BY ALINE REYNOLDS A hotly debated business improve-

ment district for Soho is close to materializing. The proposal, approved by the City Planning Commission last week, now only awaits approval by the City Council.

But many Soho residents vehement-ly oppose a business improvement dis-trict, or BID, contending that it will lead to more crowds in an area that is already jampacked with tourists and shoppers from elsewhere in the city.

The BID, which would extend between Canal and East Houston Sts. along Broadway, would provide sanita-

tion; public safety and visitor services; marketing, promotion and advertising; holiday lighting; and streetscape and storefront improvements.

“Some people look at this and say, ‘It’s a BID — all you want to do is make the neighborhood more crowded, and have more tourists coming here,’ ” said Brian Steinwurtzel, co-chairper-son of the BID’s steering committee, formed in June 2009 to create the BID proposal.

“We’re not saying we’re only for that,” he continued. “What we’re say-ing is there are already all these stores and traffi c. We have to fi gure out a

way to deal with it, and we think the BID is the best and proven way to deal with it.”

If the BID wins approval, commer-cial property owners and residents in mixed-use commercial co-op buildings will have to pitch in around $5,000 per year toward the services, according to Steinwurtzel. All other residents, meanwhile, will have to contribute a token fee of $1 per year.

The planned district was approved unanimously by City Planning on Jan. 26. The City Council wouldn’t disclose

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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Calling Hudson Square’s

zoning “outmoded,” Trinity Real Estate wants to rezone a major portion of the dis-trict to allow residential use.

With the change, Trinity expects 3,000 to 3,500 new residential apartments would be added to the neighbor-hood — not counting the district’s few existing legal residential units.

The plan’s centerpiece is a new, 429-foot-tall, residen-tial tower at Duarte Square, on property owned by Trinity.

Helping alleviate local school overcrowding, a 420-seat, K-to-5 public school would be included in the tower’s base. Trinity would build out the school’s raw space for the Department of Education.

Currently, residential use and schools are not allowed in Hudson Square’s M1-6 (manufacturing zoned) dis-trict. Neither are cultural uses currently permitted.

Tonight, Thursday, Trinity Real Estate will

Honi Klein leavingVillage Alliance;Kelley to lead BID BY ALBERT AMATEAU

Honi Klein, execu-tive director of the Village Alliance business improve-ment district since it was organized, is retiring next week after 18 years.

A passionate advocate for the Village as a residen-tial and commercial com-munity, she led the approv-al processes that resulted in the BID’s formation in November 1993, the $2.1 million streetscape renova-

tion of Eighth St. in 2001 to 2002, and the expansion of the BID’s boundaries in 2006.

A resident of Greenwich Village since she graduat-ed from Simmons College in Boston, Klein served until 2001 on Community Board 2, which covers the Greenwich Village area between 14th and Canal Sts. and between the Hudson

Trinity says it’stime for residential in Hudson Square

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NEW C.U. PRESI-DENT : Dr. Jamshed Bharucha, provost and senior vice president of Tufts University, was intro-duced on Tuesday to stu-dents, faculty and alumni of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art as the school’s 12th president starting July 1. Bharucha, introduced by Dr. Mark Epstein, chairperson of the Cooper Union board of trustees, spoke briefl y at the Feb. 8 convocation in the school’s Great Hall on Astor Place. Bharucha will succeed Dr. George Campbell Jr., who has been Cooper Union’s president for the past 11 years. The incoming presi-dent of the school has made a career of bridging arts and sci-ence with local and international engagement. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1978 from Vassar College, majoring in biopsychology, earned a master’s degree from Yale in 1979, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard in 1983. He also earned a diploma in violin — which he learned as a teenager in his native city of Mumbai, India — from Trinity College, London, in 1973. His research explores how the brain responds to music. He spent most of his academic career at Dartmouth, where he was a professor of psychol-ogy and brain science and became dean for social sciences and dean of arts and sciences and provost. He moved to Tufts in 2002 where as provost he oversaw seven schools and recruited deans and faculty that put the university among the forefront of international education.

