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High-powered panel is judging designs for AIDS memorial

BY ALBERT AMATEAU A blue-ribbon panel of architects, designers and AIDS activists is conducting a competition for an AIDS memorial in the planned triangle park across from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus in Greenwich Village.

Michael Arad, who won the design competition for the national 9/11 Memorial at the former World Trade Center site, will head a jury soliciting and judging designs for an AIDS memo-

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Trustee Emeritus Milton Glaser, who designed the “I at Monday night’s meeting.

♥ N Y” logo, was among the Cooper Union alumni who spoke

Cooper alums try to engineer a solution to keep school free

BY AIDAN GARDINER The financial crisis facing Cooper Union has some people lashing out in anger and others trying to find a calmer solution, but it seems like everyone in the school is determined to avoid charging tuition.

At the end of October, Cooper’s president, Jamshed Bharucha, announced that the school was considering charging tuition for the first time in roughly a century because a decade of financial difficulties had ballooned the school’s annual deficit to some $16 million.

Many — both within the school and without — were shocked by the news because Cooper had long been lauded for its financial prudence.

Now, students, faculty and alumni are trying to both make sense of the problem and fix it without charging

tuition because they see the free education Cooper provides as essential to the school’s success.

Doing their part, alumni hosted a forum at Cooper’s Great Hall on Monday. Some speakers pored over financial tables and others reaffirmed in impassioned written statements their commitment to what they see as the fundamental principles of Cooper Union.

“It’s not that Cooper Union holds up free education — but that free education holds up The Cooper Union,” said David Gersten, an architecture professor at the school and an alumnus.

Milton Glaser, a Cooper alumnus who famously designed the “I ♥ N Y” logo in the 1970s, briefly spoke.

“Thank you all for being here and demonstrating your affection and love

for this school,” Glaser said. “I feel the same way.”

Unlike the community conversation with Cooper board Chairperson Mark Epstein at the Great Hall a month earlier, the three-hour alumni forum proceeded without incident, save for several hecklers who occasionally punctuated the otherwise calm discussion.

When Peter Cafiero, Cooper’s alumni association president, said that it wasn’t the time to look for fault in the past, but instead forward to a solution, Professor Roderick Knox repeatedly shouted, “Accountability!” before starting to leave. When another man in the audience loudly scolded Knox, the two briefly argued, but quickly stopped to allow Cafiero to continue.

rial in the park. A park at the site is mandated as part of Rudin Management’s residential redevelopment of the St. Vincent’s site.

Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, museums in Barcelona and Frankfurt and the Westbeth artists residence in the West Village, is another member of the panel.

Elizabeth Diller, a Princeton architecture pro-

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O.W.S. hits the wall again; Hunger strike gets stuffed

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON AND JEFFERSON SIEGEL They’ve tried breaking in, and they’ve tried appealing to the conscience of Trinity Church. Neither worked.

Last Saturday, members of Occupy Wall Street tried a new tactic to gain access to the open lot owned by Trinity at Canal St. and Sixth Ave. — forgoing food.

Just after 1 p.m. on Saturday, three men sat down on the tan-covered

gravel outside the wooden fence ringing the lot, which is adjacent to Duarte Square, and commenced a hunger strike. With a sign propped up next to them reading, “Hunger Strike Day 1,” Brian Udall, 18, from Montana; and Diego Ibanez, 23, and Shae Willes, 22, both from Utah, appeared calm, composed and determined.

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Fracking opponents demand buffer zone be made bigger lions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals and sand under high pressure to fracture shale formations to release methane gas. The process calls for drilling down between 5,000 and 8,000 feet to the Marcellus Shale, then drilling horizontally for several thousand feet into the formation to be fracked.

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection submitted testimony that the 1,000-foot buffer zone would not mitigate the risks of methane gas intrusion into water tunnels and shafts.

Albert Appleton, former commissioner of the city D.E.P., called for a minimum buffer zone of one mile. Going even farther, environmental consultants Hazen and Sawyer have called for a seven-mile buffer zone around the city’s water deliver infrastructure.

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, chairperson of the Assembly Health Committee, said fracking would imperil water supply and the environment. “It is also clear that drilling operations and associated major truck traffic would have serious harmful environmental impacts,�

Gottfried said. “If hydrofracking is not safe for the New York City watershed area — and it is not — then it is also not safe for any area where people drink groundwater,� Gottfried said.

Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, where fracking has been conducted for nearly three years, have discovered their well water has been contaminated with gas.

BY ALBERT AMATEAU The proposed New York State rules for natural gas drilling by horizontal hydraulic fracturing brought scores of opponents and a few supporters to a hearing at Borough of Manhattan Community College last week.

Environmental advocates and New York City elected officials say the relatively new drilling method known as fracking presents potentially devastating risks to water resources, air quality and the quality of life, especially in the state’s Southern Tier of counties bordering Pennsylvania, where the gas-bearing Marcellus Shale formation lies more than a mile below the surface.

Indeed, the state Department of Environmental Conservation last year took the Catskill/Delaware watershed, which supplies drinking water to about 10 million New York City and Westchester residents, out of consideration for fracking.

Nevertheless the proposed rules call for only a 1,000-foot buffer zone between fracking operations and watershed infrastructure.

Borough President Scott Stringer told the Nov. 30 D.E.C. hearing that the 1,000-foot buffer would not protect water supplies from potential damage. “I am deeply concerned that this inadequate buffer zone could compromise the purity of the city’s unfiltered drinking water and gravely damage our water delivery infrastructure,� Stringer said.

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On Wednesday, “Fracktivist� Ekayni Chamberlain dropped off a “message in a bottle� — toxic fracked water from the Sautners’ well in Damascus, Penn. — and a letter for Governor Cuomo at his Midtown office. The “deep house� singer has held a silent vigil outside Cuomo’s office every Monday for the past two months.

But oil and gas industry advocates contend that the U.S. could become energy self-sufficient and improve air quality with relatively clean-burning natural gas. The reserves of methane gas in various shale formations in the U.S. would rival Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves, according to gas industry sources.

Supporters also declare that gas drilling would pump millions of dollars into the state’s economy in taxes, employment and land leases to property owners.

The Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York told the D.E.C. Nov. 30 hearing that the proposed rules were too onerous and would limit opportunity for Upstate communities to share in the new drilling’s economic benefits. “Without moderation, these wellintentioned but unnecessarily burdensome requirements will prove to be a regulatory monument to lost opportunity,� said Brad Gill, the association’s executive director.

But environmental advocates say the proposed rules were really drafted by the gas industry, and that D.E.C. lacks the staff to enforce them.

The Delaware River Basin Commission, composed of the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, cancelled a vote on fracking in the river basin scheduled for Nov. 21 after Jack Markell, Delaware’s governor, said he would vote no.

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Cooper Union alumni grapple with threat of tuition Continued from page 1 Other speakers included Che Perez, a representative of the student government, school administrators and Professor Peter Buckley, who provided a historical context for the current predicament facing the school.

In Buckley’s view, administrators and trustees have adopted the same expansionist attitudes of other universities and that has endangered Cooper Union.

“Much of the administration of American higher education is concerned with public relations, and I think one thing we’ve done is join that tendency, rather than seeing what makes us unique,” Buckley said.

Kerry Carnahan, an alumna and one of the principal organizers of the forum, said she’d lost sleep recently because events at the school have demanded so much of her time. She works as a civil servant, but when she heard about Cooper Union’s troubles she felt that she had to help in some way because of her deep affection for her former college.

“We have a different relationship to this institution than someone who pays, say, $50,000 to go to Barnard,” Carnahan said. “This school represents a dream and you’re invited to participate in it. To see a price tag put on that is very frustrating.”

Kevin Slavin, an alumnus and adjunct professor, said that he hadn’t donated to Cooper because he didn’t feel the school

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Benjamin Degen, Cooper Union Class of ’98, spoke on “Affirmation of Core and Guiding Principles.” He’s an alumnus, his parents are alumni, he’s married to an alumna and he also teaches at Cooper Union.

was transparent enough about its finances.

Slavin, who is also an entrepreneur, said that when he asked some accountants he works with to investigate Cooper’s finances, they told him, “We’ve never seen something this f----- up without being deliberately obstructive.”

Slavin also took issue with Epstein’s characterization of alumni who don’t donate as “failed investments.”

“Three days ago Cooper Union asked me for $10,000 and I brought that here tonight,” Slavin said as he took a check out of his back pocket.

“To President Jamshed Bharucha and Chairman Mark Epstein, the money is on the table and we’ll see whose investment fails whom.”

Barry Drogin, a West Village resident and Cooper alumnus, has started up an

online newsletter, The Alumni Pioneer, to keep the Cooper community abreast of developments.

Following Monday night’s meeting, The Alumni Pioneer reported, “In a surprise move, President Bharucha announced an address to the Cooper community in the Great Hall at noon on Tues., Dec. 13. This is three days before the board of directors was supposed to deliver an analysis of the consolidated financial statements to the Cooper community. The subject of the address has not been revealed.”

Jolene Travis, a Cooper Union spokesperson, said her understanding was that Bharucha’s address was “internal” — for faculty, students, administrators and alumni — and not open to the press or general public.

Karina Tipton, a member of Cooper Union’s Alumni Council, gave welcoming remarks.

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O.W.S. hits the wall; Hunger strike gets stuffed Continued from page 1 pressure until they agree to let us use this unused land,” Ibanez said, referring to Trinity Wall Street, which includes both Trinity Church and Trinity Real Estate.

One of Manhattan’s largest landholders, Trinity plans to eventually build a residential tower with a school in the base on the site. But the lot currently sits vacant pending Trinity’s effort to rezone it from manufacturing use to allow both residential use and the school.

The lot — located next to Duarte Square — was the first outdoor space the O.W.S. movement tried to occupy after its eviction from Zuccotti Park early on the morning of Nov. 15. After the occupiers entered the Hudson Square lot that morning, police moved in and arrested those inside, including several journalists with New York Police Departmentissued press passes.

“Hunger strikes are to protest repression,” Udall said. “This is an answer back. Eviction is a serious thing. So we are doing a hunger strike, which is also a serious thing.”

“Trinity needs to understand this benefits both of us,” Ibanez said while pulling on layers of clothing against the deepening chill.

“We’re going to open up this space to the community. If Trinity’s onboard with our message, this is their chance to prove it.

“Have faith in Occupy Wall Street,” he declared, a clear appeal to religiously

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On Saturday, three young Midwesterners, from left, Brian Udall, 18, Diego Ibanez, 23, and Shae Willes, 22, started a shortlived hunger strike outside the Trinity lot at Canal St. and Sixth Ave.

based Trinity.

The three spent the night wrapped in blankets, accompanied by three other supporters.

At noon on Sunday, police arrested the trio. They were charged with trespassing, held for five hours and released. While in jail they refused food. The three fulfilled a pledge they made on the hunger strike’s first day to return to Duarte Square after any arrest. They were arrested there again late Sunday night and charged with trespassing.

Saying it wanted to more “clearly demarcate” its property, on Monday Trinity had a contractor install a new chain-link fence extending out to the curb of the small street that separates the public Duarte Square from Trinity’s privately owned lot.

Duarte Square is a brick-paved plaza that is under Parks Department jurisdiction.

The Trinity lot is currently fenced in and leased on a temporary basis to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. L.M.C.C. is using the lot for “LentSpace,” an ongoing public-art program, which is currently closed since it’s a seasonal program, according to Trinity.

According to the contractor who was overseeing the fence construction on Monday, the unused single-lane street is actually part of the Trinity property, but had to be left unfenced because it’s a fire lane, sporting two fire hydrants.

On Nov. 15, O.W.S. members had entered the “LentSpace” lot by climbing over the wooden fence on its eastern side, as well as walking through a man-sized hole they clipped with bolt cutters in the chain-link

fence on the lot’s southern side.

On Monday, the contractor noted that Trinity had told him to fix up another hole that someone — presumably O.W.S. members — had clandestinely cut in the chainlink fence on the lot’s western side.

“They have a little hole going on the Varick St. side,” he said with a grin.

Actually, it was a pretty big hole, about 5 feet high by 1 1/2 feet wide. Using a sort of “occupation laparoscopic surgery,” the person or persons had apparently been poking their cutting tool through a 1-inch square hole in the green mesh scrim that currently rings the lot, no doubt hoping that their handiwork would remain hidden behind the scrim until the moment was deemed right to make another try at occupying the property. The contractor had patched this new hole with some more chain-link fencing that morning, adding that Trinity officials had stressed to him to lock the gate right behind him when he entered so that no O.W.S. protesters could sneak in.

The contractor noted that he had also reinforced the lot’s wooden wall a couple of days before the Nov. 15 Zuccotti Park eviction — so apparently Trinity had been tipped off and was readying for the possibility that O.W.S. would be trying to storm the Canal St. lot to make it its next “tent city” encampment. He pointed to plywood that his workers had, at that time, put up behind the wooden fence to bolster it and to 2-by-4 boards that they had nailed onto the wall’s benches to prevent the wooden fence – which has rotating panels — from

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POLICE BLOTTER Grand St. fire Fire broke at 319-321 Grand St. at Orchard St. around 3 a.m. Sat., Dec. 3, and went to two alarms, bringing three companies to the scene. Firefighters brought the blaze under control in about an hour and residents were allowed to return to retrieve possessions. There was extensive damage and the cause of the fire remains to be determined. But the five-story 1886 castiron building was said to be structurally sound. Built for Ridley & Sons Department Store, the building is under consideration for landmark status.

Burglary arrest Police arrested Jorge Molina, 22, on Nov. 20 and charged him with breaking into Souen, the restaurant at 28 E. 13th St., around 4:23 a.m. Nov. 14 and stealing about $670 from various cash registers.

Surveillance video shows Molina in the place at the time rummaging though the cash registers and kicking down a door, according to the complaint filed with the Manhattan district attorney. Molina was easy to spot because of a bird tattoo on his face. Police are still investigating a possible accomplice in the Souen burglary.

they broke into an apartment on Greenwich Ave. at 12:15 a.m. while the residents were sleeping, and stole a PlayStation, a watch and DVDs.

Wandering shoplifts Two men who were observed walking in and out of Soho boutiques on Friday afternoon Dec. 2 were arrested at 1:15 p.m. in Palmer Trading Co. trying to walk out of the shop at 137 Sullivan St. between Prince and Houston Sts. without paying for three sweaters, police said.

The suspects, Tracey McKeever, 23, and Darwell Jones, 24, both wanted on previous warrants, were also in possession of stolen Prada sunglasses and an iPhone, police said.

Seek Village cat burglars Police are looking for two men wanted in a series of Village apartment burglaries via windows at fire escapes. The first incident was at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 in an apartment on W. Eighth St. Over the following two weeks the pair hit apartments on Bleecker, W. 10th and W. 11th Sts. and Greenwich Ave., making off with electronics and cash. On Oct. 27

iPhone muggers Transit police arrested two suspects, one 15 and the other 16 years old, around 8:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 30, for pushing a woman victim, 31, to the floor in the IND station on Sixth Ave. at 14th St. and stealing her iPhone. A third suspect, identified as Rafael Hernandez, 17, is also being sought.

Sporty shoplifters Two women walked into the Moncler boutique at 90 Prince St. near Mercer St. around 6:40 p.m. Sun., Nov. 27, took a jacket with a fur collar valued at $2,100 from a rack, and walked out with it in a shopping bag without paying, police said.

Fare-beating robber Jonathan Valena, 31, was arrested at 4:35 a.m. Sun., Dec. 4, on the southbound platform of the Seventh Ave. subway station at Christopher St. after he jumped a turnstile and attacked a 22-year-old victim and attempted to steal his cell phone, police said.

The suspect had two glassine bags, one with crack cocaine and the other with marijuana, in his pocket in addition to marijuana and crack pipes, police said.

Burger-bash verdict After 11 days of testimony, a grand jury on Fri., Dec. 2, decided not to indict Rayon McIntosh, 31, the cashier at the McDonald’s at W. Third St. and Sixth Ave. for assaulting two woman on Wed., Oct. 11, of last year. He claimed the women leaped over the counter and cursed and spit at him because he examined a $50 bill they had paid him. A YouTube video shows McIntosh picking up a metal rod and beating the two women.

McIntosh is on parole from an 11-year prison sentence for manslaughter. He told the Daily News he was contemplating a civil lawsuit against McDonald’s for not having security guards on hand during the incident.

and shoving police who were breaking up a brawl in front of 409 W. 13th St. Ossolinsky was also charged with resisting arrest for grabbing and holding on to an officer’s coat to avoid being handcuffed.

Kicked out window Police arrested Ovalle Quiros, 32, who gave an Orlando, Florida, address, for criminal mischief for kicking out a door window at 68 Christopher St. shortly after 9 p.m. Tues., Nov. 29. Quiros was yelling and cursing at the time, police said.

Friday night mayhem Sasha Washington, 25, was arrested at 12:35 a.m. Fri., Dec. 2, for punching a man, 51, in the head in front of 108 Seventh Ave. South.

Police arrested a 23-year-old woman, Caresse Singh, in the crowded Comedy Cellar club, 117 MacDougal St., at 11:20 p.m. Fri., Dec. 2, for reckless endangerment for pulling the fire alarm in the place.

Resisting arrest Thomas Ossolinsky, 21, was charged with obstructing government administration at 4:28 a.m. Sun., Dec. 4, for pushing

Car break-in A woman visiting from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, parked her car in front

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of 50 Vandam St. at Varick St. around 12:05 a.m. Sat., Dec. 13, closed the windows and locked the door and went to a party in the neighborhood. She returned at 4:30 a.m. to find a window broken and her backpack — containing her cellphone, laptop computer, jewelry and her wallet with credit cards, all with a total value of $2,760 — had been stolen.

Shady Chanel thief A woman entered the Chanel boutique at 139 Spring St. near Wooster St. around 4:52 p.m. Sat., Nov. 26, took a handbag valued at $3,900 from a display, tucked it into a bag she was carrying and walked out without paying, police said. A surveillance camera taped the theft but it was too far away for an identifiable image of the suspect, police said.

