BY LINCOLN ANDERSON It was an application for a small cart, selling small dessert-like delicacies, plus coffee and beverages. But the problem was that it was slated for a very small park in Nolita. The result was that local outrage was enormous, multiplied pro-portionally to the nth degree. Nolita neighbors protested that the Parks Department’s idea to put a food cart in Petrosino Square was wildly
inappropriate and would also create a safety hazard. The park is only .15 percent of an acre and represents pretty much the only open space in the neighborhood where adults can hang out. Nearby DeSalvio Playground is restricted for children, plus used by teens playing basketball. Minerva Durham, who owns Spring Studios, a live fi gure
BY SAM SPOKONYFor state Assemblymember Brian
Kavanagh and state Senator Daniel Squadron, the push for gun control has been like a record on repeat.
Back in October, both led the unsuccessful call for a legislative spe-cial session to pass laws strengthening
New York’s restrictions on fi rearm sale and possession — already some of the strongest in the nation — and Squadron published an op-ed in the Daily News to argue the “common sense” perspective behind added gun control measures.
“Before another drop of blood is
spilled and another innocent life is lost, New York’s Legislature must do our job and pass these bills,” Squadron wrote in the op-ed.
This was more than two months before the shooting at Sandy Hook
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BY SAM SPOKONY The Lower East Side’s top indie movie theater is planning a million-dollar makeover that will depend on the success of its forth-coming liquor license application. Sunshine Cinema, locat-ed in a historic 1898 build-ing at 143 East Houston St., expects to renegoti-ate its lease in the coming years, and sees an expanded dining and drinking experi-
ence as a vital step forward in creating and sustaining new sources of revenue. “It’s a new business model, one that will allow us to be more competi-tive with other modern theaters as well as other entertainment or din-ing establishments,” said Michael Fant, senior vice president of real estate for Landmark Theatres, which
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Indie theater hopesbooze and brisketwill pack in patrons
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Panic in PetrosinoSquare sparkedby mini-crepe cartPols renew their call for gun
control in wake of tragedies
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drawing salon, right to the west of the square on Spring St., said the area already has plenty of places dispensing coffee, from Starbucks to Ceci Cela, D & D Deli and Balthazar. As evidence, she brought a bagful of more than 100 takeout coffee cups that she pulled from her studios’ trash can over a one-week period. Plus, the area simply needs open space that provides “peace and quiet,” unencumbered by food carts, she stressed. She lives on the opposite side of the square from her art studio. “I’m not against commercial uses in big parks,” she said at C.B. 2’s full board meeting last Thursday evening. “It’s a small park and there’s no need for it, it’s absurd.” Durham said if the concession were granted, she would defi nitely use the cups in some sort of protest action, though she wasn’t exactly sure what. “It would take the form of uninvited cup art,” she said. “I wish I had a good idea of how to be civilly disobedient in the park with cups and be arrested.” Parks put out a request for proposals for a food cart concession in the tiny park and it was won by Céline Legros, whose specialty is canelé — Bordeaux-style mini-pastries made with crepe batter that have a caramelized crust and moist center. Her proposal was to sell small boxes of fi ve of the treats for $5. Georgette Fleischer, founder of the Friends of Petrosino Square, told the C.B. 2 meeting, “Our neighborhood is the second most park-starved neighborhood in New York. We have 11 eating and drinking establishments on the rim of this park — all of them with takeout — and Esquina has a lot of takeout.” In short, Legros’s canelés could push the small park past the tipping point, Fleischer indicated. “There should never be a food cart in this sliver of tranquility,” she added. Where Parks wanted to put the cart was at the triangle plaza’s northern apex, which is its nar-rowest point, which opponents said would create a dangerous situation with car traffi c swirling
around the park. Lora Tenenbaum had crunched the numbers, and presented her eye-opening calculations to the board to demonstrate the impact of just one cart on Petrosino, proportionally speaking, that is. “Washington Square Park has 9.7 acres,” she explained. “If you put the same equivalent of carts there, there would be 194. … It’s ridic-ulous,” she said. “This neighborhood needs its tiny oasis. However, the C.B. 2 Parks and Waterfront Committee never even took a resolution on the matter, so there was no vote at last week’s full board meeting. Rich Caccappolo, the committee’s chairperson, said — because of how Sandy played havoc with the community board’s November meeting sched-ule for its various committees — he held a special meeting on Dec. 7 with neighbors to discuss the Petrosino food cart issue. He felt neighbors had aired their views thoroughly at that meeting, but he chose not to do a resolution on the issue. “I think we’ve done our job,” he said of his committee, speaking last week. Caccappolo did say that he told the attendees at the special meet-ing that Parks seemed to have picked a pretty good applicant and that the department certainly “could have done worse.” He said Legros manu-factures her confections in the Bronx, employing a group of women who appreciate the jobs. However, as it turns out, there will be no unauthorized, guerilla cup art actions after all, no cries of alarm that Legros’s packaging is clut-tering Petrosino Square the way that Magnolia’s messes up the Bleecker seating area, no more cart-ratio computations or even coffee-consump-tion cafe comparisons. Last Friday, Matt Viggiano, Councilmember Margaret Chin’s director of land use planning, sent out an e-mail to C.B. 2 members and Nolita-area residents announcing the Petrosino food cart plan had been pulled. “Based on the urging of Councilmember Chin,” he said, “the Department of Parks has agreed to fi nd an alternative location for this concession.”
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Minerva Durham held up a bagful of 135 discarded coffee cups she collected at her Spring Studios during a week’s time, proof, she said, that the area around Petrosino Square, at Lafayette and Spring Sts., already has more than ample coffee outlets.
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‘THE GREAT HETERO HOPE?’ The District 3 City Council race is shaping up to be more than just “Corey vs. Yetta.” As The Villager fi rst reported last week, Alexander Meadows, a relatively new member of Community Board 2, has tossed his hat into the ring and fi led the necessary papers with the Board of Elections. We’ve only spoken to Meadows briefl y so far about his campaign, but we know he works in the “estate” fi eld and is interested in health issues. We’ll be writing more about him soon. Like Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson, he’s openly gay. Meanwhile, a — hold onto your hats! — heterosexual — yes, a heterosexual! — is on the verge of announcing that he’s run-ning for the seat, which is currently held by Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who will have to step down at the end of next year due to term limits and, anyway, is running for mayor. The Third District, which stretches from the Lower West Side up to Hell’s Kitchen, is known as the Council’s “gay seat.” But demographics are changing, so — who knows? — a hetero just might be able to give it a go. We had a
sit-down with the male mystery candidate last week and he said he thinks there could well be an opening in the fi eld for, as he put it, a “prag-matic person” who can get things done. Since gun ownership, or the lack thereof, has become an issue in the race, the subject came up during the sit-down. “I’ve never had a gun,” he told us, adding, “I’ve never even shot clay pigeons.” Kurland last week told us she has given up her fi rearm, which she said she previously needed as part of the post-9/11 security plan at her Hello World Language Center English-as-a-Second-Language school. Johnson said he never has had a gun or a gun license and never will. Meadows did not appear to be packing heat at last week’s C.B. 2 meeting when we spoke to him, but we’ll have to grill him on this, too. As for heterosexuals running in District 3, there has been one notable recent candidate, Maria Passannante-Derr, a former chairperson of C.B. 2, who fi nished third to Quinn and Kurland in the Democratic primary three years ago.
CHAD NOW ‘HANGING’ AT C.B. 3: Speaking of community boards and politi-cal types, Chad Marlow, a former mem-ber of C.B. 2 and a former president of the Village Independent Democrats club, has been appointed by Borough President Scott
Stringer to fi ll a vacancy on the East Side’s C.B. 3, effective Jan. 1. Marlow used to live in the Christopher St. area in the West Village but has since moved around a bit, fi rst to Brooklyn and more recently to the East Village, where he’s been active around issues concerning the Tompkins Square Park playground.
BUKOWSKI BLOWOUT: What would Charles Bukowski think about the fi scal cliff? How would the “Post Offi ce” author feel about the demise of the U.S. Postal Service? Would Buk have a Twitter account? And, if so, what would he tweet? These questions and more may be answered, or maybe not, at the Sixth Annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading, on Fri., Jan. 4, at 6 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., between W. Fourth and Bleecker Sts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. and admission is $12, which includes (naturally) a free drink. Participants who arrive early can sign up to be on the reading list. There will be readings of Bukowski poems by Mike Daisey, Richard Vetere, Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, Michael Puzzo, Nicca Ray, Angelo Verga, Puma Perl, George Wallace and Thomas Fucaloro, plus rare videos and prizes (Buk books, CDs, DVDs and more). For more information and reservations, e-mail [email protected] .
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owns Sunshine Cinema and 51 other movie houses nationwide. “It’s going to provide patrons with the ser-vices they want, and the additional revenue streams will ensure that we can remain in that location.” Fant explained that the proposed renovations include a bar on the second floor of the five-screen cinema, din-ing tables on all three floors and an expanded food menu that will include more “gourmet” choices. Currently, the place serves pizza and burgers, but the expanded menu would include chicken, brisket and quesadillas. The cinema would also reduce its auditorium seating — currently totaling around 950 seats — by 10 to 15 percent in order to make the seats larger more comfort-able. In addition, the new business model would also force Sunshine Cinema to double its staff, which cur-rently totals around 50. Fant added that the cinema has always focused on hiring locally. But he said the plans will not be executed until the
movie house gains a full liquor license — and it has become increasingly difficult to gain a Community Board 3 recommendation for such a license as the area has become increasingly saturated with noisy bars and nightclubs. Fant represented Sunshine Cinema in its request for a recommendation at the last C.B. 3 State Liquor Authority Committee meeting in December, but he had to withdraw it due to an incomplete application. Since the cinema lacked a petition signed by community mem-bers that would have shown widespread support, Fant agreed to come back to the committee in January with a full petition. Although it was reported by some local media that S.L.A. Committee members were very concerned and somewhat hostile toward the cinema’s request, Fant said that he didn’t get any impressions of overt resistance, and added that the committee members spoke support-ively to him after the December meeting. “I’m sure they will be very happy with our proposal at the next meeting,” he said.
S.L.A. Chairperson Alexandra Militano and C.B. 3 District Manager Susan Stetzer both declined to com-ment on the Sunshine Cinema proposal or on what took place at the December meeting. Although C.B. 3 would give an advisory recommenda-tion on the liquor license proposal, all requests are ulti-mately granted or denied by the New York State Liquor Authority. Fourteen other cinemas owned by Landmark have already undertaken similar food, drink and seating reno-vations, and Fant said they have all been successful so far. And although there have been reports that the East Houston St. cinema is struggling financially — that the new business model is, in fact, its only hope for con-tinued existence — Fant denied those assertions, while declining to elaborate further. “We don’t have any financial problems at Sunshine Cinema or Landmark,” he said. “It’s just that patrons are asking for new amenities, and we need to keep up with other companies.”
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Sarah Ferguson read from “The Night Before Christmas” (a.k.a. “A Visit From St. Nicholas”) at a holiday party at La Plaza Cultural garden, at Ninth St. and Avenue C, Sunday afternoon. Above, she acted out a verse about St. Nick: “He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And fi lled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his fi nger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.” There were also “Happy Birthday Jesus” party hats and elf parachutist toys. Among the crowd enjoying the festivities, along with Ferguson’s partner, John, and their son, Christopher Zen, were Black Ops Bob, Jimmy Sims and Rocky Sullivan guitarist Jason Goodrow — and no drunken SantaCons!
4 December 27, 2012 - January 2, 2013
BY EILEEN STUKANELawyers were out in force on Tues., Dec.
18, when State Supreme Court Justice Eileen A. Rakower heard the petition presented by Sane Energy Project — in association with fi ve other environmental groups and several indi-viduals — against the Hudson River Park Trust for granting an easement for Spectra Energy’s high-pressure gas pipeline.
Sane Energy is bringing suit against the Trust on the grounds that the authority failed to comply with New York State’s Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, when it allowed Spectra to lease the Gansevoort Peninsula for its natural gas pipeline.
In addition to the environmental issue, Sane’s legal fi ling also states that the Trust has violated the Hudson River Park Act by grant-ing a 30-year lease to Spectra for nonpark use.
The presence of the newly constructed Spectra natural gas pipeline, which crosses under the Hudson River from New Jersey to a terminal vault by the Gansevoort Peninsula, is raising concern among Greenwich Village residents in regard to possible health risks from the radioac-tive radon inherent in natural gas, and safety risks from possible explosions. These issues were referenced by lawyers at the Dec. 18 hearing, but they were not the focus of the court case.