NURSING-HOME CONDO CONVERSION: The 2007 sale of the old Village Nursing Home, at W. 12th and Hudson Sts., fi nally closed on Feb. 1 for $33.25 million, Paul J. Massey, of the Massey Knakal real estate fi rm announced last week. The new owner, FLANK, the architectural and development fi rm that converted the historic Washington Square Methodist Church on W. Fourth St. into residential lofts in 2006, plans to covert the former nursing home into 10 residential condos, according to the announcement. The original sale contract cleared the way for VillageCare, the nonprofi t operator of the Village Nursing Home since 1977, to build its new rehabilitation and nursing facility at 510

W. Houston St. The new facility opened last fall. “The fact that this transaction has stood the test of time and closed four years after the contract signing shows the strength of the New York City real estate market,” Massey said. The seven-story, elevator building, completed in 1905 as a hotel on the west side of Abingdon Square, was converted to nursing home use in 1958. It was renovated in 1981 when a penthouse was added, creating a total of 56,800 square feet, including a fi nished basement with an 11-foot ceiling. The conversion of the building, which is within the Greenwich Village Historic District, will create condo apartments of between 3,300 and 9,000 square feet, with ceiling heights between 9 and 15.5 ft. Massey Knakal, which arranged the sale, has closed on 2,500 deals in the New York metropolitan area since 2001, with an aggregate value of $12 billion.

HOME AT LAST: “I’m moving back to the neighbor-hood for the fourth time — I think it’s offi cially a record!” Jim Power, the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” told us this week, glad that he has, at long last, landed a unit in The Lee, the new supportive-housing building at East Houston and Pitt Sts. run by Common Ground. The LEED “Silver” energy-effi cient facility will house 262 residents, including adults with special needs, low-income working adults and young adults aging out of foster care and at risk of home-lessness. Power said “chronic homelessness” over the years has been his problem. His small, 10th-fl oor studio is 15 feet by 15 feet and overlooks Houston St. He’ll pay one-third of his income toward his rent. As part of the process, he had to get his permanent resident card from Homeland Security, and also, after 50 years, Power, who immigrated to New York from Ireland at age 12, is fi nally getting his citizenship. The “Mosaic Man” will have a roommate to keep him company — his longtime canine companion, Jesse Jane. “She’s the only dog in there, because they know she’s an offi cial service dog,” Power noted. “She helps me with my mobility and my stress.” He said he and Jesse

Jane should be moved in by Monday and ready for their photo-op. Some residents of The Lee are already in their apartments. Power’s relief at his living situation, however, pales in comparison to his passion over the city’s proposed closing of Astor Place between Fourth Ave. and Lafayette St., which he fears will decimate his array of tile-mosaic street lampposts and planters festooning the intersection. “I’m asking that Community Board 2 resign,” he declared, “because they thought that was a very good design — that’s ridiculous! This is still our neighborhood!” A key part of Power’s counterstrategy will be to create a special new mosaic zone. “The plan is simple,” he explained, “an inter-national fl ag on each lamppost, intended to establish this as an international neighborhood.” Decision-making power will then shift to, well, Power. “Will I run it?” he said. “Yes. Will I control it? Yes. Will I set policy? Yes… .” He’ll be cooking up his master plan at The Lee.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDSOn the morning of the second day of the

Chinese new year, community activists and politicians weren’t celebrating at a restau-rant or a park. Instead, they were huddled outside in the cold, announcing a proposed new state law intended to streamline the intercity bus pickup and drop-off system in Chinatown and around the city.

The bill, if passed, would implement a citywide permit system for private buses in Chinatown — known informally as dragon buses — that currently chaotically pick up and unload passengers on city streets. The new requirement would mean safer condi-tions for pedestrians and result in fewer fi nes for bus drivers, according to proponents.

“Right now, the streets of Chinatown are like the Wild West,” said state Senator Daniel Squadron at a press conference last Friday at Canal and Allen Sts. in Chinatown.