Bag bummer A woman visiting from Ontario went shoe shopping at Steve Madden, 529 Broadway near Spring St., around 4:50 p.m. Fri., Nov. 25, put her bag on the floor next to her to try on a pair of shoes, and discovered five minutes later that the bag was stolen.

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Expert panel judging designs for hoped-for memorial Continued from page 1 fessor and a member of the firm designing the High Line park, is also on the panel, along with Robert Hammond, co-founder of Friends of the High Line.

Barry Bergdoll, architecture and design curator at the Museum of Modern Art; Marjorie Hill, chief executive officer of Gay Men’s Health Crisis; Ken Smith, a landscape architect; Suzanne Stephens, deputy editor of Architectural Record: choreographer Bill T. Jones; and Kurt Andersen, the journalist and novelist, complete the jury.

The AIDS Memorial Park Steering Committee, organized by members of the Queer History Alliance, the competition’s sponsor, is hoping for a redesign of the park, which is currently included in the city ULURP review of Rudin’s proposed 450-apartment project on the east side of Seventh Ave. The current design proposed by Rudin is for a triangular park bounded by 12th St. and Seventh and Greenwich Aves. An existing 10,000-square-foot, underground space beneath the Seventh Ave. side of the triangle would be eliminated to allow the proposed park to be at sidewalk level. In connection with the residential redevelopment on the east side of the avenue, Rudin is contributing $10 million to build the park on the west side of the avenue.

The existing triangle, not publicly accessible, is about 4 feet above sidewalk level because of

A rendering of Rudin Management’s design for a park at the open-space triangle at Greenwich and Seventh Aves. and W. 12th St. The view is of an entrance that would be at the park’s southern corner.

the existing underground space that formerly served a materials-handling facility for the nowshuttered hospital. The current design calls for removal of both the materials-handling building and a storage area for oxygen tanks.

Michael Seltzer, chairperson of the AIDS Memorial Park Steering Committee, told the City Planning Commission last week that several Village organizations have signed on in support of the AIDS Memorial with the under-

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ground space preserved as a teaching and community meeting center.

Service institutions, including VillageCare, Greenwich House, Housing Works and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, and neighborhood organizations, including the Lower 13th St. Block Association and the Lower Fifth Ave. Block Association, are backers of the AIDS Memorial, Seltzer said. Among those that also endorse the proposal are Gay Men’s

Heath Crisis, the L.G.B.T. Community Center, the Stonewall Community Foundation, Bailey House and amFAR (Foundation for AIDS Research).

“In my outreach to my neighbors, a number have expressed how there is a shortage of community meeting space,” Seltzer said. “For example, Christine Conroy, a founder and director of Music Give Life and its senior citizen preforming group, The Show Stoppers, shared with me how the group needs space for evening rehearsals.

“That’s just one example of how the proposed 10,000-square-foot learning center and community gathering place can serve our neighborhood,” he said.

The Nov. 30 City Planning hearing was the midpoint in the review of Rudin’s residential project and the triangle across the avenue.

Borough President Scott Stringer acknowledged at the hearing that the AIDS Memorial Park plan was “not only a an appropriate but a laudable endeavor to find a way to commemorate those who have been lost to, those who lived through, and those who continue to live with the epidemic.” But Stringer stopped short of making the AIDS Memorial Park a condition of his approval of the Rudin project.

“Unfortunately, proposals to introduce a new use on the triangle site or to significantly redesign the park after the design process will require the modification of the special permit in a follow-up action,” Stringer noted in his testimony.

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Special commissioner clears L.E.S. school of theft

BY ALINE REYNOLDS Parents and administrators of the Lower East Side’s Shuang Wen School (P.S. 184) have been cleard of allegations of theft by the city, according to a report issued last week by the Department of Education’s Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation.

The Nov. 30 report, addressed to city Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, was the result of a year and a half of allegations involving robbery of school donations, funds intended for an annual school field trip to China and other serious charges made by a group of concerned parents starting in 2008.

The S.C.I. report comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by another Shuang Wen parents’ group against D.O.E. last summer demanding an end to the slew of ongoing department-initiated investigations.

The report also marks a conclusion to S.C.I.’s investigations. However, the special commissioner’s probes are separate from D.O.E.’s numerous investigations of Shuang Wen, which are still ongoing, according to D.O.E. spokesperson Matthew Mittenthal.

While D.O.E. acknowledges that certain allegations of financial wrongdoing proved false in the S.C.I. report, Mittenthal cited several other improprieties the S.C.I. found the school to be guilty of.

S.C.I. Commissioner Richard Condon’s findings, Mittenthal said, “show that standard operating procedures, chancellor’s

regulations, and city Conflicts of Interest Law were repeatedly violated — specifically with regard to financial management of the school.”

‘We’ve maintained all along that there’s no missing money and no financial wrongdoing at all.’

Vincent Wong

For example, the transfer of $81,000 worth of funds from Shaung Wen’s Parent Association to the Shuang Wen Academy Network, the school’s after-school program, went through without the necessary approval of the Parent Association. Certain monies were also improperly deposited in the school’s general school funds account, and there was a lack of sufficient documentation for the school’s collection of grant money, according to the report.

“The S.C.I. report finds that grants of $10,000 or more were obtained without

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reporting to or processing through D.O.E.,” Mittenthal said. “This constitutes a serious violation of [the Standard Operations Procedures Manual] protocol, which says that all gifts exceeding $1,000 and all grants must be reported to D.O.E.’s senior grants officer.”

Despite findings of certain improper activity, Shuang Wen parent Vincent Wong and others deemed the S.C.I. report to be a “positive.”

“We’ve been maintaining all along that there’s no deficiency, no missing money and no financial wrongdoing at all,” said Wong. “In light of this report, we continue to demand the release of the [Parent Association] funds.”

D.O.E., however, claims it will not authorize the use of the funds, which were frozen earlier this year, until all investigations conclude.

Wong, who has two children enrolled in the school, insists that the P.A. hasn’t tried to “hide” any prohibited behavior from the city, nor has the P.A. intentionally committed wrongdoings, financial or otherwise.

With respect to the improprieties revealed

by S.C.I., Wong said that, in certain cases, such as the transfer of the $81,000, it was incumbent upon D.O.E. to notify the parents that a vote was needed to approve the transfer.

“We’re not trying to circumvent rules or regulations,” noted Wong. “We’re not saying

we turned a blind eye… . Once they told us what to do, we did it.”

Meanwhile, Ling Ling Chou, former principal of Shuang Wen who in July was reassigned to D.O.E. administrative duties due to the ongoing investigations, has filed a court motion requesting to join as a plaintiff in the parents’ lawsuit against D.O.E. Chou’s abrupt removal has harmed Shuang Wen students and parents, according to the motion, which states that “positive and productive practices are now being arbitrarily dismantled without the guidance and involvement of Ling Ling Chou and her teaching and administrative staff.”

“The great success of the student body in achieving the highest ranking in New York City for the last school year is indicative of the strength of the bilingual/bicultural educational methods that have been in place under the leadership of Principal Chou,” the motion papers read.

Federal Judge Richard Holwell is expected to announce a decision on Chou’s motion to intervene in the parents’ lawsuit at a hearing scheduled for next Tues., Dec. 13, at U.S. District Court.

D.O.E. will not consider the possibility of Chou’s reassignment to the school until the department interviews her and the investigations are completed, according to Mittenthal. D.O.E. is expected to interview Chou this week.

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Trying to rebound from violence with hoops program On Tuesday, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, state Senator Daniel Squadron, Congressmember Nydia Velazquez, the Police Athletic League, the New York City Housing Authority and community leaders announced the opening of an intensive new basketball, recreation and counseling program at the East Village’s Campos Plaza public housing development.

Starting Dec. 9, the free program will be offered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, providing a safe and positive environment, and encouraging productive activities for local youth ages 14 to 19.

Responding to a string of high-profile crimes involving local youth, including the Oct. 16 murder of Keith Salgado in Campos Plaza’s courtyard, local elected officials have been meeting with P.A.L., NYCHA, the Lower East Side Youth Development Initiative and Campos Plaza’s Youth Council and Tenants Association and local leaders to address youth violence.

Kavanagh, Squadron, Mendez and Velazquez all represent Campos Plaza.

Kavanagh said, “Crime prevention requires a cooperative, continuous and citywide effort involving not only effective policing, but also alternative opportunities and constructive activities for young people. Together, we are bringing an exceptional basketball training program to our community that will provide just such an

Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, center, P.A.L. officials and Campos Plaza leaders announcing the new program in the complex’s gym.

opportunity.

“We cannot undo the tragedies that have occurred here, but this community is committed to doing everything we can to stop the violence and move forward.”

Kavanagh said he was proud to stand with his fellow elected officials, the P.A.L. and community leaders, but especially Aida Salgado, Keith’s mother, “whose resolve in the face of an unthinkable tragedy in her own family is profoundly inspiring.”

“By providing constructive activities and a safe space, the new P.A.L. Teen Impact Ce

nter is a critical step toward protecting our kids and our community,” said Squadron.

“May this program honor the memory of Keith Salgado and help prevent senseless tragedies like the one that took his life.”

Velazquez said, “Through this Teen Impact Center, countless lives will be touched, and countless young people will have a meaningful, alternative experience to support and engage them.”

Alana Sweeney, P.A.L. executive director, said, “Led by trained professionals, the youth will be exposed to workshops designed

to help them make positive decisions in their daily lives. If a teen is off the street, having fun and learning in the presence of positive role models, they are not outside getting into trouble.”

P.A.L. operates 15 Impact Centers in high-crime areas in the five boroughs.

Jeffrey Solomon, founder of L.E.S. Youth Development Initiative, said, “I first met 7-year-old Donavan Salgado at the Boys’ Club of New York. It gladdens my heart to see the community coming together in this way. Keith went to school every day this year.

Let’s encourage all our kids to do the same.

His friends have promised to play basketball in his honor as ‘Team Keith.’ Let’s support them and move forward together. Together we will stop the violence.”

Aida Salgado said, “We can never forget and we can never condone the senseless violence that took Keith away from us and that continues to tear our city apart. ... We call on our young people from Smith to Campos and all points between to join together to stop the violence.”

DeReese Huff, Campos Plaza T.A. president, said, “Our kids have seen it all, including many despicable acts of violence. It is time for a change.”

An open house for parents and teens to learn more about the program will be held Fri., Dec. 9, at 5 p.m. at Campos Plaza Community Center, 611 E. 13th St. (between Avenues B and C).

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Kevin Dowd, 57, former V.P. of Tompkins Square coalition OBITUARY

BY ALBERT AMATEAU For the past two decades, members of the Tompkins Square Park Neighborhood Coalition have been gathering on the park’s central lawn each December for a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

On Sun., Dec. 11, coalition members will gather around the tree at 4 p.m. to dedicate their 20th annual event to the memory of Kevin Dowd, a former vice president of the coalition who died March 8 at the age of 57.

“Kevin was a talented, extraordinary man and his passing was a terrible blow to all of us,” said Albert Fabozzi, one of the coalition’s founders and a former chairperson of Community Board 3.

Kevin enjoyed meeting with friends at Veselka restaurant on Second Ave. and working with them on community projects at Theater for the New City and at the Third St. Music School. His friends remember him as dedicated to the neighborhood where he lived since 1980 when he became a graduate student at New York University’s film program.

A film production coordinator, he worked on such films as “Raising Arizona,” the 1987 Coen brothers film starring Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter; “Crocodile Dundee,” the 1986 Paul Hogan film; and “Bloodhounds of Broadway,” a 1989 film with Madonna.

Kevin Dowd.

He also worked on “American Playhouse,” a 1980s television series. A few years after graduating from the N.Y.U. film program, he spent some time in China working on “Iron & Silk,” a documentary film, according to his brother, Brian.

Kevin Dowd was born in Newark, N.J., to Charles and Mary Dowd. He went to Seaton Hall Preparatory School and graduated from Princeton University in 1976.

He was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2010 and died seven months later.

Ice, ice, baby: Rinks are ready

BY KHIARA ORTIZ You carved the pumpkins and turkeys.

Now it’s time to carve the ice.

As the end-of-the-year’s festivities near and temperatures drop closer to freezing, ice-skating rinks are back in season.

Residents of Stuyvesant Town and their guests can enjoy free access to the new ice rink built in Playground Number 10 for the rest of the winter months. The number of free hours will be limited each week, and the rink will be open daily until 9 p.m. with music stopping at 8 p.m. For the general public, admission and skate rentals both cost $7. Free admission to all will be offered

on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Meanwhile, The Standard Hotel, at 484 Washington St., reopened its seasonal ice rink for the second year on Nov. 21.

Admission is $12 per person, with skate rentals at $3. Scheduled hockey tournaments can be found on The Standard’s Web site, and skating lessons will run at $25 per half hour.

At Chelsea Piers, Sky Rink is holding holiday-break skating sessions every afternoon.

General admission for adults is $13.50 and $11 for youth and seniors, with skate rentals at $8.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued injustice A Nov. 18 ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals continued a nearly three-year pattern in which elected officials, law enforcement authorities, and now the federal courts have responded both shamefully and facetiously to clear evidence that the New York Police Department engaged in a witch hunt against gay men in adult video stores, arresting them on false charges of prostitution as pretext for bringing legal action against the establishments themselves.

The stories first emerged in late 2008 when Robert Pinter, who was 52 at the time he was arrested in an East Village porn shop, contacted our sister paper Gay City News with an extraordinary tale of being approached by a handsome, much younger man, with whom he discussed leaving the premises to engage in consensual sexual conduct.

As they got to the door, the younger man, who turned out to be an undercover officer, said he would pay Pinter $50 for the privilege of performing oral sex on him. The comment raised a red flag for Pinter, who later testified that any chance he would have sex with this now seemingly dubious young man “was over.”

Still, he left the store with the undercover and was promptly arrested for prostitution.

Subsequently, Gay City News identified more than 40 men who had recently been arrested on prostitution charges at video stores and spas by a small group of vice officers. A good number of those men were also middleaged; two were German tourists.

The city’s Law Department, the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement and the Police Department’s legal unit cited these arrests in nuisance-abatement suits seeking closure of the video stores and spas.

Last month’s ruling threw out a district court decision that had denied the city summary judgment regarding Pinter’s false arrest and malicious prosecution charges. “...

[W]e hold that defendants acted reasonably — that is, not incompetently or in knowing violation of the law — in arresting Pinter,” the court said.

This astounding conclusion is deeply troubling. First, if the undercover wasn’t acting improperly, why was he the one to raise the question of compensation in a conversation that until then had been about consensual sex?

Second, although there is a Fourth Amendment, this ruling means that if an officer suggests illegal behavior, in order to avoid arrest, we are presumed guilty unless we announce our innocence out loud.

That is an outrageous assertion.

Initially, the N.Y.P.D. stated, “The fact remains that the locations had become notorious for solicitation of sex acts,” as though that had anything to do with any one individual’s conduct.

Later, the Police Department’s legal unit expressed agnosticism over using entrapment, saying, “The Department prefers to avoid entrapment but it is not a set policy.”

Mayor Bloomberg basically shrugged off the issue, saying he had discussed it with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who he thought might be “doing an investigation” with which he didn’t want to interfere.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s actions are no more satisfying.

In a confusing series of responses to discovery requests made by Pinter and several other gay men caught in the trumped-up stings who were suing the city, Vance’s office failed to offer convincing evidence that a thorough investigation, promised by his predecessor, was done. It sounds like only the original prostitution defendants — and none of the vice cops — were probed.

The underlying issue is the simple question of whether we all enjoy basic constitutional protections, even if we drop into a store the city is eager to shut down.

Beal has saved lives To The Editor: Re “Dana Beal a folk hero?” (letter, by Joseph Marra, Dec. 1): I hesitated writing a response because we obviously have so little to discuss, but since your assault on Dana Beal contains so many inaccuracies I felt it important to address.

First, medical marijuana is a right in many states, including California where pot has been accepted as a legitimate medical treatment for years now.

Second, Dana Beal has actively represented patients — people who have been helped by marijuana and are still alive today because of marijuana. The testimonies of people who pot has helped are available in many books and reports. Dana Beal’s advocacy is known and respected all over the world. I’ve been with Dana to the White House, National Institutes of Health and hearings before the U.S. Congress where he has testified on behalf of medical marijuana.

Finally, as far as you allegations of “criminality,” Dana is more a Robin Hood than the hood you make him out to be. Throughout American history there have been those who put their money where their mouth is and those who talk a good game and do nothing. Dana Beal has always been of the revolutionary sort. The recent Occupy Wall Street actions have highlighted the old saying attributed to Gandhi: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Dana Beal fits this to a “T.” As a revolutionary, he may upset some who like their politics predictable and their changes few and far between.

Dana Beal, on the other hand, wants to change the world.

That’s why he gets a lot of media attention.

As to Ms. Rubin-Vega, I hail her achievements and wonder why you drag her into a debate about medical marijuana...except to possibly contrast the sympathygenerating potential of a single mother with that of a 65-year-old man who wants to save the world. It’s like comparing apples and oranges and is dishonest on your part. Children should not be used as weapons in the drug war anymore, and I cringe when certain folks use children to hide behind when their arguments can’t stand on their own.

Medical marijuana is backed in the Village by no less than Assemblyperson Richard Gottfried, state Senator Tom Duane and many other elected officials from our community.

It would be more constructive to focus on the N.Y.P.D.’s immoral use of marijuana as an element in their discredited

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and racist stop-and-frisk program. The N.Y.C.L.U. has a report on how marijuana — although a mere violation — is used to justify tens of thousands of Constitution-violating searches and arrests of mostly African-Americans each year. Maybe when the law shows more respect for people’s rights, people will have more respect for the law.

Paul DeRienzo DeRienzo is co-host of the public access TV show “Let Them Talk” on MNN

What have I done? A lot!

To The Editor: Re “Dana Beal a folk hero?” (letter, by Joseph Marra, Dec. 1): Joe Marra has posed three questions about me — “What has he done all his life? What did he accomplish? What good did he do?” — that I think deserve a response: “What has he done all his life?”