With space at a premium in the hearing room, seven lawyers from Spectra Energy, the parent company to Texas Eastern Transmission and Algonquin Transmission, were seated as spectators along a wall in an area normally
reserved for a jury. Seated before the judge were fi ve lawyers representing various inter-ests: Shira Rosenblatt for Con Edison; Jeffrey Loop for Texas Eastern; Elizabeth Knauer for the Trust; and Jeff Zimmerman and Jonathan Geballe for Sane Energy. Sane was the “peti-tioner” but it would be a while before the Sane
lawyer was heard.Knauer, the lawyer representing the Trust,
was fi rst to speak. She requested that the case be dismissed. Knauer argued that the Con Edison 1,500-foot extension of the Spectra pipeline from the West Side Highway to Con Ed’s distribution terminal at W. 15th St. was outside the Trust’s jurisdiction. She also cited the Natural Gas Act, previous legal cases and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s environmental impact statement, or E.I.S., as pre-empting any need for the Trust to conduct further environmental studies. As far as the issue of radon and the risk of explosion of the pipeline, she said, “FERC’s E.I.S. takes care of that.” For those representing environmental groups, that was equivalent to hearing that the fox was guarding the henhouse.
Rakower questioned whether the Trust could have refused to give Spectra Energy the 30-year lease to traverse Gansevoort Peninsula with its pipeline.
“Two million dollars seems a little bit for 30 years,” she added.
The Trust received just under $2.8 million from Spectra Energy at the lease’s signing. The lease states that this is “payment in lieu of taxes for the 30-year term.”
Knauer responded that if the Trust had refused to allow an easement and not negoti-ated, Spectra would have taken over the land it wanted to use through eminent domain.
During the hearing, a Spectra lawyer from the jury box stood to explain that Spectra usu-ally does not negotiate or offer money since it has the right to eminent domain, and that Spectra wanted to work with the Trust in regard to the digging area for pipeline con-struction, plantings, protections. What wasn’t mentioned in court is that, according to the lease, Spectra still retains the right to eminent domain and can call upon it at any time.
Getting back to environmental concerns, Con Edison’s Rosenblatt said that the utility isn’t required to do an environmental study in order to construct a pipeline from the highway (where
the Spectra pipeline ends) along 10th Ave. to W. 15th St. Department of Transportation permits for digging up the streets are all that is needed for the 30-inch pipeline to be installed, and there are thousands of feet of such 30-inch transport pipelines already in place throughout the city, she noted.
Jeffrey Loop, a lawyer for Texas Eastern, reiterated that FERC had conducted an E.I.S. and that the petitioners were seeking to halt the pipeline and nothing else. He also added that since Spectra’s was a federally approved pipeline, any legal action should take place in a federal court.
Finally, Zimmerman, one of Sane’s law-yers, stated that the FERC E.I.S. was for an interstate pipeline, and that FERC’s interstate authority ends at the city’s borders. According to the Hudson River Park Act of 1998, the Trust “shall be subject to article 8 of the envi-ronmental conservation law,” which is now absorbed into SEQRA. Sane’s argument is that the Trust ignored its legal responsibility to address the environmental concerns of the park in its care.
“There were measures that could have been applied but the Trust gave them away with the lease for the easement,” said Zimmerman. He also argued that, according to the park act, once the city’s Department of Sanitation facili-ties are removed from Gansevoort Peninsula, the park is to be used solely for park use. Land used for the Spectra pipeline would not be “park use,” he declared.
The arguments ended. No ruling was made. Rakower allowed all the parties to present their views and the hearing was over. The ques-tion now is whether she will dismiss the case or allow the environmental groups’ lawsuit to proceed. It could be weeks or months until the lawyers are notifi ed of her decision.
Since permits still have to be secured, Con Ed doesn’t plan to begin constructing its northward extension of the pipeline until this coming April. The new Spectra pipeline is in place on Gansevoort but not in service.
Spectra pipeline case fuels a big day for attorneys
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Opponents of hydrofracking and the Spectra pipeline project held a protest at Gansevoort Peninsula in early December.
December 27, 2012 - January 2, 2013 5
BY KAITLYN MEADEThe court-martial trials for Danny Chen’s
tormentors ended Dec. 17, after First Lieutenant Daniel Schwartz, the last of eight soldiers to be tried, made a deal with prosecutors, allowing him to avoid a trial on condition of his discharge from the military.
Schwartz, who was Chen’s platoon leader, was the highest-ranking offi cer to be charged in connection with the Army private’s death. His dismissal was a nonjudicial punishment, according to an Army news release, and there is no word yet on whether the discharge will be dishonorable or honorable, meaning he will continue to receive Army benefi ts. Eight charges against him in connection with the case — including dereliction of duty — will be dropped.
Chen’s family lives in the East Village, and he attended Pace High School in Chinatown. He committed suicide while on duty in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, in October 2011, after reportedly enduring ongoing hazing, including racial slurs and physical abuse. His death prompted an outcry from New York City’s Chinatown com-munity and local offi cials, led by the New York branch of the Organization of Asian Americans (OCA-NY).
Representatives and advocates for anti-haz-ing laws met at a press conference on Dec. 18 to discuss the end of the courts-martial and the next step for legislators.
Elizabeth OuYang, president of OCA-NY, expressed the shared feeling of disappoint-ment that justice was not served by the military courts-martial.
“These trials underscored how impossible it is for a subordinate to challenge hazing by his superiors when the system is not supportive or safe to do so,” she said.
In addition to pushing for the discharge
of four other soldiers charged in connection with Chen’s death, OuYang highlighted two bills, introduced by Congressmember Nydia Velazquez and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, that include anti-hazing language that have been attached as amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.
A representative from Velazquez’s offi ce noted that the act is currently under consideration by the
Senate’s Armed Service Committee, and that the congressmember is strongly advocating for the anti-hazing provisions to be incorporated.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver also threw his support behind the effort in a statement, urging Congress to “add a hazing statute to the Uniform Code of Military Justice that provides greater protections for victims and tougher sanctions against perpetrators.”
Chen’s platoon leader will be booted from the Army
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Su Zhen Chen, the mother of Danny Chen, center, wiped away a tear during a Dec. 18 press conference, a day after the courts-martial in the Chen case concluded. From left: Ivy Teng Lei, who went to middle and high school with Private Chen; Banny Chen, Danny’s cousin; Elizabeth OuYang, president of OCA-N.Y.; and City Councilmember Margaret Chin.
Downtown Independent Democrats had their holiday party at La Mela Ristorante, at 167 Mulberry St., on Tues., Dec. 18. Neighbors, local activists, elected offi cials, a slew of judges and candi-dates, rubbed shoulders, as they noshed on the restau-rant’s pasta, calamari and salad, washed down with beer and wine. Among those who hung out at the D.I.D. to-do or made an appearance were borough president candidate Julie Menin, City Council can-didate Yetta Kurland, state Senators Dan Squadron and Brad Hoylman, Councilmember Margaret Chin, D.I.D. power bro-ker Sean Sweeney, mayoral candidate Comptroller John Liu and comptrol-ler candidate Borough President Scott
Stringer, District Leader Paul Newell, many local community board members and other politically active locals.
D.I.D. does it up at La Mela
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At the D.I.D. holiday party, Tom Connor, chairper-son of the advisory board of The Caring Community at 20 Washington Square North, schmoozed with Corey Johnson, who is running for the City Council seat being vacated by Christine Quinn.
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Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people — including 20 children — dead, and re-energized the gun debate across the nation. That tragedy was most recently followed by another shooting on Monday in the Upstate town of Webster, N.Y., in which a 62-year-old man shot four firefighters — killing two — before committing suicide.
Now Kavanagh and Squadron, whose districts overlap in the East Village, are reiterating their argument as part of a coalition of 63 lawmakers from both houses that is led by Kavanagh, Assemblymember Michelle Schimel and Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn — the three of whom are co-chairpersons of State Legislators Against Illegal Guns.
In a Dec. 20 letter to both Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate and Assembly, the coalition highlighted a package of bills that would strengthen the state’s ban on assault weapons (nota-bly, without grandfathering previously legal guns), require universal background checks on the sale of all guns, and ban the possession and sale of all high-capacity ammunition magazines of more than 10 bullets.
Among other things, the bill package also includes microstamping, a widely
debated, new technology that imprints a unique code onto shell casings every time a gun is fired. Advocates for the technol-ogy believe it would allow law enforce-ment to more easily track and capture those responsible for gun crimes, but pro-
gun skeptics have claimed that it would hamper lawful firearm owners rather than cause a significant crime reduction.
To Kavanagh and Squadron, the pro-posed reforms are all still simply common sense — but, in the wake of tragedy, the receptiveness to ideas behind gun control is gaining more traction both with other lawmakers and the general public.
“These are obviously not new issues, and the Connecticut shooting certainly isn’t the first horrific incident to have taken place,” Kavanagh said after a Dec. 20 press conference outside City Hall. “But I think there’s a growing sense of commonality around this now. The cli-mate has changed since we called for the special session in October, and while we have an ambitious agenda, we think it’s doable.”
There was brief talk of a special legis-lative session being held before the New Year, but those dissolved nearly as soon as they began. Governor Andrew Cuomo has instead said that he plans to outline his gun control proposal in his State of the State Address on Wed., Jan. 9.
And when Kavanagh and Squadron do go back to Albany in January for the start of the next session, they will continue to face vastly different environments. The Democrat-led Assembly has already passed similar gun control measures in previous sessions, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been an outspoken supporter of the bills currently on the table.
The Republican-led Senate, on the other hand, has consistently stymied past gun control efforts, often leading to a bill-killing stalemate. Senate Republican spokesperson Scott Reif has been quoted as saying that lawmakers should find “common ground” in pursuing laws to prevent future tragedies, but pointed out
that Dean Skelos, the Republican Senate majority leader, believes the answer lies in “increasing penalties” and enacting mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.
Of the 63 legislators currently signed on as part of the gun control coalition, none are Republicans.
But Kavanagh said on Thursday that he and his allies have been actively com-municating with their counterparts across the aisle. He had previously stressed his belief that political divides should not play a role in this debate.
“Our message is not distinguished by partisanship,” he said at the Dec. 20 press conference. “We do not believe this is a partisan issue.”
And of the aforementioned coalition members, seven are newly elected law-makers, the beginning of whose state-level careers will likely be colored by the out-come of this legislation.
Senator-elect Brad Hoylman, who will replace the retiring Tom Duane come January, did not speak but was present outside City Hall on Dec. 20.
“I know we should’ve acted sooner to do something about this, and that’s why I was there with [Kavanagh and Squadron] when they were calling for a special ses-sion back in October,” Hoylman said after the press conference. “But now I think we’ve seen the issue crystallize, and at this point we just need to do whatever it takes to get it done.”
Meanwhile, New York’s gun advocates still think that new restrictions on firearm use and sale aren’t so commonsense.
“They’re looking to take the easy way out,” said Thomas King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, “rather than looking at the core issues, which are the social problems that breed these horrendous acts. Simply put, gun control laws will make no one in this state safer.”
King added that, by social problems, he was referring to treatment of the men-tally ill, as well as the state’s criminal court system, which he believes is too lax when it comes to paroling convicts who have the potential to strike again. He cited the case of William Spengler, the shooter in the recent Webster, N.Y., killings, who had been released after serving 17 years in state prison on manslaughter charges. Spengler was convicted of beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer in 1980.
It’s also apparent that many of the state’s gun advocates are flocking to orga-nizations like King’s N.Y.S.R.P.A. in the wake of the Connecticut and Webster shootings, anticipating the long battle of public opinion that will undoubtedly become even more heated once the legis-lative session begins.
King admitted that he “doesn’t really know” whether or not his organization his seen an uptick in recent donations, but said that there has been a “big increase” in membership over the past few weeks.
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Feds hit L.E.S. drug ring Federal agents and New York Police
Department officers teamed up to bust 12 members of a drug ring that for, at least five years, had operated in three Lower East Side buildings, including the one in which Police Officer Brian Groves was shot in July.
Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on Dec. 20 that the alleged dealers had been hit with narcotics trafficking and firearm charges that all carry a maxi-mum sentence of life in prison. Thirteen members were officially charged, but one remains at large.
According to the U.S. attorney, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the N.Y.P.D., the drug ring was run by Richard Franco, 34, and was based in buildings at 154 Broome St., 410 Grand St. and 64 Essex St.
The ring’s members are all accused of possessing and distributing more than 280 kilograms of crack cocaine, more than five kilograms of cocaine and an unspecified quantity of oxycodone. Five members, including Franco, also face the related firearm possessions charges, which also carry a penalty of life in prison.
The building at 64 Essex St., known as the Seward Park Extension, was the site of the July shooting in which Groves was hit with a single bullet while in pursuit of an unknown man during a patrol of the build-ing’s stairwells. Groves survived because of his bulletproof vest.
While the gunman remains unknown, law enforcement authorities have since recovered and identified the gun that was allegedly fired at Groves.
It was the aftermath of that shooting that sparked the investigation into the L.E.S. drug ring, officials said.
Over the course of the investiga-tion, two undercover police officers made about 25 buys of cocaine and crack cocaine from various members of the ring. Officials also alleged that the members and their associates conducted hand-to-hand transactions of cocaine, crack cocaine and oxycodone pills in the aforementioned Lower East Side build-ings, as well as throughout the surround-ing area. During at least some of these transactions, the ring’s members carried firearms, officials added.