Buses today, Squadron noted, can stop anywhere, double-park and continuously circle around blocks to avoid tickets, while sidewalks overfl ow with anxious passengers who often don’t know where they’re being picked up.

“The fact is,” Squadron said, “we love having low-cost buses. We love the fact that we have an industry that’s growing and that’s centered in the Chinatown community. But it has to grow and thrive in a way that works for the community.”

“Permits would allow the legitimate bus

companies to have a process they can depend on and that riders can depend on,” said City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who also spoke at the press event.

“Both from a customer point of view and the provider point of view, you want a certain reliability,” echoed Wellington Chen, execu-tive director of the Chinatown Partnership. Bus drivers, he said, would prefer to have a dependable way of dropping off passengers than risk paying fi nes.

At a Chinese New Year celebration in Sara D. Roosevelt Park last Thursday, a man asked Chen if he knew where a bus coming into the city would drop off his relative.

“I didn’t know, and he didn’t have a cell phone,” Chen said of the confused man.

The new regulations would also tighten the reins on bus companies that break traf-fi c laws, according to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Apart from issuing permits to the companies and designating spaces for pickups and drop-offs, the law, Silver said, would “hold the bus operators accountable for their actions, including fi nes for violat-ing these regulations.”

The permit would cost the bus com-panies a maximum of $275 annually. The elected offi cials purposely kept the fee low, they said, so companies wouldn’t have to adjust ticket prices in order to afford per-mits.

The politicians didn’t specify a time-line for the bill, but said they would like it passed “as quickly as possible.” Chin said she’s confi dent the City Council will approve the bill, since Council Speaker Christine Quinn is very supportive of it.

Oversight of intercity, long-distance buses has been a priority for Community Board 3 for several years, according to David Crane, chairperson of the board’s Transportation Committee. Recently, more and more Chinatown residents have expressed concerns to the board about con-gestion, pollution and safety surrounding

the frenzied bus system. “The bus companies need regulations

that provide ways for them to comply with the law, to operate safely and coexist on our congested streets,” said Crane.

Eastern Coach, a bus company that shuttles passengers between New York, Washington and Philadelphia, accrues about $30,000 in parking fi nes each year from idling or parking illegally.

“Now, we have no space on the street,” said David Wang, Eastern Coach’s presi-dent, of the lack of designated, legal pickup and drop-off spots.

The company’s bus drivers frantically scramble to avoid the traffi c police, accord-ing to Wang, causing a precarious situation for pedestrians.

“When the drivers see the cops, they get so scared, they try to pull out,” some-times even during passenger pickups, Wang said.

Police tend to issue parking tickets arbi-trarily, according to Jimmy Cheng, presi-dent of the United Fujianese American Association, a nationwide nonprofi t orga-nization based on East Broadway that has garnered community support for the bus law in the past few years.

Wilson Yau, who owns a discount store in Chinatown, agreed that today’s unregu-lated system is not working, either for pas-sengers or the bus companies.

“If the government controls the spots, gives the license and separates the buses, they’re much easier to control,” he said.

Passengers now, he added, have a hard time deciphering the street signs that indi-cate which buses stop at a given stop.

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a force of nature,” said Lynne Brown, New York University senior vice president and executive committee member of the Village Alliance board of directors. “As a founder of Village Alliance and its engine for almost 20 years, Honi has helped transform and revive the Eighth St./St. Mark’s Place corridor and now the University Place corridor, and she has always been ready for the next idea.”

“Honi Klein has been very committed to the Village and the Village Alliance and she will be missed,” said Bill Abramson, of Buchbinder & Warren and a member of the Alliance’s board of directors. “We’re now look-ing forward to a new era and new leadership with a fresh perspective on the challenges that face Eighth St. today,” Abramson added.

The new executive head of the BID will be William Kelley, for the past three years director of economic development of the Union Square Partnership, the BID that cen-ters on Union Square Park and 14th St.

“The Village Alliance has been the stan-dard bearer for the Eighth St. and Central Village business community for nearly 20 years,” said Kelley, who takes over on Mon., Feb. 14. “I am honored to join the team and eager to build on that rich history to help take the organization to the next level.”

