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BY JERRY TALLMERIt must be at least 30 years ago that

I went to visit Ellen Stewart at N.Y.U. Hospital. She was all dolled up in bed in a fancy pink and yellow ruffl ed nightgown. “Hello, honey,” she said in that wonderful, inimitable, sharp-edged, soft-core Geechee English that now none of us will ever hear again. “I died twice since you saw me last.”

Well, three strikes is out — or maybe 53 strikes of terminating illness, all told, since then. Ellen Stewart, the creator and lifelong prime mover of Off Off Broadway’s world-embrac-ing La MaMa E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club), departed this earth late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, January 13, 2011.

She may have been 91. She may have been more. Ellen wasn’t going to tell you. The New York Times gives her birth date as November 7, 1919,

her place of birth as Chicago, her place of death as Beth Israel Hospital in this city, and says she “spent her childhood years” between Chicago and the rather smaller Alexandria, Louisiana, though I always thought it was the other way round, Louisiana fi rst — Geechee ter-rain — then Chicago.

It was all a sort of mystery, an unwritten — never-to-be-written — Faulkner novel. But once — just once — when she was letting drop a little bit about her days in Chicago before coming to New York, she hit me with a sunny little s--t-eating Shirley Temple smile, and then: “Some people used to think me pretty, you know.”

Pretty? As my mother would have said, Cleopatra isn’t in it. Sheer café-au-lait gorgeous is what Ellen was, and ever more so as the years went by and the fragility burned ever brighter. Fragile — but oh my! Henry James

would have had a fi eld day word-painting it for us, Ellen Stewart’s ever- increasing incandescence.

This farewell is being written sev-eral days before a Mass for Ellen was to be held Monday morning January 17, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Fifth Avenue and 50th Street — a most appropriate locale in the light of what Ellen, in a profi le by me in Thrive, had recalled a few years ago about her arrival in New York in 1950 as an unknown would-be fashion designer.

A cab driver had charged her 50 bucks to take her from Grand Central Station to the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, but Fidel Castro, as it hap-pens, had taken over the whole Hotel Theresa. Somehow she found another hotel.

“Monday morning the man on the

Ellen: The Mama of them all

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Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Theatre, was at City Hall in September 2004 for the announcement of the Fourth Arts Block deal with the city. Seven properties on E. Fourth St. between Bowery and Second Ave., plus several vacant lots, were sold for $1 each to Fourth Arts Block, a.k.a. FAB. Under the deal, the properties were permanently dedicated for use by cultural, nonprofi t organizations, assuring that the theaters, dance studios and other artistic uses on the block would not disappear.

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EDITORIAL, LETTERS

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MENDEZ GETS TOUGH ON ASTHMA

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BY ALINE REYNOLDS Cathie Black, the city’s

new schools chancellor, had little to say at last Thursday’s School Overcrowding Task Force meeting organized by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. But the little that she did say made headlines and sparked outrage around the city.

Task force member Eric Greenleaf, a business profes-sor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has done extensive research on the population boom in

Lower Manhattan and the resulting overcrowding in its public schools. When he presented his latest data to Black on Thursday, showing an estimated need for 1,000 additional seats by 2015, Black made a verbal gaffe that riled up the entire edu-cation community.

“Could we just have some birth control for a while? It would really help us all out,” joked Black.

The comment was

Parents see redafter Black makesabortion remark

BY WICKHAM BOYLEEllen Stewart, the mercu-

rial, magical, inventive, pre-scient founder and longtime artistic director of the famed La MaMa Theatre, died in New York City on Jan. 13. Stewart was my mentor, my boss, my partner, the grand-mother to my children — and to generations of us who worked in New York City or American or world theater, she was our mother.

Everything about Ellen Stewart is swathed in mys-tery and wonder. Even The

New York Times, bastion of fact, attributes three possi-ble dates for her birth, from 1917 to 1919. Her birth-place was Chicago, but her accent morphed. It was dif-ferent when she spoke to the press, her adoring audiences or to her bad “babies,” and it could range from Geechee Louisianan, to across the world or become the grit-tiest street-corner banter. Like the theatrical form she spawned, global, multicul-

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E. 2nd St. shooting

A family dispute in an apartment at 225 E. Second St. around 9 a.m. Wed., Jan. 12, ended with gunfi re and a 33-year-old man in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital with a gunshot wound in the abdo-men, police said.

The shooter, also male — identifi ed in a New York Post item as the victim’s cousin — fl ed, police said. The victim, reportedly a construction worker, was visiting a female rel-ative in the second-fl oor apartment between Avenues A and B when the shooting occurred, police said. Police are investigating and there were no arrests as of Tues., Jan. 18.

Woman thrown, mugged

Police are seeking public assistance in locating a man and a woman wanted in connection with a Sat., Jan. 8, mugging of a woman at 5:26 a.m. in front of 608 E. Ninth St. between Avenues A and B. The man grabbed the victim, 26, from behind, demanded her bag, threw her to the pave-ment and fl ed with the bag, police said. The mugger was described as a black man between ages 35 and 45, wearing a dark knit cap with white trim, a gray hooded jacket and a long coat with fur trim. His

accomplice, described as a black woman, between ages 35 and 40, in a red or orange coat with a hood, a dark hat and carrying a purse, was acting as lookout, police said. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or make a report online at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text to CRIMES (274637) and enter TIPS577. All calls are confi dential.

Found shot in fi re

Firefi ghters found a man, 63, dead of a gunshot wound to the head in the bath-room of his fourth-fl oor apartment at 362 E. 10th St. on the afternoon of Wed., Jan. 12. The alarm came in at 2:49 p.m. and the fi re, confi ned to the fourth fl oor, was under control by 3:56 p.m. according to the Fire Department. The blaze was under investigation but was believed to have started in the victim’s apartment. Police said a .32-caliber revolver was recovered in the bathroom where the victim, Mike Zecchino, was found. The victim, a resident of the apartment for 30 years, is believed to have committed suicide. He was said to be a hoarder whose disorderly apartment was crammed with various articles. The Offi ce of the Chief Medical Examiner was

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A family member cried as she was taken in for questioning by police after a shoot-ing on E. Second St. near Avenue C on Jan. 12.

POLICE BLOTTER

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GO DOGS GO — ALL NIGHT LONG! New York famous-ly has 24-hour diners and delis, overnight pharmacies and numerous other round-the-clock spots. Now, for the New York dog that has everything, there will also be a 24-hour dog run — at Washington Square Park. We were tipped off by Margie Rubin, a disabled activist from Westbeth, who sent us a letter last week complaining that while an alcove she used to enjoy sitting in in her wheelchair is being reduced in size in the park’s renovation, the new dog run for large dogs is going to be going, in the words of Lionel Ritchie, “all night long” from now on. Philip Abramson, a Parks Department spokesperson, confi rmed to us in an e-mail: “There will be an entrance to the large dog run on Washington Square South which will allow the dog run to be open overnight while the rest of the park is closed. It was requested by the local dog owners who would use the run. This is part of the renovation’s Phase III, which includes the park house/comfort station. We hope to start construction in late spring/early summer and fi nish one year later.” Asked if it was the fi rst all-hours dog run in one of the city’s public parks, Abramson said, “I believe so.” Many questions remain unanswered, though, about “Club Canine.” Will small dogs from the nearby small dog run try to crash the pooch party? Will there be a V.I.P. area for the hot dogs (and we’re not talking dachshunds)? Will a pit bull be the bouncer at the gate?

KOCH CONSISTENT: Ed Koch said that his former Greenwich Village co-district leader from the 1960’s, Carol Greitzer, recently sent him an old newspaper clipping from

March 11, 1965, reporting on his talk at a meeting of the Greenwich Village Association. The article, by Mary Nichols, quoted Koch as saying that all legislative reapportionment — i.e. redistricting — at the city, state and federal levels, should be done by a bipartisan commission. Ironically, it’s the same cause Koch is still pushing today — nearly 45 years later! — as part of his New York Uprising initiative. “She said, ‘Because it’s what you’re currently involved with, I thought you’d be interested,’ ” Koch said Greitzer wrote in a note she enclosed with the old paper. “It’s fl aky, you have to be careful when you handle it. It falls apart,” he said of the aged article, which ran in another Village paper. “Regrettably, it was the Village Voice,” Koch said, “I was hoping it would be The Villager.”

MALAYSIAN MISSION: Maria Skouras left her job earlier this month as senior policy analyst in N.Y.U.’s Offi ce of Government and Community Affairs, and is now in Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia. She’s volunteering there with a group called eHomemakers — urban women who make baskets out of discarded newspapers and magazines and sell them to sup-port their families. Skouras, who is also an N.Y.U. graduate, will be in Malaysia from Jan. 15 to June to record the women’s stories and help fi nd U.S. markets to sell their baskets. When she wasn’t analyzing policy, Skouras was pitching in to help at community events. Lois Rakoff, community director of the Poe Room at N.Y.U. School of Law, said, “Maria was my ‘go-to person’ and liaison for the Poe Room events. When the Poe Room was celebrating Edgar’s birthday, I wanted a birthday cake for him. Maria got a bakery to put Edgar’s face on the birthday cake. Maria helped the Washington Square Music Festival on behalf of N.Y.U. Maria coordinated N.Y.U.’s Children’s Halloween Parade. She dressed as a princess. Maria is a fascinating, beautiful person inside and out. She is known for brain, charm and glamour, hairstyles and high stylish dress, silks, satins and velvets. She told me she will be wearing long sleeves and a headcovering because the females she will be working with in Malaysia are Muslim.”

FREEDOM TO LEAK: L.E.S. Slacktivist John Penley has reserved the City Hall steps for April 7 at 3 p.m. for a press conference in support of Private Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. Manning is currently being held in “maximum custody” in a Marine Corps brig, facing court martial for passing classifi ed U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. Assange is on bail and under house arrest in England pending an extradition hearing on two rapes he allegedly committed in Sweden — though he claims the charges are politically motivated. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is also trying to build a case against him. While the press conference is three months away, Penley said excite-ment is already building and it’s generating lots of interest. … Penley also tipped us off that N.Y.U.’s Tamiment Library recently acquired the papers of the late radical attorney and Greenwich Village resident William Kunstler.

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elevator told me I could ride all the way downtown on a bus. Went downtown, looking for a job, didn’t get it, saw this big church across the street from a big store. Went into the church, which was St. Patrick’s Cathedral, said a prayer, came out and went into the store, which was Saks Fifth Avenue. I didn’t know what Saks Fifth Avenue was.”

She soon learned. This was in the days when Negro employees at such big emporia were called “coloreds” and, at Saks, were required to wear blue smocks.

“Sophie Gimbel, who owned the store, said: ‘No niggers in my department’ — yes,” Ellen had declared, “she really said that.” But in the face of such open bigotry at the top and the envy verging on hatred by many at the bottom, black as well as white, black even more than white, slim, stunning “Miss Ellen” did become one of Saks Fifth Avenue’s top dress designers of that era. And not in a blue smock.

Cut to a cold night on MacDougal Street in the early 1960’s. It is intermission time at some play or other, and Ellen Stewart, somebody I barely then know, is chatting on the sidewalk with a tall, skinny, coatless, not-bad-looking young guy who is hugging himself for warmth as he hops up and down on one foot and the other.

“This is one of my chicks,” she says to me with a laugh. “His name is Sam Shepard.”

It was to provide a nest for all her chicks that Ellen Stewart had in 1962 opened a tiny Off Off Off coffeehouse theater in a $50-a-month basement at 321 East Ninth Street, mostly for the benefi t of two fl edgling playwrights, Paul Foster and Fredrick Lights (the foster brother who’d lived across the hall from her in Chicago).