‘Brick Burglar’ busted Just minutes after he fled what may
have been his last crime scene, police on Dec. 22 arrested the man they say burglar-ized at least seven West Village businesses
over the past six weeks.Adrain Longo, 35, is believed to have
stolen a total of more than $2,500, police said, by striking overnight and using a brick or cinderblock to smash through the glass storefronts of each store. And although his simple method had been surprisingly effective — allowing him to elude capture even after he’d been spot-ted on several security tapes — Longo was, in the end, betrayed by his own trusty tool.
Officers spotted him on Bleecker St., between Seventh Ave. South and Grove St., around 2 a.m. on Saturday — identi-fying Longo based on both his appearance and the cinderblock he was brazenly car-rying. When he was told to drop the block, the alleged serial burglar defiantly refused, according to the police report, and raised it in a sufficiently threatening manner to compel the officers to immediately appre-hend him.
Once Longo was incapacitated, the officers found him to be in possession of property previously reported stolen — including several iPods — in addition to cash. Then, they were able to connect him with the reported break-in, minutes earlier, of Ristorante Rafele, at 29 Seventh Ave. South, just three blocks from the site of his arrest.
Longo allegedly stole cash and a bottle of Jameson whiskey from the restaurant after using his cinderblock to bust open the front door, police said.
He’s also accused of going on a burglary spree that began Nov. 12 and included five other restaurants and a clothing store. All but one of the targeted locations are on or near Seventh Ave. South.
Police said that, along with stealing cash from all of the establishments, and iPods from two of them, Longo strolled out with an entire cash register in his arms after hitting Leyla, a restaurant on Seventh Ave. South near Barrow St., on Nov. 20.
Drinks weren’t on him He thought he was getting free drinks
at the bar, but he ended up busted for a previous theft.
Cops showed up at Down the Hatch, at Jones and W. Fourth St., around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 22, after a bartender reported that Ronald Hunt, 48, was paying his tab with a credit card that didn’t belong to him.
One of the officers quickly got in touch with the card’s owner by phone, and learned that the plastic had in fact been stolen the night before. The owner also said that he’d been informed of multiple other unauthorized purchases that had been made with the card.
Hunt was arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
Bathroom peeper pinched One man’s pervy joyride was short-
lived, after he was arrested for recording a video of women using the bathroom at a classy Italian restaurant on Dec. 20, according to police.
Around 10 p.m., an employee of Grano Trattoria, at 21 Greenwich Ave., told police that he caught Jose Ibarra-Hernandez, 35, sneaking out of the ladies’ room and quickly uncovered his scheme. Ibarra-Hernandez allegedly concealed a camera cell phone beneath the bathroom sink, facing the toilet, and set it to record before walking out.
The restaurant employee reported the incident to police, who quickly arrived to charge Ibarra-Hernandez with unlawful surveillance.
Fast-food assault Three men were arrested early on Sat.,
Dec. 22, after they reportedly beat and robbed another man who said he he’d been working as a security guard outside the McDonald’s, at W. Third St. and Sixth Ave.
The victim, 25, told police that around 4:30 a.m. he asked Placido Saldivar, 21, Ramon Cervantes, 29, and Fernando
Bautista, 24, to leave the fast-food joint after they’d created a disturbance. The three toughs refused, he said, and respond-ed by repeatedly punching the guard and grabbing his two-way radio.
Saldivar, Cervantes and Bautista lin-gered long enough for cops to arrive on the scene before they could slip away.
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POLICE BLOTTER
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POLICE BLOTTER
8 December 27, 2012 - January 2, 2013
BY SAM SPOKONYLower East Side community leaders are optimistic
about the progress of a survey aimed at helping the Two Bridges neighborhood strengthen its local food economy, following the Dec. 22 closing of a Pathmark supermarket that had for nearly three decades been a lifeline for the neighborhood’s elderly and low-income residents.
In an interview last Friday, Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, expressed his confi -dence about the project — which also aims to produce a local grocery-shopping guide — and said that results of the community food survey will play an important role in his upcoming meeting with A&P C.E.O. Sam Martin, which will take place in Two Bridges on Jan. 7.
A&P, which owns Pathmark, sold the supermarket’s 227 Cherry St. lot earlier this year to an unnamed buyer that is widely believed to be Extell Development Company, which is led by Gary Barnett, one of the city’s top luxury residential developers.
Barnett continues to decline comment.Since the sale was announced in September, Papa has
represented thousands of Two Bridges residents in their call for a Pathmark supermarket and pharmacy to remain on Cherry St., regardless of how the lot is developed. Many of those residents have said that Pathmark was their only local, affordable option for purchasing fresh groceries.
But now that the supermarket is offi cially closed — the pharmacy was shuttered in late October — the Two Bridges leader has had to adjust the requests toward more practical and realistic ends.
Papa explained that, at this point, he has two primary ideas to introduce at the Jan. 7 meeting, both of which focus on maintaining at least some Pathmark presence in an area that includes several large public housing develop-ments and senior homes.
His fi rst recommendation will be for Martin and A&P to place a scaled-down, temporary supermarket in the small, adjacent Cherry St. lot that had been occupied by the pharmacy. Papa had already mentioned that idea sev-eral weeks ago, but on Friday he seemed more set on the possibility.
Papa’s other idea would call for a central Pathmark drop-off location in Two Bridges, to which the chain’s
other local supermarkets — such as those in Harlem or Gowanus — could deliver food to be purchased by resi-dents. This grew out of an earlier idea for bussing Two Bridges residents to those other supermarkets.
“The delivery idea might be a little farfetched,” Papa said, “but we just want to make sure [Pathmark] stays connected, no matter how that connection is manifested.”
He also said he believes that the results of the Two Bridges Community Food Assessment, a residential sur-vey that ran from late November to Dec. 14, will supply Martin with some “interest” in retaining a Lower East Side presence.
James Johnson-Piett, principal and C.E.O. of Urbane Development, the food and local economy consultant group hired to assist on the survey and other post-Path-mark projects, said that while actual results are still being compiled, he’s pleased with what’s taken place so far.
The survey received responses from 326 residents, Johnson-Piett noted, far exceeding the 250 he had origi-nally sought. He added that the responses were a “good mix,” meaning that they came via both paper and elec-tronic surveys, as well as from a variety of demographics.
The assessment will likely show that the vast majority of Two Bridges residents — many of whom are elderly or low-income — relied on Pathmark as their primary food source. But it was also designed to highlight smaller local grocery stores, or larger stores located slightly farther away, that may become more frequent options in the absence of Pathmark.
Now that the community survey is complete, Urbane staff members, in association with Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, have already begun the initiative’s second phase — surveying those other local stores.
Johnson-Piett said that at least 15 area stores had already been surveyed over the course of a few days. He plans to include data from around 150 additional stores during the fi rst half of January, while also conducting more in-depth interviews with some store owners by month’s end.
“So far, I’ve really been surprised and impressed by the business owners’ willingness to get involved in what we’re doing,” Johnson-Piett said. About 70 to 80 percent of the Two Bridges stores have cooperated in the survey, he explained, compared to an average of around 10 percent in similar past projects he’s completed in other cities.
The Urbane C.E.O. also said that the forthcoming Two Bridges neighborhood grocery shopping guide — which will use survey and interview data to provide residents with the best options for various types of affordable food — should be available in print by March.
Several weeks ago, Johnson-Piett had estimated that guide would be completed by February, but he said last week that a bigger-than-expected databank and other vari-ables would extend the process.
Papa said that even if the guide is not completely ready until March, his council will likely release smaller portions of information as they become available.
“I’d like to think that this could also be a way to help promote small businesses,” he added, echoing a sentiment Johnson-Piett has mentioned frequently.
Papa, a lifelong area resident who has been on the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council staff since 1996 and has served on its board since the early ’80s, acknowledged that he’s putting plenty of trust in Johnson-Piett’s judgment.
“If we were to create some kind of campaign for local small businesses as a result of this, it would be a new con-cept for me,” Papa said. “But perhaps this is where urban neighborhoods are going.”
L.E.S. Pathmark closes; Meeting with C.E.O. is set
‘The delivery idea might be a little farfetched, but we just want to make sure [Pathmark] stays connected.’ Victor Papa
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BY TEQUILA MINSKY Holiday preparations and a chill in
the air didn’t stop more than 100 New Yorkers from responding to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a “Hands Across the Brooklyn Bridge” vigil on Sunday evening Dec. 23.
State Senator Eric Adams and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel led the vigil march-ers onto the bridge from the Manhattan side. More than double that number came onto the span from its Brooklyn side. There were many parents with their children hold-ing candles. They all joined together to say, “Enough is enough.”
As people gathered on the Manhattan side before the march, Siegel said, “We do not have to accept gun violence. We can and must change the epidemic of gun violence.” He urged the public to contact national and state elected officials and tell them, “We oppose gun violence and we demand action from them now.”
Among the public and elected officials who spoke were former city comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson and Councilmember Ydandis Rodriguez, who represents Washington Heights and Inwood. Brooklyn Congressmember Yvette Clarke emphasized how gun vio-lence affects all of us.
Adams told the crowd, “America should not lead the globe in the number of deaths by guns. This is insane.“
Also on the bridge was Councilmember Jumaane Williams, who represents Flatbush, Midwood and Canarsie, among those who met up from the Brooklyn side.
In Occupy Wall Street “mic check” fashion, Adams called out the names — and the marchers then repeated them — of those who died in the recent carnage in Newtown, Connecticut.
Suggestions for gun reform include reinstatement of the assault weapons ban
that expired in 2004, the banning of high-capacity bullet clips, improved back-ground checks for people with histories of mental illness, and initiating a national gun registration/inspection system similar to the motor vehicle registration/inspec-tion system.
The bridge was used as a symbol to illustrate that the entire city was coming together in collective grief and action.
Bridge over troubled water: Vigil targets gun violence
Photos by Tequila Minsky
From left, Norman Siegel, state Senator Eric Adams and Bill Thompson led the vigil marchers onto the bridge from the Manhattan side.
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Following the horrifi c mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the nationwide soul-searching and debate about gun control continues to widen. Last Friday, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifl e Association, further fanned the fl ames of outrage when he declared that the only way to keep our children safe is to have a “good guy” with a gun posted in each school to match the fi repower of the bad guys with guns. His remarks followed those of former U.S. Education Secretary Bill Bennett, who also said schools should hire armed guards. Some Republican officials have said even teachers could be armed. The N.R.A. has helpfully offered to train these gun-toting guards on how to wield their weapons around young children. Some cities and townships, in fact, already do have armed guards and police in their schools. The most crime-plagued New York City schools do as well, but most city residents would say that we do not need any more. Sending another chill rippling through the country, on Monday, an Upstate man in his 60s with a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifl e — the same weapon used by the disturbed Newtown shooter — ambushed fi rst responders whom he lured with a fi re, killing two of them and injuring two others. Meanwhile, as the N.R.A. was lashing back against the growing calls for gun control, on Saturday, the suburban Journal News published a map with names and addresses of all licensed handgun owners in Westchester and Rockland Counties. Many readers objected, saying this was a violation of privacy — plus, some said homeowners without guns would now be targeted by criminals. The controversy, however, points to how gun control is so intensely in the forefront of our consciousness now. More locally, state Senator Dan Squadron, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and other state politicians are ratcheting up their advocacy for gun control, from micro-stamping bullets to a stiffer ban on assault weapons, including the model used in the Newtown and Webster, N.Y., shootings. Word is that Governor Cuomo is set to outline a tough new gun control policy at his State of the State Address on Jan. 9. According to reports, he’ll call for a ban on magazine clips of more than seven bullets for handguns, among other things, which is a good start. Let’s face it, most Americans who die from gun violence are killed, not by assault rifles, but handguns. It’s the rifles and machines guns, however, that are often behind the worst incidents — the mass shootings. But handgun violence is the number one problem, and we are eagerly looking forward to what Cuomo will have to say on this subject — and looking for him to lead on this issue, just as Mayor Bloomberg has. New York already has some of the nation’s toughest gun control laws, but we must continue to raise the bar, because there is so far to go, as seen in LaPierre’s entrenched position. Shino Tanikawa, the head of the Community Education Council for School District 2, for one, said local parents defi nitely are not comfortable with the N.R.A. honcho’s idea. She’s a native of Japan, which has very strict gun control and extremely low crime. “I’m not religious and am not driven by any religious doc-trine, but ‘An eye for an eye makes you blind’ comes to mind,” Tanikawa told us. “Fighting guns with more guns? Teachers having guns in the classroom? Will it be locked up, in which case it would be useless against a gunman barging in? Or will the teacher wear a holster, while teaching our children not to hit back when a kid hits another kid? “I feel my kids are safe in their schools,” Tanikawa said. “I think we have to remember to be vigilant, though. After a tragedy like this we are all very diligent about security but after a while we tend to get lax. Having drills on a regular basis, as P.S. 3 does, is also a good idea.” This is a historic moment for this country in terms of its relationship with guns. As seen in LaPierre’s agitated speech, the N.R.A. is on the ropes. The momentum for gun control is building. The time to act — to create a safer, more sane nation — is now.
