conceivable effort to get out into the community to make sure that those we serve at home were safe and secure where they were, or help them evacuate to a safer place.

As everyone knows now, the storm brought such tremendous challenges. Stepping up and meeting them required people working at VillageCare – and throughout health care in New York City for that matter – to respond way beyond what they already give day-in and day-out in the service of others.

When the storm struck, it virtually crippled much of VillageCare’ operations.

All our sites lost power, except for VillageCare at 46 & Ten, our assisted living residence in Hell’s Kitchen.

Our two skilled nursing facilities – Rivington House and the VillageCare Rehabilitation and Nursing Center – have powerful generators, which allowed them to remain open and to operate throughout the crisis.

Our Home Care nurses and aides continued to provide care, but often they faced considerable difficulties because of transportation issues, with mass transit shut down and gasoline for cars in short supply. Our Adult Protective Services staff faced the same obstacles.

Everything else was closed – our day programs, The Momentum Project’s meal program, our health center and our office locations, including our corporate office on Christopher Street. We had no electricity, no heat, no phones, no Internet access.

Administrators, program directors and managers often operated from remote locations – moving from program to program, and trying to keep in contact with each other with sketchy and spotty cell phone service and some Internet access with their smartphones.

The real heroes, however, are all those workers who extended themselves so much to make sure we had enough staff on-hand to see to the needs of the hundreds of people in our care.

They were selfless and sacrificing of their own concerns in order to make sure that we could take care of so many people in need.

I can’t say enough about their commitment to the people we serve and their dedication to making sure that virtually everyone in our care was covered. They took extraordinary steps to get to, and stay, at their jobs.

Many of those we serve at VillageCare are among a population with few resources – they are “needy,” as that often-heard description goes.

For many, being cut off and isolated, as can readily happen in a crisis such as the one we all just experienced, can truly become a matter of life and death.

Without the great efforts and perseverance of our staff throughout the organization, I don’t know what would have happened to all those we serve who were at considerable risk.

I don’t think they would have fared very well on their own.

(Ms. DeVito is president and chief executive officer of not-for-profit VillageCare, which serves more than 12,200 persons annually in community-based and residential care programs for older adults and those living with HIV/AIDS.)

Notes from the disaster zone Continued from page 13 diesel fuel storage tank at a Motiva company facility in Woodbridge was lifted and ruptured from the surge, spilling 336,000 gallons into Arthur Kill, the narrow waterway separating Jersey from Staten Island. Hired contractors are reportedly working to contain the spill.

Longtime New Yorkers will recall that there was a half-million-gallon oil spill from an Exxon pipeline into Arthur Kill on New Year’s Day 1990 (almost exactly nine months after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound). It was big news at the time, Arthur Kill being a critical waterfowl habitat. Herons and egrets had just started to return there following an effort to clean up decades of industrial pollution along the kill (an old Dutch word for creek), when Exxon dealt them a whammy. After the 1990 spill was cleaned up, the critters returned again — and have now been dealt another whammy. But news accounts of the new spill aren’t even making note of the one 22 years ago, and the new one is likely to go practically unnoticed amid the larger disaster.

The oil spill carries a particular grim irony, since the new superstorms are a harbinger of devastating climate change, brought on by fossil-fuel consumption. One glimmer of hope to come out of the Frankenstorm is Bloomberg’s belated decision to endorse Obama as the candidate who will tackle climate change. We are constantly being admonished that no single weather event can be attributable to climate change. But when taken together — the superstorms, this summer’s crippling drought in the Midwest, the disappearing Andean glaciers, receding Arctic sea ice cover, Alaskan villages disappearing beneath the waves — whether these are attributable to climate change becomes a dramatically wrong question. Together, these phenomena are climate change. Asking if they are “attributable” to climate change is a classic example of missing the forest for the trees.

On the question of climate change, where you stand depends on where you sit. It seems that New York City is joining Tuvalu and the Maldives as places where there are no climate change skeptics. And we should certainly place no faith in Obama’s technocratic pseudo-solutions, like “carbon trading” or the repugnant oxymorons of “clean coal” and “safe nuclear power.” These ideas must be vigorously opposed. But acknowledging that climate change exists is the necessary prerequisite for even having that debate. So it is cutting neither Bloomberg nor Obama any slack to recognize the endorsement as a positive development — potentially.

Amid the disaster in New York, there were actually some inspiring examples of the community-based, alternative-technology solutions coming into fruition. On Avenue C, members of Time’s Up! environmental group used a bicycle-powered generator to pump water out of C-Squat’s basement, winning some favorable press play for this innovation.

But of course such gestures are most important as “propaganda of the deed.”

What really and urgently needs to happen is still completely taboo to even mention in mainstream discourse: the public expropriation of the entire machinery of Detroit and the oil companies, and the redirection of their vast technological and financial resources into mass transit and the reshaping of our communities and workplaces to accommodate the human organism, and human-powered transport like bicycles, rather than the private automobile. Maybe, just maybe, the growing frequency of Sandy-type disasters — hitting such nerve centers of the capitalist leviathan as Lower Manhattan — can make such ideas speakable, in time to stave off the planetary apocalypse of a complete destabilization of the biosphere.

A final, related point. With the electricity out throughout Manhattan south of 39th St., negotiating intersections on my bicycle was a bit of a challenge (no traffic lights). At the larger intersections a traffic cop was on duty, but motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists were left to their own devices at most. Some motorists were considerate, careful and slow, making sure the intersection was clear before proceeding. But too many took the attitude that no lights meant no rules, and just barreled through the intersection heedless of anyone who might be in the way — the worst exponent of car culture.

It’s a cliché that crisis brings out the best and worst in human nature, but this banal observation has little-recognized social implications. On my bike in the blacked-out streets, I recalled reports of how crime went down and traffic calmed in Benghazi in the heady weeks after the collapse of the Qaddafi regime in Libya — when the people were in control, before the revolution deteriorated into a government. I was also reminded of how New Yorkers were notoriously and uncharacteristically polite and sensitive with each other in those shell-shocked weeks after 9/11. Then, inevitably, things went back to “normal” (or, in the case of Benghazi, worse than normal where chaotic violence is concerned). And already, with the Sandy disaster barely having passed, the pathological state of “normality” is returning to New York. For instance, the high-occupancy vehicle restrictions on the arteries leading into Manhattan are being lifted. Instead, they should be made permanent.