The fi rst plays ever done on Ninth Street were Leonard Melfi ’s “Lazy Baby Susan,” Michael Locascio’s “A Corner of the Morning” and Andy Milligan’s adapta-tion of the spooky Tennessee Williams short story “One Arm.” Even though the audiences usually ran to no more than 10 or a dozen hardy souls, Ellen had to shake a miniature cowbell and quiet them down at the start of every show with the mantra: “This is La MaMa E.T.C., dedicated to the playwright and all aspects of the theater.”

I still have one of those bells.Harvey Fierstein’s much-quoted “Eighty

percent of what is now considered American theater originated at La MaMa” may not be altogether true, but it is true enough. Nobody knows just how many thousands of playwrights, composers, directors, design-ers, techies and, oh yes, actors, have been hatched at La MaMa over the past half century, or how many countries around the globe have in one way or another been

enriched by La MaMa and vice versa. (The next thing I have to write about in these pages is an angry new play coming to La MaMa from Estonia.)

But Ellen was pursued by bigotry even unto 321 East Ninth Street, a building dedicated to, in Ellen’s words, “no Jews, no Hispanics, no niggers.” The word was spread around the block that she was running a whorehouse. Finally, to save her landlord from having his property wrecked, La MaMa moved out, in the middle of the night, to 82 Second Avenue, and subsequently to a larger space one flight up over a dry cleaner’s at 122 Second Avenue.

It was there that I caught up with La MaMa E.T.C. and the wielder of that cow-bell.

Her troubles were not over. It was a time when Ed Koch, the mayor, and Robert Moses, the commissioner of everything, were cleaning up the Village and East Village.

“They cleaned up on us,” Ellen had dryly remarked during that profi le interview, but in the end, La MaMa outlasted and outma-neuvered them by obtaining an impossible-to-obtain coffeehouse license.

A couple of other hops along St. Mark’s Place fi nally led to 74-A East Fourth Street, thanks to a $25,000 Ford Foundation grant arranged by a good man named McNeil Lowry. Most of the $25,000 went toward installing a whole new roof and rear wall, but 74-A East Fourth Street remains La MaMa’s home base from that day to this.

Oh yes, Ellen had her faults, as who does not? To her, theater was movement and feeling before all else; she had all too little respect for the written and printed word. You never found much Shakespeare going on at La MaMa; she left that to Joe Papp. But you could always fi nd a superfl uity of those Old Greeks and their wailing Trojan Women. Plus everything else.

If Ellen was totally loving she could also be very angry, and could maintain that anger a long time, as she did with me after an Israeli actress/director I’d befriended

turned out to have used a La MaMa book-ing to lie her way through Immigration.

I rather think Ellen increasingly liked being treated, toward the end, as a princess — no, loved it. But again, who would not?

There’s an incident I wrote about some years ago, and now I’m never going to have the opportunity to write about it again, so here goes:

In the winter of 1998 there was an exhib-it at Cooper Union of posters of La MaMa productions from here, there, everywhere around the world. I had the bright idea of walking through the gallery with Ellen while she told me about this place, that place, this audience, that audience, what-ever… . She said: “Fine, I’ll meet you at the exhibit.” But then her son Larry Hovell, out in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was about to die, and she had to go be with him.

He took a turn for the better, she returned to New York, we made a second date to go through the exhibit; then Larry really did die. Now, upon her return, we made a third date to view those posters, this time on the Saturday afternoon before a Broadway show I had to cover.

When I got to Cooper Union at the appointed hour, no Ellen in sight, but a La MaMa aide was there to apologize and tell me Ellen was ill.

What kind of ill? “She’s sitting on that wooden bench just

inside the front door. She’s shivering all over. She can’t talk.”

Cooper Union is only two blocks from La MaMa. I covered the ground as fast as I could. Sure enough, Ellen was sitting, all huddled up, on that small wooden bench just to the left of La MaMa’s front door. She was shivering uncontrollably.

I sat down, put my arm around her, and suggested we go to a hospital. She shook her head, No. We sat like that for a long time, and she never stopped shivering. Of course there was no way to get her to her apartment, fi ve fl ights of stairs over where we were sitting.

Finally, I said: “Look, I’ll cancel the thing I have to see tonight.”

“No,” Ellen said — found the strength to say — “You go do your job. I’ll be all right.”

So I went.Before the uptown show I called La

MaMa. The woman in the La MaMa box offi ce said Ellen was still sitting there, still shivering, just a few feet away. No, Ellen couldn’t physically get to her feet.

At intermission I phoned again. Same story. And at close to midnight I called once more. Nothing had changed.

Around 10 a.m. Sunday I called La MaMa anew. Was Ellen Stewart still there on that bench? Could she now get to the phone?

“Oh no,” said the box-offi ce person, “Ellen’s over in the Annex, moving the fur-niture around.”

Dear Old Greeks and Trojan Ladies up there, please lend Ellen Stewart a hand with those chairs.

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tural, cross-disciplinary and just damn unde-niably La MaMa, Ellen Stewart herself was a hybrid before anyone else envisioned that possibility.

Stewart came to New York City with a car-petbag jammed full of dreams to be a fashion designer. She was going to study at Parsons, but lack of funding saw her land as a porter in Saks Fifth Avenue. Stewart so often told this story:

“The coloreds, for back then that is what we were, coloreds, wore blue smocks and carted the goods everywhere in the store. One day as I was leaving for lunch, wearing one of my own creations, sewn in my little garret, a fancy patron stopped me and inquired where I had bought my dress. When I told her honestly that I myself had made it, she marched me to my boss to be dressed down for insubordination.” Instead, the wise head of Saks gave Stewart her own line of dresses, Miss Ellen. “And that, baby, is how Mama made good on a promise to my brother Freddy [Lights] and his friend Paul [Foster] to make a little playhouse for them,” she said.

In the early years the police constantly raided Stewart and La MaMa because, as she said, “The police saw a Negress in a basement and lots of white men traipsing down the stairs and they thought — Ahhhhh, brothel. Well, baby, it was only theater.”

And yes, theater it was, but never only theater. The theatrical style that was developed and championed by Ellen Stewart and La MaMa literally changed the face of every piece of live performance, video and fi lm that modern viewers take for granted. La MaMa pioneered shows that crossed over and married swirling stages, bespoke fi lms, live music, electronic accoutrements, words and not just in English; all wrapped around a directorial style where the audience was immersed in, surrounded by or an actual part of the show. The world stage is now chockablock full of these techniques; you see them in commercials, in Broadway shows, in circus and in school plays. But when La MaMa began in 1961 all of this was uncharted territory.

Ellen Stewart prided herself on never read-ing scripts and picking plays, opera or art shows by a series of reactions she called her “beeps.”

“Baby, if it beeps to me, Mama will know, and if it doesn’t, I don’t care what the words say and who your real mama is, it is not for La MaMa!” I would see her on the phone to Bogotá or Brooklyn or Belgium with artists and she giving notes via her beeps: “Look at Pages 5, 23 and 91, that is where the trouble lies.” And time after time, artists told me that infor-mation was salient to redoing the work.

If it all sounds magical, voodoo crazy, woo-woo incomprehensible, then so does the fairy tale Stewart spun in the East Village and around the world. La MaMa will celebrate its 50th anniversary this October and it boasts two buildings on East Fourth Street alone. In fact the La MaMa Theatre really was the linchpin on which the East 4th Street Cultural District

was anchored. In these two buildings are three theaters, an offi ce, Stewart’s private residence and an amazing archives, containing every script, mask, piece of Mylar, check stub, video and photograph ever to emanate from the halls of La MaMa. On East First Street is La MaMa’s La Galleria, which holds down the funky distaff side of an East Village now resembling nothing of its gritty roots.

The roll call of legends who began, returned or graced La MaMa include (but beware this list could never be exhaustive, or it would encom-pass pages): Harvey Keitel, Liz Swados, Andrei Serban, Diane Lane, Harvey Fierstein, Al Pacino, Bette Midler, Bob Wilson, Philip Glass, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Rich, Tom O’Horgan, Peter Brook, Robert De Niro and even Joe Papp himself before he founded the Public Theater. As a wonderful, and deserved tribute, the Public sent out a press release saying that their season would be dedicated to Ellen Stewart.

And the list of awards bestowed upon her is equally august. Stewart won a Tony in 2006 for theatrical excellence, countless OBIE awards, the Human Rights Award from the government of the Philippines, the Sacred Treasure Award from the emperor of Japan and the Les Kurbas Award from Ukraine, and she was an offi cer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Ellen Stewart was a MacArthur Genius (MacArthur Fellowship) grantee in 1985 and she took her subvention and purchased a for-mer monastery in Umbria, Italy, in the shadows of the renowned Spoleto Festival. Here, Stewart and La MaMa created a summer institute for international artists of stature and aco-lytes. When Stewart fi rst proposed this idea to the then business manager, James Moore, he exclaimed, “Oh, my God, what will she do with that pile of rocks?” As with everything she touched, Stewart’s alchemy spun it into artistic gold.

Even with all these honors, Ellen Stewart could still be seen sweeping the sidewalk in front of the theaters. When I interviewed with her to be the executive director back in the 1980’s she asked me, “Well, Miss Wicki [we were all Miss or Mr. and our fi rst name], you have gotten a fancy education since fi rst work-ing here at Mama’s when you were 19. Are you too big to clean a toilet or sweep with me?” I wasn’t then and it was always an honor to do whatever it took to light up the stages and watch Mama’s silver locks shake as she rang her bell and sang out in that complicated lilt, “Welcome to La MaMa, dedicated to the playwright and ALLLLLLLLL aspects of the theater.”

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Real estate developers and brokers who

were expecting a bonanza of opportuni-ties when the estate of William Gottlieb began selling some of the 185 properties it owns, mostly in Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District, were disappointed earlier this month.

While Neil Bender, heir of the holdings accumulated by his uncle Bill Gottlieb, con-fi rmed the December sale of 79 Horatio St., just south of the Meatpacking District, and the posting for sale of 104 E. 10th St., near St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the estate will not be putting any other properties on the block.

In fact, Bender intends to renew the company’s long-held policy of buying and holding onto select properties.

“We are not selling any more properties,” Gregg Sullivan, a spokesperson for Bender, said last week. “We’re disposing of two properties that do not fi t in with the com-pany’s development and growth plan, and we anticipate the addition of signifi cant and strategic properties to our portfolio in 2011 and beyond,” Sullivan said.

Both 79 Horatio St., which fetched less than $7 million at the end of last year, and 104 E. 10th St., currently listed for sale by Halstead Property for $6 million, are protected by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s historic district designations. The fi ve-story walkup on Horatio St., a block from the High Line, is within the Greenwich Village Historic District. The three-story townhouse at 104 E. 10th St. is part of an extension of the St. Mark’s Historic District. The East Village building dates from 1879 when it was built for Rutherford Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, along with the adjacent 102 E. 10th St.

The 1870 Horatio St. building, now owned by an undisclosed purchaser, was for-merly held by the Gottlieb estate in partner-ship with Vicky Gabay, whose husband, Don, was an old high school and college friend of Bill Gottlieb’s. Don Gabay and Gottlieb bought the building together in 1969 for a reputed $68,000. It was the only partnership property in the Gottlieb portfolio, and after Bill died in 1999 it passed to Vicky Gabay and Mollie Bender, Gottlieb’s sister.

But Mollie Bender and the Gabays had a falling out over management of the build-ing. When Mollie died in 2007, the dispute continued between Vicky Gabay and Mollie’s heirs — her husband, Irving Bender, and her son, Neil.

In 2008, there was a court-ordered auc-tion of the Horatio St. property to settle the dispute. Neil Bender bested Gabay with a $7.4 million bid, but had to give her half the money under the conditions of the court-ordered auction.