Before there was needle exchange, there was harm reduction: the movement to separate marijuana and hard drugs. We started that in the Sixties! There’s really no way of telling how many lives were saved because of the cultural establishment of a norm, but a lot of people wound up not needing to exchange needles to begin with.

“What did he accomplish?”

In December 1980, with Howard Lotsof, I initiated the development of ibogaine as the first broad-spectrum treatment for heroin and opiates, methamphetamine and crack/cocaine, alcohol and cigarette addiction that was an “interrupter,” not a maintenance drug like methadone. In other words, as any aficionado of “Law and Order SVU,” knows, and B.D. Wong can tell you, ibogaine eliminates heroin addiction with a single dose.

“What good did he do?”

Finally deciding to ignore detractors who claimed I was nothing but a criminal, in 1993 I established the series of medical marijuana buyers’ clubs that have supplied hundreds of chronically ill New Yorkers (mostly with AIDS) with safe, clean, inexpensive cannabis up until the present day. That effort is tolerated by the authorities and continues in my absence — although patients now pay more and can’t afford it. (I saved people on disability a lot of money.)

It is estimated that roughly 10,000 people have been treated with ibogaine worldwide. According to Dr. Ken Alper of New York University, 69 percent of these were for substance abuse, 56 percent of which were for opiates. Ibogaine is winning acceptance in dozens of countries. After I visited New

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Going overseas was the only option for our company TALKING POINT

BY JOHN OTTAVIANO Re “Outsourcing is killing us” (letter, by Clayton Patterson, Dec. 1), which was a follow-up to “A question for Donald Trump on losing our jobs base” (by Clayton Patterson, Nov. 17): My name is John Ottaviano and I am the director of sales for Rothco. Serendipitously, The Villager just ran an obituary for my uncle Frank Ottaviano, who passed away a few weeks ago (“Francis Ottaviano, 85, of Village medical dynasty,” Nov. 24).

It was interesting to me that your newspaper would run something like this without checking that it was factually correct.

I have no idea what Mr. Patterson is speaking about when he claims to have spoken to our Philippines office. We have no Philippines office. That is a lie. Our office is in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., and employs nearly 150 American workers, as well as some of those, like my ancestors, who have immigrated here legally. Our number is 800-645-5195 and the phone is always answered by one of our American workers.

We do have an affiliated company in Puerto Rico that actually predates our 1953 origins that specializes in sporting goods and safety equipment; so one could certainly reach a Spanishspeaking individual there.

Our company originally was started in a loft on, of all places, Great Jones St. in the Village in 1953 by Milton Somberg, who still runs the company along with his son Howard. We moved to Brooklyn a few years later, then out to Long Island to Smithtown and then to Ronkonkoma.

We are not an official supplier of U.S. military uniforms, though our products have been supplied to the U.S. military through our partner government suppliers. The products and clothing we sell are made overseas, as well as in the United States. Most of our sales are made to army-navy stores, like Uncle Sam’s Army Navy on Eighth St. in the Village, and are used by working people, students, for fashion, paintball and Airsoft, hunting, camping, etc.

While there is a large market for military-style clothing for consumer use (does Mr. Patterson actually take a look at what folks in the Village are wearing?), the uniforms that are issued to our soldiers are made by other companies that, for the most part, use production in the United States to make these uniforms.

Yes, as Mr. Patterson noted in his “A question for Donald Trump” column, that is indeed our jacket hanging in the store in Austria since our products are sold at retailers all over the world. The vast majority of our products are sold in small, independent retailers like Uncle Sam’s.

At one time, the vast majority of our production was in factories in Tennessee. Unfortunately, many consumers became unwilling to pay for U.S.-made clothing and the U.S. military was not providing enough orders pre-9/11 to keep U.S. military clothing factories working on a consistent basis. Because of this, nearly all of these factories have shut down. Clothing production is not something that can be turned on and off like

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a faucet; it must be steady to keep machines running and people working. While many folks give lip service to the desire of having U.S.-made products, few are willing to make the required commitment at the cash register. As they say, everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Many say they want U.S.-made products, but few make the commitment at the cash register.

Because of this, we have had to move production overseas in order to be competitive. As I said, most of our goods are sold to army-navy and clothing stores — and a pair of pants is a pair of pants and folks became unwilling to pay for U.S.-made fatigues.

When the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, thousands of soldiers turned to the army-navy stores and on-base suppliers for supplies because, frankly, the U.S. military had a woefully inadequate supply of goods. Our military personnel needed uniforms, socks, knives, compasses, duty gear, etc., and the government was unable to send these troops overseas adequately equipped. If it were not for the army-navy dealers stocking our products and gear from similar companies, many

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of our soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors would not have had the things they needed to fight for their country.

Things are not as simple as Mr. Patterson would have you believe. Yes, we would love to have more U.S. production.

When we did, the logistics were simpler and it was much easier to visit the factories. But our economic system is one where people vote with their dollars and, for the most part, people have voted for less-expensive products. Where we offer a choice of both U.S.-made and less-expensive product, the lessexpensive product is the far better seller.

Let’s remember that we now live in a global economy and that the workers making the clothing benefit from making these products. Over the years, the vast wage inequity around the globe has decreased and, eventually, wages worldwide will balance out.

I am personally a strong supporter of the values of Occupy Wall Street, but while there is a great imbalance between the 1 percent and the 99 percent in this country, American workers have also been the beneficiaries of a great wage imbalance that is beginning to level off as the economies around the world come into equality. The benefit of this will be that, as workers in other countries make better wages, they will be able to purchase U.S.-made products.

If Mr. Patterson would like to discuss this in greater detail, I suggest he call the number listed on every page of our Web site at Rothco.com, 800-645-5195.

Ottaviano is director of sales and marketing, Rothco

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from page 12 Zealand and established that ibogaine works by expressing a growth factor, G.D.N.F., that regenerates dopamine receptors, New Zealand Medsafe scheduled ibogaine as a prescription drug.

In other words, we found the Beatnik Holy Grail, the substance Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs were looking for when they went to the rainforest in 1959. I think that makes the Yippie! Museum part of the history of the Village.

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Pot advocate is a saint To The Editor Re “Dana Beal a folk hero?” (letter, by Joseph Marra, Dec. 1): Dana is or was a freakin’ saint to the hopeless, chronically addicted junkies, giving them a chance to opt out with ibogaine. Dana worked hard, harder than you Joe, you bum who hangs out in Greenwich Village N.Y.U. campus like a has-been stumblebum.

Marra, wanna retract your statement?

AJ Weberman

Right back at ya!

To The Editor: Re “Dana Beal a folk hero?” (letter, by Joseph Marra, Dec. 1): Nobody knows who you are and nobody cares. You are a jerk! We love Dana and there are many of us — so crawl back in your rightwing rat’s den.

John Penley

V.I.D.’er doesn’t get it To The Editor: Re “My Occupy wish list” (letter, by John Bredin, Dec. 1): Pandering politico John Bredin of the Village Independent Democrats doesn’t seem to get it. From foreclosures and corporate greed, to unemployment and outsourcing, straight through to the crumbling infrastructure and a broken Congress, there are just too many things going haywire for “a concrete wish list.”

Mr. Bredin fails to understand that forming “an electoral component” and running a “slate of candidates” are two of the many things that have led us to the quagmire that we are in today.

However, if he really needs a list, here are a few things that Mr. Bredin might take into consideration: 1. Wall St. did not act alone.

2. Both parties have backed themselves into the same corner as the 1 percent.

3. Both parties are just as responsible as Wall St. for the decay that is plaguing our nation.

4. One party is made up of whining incompetents while the other party is made up of belligerent, whining incompetents.

5. It is silly to continue to vote for the same Greedy Old Parties (G.O.P.).

6. We have sacrificed our jobs and our homes and once again we are shipping our youth off to die on foreign shores. It is time to stop asking what you can do for your country, but what can our country do for us!

7. A new wave of freedom, democracy and responsibility is flowing across America.

And if the two-faced party system doesn’t learn to swim, it’s going to sink like a “concrete wish list”!

Yippie!

We are the 99 percent!

Jerry The Peddler

The system doesn’t serve us To The Editor: Re “Mic check! Occupy is now part of the popular culture” (news article, Dec. 1): The issue the Occupy Wall Street movement takes with the idea of “legitimate means” is that whatever you classify those as, they are no longer an option to a majority of citizens.

Corporate interests and political in-crowds have essentially formed a closed loop of politicians and the wealthy who can operate however they like without concern for outside influences.

O.W.S. is about a lot of things, including a lot of ridiculous crap that is being tacked on.

But if there can be one general overarching idea, it’s that the political system in America right now doesn’t serve people as a consequence of what the majority decides. This isn’t nihilistic — if anything, it’s optimistic for thinking that a protest could advance political discourse significantly enough to change this problem (and I personally am not entirely convinced by that opinion).

Michele Bachmann is a mostly contradictory, self-serving politician who operates under that same sphere of influence that can continue to work without needing the approval of the masses. Whatever opposition she has to O.W.S. comes because she’s worried about what they might accomplish, if anything. If she thought they were pointless, she wouldn’t bother addressing them. That’s logically the job of a campaigning politician: to prioritize.

The caveat here is that if she was simply attacking them baselessly despite their lacking any genuine sway, she’d be an idiot.

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Chamber is for new care center and for going mobile BUSINESS

BY THOMAS GRAY As 2011 draws to a close, we have many milestones to look back upon at the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce. The past year has been one of great change for both our area and our organization.

The G.V.C.C.C. service area faces several economic challenges with the continued absence of St. Vincent’s Hospital and increasing regulatory and legislative burdens on small businesses. Through our advocacy work on these issues, as well as our business-oriented programming and events, G.V.C.C.C. continues to help the small business in Greenwich Village, the East Village, Union Square, Chelsea, Flatiron, Soho and Noho, some of Manhattan’s most famous neighborhoods.

In April I left the office of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to become the chamber’s new executive director. I bring several years of

experience in the public sector dealing with land use, small businesses and economic development issues.

Drawing from my experience, the chamber took a strong position in support of the proposed Rudin Management and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System plan to bring an emergency healthcare center back to what was once St. Vincent’s. We continue to support the proposal as it makes its way through the ULURP process in an effort to revitalize the once-bustling area around St. Vincent’s and bring healthcare back to the West Village.

This year G.V.C.C.C. opposed both the living wage and paid sick leave bills in the interest of keeping the small business community afloat. In our work to encourage the community to shop locally, in February, we partnered with elected officials to host the first annual “Valentine for the Village” in February. Later that month, G.V.C.C.C. President Tony Juliano testified at the City Council hearing against the proposal to bring

retail giant Walmart to New York City.

In celebration of the rich musical history of Greenwich Village we hosted our third annual “Village Jazz Alive” fundraiser, featuring and honoring the legendary Randy Weston at the Blue Note Jazz Club this past September. We continue to collaborate with other chambers of commerce and nonprofit organizations to bring our members together in settings that draw a more diverse and engaging crowd than the typical business-tobusiness networking event.

This month, we will honor the men and women from the Sixth, Ninth, 10th and 13th police precincts who have distinguished themselves in their work keeping our city safe. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will present this year’s Officer of the Year Awards.

This coming year promises to be equally busy for the chamber and our neighborhoods. The shift toward mobile applications and Web marketing is poised to continue to influence the economic climate for small businesses. Chamber members like Taap.it and

Google (Chamber Champions since 2010), both of which are extremely integral to this process and serve as valuable resources for the chamber. A partnership with Taap.it will soon allow for chamber members to display a “Chamber Approved” logo to users and expand upon their online presence. Google also regularly hosts workshops with the chamber to help our members manage their online presence and attract new customers.

We thank the Greenwich Village and Chelsea communities for their support of the chamber and our members. Be sure to keep up to date with chamber events and issues by visiting our Web site, villagechelsea.com, and by joining our weekly mailing list. We hope to see you all on Thurs., Dec. 8, for our final public event of the year, the Eighth Annual Safe City Safe Streets. Join the chamber and our special guest, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

Gray is executive director, Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce

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Trying to create best free-standing E.D. possible HEALTH

BY DR. CARL RAMSAY There has been a considerable turmoil, pain and consternation during the past 19 months since the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital. I have been fortunate to participate with a group of highly skilled professionals who were given the tremendous privilege to look beyond the present and instead focus on the future in collaboration with your community. Our task was to accept the reality (that another hospital will not be built) and identify the healthcare access challenges facing residents of the West Village.

The loss of access to local high-quality emergency healthcare for West Village residents is real. It is not just your opinion, it is fact. The study conducted by the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College validated your concerns that it has been more difficult to obtain local access to healthcare since St. Vincent’s closing in April 2010.

Many in the study’s focus groups worried about where to go for emergency care.

As a Lenox Hill Hospital emergency medicine physician, I have been extremely fortunate to work with my colleagues at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System to develop a plan to open the Center for Comprehensive Care, to

be located at the former Maritime Union Building (more commonly known as the O’Toole Building) on Seventh Ave. between 12th and 13th Sts. The Center, being developed at a cost of more than

The goal is to restore and preserve the integrity of local community healthcare. $110 million, will operate as a division of Lenox Hill Hospital.

Our planning activities have been intense and comprehensive. We take your needs seriously. While most of the focus has been on the free-standing emergency department that will anchor this neighborhood medical complex when it opens in 2014, the facility will also feature state-of-the-art imaging and ambulatory surgery services, as well as offices for physician practices, for which we expect doctors formerly affiliated with St. Vincent’s to be given preference. The goal is to restore and preserve the integrity of local community healthcare. We want to

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work with your current physician. If you don’t have a physician, we will help you to find one.

This Center is for you, your families and your fellow West Village residents. It will accept all patients, regardless of ability to pay. The North Shore-L.I.J. Health System maintains contracts with all major private and public insurers. In addition, we are proud to have one of the most progressive financial assistance programs in New York for underinsured and uninsured patients.

I have listened to expressions of concern at your community board hearings about the emergency department that we’re developing — concerns that I think are reasonable and understandable considering that a freestanding emergency department is a new concept to New Yorkers.

While none exist in the city of New York, there are more than 250 free-standing emergency departments throughout the country. Many successful models exist in New Jersey and Connecticut, some dating back to the early 1980s. Our group has looked at these models and taken it to the next level. Our emergency department will be similar to other hospital-based emergency departments in terms of staff and services, but we’ve taken it a step further: All of our emergency medicine physicians will be board certified, which is not always the case in many free-standing and community hospital emergency departments. Further, we are individually selecting our physician and nursing staff to help ensure that the clinicians treating you are highly skilled, experienced professionals.

Other concerns expressed at the community board meetings were focused on the lack of available hospital inpatient beds — there will be two holding beds on the premises. Our group’s mission was to work with the reality of no hospital availability. We were focused on forward progress. Did you know that between 70 to 80 percent of all patients presenting

to an emergency department do not need hospitalization?

What about the patients who need hospitalization? Through established protocols basic to the training of all Fire Department of New York and private emergency medical technicians (E.M.T.’s), any patients requiring an ambulance transport to a specialized center would NOT be brought to a community hospital or our Center’s free-standing emergency department if their clinical condition indicated the need for care at a trauma center, or immediate cardiac or surgical intervention. However, in the event a patient does present to the Center’s emergency department with a stroke or heart attack, our emergency medicine specialists can use the Center’s advanced life support technologies to successfully evaluate and stabilize patients, and then transport them to the appropriate specialty referral hospital. An ambulance will be stationed at the Center in the event that a transport is necessary.

For patients requiring admission on a less-emergency basis, ambulance transport will also be provided. Our emergency department physician would contact your physician and coordinate transport to the requested hospital. For those patients who don’t have a doctor, we would provide an appropriate physician to care for your specific medical problem.

As noted, the majority of our emergency department patients will require treatment but not admission. Most of our adult and pediatric patients, as well as patients in need of psychiatric evaluation, will be able to be treated by our emergency department staff and released.

Each and every patient will be provided with a comprehensive follow-up plan. In addition, we will provide patients requiring specialty care with 24-hour access to a specialist consultation, using Lenox Hill Hospital as well as the North Shore-L.I.J. physician network.

The Center and especially the emergency department will place emphasis on continuing to identify and understand the unique demographics of your community.

We want to be your community partner.

Many of our finest emergency medicine staff currently at Lenox Hill Hospital formerly worked in the St. Vincent’s emergency department. Several have expressed interest in working at the Center’s emergency department. When the Center opens in early 2014, you can expect to see us in your community, collaborating with you and your community-based physicians to provide the highest quality of care. You deserve that.

Ramsay MD, FACEP, is chairperson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital. He will be overseeing the free-standing emergency department at the planned Center for Comprehensive Care in the former St. Vincent’s Hospital O’Toole Building.

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Keen Berger.

Welcoming a new healthcare center, still hoping for hospital

DISTRICT LEADER

BY KEEN BERGER Politically in the past year we have some accomplishments. Seravalli Park and the High Line extension finally open, a smoother Election Day, community support for Occupy Wall Street, some backlash against immigration hate. But we still have overcrowded schools, a dearth of healthcare and new housing only for the very rich.

I am working on all those problems. I want to devote the rest of my report to the issue that seems to concern the community most — St. Vincent’s.

My family and I were treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital six times, only once with advance planning and an overnight stay.

That was a few months before the hospital closed, for the birth of my first grandchild.

The hospital allowed midwives from all over the city (Lissa’s midwife was on the Upper West Side), with supportive nurses and emergency backup.

My daughter labored in the hospital for 24 hours when a doctor said policy required a C-section at that point — but then another doctor allowed the midwife and my daughter to keep working. Asa (10 pounds, 3 ounces) was born vaginally several hours later —

hurray for the hospital. My breastfeeding daughter was sent home with an unrequested promotional kit of formula. I protested; the hospital stopped that practice. Again, hurray.