Oh yeah, one last thing. Throughout the four days of blackout, people were stumbling around my neighborhood like zombies, looking desperately for a place to charge their cell phones. This wasn't an issue for me whatsoever, because I only have a land line — even after the lights went out, I never lost phone service for a minute. Glorious vindication after all the abuse I have taken for clinging dinosaur-like to this supposedly outdated technology. So, more than ever, this is my reply to the forces of wireless market-totalitarianism: YOU CAN HAVE MY LAND LINE WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS! Weinberg blogs at WorldWar4Report.com

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Superblocks super helpers During the blackout, JCorps, a network of young Jewish volunteers, came to the aid of residents in powerless, high-rise housing developments throughout Downtown. Last Thursday, about 150 JCorps volunteers, led by Rabbi Zalman Paris of Chabad of Tribeca, brought food and water to the Village View complex on First Ave. and Avenue A in the East Village. Over the weekend, they visited 505 LaGuardia Place, an affordable Mitchell-Lama building with 30 floors, but whose elevators weren’t working. Next, they went to Washington Square Village. Mostly, people still living in place at both complexes on the two N.Y.U.-owned South Village superblocks were interested in water, not food. Many who answered the door were home attendants with clients in their 80s and 90s. The aides were trying their best to keep the residents warm in buildings with no heat as temperatures were dropping. Washington Square Village includes a large number of non-university-affiliated residents. Meanwhile, right next door, N.Y.U.’s Silver Towers faculty residences did have power, since they’re on the university’s co-generation grid. Joining the relief effort were Borough President candidate Julie Menin, below left, and Elinor Tatum of Community Board 3.

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After getting battered, squatters fired up barbecue Hurricane Sandy’s 14-foot-high surge flooded the Con Edison power plant at E. 13th St., knocking out power for 250,000 customers in Lower Manhattan. The storm left piles of debris and tossed-around cars in its wake on the streets near the power plant along Avenue C. With electricity gone, resourceful members of C-Squat, on the avenue a few blocks south of the crippled power plant, held a cookout. People from all around brought them food to grill, from vegan fare to meat. A pedal-powered electric generator bike was also used to try to pump out the basement spaces of the squat and the new MoRUS museum, but worked better for recharging phones. MoRUS members managed to save the museum’s new flat-screen TV just before the flood waters reached it. In the West Village, senior Mt. Everest scaler Don Healy also held a free cookout, while the adjacent coffee shop Bonsignour gave out bagels and coffee.

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Photos by Tequila Minsky

Oh, what a relief it is: Finally, food, water, blankets and fuel Relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy left Lower Manhattan with a crippling, multiday blackout, included a FEMA food distribution center at 10th St. and Avenue D. The prepackaged rations included a chicken dish and cookies for dessert. (The photographer sampled them and found the chicken not so great, but the cookies pretty tasty.) A woman online at the distribution center happily flashed her flashlight — a critical possession during the blackout, essential for going up pitch-black, high-rise stairways and locating things in darkened apartments. Meanwhile, gas was being rationed at Houston St. and Avenue C.

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‘Forgotten borough’ felt brunt of hurricane’s force Staten Island was savagely slammed by Hurricane Sandy, causing massive property destruction and 23 deaths as of this week. After the storm, Staten Islanders started the painful task of emptying out their flood- and storm-damaged houses. At a relief station, kids ate hot dogs while a woman left homeless huddled for warmth under a pile of comforters.

The least-populous borough suffered more than half the city’s deaths from Sandy. Outrage on the devastated island surged when the mayor deigned to proceed with the New York Marathon, which starts there — but he backpedaled at the last minute due to pressure from the public and his own administration officials, like Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, as well as Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

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Dominick Danzo, the Mayor of Thompson St., dies at 97 OBITUARIES

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Dominick Danzo, known as the Mayor of Thompson St., died at Easton Memorial Hospital in Easton, Maryland, on Oct. 11. He was being held by his daughter and son-in-law and passed into the arms of his beloved spouse, Carmella. He was 97.

He was born in New York City to Angelina and Rocco Danzo. His career began at the War Department in Binghamton, N.Y., at the medical supply depot, and continued in Sommerville, N.J., as a warehouse supervisor for the Veterans Administration, beginning in the 1940s.

Known as “Dom,� he later transferred to the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier, and then was employed five years for J.P. Morgan Chase until his final retirement. Before working for U.S.P.S., he was enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps, working on several of the nation’s national parks, until 1934. Prior to his federal employment, Danzo also worked as a jewelry stone setter from 1938 to 1941.

He was raised in Greenwich Village where he was known as the Mayor of Thompson St. and later lived for more than 60 years. He was known for always helping friends and business owners in the neighborhood. He was very handy and could do electrical work and repair TVs and radios, in addition to his talent as a jewelry maker.

Dom and Carmella were married in 1939 and lived in Binghamton for s e v e r a l years, before returning to Greenwich Village for sixplus decades, before he moved to Maryland to be near his daughter.

He was prede- Dominick Danzo. ceased by his wife five months ago, as well as a son who died in 1945 at age 5. He also outlived his three brothers.

He is survived by his daughter Nancy and son-in-law Stephen Cossu of Tilghman Island, Maryland; six married grandsons, and eight great-grandchildren; a son, Daniel, and his wife of Gerrardstown, West Virginia; and two sisters, Lucy Pellone and Vita Derosa.

A viewing was held at Perazzo Funeral Home, 199 Bleecker St., followed by a Mass and burial in New York City.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Palliative Care Suite, Memorial Hospital Foundation, 219 South Washington St., Easton, Maryland 21601, or St. Vincent De Paul Society, 29533 Canvasback Drive, Easton, Maryland 21601.

Irving Bender, part of family behind the Gottlieb empire, 91

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Irving Bender, who was married to Mollie Bender, sister of William Gottlieb, the late Village real estate magnate, died Oct. 17 in Highland Beach, Florida. He was 91.

At the time of his death in 1999, Bill Gottlieb owned 148 buildings and three restaurants, spread largely over the West Village and Meat Market, but also on the Lower East Side and in Gramercy. The company’s holdings are estimated to be worth from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

After Bill Gottlieb’s death, a fight over his estate ensued between Mollie and her brother Arnold Gottlieb — who had been left out of Bill’s will — with Mollie winning.

She subsequently ran the real estate company, along with Irving and their son, Neil Bender, until her death at age 87 in 2005, since which time Neil has continued to manage the company. Irving’s role in the firm was reportedly not significant, according to a real estate source.

With the proceeds earned in the 1950s and ’60s from Poor Joe’s, a bar and grill in Washington, D.C., Mollie and Irving Bender provided the seed money for Gottlieb to buy his first buildings in Manhattan. F o l l o w i n g Mollie’s death, yet another family feud over the Gottlieb estate broke out. In May 2010, a New York appellate court ruled against Mollie’s

daughter, Cheryl Dier, who had sought to wrest control of the company from her brother, Neil, claiming he was unfit to run it. Neil claimed Dier was “spiteful� that Mollie’s will left her out of the family inheritance.

