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Nabes say, Rudin garage will drive block over edge

BY ALBERT AMATEAU Neighbors of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus were loud and clear on Tuesday about their opposition to Rudin Management’s plan for an expanded parking garage in the property’s impending residential redevelopment and conversion.

Rudin is seeking a special permit for a 152-space accessory parking garage — instead of a 98-space garage, which would be allowed as of right — for the proposed residential development Photo by Milo Hess

A portrait of grief A relative of a 9/11 victim looked skyward where the Twin Towers once stood as he emerged from Sunday’s ceremony.

N.Y.U. wants Parks to own two of the superblock strips

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Last December, 150 community members and the area’s politicians from all levels of government rallied in front of the Fiorello LaGuardia statue to send New York University a resounding message: “Hands off the strips!”

N.Y.U. officials say the university definitely heard them. As a result, the university is now working to ensure that two block-long parcels of Department of Transportation-owned property — a pair of the so-called “strips” — are transferred to ownership of the Parks Department.

However, N.Y.U. says it still needs to preserve the ability to access or even dig through the strips, if need be — known as easement rights.

As part of its plan to add space on its two South Village superblocks, N.Y.U. originally had sought to purchase from

the city seven of the strips of land that were left over from Robert Moses’ aborted Lower Manhattan Expressway and street-widening project in the mid20th century. Now, however, the university is only seeking to buy two of the strips.

Meanwhile, the school is actively working to have Parks purchase the two strips on the west and east edges of its northern superblock, on Mercer St. and LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and W. Third Sts. “We feel this is a response to what the community and elected officials want,” said Alicia Hurley, the university’s vice president for community engagement and government affairs.

“This should be seen as a win: The community gets the strips and N.Y.U. gets to grow.”

“We don’t need the land,” added

Lynne Brown, N.Y.U. senior vide president. “We’re not hegemonic that way if we don’t need it for what we need to do.”

The two strips that N.Y.U. does want, the officials said, it needs for its development plan, as well as for its power needs. Specifically, the university wants to acquire the Mercer St. strip on the southern superblock’s east edge, which is currently home to the Mercer-Houston Dog Run. Under the school’s growth plan, the current Coles Gym would be razed, to be replaced by a new building, for now dubbed the “Zipper Building” due to its zigzag design when viewed from above.

N.Y.U. wouldn’t expand the gym’s current footprint, but wants to shift this footprint east onto the Mercer St.

with 450 apartments on the east side of Seventh Ave. St. Vincent’s did not have an underground garage.

The W. 12th St. entrance/ exit planned for the proposed underground garage was another problem for neighbors and Community Board 2 members at the Sept. 13 hearing.

“That would be four garage entrances and exits on a single block,” said Carol Greitzer, a public mem-

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Dog run manager fears rat disease could kill canines

BY BETSY KIM “She looked like she had been rolled in curry,” said East Village resident Traci Schiffer, describing the jaundiced skin and eyes of her Boston Terrier, which was diagnosed with leptospirosis.

While Schiffer was out of town, her mother on Long Island was dog-sitting, but phoned, worried because the dog was not eating.

“And Fenway never

turns food down,” said Schiffer of her pooch. “I got home just in time. She came to see me and could barely move. I put her in the car, where she proceeded to throw up blood.

I handed her over to the vet and was told she was a ‘very sick dog.’”

After extensive treatment and $7,000 in veterinary treatment, Fenway survived.

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Photo by Lincoln Anderson

This sign, from the “M.E.A.,” appeared on Christopher St. on Saturday.

Brouhaha over butt-ban sign

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON A street sign that recently mysteriously appeared on Christopher St. touched — or maybe that should be “tushed” — a sensitive spot for some pedestrians.

The sign admonished saggy-pants-wearing youths to jerk up their jeans, adding, “No one wants to see your underwear.”

At the sign’s bottom was a small, round logo, similar to that of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but it stated, “M.E.A. — “Metropolitan Etiquette Authority.”

The image was of a young black man, shirtless, a towel over his shoulder and pants hanging well below his butt.

The metal message was fastened with two screws to a green city street pole near the entrance of 95 Christopher St., off of Bleecker St. Jessica Berk, who lives in the building, said she didn’t know who put it up, but that the peculiar placard was causing quite a stir.

The sign probably appeared Saturday night, she figured.

“The residents are laughing and saying, ‘Yeah, that’s true,’” she said on Tuesday.

“Even the black gay older men think it’s funny. The black kids are screaming.”

Saying it looked like some sort of artistic prank, Berk called it “blatantly racist,” and said she asked two different police officers to take it down, to no avail.

On Tuesday night, the sign was provoking mostly mild reactions.

“I don’t know — I think it’s a joke, right?” said Marvin, from Harlem.

Jason Pencoff, of the West Village, and Tony Andrade, of Chelsea, said it seemed the sign was in jest based on the fact that it was put up, not by the city, but by the “M.E.A.” They thought it was sort of funny.

“I think many people over age 18 have thought, ‘I wish they’d just pull up their pants,’” Pencoff said.

Of the drooping denims look, Andrade said, “It’s getting a little old. It was amusing at first. It’s been going on a long time.”

Three black men, all age 20, didn’t exactly get indignant upon seeing the sign, but they definitely didn’t find it funny, either.

“I don’t like it. It’s immature,” said Ramar Graham, of East Orange, N.J. “It don’t bother me,” said Jeremy Williams, also of East Orange, though adding, “I don’t got a screwdriver, but if I did, I would take it down.”

They strolled off, all of their pant waistbands at “M.E.A.”-approved height.

On Wednesday, asked about the sign, Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo, the Sixth Precinct’s commanding officer, said it was no longer there.

“The sign has been removed,” he said. He didn’t say if the police had removed it.

Asked for comment on the butt-ban brouhaha, he only said, “Private signs posted on public property are a violation of the city’s Administrative Code.”

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NOTEBOOK SAVE AN INDIE BOOKSTORE! As we were the first to report back in June, the St. Mark’s Bookshop on Third Ave. at Ninth St. is struggling to stay afloat and pay the marketrate rent that its landlord, The Cooper Union, is demanding.

Saying that “a significant rent concession� by the school could help the bookstore stay alive at the location, Joyce Ravitz, a member of MoveOn.org and Community Board 3, has started a petition at SignOn.org, calling on Cooper Union to give the store a break. The goal is to reach 30,000 signatures, and they’re already at 25,058.

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Soho neighbors aired their views on a fire escape about the Kardashians on Fashion’s Night Out.

Embattled pastry baker Ted Kefalinos’s response to accusations that he’s a cracker.

expressed irritation that some “little brats� who graduated from P.S. 41 last year had thrown rocks at his store. He spoke to someone at the school about it. He still harbors some animosity toward state Senator Tom Duane, who, after the cookie incident, had a state Division of Human Rights attorney instruct Kefalinos on nondiscrimination and how to treat customers. “I am not a toy. He wants a windup toy,� the pastry maker said of Duane. He’s also still miffed at Colin Casey, Duane’s former chief of staff, who he said was “sticking his finger in my face� at the training session.

Since his opponents have called him a cracker, Kefalinos is now selling oyster crackers with a cutout of his face on the box. The former McCain supporter wouldn’t tell us who he’s backing for president, but we’ll just be happy if he doesn’t make any more offensive Obama cookies.

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THIS IS THE REALITY? The Kardashians caused another mob scene in Soho last Thursday during Fashion’s Night Out. Pauly D of “Jersey Shore� was DJ’ing for Kim’s birthday and her sister Khloe was also at their Dash store.

A crowd of about 500 screaming fans, the majority of them teenage girls, filled the sidewalks on Spring St. outside the place. Everyone seemed to be there because it was a big event, but when we asked people if they were actually Kardashian fans, they only reluctantly admitted they were, sort of. The usual response was, “Uhh...� shrug, pause, “... yeah.� There were a fair amount of police on hand, and they did their best to keep a path open along the sidewalk so pedestrians could get through. Meanwhile, Justin Cavin, who was managing a band featuring Beth Ditto, who were playing at the Mac makeup store down the block, offered his thoughts on the crazed Kardashians hoopla. “It’s the symptom of the downfall of our culture,� he said. “I feel like we’re being upstaged by Pauly D — that’s so sad. When Beth Ditto is upstaged by Pauly D, there’s something wrong with the world.� Meanwhile, Sean Sweeney, the Soho Alliance’s director, is saying Fashion’s Night Out has gotten out of control. The Villager asked for his comments on the latest Kardashians event, and he sent us a letter. See Page 18.

ANTI-OBAMA BAKER’S BACK: Ted Kefalinos, of Lafayette French Pastry and the “drunken Negro face cookies,� was back in his Greenwich Ave. store on Tuesday. Last month as he was leaving for vacation, he had kept everybody guessing whether he would be reopening. Tuesday, his display cases were looking a little barren, only partially filled with cookies and pastries, but he said that’s because he had just returned. He vowed that the local “liberal fascists� aren’t going to make him poor or drive him out of business. We thought we heard him say the brokers haven’t been coming by lately, either. What? Brokers? we asked. No, no, pastries, pastries, he said quickly. Of course, his problems all started with the infamous chocolate cookies he concocted specially for Obama’s ’09 inauguration. Sporting garish, twisted features and red splotchy eyes, the cookies were blasted as racist and created a neighborhood uproar. The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense held protests to shut him down. He

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ON THE TILES: Village Angel Dusty Berke reports that just about all the Tiles for America tiles have been put back on the fence at Greenwich Ave. and Seventh Ave. South.

There wasn’t a mass gathering at the grassroots 9/11 memorial over last weekend for the terror attack’s 10th anniversary. Rather, there was a steady stream of people, often with their young children in tow, who came by and offered to help hang a tile. The Village Angels and other volunteers had taken all the tiles down to keep them from getting blown off and damaged by Hurricane Irene. Meanwhile, Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man,� completed his concrete bench, which incorporates cracked tiles from the memorial in the top of its seat. Berke said Power got a little freaked out when he was told by the Department of Transportation that he’d need to get a permit for the bench — currently located on the sidewalk on the memorial’s Seventh Ave. South side — or it would have to be moved. Power and Berke would also like to keep his 9/11 palm tree planter there, too, and Power is working to get permits for both, Berke said.

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September 15 - 21, 2011

Flashback on a bike path: Remembering covering 9/11

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON It was around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night and I was riding my 10-speed up the Hudson River Park bike path. I’d been down at Ground Zero catching what was left of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, down with the firefighters, tourists, 9/11 truthers, Jesus freaks, butoh dancers and everybody else.

Most of the family members had probably left by that time, I think; though I did see a woman sobbing in Zuccotti Park.

Actually, I was glad I got there in the late afternoon / early evening, because One World Trade Center looked so mesmerizing and soothing lit up in red, white and blue against the darkening sky. Really, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a beautiful building. Just to the right of it, the Towers in Light beamed up to the heavens.

I figured I’d do one more interview and call it a night and noticed a small woman standing on the bike path’s shoulder photographing the luminous tower with her smartphone — an Android, not an iPad, which is for “artsy Williamsburg hipster types,” she insisted emphatically.

“I like the lights, and I heard they might not have it next year,” said Darya, from Queens. “You can’t get away from sentimentality — even though I’m not a sentimental person.”

For four months after the terror attack, she had volunteered supplying the rescue and recovery workers on The Pile with hot meals. She’d just come from a Ground Zero Food Services reunion at Gaslight bar in the Meatpacking District.

I told her I hadn’t made it for the official ceremonies earlier that morning, that I’d just been doing the usual weekend stuff, went to the beach Saturday, and that, to be honest, I was a little turned off by the “9/11 hype.”

“That’s because you’re not sentimental,” she explained.

Yeah, maybe she’s right, I thought. Then, for some reason, I told her that, to me, One World Trade Center and the Towers of Light, together, sort of symbolize the former Twin Towers — that the Towers of Light’s two beams almost looked like one solid tower from where we were standing in Tribeca, that they stood in for the missing Tower, and that now there were two again.

As I turned to look back over my shoulder at what I was describing, and saw that soaring skyscraper and its colored lights, a wave of emotion suddenly washed over me. It caught me completely by surprise. But I didn’t want to get all sentimental — especially not in front of unsentimental Darya.

We said goodbye and went our separate ways, she walking on down toward Ground Zero, me pedaling back up to the office. **** Ten years ago on the morning of Sept. 11, I had been interviewing people at this very same spot on the bike path as they fled north away from the stricken Trade Center. The South Tower had just collapsed, and that was it — people weren’t sticking around anymore to see what would happen, they were getting out of there as fast as they could.

One woman I had spoken to had seen bodies falling past her window in the World Financial Center.

I had been watching the burning Towers, along with hundreds of others, from Chambers St. by the Battery Park City ball fields. I’d biked — on my same 10-speed — all the way down to Murray St. I was stupidly toting a disposable film camera, which I’d bought, thinking I was going to get some award-winning shot.

Of course, all the freelance photographers that worked with us had already sped to the site; one was being evacuated into the Post Office building, another was fleeing for his life into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. But wanting to get a better photo with my dinky camera, and with Seven World Trade Center blocking my shot a bit, I decided to head west, which is how I ended up by the ball fields.

Coming down Seventh Ave. I’d passed St. Vincent’s Hospital where doctors in green scrubs, gurneys at the ready, stood out in the avenue, silently watching the spectacle of the burning Towers.

“They say the Mall’s on fire in Washington,” some guy announced as we stood at Chambers St. gazing at the Towers

Photo by J.B. Nicholas

One World Trade Center, middle, which is still under construction, illuminated in red, white and blue last Sunday.

When it’s finished, it will be North America’s tallest building at 1,776 feet. To its right is the completed, new Seven World Trade Center.

billowing smoke.

Suddenly, a woman — or maybe it was several women — screamed. I saw a long, huge sliver of the Tower’s corner, high up, break off from the building and slowly fall away into the air. The South Tower was blocked from our view because the buildings were on an angle, so we couldn’t really see what was happening apart from that one piece that had broken off. Only later did I realize — put it together in my mind — that that was the moment when the first building fell.

A police officer looked at me and just said, ‘The building’s gone.’

Center.

“They’re ours,” someone said.

As we later learned, the fighter jets had been mistakenly scrambled out over the Atlantic Ocean and were only now arriving back at the scene of the attack — way too late. America had been caught totally off guard and was in disarray.

I quickly dropped off my disposable camera at a filmdeveloping place we used on Canal St. Suddenly, there were more screams from outside. I went out to look and people were streaming north across Canal St. at Sixth Ave. A police officer standing in the crosswalk looked at me and, realizing I must not know what had happened, just said, “The building’s gone.”

The North Tower had collapsed. The World Trade Center had been completely destroyed. ****

“I’m possessed! I’m possessed!” a woman started screaming over and over. I remember thinking to myself, “This is not about you, lady. Your demons didn’t cause this.”

An enormous smoke ball slowly rose over the south end of the ball fields. It was round, yellowish-brown, gray, roiling and churning...sickly looking. It kept growing bigger and bigger, impossibly large — maybe 30 stories tall — and was now starting to creep over the ball fields in our direction. People began to run away. It clearly wouldn’t reach us quickly, though, so I just walked off rapidly, like many others did.

If I had stayed at Murray St., I probably would have been covered with the dust cloud as it whooshed through the tighter space of the streets.

As we rounded the corner at Stuyvesant High School, we heard the roar of jets overhead. I shivered with real fear — a sensation I’d never had before. I felt like an exposed nerve. Was it another plane attack? I looked up and saw that they were two fighter jets, streaking toward the southeast past the Trade

After dropping off my film, I headed back to my office, picked up my regular camera and headed back out. But it was hard getting into Lower Manhattan again as police had quickly sealed off the area. Biking all the way east on Canal St., I managed to find a spot I could slip through.

I don’t know what the hell I was thinking, but I just decided I was going to try to get as close to the World Trade Center as I could.

As I neared the South St. Seaport, W.T.C. fallout filled the air, little flaky particles, like a tan snowfall. A volunteer at a triage center at the Travelers building on Greenwich St. in Tribeca had given me a mask that wasn’t much — a plastic visor, a gauze pad over the mouth and rubber bands to loop over the ears — basically, like a dentist’s spray mask. It didn’t seal around the eyes or mouth, and the tan particles — I have no idea what was in them, concrete, fiberglass, glass, asbestos — at first really stung my eyes and lungs. I was getting

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Neighbors say, Rudin garage will drive their block over edge Continued from page 1 ber of the board’s St. Vincent’s Omnibus Committee and former city councilmember.

She noted that three existing apartment buildings on W. 12th St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. have parking garage entrance/ exits on the block.

“No other block in the Village has more than two garages,” Greitzer added.

Neighbors suggested moving the garage entrance to Seventh Ave., but Melanie Meyers, a land-use attorney for Rudin, replied that existing zoning in the area forbids garage access on the avenue.

“Since you are seeking several zoning changes for the project, you might also ask for a change that would allow a garage entrance at that location on Seventh Ave.,” suggested Shirley Secunda, head of the C.B. 2 Traffic and Transportation Committee, who chaired the Tuesday hearing.

Other neighbors called for the garage entrance to be on W. 11th St. “Better still would be no garage at all,” said one Villager.

“Do you really need accessory parking?”

Secunda asked.

