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THE SAD END OF THE COOPER STOCK CASE

Husband of woman who died in bike crash lashes out at D.A. Vance BY KYLE POPE

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A Manhattan federal-court judge has sided with the family of a woman killed in a high-profile traffic-death case, provoking sharp criticism of District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. from the woman’s husband. Marilyn Dershowitz, the sister-inlaw of famed trial lawyer Alan Dershowitz, was struck and killed by a postal service truck in 2011 while riding her bike in Chelsea with her husband, Nathan. Vance’s office pursued a criminal case against the truck driver, for leaving the scene of the accident, but lost that case in 2012 after less than a day of jury deliberation. Nathan Dershowitz then filed a civil wrongful-death case against the U.S. government – because the truck driver was a federal employee – and sought $17 million in damages. Last week, Judge Sarah Netburn ruled in favor of Marilyn Dershowitz’s family, saying the driver, Ian Clement, “was negligent in his operation of his vehicle, causing the accident and her death.” The judge rejected government claims that Ms. Dershowitz’s handling of her bicycle was partly to blame for the accident. “The Court finds the government 100% liable,”

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Jean Green Dorsey at a Stonehenge Village tenants meeting last year. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons.

GYMS FOR THE ONE PERCENT NEWS City finds gym policy in apartment building may be discriminatory BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

The city’s Commission on Human Rights has found that an Upper West Side development that bars rentregulated tenants from accessing its fitness facility could be discriminating against those tenants because of their age. Jean Green Dorsey, a tenant leader at Stonehenge Village on West 96th and 97th streets, filed papers with the commission last April alleging her landlord’s policy of allowing only market-rate tenants to use the fitness facility was discriminatory against seniors. The filing named Stonehenge Village and parent com-

pany Stonehenge Partners, which is owned by Ofer Yardei and Joel Seiden, as respondents. (According to real estate website The Real Deal, Seiden sold his stake in the company to SL Green Realty in December.) Dorsey’s age-discrimination argument got traction with Public Advocate Letitia James, who filed a separate brief with the commission last July in support of Dorsey’s claim. Dorsey’s lawyer, Marjorie Mesidor, with the law firm Phillips and Associates, argued that because rentregulated tenants tend to be older, the gym policy amounts to discrimination based on age. In Mesidor’s filing with the commission, she cited a New York University Furman Center study from last year that said in Manhattan, rent-stabilized tenants are almost five times more likely to be over age 65 than market rate tenants.

According to court papers, 66 percent of the rent-regulated tenants at Stonehenge Village are over age 65, while only five percent of marketrate tenants meet or exceed that age. Stonehenge Village, which is made up of three buildings on 97th Street and 96th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue, has about 419 units, 64 percent of which are occupied by rent-regulated tenants. Mesidor argued Stonehenge’s “exclusionary [gym] policy is discriminatory and prohibited under NYC Human Rights Law because it has a disparate impact upon the rent-regulated tenants, including [Dorsey], due to their age.” Attorneys for Stonehenge countered that the 1,000-square-foot gym is meant to attract potential

So now we know: the penalty for killing a 9-year-old boy holding his father’s hand on the streets of Manhattan is ... a traffic ticket. This week’s criminal-court decision in the case of Cooper Stock, who was struck by a taxi on the Upper West Side last year, is but the latest in a string of injustices when it comes to traffic deaths in the city. Time and again, drivers who are clearly at fault are let off with little or no penalty, even when their actions result in the death of someone else. In Stock’s case, the boy and his father were crossing West End Avenue, with the light, when a taxi made a speeding left turn, hitting them in the crosswalk. Though the court determined that the pedestrians clearly had the right of way, the judge, Erika Edwards, determined it was “not a crime.” “It goes without saying that what happened here today does not even begin to bring justice in the death of my son, Cooper Stock,” Dr. Richard Stock and his wife, Dana Lerner, said in a joint statement read at the hearing. “Is a life worth nothing more than a traffic ticket?” Lerner, in an amazing show of courage, has spent the year since her son’s death campaigning for a change in the law, and for a shift in how prosecutors handle such cases. She also has pressed for better oversight of taxi drivers, who are given little training before getting behind the wheel. And the taxi driver who killed her son? He, for the moment, is suspended and has to pay a $500 fine. And, he now, after all of this, has been ordered to complete a driver safety course.

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The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business by of complaints taken in owners, the actions policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s give us the first quantitative with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards step rst fi important fixing the problem. of To really make a difference, for developers will have to is a mere formality their projects course, the advocaterising rents, are the work complete precinct, but chances-- thanks to a looking to a way to tackle nd fi business’ is being done legally of after-hours quickly. which remain many While Chin their own hours,” “They pick out boom in the number throughout who lives on most vexing problem. gauge what said Mildred Angelo,of the Ruppert construction permits said it’s too early tocould have Buildings one the 19th floor in The Department of the city. role the advocate number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between on the She Over the past is handing out a record there, more information work perThird avenues. permits, bad thing. of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours of after-hours work problem can’t be a the city’s Dept. with the said there’s where mits granted by This step, combinedBorough according to new data project nearby jumped 30 percent, in construction Buildings has make noise efforts by Manhattan to mediate data provided BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS workers constantly from trucks. according to DOB President Gale Brewer of Informaoffer transferring cement response to a Freedom the rent renewal process, they want. They city classifies knows the signs Act request. The between 6 “They do whateverthey please. They Every New Yorker some early, tangible small clang, the tion work come and go as of progress. For many sound: the metal-on-metal beeps of a any construction weekend, can can’t come piercing a.m., or on the have no respect.” of these at p.m. and 7 business owners, that hollow boom, the increased issuance reverse. A glance in The after-hours. moving as enough. soon truck has led to a correspond in permits has generated and you can hardly

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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE SLEEP INITIATIVE LAUNCHED IN NYC New York City officials have launched an initiative to protect the safety of babies while they sleep. About 50 infants under 1 year old die each year in New York of sleep-related injuries. The “Safe Sleep� initiative looks to curtail or even eliminate the deaths through a series of public ad campaigns, which counsels parents and guardians to let

infants sleep on their backs without toys or blankets nearby. They should also be left to sleep alone. The program, launched by the Administration for Children’s Services, the Health Department and the city’s hospitals, has a simple motto: “Stay close; sleep apart.� About three-quarters of sleep-related deaths happen when the child is less than 4 months old.

“For the families of those babies, nothing will ever be the same,� Mayor de Blasio told the Daily News. “As a city, we must take every possible step to bring that number down to zero.�

COUNCILMEMBER WANTS BODY CAMERAS ON NYPD COPS A city councilman wants A portion of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services poster promoting the city’s “Safe Sleep� initiative, which aims to reduce or even eliminate infant deaths due to sleep injuries.

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every New York police officer to have a body camera and wants it to happen immediately, according to a report in Capital New York. Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn councilman and the chairman of the council’s Task Force Against Gun Violence, called for officers to don the technology soon after the shooting death of an apparently unarmed man in South Carolina following a traffic stop. The incident, which was captured on a bystander’s camera, showed the officer shooting the man eight times, at least several time in the back, as the man ran from the officer. Officers in New York City are currently testing out the technology as a pilot project. We are not going to have it 100 percent correct when it’s time to launch this thing citywide. We cannot wait for that. People are dying,� Capital quoted Williams as saying. “So the alternative is not better. The alternative that we have to answer all these questions is not right. I think the problem with having [the cameras] and making sure we tweak it as we go along is much better than the problem of people dying unarmed and people lying about what W

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A broken trash compactor in a building within the Frederick Douglass Houses development on Columbus Avenue has led to a rat infestation, in yet another test of residents’ will as they recently had to contend with 12-day period with no hot water, DNAinfo reported. The compactor at the 20-story building at 875 Columbus Ave. has been broken for two months and residents have been hauling their refuse to the sidewalk, which has attracted the vermin and obliged trash collectors to pick up every morning rather than twice a week, the news site reported. “It’s an eyesore and it’s unsanitary,� resident Idalise Santiago told DNAinfo. City Councilman Mark Levine, whose district includes Douglass Houses, said he’s trying to resolved the rat and trash problem. “No one should live with the indignity of trash strewn about at their place of residence,� he told the news site.