Bill Gottlieb was known for not selling his properties and not renovating them much — which led some to hail him as the Village’s leading preservationist. That trend generally continued under his successors, though, in a first, some Gottlieb properties were recently sold.

Bill Gottlieb also was known for letting some of his high-profile buildings sit vacant, and some remain so to this day, such as the Keller Hotel, at Barrow and West Sts., and the historic Northern Dispensary, on Waverly Place.

George Adams, who runs two real estate companies started by his father, Asher Hiesiger, which include Village holdings, said he never knew Irving to be a major operator in the Gottlieb company. “After Bill passed, Neil and Mollie basically ran the business,� Adams said. Asked if Irving was involved, he said, “Not that I know of.� “Irving, I met him once,� he recalled. “They used to have this outdoor flea market [in the lot] in front of the office on Hudson St. and Irving was there. This was going way back.�

Irving Bender was buried at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, in Flushing, Queens.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Theaters plot post-Sandy second acts One day soon, only the actors will be damaged

BY TRAV S.D. (TRAVSD.WORDPRESS.COM)

CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER 107 Suffolk St. (btw. Rivington & Delancey Sts.) Visit csvcenter.org or call 212-260-4080 According to Jan Hanvik, executive director of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (CSV): “We were VERY lucky at the Clemente that after leaking like a waterfall for uncountable years, we were dry inside [after Hurricane Sandy] because of all the city-funded renovations that finished in July.” Like every other theater south of 39th Street, though, they have had their activities seriously disrupted by the power outage.

The grand unveiling of their renovated space (a former schoolhouse), originally scheduled for Nov. 8-11, has been pushed back to Nov. 16-18. It is the first time in 18 years their building can be seen without construction scaffolding. Of course, the one good thing about the scaffolding is that it helped to make a gloomy, creepy environment for CSV’s annual hosting of the Nightmare Haunted House. This was CSV’s major casualty from the storm. The four busiest days of the year (the days leading up to Halloween) were lost. The upside is that the show has been rescheduled.

It’s back up and will be running through Nov. 10, for those interested in a post-seasonal scare. See hauntedhousenyc.com for tickets and info. For a review, see the Arts section of this publication’s website.

THE KITCHEN 512 W. 19th St. (btw. 10th &11th Aves).

Visit thekitchen.org or call 212-255-5793 The Kitchen, one of New York’s premiere experimental performance spaces (with its location on the far west side of Manhattan), suffered some of the worst damage of any NYC venue in the aftermath of Sandy. Four feet of flooding filled the building’s theater and lobby spaces — severely damaging the floors, walls, doors, box office, lighting and sound equipment.

Initial estimates of the loss are between $400,000 and $500,000.

Their planned season has been postponed indefinitely, although they promise to remount the shows when they can (announced shows include the next installment of The Kitchen L.A.B., Adrienne Truscott’s “Too Freedom” (a dance show) and Camille Henrot and Joakim’s “Psychopompe” (music/perfor-

mance).

The Kitchen’s Benefit Auction, which was slated for Mon., Nov. 12, has been rescheduled for Mon., Nov. 26. Donations may be made at thekitchen.org.

CANAL PARK PLAYHOUSE 508 Canal St. (btw. Greenwich & Washington Sts.) Visit canalparkplayhouse.com or call 212226-3040 One of the hardest hit Downtown theaters was Canal Park Playhouse, located in a 185-year-old landmark building on the far west side of Tribeca. The building stands at what was once the shoreline of Manhattan Island, before a landfill put the Hudson at a few hundred yards remove. But that’s close enough to have left this charming little theater at risk during Hurricane Sandy.

According to proprietor Kipp Osborne, his “theater was full of water.” That phrase is used a lot during floods — but in Osborne’s case, it’s not hyperbole. His below-ground theater was inundated up to the ceiling, as were his basement office, storage and dressing rooms. Shows like Cardone the Magician’s “Spook Show” (which I recommend) and the about-to-open “Circuswork” are indefinitely postponed while Osborne and his staff gut the space, dry it out, rebuild and rewire. They hope to have repairs complete in January, for the third annual run of “Circus in A Trunk.”

Unfortunately, the Playhouse is not a notfor-profit organization. In lieu of donations, Osborne asks that you give him your business once he’s up and running again. If you’re not a theater lover, you can eat in the waffle café in his theater’s lobby or send out-of-town friends to the bed and breakfast he runs upstairs.

Photo by Joan Marcus

He’s a magician, not a beautician: Cardone’s “Spook Show” is on hold, while Canal Park Playhouse preps for an early 2013 reopening.

3LD ART AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER 80 Greenwich St. (btw. Edgar & Rector Sts.) Visit 3ldnyc.orgor call 212-645-0374 Also known as “3-Legged Dog,” 3LD has known disaster before. Prior to 9/11, their original location made them the closest theater to the World Trade Center. It was totally destroyed by the collapse of the Twin Towers. In the aftermath, they built a fabulous facility on Greenwich Street, just a few blocks south of the new World Trade Center.

Unfortunately, it’s also just a few blocks away from Battery Park, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and the Hudson River. As a consequence, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, 3LD once again finds itself in the grip of a disaster, one of the hardest-hit theaters in the city.

Photo by © Paula Court, courtesy of The Kitchen

They’ll be cookin’ again: The Kitchen hopes to reschedule the final three performances of Richard Maxwell’s “Neutral Hero,” when the venerable Chelsea performance space reopens.

According to artistic director Kevin Cunningham, Studio B (the theater on the Washington Street side of the building) got ten inches of water and will need significant renovation. But far more ominously, the basement (the site of the building’s electrics, mechanical equipment, HVAC system and fire safety equipment) was under three feet of water.

Once pumped out, the damage will need to be assessed and likely much of that

equipment replaced. This is particularly nettlesome for 3LD because its niche in the theatrical community is its high-tech electronic equipment; the theater’s whole raison d’etre could be in jeopardy.

As for now, its current show “FLIGHT18”is on indefinite hiatus, as are all workshops and productions in the near future. To stay updated on their status, or to make a tax-deductible donation, visit their website.

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A Woman Scorned Spellbinding revival gets everything right, except one key element THEATER THE HEIRESS Through Feb. 10 At the Walter Kerr Theatre 219 W. 48th St., btw. Broadway & Eighth Ave. Tues. & Thurs. at 7pm; Wed & Sat. at 2pm & 8pm; Fri. at 8pm; Sun at 3pm For tickets ($50-$135), visit telecharge.com

BY DAVID KENNERLEY The 1995 production of “The Heiress” took Broadway by storm, nabbing top Tony Awards for best play revival, actress, featured actress and director, and it cleaned up at the Drama Desk Awards as well.