Ian Dutton, a former community board member, noted that the board’s policy has been to reduce auto use in the neighborhood.

“Any more vehicular use would reduce the quality of life in the area,” Dutton observed.

Representatives from the John Adams apartment complex near Sixth Ave. and from 175 W. 12th St. near Seventh Ave. told the committee that they were concerned about the impact of another parking garage on the block. The three existing garages accommodate a total of 181 cars, noted Maurice Zucker, representing 175 W. 12th St. The number of spaces in the proposed garage was derived from the number of planned residential units, Meyers said.

There would also be 232 bicycle parking spaces, she added. Meyers noted that the auto parking would be available first for residents of the development and, if not all spaces are taken, the remainder would be for the doctors with medical office space in the Rudin development on the east side of Seventh Ave. Garage parking would not be available for retailers in the project nor their patrons, nor would it be available for the medical staff of the comprehensive care center and emergency

department run by North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System planned for the renovated O’Toole building on the west side of Seventh Ave., Meyers said.

Neighbors and residents were also anxious about traffic impacts of the proposed North Shore-L.I.J. health center/emergency department despite the provision of interior loading and ambulance space.

Brenda Murad, of the condo board of the John Adams near Sixth Ave., said residents were concerned about possible double-parking by delivery and service vehicles on 12th St. in addition to ambulance traffic for the North Shore-L.I.J. emergency department.

“Not everyone will be coming to the health center by car or cab,” said Jim Foran, another neighbor. “Some people will come by subway, and we need an escalator or elevator in the Seventh Ave. station at 12th St.” Secunda noted that the environmental impact statement for the project also indicated that the subway would likely bring patients to the health center.

Neighbors were also puzzled and concerned about the proposal to move the bus stop from the west side of Seventh Ave. between 12th and 13th Sts. — where the new front entrance to the O’Toole building would be.

The new stop would be between Perry St. and Greenwich Ave. on the block south of the proposed triangle park.

“We are mystified about that proposed move,” Secunda said. “It is at Mulry Square, the most complex traffic intersection in the district,” she added. “There’s plenty of room where it is now and you should leave it there.”

In addition, on Sept. 7, landscape architects unveiled plans for the triangle park on the west side of the Seventh Ave. across 12th St. from the O’Toole building.

The 15,102-square-foot park, to be financed

by Rudin, would involve removal of the maintenance facility that formerly served the hospital across the avenue. The park would have more than 600 seats, 31 trees and 4,861 square feet of plantings.

But critics said the design was undistinguished. They were also anxious about potential uses of such a large expanse and about its maintenance. However, Meyers said Rudin would develop the park and maintain it in perpetuity.

C.B. 2 will consider recommendations this month for the city’s uniform land use review procedure (ULURP), which encompasses both the residential and health center projects.

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St. Vincent’s credit union merges

BY ALBERT AMATEAU St. Vincent’s Employees Federal Credit Union on Sept. 1 began its official transition into the McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union, providing members with continued access to expanded credit services.Both St. Vincent’s credit union members and McGraw-Hill credit union members approved the merger in August.

The agreement means the 1,300 members of the St. Vincent’s credit union, with $8.5 million in assets, are now members of the McGraw-Hill credit union, with a total of 18,500 members and assets totaling $267 million.

Although the St. Vincent’s Federal Credit Union was an independent financial service organization, the closing of the hospital last year impacted the credit union’s ability to grow.

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Mets go to bat for E. 13th firehouse hard hit on 9/11

BY DAN MILLER The Mets continued a tradition of visiting firehouses every year around the anniversary of 9/11 by stopping by Ladder 3 on E. 13th St. last Friday.

Third baseman David Wright, who has led the yearly visits since 2004 when he reached the Majors, was joined by former All-Stars relief pitcher John Franco and catcher Mike Piazza.

The players were greeted by Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano, holding his young grandson, first responders who worked at the E. 13th St. firehouse on 9/11 and the firehouse’s current crew of Bravest.

Ladder 3 lost 12 firefighters on 9/11.

The players chatted with a number of first responders and shared stories about where they were during the World Trade Center attack. Franco recalled that the Mets were on the road when word came about the attack. The pitcher had been very concerned about his uncle and two cousins, who were firefighters in 2001.

“We were in Pittsburgh playing the Pirates when we got word what had happened,” Franco said. “Since we heard about it early in the morning, our first concern was for our families and then the people of New York City.”

Franco, who lost two friends when the Twin Towers came down, said of the tragic

day, “It is close to my heart.”

One of the first responders who survived 9/11 recalled how Piazza had described the feeling of hitting the Mets’ first home run after baseball had been cancelled for a few days in 2001 after the attack.

Piazza was credited with having inspired Mike Carroll, then 5 years old, when the two met during a 9/11 event. Young Mike’s father, Michael Carroll, was among the Ladder 3 firefighters who perished in the Trade Center.

Piazza signed a baseball last Friday for Mike Carroll, now 15, who remembered the star catcher’s concern for the families of the 9/11 victims.

Also attending the event were Mets coowner Jeff Wilpon and Mets Vice President David Newman.

“We salute the New York Mets for your continued support of New York’s Bravest,” said Fire Commissioner Casanno.

Two days later, on Sunday evening Sept.

11, the Mets hosted a 9/11 memorial ceremony prior to their game against the Chicago Cubs. The ceremony’s highlights included an emotional rendition of the national anthem by crooner Marc Anthony and a moment of silence following the unfurling of an enormous American flag, carried by first responders and others. Franco threw out the first pitch.

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POLICE BLOTTER Violent Village sex attack Police are seeking a suspect in a violent sexual assault of a woman in her Greenwich Village apartment on Thurs., Sept. 8. The suspect followed the victim, 23, into her building at 2 a.m. grabbed her from behind and assaulted her inside her apartment, police said. The suspect was described as a Hispanic man about 35 years old, about 5 feet 7 inches or 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a thin build and wearing a dark-colored suit. Police did not provide more details regarding the incident’s location. Anyone with information may report it to the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers hotline via phone, 800-577-TIPS (8477), or online at www.NYPDcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (crimes) and entering TIP577.

Pimp your cell Jason Itzler, who served two years in jail for promoting prostitution through his New York Confidential Services at 79 Worth St., was arrested again on W. 14th St. on Thurs., Sept. 8, for the same crime, plus money laundering and sale of cocaine. His new venture has been running since the summer, according to District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. At his arraignment Fri., Sept. 9, Itzler denied the charges.

Sword ambush Police arrested four suspects, one of whom hit a victim with a samurai sword, for attacking two victims on University Place around 3 a.m. Fri., Sept. 9. The suspects began the fracas by throwing bottles at the victims from a balcony at 70 University Place between E. 10th and E. 11th Sts., police said. The suspects then came down to the sidewalk, where they punched the victims and hit one of them with the Japanese sword, police said. The victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital after they identified the suspects, Trevor Sandy, 18; Colton McFaul, 21; John Burch, 19; and Alexander Unger, 21.

Romanus Isiofia, 18, and Sylvian Gelen, 18.

The victim identified them and the two were charged with robbery.

Ungrateful guest A Christopher St. resident told police he brought a man he met in a neighborhood bar over to his place during the early hours of Sat., Sept. 10, but refused to agree when the guest wanted “to do drugs.� The guest left but returned around 5 a.m. when he took a cell phone from the victim’s table and demanded $60 to give it back.

The two struggled, and the suspect fled from the apartment. But the victim, 52, pursued him a block or two when police arrived.

They arrested Christopher McSpedon, 42, who flung a crack pipe to the pavement just before officers collared him. A residue of crack cocaine was found in the suspect’s pocket, police said.

Assaulted cab Police arrested Michael Martin, 25, around 2:20 a.m. Sun., Sept. 11, and charged him with criminal mischief for jumping on the hood of a taxi and smashing its front and rear windows, on Hudson St. at Charles St. Police caught up with Martin, who resisted arrest, a block away from the scene.

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N.Y.U. wants Parks to own two strips on superblocks Continued from page 1 strip. Doing this would open up space on the new building’s west side for a widened pathway on what used to be Greene St. before that street was demapped to create the superblock, leaving a little-used alleyway there. The building has to be shifted east onto the strip because it wouldn’t work with a dog run right in front of it, Hurley said.

Coles Gym doesn’t have windows, so it’s O.K. to have a dog run there now, she said.

The “Zipper Building” will have a new gym, student residences, a supermarket, faculty residences and an N.Y.U. hotel. It will have 800,000 square feet aboveground and 200,000 belowground.

The dog run’s president, Beth Gottlieb, has said that moving it next to Silver Towers will be a problem, especially at night, because of the dogs’ barking. But Hurley said there are ways to mitigate the noise, such as by strategically planting trees.

The other strip the university covets is two blocks north on Mercer St. between W. Third and Fourth Sts., below which its recently rebuilt and expanded co-gen plant is located and to which the university says it needs to preserve access. N.Y.U. recently built a new park and seating area on the strip above its co-gen plant.

Even though Parks would take over the two strips on the northern superblock, N.Y.U. says it needs to preserve an easement on these areas because it plans to build four stories’ worth of space underneath them — or 80,000 square feet of space under each strip.

For example, Hurley said, “If a membrane [for the underground space] had a leak in 50 years, we would want to be able to fix it.”

In other words, the university conceivably might sometimes need to do construction or repair work that would involve digging down through these parks. If N.Y.U. carries out its development plans on this northern superblock, it would also need to move construction equipment over these park strips, which might also be used as construction staging areas at that time, Hurley acknowledged.

The other major change to N.Y.U.’s superblocks development plans is another concession to the “Hands off the strips!” community backlash. Namely, in the latest designs, the larger of two infill buildings the university plans on the northern superblock has now been shifted 15 feet west, so that it no longer sits on the cityowned Mercer St. strip.

Pretty much everything else about the plans is unchanged from the most recent round of presentations to the community.

For example, on the southern superblock, N.Y.U. still is committing to allowing the School Construction Authority to erect a seven-story, 100,000-square-foot school building for 600 to 800 students on the site of the current Morton Williams supermarket. N.Y.U. would not charge the city anything to do this. Hurley noted the university had paid $23 million to acquire this site.

In turn, N.Y.U. will eventually decide whether, as part of the project, it will build a student dormitory on top of this city public school.

From 1,000 to 1,400 undergraduate students

— freshman and sophomores — will be housed in up to two locations on the southern superblock.

On the northern superblock, the plan still calls for two boomerang-shaped infill buildings.

In all, under its plan, N.Y.U. would add 1.3 million square feet aboveground and 1 million square feet belowground on its two supersized blocks.

Hurley said N.Y.U., in conceding the two strips in question to Parks, had been responding directly to four community groups: the dog run, the Friends of LaGuardia Place (which maintains the LaGuardia Place strip between Bleecker and W. Third Sts.) LMNOP (which got the Mercer St. playground built) and the LaGuardia Corner Garden. Discussions are still ongoing, mainly through a lawyer who is acting as the four groups’ “ambassador” to N.Y.U., she said.

“Obviously, we have a way to go with these groups,” she said.

There won’t be any fences on the park strips, Hurley said, though adding, “But we’re of course going to have rules.”

Under the plan, N.Y.U. will be opening up the massive interior courtyard of its northern superblock to public access.

“Some of our faculty who are tenants of Washington Square Village [on the northern superblock] are concerned about this becoming a big, open park like Washington Square Park,” Hurley said. “We want to have power to say it’s closed at midnight.”

N.Y.U. doesn’t want control over the strip on LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and Houston Sts., which is home to the LaGuardia Corner Garden and the Time Landscape.

In terms for its construction timeline, N.Y.U. foresees, once approvals are in place, starting work on the southern superblock first. Work would continue there until 2021. Construction for phase two — the northern superblock — would occur between 2022 and 2030.

The university’s first incarnation of the superblocks plan included a 40-story tower in the Silver Towers complex that would have been the tallest in the Village. The target of intense community opposition, it was eventually scrapped after I.M. Pei, Silver Towers’ architect, said he strongly disapproved of it.

The N.Y.U. representatives said the university’s trying to grow on its own superblocks is an attempt to do the right thing.

“This process started with the E. 12th St. dorm and people were saying, ‘Stay out of our community,’” Hurley said.

“This is a response so N.Y.U. can grow,” Brown reiterated, adding, “We’re not going to the Financial District. We are doing stuff in Brooklyn.”

John Marino, a P.R. representative for N.Y.U., said the mapping application for the massive project will be submitted to the city next week, with the draft ULURP (uniform land use review procedure) to follow about two weeks after that.

In addition, N.Y.U. recently commissioned a telephone poll by Global Strategy Group to gauge New Yorkers’ feelings about the university. Six hundred registered voters were surveyed.

The findings were that 70 percent of voters support N.Y.U.’s plans to grow, “even in the historic West Village.” However, only 62 percent of

Above, a map showing N.Y.U.’s latest design plan for its two superblocks. Below, a bird’s-eye view rendering of the plan, showing the two infill buildings planned on the northern block and the “Zipper Building” and new public school planned on the southern superblock.

Manhattan voters supported N.Y.U.’s expansion plans. In addition, 54 percent had a “strongly favorable” view of N.Y.U., while 27 percent had a “somewhat favorable” opinion and 6 percent an “unfavorable” opinion. According to the pollsters, the survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.

Asked why the university didn’t just survey voters in the zip codes around the Village, the N.Y.U. officials said N.Y.U. is a “citywide uni-

versity” and that the university’s “NYU 2031” strategic growth scheme is a “citywide plan.”

They conceded that a more locally focused poll would predictably find much greater opposition.

This article lays out the latest updates in N.Y.U.’s superblocks development plan. It will be followed promptly by an article with reaction from the community.

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BY KHIARA ORTIZ After 30 years as an integral part of the East Village, Life Cafe has closed until further notice due to a construction dispute between its two landlords.

For a little more than a year now, a protective sidewalk shed and scaffolding have loomed over the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outdoor seating area for exterior renovations that still have not begun.

The scaffolding is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not a pleasant place to be sitting underâ&#x20AC;? and it has had an â&#x20AC;&#x153;incredibly detrimental impact on business,â&#x20AC;? said Kathy Kirkpatrick, one of the original owners of Life Cafe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the business from the street.â&#x20AC;?

The restaurant, located at the corner of 10th St. and Avenue B, spans a space belonging to two different buildings with two different landlords whose dispute over the price of the work contract has prevented construction from starting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighbors, regulars and friends canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that the landlords are so insensitive to leave the scaffolding up for so long,â&#x20AC;? said Kirkpatrick. On two occasions, she received anonymous complaints from pedestrians about the scaffolding obstructing the sidewalk.

Councilmember Rosie Mendez, an East Village neighbor and Life Cafe regular, hung out at the cafe with its usual crowd on Sun., Sept. 11, for one last time before its closing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were on Life Cafe alert because we heard the rumor it would close on Sunday,â&#x20AC;?

Mendez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an extension of my life, a place where I bumped into friends.â&#x20AC;? For her, the biggest loss will be Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delicious vegetarian chili.

The coupling of the cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing with the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks made Sunday a â&#x20AC;&#x153;doubly somber dayâ&#x20AC;? for Kirkpatrick. She remembered the swarms of people who found comfort in gathering at Life the day after the attacks in 2001. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People were so grateful to us for being there,â&#x20AC;? said Kirkpatrick.

Life was always a communal home base for the struggling artists of the Lower East Side. It offered a familiar and safe place for New Yorkers to meet and enjoy poetry readings, music and art performances, comedy and theater.

Life gained fame from being the place where Jonathan Larson wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;RENT.â&#x20AC;? The Cafe was frequented by fans of the musical, who came to see where Larson spent time crafting it, drinking coffee and observing the dynamics of the Village.

Now, with the new Off Broadway production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;RENT,â&#x20AC;? the traditional pilgrimage will no longer be possible. However, Kirkpatrick hopes to accommodate visitors at Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister location in Brooklyn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to close, I want to continue on,â&#x20AC;? Kirkpatrick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The landlords need to come to an agreement. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m caught in the middle.â&#x20AC;?

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Grabs taxi fare Police spotted a man who tried to make off with a $20 bill that he snatched from the cab driver who let him off in front of 124 Sullivan St. near Prince St. around 10:30 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 8. Jefferson Moore, 35, whom police described as drunk at the time, was soon arrested and charged with larceny.

The lawsuit for unspecified damages charges that the Housing Authority is liable for the victim’s death because it failed to evict tenants “with vicious properties [drug dens], violent outbreaks and prior violent acts, criminal backgrounds, gang affiliations and criminal behavior.”

Subway surprise A rat bit a woman on the foot around 9:30 a.m. Mon., Sept. 5, while she was sitting on a bench waiting for a J train at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station, according to a Daily News item.

Baruch Houses suit Petra Montanez, 70, the mother of Jomali Morales, 42, who was found murdered in February in an elevator of the Baruch Houses where she was living on the Lower East Side, has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Housing Authority.

Markeece Dunning, 19, a Baruch Houses tenant, is charged with second-degree murder in the case.

Seek Allen St. mugger Police are seeking two men who accosted a man, 53, around 9:45 a.m. Tues., Aug. 30, on Allen St. near Grand St., rifled the victim’s pockets and fled with an undetermined sum of cash, according to published reports.