Another complication arose after Mollie died. Her daughter, Cheryl Dier, who was cut out of any interest in the real estate empire, fi led suit in Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan, challenging Neil Bender’s fi tness to run the Gottlieb real estate holdings. The

surrogate ruled that there was no evidence that Neil was not able to handle the estate, and an appellate court upheld that decision last May.

Cary Tamarkin, who has developed sev-eral buildings adjacent to Gottlieb properties over the years, said he was still hoping to join the market for any other Gottlieb prop-erty that came online.

“That would be really big news when it happens,” Tamarkin said.

Gottlieb and his heirs have earned the reputation of “preservationists by benign neglect,” by acquiring and holding low-rise, old buildings in gentrifi ed historic areas and making little or no improvements to them.

Among the holdings of special interest to preservation advocates is the 1831 triangu-lar brick building, the Northern Dispensary, at 165 Waverly Place, near the intersection of Grove and Christopher Sts. The build-ing, where Edgar Allan Poe was reputed to have visited for medical treatment, has a restrictive covenant in its deed limiting the property to medical use. It was last used as a dental facility by Catholic Charities but has been vacant since Gottlieb acquired it from the New York Catholic Archdiocese in 1998.

In a fi rst, Gottlieb Co. sells a building, markets another

‘We are not selling any more properties. We’re disposing of two properties that do not fi t in with the company’s development and growth plan.’

Gregg Sullivan

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Bistro bash

Four men who had a meal at Manatus, 340 Bleecker St., around 3:15 a.m. Thurs., Jan. 6, walked out without paying, police said. When the manager, 48, confronted them, they punched him, but police were called and arrested Kendell Cook, Darius Shepard, Dominique Allen, all 20 years old, and Lee Treashay, 21, and charged them with assault and larceny.

Wagon heel

Two patrons of Off The Wagon bar, at 109 MacDougal St., spotted a man taking the bag of a woman patron who was talking to her friend at 3:35 a.m. Sat., Jan. 15. They alerted the bouncer, who held Lisandro Amezquita, 23, for police, who charged him with larceny. The bag and its contents — a camera, credit cards, wallet and $8 cash — were found on the suspect and returned to the victim, police said.

Weapons arraignment

Jonathan Shaw, 57, an East Village tattoo artist, pleaded not guilty at his Jan. 11 State Supreme Court arraignment on charges of illegal possession of assault rifl es, hand-guns, ammunition and knives found in his rented South St. storage locker. Shaw, son of famed big band leader Artie Shaw, was arrested Nov. 6, 2010, after an employee of a shipping company notifi ed police about a cache of weapons in Shaw’s Manhattan Mini Storage locker at 220 South St.

Shaw has been free on $250,000 bond pending a March 22 court appearance on the 89-count indictment for unlicensed possession of weapons, including an assault rifl e, a .30-caliber semiautomatic rifl e, a 12-gauge pump-action pistol-grip shotgun, a British Army rifl e, more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, fi ve pairs of brass knuckles, and 68 illegal knives and daggers, including a bayonet.

Shaw was arranging to move the weap-ons to Los Angeles when he was arrested. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. referred to the Jan. 8 fatal shooting in Tucson, Ariz., at Shaw’s Jan. 11 arraign-ment.

“The events of the past weekend remind us that gun violence continues to plague our nation,” Vance said, pledging to prosecute illegal weapons owners and dealers and to get stockpiles of illegal guns off the streets.

Holiday-eves robber

Police arrested Enrique Cova, 43, Thurs., Jan. 6, and charged him with two robberies of the Bank of America branch on Bayard St. near Bowery, one on Christmas Eve and the other on New Year’s Eve. The suspect, who fi nished serving a seven-year prison term for robbery a year ago, walked into the bank at 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, and passed a teller a note saying, “Give me 100 $100 bills or we will take hostages and move in.” He fl ed with an undetermined sum of cash, according to charges fi led with D.A. Vance. The defendant returned to the same branch at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 31 and passed another note to a teller, but fl ed without any-thing, according to the charges. He is being held pending a Feb. 1 court appearance.

Fulton Houses rape

Police arrested Christopher Grant, 25, on Sat., Jan. 15, and charged him with raping a woman at gunpoint on Dec. 3, 2010, in the Fulton Houses on W. 17th St. at Ninth Ave. Police said the suspect encountered the victim, an acquaintance, in an elevator around 8:30

p.m., pulled a gun and said, “If you don’t come upstairs with me, I’m going to put two in your chest.” He forced her to the roof of the build-ing, raped her and threatened to kill her if she reported the attack, police said. The suspect was arrested after an unrelated assault and also charged with rape in the Jan. 15 attack.

Take cash register

Two robbers walked into the Green Apple Grocery, on First Ave. near E. 12th St., around 1:30 a.m. Thurs., Jan. 13, punched and threatened an employee, 54, then shoved the cash register with more than $600 into a black plastic trash bag and fl ed, police said.

Wrangler gets rustled

A Bayonne, N.J., woman parked her 2010 Jeep Wrangler at the corner of West Broadway and Grand St. around 11 p.m. Sun., Jan. 16, while she went to a movie and had some supper, but when she returned a couple of hours later, discovered that it had been stolen, police said. Her bag — with an iPod, another cell phone and a ring and bracelet, with a total value of $1,900 — were in the car, police said. The victim’s E-ZPass showed it had been used around 8:30 p.m. the following day at the Queens Midtown Tunnel, police said.

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“shocking,” according to Downtown parent Deborah Somerville and others.

Tina Schiller, a parent at P.S. 234, at Greenwich and Chambers Sts., who was opposed to Black’s appointment as chancel-lor, said she was not surprised by Black’s joke.

“It just kind of reiterates the lightness in which the D.O.E. takes our plight,” she said.

Others, like Tom Moore, P.T.A. co-pres-ident at Millennium High School, at 75 Broad St., merely took it as the Department of Education chief’s poor attempt at humor.

“I don’t think she meant anything by it,” he said, though adding, “it was probably in retrospect not a good idea.”

People elsewhere around the city also took offense at Black’s comment.

City Councilmember Julissa Ferreras of Queens, chairperson of the City Council’s Women’s Issues Committee, said she was “appalled and offended” by Black’s state-ment.

“The job of a chancellor,” said Ferreras, “is to ensure that our city’s children are being educated and have the tools to learn — not judge the reproductive choices of women in our city.”

Overcrowding, Ferreras continued, is not a joke to the children and parents in her dis-trict who are also dealing with the issue.

Natalie Ravitz, D.O.E. communications director, said in a statement that the chan-cellor takes the issue of overcrowding “very seriously, which is why she was engaged in a discussion with Lower Manhattan parents on the subject.”

“She regrets if she left a different impres-sion by making an offhanded joke in the course of that conversation,” Ravitz said of Black.

Julie Menin, chairperson of Community Board 1, said she was “troubled” by Black’s overall feedback, which she considered to be “glib,” in that Black didn’t identify plans to combat “the very serious issue of school overcrowding.”

The chancellor made another verbal slip in describing D.O.E.’s rough fi nancial terrain that she’s trying to navigate as chancellor.

“I don’t mean this in any fl ip way, but it is many Sophie’s choices,” she said of the hard decisions that must be made.

Her comment was an allusion to “Sophie’s Choice, the William Styron novel and fi lm in which the character Sophie Zawistowski, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, was forced to choose which of her two chil-dren lived or died.

Moore and others deemed it a poor anal-ogy. There are a number of other parallels she could have drawn, Moore said; the one that Black went with was, in his opinion, “overly dramatic, and probably a little distasteful.”

Menin was upset with the chancellor’s quip.

“Cracking jokes and telling Downtown parents, even in jest, to use more birth con-trol, and referring to [D.O.E.’s] choices as a ‘Sophie’s choice’ did not demonstrate a real and concrete, on-the-ground understanding of what parents face,” Menin wrote in an e-mail.

“The Dept. of Ed. has already made Sophie’s choices,” Schiller said in an e-mail. “They’ve already made clear we’re going to have a segregated system,” in terms of sepa-rating students by performance level.

In contrast, Speaker Silver, who led the task force meeting, was satisfi ed with Black’s performance. In a written statement, he said he was pleased that the chancellor attended the meeting and was able to hear fi rsthand from parents.

“Jokes aside,” said Silver, “I think she real-

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From left, Cathie Black; Judy Rapfogel, Assembly Speaker Silver’s chief of staff; and C.B. 1’s Julie Menin at last week’s School Overcrowding Task Force meeting.

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Nowadays, this wall at Bowery and East Houston St. is one of the city’s more high-profi le showcases for street art — though to purists, it’s completely commercialized. Last spring, amid much hoopla, Shepard Fairey of Obama “HOPE” poster fame, threw up a wheat-paste work at the site, only to see graffi ti heads savagely mutilate it.

But back in 1990, when Clayton Patterson created the mural at right, the wall had sat qui-etly, painted all white, for several years.

“Keith Haring kind of turned it on in the early 1980’s, when he did that big orange day-glo that just lit that corner up,” Patterson recalled. There were a few other murals after Haring’s, but then the concrete was cordoned off behind a chain-link fence.

“It had been empty for quite a long time,” Patterson said. “I just decided to take it over.” They did it on a weekend, the best time in Patterson’s view. “It was during the day,” he recalled. “I was up on the ladder. We just made it look like we were painting the wall.”

The key to the undertaking, as he tells it, was Chris, who worked in the antiques tent next door and had a key to a side door to the fence and let them in. The Lower East Side documentarian said he wasn’t into clamber-ing over the fence, plus Chris’s letting them in gave them a level of legitimacy. Chris got a thank you on the mural, along with

Patterson’s wife, Elsa Rensaa, who helped paint the white background with a roller. Patterson painted the black parts.

The artist said a lot of the piece’s quotes are actually engraved on the outside of the courts Downtown, where he saw them when he was at court proceedings for the Tompkins Square Park riots and East Village squatter evictions.

The mural is about “the whole idea of struggle,” he said, “the police riots, evictions.”

His piece stayed up most of the summer and wasn’t tagged by other graffi tists, as inevitably happens; but it probably would have been if it was up much longer, Patterson conceded.

“Once I activated the site again and made it energized, people got the wall,” Patterson said.

“It was like taking back the wall.” Apparently, Antonio Garcia, a.k.a. Chico, the Lower East Side graffi ti legend, or a client of his got the wall, too, because one day Chico promptly painted over Patterson’s piece with a commis-sioned graffi ti mural for a Soho wine bar.

Patterson’s response? “I went over and threw buckets of brown paint all over his mural.” (There was no symbolism in the paint’s color, the documentarian assured.) “Then Chico came over to my place and said, ‘Yo, what’s up? You gotta pay me for that paint,’” Patterson recalled. “I said, ‘No — you should have come over and told me you were doing it. I’ve got no problem with your getting paid, just tell me about it.’” Patterson didn’t pay Chico for the marred mural, but just meant to say he under-stood that Chico had a right to make money on commissioned work. A potentially tense situa-tion was defused, and the two became friends after that, according to Patterson.

Asked to interpret his mural’s symbols, Patterson said there is an “N” on the left, an upside-down “Y” in the middle and a “C” on the right in the crescent moon. On the right are the scales of justice, which can be infl uenced by money. The large central image is also apparently a face. Earth, wind and fi re are all represented. Asked what style the mural is in, Patterson said, “Clayton original. There’s no art historical reference. I don’t know — outsider, probably.”

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‘It had been empty…I just decided to take it over’

Photo by Clayton Patterson

During summer 1990, the wall at Bowery and East Houston St. sported a guerrilla street-art mural by Clayton Patterson.

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ly heard the message that Lower Manhattan schools are in the midst of an overcrowd-ing crisis, and I am hopeful we can work together to fi nd a solution.”