Personally as well as politically, I mourn the closing of St. Vincent’s. The hospital was far from perfect, but the staff responded to human needs — even when policies and procedures dictated otherwise. Closing was illegal, and worse, unethical and unfair. We need economic and healthcare priorities that allow good healthcare for everyone, in every neighborhood, including here.

While we work for that, I welcome having nearby emergency care at the O’Toole Building. I don’t believe the 24-hour emergency department destroys the possibility of getting a full-service hospital and trauma center restored. Some people disagree — I think we disagree on strategy, not goals.

On strategy, how do we get a new public school, a new community park, better traffic laws, fewer noisy bars, fairer elections...and a just and peaceful world? Those goals are clear; I try every day to find the best strategies. Without thousands of neighbors who share these goals, I would give up. Thank you.

Berger is Democratic district leader, 66th District, Part A

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Gains and losses in battles for historic buildings PRESERVATION

BY ANDREW BERMAN As is seemingly always the case, our neighborhoods face multiple preservation challenges and myriad threats of overdevelopment. However, a strong response from the community and, in some cases, support from government officials, has allowed some significant progress to be made as well.

First, the good news. In the last year and a half, we have seen the first phase of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s proposed South Village Historic District designated, covering nearly 250 buildings and 12 blocks between Sixth and Seventh Aves., and Houston and W. Fourth Sts. This is the largest expansion of landmark protections in the Village since 1969, and makes the Greenwich Village Historic District far and away the largest in New York City. Countless people, institutions and organizations supported this effort, without whom it would not have been possible.

Also on the landmarking front, earlier this year G.V.S.H.P. and a coalition of community and preservation groups were able to the get the city to expand a proposed East Village / Lower East Side Historic District to include some critical initially overlooked and excluded sites. That proposed district has been calendared, meaning it is officially under consideration, but the city has not yet held a hearing or voted, leaving the area still vulnerable to demolitions.

Additionally, we have been able to stop inappropriate proposed additions to iconic landmarks like the Puck Building, and to reduce the size of proposed additions in historic districts in Gansevoort Market and the West Village. Also finally landmarked was Westbeth, the groundbreaking adaptive reuse of the old Bell Telephone Labs on the Greenwich Village waterfront into affordable artists live/work spaces, which G.V.S.H.P. first proposed for landmark designation in 2004.

On the zoning front, two important rezonings first proposed by G.V.S.H.P. were adopted — one in the Far West Village, and one along the Third and Fourth Aves. corridors.

Each faced stiff initial resistance, but eventually with strong local community support, and in the case of the Third / Fourth Aves. corridors the unwavering support of local Councilmember Rosie Mendez, they were finally adopted. In the case of the Far West Village rezoning, it was miraculously adopted in time to pre-empt two developments that had spurred the drive in the first place — a rare accomplishment for a process that usually takes at least a year.

These rezonings limit the size and height of new development, reinforce neighborhood character, and remove incentives for inappropriate commercial (i.e. hotel) or dormitory development in these areas.

There has even been some good news on the N.Y.U. front. As part of its massive 20-year expansion plan, the university proposed to build a 40-story tower — the tallest building ever in the Village — on Bleecker St. Fortunately, G.V.S.H.P. and local residents

St. Anthony of Padua Church, the oldest extant Italian-American church in the U.S., and neighboring tenements on Sullivan St., are in the undesignated part of the proposed South Village Historic District.

were able to get the site landmarked in 2008 as part of the designation of the Silver Towers complex, thus requiring Landmarks approval for any such plan. After a furious outcry against the proposal, including by original Silver Towers architect I.M. Pei, N.Y.U. withdrew the proposal.

Of course our neighborhoods still face some daunting preservation and overdevelopment challenges. While the 40-story tower plan is gone, N.Y.U. is still seeking public approvals to allow the addition of 2.5 million square feet of space — the equivalent of the Empire State Building — south of Washington Square Park. To do so would require stripping long-standing neighborhood zoning protections, eliminating open space requirements, giving public park space to N.Y.U. for development, and overturning urban renewal deed restrictions. That public review and approval process will begin in the new year, and G.V.S.H.P. and many others will be fighting it vociferously.

Rudin Management is also seeking zoning changes to allow it to develop the east campus of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital into luxury condos — some in the form of

new construction, and some in reused former hospital buildings. In doing so, however, Rudin is asking for an upzoning of the site to allow much of the additional bulk granted to St. Vincent’s in 1979 to accommodate a new hospital to be used by itself — a private developer — for condo development. G.V.S.H.P. is adamantly opposed to such an allowance.

That public review and approval process is also expected to begin in the new year.

Other developers are seeking rezonings in our neighborhood as well. Jamestown Properties, the German investment firm and new owner of Chelsea Market, is seeking an upzoning of that block to allow the addition of several hundred thousand square feet of office and hotel space to the complex, in the form of a tower on Ninth Ave. and an addition on 10th Ave., which would cast a shadow on the High Line, the surrounding neighborhood (including the low-rise Meatpacking District directly south) and generate lots of new traffic.

And in Hudson Square, Trinity Realty is seeking an 18-block rezoning from Canal St. to Houston St., and Sixth Ave. to Greenwich St. A rezoning is clearly needed there, since

the current zoning allows an enormous density and height of new development (such as the Trump Soho condo hotel). However, the proposed rezoning may help in some areas but not in others. Heights as great as 320 feet and, in one case, 430 feet are proposed for new development, and the addition of as-of-right residential development would no doubt greatly increase development pressure on the adjacent, still-not-landmarked sections of the South Village. G.V.S.H.P. is pushing for changes to this rezoning, which will also likely begin the review and approval process early next year.

G.V.S.H.P. is also seeking to get the city to finally move on promised consideration of the remainder of our proposed South Village Historic District, running roughly from Washington Square to Watts St., Sixth Ave. to LaGuardia Place and just west of West Broadway south of Houston St. Since 2002, we have been lobbying the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate this area, and with each passing year more historic sites in the neighborhood have been lost. Most recently the Children’s Aid Society agreed to sell its buildings for development.

GVSHP called upon the city to keep its 2008 commitment to consider the entire proposed South Village Historic District, but it refused to act. After the public outcry, the new owner promised to preserve and reuse the oldest and most significant of the C.A.S. buildings, but without landmark designation, this promise can be broken and the buildings lost. Both the proposed Hudson Square and N.Y.U. rezonings, each bordering the undesignated sections of the South Village, also threaten to increase development pressure on this fragile historic area.

In the East Village, the good news about the expanded, proposed (but not yet designated) historic districts has been tempered by the city’s unwillingness to protect several other endangered historic sites, and its slow follow-through. In the last several months, we have lost 35 Cooper Square, an intact 1825 Federal-style house with links to the Stuyvesant family and prominent Beat poets; 326 and 328 E. Fourth St., two 1839 Greek Revival row houses with historic connections to the first transatlantic steamship crossing and the East Village’s Hasidic Jewish community and an anarchist utopian arts collective; and 316 E. Third St., an 1834 house between Avenues C and D that was the first structure to ever stand on its site. In each case, G.V.S.H.P. and allied groups brought the threat to these historic sites to the attention of the city, and asked it to save them through landmark designation; each time, the city refused. And even in the East Village Historic District currently under consideration, developers are obtaining demolition and alteration permits while we wait for the city to move ahead with landmark designation.

As always, with every two steps forward, there’s often at least one step back. This coming year promises much more of the same.

Berman is executive director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

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Park needs green for its future HUDSON RIVER PARK

BY A.J. PIETRANTONE When you reflect on the progress of Hudson River Park’s development, and the goal to reclaim Manhattan’s West Side waterfront for the public, it’s hard to discount the number of activists, public officials and community members who have played a role in that progress, many of whom are still somehow involved today. It’s obvious that Hudson River Park has many friends.

We are excited to be building on that strong foundation of friends to create the expanded support base that Hudson River Park needs to fulfill the dreams we espoused two decades ago when the park was first designated by then Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor Dinkins in 1992. As Manhattan’s second largest and most visited park after Central Park, Hudson River Park presents the public with a unique opportunity to secure the park’s future as the nation’s premier waterfront park.

Hudson River Park Trust President Madelyn Wils convincingly points out that we need a new generation of friends to step forward and help us marshal the necessary resources to make a completed and sustainable Hudson River Park a reality for all. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for old friends — which is precisely why our organization chose to both

adapt, and refocus our efforts to develop the necessary private-sector fundraising program that the park needs and deserves.

Now, as the park’s primary fundraising partner, we have embarked on a coordinated and deliberate strategy to address both the capital and operational financing challenges that stand in the way, and provide more opportunities for friends to get involved with the park they love.

In that vein, our board has doubled its own financial commitment to support the park.

Also, we have expanded staff capacity to reach out in a bigger way to develop the proper resource base and connect with the community on a broader level than ever before.

In addition, we are refining our communications programs to take advantage of a combined focus, new technology and the millions of park users to spread our story.

We are also expanding volunteer opportunities in order to engage our friends in stewardship opportunities, as well as stretch available resources.

Hudson River Park is a cherished amenity for all of New York and its visitors. We are thrilled to be leading the charge to further enhance the public-private partnership that makes this exciting park possible, and are committed to making sure it remains that way for generations to come.

Pietrantone is executive director, Friends of Hudson River Park

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Facing future, staying committed to founder’s vision COOPER UNION

BY CLAIRE MCCARTHY On Oct. 18, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ushered in a new era for the esteemed 152-yearold institution with the inauguration of its 12th president, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha. The ceremony took place in the historic Great Hall and the academic procession crossed from the institution’s LEED-Platinum academic building at 41 Cooper Square to its landmarked Foundation Building.

Drawing inspiration from the genius of founder Peter Cooper, President Bharucha, standing at the lectern where candidate Abraham Lincoln spoke in 1860, pointed to “four areas that stand out as academic challenges and opportunities: fostering innovation, promoting access, serving the public good and embracing a global perspective — while maintaining the highest standards.”

The inauguration ceremony was a hallmark moment at the institution, where noted scholars such as Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and president emeritus of Brown University, spoke. Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Parliament, offered video congratulations and provided insight into the influence of our global community on education.

President Bharucha, a classically trained

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Since President Bharucha’s arrival at Cooper Union this past July, he has had the pleasure of meeting many members of our academic community to talk about the future of the institution and the current economic stresses at large. Cooper Union, like governments, nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education throughout the world, has not been immune to recent financial strains. Cooper Union as a community is facing this urgent challenge now. President Jamshed Bharucha is implementing a bold plan of reinvention based on the founding vision and principles of Peter Cooper. Using the institution’s greatest resource — its talented and innovative students, faculty and alumni — a revenue-generating task force

is being created to evaluate all options and recommend a revenue enhancement plan by early spring.

Cooper Union is irrevocably committed to Peter Cooper’s crucial vision of providing access to top-level higher education to those who can least afford it. Working together to build on Cooper Union’s strengths and legacy, the institution can achieve its goals, maintain the highest academic standards and implement a financially sustainable model for the future.

Peter Cooper wanted this institution to be “equal to the best,” and his writings offer a wealth of possibilities as we consider our options. Cooper was convinced that almost anything was possible, “with patient industry and minds that soar.”

McCarthy is director of public affairs, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

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New York to New Mexico

BY JANEL BLADOW

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y friend George (born and raised on Long Island) met me at the airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before heading to the hotel in Santa Fe and meeting up with the others on our trip, we made a quick stop to Pecos National Historical Park for a tour of the ancient pueblos.

Our guide was Park Ranger Patricia Lenihan. She arrived at the National Park Service a few years earlier following a hectic journalistic stint in Washington, D.C. But she was born and raised on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Grand Street, in fact.

In less than couple hours I had met two people in the high desert of New Mexico and both were former New Yorkers! I thought that was unique. But it really wasn’t. Over the next ten days I met almost as many New Yorkers as I did native New Mexicans. And everyone else was either from California or Wisconsin.

New Yorkers have been attracted to the plains and mountains of New Mexico as long as white men have been conquering the continent. One of the most notorious New Yorkers, Billy The Kid, born William McCarty in the Irish slums of Lower East Side in 1859, roamed the New Mexico Territory during the last nine years of his wild, short life. And for years, one of America’s greatest artists, Georgia O’Keeffe, spent her winters in New York City with her husband, famed photographer Arthur Stieglitz, and in summers left him home to shoot the changing urban skyscape while she ventured to solitude and serenity of Ghost Ranch. She eventually moved permanently to Abiquiu, just a few miles from the red hills and Joshua tree she lovingly painted.

What draws big city folks to the arid mesas of the high desert? The answers surprised me.

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Pat and her family moved to Eldorado 10 years ago because they “wanted a great location with nature all of the time.

I love the expansive views,” she says then describes how she can look out her kitchen window and see a huge vista, not a brick wall. “The space is absolutely compelling. And the sunsets, I still run out and take pictures. I don’t get tired of that, really.”

With that mindset it’s no wonder Pat works outdoors as a park ranger. She guides guests through the history and mystery of a long gone civilization of the Pecos pueblo people who lived peacefully on the mesa for hundreds of years.

The next day I took a 15 minute drive from Santa Fe to El Rancho de las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows), a stopping place on El Camino Real (The Royal Road) from Mexico City and met my next Big Apple “ex-pat”, John Berkenfield. The one-time IBM executive shared that he lived on East Ninth Street in the East Village for years but had his fill of the corporate treadmill and “retired” out

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A former New Yorker, cowgirl Nancy Burch loves life on the range.

west. You could see on his face and hear in his voice the passion he has for his new home in the hills as he proudly guided us around the non-profit, living ranch he oversees as Executive Director. For him, being able to share

and preserve a bygone way of life with the hundreds of city slickers who pass through the working ranch annually is more exciting than the bright lights and fast pace of the big city. “But don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy visiting,” he said with a grin.

Walking around Santa Fe and touring Canyon Road art galleries, we met plenty of people from all parts of the country, including more New Yorkers.

Besides the environment, the atmosphere attracts a mix of creative types.

The first artists headed west in the 1880s. While the Impressionists took to Paris, many heard of this city in the west with the most amazing light. A whole culture grew up among the mountains of Santa Fe and Taos, Ghost Ranch and Madrid, salon societies of writers, artists and other like thinkers came for the land, the light and the air and stayed for the camaraderie and enlightenment.

Today, this free, inventive spirit lives on.

“Santa Fe is different from the rest of New Mexico in lots of ways,” says

Be sure to visit: Pecos National Historical Park, www. nps.gov/pecos, 5500 acres of original pueblo land and village, some made possible by a grant from Hollywood icon Greer Garson who lived nearby El Rancho de las Golondrinas, www. golondrinas.org, a living history ranch that dates back to 1710 Hotel St. Francis, www.hotelstfrancis. com, a Heritage Hotel named for the patron saint of Santa Fe, it’s just around the corner from the Palace of the Governors and features handcrafted wood furniture by local artists and a menu of local foods Ghost Ranch, www.ghostranch.org, and The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, www.okeeffemuseum.org, along with O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu home, a great way to learn more about the artist, her work and her love of New Mexico New Mexico Museum of History/ Palace of the Governors, www.nmhis-

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Steve Lewis of the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau. “It’s a bastion of creativity, liberalism and open-mindedness.”

But it’s still the wide, open spaces that get plenty of people who felt penned in by the overcrowded cities and suburbs back east. So imagine my lack of surprise when I saddled up for a trail ride in Angel Fire, up in the state’s northern mountains, when I learned my trail guide was from Long Island.

Nancy Burch, owner and operator of Roadrunner Tours since she came to the Angel Fire Valley in 1985, is like no other Long Island girl I’ve ever met.

She’s pure cowgirl now, from her offwhite felt hat to her pointy-toed boots.

Her teeth shine bright white from her naturally tanned face from her hours spent on the trails or in the corral.

That evening, over dinner, Nancy and I spent a longtime talking about her life of horses, trails, mountains, snow and endless sky. “For me,” she said beaming, “there’s no more perfect place to be.” torymuseum.org, a stepping off point to learn all about the state’s history and people and to get deals on jewelry and items handcrafted by local Indians who sell them under the veranda Chimayo Museum, www.chimayomuseum.org, and chapel in the historic village dedicated to preserving local Chimayo native traditions, art and culture Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, www.cumbrestoltec.org, longest and highest narrow gauge railroad, in operation since 1880 Elkhorn Lodge, www.elkhornlodge. net, a great overnight stop with creekside cabins in Chama, the southern endspot for the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad Angel Fire Resort, www.angelfireresort.com, a great ski and anytime spot to stay while exploring Carson National Forest area Roadrunner Tours, www.rtours.com, a working four-season ranch, offering trail and sleigh rides

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“We’re the only alternative emergency care facility on west side and downtown aside from NY Downtown Hospital,” says founder Leslie Miller, MD, a Harvard graduate who did her Emergency Medical Residency at Albert Einstein School of Medicine and has been director of some of the city’s best emergency rooms.

“Sixty-percent of cases in emergency rooms are not urgent. The urgent care clinic is a trend.”

“We chose to open here because there wasn’t any real doctor-care place on the Westside downtown.

With St. Vincent’s gone, this area was medically underserved. Concept is to keep people out of emergency room. We wanted to give back to this area which experienced such devastation and be part of its rebirth and emergence.”

What she and her partner, co-founder Alicia Salzer, MD, Medhattan’s Psychiatric-Wellness consultant who has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Medical College, have come up with is fresh take on medical emergencies here in New York City.

While the doc in a box, the strip mall medical service station, is not new to other parts of the country, especially in Florida and California, this boutique-style acute care shop is new for Manhattan. Only a handful of emergency care clinics are scattered around the city.

“Hospitals don’t see us as a threat, more as a relief, less burdened,” continues Dr. Salzer. “Sixty-percent of cases in emergency rooms are not urgent. The urgent care clinic is a trend.”

Medhattan is staffed by a rotating team of 15 physicians who work in hospital emergency rooms around the city. And Dr. Miller points out that they enjoy being able to spend more, quality time with each patient, unlike the hurried pace of a busy ER. “The wait in a typical emergency room is four to six hours,” says Dr. Salzer. “Cut on your hand is a big deal to you but when there are people in ER with gunshot wounds, you aren’t the priority. Still, we’re seeing some pretty serious stuff.”