N.R.A. on the ropesLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dissing of Durst is ‘disgraceful’
To The Editor: Re “Ditching Friends, Durst to pursue own Pier 40 plan” (news article, Dec. 20): Tobi Bergman’s comments about Douglas Durst’s motives and his ability as the leader of a nonprofi t organization are dis-graceful. As Arthur Schwartz stated in the article, the Friends wouldn’t exist today were it not for Douglas’s leadership, gener-osity and passion for the Hudson River Park. Tobi is well aware, since he sat on the board of Friends, where, unlike other board members, he pushed his own agenda for Pier 40 rather than involve himself in the bigger issues related to the park as a whole. The exit of Douglas Durst and Ben Korman from the Friends is a huge loss for the Friends; but I doubt that it will be a loss for the park. Friends was an advocacy group whose lawsuits and public support generated tens of millions of dollars for the park when the Hudson River Park Trust leadership was unable or unwilling to stand up to other city and state agencies that wanted to exploit the park for their own purpose. Friends morphed into a fundraising group to try to fi nd a less confrontational way to help the park. Many of us resigned from the Friends’ board to allow that to happen, but that obviously didn’t work. I wouldn’t be surprised if another advocacy group formed to protect the Hudson River Park from political appoin-tees determined to dismantle it. I’d like to suggest that Tobi and Trust President Madelyn Wils start their efforts to build residential housing in the Hudson River Park the day after the mayor announces the groundbreak-ing of residential development in Central Park.
Tom FoxFox was the fi rst president of the Hudson River Park Conservancy (which completed the Hudson River Park’s concept and fi nan-cial plan) from 1992-95; a member of the Hudson River Park Alliance (which supported the Hudson River Park’s founding legislation) from 1996-98; and a board of directors member of the Friends of Hudson River Park until 2011.
Durst is dedicated to parkTo The Editor: Re “Ditching Friends, Durst to pursue own Pier 40 plan” (news article, Dec. 20): Contrary to Tobi Bergman’s characteriza-tion, Douglas Durst was never reluctant or ambiva-lent about his commitment to the Hudson River Park. I served for several years as co-chairperson with
Douglas on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park, and was always impressed by his complete devo-tion to the best interests of the park, and also how he con-stantly encouraged ideas from other board members for the park’s best interests — including our refocused mission. Douglas is personally retiring but never without ener-gy or commitment to the park, which he so generously support-ed since its inception. While the park has been a major com-mitment, he and his family have also generously support-ed the arts and theater in New York. And he is one of the — if not the single most — responsible and environmental-ly enlightened developers in the city. While some of the Trust’s leaders may be pleased by Douglas and Ben Korman’s retire-ment from the board of the Friends, for many of us it is a real-ly sad development.
Ross GrahamGraham was a board member of the Hudson River Park Conservancy, and is the citizen advocate (emeritus) board member on the Friends of Hudson River Park
A true community visionaryTo The Editor: Re “Ditching Friends, Durst to pursue own Pier 40 plan” (news article, Dec. 20): It is unfortunate that Mr. Bergman chose to take such a low potshot at Douglas Durst. How uninformed and blatantly wrong. I have known Douglas as a nonprofi t leader for more than two decades and can attest to his extraordinary leadership fi rsthand from my experience as executive director of the Roundabout Theatre Company! If it were not for Douglas’s counsel, I don’t know where our company would be right now. It certainly would not be the leader in the fi eld we are today, making a demonstrable difference in countless lives of more than 1,000 artists and staff employed by our company each year, and in the lives of thousands of public school students and their teachers who participate in our arts programs in schools and our community at large. I am grateful to know Douglas, to have benefi ted from his kindness, generosity and effectiveness as a member of our board of directors. It is rare to meet an individual such as Douglas who has a true, selfl ess commitment to improving the quality of life for all of us in New York City. From personal experience I can say (as can so many of us in New York City) he is a true environmental and community visionary.
Julia LevyLevy is executive director, Roundabout Theatre Company
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BY FRAN LUCKMany do not know yet that the Lower
East Side/East Village is about to lose another one of its authentic, signature spaces to gentrification — the uniquely wonderful Whole Earth Bakery at 130 St. Mark’s Place, between First Ave. and Avenue A.
Peter Silvestri, the warm-hearted owner and creator of this unique bakery/gathering place, has, after struggling for more than a decade with ever-higher rent demands by his landlord, Ronald S. Friedman of Gibraltar Real Estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., is being forced to close. His last day will be Mon., Dec. 31. There will be a closing party all day on Sat., Dec. 29.
If stores were landmarked, Whole Earth Bakery would be a leading candi-date. Everything about this vegan food mecca, from the mosaic floor tiles that date from the 1920s to the old-fashioned tin ceiling says, “Old Lower East Side.” The store has beautiful curved-glass showcases filled with the muffins, halvah, scones, healthy candies and hot meals, such as stuffed cabbage, vegan pizza and other original dishes (the vegan choco-late-almond “cheesecake” is to die for) that Peter has originated over the years — everything made with love — right on the premises. Peter is one of the most sincere human beings you’ll ever meet and creates a warm, welcoming atmosphere for every-one who comes into the place — you not only get a great snack or meal, but a hug. He’s cooked for untold local events and given away more food than was probably good for business.
Whole Earth Bakery was founded in 1991 by Peter and his mother, who was in her 80s at the time and worked in the bakery with Peter until she was 94. In the beginning, the rent was about $1,100, with a five-year lease stipulating that it would go up $100 per year. In 1996 the rent was jumped to $2,000 — and in 2007 the landlord refused to give Peter a long-term lease and forced Whole Earth into a month-to-month arrangement (probably to free up the landlord to find a more upscale store at an even higher rent).
At that time Friedman also started
jacking up Peter’s rent and threatening to evict the bakery — which now had no protection without a lease. The many lov-ers of the bakery — both local residents and vegans from around the city — got together and held a rally in Tompkins Square Park to save Whole Earth, and thousands signed a petition that was sent to the landlord. Even the city councilp-erson, Rosie Mendez, sent a letter. This combined effort was able to temporar-ily save the store. But Friedman then raised the rent to $3,100. Over the next three years he jacked it up a number of more times — eventually to $5,300. Peter
started falling seriously behind, since the store could not do the amount of business necessary to pay such a rent.
Some tried to advise Peter on ways to keep up — and felt frustrated when he was not able to start the kind of “side businesses” (a citywide delivery service for his vegan cheesecakes?) that they recommended. But Peter is a baker, not a yuppie with an M.B.A. His talent is in creating original baked goods and a warm atmosphere, not in the kind of busi-ness hustling necessary to satisfy ever-increasing, outrageous rents. As Peter said to customer-friends recently, describ-ing what had happened: “At $3,100 rent I was able to eke by, but when the rent was jumped to $5,300 I started to fall seriously behind in being able to pay it.”
This has been the fate of so many “mom and pop” stores in our neighbor-hood, a sad process that continues to
destroy important pieces of our local culture, and leaves us at the mercy of colonizing chain stores — the only ones who can afford such over-inflated rents. Some shortsighted people have blamed Peter for mismanagement — but the store did survive and thrive for more than 20 years — until its rent became stratospher-ic. So the fault is obviously the runaway gentrification and lack of commercial rent control. To blame Peter is to participate in the “blame the victim” psychology that is unfortunately spreading as an all-too-easy explanation for what is happening to us all under runaway, capitalist real estate.
Landlords who don’t care a hoot for our community see our neighborhood as nothing but a cash cow to milk — with-out any consequence whatsoever. Friends of the bakery — and of the Lower East Side — are in the process of planning an action (a legal one) to send a message to the landlords who are doing this to our neighborhood.
Luck is executive producer, “Joy of Resistance” multicultural feminist radio show on WBAI, 99.5 FM, the first and third Wednesdays of the month, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Vegan bakery has to vacate; Merry Christmas, Scrooge!
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On Hudson St., a winter scene of a man walking by the 92Y Tribeca building looked like it could have been shot in the Black Forest — or at least the Black-and-White Forest. The photographer said he achieved the rich tones by converting the shot to black and white and upping the contrast.
SCENE
This has been the fate of so many ‘mom and pop’ stores in our neighbor-hood, a sad process that continues to destroy impor-tant pieces of our local culture.
12 December 27, 2012 - January 2, 2013
Marie Rose Doria, 94; Wed scion of princely Italian family
Marie Rose Doria died at Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness on Dec. 20. She was 94 years old. She had lived on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village since 1956.
She was born Marie Rose Stoisits in Buffalo on Dec. 6, 1918. The Stoisits family were of Croatian descent. They moved back to Austria in 1922. Marie Rose grew up on the family farm in Burgoland, the easternmost province of Austria, near the Hungarian border.
Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, Marie Rose found employment in Vienna in the commissary service at Austrian battalion headquarters. Her brother Johann Stoisits died in a military hospital in Kiev, Ukraine, of war injuries suffered during the Battle of Kiev at the time of the German occupation there.
After the war, Marie Rose lived in Magdeburg, Germany, before re-entering the United States.
Another brother, Viktor Stoisits, devel-oped an animal grooming business, including kennels and a grooming parlor. The patrons of Vienna Dog Groomers included pets of Hollywood stars such as Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, among others, plus sports mascots. He groomed pedigrees for the international dog shows and helped promote the indus-
try. When Viktor died earlier this year, Marie Rose inherited his estate in Van Nuys, California.
Marie Rose made pilgrim-age to Israel and Jerusalem. She was a member for 50 years of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic parish on E. 14th St. She was widely traveled in Europe and was received in audience by Pope John Paul II in Rome, early in the pope’s pontifi cate.
A member of the Hotel Trades Council in New York City, she worked as a supervisor of hotel concierges at the Regency and Plaza hotels in Midtown, until retiring around 1978.
In the mid-1950s she married Antonio Doria, a scion of the princely family of the Dorias, descendants of Admiral Andrea Doria, the con-dottiere (mercenary commander) and cofounder of the Genoese Republic. There were no children of the marriage, which ended in separation.
Maria Rose Doria is survived by nieces and nephews in Vienna, Austria. Memorial servic-es were held in New York and at the Sirovich Senior Center, at 331 E. 12th St., where she was a member for many years.
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Marie Rose Doria.
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Living history in a new book of L.E.S. interviewsSome of the 25 people profi led in the new “Lower East Side Oral Histories” recently gathered for a book party at the Duo Multicultural Arts Center, at 62 E. Fourth St. Above, from left, Nina Howes (who did the interviews for the book), James Galuppo, Nilda Rivera, Jan Lee, Joe Preston, Rebecca Lepkoff, Frankie Alexander and Markian Surmach, son of the late Myron Surmach, who was interviewed for the book. Others in the book include Jack Dowling, Carmen Pabon, Ernesto Rossi, Rabbi Harold Swiss and Steven “Pepe” Zwaryczuk. The oral histories were edited by Eric Ferrara, founder and director of the Lower East Side History Project. Howes is a nurse, political activist and writer whose plays have been presented Off Off Broadway. The 160-page paperback includes photos and is available for $17.99 at local independent book-stores or directly through the publisher at 866-457-5971 or online at historypress.net .
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BY PAUL DERIENZO Medical marijuana activist Dana Beal was sentenced earlier this month to four to six years after being arrested in 2009 with 150 pounds of pot near Omaha, Nebraska. According to Beal’s Nebraska attorney Glenn Shapiro he’ll be eligible for parole in two years, and with time served and good behavior, he could be out by next November. Beal, 65, of 9 Bleecker St., was sup-ported by friends who came from New York, California and as far away as New Zealand. Fellow cannabis activist Ed Rosenthal from Oakland, California, said it could have been a lot worse. Beal had faced a maximum of 20 years in prison, and the Saunders County attorney asked for a sentence of eight to 12 years. “He has this problem,” said Rosenthal, “a confl ict between the law and helping people.” But prosecutors claimed, as Rosenthal put it, “The guy is just a street dealer…and when he gets caught he says its medical.” Rosenthal called the accusation “insulting.” Prosecutors also said Beal should get a stiff term because he “lacked remorse.” Michael Brinkley, an AIDS patient living in New York, testifi ed on Beal’s behalf that he’s used pot “to halt H.I.V. disease progres-sion.” Brinkley said the marijuana buyers club Beal supplied in New York has more than 1,000 members. “If Beal is in jail the buyers club should be in prison, too,” he said, because, “We exploited Dana.” Sheila Steinberg, also from New York City, said marijuana helps control her multiple sclerosis, moderating mood swings associ-ated with the disease. A member of the Yippies, a band of anties-tablishment radicals with roots in the 1960s,
Beal is probably best known for organizing the Global Marijuana March, held in New York City each May, and as an advocate of ibogaine, which Beal maintains can cure heroin addiction. Marie Cotter, who came from Auckland, New Zealand, said Beal’s advocacy of ibo-gaine led to its legalization in her country, and as a personal note, she added, saved her son’s life. It was Cotter’s second trip to the United Stated on Beal’s behalf. She spoke at his 2011 sentencing to fi ve years in prison in Wisconsin for a similar pot bust, at which Beal promised the judge his days of running medical pot across the country were over. After the Wisconsin sentencing in 2011, which broke down to two and a half years in jail and two and a half years probation, Beal was shipped to Nebraska to face trial on his marijuana bust there. Shortly after his Wisconsin sentencing, Beal suffered a major heart attack where he claimed to be briefl y dead and then brought back to life. He received a double bypass, and after a subsequent heart attack, a stent to hold his artery open. Beal said he continues to suffer from an untreated hernia. The marijuana activist told the judge, “What I was doing is as obsolete as the Titanic, because of the legalization of pot as medicine in several states and recent legaliza-tion for recreational use in Colorado, which is next to Nebraska.” Beal is currently being held under a “detainer” from Wisconsin and is expected to be sent back there to fi nish his sentence in that state.