Klein told this newspaper she would con-tinue to participate in issues that affect the neighborhood that she has always loved.

“I came to the Village right out of col-lege,” she recalled. “It’s the only place I ever wanted to live.”

She worked as a fashion consultant for Abraham & Straus, a major department store in Brooklyn, and then became a fash-ion journalist with Women’s Wear Daily and later with McCall’s magazine. Her concern

about commercial and residential conditions in the neighborhood prompted her to apply for a community board seat, which Carol Greitzer, then councilmember for the dis-trict, appointed her to in 1985.

Klein focused on Eighth St. after the late Norman Buchbinder, a major property owner on the street, called a meeting of mer-chants and residents in 1990 to consider problems that included graffi ti and commer-cial vacancies.

“I told Norman I would work one day a week as a consultant to organize mer-chants and property owners,” she said. Klein shepherded the group through the process that led to the creation of the Village Alliance BID in 1993.

Graffiti was the first problem that Klein tackled; she called on the Bowery Mission, which allowed its clients to work on scrubbing street furniture and buildings.

Klein then undertook an Eighth St. market study in which merchants indi-cated that the sidewalks were too narrow. She helped secure a $2.1 million federal grant for a new streetscape.

“I had 11 public hearings on the design and it took two years,” she recalled. The sidewalks were widened, new historic lamp-posts were installed and, Klein noted, “We still maintained two lanes of traffi c, and parking on both sides of the street.”

For the past eight years, the Alliance has conducted the Taste of the Village event in Washington Square Park, and over the years, the Alliance has donat-ed more that $350,000 to the park’s improvement.

“People ask what the connection is between the BID and the park,” Klein said. “It’s really the only public destination in the

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Village, and it’s just across the street from the BID on Fifth Ave.,” she explained.

Klein also guided the expansion of the BID along the University Place corridor, which became official in November 2006. Now, a total of more than 44 blocks are included along University Place between Eighth and 13th Sts., along Eighth St. and St. Mark’s Place between Sixth Ave. and Second Ave., and along Sixth Ave. between W. Fourth and W. 13th Sts.

The area’s next major project is the city’s $6.5 million redesign of Astor Place and Cooper Square, the northern part of which is within the BID’s eastern end.

“Honi is a hard act to follow,” said Shirley Secunda, a public member of the

Alliance board of directors. “She’s done a wonderful job and we were surprised in November when she announced her retirement. But we’ve had a few months to search for someone able to replace her,” said Secunda, who is also head of the Community Board 2 Transportation Committee.

Kelley, a former member of Community Board 4, which covers Chelsea, holds a master’s of urban planning degree from New York University.

“We are thrilled that William is bring-ing his extraordinary talent and energy to the Village Alliance as our new executive director,” said Martin Dressner, president of the Alliance board of directors. “We’re confident that under his leadership, the Village business community will continue to flourish and achieve great success.”

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a tentative timeline for its vote. In a report, City Planning recommended

that the Soho BID include a residential reimbursement plan that would compensate co-op residents for the annual fees. Co-op residents are legally required to pay the same sum toward a BID that commercial property owners do, according to city Department of Finance regulations.

This co-op residents’ fee was a chief reason why Community Board 2 rejected the proposal. The board’s January resolu-tion states, “There is no mechanism in place to ensure that all residential owners not be assessed more than $1 annually, as is custom in all BID’s in New York City.”

Another point of contention is the more than $50,000 slated for visitor services and marketing of the district. In assessing residents’ concerns, City Planning advised the BID’s steering committee to specify the intended use of the money toward these services.

“Specifi cally,” Planning’s report states, “this plan should expressly state that funds are included for providing signage and other way-fi nding tools for identifying the location of businesses, such as a logo and map, as well as providing information to the public about the unique historical character of the district.”

Steinwurtzel said the organization is com-mitted to reimbursing all Broadway co-op residents their $5,000 fees.

