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Soho’s BID battle rages on at Council committee hearing

BY SAM SPOKONY The heated debate over the proposed Broadway Soho Business Improvement District — which, amidst various changes to its plan, has been floating in limbo for three years — continued on Tuesday at a public hearing before the City Council’s Committee on Finance.

Also, a leading member of the opposition to the BID has provided this newspaper with documents reveal-

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Air rights? More like airport ! That’s where Richie Gamba said the God’s Love We Deliver plan belongs.

Neighbors air their views on G.L.W.D. air-rights plan

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER AND LINCOLN ANDERSON Soho neighbors support God’s Love We Deliver’s mission of feeding infirm New Yorkers. But many of them don’t support the organization’s planned vertical expansion — as well as the sale of some of its air rights to a residential project next door to its headquarters at Sixth Ave. and Spring St. The air rights sale would provide several million dollars to God’s Love We Deliver to help ensure its expansion project has the necessary funds to move forward.

About 100 people turned out on Wed., Nov. 14, at Community

Board 2’s Land Use and Business Development Committee meeting at which the complicated, interlocking development arrangement was discussed. Most spoke against the plan.

Albert Podell, a retired lawyer who lives at 110 Sullivan St., testified against the scheme to convey air rights to the proposed residential tower next door, whose residents would also be able to access the G.L.W.D. rooftop, which would fulfill the new residential building’s open-space requirement.

Podell called the God’s Love plan “deceptive” and said he was opposed to it for “moral and procedural” reasons.

Representing God’s Love, attorney Mark Levine of the firm Akerman Senterfitt explained to the C.B. 2 committee members that a developer could construct a 14-story apartment building next to the God’s Love We Deliver building “as of right,” with or without the air rights and without the open-space access on the God’s Love building.

Local resident Richie Gamba — a.k.a. “The Mayor of Spring St.” a.k.a.

“Richie Dogs” — objected to the aesthetics of the expansion plan for the God’s Love We Deliver building, which would see the site go from two

ing that an outspoken member of the BID’s steering committee was convicted of financial fraud — a felony charge — in his previous career as a lawyer.

Very little seems to have changed over time in terms of the support for and opposition to the Soho BID proposal, which seeks to encompass about 280 properties along Broadway

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Con Ed claim forms cause confusion among Downtowners

BY SAM SPOKONY Some Downtown residents and business owners say they feel deceived by both Con Edison and Borough President Scott Stringer in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, because of confusion over Con Ed reimbursement claim forms that were handed out at informational meetings after the storm.

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Virtually everyone who lost power after the storm also lost food that spoiled due to the lack of electricity. While Con Ed has clearly stated, on numerous occasions, that it does not pay claims for loss of food that occurred as a result of natural disasters, many people unwittingly filled out Con Ed claim

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The donation is the result of a successful partnership with the NYC Food Truck Association, which brought a rotating roster of New York’s best food trucks — the likes of Schnitzel & Things, Kimchi Taco Truck, Gorilla Cheese NYC, Cupcake Crew and Shortys on Wheels — to Hudson Square to provide expanded lunch options for the neighborhood’s growing community of creative, media and high-tech businesses.

“What began as a simple idea to bring a few food trucks to the area in response to growing tenant needs, blossomed into a wonderful six-month program that contributed to the neighborhood’s vibrant energy and will help do good in neighborhoods around the city,” said Jason Pizer, president of Trinity Real Estate. “This program far exceeded our expectations and we are delighted to be able to make this level of donation to Citymealson-Wheels to support its critical mission.”

Two to three days a week a diverse range of food-toting trucks would park at the Lent Space site, which is owned by Trinity, and offer their culinary specialties to eager employees who work in the Hudson Square area, which is underserved in terms of food options. A “rental fee” from each participating truck was allocated for donation to Citymeals-on-Wheels.

The program, initially set to run just during the summer, was met with an enthusiastic response from area commercial office tenants, resulting in the program’s extension and the total accumulated donation of $16,500.

Pizer presented the check to Beth Shapiro, executive director of Citymeals-on-Wheels, at the philanthropy’s major fundraiser, the Power Lunch for Women, at The Plaza Hotel.

Shapiro said, “This wonderful donation comes at a time of great need for our organization. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Citymeals’ emergency food supply was depleted when we provided 64,000 extra meals to frail homebound elderly and others stranded by this devastating disaster.”

The nonprofit Citymeals-on-Wheels raises private funds to prepare and deliver weekend, holiday and emergency meals to the homebound elderly throughout New York City.

Last year, Citymeals underwrote the preparation and delivery of more than 1.8 million meals to nearly 17,000 elderly New Yorkers.

The fenced-in location in Duarte Square, at Canal and Grand Sts. and Sixth Ave., is a development site for Trinity, where it plans a high-rise residential tower with a public school in the base.

The Trinity lot was coveted by Occupy Wall Street as a location for a new outdoor base camp after it was evicted from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last November. But Occupy’s attempts to “take” the lot were repeatedly repelled by the police at Trinity’s behest.

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NOTEBOOK HOLLYWOOD ROMANCE: An East Village source tells us there have been frequent sitings of “Slumdog Millionaire� director Danny Boyle hanging out on the stoop of the former squat at 544 E. 13th St., where his new girlfriend, actress Rosario Dawson, and her family members live.

He was even there the day before Superstorm Sandy. The British tabloids have been tracking the romance closely, with the Mail Online reporting that an understandably somber-looking Boyle and Dawson were seen together walking the city’s streets the Wednesday after the storm.

GOIN’ TO THE CHAPEL...DEMO’ING THE CHAPEL: Villager reader Robert McCabe sent us a photo of what appears to be part of the former St. Vincent’s Chapel, above. “The demolition work on the exterior buildings comprising St. Vincent’s Hospital has uncovered a freestanding early or mid-century structure in the center of the building complex and not visible from 12th St.,� McCabe said. “It is now visible from the middle of 11th St. The chapel at the hospital was historic and the interior has been bought [and moved off site] and will be restored. I think the structure that has now been uncovered will be demolished but I am not sure.� We’re trying to find out more info on the schedule for the rest of the demolition work. The hospital’s old Coleman building is ringed with yellow scaffolding, above right, and its end appears imminent. By the

B.P.’S PLAN B: Borough President Scott Stringer, who has done a fantastic job running the Manhattan community boards, restoring their sense of integrity and professionalism, has announced he has dropped his bid for mayor and will instead run for city comptroller. Stringer wasn’t polling above 6 percent in the mayor’s race, but some say his skills will serve him well should he win the comptroller seat. “It’s a position well suited for Stringer,� said Sean Sweeney of Downtown Independent Democrats. “As Manhattan borough president, he was meticulous, thorough and conscientious. He likely would carry that work over to any office he filled.� But the Upper West Side pol’s path isn’t wide open by any means. Councilmember Dan Garodnick, whose base is in Stuyvestant Town, is also a strong candidate. Councilmember Rosie Mendez about six months ago gave an early endorsement to Garodnick. She said that she reviewed Garodnick’s earlier legal career and was impressed, feeling he has the credentials to be an effective comptroller.

Brooklyn Councilmember Domenic Recchia is also running for comptroller.

LOOK TO THE SUN: Speaking of Stuy Town, Bill Oddo, a former member of Community Board 6, said that, in the blackout’s wake, a discussion has started about whether the huge housing complex could be outfitted with solar panels to help power it through a similar disaster in the future.

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NOTEBOOK Continued from page 3 boundaries and Councilmember Mendez is feeling happier about the latest lines. In the previous round, the northern part of her District 2 had been pushed crosstown and uptown significantly, zigzagging up through the West 30s and 40s. Now, she just has a few blocks added along her existing district’s northwest edge. “I think they paid attention to my testimony,” Mendez told us, “where I said, ‘I’m an East Side councilmember and you’re making me a West Side councilmember.’” Advocates for an Asian-Latino district were once again unhappy with the new lines, in that they’re very close to the old lines. Margaret Fung, executive director of Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said, “We’re disappointed by the Districting Commission’s revised map, as to Districts 1 and 2. It was clear that the majority of Asian-American groups that testified at the commission’s public hearings supported a different configuration — one that would unite Chinatown with the Lower East Side. This neighborhood has residents of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, with particular concerns about jobs, the loss of affordable housing units, public education, language access to services and more. Over the next decade, Asian and Latino residents will have greater difficulty in electing candidates of their choice, as the number of white residents continues to increase in Districts 1 and 2.” However, Councilmember Margaret Chin never expected there would be major changes and supports something very close to the existing district lines, feeling that the current configuration represents the best chance to elect Asian-American candidates in Lower Manhattan’s District 1 — illustrated by her own election. Also, on the West Side, advocates for a “Unified Village District” are sad to see that historic Greenwich Village and surrounding neighborhoods continue to be split between three Council districts, which they say dilutes the community’s ability to fight large-scale development projects, like N.Y.U. 2031.

The final revised district line maps from the Districting Commission don’t change Districts 1 and 2 too much. District 2, which includes the East Village, got some blocks at its northwest edge, while District 1, which includes Lower Manhattan, got some blocks on the western side of Washington Square extending to Sixth Ave. Both Councilmembers Rosie Mendez (District 2) and Margaret Chin (District 1) said it was unclear from this map whether Mendez got all of Vladeck Houses — which had been split between them — which is what they wanted to happen, and if Chin got the Gouverneur Gardens housing development. These will be the final lines unless the City Council opposes them, which would trigger a second round of public hearings to generate alternative lines. Either way, the plan will be submitted to the Justice Department for its review in March. As for District 3, which includes Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, its northeast section was shifted to the west after population gains in the district.

AND WHERE WERE THE SPYYYDERS? Jean-Louis Bourgeois called us last week elated that a stop-work order had apparently been issued for the construction site at 150 Charles St., where the Witkoff Group is building a 92-unit condo development on the former Whitehall storage site. “Robert Limandri, the commissioner of the Department of Buildings, is now on our side!” he exulted. It turns out, however, that it was actually only a partial stop-work order, prompted by conditions at an abutting small building at 401 West St., whose back wall was blown out by the hurricane’s rushing water.

Once that property’s wall is shored up, the order presumably will be lifted. Bourgeois later admitted he read the order a bit quickly and in dim light. Nevertheless, Bourgeois, who is a plaintiff on a lawsuit

against the Witkoff project, still holds out hope it can be defeated, clearing the way for his planned Louise Bourgeois Park and Sculpture Garden in Sapokanikan/ Greenwich Village — Sapokanikan being the area’s name when it was inhabited by the native Lenape. The scion of the famed artist said the park would have at least one of his mother’s massive spider sculptures, plus a scale model of the Washington Square Arch, atop which, in homage to Marcel Duchamp and Co., the “Republic of Greenwich Village 2.0” could be proclaimed. Attorney Barry Mallin, standing next to the partial stop-work order, above, who is representing Bourgeois and his fellow plaintiffs, said D.O.B. should have a determination on the merits of their suit soon. If the agency rejects their contentions, they can always go to the Board of Standards and Appeals, he noted. At issue is whether Witkoff demolished too much of the existing warehouse structure, which the developer pledged to preserve. “They destroyed the building and they should no longer be eligible for the waivers,” Mallin said. “It gave them more bulk for the building, F.A.R. [floor area ratio], than they would have had as of right.” But Witkoff Group maintains the spindly framework that is still standing constitutes the former warehouse’s de facto walls. If, finally conceding defeat, Steve Witkoff relents and gives up the property, Bourgeois said, the developer will be duly honored by having his name on a wooden, Norwegian-style reindeer bridge to be built over the highway from the sculpture park to Hudson River Park. No actual reindeer will be involved, or so we think — though plans very well could change. Shockingly, the Witkoff Group declined comment.

LOSING THE KIDS PARADE HURT: The cancellation of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade due to Sandy was a blow to local merchants, but so was the loss of the N.Y.U./Community Board 2 Children’s Halloween Parade. “It brought a lot of people into the neighborhood,” Tom Gray, executive director of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, said of the kids confab.

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Con Ed food claim forms cause confusion Downtown Continued from page 1 forms for food spoilage because those forms were distributed at emergency relief sessions held in Chinatown and the Lower East Side in the weeks after Sandy struck.

At a press conference last Friday, at the headquarters of the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association on Grand St., residents and business owners said that it was members of Stringer’s office who gave them the allegedly confusing forms.

“It seems like they were lying to the community,” said Mei Rong Song, who owns New Chinatown Snack, at 26 E. Broadway, adding that she also represented other small businesses in that area.

A Stringer spokesperson denied that the borough president brought the forms to any informational meetings, and claimed that other members of his office actually began removing the forms once they began circulating.

The spokesperson pointed out that, along with elected officials, representatives of several city and federal agencies were also present at the post-Sandy relief sessions.

Nevertheless, the residents and business owners still believe they were misled, and they called on Stringer and other elected officials to help clarify the situation.

“We got the forms from Scott Stringer’s office, but now Con Ed said they’re not taking responsibility for it, so do we fill it out, or do we not fill it out?” said Wah Lee, a C.S.W.A. representative. “Who is responsible for the impact of this disaster on our community?”