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Dana Beal speaking at a Global Marijuana March event in New York City.
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Photos by Tequila Minsky
Strumming, singing, wagging…and just not playingAbove left, in the time-honored tradition of alternate-side parking, a Thompson St. resident sat in his pickup truck on Monday, at the appropriate times, after the street sweepers went by. He kept busy by practicing mandolin. Above right, Christmas carolers were making their rounds on Saturday night. After starting at Washington Square Park, they made stops along Thompson St. (hey, maybe the mandolin guy joined in) and Bleecker St. At lower left, meanwhile, outside of St. Mark’s Church, at Second Ave. and 10th St., even a dog got into the festive spirit (well, it had no choice). Finally, lower right, a Little Italy boutique wasn’t buying into the holiday hype.
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Photos by Milo Hess
Santa Claus meets dancing dragon as East Meets WestThe annual East Meets West Parade in Chinatown and Little Italy on Saturday saw a dragon dance-and-Christmas mash-up that could only be found in New York.
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Photo by Sam Spokony
Chickens join children in an L.E.S. Magical GardenThe Children’s Magical Garden has some new occupants — and those guests are already clucking their approval. The 18 chickens are being kept in a pen at the com-munity garden, at the corner of Stanton and Norfolk Sts., until March, according to C.M.G. Director Kate Temple-West. The fowls are offi cially under the care of Earth Matter, an environmental education group, and are normally kept in the organization’s learning center on Governors Island. Temple-West said Earth Matter had reached out because they needed a place to keep the chickens for the winter, and the garden was happy to oblige. She added that area residents are welcome to sign up to help care for the chickens for a day — with the added incentive that volunteers will be rewarded with some free eggs at the end of their shifts.
Photo by Sam Spokony
Ruff and (almost) ready at canine club on Avenue AIf you build it, they will come. And heel. And maybe give you a paw shake if you have treats. So it’s no surprise that plenty of East Village dog owners came out with pets in tow for the recent open house at Ruff Club — the soon-to-open daycare and social club for mutts and their masters (respectively) — in its newly decked-out location at 34 Avenue A. There were many happy faces, human and otherwise, at the event as they checked out Ruff Club’s hip bar/seating area and the spacious play room in the back that will soon be home to four-legged fun. No alcohol behind the bar, but they’ll make up for it with good coffee, free WiFi and even a small library for literarily inclined club members. Ruff Club’s husband-and-wife co-owners, Alexia Simon Frost and Danny Frost (at right in photo, with members of their staff), said they’re in the fi nal stages of taking membership applications, and plan to open for business shortly after New Year’s.
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BY SCOTT STIFFLERCast out of necessity in the role of a
nomad determined to use his tribe’s time in exile to refi ne their mission and expand their territory, Performance Space 122 Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner’s vision for the future would be fully funded if potent meta-phors had cash value.
Consider this one a down payment: Tightly wound with thematically kindred works of dance and theater, PS122’s multi-borough COIL Festival is set to spring. That, and opportunities presented by displacement, were the topics of our recent phone conversa-tion with Gantner — whose signal remained strong as his cab entered a tunnel midway through the story of how 18 months spent rejuvenating the 150 First Ave. facade was a mere prelude to 24 more months of “meat and potatoes” work (beginning in February 2013) which will revitalize the venerable not-for-profi t arts center’s interior.
Meantime, the once and future home of PS122 isn’t entirely dormant. Its second fl oor space has gone from a functioning theater to a site-specifi c COIL venue. “There’s no seating,” explains Gantner, “so the audience is standing, and the performance happens amidst them. Hence the title.”
The second installment of Czech-born, New York-based choreographer Pavel Zuštiak’s four-hour “The Painted Bird” tril-ogy, “Amidst” recalls the boundary-shattering experience of Part I (“Bastard”) — where dancers planted throughout the audience unexpectedly swarmed the stage.
Furthering that notion of observer as participant, “Amidst” uses PS122’s gutted theater to encourage audience members to “move freely amidst a sensory immersive
installation at the intersection of dance per-formance, visual art and live music” that (metaphor alert!) “focuses on nostalgia as a place of entrapment on a journey home.”
With the return to First Ave. at least two years away, Gantner is fi rmly entrenched in the task of cultivating a more evolved aes-thetic that should be in full effect when the staff, crew and artists return to their East Village home.
“We’ve been planning on being out of the building for a long time,” says Gantner, “so we created seasons that really thought about what it meant to not have a historical home. We realized this was a huge opportunity to fi nd new audiences in other boroughs and in other parts of the world. So we’re creat-ing a touring program internationally and reconceiving how we operate as a presenter of live performance. What does it mean to be a commissioner? What does it mean to present and produce? We need to be asking bigger questions, to really be engaged with audiences in different and innovative ways.”
And with that, Gantner lets go with his closer — which, if achieved across the board and with season-to-season consistency, will go a long way in addressing the fatal fl aw that keeps so many Downtown endeavors from making the great leap from brilliant premise to skilled execution.
“It can’t be half-baked,” he says of both production values and general preparedness. “We see this in a lot of work. It doesn’t have the time and capacity to fi nish itself. You can’t have a job and rehearse at night and on the weekend. Audiences aren’t served by that, because they’re not getting work that’s fully realized.”
Artists, Gantner asserts, “need to be given economic and production tools. They need to be focused and obsessively making the work. They do not need to spend six hours a day hunting down free studio space. The whole Downtown experimental avant-garde; that sector is predicated on artists who work for free, who do not earn a living from their work. But the performing arts are valuable. They’re important and critical to the economy of New York. And at a certain point, we need to engage that, to make it sustainable.”
To facilitate that, he notes, “We decided to pay people properly, everybody in the room who’s engaged in the show. So we’re putting a lot more money than we used to into projects.”
Three times, more, estimates Gantner, who says they’ve hired two creative produc-ers “dedicated to making sure that every piece is realized to the fullest possible
Deconstruction AheadCOIL Fest springs, as PS122 stretches its muscles
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“Infl atable Frankenstein!” mashes the monster’s fi ctional creator and Mary Shelley.
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Theater in the ruins: “Amidst” takes place inside PS122’s gutted second fl oor theater space.
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extent. That means fi nding co-producers and grants. That means making sure the way marketing talks about a show is actually what the show is.”
As it applies to COIL, at least, PS122 seems to have nailed that last one. Asked if he set out to stack the festival with a specifi c point of view, Gantner maintains that any similari-ties to be found within the six dance and fi ve theater works were happy accidents — but when pressed, he does cop to certain intrigu-ing themes that emerge through even the most cursory glance at COIL’s press release.
“It’s just the vibe at the moment,” observes Gantner of works that use iconic characters as a means to contemplate notions of self. “Maybe there’s something about the way we have vir-tual lives,” he offers. It seems like a reasonable (if only partial) explanation for why Brain Rogers’ drunken live performance of “Hot Box” invokes the physical trials actors under-went in making “Apocalypse Now,” or how Radiohole’s “Infl atable Frankenstein!” mashes the monster’s fi ctional creator and author Mary Shelley — whose imagination conjured both the mad scientist and his reanimated Id. And then there’s Kristen Komas’ “There There” — in which an ill-prepared female proofreader subs for an injured Christopher Walken after his mysterious fall from a ladder while touring Russia in a solo show inspired by sociopath Vassily Vasilyevich Solyony from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.”
The abundance of doppelgangers in COIL, says Gantner, could be a refl ection of how “We’re kind of self-creating,” by invoking iden-tities forged remotely through social media. “We’re branding ourselves. We see that in Tina Satter’s piece.”
In “Seagull (Thinking of you),” writer and director Satter uses various translations of Chekhov’s 1895 work “The Seagull” as well as the playwright’s own letters to ponder what makes us human. Adding another layer of complexity, Satter has cast her “Seagull” with performers who are “oddly resonant counterpoints and matches” to the Chekhov characters.
On the other end of the spectrum, 68-year-
old actor, producer and playwright Peggy Shaw’s “Ruff” addresses the aftermath of her 2011 stroke by confronting, says Gantner, “the absences that are created by the loss of self, and having to reinvent one’s self and re-fi nd one’s memories, friends and history.”
Shaw’s fractured narrative quest to retrieve the eccentric personas that have lived inside her for decades while fi lling that post-stroke “blank space with new insights” fi ts nicely with the Gantner’s commitment to art that asks questions for the sake of evolution rather than endgame answers. “These works,” Gantner says, “exist in a space that’s idea-driven. I think are accessible and meaningful, but they don’t need to be literal. It gives the power of creation back to the audience.”
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The cast of Half Straddle’s “Seagull (Thinking of you)” compliments, and contrasts, their Chekhovian counterparts.
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Peggy Shaw ponders post-stroke identity, in “Ruff.”
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AMORE OPERA’S “La Bohème”Amore Opera revisits the produc-
tion that marked its inaugural season — Puccini’s timeless masterpiece, “La Bohème.” Set in the 1840s, the opera in four acts (which had a little something to do with inspiring a little Broadway smash called “Rent”) concerns a group of bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris — specifically, the tragic arc of two young lovers. Directed by Nathan Hull and conducted by Gregory Ortega, Amore’s “La Bohème” is fully staged (with full orchestra) and presented in its original Italian (with subtitles). An abbreviated, 90-minute version is also offered, as part of Amore’s “Opera-in-Brief” series (geared towards young audiences and families). The New Year’s Eve performance of the full production also functions as the com-pany’s annual fundraiser — and includes hors d’oeuvres, dinner between acts, a champagne toast at midnight and a special post-midnight concert.
Through Jan. 6, at the Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th St., btw. Aves. A & B). Tickets are $40, $30 for students/seniors. The New Year’s Eve Gala is $125. All tick-ets for the Opera-in-Briefs are $15. To purchase, visit amoreopera.org or call 888-811-4111. “La Bohème” plays Sat., Dec. 29 at 7:30pm and Sun., Dec. 30 at 3:30pm. The New Year’s Eve Dinner Gala/performance is Mon., Dec. 31, 7:30pm. Additional performances at 7:30pm, Wed, Jan. 2-Sat., Jan. 5 and on Sun., Jan. 6 at 2:30pm. “La Bohème Opera-in-Brief” plays Sat., Dec. 29 at 2:30pm and Sat., Jan. 5 at 2:30pm.
—Scott Stiffl er
URBAN FABRIC: BUILDING NEW YORK’S GARMENT DISTRICT
This exhibition focuses on New York’s Garment District, which once housed the largest concentration of skyscraper fac-tories in the world. Comprising about eighteen city blocks, ranging from 35th to 41st Streets and from Seventh to Ninth Avenues, it was home to over 100,000
manufacturing workers — including nee-dle-trade workers, patternmakers, cutters, sewers, pressers and finishers, as well as the executives, designers and models. Nearly 75 percent of all women’s and children’s apparel in the United States were produced in this area. The exhibi-tion provides insight into this district’s rapid development, which occurred almost entirely within the boom decade of the 1920s. Through Feb. 17. At The Skyscraper Museum (39 Battery Place). Call 212-968-1961 or skyscraper.org.
EL ANATSUI: POT OF WISDOMBorn in 1944, the Ghanaian sculptor
has spent much of his career in Nigeria. While in the past, some of his preferred materials have included clay and wood, his most recent installations incorporate a wide range of found materials. His best-known works are monumental wall sculptures that are made of thousands of discarded bottle tops. The latter are assembled into elegantly shimmering pat-terns, which generate a unique sense of color and movement.
As all of El Anatsui’s works pay hom-age to traditional African art and craft, one can expect another interesting display of a vocabulary and imagination both for-eign and otherworldly.
Through Jan. 19. At Jack Shainman Gallery (513 W. 20th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). The gallery will be open by appoint-ment from Dec. 24 through Jan. 2. Call 212-645-1701 or visit jackshainman.com.
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Back to their roots: Amore Opera’s “La Bohème” revisits the company’s inaugural season production.
Photo courtesy of The Skyscraper Museum (copyright: ILGWU Collection, Cornell University Archive
The Skyscraper Museum’s “Urban Fabric” exhibition is on view through Feb. 17.
