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Women are working it at W.T.C.
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
Ashia Johns goes to work every day
wearing a white hard hat on her head
and a flashy white-gold diamond ring
on her left hand.
The hard hat keeps her safe as she
builds the new Goldman Sachs head-
quarters Downtown. The engagement
ring look-alike, which Johns bought
for herself, also keeps her safe — from
the attentions of the dozens of men she
works with.
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‘Hey, Momofuku,
the pâté’s over!’
foie gras foes warn
BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL
For the second time in
recent months, the Animal
Protection & Rescue
League held a protest at
the East Village restaurant
Momofuku, calling on the
popular eatery, as well as
other restaurants, to stop
serving foie gras.
“Forced feeding is a dis-
eased state where the liver
can’t function,” explained
Bryan Pease of A.P.R.L.
Pease, a California attorney
and his wife, Kath Rogers,
stood on First Ave. between
10th and 11th Sts., holding
a large banner of graphic
photos as diners filed into
the popular eatery.
8 years later, push
to put a new 9/11
probe on the ballot
BY WILL GLOVINSKY
Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas Supporters of a ballot
initiative that would create
a second, independent 9/11
investigative commission
are awaiting the City Clerk’s
certification of 52,000 sig-
natures submitted on June
24 by the New York City
Coalition for Accountability
Now, or NYC CAN. The deci-
sion could bring the measure
“I wear the ring as a decoy,” Johns Other trades are even more skewed
said, laughing as she ate lunch on toward men — in the same 2008 study,
the edge of the construction site on a the most unbalanced of all professions
recent afternoon. “They don’t really in the country was bricklaying, which
bother me,” she said of her male co- boasted only one woman for every 230
workers. “I just use [the ring] to throw men.
them off.” On the whole, women represent
Johns, 35, is one of the rare women 2.5 percent of the total workers in the
who choose carpentry as a career. For construction and excavation industry,
every 65 male carpenters, there is only
one female carpenter, according to a
up from 2.1 percent 20 years ago, the
2008 U.S. Department of Labor study. Continued on page 4
July 29 - August 4, 2009
Foie gras, French for
“fattened liver,” is produced
by inserting a feeding tube
down the throat of a duck
and force-feeding it, caus-
ing the liver to swell to 10
times its normal size.
“When you see foie gras
on the menu, it doesn’t
come with a disclaimer that
they torture the ducks,”
Pease said.
Ben Levine of the
Flatiron district stood near
the banner while waiting
for his girlfriend to arrive.
“I was going to eat the
chicken. We’ll definitely
enjoy dinner a little less now
Continued on page 3
to the City Council for a vote
and, if approved, the refer-
endum would appear on this
November’s ballot.
“This could be one of
the most important ballot
referendums ever put to
city voters because of what
happened, the nature of the
event, the scale of it — and
Continued on page 3
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SCOOPY’S
CAN’T SAY NO TO STONEWALL: Williamson
Henderson has done it again. Last Thursday, Community
Board 2 overwhelmingly gave its approval for the Stonewall
Veterans’ Association’s street fair on Sept. 26 on Greenwich
been at Stonewall during what he calls “the rebellion” or of hav-
ing been treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital for alleged injuries he
suffered during the famous gay uprising against police. “They
don’t know what name I was under,” he told us. “If they knew

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around — the boy’s back in town. L.E.S. Slacktivist leader
John Penley (above) is back in the neighborhood, and was
even serving as a bartender at last Thursday night’s “The Iron
Heel” fundraiser. “He said it was the best time he’s had since
before he left for Erie, Pa., several months ago,” Elizabeth
Ruf Maldonado, creator of the upcoming dance-operetta,
told us. Penley told us that he and Jerry The Peddler are
“doing publicity work” for a new band that includes former
members of Living Color and P-Funk. He said he couldn’t
say exactly what kind of publicity work it is.
Ave. Things had been looking doubtful for S.V.A. after
Henderson, for three months, repeatedly failed to provide the
information that Evan Lederman, the board’s Street Activities
Committee chairperson, had been requesting. Lederman
contacted Henderson last week and told him it was now or
never, and Henderson finally e-mailed him the info at the
last moment. In the end, the board voted 49 to 1 in support
of the street fair, with the only no vote being Anne Hearn,
a Washington Square Village tenant leader. Lederman said,
ultimately, S.V.A. does have the required “nexus with the
community,” in that it provides speakers about the Stonewall
riots and gay rights; holds discussion panels; hosts a Web
site; does youth outreach in the L.G.B.T. community; and
holds meetings at the L.G.B.T. Center on W. 13th St. “They
claim to have hundreds — if not thousands — of members,”
Lederman noted of S.V.A., though adding, “It’s a controversial
group.” Henderson never did tell Lederman exactly where
the thousands of dollars from the street fair go, other than,
in general terms, such as to keep their swanky blue Cadillac
in good condition. “Legally, we can’t ask to see their books,”
Lederman explained. “At the end of the day, he’s not testifying
under oath.” Later, Lederman added that he’d gotten phone
calls from “several” local politicians, who cajoled him that the
board should O.K. S.V.A.’s street fair. Asked to name the pols,
he replied, “I’d rather not say,” and denied he felt pressured by
them. Lederman said the real issue is that the city itself doesn’t
require any accounting of where money raised at street fairs
goes. “I think there’s an abundance of fraud and misuse of
public streets,” he said. As for the lingering accusations that
Henderson himself wasn’t even at the Stonewall riots of 1969,
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he was actually there, to me, it’s irrelevant.” Meanwhile,
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away, Michael Rosen has published a book on his family
called “What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American
Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse.” Under the
Public Affairs imprint, the book tells the story of how Rosen,
a founding member of the East Village Community Coalition,
took in a group of local youths and helped raise them in his
penthouse apartment at the Christodora House and put them
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local Barnes & Noble bookstores. On Aug. 13, Rosen will be
giving a reading at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum,
which will be introduced by former Councilmember Margarita
Lopez. He’ll also be doing a reading at the National Arts Club,
which will be intro’d by Councilmember Rosie Mendez. He’ll
soon be embarking on a national book tour, speaking at 30
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Foie gras foes livid as Momofuku serves duck liver
Continued from page 1
that we’ve seen these pictures,” he said, look-
ing at the images of ducks in various stages
of engorgement.
Another patron stepped outside the res-
taurant to check his BlackBerry.
“I used to work in a meatpacking plant
in Texas, so it doesn’t bother me as much,”
he explained between texts.
Several diners exiting the restaurant
called out, “I didn’t eat it.”
“We’re asking every restaurant in New
York City that serves foie gras to take it off
their menu,” Rogers said.
A restaurant employee referred ques-
tions to a corporate e-mail. Management
did not reply to e-mailed questions by
press time.
Ducks have never fared well, especially
in the entertainment media. (See Daffy,
Donald, Howard the). However, one recent
film elevated the species with a touching
portrayal of an elderly man searching for
meaning in his remaining years. The movie
“Duck” depicted actor Philip Baker Hall as
a character wandering Los Angeles accom-
panied by a webbed-footed companion.
“I made ‘Duck’ a cautionary tale, as a
reaction to the war in 2003,” director Nic
Bettauer said in an e-mail.
“The bond between a human and an
animal can be life altering and affirming.
Push continues to put new 9/11 probe on the ballot
Continued from page 1
because so many questions were unanswered,”
said Kyle Hence, a spokesperson for NYC
CAN.
Before the initiative reaches voters, however,
it still faces a series of hurdles, the certification
decision being only the first. The City Clerk
must certify that at least 30,000 signatures
belong to registered New York City voters,
although NYC CAN’s leaders are confidant
that they can supply enough additional signa-
tures if necessary. Another 15,000 signatures
may also be needed to override a veto by City
Council.
Seizing upon the comments by Thomas
Kean and Lee Hamilton, co-chairpersons of
the original 9/11 Commission, that their inves-
tigation was “set up to fail,” NYC CAN argues
that the original 9/11 Commission was a
flawed investigation marred by reticent gov-
ernment agencies and inconsistent testimony.
The group proposes a new subpoena-powered
commission of mostly private citizens (the list
in the petition does include former Senators
Lincoln Chafee and Mike Gravel), which pro-
ponents say would pursue the remaining ques-
tions aggressively and independently.
The new commission would try to find
answers for all of the questions initially posed
by the Family Steering Committee, the group
of victims’ family members that lobbied for
Californians attorney Bryan Pease and his wife, Kath Rogers, held a banner outside Momofuku on Sunday as a man stepped out
of the restaurant and saw their banner.
During the release of ‘Duck,’ I worked
directly with Farm Sanctuary, which was
leading the No Foie Gras movement with
the Humane Society.
“Although I’m a hardcore foodie,”
the creation of the original 9/11 Commission.
However, Ted Walters, executive director of
NYC CAN, said that the terrorists’ fund-
ing and the military’s failure to intercept the
hijacked jetliners were especially high priorities
for a new investigation.
“We’re talking about a serious failure to
comply with protocols,” he said, referring to
the failure of military interceptors.
The new commission would also investigate
the illnesses that have afflicted survivors, first
responders and local residents and workers in
the eight years since the attacks. On its Web
site, NYC CAN says that first responders have
been unable to draw benefits from the World
Trade Center Captive Insurance Company,
which was set up by the government to under-
write medical costs for injured parties.
The Coalition for Accountability Now
reflects an effort to unify and legitimize a
broad spectrum of interests that have ques-
tioned the government’s ability to investigate
itself. Working with an issue that has fostered
a bevy of conspiracy theorists, NYC CAN takes
pains to clarify on its Web site that its commis-
sion would be impartial and start with zero
assumptions.
Walters did say that the new commission
would follow a more aggressive investigative
strategy than the first commission, which issued
subpoenas for Pentagon and White House doc-
uments only after it encountered stiff resistance
from government officials.
Bettauer added, “if I go to a restaurant
and see foie gras on the menu it’s a deal-
breaker for me, and I’m out of there.”
According to A.P.R.L., 15 countries
have banned the force-feeding of ducks
“The first step, on Day One, would be to
draw up a list of everybody they want to inter-
view, and issue the subpoenas at the beginning,”
Walters said. He added that, in addition to
mandating testimony from tight-lipped govern-
ment officials, subpoenas would also provide a
legal green light for people who want to share
information but cannot without an explicit
order to do so.
William Pepper, legal counsel for NYC CAN
and a slated commissioner if the referendum is
approved, said that despite the municipal man-
date of the commission, its subpoena power
would, in effect, range far beyond the city line.
“Subpoenas are honored by other districts,”
said Pepper. “If a witness refuses to appear, the
subpoena could be converted to another court.
There may well be challenges, but I think
legally they can be overcome.”
Walters explained that if the commission
were to meet the same kind of resistance that
the original investigation encountered, atten-
tion could be directed at the persons or agen-
cies that were not forthcoming.
“There will be a dichotomy of those who
want to testify and those who don’t,” he said.
Regarding the work of the original 9/11
Commission, Walters said that one of his
major concerns was its refusal to hold any
entity accountable for failing to fulfill its duty.
“There were structural failures,” he said,
referring to the tangled bureaucracy that
slowed the military’s immediate response to
July 29 - August 4, 2009 3
Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel
and geese for foie gras. In California, a
statewide law banning the production and
sale of foie gras goes into effect in 2012.
For more information on the issue go
to www.aprl.org/foiegras.html.
the attack, “but there were also individual
failures.”
Although Walters insisted that the new
commission would not be a witch hunt, he said
he would be surprised if it did not ultimately
hold anyone responsible. He noted that the
petition’s language charges the commission to
“seek indictments” where prudent, meaning
the commission could work in tandem with
prosecutors’ offices.
“Ultimately, what our justice system does
with the findings of the commission is beyond
our control,” Walters said. “Changes will be
made through political pressure rather than
legal obligation.”
The “set up to fail” comment by Kean and
Hamilton is from their 2006 book, “Without
Precedent,” which details the internal work-
ings of the 9/11 Commission and criticizes
the Federal Aviation Administration, the mili-
tary command and House Republicans for
obstructing the commission’s investigation.
Another 9/11 Commission member, Bob
Kerrey, former Nebraska senator and current
president of The New School, has also spoken
out about the commission’s work, specifically
the difficulty of discerning the truth from infor-
mation obtained through terrorism suspects
who were subjected to “enhanced interroga-
tion.” Kerrey, who could not be reached for this
article, was quoted in a March Newsweek essay
saying that it might take “a permanent 9/11
commission” to answer remaining questions.
4 July 29 - August 4, 2009
Women are working it in construction at the W.T.C.
Continued from page 1
Department of Labor said.
In Lower Manhattan, where so much
construction has flooded the neighborhood
that the city and state created a command
center to keep track of it all, the numbers
do not appear to be much different, though
no one collects the statistics. Women at sev-
eral large construction sites said they work
with hundreds of men but just a handful of
women.
The Lower Manhattan Construction
Command Center runs several programs to
attract women and minorities to work sites
Downtown, including classes and job place-
ment assistance.
“It’s not a man’s world anymore,” said
Beverly Bobb, who manages the command
center’s equal-opportunity programs. “If a
woman can do it, why not?”
While Bobb said women remain very
much in the minority and occasionally face
harassment or poor work conditions, those
who spoke to The Villager this month did
not describe an atmosphere of negativity or
discrimination. The biggest challenges of the
job come not from their minority status but
from the job itself, the women said.
Arlene Fisher, a surveyor at One World
Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, said the
most difficult thing she has to do is navi-
gate the red tape associated with rebuilding
ground zero.
“It’s different than any of the other jobs
I’ve worked on,” Fisher said. “The chain of
command is longer than normal… It takes
10 times as long to get anything done.”
Fisher, 39, spoke of her male co-workers
with affection and a trace of condescension.
“Believe it or not, the guys on construc-
tion sites have good manners,” she said. Her
one problem is that “They just don’t listen,”
she said. “But most of the guys are well-
trained,” she added. “They don’t like to see
me get mad.”
Fisher, who is divorced and has two
young children, started working in construc-
tion nine years ago after growing frustrated
with her low-paying job as a special-edu-
cation teacher. Now she spends most days
outside, and on a recent afternoon she was
using a laser to measure whether a concrete
wall around the Freedom Tower’s core was
perfectly straight and exactly where it was
supposed to be.
Fisher and others described the salary
— an average of nearly $50,000 a year for
a full-fledged union member, plus benefits,
according to a women’s advocacy group —
as the biggest perk of the job.
The promise of good money drew Estelle
St. Clair into a carpenters’ union in 1999,
when she was out of work and had a 5-year-
old son to care for.
“I did it at first for the income, but now a
lot of the work fascinates me,” said St. Clair,
who is building Tower 4 at the World Trade
Center site. “Looking at the massive struc-
tures in New York, it makes you interested in
how they get done, start to finish.”
On a recent morning, St. Clair, 35, strode
Photo by Joe Woolhead
Tanya Ridley, a metal lather, hoists a rod of rebar at Tower 4 at the World Trade
Center site.
across Tower 4’s partially completed floors barely noticed.
with a pink bandana beneath her hardhat As for the men she works with, St. Clair
and the remnants of pink polish on her said she rarely has problems.
fingernails. St. Clair spoke with pride as she “Sometimes at first, on a new job, they’ll
pointed out the recently poured concrete and say, ‘Can we ask her to do this? Is she will-
the rows of steel reinforcements, then she ing?’” St. Clair said. “But once they see you
worked with several men to build a structure jump in and you try, everyone loosens up
that would support a new concrete floor for some.”
the next level up. Tanya Ridley, a metal lather and the
only other female hard hat at Tower 4, said
her favorite part of the job is its hands-on
usefulness.
‘You’re outside in the “You work hard, you get dirty, you know
it’s worth it,” she said, grinning.
fresh air, and there are Ridley, 32, said she doesn’t mind being
one of the only women on the site, and the
new things to do every men she works with don’t seem to mind
either.
day. Sometimes it’s a little “If I’m not as strong as they are physically,
I’m willing to work hard to get it done, just
scary. I love it.’ like anyone else,” she said.
Ridley initially worked as a secretary and
Estelle St. Clair a receptionist after high school, unaware that
construction was even an option. Women are
funneled into college, the military or low-pay-
ing, unrewarding jobs like home healthcare,
When St. Clair was first starting out she said, when the building trades might be
in construction, some guys told her they a better fit.
wouldn’t work with concrete, because it Ridley may never have broken into con-
was too dangerous. St. Clair was a little ner- struction at all, but two years ago she heard
vous, too, and she had to master her fear of about a Chelsea group called Nontraditional
heights so she could build skyscrapers. Employment for Women.
“You’re outside in the fresh air, and there NEW runs six-week training programs
are new things to do every day,” St. Clair designed to launch women into careers in
said. “Sometimes it’s a little scary.” She construction and other building, transporta-
paused. “I love it,” she said. tion and energy trades. Participants brush up
St. Clair got so comfortable with being on math skills, learn to read blueprints and
high up off the ground that on her last proj- practice toting 63-pound buckets up flights
ect, the Bank of America tower in Midtown, of stairs. NEW trained nearly 500 women last
her supervisor had to remind her whenever year, most of them lower-income minorities,
she got too close to the edge of the building and has been encouraging women to work in
— she was so absorbed in her work that she construction since 1978. Ridley did the pro-
gram in 2007 and said it gave her the skills
she needed to get a union job.
“Things are changing,” said Kathleen
Culhane, vice president of programs at NEW.
“Doors are opening like never before… .
Today, it’s not such a rarity to see not only one
woman but a handful of women on a job site,
working in construction.”
On a Friday afternoon last month, NEW
held a graduation for 12 women who had
just completed the six-week program. The
brief but boisterously heartfelt ceremony took
place on the third floor of NEW’s W. 20th St.
building, beneath posters reading “Celebrate
Men Working With Women” and images of
NEW’s logo, which looks like the symbol for
“female” with a hammer instead of the “T.”
As each woman’s name was called to
receive a completion certificate, the others
cheered, making up for the lack of friends and
family members in the very small audience.
(Before the ceremony started, one of the
NEW leaders asked if any of the women were
waiting on a guest. “It’s just us,” one of the
students replied. Pointing to her fellow gradu-
ates, she added, “My guest is right here.”)
After impromptu speeches that left nearly
everyone in tears, the graduates ate pizza and
reflected on the demanding six weeks behind
them and their plans for the future.
Taja Brown, 28, hopes to join a union so
she can continue working in construction but
get paid better wages. When she was 19, she
helped her father fix up a house, and she fell
in love with the work. Since then, she’s been
getting jobs wherever she can.
“I like the looks I get in Home Depot,”
Brown said, especially when she’s picking out
an unusual tool or material. “People stare,
like, ‘What do you know about that?’”
Brown once picked up a customer that
way — a man saw her looking at tools in
the tiling section, and she wound up tiling
his entire basement. Brown has gotten some
tiling jobs partly because she’s female, since
customers expect her to be more detailed and
precise, she said.
“But a lot of people assume I can’t do it,”
Brown added. “I like to show them and prove
them wrong.”
There is no typical NEW student. Other
members of the graduating class included
Cerise Bunch, a freckled 40-year-old woman
from the Bronx, and Ruth Zuniga, a 20-year-
old from Spanish Harlem. Bunch has an
engineering degree but can’t find a job, so
she decided to give the blue-collar industry
a shot. She hopes to work for Con Edison or
the Fire Department. Zuniga had to complete
her G.E.D. so she could apply to NEW, and
now she wants to work as a bricklayer.
One of the only parents to attend the grad-
uation was Stephanie Spencer, whose daugh-
ter Rashida Johnson, 26, had just completed
the program. Johnson graduated collage and
had worked in public relations but was laid
off, her mother said.
“It’s wonderful that she’s getting a chance
to go out there in the world and compete
with guys,” Spencer said. “Women com-
ing into construction, electrical, plumbing
work — this is the last frontier, so good for
them.”
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Wind, lightning: Sunday was a tough day to be a tree