Tamara Rowe, a Millennium High School parent and a task force member, felt cau-tiously optimistic about Black’s attempt to forge ties with the Downtown education community.

Rowe, like many task force members, appreciated Black’s appearance at the meet-ing, pointing out that Joel Klein never even attended one of Silver’s task force meetings in the two-and-a-half years of its existence while he was schools chancellor. But Rowe doubts Black’s willingness to change things.

“I think she’s trying to listen,” said Rowe. “I think I won’t know what it really means until I see the results.”

During the meeting, Menin and other task force members disparaged D.O.E. for not implementing a long-term strategy to relieve overcrowding.

“Everything is done piecemeal,” Menin told Black.

Members of the task force — mostly com-prised of Downtown public school parents and school principals — discussed the lack of foresight D.O.E. has recently exhibited in accommodating Downtown schoolchildren, which, they say, led to the neighborhood’s

current overcrowding crisis. Several mem-bers voiced concerns about designating 26 Broadway for an unscreened high school — meaning applicants aren’t evaluated by any performance criteria — as well as giving over empty classroom space in the Tweed Courthouse, on Chambers St. by City Hall, to an untested charter school.

In her second week, Black said she had “no gigantic new vision,” but that she and her team are “looking at things that are working.” She said she anticipated there would be “tough sledding” in deciding how to allocate the limited funding D.O.E. will receive in the coming fi scal year.

“Trying to balance all the competing forces is not easy at all,” Black said, noting upper Manhattan school districts are dealing with overcrowding issues similar to those Downtown.

“It’s clear that your needs are great, and we’ll try to deal with them as well as we pos-sibly can,” said Black.

Task force member Shino Tanikawa, who is also a member of Community Education Council District 2 and a parent at P.S. 3, at Hudson and Christopher Sts., said the new chancellor doesn’t seem to have a vision for public schools, either Downtown or citywide.

“It’s time for her to think about what her priorities are for the city,” said Tanikawa. “You have to do planning. There’s no excuse for it.”

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Olindo Bruno, who worked for many years in the garment

industry and lived in the South Village most of his life, died Tues., Jan. 4, in Mercy Medical Center in Lynbrook, L.I., at the age of 88.

Known simply as Bruno to his many friends and Sullivan St. neighbors, Olindo Giovanni Antonio Bruno was born on a farm in Avellino Province, Italy, to Michele and Elvira Iannone Bruno. Michele Bruno, who had been born on Mulberry St. while his parents were visiting relatives, returned to New York in 1928. Two years later, Olindo, who was then 8 years old, and the rest of the family, joined him.

In an affecting tribute to Olindo, his son, Russell Bruno, wrote about the family history. Olindo, his mother and maternal grandfather sailed from the port of Naples for New York in 1930 to join his father, who had been wounded by mustard gas during World War I as a soldier in the Italian Army. His father died in 1932 when Olindo was 10 years old.

In 1949, Olindo married Jeanette Barbera in Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Mott St. and the couple began raising their family in Little Italy. Olindo supported the family by selling and trans-porting textiles in the Garment District. He would occasionally bring material home to Jeanette, who made tablecloths, drapery and even the gown that she wore to their eldest son’s wedding, Russell wrote.

The family moved from Little Italy to Sullivan St. in the South Village in 1963 around the corner from St. Anthony’s School. Olindo’s talent for making close friends in the neighborhood and the Garment District never ceased to amaze his children, Russell wrote.

“In Coney Island he knew the guys that served franks at

Nathan’s and the guys who operated the carousel. Back at Katz’s on Houston St. he knew the guys who made the sandwiches,” Russell wrote.

At the end of 1974, Jeanette Bruno became ill with cancer and died in September 1975 shortly before her 44th birthday. The loss was devastating for Olindo but family and friends helped heal his grief. His nephew Vincent Valerio and Vincent’s wife, Louise, became especially close and helped him cope with a heart problem that developed 10 years ago. Olindo continued

making friends with new people who were moving into the neighborhood, Russell wrote.

“My dad loved Greenwich Village,” Russell said.Olindo lived in an assisted-living residence in Lynbrook, L.I.,

for the past three years.In addition to Russell, of Bayport, L.I., two other sons,

Michael, of Staten Island, and Emanuele, of Merrick, L.I., and a daughter, Elvira Urgo, of Staten Island, survive. Nine grandchil-dren and eight great-grandchildren also survive. The wake was at Perazzo Funeral Home, 199 Bleecker St., on Fri., Jan. 7, and the funeral was Sat., Jan. 8, at St. Anthony’s Church on Sullivan St.

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Hope for Humanities H.S.

On Jan. 20, 1983, The Villager reported on high hopes for High School for the Humanities, due to open in the former Charles Evans Hughes High School space, on 17th St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves. Carol Reichman, active on the issue, objected to a proposed admission test, stating, “We’ve fought long and hard for a school where all the neighborhood children — the very bright, the average, and the not so bright — can go.” Hughes had a “checkered history,” noted Ed Gold, a member of the startup school’s Advisory Commission. In 2009, after a Regents Test scandal and persistent low graduation rate, the Department of Education decided to close Humanities and replace it with smaller schools. Last July, in his fi nal column for The Villager (“Humanities H.S.: How a dream quickly turned into a nightmare”), Gold blamed the failure on a weakened admission process that no longer required applicants to list Humanities among their top choices.

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La MaMa’s MamaThe theater world and the East Village lost a true lumi-

nary last week in Ellen Stewart. She may have been 91, for like much of her early life, her exact date of birth was a bit of a mystery. But what’s clear is that she was an extraor-dinary individual who revolutionized modern theater and the performing arts, in general, through her pioneering La MaMa E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club).

Stewart’s is a true New York story. She arrived in the Big Apple in 1950, dreaming of becoming a fashion design-er. She overcame prejudice, fi rst working at tony Saks Fifth Avenue, then later on gritty E. Ninth St. at La MaMa’s fi rst location. Incredulously, initially, the venue was even beset by police raids after it was mistaken for a brothel.

But there was no holding back Stewart and her passion for cultivating great theater. She started La MaMa to help two fl edgling playwrights — one, her foster brother. Along the way, La MaMa aided the early careers of such stars as Sam Shepard, Harvey Keitel, Diane Lane, Robert De Niro, Philip Glass and Liz Swados.

Productions incubated Off Off Broadway at La MaMa have gone worldwide. Among her many honors, Stewart received a Tony for theatrical excellence, many OBIE’s and awards from governments around the globe.

She was a true original, an inspirational fi gure who forever enriched the arts and culture of Downtown Manhattan — and the world. May her beautiful spirit live on in the Fourth Arts Block that she helped found, in the many performers and playwrights who were mentored by her and fl ourished under her guidance and, of course, in La MaMa itself. For all Ellen Stewart did to nurture the arts, and for a life lived with purpose that made a difference, we say — Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

Black must now leadMuch was made of new Schools Chancellor Cathie

Black’s offhand birth control joke at last week’s School Overcrowding Task Force meeting, and for good rea-son. Lower Manhattan’s school-overcrowding crisis is no laughing matter.

That being said, we don’t wish to further elaborate on Black’s poor choice of words. Who hasn’t said something they regret?

It must not go unnoticed, however, that she showed up to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s task force meeting unprepared. That it was her second week on the job is no excuse. When someone starts at a new position it should be a no-brainer to bone up on all issues and concerns related to it.

When we heard Black had never even seen Eric Greenleaf’s data on Lower Manhattan’s overcrowding crisis, we were surprised, and disappointed. Greenleaf has spent countless hours, voluntarily, preparing data on the neighborhood’s population boom and obvious need for more school seats. His projections show a need for 1,000 more seats by 2015.

Black said she had Greenleaf’s data — under a stack of papers on her desk.

While her performance at the meeting did not bode well, it’s still early. Her words and actions up to this date are not irreversible.

Lower Manhattan’s population boom is a great post-9/11 success story. Black must recognize this and mobilize D.O.E. to support this growth. For starters, she can press to ensure we see a new school built atop the Peck Slip Post Offi ce.

We do commend the new chancellor for at least attending the task force’s meeting. Her predecessor declined numerous invitations from the task force during his tenure. We’ll give Black a pass, at this early juncture, on her words. Her actions in quickly addressing Lower Manhattan’s dire school situation will be what count.

EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe bicycle thief

To The Editor:A couple of weeks ago I was riding my bicycle down Ridge

St., and to my left I saw somebody walking a bike that looked just like my gray, European, adult tricycle — which I refer to as my mini-pedicab — that I had parked on my street corner. I looked right to the spot where it’s usually chained up and it was missing. I ran after the man and asked him what he was doing with my pedicab. He was startled and told me that someone just sold it to him, claiming it was his bike to give away.

I told him that didn’t sound like a feasible story since he was a holding a hacksaw in one hand and the metal tube of the bicycle around which the lock had been fastened was sawed in half. We went back and forth, he insisting that he did not steal it and I insisting that he did. Going nowhere with this, I asked him to return the pedicab, and luckily he did not resist and gave it right back to me.

Then he shocked me again, now offering to buy the bike from me for $100, which he supposedly had paid the other guy, “the real culprit of the crime.” It felt absurd to even contemplate his offer, but I had been torn on what to do with the pedicab for a while.

It was too small to be used as a full-size pedicab but too large to fi t in my apartment. I didn’t feel right to leave it on the corner and take up a parking space for another bicycle, but I felt sad thinking of it being given away.

I took one more look at the guy and started to soften. He was an older man, telling me he wanted to fi x it up to drive his family around the neighborhood. I suspected he could be lying again, but I told him I would consider it and get back to him. He helped me get the mini-pedicab chained up again, advising me where to place the locks to stop the next person from sawing them off again. He gave me his cell phone num-ber, and I thought that wasn’t the greatest move since he just gave me a way to contact him if I decided to press charges later. So I assumed it was a fake number.

A couple of weeks later I decided it was time to give up the bike and if the guy was willing to take $150 I was ready to give it to him. Yes, it was crazy to even contemplate selling it to the thief. But I didn’t see any really positive outcome to calling the police to report the incident, and I had nowhere to store it and didn’t have the skills to fi x it — where the tube had been sawed through — to sell it for a higher price.

So I gave him a call and the deal was done. He agreed to pay $150 and was going to give me another bike he doesn’t use anymore, which I was going to give away to somebody in need of a bike. I hoped that I would one day see my pedicab all spiffed up, with a family in tow, cycling through my neigh-borhood. That would make it all worthwhile to me. One

more cyclist on the road is never a bad thing in my world.

Barbara Ross

Bike lanes: Use and abuse

To The Editor:Re “Critics can’t roll back the progress on bike lanes”

(talking point, by Barbara Ross, Jan. 6):I believe Barbara Ross makes sane, balanced, measured

points. It isn’t bike lanes that are the problem regarding traffi c safety. It’s the way people — pedestrians and cyclists — use or misuse the lanes.

I really don’t feel very safe when cycling in these bike lanes. Some of my fear is from my fellow cyclists who abuse their privileges. Same with pedestrians and dog walkers who abuse the bike lanes. The other fear is at intersections where motorists turn from my blind side.

As long as motorists, cyclists, pedestrians et al. act self-ishly, aggressively, abusively, New York City will remain a very, very dangerous place.

Michael Gottlieb

Doherty was snow scapegoat

To The Editor:I cannot believe what I heard and saw on the television

about Commissioner Doherty of the Sanitation Department. This man gave up years of his retirement to come back and help his department and us New Yorkers. In other snow-storms he and his Sanitation workers were lauded for their good work.

Mr. Doherty, us true-blue New Yorkers would like to thank you and your department for the great hard work that you have done for New York for many years.