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
Installation view of “El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom.”
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BY DAVID KENNERLEYThe term “angry young man” is gener-
ally attributed to working class British playwrights in the 1950s and ‘60s, but perhaps no other drama embodies the concept more fervently than “Golden Boy,” written by Clifford Odets in New York in 1937. Proof positive that the influential Odets was well before his time. He is timeless, as well.
Joe Bonaparte (Seth Numrich), the tit-ular boy, gets mighty angry. As the young-est son of an Italian immigrant, he was a geeky, cock-eyed kid — a “shrimp with glasses” and a weird name that made him a social outcast who got bullied. He found solace studying the violin and support from his sensitive, music-loving father (Tony Shalhoub), yet on the eve of his 21st birthday he discovers he has another talent — boxing. The nimble lightweight has an edge over other prizefighters — instead of relying solely on brawn, he uses his brains.
As for his fists, well, he initially uses them sparingly in order to protect them from serious damage so he might one day go back to his first love.
Torn between a career in music and boxing, Joe chooses the more manly, lucrative path, egged on by his oppor-
tunistic manager Tom Moody (Danny Mastrogiorgio), his devoted trainer Tokio (Danny Burstein, from “Follies” and “South Pacific”), and, later, a ruthless mentor, Eddie (Anthony Crivello), who is seen as a threat by the syndicate that handles Joe despite his veiled homo-sexuality. Along the way, Joe falls hard for Moody’s girl, Lorna (portrayed with complex intensity by Yvonne Strahovski), a bleach-blonde “tramp from Newark” who’s got an axe of her own to grind.
Once the prizefighter tastes blood, he becomes a veritable vampire, wrecking relationships as he goes out for more. But can he ever satisfy his thirst?
“Do not violate the laws of nature if you
do not want to be miserable,” says the elder Bonaparte. Joe admits fi ghting is not in his nature and that he is indeed miserable. But he bounds ahead and pays the price.
This “Golden Boy” has received a richly textured, gut-wrenching produc-tion from Lincoln Center Theater, tapping the clear-eyed Bartlett Sher, who directed another Odets gem, “Awake and Sing!,” winner of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play Revival. Aided by Michael Yeargan’s moody urban exteriors and gritty gym interiors and Catherine Zuber’s period-perfect costumes (she did painstaking research to get the boxing garb just right), the 19-actor ensemble exquisitely evokes Depression-era New York.
As the betrayed boxer, chiseled pretty boy Numrich is astonishing, morphing convincingly from awkwardly defiant son to bloodthirsty monster. The 25-year-old, Julliard-trained actor most recently starred in “War Horse,” but just three years ago he was playing a tortured gay teen in a tiny play titled “Slipping” at the Rattlestick, opposite Adam Driver.
My only quibble is that the play some-times feels like a pulpy film noir of that era, and a few characters, with their dated New York vernacular, verge on cardboard cutouts. “His mitts are on his mind,” says Moody. “You can’t do a thing with a nut like that.” But overall the performances are so strong it doesn’t matter.
For his part, Sher keeps the action churning in this three-act play, which clocks in at just under three hours with two intermissions. He seems especially keen showing as many fleshy boxing champs as possible, at both their fierc-est and most vulnerable. The sight of the sobbing, shuddering golden boy on the rubdown table, being soothed by his trainer, is one of the most tenderly har-rowing moments you’ll see on the boards this season.
This blistering, first-rate production of “Golden Boy” is a testament to the durable power of Odets, who may have modeled the material on his own conflicts as an angry young man. Surely the themes of choosing fame and fortune over art, staying true to your nature and avenging bullies resonate just as clearly today.
How fitting that the drama is being staged at the Belasco Theatre, where it premiered with Frances Farmer and Elia Kazan 75 years ago.
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Anthony Crivello and Seth Numrich in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” running at the Belasco Theatre through January 20.
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HOW I BECAME A PIRATE Omaha Theater Company’s new musical uses brassy pirate songs and bold choreography to bring Melinda Long’s popular children’s book to life. When Jeremy impresses Braid Beard with his knowledge of sand castles and moats, he becomes a valued member of the crew. But shortly after they set sail on a high seas treasure hunt, Jeremy realizes his adventure of a lifetime isn’t going to be all fun and games. Can he convince the pirates to take him back home, where the real fun is? Sun., Jan. 6, at 2pm. At the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College (2/5 trains to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Ave.). For tickets ($7), call 718-951-4500 (Tues.-Sat., 1-6pm) or visitbrooklyncenteronline.org.
THE PICCOLINI TRIO: “CIRCUS IN A BOX” After a two-month hiatus and extensive renovations due to Hurricane Sandy damage, Canal Park Playhouse is back — and so is The Piccolini Trio, whose third annual run at the theater combines contempo-rary big top hijinks with classic European style clowning. When the three mischievous friends arrive at the Playhouse and realize the circus they came to see isn’t going to show up, they decide to put on a show — by using all the fun and fantastic things they find in a huge antique trunk. Music, acrobatics, physical comedy, juggling and pantomime are all performed at a breathless pace by the Trio, who cut their clown teeth (and earned their big red noses) while studying with Circus Smirkus, the award-winning international youth circus. Brunch at the theater’s Waffle Iron Café is available before and after the show. The menu includes hot-off-the-waffle-iron frittatas, French toast, traditional Belgian Waffles and two famous house specialties: The Playhouse Pink Waffle (a pink waffle with strawberries and whipped cream) and the Decadent Dark Chocolate Waffle. Don’t have a sweet tooth? Really? Well, then, entree salads are also available! Jan. 5-Jan. 27, 1pm & 4pm, Sat. & Sun. At Canal Park Playhouse (508 Canal St., btw. Greenwich & West Sts.). For tickets ($20), call 866-811-4111 or visit canalparkplayhouse.com.
“TEEN READS FOR WINTER” AT BOOKS OF WONDER New York City’s oldest and largest independent children’s bookstore hosts Storytime every Fri. at 4pm and Sun. at noon, in their Children’s Room. Their frequent author events feature readings, Q&As and the chance to have your favorite book autographed. On Sat., Jan. 12, from 12-2pm, “Teen Reads for Winter” welcomes Elizabeth Laban — whose novel “The Tragedy Paper” refers to the prestigious Irving School’s high-pressure version of a senior year thesis. Recent transfer
student Tim, an albino, just wants to fly under the radar and graduate. But when his friendship with “it” girl Vanessa turns into a clandestine relationship, Duncan uncovers the truth and sees its potential for writing the greatest Tragedy Paper ever. Joining Laban on Jan. 12 will be Deb Heiligman (“Intentions”), Theo Lawrence “Mystic City”) and Beth Ann Bauman (“Jersey Angel”). At 18 W. 18th St. (btw. Fifth & Sixth Aves.). Open Mon.-Sat., 11am-7pm and Sun.11am-6pm. For info, call 212-989-3270 or visit booksofwonder.com.
FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL The Vital Theatre Com-pany’s tuneful adaptation of the beloved book series finds the girl with a flair for fancy words, clothes and décor in the middle of a serious personal crisis. Along with good friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda and Lionel, Nancy has landed a role in the school play (“Deep Sea Dances”). That’s the good news. The bad news: Nancy won’t be a glamorous mermaid, just a dreary and dull tree. After the initial disap-pointment, our heroine resolves to use her trademark flair to make the small part into something as entertaining and unique as she is. Through Feb. 24. Sat. at 1:30pm and Sun. at noon. At Culture Project, 45 Bleecker St. (btw. Mulberry & Mott Sts.) For tickets ($30), visit vitaltheatre.org, call 212-579-0528 or visit the McGinn/Cazale box office Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm (or the Culture Project box office one hour prior to show time).
SATURDAY FAMILY PROGRAMS AT THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM Dinosaurs aren’t the only big and tall creations to fascinate the very young and very short. Towering sky-scrapers also have a pull on the seven-plus set — and there’s no better place to see them than right here, in the world’s foremost vertical metropolis. But why crane your neck looking upwards? Explore tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction and places of work and residence (and build one of your own!) at The Skyscraper Museum. Their winter/spring “Saturday Family Program” series features workshops designed to introduce children and their families to the principles of architecture and engineering through hands-on activities. On Jan. 12, the “New Year’s Calendar Construction” work-shop challenges you to make an architectural calendar (also known as a 12-sided rhombic dodecahedron). Learn about geometric shapes used in architecture, and construct a 3-D calendar for 2013 that celebrates skyscrapers and geom-etry. On Jan. 26, “So Sew Tall” takes its inspiration from
the museum’s current “Urban Fabric” exhibition— which tells the story of New York’s Garment District. Back in the 1920s, the area from 35th to 41st Sts., from Seventh to Ninth Aves., produced nearly three-fourths of the apparel worn by American women and children. After a series of activities exploring factory designs and production meth-ods, build your own factory and organize the production of a product! All workshops ($5 per family) are for ages 7+ and take place at 10:30am. Registration is required. Call 212-945-6324 or email [email protected]. At 39 Battery Place (btw. First Place & Little West St.). Regular museum hours are Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Admission is $5 ($2.50 for students/seniors).
“KIDS CLAY” AT THE PENN SOUTH CERMAICS STUDIO This workshop encourages kids ages 7-11 to make a mess
(and, eventually, something that flows from a lump of clay, their own imagination and a little supervised instruc-tion). Eventually, the kids go home — but their work stays behind, where it’s fired in the kiln and available to pick up at the next month’s workshop. “Kids Clay” happens Sun., Jan. 13, from12-2pm, at the Penn South Ceram-ics Studio (Building 6B, 279 Ninth Ave., at 26th St.). The workshop is $22 for Penn South residents, $25 for non-residents (a sibling can come along for half price). Email [email protected] for an application. Also visit pennsouthceramics.com.
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that a license, number which is pending, for beer and wine, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alco-holic Beverage Control Law at 1663 First Avenue, North Store, New York, NY 10028 for on premises consump-tion. The Burger Bistro Three, Inc. DBA The Burger Bistro
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 99 JOHN DECO, LLC.
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 387 Park Ave. South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY desig-nated 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. offi ce. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 267 EAST 10TH STREET
REALTY LLCAuth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/3/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 6/5/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
77 JANE STREET, LLCArt. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 04/24/2012. Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY des-ignated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 127 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any law-ful act or activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KAIRIS LLC
Arts of Org fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/25/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY designat-ed as agent upon whom pro-cess may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 57 W. 38th St. Ste 1201 New York, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ISITE REAL ESTATE
LLCArts of Org fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/11/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY designat-ed as agent upon whom pro-cess may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal address: 109 Lafayette St. Ste 301 New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SKYLAUNCH ADVI-
SORS, LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/15/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United State Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 13-15 WEST 54TH
STREET LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/2012. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Reid A. Rosen, Esq., 15 Wilputte Place, New Rochelle, NY 10804, the reg-istered agent upon whom process may be served. Pur-pose: any lawful purpose.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SWEET SPOT FASH-
IONS, LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Offi ce of Steven M. Gerber, 666 Fifth Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Purpose: any law-ful activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WOLK PROPERTIES,
LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/03. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Anne Fried, 740 West End Ave., NY, NY 10025, the reg-istered agent upon whom process may be served. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NAME OF LLC: RON-MARK CAPITAL LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State: 11/26/12. Offi ce loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIDENT PLACE-MENT GROUP, LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 9/6/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 392 Central Park West, Unit 12N, NY, NY 10025, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF TRACER CON-
STRUCTION LLCAuthority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/10/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 5500 Wayzata Blvd., Ste. 800, Golden Val-ley, MN 55416. LLC formed in DE on 6/29/98. 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., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Musket Hospitality LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establish-ment. For on premises con-sumption under the ABC law at 265 Elizabeth St. New York NY 10012.
Vil: 12/20 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by RGD Wine & Dine Group Inc. to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 197 1st Ave. a/k/a 351 East 12th St. New York NY 10003
Vil: 12/20 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by 289 Hospitality LLC d/b/a Marquee to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with two additional bars. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 289 Tenth Avenue New York NY 10001.
Vil: 12/20 - 12/27/2012
PLOOSH LLCArticles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/24/12. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 156 W 15th St Apt 4AB New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
1152 SECOND AVENUE, LLC
Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/21/12. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 1152 2nd Ave New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF J&L GRANDCHIL-
DREN’S LLCArts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/03/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Joshua Levin, 205 W. 95th St., NY, NY 10025. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
P.A. COLLINS P.E. CON-SULTING ENGINEERING,
PLLCArticles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/17/12. Offi ce NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 15 W. 26th St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: To practice professional engi-neering.