First, heavy winds on Sunday afternoon felled branches and whole trees around Downtown, from Sixth Ave. in Chelsea to the East Village, along Sixth St. and First Ave.,
and also reportedly in Tompkins Square Park. Above, a cyclist skirted downed branches on First Ave. near 13th St. On E. Sixth St., across from Gandhi restaurant, a tree
trunk crashed onto a parked black BMW; a crowd of nearly 30 people watched as police, armed with electric saws, dismantled the tree, the onlookers cheering when it was
removed from the car’s roof around 8 p.m. On top of the wind, later on, lightning struck a tree on the W. Houston St. median, below, slashing off half the trunk, which fell
into the eastbound traffic lanes across from Arturo’s restaurant. Again, police crews used saws to cut up the tree, with the traffic lanes closed for an hour as they completed
the work and removed the debris.

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The East River Science Park’s first tower is nearing completion, at right, across the
street from the Bellevue Men’s Shelter.
Part of L.E.S./Chinatown zone,
science park’s sited at 30th St.
BY HARRY BARTLE
Late last month, in yet another effort
to diversify the city’s economy, the Mayor’s
Office released a press statement declaring
plans to expand the Chinatown/Lower East
Side Empire Zone to include the up-and-
coming East River Science Park, a 3.5-acre
site between 29th and 30th Sts. on First
Ave., across the street from Bellevue Men’s
Shelter. The “park,” however, is not the kind
of place East Side parents are going to take
their children on a Sunday afternoon. It’s
primary features: two giant glass towers
that, when combined, will total more than 2
million square feet. The science park is being
developed to provide lab space for medical
and biotech firms.
“Currently, the city’s institutions spin
out 20 to 30 new companies annually,” said
David Lombino, a spokesperson for the
city’s Economic Development Corporation.
“For small life-science firms like these, as
well as large pharmaceutical companies, the
lack of available commercial lab space has
been a detriment to their locating in New
York City.”
The city’s strategy seems to have started
off on the right foot: ImClone, a global bio-
pharmaceutical subsidiary of Eli Lilly and
Company, announced last Wednesday that it
had signed a long-term lease to occupy more
than 90,000 square feet in the first tower.
In order to keep New York’s budding
commercial bio-tech industry competitive
and attract companies like ImClone, the
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term unemployment and poverty by stimu-
lating job creation and private investment.
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science park access to various tax and real
estate benefits, in addition to the $13.4
million investment by the city, $27 million
given by the state, $15 million from the
New York City Investment Fund and $2
million in federal funds. According to City
Hall, the E.R.S.P. will create at least 2,000
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glass building standing tall on the edge of the
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POLICE BLOTTER
Serial robber nabbed
Police arrested Robert Stewart, 51, of
Paterson, N.J., on Wed., July 22, and charged
him with five robberies of elderly men in
their buildings in the Village and Stuyvesant
Town.
The robberies, which victimized men
between the ages of 91 and 61, occurred
between May 25 and July 22, the day he
was arrested in the Seventh Ave. apart-
ment of a Village man, 73, according to the
complaint filed by the Manhattan district
attorney. Stewart pushed the victim to the
floor at about 5 p.m. and was attempting
to go through his pockets when neighbors
arrived and held the suspect for police, the
complaint says.
The 91-year-old man was robbed in
his building at 247 W. 12th St. between
Greenwich Ave. and W. Fourth St. around
1:40 p.m. May 29. The suspect grabbed the
victim, hit him in the head, took about $400
from his wallet and fled, according to the
complaint. The victim sustained cuts and
bruises to his head.
On July 10, the suspect came up behind a
man, 77, as he entered his Stuyvesant Town
building at 448 E. 20th St. at 6:09 a.m., stole
his wallet and pushed the victim to the floor,
the complaint says.
On June 7 at 2:10 p.m., the suspect
accosted a victim, 61, after he entered his
Peter Cooper Village building at 440 E.
23rd St., demanded money, took his wallet,
pushed him to the floor and fled.
On May 25, a man, 76, was entering the
lobby of his Stuyvesant Town building at
447 E. 14th St. at 9:35 a.m. when the sus-
pect grabbed him from behind and took his
wallet. During the struggle, the victim was
cut on the arm and required hospital treat-
ment, the complaint says.
Stewart was in jail pending a court
appearance this week on five counts of first-
degree burglary, four counts of robbery, four
counts of assault and one count of attempted
robbery.
Sexual attack
A Bronx man was arrested naked in
a tanning bed in a tanning salon at 53
Greenwich Ave. on Thurs., July 16, and
charged with grabbing the woman manager
against her will and sexually groping her.
Donald Cameron, 34, of the Bronx entered
the salon for a tanning session around 4:15
p.m. and put his hands under the 25-year-old
victim’s skirt, according to the complaint
filed by the Manhattan district attorney. The
suspect groped the victim’s buttocks and
then grabbed her wrist, pulled her to him
and held her against his erect penis, accord-
ing to the complaint. The victim broke free,
fled and called police, who charged Cameron
with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment,
forcible touching and public lewdness.
Cameron, who has a previous felony convic-
tion, was being held pending an Aug. 19
court appearance.
Lazarus forgery
Gladys Patino, 19, a resident of Lazarus
House on E. Ninth St. between Avenues B
and C, was arrested on Thurs., July 16, and
charged with forging the name of Reverend
Patrick Moloney on 13 checks totaling
$3,000 between March 31 and April 20 of
this year. Moloney, 77, a Melkite Eastern rite
priest, is the founder of Lazarus Community
Bonitas House, a shelter for troubled and
homeless youth. He discovered earlier this
month that the checks from Lazarus House
accounts at Fleet Bank, Lower East Side
People’s Federal Credit Union and Citibank
had been forged, and called police, according
to reports. Patino admitted to Ninth Precinct
detectives that she forged the checks. She was
freed pending an Oct. 19 court appearance.
Teen thiefs
Darnel Butler, 18, and Shamikah
Baldwin, 17, were arrested on Thurs., July
23 on Waverly Place near Gay St. in con-
nection with the 11:05 p.m. robbery of a
female pedestrian, police said. The suspects
grabbed the victim from behind, tried to
grab her bag and hit her with an umbrella
when she struggled, police said. They were
being held pending a court appearance on
first- and second-degree robbery charges
later this week.
Spa burglar gets clipped
Major-case squad detectives arrested
Diego Pancha, 28, on Wed., July 22, and
charged him with the October 2008 break-
in of a skin-care salon at 180 Seventh
Ave. South and theft of laser hair-removal
machines, accessories, spa equipment and
a safe with a total value of more than
$800,000. Pancha told police that his wife
had worked in the salon and that he had
staked it out and learned about the value of
the machines, according to the complaint
filed by the Manhattan district attorney.
Pancha told police he climbed into the win-
dow of the place at about 11 p.m. Oct. 7,
gathered the equipment and the safe, loaded
it into a van he had parked at the curb and
drove off after daybreak the next morning.
Pancha said he rented a storage space for
the loot, tried to sell it off piece by piece and
broke open the safe and took the cash that it
held, according to the complaint.
Pancha acknowledged that he was the
burglar on the surveillance tape recorded
the night of the burglary, police said. He
was apprehended after police traced several
cell-phone calls from the salon on the night
of the robbery.
Lewd offer
A Bronx man, 40, was arrested for public
lewdness and offering a 16-year-old boy $5
to expose himself on Wednesday afternoon
July 22 in a building on St. Mark’s Place.
Roberto Ramirez, 40, was in the building
between Avenue A and First Ave. around
4:15 p.m. and made his lewd offer when
the boy walked in, according to police. The
boy ran home and reported the incident to
his parents, who called 911. Ramirez was
released pending an Oct. 7 court appearance
on endangering the welfare of child and
public lewdness.
‘Hold the dye pack’
A man who walked into the HSBC bank
branch at 354 Sixth Ave. near W. Fourth St.
at 12:15 p.m. Wed., July 22, passed a note to
a teller saying he had a gun and demanded
money, saying, “No dye pack or bait.” He
pulled the dye pack from the bag the teller
had given him and left it on the counter but
some of the $3,060 he took was “baited”
with recorded serial numbers. The robber
was described as a white man, about age
40, 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 190
pounds, wearing sunglasses, a dark gray
baseball cap, olive-green button-down shirt,
light-colored baggy pants and white sneakers
and carrying a small black shopping bag.
Market St. mugging
Police arrested three teenagers for the
knifepoint mugging of a man, age 20, on
Market and Madison Sts. at 1:16 a.m.
Wed., July 22. Ramzie Jawad, 18, Amjed
Abdelrahman, 19, and Kamal Kheedr, 18,
ordered the victim to empty his pockets and
took his wallet with $289, house keys and a
We Have The Village Covered
July 29 - August 4, 2009 9
cell phone, according to the complaint filed
by the Manhattan district attorney.
Socked at Stonewall
The bartender of the Stonewall Inn, 53
Christopher St., told police that a regular at
the bar punched him in the face at around
1:20 a.m. Sat., July 25. Police canvassed the
area for the suspect, described as a white
Hispanic man, 5 feet 9 inches, about 200
pounds and bald, but did not find him.
‘I’ll mess you up’
A woman, 63, told police she was having
lunch at the SAGE Center of the L.G.B.T.
center at 208 W. 13th St. around 1:30 p.m.
Thurs., July 16, when a woman she described
as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing
about 300 pounds, came up, pointed her
finger in the victim’s face and said, “If you
mess with me again I’ll mess you up.” The
victim said she didn’t know what provoked
the confrontation.
Union Square DOA
Police discovered the body of an Asian
man, 40, on a bench in the east side of Union
Square Park near 14th St. at 6:57 a.m. Wed.,
July 22. The Medical Examiner’s Office is
investigating the cause of death and the
victim’s name was withheld pending family
notification.
E. Sixth St. jumper
A man jumped to his death from the
second-story balcony at 411 E. Sixth St.
between First Ave. and Avenue A at 9:58
a.m. Fri., July 24, police said. The victim,
a white man, 49, was taken to Beth Israel
Hospital, where he was declared dead on
arrival. His name was withheld pending fam-
ily notification.
Alber t Amateau
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Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel

Advocates make a temporary ‘home’ to make a point

On the morning of Thurs., July 23, the group Picture the Homeless occupied an empty lot on 115th St. between Madison and Fifth Aves. Using pieces cut from a large blue
tarp, they created a “tent city” of 18 tents and a small stage, where several sat under a sign reading, “A Place To Call Home.” A statement from the group demanded that
“warehoused lots and buildings be accounted for by the city, and transformed into housing for poor and homeless people.” By mid-afternoon, police had filled the street outside
the lot; they told the protesters they had to leave or face arrest. After dozens of the protesters had left, in a late-afternoon downpour, police led the 10 who had remained
— including Father Frank Morales, a former East Village squatter activist, above — in handcuffs to a waiting patrol wagon. All were released by 1 a.m. the next morning with
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EDITORIAL
Urban evolution
As it seems to do yearly, the Meat Market has
undergone another transformation. This time, the most
noticeable new ingredients are the High Line park
and the Standard Hotel, which spans the High Line
between 13th and Little W. 12th Sts. These two proj-
ects — the High Line, in particular, which is attracting
thousands of visitors daily — have brought new life to
the area along Washington St..
Partly thanks to all the new foot traffic in the area
from the High Line, the Meat Market is weathering the
recession better than most commercial areas. However,
while High Line-goers are stopping in at local bou-
tiques, anecdotal reports are that only about 50 percent
are actually making purchases; admittedly, the Meat
Market’s price point is a bit high. On the other hand,
restaurants are reporting that business is definitely up.
The number of meat businesses continued to con-
tract over the past year, with less than 10 meatpackers
left, almost all of them in the city-owned co-op build-
ing, where they have six years left on their lease.
Over the past 10 years, the five-block area — first
slowly, then increasingly rapidly — has morphed into a
nightlife, dining and shopping district.
While the meat businesses have largely vanished,
the creation of the landmarked Gansevoort Historic
District several years ago was key in preserving the
neighborhood’s essential character.
Speaking of history, amid all the change, it’s nice to
see that the operators of the Gansevoort St. Cafe, set
to open in three weeks, are trying to retain the “spirit”
and “karma,” as they put it, of the former Florent res-
taurant. This will not be easy, as Florent Morellet’s lov-
ing and manic imprint on the space was so profound.
The new place will have white “subway tiles” on the
walls, a zinc bar where Florent’s use to be, though a bit
shorter, American comfort food — and, most impor-
tant in the view of many, will keep the stainless-steel
front paneling and the “Restaurant” of the exterior
sign, and possibly even the “R & L,” too.
Similarly, the late Robert Isabell was taking a taste-
ful and contextual approach with two Meat Market
buildings. At one, at 13th and Washington Sts., he had
recently planted the classic overhang roof with color-
ful flowers. More than a year ago, Isabell had been
planning a Charlie Chaplin museum and movie theater
there to show classic silent films. Though the idea
never materialized, it’s the sort of interesting attraction
the Meat Market could use more of.
The plaza pilot project along Ninth Ave. and in
Gansevoort Plaza needs some tweaking. Local busi-
nesses want fewer restrictions on where cars can drive,
since their well-dressed patrons don’t want to have to
walk any distance to get to their venues, much less to
do so in bad weather. Yes, the bollards, granite blocks
and planters out there do look a little thrown together.
But the concept is sound — to slow down cars going
through the Meat Market, making it safer for everyone.
It was hoped a Meatpacking District business
improvement district would fund these plaza spaces’
upkeep, but that BID hasn’t yet materialized. Hopefully,
the Department of Transportation and Community Board
2 can fine-tune the plaza spaces — though, again, what’s
there now is basically the right idea.
We’re very encouraged by some of the most recent
changes — of course, particularly the High Line and,
yes, also the Ninth Ave. plaza areas. There’s no doubt
the Meat Market will continue to change, again prob-
ably in ways we couldn’t have foreseen. The landmark-
ing of the neighborhood, however, was key, and is,
ironically, what has ensured it remains a unique and
vital area, characterized by its mostly low-rise architec-
ture and connected to its historical context.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Now that’s a baseball story
To The Editor:
Re “Yankees salute Little League’s M.V.P. — Most
Valuable Person” (news article, July 22):
It’s so inspiring to hear stories like this, especially with all
the negativity there has been lately with the steroids issue.
It reminds us that, although these are famous ballplayers,
they are, after all, human like the rest of us. Way to go Little
League and Yankees.
Donna Pettitte
Electeds in developers’ pockets
To The Editor:
“Pols, protest, stuck string; Jacobs would have loved it”
(news article, July 15):
For sheer chutzpah you can’t beat the politicians who
support the proposed Rudin/St. Vincent’s megaproject in the
heart of our historic district while lauding the dedication of
Jane Jacobs Way. The Jane Jacobs that “discovered Greenwich
Village, where the low-rise buildings allowed people to see
the sky” must be turning over in her grave at the hypocrisy of
those elected officials who would allow this “land grab” by the
developer Rudin Management. Rudin’s luxury condos, along
with St. Vincent’s humongous hospital tower, would cast a
shadow across the Village and would not only lead to the
demise of the Village, but also eviscerate the Landmarks Law.
Moreover, the proposed condos would add roughly 400 new
families to the neighborhood, and thus would strain, to the
breaking point, an already overburdened local school system:
a problem our representatives choose not to address.
An alternative solution to St. Vincent’s problems could have
been found had political will and foresight been exercised;
however, the truth is that the real estate developers have the
politicians in their pockets. The politicos are selling our historic,
cultural and architectural heritage — in other words, the soul of
this great city — for political contributions by developers. It is
happening, not only in the Village, but everywhere in the city.
Our local politicians have become lackeys of the real-
estate establishment and truly don’t give a damn about New
York City’s people, the city’s history or its future.
Gary A. Tomei
Tomei is president, W. 13th 100 Block Association; member,
St. Vincent’s Community Working Group; and founding
member, Protect the Village Historic District
IRA BLUTREICH
As corruption mounts, politicians see an upside.
Bravo for St. Vincent’s letters
To The Editor:
Re “Pols’ shameful glomming” (letter, by Geoffrey Knox,
July 15) and “Jane and St. Vincent’s” (letter, by Carol
Greitzer, July 15):
Thanks for keeping up the pressure on St. Vincent’s
Hospital/Rudin by publishing letters and articles which sup-
port St. Vincent’s finding space for their hospital that is not
in a historic district.
The New York Post, in an editorial on July 13, said that
the current estimated cost of the new St. Vincent’s Hospital
on the site of the O’Toole building is $1.6 billion.
It seems to me that anyone who can get their hands on
$1.6 billion is like the proverbial 600-pound gorilla: He
can sleep wherever he wants. With that kind of money, St.
Vincent’s can find other space. They just don’t want to. I’ll
bet Donald Trump could spend that amount of money for
a hospital and find a space not on the west side of Seventh
Ave. between 12th and 13th Sts.
Elizabeth Ryan
Showdown on the High Line
To The Editor:
Re “Rainforest activists: High Line wood a ‘pour’ choice”
(news article, July 8):
Rainforests of New York (www.rainforestsofnewyork.org),
the long-term campaign to end the use of rainforest wood in
New York City government-funded projects, has challenged
the much-touted “eco-park,” the High Line, for using it. While
passing out fliers to Chelsea residents and tourists there a
week ago, the campaign met Ricardo Scofidio, a principal
partner of the team of Diller Scofidio + Renfro that designed
the High Line park. We discussed the firm’s ecologically insen-
sitive decision to use ipê wood from the Amazon.
During our conversation, Mr. Scofidio repeatedly claimed
that the city’s Design Commission “insisted” the High Line
use ipê trees, although his firm proffered thoughtful eco-
designs that would salvage the old High Line rail ties or use
recycled plastic lumber or regionally sourced hardwood from
black locust trees. He also claimed that the Parks Department
had provided specifications requiring ipê be used — despite
the fact that Mayor Bloomberg has declared he would end,
where possible, the city’s use of rainforest wood because of
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Villager photos by Lincoln Anderson

Cyrus and the lion: Banner day for Iran opposition

Chanting “Stop the Torture! Stop the Killing!” and “Freedom! Now!” about 1,000 demonstrators demanding change in Iran marched to Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza by the U.N.
on Saturday. Many wore green and carried green banners — the symbol of the Iranian opposition. But another contingent displayed some symbolism of other kinds. A woman
who gave her name as Taraneh, left, held a likeness of Cyrus the Great, founder of the mighty Persian empire in the 6th century B.C.E. Asked why she was pro-Cyrus, she
said, “He’s the king, number one — and he’s our symbol. And he’s anti-Islamic Republic.” Maryam Esmaeli, a doctor of audiology from Livingston, N.J., at right in photo at right,
held Iran’s flag from 30 years ago, with its “shir va khorsheed” — lion and sun — which, after the Islamic revolution, were replaced by “Allah” in Arabic. “We want our lion
back,” Esmaeli said. “I’m Persian — I don’t want Arabic words on my flag. ... We don’t want mullahs; I’m sick and tired of religion,” she added. Esmaeli said she was a convert
to Zoroastrianism, which was also Cyrus’s religion. The demonstrators sporting green were younger, they said, and also were largely Muslim. “The people on the other side
[of the plaza] just want the other candidate,” Esmaeli noted. “We don’t like the entire Islamic regime.” She said that when the candidate for president that the green-wearing
youths back, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was prime minister during the Islamic Republic, he personally was to blame for many “assassinations” of young students. “This has been
going on for 30 years,” she said, noting the younger protesters don’t remember everything that happened. “But thanks God to Internet and cell phones, the world can see it.
Thank goodness for new technology, you can see it.”
Lincoln Anderson

Beyond the media hype: Cronkite and the Vietnam War

TALKING POINT
BY NORMAN SOLOMON
Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite, who died on
July 17, rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War
before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of
Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller.
But facts are facts, and history is history — including
what Cronkite actually did as TV’s most influential journal-
ist during the first years of the Vietnam War. Despite all the
posthumous praise for Cronkite’s February 1968 telecast
that dubbed the war “a stalemate,” the facts of history show
that the broadcast came only after Cronkite’s protracted sup-
port for the war.
In 1965, reporting from Vietnam, Cronkite dramatized
the murderous war effort with enthusiasm.
“B-57’s — the British call them Canberra jets — we’re
using them very effectively here in this war in Vietnam to
dive-bomb the Vietcong in these jungles beyond Da Nang
here,” he reported, standing in front of a plane. Cronkite
then turned to a U.S. Air Force officer next to him and said:
“Colonel, what’s our mission we’re about to embark on?”
“Well, our mission today, sir, is to report down to the site
of the ambush 70 miles south of here and attempt to kill the
V.C.,” the colonel replied.
Cronkite’s report continued from the air: “The colonel
has just advised me that that is our target area right over
there,” he said. “One, two, three, four, we dropped our
bombs, and now a tremendous G-load as we pull out of that
dive. Oh, I know something of what those astronauts must
go through.”
Next, viewers saw Cronkite get off the plane and say:
“Well, colonel, it’s a great way to go to war.”
The upbeat report didn’t mention civilians beneath the
bombs.
Also in 1965 — the pivotal year of escalation — Cronkite
expressed explicit support for the Vietnam War. He lauded
“the courageous decision that Communism’s advance must
be stopped in Asia and that guerilla warfare as a means to a
political end must be finally discouraged.”
Why does this matter now? Because citing Cronkite as
an example of courageous reporting on a war is a danger-
ously low bar — as if reporting that a war can’t be won,
after cheerleading it for years, is somehow the ultimate in
journalistic quality and courage.
The biggest and most important lie about an aggressive
war based on deception is not that the war can’t be won. The
biggest and most important lie is deference to the conven-
tional wisdom that insists the war must be fought in the first
place and portrays it as a moral enterprise.
Solomon is the author of the new book “War Made Easy:
How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.”

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East Villager will lead Historic Districts Council

BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Leo J. Blackman, preservationist, archi-
tect and East Village resident, was recently
elected president of the Historic Districts
Council, the citywide advocacy organization
for historic neighborhoods.
Blackman, who won a 2003 award for his
design of the four-story addition to the land-
marked 1885 Village Community School
on W. 10th St., replaces Paul Graziano, a
Queens preservation consultant, as H.D.C.
president.
Blackman’s firm has specialized in proj-
ects within or adjacent to historic buildings
and has designed library and classroom
facilities and campus plans for several insti-
tutions.
“I’m amazed that a lot of architects
and officials still don’t get preservation,”
Blackman said last week. “I intend to get
together with institutions like the American
Institute of Architects and the School
Construction Authority and get them to
view preservation as part of their job and a
challenge instead of seeing it as an obstacle
to what they want to do.”
The current economic climate will pres-
ent challenges and opportunities for preser-
vationists generally and H.D.C. specifically,
Blackman said.
“With development around the city slow-
ing, it’s less likely that we’ll see inappropri-
ate new projects popping up in historic
neighborhoods,” he said. “But at the same
meet your neighbors at
Villager file photo
In June 2004, The Village Community School on W. 10th and Greenwich Sts. won a
Village Award for its new wing designed by architect Leo Blackman, left, under the
direction of Eve Kleger, V.C.S. head of school, middle. Anthony Zunino, then-outgoing
president of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, right, presented
the award. Blackman was recently elected president of the Historic Districts Council.
time, H.D.C., like all nonprofit organiza-
tions, will have to do more with less because
of reduced public and private funding.”
Blackman grew up in Rhode Island, went
to Brown University and served as an intern
at the Providence Preservation Society as a
college student.
“I bought an old house in Providence
and spent a lot of time restoring it,” he said.
He pursued his degree in architecture at the
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation.
“Preservation students were more friendly
than architects, so I spent a lot of time in the
preservation department,” Blackman said.
He worked at three New York architec-
ture firms — Kliment & Halsband; Stephen
Potters, and Bond/Ryder/James — before
starting his own firm in 1985. He focused
on residential projects and also designed
award-winning light fixtures and furniture
and was recognized for urban-design com-
petition entries. He won a first prize in a
competition for reconfiguring the neighbor-
hood south of Brooklyn Bridge conducted
by Bridging the Gaps, an urban solutions
organization.
From 1999 to 2001 he was a design
partner at Buttrick White & Burtis, where
he was in charge of producing a master
plan for the Adelphi University Library.
He also oversaw the renovation of an 1895
townhouse for Marymount Middle School
and an urban campus plan for Marymount
Manhattan College.
Blackman returned to private practice
in 2001 and has been designing adaptive
reuses and additions for academic clients
and religious institutions. H.D.C and the
Greenwich Village Society for Historic
Preservation jointly made the award for the
Village Community School project.
“I’ve been a member of H.D.C. for sev-
eral years, and after they gave me the award
in 2003 they asked me to be on their board,”
Blackman said. He hopes to visit historic
districts in each of the five boroughs over
the next two years. The burden of being
president of the citywide organization will
be lightened somewhat because he lives on
E. 12th St., one block from the H.D.C. office
in the parish house of St. Mark’s Church-in-
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The Meat Market A special Villager supplement