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Flashback on a bike path: Remembering covering 9/11 Continued from page 4 a bit worried. But after being bombarded by this fallout for a while, my eyes and lungs either adjusted or just went numb, because I stopped feeling the stinging.

Actually, my bigger concern was my own irrational fear that a nuclear bomb had been planted at Ground Zero. I don’t why I thought that — I guess it just went hand in hand with all the insanity and chaos and destruction that was going on. Whatever. Adrenaline was kicking in.

On I biked.

The streets down in the Financial District were covered with the tan dust. Near the “Charging Bull” statue, I stopped to pick up a couple of papers that had blown out of the Towers — grim souvenirs, I suppose. Eventually, try as I did to get nearer to what was left of the Trade Center, I found myself being steered by police toward a tugboat on the Battery Park esplanade. There were a few other mad bikers who had also been corralled, including the owner of Zum Schneider in the East Village.

“Something is missing today,” he said, as we looked back from the tug at the enormous smoke cloud hanging above where the Towers had been. That was the understatement of the millennium.

The tug took us across to New Jersey, where we were directed into a building. I thought I was going to be “debriefed” or something — pretty ridiculous of me. Instead, they had milk and cookies and phones. I called my parents to tell them I was O.K. I biked up to the Journal Square PATH station, where the train was still running, and took it back across to Penn Station, then went back down to my office, and back down to the Travelers triage site. Along with other reporters, I interviewed a young National Guardsman who said he had pulled survivors out of the rubble before Seven W.T.C. also fell and they had to retreat for the evening.

I knew I had to get this all written down as soon as possible, so I stayed up into the early morning hours, typing away. **** Tuesday — 9/11 — had been primary election day, and there was a hot race in Lower Manhattan’s City Council District 1, with a slew of candidates, including Alan Gerson, Brad Hoylman, Margaret Chin, John Fratta, Rockwell Chin and Kwong Hui. That’s what I had been preparing to cover when I woke up, only to hear on the radio after I stepped out of the shower that a plane had hit the Trade Center. Then I saw the fireball shoot out of the second tower, and — like everyone else — I realized we were under attack.

The election was postponed. Our deadline, which was also Tuesday, was pushed back two days while we regrouped and totally redid the contents of our paper, focusing all of our coverage on the disaster. When it came time to send the paper to the printer in Queens, the livery cab company that usually took the pages over for us couldn’t do it, because the drivers were Muslim and, worried about backlash, weren’t driving. So I took it by yellow cab. (Soon after

9/11, we started sending the paper to the printer electronically.) **** Two days after the attack, my publisher, who then lived down in Tribeca near the World Trade Center, on his way home, got into what was already being called Ground Zero and checked things out. Inspired by him, I

I was given a gas mask and hard hat, and an ID number on my forearm. decided to try getting in the next night. I wore a flannel shirt, jeans, work boots and a baseball cap — I blended in, I hoped — and just followed in behind a group of two men and two women. One of the men wore a Department of Corrections windbreaker and the other had on a hard hat and carried a large wrench. They looked like they belonged, or at least wouldn’t get kicked out.

The scene was eerie, apocalyptic. All that was left of the Trade Center was splayed stumps. The rest of the buildings ringing the plaza were charred, broken, with all the windows blown out.

I passed through a Brooks Brothers store with all the shirts caked with off-white dust in their display cases. This building could come down any moment, stay alert, someone said.

Eventually, I made my way over to the south side of The Pile. A volunteer gave me a big black rubber gas mask and a hard hat, took my name, and wrote a number on my inner forearm in black magic marker. The digits were to identify people in case they were crushed under falling buildings, she explained.

About 200 firefighters wearing their heavy gear were standing south of The Pile, as police officers and others took turns doing bucket brigades, clearing rubble, looking for survivors.

A FEMA team, complete with a German shepherd, were getting ready to rappel down into the hole.

The firefighters would intermittently take off their gas masks, then, as one, put them back on again. I just did what they did. I couldn’t smell anything in the air, but later learned that many of the toxic gases at Ground Zero were odorless. It’s not pleasant breathing through one of those things, though, so I could understand why the firefighters would frequently remove them.

But apparently it was taking a risk.

An announcement came over a loud speaker system: Anyone not authorized to be there had to leave immediately or would be arrested. I decided not to push my luck and split. The next day I read that two or three other reporters who had sneaked in and stayed were busted. **** Early on, I think I must have read it in The New York Times’ series of 9/11 obituaries,

I saw that Doug Gardner, who I had played basketball with in Fire Island, was among the victims. I never knew that he had been a top executive at Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees on 9/11. I used to be a reporter at the Fire Island News in the summers and that’s how I wound up playing in the annual tournament out there for several years. A “big man,” as in a forward, Doug was not only one of the better players but a real gentleman. Sometimes I’d guard him because he was only two inches taller than me.

In the days after the attack, I found myself compulsively rushing home to watch the TV news coverage. But the “coverage” just amounted to repeated footage of the jets crashing into the Towers. I would think of Doug while watching this and it all just got too depressing.

I stopped watching the TV. As for myself, my lungs felt heavy after that first day. I was in a weekly pickup basketball game and honestly worried that I wouldn’t be able to run up and down the court anymore — maybe never again. But after a couple of days, my lungs felt better. I was later told that firefighters go through this routinely — they breathe in all kinds of harmful stuff, and the lungs eventually clear out, hopefully. I’m a part of the World Trade Center Health Registry — I didn’t work on The Pile, I just had that brief exposure to the fallout. I’m guessing I’ll be fine, knock on wood.

Of course, there was that burning-tire smell that lingered for weeks afterward. Giuliani and

Whitman said the air was O.K., but who really knew? With that noxious smell, one really had to wonder.

I vividly remember evenings spent typing up my articles and working at the office, while that distinctive odor wafted up from Ground Zero.

Outside the window, just two blocks away at what would eventually become Canal Park, I could hear people cheering for the rescue workers streaming back and forth on the West Side Highway, see their candles flickering yellow in the night. It was like I was reporting in a war zone — I was reporting in a war zone. It was incredible.

Whenever I entered or exited the building, I could look down Greenwich St. 12 blocks to the south and see that thin column of funeral, black smoke rising over Ground Zero. It lasted like that for several weeks, I think. It was simply unreal. **** When I set out to write this piece on 9/11, I had a lot of ideas about what to discuss.

But what came out were simply the strongest memories of that day, of covering the fall of the buildings, the chaos of trying to figure out what was going on, people’s reactions, my own feelings then and in the days that followed.

The images and the emotions of that day and that time will always stay with me — as they do for everyone who experienced it and survived.

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Dog run manager fears rats spreading disease to dogs Continued from page 1 This incident occurred in July 2009, but Garrett Rosso, volunteer manager of the Tompkins Square Park dog run, believes the disease, often called “lepto” for short, is on the rise. Rosso owns and runs Village Dogworks, an obedience and behavioral dog-training company. He personally knows of at least five dogs that contracted the disease in the last two years.

Another East Village dog owner, who asked to remain anonymous for reasons unrelated to this article, said her 3-year-old toy poodle, Boris, caught lepto in April 2011. A vet initially misdiagnosed him as having a stomach problem.

However, two days later, the owner took the dog to an animal hospital. After tests, antibiotics and a blood transfusion, in one week Boris died from kidney failure, in what his owner called a “terrible, hideous death.”

At one point, the owner was told the poodle had an 80 percent chance of survival, so approved medical procedures that ended up totaling $12,000.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals. Without treatment, the disease can lead to kidney damage, meningitis (inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord), liver failure, respiratory distress and even death. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, jaundice (yellowing of skin and eyes), rash and red eyes. However, some infected people don’t experience any of these symptoms.

C.D.C. lists rodents and dogs as animals that commonly develop or spread the disease. Lepto is most often spread by the urine and bodily fluids of the infected animals that are left in water or soil.

Rosso worries that without stronger rat control, lepto

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could easily spread in Tompkins Square Park. He pointed out numerous, large holes, where rats have burrowed to live beneath the ground, in the gardens and under the dog runs.

Rats come out at night, drink from the puddles and urinate in the puddles and grass.

“In the morning, the kids come out to play and they are digging in the sand with the dogs, where the rats have peed,” Rosso said. Every day volunteers fill up the rat holes, but rats invariably return to their extensive network of underground nests.

Philip Abramson, a Parks Department spokesman, said he has received no complaints about dogs contracting lepto at the East Village greensward, and could not comment on the disease.

Sally Slavinski, assistant director of the zoonic influenza and vector-borne disease unit at the city’s Department of

Health, noted the city conducts canine and human leptospirosis surveillance to help identify clusters, or “foci of activity,” of the disease. Slavinski said that from the city’s limited surveillance data, she does not see evidence that the disease is on the rise at this point.

Slavinski did not downplay the severity of the disease, saying it is the number one bacterial zoonic (transmissible from animals to people) disease in the world. However, she said, the disease is more prevalent in tropical areas and is rare in New York City. C.D.C. health specialist Christopher Cox said an estimated 100 to 200 human leptospirosis cases are identified annually in the U.S. Chanel Caraway, a Health Department spokesperson, said one to three human cases of lepto are reported in New York City each year; about one-third of the cases are travel associated. She noted that last year, of the three reported cases, two of the people acquired the infection while traveling to a tropical region. In 2010 and 2011, none of the reported human cases involved children.

Slavinski said the department’s data does not represent every case in New York City. Although the health code requires veterinarians to report leptospirosis, vets are not prosecuted for failure to report the disease.

On April 28, 2011, the department issued a veterinary alert, “Summary of Canine Leptospirosis Surveillance in New York City 2009-2010,” which is available online at http:// www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/zoo/11vet02.pdf .

The report noted the numbers of canine lepto cases and the most common strains of the bacteria infecting the animals. It pointed out that risk factors for infection included observing rodents, raccoons or other wildlife and exposure to puddles of

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The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop’s opening on E. Seventh St. earlier this month was a major event.

Reinventing ice cream in a big way at Big Gay Ice Cream Shop

BY BETSY KIM Both old and new fans of the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck’s frozen concoctions lined up outside 125 E. Seventh St. earlier this month at the opening of Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff’s newest cool offering — the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop.

The Contra Band, eight contra bassoonists, added to the fanfare. A towering drag queen, Ari Kiki, “The Hot Mess,” with her flowing brunette beehive, welcomed the 100 first customers, waiting outside on Saturday afternoon Sept 3. Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, dressed as a priest, “Father Tony,” provided opening remarks to bless the enterprise.

Quint and Petroff intentionally parked their brick-and-mortar store at this spot in the East Village.

“When you walk out on E. Seventh St., the street is filled with people eating,” Quint said. “That’s one of the things we always enjoyed about the ice cream truck is that people buy their cones and eat on the street.

They party on the street and we wanted a storefront that was similar, where people would be outside and having fun.”

Arriving at the party-like scene to say hello, Stacy London, a host of TLC’s “What Not to Wear,” posed for photos with B.G.I.C.S. customers.

“Oh my God! I’m so excited they are opening!” London gushed. “Hopefully, I will be a guest scooper and work in the truck. I love how they sparked such a following. It’s something everyone can get on board with.

Who doesn’t love ice cream?”

But more than just ice cream, the enthusiasm celebrated reinvention.

It’s the same soft-serve ice cream but with a twist. Added ingredients like toasted curry coconut, fig sauce, wasabi pea dust and Trix

cereal piqued people’s curiosity as much as their taste buds.

“That’s what I love about it,” said Nora Vetter, a self-described foodie. “It’s not your Plain Jane vanilla and chocolate.”

Reinvention was one of the driving reasons behind establishing a permanent store.

The entrepreneurs needed prep space beyond their rented kitchens.

“Creatively, what I could do in the truck was getting maxed out by the space limitations,” said Quint. “And people were obviously behind it and grooving on what we were making.”

There’s also the reinvention of names. With signature treats such as the “Choinkwich,” chocolate ice cream and bacon marmalade, between chocolate cookies; the “Gobbler,” vanilla ice cream, pumpkin butter, whipped cream and craisins; and the “Salty Pimp,” vanilla ice cream, dulce de leche, sea salt and chocolate dip, the ice cream has, well, been making quite a name for itself.

Instead of customers saying they wanted vanilla ice cream, with crushed Nilla wafers, and dulce de leche, they could just order the “Bea Arthur.” That signature dish is named after the well-known actress, because in addition to enjoying her big gay icon status, in her will, Arthur left a charitable contribution of $300,000 to New York’s Ali Forney Center, an organization that supports homeless L.G.B.T. youth.

Many of the customers also felt the Big Gay Ice Cream truck and store are part of the trend of reinventing marketing through social media.

“Their personalities are very entertaining and I wanted to check them out in person,” said Vetter. “I kind of run in the cupcake cir-

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Reinventing ice cream in a big way at Big Gay Ice Cream Shop Continued from page 13 cle and started following them on Twitter.”

With more than 24,000 Twitter followers, Quint connects with many customers through tweets as he does in life, with lighthearted humor.

For example, on the second day of business, a man and a woman walked out of the shop, with only the woman carrying an ice cream cone.

“You didn’t have anything?” asked Quint.

“We’re sharing,” the woman replied.

“Don’t share!” he scolded them.

Dave Armon, who brought his 15-yearold daughter, Cassie, to the opening said, “They have a strong social-media presence.

People feel really engaged. The ice cream is nothing special. But the toppings are original and the branding is so perfect for a case study for someone in marketing.”

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck launched in summer 2009, in the age of Twitter and TV cooking shows. Featured on “Eat Street” on Food Network Canada and on the Cooking Channel in the United States, B.G.I.C.T gained a following. A group of four Canadians doing a food tour in New York were among the store’s first visitors.

One of them, Albert Lau, said the ice cream was something they couldn’t get in Toronto and he wanted to try the “Bea Arthur.”

Through Twitter, Quint met the artist who painted the store’s large mural unicorn, who wears a Bea Arthur cameo medallion, and gallops across the wall facing the Tang machine. (Yes, the drink of the astronauts is revived in a commercial juice dispenser.)

The artist paints baby murals for nurseries.

“He’s this huge gay guy who puts glitter

everywhere,” said Quint. Similar to how one customer noted the culinary combinations are fun and unexpected, but somehow work, why not paint a modified nursery mural in an ice cream shop?

At least one of the customers enjoyed the reinvention of attitude.

“I love anything that’s big and gay!” said Jon Winkleman, with hearty laughter.

“As a gay man from New York, it’s great to see something that worships carbs and calories. Gay men who embrace carbs! Yay! Wonderful freedom from the gym Nazis.”

Winkleman added that he was tickled to hear that the shop receives letters from heterosexual parents whose kids want to drive a Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

Finally, like Madonna (another gay icon), there’s a little reinvention even in Quint and Petroff, themselves. Previously, Quint was a classical bassoonist. A couple of the players in the Contra Band were his former conservatory teachers. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, a master’s degree from Julliard and his doctorate (all but dissertation) from CUNY. Petroff worked in corporate human resources. However, both of them have left behind those careers.

“There was a terrifying aspect to it, because there goes our health insurance.

There goes all that,” said Quint. “But it was too good not to do it.”

Where does the inspiration come from?

“A lot comes from Bryan, who is just a very adventuresome eater,” Quint said. “A lot of it is just dreaming it up.”

The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop. It’s somewhere over the rainbow swirl of ice cream (the company’s logo), in the East Village, where dreams dared to be dreamed really can come true.

Stacy London of TLC’s “What Not to Wear” was at the B.G.I.C.S. opening.

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Working group working on safety solutions for dangerous Delancey

BY KHIARA ORTIZ A group of elected officials, city agencies, community leaders and advocates joined up in state Senator Daniel Squadronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to form the Delancey St. Safety Working Group in response to a number of accidents that, according to them, have made Delancey the â&#x20AC;&#x153;deadliestâ&#x20AC;? street in New York.

A fatal accident at the end of August after a cyclist ran a red light and was crushed under the tire of a cement truck, along with the fact that the Lower East Side has nine out of the 33 most dangerous intersections for cyclists in the city, has prompted planning to improve the safety of bike traffic flowing onto and off of the Williamsburg Bridge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragic death of cyclist Jeffrey Axelrod was the latest painful reminder of the dangerous conditions that plague Delancey St. on the Lower East Side,â&#x20AC;? said Borough President Scott Stringer â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number of fatalities this year alone demand action,â&#x20AC;? said Councilmember Margaret Chin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is time to make Delancey safe for everyone who uses it.â&#x20AC;?

Countdown clock installations at the intersections along Delancey St. by the Department of Transportation were a first step to increase safety measures. The depart-

ment also is building a curved, stainless steel fence at the bridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manhattan end with 3-foot-tall concrete walls bordering the median. But bike activists and other cyclists, in general, say the new D.O.T. structures will cause more problems than they solve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For too long, Delancey has been the scene of far too many tragedies,â&#x20AC;? said Squadron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our working group is a much-needed step toward ending the cycle of danger. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident that, together, we can find the shortterm and long-term solutions to ensure a safe Delancey St. for all types of users.â&#x20AC;?

The Working Group also includes representatives of Community Board 3 and the Lower East Side Business Improvement District.

Bill di Paola, founder of the pro-cycling and environmental group Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up!, has something different in mind for facilitating bike traffic off the bridge. Along with Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up! members and architect Josh Manes, di Paola designed a ramp that would start at about 75 feet up the bridge and connect to a path on the south side of Delancey St. that would run for several blocks west as a parkway.