A landlord is refusing to pay the balance of a move-out offer to a tenant because the tenant has since died, the New York Post reported. Resident Walter Blomeyer had been offered $525,000 Icon Realty Management to leave his studio apartment at 350 W. 71st St. so the company could convert the building to luxury apartments. When Blomeyer agreed to the deal, he was given $300,000 and a rent-free apartment nearby for a year, at the conclusion of which he would be paid the balance of the agreed-to money, the Post reports. Blomeyer, though, died of a heart attack in February. Blomeyer’s lawyer, Ted Poretz, called Icon’s refusal “bullying.� “There’s nothing at all in this agreement that says, ‘We don’t have to pay him when he dies,’ � he said to the Post.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

FORMER NYPD CHIEF, OUT OF PRISON, TAKES ON PRISON REFORM Bernard Kerik -- the former boss of the Rikers Island prison complex, leader of the New York Police Department, loyal ally of then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani after the Sept. 11 attacks, presidential Cabinet nominee and prison inmate -- has a new incarnation spelled out in a recently published memoir: prison reform crusader. Never mind the baggage of his high-profile crash and burn -- he wants to be taken seriously as a voice of reason. “No one with my background has ever been inside,” Kerik told The Associated Press. “I know the truth about it. I know how to fix it. I just hope someone will listen to me.” Kerik, 59, walked out of a minimum-security prison in Maryland in 2013 after serving just over three years of a four-year sentence for tax fraud and lying to the White House during his vetting process for Homeland

Security secretary. In his book, “From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate 84888-054,” he admits it took being sent away to prison to recognize the injustices found there. He writes that in too many cases, prison “is a colossal waste of time and life. I didn’t understand this when I was warden and commissioner, I’m embarrassed to say.” Even today, he adds, “I don’t feel whole anymore. The system beats you down.” He calls someone losing their freedom “like dying with your eyes open.” Kerik devotes long passages of the book to his better days, when he reduced jail violence on Rikers and later led the nation’s largest police department in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But if readers are looking for contrition about his crimes, they won’t find it. In the book and in person, Kerik is unrepentant, still insisting he was the victim of a political witch hunt. “I’m not saying I’m an angel, but the way they went after me was crazy,” he said.

PURE LARCENY A 36-year-old woman suspected of several thefts at a yoga studio on West 77th Street has been arrested, police said. The arrest followed the theft of items in late March, when a woman reported that her iPhone 6 and a number of credit cards were missing from her locker, which she had left unlocked, at Pure Yoga. Police said the woman who was arrested is suspected of that theft and three others at the same location.

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A woman reported that her gold and diamond ring, valued at $22,000, missing after she left her purse in a bathroom stall at the Equinox Sports Club at 160 Columbus Avenue in late March.

CROSSTOWN DOWNER Pickpockets continue to prey on crosstown bus passengers, police said. At 6:30 p.m. on March 30, a 61-year-old woman got off the crosstown bus, having traveled from East 72nd Street and Lexington Avenue to 81st Street and Central Park West. She then realized that her bag was open, and credit cards and cash totaling $500 were missing.

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Some Chelsea neighborhood officials are hoping to pioneer a new approach to street festivals in the city. City fairs currently “look in” by placing vendors in two rows, facing the street, with pedestrians walking in between. But Community Board 4 member Brett Firfer wants to change

that by pushing the vendors into the center of the street with two rows facing out, towards the sidewalk and brick and mortar businesses. This format would result in fairs more reflective of local community flavors, Firfer told his colleagues at an April 6 meeting of the CB4 Quality of Life Committee. “We know that street fairs have a lot of negative impacts on our neighborhoods ... It should be a local thing. It should be an opportunity

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In Toronto, where this photo was taken, street-fair vendors are adjacent to brick-and-mortar stores.

to fund local non-profits, but above all it should be of benefit to the local businesses. It shouldn’t be something they hate. It should be something they look forward to,” he said. A group of mobile vendors currently dominate city street fairs, making events resemble each other more than the individual neighborhoods which host them, committee members agreed. Local businesses can lose business even when fairs generate pedestrian traffic nearby, Firfer said. Any one of the annual festivities in Chelsea also invite a fair amount of temporary inconveniences to local communities: streets closures, noise, crowds, bus and bike lane reroutes. Neighborhood outsiders reap too much of the benefit and local businesses are losing money, committee members said. “(Local business owners) come in and complain all the time and there’s nothing they can do and they’re not invited in. They don’t get discounted rates. They don’t get brought into the mix,” said committee member Paul Seres, who added that the “inside out” approach could also help block relatively unsightly elements of fairs such as electrical generators. Committee members agreed to pursue a pilot version of the plan. The West 23rd St. Food Fair was mentioned by the committee as one possible candidate. But first they have to convince the organizers of local fairs and city officials to get on board with the idea. The city application for a street fair permit lists nine agencies with possible jurisdiction over an event, depending on its nature. About five years ago, a similar effort to reinvent New York City street fairs bogged down, said Firfer, who first began advocating for the change seven years ago. “NYPD killed it officially ... The way that they set up the street festivals now is they mark off the booths on the sidewalk and if they have to mark them off in the middle of the street NYPD has to close them off an hour earlier,” he said. Demonstrating that the extroverted format would

provide adequate emergency egress is one way to pre-empt bureaucratic objections, Firfer said. Key to the committee’s strategy moving forward is new CB4 District Manager Jesse Bodine, who will try to set up a meeting with lowerlevel stakeholders such as fair organizers before bringing the matter up with city agencies. Outreach to other community boards could ignite their own efforts to adopt the idea, committee members suggested. Given the length of the permit process, a pilot would likely have to wait until next year. But other cities already follow the “inside out” model. A presentation of the concept by Firfer cites the example of the Pecan St. Fair of Austin, Texas. “Sometimes if the street is wide and there is a median in the middle of the street you can have two aisles,” Tracy Baskerville of the Baltimore, Md., Office of Promotion and the Arts said in a telephone interview. In Toronto, organizers have their own way of weaving local businesses into the fabric of festivities, according to Howard Lichtman, spokesperson for city’s annual Taste of the Danforth festival. The event began in 1994 with the idea of drawing people to sample local Greek cuisine, but advertising dollars were limited for individual businesses, he said in a telephone interview. Then the idea arose to have sampling stations on sidewalks with a Canadian $5 price limit. This allows visitors to taste many different flavors while also interacting with booths for nonprofit causes and other types of businesses, big and small, such as banks, the NBA’s Toronto Raptors and The New York Times international edition, he added. Five thousand people came the first year. Now it is the largest street festival in Canada, noted Lichtman, who credited the format for a hefty amount of the success. “In order to do this right, there is a science to it and an art,” he said.