JoAnn Lum, a representative of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, said that, over the past couple of weeks, hundreds of people have called community organizations in the area with questions about the confusing forms.

Lee, Lum and others at Friday’s press conference also called on Con Ed to change its policy about spoiled food reimbursement, even though the utility company has already publicly refused to do that.

A Con Ed spokesperson noted that the reimbursement form in question — which allows for claims of up to $450 for spoiled food — includes a disclaimer stating that no claims will be paid in the case of power outages resulting from natural disasters. But the spokesperson added that the forms are made available, in hard copies as well as online, because the company will always accept claim forms even if those claims are unlikely to be paid.

While the money lost by individual residents on spoiled food is obviously very small compared to the many other

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Emeterio Rodriguez, 80, left, and Juan Troche Rivera, 82, are struggling to afford to replace food they lost after Hurricane Sandy.

losses suffered as a result of Sandy, that money can make a huge difference to elderly Downtown residents who rely on Social Security checks for their income.

Emeterio Rodriguez, who lives with his wife, who like him is 80, on Jackson St., said that he lost around $200 worth of food — and since he didn’t have any extra money saved up before the storm, he still hasn’t been able to replace the spoiled goods.

“My fridge is empty,” Rodriguez said.

“Two hundred dollars is a lot of money to me, because now I have no more left to buy stuff.”

Juan Troche Rivera, 82, who lives farther Downtown on Pearl St., said he lost about $300 worth of food, and is now facing similar problems. He was able to buy new food once his Social Security checks arrived, Rodriguez explained, but the added expense was a huge burden because he also has to constantly take care of his 80-year-old wife, who is sick.

“I’ve started shopping again to replace what was lost, but it’s been going slowly, little by little,” he said.

Both men added that they are now struggling because they are forced to pay higher prices at the supermarket due to high demand for food in the aftermath of the storm.

“You’re trying to replace the food you lost, and when you go to buy a $2 bottle of milk, now it costs $6,” Rivera said.

“That might not sound like a big deal, but it makes a huge difference for us.”

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Putting phone booths to use in the information era Finally finding a use for all the phone booths sitting idle (apart from their lucrative advertising signage) around New York City, a new initiative called City24/7 is adding “next generation,” publicly accessible, touch-screen information systems to them at 250 locations.

Called “SmartScreens,” the “fully interactive pedestrian billboards” will be used to broadcast neighborhood news, current events and entertainment listings, as well as local deals and specials. Mutiple mobile apps are accessible through the 32-inch, multi-touch LG screens — connecting New Yorkers to “best of” city information by Zagat’s and others.

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the City24/7 network will initially focus on highlighting volunteering opportunities and projects citywide and revitalization, through increasing neighborhood commerce, investment and tourism. City24/7 is a public/private partnership, providing multiple services to New Yorkers at no cost to the city or to users.

The initial launch of City24/7, in partnership with the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, consists of 10 or more installations in existing payphone booths around Union Square. Over the next several months, the number of installations will increase to up to 250 phone booths throughout the five boroughs.

As these systems are implemented, the platform will be further integrated with mobile applications, safety and security capabilities, city information feeds and location-based advertising.

City24/7 also provides a channel for the city to broadcast vital information, real-time news and transit updates. In addition, the street locations have free WiFi access, and are equipped with near-field communications and Bluetooth.

“We’re excited to help power daily communications to the streets of New York, and to immediately and directly give back to the communities we serve,” said Tom Touchet, president and C.E.O. of City24/7.

The devices are equipped with numerous accessibility features — some developed by City24/7 — such as screen repositioning for wheelchair accessibility, headphone access for the hearing impaired and key-fob access for the vision impaired. They also have mul-

Photos by Chris Bishop

Demonstrating one of the new City24/7 SmartScreens in Union Square on Tuesday, above, were the company’s Tom Touchet, center, and a wheelchair user, showing how the screens are handicapped accessible.

tiple language capabilities, including English, Spanish, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

City24/7’s SmartScreen displays are protected with steel casings, A.T.M.-strength screens and able to withstand extreme weather. They also contain backup batteries to assist if power is disrupted.

Jennifer Falk, executive director of the Union Square Partnership, worked with City24/7 to bring the pilot to neighborhood.

“Union Square is one of the most vibrant, active neighborhoods in the city with countless dining, shopping, entertainment, cultural and nightlife options at any given moment,” Falk said. “The City24/7 technology provides neighborhoods with a tremendous resource to reach the public, and gives visitors everything they need to know, about where they are, in a convenient, userfriendly format.”

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Photos by Sam Spokony

Singing out for Sandy relief on the Lower East Side Local bands rocked out at Tammany Hall on Orchard St. last Thursday to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Erick Lee, of Modern Rivals, at left, joined guitarist Ben Martinez and bassist David Muehlenkamp, of Basement Batman, at right, along with Cultfever, Smokey Robotic and the Jacob Jeffries Band to turn harmonies and guitar solos into disaster relief. The benefit concert, which was organized by The Outlet, an East Village-based indie music collective, raised $600, all of which was donated to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

Gas guzzlers to beer guzzlers Houston Hall, a new Bavarian-style beer hall, is getting set to open inside a former garage on West Houston St. between Varick St. and Sixth Ave. A contractor at the site a few weeks ago said the huge, exposed, wooden ceiling beams were already in place from the space’s previous use, and that they just stripped them of paint. A cobblestonelike, suds splash-ready floor was also being installed when a reporter popped in for a look. Asked if there would be live music, the contractor said no. But a woman — not a contractor, but who looked like she might be a bartender at the place when it opens — said with a broad grin that they’ll definitely be serving beer, “a lot of beer.” Since the above photo was taken, more beer garden-ish touches have been added, including red-and-white striped shutters and solid-looking, wooden doors that appear like they could have come from some castle, or at least the set of “Young Frankenstein.”

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POLICE BLOTTER Meatpack cop attack A boneheaded criminal tried choking out a Sixth Precinct cop on Sunday afternoon, and now he’ll learn the hard way about why it might’ve been a good idea to check that impulse.

John Shultz, 35, attacked the officer on Little West 12th St., between Ninth Ave. and Washington St., around 2 p.m., by wrapping a cord around his neck, police said. The officer suffered some abrasions, swelling and severe pain, according to the report, but other cops responding to the scene were able to subdue Shultz and slap the cuffs on him.

Shultz was charged with assaulting a police officer.

Meatpacking pickers Cops bagged a quartet of Meatpacking District crooks around midnight on Sunday, after the four had teamed up to grab cash out of a woman’s purse.

Jenny Jessica, 19, was able to snatch the cash as the victim walked past the corner of Gansevoort and Greenwich Sts., after her accomplices — Anita McLaughlin, 22, Melvin Gilliam, 40, and Marion Benbow, 33 — thoroughly distracted the unsuspecting woman, police said. The group immediately tried to flee the scene, and they almost got away, but officers responding to the resulting commotion were able to corral all four thieves.

They were charged with grand larceny.

Phone robbers A man was attacked and robbed in the West Village early on Sunday, but his two antagonists both got the hook before they could slip away.

Roberto Valcin, 22, and Patrick Anderson, 46, approached the 24-year-

old man as he passed the corner of Bleecker and Thompson Sts. around 1 a.m., and asked him if he wanted to buy some drugs, police said. When the startled man declined and tried to keep walking, Valcin allegedly punched him in the face and ripped the victim’s cell phone out of his hand. Both perps turned and fled, but police apprehended them just down the block and charged them both with robbery.

Fake plate fails A hotshot motorcycle rider lost some of his mojo on Saturday night, after cops booked him for using a fake license plate.

Kenneth Lin, 20, was pulled over near the corner of Barrow and W. Fourth Sts. around 7 p.m. because cops were suspicious of the bike’s tag. Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a fake, and Lin even admitted that he’d bought it on the Internet, police said.

Lin was charged with forgery, and to top it off, cops later found that his license is currently suspended.

Grove glass attack A toasted bar crawler allegedly smashed a glass over another man’s head on Saturday in the West Village, surely giving both of them a night to remember — or forget.

James Amoroso, 35, was arrested for assault after the scuffle that took place inside the 49 Grove bar, eponymously named after its address, around 1 a.m.

A 24-year-old man told police that, after a verbal dispute went too far, Amoroso ended up shattering the glass on the side of the victim’s face, leaving him with multiple cuts.

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C.B. 2 Land Use and Business Development Committee members asked the God’s Love team many questions, not all of which were answered.

Karen Pearl, president and C.E.O. of God’s Love We Deliver, speaking at Community Board 2’s Land Use and Business Committee meeting on Nov. 14 about the organization’s proposed five-story building at Spring St. and Sixth Ave.

Neighbors air their views on G.L.W.D. air-rights plan Continued from page 1 stories to five stories tall. He said he lived in a 104-year-old building next to the site.

“There’s plenty of room for buildings like that building at the airport,” he said disparagingly of the proposed G.L.W.D. design.

Karen Pearl, president and C.E.O. of God’s Love We Deliver, spoke in favor of the project. She noted that the funds from the air rights sale would go toward helping the organization further its mission of helping feed sick individuals living at home, suffering from H.I.V. and other illnesses. G.L.W.D. is growing and bursting at the seams,

largely due to its policy of having no waiting list for its services, she said.

Feeling there were too many unanswered questions about the complex project, the committee decided not to pass a resolution, but instead to lay the issue over until its meeting next month, when it would continue the discussion.

Doris Diether, a committee member, said she had some qualms about the plan.

“The air rights are for a community facility, and they want to transfer it for a residential project — I don’t think that’s legal,” she said.

The G.L.W.D. site carries a deed restriction for community-use facilities that was in place before the organiza-

tion bought the property at auction from the city.

“My comment was I wouldn’t want someone strange trampling over my roof,” Diether added. “A number of questions came up, and they didn’t answer all of them,” she said of the God’s Love representatives.

“A lot of people from buildings on Sullivan and Prince Sts. are concerned about the impact of the project on their light and air,” said Tobi Bergman, the committee’s chairperson. “There is also concern that the transfer of air rights from the G.L.W.D. building to the residential development violates the 1993 restrictions on the use of the G.L.W.D. property, and that a ‘minor modification’ process does not allow sufficient consideration of actual impact of the proposed change to the restriction.

“There is clearly a lot of respect among committee members and neighbors for G.L.W.D. and an understanding of the importance of its work, but also a sense that the air rights transfer will increase the negative impact of the project on neighbors,” Bergman said. “The committee decided to hold it over until December to give G.L.W.D. and the residential developer time to try to come up with proposals to reduce the impact on the neighbors. This is a very difficult one because there is contradiction between two very important and legitimate sets of concerns.”

November 22 - 28, 2012

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Hippies and punks beat FEMA to the punch on Avenue C

BY LIZA BÉAR Heading east in Loisaida toward one of Manhattan’s several FEMA supply distribution centers — on E. 10th St. between Avenues C and D — about an hour after the power had returned to the East Village on Friday evening Nov. 2, the unmistakable polka beats and piercing clamor of a wind and percussion band playing at a short distance from the intersection impelled a curious cyclist, this reporter, to make a sharp right turn south on Avenue C. The area is within close proximity of Con Edison’s 14th St. and Avenue D substation, which exploded at around 10 p.m. on Oct. 29, after Superstorm Sandy sent a surge reaching unprecedented heights of up to 14.5 feet along the Hudson and East rivers and spilling over the banks. Being only a few blocks from the East River, Avenue C suffered copious flooding.

At this time, on the sidewalk in front of the still-shuttered pizzeria in the middle of the block between Ninth and 10th Sts., the band was immediately recognizable as The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a frequent accompaniment to protest marches and events both long before Occupy Wall Street and during that movement's heyday.

Folding tables, half-empty containers of salsa and hummus dips and stacks of clean dishes and utensils awaiting the next course were set up next to the band. Just off the curb, Vicki, a resident from C-Squat, the former squat next to the pizza store, expertly turned brisket of beef and plump hamburgers over a roaring fire in a barbecue grill set up on the pavement. A crowd of about 50 people milled around tasting stuffed clam shells being circulated on a tray and watching two scantily clad young fire dancers twirling lit batons in the street while traffic raced by, paying no heed.

The diverse crowd of mostly residents from the block or nearby also included people from farther afield, such as Ali, a photographer from Crown Heights, and James and Alison, two photographers from Hudson, N.Y., who had come to the city as volunteers to help those impacted by the storm.

Next to the barbecue were at least four large, clear plastic bags stuffed with baguettes and other types of bread.

Jerry the Peddler, with his bushy beard fanning out over a gray-and-red plaid shirt, handed out bottled water from a stack of bottles. In his other hand he held a tall can of lager he was drinking.

“This is made in the oldest brewery in America,” he said. “It’s a recipe and a brand name owned by Budweiser.” Reminiscing, he continued, “During a tour sponsored by Budweiser, Santana got busted for two joints. Guess what? Budweiser canceled the whole tour over that. Not only do they make bad-tasting beer, they’re just a-------.”