Pages 15 to 26

Top, photo by Lincoln Anderson, a cow graffiti mural by Antonio

“Chico” Garcia on the former Premier Veal building at Washington and
Gansevoort Sts. Above, photo by Elisabeth Robert, the outdoor dining
space of The Living Room at the Standard Hotel on Washington St.
16 July 29 - August 4, 2009
Restaurants, fresh food and pizza are on the menu
BY BARBARA THAU
Amid the fresh buzz of the completed
High Line park, the Meatpacking District is
ushering in a new wave of eateries brushed
with a tony sheen, and headlined by star
chefs befitting the hyper-chic, upscale neigh-
borhood.
At the same time, several new entrants,
including food merchants and cocktail
lounges, are tailoring their venues to the
times with an accent on affordable fare to
match the mood of the recession.
“You’ve got to be flexible and adjust your
concept to what the market will bear,” said
David Rabin, co-owner of Double 7, which
is expected to reopen in the former Rhone
space this November at 63 Gansevoort St.
The swank cocktail lounge, which closed
in 2007 at 418 W. 14th St., was known
for its $16 drinks made with hand-cut ice,
freshly pressed juice and top-shelf liquor.
‘Why should only
wealthy people have
good food?’
Bion Bartning
Today, “It’s a very different world,”
Rabin said. “Now is not the time to be
defining yourself in the market by being
‘most expensive in New York City’ — which
is weighing our decisions about pricing.”
The new Double 7 will re-create the
“dark, sexy living room” vibe of the old
space with chocolate brown leather furni-
ture and amber lighting, but a light, 10-item
food menu will be added to the equation, as
well as outdoor seating.
Rabin called the long-awaited arrival of
the elevated park on the former railway, as
well as the Standard Hotel, “total game-
changers.”
The High Line appears to have extended
the Meatpacking District’s restaurant/bar
scene from a weekend to a weeklong busi-
ness, he said.
In 2007, Rabin opened a Mexican res-
taurant, Los Dados, at 71-73 Gansevoort
St. in anticipation of the park.
Two years later, “We’ve finally reached
our original projections,” he said. Since
the High Line opened, “business has nearly
doubled.”
Bion Bartning, founder and chief execu-
tive officer of food distributor Basis Foods,
also expects traffic from the High Line to
have a halo effect on the company’s new
retail concept, Basis Markets, opening at
the end of the year on W. 14th St.
“As a future retailer in the neighbor-
hood, it’s exciting,” he said.
The company, which counts Gramercy
Tavern and Murray’s Cheese Shop among
its clients, plans to grow Basis Markets into
a chain with more than 100 stores.
The mission of Basis is “good food for
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all,” with a farm-to-chef/retailer operating
model.
And the new small-format Basis Markets
store will build on that theme.
“Why should only wealthy people have
good food?” Bartning said. “We’re really
focused on affordable price points.”
Bartning described the upcoming store
as a cross between Trader Joe’s and a farm-
ers market. But whereas Trader Joe’s sells
processed foods, Basis Markets will not,
he said.
Basis defines good food as that which
is grown by small-and mid-sized farmers,
as well as prepared goods made from fresh
ingredients versus processed in factories.
For example, Basis Markets will sell a
$2 quart of milk that was bottled at a local
farm 24 hours earlier.
The new Gaslight Pizzeria is also claim-
ing bragging rights for the freshness of its
food.
The owners of Meat Market lounge
staples Gaslight and G2 opened the pizza
restaurant this spring in the former meat
locker of the old Diamond Meats building
at 39 Ninth Ave.
Villager photos by Lincoln Anderson
It’s clearly one of the more foodie-
worthy pizza places, serving up slices made The former Florent restaurant will reopen as the Gansevoort St. Cafe.
with fresh mozzarella kneaded from scratch
on the premises, boasts co-owner Matt de
Matt.
And it’s affordable: A slice is $2.50.
“We don’t want to gouge people,” de
Matt said, noting that’s never what Gaslight
has been about.
Gaslight Pizzeria’s décor combines ele-
ments of a Tuscan bistro — brick walls,
wooden beams — with Gaslight’s 1800s
bar aesthetic.
The place attracts a regular crowd,
including people who work in the area.
Then, there are the openings marked by
boldface-name chefs and at least one high-
profile hotelier.
The Standard Grill in André Balazs’s
new Standard Hotel, which looms above
the High Line like a modernist beacon,
promises a “straightforward and accessible”
menu that takes its cue from traditional
chophouses and “new American grill sen-
sibilities.”
The menu by former Union Square Café
chef Dan Silverman changes daily, with At the old Lotus nightclub space, Abe & Arthur’s restaurant and Simyone lounge are
dishes such as sweet pea ravioli with pista- slated to open soon.
chios and mint for $15, and “demi-vache”
(half cow) dry-aged rib-eye steak for two fame has been named the executive chef. Florent, the neighborhood pioneer that
for $65. He will serve up American bistro classics closed last year after two decades in the
New high-end restaurants will be open- made from “the freshest ingredients” at the area.
ing on 14th St. 180-seat, two-level restaurant, according to This is not the first attempt to replace
Alex Guarnaschelli, the Butter chef/ press materials. the institution.
Food Network star, will headline the kitch- Abe & Arthur’s is named after the R&L Restaurant quickly took Florent’s
en at Supper Club, slated to open on the grandfathers of Eugene Remm and Mark place after it closed. (The restaurant was
site of the now-defunct Nell’s nightclub at Birnbaum, the owners of Meatpacking launched by the building’s landlord, whose
246 W. 14th St., just east of Eighth Ave. lounge/celebrity hangout Tenjune, who are father opened the original R&L in 1955 at
The restaurant will reportedly include live backing the launch. the same address.) But the place shuttered.
performances. A few blocks away at 69 Gansevoort It’s been reported that the upcoming
And Abe & Arthur’s will open this St., the empty space that once housed Gansevoort St. Cafe will hold on to a bit
summer at 409 W. 14th St. in the space the Meatpacking District’s iconic, revered of Florent’s trademark décor, such as the
of former “it” club Lotus, next door to and endlessly eulogized restaurant, will be quilted stainless-steel paneling.
the Matthew Williamson and Alexander filled. But whether or not the new restaurant
McQueen designer boutiques. A “Gansevoort St. Café Coming Soon” will manage to rise above the stubborn
Franklin Becker of Brasserie and Capitale sign hangs on the storefront of the former shadow of Florent remains to be seen.
 The Meat Market July 29 - August 4, 2009 17

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The recent High Line Festival saw thousands of people flock to the newly opened
elevated park, which bisects the Meat Market, running down to Gansevoort St. between
Washington and West Sts. Annie Washburn, executive director of the Meatpacking
District Initiative, said she and others were serving up slices of watermelon almost fast-
er than they could cut them for the droves of parkgoers. Above, a historic photo helped
recall for parkgoers the days not so long ago when the High Line was still a functioning
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Film has the dish on Florent and diner’s last days

BY ALBERT AMATEAU
Florent, the Meat Market restaurant
on Gansevoort St. that served meatpack-
ers, club kids, drag queens, celebrities
and just plain folks for 23 years before
it closed last year, is re-created in David
Sigal’s new documentary “Florent: Queen
of the Meat Market.”
The film was shown as a work in prog-
ress on June 6 at New Fest, the New York
gay and lesbian film festival, where it won
the Audience Award.
“We brought it to the festival in a
rough cut to get some feedback from the
audience and the screening was sold out,”
Sigal told The Villager last week. “It’s
such a great subject, and Florent Morellet
is a fascinating person.”
Sigal and his crew began shooting
the film in January 2008 before Florent
was definitely sure that the owner of
69 Gansevoort St. was going to triple
the rent and force him out of business.
During the course of the filming, the fate
of the restaurant became clear but Sigal
continued filming until the last day —
the last minute during the early hours of
Sunday June 29 of last year.
The film, still being edited, includes
archive photos from 1985 when Morellet
started the restaurant, and interviews Florent Morellet, right, in a scene from “Florent: Queen of the Meat Market.”
with celebrities, including Julianne Moore,
Isaac Mizrahi, Diane von Furstenberg, Rakoff, Robin Byrd, Penny Arcade and of other characters. It intercuts old foot- And finally, “It was an absurd mix of peo-
Michael Musto, Sylvia Miles, David Christo and Jeanne-Claude, plus a host age and new, fast-motion time lapses and ple, a crazy mix, I’m going to miss it.”
talking heads. The film even includes a Florent, who was traveling in New
scene or two from more than a decade Mexico last week and helping to mount the
ago of an event where H.I.V. positive men artwork of his father, François Morellet,
and women fill the restaurant with their 83, a prominent painter, sculptor and
naked bodies. installation artist, in a Santa Fe art gal-
Viewers who want to see and hear lery, spoke to The Villager by phone.
Florent himself will not be disappointed.
He’s there, recalling how he responding to
the news in 1987 that he was H.I.V. posi-
tive and how he decided to go public with ‘I saw the film in its
it. He talks about how the Meat Market
changed since he first opened the place. entirety for the first
He talks about his partnership in the group
that owns the decommissioned fireboat time at the festival — I
John J. Harvey and how the boat supplied
the water for the Fire Department response was moved to tears.’
to the World Trade Center attack.
There’s footage of Florent as grand
marshal of the 2006 Gay Pride March Florent Morellet
striding with Mayor Bloomberg, Senator
Hillary Clinton and City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn. There are scenes with “I saw the film in its entirety for the first
Jo Hamilton — now chairperson of time at the festival — I was moved to tears,”
Community Board 2 — talking about he said. As for the future, Florent said he
their efforts that culminated in the desig- was talking to potential partners about a
nation of the Gansevoort Market Historic new restaurant — he wouldn’t say where —
District in 2003. He talks about his not to reproduce the old Florent, because the
political and social passions, like historic past cannot be recaptured, but a new mid-
preservation and end-of-life issues; he price place for a wide-ranging clientele.
was a board member of the Society for the Sigal is busy making a final cut of
Right to Die. “Florent: Queen of the Meat Market” and
“Florent, Queen of the Meat Market” has recently finished filming a feature,
chronicles the last weeks of the renowned “Fair Game,” based on the case of Valerie
diner, with Florent explaining his deci- Plame Wilson, the C.I.A. officer whose
sion to close the place rather than pay the cover was blown in 2005.
tripled rent by noting he would have had “The location is Washington, D.C., but
to double or triple his prices. we filmed a scene that was supposed to
“I’m glad I’m being kicked out,” he says be in Georgetown in the Meat Market,”
in the film. “I’m being kicked forward.” he recalled.
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Hotel straddles cutting-edge design, affordability

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
A towering new presence in the Meat Market on Washington
St., spanning the newly opened High Line, the Standard Hotel has
ratcheted up the district’s glitz factor to new heights. Yet, for all
its sleek design and glamour, the hotel is all about “affordability,”
according to a spokesperson.
Developed by Andre Balazs, the Standard Hotel is 20 stories
tall, with 337 rooms. Its rooms are slightly smaller — at 200 to 400
square feet — compared to those of the nearby Hotel Gansevoort;
yet they all feature floor-to-ceiling glass windows, offering spec-
tacular views.
The Standard Hotel chain’s name is actually ironic, since
Balazs’s whole concept is for the hotels to be nonstandard —
different from the norm. This is the first hotel Balazs has built
from the ground up, as opposed to a renovation of an existing
building.
For starters, the hotel sits on massive concrete stilts 36 feet
above the High Line. That clearance above the former elevated rail-
way was required under the federal Rails to Trails program in order
to preserve the railway’s right of way, even though the structure
recently opened as a celebrated new landscaped park.

Rooms feature floor-to-ceiling

windows, unusual touches and
‘smart design.’

Rates range from $495 for a room with views in three directions
to $395 and $195. The Standard’s suites feature unusual touches,
such as, in one case, a free-standing bathtub not separated by a
wall from the bedroom. Another room boasts a shower the size of a
small studio apartment with a floor-to-ceiling, no-tint window with
a view of the Empire State Building; drawing the curtain closed
while showering is strictly optional. Emblematic of “smart design,”
tables in the rooms have an adjustable hydraulic lift so they can
be positioned at the perfect height. The rooms all have wooden
ceilings.
The Standard’s lobby is surprisingly small. This was done inten-
tionally to give the feeling of a boutique hotel. Another chic touch
includes a TV screen-sized avant-garde video installation made up
of 400 different images in the elevators.
There are plenty of eating options at the hotel, notably the
Standard Grill, which has been frequently mentioned in local gossip
columns for its celebrity sightings. The Standard Grill has Oyster
Bar-style vaulted tile ceilings and a floor made of 480,000 pennies.
A bit more casual is The Living Room, which offers an indoor and
outdoor space. An open-air beer garden located on Little W. 12th
St. underneath the High Line is set to open in September; currently,
there are tables and seating located in this space — which is open
to the public — and sometimes ping pong tables, on one of which
Jay-Z and Beyoncé recently played a match.
The hotel’s 18th floor features a “pool bar” area, with a Jacuzzi.
On the same floor is an airy cocktail lounge and restaurant that
the hotel is billing as a “Windows on the World”-type space. Last
week its glittering gold carpeting was still covered in a sheet of
plastic to protect it before its opening. The interior is dominated
by light-colored wood, and there are views of the city in two direc-
tions, north and south. Both spaces will be open to the public. The
rooftop will also be an event space.
In front of the hotel, at 13th and Washington Sts., is a public
plaza with Pop Art-style yellow benches.
The iconic hotel has already become a local landmark of sorts.
Last Thursday, the red-blue-and-yellow Colombian “chiva” party
bus pulled up and, as Latin music pumped out its windows, three
of its crew got up on the bus’s roof to dance and pose for a photo
in front of the Standard Hotel.
Villager photos by Elisabeth Robert
“We plan to put a restaurant around here,” one of them explained,
The new Standard Hotel rises above the High Line on Washington St. before they hopped back on the bus and motored off.
 The Meat Market July 29 - August 4, 2009 21

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ceilings; a $495-a-night room
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sweeping views of the Hudson
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Traffic-calming plan will be getting some tweaking

BY GABRIEL ZUCKER
In the little more than a year since six
plazas were carved out of the street bed in
the Meatpacking District, the installations
have polarized public opinion in the area.
Reactions have ranged from celebration of
a more pedestrian-friendly neighborhood,
exasperation with slower traffic flow, confu-
sion over who is responsible for maintenance
and bemusement at the suggestive design of
some of the new street furniture.
Now, in recent months, the Department
of Transportation has begun a project to
revamp the installations — which were
originally intended as a temporary pilot proj-
ect — in response to community feedback.
The landscape architecture firm Balmori
Associates is leading the redesign process,
which was undertaken in large part after
increasing objections from area property
owners and businesses.
“To be honest, we’re trying to change
it a lot,” said Annie Washburn, director
of the Meatpacking District Initiative, an

An architectural firm
rethinking the current
plazas calls them
Villager photos by Lincoln Anderson
‘limiting.’ Stacks of slab-style seating structures in the new plaza areas have attracted graffiti, above, while tree planters have become
garbage receptacles, below. Everyone agrees that better maintenance of the plaza areas is needed.

organization that markets the neighborhood

and represents many of the businesses there.
M.P.D.I. had been taking responsibility for
maintaining the pedestrian spaces, but fund-
ing for the project ran out in the fall; since
then, according to M.P.D.I., the spaces have
become dirty and unruly.
“There’s graffiti on the blocks and bol-
lards,” Washburn said. “It needs to be changed
— and it needs to be funded.”
In an effort to gauge public opinion and
facilitate public discussion about the spaces’
redesign, Balmori held an online forum via
Twitter several weeks ago. Entitled “Making
Public Places,” the event used the Meatpacking
District installations as a case study to discuss
what elements contribute to an effective public
place. Participants brought up issues like the
lack of shade and greenery in the current plaza
areas, proposed the addition of bike parking
and movable furniture and discussed how
the six distinct plazas could be better unified
through a single identity.
Although Balmori has not yet released
any elements of its own proposed design, the
firm has settled on some important issues to
address.
“One of the things we’re critiquing about
the current design is that they have placed
elements that really give limits to where cars
should go and people should go,” said Monica Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project, said the plaza spaces had been very popular so far, project that seems to be doing really well,
Hernandez, an architect with the firm. She she thought the redesign would benefit the and had been successful in calming traffic flow, and we’re really glad that the property own-
said Balmori is working to create a less “limit- whole community. as they were intended to do. ers are stepping up to deal with it,” said
ing” and “more fluid space.” “Aesthetically, there is a lot of room for The community board has not yet been Hamilton. “There are so many opportunities
Community Board 2 Chairperson Jo improvement,” she said, summarizing the involved in the redesign process, but expects to with these spaces, and when they’re well
Hamilton, who advocated for the installa- feedback that C.B. 2 received at a January review any proposals before they are finalized. operated and well managed, they’re better
tions in the first place through the Greater public hearing. She maintained, though, that “Our position is that it’s a really great for everybody.”
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Whitney Museum is still on track for 2012 opening