Vil: 12/27 - 01/31/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
(LLC)Name: HSP PARTNERS LLC. Application for Author-ity was fi led by the Depart-ment of State of New York on: 10/24/2012. Jurisdiction: Delaware. Organized on: 10/17/2011. Offi ce location: County of New York. Pur-pose: any and all lawful activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 325 Canal Street, #2, New York, NY 10013. Address of offi ce required to be maintained in Delaware National Corporate Research, Ltd. 615 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901. Authorized offi cer in its Jurisdiction is: Secretary of State of Delaware John G. Townsend Building, 401 Fed-eral Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that a license, number 1265249 for wine and beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 249 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002 for on-premises consump-tion. (Feihu Food Inc. d/b/a Zest)
Vil: 12/20 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ACISION LLC
Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/17/07. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 1008, Albany, NY 12260. Principal offi ce: 6404 Interna-tional Pkwy, #2048, Plano, TX 75093. Address to be main-tained in DE: 1679 S. DuPont Hwy, Ste. 100, Dover, DE 19901. Arts of Org. fi led with the DE Secretary of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ASPIRE CHANNEL,
LLCArticles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/31/12. Offi ce 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: Aspire Channel, LLC, 2077 Con-vention Center Concourse, Ste 300, Atlanta, GA 30337, ATTN: Paul Butler. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HORIZON 6F LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 244 Madison Ave., Unit 724, NY, NY 10016. SSNY desig-nated 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. offi ce. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
CENTRAL PARK FINAN-CIAL LLC
Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/10/2012. Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY des-ignated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 551 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, Suite 612, New York, NY 10176. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PARK VIEW 54C LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jacob & Co., Attn: Angela Arabo, 48 E. 57th St., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WLZ 43-45 EAST 60TH STREET MANAGER, LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kane Kessler, P.C., 1350 Ave. of the Americas, 26th Fl., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Robert L. Lawrence, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 119 CHAMBERS
RETAIL OWNERS LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Centurion Realty, LLC, 512 7th Ave., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 75 & 81 ORCHARD
ASSOCIATES LLCArts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Fifth Ave., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GUSTUS MANAGE-
MENT LLCArts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 6/29/2012. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez, LLP, 46 Trinity Pl., NY, NY 10006. Term: until 12/31/2099. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF S & J GATES AVENUE
LLCArts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/29/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: Jusuf Zlatanic, 201 E. 80th St., Apt. 16A, NY, NY 10075, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF EXECUTIVE
ADVANTAGE, LLCAuthority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/4/12. NYS fi ctitious name: New York Executive Advantage, LLC. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in CT on 5/10/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. CT and principal business addr.: 22 Randolph Farm Rd., Milford, CT 06461. Cert. of Org. fi led with CT Sec. of State, 30 Trinity St., Hartford, CT 06115. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GREEN ACRES
666 FIFTH RETAIL EAT TIC OWNER LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/16/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652. LLC formed in DE on 11/5/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corpora-tion 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. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GREEN ACRES
666 FIFTH RETAIL EAT TIC PARENT LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/16/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652. LLC formed in DE on 11/5/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corpora-tion 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. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF S&P/DOW JONES INDICES LLC.
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/24/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 6/28/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Attn: Gen-eral Counsel, 1221 Ave. of the Americas, 48th Fl., NY, NY 10020, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.
Vil: 12/20 - 01/24/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 53 MERCER STREET
PARTNERS LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 236 Elizabeth St., NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to the LLC, c/o Geller & Lehmann LLC, 10749 Falls Rd., Ste. 202, Lutherville, MD 21093-7033. As amended by Cert. of Amendment fi led with SSNY on 11/16/12, the name of the LLC is: 258 WYTHE AVENUE PARTNERS LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: 1075 FARMINGVILLE
LLC. Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/29/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o The Tzanides Law Firm, PLLC, 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 1000, New York, New York 10016. Purpose: For any law-ful purpose.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
DAJD REALTY LLC, A DOMESTIC LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 11/9/12. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Andrew Schonzeit, 37 W. 26th St., NY, NY 10010. General Purposes.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WEISSGLASS PSY-
CHOLOGICAL SERVICES, PLLC
Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/27/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been des-ignated as an agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC is to: Weiss-glass Psychological Services, PLLC, 139 W 75th St, Apt 5 New York, NY 10023. Pur-pose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 43-22 QUEENS
STREET L.L.C.Articles of Organization fi led with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Com-pany, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 28-E LAUSANNE LLCArt. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/29/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to H.B. Woolfalk, Esq., 113 Walworth Ave., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF INFINITY 55-01 MYRTLE AVE LLC, FILED UNDER THE ORIGINAL NAME INFINITY RETAIL
PORTFOLIO LLCArt. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/26/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1407 Broadway, 30th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2505 THIRD DEBT LLCArt. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/20/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Bluestone Group, 40 Rector St., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WATERMELON CAN-TINA LLC FILED UNDER THE ORIGINAL NAME
107 THOMPSON STREET CAFE LLC
Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/22/12. Offi ce 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 Golenbock Eiseman et al, Att: David Rubin, 437 Madison Ave., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
P U B L I C N O T I C E S
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NOTICE OF QUAL. OF AIM QUANTITATIVE
GLOBAL SF LPAuth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/3/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 4/18/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 529 5th Ave., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10017. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF TWO SIGMA ACTIVE
EXTENSION U.S. SMALL CAP EQUITY PORTFOLIO,
LLCAuth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/6/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/2/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Mat-thew Siano, 379 W. Broad-way, NY, NY 10012. DE off. addr.: CSC 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF TWO SIGMA ACTIVE
EXTENSION U.S. SMALL CAP EQUITY FUND, LP
Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/6/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 8/2/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Mat-thew Siano, 379 W. Broad-way, NY, NY 10012. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF TWO SIGMA ACTIVE
EXTENSION U.S. SMALL CAP EQUITY MASTER
FUND, LLCAuth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/6/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/2/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Mat-thew Siano, 379 W. Broad-way, NY, NY 10012. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF ARDEN GARDEN STATE
NJ FUND, L.P.fi led under the original name Arden Liberty Fund, L.P., Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/10/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 4/19/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Averell Mortimer, 375 Park Ave., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10152. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-ington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF RIVER PART-NERS 2012-TAH, LLC
App. for Auth. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/16/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/13/12. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Levin Capital Strategies, LP, 595 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led DE Secy. of State, Loockerman & Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 147 WEST 46TH
STREET OPERATING, LLCArts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/2/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 560 Fifth Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10036, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
NAME OF LLC: SHOW-TIME ON THE PIERS, LLCArts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State: 11/16/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Quinn McCabe LLP, 9 E. 40th St., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/13 - 01/17/2013
SUBSTITUTE TURPEN-TINE LLC
a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 11/6/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is desig-nated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 118 Perry St., #J40, NY, NY 10014. Gen-eral Purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WHITE PEACOCK LLCArts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/12. Office location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Hunter Gray, 225 W. 13th St., NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF YURMAN RETAIL
CANADA, LLCArts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/20/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to Pavia & Harcourt LLP, Attn: Jordan E. Ringel, Esq., 590 Madison Ave., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
GILDA PROPERTIES LLCa domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 10/24/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is desig-nated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Richard K. Eng, Esq., 100 Lafayette St., Ste. 403, NY, NY 10013. General Purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
MAPPHOTODATA LLC
Arts., of Org., fi led with NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) 11/20/2012. Offi ce in New York County; SSNY desig-nated agent for service of process with copy mailed to Pryor Cashman LLP, 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, Attn: Joshua Zuckerberg, Esq.; All lawful business pur-poses.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
J OAK LLC
Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/5/2012. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 248 Terrace Ln., Galax, VA 24333, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
BOULEVARD BISTRO,
LLC
Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 07/30/2012. Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY des-ignated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 117 West 123rd Street, 8A, New York, NY 10027. Purpose: Any law-ful act or activity.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CGL MANAGE-
MENT SERVICES, LLC
App. for Auth. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/8/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 4401 N. Mesa St., El Paso, TX 79902. DE address of LLC: 1675 South State St., Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. fi led DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ALALI VENTURES,
LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Ahmed Alali, 330 E. 75th St., NY, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF THEKEEP NYC, LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/9/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o John R. Devine, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., 10 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21202. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: Mary S. Devine, 234 Thompson St., #10, NY, NY 10012, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF OFS CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT, LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/13/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2850 West Golf Rd., Ste. 520, Rolling Mead-ows, IL 60008. LLC formed in DE on 3/18/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF OFS CAPITAL
SERVICES, LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/13/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2850 West Golf Rd., Ste. 520, Rolling Mead-ows, IL 60008. LLC formed in DE on 4/16/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
YOGAYAEL LLC
Arts. of Org fi led NY Secy of State(SSNY)11/6/12. OFC in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 119 W 72 St #274 NY NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act. 1985259
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF VIKING MVI
II LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/27/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/22/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: c/o Viking Global Per-formance LLC, 55 Railroad Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830, Attn: General Counsel. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 12/06 - 01/10/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF LIN MOBILE,
LLC
Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/12. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/07/12. Princ. offi ce of LLC: One West Exchange St., Providence, RI 02903. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: To engage in the development and sale of advertising solutions for the mobile and smartphone markets in addition to any other lawful act or activity incidental thereto.
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ARCHETYPES
BRANDS LLC
Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/07/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 09/21/12. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 5 Crosby St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MIRROR THE HAIR
SALON AT CAROL’S
DAUGHTER, LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/12. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 99 Hudson St., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF FACE UP, LLC
Authority fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/25/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 6/1/12. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 80 State St Albany, NY 12207-2543. Principal business address: 550 Madi-son Ave NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 2711 Cen-terville Rd Ste 400 Wilming-ton, DE 19808. Cert of LLC fi led with Secy of State of DE located: PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any law-ful act. 1984366
Vil: 11/29 -01/03/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ARIAMA LLC
Authority fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/9/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/8/11. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 80 State St Albany, NY 12207-2543. Principal business address: 550 Madi-son Ave NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 2711 Cen-terville Rd Ste 400 Wilming-ton, DE 19808. Cert of LLC fi led with Secy of State of DE located: PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any law-ful act. 1984362
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF XTRAINER LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 515 Madison Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/29 - 01/03/2013
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF D&C HOSPITAL-ITY INVESTMENTS, LLC
Application for Author-ity fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/28/12. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: D&C Hospitality Investments, LLC, 6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1730, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 696 PARTNERS
LLCAuthority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/31/12. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 1 Astor Pl., Apt. 2P, NY, NY 10003. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o US Corp. Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike, Ste, 301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 470 VANDERBILT
PARKING LLCArt. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/5/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 50 Broadway, 4th Fl., NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF 109 WEST 27TH
STREET, LLCArt. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/17/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 45 White St., NY, NY 10013. Pur-pose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUAL. OF GRAND AVENUE FEE
OWNER LLCAuth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/24/12. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/1/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1022M LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF RGN-NEW
YORK XIII, LLCAuthority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/01/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/18/12. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 15305 Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 400, Addison, TX 75001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
LAW OFFICES OF FRANK TRIEF, PLLC, A PROF. LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 10/16/2012. Offi ce loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Trief, 9 E. 40th St., 16th Fl, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF DEBRISTECH,
LLCAuthority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Mis-sissippi (MS) on 8/20/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Principal offi ce address: 925 Goodyear Blvd., Picayune, MS 39466. Arts of Org. fi led with the MS Secretary of State, P.O. Box 136, Jackson, MS 39205. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF WESTON BLACK-
WOOD LLC
Arts of Org fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/12. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 225 Fifth Ave, Ste 6R, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HLAM DUFFIELD
III LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/5/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o LAM Group, 202 Centre St., FL 6, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HENAN DUFFIELD
III LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/6/12. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lam Group, 202 Centre St., 6th Fl., New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GWB AMSTERDAM
LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Fifth Ave., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NGC PARTNERS LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o F. Confuorti, 2 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF T2 MULTISPORT
NYC LLC
Arts. of Org. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/12. Off. loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 429 E. 52nd St., Apt. 15J, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
P U B L I C N O T I C E S
24 December 27, 2012 - January 2, 2013
Ideas for curbing gun violence
To The Editor: Re “Kurland announces her run, and says she gave up her gun” (news article, Dec. 20): Whereas any fool with a gun can kill people by just pointing the gun and pulling the trigger; and thousands of innocent American kids and civilians have been gunned down by nut jobs with guns during the past year; and these deaths would not have happened if one or more persons had not transmitted the guns to the murderers. Therefore, to minimize episodes of gun vio-lence we propose the Transmission of Deadly Weapons Act as follows: 1. Gun dealers shall clearly etch their ID on the left side of gun barrels they sell, and clearly etch the ID of the buyer on the right side of the gun barrels. 2. Persons who sell or otherwise transmit deadly weapons such as guns to individualswho then use said deadly guns to kill innocent people, shall be charged as accessories to the murders. The U.S. Army taught me to kill people using handguns and rifl es. It doesn’t take much skill; any fool can do it. Also, bartenders who sell alcohol to persons who then cause a deadly incident should be at fault and liable to prosecution.