George Marmo

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PHOTOGRAPHERS

J.B. Nicholas

Jefferson Siegel

Clayton Patterson

CIRCULATION SALES MNGR.

Marvin Rock

CONTRIBUTORS

Ira Blutreich

Doris Diether

Patricia Fieldsteel

Bonnie Rosenstock

Jefferson Siegel

Jerry Tallmer

BY JOEL FEINGOLDOn Monday, a Community Board 3 com-

mittee may vote on guidelines for the redevel-opment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) — the long-derelict blocks along Delancey, Broome and Grand Sts. at the lip of the Williamsburg Bridge. In shap-ing the fi nal language of these guidelines, this committee can choose to close the chapter on a 43-year aberration in the Lower East Side’s history: The notion that a racially integrated, working-class district is harmful to society in general and property values in particular. This notion allowed the crime of urban renewal to occur in the fi rst place; this false notion must not be allowed to taint prospects for the just redevelopment of the site.

Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), a membership-based housing and economic justice organization founded in 1977, has been deeply involved in Community Board 3’s deliberations since they began in late 2008. Today, we announce our position on the crucial questions the community board will decide — regardless of whether the fi nal vote on these questions is indeed Monday, or whether it is held later this spring.

When SPURA was razed in 1967, the city evicted 1,852 families, the majority people of color. No one who lived there was rich. At most, 1,244 units were built on the site: 360 apartments in the Seward Park Extension (New York City Housing Authority); 600 in the Grand Street Guild (Section 8 with Church backing); 156 in Hong Ning Plaza (Chinese-American Planning Council); and 128 in the senior development at 15-17 Willett St. (U.J.C. Bialystoker).

Even in the hard numbers, insuffi cient replacement housing for the 1,852 displaced families left a gap of 608 units in the afford-able housing stock on the site. The current guidelines project 800 to roughly 1,000 new units could be built. To replace the 608 low-rent units lost to urban renewal alone, between 61 percent and 76 percent of these new units must be affordable. This threshold of afford-ability must increase in light of gentrifi cation: the wholesale displacement of the working-class Lower East Side and the privatization of the Grand St. co-operatives, in particular.

For these reasons, GOLES members — including several tenants evicted from the urban renewal area in 1967 — propose

that 70 percent of the new units be afford-able to low-, moderate- and middle-income families, in addition to seniors.

GOLES members further hold that the city must honor its 1967 promise, a verbal and written pledge: that all former site ten-ants must have the right to return. As the city put it in a letter to site tenants in the

late ’60’s: “All present and former residen-tial tenants of Seward Park Extension [i.e. SPURA] will be given fi rst priority to return to any housing built with this urban renewal area provided they meet certain [i.e. income] qualifi cations.” This was an unequivocal promise to the displaced, one without an expiration date, and we at GOLES believe the city must honor it.

Finally, because it has been 43 years since the crime of urban renewal, we hold that all children of site tenants — people who might have been eligible for succession to their par-ents’ leases if suffi cient replacement housing had been built in the ’60’s and ’70’s — must also have the right to return.

Our hope and our belief is that the city and the historic opponents of housing on the site will be willing to negotiate in good faith on Monday and in the future, just as we have in the years leading up to Monday’s momen-tous meeting. We do not insist on having our way, so long as the result is just.

The historic opponents to low- and mod-erate-income housing on SPURA have one chief argument against building 70 percent affordable housing on the site. This faction has argued that the return of an integrated, working-class community to subsidized, low- and moderate-income housing on these blocks will destabilize the neighborhood and depress property values on Grand St.

The argument is frivolous and distorts the co-operatives’ own proud history. The Seward Park Co-operative itself was built as a limited-equity co-operative, a form of mod-erate-income housing, subsidized by the State of New York through the Mitchell-Lama pro-

gram. By the logic of this faction, the co-ops themselves should never have been built — too subsidized, too working class, too many dangerous people in too high a concentration: 100 percent of the development, in fact.

Federal subsidy continues at the Seward Park Co-operative even after the sad privati-zation of every affordable unit in Co-operative Village. Since the privatization, a few of the old co-operative shareholders have found it diffi cult to keep pace with hikes in mainte-nance fees. Assemblymember Sheldon Silver found Section 8 vouchers for these co-operators, and as a housing justice organi-zation, GOLES applauds him for doing so. The vouchers are administered by the city’s public housing authority, NYCHA. If the co-ops could be built as 100 percent affordable housing, and if federal subsidy administered directly by NYCHA continues to be neces-sary to maintain affordability on Grand St., the argument that subsidized housing on SPURA would undermine property values becomes absurd. The case of the Seward Park Co-operative serves only to demon-strate that the people of this neighborhood cannot afford market-rate housing, which on SPURA would cost $6,000 a month.

Built as a state-subsidized housing project, scattered with Section 8 vouchers to this day,

neighbored by several public housing develop-ments and a vast, barren parking lot, units in the Seward Park Co-operative presently sell for $600,000 or more. The property-values argu-ment is frivolous, and at worst, it is a smoke-screen for the old “pocket-ghetto” argument advanced in the ’70’s to promote the racial seg-regation of the housing that was built on the site — and to prevent the further redevelopment of SPURA from that time forward. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals resolutely dismissed this argument in Otero v. NYCHA in 1973, and no version of this argument should be allowed to prevent justice on the site today.

The working families of the Lower East Side, and many of the tenants displaced from the urban renewal area in 1967, are doubled and tripled up in various forms of housing — units we are losing every day. Of course, the old Grand St. shareholders remember what an amazing day it was when they paid $500 down per room to live forever on the Lower East Side. Why deny an experience like this to other Lower East Siders? Does it really matter that much to you if your neighbor happens to make a few thousand dollars less a year than you do?

The city advances a different argument

Time for justice at Seward Park Urban Renewal Area

File photo

Part of the SPURA site, viewed from Clinton and Delancey Sts., looking toward the southeast. Most of the undeveloped site is currently used as a gigantic open-air parking lot. Visible in this photo, from left to right, are the NYCHA Seward Park Extension, one of three tenements on the site that were saved from being razed, two Grand St. Guild towers and the market-rate Seward Park Co-op, situated on a diagonal to the other buildings.

For us, 70 percent affordable housing is already a compromise.

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BY JERRY TALLMERLet us do a little triangulation.Here, at one point, is 21 Clinton Street

on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

This is where The Living Theatre, found-ed by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947, lives and breathes these days, 64 years later, as does Judith herself, with a new play by her called “Korach” — a quasi-biblical hymn to anarchy (though Julian is long gone, as is, more recently, second hus-band Hanon Reznikov, who left behind him an early draft of the present work).

Far, far away, at the apex of an immense-ly long thin triangle, is Mount Sinai — not the New York City medical center, but the desert heights from which Moses, the lone, imperious, infuriated climber, brought back down the Ten Commandments only to smash them in the face of rebellious, anar-chic challenges to his authority.

And here is the third peg of that extreme-ly extended triangle, is a restaurant called Viand Cafe (at Broadway and 75th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan) where Judith Malina has come uptown to talk about “Korach” and theater and girl-hood and anarchy — and her father, Max Malina (the rabbi who got himself and his family out of Germany and to New York just in time when Judith was three).

“When I was 12 years old,” Malina is saying, “I saw a movie called ‘Nurse Edith Cavell’ “ — released 1939, so Malina must really have been 13 years old — “in which a beautiful English actress named Anna Neagle, just before she’s shot as a spy by a German fi ring squad in World War I, says: ‘Standing as I am between God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough.’

“That’s when I realized we must have no hatred or bitterness against anyone. I saw this movie,” says Judith,” at the Beacon Theater.”

What??? an interviewer all but shouts. Judith, the Beacon Theater is right over

there, two doors away from where we’re sitting. It’s a rock palace nowadays.

“I know, “she says calmly. “So I ran home from the Beacon Theater — we used to live around here; we lived everywhere — and said to my father, the German-Jewish rabbi who was trying to rouse opinion against Hitler: ‘Papa, I’ve just seen this movie! We must not hate the Nazis!’ “

And what did your Papa say?‘”He was horrifi ed by my politics since

I was 11.”Max Malina, were he alive today, would

be doubly horrifi ed by “Korach,” in which the pace is set by Comrade Emma Goldman (all 4 foot 11 inches of actress Judith Malina, on fi lm) preaching anarchy — the real pure stuff — fi rst, last, and always.

EMMA: We are now in the midst of a profound social upheaval. We Anarchists can take heart that the young generation has lost its faith in government — not in any specifi c regime or government — but in the very notion of government itself. The time is ripe for us to organize the Anarchist Movement. If all the young people that are drawing the ‘A’ in a circle on the wall…really understood what that ‘Circle A’ means, we could really have a splendid revolution now — and in the deepest sense they do understand that the ‘Circle A’ means the yearning to be free of the unnecessary restrictions that our social system demands — and of the abuses of punitive law….

We will rally that energy, but we

must beware of the ruthlessness of the great opposing camp. They are afraid of freedom because they believe that freedom will lead to chaos. We must show them the sense of consensus and collective decision-making that Anarchism offers. We must reassure the people that Anarchism doesn’t mean disorder, but a higher form of human organization. Comrade Alexander Berkman said, “Anarchism is organi-zation; organization, and nothing but organization.”

If the people are not convinced of this — if they are afraid that anarchism means chaos and violence — they will wipe us out. They will eliminate us without mercy — as they have done in the Ukraine, in Spain, wherever the burgeoning Anarchist Movement threatened the maintenance of the state. Wherever Anarchism has been tried, it has succeeded in exemplify-ing a harmonious society. But it has frightened the people in power, and the Anarchists have always been wiped out — all the way back to Korach, in Biblical History.

We will lose every battle — except the last one.

This, from the woman who in May of 1963 (with her husband/co-artist/co-anarchist Julian Beck, along with actors and audience) burst in over the roof of their padlocked 14th Street theater to foil the feds and stage one last performance of Kenneth Brown’s “The Brig” — a Malina-

directed portrait of hell as a U.S. Marine Corps disciplinary center.

This, also, from the woman who even earlier (1959) had brought forth at that temple the artistically even more revolu-tionary “The Connection” — a “jazz play” by young Jack Gelber about a roomful of druggies sitting around waiting for their fi x to arrive. Or who placed before New York eyes and ears the rarely hazarded works of Bertolt Brecht and William Carlos Williams.

“I have always considered my theater,” says the Judith of here and now, “to be an adjunct of my father’s German-Jewish synagogue. Wherever we lived, East Side, West Side, my father’s study is where he conducted services, did bar mitzvahs, did circumcisions. On Saturdays you didn’t ride in a vehicle, didn’t turn on a light.

“In those days I considered myself a heretical Jew. I had to make a decision: Am I going to be an actress or am I going to be observant?”

One of the places where the Malina lived for several years was the old Broadway Central Hotel — the one that later fell down and killed a few people. “Six seventy-three Broadway,” says Judith, “between Bleecker and Third.”

Brad Burgess, the young assistant direc-tor of “Korach,” who has come uptown with her to sit in on the interview, shoots Judith a look.

“I can’t believe you remember that,” Burgess says, “when you can’t remember your current address.”

Judith Malina was born June 4, 1926, in Kiel, Germany. Three years later she arrived in America.

Brad Burgess was born March 1, 1985, in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Lowell, went to Catholic schools, and is a nice kid sporting a 1960s Abbie Hoffman head of hair. His roots are French, Irish, Austrian. These (and nights), he is over-seeing 25 anarchy-minded actors — some of whom, the Korachites, pop up on stage from 10,000 years punishment under the earth.

The Broadway Central Hotel — to be exact, the third fl oor of the Broadway Central Hotel — was where 11-year-old Judith Malina and her girlfriends fi rst start-ed putting on plays.