BY ALBERT AMATEAU
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s
proposed Downtown branch, designed by
Renzo Piano, to be built at the south end
of the High Line park on Gansevoort
St., was assured last month when Mayor
Bloomberg confirmed that part of a city-
owned Meat Market site would be sold to
the Whitney.
The mayor made the announcement on
June 8 at the official opening of the first
segment of the High Line park between
Gansevoort and 20th Sts.
A spokesperson for the city’s Economic
Development Corporation said last week
that the agency was finalizing the contract
that will allow the world-famous Whitney
to build on the 43,000-square-foot site
on Gansevoort St. between West St. and
the High Line. The agreement also allows
meat wholesale firms to continue doing
business in the commercial co-op building
that occupies the north part of the city-
owned property. A rendering of the design for the new Downtown Whitney Museum of American Art on Gansevoort St., viewed from the south.
A spokesperson for the Whitney was The High Line park is at right.
unable to say last week when construction
would begin, but he did say the museum co-op, plus the southern end of the High And because the site is in a manufactur- square feet of column-free space. The
was confident that the new museum would Line, are in the same development block, ing zone, which does not allow museums museum’s permanent collection will be
hit the 2012 target completion date. three easements tailored to the architec- or art galleries, the Whitney had to obtain on the fourth and fifth floors, and the top
The City Planning Commission earlier ture of the museum and the meat co-op a special permit for the project. floor will accommodate long-term exhib-
this year approved the project after the building were needed to define the size The Renzo Piano-designed building will its. The new Whitney will also have a 175-
city’s 10-month uniform land use review and configuration of possible future devel- step down in three stages from 175 feet on seat theater, a study center and space for
procedure, known as ULURP. Because the opment on the rest of the 102,000-square- West St. to 50 feet at a five-story High the museum’s 35 education programs. The
Downtown Whitney and the Meat Market foot property. Line maintenance building by Washington Whitney, which has a relationship with
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New visions: Stylish retail and a ‘Titanic mini-inn’

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
On the site of a current car wash and gas
station underneath the High Line at 14th St.
and Tenth Ave., plans are to create a new,
33,000-square-foot, all-glass-enclosed retail
space, as pictured in the rendering at right.
A new basement will be dug out, and the
tenant can keep the look of the High Line’s
riveted supports, which will run through the
space, or cover them up, said broker Richard
Skulnik of Ripco real estate. The site is out-
side of the Gansevoort Historic District, so
doesn’t have any landmark design restric-
tions. The new space should be completed
by January 2012, Skuknik said.
Meanwhile, Novac Noury, the former
“Arrow Keyboard Man” of Studio 54 back
in the disco days, is moving ahead with his
plans for a unique mini-inn on his property
at Little W. 12th St. and Washington St.,
just south of Andre Balazs’s new Standard
Hotel. On Monday, Noury said he had just
met with potential development partners
from Beck Street Capital. Under Noury’s
concept, a schematic of which is shown
below, the building would feature a “four-
story-tall hull” evoking the Titanic, whose
survivors were dropped off at nearby Pier
54 on W. 13th St. after the disaster. “It
almost looks like the QE2 — it will be as
of right,” Noury said. The project will also
feature a waterfall “at least 30 or 40 feet
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BY PATRICK HEDLUND
PARTY POLICE
The Soho Alliance neighborhood orga-
nization has claimed a victory against the
developer of a new hotel on Lafayette St.
for successfully beating back the builder’s
attempts to secure a liquor license for a
pair of planned outdoor spaces.
According to July 26 press release
from the alliance, the developer of the
incoming Mondrian Hotel near Howard
St. recently withdrew an application with
the State Liquor Authority to serve booze
in the hotel’s courtyard and second-story
patio space facing Crosby St. The alliance
had previously expressed its concerns
with “the outdoor party space” and its
sought-after closing times, arguing that
the racket brought on by patrons would
negatively impact neighbors across the
street. (The 25-story building, care of
the Morgans Hotel Group, also contains
restaurants on the rooftop and inside the
hotel, the latter able to accommodate up
to 400 people.)
“Not satisfied at the profits generated
from having such spectacular views, the
developer decided to double-dip, exploit-
ing the outdoor Crosby space for late-
night entertainment use,” the alliance’s
statement read, adding, “What were they
thinking? Did they really think they were
going to be allowed to destroy this part
of Soho?”
And while Community Board 2’s S.L.A.
Licensing Committee compromised to
permit the outdoor spaces to remain open
until 11 p.m., the full board disagreed,
voting almost unanimously to recommend
denial of the spaces’ use entirely.
“Mondrian may have thought that Soho
activists have just fallen off the pump-
kin truck,” said alliance director Sean
Sweeney. “But we are seasoned organizers
who will fight tooth and nail to prevent
Soho from becoming a late-night play-
ground. We have learned from the misery
these party hotels have caused elsewhere
Downtown, and we are determined that it
will never — ever — happen in Soho.”
RENTAL MARKET CHILL
Rental prices across the Village
remained relatively stable during one of
the most active months of the year, with
rents off slightly in some neighborhoods
while others produced the expected sea-
sonal gains.
Over all, the East Village experienced
a 1.25 percent jump in average rental
prices for studio, one- and two-bedroom
apartments in both doorman and non-
doorman buildings since last month. Some
of the strongest unit types throughout the
Downtown market were the neighbor-
July 29 - August 4, 2009 27
hood’s doorman two-bedroom apartments,
which showed an average gain of 11.45
percent from June to July. However, the
East Village’s one-bedroom units suffered
a 3.5 percent drop for both doorman and
non-doorman units.
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two-bedrooms (up 7.74 percent).
On the Lower East Side, noticeable
decreases were felt in the price of non-
doorman studios (down 7.75 percent)
and non-doorman two-bedrooms (down
6.58 percent), while increases occurred at
doorman two-bedrooms (up 6.89 percent)
and doorman one-bedrooms (up 6.52 per-
cent).
WEST VILLAGE ‘QUIET ZONE’
City Council candidate Yetta Kurland
has called for the creation of a “quiet zone”
on Greenwich Ave. in the West Village to
combat the noise from tour buses rumbling
through the neighborhood.
“According to reports, as many as 80 tour Read all about
buses a day travel along this route in the
West Village neighborhood with loudspeak-
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quality of life of residents along the way,”
in West & East Village,
Kurland said in a statement. “Many residents
have complained for some time about the Soho, Noho, Little Italy,
serious problem of noise pollution, but so far Chinatown, and the
nothing has been done about it.”
Kurland, a civil rights attorney who is
Lower East Side
running to unseat Council Speaker Christine
Quinn, also expressed concerns about the
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Continued from page 12
its significant contribution to global climate change.
We pointed out that ipê grows at a rate of two trees per acre
and that these trees therefore can not be harvested sustainably.
We mentioned that our warnings to the High Line and to the
Parks Department were borne out again on July 13, when the
results of yet another investigation of the fraudulent Forest
Stewardship Council’s (F.S.C.) “eco-timber laundering” (the
“eco-wood” scheme used by the High Line) were published in an
article entitled, “Illegal Amazon timber passed off as eco-certi-
fied” (http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/
stories/illegal-amazon-timber-passed-off-as-eco-certified).
Last week, we wrote to the Design Commission to ask
them about Mr. Scofidio’s assertion. They refuted his claim,
stating that “[W]hile the Commission reviewed the design
of the High Line, it did not request that a particular type of
wood be used.”
This high-profile Parks Department project received more
than $100 million in taxpayer funding from Mayor Bloomberg
and Council Speaker Christine Quinn. It is unacceptable that
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the city of New York and the Friends
of the High Line or anyone would use ecologically unsound
sources of wood, whether or not the discredited “green” F.S.C.
organization has approved of its use. Specifications can be
changed, which is what we have been asking for.
That all of these parties skirt responsibility is testimony to
our era of unaccountable public works.
Robert Jereski
Jereski is a member, Rainforests of New York
Lederman’s legacy
To The Editor:
Re “Gerson a friend of artists? Ha!” (letter, by Robert
Lederman, July 15):
I always find it interesting when Robert Lederman
attacks someone else for not being a friend of street artists.
Although I have serious issues with some of Councilperson
Gerson’s ideas for street artists, and have spoken out
strongly against facets of his proposed street-vending legis-
lation, it is Mr. Lederman’s philosophy that I feel has had
the most negative impact on the street art scene.
Consider the lowly state of formally well-known public
artist areas, such as West Broadway in Soho. Only five to
seven years ago West Broadway was bustling with travel-
ers from all over the world who made a point of coming
to Soho to visit fine artists who publicly display their own
original artwork on the weekends. As this public art scene
had evolved, some fine artists began to unite as a way to
represent their issues politically and to promote who they
were and where they could be found.
However Mr. Lederman fought every attempt by these
fine artists to come together. He is “president for life” of
his own group and he guards his position with great jeal-
ousy. His method to retain control was, as it has always
been, to use relentless mendacity and grossly false charges
against members of the artist cooperative. This, in turn,
caused paranoia in the ranks and, as a result of their
amplified fear, many fine artists then jumped onto the
Lederman bandwagon as a way to fend off threatened new
legislation proposed by Mr. Gerson.
Mr. Lederman’s plan called for fine artists to join forces
with the legion of vendors who sell cheap, often illegally cop-
ied, art reproductions and imitation jewelry, thereby blurring
the line defining who fine artists actually are. This negative
strategy proved to work against artists. Knowledgeable travel-
ers and collectors simply have taken West Broadway and other
formerly well-known artist areas off their itineraries because
the scene has become so polluted with cheap reproduction art
and knockoff merchandise that it is to be avoided. The result
is that few, if any, public fine artists can support their families
anymore. That is the Lederman legacy.
Of course, the economy has sunk to a new low, which
has had a very negative effect on artists as well. However,
the cooperative plan gave fine artists tools to deal with
the economic downturn and recourses to which they now
have no access. Without this plan, artists simply sit idly by
while waiting for Mr. Lederman to fight Mr. Gerson over
proposed legislation that appears to be going nowhere. At
the same time, vendors of cheap reproductions sell briskly
in areas where fine artists used to display their own art-
work. What a shame for us all.
Lawrence White
Magnolia’s making a mess
To The Editor:
Isn’t it time for you to send a photographer to Bleecker
St. to photograph the ubiquitous white boxes from the
Magnolia Bakery overflowing every corner trash basket
down to Grove St., not to mention the napkins and drink
containers scattered around? Far from “remaking” Bleecker
St., as the puff piece your paper ran in 2006 claims, this
hyped-up cash cow is the major generator of garbage from
the park down to Seventh Ave. and it singlehandedly
destroyed Bleecker St.
Frances Genovese
Editor’s note: An article in the July 23, 2008, issue of
The Villager, “‘Sex and City’ tour scratches Carrie’s stoop
from its route,” referred to the litter problem caused by
Magnolia Bakery: “[Aubrey] Lees walks her dogs each
morning at Bleecker Playground, which she called ‘an
absolute hellhole’ due to another ‘Sex and the City’ tour
side effect — cupcake liners strewn on the ground. The
show’s fans eat their cupcakes on benches in the park next
to Bleecker Playground on Hudson St. ‘It is completely a
mess and littered with little cupcake holders,’ she said,
adding that Magnolia Bakery is also to blame for doing
nothing to keep the park clean.”
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Annual street theater show tackles present by looking to past
Crystal Field’s Theater for the New City ensemble again delivers
BY JERRY TALLMER
HISTORY speaks: “You are back in the
1930s, the days of the Great Depression. I’m
going to give you a lesson from those days of
struggle, to teach you how to Navigate the
Future…”
VOICE OVER (as, on stage, we see
WPA-type scenes of the starving, the home-
less, the jobless, the scared, vintage 1932):
“One-third of this nation ill-housed, ill-
clothed, ill-fed…”
Those were the years, says History
(a/k/a Theater for the New City actor Mark
Marcante), of breadlines, bank failures,
foreclosures, Okies, sit-down strikes and
the Bonus Marchers — thousands of ragged
World War I veterans driven from their Tent
City in the Capitol by the tear gas and bul-
lets ordered by Gen, Douglas MacArthur.
“All together now,” shouts a character
from the small stage that has unfolded from
a truck but is quite large enough to encom-
pass a city, a nation, a multitude, “let’s make
a Cell-phone Symphony to tell the govern-
ment [the 2009 U.S. government] what we
want it to do!”
Sure enough, the audience sitting out
front on milk crates or folding chairs or
leaning out window sills may be of rather
modest circumstances, but nobody is too
poor or too young to have a cell phone,
and on the invitation they now whip them
out and, urged on by a terrific five-piece
combo, participate heartily in a Cell-phone
Symphony urging new New Deal action
on all those wheelers and dealers down in
Washington.
This is, you see, the summer street the-
ater of indomitable director/author Crystal
Field’s TNC — which for six weeks every
August into September tours the streets,
parks and playgrounds of all five boroughs
with free — yes, free. Field’s straight-from-
the-neighborhood brand of social comment
and wishful impact concerns the (always
outrageous) matters and morals of our
time.
“Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future”
premieres at 2:00p.m. on Saturday, August
1 at on East 10th Street between Second
and First Avenues (nearer to First), around
the corner from TNC itself.
Six weekends and 11 performances later,
it plays Washington Square Park before
wrapping things up on Sunday afternoon,
September 13, at St, Mark’s Church (Second
Avenue and 10th Street), right up the block
from where the cycle started six weeks
earlier.
By then, with all the 2009-style Big Guys
and Bad Guys and Bankers and CEOs and
Wall Street Gunslingers laid to rest, at least
temporarily, we’ve learned the mantra of
what the old New Deal — the FDR New
THEATER
TALLY HO!, OR NAVIGATING THE
FUTURE
Written and directed by Crystal Field
Music by David Tice
A Theater for the New City street show
Touring the five boroughs from August 1
through September 13
For complete schedule: (212) 254-1109 or
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Deal — gave us:
The 8-hour workday.
The 40-hour workweek.
The Child Labor laws.
The first Anti-Lynching law.
The minimum wage.
Banking oversight.
Anti-Trust laws.
Workman’s compensation.
Unemployment insurance.
And (but you must hold your breath)…
The Social Security Act of 1936.
Crystal Field, cofounder of Theater for
the New City with then husband George
Bartenieff, has been writing and staging
street theater in New York since 1976, and
started seven years before that with street
theater in Philadelphia.
“No,” Field says, “I wasn’t around” at the
height of the Great Depression of the 1930s,
“but I heard all about it from my mother. At
one time she’d worked in a candy factory in
New York, and they let you eat all the candy
you wanted that dropped on the floor.”
Her mother would one day become the
fine, dedicated Dr. Fannie Stoll, a wonderful
old lady whom I chatted with at TNC street
shows in the years just before her death not
long ago at 98.
“My parents were very, very active,” says
Field, who remembers not getting her first
“bought dress” — a “stripey cotton, size
Chubette” — until she was 12. “When they
talked about the Depression, they always
said there’d be another one.”
Which is of course exactly what hap-
pened seventy-plus years after Wall Street’s
Black Tuesday of 1929, and is also what
“Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future” is all
about.
Theater for the New City’s annual sum-
mer street shows don’t just hatch, like eggs.
There is a considerable gestation period,
all of which starts in a brown paper bag in
Field’s kitchen drawer.
“In there I shove notes and ideas and
Ensemble members rehearse for :”Tally HO!”
scraps and pieces of paper.” These scraps
all feed into a 2½-week workshop at TNC
each spring, based on a rough scenario.
Then Field repairs alone for two weeks to
the trailer she’s long had in the woods up
past Poughkeepsie “on the wrong side of the
river, three or four miles from the General
Store.”
That trailer is where she puts in the hard
writing, with which she returns to the city
for a 3½-week rehearsal period. Et voila!
Field did a ton of research while writing
“Tally Ho!” and had leading cast members
read the same books and study the same
photographs she was absorbing.
“In the 1930s, there was almost a revo-
lution in this country;” she says. “The New
Deal really saved everything. That’s what
Roosevelt did — he saved capitalism.”
So why isn’t there a revolution now?
“It hasn’t been bad enough. But it will
happen again unless they put back all of the
New Deal along with Universal Health Care.
I’m really not a Socialist,” says Field, “but
it’s coming. Unless…”
Yes, she thinks the new president is try-
ing his best, “but I don’t think he can do it
alone” — and this too is what “Tally Ho!” is
urging. “When the people move, things get
done. When they don’t move, nothing gets
done.”
Oh, sure, there are oversimplifications
and stock figures aplenty in “Tally Ho!” —
it’s the nature of street theater to oversim-
plify — but that doesn’t lessen, and indeed
July 29 - August 4, 2009 29
Photo by Jonathan Slaff
increases, the warmth and one-to-one inter-
action of actors and audiences. There is also,
dear God, a climactic group sing in praise of
Lower East Side community gardens. That’s
virtually Field’s trademark.
Leading roles are played by Mark
Marcante, who has been Crystal Field’s all-
purpose strong man at TNC for many years;
by Primi Rivera as Big Guy, a sort of prof-
it-hungry, power-hungry villain, what my
father would have called a rotating son of
a bitch no matter which way you looked at
him; and by Michael David and Alexander
Bartenieff (Crystal’s 39-year-old son) as a
couple of smartass Wall Street wolves.
Field herself has a small role — that of
a mama who, when her son (the less vora-
cious of those two wolves) says reassur-
ingly: “It’s all in the numbers, Mom,” tartly
replies: “In my day they had the numbers
game, but at least they paid when your num-
ber came up.”
KOCH
ON FILM
Ed Koch is making progress in his recovery
from heart surgery on June 19. We wish him
well and hope to have him back — praising
and panning — as soon as possible.
30 July 29 - August 4, 2009