In front of Jerry were cardboard boxes filled with FEMA high-calorie-, high-salt- and high-fatcontent emergency rations normally destined for soldiers in Afghanistan. Each pack contains three 1,200-calorie meals and material with which to heat them.

Jerry said that, in recognition of the local community effort, “FEMA gave us 15 cases of the emergency rations. And about three stacks 4 feet high of bottled water and five crates of seltzer and soda-type drinks. Everything else has been donated by the community, and this has all been going on for four days.”

He looked up to the roof of C-Squat, in which he lives.

Photo by George Cohen

C-Squat residents grilled up meals for the community on Thurs., Nov. 1, as Lower Manhattan’s prolonged blackout was in its fourth day.

“After the flood, we took our barbecue grills off the roof, and we took the meat and the food out of our refrigerators and brought them down here to the street and started feeding people,” he said.

“All of this [tonight] has grown from that. Our neighbors started coming down donating their stuff and so did the whole freaking community.”

The brisket of beef had been consumed but a huge rump roast was being prepared over the grill.

These were just the final course of what had been a multiday feast. Providing ingredients for the elaborate meals cooked by the C-Squat residents, during the blackout a convoy of cars had pulled up and dropped off massive loads of bread, pastries, burgers, fruits, vegetables, drinks, soup and more.

“We fed a couple of hundred people a day for the last four days,” said Jerry. “Today, the last day of the power outage, the government finally got to 10th St. with food. Interestingly enough, over here you’ll find music and fun and interesting forms of technology, but at the government places you’ll find soldiers and cops.”

Which is why people were there. In fact, the East Village has a long history of feeding itself.

Several women arrived with three large pots of delicious-looking vegan couscous they had prepared in a friend’s apartment.

“There was a time,” Jerry explained, “when things like this happened all the time right around here. In the mid-’80s we had five tepees where this garden is right now,” he said, gesturing down the street. “We built an open campfire and started with rice and beans. It took a couple of days and then people were doing this for the next two and a half years.”

Jerry summed it up by quoting his favorite line: “Once again, it’s hippies and punks and beatniks and bums to the rescue.”

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Trying to inject enthusiasm for H.I.V. vaccine study

BY SAM SPOKONY A recruiter for a government-sponsored H.I.V. prevention study thinks that members of New York City’s gay community aren’t doing enough to get involved and to educate themselves about the importance of finding an H.I.V. vaccine.

“There’s just a general feeling of complacency here, that it isn’t such a big deal,” said Damon Jacobs, a recruiter for Project ACHIEVE. The 20-year-old organization based in Union Square specializes in research with the ultimate goal of eliminating new H.I.V. infections in both men and women.

Project ACHIEVE, along with Columbia University Medical Center, is one of more than 20 sites nationwide currently being used to conduct HVTN505, a clinical study designed to explore the efficacy of an investigational H.I.V. vaccine regimen. Researchers believe the study could answer important questions leading to the discovery and development of more effective vaccines in the future.

HVTN-505, which began in August 2009, is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

People who qualify to participate in the study are H.I.V.-negative men, between the ages of 18 and 50, who have had sex with another man.

Although NIAID originally planned to enroll 1,350 participants, Jacobs explained that the study goal’s total has since expanded to 2,500. He said that, as of October — after more than three years of recruitment in a dozen cities — the effort has only gained around 2,200 participants.

And while one might assume that the level of involvement and overall interest in HVTN-505 within New York’s gay community would not be proportionately low per capita when compared with cities like Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., Jacobs asserted that it has been.

“The lack of response from our community has been the biggest obstacle so far,” he said.

While he couldn’t disclose the number of people who have participated in the study at Project ACHIEVE to date, Jacobs pointed out that San Francisco and Orlando have been leading heavily in recruitment versus other cities, and that New York has gotten an overall response somewhere between “average and relatively good” when compared with the other nine cities involved.

Jacobs, who often goes to gay bars and nightclubs throughout the city to speak directly with men and inform them about the vaccine study, said that he believes the problem is primarily a cultural one.

“New York is more of a ‘me’ town than

a ‘we’ town,” he said. “Most people just say no to participating without taking the time to learn about it, because if the disease isn’t already directly affecting them personally, they’re not interested.”

While Jacobs added that the overall lack of interest thus far has been

‘New York is more of a “me” town than a “we” town. If the disease isn’t already directly affecting them personally, they’re not interested.’

Damon Jacobs “disheartening,” he remains optimistic about recruiting new participants and finally reaching the national goal of 2,500.

He also acknowledged that, of course, some New Yorkers have already made a positive impact by joining HVTN-505 or other similar studies.

In addition, Jacobs said that he himself

participated in an H.I.V. vaccine study in 2006 and 2007, mainly because he lost many friends to AIDS during the ’90s.

“It felt really meaningful to be a part of that trial,” he said.

HVTN-505 is a Phase 2 study, meaning that the vaccine regimen being investigated already passed an initial study to determine its safety for use. Phase 2 studies, according to NIAID, are focused mainly on determining the efficacy of the drug being tested.

Although the vaccine regimen being tested in this study is not actually expected to fully prevent H.I.V. infection, researchers believe it could make a scientific breakthrough by effectively reducing the presence of the virus in people who eventually become H.I.V. positive, according to the NIAID Web site.

The government agency also stated the vaccine regimen does not contain any living or dead strain of H.I.V., and thus cannot inadvertently infect any participants in the vaccine study.

To learn how to enroll in the HVTN-505 study at Project ACHIEVE, call 212-3880008. To learn how to enroll at Columbia University Medical Center, call 212-3052201. Anyone interested in learning more about the study can also visit nycvaccine. org.

“...Pierced the heart.”

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Howard Moody, a visionary activist — and my friend

BY REV. DONNA SCHAPER Howard Moody was my friend, before he was my colleague, my mentor and my predecessor at Judson. No one follows Howard, even though Reverend Peter Laarman did for the first 10 years after Howard retired and I have for the next eight. We just plow along in the field that he fed so well and so organically.

First, he sent me to jail. He had founded an underground organization to help women get safe abortions. Ira Glaser called it the “underground railroad,” at Howard’s memorial last week. Called the “Clergy Consultation,” at its peak, it had thousands of members. I had an internship at the University of Chicago Chapel, and Spencer Parsons was the chaplain. Spencer had joined Clergy Consultation, because of Howard, and he needed help.

Spencer found a little money somewhere somehow and hired me to sit with women for four hours on Tuesdays and four hours on Thursdays. The line was always long outside the door at the small counseling “room” we had far on the South Side. There was no waiting room.

We visited with the women 30 minutes at a time and our only tool was a speculum.

We used it to show how an abortion “happened” medically. I was white and 23.

The women were mostly black, mostly in their 30s, and mostly (almost) able to pay the $300 to get to New York City, taking the first plane ride they had ever taken.

There, cost included, they would have an abortion and return home.

First, Reverend Parsons was arrested for charges that were vague at best. No one had made anyone have an illegal procedure so that wouldn’t and couldn’t stick.

We counseled “problem pregnancies.” The majority of our clients chose to terminate, and all were free to do what they thought best. Eventually the clinic was raided and we “problem pregnancy counselors” were also arrested. We weren’t in for long but, going forward, it did lessen the number of clients at the clinic. I was ridiculously proud to be arrested and to be a part of a movement that was drenched in common sense. I never met “Mr. Moody” but held him in trust, from afar, as did thousands of

other women and clergy.

Howard was a brilliant and important enigma. As Abigail Hastings remarked at his memorial, think of this joke and you get the man: “A minister, a Marine and a gambler walk into a bar.” A man’s man, his most important social legacy is in women’s rights. A veteran, he was also a man convicted for peace. Suspicious of worship and “high-minded” kind of stuff, he innovated in the field of liturgy and worship by removing the pews from Judson and developing an Agape meal that has replaced Communion and Eucharist among us.

A thinker, he couldn’t keep himself off the streets. A Christian who was often and regularly called a heretic, his best friends were often Jews. He was frequently at the head of a parade before others knew there was a parade — on drug laws, gay rights, the right to die movement. As enigmatic as he was, he was also quite traditional. He was a son of the American Baptist tradition, not an orphan in it.

This country would not be as free as it is without Baptists Walter Rauschenbusch, Howard Moody and Roger Williams.

Howard would be the first to say that it is not nearly as free as it needs to be.

American Baptists have a half dozen fertile ideas, each of which prepared Howard beautifully to be a great censor of censors.

His arteries were filled with a sense of freedom, what Baptists call “soul freedom.”

He was more Baptist than not, irate at any kind of censorship because he knew in his Baptist belly that the state’s encroachments had to be fought at every cost.

Baptists emphasize the primacy of personal religious experience. Baptists practice democracy in organized church life.

Baptists insist that a Christ-like lift, not ritual, characterizes true worship and pure religion. Baptist churches decline all alliances with the state. Baptists tolerate no creed; the Bible alone is sufficient authority for our faith and practice.

These “big” ideas also resulted in Howard Moody’s “soul competence” and then in the birth of Off Broadway theater and dance at Judson Church, in a refusal to let the state or Church tell dancers what to wear or not wear, in extraordinarily

Reverend Howard Moody.

experimental artwork from the likes of Rauschenberg and Oldenburg and others who knew what it meant to have a sanctuary for their early arts careers.

From Baptist theology came artistic and political freedom, both of which smelled censorship quickly whenever it reared its head, like a good farmer smells a skunk in the vicinity and takes action.

I have to say at least one word about Judson Memorial Church, what many still call “The Judson,” because it is so hard to remember that it is “just” a church. Yes,

it is ecclesiastically wrapped in Italian marble, stained glass, carved angels on its altar. What Howard did to build Judson Church is as monumental as its architecture. He built laypeople who built movements who built people who built movements. “Laypeople” are to clergy what the heart is to the body. Howard had an ardent anticlericalism, which pushed him to develop extraordinary leaders all around him.

He was also “King Howard,” firmly in charge, while also raising up a whole generation of warm, funny, smart people.

Or maybe Arlene Carmen was in charge?

Or Al Carmines, Howard’s great associate who was as musically talented as Howard was strategically talented? Who knows?

And finally, who cares? These extraordinary people are the gift I now enjoy at Judson every day.

Finally, Howard was my friend. When he found out that my son and daughter-in-law were about to make me a grandmother, he wrote me an unsolicited handwritten letter.

“Give yourself a name,” he wrote, “one that your grandson can call you. Otherwise, he will call you ‘Grandma’ and it will make you feel old.” Howard was also wise and pastoral as well as sharp, strategic and political.

Because of him, I am “Bube.”

Schaper is senior pastor of Judson Memorial Church.

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EDITORIAL Merchants need grants In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, small businesses throughout Lower Manhattan have once again found themselves in an economic swamp. Struggling mom-and-pop shops from Avenue C to the Meatpacking District are trying their best to recover. Meanwhile on Front St. in the South Street Seaport the storm left many businesses shuttered, and several hundred employees who, as a result, are out of work are scrambling for income to keep food on the table. Some of the businesses might have been in financial straits prior to Sandy’s arrival and, in the case of some of the Front St. merchants, are still saddled with loans from the aftermath of 9/11.

On Tues., Nov. 20, Karen Mills, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, visited businesses in the Seaport to assess the damage of the storefronts and to talk to the merchants about their economic woes. Mills championed the S.B.A.’s approval of $20 million in loans for small business relief from Sandy-related damages and financial losses.

“We will stay the course and make sure that this area becomes as vital as it has been in the past, and even more so,” Mills said.

But, more than loans, what the beleaguered Downtown shop owners really need are grants. While some people consider grants to be unwarranted financial handouts, most local politicians and community members agree that these businesses are in dire need of unrestricted cash flow that they don’t have to repay later. The business owners themselves assert that the notion of borrowing money is just as frightening as shutting down altogether, since they’re already swimming — if not drowning — in months or years of debt accrued from 9/11 or otherwise.

Yet Mills tactfully dodged press members’ questions about grants, stressing that loans are the most effective and efficient means of supporting the small businesses. Applying for a loan from the S.B.A. requires a minimal effort of filling out a threepage form on the agency’s Web site, she noted. Moreover, unlike grants, which require — at times, lengthy to obtain — legislation, federal loans have a turnaround time of just 10 days.

The disturbing reality is that neither the S.B.A. nor the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has the authority to administer grants to businesses. The S.B.A. only authorizes low-interest loans, while FEMA offers grants to homeowners and renters only. President Obama would have to issue a federal declaration or sign a federal law in order for the government to authorize small business grants.

Indeed, Maud Bonsignour, a co-owner of Bakehouse restaurant, at the west end of Horatio St., sadly, frustratedly told us last week that they don’t qualify for a FEMA grant. The restaurant, which she owns with her husband Philippe, suffered thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of damage after its basement was completely flooded.

Just as in the aftermath of 9/11, once again the onus is on the federal, state and city governments to determine how to allocate taxpayer money to the businesses and residents — who have this time suffered from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. It will be up to Mills, Obama, Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg to weigh the importance of supplemental funding for the ailing businesses that are in many ways the cornerstone of Lower Manhattan’s well-being.