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TRAFFIC-DEATH CASE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Judge Netburn wrote in her ruling. The decision – essentially a civil version of what the family had hoped to achieve in a criminal case -- renewed criticism of the DA’s handling of traf-

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The Spirit|Westsider westsidespirit.com fic deaths in the city. Victims’ families have long complained about what they see as Vance’s reticence to pursue such cases, pointing to the fact that fewer than 7 percent of drivers in fatal crashes in the city are even ticketed, and only a tiny fraction – usually those driving drunk – face any criminal charges. Nathan Dershowitz, in a telephone interview after last week’s decision, said he’s convinced that Vance’s office mishandled his wife’s criminal case. “I suggest that Cy Vance read the civil decision and I dare him to suggest that there isn’t overwhelming material in that decision that would suggest a criminal conviction here,” said Dershowitz, who, like his brother, is a lawyer in Manhattan. “The criminal case was

reluctantly brought and was assigned to someone who had no knowledge of how to crossexamine a witness.” Asked for comment on the civil decision and on Dershowitz’ comments, a spokeswoman for Vance forwarded a copy of the statement issued by the DA following the not-guilty verdict in the criminal case. “We will continue to file charges where we believe the evidence merits them,” the statement read, “and do everything we can as an office to make our streets safer for everyone.” Nathan and Marilyn Dershowitz had been married 48 years at the time of the accident, meeting as children at summer camp when she was 13 and he was 12. They married in college and had two children. On the July 4th weekend in 2011, they left their home in Tu-

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dor City, and rode their bikes to Manhattan’s West Side. Marilyn was struck after crossing Ninth Avenue on 29th Street, and died shortly after arriving at the hospital. In the most recent opinion, the judge ordered the government to cover the cost of Marilyn Dershowitz’s funeral and burial expenses, awarded her children $25,000 each, and ordered her estate to be

paid $300,000 for her pain and suffering. As for the rest of the monetary reward that her family had sought, the judge said the Dershowitz family was owed money for Ms. Dershowitz’s lost wages and other income, and ordered the two sides to submit their final calculation of what that would be within 14 days. Nathan Dershowitz said the financial award was never the

point of the civil case. “My overwhelming concern was that I did not want any suggestion that Marilyn was in any way responsible,” he said. “This was done for the catharsis that I needed and the family needed.” Asked whether the decision finally gives him that catharsis, nearly four years after his wife’s death, Dershowitz said, “Yes, it does.”

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market-rate tenants and is an amenity offered solely on the basis of housing status, not age. But according to the Commission on Human Rights, the rent-regulated age analysis argument won the day. In its finding, dated March 27, the commission said, “There is probable cause to believe that [Stonehenge’s] policy regarding access to an exercise room in its housing accommodation results in a disparate impact upon [Dorsey] and other rentregulated tenants based upon their age.â€? An attorney for Stonehenge Partners, Jerrold Goldberg, declined to comment for this story, citing pending litigation. Mesidor told the Spirit that Stonehenge can either appeal the commission’s ďŹ nding, create a conciliatory agreement allowing the rent-regulated tenants access to the gym, or take their chances at a public hearing in hopes they’ll be vindicated. “I think they thought this case would not have a probable cause ďŹ nding,â€? said Mesidor. “I

think they were surprised at that.â€? Mesidor thinks Stonehenge will either allow rent-regulated tenants access to the gym, perhaps with a fee, or plead their case at the public hearing. “It wouldn’t make sense for them to appeal the probable cause finding,â€? said Mesidor. “It would be a waste of time because it’s a preliminary ďŹ nding.â€? But could the commission’s finding have implications for other residential buildings that bar rent-regulated tenants from using certain amenities? “Absolutely,â€? said Mesidor. “You have to understand that rent-stabilized clients tend to belong to a particular demographic of being older and minorities.â€? Mesidor’s strategy was to argue that the gym policy at Stonehenge Village isolated a particular segment of the population, one that has civil rights protections, and could lay the groundwork for cases against similar policies in other buildings throughout the city. “Because they’re isolating this population, which overwhelmingly is representative of the elderly and minorities as a whole, they’re implicitly discriminating against them,â€?

said Mesidor. For Dorsey, the commission’s finding vindicates her sense that, at the root of it all, people who live together in a building should not have unequal access to that building’s amenities. “I haven’t yet had one market rate tenant even hint that they should be the only ones to use the gym,â€? said Dorsey. “I also know of market-rate tenants who won’t use the gym on principle because of this.â€? Dorsey also said that children of market-rate tenants and children of rent-regulated tenants play together in the same activities organized by Stonehenge, and that there’s a general sense of camaraderie amongst all in the development, regardless of housing status. “One of the things that’s important to us and important to me is that housing is more than just a place to live,â€? said Dorsey. “We in fact have a viable community. Part of that is whatever is available, we can all share it. We have camaraderie.â€? But ďŹ ghting for access to the gym isn’t just a matter of principle. “There’s somebody here that’s going to teach Zumba classes every week in the early afternoon,â€? said Dorsey, age 75. “And I’m looking forward to it.â€?

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< NO FOOD ON THE SUBWAY, PLEASE To the Editor: I like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Over the years she has done well. But what was she thinking bringing the sale of food to the subways? I think most people

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STOP ATTACKING CB7 To The Editor: Re “Protesting the Community Board Over Traffic Deaths” (Apr. 9), the attempt to have the co-chairs of CB7’s Transportation Committee removed due to their alleged lack of concern for pedestrian safety is actually the continuation of a different agenda, which is to turn the CB7 Transportation Committee into a “rubber stamp” for any and all proposals brought to the Committee by Transportation Alternatives – for which Mr. DeVito serves as a spokesperson, and for which Ms. Sladkus serves on the Advisory Council. And although TA addresses pedestrian safety (and, to a lesser degree, public transit), they have always been primarily a mouthpiece for bicycle advocates – often at the expense of everyone else, including pedestrians. The issue here is threefold. First, TA claims that the CB7 Transportation Committee “ignores” certain constituents (an allegation with little merit, since anyone and everyone who comes to Committee meetings has an opportunity to be heard). Yet TA itself completely ignores the fact that the Committee has to consider numerous stakeholders with often competing interests. TA hypocritically dismisses other stakeholders, while accusing the Committee of doing the same. Second, Community Boards are only required to consider the plans and proposals of city agencies in certain areas, including transportation; i.e., the Committee is not required to consider “outside” proposals, such as those of organizations like TA. Yet they have always done so anyway because they do want to hear from all constituents. However, that the Committee chooses not to go forward with, or formally votes down, one “outside” proposal or another is entirely within its rights. Third, it is absurd to place sole blame on the Committee for “voting down” any of TA’s proposals, since the Committee is comprised of only 10 to a dozen people. However, there are 50 people on the full board, so any of the Committee’s resolutions could easily be overturned. That they are most often not overturned simply indicates that the majority of the full board does not find a given proposal acceptable to pursue, whether in its proposed form or at all. Yet I do not hear Ms. Sladkus and Mr. DeVito calling for the removal of any other Board members who vote against TA’s proposals. TA has “had it in” for Transportation Committee co-chairs Andrew Albert and Dan Zweig for years, even going so outrageously far as to accuse Mr. Zweig of being directly complicit in the death of Cooper Stock. Yet having served on the Committee under Mr. Albert during my first four-year term on the Board, and having attended every Committee meeting under Messrs. Albert and Zweig during my second two-year term, I can state unequivocally that both of them are thoughtful, concerned and open-minded Board members who do their best to balance the competing interests of many stakeholders in issues that are far more complex than TA would have us believe. TA is basically a lobbying group. But advocacy is one thing, character assassination quite another. TA and their followers need to stop targeting individuals and stick to their core competence: lobbying. Ian Alterman Upper West Side