The intense period drama, about a fraught young woman torn between a domineering father and a slippery suitor, established Cherry Jones in the titular role, as a formidable force in New York theater. I recall being blown away by the second act.

Indeed, the new production at the Walter Kerr Theatre

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Dan Stevens, David Strathairn and Jessica Chastain in the revival of “The Heiress,” directed by Moisés Kaufman.

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has some mighty big shoes to fill. And while it employs some heavy hitters — Moisés Kaufman (director), David Strathairn (the tyrannical father), Judith Ivey (the meddlesome aunt) and Derek McLane (scenic design) — it also takes some questionable risks.

The heiress, Catherine, is played by Broadway neophyte Jessica Chastain, known for her work in film (“The Help,” “Tree of Life”). Playing opposite her as the suitor, Mr. Townsend, is the charming Dan Stevens, another newcomer to the Great White Way, known for the British television imports “Downton Abbey” and “The Line of Beauty.”

Only one of these casting risks fully pays off.

The story, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, using the Henry James novel “Washington Square” as source material, is both intriguing and durable. The well-to-do, socially prominent Dr. Sloper lives with his mousey daughter, in her late 20s, in a handsome house at one of the most exclusive addresses in 1850s New York, 16 Washington Square.

When a young man of little means or prospects suddenly asks for Catherine’s hand in marriage, the doctor brands him a fortune hunter. For upon the doctor’s death, she would receive $30,000 per year (that’s roughly a million dollars in today’s currency). During the course of the two-and-a-halfhour drama, betrayals abound.

The excellent Straithairn portrays the overprotective Dr. Sloper as a tyrant with a soft side. Even when he’s snapping at Catherine, we understand his frustration and believe he truly has her best interests at heart.

“You are good for nothing unless you are clever,” Dr. Sloper says, annoyed that his daughter gets hopelessly tongue-tied at social gatherings.

Tragically, Catherine inherited none of the attractive qualities that her mother, who died in childbirth years before, possessed in spades. Dr. Sloper describes his daughter as “an entirely mediocre and defenseless creature with not a shred of poise.”

Ivey, a ten-time Broadway veteran, is marvelous as the aunt who alternates allegiances between her niece and the young wastrel. She regards him as the son she never had.

Stevens proves that his television appeal transfers easily to the stage. His eager Mr. Townsend has us convinced that he’s in it for love, not just the money. He conveys only a whiff of duplicity, which keeps us guessing to the end.

The weak link is Chastain. As the plain, painfully awkward homebody who succumbs to the wiles of the dashing Mr. Townsend, she occasionally registers as, well, painfully awkward in the role. Her clunky curtsy when greeting guests becomes a punchline rather than a poignant emblem of her lack of confidence and grace. Some moments she appears to enter into a momentary trance, as if possessed by a demon.

Under the assured direction of Kaufman (“33 Variations,” “I Am My Own Wife”), “The Heiress” starts off as a drawing room comedy of manners that becomes a simmering pot of avarice and resentment, only to boil over in a climax meant to rattle the soul. And yet, given Chastain’s shaky turn, the sting is not as potent as it should be.

Perhaps the biggest star of the production is McLane’s gorgeous drawing room set, with its tastefully elegant carved wooden beams, burgundy wallpaper, Duncan Phyfe settees (dictated in the script) and suspended crystal chandelier.

Upon seeing the splendor, it’s clear why Mr. Townsend might lust after Catherine’s fortune.

Enormous arched windows look out onto the Square, and the carefully modulated daylight (by David Lander) effectively indicates the passage of time. Albert Wolsky designed the sophisticated costumes.

For history-minded theatergoers, “The Heiress” offers another level of appeal. If you go to Washington Square, the neighborhood where Henry James was born, you’ll find a cherished row of mid 19thcentury Greek revival townhouses on the north side that one could easily imagine as the residence of the Sloper family.

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Just Do Art!

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

home/sick On the heels of two sold-out runs, The Assembly Theater Project’s return engagement of “home/sick� gives audiences another chance to see the “ensemble-devised work of political theater that examines the actions of the 1960s radical group The Weather Underground without agreement or censure.�

The Assembly collective wrote “home/sick� as a means to explore events surrounding the Underground’s seizing of Students for a Democratic Society and reshaping it as an organization bent on overthrowing the government.

Through Nov. 18, at The Living Theatre (21 Clinton St., btw. Houston & Stanton Sts.). Performance schedule: Wed.-Fri. at 8pm; Sat. at 3pm & 8pm; Sun., Nov. 11 at 7pm; Sun., Nov. 18 at 5pm. For tickets ($18), visit brownpapertickets.com or call 800-838-3006.

FACEBOYZ FOLLIEZ: RELIEF! Decades-long Downtown open mic and variety show host Faceboy (aka Francis R. Hall) gets plenty of mileage from gallows humor and the as-of-late clinically depressed persona he’s laid on thick to much humorous effect — but for the most part, it’s an act that has

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Sick again: Assembly Theater brings back its Weather Underground tale.

more to do with satire than serotonin.

Case in point: “Faceboyz Folliez� — that monthly burlesque-meets-vaudeville dark ride of depravity — returns to Bar 82 with its frown turned upside down, all for the benefit of those facing the grim reality of post-Sandy NYC. Proceeds (plus, we’re guessing, funds drawn from the cast’s skipped therapy sessions and prescription med refills) will go to hurricane relief efforts.

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Thurs - Sun, Thursday-Saturday 8pm, November 8 - 25 Sunday 3pm All Seats $10/tdf

Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm All Seats $10/tdf

SKYBOX Written by WALT STEPP Directed by LISSA MOIRA

Thursday - Sunday, November 15 December 2 Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm All Seats $15/tdf

TNC’s Programs are funded in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts

Ten dollars gives you staring rights to the likes of St. Rev. Jen Miller, Velocity Chyaldd, Stormy Leather, Amanda Whip, Reverend Mother Flash and Dick and Duane — with Courtney Fathom Selldirected short films from ASS Studios, and films/trailers directed, shot and edited by Cheyenne Picardo.

Special guest Scooter Pie and musical guest Dusty Santamaria will bring up the rear, while the Train Wreck Audience

Faceboy’s great depression gets lifted, for a good cause: Nov. 17’s “Folliez� benefits post-Sandy suffering.

Participation segment shovels premium grade coal into the runaway train. Did we mention they promise “drink specials for our drunks?� Sold!

Sat., Nov. 17, 9pm-midnight at Bar 82 (136 2nd Ave., btw. St. Marks Place & 9th St.). Tickets are $10 at the door.