We side with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has emphasized time and again the need for grants as a means of financial backing for the businesses. As the speaker told Mills during her visit to the Seaport, “To add debt in order for them to continue to operate and to make up for some of the renovations that they have to do…is an extreme burden that will not allow some of them to reopen.”

It is imperative that the South Street Seaport businesses that stuck it out in the years after 9/11 be saved. And hard-hit merchants in the East Village and far West Side/Meatpacking District desperately need help. These businesses are the lifeline of our community and must be preserved in any way possible.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Kinda nice being off the grid To The Editor: Re “Notes from the disaster zone; A survivor sounds off” (talking point, Nov. 9): I read Bob Whineberg’s (sic) rant about the effects of Sandy.

I not for one moment lamented the loss of power, of water, of heat and all the other inconveniences and of rotting food in my fridge, not washing, dirty dishes, as I was listening to the transistor radio from Monday evening to Friday evening, avoiding going out, or moving to another place. I heard of the devastation of so many others, loss of life, of homes and so much else. What did I miss? Some stupid TV shows, no access to the Internet, no newspapers.

Weinberg moans and groans seeking to make a case against “authority,” which is deserved, and yet irrelevant in this time. He, as his kind, merely foments and offers no solutions. He, I realize, has a political agenda as he whines as he has previously done in your pages.

Over all, your newspaper’s coverage was extensive and most appreciated.

I wish the East Villager would be published weekly. I miss it that week it is not out there.

spent all the hundreds of billions it would need to accomplish these tasks right here in the U.S., we could once again legitimately lead the world. Manufacturing would be revived, everyone would gain skills and our future would be secured. There is no way to avoid this inevitability.

Robert Lederman

Better head for the hills To The Editor: Re “Quinn floats raft of ideas for fighting future floods” (news article, Nov. 15): Who would pay for all of these suggested projects? I agree with implementing worthwhile and practical public service projects. However, surge gates for New York City seem impractical in a world that is slowly naturally warming, with sea levels inexorably rising.

Although, I can recall the immediate infusion by Congress of $50 billion into New Orleans after Katrina — an amazing amount of money that promptly disappeared into the political morass of New Orleans politics with no visible impact on hurricane relief.

Bert Zackim

David W. Behrens

Costly, labor intensive, needed

Get yer hot pickle soup!

To The Editor: Re “Quinn floats raft of ideas for fighting future floods” (news article, Nov. 15): The solution to many of the biggest problems facing America in general, and New York City in particular, is the re-creation and greening of our infrastructure so that it is brought into the 21st century. Power lines need to be underground. Permanent residences need to be moved out of flood plains. The ideas about surge barriers, etc., while amazingly expensive, have to be faced if the city is to survive.

If the federal and state governments were to make a massive public works effort similar to what took place during the Depression or in preparation for World War II, it would put everyone to work, completely revive the economy and recreate this country. The politicians who allowed our bridges to rot and who timidly fail to address things like electric power lines coming down every time there is a storm, need to start thinking about something more long term than getting corporations to contribute to their next election campaign.

These are the issues government alone can address and are the only reason governments are necessary. If the government

To The Editor: Re “The decline of the pierogi palace: Viva chilaquiles!” (notebook, Oct. 11): While my taste buds are not mourning, as are Bill Weinberg’s, the loss of hot pickle soup in the East Village, they know full well the grievous loss of a favorite ethnic food (Orchidia Pizza, Mingala Ba Burmese).

Given that, I would like to inform Mr. Weinberg that on Mondays, Neptune has hot potato pickle soup on their menu.

While it’s not exactly the same, perhaps he could ask them to make it for him without the potato.

EVAN FORSCH

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RECONNECTING DOWNTOWN POST-SANDY

NOV. 21 - NOV. 27, 2012

Downtown Alliance launches $1 million grant program

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER

Photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer

Elizabeth Berger, president of the Downtown Alliance, announcing a grant program for small businesses affected by Superstorm Sandy that are in Flood Zone A below Chambers Street.

On the morning of Nov. 19, Elizabeth Berger, president of the Downtown Alliance, stepped up to a lectern set up on chilly Stone Street and made an announcement that likely warmed the hearts of all who heard her.

The Downtown Alliance is launching a program to give grants to small businesses that were pummeled by Superstorm Sandy.

The Downtown Alliance has funded the program with $1 million and has asked others to match or exceed the Alliance’s initial donation.

Trinity Wall Street, Citibank, The Durst Organization, the Howard Hughes Corporation, the FiDi Association and Goldman Sachs have already put money in the kitty.

The fund now has almost $1.5 million to disburse and hopes and expects to have more.

“This program is designed to get the small businesses of Lower Manhattan, who are really key to our success as a whole new kind of central business district, back in business,” said Berger. “It will complement other relief efforts that are already under way.”

The initiative, called “Lower Manhattan: Back to Business Small Business Grant Program,” is for retailers, restaurants and

Downtown hotels, closed, open and reopening

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Superstorm Sandy was not an ideal hotel guest. She smashed some Downtown hotels to bits, spared others for reasons of her own and left others with so much mess to clean up that they weren’t able to open for weeks after she signed out.

NYC & Company, New York City’s tourism arm, estimated that 30 of its member hotels had to close at least temporarily

because of Sandy. A disproportionate number of these were in Lower Manhattan.

The Best Western Seaport Inn at 33 Peck Slip took a heavy hit. The website (www.seaportinn.com) says, “We are sorry, due to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the Downtown area we are not able to open for business at this time.” No rooms are shown as available until Jan. 2. In January, the room rates posted on the website range from $160 a

night to $230, depending on the day of the week.

The World Center Hotel New York at 144 Washington St. is also still closed as is the Holiday Inn Express New York City Wall Street at 126 Water St. The boutique Wall Street Inn with 46 rooms at 9 South William St. is closed but hopes to reopen soon. “We sustained damage Continued on page 6

service providers affected by Superstorm Sandy. Qualifying small businesses must be located within Flood Zone A on the south side of Chambers Street and below.

They must have 50 or fewer employees and gross annual revenues of $5 million or less. They must have been open for at least a year or have a five-year lease. They must be open at the time of application, or for those located in buildings closed for storm-related reasons, must be scheduled to open by April 2013. Businesses in that situation will receive their grants when they actually reopen.

Finally, they must be able to document loss and replacement costs not covered 100 percent by insurance or other reimbursement for property, equipment or inventory loss due to up to 10 days of street closures, lack of utility service or related conditions.

The maximum grant is $20,000.

“Our goal is to get the money out there quickly,” said Berger. “Within the next 10 days, we will post the application online and announce where small businesses can meet with representatives for their grant interviews.”

Applications will be processed on a first come, first served appointment basis for as long as the funds are available through Continued on page 2

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C.B. 1 and New Amsterdam Market create new biz fund

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Bills placed in a glass pickle jar have provided the seed money for a new fund to aid small businesses in the South Street Seaport and elsewhere in Lower Manhattan.

On Nov. 19, Robert LaValva, founder of the New Amsterdam Market on South Street, took $2,000 to the bank and opened an account for the New Amsterdam Small Business Fund.

The fund was established in collaboration with Community Board 1 to raise money for small businesses afflicted by Sandy.

LaValva said that the supporters of the New Amsterdam Market are people who, in general, support small business and small business development. “We want to reach into this network to help small businesses get back on their feet,” he said. “We will work with C.B. 1 to determine how to allocate the funds.” He said the distributions will be in the form of grants, not loans.

The initial deposit to the New Amsterdam Small Business Fund came from the New Amsterdam Market’s Peck Slip Pickle Festival, held on Sunday, Nov. 11. People who attended were asked to put money in a jar to help Sandy victims.

Around that time, Community Board 1 set up a Hurricane Relief Small Business Task Force to help small businesses. C.B. 1 needed a non-profit recipient for any money

raised and LaValva volunteered.

Ro Sheffe, who heads C.B. 1’s Hurricane Relief Small Business Task Force, said that it’s imperative for Lower Manhattan to get the mom-and-pop businesses up and running again.

He said that many large office buildings are dark and empty right now and may be for months, but when they come back, he asked, “What will they find? The people who work in them need a place to buy lunch. It’s a symbiotic relationship.”

Sheffe said that 25 million square feet of commercial Class A office space in Lower Manhattan has been sidelined by Sandy. At the same time, he said, the small stores are in “dire circumstances with physical damage and inventory wiped out.”

Even if these shopkeepers can dig out, said Sheffe, they fear that with so many square feet of major corporate office space destroyed, there will be no one to patronize them. “It’s an ecosystem,” he said.

Given the severity of the problem, the New Amsterdam Small Business Fund is a drop in the bucket — but it’s a start.

LaValva said that anyone wishing to donate to the fund can send a check to the New Amsterdam Small Business Fund, P.O. Box 902, Peck Slip Station, New York, NY 10272. He expects to have a website mechanism for donations in the near future.

For more information, email info@newamsterdammarket.org.

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Fernando Dallorso, co-owner of Stella, a restaurant at 213 Front St. in the Seaport, showing his ruined restaurant to N.Y. State Senator Daniel Squadron.

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Dec. 31, 2012.

“It’s going to be very important to get the word out quickly that this program exists,” Berger said.

Small business owners who wish to review the requirements and submit an

application should go to www.downtownny. com/backtobusiness.

For more information about the program, email contactus@downtownny.com.

Organizations or individuals wanting to contribute to the program can contact Bill Bernstein at bbernstein@downtownny.com or call (212) 566-6700.

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TALK TO US! This is the third issue of NYC Reconnects. It is being published weekly, sometimes as an insert in NYC Community Media’s other newspapers (Downtown Express, The Villager, The East Villager, Chelsea Now and Gay City News) and sometimes as a stand-alone paper.

We would like to hear from you. Send us your comments about this publication and ask questions related to Sandy. We’ll try to get answers.

Letters to the Editor are always welcome.

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Bob Townley, executive director of the Downtown Community Center and Manhattan Youth, with members of Girl Scout troop No. 3368 who raised money to try to rehabilitate the community center at 120 Warren St.

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Flooded by Superstorm Sandy, Manhattan Youth’s Downtown Community Center at 120 Warren St. is faced with a big, multimillion-dollar problem in trying to rebuild but that didn’t keep 12 little girls from wanting to help. On Nov. 16, they presented Bob Townley, the community center’s executive director, with a check. They had raised the money by stationing themselves outside of Whole Foods at Greenwich and Warren Streets and asking passers-by for donations.

They also solicited donations of such items as toiletries, food, baby diapers, batteries, flashlights and cleaning supplies to send to the Rockaways. They loaded a utility van to the brim with what they had collected.

Members of Girl Scout troop No. 3368, the girls are 6 to 8 years old, and officially “Brownies,” not yet grown-up Girl Scouts.

They attend P.S. 234 or P.S. 276, where their leader, Teri Foley, is a reading specialist. The troop used to meet at the community center and some of them attended Manhattan Youth’s after-school programs, which is how they knew what had happened when a 20-foot storm surge from Sandy left the lower levels of the community center in ruins.

“Most of the girls were affected by Sandy,” said Foley. “Many of the them evacuated and were displaced.” She, too, was required to leave her apartment in Zone A. Without power for a week, Foley had

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plenty of time to think. “In the dark on Tuesday evening, I came up with a plan to have the girls take action,” she said. “One of my goals for the Girl Scouts is to teach these girls how important it is to help others.”

The next Tuesday, Election Day, was “Collection Day” for the girls. It went well.

Afterward, they said that some people who they asked went home and then came back with donations.

Townley told the girls that their gift would help the community center buy the computers and other equipment it needs and make the repairs. “If a lot of people do a little, it adds up to something big,” he said.

One of the girls, Devin Fink, 7, said she was thankful to be able to help. Foley’s daughter, Lauren, 7, said the girls were proud of themselves for helping others and it “felt good to their hearts.”

Manhattan Youth’s after-school programs resumed on Monday, Nov. 5. Activities that formerly took place at the community center are now taking place at the schools that Manhattan Youth serves. No staff has been laid off.

“Rebuild quickly, no layoffs - that has become our mantra!” Manhattan Youth says on its website. Please donate to help Manhattan Youth reach our goals and keep our promise to our staff and your children. With your help, we will be up and running soon!”

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Wall Street Walks in Sandy’s tracks

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Led by tour guide Annaline Dinkelmann, founder of Wall Street Walks, a dozen people set out on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 16 to see exactly what Superstorm Sandy had done to Manhattan’s Financial District and how the cleanup was going. This was the first of Wall Street Walks’ “Sandy” tours, which will continue on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays to the end of the year.

Starting at 55 Wall St., Dinkelmann showed a map of Dutch New Amsterdam and pointed out how much of Lower Manhattan rests on landfill — vulnerable to Sandy’s incursions. At Broad and Nassau Streets, a head of steam coming out of a grate in the street proved to be a Sandy artifact. Many buildings in the area are heated by steam, Dinkelmann told the group, and were without heat when flooded boilers failed. The steam came back on in that area around a week after the storm.

In front of the New York Stock Exchange, Dinkelmann said that it continued to run during and after Sandy because it had backup generators. She also explained that after 9/11, the U.S. government implemented new regulations for business continuity planning.