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A TRAFFIC-SAFETY SOLUTION Reader Irv Lepselter had grown weary of reading about continuing pedestrian-safety problems at the city’s biggest intersections. So he came to us with a solution, sketched out on the graphic paper you see here. Irv explained his idea in the following note: As shown, East-West traffic proceeds

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through the intersection on a green traffic light signal. Vehicles wishing to turn right on to the North-South avenue must come to a full stop at the pedestrian crossing (now subject to a real traffic light signal). Pedestrians cross on the green signal. With this system there is little incen-

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tive to make a fast turn as the vehicle must stop at the pedestrian crossing. I am not aware of such a system in use in other cities, but it does warrant consideration for selected crossings in N.Y.C. Sincerely, Irv Lepselter

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Community Cultural Events at John Jay Dzul Dance: PIXOM April 17 at 11am FREE & April 18 at 8pm $35 Co-Sponsored by the CUNY Dance Initiative, supported by the New York Community Trust, with additional funding from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

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17 NATURE ILLUMINATED: A TIFFANY GALLERY PREVIEW New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West and 77th Street 10am-7pm,$19 Check out a preview of the upcoming December collection of Tiffany lamps that will be on display. 8 out of the 100 lamps will dazzle at the Rotunda. (212)873.3400, www. lincolnbid.org/events?year=201 5&month=04&day=17

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Followed by a panel discussion & refreshments Can’t Stop The Water is the story of the Indians of Isle de Jean Charles, Lousiana. Their island is being overtaken by the sea. Hear their plan to become an Eco-Community.

RSVP at tinyurl.com/CantStopTheWater Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: Cyrille Aimée April 24, 7:30pm FREE RSVP with promo code VIP. Seats are going fast!

cyrilleaimee.eventbrite.com All events are held at John Jay College 524 W. 59th Street and are suitable for all ages. Visit www.jjay.cuny.edu for more information The free spring events are made possible in part with funds allocated by Council Member Helen Rosenthal and the New York City Council

Brad Graduate Center, 18 W. 86th St., between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue 11am-6pm, $7 Check out the evolution of clothing and how they change the way our bodies look. (212) 5013000, www. bgc.bard.edu

Street 12pm-7pm, Free Vote on how the your tax dollars will be spent to improve the Upper West Side. Choose up to five projects that you wish to get funded. Ages 16 and older are eligible to vote. (212)873-0282, www. helenrosenthal.com/ participatory-budgeting-voting/

19 POETRY READING New York Society for Ethical Culture- Room 508, 2 West 64th St. and Central Park West 9:30am, Free Come out for a morning full of poetry. All are welcome. (212)874-5210, www.nysec. org/calendar-date_nysec g _ y

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Macaulay Honors College, 1st Floor Lecture Hall, 35 West 67th St., between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West 6-8pm, Free Learn how we could focus on early prevention against campus assault by educating middle and high school students on healthy relationships. Please RSVP on Eventbrite. Space is limited. (212)669-8300, www. manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/ news/events.shtml

THE ART OF REAL 2015 Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza 11am-12am, $14 Enjoy j y documentaries from around the world screening at the Film society as part of tthe annual Art of Real series. www.filmlinc.com (212)875-5610

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▲ NEW YORK TRAVEL FESTIVAL Hostel International, 891 Amsterdam Ave., between 103rd and 104th streets 9am-9pm Explore travel opportunities and make connections at the travel festival. (646)766-1518, www. nytravfest.com

Children’s Museum of Manhattan — The Tisch Building, 212 West 83rd St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue 2:45-4:45pm, 2 45 4 45 Free F with ith paid admission A taiko is a traditional Japanese drum. Create your own taiko-inspired drum and learn a traditional rhythm to play on it. (212)721-1223, www.cmom. org/visit/calendar

THE BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY: TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES ALIVE IN WINTER American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and

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SWAN LAKE â–ź Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 2537 Broadway and 95th Street 1pm, general/$23, Member/$21, 30 years and under/$15 Come enjoy this romantic ballet classic about a beautiful woman who transforms into a swan. Show is about 2.5 hours. (212) 864-5400, www. symphonyspace.org/

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â–˛ RODGER AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CAROUSEL LaGuardia High school of Performing Arts, 100 Amsterdam Ave. and 65th Street 7:30pm, contact for ticket prices As part of the Spring Drama festival students will perform Carousel based on Ferenc Molnar’s play “Liliomâ€?. Music by Richard Rodgers. (212)496-0700, www. laguardiahs.org/sdf-2-rogersand-hammersteins-carousel/

RETRO BOARD GAMING FOR ADULTS Singer/songwriter Carlene Carter joins author Christine Breen as she talks about her book about an ill mother in Ireland who tries to track her daughter’s biological before she dies. (212)362-8835, www.storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/ event/86350

Riverside Library, 127 Amsterdam Ave. and 65th Street 1pm, Free Do you love Chess, checkers and other board games? Are you a competitive player? Stop by the library for an afternoon of retro games. All levels are welcome. (212) 870-1810, www.nypl.org/ events/ cale

A cocktail event under the stars to celebrate and raise funds for New York City's beautiful Theodore Roosevelt Park, surrounding the American Museum of Natural History. With proceeds benefiting the park, this festive occasion within a beautiful setting will have live music and feature champagne and hors d'oeuvres prepared by a host of local restaurants and chefs. PRESENTED BY

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START SPREADIN’ THE NEWS: SINATRA TURNS 100 Exhibit at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts celebrates Ol’ Blue Eyes BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Frank Sinatra was one of the greatest performers and recording artists of the 20th century. This December marks his 100th birthday. To celebrate the man and his music, the Grammy Museum of Los Angeles, in cooperation with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Sinatra family, has staged a lively “official” centennial exhibit at the NYPL at Lincoln Center, now through September 4. The curators seduce you right away with the words of Bing Crosby, Sinatra’s idol, emblazoned on a wall at the show’s entrance. The admiration was mutual, of course: “Frank Sinatra is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?” What follows is part personal history, part music history and part film

history — told through artifacts in glass cases, photos, posters, videos, timelines, a recreation of famed Studio A at Hollywood’s Capitol Records Tower, a sound-mixing station, a jukebox and other displays designed to charm and beguile visitors. You can even enter a recording booth and sing along with Ol’ Blue Eyes to “New York, New York” — and play back your duet. If you weren’t a fan going into the show, you’ll be one going out. Francis Albert Sinatra was born on Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, N.J., to saloonkeepers Dolly and Marty Sinatra. His father was a fireman by trade, his mother a Hoboken ward leader and midwife. Their son never forgot his working-class roots. The exhibit traces Sinatra’s rise from singing waiter and roadhouse gigs in New Jersey to featured vocalist for big bands, first with Harry James’ band and then with Tommy Dorsey’s. From there, he went solo, signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and became a star in his own right.