However, D.O.T spokesperson Montgomery Dean said there are no plans at this time to consider alternative designs.

Maybe critics will like bike lanes better if they have flowers in them

BY KHIARA ORTIZ In an effort to create a safer traffic environment for cyclists and beautify bike lanes, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Transportation has approved the planting of flowers and vegetables in some bike lane medians.

According to Ian Dutton, former vice chairperson of the Community Board 2 Traffic and Transportation Committee, this initiative, which falls under the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;traffic calming,â&#x20AC;? theorizes that adding a few bouquets of flora to the stretches of concrete streets will create a neighborhood atmosphere and urge drivers to practice more caution while driving alongside cyclists.

It started with the efforts of a woman from the Chelsea Garden Club who planted vegetables in a bike-lane tree bed only to have them uprooted by a city contractor opposed to the idea.

After an agreement between the Parks Department, D.O.T. and state Senator Tom Duane to allow these beautification efforts, the adoption of bike-lane tree pits in Chelsea (Eighth and Ninth Aves.) and on the Upper West Side (Columbus and Amsterdam Aves.) has been opened to the public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our dense, urban environment, we need every square foot of green space that we can get,â&#x20AC;? Duane said. He also hopes that the treepit planting program will â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspire local children both to learn about horticulture and to appreciate the benefits of civic engagement.â&#x20AC;?

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D.I.D. trounces L.M.D. in district leader elections

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER The Democratic primary election on Sept. 13 pitted district leader candidates endorsed by the Downtown Independent Democrats versus those of the Lower Manhattan Democrats. All the D.I.D. candidates won by big margins.

In the 64th Assembly District, Part C, Paul Newell, the incumbent, and Jenifer Rajkumar, a newcomer, defeated Jeff Galloway and incumbent Linda Belfer. Newell received 68 percent of the votes cast and Rajkumar received 70 percent.

In the 66th Assembly District, Part B, John Scott defeated incumbent David Reck, garnering 76 percent of the vote.

Jean Grillo, a D.I.D. candidate, ran unopposed.

Voter turnout was low. Only 1,400 people voted in the Reck/Scott race. Roughly 1,200 people voted in the 64th A.D., Part C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are very important races and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfortunate that such a small percentage of registered voters actually turn out,â&#x20AC;? said Robin Forst, acting president of the Lower

Manhattan Democrats.

The position of district leader is unpaid, but is influential in bringing the concerns of local residents to the attention of elected officials at the state and national levels.

Reck had represented the 66th A.D., Part B, for eight years. The district includes the northern part of Battery Park City, Tribeca, Soho, Noho, parts of Greenwich Village, the East Village and the City Hall area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry that I lost,â&#x20AC;? Reck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really feel I ran an open and honest campaign.â&#x20AC;? He said that the D.I.D. campaign had been dishonest and â&#x20AC;&#x153;nasty.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nasty mailings that went out from D.I.D. were full of out-and-out lies about me,â&#x20AC;? he charged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They said I had brought the Trump Hotel to Hudson Square, which is an out-and-out lie. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the guy who started the fight on that and found out what was wrong. They claim that I brought the Sanitation garage to [Community] Board 2. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bunch of nonsense, too. I started the fight on that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This all came from the D.I.D., with [state Senator]

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Daniel Squadronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and [City Councilmember] Margaret Chinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name right at the top of the mailing,â&#x20AC;? Reck continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very disappointed in them. I sent them this stuff and told them I thought it was terrible and got no response.â&#x20AC;?

Galloway said he had also been targeted by D.I.D. mailings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I spoke to both Daniel and Margaret about that because I thought it was wrong as well,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neither of them officially endorsed me but I consider both of them friends. But they were endorsing Linda [Belfer], and most of the things that were said about me were also said about Linda. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were apologetic,â&#x20AC;? Galloway said of the two politicians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They thought it was wrong. They said they spoke to [D.I.D. president] Jeanne Wilcke to tell her that they thought it was wrong. They asked her to pull it off of their Web site, which they did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were under the impression, based on that conversation, that it was not going to be disseminated and so they were both shocked when it was mailed out,â&#x20AC;? Galloway added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would expect that that would affect their view going forward of the management of that organization â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whoever was responsible for that.â&#x20AC;?

L.M.D. split from D.I.D. two years ago. The district leader races were the first time the clubs fielded candidates against each other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, we will be making an assessment of the election and review what we did,â&#x20AC;? said Forst. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But as far as what we would do next time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to say.â&#x20AC;?

Sean Sweeney, D.I.D.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former longtime president, offered his own assessment, gloating, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reck lost by an incredible margin. Unheard of for an incumbent. It is usually the other way around, with the incumbent winning by a huge margin.â&#x20AC;?

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Art is an expression, of deep emotions, joyous and painful. We met with an old friend recently to talk with him about his decade-long project. Artist Ejay Weiss began painting days after he watched the World Trade Center towers come down and completed his series of 12 paintings last month. The 9/11 Elegies Series: 2001 – 2011 draws on those horrible memories and eloquently travels through to a more hopeful spirit. You should try to get to see them in person while the exhibit hangs at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in the Citicorp Building. Weiss is now negotiating to have the paintings on permanent display at the 9/11 memorial.

Over the summer I took a trip to Mobile, AL, and had to share it with you. Who knew that this little gem of art, history, and environment thrived between Tallahassee and New Orleans? Most New Yorkers don’t, I would guess. Smaller and more userfriendly, this port city is actually in a revival of sorts, bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina and the economic downturn. It’s affordable and worth a visit.

On another note, aid to seniors has been under the hammer in Washington as well as New York State. Once again the future of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security becomes a heated debate topic when a 12-member subcommittee of Congress decides how to cut $2.4 trillion in spending by Thanksgiving. It’s expected that Medicare will get hit hardest and take the deepest cuts. This especially concerns baby boomers who are reaching retirement age and planned on these government programs to live.

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Art from the Ashes Ten years after he watched the twin towers fall, painter Ejay Weiss completes The 9/11 Elegies Series

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ragedy in the eyes of an artist becomes something both disturbing and enlightening. And overwhelming.

The current exhibit of a chronological series of 12 works by painter Ejay Weiss at Saint Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church in the Citicorp Building poetically illustrates what every New Yorker, most Americans and people throughout the world experienced over the last decade since the World Trade Center towers were attacked and fell, tragically killing thousands.

Weissâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works are at once groundbreaking, passionate, compelling, disturbing and uplifting. For the painter the decade-long project was painful, cathartic and comforting.

For the viewer, experiencing these dozen canvases is sorrowful and healing and hopeful.

Weiss was in his Chelsea studio when he heard the first thunderous crash. He looked out a window and saw the smoke billowing into that Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strikingly clear blue sky. He grabbed a pair of binoculars and race into the street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My hands were shaking,â&#x20AC;? he remembers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could hardly focus.â&#x20AC;?

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Belle of the Bayou

Think again when heading south this winter – Mobile, Alabama is a place to see

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hen we think of a Gulf Coast town with great history, food and fun, we almost always think New Orleans. But east of The Big Easy is a Southern Belle with miles of charm, Mobile, Alabama.

From sandy beaches and marshy waterways, from nature trails to plantation gardens, from antique boutiques to art galleries, from the African American Heritage Trail to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail (21 courses with 378 holes in eight locations!), the often overlooked Mobile Bay is an American treasure worthy of a visit by even the most seasoned traveler. Like locals like to say, whatever floats your boat, they got it.

BACKGROUND: Founded in 1702 as the capital of colonial French Louisiana, Mobile was an ideal shipping port with its deep waters and protected harbor. And everyone wanted a piece of her. War played a big part in her history. The coastal town spent decades under French, British, Spanish, American, Confederate States

of America, then back to U.S. hands.

Not only is its history rich with occupation, but during the two World Wars, the port city became an immigration boomtown with people from all over the world pouring in to work the ship building industry. Today, they’re still coming, but by car, plane, private yachts and cruise liners.

VISIT: Kick off your visit with an information gathering visit to The Museum of Mobile (www.museumofmobile.com) in the Southern Market/Old City Hall landmark district. Exhibits highlight the area’s diverse 300 years of history, including the mystic societies of Mardi Gras to shantytowns of the Great Depression.

Home of the first Mardi Gras celebration in 1703 (before New Orleans laid claim), Mobile has a rich history in revelry. Tour the Mobile Carnival Museum (mobilecarnivalmuseum.com) and see gorgeous gowns and lavish robes for carnival celebrants and learn why Mobile maskers throw moon pies.

For even a more stellar lunar experi-

ence, explore the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center (www.exploreum.com) with its amazing virtual journeys and hands-on explorations, tackling scientific topics as far reaching your inter-body workings to Black Holes.

If beauty here on earth is more to your taste, visit Bellingrath Gardens and Home (www.bellingrath.org), the 65-acre estate of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath. The year-round lush gardens are stroll-worthy but also must see are her extensive porcelain and china collections and how the couple lived.

EXPLORE: If adventures in the great outdoors are more your speed, there are the beaches of Dauphin Island, hiking trails and riverboat cruises. Become one with nature on a guided kayak tour of the 250,000 acres of marshlands at Five Rivers Delta Resource Center (www.

Alabamafiverivers.com), where you can spot dozens of bird species unique to the area or have a close encounter with an alligator Speaking of gators, a trip to Alligator

Alley (www.gatoralleyfarm.com) at feeding time is, well…a treat. Watch owner Wes Moore who turned his family farm into a gator sanctuary line up rascals like Mad Max for a dinner of raw meat. Walk the elevated wooden walkways over nesting grounds and isolation pens for the bad boys.

DINE: For a mouthwatering feast of your own, breakfast or lunch at downtown’s Spot of Tea (www.spotoftea.net). C.J.’s Cayenne Crab Bisque to Blackened Shrimp salad to Banana’s Foster French Toast top the local flavors menu.

No trip is complete without a stop at a local hangout. Callaghan’s Irish Social Club (www.callaghansirishsocialclub. com) is in a quaint residential neighborhood with family style indoor and outdoor tables. Feast on their bacon cheeseburger which was listed as one of the “100 things to Eat in Alabama Before you Die.” The super burger might help things along with it’s worth it, washed Continued on page 5

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The Old southern Market, a National Historic Landmark, is home to the Museum of Mobile (above), filled with artifacts and legends about the Alabama Coastal city.

Bellingrath Gardens (above right) is the former 65-acre estate of the area Coca Cola distributor and now is a four-seasons floral wonderland of gardens, waterways and winding paths. Mad Max (below) is just one of the 200 rescued American gators who call Alligator Alley home.

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down with a pint of Guinness.

Oysters are a must on a visit to the Gulf Coast.

The original Wintzell’s Oyster House (www.wintzellsoysterhouse.com) in downtown is the place to keep on ‘shuckin.’ Founded in 1938 as a 6-stool raw bar, the seafood grub house is known for seven ways of serving the sexy shellfish, along with gumbo and poboys.

STAY: Like eating, sleeping isn’t taken lightly in Mobile.

Following a $200-million restoration four years ago, The Battle House Hotel (www.rsabattlehouse.com) downtown recaptures the city’s elegance and majesty.

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Prostate cancer… foreign travel… dental care… vaccines and immunizations…

Dear Marci,

Does Medicare cover prostate cancer screenings?

— Abraham Dear Abraham,

Prostate cancer screenings can detect early prostate cancer. Medicare covers one prostate screening a year (every 12 months) for men age 50 and older. This includes a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test and a digital rectal exam. Medicare will cover these services more than once a year if your doctor says you need them for diagnostic purposes.

Medicare covers 80 percent of the cost of the digital rectal exam (after you pay your annual Part B deductible), and 100 percent of the cost of the PSA test (with no Part B deductible required). You will have no copay or deductible for the PSA test if you see doctors who accept assignment. Doctors who accept assignment cannot charge you more than the Medicare approved amount.

If you are in a Medicare Advantage plan (private health plan) you should call your plan to see what costs and rules apply.

Starting in 2012, your Medicare Advantage plan will not be able to charge you for preventive care services that are free for people with Original Medicare, as long as you see in-network providers. If you see providers that are not in your plan’s network, charges will typically apply.

— Marci

Dear Marci,

How do I get a list of Medigap companies in my state?

— Darlene Dear Darlene,

It is a good idea to start researching Medigaps in your area well before you enroll in Medicare or lose other supplemental coverage so that you will not have any gaps in coverage. Under national law, persons age 65 and older have rights to buy a Medigap policy only at certain times.

During these times, Medigap companies cannot refuse to sell you a policy based on your age or health status. Depending on your circumstances, you may be subject to a waiting period before pre-existing

conditions are covered by your Medigap policy. National law does not give the same protections to persons under age 65. State law may give more protections to persons both over and under 65.

Generally, you can call your State Department of Insurance or your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) for a list of Medigap companies in your state and for help choosing a plan.

Visit www.shiptalk.org to find your SHIP. You can also visit www.medicare.gov to see what plans are offered in your area.

If your physician, provider or supplier accepts assignment, they should automatically receive Part B claims from Medicare so that you do not have to submit the claims to the insurer yourself. Some Medigap insurers also choose to receive Part A claims directly from Medicare. Before you sign up for a Medigap policy, be sure to ask the insurer if it will receive bills for your care from Medicare automatically or whether you will need to do this yourself.

—Marci

Dear Marci,

If I have Extra Help this year, will I still have it next year?

“Social Security Administration Review Of Your Eligibility For Extra Help.”) If you and your spouse applied for Extra Help on the same application, you will receive only one letter. Not everyone who applied for Extra Help will receive a letter, but if you do, you must complete the form enclosed with the letter and send it back to Social Security within 30 days.

Social Security will use your answers to decide if you are still qualified for Extra Help and how much Extra Help you should get (for example, if your income had dropped you may be eligible for more assistance). If you need more time to fill out the form, call your local Social Security office and ask for an extension; you may receive an extra 30 days to fill out the form.

Any changes to your Extra Help assistance will go into effect on January 1.

If you do not return the “Review of Your Eligibility” form, Medicare will assume that you no longer qualify for Extra Help and your assistance will end on December 31.

Once you send in the necessary forms, you will receive a notice telling you whether your Extra Help has stayed the same, increased, decreased or ended.

If Medicare ends your Extra Help, you can reapply.

—Marci

—Akachi Dear Akachi,

Dear Marci,

It depends on how you got Extra Help this year and whether your situation has changed. If you got Extra Help automatically because you were already enrolled in Medicaid, a Medicare Savings Program (MSP), or were receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and in the fall you are still enrolled in Medicaid or an MSP or receiving SSI, you do not have to do anything. Your state should tell Medicare that you are still enrolled in one of these programs. You should not receive any notice unless your copayments are changing for next year. If your income changed enough to affect your copayments, you should receive a notice telling you this in early October.

If you got Extra Help automatically but are no longer enrolled in Medicaid or an MSP or receiving SSI at the end of the year, you should apply for Extra Help. Otherwise, your Extra Help ends on December 31. You should receive a letter in the fall telling you that you will lose Extra Help. You should also receive an Extra Help application and postage-paid envelope with your notification letter.

If you applied for Extra Help, Social Security may send you a letter in August or September with a form outlining the financial and personal information you provided when you applied and asking if any of it has changed. (The letter is titled

Does Medicare cover me when I travel to another country?

—Carlos Dear Carlos,

If you will be traveling to a foreign country, Medicare will not usually cover your medical care. However, Original Medicare and Medicare private health plans must cover medical care you get outside of the U.S. in the following limited cases: Medicare will pay for emergency services in Canada if you are traveling a direct route between Alaska and another state, and the closest hospital that can treat you is in Canada.

Medicare will pay for medical care you get on a cruise ship if: The ship is registered to the U.S.; The doctor is registered with the Coast Guard; and You get the care while the ship is in U.S. territorial waters. This means the ship is in a U.S. port or within six hours of arrival at or departure from a U.S. port.

Medicare may pay for non-emergency inpatient services in a foreign hospital (and connected physician and ambulance costs) if the hospital is closer to your residence than the nearest U.S. hospital that is availContinued on page 8

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But what he saw drew him down toward Ground Zero over the next few weeks. He picked up hands full of ash and gravel. He started painting, incorporating the debris into his painting. The results are startling and riveting.

“I started painting in part from horror, in response to what happened,” says Weiss.

Virtually no imagery was used. No photos. The paintings spring from Weiss’s first-hand experience and memory.

“The power of this series is cathartic,” he says. “It’s the element of events so overwhelming, so out of our control. How do we fit in this picture?”

The first three panels portray the initial destruction of the Twin Towers, with red, white and blue undercoat and a scorched grid of black and gray lines. The first two are five-foot square, “Footprint Panels”, and the third, “Redemption Panel”, is rectangular. First painting has red on bottom like fire and brimstone, then colors go around the square window on the world in the second and, in the last, the the red, white and blue color lines are vertical.

All include the street grit and have the sightlines of the trade towers subtly etched in, drawing your eye up and out, as the towers themselves once did. A window-like square of blue sky and white clouds sits slightly askew in the middle.

The metaphorical window is not at the center. Viewer makes a choice: is he seeing himself inside looking out or outside looking in?