Companies such as the Stock Exchange were required to have back-up sites geographically removed from their main site so that business could go forward. At first these sites

were 50 miles away, she said, then 100 miles.

Now, with new technology, they can even be in another country. The New York Stock Exchange has a back-up site in London.

Dinkelmann said that she began her research for the Sandy tour four days after the storm had departed. She walked through the entire Financial District, taking photos and notes.

A trek through the area with Sandy in mind provided clues as to why some buildings suffered more than others. Slight variations in terrain turned out to be significant.

A sloping street would cause water to run downhill and pool at the end of it.

Broad Street, as Dinkelmann pointed out to the tour group, had a canal running through it in Dutch times. The wide street was a perfect conduit for Sandy’s bloated waters. It turns out, in fact, that the Dutch canal was actually an inlet of the East River. Dinkelmann said that in many cases Sandy’s water found its old paths and tore through what humans had interposed. Pumping equipment still lined much of Broad Street, with sandbags, plywood and trash strewn around it.

As the group crossed State Street to the east of Battery Park, Dinkelmann called attention to a light wind. That was where the Dutch had their windmills, she said. The natural winds in that area stirred Sandy’s winds to even greater fury.

The periphery of Battery Park was hard

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Annelinne Dinkelmann offers tours showing where Sandy struck.

hit — the center, relatively intact.

In addition to showing Sandy damage, Dinkelmann wanted to show that Lower Manhattan was not a wasteland. After a herculean cleanup effort, some stores had reopened. They are eager to have customers know they’re back.

Dinkelmann’s “Sandy” tours take place at 1 p.m. on weekends and cost $25. She is donating the profits to the South Street Seaport Museum, whose lower floors were badly damaged by Sandy. For more information and to sign up for a tour, go to https:// www.wallstreetwalks.com/sandy.phpx

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South St. Seaport Museum rebuilds

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Thanks to expert seamanship, the South Street Seaport Museum’s historic ships came through Sandy’s thrashing intact, but the museum’s exhibit space at 12 Fulton St. was not so fortunate. The water in the lobby rose to a height of five feet, destroying the building’s electrical systems, café, admission desk, computer system and gift shop.

Bowne & Co. Stationers at 211 Water St., an outpost of the museum with a clutch of antique printing presses in the back of the store, emerged from Sandy’s onslaught with several hundred cases of irreplaceable type soaked with water. The type needed to be dried out, rubbed with isopropyl alcohol to remove salt deposits and then dried again.

Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the Museum of the City of New York and of the South Street Seaport Museum, estimates that it will take millions of dollars to repair the damage inflicted by Sandy. In the meantime, the museum is closed, losing much-needed revenue. But she says she is not discouraged.

At first volunteers at Bowne worked without heat. Now the museum has purchased four generators that have enabled museum

staff and volunteers to continue the cleanup work with less discomfort.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has lent the main museum on Schermerhorn Row a 350-kilowatt generator. In addition, the museum has rented three large heaters capable of warming 36,000 square feet. This will enable the museum to provide climate control for its collections and exhibitions, including “Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,” an exhibit that was organized by the American Folk Art Museum and that was slated to be on view in the Seaport Museum’s galleries through Feb. 3, 2013.

Henshaw Jones says that she hopes the South Street Seaport Museum will be able to reopen in a week to 10 days.

The small steps already taken would not have been possible without donations from people who gave anywhere from $20 to $2,000 to help out.

“If you can help, please visit our website (www.southstreetseaportmuseum. org) or send a contribution to Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund, South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton Street, New York NY 10038,” Henshaw Jones asks. “A gift of any size will be most gratefully appreciated!”

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The assistance may consist of grants for temporary housing, essential home repairs, replacement of personal property or other needs. Donations from charitable organizations also will not affect Social Security payments or Medicare benefits.

Call the FEMA helpline at (800) 621FEMA (3362)or go to a disaster recovery center for more information or to register with FEMA. People with a speech disability or hearing loss can call TTY (800) 462-7585.

Disaster recovery centers are listed online at www.FEMA.gov/DRCLocator.

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Homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage from the hur-

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Andaz Wall St. reopens

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Jeff Miller, the general manager of the Andaz Wall Street hotel at 75 Wall St. grew up in California, where, he said, “The biggest challenge was earthquakes.” When he came to the Andaz he didn’t expect to have to deal with a flood.

But the biggest flood in Lower Manhattan in more than a century awaited him. The Andaz fronts on Water Street. Pearl Street, at a slightly higher elevation, is behind the hotel. On Oct. 29, Sandy’s water coursed through the lobby, reaching Pearl Street. As the water subsided, it left a couple of inches in the lobby but took out the parking garage, meeting rooms and the hotel’s fitness center and spa — all on the lower level.

Miller said he hopes to get them back in three to six months. “It depends on the permitting process,” he said.

Guests were evacuated from the hotel on Oct. 28. The hotel reopened on Nov. 11.

Because of a lack of gas, it did not have food and beverage service until Nov. 14, when it started serving breakfast. Lunch service was restored two days later, and dinner and bar service, this week.

The Andaz plans on offering a multicourse Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 22 from noon to 6 p.m. (at $50 a person), which bespeaks confidence both in the kitchen and in the utilities.

The hotel was lucky in one respect, Miller said. The electrical equipment was on the Pearl

Street side and was not heavily damaged. The explosion of a Con Edison transformer on 14th Street did leave the Andaz without electricity for a week, but as soon as that was fixed, the lights in the hotel came back on.

Verizon phone service still has not been restored. “Verizon says we’ll get our phones back ‘any day,’” said Miller. “They’re communicating with us but I know the problems are pretty massive.”

Despite the delays, he complimented the utilities on their cleanup and restoration work.

“They’ve brought in a lot of people from different areas of the country. It’s just a major effort,” he said. “They’re working very hard.”

Some of the Sandy cleanup crews are staying at the hotel and are likely to be there for six months. Miller said that at the moment, the hotel is full.

“After the storm, we had a lot of vacancies because a lot of people cancelled their trips to New York,” he commented. “But with the storm and the restoration crews here and the utilities and the Mayor’s Office needing housing for displaced residents in the Lower Manhattan area, it created demand.”

Of the hotel’s 253 guest rooms, 70 are currently occupied by people who have been displaced from their apartments and 30 by people who are working on Lower Manhattan restoration.

Miller said they can stay as long as they need to. “We’re getting to December and January,” he observed, “which are typically our lighter seasons.”

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to our mechanical plant during Hurricane Sandy,” said general manager Bozhidar Bachvarov in an email. “Our product – lobby and rooms – were not damaged.” He said that the hotel is well on its way toward repairing and replacing damaged equipment and is “working very hard to be able to re-open at the beginning of December.” He said that the hotel’s reopening rates would be posted on its website at www.thewallstreetinn.com.

The DoubleTree by Hilton Financial District, which is at 8 Stone St. not far from the Wall Street Inn, was evacuated on Oct. 28 and then had to close but has since reopened.

It took on water in the basement, which damaged electrical and boiler room equipment.

To fill its guest rooms again, it is now offering some inducements. Through Dec. 27, guests that book three nights will receive complimentary high-speed Internet and a breakfast buffet. The DoubleTree’s winter package, good from Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, 2013 (except for Feb. 14 to 17), is for those who book two or more nights. They will receive a complimentary breakfast buffet, 15 percent off dinner in the hotel’s Eightstone restaurant and a complimentary warm after-dinner cocktail.

The 217-room W Downtown hotel at 123

Washington St., shuttered on Oct. 28 and reopened on Friday, Nov. 9 along with its BLT Bar & Grill, is also making some concessions.

Tri-State residents displaced by Sandy receive 20 percent off the W’s room rates through Dec. 31, 2012. More information is available on the hotel’s website at www.wnewyorkdowntown.com/.

The 500-room New York Marriott Downtown at 85 West St. is another hotel that had to evacuate its guests on Oct. 28 and then was flooded. Its basement and lobby areas were damaged but none of the guest rooms were affected. Though the hotel is still being repaired, it reopened on Monday, Nov. 12 with limited services. There is no Internet or outgoing phone service. Restaurant and in-room dining services are also not available. The hotel is trying to compensate by serving complimentary coffee and muffins in the lobby.

“We have made modest rate reductions in comparison with our other full-service Marriott hotels in the city,” said Kathy Duffy, director of public relations for the NYC Marriott hotels. “Occupancy has been very good since last week,” she said in an email on Nov. 19. According to Duffy, fullservice hotels usually experience a slight dip in occupancy in the week leading into Thanksgiving. But the Wednesday before Thanksgiving “is the start of the holiday season, for which New York Marriott

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Jeff Miller, general manager of the Andaz Wall Street hotel at 75 Wall St. in the lobby of the hotel, which was being repaired after being damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The hotel was evacuated on Oct. 28 and reopened to guests on Nov. 11.

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Closed & reopened For the second time in two years, the staff of the National Museum of the American Indian housed in the grand Beaux Arts building at Bowling Green was faced with a storm emergency. As had happened during Tropical Storm Irene last year, the approach of Sandy necessitated moving the first-floor exhibits to higher floors of the building in case of a storm surge.

Working through the night of October 29, a team led by Deputy Assistant Director Peter Brill removed 10 life-size mannequins from the Diker Pavilion’s “Circle of Dance” exhibition and carried them to safety.

“The rescue was high drama,” said the museum’s director, Kevin Gover. “At 6 p.m., Consolidated Edison cut off the steam supply to Lower Manhattan, putting the museum building — the historic, old custom house — on back-up generators. During the evening, the building’s steps became a benchmark for television reporters, as the storm surge in New York Harbor overran Battery Park and lapped higher and higher at the base of Broadway. At the peak of high tide, the surge reached 13.3 feet.” He said the surge beat the previous historic high of more than 12 feet recorded in 1821.

Gover said that the water breached the

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sub-basement of the custom house, but it quickly receded. “Deputy Assistant Director Scott Merritt confirmed gallery humidity and temperature readings are within normal ranges and stable,” he said. They continue to be monitored.

Superstorm Sandy knocked out the power, steam heat and the telecommunications system in the building but there was no permanent damage to the museum’s quarters or to the museum’s collection.

Although power was restored to the building on Sunday, Nov. 4, until heat and telecommunications were back, the museum was unable to open to the public. That finally happened on Nov. 14.

The museum’s exciting, once-a-year art market featuring Native American craftsmen and artists from many parts of the United States and beyond is coming up on Dec. 1 and 2. A ticketed preview party on Nov. 30 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. will feature Native

foods and wines, and a demonstration by award-winning beadworker Juanita Growing Thunder (Assiniboine-Sioux). This year’s market includes silver, semi-precious jewelry, ceramics, fine apparel, hand-woven baskets, traditional beadwork, dolls dressed in Native regalia, and paintings, prints and sculpture. To buy tickets, go to http://go.si.edu/artmarket, and use the discount code Downtown.

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Surviving in the Sandy Superdome; We were ignored!

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BY BARRY DROGIN For four days, 220,000 Con Ed customers — how many were households of how many residents, how many were small businesses with how many employees, how many were big businesses with how many employees? — were abandoned and ignored by the media, the government, transportation agencies and — most shockingly — the rest of Manhattan.

Like those in the Superdome after Katrina, we didn’t die. Unlike those in the Superdome, most of us didn’t lose our homes and belongings. But we were all traumatized, whether emotionally, physically or economically, and it was only after a week of neglect that we regained the voice to protest our treatment.

There are heroes and there are villains in this story, but it is the mere fact of telling the story that is significant. We are not vignettes to touch the hearts of readers or viewers — we are a population that was abandoned.

As would be expected, we were stratified by class. Big businesses with large inventories kept their store contents locked behind heavy gates.

Rich folk with second homes packed their bags and left within a day. Some residents had cars, laptops with WiFi, smartphones with data plans. Most local businesses acted as neighbors, selling or giving away their inventory — without price gouging. Some lived in high-rises with no water pressure. Some were older and required buses to travel. It didn’t matter. We didn’t exist.

No one was asking us what we needed. No one was acknowledging we existed. We were a very large number with a vague, far-off date: Friday or Saturday.

For the few who left, there was the fear of looting and break-ins. For the many who stayed, there was the fear of robbery, assault and burglary. But, most importantly, there was the reality of living in the era of communication and being denied access to communication, provided with wrong and useless information, and having no voice.

First, there was the happenstance of geography. On the West Side above 30th St. was a tourist district. On the East Side above 39th St. was a business district. The rest of the city — those areas with supermarkets, fitness centers, working libraries — were buffered from those suffering.

It started with transportation — no subway service below 34th St. Crosstown bus ser-

vice within the blackout zone — no problem.

Uptown and Downtown bus service in and out of the blackout zone — a nightmare.

There was no mail delivery in the blackout zone. Why? Newspapers weren’t delivered to homes or to newsstands. There was no package delivery service.

There were no delivery trucks for the small businesses that stayed open, customers wandering their dark aisles with flashlights. This went on for over four days!

FEMA and the National Guard could have air-dropped supplies.

Where were our elected representatives?