Judith, says her interviewer, it’s all well and good to preach and practice anarchy — but surely you didn’t create that company and put on all those extraordinary shows and hold everything together all those years and are still doing it without some measure of discipline. Maybe good strong discipline.

“Discipline, yes,” says Malina, “but not punitive law. Punitive law, no.”

Living Theatre’s ‘quasi-biblical hymn’ to anarchy fi ghts fairJudith Malina: Horrifying with her politics since age 11

Photo courtesy of kennedyyankoart.com

L to R: Andrew Greer, Jay Dobkin and Tom Walker.

KORACHWritten and directed by Judith Malina

Running Time: 55 minutes, no intermission

Through February 28

At the Living Theatre (21 Clinton St. btw. Houston & Stanton Sts.)

Tickets: $20 (Students/Seniors: $15. Seniors. Wed, pay what you can)

For reservations, call 978-273-5443

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‘Men Go Down’ worth going Downtown forRetelling of classic feels purposeful and relevant

BY MARTIN DENTON (NYTHEATRE.COM)“Men Go Down, Part 3: Black

Recollections” is the newest work by John Jahnke and Hotel Savant. I’ve been a fan of Jahnke’s work for a decade or more, but I must admit that this latest piece is so oblique that it’s hard to recommend wholeheartedly.

Like all of Jahnke’s theatre, this is a feast for the senses: painterly stage pic-tures parade before us along with beautiful (often unclothed) bodies of both genders;

meanwhile our eyes and ears are overloaded with surprising, startling imagery — a door-bell that sounds like a miniature symphony, human-size frames that house ever-morphing “oil paintings” depicting the main characters in various costumes and poses, a view out a window into a black night fi lled with swirling stars and clouds and, at one point, fi reworks.

Where “Men Go Down” proves prob-

lematic is in its meaning. The visual and aural components are endlessly striking, but the text and script they support are ellipti-cal in the extreme — even to the point where characters frequently leave out key words from their sentences (usually, but not always, the nouns). This makes for challenging parsing, especially when there’s such a stupendous sen-sual feast unfolding from every direction.

The play takes place in a hotel room in Turkey in the year 1895. Here, a long-ago king named Endymion, who has recently been awakened after sleeping for a thousand years,

is visited by the goddess Diana and by a nymph named Dryope who has been carrying his unborn child, also for a millennium. Dryope says she wants Endymion dead, so that she can fi nally birth his offspring. Endymion is also pursued, or haunted, in waking dreams, by a trio of gods who manifest themselves as hotel cleaning staff, and by his ancient love Hylas, who was Heracles’s lover in Greek myth, who appears momentarily as a hotel chef.

Now, this is all based in obscure Greek myth — but the tale is not at all well-known to contemporary American audiences. In fact, without a full page of program notes, I would have had trouble coming up with as specifi c a summary of the play as I’ve provided.

In any event, though “Men Go Down” on the surface is a kind of retelling of this classic tale, the play’s raison d’etre feels more purposeful and relevant. What I got from the piece was the story of a man who feels entitle-ment without responsibility; someone who sleeps or retreats or blames rather than ever behaves accountably for his actions.

Jahnke’s direction and design concept are stunning, and the realization of that design — by Peter Ksander (set), Kristin Worrall (sound), Bruce Steinberg (light-ing), Ramona Ponce (costumes), Taili Wu, Andrew Schneider, and Rebecca Adomo (video) — is utterly breathtaking. The cast of eight is led by Alexander Borinsky as Endymion (who makes a wondrously sur-prising entrance near the start of the show) and Hillary Spector and Tanisha Thompson as his antagonists Diana and Dryope; Tim Eliot, Liz Santoro, Michael Ingle, Melody Bates, and Mikeah Jennings complete the ensemble in smaller roles that require them to dance, move, and serve as various forms of chorus.

There are moments in this piece that will stay with me due to their unexpectedness and beauty. But I did not feel much transformed or moved by the proceedings — which surprised me, because with the work of John Jahnke and Hotel Savant, that’s almost always what happens.

MEN GO DOWN, PART 3: BLACK RECOLLECTIONSWritten & Directed By: John Jahnke

Produced by Producer: Hotel Savant

Through January 23

At 3LD Art & Technology Center

80 Greenwich St. (btw. Rector & Edgar)

Running Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes; no intermission

For tickets ($25), call 212-352-3101

Photo by Dixie Sheridan

Hillary Spector as Diana, Goddess of the Moon and Alexander Borinsky as Endymion, former King of Elis.

There are moments in this piece that will stay with me due to their unexpectedness and beauty. But I did not feel much transformed or moved by the proceedings.

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KIDS FAIRIf you’ve got kids who have cabin fever,

here’s an event that gets them out the cave and, well, back into the great indoors. They won’t mind it, though — because there’s more going on at Peridance Capezio Center than board games and blank stares. This “Kids Fair” lets kids take sample dance classes in African, Salsa, Gymnastics for Dancers, Samurai Sword and more. Do the meet and greet thing with PeriChild teachers while enjoying refreshments, digging into a free goodie bag, or creating some grooves of your own courtesy of the live DJ (from 14th Street’s own Dubspot DJ School). FREE, for kids from the toddler stage to high school age. Sun., Jan. 23, 11am-3pm. At Peridance Capezio Center (126 E. 13th St. btw. 3rd & 4th Aves.). Call 212-505-0886 or vist perid-ance.com.

STARRY MESSENGERS

Galileo had his share of trouble when he announced his Copernican theory of the earth’s rotation just as the Inquisition was making mincemeat of those with rad-ical beliefs. In this modern retelling of that ill-timed theory’s debut, playwright Ira Hauptman makes a connection between the price paid by Galileo and the tizzy caused by scientists sounding the global warming alarm. Jan. 27 through Feb. 12 (run time, 90 minutes). Wed. through Sat., 8pm. Sun, 3pm and 8pm. Added performance Sun., Jan. 30, 8pm. At Theater for the New City (155 First Ave., at E. 10th St.). For tickets ($15 general, $12 for students/seniors), call 212) 254-1109. Visit theaterforthenewcity.net and jsnyc.com/season/starrymessenger.

EVENTS AT WFC WINTER GARDENArts World Financial Center has an

impressive roster of cultural events ready

to be penned into that nifty 2011 calen-dar you recently purchased. Feb. 2-4 (7pm each night), the “Silent Films/Live Music” series features some of Hollywood’s greatest physical comedians — backed by the sounds of found percussion and state-of-the-art elec-tronics (courtesy of the three-man ensemble, Alloy Orchestra).

“The colors I use are instinctive

and expressive. Anyone can learn how to draw, but

understanding color is a sense that is

inherent.”

PAINTINGS: 1950 – 2010 Eva Deutsch Costabel solo exhibition

Opening Reception

January 20, 2010 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

307 Seventh Ave. Suite 1401

, a program of the Carter Burden Center for the Aging, focuses on

work by older, self-taught artists, and those with special needs.

Gallery hours:Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

January 20th - February 17th

646.400.5254www.burdencenter.org

Just Do Art!

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Photo courtesy of Peridance Capezio Center

You’re never too young to learn how to fi ght nice. See “Kids Fair.”

Photo by Lee Wexler

L-R: Elisa Matula, David Little, Marnye Young. See “Starry Messengers.”

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Wed., Feb. 2, 1920’s “One Week” stars Buster Keaton; 1919’s “Back Stage” stars Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; and 1917’s “Easy Street” stars Charlie Chaplin. Thurs., Feb. 3, 1928’s “Speedy” features Harold Lloyd as the eponymous hero who attempts to save the last horse-drawn trolley bus from greedy railway magnates. It was shot on location in NYC and features several landmarks including Yankee Stadium, Luna Park, Columbus Circle and the Brooklyn Bridge. Fri., Feb. 4, 1926’s “The Black Pirate” has Douglas Fairbanks as a man who, bound by honor, vows to avenges the death of his father at the hands of a pirate gang.

FREE. At World Financial Center (220 Vesey St.). For info on these and other events, call 212-945-0505 or visit artsworldfi nancialcenter.com.

SAMURAI SWORD SOUL PRESENTS: GEKIRYUIt seems like a very long time indeed since the gleaming

blades wielded by Samurai Sword Soul’s precise and intense cast graced the stage in a full-length production. When last we saw them — in 2009’s “Scattered Lives” — Samurai Sword was slicing and dicing their way through an epic tale, well-served by their trademark minimalist technique (lots of blood and gore and death and mayhem, all done without the use of actual buckets of red stuff). Primal screams let loose in the heat of battle — and shiny blades that generated a furi-ous sound even though they weren’t made of metal — gave a literal kick to the proceedings.

Now, writer, director and fi ght choreographer Yoshihisa Kuwayama has cooked up what promises to be another relentless, imaginative series of violent encounters punctu-ated by moments of somber refl ection. That refl ection takes

place 400 years ago in Japan, and comes in the form of a Samurai family baffl ed by rapidly changing times.

This epic tale of transition won’t rely on intricately choreographed fi ght scenes alone to hammer home its examination of Samurai culture. As was the case with “Scattered Lives,” the troupe’s live musicians are poised to establish mood, heighten tension and punctuate the physical violence with charismatic bursts of sound and fury. Traditional Japanese instruments are, traditionally, the soundmakers of choice for Samurai Soul. This time around, however, trumpet player Carol Mogan and trom-bonist Dr. Sean Reed (Director of Brass Studies at NYU) are part of the ensemble.

“Gekiryu: When the torrent takes their lives” happens

Thurs.-Sat., Jan. 20-22, at 7:30pm — and Sun., Jan. 23 at 3pm. At Dance New Amsterdam (DNA); 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers St.). Tickets are $18 in advance, $23 at the door. For reservations, call 212-625-8369 or visit dnadance.org. Also visit samuraiswordsoul.com.

A PALO SECO: RASGOS FLAMENCOS

Rebeca Tomás, who made her solo debut at Theatre 80 Saint Marks this past May (with the dynamic and involv-ing “A Palo Seco”) returns that very same venue — this time with two additional dancers, two singers and four musicians. “A Palo Seco: Rasgos Flamencos” re-envisions aspects of last season’s production while introducing sev-eral new pieces, both traditional and unconventional. The new collection of Flamenco music and dance promises to bring a distinct New York edge to the Argentinean art of Flamenco. Just as last season’s show contained some unexpected touches (such as Tomás playing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” at the piano), this features some of its own nontraditional elements (including a new solo work in which the Spanish fan, el abanico, is used as a percussive instrument). Fri., Jan. 28, Sat., Jan. 29 & Mon.,

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Photo by Motoyaki Ishibashi

Poised to strike: The nimble warriors of Samurai Sword Soul.

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Jan. 31 at 8pm. Sun, Jan. 30 at 3pm. At Theatre 80 Saint Marks (80 Saint Marks Place, btw. First & Second Aves.). Visit rebecafl amenca.com.

THE A**HOLE IN MY HEADAfter wowing them at Birdland and the Triad, Kate

Dawson brings her one-woman musical show Downtown so Village denizens can see what’s been shocking — and amusing — the Uptown swells. Fun, entertaining and hilari-ous (according to her otherwise hype-free press release), songstress Dawson performs this musical exploration of that annoying inner voice we all combat on a daily basis. That exploration will somehow manage to link Dawson’s internal struggle with songs from shows including “The Light in the Piazza,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Wicked.” Keeping a reasonable reign on the insanity of “The A**hole in My Head” is director Don Amendolia (a veteran actor seen in Broadway’s “33 Variations”). Sun., Jan. 23 and 30, 7pm, at The Duplex (61 Christopher St. at 7th Ave.). $10 cover, two drink minimum. For tickets, call 212-255-5438 or visit theduplex.com.