Open only a month ago, the clinic has seen serious injuries from falls, flu symptoms, infections, skin rashes, and administered flu shots, stitched and bandages wounds, and even did a Cat scan for a woman who had

Medhattan Founder Leslie Miller, MD, and Co-Founder Alicia Salzer, MD.

an ovarian mass.

The clinic has already seen more than 100 patients and is below street level on Liberty Street, just west of Church Street. Visitors enter a softly lit reception area filled with orchids, fresh cut flowers and warmth. The walls are painted deep lavender and covered with bright paintings.

Picking their style up from hotel and spa industries makes a difference with people. Instead of being given a cold, demeaning paper gown with open backside, each patient is given a soft, white terrycloth spa robe with a back flap that opens so the doctor can easily and discreetly do lung and heart exams.

Exam rooms are painted calm, charcoal with stone accents and dark tile floors. Oversized nature photos give nervous patients serene visual focal point. Dr. Salzer, who proudly oversaw all the renovations, hopes to amass a big enough collection to change up the pieces with the seasons.

With the look of an upscale spa, Medhattan even offers alternative care services. In the peaceful massage room a certified therapist performs medical massages on Thursdays and a nutritional coach is on staff to help patients get on a healthier eating track, especially important for patients with diabetes or hypertension.

And for patients averse to taking pills or medication, the clinic offers alternatives for pain management.

The eye exam room is equipped to handle emergencies such as ailments, infections and objects or particles in the eye. There’s even a kid’s exam room, complete with butterflies and other fun things on the walls and

ceiling, where nervous children are given DVDs to watch and a giant butterfly to hold.

All medical work-ups are done on site. The clinic is capable of administering IVs, setting bones and doing sutures. X-rays are taken and digitized then sent to their doctor via email, and common lab work is analyzed on the spot.

Every patient goes home with a flash drive which has his or her complete records including X-rays and lab results. They can take them to their follow up doctor’s appointment or plug into their computers at home.

“It’s convenient and time-saving,” says Dr. Salzer, a big plus for busy New Yorkers.

Patients have ranged from guests referred by hotel concierges and Financial District workers from out of town to downtown residents from Battery Park City and the Village and Chelsea. Drop-ins are welcome.

Medhattan has already developed an extensive referral network of specialists and primary care doctors.

They make the follow-up appointment for you and can often get you in faster than if you schedule a visit yourself. Every patient is called afterward for a progress report.

Hours are 9 am – 9 pm weekdays and weekends 9am – 6 pm, 365 days a week. (855 STATMDs or 855 782-8737) A basic office visit costs $200, less than half of an ER hospital stop. All their prices are listed on their website (www.medhattan.com) where patients can go, preregister and make an appointment. They take several insurance plans and soon will accept Medicare.

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Revitalized waterfront is improving quality of life HUDSON RIVER PARK

BY MADELYN WILS You’ve biked along the five-mile path. You’ve sunbathed on the green beach. You’ve watched the sun sink down over the Hudson. This is the port where the Titanic was scheduled to dock in 1912, and the Carpathia successfully unloaded survivors. This is Hudson River Park, the largest open space project in Manhattan since Central Park was completed in the late 1800s.

While restoring New York’s waterfront has always been my passion, this park is particularly important to me. I was fortunate to be named one of the founding directors of the Hudson River Park Trust board when state legislation creating the park was signed in 1998. More personally, as a longtime Tribeca resident, my sons grew up playing here. I know I speak for many when I say that I cannot imagine life on the West Side without Hudson River Park.

But this urban recreational paradise has not always existed as it does now. A mere 15 years ago, Manhattan’s West Side was a collection of decaying piers and decomposing docks completely disconnected from public use. The area was not only an eyesore, it was dangerous — a shadow of its former self as a vibrant industrial port. The neighborhoods surrounding the waterfront had also suffered, as a backyard filled with tangles of rusty metal and miles of rotting wood left much to be desired.

Enter the Hudson River Park Trust, an organization formed by the 1998 passage of the Hudson River Park Act to serve as a custodian to the West Side waterfront. The Trust undertook a massive construction project to begin repairing and restoring the park in sections: Battery Park, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Midtown and Clinton. Using a

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phased approach, different architects were able to work each section and incorporate unique architectural features from the corresponding neighborhoods — all the while maintaining the feeling of a unified whole.

Today, Hudson River Park stretches the five miles from Battery Park City to 59th St., making it the nation’s second largest waterfront park. The open park space is deeply loved and appreciated by New Yorkers, not only because it is a recreational paradise, but because it’s a park for locals. Each year, more than 17 million New Yorkers and visitors take

advantage of the bike path, walkway and piers, enjoy a Circle Line cruise or attend a concert. And then there are those that come to play in the river: Sailing, paddle boarding, kayaking, boating, swimming...the list goes on and on.

The park makes it possible for New York City children to grow up with the same resources for sports and recreation as suburban kids. So many families tell me the Hudson River Park is a reason they remain in the city when they would otherwise relocate to Westchester County, New Jersey or Connecticut. And the waterfront’s revitalization has not only improved quality of life, but served as a catalyst for economic development, adding more than $1 billion in value to properties in the adjacent area.

While Hudson River Park today symbolizes more than a decade of hard work and progress to restore Manhattan’s waterfront, we’re not done yet. Now more than ever, investments are needed to fully realize the vision to restore the waterfront and form a continuous, north-to-south connection that spans the park’s entire five-mile length.

To help make this a reality, we are looking to a new generation of park advocates and supporters to step forward.

For years, the state and city have contributed millions of dollars to maintaining and improving the park. But in a time of budget constraints, we need all New Yorkers now to demonstrate their commitment to Hudson River Park.

This is our chance to continue the legacy of this great park with a rich history — a chance to ensure that our children have the same waterfront access when they decide to raise their families in the city. Our city needs it vibrant waterfront to continue long into the future, and we won’t stop until we see this vision realized.

Wils is president and C.E.O., Hudson River Park Trust

The restaurant is open seven steps from the stairs to the High Line yet worlds away, Ventanas is the newest addition to the culinary corridor of 10th Avenue, a stone’s throw from Morimoto and Del Posto. And just as the High Line above opened new vistas onto New York, KDC Restaurant Group continue to open new vistas onto Latin cuisine. Ventanas’ tapas menu focuses in on the Moroccan-influenced south of Spain to include North African touches within a fiery list of small plates, paella dishes, fine wines and cocktails. Ventanas is the Spanish word for windows, which surround the warm, music-filled space, letting its warm glow spill out onto the hidden streets beneath the elevated park.

As a family-run enterprise, Ventanas takes cues from the repertoire of their own restaurant family—chef Alberto Gonzales came up through both Flor de Sol and Son Cubano—and from the wisdom of across-the-street neighbor Carl Ruiz of the Food Network, who applied his expertise with top Latin chefs to the partners’ plan to push their tapas beyond the limit.

Dessert innovations come by way of Venezuelan pastry chef Jesus Herrera, another longtime member of the family, previously at Son Cubano New Jersey.

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After years of work, results on important projects BOARD 3

BY DOMINIC PISCIOTTA AND SUSAN STETZER Community Board 3 seems to be busier every year. There seem to be more projects that we are involved in and always more to do. But after years on some projects, we are finally seeing results, such as with the Allen / Pike Sts. malls, the P.S. 188 playground and the waterfront. We also find our partnerships with elected officials, agencies and community groups, such as with the Delancey St. work group, described below, to be very productive.

L.E.S. WATERFRONT The city is visioning plans for the Lower East Side waterfront, but C.B. 3 has been fortunate to have had a jump on this. The board has been planning for the waterfront since 2002. The city’s Design Commission has now completed approval for the section from Pier 35 to Pike Slip. This work is currently out to bid and responses are expected by the end of this year. We are looking at construction for this section starting about spring 2012.

Pier 36 reconstruction is complete, and Pier 35 reconstruction is underway and expected to be complete in the spring of 2013. The Economic Development Corporation is working on the design for the final section of the

esplanade from Catherine St. to Pike / Allen Sts. and will present this later next year for feedback.

The board has renewed its focus on Pier 42 because of the recent and very exciting funding announcement. This has been a long process and a priority that the whole community has been advocating for. In October 2007 the board voted on a resolution for the development of Pier 42 as an open space for the community. Further resolutions were passed in 2009 to protect the use of the pier for community use. Funding to demolish the shed on the pier as a necessary first step has been a priority in several C.B. 3 District Need Statements. This September, the board resolved “that Community Board 3 considers funding be allocated to dismantle the shed over Pier 42 as the first step to reclaim this pier for community use, and that elected officials and relevant agencies allocate funding to complete the shed dismantling work on Pier 42 as a necessary first step to reclaiming this pier for the community.”

We were amazed and excited when Senator Schumer and state Senator Squadron the very next month announced that they had secured Lower Manhattan Development Corporation funds for this next step and the visioning process. This is an example of the community board’s strategic planning and working together with our elected officials and community leaders to make change in our community.

ST. MARK’S BOOKSHOP C.B. 3 is proud to have been a part of the successful drive to keep St. Mark’s Bookshop in our community. Promoting retail diversity and retaining local “mom and pop” shops has been a signature issue for C.B. 3. In September, the bookstore owners met with our Economic Development Committee to discuss their status, which resulted in a letter from the board to Cooper Union supporting the bookstore in negotiations that would allow it to continue as a very important business in our community.

DELANCEY ST. SAFETY C.B. 3 has been participating with an interagency working group to address pedestrian and cyclist safety along Delancey St., the heavily trafficked connection to the Williamsburg Bridge. State Senator Squadron has hosted a series of meetings, where he has kept the focus on practical safety improvements that can be implemented immediately. Already, the Department of Transportation has adjusted traffic-light cycles at a number of intersections to provide pedestrians more time for crossing Delancey St. At our Dec. 7 meeting, the C.B. 3 Transportation and Public Safety Committee will be considering another safety measure suggested by the Seventh Precinct to the interagency work group — whether to approve an around-theclock, left-turn restriction off southbound Essex St onto eastbound Delancey St., which is one of the deadliest intersections in Manhattan, the one with the most vehicle accidents involving pedestrians. The interagency group is also looking closely at the intersection with Clinton St. because that is where Delancey St. has a service road around the entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, helping make this intersection the widest street crossing in Manhattan.

In addition to its focus on short-term improvements, the interagency working group has also been trying to identify funding sources for long-term projects, such as enlarged pedestrian islands at major intersections along Delancey St. and a neighborhood traffic study of transportation conditions and safety issues.

WALD PLAYGROUND We are thrilled with the new playground outside P.S. 188. This playground, used by the school and the residents of Lillian Wald, was in terrible disrepair. C.B. 3 worked with parents and City Councilmember Rosie Mendez’s Office to advocate for redesign and construction of this playground as a very necessary priority for the neighborhood children. In September the new playground was opened. The play equipment in this unusual playground is themed for Lillian Wald, a public health pioneer and leader of the recreation movement. The play unit’s roofs are modeled after Lower East Side tenement cornices to recognize those visiting nurses who used to jump from rooftop to rooftop so they could provide health services more

rapidly. There is also a custom stethoscope balance beam and nurses cross climber.

L.E.S. EMPLOYMENT The board is continuing to work closely with the Lower East Side Employment Network. This coalition of local workforce development organizations trains our residents with skills and provides them with tools necessary to find jobs and advance their careers. The organizations also provide many services to the clients to enable them in other areas, such as language development and social services. The community board’s role has been to connect local businesses to the network. This is a great benefit to businesses, which can interview trained and screened applicants who live nearby and which benefits the job-seeking residents of C.B. 3.

SPURA Jan. 25, 2011, was a historic day for the Lower East Side. Community Board 3 voted 44 to 0 on a comprehensive consensus for the Seward Park Extension Urban Renewal Area, ending a 42-year-long struggle over what should become of this land. Where multiple administrations and community interest groups had failed in the past to push forward a plan, we made the most significant progress in more than four decades. This effort came about from more than two-and-a half years of hard work by many diverse community interests who brainstormed and debated through monthly meetings.

The key tenets of the agreement call for a mixed-use and mixed-income development consisting of roughly 50 percent market-rate and 50 percent permanently affordable housing (comprised of 20 percent low-income, 10 percent senior, 10 percent moderate- and 10 percent middle-income); the sites should not exceed more than 60 percent of F.A.R. (floor area ratio); except for a supermarket, no store should exceed 30,000 square feet and nothing more than a “mid-box” store — as opposed to “big box” — should be part of the development; and it includes civic-use preferences, including a public primary and/or secondary school. You can read the full set of guidelines at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/downloads/ cb3docs/Seward%20Park%20Guidelines%20 FINAL.pdf.

Progress on the SPURA project continued to advance in June with the approval of a set of guidelines for the site’s program design. This enabled the Bloomberg administration, along with January’s comprehensive agreement, to create its environmental impact scoping draft, followed by our response in late September.

The next steps planned are the city-conducted environmental impact study (E.I.S.) and then the start of the uniform land use review procedure (ULURP) in spring 2012.

It is our hope to be able to support a ULURP for SPURA that maintains the compromise we have achieved thus far.

Pisciotta is chairperson and Stetzer is district manager, Community Board 3

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Photo by Aaron Lee Fineman

Last month, an Airstream trailer was hoisted into the building’s second floor, where it will be the centerpiece of a recording studio.

Girls’ new clubhouse will be ready to rock by next summer

L.E.S. GIRLS CLUB

BY DAVE PENTECOST The Lower Eastside Girls Club is halfway through construction of its new facility on Avenue D in Manhattan. The 30,000-squarefoot Center for Community will include a 30-foot digital dome planetarium, a recording studio in a 1958 Airstream trailer and rooms for video, photography, art, design and interactive projects. The center will also have an environmental center, green roofs, a letterpress workshop for book arts, a tool shop, a public cafe, a teaching kitchen and a bakery.

The building was topped off in October with the pouring of the 12th-floor roof slab.

The upper floors in the building contain 79 units of mixed-income housing, with 50 percent market rate, 30 percent middle income and 20 percent low income. Interior construction and facade work will continue through the winter, with completion of the building expected next summer. Then the Girls Club will install its equipment and furnishings, and a rolling opening of the center will start in the fall.

All activities in the center will be offered to girls of the neighborhood, ages 8 to 18, but there will be public events, conferences and classes open to the entire com-

munity. During the day, the planetarium will bring in students from public schools in the neighborhood for astronomy and earth science programs, using the same software as the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History uptown. After school the Domegirls project will teach 3D production and storytelling in the dome, using the Unity 3D game engine. In the evening, public programs will feature visualizations by data and code artists, live performers and musicians.

On Fri., Nov. 18, the Airstream trailer was hoisted into the second floor of the building, where it will be the centerpiece of the Radio Lounge. The trailer has been polished and repaired, and will be converted to a studio this winter and spring. Engineers, musicians and DJs will be invited to teach the girls of the club how to produce and perform. The control room will also serve as a 5.1 surround-sound mixing station for original dome shows in the planetarium.

All programs at the Girls Club are provided to girls at no cost. Activities are focused on the Girls Club’s main goal: raising the next generation of environmental, entrepreneurial and ethical leaders.

Pentecost is project manager for technology, Lower Eastside Girls Club

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S.L.A. process is better, but access to info is key BOARD 2

BY BRAD HOYLMAN “Community boards are only advisory.”

This is ingrained in the minds of probably every one of the 2,950 community board members across the city of New York. But while it is technically true that community boards have no independent authority to order a city agency or official to perform any task, the statement belies the fact that a board’s opinion on issues really does, in fact, matter.

A case in point is applications for new liquor licenses for bars and restaurants, and renewals of existing licenses.

At the crowded Community Board 2 State Liquor Authority town hall on Nov. 29, co-hosted with the Greenwich Village Block Associations, S.L.A. Deputy C.E.O. Michael Jones confirmed that for the last two years, the S.L.A. has followed the recommendations of C.B. 2 “in every instance.” In every instance! That’s a pretty good batting average for a group whose members are all volunteer and which has no inherent power.

C.B. 2 takes our approach toward S.L.A. licenses extremely seriously, as anyone who has attended one of our S.L.A. Committee meetings can tell you. The committee members are among the hardest working on the board. Unlike most community board committees, the S.L.A. Committee holds

not one, but two public meetings a month — and these often run very late into the evening. The committee members also spend additional time in discussions with block associations, applicants and other stakeholders as part of their due diligence. Then they have to write the scores of resolutions and prepare them for discussion at the monthly full board meeting, which also can take hours of work.

The goal is to forge community consensus around applications for new bars and restaurants. This is done through negotiations with the applicant and community members that set forth various written stipulations about how the business will be run. For example, will the bar stay open until 2 a.m. or later?

Will the applicant agree to install soundproofing? Will a DJ spin records? Agreements on these types of issues are incorporated in the community board’s resolution on the application and, if eventually approved by the State Liquor Authority, become part of the bar or restaurant’s license to do business, called the method of operation.

There is a major shortcoming here, however, that was revealed at C.B. 2’s S.L.A. town hall. In no place can members of the public find out definitively what a bar or restaurant’s method of operation is. Kept up all night by a noisy restaurant on your block, but don’t know if it’s permitted to stay open until 4 a.m.? You’re out of luck. There’s no repository of information that would tell you

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whether you’re within your rights to complain about a restaurant’s closing time, so the only option is a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request — which isn’t much help when you are awake in the wee hours listening to a rowdy crowd on the sidewalk or a thumping bass through the walls.

What’s equally troubling is that the local police precincts don’t have this information, either. So when the police answer a complaint about a noisy bar, there’s no way for the officer to determine whether the establishment is in compliance with its hours of operation, whether it can have a DJ or requires soundproofing.

The State Liquor Authority is working to become more transparent with the details of

all licenses. One obvious solution is to make the relevant information available on the S.L.A. Web site. C.B. 2 plans on reaching out to our elected officials to ask their help in speeding up this important improvement.