Christine Quinn had a full schedule running around to press conferences. No, not providing information to her constituents, residential and commercial, asking them what they needed, helping get them information and marshaling resources. She was standing behind Mayor Bloomberg at his press conferences — getting into photo-ops with people she did not represent.

Where were the community boards?

(Cancelling meetings, that much is known.)

Where were the block association presidents and business improvement district presidents and local activists? Did they all evacuate?

Thanks to The Villager, I now know where all of my politicians were during the blackout: a mere three blocks away at Westbeth (“Westbeth survives Sandy; Artists toughed out blackout,” notebook, by Kate Walter, Nov. 15). And my local information center? On my corner at Left Bank (“Perry eatery kept the flame burning through the darkness,” news article, Nov. 15).

Did you know that some fitness centers were letting members use their Uptown facilities to shower, but not bring guests, while others opened their doors to anyone?

Did you know that Con Ed was providing one flatbed full of dry ice per day in Union Square?

Did you know that Duracell — which undoubtedly made millions during Sandy — sent one truck to Battery Park City to give out free batteries and provide a charging station?

One truck, for 220,000 who were blacked out?

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Guard didn’t arrive for hours. Why? Why weren’t they accompanied by police sirens blaring? They could have air-dropped supplies from a helicopter.

Most annoying — the constant pleas to go online, visit this Web site, send an e-mail to that address. Where were the banks of Internet terminals? Where were the local information centers? Thousands of residents would have volunteered to staff those centers. Instead, the city mobilized volunteers to remove trees and leaves from city parks. We didn’t exist!

And finally, Con Edison. Five sentences describing what had happened on 14th St.? No, two words — explosion and fire. A timetable, with daily progress reports? Information on who would get power first, in what order, and why? No, instead it was: “Wait for completion until Friday or Saturday.” That did happen. In the meantime, our apartments got colder and colder, our local grocery store shelves were emptied, and the media and our politicians ignored us.

We were in the Sandy Superdome.

I couldn't find my transistor radio. After I finally found spare batteries for my flashlight, the bulb blew. I became my own news source

for my building, The Towers, posting info about the M20 bus versus the M11, the availability of dry ice in Union Square, the free showers from New York Sports Clubs, the chargers at Garbers, the wait times on 311, the M.T.A. bus shutdown at sunset. I climbed up and down the stairs and wandered in and out of the blackout zone, seeking information, Internet and warmth, learning from the school of hard knocks until my ankles ached.

A string of wrong choices made my experience of Sandy more frustrating than it could have been. I even picked the wrong minyan to attend that Friday night: the luck of the Jewish.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half full; the pessimist, half empty; and an engineer, like me, will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Along the way, I learned a few lessons. Maybe I'll have better luck next time, or at least I’ll do a better job of making my own luck.

Drogin is organizing a support group for Far West Village residents traumatized by their experiences during Hurricane Sandy and the blackout. For more information, e-mail barry@ notnicemusic.com .

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During Superstorm Sandy a sign on the grounds of the Jacob Riis public housing complex at E. Sixth St. and the F.D.R. Drive bent but didn’t break in the powerful winds coming off the East River.

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER Arnold Rozon PHOTOGRAPHERS Tequila Minsky Jefferson Siegel Clayton Patterson

CIRCULATION SALES MNGR. Marvin Rock CONTRIBUTORS Ira Blutreich Terese Loeb Kreuzer Patricia Fieldsteel Jefferson Siegel Jerry Tallmer

1 6 November 22 - 28, 2012 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS - Index No.: 77536 Date of Filing: October 19, 2012 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF Cattaraugus BANK OF AMERICA, N.A, Plaintiff, -againstUNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE MARY ALICE SMITH, IF THEY BE LIVING OR DEAD, THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE MARY ALICE SMITH, IF THEY BE LIVING OR DEAD, THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; CUBA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; STATE OF NEW YORK; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Michael L. Nenno of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on August 5, 2010, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Cattaraugus, State of New York.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by MARY ALICE SMITH to SEATTLE MORTGAGE COMPANY in the principal amount of $119,550.00, which mortgage was recorded in Cattaraugus County, State of New York, on June 20, 2007, in INSTRUMENT # 81782-001. The mortgage was then assigned from SEATTLE MORTGAGE COMPANY to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. by assignment of mortgage dated November 10, 2008 and recorded November 14, 2008 in Instrument #111845-001 in the County of Cattaraugus.

Said premises being known as and by 106 South 18th Street, Olean, NY 14760.

Date: October 16, 2012 Batavia, New York Virginia Grapensteter, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 | 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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Joseph Hazan.

Joseph Hazan, 96, artist whose building abutted radicals’ blast OBITUARY Joseph Hazan, a longtime Village resident, died at home on Oct. 27. He was 96.

Born in 1916 in Thessaloniki, Greece (known as Salonica to the Spanish Jewish community there), he came to New York at 4 months old with his mother Delicia and older brother.

The family, which would grow to six children, lived on the Lower East Side and then in Brooklyn. His father started a women’s clothing business, Isaac Hazan and Co., that supplied dresses and skirts to department stores like Orbach’s.

Expected to join the family business, Joe instead at 18 left home to explore the world, hoping to reach Tahiti. His mother sewed $5 into his pants and he learned to ride freight trains with the hobos, reaching as far as California.

Joe returned to New York, where he studied ballet and Indian dance. Through dance he met writer Lincoln Kerstein and the critic Edwin Denby. He worked as an artist’s model at the Art Students League and for the artist Hans Hoffman, who had a school in Provincetown, Mass., where Joe became good friends with a group that included Tennessee Williams. Letters between the two are included in the collected letters of Tennessee Williams; Joe’s notable photographs of Williams and other members of the group have appeared in newpapers, books and other media in recent years.

During World War II, Joe Hazan worked

as a draftsman at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

After a brief early marriage to Sylvia Braverman, he joined the family business where he would work for 20 years. He supervised the workers on the factory floor where he became a favorite of the seamstresses and skirt pressers.

Through the artist and filmmaker Rudy Burkhardt (a friend of Denby’s) he met the artist Jane Freilicher, infamously bringing his pet monkey Geno along on their first date.

He and Freilicher married in 1957 and they bought a house on W. 11th St. They joined a group of artists who spent summers in the Hamptons, where they built a house in 1960.

In 1965, Joe Hazan left the family business and bought two houses on W. Ninth St. that he would sell in the early 1980s.

He studied at the Art Students League with Edwin Dickenson and painted for the rest of his life.

In 1970 Hazan and Freilicher’s house on W. 11th St. was severely damaged when bombs the Weathermen were building in the house next door accidently exploded.

At the time of the bombing Dustin Hoffman was a tenant in their building, living on the ground floor. He was one of many notable tenants of Hazan and Freilicher over the years, including Angela Lansbury and Barbara Harris.

Joe Hazan is survived by his wife Jane and daughter Elizabeth, who is also an artist, and three grandchildren. Also surviving are his brother Murray Hazan of Long Island and sisters Lee Friedman of Long Island and Sally Long of New York City, as well as many nieces and nephews.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Expect invention, passion and authentic theater know-how Less Than Rent’s aesthetic ‘rooted in the notion of the mashup’ THEATER DESIRE! [A VARSOUVIANA]

Written by Rachel Buethe, Patrick Fleury, James Presson Directed by Jenna Grossano Adapted from the plays and journals of Tennessee Williams Presented by Less Than Rent Theatre Company Nov. 29-Dec. 15 Thurs.-Sat., 7pm At UNDER St. Marks 94 St. Marks Place (btw. Ave. A & First Ave.) For tickets ($18, $15 students and seniors), visit horsetrade.info Visit lessthanrent.org

BY MARTIN DENTON (of nytheatre.com and indietheaternow.com) Less Than Rent (LTR) is only two and a half years old. Its three co-artistic directors — James Presson, Rachel Buethe, and Charlie Polinger — are all in their very early 20s.

But do not confuse all this youthfulness for inexperience.

LTR already has five NYC productions behind them, and a brand new show — “Desire! [A Varsouviana]” — is slated to premiere at UNDER St. Marks (in the East Village) on November 29.

Their very first production won two awards at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, and their terrific 2011 show “Friends Don’t Let Friends” was recently published on indietheaternow.com (my website, where you can browse a diverse selection of new American plays).

I advise you to catch these remarkable young artists now, so that you can brag to your friends in ten years that you knew about them before the other 300 million

Photo by Hunter Canning

Hey, Stella: Nicole Ventura and Patrick Fluery star in LTR’s “Streetcar” mashup.

people in America did.

James Presson, the company’s founder, is one of those rare individuals whose talent and energy radiate from him, drawing other talented people to him. I met him as he was preparing to launch LTR at FringeNYC two summers ago, with the punk rock musical “Richard 3” (co-created by Presson and actor Jake Ahlquist).

The show was already getting some prefestival buzz because James, its director/ co-writer, was a 19-year-old rising junior at Fordham University — and the entire cast was comprised of college students.

On one action-packed August evening, I moderated a discussion at the (sadly gone!) Borders Books at Time Warner Center featuring several FringeNYC participants who had adapted classic works for the festival. James was on that panel, holding his own with artists twice or three times his age. And then he and I shot off in a taxi down the West Side Highway to do a second appearance at the Brecht Forum. I was the Emcee of a preview of FringeNYC shows, and James and his LTR colleagues brought the house down with a raucous, rockin’ excerpt from “Richard 3.”

Along with everybody else in the room, I was impressed. I vowed to keep my eye on this young company, and I haven’t stopped watching.

James is from Fairfield County, Connecticut, and he didn’t have any particular interest in theater until his sopho-

more year in high school. The following year, he and several classmates wrote and appeared in a play about Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans called “Voices in Conflict” — which became something of a cause célèbre when the school’s principal canceled the production after objections to its content surfaced.

There was a New York Times story (with James prominently featured in the lead photo), coverage on CNN and, eventually, a production at the Vineyard Theatre. “I got to see what it was like to perform with people who care desperately,” says James. The 16-year-old learned about media and the theater from the inside out — and found his calling.

Three years later, James — in love with the plays of William Shakespeare — submitted an application to the New York International Fringe Festival for “Richard 3.” To make it look impressive, he made up a company name (derived from the fact that the show’s minuscule production budget was smaller than his monthly rent). He also included a full cast list with 20 names on it.

When “Richard 3” got accepted (“the best day of my life,” notes James), he realized that he had to now tell those 20 actors about the show and actually form a company. Colleagues Rachel Buethe (another Fordham student) and Charlie Polinger (who will graduate from Yale next spring) signed on as co-artistic directors. Most of the 20 actors agreed

to appear in the show. Jake Ahlquist, who played Richard, won an acting award from FringeNYC and James won a directing award.

And so, LTR took hold. The company’s aesthetic is rooted in the notion of the mashup, taking classic work from the canon and finding a way to retell it in a way that’s engaging and compelling in this first decade of the 21st century.

“Richard 3” is mostly Shakespeare, remixed. Their next show, “Little Town Blues” (co-written with Buethe) translates Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” to an Iowa girls’ boarding school and the military school across the way. “Friends Don’t Let Friends”(which premiered at Walkerspace in December 2011) morphs Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” into the tale of a young sitcom star who feels trapped in work that doesn’t feel artistically fulfilling to her — and the forthcoming “Desire! [A Varsouviana]” blends “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Tennessee Williams’ own notebooks and journals to explore what James calls the “masochistic autobiographical nature” of the play.

“Less Than Rent addresses the way in which people read classics,” James explains. With “Desire!,” the company is juxtaposing a great American play (all the famous lines are sampled) with Williams’ own internal struggle over whether to lobotomize his sister Rose.

“Our play is Williams’ fever dream about this situation,” says James — who takes the role of the playwright, with Buethe as Blanche and Patrick Fleury as Stanley.

The three are co-authors of the piece, and Jenna Grossano (who played a key role in “Friends Don’t Let Friends”) directs. The show kicks off a three-play season at UNDER St. Marks, where LTR is a resident company with Horse Trade Theater Group. Coming up in April is “Words, Razors, and the Wounded Heart,” a Jacobean tragedy written by James, set in present-day Connecticut.

“Desire!” promises to be one of the most interesting new indie shows of the fall.

What I’ve learned, as I’ve tracked the progress of this extraordinary young company, is to expect invention, passion and authentic theater know-how from these artists.

It’s not just wisdom that comes from the mouths of babes, but also — in this case — a level of professionalism that belies their youth. I’m already a lifelong fan of LTR. If you care about the future of American theater, you need to become one too.

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Art, from B to Z Exhibitions showcase four guys...and a group

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN

KEVIN ZUCKER With a visual language that embraces both the concrete and the artificial, Zucker’s paintings and works on paper explore systems for archiving, storage and display — especially as they pertain to the Internet.

They blur reality and illusion. While his paintings often involve handmade as well as mechanical components, the role of the artist’s “hand” is consciously minimized.

Instead, silkscreen and digital printing techniques offer an unusual sense of immediacy.

Through Dec. 22. At Eleven Rivington (11 Rivington St., btw. Bowery & Chrystie St. and also at 195 Chrystie St, btw. Rivington & Stanton Sts.). Hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm.