Village author mines humor from misery

“Speed Shrinking” released in the cruel month when therapists vacation
ARTIST PROFILE:
SUSAN SHAPIRO
BY PAULA ROSENBERG
“Writing teachers are like psycho-
analysts — only they’re paid less,” jokes
Susan Shapiro. Her debut novel, “Speed
Shrinking” (St. Martin’s Press) hits book-
stores in August.
Shapiro has lived in the Village for 28
years. She purchased an apartment around
the corner from her first dorm at NYU
because she wanted to “recapture the thrill
of moving to the city from Michigan in
1981.” Her debut novel is a follow up to
the hilarious 2005 memoir, “Lighting Up”
— which chronicled conquering her addi-
tions to smoking, drinking and drugs. At
the end, the only thing Shapiro needed to
quit was her addiction to therapy.
In “Speed Shrinking,” it’s the psycho-
analyst who ends up quitting New York
— and his patient. The novel’s heroine,
Julia Goodman, is about to plug her new
self-help book on beating sugar addiction.
That’s when her best friend, husband, and
shrink all leave town indefinitely — send-
ing Julia on a cupcake binge and a desper-
ate mission to find the perfect replacement
psychiatrist by visiting eight therapists in
one week. The entire novel takes place in
the Greenwich Village — which is very fit-
ting, since its Shapiro’s idea of paradise.
She vividly recalls her first day in New
York, where she moved to get her M.F.A.
in Creative Writing from NYU. “I was
sitting in Washington Square Park and
realized what was wrong with the first 20
years of my life. I was switched at birth
and should have been here.” Like her fic-
tional alter ego Julia, Shapiro rarely leaves
her beloved neighborhood.
In the novel, Julia is also a Midwestern
transplant. Like Shapiro, Julia can’t under-
stand how people could want to live
anywhere but downtown Manhattan. She
seems especially irked when her best
friend since grade school is whisked away
Photo by Dan Brownstein
Author and longtime Village resident
Susan Shaprio
to Cleveland by her new husband. This
revelation is so shocking that after bidding
adieu to her friend, Julia promptly heads to
her local drug store to binge on treats from
the candy aisle.
Julia’s antics of finishing off a half
dozen Crumbs cupcakes while obsessive-
ly calling her best friend, Sarah (even
though she is on her honeymoon) seem
extreme. However, it’s Julia’s comical anal-
ysis of her situation, as well as her unself-
ishness, that ultimately wins the reader
over. Even in the midst of her turmoil, she
still makes her weekly commitment of vol-
unteering at a soup kitchen and has genu-
ine concern for Sarah’s difficulty adapting
to her new surroundings.
Julia is the cool, quirky, creative friend
that everyone wishes was in their cir-
cle. It’s her inventiveness that leads her
to test out eight shrinks in one week (to
replace her trusted Dr. Ness). On her hunt,
she’s as critical of her would-be substitutes
as she is of herself — dismissing them for
having bad taste in art, only being avail-
able at 9AM on Saturdays, and suggesting
she move outside of Manhattan.
Julia uses a similar technique when
she realizes that she has packed on over
30 pounds from her sugar binges. She’s
nervous about her book being dropped
if her publisher gets wind of her weight
gain and even more nervous about how
she’ll look on her upcoming appearance
on “The View.” Tired of being mistaken
for pregnant, she decides to test out
eight Overeaters Anonymous meetings in
a week. She takes resourcefulness to a new
level when she starts having her therapists
take power walks with her during their
sessions, rationalizing that she can unload
her mind and burn off some calories at the
same time.
The tall, dark haired, black clad Shapiro
admits the novel is autobiographical. She
was devastated when her therapist, Dr.
Fred Woolverton, moved out of state and
only came back to the city once every six
weeks. He recommended a therapist from
his East 9th Street consortium, The Village
Institute, and promised to fly back to
town to participate in her upcoming speed
shrinking parties (think speed dating with
shrinks). “He was jealous I’ll be shrinking
around,” Shapiro laughed. She is also a
fan of the institute’s close proximity to her
apartment. “I found such fantastic shrinks
within a few block. Why would I schlep
anywhere else?”
Therapists aren’t the only people
Shapiro is unwilling to travel for. When
the author first met her husband, he lived
in Murray Hill. This was a deal break-
er. Colleagues tease that above 14th Street,
she turns into a pumpkin. Fortunately, her
partner eventually agreed to buy a Village
apartment and recently became a tenured
TV/Film professor at NYC.
Shapiro writes by day and teaches by
night. She has taught at Cooper Union,
New York University, and the New School
— where she will be receiving a distin-
guished teaching award on September
3rd. “Even if I was a millionaire, my life
wouldn’t be any different.” The locations
of her second profession don’t hurt either.
“I’ll work anywhere in walking distance of
my apartment.” Sometimes Shapiro doesn’t
even have to go beyond her front door, as
she has taken to teaching book seminars
and essay classes in the comfort of her own
home. She calls her method “the instant
gratification takes too long” school of
writing, where the goal is to write and sell
a great piece by the end of the class to pay
for the class.
While she admits the cost of an apart-
ment has gone up dramatically in this
neighborhood, Shaprio can’t imagine ever
leaving. “I never want to live anywhere
else. Vacations are difficult because I’m
happier at home.” The only change in the
neighborhood she laments is the loss of
some of her favorite bookstores. She miss-
es Postman Books and was “heartbroken”
when the Astor Place Barnes and Noble
right across the street from her closed.
“The day we moved into our new place, I
was giving a reading at Barnes and Noble
and there was a poster of me in the window
I could see from my apartment. I took it as
good Karma,” she said. Having sold seven
books in seven years it seems to be work-
ing. She currently frequents Shakespeare
and Co., The Strand, the Sixth Avenue
Barnes and Noble, and McNally Jackson
Booksellers.
Since August is the month most of the
city’s couch doctors are on vacation she’s
calling her public readings, “The Shrinks
Are Away Tour.” Hopefully, that will help
her readers make it to September.
Shapiro will be appearing 7:00p.m. on
August 4th (along with Ian Frazier & Patricia
Marx) at McNally Jackson Booksellers (52
Prince Street). She’ll also be giving a solo
reading on September 7th, at 7:30p.m.,
at the Greenwich Village Barnes & Noble
(396 Avenue of the Americas). Visit her at
www.susanshapiro.net.

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Not Enough Body

Monika Treut’s romantic thriller falls short on both counts
BY GARY M. KRAMER
Monika Treut’s intriguing film “Ghosted,”
about a lesbian video artist coping with the
loss of her lover, intertwines issues of sexuality,
nationality, and identity with decidedly mixed
results. Despite a promising conceit — how
love is most deeply felt when it is gone — this
multicultural romance shaded by a mystery is
surprisingly un-engaging.
Ai-Ling (Han-Ru Ke) leaves Taiwan for
Germany to see her businessman uncle, Chen
Fu (Jack Kao). She’s searching for information
about her late father, and thinks Chen Fu may
hold the key to her identity. Attending a movie
one night she meets Sophie (Inga Busch), a video
artist who becomes her lover. Although Sophie
texts Ai-Ling that she has put a spell on her, audi-
ences may not feel the intensity of their too-cool
romance. The affair ends suddenly when Ai-Ling
is murdered. While Sophie says she doesn’t
blame herself for Ai-Ling’s demise, as the film
unfolds, there are hints that Ai-Ling’s feelings of
jealousy and betrayal prompted her death.
Five months later, Sophie is in Taiwan,
unveiling a video exhibit featuring her late lover.
Mei Li (Ting Ting Hu) approaches the artist
with interest in doing a newspaper interview.
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reminds her of Ai-Ling. Eventually she agrees to
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Still Waters Run Deep
Sprawling novel extracts magic from the mundane
BY DAVID KENNERLEY
“Lake Overturn,” the generous debut
novel by Vestal McIntyre, is an extraordi-
narily rendered narrative about ordinary
people. Set in Eula, Idaho, a quasi-fiction-
al desert town on the edge of a big lake,
the work traces the lives of more than
a dozen characters who are swimming
against the crosscurrents of family, class,
race, organized religion, peer pressure,
and thwarted sexuality.
The book’s title refers to an actual
1986 incident in Cameroon, where a giant
bubble of carbon dioxide rose from the
bottom of Lake Nyos and killed 1,700
villagers. The plucky-but-geeky Enrique,
a young teen who gets off reading muscle
mags, explores this phenomenon in a sci-
ence fair project, suggesting that a similar
tragedy could befall Eula.
Despite their humble, white-trash
roots, McIntyre has crafted poignantly
vivid characterizations where humanity
shines. The critics are purring, calling the
novel “engrossing,” “deliriously ambro-
sial,” and “richly imagined and fully real-
ized.” The New York Times recently
named the work an “Editor’s Choice,” as
it did his collection of short stories, “You
Are Not the One,” a couple of years ago.
If your typical summer page-turner feels
like ocean surf crashing, the experience of
reading “Lake Overturn” is akin to gentle
wavelets lapping at your toes –– soothing,
expansive, transporting.
The youngest of seven siblings (four
turned out to be gay) in a Southern
Baptist household in Nampa, Idaho,
McIntyre won a highly coveted National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and
a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. For
many years, he lived in New York, serv-
ing steak frites at the famed, lamented
bistro, Florent, and last year decamped to
London to live with his British husband,
Tristan.
I recently spoke with the 37-year-old
author about his new novel, his Florent
days, becoming an ex-pat, and the murky
politics of same-sex marriage.
DAVID KENNERLEY: In the last
few weeks, I spied guys reading “Lake
Overturn” on the Fire Island Pines beach
and the Christopher Street pier. Somebody
even approached me while I was reading
the book and said that his 80-year-old
mother loved it.
VESTAL MCINTYRE: Are you kidding?
Holy shit, I wish I were there. When my
first book came out, I was hoping and
praying that one day I would randomly
see someone reading it on the subway,
but it never happened. I have personally
sold copies of my book, however. I have a
crappy job at this chain store —London’s
answer to Barnes and Noble. The manag-
ers are really nice and stock it at the front
counter. Sometimes when I’m at the regis-
ter, customers pick the book up and when
they realize I’m the author, they buy it.
DK: Who then, would you say, is your
target audience?
VM: When I’m writing, I resist think-
ing of a specific audience. Usually, the
first person to read my work is my older
sister, my toughest critic. So I ask myself,
“Would Beeb think this is funny or would
she roll her eyes?” But that doesn’t mean
I’m targeting lesbians in their late 40s.
DK: On the surface, a wispily plotted
story set in Podunk, Idaho doesn’t exactly
scream “Read me!” Was it a tough sell to
get it published?
VM: Not at all. I had a savvy, receptive
group of editors to send it out to, and
luckily I got offers right away. It’s funny
you ask, because I come up against that
problem a lot. I have to talk about the
book and get people excited about it: “It’s
about these folks stuck in a small town
in Idaho, and there’s this trailer park.”
When I was writing, I never considered
how that might sound. There’s no hook.
DK: You’ve woven together several
story threads involving a slew of char-
acters. There’s Lina, a single mom of
Mexican descent who lives in a trailer
park and cleans people’s houses; Enrique,
her gay-leaning 13-year-old son; Connie,
a lovelorn, conflicted religious zealot;
Chuck, a Mormon losing his wife to can-
cer; and Wanda, a drug addict/ babysitter
who yearns to become a surrogate mother.
And many more. How did you keep all
those story lines straight?
VM: At a certain point the timeline
got all out of shape and the story was a
tangled mess. So I turned one wall into a
big chart with color-coded notecards with
scenes I had written and had yet to write.
It helped me sort out what could happen
when.
DK: Instead of mocking Connie’s
devout religious fervor, you treat her with
respect. Was that difficult?
VM: It would be difficult for me — and
I don’t want to sound too sappy — not to
treat her with respect, since I’m devoting
so much of the novel to her. Her concerns
with living a good life and pleasing God
were my concerns when I was little. I was
intensely religious, worried I was going to
Hell. I had long negotiations directly with
God, bargaining, “If I do this, will you
help me with this?” I couldn’t make fun
of her. Although I’d be happy to skewer
Christians in another book.
DK: Although barely a teenager, Enrique
is pretty sure he’s attracted to boys. Did
you draw from your own experience?
VM: Yeah. I went to a tiny fundamen-
talist Christian junior high school where
I was targeted as the school fag. It got
so tortuous, my parents let me switch to
public school, which was bigger and more
comfortable for people on the fringe. A
lot of stuff, like [Enrique’s] navigations of
junior high society and negotiations with
bullies, came from my life. He’s a little
more ruthless and gets into harder situa-
tions than I got into — what I could have
been if I were bolder.
DK: What was it like having gay broth-
ers and sisters?
VM: When we were little, our house
was so gay. We weren’t allowed to talk
about gay stuff at all, since my mother
was so strict. However, we’d divide into
teams, dress up, and have weird, campy
dance contests, performing elaborate rou-
tines to Dolly Parton songs. It was basi-
cally one big drag show. Our parents
loved it.
DK: Now you’re living in London. Why
do you think Americans have such a prob-
lem with gays getting hitched compared
to the Brits?
VM: It’s complicated. The easy answer
is that America is overrun by religious
conservatives, while [Great Britain] is
the most secular society I can think of.
Political questions are dealt with more
intellectually here, unclouded by passion.
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People don’t get moralistic or religious
about it. It’s a simple matter of civil
rights.
DK: Do you think it’s a question of
semantics? The “M” word scares many
Americans.
VM: I don’t know why people are so
fixated on that word. I’m happy with the
term civil partner. I don’t want it to be
called marriage because that seems like
an imitation of a straight convention. I am
tempted to diss America but I love it too,
and I miss it. I want to move back and
bring Tristan, as soon as they let us.
DK: I read your letter to Obama pub-
lished in the Advocate encouraging the
passage of the Uniting American Families
Act, the bill allowing Americans to spon-
sor their same-sex foreign partners so
they can live here. What’s your take on
Obama’s inaction on this issue?
VM: Obama has a huge influence on
how it will go, but technically the bill
is in the hands of Congress right now.
Obama supported it as a senator; there’s
no question he would sign it. The task is
to get more senators behind it. It could
still happen.
DK: You worked at my favorite restau-
rant, Florent, for a decade. Did the expe-
rience inform your writing in any way?
VM: It was great for my career. Everyone
who worked there had a creative streak,
and Florent [Morellet] encouraged us.
Other writers and my agent would visit
me there — it was my office. I was able to
go away to write for stretches, sometimes
months, and come back and still have a
job. When my first book came out, Florent
kept a stack downstairs. When he was
having dinner with a literary influential,
he’d grab one and say [French accent],
“Zees is Vestal, he’s a great writer. You
simply must read hees book.”
DK: The restaurant’s demise seems
ripe for a novel — a popular, unpreten-
tious, artsy gastro hub, presided over by
a graciously eccentric gay maverick, falls
victim to a greedy landlord, who in turn
gets crunched by the economic slide and
struggles to find a tenant for the space.
Ever been tempted to write about that?
VM: No. But last time I was in New
York, I saw Florent furiously writing some
sort of manuscript.
 July 29 - August 4, 2009 33