“That’s something painting can do as no other art form can,” says Weiss, who studied architecture and painting at Pratt Institute and now lectures at Rutgers University and The New School University and the School of Visual Arts, among others.

The next six “Ghost City” panels, painted between December 2001 and September 2002, are suspended in a shroud of haze, with color rising from gray. Reflecting the uncertainty of the times, these paintings reflect a year of clean up and the city’s raw emotions at the time.

“Number seven has an indication of downtown skyline, empty space and the indication of the beam of light,” says Weiss. While lighter, more pastel shades of color creep into the paintings, “only an inkling of cityscape, shrouded in smoke and haze remain.”

For this native New Yorker, watching smoke rising for six months, smoldering and the smell, the atmosphere of the city, is what he hopes to evoke.

By panels eight and nine, the grid, structures are gone, they are in memory.

No physical 9/11 debris is in either painting.

“You are left hanging in the gloom, not knowing where this is going,” Weiss says.

Photos by Janel Bladow

Artist Ejay Weiss painted the 12-panel series, “The 9/11 Elegies: 2001 - 2011”, over the decade between 9/11 and August. He says he started painting in horror but ended with hope.

Weiss returned to the series in February 2011when he began painting the studies for the final three larger, 4’ X 8’ canvases, “The Resolution Triptych”. This trio, of pinks, blues and lavenders, represents the beginning of the 21st Century, a more constructive, hopeful time. They were finished in August.

“The Resolution panels are a study in relationship,” says Weiss. “I thought to make them larger, with two panels evoking the original towers in shape. The middle painting is the last, a step between the towers. Bottoms are in relief, the last incorporates a projection of a tower, meant to be seen up close.

“Basically, it’s the rebuilt skyline. An enormous span of sky, less than onetwelfth of the painting is city skyline.

“The center panel is the last and an intense panel grid still there. It represents the dawn of a new day. Sure it’s a cliché but what is a cliché except what is true?

It’s the reality,” says Weiss with a smile.

The exhibit space is equally as moving and inspirational. Two large Dale Chihuly glass bowls sit on pedestals near the panels, absorbing and reflecting the colors and light. The famed white and light oak chapel designed by sculptor Louise Nevelson is next door. And Weiss’s own “Golden Eden” hangs in the Sanctuary, next to the door leading to the exhibit.

This painting inspired the Elegies series.

“I began that painting in the late Eighties as a metaphorical window, evoking a sense of space, a grasp of space with the understanding of place. They are two

different things. It becomes a place, but what kind of space is it?

“The Eden painting is heaven. The Elegies series is hell. It’s a 180-degree flip.”

The 9/11 ELEGIES: 2001 – 2011, on exhibit through September 25, in the Narthex Gallery, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church, Citicorp Plaza, Lexington Ave. at 54th St. 9 am – 7pm.

On September 17, at 7pm, Weiss conducts a gallery tour of his exhibit, followed at 8pm by the first concert of the season by the Chelsea Symphony, “Tribute to New York.”

Co-conducted by Matthew Aubin and Yaniv Segal, The Chelsea Symphony, together with the Saint Peter’s Choir under the direction of Thomas Schmidt, will perform works by American composers ranging from Samuel Barber to Billy Strayhorn. With a particular focus on New York and the events of 9/11, the program will also include the world premiere of Aaron Dai’s To a Ten Year Old, largely inspired by Weiss’ Elegies, and the world premiere of Golden Sky, a work by Israeli composer Yishai Shefi, whose brother was killed in the Twin Towers on 9/11. The concert will be recorded, to be included as part of the 9/11 National Memorial Museum’s aural archives, and a portion of the net proceeds from the event will benefit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

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Does Medicare cover vaccines and immunizations?

Pneumonia and Hepatitis B: (if you are at medium to high risk).

Part B will cover other immunizations only if you have been exposed to a disease or condition. For example, if you step on a rusty nail, Medicare will cover a tetanus shot; if you are bitten by a dog, Medicare will cover your rabies shots.

If you have a Medicare prescription drug plan (Part D), you may be able to get coverage for other types of vaccines, such as the vaccine for shingles (herpes zoster). Any commercially-available vaccine that is not covered by Part B should be covered by your Medicare prescription drug plan. Before you get a vaccination, you should check coverage rules with your Part D plan and see where you should get your shot so that it will be covered for you at the lowest cost.

—Enide

—Marci

Dear Enide,

Dear Marci,

Medicare covers some vaccines and immunizations. The way Medicare covers them depends on which vaccine you need.

Your Medicare health coverage (Part B) will cover vaccines to prevent:

If Medicare will not pay for my dental care, what other resources could help me pay?

Influenza (the flu): Currently, the seasonal flu shot includes both a seasonal flu shot and an H1N1 (swine flu) vaccination.

Dear Phyllis,

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able and equipped to treat your medical condition. This may happen if, for example, you live near the border of Mexico or Canada.

Some supplemental insurance, such as Medigap plans, provide coverage for foreign travel. Some Medicare private health plans also cover emergency care when you travel outside the United States. Check with your plan to see what costs and rules apply when you travel outside of the United States.

—Marci Dear Marci,

—Phyllis

To pay for dental care, you can look into additional or alternative forms of coverage.

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These options include: Medicaid. In some states, Medicaid covers some dental services. You may qualify for Medicaid if you have very low income.

Check with your local Medicaid office to see what dental services are covered in your area.

Medicare private health plans. Some Medicare private health plans offer routine dental coverage as part of their benefits package. If you are in a private health plan (such as an HMO or PPO), call your plan to find out what dental services, if any, it covers. If you are considering joining a Medicare private health plan, make sure it covers the doctors and hospitals you prefer to use and the medications you take at a cost you can afford.

You could also look into free or reducedcost clinics. Such clinics are available in many states. There are a number of places to search for a clinic in your area: Local hospitals. Call the hospitals in your area to ask if they offer dental clinics, how you can become a patient there, what services they offer, what the fees are and if payment plans are available.

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), also known as Primary Health Care Service Delivery Sites, sometimes offer dental care.

Community Health Centers across the country provide free or reduced-cost health

services, including dental care.

Donated Dental Service Programs operate in some states. Dentists in these programs offer free dental services if you have limited income.

Dental Schools sometimes provide quality, low-cost dental care. Dental students work with patients under the supervision of experienced, licensed dentists.

Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a program available in some states to people with Medicare and Medicaid who need a nursing home level of care. If you qualify, PACE will cover all the medical, social and rehabilitative services you need. PACE also will cover some dental services. If you do not qualify for Medicaid, you can still participate in PACE, but will need to pay additional costs.

—Marci

Marci’s Medicare Answers is a service of the Medicare Rights Center (www.medicarerights.org), the nation’s largest independent source of information and assistance for people with Medicare. To speak with a counselor, call (800) 333-4114. To learn more about the services that Medicare will cover and how to change plans, log on to Medicare Interactive Counselor at the Medicare Rights Center’s website at www. medicareinteractive.org.

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Norma Venturi, the Mayor of Commerce St., dies at 83 show in between movie viewings. The girls would just stay in their seats the whole day and keep watching him. You could do that back then,â&#x20AC;? she told her great-nephew.

She used to regale her family about her discovery of department store sales. She told about her wins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and losses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Atlantic City. And she attended Mass at Our Lady of Pompei on Carmine St. on holy days of obligation.

In addition to her great-nephew Edward, another greatnephew, Michael Venturi, survives, along with her greatniece, Amanda, and her two nephews, Edward and Robert Venturi. The funeral was on Sept. 1 at Our Lady of Pompei and burial was in Calvary Cemetery in Queens. Perazzo Funeral Home, 199 Bleecker St., was in charge of arrangements.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Norma Venturi, known by her neighbors as the Mayor of Commerce St., where she lived all her life in the apartment where she grew up, died Sun., Aug. 28, at the age of 83.

She was diagnosed with Leukemia 10 years ago, according to her great-nephew Edward Venturi, who wrote an essay about her in 2009 on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

Born April 1, 1928, she was the second child of Laura and Giuseppe Venturi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She spent her entire life in the rent-controlled apartment on Commerce St. â&#x20AC;Ś. She did, however, move to a new apartment for a year on Carmine St., but returned to her home on Commerce to keep her widowed mother company,â&#x20AC;? her great-nephew wrote.

Norma Venturi worked for MONY, starting as a typist at the age of 18 and retiring 45 years later as a purchase agent for the life insurance company.

She would tell stories about her older brother, Egidio, who died in 2002. Egidio served in the Army during World War II, and after the war would pitch batting practice for the New York Giants when they were at home in the Polo Grounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was real good, but we were Yankee fans,â&#x20AC;? Norma told her great-nephew.

Hockey was her favorite sport. She would go to the old Madison Square Garden on Eighth Ave. at 49th St. to see the Rangers and would take her two nephews with her when they were boys.

She remembered A. Zito & Sons Bakery on Bleecker St., remarking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make bread like that anymore.â&#x20AC;? As a neighbor of the Cherry Lane Theater, she remembered seeing

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EDITORIAL 9/11 Memorial is forever open The past few days have been full of gratitude and grief, happiness and sadness, remembrance and regret. This year’s anniversary of the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001, was a milestone unlike any of the nine anniversaries that preceded it.

At the center of the emotion that was broadcast all over the world was the opening of the National September 11 Memorial.

We would like to applaud the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for making sure the opening even happened. Many forget that at one time the opening was slated for 2013 and not 2011. But the Port Authority and the construction workers it employs altered that timeline, noting the importance of the passing of a decade.

A tremendous amount of progress toward completing the memorial was made in just the last few months. The effort involved in pulling this opening off in time should make all New Yorkers and all Americans proud.

But as we did in the immediate days following 9/11, we must continue to live our lives. And while heeding William Faulkner’s words “The past is never dead, it’s not even past,” we must look to the future.

Last Friday, Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, introduced legislation that would provide annual funding in the amount of $20 million to the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. All federal funds appropriated would need to be matched by non-federal sources, such as by a combination of admissions fees, gifts and fundraising.

Senator Inouye is more than familiar with the significance of funding an institution like the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. His home state has a similar institution, the Pearl Harbor Memorial, that has also benefited from federal funding.

This legislation is supported by New York Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo, and we support it as well. The attacks of 9/11 were clearly an attack on America, and supporting the site is at least partly a national responsibility.

There have been reports that Senator Inouye’s bill would immediately place the 9/11 Memorial and Museum under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior and therefore be designated a U.S. National Park.

That, however, is not the case, but the federal support needs to obtain a number of approvals and overcome some complex issues of titling and ownership of the site.

The federal contribution of $20 million would cover about one-third of the annual cost of operation and maintenance of the memorial and museum.

While entrance to the memorial will remain free, hopefully, this federal support would shave some of the “suggested admission fees” — currently in the range of $20 to $25 — which are envisioned when the museum formally opens.

While the 9/11 Museum is not yet open, we believe that it is wise and prudent to take action now to ensure that when it does open, it will remain and exist as a source of education and inspiration for future generations.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Articles on 9/11 resonated

Fashion’s Night Out of Control

To The Editor: I have lived in New York City all of my life. Like so many New Yorkers, looking back at 9/11 is difficult for me, for I lost two friends both named Jonathan, both under 30.

One was a friend of my son’s who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald; his body was one that was never found. The other was a firefighter, the son of Lee Ielpi. I remember the day Lee carried his son out of The Pit. Even 10 years after this tragedy, it brings back so many memories.

Several of the articles in your Sept. 8 special supplement, “Out of the Ashes: Looking back at 9/11,” truly resonated for me. I thought they were excellent. The articles reminded me of the local restaurants that collected clothing that we brought for the firemen. They also had a Red Cross group that was collecting money to help. Local restaurants stopped serving customers and cooked all day, and a group of people drove the food that they prepared to take to the rescue workers.

Thank you for publishing these articles, for as difficult as they were to read, they recaptured a period of time in New York City that was truly the worst of times and yet was a moment that united every person in this city.

To The Editor: I didn’t go by the Kardashian girls’ event, but I heard from residents it was a zoo. Pauly D spinning for those two is East Coast reality TV trash famous for doing absolutely nothing of worth entertaining West Coast reality TV trash famous for doing absolutely nothing of worth. DJ’ing is a talent, and I have yet to see Pauly display any talent as I channel surf, so doubt his qualifications as a DJ. I was involved in the 1970s and ’80s club scene in Soho and knew lots of the famous DJs and these guys had talent and creativity.

Fashion’s Night Out is getting progressively worse and more disruptive. By 9 p.m. I could hear hordes of young men on West Broadway, two blocks away, hollering in unison, like soccer fans at the World Cup. Then at 10:30 it got real bad on Prince and Greene Sts. Apparently, Kanye West the rapper, who lives in Soho, was spotted, a flash mob of underage kids appeared and chaos reigned as people were screaming, hooting and blocking traffic.

The problem is the stores freely offer free booze, unlimited, without a license from the State Liquor Authority to anyone who enters a store, regardless of age, never ID’ing.

Visit a few stores and you get drunk.

Police vans were called to Prince St., which was closed then at Mercer St. to westbound traffic.

It is a disgrace. No N.Y.P.D. presence before the event — then too little, too late. Packs of young, drunk kids roaming around. It didn’t end till midnight. It was like Ft. Lauderdale spring break, but at least in Ft. Lauderdale there are police present.

Mayor Bloomberg and Anna Wintour, whose dumb idea this was, need to end this nonsense before someone gets hurt. The S.L.A. needs to send enforcement agents that night to bust anyone distributing alcohol to minors.

I heard the scene was even worse in the Meat Market.

Coincidentally, I walked past Anna Wintour’s home in Greenwich Village on Sullivan St. and it was quiet. She wouldn’t pull this crap in front of her home, nor would Bloomie allow it on the Upper East Side. Those dowagers would be up in arms. But they pull this nonsense year after year.

Who cleans up all the garbage left behind on the streets after this event? Will Wintour? Will the city not fine the residents if they get a ticket? Time to end Fashion’s Night Out.

Laura Behar

Very touching piece To The Editor: Re “Will he remember? World Trade Center was his playground” (“Out of the Ashes” 9/11 section, Sept. 8): Such a nice article. May we all remember the lives lost on that day, and that after 10 years America still stands as a beacon of hope despite our enemies’ wishes.

Lionel Bachmann

Made me cry To The Editor: Re “Cheering the rescue workers: My month on the median” (“Out of the Ashes” 9/11 section, Sept. 8): I really like this little essay. Made me cry with remembrance — and thankfulness.

Lisa Yo

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We’ve got an even bigger problem than Bachmann now (Bachmann-Palin style) total confusion to speak of himself in the same breath as Galileo Galilei, the great empirical

TALKING POINT

BY JERRY TALLMER Michelle Bachmann, where were you when we needed you?

Here I was, counting on you to cut this new gun from Texas down to size with a few well-chosen malapropostic inanities and irrelevancies, but lo! — just when you should have struck the knockout blow, you melted into the wallpaper and disappeared, mechanically uttering the same tired old warmed-over bilge as always.

Result?

The gun-slinging Rick Perry — the blackest of black hats among all those boring repetitive G.O.P.-nerds, the night of Great Debate I, knocked you not only out of the box but clean out of the game.

Now whom do we have to — God help us — protect us against this Jack Palance of politics? Miss Looney-Toons, Sarah Palin? Mr. Corporate Gasbag, Mitt Romney?

What kind of a name is Mitt anyway?

Some commentator the other day cleverly said he didn’t think the American people were going to elect Elmer Gantry as president of the United States — Elmer Gantry being the faith-healing quack evangelist of the stinging 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis (and the 1960 movie starring Burt Lancaster).

I think there is a more exact prototype. That would be Willie Stark, the ambitious reckless populist hero/villain of an even more stinging novel, Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 “All the King’s Men” (and 1949 movie starring Broderick Crawford).

Willie Stark was closely based on the real-life Huey P. Long (1893-1935), the demagogic populist governor of Louisiana who had been assassinated a short decade before Robert Penn Warren started writing. The nationally ambitious Huey Long scared as many people as Rick Perry soon will scare in our own day, if he hasn’t already.

I can tell you he scares the bejezus out of me. Did you hear that carnivorous roar of applause, G.O.P. debate night, when he flatly upheld each and all of the two or three hundred executions he’d O.K.’d as governor, down there in Texas. Chilling.

I do not, however, think that Huey Long would have been so foolish — no, stubbornly wrongheaded — as to call and keep calling Social Security (then in its birth throes) “a Ponzi scheme” or a Bernie Madoff hustle that needs to be improved out of existence.

The thing about Rick Perry is: He’s an actor. He even has an actor-sounding name. All politicians are actors in one way or another, we know that. In some cases it’s not just obvious but glaringly obvious. This is one of those cases. Everything about Rick Perry is what we call actor-y, the diametric opposite of a man named Ronald Reagan who had actually earned his living as a self-effacing and not very interesting professional actor.

And this sham cowboy with the predatory grin of a fox or a wolf has the chutzpah, or the ignorance, or the weird

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And global warming is bunk. So says oil-fed cowboy Galileo Perry, who, like his 16th-century compeer, is prepared to be “outvoted for a spell” by, well, by big bad science. It’s just that he’s got the heroism of it, and the logic, ass-backwards.

In Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” there is a famous scene — the essence of pure theater — in which a man who is pleasant and ordinary enough begins bit by bit to be helped into his formal garments, his vestments, and when the last touch is added (if I remember right, the red hat), he stands revealed as the overbearing, dictatorial Cardinal who is to try Galileo on charges of heresy.

Rick Perry, to me, is a lot more like that Cardinal, and a lot more dangerous, than any number of Galileos. I hope to God enough Americans come to realize that menacing truth.

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Kickstarting publication of L.E.S. Jewish anthology CLAYTON “Jews, A People’s History of the Lower East Side” is a three-volume anthology edited by Clayton Patterson and Dr. Mareleyn Schneider. The first volume addresses the social history of Judaism in the neighborhood. The second and third volumes follow these threads into modern culture, examining contributions to art, business and community in Downtown New York.

Including more than 150 chapters contributed by an international host of writers, these three volumes investigate individuals, movements and institutions that have impacted the city, the country and the entire planet.

Contributors include historians, neighborhood preservationists, artists, rock stars, activists, poets, filmmakers and more. Through their words, familiar subjects and individuals are re-examined, historic moments are considered, and unknown agents of change are brought to light. A sample of some of the chapters: “Allen Ginsberg’s Ideal Society” “Architecture of the Jewish Ghetto” “Barney Rosset: Outsider on the Inside” “Early Communitarian Experiments on the Lower East Side: Social Reform Practices in New York City During the Gilded Age” “Emma Goldman – First Slum Goddess of the Lower East Side” “Jewish Boxing in the Lower East Side” “June Leaf, Hands at War” “Public Baths on the Lower East Side” “Reflections [on Philip Glass]” “Tuli Kupferberg: The Meaning of the Jew in the Dictionary of Anarchism” A true people’s history, spanning 200 years, the text allows a huge cross section of thinkers to articulate their experience and knowledge, unfettered by an external narrative.

Conventional publishing schedules would normally separate the release of these three volumes over a number of years. However, a successful Kickstarter campaign will ensure the release of the complete three-volume set within the next 12 months. A small portion of the funds raised will be used to cover preproduction costs (final editing and the creation of an index) but the majority of the money will go to printing.

To make a contribution to the effort to publish this vital anthology, go to Kickstarter.com and search under “Jews, A People’s History of the Lower East Side.”

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Among the many Lower East Side art luminaries included in the anthology are, clockwise from above, poets Lionel Ziprin and Ira Cohen, poet and Fugs founder Tuli Kupferberg and singer/performer/writer Jennifer Blowdryer.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Village Jazz Alive keeps jazz, in Village, alive Weston to receive 2011’s “Legends” award MUSIC

BY JERRY TALLMER You’d better call him now, Elizabeth said, because he’s leaving for Paris at 4pm.

Elizabeth is Elizabeth Butson, publisher emeritus of this newspaper — her husband, the late Thomas Butson, made it what it is today — and the 4 o’clock winger to Paris was and is Randy Weston, piano player, composer, arranger, bandleader, one of the greats in the world of jazz.

Yes, he said over the phone from his home in Brooklyn, he had just flown in from Chicago and was now leaving for Paris at 4pm, but there was plenty of time. What did I want to know?

“Didn’t I used to see you at the Village Gate?” I asked.

“Of course you did. Many times, in the ‘50s and early ‘60s. Art D’Lugoff” — impresario of the intercultural — “put me opposite Miriam Makeba. Art was just wonderful.”

At 7pm on September 26, a Monday, at the historied Blue Note Jazz Club on West 3rd Street, Randy Weston is to receive the 2011 Village Jazz Legends Award award from the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce.

‘The Village,’ Elizabeth Butson says, ‘has a long tradition of being a cradle for artistic expression and individuality. We are proud to have launched the Village Jazz Alive series in support of music culture in the Village.’

It is the third such award in four years.

The first one went to the great singer and civil rights warrior, Odetta Holmes, shortly before her death in 2008. The second one went to the Village Gate’s Art D’Lugoff, also now gone.

All of this is the brainchild of Elizabeth Butson. She first met Weston in 2010, at the BMCC’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center during a 50th anniversary celebration of his 1960 “Uhuru Afrika” recording.

“I was just amazed by his performance,” she says.

Randy Weston was born — in Brooklyn, where else? — April 6, 1926. He is 85 years

VILLAGE JAZZ ALIVE Village Jazz Legends Award presented to Randy Weston by the Greenwich VillageChelsea Chamber of Commerce Monday, September 26, 7pm At the Blue Note Jazz Club (131 W. 3rd St., btw. Sixth & MacDougal) For tickets ($75-100) and info, call Tom Gray at 646-470-1773 Price includes cocktails, dinner, awards and concert Proceeds support GVCC’s mission to assist and encourage local businesses to grow Visit villagechelsea.com, randyweston.info and bluenote.net

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Randy Weston: Dues paid, and set to get his reward (in the form of a prestigious award).

old. Here is a partial itinerary of his current activity: Just back from Chicago, where he was celebrating the life and times of his longtime collaborator, Melba Liston (1926-1999), arranger and musician. “A great trombonist,” Weston says. “First woman I ever heard play the trombone, and a great one.”

September 4: Paris, France, to play with his trio — Alex Blake, bass; Neil Clarke, African percussion — “at a lovely little park called La Villette.” (He has lately played for the kids and old folk at another lovely little park, under the Brooklyn Bridge, USA. From Paris to Morocco for a week or so, just to visit friends — the gwana, or musicians, of black Africa.

Morocco is where a younger Randy Weston spent seven years at “the source,” soaking up African rhythms and chords, “just hanging out with people from the Sahara to the mountains.”

September 22: Washington, D.C., to

play for the Congressional Black Caucus.

September 26: Blue Note Jazz Club.

Randy Weston has lived in the time of all the great jazz pianists, and been shaped by them all: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Earl Hines and Nat King Cole.

“Royalty,” he says.

And Monk — big brooding Thelonious Monk. I know that Art D’Lugoff worshipped him, this listener dares to say on the phone to Randy Weston, but I never cottoned to Thelonious Monk, “Too much for you?” says Weston, dryly with a laugh. “Well, Monk was my man.”

Art D’Lugoff, may he rest in peace, was the prime mover of another memorable event. They [the cops] banned Billie Holiday’s return to New York for a jampacked, unforgettable Village Voice midnight booking at Loew’s Sheridan Theatre. “I was there,” Weston says. “That’s when I met Billie Holiday.” I was there too. I drove her up that night from Philadelphia.

Randolph Weston — “Randolph, that’s

what my dad dropped on me”— has three daughters, a son “who died too young,” and an African wife with a lovely soft voice.

That father, Frank Weston, ran a restaurant in Brooklyn — “he was a great chef” — and told young Randolph he’d better study African civilization.

“I went to P.S. 82, to P.S. 210, to Boys High and to the local library. Started piano lessons kind of late — at 14. At 17, began doing local gigs — weddings and so forth.

At 24 I finally worked up the courage to play professionally.”

The story before and since is told in “The Autobiography of Randy Weston” (Duke University Press).

“The Village,” Elizabeth Butson says, “has a long tradition of being a cradle for artistic expression and individuality. We are proud to have launched the Village Jazz Alive series in support of music culture in the Village.”

To help keep that tradition going — and to give local businesses a boost in tough economic times — she four years ago created the Village Jazz Legends Award.

The September 26 gala at the Blue Note is a benefit for the Greenwich VillageChelsea Chamber of Commerce. It will be capped by a concert by the Randy Weston Quintet: Weston, at the piano; Talib Kibwe, on alto sax and flute; Neil Clarke, African percussion; Bill Harper, baritone sax; Sani Debriano, bass.

“You know,” Randy Weston says, “I’m in the world of culture rather than showbiz.”

African culture, in large part. “Most people think jazz began in New Orleans,” Brooklyn’s Randy Weston says. “Well we’re a lot older than New Orleans.”

Then he went to catch a plane.

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Just Do Art! COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

FAB! FESTIVAL An abbreviation for “Fourth Arts Block” or just a more efficient way to say “fabulous?”

Why can’t it be a little bit of both? “FAB!” lives up to the promise of its name and then some, with their annual “FAB! Festival” — a daylong celebration of creative expression from the artistic entities that occupy Manhattan’s only official cultural district. In that one short block (East 4 Street, between Lafayette and Second Ave.), you’ll find a dozen theaters, eight dance/ rehearsal studios, three film editing suites and a large screening room. But they’re just getting started. Over the next two years, nearly 40,000 square feet of space on the block will be reclaimed for cultural use. Within 10 years, that number will climb to 145,000 square feet.

At that point, they’ll probably have to add another day or two to this fab little fest. But for now, here’s a partial list of the dance, theater and music you’ll find on multiple stages: Once again, Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance opens the FAB! Festival fierce modern dance from choreographer Enrique Cruz DeJesus (accompanied by hot Latin beats and warm R&B rhythms from the elegantly funky SoulJaazz Band). On the Cabaret State, artists from Nuyorican Poets Café offer the best of their spoken word, and an excerpt from the new play Felony in Blue. Other outdoor performers include Bang Dance, Dixon Place, Downtown Art, JT Lotus Dance Company, La MaMa, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, The Living Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, New York NeoFuturists and Rod Rodgers Dance Company.

At La MaMa E.T.C. — The Club, “Plays, Plays and More Plays!” delivers a glimpse of Off-Off Broadway, by way of a one-hour review of, well, plays, plays and more plays!

Elsewhere indoors, “WOW! Wow Cabaret” features performers from WOW Café Theatre (the country’s oldest women and trans folks’ theater collective). To reserve a seat, visit fabnyc.fabfestival.org.

At The New York Theatre Workshop rehearsal space, take part in the classes Introduction to Feldenkrais and Awareness Through Movement —taught by Annie Rudnick. Other classes include Hatha Yoga,

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Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance tears it up. See “FAB! Festival.”

Writing & Performing Your Story: An introduction in Neo-Futurism for Seniors. For info, visit fabnyc.fabfestival.org.

On the street all afternoon: Materials For The Arts encourages you to create your own mixed medium art pieces — with reusable materials. For more info, mfta.org. “Get Your Pickle On!” is sponsored by The 4th Street Food Co-op and the Biocitizen school of environmental philosophy. Thrill to “spine-tingling high-wire lacto-acidophilus fermentation demonstrations,” then learn how to pickle the old fashioned way (in front of the 4th Street Food Co-op, 58 E. 4th St., btw. Bowery & 2nd Ave.).

If eating without the act of creating is more your thing, stop by the Mexicue Food Truck, the artist-run food cart appropriately known as “The Cart,” as well as the vendor locations of Bugsella, The Chocolate Swirl, Granola Lab, MissWit, P&H Sodas, La Sirena, Vspot, and many more.

“FAB! Festival is a free event. It takes place Sat., Sept. 24, 1-5pm (on E. 4 St., btw. Bowery & 2nd Ave.). For info, visit fabnyc.org.

THE COMPLETE & CONDENSED STAGE DIRECTIONS OF EUGENE O’NEILL, VOLUME I: EARLY AND LOST PLAYS Prolific enemies of the past who don’t spend a second resting on their laurels, the NY Neo-Futurists’ newest work takes the “eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling” stage directions from Eugene O’ Neill plays and turns them into fast-paced physical comedy. The long title of that play is, in fact, a short way of saying the Futurists draw from the beginning career, and obscure writings, of a Broadway darling who was once “considered an experimental, Downtown playwright…His plays defied the melodramatic conventions of the day and much of his work premiered with the Provincetown Players on MacDougall Street.” Welcome back! Through Oct. 1, 8pm, at The Kraine Theatre (85 E. 4th Street, btw. 2nd Ave. & Bowery). For tickets ($18, $12 for students), call 866-811-4111 or visit nynf.org.

and concerned residents to acknowledge the simmering tensions which sparked the incident. For more info, visit niot.org.

Thurs., Sept. 22, 6:30pm: In conversation with Algonquin editor and publisher Elisabeth Scharlatt, Ilene Beckerman discusses her book “The Smartest Woman I Know.” It’s the story Gingy — a grandmother who dispensed unforgettable wisdom to Gingy and her sister, Tootsie, as well as to the customers at a stationery and magazine store. Those customers ranged from Irish nannies to Sara Delano Roosevelt to Marlene Dietrich. For info on the author, visit ilenebeckerman.com.

Tues., Sept. 27, 6:30pm: Meet, greet, listen to and question author Sam Wasson.

His “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman” is a encyclopedic account of the making of 1961’s “Breakfast” — which, thanks to that little black dress, made Hepburn into an icon. For info on the author, visit samwasson.com.

Wed., Sept. 28, 6:30pm: “Amore: The Story of Italian American Song” is Mark Rotella’s celebration of the “Italian decade” (the years after the WW II, but before the Beatles — when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin and others dominated the charts. For info on the author, visit markrotella.com.

All events take place at the Tenement Museum Visitor Center and Museum Shop (103 Orchard St., at Delancey). Admission is free, and seating is available on a firstcome, first-serve basis (purchase a copy of the featured book by calling 212-431-0233 ext.

259, and a seat is guaranteed). For info, tenement.org. For Twitter: twitter.com/tenementmuseum. Visit their blog: tenementmuseum.blogspot.com.

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TENEMENT TALKS AT THE LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM

The NY Neo-Futurists stage O’Neill stage directions.

Like a cool breeze that comes with the change in seasons, we’ve come to anticipate the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s “Tenement Talks” series with all the good things that happen when summer turns to fall. This imaginatively curated series of discussions and readings — meant to illuminate New York City’s culture, history and people — has returned after a July/August hiatus. Here’s what’s on the September calendar: Mon., Sept. 19, 6:30pm: Shot over a two-year period, the documentary “Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness” chronicles how residents of Patchogue, New York reacted to a series of anti-immigrant attacks against the town’s Latino residents. Those attacks — which culminated in the 2008 murder of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero — led the victim’s brother, the mayor

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Sam Wasson dishes on Hepburn. See “Tenement Talks.”

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A good return for your investment Playwright Rothstein crafts timely, prophetic tale

BY JERRY TALLMER Money, money, money, money, money, money….

“When I came out of Vassar in 2003,” says Sharyn Rothstein, “a lot of people were going to work on Wall Street. I didn’t, but I had two friends who did — men friends — and I would talk with them about it.”

What fascinated her — and still does — was that “before everything went to pot on Wall Street, you could go to work there and come away with lots and lots of money — almost for free.”

Instead of going to Wall Street, start writing plays — one of which, now in the East Village, deserves to have a snappier title than its “The Invested.”

Indeed, as surprises go, you may find yourself gasping at a plot that hinges on Standard & Poor’s downgrading the credit status of a world-famous investment bank from AAA to AA+…in a drama written many months before S&P did exactly the same thing, not to a bank but to a whole nation. Our nation.

And through our nation to the whole bloody financially imperiled world.

Money had in fact been a chief topic of dinner-table conversation at homes in Avon, Connecticut, just outside Hartford, where Sharyn Rothstein was born and bred. “I grew up in money,” she says, not meaning wealth but that her father was and is a financial adviser — “and chief consultant on this play.”

At the center of “The Invested” are two people: Catherine Murdoch (of all things), who wanted to have been made CEO of the huge, world-embracing Metrobank, but wasn’t — and a slick, sharp-shooting male named William Enoch (actor Thomas Hildreth), who was.

At issue is a certain very large special fund administered by Ms. Murdoch (Christina Haag) for the beneficial investments of her own special clients, among them a shrewd old father figure named Sid Simon (Bill Cwikowski).

What Catherine doesn’t know, but will soon find out — thanks to the S&P downgrade — is that Bill Enoch, CEO, has invaded her fund and chopped it up into thousands of little hunks — junk bonds — he can peddle here, there and everywhere.

THEATER THE INVESTED Written by Sharyn Rothstein Directed by Ron Canada Through September 24 At the 4th Street Theater (83 E. 4th St., btw.

2nd Ave. & Bowery) For tickets ($18), brownpapertickes.com or purchase at the box office Visit TheInvested.com When Catherine, and then Sid Simon, find this out, dear old Sid suddenly stops being a kindly father figure — and Catherine goes to the SEC. Yes, of course, there is a certain feminist quotient in “The Invested,” underscored by a supporting character — Catherine’s young assistant, Madeline (Turna Mete), who sleeps with a schnook she dislikes named Henry (Michael Daniel Anderson) to get him to reveal why Bill Enoch is furiously shredding all sorts of memoranda. But Enoch’s most dangerous opponent is a rich bitch board member named Jane Giffin (Judith Hawkins), at whom he directs his wickedest barbs.

“When I started writing the play in 2008,” says the playwright, “it seemed as if more and more female executives on Wall Street were quitting or losing their jobs. And women also tend to be whistle-blowers.”

No, Ms. Rothstein says, she doesn’t know any Wall Street Bill Enochs directly, “but I know the elements. He’s a composite of three or four of them, and I knew that at least some of these characters had to be incredibly charming.”

She’s seen other women experience sexism, but she herself has only experienced some subtle sexism in the workplace. “I think it has moved underground. It’s not there, but it’s there.”

She has “always been interested in politics,” and her earlier plays include one about

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L to R: Judith Hawking and Christina Haag.

illegal immigration and one called “Neglect” — about a heat wave that killed a lot of people in Chicago. Its staging at the Ensemble Studio Theater was her first manifestation in New York.