Call 212-982-1930 or 212-477-2507. Also visit elevenrivington.com.

GUILLERMO KUITCA This is the first U.S. museum exhibition focusing on a specific selection of paintings made from 2005 to the present. Kuitca’s so-called “Diarios” entails a body of work that originated in 1994. Back then, he began to stretch discarded canvases over an abandoned table from his parents’ garden — and spent months creating intentional and accidental doodles, drawings and recordings on their surfaces. Reminiscent of Dieter Roth’s table mats, these works are highly personal in that they incorporate phone numbers, titles of paintings, email addresses, blank spots where books sat, lists and collaged elements. As a group, they offer an enticing record of the ebb and flow of life — both inside and outside the studio.

Through Dec. 16. At The Drawing Center (35 Wooster St., below Broome St.).

Hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm and Thurs., 12-8pm. Call 212-219-2166 or visit drawingcenter.org.

JOE FYFE In the past, acclaimed New York-based artist, writer and curator Fyfe has worked

Image courtesy of Eleven Rivington

Kevin Zucker’s “Rain (Paradise Cove Towers)” / 2011, acrylic and toner on canvas, 55 1/2 x 73 inches.

with combining more traditional methods of painting with textile collages. The latter were often sparked by his extensive travels to Asia and Europe. More recently, Fyfe’s paintings have become increasingly three-dimensional — or, as he put it, “off the stretcher.” By featuring paintings incorporating found signs and commercial kites (as well as several free-standing sculptures), Fyfe is headed beyond easy categorization.

This amounts to the first major public step towards that new direction.

Through Dec. 15. At White Columns (320 W. 13th St., enter Horatio St., btw.

Hudson & Eighth Ave.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 12-6pm. Call 212-924-4212 or visit whitecolumns.org.

MARK BRADFORD This exhibition features several large-scale abstract paintings rendered in Bradford's signature technique of layering, collaging and décollaging. In this process, physical

Image from the collection of the artist, courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York

Guillermo Kuitca’s “Diario” (1 July-16 October, 2008, mixed media on paper, 47 ¼ inches diameter x 1 5/8 inches deep; 120 x 4.1 cm).

characteristics of source materials are largely preserved, establishing a dialogue between painted gestures and the physicality of found objects. Bradford’s final compositions can evoke aerial maps of mysterious landscapes or urban topographies, for example. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Bradford recently concluded his mid-career survey exhibition, which traveled from the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Through Dec. 22. At Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (530 W. 22nd St., btw. 10th & 11th

Aves.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Call 212-929-2262 or visit sikkemajenkinsco.com.

AROUND THE CORNER Last December, Christopher D’Amelio and Lucien Terras dissolved their longstanding partnership in the acclaimed Chelsea gallery D’Amelio Terras.

Since then, D’Amelio has taken over their formerly shared West 22nd Street space — while Terras has launched a private artist agency, focusing on special projects. The latter now includes an outstanding assemblage of works by four acclaimed Tribeca-based artists: Hermine Ford, Joanne Greenbaum, Continued on page 19

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Bradford, Zucker among top gallery solo shows Continued from page 18

Paul Pagk and Gary Stephan. Equipped with an impeccable eye for innovative contemporary abstract art, Terras’ new program promises to be worth watching.

Open through Dec. 9. At 143 Reade St. (btw. Greenwich & Hudson Sts.) by appointment only. Call 917-517-4929 or visit lucienterras.com.

Artwork Š Mark Bradford / Image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Mark Bradford’s “Father, You Have Murdered Me� (2012, mixed media collage on canvas, 102 x 144 inches; 259.1 x 365.8 cm).

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Gary Stephan’s “The Spine of the Book�

(2012, a/c on canvas, 48 x 40 inches).

Image courtesy of the artist and White Columns, New York

Joe Fyfe’s “Untitled (First kite)� (2012, nylon & wood object, cotton, gauze, paper, ink, watercolor, 56 x 40 inches).

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Written by WALT STEPP Directed by LISSA MOIRA Thurs-Sun, November 23 - December 9 Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm Wed 11/28 and 12/5 at 8pm $15/tdf

GARDEN OF DELIGHTS Written by FERNANDO ARRABAL Directed by ILDIKO NEMETH Performed by NEW STAGE THEATRE COMPANY

Thursday - Sunday, Nov 23 - Dec 2 Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm All Seats $18

RENOVATIONS Written by WILLIAM JESS RUSSELL Directed by MARK GRAHAM & WILLIAM RUSSELL

Thurs - Sun, November 23 - 25 Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm Tickets $10/tdf

THE TENANT

Written by BILL DONNELLY Directed by VINCENT J. BALZANO

Thursday - Sunday, November 23 - December 2 Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm $10/tdf

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

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Looming Large A morose, 600-pound gay recluse knocked down but still kicking THEATER THE WHALE

Through Feb. 9 Tues.-Sat., 7:30pm Sat. at 2pm, Sun. at 2 & 7pm At the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre 416 W. 42nd St. (btw. 9th & Dyer Aves.)

For tickets ($80), visit ticketcentral.com or call 212-279-4200

BY DAVID KENNERLEY Hear the name Shuler Hensley and chances are you think of his comic titular turn in “Young Frankenstein” on Broadway. Fans may also remember he copped the Best Featured Actor Tony for playing the grimy hermit, Jud Fry, in “Oklahoma!” a decade ago.

Now, in “The Whale,” the former opera singer plays an entirely different kind of monster — a profusely sweaty, 600-pound recluse named Charlie who makes a living teaching an online essay-writing class. His crabby nurse, Liz (Cassie Beck), his only friend in the world, brings him fried chicken and meatball subs and monitors signs of imminent heart failure. Spending all day and night on the sagging couch, Charlie can barely stand. He needs a walker just to lumber off to the bathroom. Starved for human affection after the tragic passing of his partner, he’s literally eating himself to death.

To say Hensley’s poignant portrayal is astonishing would be an understatement.

With the aid of prosthetics (a fat suit), he fully inhabits the role with devastating precision. With his bulging, watery eyes, persistent wheezing, and masses of quivering flesh, we want to look away but simply cannot.

Photo by Joan Marcus

Shuler Hensley (left) and Cory Michael Smith in Samuel D. Hunter’s “The Whale,” directed by Davis McCallum.

“The Whale,” written by Samuel D. Hunter (“A Bright New Boise”), is set in present-day Idaho — Mormon country — and is ripe with a dizzying array of plot twists and revelations both richly engrossing and affecting. The dicey dynamics of faith, family, homophobia, altruism, and self-actualization…these are just a few of the themes tackled in this bold, two-hour, intermissionless work.

Charlie’s pathetic routine is thrown into turmoil by several surprise visitors. The first is Elder Thomas (portrayed with finesse by Cory Michael Smith, fresh from his acclaimed turn in “Cock”), who says he’s on a mission from the Mormon Church to convert despair into hope.

Having caught Charlie at a particularly intense moment watching gay porn, Elder Thomas proves to have a few dirty secrets of his own.

Then there’s the sullen, snippy 17-year old Ellie (Reyna de Courcy, who overplays the angry young brat role), Charlie’s estranged daughter who hates him and the rest of the world. Later, his shrill, alcohol-dependent

wife (Tasha Lawrence) makes an unwelcome appearance. She’s hardly seen him since he ran out on her to live with a man years ago.

Under the savvy direction of Davis McCallum, “The Whale” isn’t afraid to dig deep into the muck, both physically and emotionally.

Mimi Lien’s set of a dilapidated abode, bordering on “Hoarders” territory, is meticulously littered with the detritus of Charlie’s sorry semblance of a life –– an old computer monitor (he uses a laptop now), shelves piled with books, forlorn knick-knacks, and tumbleweed-like clumps of dust on the carpet. Is that a case of Velveeta in the kitchen?

Charlie has even fashioned a handy little caddy to hold his television remote control, using cardboard and duct tape. Charlie’s enormous clothes seem permanently stained with oil and perspiration. You can practically smell the rancid pizza boxes.

If you think “The Whale” refers to the morbidly obese Charlie, you’re only partially correct –– Hunter has carefully woven in two iconic

literary whale references that add dimension to the work. One is the biblical story of Jonah, who defied God and was imprisoned in the belly of a whale until he repented.

The other is “Moby-Dick,” the Herman Melville epic (originally titled “The Whale”) of the deluded, futile pursuit of the great unknowable that leads to inevitable doom. As the taught drama unfolds, we see how much Charlie has in common with both of these tales.

What’s more, scene changes are punctuated by the sound of churning ocean waves, in complete darkness.

Just as Elder Thomas believes that God has a plan that He is relentlessly revising, Charlie instructs his students to constantly hone their essays. That is, until he changes tack and urges them to ditch the rules and simply write from the gut, grammar be damned.

When Charlie decides to break a few rules himself and grab one last chance at redemption, the results are at once hopeful and heart-wrenching.

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Just Do Art!

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

B/B/B: BEETHOVEN, BARTÓK & BRAHMS Summertime seems a very long way off at this point, so it’s good to know that seasonal stalwart — the Washington Square Music Festival — isn’t slacking off just because the temperature has dipped below 70. To that end, “B/B/B: Beethoven, Bartók and Brahms” is a free concert performed by their Chamber Ensemble (clarinetist Stanley Drucker, pianist David Oei, violinist Eriko Sato, violist Veronica Salas and cellist Lutz Rath). Selections include Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 and Béla Bartók’s “Contrasts” — the only chamber piece by Bartók to include a wind instrument. Also on the bill: Brahms’ Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello & piano, Op. 114 — which, along with the Bartók selection, will highlight the talents of Stanley Drucker (the New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist, who recently retired after 60 years with the Orchestra).

Free. Fri., Nov. 30, 8pm. At St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (371 Sixth Ave., at Washington Place). For info, visit washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org or call 212-252-3621.

THE SHAOLIN WARRIORS Look, the willpower you demonstrated by putting two scoops of whipped cream on that Thanksgiving dinner pumpkin pie — when every fiber of your being told you to go for three — was very impressive. But that hardly puts you in league with the sober discipline employed by The Shaolin Warriors to achieve their uncanny feats of physical and mental prowess. How do they do it? Not by hoarding Hostess Twinkies, that’s for sure.

This fully choreographed theatrical production will provide some insight, by taking you through a typical day in the life of the Kung Fu Masters (including morning meditation and chants, exercises and synchronized fighting rituals in which the monks use traditional weaponry). By the time they’re done, you just might close your dropped jaw and vow to go the way of the Shaolin Warrior — whose strong mind/strong body philosophy encourages practitioners to be “fast, evasive and efficient while being non-confrontational, focusing not on aggression but self-defense.”

Let us know how that works out!

Sun., Nov. 25, 3pm. At the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts, Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College (2 train to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Ave.). For tickets ($30 for adults, $15 for children 12 and under), order online at brooklyncenteronline.org or call 718-951-4500.

This exhibit features 40 photographs that explore the distortion of time, space and color — illustrating not only the students’ creativity and technical training, but how they view themselves and the world.

Free. Sun., Dec. 2 through Sat., Dec. 8.

At the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, (7 E. 7th St., btw. Third & Fourth Aves.), 2nd floor. Gallery Hours, noon8pm daily. Opening Reception: Sun., Dec. 2, 6:30pm. For info: facebook.com/cooperunion and Twitter, at twitter.com/cooperunion.

THE SHADOW BOX FILM FESTIVAL This first annual installment of the Shadow Box Film Festival is brought to you by several members from the creative team responsible for 2011’s “Kid Shamrock” (sports journalist Bobby Cassidy Jr.’s brooding, often introspective play about the life and boxing career of his southpaw dad).

That “Shamrock” sense of grit, determination and realism — along with the winnertakes-all proposition that makes boxing so attractive to storytellers — is what gives this festival’s selections their universal appeal.

Among the 30 boxing-themed films on the card: “The Good Son” is a documentary about the tragic, legendary 1982 title fight between Ray Mancini and Duk-koo Kim. Another documentary, “Buffalo Girls,” follows two eight-year-olds from rural Thailand who support their families by engaging in Muay Thai boxing. Former pro boxer and current trainer Jeff Leggett is the subject of the short film “Jeffrey” — and Oscar-winning director Leon Gast previews his upcoming documentary about Manny (“The Baddest Congressman on the Planet”) Pacquiao, followed by a Q&A. Fri., Nov. 30 through Sat., Dec. 1. At the SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves.). For tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com or call 800-838-3006. For the schedule of screenings, visit boxingfilmfest.com.

Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Center

Life lessons: Learn from (or just live vicariously through) The Shaolin Warriors.

Photo courtesy of the artist

This photo, part of Ferdy Budhidharma’s “Light Switch” series, is on view Dec. 2-8 at The Cooper Union.

HOW DO WE LOOK? PHOTOGRAPHS

BY ENGINEERING STUDENTS Tech-heads that they are, it's no stretch to imagine how an engineer’s precise nature might be well-suited to less tangible, more ponderous forms of design. “How Do We Look” challenges students of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering to graft their scientific mindsets onto artistic pursuits.