BENEFIT: DIVAS & DANCERSYears ago, she gave us “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

Decades later, she’d become the only reason any reason-able person would have to ever even contemplate watch-ing “Celebrity Apprentice.” So what have YOU done for Lauper lately? True to form, the only thing she wants from us is to see a show whose proceeds benefi t her True Colors Residence. It’s a project of West End Intergenerational Residence, and partners Cyndi Lauper and her manager Lisa Barbaris (slated to open in Central Harlem in summer 2011). True Colors will be the fi rst permanent, supportive housing facility for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in New York State. So now you have a very good reason to enjoy an evening of some of the best of New York Burlesque, Dance & Performance Art! Need another reason? There will be nearly naked divas & dancers! Sat. Jan. 22, 8pm. At The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd St. btw. Aves. A & B). For tickets,

call 212-352-3101. Visit thewildproject.com and kineti-carchitecture.org and truecolorsresidence.org.

FILM & DISUSSION: THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS

Documentary fi lmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge’s “The Economics of Happiness” advocates for an altruistic strat-egy called “localization” — the rebuilding of communities and regional economies as the foundation for raising cultural awareness and addressing societal woes tied to globalization. Make the world a better place, the theory goes, and you’ll profi t from peace of mind and an overall sense of well-being. Efforts profi led in the fi lm include the urban gardens in Detroit, the Transition Town movement in England and cultural preserva-tion in Peru and Ladakh (“Little Tibet”). FREE. Thurs., Jan. 27, 6:30pm, at The Cooper Union’s Great Hall (7 E. 7th St. btw. 3rd and 4th Aves). A screening of the fi lm is followed by a panel discussion with Norberg-Hodge, Judy Wicks (co-founder, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), Gloria Steinem and others. For info, call 212-353-4200. Visit cooper.edu. Follow Cooper Union on Twitter at twitter.com/cooperunion

DJINN — TRADITIONAL TURKISH MUSIC At this gig, Djinn will draw from an extensive repertoire

of traditional Turkish and Arabic music, and original com-positions with Middle Eastern infl uence. The band is known for blending ancient party music with human beatbox, electronics, a taste of traditional fl avor and a mouthful of New York City style. Cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, a frequent collaborator, will join Djinn. This program, by the way, is part of “6th Street Sundays — which hosts some of NYC’s best classical and world musicians in the unique setting of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue’s Max D. Raiskin Center for the Arts. Each concert includes new composi-tions, either commissioned for or written by the artists. The series is curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann. Curious? Get more info at 6thstreetsundays.com. As for Djinn, you can catch them Sun., Jan. 23, at the Max D. Raiskin Center for the Arts (Sixth St. Community Synagogue, 325 E. Sixth St.). The 3pm concert is preceded by a 2pm workshop that will delve into the mysteries of different rhythms in different time signatures. All djembes, doumbeks, shakers and tam-

bourines are welcome! The $15 cover includes one beverage. Visit djinnyc.com.

WALKING TOUR: UNION SQUAREGetting some exercise and learning something about a

part of town you stroll through for shopping, socializing or just being seen are two very good reasons indeed to brave the low temperatures of January and February. “Union Square: Crossroads of New York” is a free 90-minute walking tour which explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood. By the end of the experience, you’ll have racked up an impressive amount of seldom-heard facts about the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. Use it to make conversation with that spring fl ing when the two of you have a sit down date in or around the Square. FREE. Every Sat., 2pm. The tour begins at the Abraham Lincoln statue by the 16th Street transverse in Union Square Park. Look for the guide holding a “Union Square: Crossroads of New York sign.” Reservations are required for groups. Call 212-517-1826.

HARLEM ON MY MIND Xoregos Performing Company’s next production is part of

the Harlem Renaissance Festival. “Harlem on my Mind” features four short new plays, all set during the Harlem Renaissance period (1919-1940). The production also includes poems by Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson — as well as the songs of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Irving Berlin. January 22, 27 at 7pm & January 29 at 4pm. At Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. 4th St. btw. Aves. A & B). For tickets ($18, 15 for students/seniors), call 212-995-5302. Visit xoregos.com. A fi nal performance will be held Wed., Feb. 16, 6pm, at the Bronx Library Center (310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. Subways: B, D to Fordham Rd.). For Info, 212-239-8405.

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Buster got back. From “Speedy” — starring Buster Keaton. See “WFC Winter Garden,” page 17.

Photo by Maly Blomberg

Rebeca Tomás returns to Theatre 80. See “A Palo Seco,” page 18.

Photo by Laura Boyd

Kate Dawson has big problems upstairs, in “The A**hole in My Head.”

20 Januar y 20 - 26, 2011

PARK BRIDGE SCR WFCM 2010-C1 LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/15/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Robert J. Spinna, Jr. 560 Lexington Ave 17th Fl New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PEONY 82, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. Office location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 909 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Corporation Ser-vice Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SDUSA, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 12/17/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 801 S. Figueroa St., Ste. 2500, Los Angeles, CA 90017, also the address to be maintained in CA. Arts of Org. fi led with CA Secy. Of State, 1500 11th St., Sacra-mento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

AEG ADVISORY SER-VICES, LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 10/29/10. NY Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any pro-cess against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 575 6th Ave., #7B, NY, NY 10011. General Purposes.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RADIANT PIG BEER

COMPANY, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/01/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Radiant Pig Beer Company, E 26th St, #5F, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF S.E.A. NICHE, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Chamberlain & Steward Associates, Ltd., 400 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Norman Volk, President. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC: DKDOI GP LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 11/8/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 10/13/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 65 E. 55th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC: DKIL GP LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 11/8/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 10/13/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: 65 E. 55th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ERWIN PEN-

LAND LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/8/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o IPG, 1114 Ave. of the Americas, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MAGGY’S FUND LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/24/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal busi-ness addr.: 520 E. 86th St., Apt. 8A, NY, NY 10028, Attn: Patricia H. Nadosy, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Term: until 12/31/2060. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MARIA RODALE

CHELSEA ENCLAVE LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/30/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business address: 177 9th Ave., Ste. 4K, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF HALPERN REAL ESTATE VENTURES, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 401 West St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10014. LLC formed in DE on 9/2/10. 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. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: real estate, invest-ments, management and related activities.

Vil 12/16-1/20/11

ALVA CAPITAL, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/2010. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/6/2010. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC 347 W 57th ST 30B NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange ST, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMA-TION OF FLUSHING BAY

DEVELOPMENT LLC,

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/26/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Xiao Bo Zhang, 180 River-side Blvd., Ste. 12H, NY, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF NEZU ASIA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/3/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: David Snoddy, 590 Madison Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF 15 LITTLE WEST 12 OWNER

LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/6/09. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, NY 10001. DE off. addr.: 160 Green-tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF ST ANNES, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/18/10. Offi ce 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: St Annes LLC, 110 Duane Street, PH3N, New York, NY 10007. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF STARR STREET PART-

NERS II LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/1/10. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 594 Broadway, Ste. 1212, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF KILOHANA

PARTNERS, LP.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/10. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Partnership, 351 Saint Nicholas Ave., Ste. 31, NY, NY 10027, also the principal offi ce address. DE address of LP: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., St 101, Dover, DE 19904. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF VICTOR RPM, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 146 W. 57th St., Apt. 56C, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to c/o Moshe Shuster at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TWAIN WERKS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 202 Riverside Dr. - Ste. 9J, NY, NY 10025. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ECUA_COOL, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/27/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: ECUA-COOL LLC, 623 W 207th Street # BSMT, New York, NY 10034. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HARKELYN LLC.

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/9/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY des-ignated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to attn. Lloyd Mark, 1186 Broadway #1043, New York, NY 10001. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROXIMETY SOLU-

TIONS, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ETF SPECIALISTS

LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/10/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 Trapelo Rd., Lincoln, MA 01773. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIBECA HOUSE-

KEEPING SERVICES LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 105 Hudson St. #1B, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BOKEH LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 55 Fifth Avenue, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF MILESTONE

HORIZON LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/11/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o KVB Part-ners, 60 Broad St., Ste. 3502, NY, NY 10004. DE address of LLC: 1201 Orange St., Suite 600, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CAM TASB,

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/8/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/17/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 101 Park Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10178, Attn: Paul Tanico. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CASTLEROCK GLOBAL MACRO FUND,

L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 8/30/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Castle-Rock Management II, LLC, 101 Park Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10178. DE address of LP: c/o United Corporate Ser-vices, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KOPLIK INTERNA-

TIONAL LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/3/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 600 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF JUNIPER I,

L.L.C.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/10/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. loc.: 311 W. 43rd St., NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Com-pany, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: real estate development and any other purposes permitted by appli-cable law.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RESTIVO EVENTS,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 245 E. 25th St., #12L, NY, NY 10010. Pur-pose: any lawful purpose.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NAME OF LLC: RIGBY 183 LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led Dept. of State of NY on 8/9/10. Off. Loc. in NY: NY Cty. Secy. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to: Hands-man & Kaminsky LLP, 900 Third Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF REEF SOLUTIONS,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Ben Serebin, 160 W. 96th St., #11M, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MMMM, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Ser-vice Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF AMERICOLD

MFL 2010 LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 10 Glenlake Pkwy., South Tower, Ste. 800, Atlan-ta, GA 30328. LLC formed in DE on 11/17/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF VALUE LINE

PUBLISHING LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/3/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/2/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: Value Line, Inc., 220 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Howard Brecher, Esq. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE PICKHOLZ LAW

OFFICES LLC, A PROFES-SIONAL SERVICE LLC

(PLLC).

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal busi-ness addr.: The Pickholz Law Offi ces LLC, 1140 Ave. of the Americas, 9th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Jason R. Pick-holz, Esq. Purpose: practice law.

Vil 12/23-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SO OTHERS MIGHT

SURVIVE, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/30/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: So Others Might Survive, LLC, 7014 13th ave., Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EASTSIDE HOME REPAIR & IMPROVE-

MENT, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/05/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 568 Grand St. Ste 2002, New York, NY 10002. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

MELODY OF FLAVORS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/22/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Melody A. Staz-zone 255 Cabrini Blvd. Ste 5F NY, NY 10040. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CBBJ, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to Steven Golden, c/o CBIZ MHM, LLC, 1065 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF M & H 75TH STREET

HOLDINGS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 55 E. 75th St., NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Schwartz & Salomon, P.C., 225 Broadway, Ste. 4200, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

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NAME OF FOR. LLC: WASHINGTON ST. 42A,

LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 10/26/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/17/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Jeff Silver, 14 Faulkner Lane, Dix Hills, NY 11766. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC: WASHINGTON ST. 42B,

LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 10/26/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 3/17/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: Jeff Silver, 14 Faulkner Lane, Dix Hills, NY 11766. Addr. of foreign LLC in DE is: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LOFTS 21 LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 7/1/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Classic Group Inc., 4 W. 22nd St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 58 FERRY RD

LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/15/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Whitsett St., Greenville, SC 29601. LLC formed in DE on 12/14/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 3 WTC MEZZ

2 LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF WORLD TRADE CENTER HOLDCO LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 12/30-2/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 350 WEST MANAGE-

MENT LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/10. Office location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Peter Glazman, US Pack Courier Service, 350 Fifth Ave., Ste. 4714, NY, NY 10118. 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. offi ce. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 306 WEST 97TH

MCLEAN EQUITIES LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/16/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce and regd. agent of LLC: Robert Kantor, 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003-4398. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AVENUE OF THE

AMERICAS DEVELOP-MENT COMPANY LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., Attn: Michael E. Lefkowitz, Esq., 733 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

LENDY DEMETRIUS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/13/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 545 W 148 St, 4B NY, NY 10031. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MANHATTAN MADE

ENTERPRISES LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/28/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Manhat-tan Made Enterprises LLC, 501 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF 630 EAST 9TH STREET REALTY LLC.