For info, call 212-228-8636 or visit bar82nyc.com. Also visit faceboyzfolliez. com and facebook.com/faceboyzfolliez.

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Sex and politics intermingle, at Romma’s ‘Cabaret’ Playwright crafts ‘crazy, erratic/erotic American vernacular’ Moishe in her own dramatic concoction.

It is this Moishe, in fact, who speaks the great lines of the prophet Hillel that give pith and meaning to all the disparate madness:

THEATER CABARET EMIGRE Written by Sophia Romma Presented by The Negro Ensemble Company Directed by Charles Weldon Through Nov. 18 At The Lion Theatre (410 W. 42nd St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves.)

Wed., 7:30pm; Thurs./Fr., 8pm; Sat., 2pm/8pm; Sun., 3pm Added performances: Sun., Nov. 11, 7pm; Tues., Nov. 13, 7:30pm; Wed., Nov. 14, 2pm For tickets ($18), call 212-239-6200 or visit telecharge.com Visit necinc.org

BY JERRY TALLMER On a train chugging through a Hieronymous Boschian hell, the ticket seller is Joseph Stalin.

The conductor is Adolf Hitler. On and off this nightmare conveyance, things go from bad to worse for a sexy Ukrainian Jewish girl named Dasha and her boyfriend, Jamal — a cynical, young, black hotshot from the south side of Chicago (yes, Barack Obama’s Chicago).

That’s one of the half-dozen looney-tunes passages of “Cabaret Émigré” — a wildly imaginative, free-swinging phantasmagoria on the perpetually hot potato question of immigration — by playwright Sophia Romma, herself an immigrant from Moscow to New York at age six (when her last name was Murashkovsky).

Ms. Romma’s “Cabaret Émigré” rigadoon,

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?

But if I am for myself alone, what am I?

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Clockwise from top: Randy Schein, Gwenevere Sisco, Tosh Marks, Adriana Sanases, DeLance Minefee, Dana Pelevine.

with music by Lev Zhurbin, is in the midst of a hurricane-shortened run (through November 18 at the Lion Theatre), in a mixed-race Negro Ensemble Company production directed by NEC’s Charles Weldon.

A taste of its cynicism is in these Romma/ Zhurbin headline-conscious lines: Who cares if Obama will sing the ghetto blues?

Who cares if Romney wins, or a world war ensues?

Immigration was never more graphically a fuse of political turmoil, not to say warfare, than in this country (and many others) right now.

“Cabaret Émigré” puts this explosive question in terms, for instance, of a drowning Mexican (or “Brownie”) who pursues carnal romance even as he and the lady are going under — and the “Nigerian Butcher,” a highly educated black prizefighter locked in mental battle against a bigoted Irishman. And as many other such grotesqueries as you can count on your fingers.

To skinny, dark-haired, attractive playwright

Romma: “Immigration doesn’t mean immediate acceptance like Miss Lazarus says on the Statue of Liberty.”

Indeed, imagine the shock, the pain, when new student Sophia went to her locker at a high school in Port Washington, Long Island, only to be greeted by a welcome note that read: “Go home, you Russian Commie pig.” She shivers as she recalls, “I was devastated, and so was my mother.”

Sex and politics were never more wondrously intermingled, in and out of some crazy erratic/erotic American vernacular, than in this time-and-space cabaret, salted with advice from various Russian or Polish Jewish parents and grandparents of strong resemblance, one can rest assured, to the real-life grandparents who — on Manhattan’s West 87th Street — raised young, friendless immigrant Sophia. One such was the grandma who caught an actual last train out of the Ukrainian city of the dead.

Yes, Sophia Romma’s “Cabaret Émigré” is tied, invisibly, to John F. Kennedy’s “We are a nation of immigrants.”

With a flickering smile: “My grandfather hated John F. Kennedy. He, my grandfather, an art dealer, was a refugee who had been in Butyrka, the most infamous prison in Moscow.”

And yes, Sophia Romma has seen (on film), and is an ardent admirer of, the Isherwood-Van Druten-Masteroff-Kander-Ebb-Prince “Cabaret.”

Indeed, that brilliant musical’s master of ceremonies, etched for all time by Joel Grey — has, Ms. Romma feels, “the same look, the same demeanor” as a pious poetic homosexual character named

The face of pure evil in “Cabaret Émigré” is that of a Gestapo commander in hell, General Hindlick Muller — a monster more ferocious than the Adolf Hitler, who merely wants to ride that train to Disneyland. Trouble is, they won’t let Adolf into Disneyland unless he turns Jewish.

Sophia Romma’s roots go back to her birth on Arbat Street — a seedbed of writers, painters and poets in the center of Moscow. Her father “was an engineer for Putin and Yeltsin, and they wouldn’t let him out of Russia until two years after I came here.”

And when her immigrant father — or refugee father — couldn’t find work in the U.S., he went back to Russia to found a Moscow affiliate of New York’s Touro College.

It was at age 10, at the Manhattan Day School — a Hebrew place of learning on the Upper West Side — that Sophia started writing.

Short stories. Then poetry. Then plays.

She earned an MFA at NYU and a PhD at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow.

One of her professors at NYU was the Negro Ensemble Company’s “First Breeze of Summer” Obie-winning playwright, Leslie Lee. And it was Leslie Lee who directed three of Sophia Romma’s own plays at Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa between 1997 and 2004.

Yes of course, Ellen took her under her wing. “A fun time with a Communist tinge,” says Ms. Romma, looking back. “Everything has to be communal and collective — and free.”

In the fall of 2011, the United Jewish Appeal asked Sophia to write a story about Russian Jewish émigrés. In the course of that assignment, she interviewed many such persons including her own grandmother.

It was out of that process that “Cabaret Émigré” was born. She invited Charles Weldon to a Dramatists Guild of America’s Friday night reading of the script, and the outcome is what you will see and hear if you hurry to the Lion Theatre.

Sophia Romma still lives on the Upper West Side. The mother of an 11-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son sums things up this way: “Two children, two husbands, two divorces.”

Well, life is a cabaret, old girl — especially for an émigré.

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They did the mash RE/Mixed Media Festival brings (remastered) beat to Brooklyn MUSIC THE 2012 RE/MIXED MEDIA FESTIVAL Saturday, November 10 10am to Midnight At the Brooklyn Lyceum 227 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn For tickets ($8) and info, visit remixnyc.com

McKenzie Wark Ph.D. (Remix in Literature Panel) is a professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City.

tion calls to mind a more fully realized vision of the bold declaration made

by Francis Ford Coppola when VHS camcorders first came into vogue. With crude filmmaking now available to the masses, he reasoned, the next cinematic genius would surely be an unassuming girl who used the hand-held device and create a masterpiece. In reality, camcorders spawned “America’s Funniest Home Videos” instead of countless celluloid auteurs.