Her eyes widen when I say, “Catherine Murdoch, how did that happen?” With a laugh, she says, “I guess I just liked the sound of the name. This play was written well before Rupert Murdoch and his son went before Parliament.

How about that “Y” in Sharyn?

“My parents” — Alan and Marilyn Rothstein — “did that to me.”

Speaking of names, the director of “The Invested” is a gentleman named Ron Canada.

It was the collapse of Lehman Bros., well before S&P pulled the rug out from under everything that had started “a baby play-germ percolating in my brain.”

Now she and her husband, William Morris agent Jeff Lesh — “that’s how we met; I was working at William Morris” — have a real live three-month-old baby Lucien to supply the theatrics at home.

As for mama Sharyn, no, she’s never acted.

“I don’t have the courage.”

Had she foreseen the S&P downgrading of the USA? “No, I didn’t…. And just two days ago I saw in the Times that Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, had hired a well known criminal attorney.”

When Sharyn Rothstein came down from Vassar to go for her MFA at NYU, “I was young to New York, and it seemed like there was money everywhere. A Gilded Age.” And then the bubble burst. Wall Street’s loss is East 4th Street’s gain.

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Class conflict at Ground Zero

Exploring the aftermath, without excessive immersion in sorrow THEATER

BY ALINE REYNOLDS Scores of 9/11-themed plays have been written in the decade since the attacks, several of which have been performed in New York in recent weeks. Stephen Girasuolo’s “Orange Alert” — while not exceptional — is captivating and well worth seeing.

The two-act play provides candid snapshots of construction workers and restaurant employees in and around Ground Zero. Unlike many other 9/11 plays, “Orange Alert” portrays the aftermath without immersing the audience in unrelieved sadness (many of the scenes are, in fact, comical).

The play sheds light on the restoration of the World Trade Center while highlighting tensions between people of different social classes that partook in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.

Bobby, a restaurant delivery boy, is mesmerized by the interior of a new area hotel — telling co-worker Layla it made him feel as if he was “in another world.” Layla, in turn, refers to the tourists as “animals,” and mocks their visit to the “big hole” at Ground Zero.

While he does succeed in offering the perspectives of construction workers, cooks and delivery boys with wit and realism, Girasuolo doesn’t introduce us to a single financial trader or tourist. It’s strange not to have introduced April’s husband — a former trader at the Twin Towers who like W.T.C. construc-

ORANGE ALERT Written by Stephen Girasuolo Directed by Leslie Silva Through September 18, 7pm At the Algonquin Seaport Theater Pier 17 (89 South St.) For tickets and info, call 212-265-2142

tion worker Al, gets laid off from his job and takes a stab at suicide. Having not taken this road, the playwright misses his chance to make a more unique contribution to the post-9/11 discussion by exploring how the event, and its ensuing economic downturn, created a bond between people of different social strata.

The play does, however, provide tantalizing glimpses into class distinctions. As construction workers Al and Pete marvel at the view from the 27th floor of Tower One, they point out that they’ll never be able to enjoy their own creation. “I’m going to miss this floor,” Al tells his co-worker, Pete — who replies, “Probably

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someone here will be making a lot of money in this room.”

Peppered with chilling allusions to 9/11, the second act takes some shocking turns.

Girasuolo effectively connects the characters toward the end, including those who were previously strangers. As Al, distraught over being fired when he had anticipated a promo-

tion, presumably jumps out of the 27th floor of Tower One, Layla — who witnesses his suicide — relives the horror of watching office workers leap to their deaths from the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. She and Bobby then share vivid flashbacks of where they were that morning, only to discover that they were trapped in the same bank.

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STEELY DAN: SHUFFLE DIPLOMACY TWENTY ELEVEN For a duo whose most recent work centered around the virtues of greeting the apocalypse with equal parts nihilism, denial and a jazzy party vibe (2003’s “Everything Must Go”), Steely Dan isn’t quite ready for the world to end. Last seen here during 2009’s “Rent Party” tour, the thankfully prolific duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are back with “Shuffle Diplomacy Twenty Eleven” — which, far from heralding the end times, promises “an idealistic strategy for World Peace.” Their run features performances of complete albums (“Gaucho” on Sept. 16 and “The Royal Scam on Sept. 20) — plus fan voting online to determine the set for Sept.

22’s Request Night. Classics like “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Deacon Blues” are sure to please — but for a taste of what makes them both relevant and enduring, here’s hoping they’ll lay into “Pixeleen” and “Cousin Dupree” on September 23. That evening’s “21st Century Dan” program features work from 2000’s “Two Against Nature” and the aforementioned “Two Against Nature.”

Both albums deliver lyrics, licks and a narrative vision every bit as layered and complex as their ‘70s output. Through Sept. 23., at the Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway, at 74th St). For tickets, visit steelydan.com (telecharge.com for multi-show packages).

For venue info, visit beacontheatre.com.

WESTBETH ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Opened in 1970, the West Village’s Westbeth continues to offer affordable artists’ housing and an array of cultural activities. Westbeth Artists’ Housing provides affordable living and working spaces for artists and their families. Lest you think the absence of starvation or squatting has made them soft, this annual three-day festival showcases the work of Westbeth’s pro-

Photo by Danny Clinch

Two against nature. See “Steely Dan.”

lific community. Listen (and dance to) music from world-renowned classical composers David del Tredici and Richard Hundley; New York’s Soul Man Bobby Harden and his eightpiece soul band; John Menegon & Patrick McKearn; Marie McAuliffe; Barry Temkin Raytones; Hal Miller, Steve Berger with Bob Dorough and Pat O’Leary and 3Spirit — as well as, of course, surprise guests and many, many other gifted Westbeth performers rass Ensemble. The Westbeth Gallery will also be open during the Festival (presenting the group “Lehman Downtown”—featuring work from faculty members of Lehman College Art Department and members of the Lehman College Gallery).

Free. Fri., Sept. 23, 8-11pm, at the Brecht Forum (451 W. St., btw. Bank & Bethune).

Sat., Sept. 24 & Sun., Sept. 25, 12-7pm, at the Westbeth Courtyard (155 Bank St., btw.

Washington & West).

SPANISH EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER ADOLPHO ARRIETTA Underground?

A vant-garde?

Experimental? Spanish filmmaker Adolpho Arrietta fits all these descriptions — and also answers to “Alfo,” “Adolfo” and “Udolfo.”

See for yourself (or ask him) why this maverick’s work is as difficult to pin down as

Image, © Jeff Guess

From Adolpho Arrietta’s “La Imitacion del angel.” See “Spanish.”

his name — when Anthology Film Archives presents some of Arrietta’s most stunning works to have emerged from 1960s/1970s underground cinema. The filmmaker will appear this month at Anthology. Screenings include 1972’s “Pointilly” — a 26-minute voyage to the world of childhood. Also

scheduled is 1974’s “The Adventures of Sylvia Couski.” This fairy tale by way of musical comedy sees a city of transvestites trying to relive the Belle Époque of festivities and art. 1976’s “Tam Tam” has the outcasts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés organizing a party in honor of an unknown beauty whose may or may not show up.

All films are in French, with English subtitles. Sept. 15-18, at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave., at 2nd St.).

Tickets: $9 general, $7 for students, seniors and children (12 & under); $6 for AFA members. For more info, call 212505-5181 or visit anthologyfilmarchives. org. Twitter: twitter.com/anthologyfilm.

Facebook: facebook.com/AnthologyFilm.

MEDEA Japan Society launches its Fall 2011/ Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season with a North American premiere — the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center production of “Medea.” Satoshi Miyagi (celebrated Artistic Director of SPAC and successor to the legendary Tadashi Suzuki) brings the scale and visual scope of a kabuki play to the Euripides masterpiece by transforming it into a play-within-a play takes place in a traditional Japanese restaurant. As male members of the establishment call upon female waitresses for entertainment, late Meiji era gender-based tensions bubble to the surface. Live music as well as Miyagi’s signature bunraku puppet theater-inspired style (utilizing two actors per role — one to speak and one to move), puts a uniquely Japanese cultural spin on the classic Greek tragedy. Since its premiere in 1999, the production (featuring a cast of 19) has appeared in 20 cities and 11 countries. Performed in Japanese with English subtitles. Fri., Sept. 23 and Sat., Sept. 24 at 7:30pm. Sun., Sept. 25 at 5pm.

At Japan Society (333 E. 47th St., btw.

First and Second Ave.). For tickets ($32), call 212-832-1155 or visit japansociety.org.

Also visit spac.or.jp.

Photo by Caroline Oyama, 2010.

From 2010: Mettawee River Theater Company, Artistic Director Ralph Lee and Michael Moss’ ZONE in background with Michael Moss (reeds), Mel Nusbaum (piano), Robert Edwards (bass), Lou Selmi (drums). See “Westbeth.”

Photo by Takuma Uchida

Micari, Kazunori Abe. See “Medea.”

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September 15 - 21, 2011

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF THYRA MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/08/11.

Princ. office of LLC: 107 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EAST RIVER PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/2011. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: c/o Preservation Development Holdings, LLC, 641 Lexington Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o East River Preservation Development, LLC, 641 Lexington Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RED APPLE 180 MYRTLE AVENUE DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/2011. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 823 Eleventh Ave., NY, NY 10019. 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 8/10-9/14/11 LIFE POINT INTERACTIVE LLC, a foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/17/11. 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, 31 W. 16th St., #3B, NY, NY 10011. General purposes.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 212 EAST 47TH STREET 8H, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/12/11. 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 toThe LLC, 630 First Ave., Apt. 19D, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WORTHIDA COMPANY, LLC. Appl. for Auth. Filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 825 3 Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 117 Salem Church Rd., Newark, DE 19713. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 RENEWAL CAPITAL GROUP, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/31/2011.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Registered agent: Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207 Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADANA PROPERTIES LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 6/1/11. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 65 Seaman Ave, #CC, NY NY 10034. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 24 ST MARKS TL LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 7/22/11. Office location: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 208 West 88th St, #B, NY NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF STEPHEN MIKHAIL NEW YORK, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/11. 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: Stephen Mikhail New York LLC, 363 W. 57th St. Apt 2D, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FIRST ACCESS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. loc.: 530 Riverside Drive, Apt. 1E, NY, NY 10027. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin, PC, Attn: John Van Der Tuin, 1370 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 403 GREENWICH ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/13/11. 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 Cinotti & Buck LLP, 11 Broadway, Ste. 368, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NAME OF FOR. LLC: MCC REVONAH HILL ROAD LLC. App. for Auth. filed NY Dept. of State: 3/9/11. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/8/11. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Eric L. Goldberg, Esq., Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, 65 E. 55th St., 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, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MANI BHADRA LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/23/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc. (CSI), 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. DE address of LLC: CSI, 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NAME OF LLC: MSC 220 PAS LENDER L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Dept. of State of NY on 6/9/11. Off. Loc. in NY: New York Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Malkin Holdings, LLC, Attn: Legal, One Grand Central Place, 60 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10165. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/10-9/14/11 NAME OF LLC: MSC 220 MGR L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Dept. of State of NY on 6/15/11. Off. Loc. in NY: New York Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Malkin Holdings, LLC, Attn: Legal, One Grand Central Place, 60 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10165. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF INFRACONSULT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/29/2011. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/28/2006.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with State of DE, Secy. of State, Div of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SOHAM WELLNESS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/27/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 2116 Frederick Douglass Blvd., NY, NY 10026. 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. As amended by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 07/27/11, changed the name of LLC to: SOHAM WELLNESS NYC LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 ASM CAPITAL IV, L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/11. Office location: NY Co. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/11/11 SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LP 7600 Jericho Tpke STE 302 Woodbury, NY 11797. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 MARK MARMER, PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/2010.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC 240 E. 76th St. 11B New York, NY 10021. Purpose: The practice of law and any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RAILSMITH PAPERWORKS, LLC Application for Authority filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/7/11. Office location: NY County. Principal business address: 138 W. 118th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10028.

LLC formed in New Mexico (NM) on 03/17/06. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, c/o Krista Peters, 138 W. 118th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10028. NM address of LLC: 4056 Cerrillos Rd., Suite F-1, Santa Fe, NM 87507.

Articles of Formation filed with NM Public Regulation Commission, Corporations Bureau, 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LOQUACIOUS LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NewYork (SSNY) on 04/16/11.

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: LOQUACIOUS LLC, 300 east 33 Street, 19E, New York, NY 10016 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MORTON & HUDSON DESIGN GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 67 Morton St., Ste. 5B, NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o William Rodgers at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MADISON COURT, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11.

Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/29/2011. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, 260 Park Ave. South, Apt. PH-B, NY, NY 10010. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROSENFARB LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on July 8, 2011. Office location: NY County SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to: 200 East 65th St New York, NY 10065. Principal business address: 825 Third Ave New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act. 1737929 Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TCG GMS ADMINISTRATIVE LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 520 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Orit Mizrachi. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PURPLE BOX LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/2/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022.

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

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RACHLAN STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/11. 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 Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Bruce M. Sabados, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF CONVERSION OF 413 WEST 14TH ASSOCIATES, A PARTNERSHIP, TO MEILMAN FAMILY REAL ESTATE, LLC. Cert. filed with NY Dept. of State: 7/1/11. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 421 W. 14th St., Ste. 3R, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF AFFINITY BROKERAGE, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/22/11. NYS fict. name: Good Sam Insurance Agency, LLC. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 64 Inverness Dr. E., Englewood, CO 80112. LLC formed in DE on 2/19/97. 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 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MBK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/1/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/1/11. 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: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WILEY PUBLISHING LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/25/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. LLC formed in DE on 4/25/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, 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 8/18-9/22/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WARBURG PINCUS (GANYMEDE-II) PRIVATE EQUITY X, L.P Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/29/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 3/29/11.

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

Vil 8/18-9/22/11 ELITE APARTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 07/07/2011. Off Loc.:NewYork Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 872 Madison Avenue, Suite 2A, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF SHERWOOD 30 LAND GROUP LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/13/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/12/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CTC, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUAL. OF SHERWOOD 30 MANAGEMENT LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/19/11. Office loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 5/17/11. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to CTC, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

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BARRIO 47, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 4/18/11. 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 Alexandre Volland, 270 W. 17th St., Ste. 2A, NY, NY 10011. General Purposes Vil 8/25-9/29/11 LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT S. DOWD, JR. LLC, a foreign Professional Limited Liability Company (LLC) filed with the Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/11. 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 PLLC, Three University Plaza, Ste. 207, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Purpose: Law Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION 343 WEST END AVENUE, LLC art. of org. filed Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 6/24/11. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Pines & Kessler, 110 E 59th St 23rd Fl, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TANYA TAYLOR DESIGNS LLC. Authority filed with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/25/11.Juris. of org: DE filed: 5/11/11 NY off. loc. in New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Withers Bergman, 660 Steamboat Rd, Greenwich, CT 06830.

LLC address in DE: CTC, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of org. on file with SSDE, Div of Corps, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19801 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF WAR CHEST CAPITAL MULTI-STRATEGY FUND LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/1/09. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste. 1703, NY, NY 10020. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KUGGIE HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/11. 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, 169 Broadview Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIVONIA APARTMENTS, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Institute For Community Living, 40 Rector St., 8th Floor, NY, NY 10006.

Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2060. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RABI NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/11/11.

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: c/o DeGaetano & Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EDWARD MENDELSOHN, M.D., PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/11.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 853 Broadway, Ste. 200, NY, NY 10003.

Sec. of State designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Edward Mendelsohn, 22 Edgemont Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452. Purpose: practice medicine.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HENRY COMPANY LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/5/11. NYS fictitious name: Henry Building Products LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CA on 12/14/10. 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. CA and principal business addr.: 909 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 650, El Segundo, CA 90245. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SUNS SPV LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/10/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 500 Park Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 6/24/11. 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 8/25-9/29/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF TIGER ACCELERATOR FUND, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/6/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 4/5/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Tiger Accelerator GP Ltd., c/o Tiger Management Advisors L.L.C., 101 Park Ave., NY, NY 10178, principal business addr. CI addr. of LP: c/o Maples Corporate Services Ltd., PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, CI. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Reg. of Exempted LPs, Citrus Grove Bldg., Goring Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman, CI. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 8/25-9/29/11 237 REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/1/2001.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC P.O. Box 908 Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ILIAD 38, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/8/11.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/6/11. Princ. office of LLC: 745 Fifth Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10151. 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, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RHOMBUS SERVICES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/12/11.Juris. of org: NJ filed: 9/27/10 NY off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to principal address: 560 Benigno Blvd, Bellmawr, NJ 08031. Arts of org. on file with State of NJ Treasurer, 125 W State St, Trenton, NJ 08808 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF 360 WEST 31ST STREET HOLDINGS II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/15/11. Princ. office of LLC: 10 E. 53rd St., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF OH 161ST STREET, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 5/7/2010. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LP, 95 Pine St., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10005.

Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2057. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SPLASH ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/11. 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, 445 W. 23rd St., 11A, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HYPER DIMENSION SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/26/11. Office location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc. 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001, also the registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil.9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIEN LLP. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/06/11. Office loc: NY Cty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to: 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Principal business address: 590 Madison Ave, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful acts.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PCMH LYVERE, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/17/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Postgraduate Center For Mental Health, 158 E. 35th St., New York, NY 10016. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2061.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FOSTER KENT NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/1/07. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 410 Park Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/1-10/6/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1255647, for liquor has been applied for by 225 PAS 18th, LLC (f/k/a 225 PAS 17th, LLC) to sell liquor in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 225 Park Avenue South, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption.