The board and the community also learned that calling 311 and tracking your complaint isn’t always sufficient to get a licensee to comply with the law. If you have a problem with a bar or restaurant, you should call the local precinct and follow up with them. Even better, pictures with time stamps and hard evidence of violations help to build a record that the S.L.A. and the community board can use to evaluate the establishment when its renewal comes up every three years.

Nobody wants a noisy bar or restaurant next to their home. On the other hand, the vast majority of nightlife operators are good neighbors, and the community board recognizes the positive benefits that this industry brings to our city in cultural and economic activity.

The reason C.B. 2 has had a strong record with the State Liquor Authority is because we work hard, pay attention to the community’s concerns, look at what is happening in every neighborhood, and then try to strike a smart balance of vigilantly protecting the quality of life of our neighbors while not shutting down the opportunity for good bar and restaurant operators to open in our area.

With more complete communication between the board, the S.L.A., the police and the neighbors, we think we can make even better decisions in the future — and have some confidence that the S.L.A. will be listening.

Hoylman is chairperson, Community Board 2

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Preparing students to embrace the creative economy THE NEW SCHOOL

BY DAVID E. VAN ZANDT If higher education faces laser-like scrutiny these days, everything I have observed says it is well deserved. A college degree is still a key determinant of earning capacity and job security. But as residents of Greenwich Village know, the pace of change keeps accelerating and, along with it, the cost of a college education. Tuition is increasing at both public and private institutions. Federal financial aid has diminished.

States are reducing their support. Further belt-tightening is on the way as universities struggle to stay relevant and the economy continues to stagnate. Even more troubling is the growing mismatch between what colleges are teaching and what the labor market requires. It is this disconnect which The New School intends to address.

The university’s founders understood that higher education must evolve to meet changing demands. Anyone pursuing an education today — whether a full-time undergraduate degree, a part-time post-master’s certificate or a continuing education course — should be prepared to contribute to the creative economy. We are well beyond the time when manufacturing generated many jobs, and the financial sector employs fewer and fewer people every year. But the creative engine driving our economy is still revving up. To succeed, students must understand how to design, how to manage, and how to sustain more complex systems of knowledge. That is the direction in which The New School is heading.

The creative economy is an enterprise system based on ideas, not resources. For one student, participating in the creative economy may mean introducing a new product to consumers interested in sustainable production. For another, it may mean understanding how microfinancing can help a community grow its own food, preserve its housing and improve its schools. In assessing the career prospects of current New School students, I have seen numerous projections of dramatic growth in design, management and sustainability jobs. Put succinctly, the best opportunities in the future will go to those who can create new products, services and ways of doing things.

I believe The New School can lead the transformation these changes will require.

The university was founded on innovation, creativity and a challenge to the status quo, and on the principle of public engagement.

Many of our historic strengths are in the very fields that will play a major role in designing, managing and sustaining the new economy: architecture, urban studies, organizational change management, psychology, media studies and product design, to name just a few. Never content with stasis, the university has adapted its curriculum to embrace new areas of study that respond to this new economy. A few weeks ago, we welcomed our first master’s degree students in environmental policy and sustainability management. In the fall, we will launch

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Students at Parsons The New School for Design prepared an exhibition of their work.

master’s programs in strategic design and management, urban practice, and design and urban ecologies, among others. Graduates of these programs will start off with the tools not only to navigate this economy, but to emerge as its leaders.

Greenwich Village is in many ways the foundry of the creative economy. Its legacy of artists, poets, playwrights, philosophers and lifelong learners continues to shape the neighborhood today. The New School is based in Greenwich Village because it is of Greenwich Village. For nearly 100 years, we have sent actors, musicians, political economists, environmentalists and creative thinkers from every discipline into the community, and we continue to welcome the community into our classrooms. Our public programming, our progressive voice and our role within the city’s cultural vanguard will only grow as the transition to a creative economy gathers speed.

It is this university’s responsibility to keep one, or perhaps 100, steps ahead of change.

I am proud that many of our students — and their instructors — have been vocal participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement and have shared their anxiety about college loans and career prospects; they clearly understand that institutions need to evolve in order to survive. I believe the education we offer is well worth the price because The New School, on the move as usual, is making investment in the imaginative, artistic and practical fields of knowledge that will meet the demands of the creative economy.

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Tutors are making a difference in children’s lives N.Y.U. This September marked the beginning of the 15th year of New York University’s America Reads and Counts program. Serving as the nation’s largest university-based public school tutoring program, the university sends nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students to assist in the classrooms of more than 90 New York City public schools each year. The tutors work in a sustained fashion, typically for 10 to 15 hours per week, focusing on K-to-8 classrooms, helping young children acquire the basic reading and math skills they will need throughout their school years and throughout their lives.

America Reads was launched in 1997 under the Clinton administration, challenging every American to help children learn to read competently and independently by the end of elementary school. Building on the success of America Reads, America Counts was initiated two years later to assist students in mastering mathematics by the end of the ninth grade. Most N.Y.U. tutors assist in both subject areas.

“N.Y.U. was one of the original universities involved in America Reads when the program began, and this year the collective hours of all of our tutors is expected to pass the 4 million hour mark — 4 million hours of assistance to New York City public school students by N.Y.U. students at absolutely no cost to the public school system. That’s quite a remarkable achievement,” said Bill Pfeiffer, N.Y.U.’s director of the Office of Civic Engagement. “It’s a powerful testament to N.Y.U.’s commitment to New York City’s children and schools.”

The program is housed in N.Y.U.’s Office of Civic Engagement, working in collaboration with the university’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. The training and orientation that tutors receive is built upon the work and expertise of N.Y.U. faculty within the

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One of the nearly 1,000 N.Y.U. America Reads / America Counts tutors working to help prepare young New Yorkers for academic success.

Steinhardt School. The Steinhardt Office of Field Projects, which has extensive outreach into the New York City school system, lines up tutors with elementary and middle schools throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

America Reads and Counts tutors come from almost every college at N.Y.U. About one-third of the tutors are enrolled in the Steinhardt School; one-third in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science; and the remaining tutors are enrolled in the Tisch School of the Arts, Wagner School of Public Service, Stern School of Business,

Silver School of Social Work, the Gallatin School for Individualized Study and the Liberal Studies Program.

“You don’t need to be in a teacher-training program to be a good America Reads and Counts tutor because tutors are always supervised and directed by a classroom teacher,” said Lee Frissell, director of Field Projects at Steinhardt. “But, of course, those who are planning to be teachers bring special skills to the job, and have an especially rich experience.”

Tutors are allowed to develop weekly work schedules with their assigned teachers,

working between six and 20 hours per week in the school. Working in conjunction with their classroom teacher, students can modify their work schedules each semester, maximizing the amount of time they can assist in the classroom while also meeting their academic obligations at N.Y.U. “The program is designed to make working in schools attractive and manageable for our students, while also ensuring that each classroom we serve has a consistent tutor presence,” said Pfeiffer.

“It has added a wonderful dimension to my experience at N.Y.U.,” said Anita SenGupta, a junior economics major from Cincinnati, Ohio, who has worked for three years in The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology in The Bronx. “In addition to the satisfaction I have received from helping my students, I have developed a new understanding and appreciation of the complexities of public education. I have also gotten to know New York City — its families, children and working people — in a way that I think would otherwise have been impossible.”

Mary Brabeck, dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at N.Y.U., pointed to another benefit.

“Many students who never planned to become teachers decide to do so as a result of their work with America Reads,” Brabeck noted. “And many others become interested in careers in which education and social engagement are central.”

“It’s a win-win-win situation,” said Lynne Brown, N.Y.U.’s senior vice president for university relations and public affairs, within whose division the program is administered.

“The schools, teachers and schoolchildren get direct assistance from bright, committed N.Y.U. students at no cost; the N.Y.U. students get good-paying, socially meaningful, personally rewarding jobs; and the university gets to demonstrate its deep and sincere commitment to this great city, with which its fortunes are inextricably intertwined.”

Fighting for landmarking, safe streets, local shops COMMUNITY

BY KURT CAVANAUGH Few places boast the cultural, historical, and architectural significance of the Lower East Side. The tenement buildings, grand places of worship, school buildings and narrow streets were home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2000, the neighborhood was placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

Despite its inclusion on the registers, and a 2008 rezoning of the neighborhood, the Lower East Side is rapidly changing. The only guaranteed protection against inappropriate alteration or demolition is historic district or individual landmark designation

by New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and subsequent City Council

approval. Acknowledging that the neighborhood is under constant threat of overactive real estate speculation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Lower East Side to its “11 Most Endangered Historic Places” in 2008.

Our organization, the East Village Community Coalition (E.V.C.C.), works to support and sustain the architectural and cultural heritage of the East Village/Lower East Side. Along with other neighborhood organizations, concerned neighbors and Community Board 3, we have been working toward designation of two proposed historic districts in the neighborhood. One district is the northern boundary of Tompkins Square Park along E. 10th St. between Avenues A and B. The other, much larger, proposed district includes about 300 buildings and extends from E. Second St. to E. Seventh St., from Second Ave. to Avenue A.

These proposed districts are calendared for a hearing at the L.P.C. but no hearing date is set. Until these proposed districts are approved by the City Council, the Lower East Side is at risk of losing more of its historic buildings.

In addition to our dedication to historic preservation, E.V.C.C. is committed to making the neighborhood safe and sustainable by collaborating with community organizations to address unsafe conditions for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers. We are partnering with Local Spokes, a coalition of organizations from the Lower East Side and Chinatown, and will host a neighborhood visioning exercise to address areas of concern. We have fought for and won pedestrian and bicycling improvements on First and Second Aves., as well as Avenues A and C, but we continue to demand attention be focused on the most dangerous intersection

for bicyclists (Bowery at East Houston St.) and fourth most dangerous for pedestrians (Essex and Delancey Sts.) in all of New York City.

Lastly, with the holidays approaching, E.V.C.C. encourages support for our local merchants. According to several studies, neighborhoods retain a much higher percentage of money spent in local shops than money that is spent at national chains and franchises. You can find our recently released fifth edition of the “Get Local Guide to East Village Shops” — which lists 400-plus local businesses — in cafes and stores, as well as on our Web site, www.evccnyc.org. Utilize the Guide, support your neighbors, and help preserve the historic streetscape and unique culture of the East Village and Lower East Side.

Cavanaugh is managing director, East Village Community Coalition

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Lamb returns to his roots and shoots out the lights SPORTS

‘He’s the best 2-point shooter in college basketball.’

John Calipari

I love the quote from Coach John Calipari when he someone asked him why Doron is playing so well.

“His motor is going,” Calipari said. “He just has a feel for the game. In my opinion he’s the best 2-point shooter in college basketball.”

Kentucky’s game against Old Dominion was pretty ugly, especially in the post. Kentucky committed a season-high 21 turnovers, but went on to win 62-52. Doron had 8 points and, in the end, was named to the All-Tournament Team.

It was a pleasure to once again watch Doron, who has clearly matured into a wonderful young man. I would also like to thank his parents, Brigitte and Calvin Lamb, for always keeping it real.

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Doron Lamb squaring up to shoot during warm-ups at the Champions Classic at M.S.G. last month.

it was off to Connecticut with family, fans and friends.

The Connecticut tournament took place at the Mohegan Sun. The teams were not as high-profile — Vermont, L.I.U., Penn State and Old Dominion.

However, Doron noted, “It doesn’t matter who we play, we have to execute and take care of our business.”

In Game 1 against Penn State, Doron got the ball and drove in for a 3-point play. A few plays later, he hit three consecutive 3-pointers — right after he made an attempt to drive, then kicked it out to Terrence Jones for a three. I said to myself what an unselfish and complete player Doron is.

Doron scored a career-high-tying 17 points in the first half and finished with 26 for the game. He’s now averaging a team-high 19.3 points to go along with a 4.3 rebound average, 11 total assists and a 56.3 percent mark from 3-point range.

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BY EDDIE RIVERA As Kentucky super sophomore Doron Lamb prepared himself mentally and physically for the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 15, he knew it was going to be an all-around special day. It was his chance to do his favorite thing — play ball — in the city where he learned the sport and could once again see all of his family and friends.

Asked how he managed the ticket requests from friends, the Lower East Side-born baller said, “Mom has that covered.”

As for the game, he said, he was feeling good with his preparation and growth as a player this season.

“With us being No. 2 Kentucky versus No. 10 Kansas it should be a great game with good energy,” he said.

The tournament featured four top-tier teams, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State and Duke. Alumni, family, fans and friends filled M.S.G. to support their teams.

It was my second time seeing Doron play at the Garden.

The first was last year at the Jordan Classic.

I was able to see Doron outside of the locker room. He came over and shook my hand, even his handshake had changed. He appeared calm and collected — then again, I am not surprised because he has played in so many pressurepacked games.

In my rounds through the Garden, I approached several Kentucky fans. When I asked them who their favorite player on the team was, about 90 percent replied, “Doron Lamb.”

One older gentleman said, “Doron is my favorite because he is combination of quiet and deadly on the courts.” Another fan said, “Isn’t Doron a New York City kid?” Yes, I replied.

He went on to say, “But he doesn’t have that extra swagger that most New York players have.” I told him, “His swagger is within, you can see it in his confidence and ability.”

The best part of the game was when Doron sunk a 3-pointer. His fans were on their feet and some held signs with three fingers and the eye in the middle. It’s become Doron’s trademark. I took a photo of the Lower East Side fans that had the three-finger signs for Doron.

Kansas got off to a quick start. The Kansas fans were yelling, “Jayhawks!” The Kentucky fans were yelling, “Go Cats!”

Doron drove the lane for 2 and the fans went crazy.

At halftime the score was tied, 28-28. The Wildcats took control in the second half, shooting 16 for 25 from the field.

Doron’s explosive play helped break the game open.

Kentucky went on to win, 75-65. Doron was 4-for-8 from the field, including 3-for-5 from 3-point range, with 17 points. He also had four rebounds and one assist in 34 minutes of play.

Afterward, Doron said, “Home sweet home for my family and friends who got to share my moments at M.S.G. I think we made a good statement today. We played against a top team that was ranked and beat them.”

A coach on the Kansas team said, “I really thought they played a lot better the second half and made shots. Lamb got them off to a good start.”

As I was walking out of the Garden, I asked some Kentucky fans, “Are you going out to Connecticut for the Hall of Fame Tip-Off?” They replied, “We travel to every game!” I thought, Wow, Big Blue Nation is a big family. So,

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT End of an era at ‘Post Office’ Contemplating changing of the guard, in more ways than one THEATER POST OFFICE Written by David Jenkins Directed by Josie Whittlesey Through December 17 Thurs. through Tues., 8pm (no Wed. performances) At the New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher St. (btw. Greenwich & Washington Sts.) For tickets (18), call 212-868-4444 or visit smarttix.com Visit sohothinktank.org and humananimals.org

BY JERRY TALLMER One of G. K. Chesterton’s magical Father Brown detective stories that I devoured in my youth was titled “The Invisible Man” and had to do with an invisible (because so familiar) London postman who, however, left tracks in the snow.

To most of us — most Americans — the postman, or mailman, is a figure indeed so familiar as to be all but invisible (except on Social Security payment days, usually the third of any month).

Then, says David Jenkins, speaking from personal experience, “then they want to see you, come running to see you and get their checks.”

There are no Social Security paydays in “Post Office” — the lively clear-eyed play by 33-year-old David Jenkins.

But there are two small town Illinois postmen: an old-timer named Denny and a 19-year-old named James whom the veteran takes under his wing, teaches the ropes to, caustically but caringly: DENNY: You’re not wearing headphones out there, are you? Talking on your cell phone?

JAMES: No, man, DENNY: No? Isn’t that what you children do all day?

Talk on your— JAMES: I’m not a child, man.

When James complains that sorting the mail is complex but hardly rocket science, the older man snaps: “Nothing is rocket science but rocket science. We could use a little less rocket science, you ask me.”

Bravo.

One day young James (David Gelles) has to deliver a package to a lady named Victoria something (Anney Giobbe), a nice lonely spirited woman twice his age — well, maybe nearer three times his age — who takes him under her wing, unpostally speaking. Teaches him the meaning of “tactile” and to listen to the cicadas. In bed.

Needless to say, Denny the dedicated (Eric Hoffmann) disapproves. What Denny approves of is the U.S. Postal Service.

“The mail never stops,” he proclaims with passion to a customer who has complained about the 44-cent-and-rising price of a postage stamp.

It never stops. Never. We go to sleep, we wake up, we get older, we get sick, we get better or we die. Wars are waged, won, or lost, but the mail keeps going. Every

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minute of every day, straight through the night, it’s in some process of motion, In the heat of his peroration, Denny falls off a porch and fractures three ribs. His route is turned over — temporarily, of course — to his guilt-stricken young protégé. It shouldn’t require a rocket scientist to figure out where this story is heading — an analogue to the actual looming fate of the whole U.S. Postal Service in this worldwide age of texting and iPhones.

“Post Office” is set in the fictional town of Little Neck, Illinois. David Jenkins, born in Minnesota of good Irish stock, had all sorts of jobs in his youth — and one of them was as a postman (for four months) in the actual town of Lake Bluff, Illinois, “30 minutes north of The City” (meaning Chicago). “This was in the year 2000 — before the world blew up” (meaning 9/11).

“Everything happens so fast now,” says the refreshingly unspoiled and enthusiastic David Jenkins. He sometimes switches from computer to typewriter to slow things down (“You can play the typewriter like an instrument.”).

He may stick that Social Security bit back into this play.

“I’m not done writing it yet.” The same is true of a somewhat intrusive passage anent John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” “I don’t know, it scares me,” Jenkins murmursThe U.S. Postal Service, he declares with dry, inverse irony, “deserves to go away — we don’t need it. It’s an admirable institution whose time has come. I think of it as Willy Loman” — the worn-out all-American success/failure protagonist at the

center of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”

And Willy Loman of course applies almost one-to-one to Denny the postman. “They’re just going to throw you away like an old television or something,” says his guilty young sidekick.

“What’s terrifying to me,” says Arthur Miller heir David Jenkins, “is we’re not just talking about the end of Denny, we’re talking about the end of his industry.”