But digital technology, reasons Tenney, has finally delivered on the promise of Coppola’s glimpse of things to come — by “empowering artists and consumers alike to access media creation tools that were previously limited to professionals.

The result is an explosion of creativity — of remix, user-generated content and art that pushes the limits of copyright and tinkers with the premise of intellectual property.”

That’s the marrow of what RE/Mixed Media Festival digs into. Here are some of the highlights: • A partnership with Rome, Italy’s MAshRome Film Festival (which screens mash up and remix endeavors) will bring “Archet-Hip-Hop, The Greek Theatre In Remix” to American audiences. It’s described as “Greek theatre meets contemporary arts, the performance mixes theatre, cinema, music and dance mixed all together on the same stage, to give life to a new language.” The film features music from composer and outspoken copyright law critic Ryuichi Sakamoto.

• “Where Classics and Cartoons Collide” has comic book artist R. Sikoryak presenting a reading and slide show from “Masterpiece Comics” (his reimagining of literary classics, told in the style of famous cartoons).

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Photo by John Verrochi

Biutifool Beastard is a visual mash up artist restyling and remixing the works of the Great Masters of history of art.

The San Francisco Mixtape Society is an event dedicated to the friendly art of making and exchanging music mixes. Everyone is invited to assemble a mix tape, mix CD or mix USB stick according to the theme.

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Not since Gutenberg’s printing press liberated monks from the grim task of hand transcription has a new leap in technology allowed ideas to proliferate, mutate and spawn endless forms of expression.

Back in the good old 1980s, two turntables and a microphone gave DJs the freedom to put their own philosophical stamp on the work of others by mixing and matching disparate vinyl tracks.

Radical at the time, it was just the first

wave of a sea change in how we consume and digest music. Add a few extra gadgets over the next decade or so — home computers, the Internet and mixing software — and you’ve got nothing short of a velvety, beat-driven digital revolution with eyes set on crashing, crunching and recontextualizing creative content.

In 2010, Tom Tenney saw the writing on the wall — and founded the RE/ Mixed Media Festival, in order to “bring public awareness and generate conversa-

tion around the vibrant art and practice of remix.”

Moby, Steinski, Ricky Powell, Sweatshoppe, Deanna Zandt, Jesper Juul and dozens of other artists, performers, musicians and DJs joined in the conversation that first year. In 2011, over 1,000 attendees soaked up and processed live performance, music, film and panel discussions all in the service, says Tenney, of “exploring the art of remix.”

That academic approach to appropria-

• The fest’s keynote address, “The Framework of Culture, Remix and Literature,” is given by cultural analyst Eduardo Navas (author of “Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling”).

• The experimental documentary film “Radioactive City” juxtaposes the 2011 Fukushima disaster with and an incident of sports violence at Dodger Stadium.

• Newly formed supergroup S.T.D. (which brings together Cecil Sinclair, Jason Trachtenburg and Matt Dallow) will perform. In a separate performance: Tessa Makes Love — the NYC band fronted by Russianborn, classically trained pianist and singer Tessa Lena (joined by Ian McDonald, a co-founding member of King Crimson and Foreigner).

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NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, 450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FRED MAROLDA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/18/2012.

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: Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, 900 Third Ave., NY, NY 10022. Term: until 9/1/2057.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 ELI HALILI JEWELRY AND DESIGN LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/21/12. 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, 250 Mott St., NY, NY 10012. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 JHRUN LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/10/2012.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 E. 86th St., #523, NY, NY 10028, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 778 MAIN, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/2012.

Office Location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process c/o Mikael J. Levey, 472 Broome Street, Apt. 3, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KAEH REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kathryn Avers Haas, 1012 Bryn Mawr Ave., Penn Valley, PA 19072. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JGC FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/24/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Judith Goffman Cutler, 18 E. 77th St., NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GJJH LIGHTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/10/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Krusch & Modell, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste. 710, NY, NY 10020-1903. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ORION KING LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/06/2012. 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: Orion King LLC, 300 East 56th St., #27D, New York, NY 10022.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AC 332 W 84 COMPANY, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/9/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BSTV, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/11. Princ. office of LLC: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: Incorporating Services, LTD, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 386 PAS OWNER LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/13/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o William Macklowe Company, 126 E. 56th St., NY, NY 10022, Attn: William Macklowe. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/18 - 11/22/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BERKLEY PUBLIC ENTITY MANAGERS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 30 S. 17th St., Ste. 1450, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

LLC formed in DE on 3/29/12.

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: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF IC 1411 BROADWAY MANAGER LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 9/12/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. 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: 10/18 - 11/22/2012 LOGOS PROPERTIES LLC a foreign LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/20/12. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Mark M. Altschul, 18 E. 12th St., #1A, NY, NY 10003-4458.

General Purposes.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 CHOPITA LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/12/12. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 844 2nd Ave., NY, NY 10017. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADVANCED LITIGATION STRATEGIES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/12. 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: The LLC, 30 East 39th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10016-2555. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GROW WELLNESS ACUPUNCTURE PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/16/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 E. 40th St., Fl 2, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: practice the profession of acupuncture.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

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PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NNC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 3/28/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Simone, Esq., Frank Simone, PA., 701 Brickell Ave., Ste. 1550, Miami, FL 33131. FL address of LLC: 8200 NW 33rd St., Ste. 300, Miami, FL 33122. Arts. of Org. filed FL Secy. of State, 500 Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RC21, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/11. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS EXCHANGE, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/25/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 335 Bowery, NY, NY 10003. LLC formed in DE on 5/31/12. 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., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011.

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: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NEXT LEVEL PARTNERS, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/12. NYS fict. name: Next Level Partners Holdings, LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in FL on 8/22/12. 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. FL and principal business addr.: 2338 Immokalee Rd., Ste. 415, Naples, FL 34110. Cert. of Org. filed with FL Sec. of State, 2661 Executive Center Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32301.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF N&A BAKE SHOP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/12.

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.: 330 W. 55th St., Apt. 1B, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/11 - 11/15/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAVID ORTIZ CELEBRITY GOLF CLASSIC, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process to principal business address: The LLC, 150 W. 28th St. Suite 1003 NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 REISER PROPERTIES LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 09/14/2012. Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 151 East 79th Street, Apartment 4, New York, NY 10075.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 RW CANE L.L.P (“LLP”) filed a Cert. of Registration with the Department of State of NY on 8/21/2012 under the name CW Law Group L.L.P. The location of the principal office will be in the County of New York. The Secretary of the State of NY (“SSNY”) has been designated as agent of the LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served on the LLP to245 Park Avenue, 24th Floor, NY NY 10169. The purpose of the LLP is to practice law.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MBS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 424 Madison Ave., Ste. 400, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PEREG VENTURES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Ruth Fisher, Roth Law Firm, 295 Madison Ave., 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BEACON 86TH STREET PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/28/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Beacon Hospitality Partners, LLC, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 840, NY, NY 10170.