THE
ALIST EVENTS SUMMER IN THE SQUARE
The weekly entertainment series “Summer in the
Square” invites you to Union Square Park every
COMPILED BY Thursday through August 19. From the wee hours of
SCOTT STIFFLER the morning to the cusp of dusk, you’ll find fitness
Scott@thevillager.com and yoga classes as well as music and theatri-
cal performances — all of which won’t cost you

ART a dime. At 8:00a.m. on July 30 and August 6/13,

“Fitness in the Square” features a Yoga class by
Prana Power. At Noon on July 30 and August 6,
PEOPLE, PIERS, “Kids in the Square” presents the Gazillion Bubble
WATERFRONT Show. At 6:00p.m. on August 6, “Music in the
Rendered in luminous Square” brings performances presented by Daryl
black and white, Darleen Roth Theater. For a complete schedule of these
Rubin’s photographs of Photo by Matt Tyson
free Union Square Park events, visit www.union-
NYC are deceptive time Jukebox and the Ghost, performing July 30, 5:30pm-
6:30pm
squarenyc.org/SummerintheSquare.htm.
capsules. Works like
1974’s “Coast Guard Eagle
with Goodyear blimps”
depict what we’ve come
to expect when viewing
photographs of the city
FILM
Photo supplied by the artist
taken during the early
From May, 1973:
decades of the last cen- “Rollerena on Pier 42”
tury. No matter the era
depicted or evoked, you’ll find yourself thoroughly swept
away by pleasant waves of melancholy and nostalgia
once the full force of exhibit has its way with you.
“Greenwich Village People, Piers and the Waterfront
during the 1970s” shows at the Jefferson Market Library
(425 Sixth Avenue at 10th Street) through August 31. For
more information visit www.darleenrubin.com.

Photo courtesy of Inffinito

MUSIC

From “Veronica”

CINE FEST PETROBAS BRASIL

Catch the best of contemporary Brazilian cinema at the seventh annual edition of Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil. Likely
highlights include “The Ballroom” — a San Paulo-set tale following five couples dealing with love and lust (on the
dance floor and off). “Veronica” tells the tale of a childless public school teacher whose life suddenly changes when
one of her students, left behind after hours, plunges her into a web of unexpected intrigue and action. August 2
through 7 at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street). For tickets ($10 for each film), www.ticketweb.com. Film descrip-
tions and a full schedule can be found on www.brazilianfilmfestival.com or by calling 646-827-9333.

Photo by Anita Velez

STEELY DAN

MUSIC IN CHELSEA
Frederico Gouveia, an emerging talent on the New York
City scene, makes his first appearance as conductor of
The New Amsterdam String Orchestra — which, every
summer, morphs into the New Amsterdam Summer
Orchestra (as part of the New Amsterdam Symphony
Orchestra’s long-time collaboration with St. Peter’s Music
in Chelsea series). Confused by the three different
“Amsterdam” variations? Don’t stress about it; just show
up and enjoy selections including Fantasia on a Theme
by Thomas Tallis (by Vaughan Williams). Tuesday, August
11, 7:30p.m. at St. Peter’s Church (3346 W. 20th Street,
between 8th and 9th Avenues). The suggested donation is
$10 ($5 for students/seniors). For more information, call
212-929-2390.
MUSIC
An event making it into the A List two weeks in a row happens about as
often as a Democrat getting elected to the presidency — so don’t bother
sending angry emails. Walter Becker and Donald Fagan have burrowed
their way into the hearts and minds of we here at The A List with their
potent mix of sophisticated, cynical, lecherous lyrics and breezy but
complex musical arrangements (think “Hey Nineteen” and “Rikki Don’t
Lose That Number”). Villager residents are therefore advised to make the
trek uptown to catch updated takes on classic albums (“Aja” “Goucho”
or “The Royal Scam”) along with selected personal favorites. The final
night will feature audience requests made from Internet ticket buyers.
Good to know they’re keeping up with the modern times, even if the best
of their most recent work (“Everything Must Go”) revels in sitting back
Photo by Danny Clinch
and having a drink as the world goes to hell. July 29, 31 and August 1, 3,
Donald Fagen, left, and Walter
4, 10, 11; at The Beacon Theatre. To purchase tickets, www.ticketmaster.
Becker are the sublime Steely
com or 866-858-0008. Dan
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`NAME: SHAH COMMU-
NICATIONS L.L.C.
Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State
of NY 01/08/09. Off. Loc.: New
York Co. Kamal Shah desig-
nated as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY to mail copy
of process to THE LLC C/O
Kamal Shah, 292 Fifth Ave-
nue, 4th Flr., NY, NY 10001.
Purpose: Any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
FIFTH AVENUE MAINTE-
NANCE LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/2/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to C/O Business
Filings Incorporated 187 Wolf
Road, STE. 101. Purpose:
Any lawful activity. Regis-
tered Agent: Business Filings
Incorporated 187 Wolf Road,
STE. 101 Albany, NY 12205.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
BP PANAMA LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/14/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 320
West 13TH Street, Suite 7B
New York, NY 10014. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF AULIS & CO., LLC
Cert. of Conversion filed
with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 05/15/09, convert-
ing AULIS & CO. to AULIS
& CO., LLC. Office location:
NY County. Princ. office of
LLC: 345 Park Ave., 5th Fl.,
NY, NY 10154. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Corporation Ser-
vice Co., 80 State St., 6th Fl.,
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF RESIDENTIAL
TELEVISION PRODUC-
TIONS LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/08/09. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 05/13/09.
Princ. office of LLC: 320 Roe-
bling St., #126, Brooklyn, NY
11211. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to Kathy A. Hobbs at the
princ. office of the LLC. DE
addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CAPE SAG ELITE
ASSOCIATES, LLC
Arts of Org., filed with NY
Sec. of State (“SSNY”)
04/15/2009. Office in New
York County; SSNY desig-
nated agent for service of
process with copy mailed to
Attn: Thomas J. Malmud,
Esq., Pryor Cashman LLP, 410
Park Avenue, 10th Floor, New
York, NY 10022, All lawful
business purposes.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PEACELOVE 1 LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
05/08/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: Peace-
Love 1 LLC, Darada David,
206 East 87th Street Apt.
5B, NY 10128.Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: 603
ASSOCIATES, LLC
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 07/10/08. The latest date
of dissolution is 12/31/2108.
Office location: New York
County. SSNY has been des-
ignated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to
the LLC, 210 East 86th Street,
Suite 603, New York, New
York. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SANCUS CAPI-
TAL ADVISORS LLC
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 5/12/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC org.
in DE 5/8/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Attn: Olga
Chernova, 111 Wooster St.,
Apt. 6B, NY, NY 10012. DE
office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activities.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF CRISPIN
CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY
FUND, L.P.
App. for Auth. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 5/22/09. Office
location: NY County. LP org.
in DE 5/21/09. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LP upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to Attn:
Michael Cahill, 375 Park Ave.,
Ste. 1305, NY, NY 10152. DE
office addr.: c/o CSC, 2711
Centerville Rd., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of LP on
file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg.,
Dover, DE 19901. Name/
addr. of each gen. ptr. avail.
at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF FIVE OTHER TEN
CONDOMINIUM LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/12/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 503 W. 27th
St., #4, NY, NY 10001. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 323 CONSULTING,
LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
04/08/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 10 W. End
Ave., Ste. 31B, NY, NY 10023.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NY ELIZABETH PROP-
ERTIES LLC
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 4/30/09.
Office location: 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: The LLC, 87 Elizabeth
St. #4D, New York, NY 10013.
Purpose: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF EARL OF
SANDWICH (350 PARK),
LLC
Application of Authority
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
12/3/2008. Office location: NY
County. Principal business
address: 6052 Turkey Lake
Road, Orlando, FL 32819.
LLC formed in Florida (FL)
on 11/12/2008. SSNY has
been designated as an agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, c/o Earl of Sandwich,
6052 Turkey Lake Road,
Orlando, FL 32819. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DIVINE STRATEGIES,
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 5/28/09.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
address: 254 W. 31st St., 10th
Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NAME: STRUCTURED
CREDIT CONSULTANTS,
LLC
Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State
of NY 03/18/09. Off. Loc.: New
York Co. SSNY designated as
agent upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY to mail copy of pro-
cess to THE LLC, 845 Third
Avenue, 6th Floor, NY, NY
10022. Purpose: Any lawful
act or activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NAME: 66-68 WEST
82ND STREET REALTY,
LLC
Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State
of NY 05/29/09. Off. Loc.: New
York Co. SSNY designated as
agent upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY to mail copy of pro-
cess to THE LLC, 26 West
85th St., New York, NY 10024.
Purpose: Any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NEW RED LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 1/6/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to C/O Gha-
zia Jalal 333 East 30TH Street
#1H New York, NY 10016.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
LOVESICK PICTURES
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 3/17/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 135
Perry ST. APT. 12 New York
City, NY 10014. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SUNRISE BRO-
KERS, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/27/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 4/22/2009. SSNY
designated as /agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to Buchanan
Associates, LLC 1114 Avenue
Of The Americas 17TH Floor
New York, NY 10036. DE
address of LLC: 1201 Orange
Street #600 Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. Of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal
ST, Suite 4 Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF INTEGRATIVE
SPORTS MEDICINE NYC,
PLLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
04/29/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of PLLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The PLLC, 22 W.
21st St., Ste. 400, NY, NY
10010. Purpose: profession
of medicine.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF INTEGRATIVE FAMILY
MEDICINE, PLLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
04/10/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of PLLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The PLLC, 22 W.
21st St., Ste. 400, NY, NY
10010. Purpose: profession
of medicine.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 2304 REALTY LLC
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
04/05/99. Office location:
Bronx County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to The LLC, 201 Red
Hill Rd., New City, NY 10956.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 1726 DAVIDSON LLC
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/21/05. Office location:
Bronx County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Jon Basmanov,
817 Westchester Ave., Bronx,
NY 10455. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 1702 LLC
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/21/05. Office location:
Bronx County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Jon Basmanov,
817 Westchester Ave., Bronx,
NY 10455. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 2308 LLC
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/21/05. Office location:
Bronx County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Jon Basmanov,
817 Westchester Ave., Bronx,
NY 10455. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 3876 PARK AVENUE
LLC
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/18/03. Office location:
Bronx County. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Radin & Klein-
man, 880 River Ave., Bronx,
NY 10452. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 150 EAST, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/16/09. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
17 Battery Pl., Ste. 1224, NY,
NY 10004. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ABSOLUTE PROPER-
TIES OF NYC, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
03/27/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, 260 Convent Ave Ste.
102, New York, NY 10031.
Purpose: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MARINA M. RICH-
ARDS, M.D., PLLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
05/15/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated 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: 1
Morningside Drive, #2005,
NY, NY 10025. Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF AEA MEZZA-
NINE II FUNDING LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 2/6/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 263 Tresser Blvd.,
Stamford, CT 06901. LLC
formed in DE on 12/4/08. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: CT Corporation Sys-
tem, 111 8th Ave., 13th Fl.,
NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of
LLC: The Corporation Trust
Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NAME OF FOREIGN LLC:
SKIDMORE, OWINGS &
MERRILL A.D. LLC
App. for Auth. filed NY Dept.
of State: 5/28/09. Jurisd. and
date of org.: DE 3/30/09.
County off. loc.: New York
Cty. Princ. bus. loc.: 14 Wall
St., NY, NY 10005. Sec. of
State designated as agent
of foreign LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. The Sec. of State
shall mail copy of process
to: 14 Wall St., NY, NY 10005,
Attn: General Counsel. Addr.
of foreign LLC in DE is: 615
South DuPont Hwy., Dover,
DE 19901. Auth. officer in DE
where Cert. of Form. filed:
Sec. of State of the State
of DE, 401 Federal St., # 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NAME OF FOREIGN LLC:
1709 SURF AVENUE
ASSOCIATES LLC
App. for Auth. filed NY Dept.
of State: 5/12/09. Jurisd. and
date of org.: DE 5/13/05.
County off. loc.: New York
Cty. Sec. of State designated
as agent of foreign LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. The Sec. of State
shall mail copy of process to:
c/o Taconic Investment Part-
ners LLC, 111 Eighth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011. Addr.
of foreign LLC in DE is: 1209
Orange Street, Wilming-
ton, Delaware, 19801. Auth.
officer in DE where Cert. of
Form. filed: Sec. of State of
the State of DE, c/o DE Div.
of Corporations, 401 Federal
Street, Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/1-8/5/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DIVINE CONSULT-
ING, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 5/28/09.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
address: 254 W. 31st St., 10th
Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GIRONA CAPITAL,
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/26/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, Attn: Jef-
frey Ravetz, 498 West End
Avenue, Unit 7-A, NY, NY
10024. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 6/24-7/29/09
ULTIMATEREC LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 1/23/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Cullen Douglas
Shaw 1309 5TH Ave Apt 30D
New York, NY 10029. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
LATMAN CONSULTING
SERVICES LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/19/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Neil Latman 305
E. 24TH ST. 15U New York,
NY 10010. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity. Registered Agent:
Neil Latman 305 E. 24TH ST.
15U New York, NY 10010.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
ROWE ADVISORS, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/19/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Mr. Ronald
Weintraub 920 5TH Avenue
New York, NY 10021. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
FAIRWAY FUND VII LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/29/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Kriss &
Feuerstein LLP C/O Kenneth
P. Horowitz 360 Lexington
Avenue, 12TH FL New York,
NY 10017. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
JZS DESIGNS, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 1/20/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to The LLC
360 West 22 Street, #2L New
York, NY 10011. Purpose:
Any lawful activity. Regis-
tered Agent: Judy Salmon
360 West 22 Street, #2L New
York, NY 10011
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
MANDEL BHANDARI LLP
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 4/23/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to THE LLP
11 Broadway Suite 615, New
York, NY 10004. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
EXPERT ULTRASOUND
DIAGNOSTICS, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/4/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 124
West 60TH Street Apt 35D
New York, NY 10023. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
JFL GENERAL CON-
TRACTING LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/15/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Jose Lebron
601 W 113 Penthouse New
York, NY 10025. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BDS TRADING,
LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/21/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 5/19/2009. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to THE LLC
159 Bleecker Street, Apt 4D
NY, NY 10012. DE address
of LLC: Corporation Trust
Center 1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts.
Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of
State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE
19903. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HOLLISTER CON-
STRUCTION SERVICES
OF NEW YORK, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/16/09. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
Heights Plaza, 777 Terrace
Ave., Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
07604. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIBRIS HOLDINGS
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/23/09. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
24 Fifth Ave., #705, NY, NY
10011. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ANVAYA, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/22/09. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 12/05/07.
Princ. office of LLC: 205 E.
85th St., Unit 15H, NY, NY
10028. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o Corporation Service
Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with The
DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal
St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
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it together on Avenue A
Earlier this month, Jim Power, the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” was busy at work
fixing up some broken-tile-encrusted planters he had made at Avenue A and Third St.