Before there was an Arthur Miller there was a Clifford Odets, whom young David Jenkins, some 80 years later, worships as a big time “social playwright” in a line then “renovated” for each generation — “what it means to be an American” — by Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, et al, Jenkins came out of Boston University with a BA in philosophy and political science —”two things you can’t get a job doing.” In the NYU Acting Program in this city, he met and married a girl named Josie Whittlesey “who is actually the director of this play” as she had been for his earlier “Middlemen.”

We’re lucky to have him sill among us. “Broke my neck in an auto accident in South Bend, Indiana,” Jenkins says, craning his head from side to side. “No, I wasn’t driving.

Happened right near Notre Dame. They get that kind of football injury a lot. Probably the best place in the United States to have that accident happen.”

Mr. and Mrs. David Jenkins now live in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Any kids yet?

“Bite your tongue,” said Mr. Jenkins.

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Nothing to do with Christmas, Santa, Chanukah or Hanukkah Unseasonal activities to put on your plate COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

SHE KILLS MONSTERS Secret Santa’s got nothing on the juicy tidbits unearthed by average, unassuming Agnes. When she accesses the Dungeons & Dragons notebook of her recently deceased (and “totally weird”) sister Tilly, Agnes is plunged into a world of hostile fairies, randy ogres, action/adventure violence and pop culture references. “She Kills Monsters” seems like a rock solid antidote to the relentless onslaught of satire-free saccharine that must be endured from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Playwright Qui Nguyen and director Robert Ross Parker (the team behind Vampire Cowboys) bring their distinguished track record of comic book theater triumphs to the proceedings — with capable assistance from The Flea Theater’s resident acting ensemble (The Bats). Geek Freak Bonus: Casey Jex Smith’s Dungeons & Dragons-inspired art exhibit “Doomslayers” will be on display in the lobby before the show.

Through Dec. 23; Tues.-Sat. at 7pm, Sat. & Sun. at 3pm. At The Flea Theater (41 White St., btw. Church & Broadway).

For tickets ($25), call 212-352-3101 or visit theflea.org. Tues. shows are paywhat-you-can (one ticket per person; subject to availability at door only; Sat. matinees are $10). Visit vampirecowboys. com.

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BOOK LAUNCH: “MURDER NEW YORK STYLE: FRESH SLICES”

Silent night, secret life: See “She Kills Monsters.”

Don’t be fooled by the squeaky clean pedestrian malls and the national chain stores — our city has managed to retain a good amount of its notorious Gotham grit. Murder and intrigue abound. You just have to know where to look for it. A good place to start: in the pages of “Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices.” This anthology of 22 mysteries showcases work from the Sisters in Crime New York/Tri-State chapter (which promotes the professional development and advancement of women crime writers). Taken as a whole, they represent “that special combination of adaptability and assertiveness dished out more often than any pizza or street meat.”

That’s a nice way of saying you’d better watch

your back when you veer off the beaten path.

Stories set in Downtown locations include “Taking the High Line” (an S&M encounter goes too far), “The Doorman Building” (a mother’s eye-opening visit to her son’s apartment near NYU) and “Remember You Will Die” (a dying mogul’s goodbye party at the Rubin Museum of Art). Meet many of the authors at the book launch party — which will feature readings and signings.

Thurs., Dec. 15, at 7pm. At Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers (44 Greenwich Ave., near Charles St.). For more information about the anthology and its authors, visit murdernystyle.com. For info on the venue, crimepays.com.

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Just Do Art: The Deluxe Holiday Edition COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

HOLIDAY EVENTS AT THE MERCHANT’S HOUSE MUSEUM For 75 years, the Merchant’s House Museum has preserved domestic life as lived from 1835-1865. This holiday season, they’re making room for some compelling curiosities from a very different era.

“From Candlelight to Bubble Light: A 1950s Christmas in an 1850s House” is a visionary mash-up of times and traditions. Through January 9, the halls will be retro-decked with conceptual stylist (and East Village icon) Deb O’Nair’s collection of 1950s/60s holiday decorations and Americana. Mae West Christmas albums and molded-plastic lit-from-within Frostys might seem like a jarring contrast to the original furnishings and personal possessions of the Tredwell family — but taken as a whole, the place just plain feels like home.

On Sat., Dec. 17 (at 7:30pm), “Tinsel tunes with the Tineseltones” comes with a Spoiler Alert: The four charismatic harmonizers who comprise the Tinseltones bear a striking resemblance to the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (the MHM’s arts group in residence). No strangers to high concepts (their last gig showcased songs of death and enchantment), the Tinseltones will bring their flair fun, theatrics and vocal pyrotechnics to this imaginative interpretation of familiar holidays songs from the 1950s.

On New Year’s Day, from 3-6pm, “Open House” brings back the centuries-old tradition of paying New Year’s Day calls (complete with a cup of holiday punch and snacks). Admission is $30.

The West Village Chorale wants your help, when they sing Handel’s “Messiah” and go caroling.

At Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. Fourth St., btw. Lafayette & Bowery).

Regular hours: 12-5pm (closed Tues. & Wed.). Admission: $10 ($5 for students/ seniors). For info, call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org.

THE WEST VILLAGE CHORALE: OPEN “MESSIAH” SING / CAROLING WALK At their annual Open Audience Sing of Handel’s “Messiah,” The West Village Chorale provides scores, piano accompaniment and refreshments at intermission. All

you have to do in return is sing along (with able assistance from music director Michael Conley, who’ll be on hand to conduct). If you like a little stroll with your song, the 37th annual “Greenwich Village Caroling Walk” features a trip through the picturesque Dickens-like neighborhood — as the Chorale leads you in the singing of seasonal carols.

The “Messiah” event takes place on Sun.,

Dec. 11, at 3pm. At Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, at Thompson St.). Admission: $15 general, $10 for seniors (62+) and students. The “Caroling Walk” (a free event) takes place on Fri., Dec. 16, at 7pm (beginning and ending at Judson Memorial Church). For info, call 212-5171776 or visit westvillagechorale.org.

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A liturgical poem with a beat: Avi Wisnia’s new single has its live debut on Dec. 9.

Just Do Art! Continued from page 31

AVI WISNIA IN CONCERT, CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF “MAOZ TSUR” As he proved on his debut album (“Something New”), singer/songwriter/rabbi’s son Avi Wisnia knows his way around Brazilian bossa nova, acoustic American folk, 1950’s west-coast jazz and contemporary pop.

His latest release (available now online) is the holiday single “Maoz Tsur.” This jazz instrumental is based on a liturgical poem that’s become a popular Hanukkah song often heard after the lighting of the menorah. Translated as “Rock of Ages,” its words celebrate the human spirit’s ability to claim victory over oppressors and overcome persecution. You don’t have to be one of the chosen people to appreciate that — but it doesn’t hurt! With that in mind, Wisnia cordially invites all colors and creeds to come and experience the joy of the holidays at a free event, which will feature the live performance debut of “Maoz Tsur.”

Fri., Dec. 9, from 8-9:30pm (doors open at 7:30pm). Free and open to all ages — but seating is limited, so arrive early. At Live at Caffe Vivaldi (32 Jones St.; off Bleecker St., by 7th Ave.). For info, caffevivaldi.com or 212-691-7538. For more info: aviwisnia. com; twitter.com/aviwisnia; youtube.com/ teamwisnia; facebook.com/aviwisniamusic; myspace.com/aviwisniapresents.

ARChive OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC HOLIDAY RECORD + CD SALE Christmas comes but once a year — and to help build that pile of presents under the tree, there’s another annual December event we’ve come to depend upon. Secure a slot on Santa’s “nice” list when you help support the ARChive of Contemporary Music — a nonprofit music library whose stockpile of over 2 million sound recordings makes it America’s largest popular music collection. ARChive keeps two copies of all recordings released in America. When a third copy comes in, it becomes part of this annual sale. Over 20,000 items are up for grabs — including books, CDs, LPs, singles, VHS, DVDs, sheet music

Naima Rauam’s “Night at Fulton Market” (2005). See “Remembering Fulton Fish Market,” page 33.

and a flea market full of vintage kitchenwares, psychedelic rock posters and clothing. All the CDs (mostly pop and rock recordings, priced from $1-$10) are mint condition donations form record companies and collectors.

Sat., Dec. 10 through Sun., Dec. 18.

Open daily, 11am-6pm. At the ARChive of Contemporary Music’s (54 White St., 3 blocks south of Canal, btw. Broadway & Church Sts.). Call 212-226-6967 or visit archmusic.org. Blog: arcmusic.wordpress.com. On Facebook: facebook.com/ ArchiveOfContemporaryMusic.

VILLAGE LIGHT OPERA: SCROOGE & GILBERT & SULLIVAN The Village Light Opera Group’s presentation of Nathan Hull’s “Scrooge & Gilbert & Sullivan” has high concept charisma to burn.

This modern mashup of two timeless classics takes its inspiration from the mutual admiration society formed by Dickens. The “Christmas Carol” author was a fan of Sullivan’s music; and Gilbert adapted Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”

Now the creations of this trio are merged into one night of entertainment — in a shows that injects 11 Gilbert & Sullivan operettas into that familiar tale of Scrooge’s redemption.

At The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University (3 Spruce St.). Fri., Dec. 9 at 8pm; Sat., Dec. 10 at 2pm & 8pm; Sun., Dec. 11 at 2pm. The Dec. 10 2pm performance is a Children’s Matinee (special activities before and after, and kids pay half price). The Dec. 10 8pm performance will include sign language interpretation. For

tickets ($25 and $45), call 866-811-4111 or visit vlog.org. Group discounts available for orders of 10 or more.

TRINITY WALL STREET’S CHRISTMAS EVENTS Holiday caroling, a youth chorus performance, a Dickens adaptation and one of the city’s most popular Christmas Eve services: Trinity Wall Street has a little of everything — for everyone. On Thurs., Dec. 15 (at 5pm), The Trinity Youth Chorus performs their annual concert of Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. After the concert, join the Youth Chorus as they lead the audience in holiday caroling (Melissa Attebury conducts). At St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway at Fulton St.).

On Sun., Dec. 18 (at 1pm), “Scrooge & Marley: A Reading” invites you to become part of the story, as Theater at Trinity presents its annual reading of Israel Horovitz’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” (audience participation encouraged). At St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway at Fulton St.).

On Sat., Dec. 24 (at 4pm), the annual Christmas Eve Service for Children, Youth and Families features a sermon presented in a storytelling format. Children are “highly encouraged to participate,” and the Eucharist is celebrated. The Trinity Youth Chorus performs. At Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall St.).

For info on these free events, call 212602-0800 or visit trinitywallstreet.org.

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HOLIDAYS AT THE WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER WINTER GARDEN Over 100,000 white lights deck the World Financial Center Winter Garden — but it’s their diverse programming that makes the season both merry and bright. On Fri., Dec. 9 and Sat., Dec 10 (10am-1pm and 2-7pm), kids (and, yes, adults) can schmooze with Santa, his reindeer and some lively elves. The price of a photo op with this jolly gang starts at $20, with proceeds going to help The Brooke Jackman Foundation promote literacy and learning (see brookejackmanfoundation.org).

On Thurs., Dec. 15 (at 7:30pm), the Brooklyn Youth Chorus reunites with soprano Harolyn Blackwell for a holiday concert (featuring a new work based on a Langston Huges poem).

On Sun., Dec. 18 (at 12pm), The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene celebrates the Festival of Lights with Yiddish music and theater. The special guests on the bill (which bills itself as “My Yiddish Chanukah: A Musical Feast for New York) include Zalmen Mlotek, Annette Ezekiel and Alicia Jo Rabins (of the Klezmer group Golem), Daniella Rabbani and Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch.

All events take place at the World Financial Center Winter Garden (200 Vessey St.; 3 World Financial Center). For more info on these and other events, visit artsworldfinancialcenter.com.

REMEMBERING FULTON MARKET Another iconic slice of old school

Manhattan life that’s gone forever, the Fulton Fish Market’s South Street incarnation (18222005) endures — on walls — thanks to the work of Naima Rauam. The artist spent over two decades immersing herself in its darkness to dawn routine, when the market was full of life (and recently expired fish). On the sixth anniversary of its move, Rauam’s exhibit of watercolors and drawings (which glowed with a melancholy poignancy even when the market was still based on South Street) gain power and gravity as time goes by.

Free. Through Dec.18. At @SEAPORT! Gallery (210 Front St., corner of Beekman, at South Street Seaport). Gallery hours: Wed.Sun., 12-7pm. For info, visit artpm.com.

PERIDANCE CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: THE NUTCRACKER Peridance Contemporary Dance Company brings its signature style (versatile dancers of diverse backgrounds, innovative movement and design) to this unconventional production of “The Nutcracker.” Expect all the standard issue stuff (snowflakes, sugarplums and that Tchaikovsky score), plus an injection of contemporary choreography performed by a cast of over 60 dancers — including young students from The School at Peridance, preprofessionals from the Certificate Program and the International Student Programs and professional dancers from the Peridance ensemble.

Sat., Dec. 17, at 6:30pm & 8:30pm (followed by a reception); and Sun., Dec. 18, at 2:30pm & 5:30pm. At Peridance Capezio Center (126 E. 13th St., btw. Third & Fourth Aves.). For info, call 212-505-0886 or visit peridance.com.

A Chanukah celebration you can dance to: See “Holidays at the World Financial Center.”

Photo by Melissa Birnbaum/Meems Images

From the 2010 Peridance “Nutcracker.”

Photo by Leah Reddy

A full plate of diverse Christmas programming: See “Trinity Wall Street,” page 32.

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PUBLIC NOTICES ARIEL PROPERTY ADVISORS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/3/2010.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 635 W. 42nd St., #PHD, NY, NY 10036, which is also the principal business location as well as the address of the registered agent, Shimon Shkury, upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A & FIVE, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/11. Office loc: NYC. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 SFOGLINI LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/5/11. Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processThe LLC 11 Riverside Dr., #7LE New York, NY 10023 Registered Agent: Scott Ketchum 11 Riverside Dr., #7LE New York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AS/ASOF II INVESTORS, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/03/09. Princ. office of LLC: American Securities, LLC, 299 Park Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10171-8000 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Jeffrey W. Bullock, 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Making investments.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COMMONWEALTH REAL ESTATE LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/14/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: c/o Corporate Filing Solutions of New York, 47 Jefferson, Ave., Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 169 THOMPSON RESTAURANT LLC, filed under the original name 169 Thompson LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/14/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/7/11.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

DE off. addr.: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 181 THOMPSON RESTAURANT LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/17/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/7/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE off. addr.: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GREENCOOPER LP Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 09/21/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: GreenCooper LP, 4 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010. Name/ address of each general partner available from SSNY. Purpose: To engage any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CEKLA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/21/11. 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, 675 Third Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PANOPTIC FILMS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gary Breslin, 231 Sullivan St., Apt. 4, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011

NAME OF FOR. LP: V3 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 3/17/11.

Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/1/11. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 535 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022.

Addr. of LP in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State.

Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ZBOT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 9/21/11. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/29/11.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Eric Zerof, 107 Bank St., Apt 1, New York, NY 10014. Registered agent upon whom process may be served: United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CARTER’S DRY GOODS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 112 W. 34th St., NY, NY 10120. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CAPITALPLUS COMMODITIES FUND GP LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY): 10/5/11.

Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 10/4/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1221 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10020. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BBDB REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/21/11. 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 Katsky Korins LLP, Attn: Eugene V. Kokot, Esq., 605 Third Ave., NY, NY 10158.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TA-170 BROADWAY INVESTOR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/6/11. 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 Tribeca Associates LLC, 321 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NAME OF FOR. LP: TRIAN PARTNERS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND-B GP, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 8/22/11.

Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 7/25/11. Princ. bus. loc.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Addr. of LP in DE is: Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State. Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NAME OF FOR. LP: TRIAN PARTNERS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND (SUB)-B, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sec. of State of NY: 8/22/11.

Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 7/25/11. Princ. bus. loc.: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. NY State off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Addr. of LP in DE is: Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Name/addr. of GP avail. from Sec. of State. Authorized office in DE where Cert. of LP is filed is: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BRP GREENLIGHT ENERGY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/20/11. 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 BRP COMPANIES, 10 East 41st St., Ste. 1201, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NATURAL HEALTH 4 U, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Victor Dabah, c/o Vida Shoes International, Inc., 29 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CU FUSION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/4/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Victor Dabah, c/o Vida Shoes International, Inc., 29 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CS SPORT BRANDS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/17/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gleason & Koatz, LLP, 122 E. 42nd St., Ste. 518, New York, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LISA SLAVIN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/27/11.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: Lisa Slavin, 254 E. 68th St., Ste. 21B, NY, NY 10065, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF UNTER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/14/11.

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: 800 Market St., 7th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94102.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIRIS PARTNERS II, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/12/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 540 Madison Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

LP formed in DE on 8/29/11.

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

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SIRIS PARTNERS II PARALLEL, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/12/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 540 Madison Ave., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

LP formed in DE on 9/15/11.

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

Vil 11/03 - 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEFT FOOT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/2011. Office location, County of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Pig ‘N Whistle, Attn: E. Wilson, 58 West 48th St., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 YYTL LLC, A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 9/19/11. NY Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 430 W. 14th St., Ste. 503, NY, NY 10014. General Purposes.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ZONE 2 PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Washington (DC) on 12/27/05.

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. Princ. Office of LLC: 1 University Pl., Apt. 2F, NY, NY 10003. Arts. of Org. filed with Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Dept. of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, 1100 4th St., SW, Washington, DC 20024. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LANTAU FUND GP LLC (ORIGINALLY FILED MOUNT KELLETT CAPITAL HYBRID GP, LLC).

App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/11. Off. loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/10/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 623 Fifth Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRETTY YUM THING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/26/11.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 105 Duane St., Ste. 11K, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF DC MEXICO HOLDCO SUB LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 8/30/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, Attn: Corporation Service Co., regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL FUND I, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/16/10.

NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Permal Asset Management Inc., 900 Third Ave., NY, NY 10010. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Vanguard Corporate Services, Ltd., 3500 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF VISUAL MARKETING PARTNERS LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/26/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 22-19 41st Ave., Queens, NY 11101. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/10.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: manufacturing of printed materials.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011

NAME OF FOR. LLC: V3 CAPITAL ADVISORS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed NY Dept. of State: 3/17/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/1/11. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to princ. bus. loc.: 535 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. officer in DE where Cert. of Form. filed: DE Sec. of State, Duke & York St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/10 – 12/15/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ICON NORTHERN LEASING AGENT, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/02/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/14/11. Princ. office of LLC: ICON Capital Corp., 100 Fifth Ave., 4th Fl., 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. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROCKSTARR GROUP LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy.

Of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/21/09. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Mariel LaSasso, 80 Maiden Lane, NY, NY 10038.

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 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GOSAL LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/25/2011. Office location: NY County.SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 CLAUDIA SLOVINSKY AND ASSOCIATES, PLLC, A PROF, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/14/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Law Offices of Claudia Slovinsky, 401 Broadway, #1600, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CIVIC CONCORD AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/26/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Civic Builders, 304 Hudson St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DDK GUITARS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, One Battery Park Plaza, NY, NY 10004, Attn: James Krugman. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MARK C. HOMONOFF, MD, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/27/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mark C. Homonoff, MD, 70 Riverside Drive, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: practice the profession of medicine.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KEENAN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michael Jarvela, 259 ½ W. 21st St., Apt. G, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17 – 12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MARC WARING VENTURES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/17/11.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 240 W. 37th St., Ste. 313, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17-12/22/2011 MIDMARKET GROWTH PARTNERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/21/11. 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 11/17-12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LESC FRANKLIN AVENUE L.P. Cert. filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/7/2011. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr. of the LP: c/o Lower East Side Center, Inc., 80 Maiden Ln., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10038. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from Sec. of State. Term: until 12/31/2090.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/17-12/22/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HUNT MARCELLUS PARTNER COMPANY, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/25/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.:1900 N. Akard St., Dallas, TX 75201. LLC formed in DE on 3/2/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 11/17-12/22/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF L J A ARTS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/19/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/18/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, 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 11/17-12/22/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ROPAY ASSET INVESTORS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/11. Office loc: NY City. LLC formed in DE on 08/04/10. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to: 5 Tudor City Place, NY, NY 10017. The principal business address: 347 Fifth Ave., Ste 1402-551, NY, NY 10016. Certificate of LLC filed with Secy of State of DE loc at 401 Federal St. #3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MANGARONI, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/25/02. 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 119 W. 72nd St., PO Box 400, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF REVERE TACTICAL RISK FUND LP, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/1/11. Office loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 6/29/11.

SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Paul Wolter, 12 E. 52nd St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. 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 11/24 – 12/29/2011.

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF TWO SIGMA SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES BRAZIL, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/15/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/14/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Matthew B. Siano, Esq., 379 West Broadway, NY, NY 10012. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF RION CAPITAL, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/9/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/6/11.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Zvi Gillon, 245 Park Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BLACKSTONE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/15/11.

Princ. office of LLC: c/o The Blackstone Group, Attn: Chief Legal Officer, 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 FORMATION OF THUY DIEP LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/7/10. Office location:NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to the principal business address: 63 Greene St, Ste 506. Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

S&S MANAGEMENT LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/13/2011. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Shu Rong Chen, 319 E 24th St, #6F, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF M WEBB LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United Corporate Services, Inc., Ten Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF K & F 108 LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/2011 Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 122 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014 Purpose: Any lawful activity Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PARK AVENUE NOMINEES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/1/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Office of Steven M. Gerber, 666 Fifth Ave., 26th Fl., New York, NY 10103.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SKYWEB DIGITAL MEDIA, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/07/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 06/06/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process and NJ addr. to Fred D’Alessandro, 363 Market St., Kenilworth, NJ 07033. Arts. of Org. filed with State of NJ, Dept. of Treasurer, P.O. Box 002, Trenton, NJ 08625. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BERGEN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/3/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Eugene Tablis, 370 Lexington Ave., Ste. 1900, NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Loockerman & Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CLEAN VALUE GENERAL PARTNERS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/27/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/1/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 630 Third Ave., Fl. 21, NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: Capitol Services, Inc., 1675 South State St., Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KD COMMUNICATIONS & CONSULTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/28/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Karen Daragan, 134 E. 93rd St., PH-B, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROPERTY NY 10011 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/11. 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 Crowe Horwath LLP, 488 Madison Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MS6TD, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/14/2011. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/14/04.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jacob Wohlstadter, 25 Columbus Circle, Unit ST-60D, NY, NY 10019, principal business address of LLC. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert.of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NAME OF FOREIGN LLC: PURPLE KEY DEVELOPMENT LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/25/11. Office loc.: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 10/21/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Robert Davidson, 1745 Broadway, 17th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: 108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF VNO 426 WEST BROADWAY MEMBER LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/5/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652. LLC formed in DE on 1/3/05. 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: any lawful activity.

Vil 11/24 – 12/29/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Hotel Liquor license, #TBA has been applied for by 371 Seventh Avenue Co., Lessee LLC d/b/a Affinia Manhattan to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a Hotel.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 371 Seventh Avenue New York NY 10001.

Vil 12/01 – 12/08/2011 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BDC ADVISORS, LLC. App for Auth filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/10/11. Office loc: NY Cty. LLC formed in FL on 12/10/09. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to the principal business/FL address: 1221 Brickell Avenue Suite 1470 Miami, FL 33131. FL address of LLC: Certificate of LLC filed with Secy of State of FL located at 2661 Executive Center Circle Tallahassee, FL 32301.

Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BROKERDEALER COMPLIANCE ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/07/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/06/06. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at its principal business address: 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 870, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 THREE RING WEDDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/19/11.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process Kirkland & Ellis LLP Attn: Michael Adler 601 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10022 Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SSK PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/5/11. 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 Kenneth B. Cera, Schwartz & Cera LLP, 350 Fifth Ave., Ste. 6407, NY, NY 10118, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 SAVOY JELLY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/3/11. Office in NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to 21 Warren St, NY, NY 10007.

Purpose: General.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GRIT WORK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/11. 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, 145 W. 86th St., Apt. 10B, NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 4404 13TH AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Jackson Group LLC, 1407 Broadway, 38th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/01 – 01/05/2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an order entered by the civil court, New York County on 9/13/11, bearing index number NC-002099-11/NY, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 111 centre Street, New York, NY 10013, grants me the right to :Assume the name of (First) WEN (Last) LI-CAVALLO My present name is (First) WEN (Last) LI AKA WEN WENDY LI My present address is 1048 40th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11219 My place of birth is FUZHOU, CHINA My date of birth is January 07, 1976 Vil 12/08 – 12/08/2011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1259101 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 315 Park Avenue South, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10010 for on premises consumption.

Café CNN Market, Inc. d/b/a Cafe CNN Gourmet Deli.

Vil 12/08 – 12/15/2011

NAME OF LLC: MIDMARKET GROWTH PARTNERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/21/11. 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 11/27 –12/22/2011 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CASA BELLA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Art. of org. filed w/ secy.State of NY (SSNY) on 11/10/2011.

Office locations NY county.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon Whom process against it may be served SSNY shall ,mail process to 7 Clark St.,South River, New Jersey, 08882. Purpose: any lawful activity Vil 12/08 – 01/12/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF YAMPA REALTY HOLDINGS, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/22/11. Princ. office of LLC: 350 Park Ave., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/08 – 01/12/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ACA VERIFICATION SERVICES, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/09/07. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at its principal business address: 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 870, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/08 –01/12/2012 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF GRAYCLIFF PARTNERS LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/14/11.

Office location: NY County.

LP formed in DE on 9/16/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Four Times Square, NY, NY 10036, Attn: James M. Schell.

DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State.

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

Vil 12/08 –01/12/2012

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December 8 - 14, 2011

Photos by Clayton Patterson

L.E.S. ch-ch-changes CLAYTON In the early 1990s, “a lot of people felt the city was out of control,” recalled documentarian Clayton Patterson. A poster on a bus shelter of then-Mayor David Dinkins with a graffiti scrawl over his face, “The city is burning,” evoked the feeling. Occupy Wall Street’s recent tent city at Zuccotti Park was called a Hooverville for our times.

But for a year in the early ’90s, there was a “Dinkinsville” on an empty lot at E. Eighth St. between Avenues B and C. The spot had been home to a squatter building where Tia Scott was a resident, which was demolished on April 1, 1989. As for why it was razed,

Patterson said, “Well, they always have an excuse,” adding that a bulldozer coincidentally had slightly damaged the building’s front while clearing an adjacent lot. Back then, Satan’s Sinners Nomads were the last of the Lower East Side street gangs. They didn’t ride motorcycles but did like to chill in their casita at Third St. and Avenue D. Also there just used to be a lot more kids running around the neighborhood, Patterson recalled, like the group at lower right who came all the way from Jackson St. to have their photo taken in front of the documentarian’s “Wall of Fame” door at Essex and Stanton Sts. (“Juice” is at the rear left.) “It was like a big deal to get photographed in front of the door,” Patterson said.

December 8 - 14, 2011

P UBLIC N O T I C E S PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday December 21 2011, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition from Edward’s Restaurant to continue, maintain and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 136 W Broadway, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the revocable consent agreement may be addressed to: Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, Attention: Foil Officer.

Vil 12/01 – 12/08/2011

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WATERFALL VICTORIA REO 2010-01, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/18/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205.

DE address of LLC: 1675 S. State St., Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/08 –01/12/2012

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NYC DENTAL PROFESSIONALS, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 6 E. 45th St., Ste. 1200, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: practice the profession of dentistry.

Vil 12/08 –01/12/2012

CERTIFICATE OF CONTINUED USE OF PARTNERSHIP NAME PURSUANT TO § 81 OF THE PARTNERSHIP LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK The undersigned, desiring to continue, after the close of business on November 3, 2011, the business previously transacted under the firm name of Cede & Co., a general partnership under the laws of the State of New York, with offices located at 55 Water Street1 New York, New York 10041, do hereby certify: 1.

The name of the Partnership is Cede & Co. 2.

The names and respective places of residence of each of the partners are set forth below: John J. Colangelo 424 Garden Blvd. Garden City, NY 11530, John Faith 7425 Minnow Brook Way Land O Lakes, FL 34637, James Femia 64-68 83rd Street Middle Village, NY 11379 Peter J. Gleeson 27 Greenwich Drive Jackson, NJ 08527 Robert T. Hensey 8 Hoffman Court Campbell Hall, NY 10916 Kurt P. Holweger 64 Old Estate Road Manhasset, NY 11030 Gary LaCara 42 West 22nd Street Huntington Station, NY 11746 Cheryl T. Lambert 65 North Moore Street Apt. 5B New York, NY 10013 Ellen Fine Levine 13B Hillside Avenue Port Washington, New York 11050 Eric N. Miller 404 Apache Trail Brandon, FL 33511 Patricia Mobley 4407 Waterville Ave Wesley Chapel, FL 33543 James E. Odell 66 Dellwood Road Bronxville, NY 10708 Matthew Stauffer 750 Columbus Ave Apt. 4G NewYork, NY 10025 Joseph C. Trentacoste 32 Pell Terrace Garden City, NY 11530 Lori-Ann Trezza 191 Reid Avenue Breezy Point, NY 11697 Michael J. Tulaney 228 90th Street Brooklyn, NY 11209 Jeffrey T. Waddle 14 East 17th Street New York, NY 10003 (1 Formerly at 7 Hanover Square, New York, N.Y. 10004).

The forgoing Certificate duly signed and acknowledged by each of the Partners is on file at the office of the clerk of the County of New York, 60 Centre St., New York, NY. Vil 11/24 – 12/15/2011

File No. 2010-4364 PROBATE CITIATION SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Unknown distributees, heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Leah G. Ice, deceased, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; Attorney General of the State of New York Public Administrator of New York County A petition having been duly filed by Maria Ascenso, who is domiciled at 111 Thompson Street, Apt 2, New York, NY, 10012 and Bank of America with a principal office at 114 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York on January 20, 2012 at 9:30 o’clock in the FORE noon of that day, in Room 510 why a decree should not be made in the Estate of Leah G. Ice lately domiciled at 37 West 12th Street, Apt 6A, New York NY admitting to probate a Will dated October 1, 2010, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Leah G. Ice deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [ x ] Letters Testamentary issue to: Maria Acenso [ x ] Letters of Trusteeship issue to: Bank of America, N.A. Dated, Attested and Sealed November 15th, 2011 HON. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate, Diane Sanabria Chief Clerk Dariusz M. Winnicki Attorney for Petitioner Telephone Number 201-967-8040 Address of Attorney 350 South Main Street, New York, New York 10956 or 115 W. Century Rd, Ste 120 Paramus, NJ 07652. [NOTE: this citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

At Chambers of the Surrogate’s Court of the County of NewYork, at the Courthouse in said County, on the 4th day of November in the year two thousand and eleven.New York County Surrogate CourtDATA ENTRY Date: 11/4/11 Present, Hon. Kristin Booth Glen, Surrogate 4364/2010 Probate Proceeding, Will of Leah G. Ice Deceased Order for Publication of Citation DATA ENTRY Date: 11/4/2011 Upon filing the verified petition of Maria Ascenso executor named in the last will and testament of Leah G. Ice deceased, late of October 29, 2010 by which the petitioner has made proof to my satisfaction that there are heirs and next of kin of said deceased whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by Maria Ascenso the petitioner herein; and also that there may be other heirs and next of kin of said deceased who and whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by Maria Ascenso the petitioner herein; Now, on motion of Dariusz M. Winnicki attorney for the said Maria Ascenso petitioner, Ordered:That service of citation in the above-entitled matter upon those persons who and whose names and places of residence are unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by Maria Ascenso the petitioner herein, be made by publication thereof in a newspaper, to wit,The Villager published in the State of NewYork, once a week for four successive weeks; and I, being satisfied by the said petition that the petitioner cannot with reasonable diligence ascertain a place or places where the said heirs and next of kin would probably receive matter transmitted through the postoffice, hereby dispense with the deposit of any papers therein addressed to them. Kristin Booth Glen Surrogate Vil 12/01 –12/22/2011

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Workers erected a fence on Monday to keep O.W.S. members from holding hunger strikes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or doing anything else â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on a strip of Trinity-owned property that was outside the â&#x20AC;&#x153;LentSpaceâ&#x20AC;? fence.

Trinity says lot nonnegotiable Continued from page 6 being opened. But, not surprisingly, the agile young occupiers had just hopped over the fence anyway, he noted.

Meanwhile, Trinity hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed its position on O.W.S.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pleas for the lot. Trinity says the lot is inappropriate for an encampment, that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right near the Holland Tunnel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which would make it dangerous â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private property and that, simply, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not being offered to Occupy for its use.

Speaking last Thursday, in a conference call, Trinity officials said they were on alert, preparing for another effort to occupy the Canal St. lot after recently seeing an e-mail message from Minister Michael Ellick of Judson Church, the leader of Occupy Faith NYC. Occupy Faith NYC has been appealing to Trinity to give O.W.S. use of the property.

Jim Cooper, rector of Trinity Church, said the e-mail had read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be ready for a big surprise youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all going to like.â&#x20AC;?

Cooper noted that Trinity provides rooms where O.W.S. holds its Spokes Council meetings and where O.W.S.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical team has done training. He said O.W.S. members have also been using Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place community center by the hundreds.

However, the Canal St. lot is not open for use, they stressed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private property,â&#x20AC;? said Jason Pizer, president of Trinity Real Estate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking the same steps to secure it as any of our properties.â&#x20AC;?

Pizer added of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;LentSpaceâ&#x20AC;? lot, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be illegalâ&#x20AC;? to allow the encampment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no residential zoning, for one,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trinity is not interested in making it legalâ&#x20AC;? for people to camp there, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of alignment with O.W.S. and with people working on issues of social equality and economic justice,â&#x20AC;? Cooper continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of difference on property rights. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel the property is to be occupied or confiscated or liberated from Trinity.â&#x20AC;?

What if O.W.S. decided to do some sort of art display or performance at the space? After

all, last Friday Occupy staged street performances up at Times Square. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who do you negotiate a deal with?â&#x20AC;? Pizer responded skeptically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are they demonstrating about the 99 percent issue and now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting on plays?â&#x20AC;?

Asked if Trinity was being pressured by Occupy Faith NYC and other advocates to let O.W.S. use the lot, Cooper said, on the contrary, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been getting a lot of pressure from the neighborhood precisely not to do that.

Zuccotti Park, like the Trinity lot, is privately owned. However, by law, Zuccotti must be open to the public 24 hours a day, which made it an excellent choice for the focal point of O.W.S. The Trinity lot has no such provision.

The Trinity officials further said that the Canal St. lot lacks any facilities, such as electricity, gas, water, light or heat. On the other hand, there was water and a few electrical outlets in Zuccotti Park.

Laboring into the evening on Monday, the workers managed to finish putting up the new fence around the rest of the Trinity property, sealing off the area where the hunger strikers had camped out. Around 1 a.m., a Trinity security officer came walking down Grand St. outside the coveted lot.

Identifying himself as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Security Officer Henry,â&#x20AC;? he said he was on duty from midnight to 8 a.m. and was coming out every 15 minutes to patrol the lotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perimeter. When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not patrolling on foot, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inside 75 Varick St. keeping an eye on the lot through security cameras, he added.

Also keeping watch were officers in a police car posted in Duarte Square by the statue of Juan Pablo Duarte, the father of the Dominican Republic. As Security Officer Henry was making his rounds, the patrol car rolled off and was replaced by police van, maintaining the police presence.

Behind the newly erected chain-link fence, thousands of small, silver disc medallions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; part of a public artwork â&#x20AC;&#x201D; glittered in the streetlight on the lotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wooden fence, as if what was within was a shimmering, tantalizing prize just out of reach.

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