Photo by Sally J. Bair

Clarinetist Stanley Drucker, performing in St. Joseph’s Church with the Washington Square Music Festival Chamber Ensemble.

Photo courtesy of the filmmakers

The Roberto Balado Gym in Havana is featured in “A Fighting Chance” (screening Nov. 30 at the Shadow Box Film Festival).

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PUBL IC NOTICE S NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an on-premise license, #1266544 has been applied for by Art of Mac, Inc. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 34 E. 20th Street New York NY 10003-1321.

Vil: 11/22 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF D&C HOSPITALITY INVESTMENTS, LLC Application for Authority filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/28/12. 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: D&C Hospitality Investments, LLC, 6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1730, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 696 PARTNERS LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/31/12. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Astor Pl., Apt. 2P, NY, NY 10003. 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 US Corp.

Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike, Ste, 301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 470 VANDERBILT PARKING LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/5/12. 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 50 Broadway, 4th Fl., NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 109 WEST 27TH STREET, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/17/12. 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 45 White St., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF GRAND AVENUE FEE OWNER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/24/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/1/12. 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: 11/22 - 12/27/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1022M LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RGN-NEW YORK XIII, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/01/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/18/12. Princ. office of LLC: 15305 Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 400, Addison, TX 75001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 LAW OFFICES OF FRANK TRIEF, PLLC, A PROF. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/16/2012. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Trief, 9 E. 40th St., 16th Fl, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF DEBRISTECH, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Mississippi (MS) on 8/20/10.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Principal office address: 925 Goodyear Blvd., Picayune, MS 39466. Arts of Org. filed with the MS Secretary of State, P.O. Box 136, Jackson, MS 39205. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WESTON BLACKWOOD LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 225 Fifth Ave, Ste 6R, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HLAM DUFFIELD III LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/5/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o LAM Group, 202 Centre St., FL 6, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HENAN DUFFIELD III LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/6/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lam Group, 202 Centre St., 6th Fl., New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GWB AMSTERDAM LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Fifth Ave., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NGC PARTNERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/12. 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 F. Confuorti, 2 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF T2 MULTISPORT NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 429 E. 52nd St., Apt. 15J, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CHILTON GLOBAL NATURAL RESOURCES LONG OPPORTUNITIES, L.P. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/30/12. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/ address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SALAURMOR GP LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/25/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 527 Madison Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF NORTH RIVER I MANAGER LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/25/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o North River I Manager LLC, 224 12th Ave., NY, NY 10001, principal business address. DE address 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: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIMPLEX TIME RECORDER LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/1/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MA on 6/30/12.

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. Principal office address: 1501 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33431. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Sec. of the Commonwealth, One Ashburton Pl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF THREE-HUNDREDTH STREET LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/29/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/18/12.

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: 11/22 - 12/27/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Prince St Pizza Corp. to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 27 Prince Street New York NY 10003.

Vil: 11/15- 11/22/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF INFINITAS, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/12 Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address:140 W. 71st St, #4E New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JCM ASSOCIATES I, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 35 W. 64th St., Apt. 6B/C, 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: 11/15- 12/20/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FLUID NEW YORK LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 22 E 21st St Suite 6-R, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ECW COMMUNICATIONS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/11/2012. 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: Emily Campagna Walsh, 211 North End Ave., Ste. 8Q, 102821227 New York, NY Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 45 MCCLINTON ASSOCIATES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/30/12.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 45 Broadway 25th FL New York, NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALL THE TASTES OF NEW YORK, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/17/12 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: All The Tastes of New York, LLC 228 E 36th St., Apt 5D, New York, NY 10016.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PREMIUM CONSULTING GROUP LLC Arts of Org. filed with Secy, of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/03/2012. Off. loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Justin Kohn, 211 N. End Avenue 22-B,NY, NY 10282. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF FEIL 3500 SUNRISE ASSOCIATES LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/9/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Feil Organization, 7 Penn Plaza, Ste. 618, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: United Corporate Services, 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: 11/15- 12/20/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADP12 LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Reid A. Rosen, Esq., 15 Wilputte Place, New Rochelle, NY 10804, the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NAME OF LLC: MIDMARKET DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/10/12.

Office loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PARK LANE HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/22/12.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Vano Haroutunian, 729 7th Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil: 11/15- 12/20/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by SOH Peace, Inc. d/b/a Fukurou to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 87 MacDougal Street New York NY 10012.

Vil: 11/08- 11/15/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Name: HSP PARTNERS LLC. Application for Authority was filed by the Department of State of New York on: 10/24/2012. Jurisdiction: Delaware. Organized on: 10/17/2012. Office location: County of New York.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 325 Canal Street, #2, New York, NY 10013. Address of office required to be maintained in Delaware National Corporate Research, Ltd. 615 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901. Authorized officer in its Jurisdiction is: Secretary of State of Delaware John G. Townsend Building, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JE RED HOOK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/2012. 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 VE Equities LLC, 12 Mercer St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HUA FANG USA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 261 5th Ave., Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HPS 50TH AVENUE OWNER LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 1080 AMSTERDAM GREEN LENDER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/21/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 9/17/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19901.

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

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 619 WEST 54 FUNDING LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/20/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 9/14/12. 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: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 78 RPM OWNER LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/19/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/29/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 902 Broadway, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10010. 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: 11/08- 12/13/2012

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 21E66 LT INVESTOR LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/9/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 10/1/12. 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: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 21E66 UT INVESTOR LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/9/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 10/1/12. 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: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 21E66 MM INVESTOR LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/9/12. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 10/1/12. 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: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF AXONIC RESIDENTIAL ASSETS FUND I, LP Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/11/12. Office loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 4/10/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Clayton DeGiacinto, 489 Fifth Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil: 11/08- 12/13/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIBECA GLOBAL HOLDINGS, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 68 White Street New York, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

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PUBL IC NOTICE S TRANSPARENCV, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/7/12. Office in NY Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mayer Rosenzweig 115 W 73rd St. Apt. 8A New York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TL 109TH STREET LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/2012. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 178 East 109th Street, New York, NY 10029.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 3SHANTI LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/10/12. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 630 First Ave. 16S, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 BENCH EQUITY 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: Ronnie Ann Powell, Esq., Bressler, Amery & Ross, PC, 17 State St., NY, NY 10004.

General Purposes.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HPS BORDEN AVENUE LIHTC ASSOCIATES LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/15/12. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LUXURY LIVING OF NEW YORK, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Giuliano Iannaccone, Esq., Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, 1350 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CLARIS ADVISORS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/12. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Managing Member, Advisory Holdings, LLC, 1375 Broadway, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TD PRIVATE CLIENT WEALTH LLC Authority filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office Location: New York County. LLC formed in DE on 7/13/12. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to its DE address: CSC 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Certificate of Formation filed with DE Secretary of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: A MAN OF ALL SEASONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 288 West Street, Suite 3E, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 QUALIFICATION OF HALCYON ALST BLOCKER LLC Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/12. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/19/11. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE address of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ETF SERVICE PROVIDER, LLC App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 7/27/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the TX address of LLC: 300 Crescent Court, Ste. 650, Dallas, TX 75201. Arts. of Org. filed with TX Secy. of State, 13679, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 28 WEST 12TH STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/12. Off. loc.: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 34 W. 12th St., NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil: 10/25 - 11/29/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS (E&P) GCIP, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/1/12. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 9/26/12.

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

Purpose: 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

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 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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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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 FORMATION OF 2000 BROADWAY NEW YORK LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/11/12.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 155 W. 68th St., Unit 304, NY, NY 10023.

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. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vill: 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 SQUIGGLE CONSULTING LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/15/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/11/12.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 7 E. 14th St., Ste. 1205, NY, NY 10003, principal business address. DE address 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.

Vill: 11/01 - 12/06/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SOUTHERN LAND COMPANY, LLC Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/15/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in TN on 6/20/95.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the TN and principal business address: 1550 W McEwen Dr., Ste. 200, Franklin, TN 37067. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Cert. of Org. filed with TN Sec. of State, 312 8th Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37243. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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between Houston and Canal Sts. Advocates claim that a BID will be the only effective solution to problems facing that increasingly crowded stretch of blocks — specifically, traffic and pedestrian safety, overflowing garbage cans and trash-covered streets, large numbers of street vendors who fail to operate within city regulations, and infrastructure in need of repairs.

Those opposed to the plan claim just the opposite — that the BID would create an unnecessary tax burden on many community members, and that the above problems could be adequately taken care of through relationships between property owners, businesses, Community Board 2, city agencies, law enforcement and other civic organizations.

A business improvement district is essentially a public-private partnership that collects annual fees from property owners to pay for local improvements.

The BID’s current plan would set its first annual budget at $550,000. Originally, that figure was planned to be $700,000, but it was scaled back last year after widespread community opposition.

Owners of commercial and mixed-use properties in the district would pay the BID an average of roughly $6,700 per year under the current plan; owners of commercial ground-floor condo units would pay an average of nearly $3,000 per year; and owners of commercial upper-floor condo units would pay an average of about $650.

Residential condos and co-ops would only be assessed a symbolic $1 annual fee under the current plan. In a previous version of the plan, residential co-ops would have been assessed similarly to commercial properties, but that was also changed last year.

Even though nearly 86 percent of the BID’s annual budget would come from owners of commercial and mixed-use rental properties, according to the city’s Department of Small Business Services, opponents of the plan maintain that it focuses too much on helping developers and corporations at the expense of small businesses.

“Why burden struggling small businesses on the upper floors to benefit Giorgio Armani on the bottom floor?” said Sean Sweeney, director of the community activist group the Soho Alliance, at Tuesday’s hearing.

Sweeney and his allies also strongly believe that, rather than looking out for the best interests of the neighborhood as a whole, the creators of the Broadway Soho BID merely wish to promote more tourism — even though proponents of the plan have repeatedly denied that outright, and have removed any mention of tourism from the current plans.

“But that’s their goal, even if they say it’s not,” said Peter Davies, another BID opponent, at the Council hearing. “It’s a bad plan that would pass costs on to tenants and divide our community.”

Barbara Cohen, a consultant for the BID, called Sweeney’s and Davies’s portrayals

residents should be given greater voting power on the BID’s board of directors than nonresident property owners. An S.B.S. representative responded by saying that that arrangement would be unprecedented for a New York City BID, but that it could be explored in future talks between the Council, S.B.S. and the BID. Brian Steinwurtzel, the chairperson of the BID’s steering committee, said at Tuesday’s hearing that the plan “doesn’t seem so controversial,” given the committee’s figures that show just slightly more than 80 percent support from tax lots that have responded to the city’s required ballots for BIDs, a so-called “needs assessment survey.”

In keeping with the generally inflammatory nature of the debate, Steinwurtzel went on to say that the BID would have received much more support by now, particularly from Community Board 2 and elected officials, if it weren’t for the “false claims” spread by Sweeney and his cohorts.

Brad Hoylman, the newly elected state Senator and former chairperson of C.B. 2, attended Tuesday’s hearing to speak forcefully against the BID proPhotos by Sam Spokony posal. Assemblymember Deborah Glick From left, Sean Sweeney, Peter Davies and Jamie Johnson testified against the and state Senator Daniel Squadron sent Broadway Soho BID proposal before the City Council’s Committee on Finance on similarly negative statements, which were read by aides.

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Councilmember Domenic Recchia, chairperson of the Finance Committee, said on Tuesday that a final public hearing will likely be scheduled for January. After that, community members will have 30 days to submit statements for or against the BID proposal, before the Council finally votes on whether or not to approve the plan.

BID BACKER A CONVICTED FELON After Tuesday’s hearing, Sweeney provided this newspaper with documents showing that Alan Ballinger, a member of the BID’s steering committee, was convicted of fraud in 1987.

Ballinger, who was formerly a New York State lawyer, pled guilty to a felony charge that resulted in him being immediately disbarred, according to legal documents that are also publicly available online.

The fraud charge stemmed from actions Ballinger took in 1984 and 1985 to gain about $500,000 in loans by providing false income tax returns, as well as fraudulently notarizing legal documents in order to expedite a $2.8 million loan, according to court documents. Ballinger faced a sentence of two months in prison, but ultimately Barbara Cohen, a consultant for the BID, attempted to rebut the virulent opposition with received 60 days’ home detention. He was her own presentation to the Council, alongside members of the BID’s steering committee. placed on probation for five years.

According to a decision written by a State Supreme Court judge, it was deterunfair and inaccurate, saying that the BID planning committee is comprised equally of mined that Ballinger’s “fraudulent acts were motivated by greed.” would play a vital role in identifying and residential and commercial interests.

Last year Ballinger wrote several letters serving the needs of a district that she charTo that end, Margaret Chin — currently acterized as “suffering a lot of abuse” from the only local elected official who sup- to The Villager in support of the BID, idenpiled-up garbage and traffic congestion. ports the Broadway Soho BID — said in tifying himself as president of the condo She also fired back against claims that remarks at the start of the Council hearing board at 40 Mercer St. Ballinger did not respond to a request for the BID would only cater to developers or that, if the BID is eventually approved, she big business interests, saying that the BID’s believes property owners who are also Soho comment.

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