Trivia buffs will relish the memorabilia provided by Sinatra’s children — keepers of the flame Nancy, Frank, and Tina — and their mother, Sinatra’s first wife, Nancy, who was serenaded with a ukulele on her first date with the man who would become “The Voice.” The ukulele has been carefully preserved and is under glass here. Take note, too, of the mugshot in the same display case, documenting the 22-year-old Sinatra’s 1938 arrest in Bergen County, N.J., on a seduction charge, which was amended to adultery when authorities found out the woman in question was not in fact single but married. Both charges were dismissed, but the mug shot was preserved and used on a popular “bad boy” poster. Other campy personal items that thrill are Sinatra’s trademark black fedora, the tuxedo he wore when touring, his shoes from 1949’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (side-by-side with co-star Gene Kelly’s matching pair), and one of his signature bowties

from the 1940s, hand-sewn by wife Nancy. The exhibit is brimming with the legend’s personal effects, culminating in a pair of pajamas, slippers, golf clubs and Jack Daniel’s decanter. But Sinatra was all about the music and performance, and the sound of his inimitable phrasing wafted through the rooms during our visit, courtesy of the jukebox that visitors can play. “Strangers in the Night” competed with video screens showing film clips from “Pal Joey” on one side of the room, and an homage to Ella Fitzgerald, whom Sinatra worshipped, on the other. Listening stations with headphones are sprinkled throughout the gallery, with touchscreens offering commentary on the music. Sinatra wasn’t interested in songwriting; he covered other artists’ works (Cole Porter’s, for starters) and employed the talents of Sammy Cahn (lyrics) and Jule Styne (melodies) and, later, Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, to turn out hits like “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to

Dry,” “Time After Time,” and “Love and Marriage.” He did it his way, and just sang. The family’s influence on the Sinatra narrative presented here is palpable, however. His rocky marriage to actress Ava Gardner is noted briefly — he worked out his heartbreak in the album “In the Wee Small Hours,” we learn — but his later marriage to 21-year-old Mia Farrow in 1966 is marked by a pixie headshot on a timeline, and there is no mention of his fourth wife, Barbara, unless you count her cameos in the concert DVD at the exhibit’s finale. (Their 21-year marriage ended with his death in 1998.) But the best is yet to come (literally, because he sings the song) when you reach the finale, where cushioned benches await those ready to savor more tunes. Six video screens project footage of the tuxedoed crooner at the 1982 Concert for the Americas in the Dominican Republic, an older Frank in the autumn of his years. Sit down, relax, and enjoy the show.

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“MARK FELT, SUPERSTAR” Composer Joshua Rosenblum explores aspects of history in his musicals--his recent show, “Bush is Bad,” was a humorous examination of the 43rd president. His latest production, “Mark Felt, Superstar” reveals the story of retired FBI agent Mark Felt, the Watergate informant to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, known only as Deep Throat until he revealed his identity in until 2005. “Mark Felt, Superstar” April 16-25 Stage 72 at the Triad Theater 158 W. 72nd St., near Amsterdam Avenue Assorted show times Tickets $20-$30 To purchase tickets, visit http:// markfeltsuperstar.brownpapertickets.com/

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” The Tempest Ladies, an all-female Shakespeare troupe formed in 2008 by six students at the Globe Theatre in London, puts a twist on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The actors play Edwardian women who steal off to the forest at nightfall, free themselves of their restrictive period garments and perform as faeries, legendary lovers and other characters from Shakespeare’s comedy. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” April 22-26 Chernuchin Theatre 314 West 54th St., between Eighth and Ninth Avenues Assorted show times Tickets $18 To purchase tickets, visit http://www. brownpapertickets.com/event/1382019 or call 212-581-3044

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SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH, 10AM Fordham University | 113 W. 60th St. | 212-636-6000 | fordham.edu A discussion of music and the Civil War culminates with a poetry reading and concert on the occasion of the reissue of Walt Whitman’s war poems Drum-Taps. (Free)

@Macaulay Author Series: Michael Schnayerson with Jonathan Alter

Artist Nelson Saiers’ unlikely journey into art galleries informs his geometric and minimalist aesthetic. Raised in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, the artist and math prodigy earned his PhD in mathematics at 23, and then managed his own hedge fund, Saiers Capital. Last year he left Wall Street, and his second show at Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery explores geometry, still life and the advancements of women in math. Now through April 19 Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery 527 West 23rd St., near Tenth Avenue Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE For more information, visit http://www.hoerle-guggenheim.com/ or call 212-366-4490

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FILM “KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK” Get an advanced viewing of the much anticipated, authorized documentary of Nirvana front man and rock legend Kurt Cobain before it airs on HBO on May 4. Monday, April 20 Film Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza W. 65th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues 9 p.m. Tickets $18 To purchase tickets, visit filmlinc.com or call 212-875-5601

TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 7PM Macaulay Honors College | 35 W. 67th St. | 212-729-2900 | macaulay.cuny. edu Hear the story of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s rise, fall and rise again with the author of The Contender. (Free)

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Food & Drink

< CHIPOTLE’S ONGOING CARNITAS WOES Popular Mexican fast food chain Chipotle, which has 20 locations throughout Manhattan, has run low on some of its main ingredients in recent months, a predicament that won’t change soon, Bloomberg reported. Chipotle stopped offering carnitas in about

In Brief GLUTEN-FREE RISOTTERIA OPENING ON UWS Bleecker Street risotto restaurant Risotteria will soon have a sister outpost uptown, on Amsterdam Avenue and W. 78th Street, DNAinfo reported. The restaurant, which opened 16 years ago on Bleecker Street, specializes in gluten-free dishes, with over 30 varieties of risotto, such as calamari with roasted garlic and parsley, or a version with prosciutto, fontina cheese and arugula. The 50-seat eatery will also serve paninis on gluten-free ciabatta bread, which is baked on site, and Neapolitan-style, individual thin crust pizzas, with the option of regular or gluten-free crust. Owner Joseph Pace expects service to begin this month. Risotteria will open daily at 11 a.m. and serve until 11 p.m. on weekdays, with service extended to midnight on weekends.

PETE WELLS TACKLES MIDTOWN’S GREEK SCENE In his April 7 review, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells offered mild praise and some blunt demerits to new Rockefeller Center Greek restaurant Limani and the nearby Estiatorio Milos, a restaurant of similar fare operating at W. 55th Street since 1997, awarding the restaurants a star each. A few Milos alums now operate Limani, Wells noted, including the executive chef and founding manager, and the restaurants both display raw fish on a bed of ice in the dining room. The similarities don’t end there for Wells. The critic enjoyed the decadent shellfish on both menus, including red shrimp sold by the pound and served with sherry, but marveled at the costs of simple menu items, including a Greek salad for $32 at Milos (“Limani’s prices are merely expensive, while the ones at Milos read like a long series of typographical errors,” he wrote).

a third of its locations nationwide earlier this year when it axed one of its pork suppliers for violating the company’s strict vendor standards, creating a shortage of responsiblyraised pork for the growing chain’s burritos, tacos and bowls. Meanwhile, Bloomberg re-

ported that Chipotle previously warned about a scarcity of guacamole and salsa, due to rising costs of ingredients, and recently has also seen a dearth of humanely raised chicken and beef.

MOCKTAIL SEASON HAS ARRIVED The boom in handmade non-alcoholic drinks BY LIZ NEUMARK

It isn’t sufficient that we have mastered the art of eating seasonal kale or succumbed to the charms of happy chicken or pork on our plate. In the relentless march of food as fashion, there is another fascinating front to explore. Beverages. There is a growing interest in the area of creative nonalcoholic drinks, many of which embrace a dedication to seasonality or use ingredients spawned by the artisanal food movement. Think back to when shirley temples, virgin daiquiris, Cel-Ray and egg creams ruled. Fueled by a new generation of mixologists, mocktails are mainstream and no longer just for kids, teetotalers or pregnant women. They are delicious and innovative — and perfect for the warm weather months, challenging traditional iced tea and lemonade. What do you need to know? Beverage and ingredient terminology can be unfamiliar. Here are some of the basic terms you will hear: Shrubs are making a splash in the craft cocktail scene. Known as drinking vinegars, these are a wonderful addition to cocktails and mocktails alike, as they add a sweet, tart, bitter and acidic layer to your drink. To make: Ferment any ripe fruit of your choice — blackberries, pineapples, raspberries, peaches, anything — by coating with equal parts sugar. Cover and refrigerate for 24 to 48 hours, when the sugar will break down the solid fruits into liquid.