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

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AADAUTO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/19/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o August DiRenzo, 10 E. 70th St., #8B, NY, NY 10021.

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

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 SANCHO HOLDINGS LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/27/12. 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 Elisabeth M. Kovac, Esq., 90 Park Ave., Fl. 18, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JASPER B 250 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/28/03, Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it maybe served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 599 Broadway, 5th FL, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SKNYC PROPERTIES, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/4/12. 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 PO Box 147, Sherman, CT 06784.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 99 EAST 7TH STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12, SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 10l, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form, on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 318 EAST 6TH STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served, SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10011, DE off. addr., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL, OF 318 EAST 11TH STREET REALLY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eight Ave. NY, NY 10011.

DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover. DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 267 EAST 10TH STREET LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE. 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 156 SULLIVAN STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may he served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 120 MACDOUGAL STREET REALTY LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 155 WEST 46 OWNER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/17/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 3/21/12. 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 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101. Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL OF 33 BEEKMAN GROUND LESSEE LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/26/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/9/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 148 HENRY DEBT LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/12/12. 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 c/o Bluestone Group, 40 Rector St. Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF IN AN HOUR, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/1/12. Office location: NY County. SSN designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 400 E. 71st St., Apt 18D, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 316 E. 63rd St., Ste. 1A, NY, NY 10065. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NO ONE CARES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/11. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Christopher Jonns, 15 Broad St., Ste. 2820, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 18W11, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/5/12.

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: c/o Korsant Partners, 350 Park Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MIX MODEL MANAGEMENT, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/30/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 175 Varick St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE on 7/10/09.

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: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SKYE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/31/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 117 E. 72nd St., Apt. 12, NY, NY 10021, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Hotel Liquor License has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail rates for on-premises consumption at the JW Marriott Essex House New York located at 160 Central Park South, New York, NY 10022 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law. DTRS Essex House LLC and Marriott Hotel Services, Inc. Vil: 11/01 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SAGG RECORDS INDEPENDENT MUSIC LABEL LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/12.

Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 528 E. 79th St., Unit 2D, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PERFICIO PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 20 W. 71st St., Apt. #2, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TMG DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Trident Media Group, LLC, 41 Madison Ave., 36th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/04 - 11/08/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SYCORAX, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 501 Madison Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OD PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 401 Broadway - Ste. 611, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CRUNCH BUSHWICK, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/17/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 22 West 19th St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10011, also the principal office address. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 C2C MEDIA LLC a foreign LLC filed with the SSNY on 8/28/12. 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, 353 Lexington Ave., Ste. 200, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SECONDMARKET TRADING, LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/27/2012. LLC formed in Delaware on 9/20/2012.

Office location: New York County. Principal business address is: 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: c/o SecondMarket Holdings, Inc., 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 Attn: General Counsel.

Delaware address of the LLC is c/o NRAI, 160 Greenwood Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of Delaware located at: Division of Corporations, 401 Federal Street - Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WEST 17TH STREET HOLDINGS II, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/07/12. Princ. office of LLC: 10 E. 53rd St., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SLC ARGYLE LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/05/12. Princ. office of LLC: 374 Broome St., Apt. 6S, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SLC JUICE LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/11/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/27/12. Princ. office of LLC: 374 Broome St., Apt. 6S, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CORE TECHNOLOGY FUND, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/12/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o S Squared Technology, LLC, 515 Madison Ave., Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF POLIWOGG SERVICES, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc. (UCS), Ten Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. DE address of LLC: c/o UCS, 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

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Westbeth artists complex hit hard, still suffering Continued from page 1 a city landmark last year.

At press time, all of Westbeth still lacked heat, hot water and elevator service. Most apartments had regained electric power, but those in the westernmost “A” wing were still without power, along with parts of two adjacent wings.

Those obstacles have been compounded by the fact that many of Westbeth’s residents are elderly and can’t leave their building without using the elevator, thus becoming basically trapped in their apartments without adequate supplies.

So a coalition of elected officials — including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Richard Gottfried, state Senator Tom Duane and state Senator-elect Brad Hoylman — have put together multiple, volunteer-staffed efforts over past two weeks to provide desperate residents with the food, water and other supplies they need to make it through each day.

Hoylman, a former Community Board 2 chairperson who on Tuesday won the 27th Senate District seat that Duane will vacate at the end of the year, was at Westbeth several times this past week to lead some of those gatherings. On Monday afternoon, he coordinated the work of dozens of volunteers as they hefted gallon bottles of water and bag lunches up the stairs.

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State Senator-elect Brad Hoylman handed out bottles of water during a volunteer effort to provide elderly Westbeth residents with vital supplies, as their complex continued to lack many resources like heat and elevator service following the storm surge that swamped Westbeth’s basement.

“Even though other parts of the city were hit harder, and this might not be the frontpage story, these people still need our help,” Hoylman said. “And what we’re seeing now is a real demonstration of how caring our community is, because the response has been terrific each day.”

He added that social media played a vital role in arranging the relief efforts, since virtually all of the volunteers on Monday had

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arrived because of Facebook and Twitter posts, as well as e-mails announcing the gathering.

Cold running water has since been restored throughout Westbeth, but before that, the bottled water brought by volunteers had been a lifeline to many elderly residents.

“It’s essential,” said photographer Shelley Seccombe, 74, who is one of the remaining Westbeth originals, having lived there since 1970. “I can still move around, and I only live on the third floor, but for so many people, especially those who live on the ninth or tenth floors, it can be impossible.”

Seccombe added that the prolonged lack of the complex’s other utilities is becoming increasingly frustrating, especially since many other people across Downtown Manhattan have already regained those services.

Even more frustrated was photographer Patricia Dillon, 50, who has lived in Westbeth’s “A” wing since 1990, and is still without electricity.

“It’s really bad,” Dillon said, “really, really bad.” She added that Con Ed workers had recently visited her portion of the building and said that all of the electrical equipment for those apartments will need to be replaced — a time-consuming process that many residents never expected to happen.

Con Ed did not return a request for comment on that issue. But the utility has repeatedly said that in cases where electrical equipment was too badly damaged by the flooding, an outside electrician would have to be called in to make repairs before power can be restored.

Dillon also bemoaned the lack of heat, explaining that it has been nearly impossible for her to sleep at night now that winter is fast approaching.

Hoylman, Glick and the other politicians also responded to that desperate need as the week went on, by arranging for donations of blankets to be distributed throughout the complex.