Vil 9/8-9/15/11 33RD STREET NYC LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 5/5/11. 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 toThe LLC, 155 W. 33rd St., NY, NY 10001.

General Purposes Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF APOLLO CREDIT MANAGEMENT (EUROPEAN SENIOR DEBT), LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/24/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/19/11. Princ. office of LLC: 9 W. 57th St., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EGA57, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/15/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1057 First Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Janet Giaimo Vitale at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VIA DIAZ, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Paul I. Rosenberg, Esq., Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., 17 State St., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10004. Purpose: To own real estate.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ERNOK MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/11. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to the principal business address: 295 FIFTH AVE, #111, NEW YORK, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RT INVESTMENT HOLDINGS GP LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/18/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/21/06. Princ. office of LLC: 280 Park Ave., 23rd Fl-East, NY, NY 10017.

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

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

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PM SECURITIES, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/25/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/7/04. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 110 Chadds Ford Commons, Chadds Ford, PA 19317. DE addr. of LLC: 1313 N. Market St., Ste. 5100, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Townsend Bldg., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF METRO NETWORK SERVICES, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 90 White St., NY, NY 10013. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF IRVING 24D, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 69 Thompson St. #11, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ART REMBA, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET SERVICES, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/20/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/24/10. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8 Ave. NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CWS CONSULTING GROUP, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 3/4/09.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 1005 Boylston St. #243, Newton Highlands, MA 02461. MA address of LLC: 189 Carlton Rd., Newton, MA 02468. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Secy. of Commonwealth, 1 Ashburton Pl., 17 Fl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SKYLARK AND KING LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/16/11. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. DE address of LLC: 1521 Concord Pike #301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Cert. of Form. filed w/DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JAYWELL PROPERTY GROUP LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 420 W. 42 St. #394, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHROMATIC GALLERIE LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/29/11. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RHODESTONE PARTNERS LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/29/10. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DEBORAH S. STEHR, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/3/11.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF MONSTER MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/14/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Imagem Music USA, 229 W. 28th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001, Attn: Victoria Traube. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF KKR EQUITY STRATEGIES L.P. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/11. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/10/11.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o KKR Asset Management LLC, 555 California St., 50th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94104.

DE address of LP: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF QUEENSCLIFF ASSOCIATES LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 900 Third Ave., Ste. 201-10, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HPS CREDIT OPPS ONSHORE, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/25/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC, 40 W. 57th St., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF INSIDE EXPERIENCES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 8/10/11. 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 The LLC, 33 E. 33rd St., Ste. 1107, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF GH CHELSEA LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/24/10.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, 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 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF GH WEST SIDE LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/15/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/24/10.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF INDOMITABLE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 8/5/11. Office loc.: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 225 Varick St., Ste. 304, NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE: 5/5/09. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. 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: any lawful act.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF PRIAM CAPITAL ASSOCIATES LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/16/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/28/11.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr.: 445 Park Ave., Ste. 1401, NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 9/8-10/13/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Red Malbec LLC d/b/a Buenos Aires to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 509 East 6th Street New York NY 10009.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by West 17th Street Italian Restaurant LLC d/b/a Artichoke Basille’s Pizza & Bar to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 457 West 17th Street New York NY 10011.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license number 1255859 for an on-premise liquor license has been applied for by GUSTOSO LLC d/b/a Bar 9 to sell liquor at retail in the restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 807 9th Avenue New York, NY 10019 for on premises-consumption.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that license #1257380 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 186 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013 for onpremises consumption. 186 KT, LLC d/b/a KUTSCHER’S TRIBECA Vil 9/15-9/22/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Cask and Cave Inc. d/b/a Top Hops to sell beer and wine at retail in a tavern. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 94 Orchard Street New York NY 10002.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by The Little Kitchen Restaurant Group LLC d/b/a Little Muenster to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 100 Stanton Street New York NY 10002.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Gam 18 LLC d/b/a Alison Eighteen to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 15 West 18th Street New York NY 10011.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1030455 for beer, liquor and wine has been applied for

by Theatre Refreshment Company to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a bar in the Cort Theatre under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 138 W. 48th Street New York, NY 10036 for on premises consumption.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a license, number 1030455 for beer, liquor and wine has been applied for

by Theatre Refreshment Company to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a bar in the Cort Theatre under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 138 W. 48th Street New York, NY 10036 for on premises consumption.

Vil 9/15-9/22/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HARLEM YOGA STUDIO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/10. Office located in: NY County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to:the LLC, 41 W64TH ST., #5C NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 9/18-10/20/11 RSG.ENT. LLC A domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 6/22/11. 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, 400 W. 43 St., #43-S, NY, NY 10036. General Purposes.

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WRIGHT WEATHER CONSULTING, LLC A domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 6/22/11. 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, P.O. Box 117, NY, NY 10108.

General Purposes.

Vil 9/15-10/20/11 MARATHON CONSULTING, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/13/02.

Office in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Madama, Griffits, O’Hara LLP 450 Park Ave South 8th Fl. New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Section 206 Vil 9/15-10/20/11 THE NEWSBRIDGE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/4/11. Office in NY Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Zachary Weiss 211 Ave. A Apt. 35 New York, NY 10009. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Section 206 Vil.9/15-10/20/11 PWM ASSOCIATES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/3/10. Office in NY Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jill Wilpon 525 Park Ave. New York, NY 10065.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Section 206 Vil.9/15-10/20/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF UNIFY MANAGEMENT & SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/18/11. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 40 Elizabeth St, Suite 305, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil.9/15-10/20/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PI BETA PHI FHC ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC. Filed Sec of State of NY (SSNY) 8/2/11. Formed Oklahoma 10/3/08. Off. Loc.:NY Cnty. SSNY designated as Agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o National Registered Agents Inc, 875 Avenue of the Americas, Ste 501 New York, NY 10001 Purpose:Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HALCYON AGILIS GP LLC. App. for Authority filed with the Sect. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/11. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/6/11. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Walkers Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809.

DE addr. of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NORTH EAST FAMILY REALTY LLC,

UEI 640 TENTH LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 6/3/11. NY Office location:

whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY

in NY Co. SSNY design.

Agent of LLC upon whom

upon him/her to Jean Claude Compas MD, 255 Eastern

SSNY shall mail copy of process The LLC 1450 Broad-

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HREP CHELSEA PARTNERS LLC. App. for Authority filed with the Sect. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/11. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 6/29/2007.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Walkers Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE addr. of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil.9/15-10/20/11 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HREP MAMMOTH BLOCKER LLC. App. for Authority filed with the Sect. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/11. N.Y. Office Loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/19/2007.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Walkers Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE addr. of LLC: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Cert. of Form filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil.9/15-10/20/11 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GURU-73, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/2/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 950 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 6 Tory Ln., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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General Purposes.

9/1/11. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: & McCloy LLP, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, NY, NY 10005.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

way, Fl. 21 New York, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Latest date to dis-

against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 316 E. 18th St., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any law-

Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF HALCYON AGILIS MANAGEMENT LP. Authority filed with the Sect. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/11. Office Loc: NY County. LP formed in DE on 7/6/11.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LP upon process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Walkers Corporate Services Delaware Ltd. 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, DE 19809. DE addr. of LP: 200 Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 170, Wilmington, 19809. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. avail from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sect. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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of State of NY (SSNY) on

c/o Milbank, Tweed Hadley process may be served.

shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served

OF WASICO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.

of State (SSNY) 7/8/11. Office

New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon

NOTICE OF FORMATION

solve: 1/4/2061 Section 206

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF CITY PLAN FUND, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/1/11. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/18/11. NY 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.: 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.

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PROBATE CITATION FILE NO. 4782/08 SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO : The heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of William Jacobson, also known as William Jacobson, Jr., deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributes, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence.

Public Administrator of the County of New York send GREETING: A petition having been duly filed by Jonathan D. Golby, who is domiciled at 120 W. 58th St., New York, NY 10019, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, Room 503, New York, on November 18, 2011, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore-noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of William Jacobson a/k/a William Jacobson, Jr. , lately domiciled at 120 West 58th St., New York, NY 10019 admitting to probate a Will dated January 23, 2005, as the Will of William Jacobson a/k/a William Jacobson, Jr., deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [ X ] Letters Testamentary issue to: Jonathan D. Golby [ ] Letters of Trusteeship issue to: [ ] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to Dated, Attested and Sealed HON. __s/Nora S. Anderson__________ Surrogate September 8, 2011 ___s/Diana Sanabria________ Chief Clerk Jonathan D. Golby Attorney for Petitioner 261 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 New York, NY 10016 Tel. (212) 247-1347 [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.]

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AT IAS PART 21 OFTHE SUPREME COURT OFTHE STATE OF NEW YORK, HELD IN AND FORTHE COUNTY OF NEWYORK, ATTHE COUNTY COURTHOUSETHEREOF, ONTHE 30TH DAY OF AUGUST 2011.

P R E S E N T: HON. MICHAEL D. STALLMAN Justice.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X In the Matter of the Application of MASHEE REALTY CORP., ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE For an Order and Judgment pursuant to RPAPL 1931 Discharging an Ancient Index No. 107297/11 Mortgage Petitioner, -againstESTATE OF FRANK RIDOLFI, JOSEPH A. DEROSE, JOHN DOE #1 THROUGH JANE DOE #10, being persons unknown and intended to designate the heirs, beneficiaries and descendants of Frank Ridolfi, deceased, Respondents.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X Upon the annexed affirmation of SIMON H. ROTHKRUG, of the firm of ROTHKRUG ROTHKRUG & SPECTOR, LLP, attorneys for the petitioner, dated August 19, 2011, the affidavit of Victor Shaman, sworn to on July 18, 2011, and the affidavit of Simon H. Rothkrug, sworn to on August 19, 2011, and upon all the proceedings heretofore had herein, it is ORDERED, that the respondents and all persons interested in the mortgage described hereinbelow, SHOW CAUSE at an IA Motion Submission (Room 130) Part thereof to be held at the County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, NewYork, NewYork, on November 1, 2011 at 9:30 A.M., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an Order pursuant to Section 1931 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law should not be entered discharging of record a certain mortgage for $120,000, dated July 31, 1973, between petitioner and mortgagee Frank Ridolfi, which mortgage was recorded in the Office of the Register of the City of NewYork for the County of NewYork on August 3, 1973 in Reel 287 Page 235, and indexed against the real property located in Block 588 Lot 29, being 296 Bleecker Street, Borough and County of New York, said mortgage now being a lien on the said premises, and for such other and further relief as the Court may deem proper.

SUFFICIENT reason appearing herein for the granting of this Order, let service of a copy of this Order upon the respondents be deemed good and sufficient service if made by personal service to Carol Ann Quigley and Andrew Brusini on or before September 19, 2011, and by publication once a week for 3 successive weeks, in The Villager a newspaper published in the County and City of New York, on or before September 26, 2011.

E NT E R ___/s/ Michael D. Stallman_______ J. S. C. Vil 9/8-9/22/11

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For locksmith, creativity is the key to happiness

BY BOB KRASNER “They don’t really get it,” said Philip Mortillaro, owner of Greenwich Locksmiths.

“People just see it as keys welded together.

But there’s a pattern. I think it shows how complicated our lives are. Each key has a story. Some of them have a name on them — ‘Katie’s Room.’ Others have the names of hardware stores long defunct on them.”

Mortillaro’s been cutting keys and changing locks for 31 years in his little space on Seventh Ave. South near Morton St. — but he’s also been making art with those keys.

It started with a door made of weldedtogether keys. Then he made a chair in his back yard in New Jersey, before he moved back to the city. Not content with that, he framed the exterior of his shop with a piece that used between 15,000 and 20,000 keys.

“People think that I have a lot of time on my hands and that it’s all about the keys, but it’s not,” he said. “I wanted to make art with repeated objects, and the keys were there — it was an obvious choice!”

Mortillaro, who lives in the Village, has always made art, but not always for himself.

There was a period when he constructed pieces for other artists’ work, but that was ultimately frustrating. Recently, in the realization of a lifelong dream, he took over an adjacent glass-covered storefront where he has been producing even more ambitious sculptures.

He’ll get up at 4 a.m. sometimes, welding the time-consuming pieces before opening the shop, or late at night, between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Each key has to be welded in four spots, so a single piece can take months to produce.

Last July, Provenance Productions took notice and approached him about filming him for a documentary. The result, “Do Not Duplicate,” is near completion. Judging from the trailer, it will be worth watching. A Chelsea gallery opening is set for sometime in the fall, leaving Mortillaro with the task of setting prices for his work, which up until now had not been a consideration.

Considering the emphasis on Mortillaro’s creations, one might think that his day job might not be a primary factor. But the 61-year-old store owner loves what he does, and has ever since he apprenticed for a locksmith at age 14. He picked a spot in the West Village because, well, “It’s the Village!” He didn’t even consider anywhere else.

“It’s not as edgy as it used to be,” he mused, “but nothing is.”

Standing outside his shop, which happens to be the smallest free-standing building in Manhattan, he pondered his position after three decades of service.

“I know everyone in the neighborhood — I love it,” he reflected. “I have a sense of identity in the community. I’m the locksmith.”

Mortillaro welds each key at four points to hold them together in his creations.

Photos by Bob Krasner

Above, Philip Mortillaro in the studio adjacent to his store, looking through an artwork made of silverware that he created.

Mortillaro with a chair he made in 2006 out of welded-together keys. He likes to put together like objects in a repetitive series.

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The report further noted transmission from dogs to humans is rare and has not yet been reported in New York City.

Pet owners whose dogs contracted lepto, emphasize the severity of the disease. East Village resident Amy Tiscorniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pit bull mix, Bird, became gravely ill with lepto in May 2009. She described how her playful, lively, 3-year-old, white pit mix quickly grew jaundiced and lethargic with a fever. With an infected liver, Bird went into an I.C.U. and remained at an animal hospital for five days.

Tiscornia, who worked as a waitress at the time, struggled to pay the $4,000 bill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was so scary,â&#x20AC;? she said, emphasizing her dog did nothing unusual to contract the disease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Bird did was go for walks and play ball.â&#x20AC;?

The lepto bacteria dies in dry conditions, so outbreaks tend to occur in warm, moist environments. The April 2011 veterinary alert stated most cases are reported between May and November, with the 2009 and 2010 cases peaking in October and November.

The majority of dogs that contracted lepto were exposed to rodents.

In Tompkins Square Park, rats exist in close proximity to the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s human and canine visitors. At around 4 p.m. one day as this reporter was interviewing Rosso, three rats were observed near the Seventh St. playground, with one scurrying across the walkway. In late August, one of the dogs that Rosso was walking chased and caught a rat, which Rosso had

to knock from the canineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Hawley, who brings his boxer to Tompkins Square each day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Around dusk, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say at 7 or 8 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock, you can no longer walk through the park because of the rats.

They are everywhere. They freak the dogs out because the dogs chase them.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to trying to eliminate ratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; food sources, Parks is taking various other measures in response to community concerns. Abramson in an e-mail acknowledged that Parks is not placing rat poison in Tompkins Square Park out of concern for the resident red-tailed hawk.

However, the department replaced the garbage baskets with garbage drums to prevent rodents from getting inside them.

Abramson wrote that the department placed 20 mechanical rat traps in the affected area of the park and has removed ground cover that had sheltered rats. The Parks Department is cleaning weeds and lowgrowing shrubs, and applying woodchips to the garden beds. It is also placing metal mesh under the dirt of the planting beds to block the rats from burrowing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have colonies of rats, burrowing under the dog park, surrounding the Parks office and in every garden area,â&#x20AC;? Rosso said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a simple band-aid fix in one area, which is just designed to pay lip service to the parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; very real concerns.â&#x20AC;?

The owner of the poodle who died in April from lepto refuses to take her new dog to Tompkins Square Park. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to take care of these rats. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disgusting,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 and they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with rats? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not 1811. Where there are rats, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. We have all these rats in the park. How can that be acceptable? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not acceptable. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not.â&#x20AC;?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR and bridges for automobiles in this country.

If Bill di Paola’s design will save lives, why is it not worth considering?

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Bridge plan is dangerous

Robert Hickman

To The Editor: Re “Delancey / bridge bicycling” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Sept. 8): I’ve been cycling my son over the Williamsburg Bridge to and from school for seven years, and am thankful he’s going into middle school this year and I won’t have to deal with this terrifying change.

Cars routinely fly down the bridge ramp into Manhattan through the red light. I can’t tell you how many near misses we’ve had. With the change the Department of Transportation is implementing, crossing Delancey St. through that small opening in the wall will be like sticking your head into a guillotine.

I’ve always thought D.O.T. should raise the crosswalk there about 4 inches, so the cars can’t speed through it and to prevent cars from idling in the middle of the crosswalk when the pedestrians have the light.

We spend billions of dollars on highways

Alphie’s always in season To The Editor: Re “Analysis: The shrinks of August” (notebook, by Alphie McCourt, Aug. 25): It is always a relief to hear from Alphie McCourt, be it summer or winter.

Marta Szabo

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