Strain and add vinegar. Conventional shrub recipes call for equal parts vinegar. We recommend using as much or as little as you prefer. My favorite types of vinegar are Normandy Champagne and apple cider, which give your shrub a cleaner, more fruitforward taste. A cordial is another term for “fruit-based liquid,” and is generally thought of as an alcoholic liqueur. To make: boil 1 part water, ½ part sugar and 1 part ripened fruit/vegetable and/or herb at medium-low heat for 20 minutes. Let cool and store in a glass bottle. For a more complex, molasses-like taste, use Demerara or turbinado sugars. Infusions are the magic that happens when you steep fruit, vegetables or herbs in your base liquid or spirit. Syrups are common in cocktail bars and very easy to make at home. The most common — simple syrup — is equal parts sugar and water. For more intricate syrups, try infusing mint or basil in a mixture of equal parts hot water and sugar and steep for 20 minutes, so that the syrup imparts all of the flavors of the herb. Dehydration is a great way to both preserve a short season ingredient (peaches, citrus) or to create a garnish with an intense flavor profile (pineapple, rhubarb, apple). You can dehydrate thinly sliced fruit, vegetable or herb in an electric dehydrator in your home, or use your oven on a low temp to accomplish the same result. A well-balanced drink utilizes 5 main components: Base spirit — which we omit for our mocktails

Sweetener — simple syrup, juice, straight up sugar (provided by the shrub). Substitutes for sugar include agave or honey. Sour — citrus, lime, lemon, grapefruit (provided by the shrub) Herb — basil, mint, rosemary, cilantro Water — fizzy, or shaken into the drink over ice I recruited my colleague, Luis Antonio Thompson, director of beverage innovation at Great Performances, to provide us with a few sample recipes, taking inspiration from our impending spring. Ginger Root: Celery Root Juice, Spiced Cordial, Fresh Lime, Ginger Beer INGREDIENTS (serves 1): 3 oz. celery root juice (available at supermarkets or by juicing a root) ½ oz. spiced cordial (recipe below) Squeeze of ¼ lime 2 oz. ginger beer Lime wedge Add all ingredients in shaker with ice; give light shake; pour into glass; garnish with lime wedge. To spike: add 1 oz. spiced rum for every 3 oz. ginger root To make Spiced Cordial: 2 cinnamon sticks 6 medium star anise 4 whole cloves 2 cups turbinado sugar 2 cups water Boil all for 10 minutes on medium low heat Let cool; strain into clean glass bottle Yields 16 oz. (2 cups) A Wonderful Thyme: Organic Thyme-infused Citrus-ade INGREDIENTS (yields 1 gallon): 1 ½ pints Demerara sugar 1 ½ pints water 1 ½ cups organic thyme leaves (approx. 4 bunches thyme without

Ginger root mocktail with celery root juice, spiced cordial, fresh Lime and ginger beer. stems) 1 pint chilled fresh lemon juice ½ pint fresh squeezed orange juice ½ pint fresh squeezed lime juice 4 ½ pints water Serve in 5 oz. tumblers with ice. To spike: add 1 oz. organic vodka for every 4 oz. organic thyme-infused citrus-ade To Make an Infusion: Boil 1 ½ pints Demerara sugar, 1 ½ pints water, and thyme leaves for 10 minutes. Let cool and set aside. Once cool, mix with 1 pint chilled fresh lemon juice, ½ pint fresh squeezed orange juice, ½ pint fresh squeezed lime juice, and 4 ½ pints water. Yields approx. 1 gallon thyme-infused citrus-ade. Diced Pineapples | Pineapple Shrub, Fresh Mint, Sparkling Mineral Water, Pineapple Spear INGREDIENTS (serves 1) ¾ oz. pineapple shrub (recipe below) 4 mint leaves 3 oz. sparkling water Build in shaker with ice; give light shake; pour into glass; garnish with mint sprig. To spike: add 1 oz. Kentucky bourbon for every 3 oz. diced pineapples To make Pineapple Shrub: 2 pineapples cut into cubes 8 cups sugar to fully coat Let sit 2 days; strain liquid from pulp Yields 7 cups syrup liquid

Add 5 ¼ cups ponzu citrus vinegar Rhubarb Basil Sparkler: Rhubarb Basil Syrup, Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice, Club Soda, Basil Leaves: INGREDIENTS 1 oz. rhubarb basil syrup (recipe below) 1 oz. fresh squeezed orange juice 4 oz. club soda basil leaves Add all ingredients in tumbler with ice. Garnish with basil leaves. To spike: Add 1 oz. Limoncello to 4 oz. rhubarb basil sparkler. To make Rhubarb Basil Syrup: 2 lbs. rhubarb 2 cups water 2 cups sugar 20 basil leaves Wash and slice rhubarb into 1-inch cubes. In a pot, add rhubarb, water, and sugar. Bring to boil and simmer until rhubarb is soft, approximately 10 – 15 minutes. Remove from heat, add basil leaves and let sit + cool for 30 minutes. Yields 2 cups rhubarb basil syrup. L’Chaim! Liz Neumark is CEO of Great Performances Catering and author of the cookbook Sylvia’s Table.

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Sports A.G. GIRLS SOCCER WINS TWICE

MANHATTAN SOCCER CLUB: NY RESULTS

Asphalt Green’s U7 girls soccer team competed in two exhibition victories against teams from Long Island and New Jersey as they headed into the ďŹ nal weeks of their inaugural season. Tryouts for next season’s U7 girls soccer team and all other Asphalt Green teams will take place in May. For more information, visit the AG soccer website. In addition, Asphalt Green is inviting kids ages 6-12 to make a splash at the 20th Annual Big Swim Meet on Saturday, April 25. No prior competitive swimming experience is needed. Kids will get to meet Olympians and special guest Claudio Reyna, a US Soccer Hall of Famer. For more information and to register by the April 19 deadline, visit www.asphaltgreen.org/bigswim or call 888-979-4669.

Manhattan Fury (Boys U12) defeated Clarkstown Boys White (NY) 2-1 in NY Cup competition this weekend, to advance to the NY State Cup quarterďŹ nals. The quarterďŹ nals will be played on the weekend of May 15/16. Manhattan Emelec (Boys U14) defeated Primo FC 3-1 this past weekend, to advance to the NY State Cup quarterďŹ nals. The quarterďŹ nals will be played on the weekend of May 15/16. Manhattan Pride (Girls U13,) Manhattan Crew (Girls U14) and the Manhattan Titans (Boys U13) all won NY Cup matches in March to advance to the quarterďŹ nals, and the Manhattan Freedom (Boys U10) have a set up match on April 25, the winner of which will also advance to the quarterďŹ nals. Many of the older divisions, girls and boys U15 through U18 are still in the group competition stage, and will not begin the knockout round of sixteen until the weekend of May 9/10. The Manhattan Santos (Girls U15), Manhattan River Plate (Girls U17), and Manhattan Hotspur (Girls U18) have all advanced to the knockout

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Corcoran

Midtown W

325 W 45 St.

$415,000

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Douglas Elliman

Midtown W

333 W 56 St.

$10

Lincoln Square 155 W 68 St.

$700,000

Corcoran

Lincoln Square 155 W 66 St.

$297,000

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Millennium Partners

Midtown W

425 W 50 St.

$2,540,533 1

2

Cmb Realty, Llc

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Avalon Partners Ny

Manhattan Vall 17 W 100 St.