Cy Adler
Disarm the Board of Elections To The Editor: Re “Kurland announces her run, and says she gave up her gun” (news article, Dec. 20): Eric Tradd Schneiderman, in fact, was a deputy sheriff. I thought it was Upstate, but you are probably right. When he was run-ning for Democratic district leader or state Senate, he explained in front of his home club (Community Free Democrats) about that job, and I seem to recollect that he really wasn’t a sheriff on patrol, but he said that he did some sort of “paperwork,” like crime analysis or devising programs. Further, on the issue of guns, the New York City Board of Elections has employed for the past few years an armed guard at its head-quarters, at 32-42 Broadway. Why? Thinking of Ron Kuby’s remarks in your article — why is someone with a gun needed? To safeguard records? To prevent fi sticuffs at petition valid-ity hearings before the commissioners? The board never had an armed guard before — ever. Although during petition review and inspection periods, there is an New York Police Department cop — usually falling asleep — to stop someone from making off with an oppo-nent’s designating petition, say. So why the permanent Allied Barton com-pany’s armed goon? Well, a few years ago, the board’s administrative manager, state Senator Bill Perkin’s wife, Pamela Green, received seri-
ous death threats. A proper N.Y.P.D. investiga-tion found that the threats were indeed real, and came from an employee whom she disci-plined on a minor issue. (There were record-ings of telephone calls to her). The employee was arrested, tried and con-victed — and fi red. At the time, the board hired the private armed guard to protect Pamela — and has kept the guard on since then. It’s a waste of taxpayers’ money. I objected to no avail at commissioners’ meetings. And I couldn’t get a copy of the contract from the city department which handles such matters. There is no need for an armed guard now.
Alan Flacks
Can anyone else run, please?To The Editor: Re “Kurland announces her run, and says she gave up her gun” (news article, Dec. 20): Regarding your front-page piece on Ms. Kurland throwing her hat in the City Council race, I am quite amused by your friendly warn-ing that she had better get her facts straight before commenting again. What does this mean? Are we to believe that being deliberately vague, unresponsive or misleading is proper for one who seeks to get the support of the voters? As a longtime community activist and one quite familiar with Kurland’s public persona over the past several years, I can attest to the fact that she was much the same way in dealing with us. I found it frustrating — and in the end, after many long discussions, she could not fi nd her way clear to assist us in any way when told there would be no photo-op! She has a long way to go to regain her credibility. So far, I am unaware of anything she has accomplished other than showing up at ral-lies and shouting. Furthermore, she seemed entirely uninterested in the blatant violations that R.I.D. (Residents in Distress) brought to her attention on numerous occasions. Chris Quinn has set the bar quite high, it’s true. But at this point, I would welcome a dedi-cated staffer from any offi ce in our district to make a run for this seat instead.
Jessica BerkBerk is a member, Christopher St. Partnership
Gun-control hypocrites To The Editor: Re “Kurland announces her run, and says she gave up her gun” (news article, Dec. 20): You cannot have any kind of handgun permit in the fi ve boroughs of New York City without having a handgun serial number listed on the back of it. Therefore, if Kurland still is registered with New York Police Department as licensed to carry, she has a handgun listed on the back of that permit. If she has a permit without having an actual fi rearm, she is in vio-lation of N.Y.P.D. regulations. One thing is for sure, she is a hypocrite like
Mayor Bloomberg and Chuck Shumer, who have armed guards but deny the rights of their citizens to enjoy the same level of protection themselves.
Glenn HermanHerman is founder, New York City Guns
Stupid Santas! Bah, humbug!To The Editor: Re “Ban SantaCon! Inebriated St. Nicks out of control” (talking point, by Sarah Ferguson, Dec. 20): Sarah, great piece. I’m so glad someone wrote about this obnoxious event. I was out last Saturday going to BETTY’s holiday show at Joe’s Pub. I walked from the far West Village to Lafayette St. in the East Village. I ran into stupid, drunken Santas all over the place, to the left of me and to the right of me. It was not a pleasant walk, and when I left the club, it was impossible to get a cab. The only people who benefi t from this event are bar owners. It is not a cool cultural event like the Village Halloween Parade; it is just an excuse to get drunk, act out. At least BETTY’s show was great and Kate Clinton was hilarious when she came onstage and ad-libbed about Christmas trees. She was killing time while we waited for Gloria Steinem (who could not get a cab) to arrive and read her top 10 list. She did fi nally get Downtown.
Kate Walter
‘Mommy, why is Santa drunk?’To The Editor: Re “Ban SantaCon! Inebriated St. Nicks out of control” (talking point, by Sarah Ferguson, Dec. 20): Thank you to Sarah Ferguson for voicing what many of us have thought and felt for the past few years. Every year as I walk down the streets at this time and see the groups of inebri-ated young people in front of bars, puffi ng on cigarettes and carrying on loudly, I think of what a disillusionment this must be to young children who have pictures in their minds of Santa Claus. As her young son asked, “Why is Santa drunk?” I have wondered that same thing. Yes, it is defi nitely time to rethink this silly tradition and do away with it.
Linda Lusskin
Demands a G.L.W.D. do-overTo The Editor: People who claim to have God on their side have a long history of pulling off wicked exploits. So it should come as no surprise that the dubious alliance of God’s Love We Deliver and Quinlan-Tavros Development managed to get Community Board 2 to pull a shameful switcheroo at its Dec. 20 board meeting. Although the community board’s Land Use and Business Development Committee had voted nearly unanimously on Dec. 12 to reject the questionable air-rights transfer that
G.L.W.D. and QT development need for QT to pull off its expanded, 14-story, luxury condo development scheme, sometime in the follow-ing week, in a closed-door meeting, a deal was cut. C.B. 2’s Land Use Committee asks us to believe that they reversed their decision in exchange for concessions to the community that amount to a couple of trees planted on a landing, a handful of air conditioners and double-paned windows for the residents of 188 Sixth Ave. Such fables strain credulity. While images of smoke-fi lled rooms and envelopes stuffed with cash seem a bit banal, how else are we to explain such shenanigans? Those of us who live in the South Village want answers: How do these deals that sell out our neighborhoods get cut? Where is the public process mandated by the Open Meetings Law? And where are our elected offi cials in this disgraceful parody of city planning and demo-cratic governance? More than 50 South Village neighbors and friends have called on C.B. 2 to re-hear this matter at the community board’s fi rst meeting of the new year. We await their reply. In the meantime, we wish our neighbors a holiday season fi lled with peace and light. Thanks to the actions of our community board, it may be the last one they enjoy with these amenities.
Micki McGee
C.B. 2 delivered — for G.L.W.D.To The Editor: The role of Community Board 2 is to refl ect the views of its constituents. Anything but that occurred on Thurs., Dec. 20, when the board approved a land use modifi cation application for QT Development and God’s Love We Deliver known as a “minor modi-fi cation”— a modifi cation to God’s Love’s 1993 deed that would allow its rooftop property to be used as open space by a pri-vate developer. However, the application for the modifi -cation, formerly inspected by the public and voted down by the board’s Land Use and Business Development Committee a week earlier on Dec. 16, was incredibly rewrit-ten by members of the community board along with the developer in a private session behind closed doors! Can you imagine the shock and chagrin of my neighbors and me when we arrived at the full board meeting on Dec. 20, only to be told that the applica-tion from a week earlier had been retrofi t-ted and that the Land Use Committee had reversed its position? The developer had added a clause in the application stating that they will plant a few more trees and install windows and air conditioners for one of the adjacent buildings. Wow! That is probably the equivalent of lunch money for their attorneys for one week and falls way short of the type of stipulations that need to be included in order for this type of “minor modifi cation” to be approved. All this behind we the people’s backs. Then enter Tom Duane, the original
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author of the 1993 deed for the G.L.W.D. property. Since a close confi dante of Tom Duane had initially brought the “minor modifi cation” to my attention and gave the neighborhood reason and encouragement to oppose it, I couldn’t imagine that Mr. Duane didn’t concur. What happened to make Duane practically come out of retirement to come down and urge the board to support the “minor modifi cation”? More subterfuge in a week of subterfuge. Disgusting! C.B. 2 and Tom Duane should be ashamed of them-selves in honoring developers, favors and big money ahead of the common people. Shame on you. I appealed to the community board to consider the more than 300 rent-stabilized units directly and indirectly adjacent to the site and the huge consequences that adding another 18,000 square feet to this building would have for those people. It’s almost 30 percent more heft. But the fi x was in. Our pleas fell on deaf ears. G.L.W.D. has donors with the deepest pockets on planet Earth. This cynical line they spun that their mission is doomed unless they conspire with a major real estate developer to raise a measly few million dol-
lars from the sale of their air rights is hor-rible. How dare they use people dying from AIDS and other illnesses as P.R. for their new real estate venture. I know many many people who have approached G.L.W.D. about quality-of-life issues, such as odor and trucking noise, only to be given a very cold shoulder. Come spring, the heavy machinery will roll in and a giant development will proceed, towering above the little munchkins below, and once again “progress” in Manhattan will come at the expense of the common man. In this instance it will be most remark-able because of the huge population living directly adjacent to the site and the fact that their community representatives fi nd it more agreeable to be “in” with the big money and developers than their own constituents.
Kenny Ross
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NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CHILTON GLOBAL NATURAL RESOURCES LONG
OPPORTUNITIES, L.P.App. for Auth. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/30/12. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SALAURMOR
GP LLCApp. for Auth. fi led Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/12. Off. loc.: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/25/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 527 Madison Ave., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Stellar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. fi led DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil: 11/22 - 12/27/2012
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF NORTH RIVER I
MANAGER LLCAuthority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 10/29/12. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/25/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o North River I Manager LLC, 224 12th Ave., NY, NY 10001, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SIMPLEX TIME
RECORDER LLCAuthority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/1/12. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in MA on 6/30/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Princi-pal offi ce address: 1501 Yama-to Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33431. Cert. of Org. fi led with MA Sec. of the Commonwealth, One Ashburton Pl., Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF THREE-HUN-
DREDTH STREET LLC
Authority fi led with NY Dept.
of State on 10/29/12. Offi ce
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 10/18/12. NY
Sec. of State designated agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: CT Cor-
poration System, 111 8th Ave.,
NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC:
1209 Orange St., Wilmington,
DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led
with DE Sec. of State, 401
Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: all lawful purposes.
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NYLLCCO, LLC
Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of
State of NY 03/02/2012. Off.
Loc.:New York Co. SSNY des-
ignated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy of
process to The LLC, 305 Broad-
way, Suite 200, New York, NY
10007. Purpose: Any lawful act
or activity.
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P U B L I C N O T I C E S
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCOUNTING PROCEEDINGFILE NO. 2446/A-2011
CITATIONTHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKBy the Grace of God Free and Independent
TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York, Con Edison, Cor-dia Communications Corp., Beth Israel Medical Center, BIK Orthopedics, PC, SLR Diag-nostic RAD, Beth Israel Med, New York Post, Department of Medicine – Beth Israel, Gary Michael Wood, Barry J. Wood,
And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Robert Wood, a/k/a Robert J.
Wood, a/k/a Robert James Wood, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law,
next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors
in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent
inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein;
being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, benefi ciaries, distribu-
tees, or otherwise in the estate of Robert Wood, a/k/a Robert J. Wood, a/k/a Robert James
Wood, deceased, who at the time of his death was a resident of 100 W. 12th Street, New
York, New York 10011.
A petition having been duly fi led by the Public Administrator of the County of New
York, who maintains an offi ce at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007.
YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s
Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on February 19, 2013, at 9:30 A.M. in
Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the sum-
mary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of
New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not
be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named person(s)
be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that a guardian ad
litem be appointed to represent the interests of decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that
a hearing be held to determine whether Gary M. Wood and Barry J. Wood are decedent’s
sole distributees; (v) that the claims of Con Edison, New York Post, Department of Medi-
cine – Beth Israel, and SLR Diagnostics RAD, Beth Israel Med, be rejected for failure to fi le
a claim in accordance with the provisions of SCPA Section 1803(1); (vi) that the claim of
Cordia Communications Corp. in the amount of $ 125.97, of Beth Israel Medical Center in
the amount of $ 1,132.00, and of BIK Orthopedics, PC in the amount of $ 332.08, be allowed;
(vii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in
Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for
legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (viii) that the persons above mentioned
and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not
be granted; (ix) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or
directed; and (x) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
For hours on Monday around midday, the line outside Ottomanelli & Sons Meat Market stretched from midblock on Bleecker St. until almost the corner at Jones St., moving slowly but surely. Villagers and other hopefuls from farther abroad came to Ottomanelli to buy the fixings for their Christmas dinners. Asked what he was going to buy, one young man smiled and said, “Whatever I can. I don’t want to get my heart set on something in case they don’t have it.” Most others, however, did have their particular meat and type of cut in mind. Some had “reserved.” Others were just optimistic. Rib steak, venison, capon, duck breast and leg of lamb were on the hopefuls’ shopping list.
Photo by Tequila Minsky
While visions of steak and capon danced in their heads…
Photos by Milo Hess
Hat ’n’ stash: Points of color amid the cityscapeThere’s defi nitely some interesting headgear and costumes out there during this solstice time of year, from all-American hats on the subway to red mustaches during the recent and much-maligned SantaCon.