But Dillon said that, while the volunteer efforts have been important and impressive, she believes that Westbeth should have been getting direct help from the city and National

Guard, as have many of the other Downtown complexes — mostly public housing buildings in the East Village and Lower East Side — that still lack heat, hot water and elevator service.

“Many of these incredible artists were pioneers who gave so much to this area, and really helped the city in the process,” she said.

“Now it’s time for the city to help them in return, but the sad thing is that there hasn’t been that kind of response.”

Dillon also called out artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, who lives near Westbeth, on W. 11th St., arguing that he should have worked to aid his artistic counterparts, or at least stop by for a visit.

“Where the hell is Julian Schnabel?” she yelled. “What’s he even doing right now?

These are people who need help, and the famous people like him should be the first ones coming here to support this community.”

In the meantime, the volunteer efforts have certainly made the difference for residents in the absence of famous figures or direct city or federal aid.

“I think they’re about at their wits end at this point,” said Laura Morrison, Duane’s chief of staff, who was also present at the water distribution on Monday. “So we’re just trying to make it more livable, and even though we can’t make it perfect, I think the coordination between elected officials, the Westbeth management and the tenant association has been really outstanding.”

Westbeth staff members were clearly instrumental as Hoylman directed the volunteers on Monday, since they had already compiled lists of the most needy residents in order to make the distribution efficient and effective.

As the recovery process continues, another major concern for many residents is that, since the storm completely flooded the complex’s basement, virtually all of the art that was stored down there has been ruined. Many longtime residents used portions of the basement as studio space, and were clearly not expecting the water to impact their work.

Westbeth is not actually within Zone A, the area declared by the city to be at the greatest risk for flooding. It is about a block away, within Zone B, which was only expected to be flooded in the case of a hurricane rated at Category 2 or higher, according to the Mayor’s Office. Hurricane Sandy was only rated at Category 1 before being downgraded to a superstorm shortly after it struck.

Seccombe explained that her husband, a sculptor, has been using a basement studio to store his work for more than 40 years, and they realize that it may be unsalvageable at this point. Westbeth management has not allowed anyone to retrieve anything from the basement yet, she said, because of understandable safety risks.

Michael Moss, another resident and a member of the Westbeth Residents Council, also recently posted online that music studios in the basement were especially devastated.

He wrote that one studio is completely wiped out, including timpani drums, a grand piano, amplifiers, speakers, other percussion, and electronics, such as microphones, speakers, soundboards and recording devices.

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WBAI rose to the occasion as Sandy rose under station

BY PAUL DERIENZO The waters were rising more quickly than anyone expected on Mon., Oct. 29, as half a dozen staffers at New York’s iconoclastic radio station WBAI watched nervously from their 10th-floor offices at 120 Wall St. just a few feet from the raging waters of the East River.

Engineer Tony Ryan was there and said he was making bets on how high the sea would eventually rise as the “water started pouring over South St. and down Wall St.,” eventually, according to Ryan, up to the “second floor” of most of the buildings along Wall heading west into the darkness beyond Front St. Ken Gale, an engineer who is also host of “Eco-Logic,” an environmental program on WBAI, said the water seemed to come at least as high as the traffic light across the street. New York City traffic signals sit about 15 feet above the roadway.

Eventually, Ryan said, “The water rose nearly to the level of the F.D.R. Drive,” which passes over South St. He also noticed bright flashes of light he thought were caused by lightning but later learned were exploding transformers.

A few hundred yards south of Wall St. is a usually busy heliport visible from the windows of WBAI’s offices, which face east and south over the East River to Brooklyn and southward to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Within moments, as the daylight faded, Ryan said, the red lights of the heliport disappeared and the T-shaped landing pad looked like “it was a sandbar.” He added that, as a station engineer, he was in touch with Con Edison, which shut down the electricity in WBAI’s building and surrounding area “all of a sudden and with no warning” as the water quickly rose. Ryan said the power company originally planned a controlled shutdown to allow auxiliary power systems to take over, but he said, in the end, Con Ed “was taken by surprise.”

Gale said he was at WBAI for 62 hours straight after arriving for his usual 6 a.m. shift on Sun., Oct. 28.

“There was a little bit of food,” he said, “but not good food.” He said among the holdouts who braved the storm were news reporter Rebecca Myles, program director Chris Hatzis and chief engineer Graceon Challenger. According to Gale, they couldn’t leave the building or they wouldn’t be allowed to return. With the subways down and the only alternative walking home, he decided to stay. Gale was struck by the surge’s briefness; he said that by 2 a.m. Tuesday the water “left with the tide,” adding that the spectacle was “amazing.”

As the mayhem progressed on Wall St., Michael G. Haskins, WBAI’s chief announcer, tried to keep up the station’s programming from his apartment in Harlem. When power to the station was cut at about 6:30 p.m. Monday, Haskins used a device he called a Comrex that allowed him to broad-

Photo by Paul DeRienzo

Michael G. Haskins broadcast WBAI from his Harlem apartment after Sandy.

cast using a laptop and a microphone from his home through WBAI’s transmitter at the Empire State Building. His broadcast, helped by a CD player, continued until about 2 a.m., when his line to the Empire State suddenly failed. Haskins said his wife, also a reporter, was supportive despite the disruption, but he added that she did ask “how long” the station would be broadcasting from their home.

Over the next days Haskins got a reprieve thanks to Gary Null, one of WBAI’s most influential programmers. The world-famous health guru lent the station his broadcast studios at the Progressive Radio Network, where he hosts a variety of self-help and political commentary programs. Using a former supply closetturned-studio, WBAI broadcast with a skeleton crew of Haskins, Hatzis and whichever programmers could get into the city. WBAI’s eclectic lineup of talented but famously petulant producers “came through,” Ryan said, “with e-mailed content to enrich the broadcast air.”

The Thursday afternoon following Hurricane Sandy, producer Hugh Hamilton arrived for his weekly “Throwdown Thursday,” an anything-goes, live, call-in in program. Hamilton, a medical doctor with a Caribbean accent and a reasoned, on-air style, fielded calls from New Yorkers enraged by Mayor Bloomberg’s hasty decision — later reversed — to run the New York Marathon while the city remained fragile with thousands still living under blackout. Hamilton calmly listened to a distraught caller, offering her quiet words of encouragement as she vented. It’s in these moments which bring New Yorkers together — as occurred after 9/11 — that WBAI comes close to realizing its potential. Today the station can play the same role as an independent voice for the victims of Sandy.

DeRienzo is an occasional unpaid contributor to WBAI and Pacifica radio.

He co-hosts “Let Them Talk,” Tuesdays at 8 p.m., on Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Lifestyle Channel.

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