$585,000

2

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Warburg

Midtown W

350 W 42 St.

$2,115,000

2

2

Corcoran

Central Park So 100 Central Park South $1,350,000 1

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Rc Real Estate Inc

Manhattan Vall 410 Central Park W

$544,750

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Owner

Midtown W

350 W 42 St.

$2,115,000

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2

Corcoran

Chelsea

$2,025,000 2

2

Corcoran

Manhattan Vall 485 Central Park W

$485,000

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Bohemia Realty Group

Morningside Hei380 Riverside Drive

$2,404,000 3

2

Corcoran

Lincoln Square 235 W End Ave.

$480,000

1

Corcoran

Midtown

157 W 57 St.

$91,541,053

Morningside Hei114 Morningside Drive $510,000

Lincoln Square 30 W 60 St.

$918,000

Midtown

157 W 57 St.

$5,552,962

Upper W Side 170 W 75 St.

$3,325,000 4

3

Fenwick Keats Real Estate

Lincoln Square 39 W 67 St.

$537,500

Midtown

100 W 58 St.

$4,400,000 3

Upper W Side 340 W 86 St.

$2,100,000 3

2

Corcoran

Lincoln Square 165 W End Ave.

$360,000

Midtown

157 W 57 St.

$47,367,491

Upper W Side 2745 Broadway

$3,736,260

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2

Douglas Elliman

Lincoln Square 1 W 67 St.

$1,075,000

Midtown

162 W 56 St.

$650,000

Upper W Side 215 W 90 St.

$2,662,500 2

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Douglas Elliman

Lincoln Square 1965 Broadway

$1,900,000

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432 W 52 St.

$1,318,759

Upper W Side 7 W 96 St.

$640,000

Lincoln Square 1 Central Park W

$2,900,000

Midtown W

432 W 52 St.

$1,624,108

Lincoln Square 165 W 66 St.

$741,110

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Midtown W

425 W 50 St.

$4,582,125

Lincoln Square 119 W 71 St.

$1,800,000 2

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Midtown W

498 W 55 St.

$350,000

261 W 28 St.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS APR 3 - 11, 2015 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.

West Side Cafe And Pizza

218 W 72Nd St

Grade Pending (20) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Andanada

141 West 69 Street

A

Empire Hotel Rooftop

44 West 63 Street

A

Mana

646 Amsterdam Avenue

Grade Pending (44) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/ or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Jin Ramen Uws

462 Amsterdam Ave

A

St James Gate

441 Amsterdam Avenue

A

The Meatball Shop

447 Amsterdam Ave

A

Han Dynasty

215 W 85Th St

Not Graded Yet (5)

Mcdonald’s

2271 Broadway

A

Bustan

487 Amsterdam Avenue

A

New Empire

2642 Broadway

A

Subway

508 Columbus Avenue

A

A

477 Amsterdam Avenue

A

Pancho’s Antojitos Mexicanos

964 Amsterdam Avenue

Hi Life Bar & Grill Fishtag

222 West 79 Street

Grade Pending (18) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Dig Inn Seasonal Market

2884 Broadway

A

Cascabel Taqueria

2799 Broadway

Grade Pending (46) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

16 Handles

2600 Broadway

A

Spice

975 Amsterdam Ave

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Earth Cafe

2580 Broadway

A

Miyako Sushi

642 Amsterdam Ave

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Malaysia Grill

224 W 104th St

A

Cesca

164 West 75 Street

A

Freddie & Pepper’s Pizza

303 Amsterdam Avenue

Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Pier 72 Restaurant

270 West 72 Street

A

Pappardella

316 Columbus Avenue

Grade Pending (25) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

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KEEPING CAMP COSTS DOWN CAMP Help is available to defray expenses Even though the camp experience is priceless, paying for it doesn’t have to be. “I’m a great believer that you don’t have to go to the most expensive camp to have a great camp experience,” said Phil Lilienthal, former camp director of Camp Winnebago in Maine and Global Camps Africa CEO. If you’re dealing with an experienced and caring staff of camp counselors, “you can have a program in a parking lot, and it can be great,” he said. Parents looking for budgetfriendly camps should keep the following in mind: • The American Camp Association camp community generates a projected $216 mil-

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lion annually for camp scholarships. Don’t be afraid to call the camp director and ask if financial assistance is available. • Contact your area’s local office of the American Camp Association. Visit www.ACAcamps.org/about/contactus to find your local office contact. • Check with your church or synagogue. • Get in touch with social services groups in your community. • Visit individual camp web sites. Most clearly outline whether or not they offer financial assistance for their campers. Assistance is also available from the government. Families should explore the following options: For day camps: • A Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account allows

parents to be reimbursed on a pre-tax basis for child care or adult dependent care expenses for qualified dependents that are necessary to allow parents to work, look for work, or to attend school full time. Visit the FSA Feds web site for more information. • In certain circumstances, day care expenses, including transportation by a care provider, may be considered dependent care services and paid with pre-tax dollars. Visit the Internal Revenue Service web site for more information. • Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: The IRS allows an income tax credit of up to $6,000 of dependent care expenses if you have two or more dependents (up to $3,000 for one dependent). The amount of the credit is based on your adjusted gross income and applies only to your federal taxes. This applies to qualifying day camp expenses. Visit the FSA Feds web site for more information. Originally published in the March 2014 Camp e-News. Reprinted with permission of the American Camp Association. ©2014 American Camping Association, Inc.

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A LIFETIME OF PERFECT NOTES TOGETHER Pianists Max Barros and James Melo prep a pair of fully staged concerts BY MICKEY KRAMER

Pianist Max Barros was a self-described “almost legal” 17 and musicologist James Melo was 21 when they met in Brazil in 1981 at a piano audition for a college music program. They have been near-inseparable ever since. Barros and Melo, both from Brazil, had vastly divergent paths to their meeting at the Faculdade Santa Marcelina, in Sao Paulo. Barros started playing piano at age 6. Melo went to medical school for two years and worked as a chemist for Dow Chemical, before beginning to play in earnest after he turned 17. Melo and Barros would both receive their B.A. degrees in piano. Barros left Melo and Brazil in 1984 to begin a Master’s of Arts program at New York University. The two spent summers and holidays together, with

many letters exchanged, and though not easy, according to Melo, the much quieter of the two, “the love bond was already so strong, we weren’t really worried [that it wouldn’t work out].” Barros lived at the 92nd Street Y dorms from 1984-1987, while attaining his Master’s degree from NYU. During his stay, he met Eve Wolf, who taught a chamber music program at the Y and became his first friend in New York City. Barros has performed and recorded all over the world. “I did my first recording at 26 and have not stopped.” Melo, after spending three years teaching in Brazil, joined Barros in New York City in 1987, where they have lived together ever since. He writes for music magazines, liner notes for CDs and for the past 16 years has worked for the ongoing bibliography and database project, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he’s now senior editor, while also teaching piano and music theory at the upper east side’s Diller-

Quaile Music School. In 2001, Melo and Barros, along with Wolf, founded the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC), a group that presents fully staged theatrical concerts merging music, staged and scripted theater, literature, and visual arts. Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon will be performed from April 8-April 12 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly and interweaves a script based on Verne’s and Bly’s own words with French chamber music performed by Barros, Wolf, and others. In addition, American music by Stephen Foster featuring live banjo, a barbershop quartet, and elaborate film and video projections will be included. ERC’s second 2015 production, The Sorrows of Young Werther, is slated for two shows on June 3-4 at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side. This production will weave the

drama of Goethe’s tale of obsessive and unrequited love with the music of Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms and others. Sitting down in their spacious living room, it’s impossible not to notice that Barros, at 6’1”, towers over the more diminutive Melo. Both wear eyeglasses, and have been together so long they truly can finish each other’s thoughts; that, along with a Steinway piano and floor-to-ceiling book collection which includes works by Shakespeare and Dickens, Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and at least six copies of The Iliad. Melo estimates they have about 3,000 books. Following 16 years on West 79th street, Barros and Melo moved across the park to East 79th Street on December 31st, 2012. Their first meal as Upper East siders was New Year’s Eve dinner at Italian restaurant, Firenze. For bibliophile Melo, the new locale is a dream. Along with being a member of the Morgan Library, he visits the New York Society Library, also on East

79th st, nearly every day. When asked about marriage, Barros recalled that they had a civil union ceremony, but, amusingly, neither recalled the date or year. Melo checked, and for the record, it was April 21, 2003. After 33 years together, Melo explains that “we’re such a compliment to each other. If it wasn’t for Max, I never would’ve come to New York and had the great life and career that I love… The companionship, love, and care he shows for me… ” “James grounds me. I can easily ‘float’ with the art sometimes,” Barros concludes. “Everything I do, I do better [with James].”