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36 July 29 - August 4, 2009
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: LSJC
JV GROUP, LLC
Articles of Organization
were filed with the Secre-
tary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 06/22/09. Office
location: New York County.
SSNY has been designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to the
LLC, 200 Central Park South,
#20A, New York, New York
10019. Purpose: For any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF KYLE DEWOODY LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 6/24/09.
Office location: NY County.
Princ. bus. addr.: 334 Bow-
ery, #2F, NY, NY 10012. Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: Doug-
las Gladstone, Esq., Goldfarb
& Fleece, 345 Park Ave., NY,
NY 10154. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PETER FLOM CON-
SULTING LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 6/25/09.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
addr.: 515 West End Ave.,
Apt. 8C, NY, NY 10024. Pur-
pose: all lawful purposes.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF D. E. SHAW
AQ-SP SERIES 14-02,
L.L.C.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/11/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in DE on 12/18/08.
NY Sec. of State designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: D. E. Shaw & Co.,
L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th
Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John
Liftin, General Counsel, regd.
agt. upon whom process
may be served. DE addr. of
LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF D. E. SHAW
AQ-SP SERIES 6-07,
L.L.C.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 5/8/09. Office loca-
tion: NY County. LLC formed
in DE on 5/16/07. NY Sec.
of State designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
and shall mail process to:
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120
W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY,
NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin,
General Counsel, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-
eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HALSEY LANE
HOLDINGS, LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 6/24/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 900 Park Ave.,
NY, NY 10075. LLC formed
in DE on 6/23/09. NY Sec.
of State designated as 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. agt.
upon whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-
eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF DUNN/BORIS PRO-
DUCTIONS, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/12/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to princ. bus. loc.: c/o
The LLC, 515 Park Ave., Ste.
20, NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF O-CAP ADVI-
SORS, LLC
App. For Auth. filed with
Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY)
on 6/8/2009. Office loca-
tion: New York County. LLC
formed in DE on 6/4/2009.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: 140 E. 63rd St., Apt. 17C,
New York, NY 10065, Attn:
Michael Olshan. DE address
of LLC: 615 S. DuPont High-
way, Dover, DE 19901. Cert.
of Form. filed with DESS, P.O.
Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: to engage in any
act or activity lawful under
the NY LLC Law.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MMAC PRODUC-
TIONS, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/3/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 248 W. 60th
St., NY, NY 10023. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 7/8-8/12/09
ROCK HOUSE GROUP
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/1/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to C/O Davidoff
Malito & Hutcher LLP, Attn.
Charles Klein, Esq. 605 Third
Avenue 34TH Floor New
York, NY 10158. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
ONE DAY PARTNERS,
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/12/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Corpo-
ration Service Company
80 State Street Albany, NY
12207. Purpose: Any lawful
activity. Registered Agent:
Corporation Service Com-
pany 80 State Street Albany,
NY 12207.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
ARC SOLUTIONS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/13/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Andreas Ryll
And Lisa Gottesman 201 East
77TH Street Suite 20B New
York, NY 10075. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PHIPPS CG III, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/29/09. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY,
NY 10010. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF JOHN F. KRUSE, DDS,
PLLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/04/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of PLLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The PLLC, 630 5th
Ave., Ste. 1818, New York,
NY 10111. Purpose: profes-
sion of dentistry.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CCB STRATEGIES,
LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
04/24/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 1057 2nd
Ave., Apt. 4B, New York, NY
10022. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HFP INVEST-
MENT MANAGEMENT,
LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
06/04/09. LLC Formed in
Delaware (DE) on 12/17/08.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to:
The LLC, 685 5th Ave., 9th Fl.,
NY, NY 10022. DE address of
LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste.
101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts.
Of Org. filed with DE Secy. Of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF THE SOUFAN
GROUP LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/25/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 4/24/07. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 156
W. 56th St., Ste. 1004, NY,
NY 10019. Address to be
maintained in DE: c/o Har-
vard Business Services, Inc.,
16192 Coastal Hwy, Lewes,
DE 19958. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE Secy. Of State, 401
Federal St., Ste 4., Dover, DE
19901 . Purpose: any lawful
activities. .
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF ARTISAN
INVESTMENTS GP LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 6/30/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 875 E. Wisconsin
Ave, Ste. 800, Milwaukee,
WI 53202. LLC formed in DE
on 3/26/09. NY Sec. of State
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served and shall
mail process to: c/o Corpora-
tion Service Co. (CSC), 80
State St., Albany, NY 12207.
DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC,
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful
purposes.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF EAST RIVER RETAIL
SYSTEMS LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/22/09. Office 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 The LLC, 450 7th
Avenue, Ste. 1401, NY, NY
10123. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
NAME OF LLC: STRYJ,
LLC
Art. of Org. filed Dept. of
State of NY on April 14,
2008. NY county off. loc.:
New York Cty. Sec. of State
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. The Sec.
of State shall mail a copy of
process to: Olshan Grund-
man, Frome Rosenzweig &
Wolosky LLP, 65 East 55th
Street, New York, NY 10022,
Attn: Samuel P. Ross, Esq.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/15-8/19/09
A PROFESSIONAL SER-
VICE LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY:
Notice of Formation of A Pro-
fessional Service Limited Lia-
bility Company (PLLC)Name:
Metropolitan Urology, PLLC
Article of Organization filed
by the Department of State of
New York on 5/6/2009 office
location: County of New York.
Purpose: Medicine. Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY)
designated as agent of PLLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to: 242
East 72nd Street, Suite 1B
New York, NY 10021.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
FOUR G 23RD STREET
REALTY LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 5/13/2008.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Kimberly D Jus-
tice Suite 4G 620 West 171
Street New York, NY 10032.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
MANHATTAN COVERS
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/23/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to THE LLC
1583 First Ave APT 4D NY,
NY 10028. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity. Registered Agent:
Zbigniew Jakowiak 1583 First
Ave, APT. 4D NY, NY 10028.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
FLORAWORKS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/4/2004.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to THE LLC
366 Amsterdam Ave, #132
NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any
lawful activity. Registered
Agent: Alon Hacohen 366
Amsterdam Ave, #132 NY,
NY 10024.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BAM CAPITAL
HOLDINGS, L.P.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/18/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 12/12/2008. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to Bam Asset
Management L.P. 135 E 57th
Street, 27th Fl. NY, NY 10022.
DE address of LLC: 1209
Orange Street Wilmington,
DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State, PO
Box 898 Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF COMPASS
FINANCIAL ADVISORY,
LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
06/29/09. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 02/23/09. Princ.
office of LLC: 825 Third Ave.,
Ste. 203, NY, NY 10022. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC at
the addr. of its princ. office.
DE addr. of LLC: Corporation
Service Co., 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,
DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State, Div.
of Corps., John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF WAVERLY CAPI-
TAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
07/08/09. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 06/23/09.
Princ. office of LLC: 90 W.
Houston St., Apt. 3B, 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 at the princ.
office of the LLC. DE addr.
of LLC: Corporation Service
Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with State
of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of
Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste.
4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CITY FUELS LLC
Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec.
Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
05/27/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 4353 Broad-
way, NY, NY 10033. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF BEDFORD 61ST
STREET ASSOCIATES,
LLC
Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 6/9/09. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to c/o
Nat. Reg. Agents, 875 Ave
of the Americas, Ste. 501,
NY, NY 10001, the Reg. Agt.
upon whom proc. may be
served. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MC GREENPORT, LLC
Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 6/1/09. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to c/o
Metropolitan Council, 80
Maiden Lane, NY, NY 10038.
Purpose: any lawful activi-
ties.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF THE WEDDING
DIRECTOR, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y
of State (SSNY) on 4/24/09.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of pro-
cess to c/o CSC, 80 State St.,
Albany, NY 12207, the Reg.
Agt. upon whom proc. may
be served. Purpose: any law-
ful activities.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LU NING ARCHITEC-
TURE, PLLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
06/30/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated 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: The
PLLC, 55 E 87th St, 7M, New
York, NY 10128. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: USA
AUTO TRADERS LLC
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 06/19/09. Office location:
New York County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, c/o The
Law Offices of Spar & Ber-
stein, P.C., 225 Broadway,
Suite 512, New York, New
York 10007. Purpose: For any
lawful purpose.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PHILMEDIA, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/16/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: Cliff Sloan c/o Phil-
Media, LLC, 95 Morton St.,
NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF M AND B PARKING
LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/29/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 50-25 Bar-
nett Avenue, Sunnyside, NY
11104. Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
Vil 7/22-8/26/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #1228651 has
been applied for by Fondue
26 LLC to sell beer, wine, and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at
122 W 26th Street NY, NY
10001.
Vil 7/29/09 & 8/5/09
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by 137 East 55th
St. Inc. d/b/a Covet to sell
beer, wine and liquor at retail
in a restaurant. For on prem-
ises consumption under the
ABC law at 137 East 55th
Street NY, NY 10010.
Vil 7/29/09 & 8/5/09
ALPARI SECURITIES, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 6/30/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to THE LLC 14
Wall Street, Suite 5H New
York, NY 10005. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF PUPS TO GO,
LLC AMENDED TO PUP
TO GO, LLC
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/21/2009. Office location: NY
Co. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 5/18/2009. SSNY des-
ignated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Meena Manshara-
mani 524 E. 72nd St #29C NY,
NY 10021. DE address of LLC:
1209 Orange St Wilmington,
DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St, Ste 4 Dover, DE
19901. Registered Agent is
Meena Mansharamani 524 E.
72nd St #29C NY, NY 10021
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF FLY ON THE WALL
FILMS LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
07/10/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to Altman, Greenfield
& Selvaggi, 200 Park Ave.
South, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10003.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABIL-
ITY COMPANY. NAME:
BROADSWITCH MOBILE
LLC
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 07/16/09. The latest date
of dissolution is 12/31/2060.
Office location: New York
County. SSNY has been des-
ignated 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 Blueswitch, 61
Broadway, Suite 2710, New
York, New York 10006. Pur-
pose: For any lawful pur-
pose.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF BARBARA L PORT-
MAN, LLC
Article of Organization filed
with the Secretary of State of
NY (SSNY) on 05/26/09 Office
location NEW YORK County.
SSNY has been designated
as agent upon whom process
against it may be served. The
Post Office address to which
the SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
served upon him/her is C/O
the LLC 7014 13th Avenue.
Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose
of LLC: to engage in any
lawful act or activity. Street
address of Principal Business
location is: 860 Fifth Avenue.
New York, NY 10065.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF POLYMODAL LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/19/09. Office location: NY
Co. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: National Registered
Agents, Inc., 875 Avenue of
the Americas, Ste. 501, NY,
NY 10001, also registered
agent. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF E-PLAY, LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 6/12/09. Office
location: NY County. LLC
formed in OH on 6/15/04. NY
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY
10011, regd. agt. upon whom
process may be served. OH
and principal business addr.:
1177 Olentangy River Rd.,
Columbus, OH 43212. Arts.
of Org. filed with OH Sec. of
State, 30 E. Broad St., Colum-
bus, OH 43266. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF INTERNA-
TIONAL HOUSE OF
PANCAKES, LLC
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 2/26/09. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 450 N. Brand
Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203.
LLC formed in DE on 1/15/69.
NY Sec. of State designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY
10011, regd. agt. upon whom
process may be served. DE
addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-
ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange
St., Wilmington, DE 19801.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
Sec. of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 7/29-9/2/09
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Ice, ice, baby: Rink is for real this year at B.P.C. ball fields
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
An ice rink is coming to Battery Park City
this winter.
The 17,000-square-foot rink, more than
twice the size of the one that opened in
South Street Seaport last winter, will go in
the B.P.C. ball fields during the months the
fields are usually closed.
“We would like to extend the useful life
of the fields,” said Stephanie Gelb, vice
president of planning and design for the
Battery Park City Authority. The goal is a
community-oriented skating rink, “as if it’s
a local pond,” Gelb said.
The authority is close to signing a deal
with Rink Management Services Corp. to
build the temporary rink on the fields each
winter for the next six years. The rink will
be of regulation National Hockey League
size, approximately 200 feet by 85 feet. It
will also have a 9-foot-wide skating path
that will break off from the rink and mean-
der around the northern part of the ball
fields. Only one other rink in the country
has a path like that, said Tom Hillgrove,
president of R.M.S.
“It’s extremely unique, even for New
York,” Hillgrove said.
The rink will be open seven days a week,
starting sometime in December and running
through late January or early February. The
authority is still discussing hours and fees
with R.M.S., but admission will be about
$10, with skate rental at $3, the authority
Skating
Path
Rink
A schematic rendering showing the sea-
sonal ice rink and skating path planned
for the Battery Park City ball fields.
said. Skating and hockey lessons will cost
about $15 a session.
The authority’s board voted last Tuesday
to give R.M.S. the contract.
Jeff Mihok, a B.P.C. resident, said he is
looking forward to taking his children skat-
ing at the rink. He suggested a discounted Gelb said. In addition to building the rink,
rate for residents or a seasonal membership R.M.S. will bring in trailers and put up
pass, options the authority is considering. tents for concessions.
“I’m really happy to hear they’re going The revenue from the rink will offset the
to make that happen,” Mihok said. “To have costs of some utility work the authority has
that space not used for five months of the to do at the fields. The authority plans to
year is crazy.” spend about $700,000 on the work, which
The authority tried to bring an ice rink includes removing an electrical panel and
in for last winter but wasn’t able to pick an a shed from the fields’ south side, opening
operator in time. The other operator that up more space for the local sports leagues
applied for the contract would have created to use.
a much more expensive, tourist-focused Tom Merrill, president of Downtown
rink, which Gelb said had “a lot more glitz Little League, said he has long been advocat-
to it” and would not have been compatible ing for the authority to make those changes,
with the community. which will provide room for batting cages
R.M.S. will pay the authority a mini- and a place for pitchers to warm up.
mum of $60,000 per year to rent the space “Every inch of space down there counts,”
and will pay more if the rink does well, Merrill said.
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Students make case for landmarking Confucius Plaza

Aaron Eng-Achson and his second-grade E.S.L. class from
P.S. 42 spent this spring learning about landmarks. To teach the
children how new landmarks get created, Eng-Achson brought his
class to the Landmarks Preservation Commission last month.
Before the visit, the students wrote persuasive pieces to L.P.C.
Chairperson Bob Tierney, hoping to convince him that Confucius
Plaza, a 760-unit limited-equity co-op and the tallest building in
Chinatown, deserves landmark status. The students gave archi-
tectural, historical, aesthetic, moral, and economic reasons why
Confucius Plaza is important to the Chinese community and to
the New York City community at large.
“I would like for you to make Confucius Plaza a landmark
because it gave elderly people a clean, safe place to live,” wrote
Lila Chen, one of Eng-Achson’s students. “It is over 30 years
old. It is one of a kind landmark. It is the tallest building in
Chinatown. It is flat and semi-circle.”
In addition to teaching his students about landmarks, Eng-
Achson hoped to teach them about being active in their com-
munity, regardless of the fact that they are young and are still
learning English.
“They were very impressed with my 7-year-olds,” Eng-Achson
said of the commissioners.
The L.P.C. is reviewing the students’ request, a spokesperson
said.
The mission to landmark Confucius Plaza has special mean-
ing for Eng-Achson, because his father, Allan Eng-Achson,
advocated for the building in the 1970s as a way to maintain
Chinatown as an affordable residential community.
Before visiting the L.P.C. June 23, the P.S. 42 students spent
five months discussing the meaning of landmarks and their
implications for their local community. Their study focused on
landmarks around the city but particularly in Chinatown, near
their school on Hester St. Students in Aaron Eng-Achson’s second-grade class at P.S. 42 pose with models they made of New York land-
marks. The students wrote letters hoping to convince the city to add a new landmark to the list: Confucius Plaza.

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