Appl. For Auth. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 8/5/10. SSNY designated as agent for ser-vice of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 875 Ave. of Americas #501, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr. #101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19904. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PEOPLE ARCHITECTS

GROUP LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 79 Sullivan St. #5C, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE MANHATTAN

HIGH BROW, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 325 W.38 St. #705, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

FRAN & SAL’S ARTI-CHOKE ON MACDOU-

GAL, LLC.

Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/23/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 325 East 14th Street, Apartments 3 & 4, New York, New York 10003. Purpose: For any law-ful purpose.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BEYOND ARCH, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/09/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been des-ignated 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: Beyond Arch LLC, 45 Overlook Ter-race 6F, New York, NY 10033. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SAMMY MUSIC

COMPANY, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BLDG 522 FULTON

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/10/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Bldg Management Co., Inc., 417 5th Ave, 4th Fl, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CE EASTERN

PARKWAY, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/9/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/6/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Cheshire Group, LLC, 826 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10003. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any and all lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/6-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION WANDERING MINSTREL

LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 10/25/10. Off. loc. in NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to: David Kaminsky & Assoc, 325 Broadway # 504, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful purpose, managed by members.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GATE GLOBAL, LLC.

Arts of Org fi led with the Secy of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/6/10. Offi ce location:NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to the principal business address: 1212 6th Ave, Ste 803 NY,NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF LION ARC CAPI-

TAL LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/10. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/06/07. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 499 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, LLP, Attn: William L. Bricker, Jr., 101 Park Ave., NY, NY 10178. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State, DE, Jeffrey W. Bullock, 401 Federal St., #3, Dover, DE 19901-3639. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GRIFFIN 303

EAST LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 09/28/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Eisenberg Tanchum & Levy, 675 Third Ave, Ste. 2900, NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF URIU LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/10. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1556 Third Ave., #201C, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOWARD P. MAGA-

LIFF, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/02/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 138 Shadow Lake Road, Ridgefi eld, CT 06877. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EPISODE 80 LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/24/10 Offi ce 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, 74 Perry Street #4F NY NY 10014. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

SOHO 2108 LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/16/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jajan, PLLC 110 Wall St, 11th Floor NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

BLUE HILL DESIGN STU-DIO, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/22/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 315 West End Ave Apt 3B NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF AMMARA Y, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/22/10. Offi ce 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: Ammara Y, LLC, 350 East 79th Street, #41A, New York NY 10075. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

1661 FIRST AVE LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), fi led with the Sec of State of NY on 12/1/10. NY Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any pro-cess against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, c/o Mr. Vincent Ventura, 1586 First Ave., NY, NY 10028. General Purposes.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CIVIC GW LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: c/o Civic Builders, 304 Hudson St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF GI TENANT LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/16/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. loc.: c/o GxG Management LLC – Series A, 540 Madison Ave., Ste. 21A, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Delaware Corporate Services Inc., 1220 N. Market St., Ste. 850, Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful purposes permit-ted by applicable law.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF PROCIBO, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/22/10. Office location: New York County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Cor-porate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VIJISANS HOLDINGS,

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 62 W. 47th St., Ste. 802, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF GORDON

BROTHERS GROUP, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 11/26/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/1998. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: 101 Huntington Ave., 10th Fl., Boston, MA 02199. DE address of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF VIII/H2 - 1414

HOLDINGS, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/20/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Put-nam Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. LLC formed in DE on 12/15/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Cor-poration System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF EULAV SECURI-

TIES LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/23/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/20/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: Value Line, Inc., 220 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Howard Brecher, Esq. Regd. agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 1/13-2/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SPECIAL INSPEC-TIONS OF NYC, LLC.

Arts of Org fi led with the Secy of State of NY(SSNY) on 11/22/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 118 West 18th St., New York, NY 10011. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF RHOP, L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 01/03/11. Princ. offi ce of LP: c/o Reunion Hos-pitality Trust, Inc., 1370 Ave. of the Americas, 28th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF D2A2 INVESTMENT

GROUP, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/03/11. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 17 E. 82nd St., NY, NY 10028. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WHAT MOVES YOU?

LLC.

Arts. of Org. was fi led with SSNY on 6/9/10. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 301 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, #11A, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: all lawful activities.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ADVECT CAPI-

TAL, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/16/10. Princ. offi ce of LLC: c/o Advect Group, LLC, 405 Lexington Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10174. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. offi ce. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901-3639. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EUREKAFACTS LLC.

Arts of Org fi led with the Secy of State of NY(SSNY) on 12/23/10. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process against the LLC is to: EurekaFacts LLC, 451 Hungerford Dr, #515, Rock-ville, MD 20850. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

P U B L I C N O T I C E S

22 Januar y 20 - 26, 2011

P U B L I C N O T I C E SNOTICE OF FORMATION

OF JSIGNAL LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/21/10. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 110 Third Ave., Apt. 21C, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that a license, number 1250762 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant under Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 9 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 for premises consumption. EDO SUSHI & GRILL INC.

Vil 1/20-1/27/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF MP HUTCH, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/21/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 545 5th Ave., Ste. 600, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC: HEDGEFORUM OZF, LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State: 11/19/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 11/15/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of foreign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: c/o Citi Private Advisory, LLC, 666 5th Ave., Fl. 12B, NY, NY 10103. Addr. of LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901 Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF JLP DEFENSIVE

CREDIT FUND LP.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/13/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 420 Lexing-ton Ave., Ste. 2225, NY, NY 10170. DE address of LP: Stel-lar Corporate Services LLC, 3500 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GT OPERATING COM-

PANY LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/14/10. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Union Square Hospitality, 24-32 Union Square E., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF DESIGN HOLD-

INGS COMPANY LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/10. Fictitious name in NY State: Design Holdings Company (Delaware) LLC. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/10. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CPCP I Man-agement LLC, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10019, Attn: R. Adam Smith. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any and all lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NAME OF FOR. LLC:

HEDGEFORUM ROC,

LLC.

App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. of State 8/24/10. Jurisd. and date of org.: DE 8/4/10. Cty off. loc.: NY Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of for-eign LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of process to: c/o Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC, 55 E. 59th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Addr. of LLC in DE is: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901 Auth. offi cer in DE where Cert. of Form. fi led: DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF 160 FIFTH LEASE

PARTNERS LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/18/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: RFR Holding LLC, 390 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022, Attn: Tom Lavin. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that license number 1251016 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 31 West 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 for on-premises consump-tion. MX4 CORPORATION d/b/a Tanti Baci Caffe

Vil 1/20-1/27/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CUMBERLAND

EAT LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 1/6/11. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/5/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF SI POINTE

PARTNERS LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept.

of State on 12/15/10. Offi ce

location: NY County. LLC

formed in DE on 4/30/10.

NY Sec. of State designated

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served and shall mail pro-

cess to: c/o CT Corporation

System, 111 8th Ave., NY,

NY 10011, regd. agent upon

whom process may be

served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o

The Corporation Trust Co.,

1209 Orange St., Wilming-

ton, DE 19801. Cert. of Form.

fi led with DE Sec. of State,

401 Federal St., Dover, DE

19901. Purpose: any lawful

activity.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

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against planning up to 70 percent afford-able housing on the site. The Economic Development Corporation has maintained that the “project must pay for itself,” that the num-ber of low- and moderate-income families able to live on this site is hostage to what the market can pay for. In this way, the city’s argument and the opposition’s arguments are mutually reinforcing, but both are disingenuous.

We at GOLES know that there is no short-age of subsidy for this project. In fact, the opposite is true: There is abundant subsidy and fi nancing available at the city level, at the state level, at the federal level and even in private-sector funds for the development of low- and moderate-income housing. Just a few examples: • There are at least $400 million in New York City’s Housing Development Corporation’s coffers specifi cally earmarked for bonds to sub-sidize the development and maintenance of affordable housing. The money is earmarked through 2013.

• The city’s Housing Trust Fund (NYCHTF) can subsidize up to $50,000 per unit — and encourages a greater proportion of low-income units than the bare minimum of 20 percent to reach this level of subsidy.

• The city’s Low-Income Affordable Marketplace Program (LAMP) has subsi-dized thousands of units throughout the fi ve boroughs in recent years.

• The City Council’s general fund is fre-quently used to fi nance less worthy projects — for example, this year’s gift of $2.7 mil-lion to the luxury gym Basketball City now attempting to open its doors on public land at Montgomery St. and the F.D.R. Surely, the Council could fi nd some funds to save the Lower East Side.

• Governor Cuomo has just proposed a $100 million competitive grant program for communities developing new models in hous-ing and transportation — SPURA above the Essex-Delancey subway station would be an excellent contender.

• $12 million remains in the Lower Manhtattan Development Corporation’s affordable housing fund.

• The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust recently invested $90 million to maintain the affordability of Lands End II, a Section 8 development on Cherry St. — and also poured millions of fi nancing into the Seward Park Co-operative itself.

• Section 202 funds for the construction of senior housing remain abundant at the federal level.

• Bank of America, which owes the American working class for plunging us into this economic crisis, has up to $1 trillion avail-able for the fi nancing of low- and moderate-income housing through 2018.

• This is not to mention the subsidy that might be available if the project were also conceived as a workforce program to train unemployed Lower East Siders in the building trades — the ideal intersection of economic and housing justice, and a unique avenue for subsidy. Workers employed by the Works Progress Administration built First Houses

(between E. Second and Third Sts. and Avenue A and First Ave.) on just such a model in the depths of the Great Depression. First Houses was the fi rst public housing built in New York City, and the nation.

There is no shortage of subsidy — and, indeed, justice and rational planning on this site requires it. For the project to even qualify for many of these funds, Community Board 3 must plan an affordable SPURA.

Because this site has languished for more than four decades, because the Lower East Side’s very existence as a working-class com-munity is imperiled, because of the shameful legacy of federally funded and city-executed urban renewal, and because this is the heart of the most famous immigrant neighborhood in the world — SPURA warrants deep subsidy from every level of government and every pri-vately administered affordable housing trust.

It is not, as the city argues, that housing subsidies are best spent in Brownsville because that is where they are needed most. It is rather that housing subsidies are needed equally on the Lower East Side and in Brownsville, per-haps for different reasons, but to the same end: to ensure that working-class people can live decently in New York City.

The city’s agencies can do better on sub-sidies, and must, because this neighborhood’s housing crisis only gets worse as we continue to bleed rent-stabilized units and other forms of affordable housing. Developing SPURA to benefi t working and moderate-income families is a crucial fi rst step in addressing the Lower East Side’s housing crisis — a crisis that drags us all down and takes too much rent money out of all of our pockets.

On Monday, the community board’s com-mittee must weigh these facts. But it also must decide who needs SPURA more: those who’ve benefi ted from the housing boom and the gentrifi cation of this neighborhood, or those who’ve suffered from it.

GOLES members have been at every Community Board 3 committee meeting for the last 18 months. We’ve organized unprec-edented community meetings, taking city-plan-ning tools developed for C.B. 3, translating them into Spanish and Chinese and asking the people who live closest to or on the site what should rise at SPURA.

The result was 93 percent affordable hous-ing, mostly small mom-and-pop stores, schools and living-wage jobs. The current guidelines cut in just the opposite direction — even threatening to relocate or demolish the Essex St. Market.

For us, 70 percent affordable housing is already a compromise. We are prepared to con-sider any reasonable counteroffer, but we will not betray our community. This is not a game. This is about the lives of real people, and the life of the Lower East Side.

The history since 1967 of racial and class discrimination on the site and in the blocks surrounding must be made an aberration. The community board’s vote, whenever it is held, can do just that.

Feingold is community organizer, Land-Use Committee of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)

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