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Consumer Promotions Media, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/10/15. Office location NEW YORK County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the LLC 2150 Broadway, 7D New York, NY 10023. Purpose of LLC: any lawful act

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Garriott Enterprises, LLC. Arts of Orgs. filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/2015. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served shall mail a copy of any process to: 121 E 36th St, New York, NY 10016 Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of Shuster 308 N7 LLC, filed under the original name of Shuster N7 LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/21/14. Office loc.: NY Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Brach Eichler, Att: Samantha Karni, 101 Eisenhower Pkwy., Roseland, NJ 07068. Purp.: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LDE PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on JANUARY 30, 2015. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: BERNARD DASKAL 264 W. 40TH STREET 18TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10018 The principal business address of the LLC is: 264 W. 40TH STREET 18TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10018 Purpose: any lawful act or activity NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NB LEADS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/2/2015. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail process the LLC 22 E 49th St, 7th Fl New York, NY 10017 Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Pantaloon Restaurant LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/16/14. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Perry Burkett, Esq., 617 11th Ave., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of RD REAL HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 201 W. 79th St., NY, NY 10024. 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.

Notice of Formation of Shuster Schermerhorn LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/21/14. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Brach Eichler, Att: Samantha Karni, Esq., 101 Eisenhower Pkwy., Roseland, NJ 07068. Purpose: any lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF State Street Abstract LLC Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/2014. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1125 Ocean Avenue, Suite 1005, Lakewood, NJ 08701. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1125 Ocean Avenue, Suite 1005, Lakewood, NJ 08701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of The Gerzema Group LLC. Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY(SSNY) on 9/26/2014. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 60 Warren St., New York, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF True North Land Services LLC Arts of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2014. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC is: 1125 Ocean Avenue, Suite 1008, Lakewood, NJ 08701. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1125 Ocean Avenue, Suite 1008, Lakewood, NJ 08701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of Minsara LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/2/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/30/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Edward Sugar, 135 E. 57th St., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qual. of Minsara Management LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/1/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/30/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Edward Sugar, 135 E. 57th St., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qual. of Sterling Place Structured Debt LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/28/13. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. in DE 12/18/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE office addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qual. of Tamarisk Global, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/16/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. in DE 12/6/13. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Ben Sontheimer, 156 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. DE office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qual. of VPCP Management, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/6/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/5/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: David Angstreich, 510 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of COANJO RELATIVE CAPITAL LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/04/15. Princ. office of LLC: 1325 Ave. of the Americas, 28th 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, Attn: Colin Glinsman at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of Dynatrace LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/24/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226-5000. LLC formed in DE on 11/6/14. 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. Notice of Formation of 529 WEST 29TH COM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/09/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of Glimcher Properties, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/27/2015. NYS fictitious name: Glimcher Properties NY, LLC. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 180 E. Broad St., 21st Fl., Columbus, OH 43215. LLC formed in DE on 11/28/1993. 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.

Notice of Qualification of Gold Wynn Delaware LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/1/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 330 Dupont St., 2nd Fl., Toronto, Ontario, M5R 1V9, Canada. LLC formed in DE on 3/26/15. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of RAITH REAL ESTATE FUND I-A LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/15. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/21/14. Princ. office of LP: 280 Park Ave., 35th Fl., West, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Inland Commercial Real Estate Services LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/27/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2901 Butterfield Rd., Oak Brook, IL 60523. LLC formed in DE on 4/21/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o 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.

ROSE FAMILANT, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/20/2015. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Palmeri & Gaven, 65 Broadway, Ste. 845, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

THE THOMAND - ORMAND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. App. for Auth. filed with the SSNY on 04/22/13. Originally filed with Secretary of State of Delaware 08/04/1992. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LP, c/o Morrissey & Morrissey, L.L.P., 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 2125, New York, NY 10065. Notice of Qualification of RAITH CAPITAL INVESTORS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/12/13. Princ. office of LLC: 280 Park Ave., 35th Fl., West, 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, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of SITE 10 DSA OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/04/14. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Charles R. Bendit & Andy Zlotnick at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of SITE 6 DSA OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/07/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/06/14. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Charles R. Bendit & Andy Zlotnick at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of SITE 8 DSA OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/04/14. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Charles R. Bendit & Andy Zlotnick at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Qualification of SPRING CAFE NEW YORK, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/18/15. Princ. office of LLC: 1740 Broadway, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Davis & Gilbert LLP at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffery Bullock - DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 1865 79TH STREET, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/15. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 57 Dicision Street, New York, NY 10002. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of a Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: VIEWPOINT CONSULTING, LLC fictitious name agreed to use in New York is: VP HEALTH, LLC Application for Authority filed by the Department of State of New York on: 02/11/2015 Jurisdiction: Delaware, Organized on 01/21/2014 Office location: County of New York Purpose: any and all lawful activities Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 25 Broadway, 9th Floor New York, NY 10004 Address required to be maintained in Delaware: 1521 Concord Pike, #310 Wilmington, DE 19803 Authorized office in its jurisdiction is: Delaware Secretary of State John G. Townsend Bldg. 401 Federal State, Suite 4 Dover, DE 19901

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Notice of Qualification of UG2 LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/20/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MA on 12/12/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. MA and principal business address: One International Pl., 3rd Fl., Boston, MA 02110. Cert. of Org. filed with MA Sec. of Commonwealth, One Ashburton Pl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: all lawful purposes. New York City Department of Transportation Notice of Public Hearing The New York City Department of Transportation will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, April 22 2015 at 2:00 P.M., at 55 Water St., 9th Floor Room 945, on the following petitions for revocable consent, all in the Borough of Manhattan: #1 924 West End Avenue, Inc. – to continue to maintain and use two lampposts on the north sidewalk of W 105th St., between West End Ave and Bway. #2 Shelia Bauchman – to continue to maintain and use a fenced-in area, together with steps and trash enclosure, on the south sidewalk of W 83rd St., east of Columbus Ave. Interested parties can obtain copies of proposed agreements or request sign-language interpreters (with at least seven days prior notice) at 55 Water St., 9th Fl. SW New York, NY 10041, or by calling (212) 839-6550. Notice of Qualification of Square Mile Partners IV LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/17/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 450 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022. LP formed in DE on 4/2/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. LOCAL LEAF, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 3/19/2015. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The Limited Liability Company, 16 North Main Street, Marlboro, NJ 07746. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Square Mile Partners IV-A LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/17/15. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 450 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022. LP formed in DE on 12/11/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP 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 LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of New Credit America LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/26/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in OK on 7/25/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Principal office addr.: 5230 Las Virgenes Rd., Ste. 102, Calabasas, CA 91302. Cert. of Org. filed with OK Sec. of State, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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