“It’s not our intention to charge anything to the residents,” he said. The Soho BID would become the fi rst of all 64 BID’s in the city to offer a reimbursement plan to co-op dwellers, according to the city’s Department of Small Business Services.

The BID, Steinwurtzel noted, should act as an advocate for all stakeholders in Soho. The committee has devoted $250,000 to launching it.

He said he plans to continue to meet with area residents to get their input and will heed their concerns. He also hopes some of them will join the BID’s board, which cur-rently mostly consists of landlords, with just two residents.

“A BID is a place where all the opinions have to be respected, worked on together and agreed on,” Steinwurtzel said. His fam-ily has owned real estate on Broadway in the neighborhood since the early 1980’s.

Having a centralized voice for the com-munity could be very advantageous, accord-ing to John Pasquale, a member of the BID’s steering committee who owns several prop-erties in Soho.

“It’s important to have a common com-pany that’s going to stay on top of all these concerns,” he said.

Many other Soho landlords, and even residents, apparently agree with Pasquale. Of the 45 percent of those that responded to a survey conducted by the steering com-mittee and overseen by the city, according to Steinwurtzel, more than 90 percent of resi-dents favored the BID, and some 80 percent of all survey respondents supported it.

Local residents opposed to the BID,

however, remain convinced it will only serve Broadway’s businesses, and they resent the authority the BID would have in community-wide decisions.

“The main issue is putting the real estate interests in control of our lives,” said Sally Lindsay, who lives in a 12-story loft build-

ing at 491 Broadway. “What if I missed the meeting where they decided to put a kiosk in front of my door?” she asked. “We just don’t want that kind of control.”

Lindsay, who has lived in Soho since 1971, has watched the neighborhood evolve from a desolate area to what she calls a “magnifi cent shopping mall.”

“We don’t want more tourists, Christmas decorators or shoppers,” she said. “It’s the hottest district in New York. It doesn’t need a BID.”

“It’s out of control already,” echoed Peter, a Broadway loft resident, declining to give his last name due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Upward of 100 community members opposed to the BID, including Lindsay,

wrote letters to Community Board 2, City Planning and City Councilmember Margaret Chin. Many of them requested that the BID proposal be rescinded altogether.

As a result, in November, C.B. 2 urged the BID steering committee to withdraw the proposal, referring to “overwhelming” oppo-sition from residents.

The board’s resolution states many resi-dents’ concerns that the BID would only exacerbate overcrowding on Broadway, and that its stated mission to increase local tourism would negatively impact residents’ quality of life:

“The BID applicants have failed to con-vince the public of the necessity of a new busi-ness improvement district for Soho, which is a fl ashpoint for traffi c and pedestrian conges-tion,” the board’s resolution states.

The BID is “self-defeating,” in that it could endanger the very businesses it hopes to promote, according to Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance. More tour-ists would translate into increased sales, he argued, which could lead to landlords hiking business owners’ rents, eventually forcing them out of the neighborhood.

“This proposal is not a BID — this is a landlord’s improvement district,” Sweeney said. “It’s a pretense to set up a quasi-govern-mental agency within Soho that would be det-rimental to the residents and the businesses.”

BID fees incurred by property owners, he added, would also be passed onto tenants in the form of increased rents.

Steinwurtzel, however, said additional tenant payments would be insignifi cant.

“The majority of any taxes passed along

to tenants will be minor amounts,” he said, “and will only be temporary until their leases expire, since any new lease will be reset to market rates.”

As for tourism, Steinwurtzel assured that the majority of the marketing budget would go toward creating signage for the tourists that are already there — not toward adver-tising or other means to attract more out-of-towners. Retailers along Broadway have complained to the steering committee that they often feel like tour guides to customers who easily get lost amid Soho’s streets.

“Soho already has a tremendous amount of tourists,” Steinwurtzel said. “It’s more about managing those people, and the traffi c they create.”

Improving sanitation for the area — purportedly one of the BID’s main services — is something most community members support. The Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (ACE), which has hired sanitation workers to clean up Broadway and Soho’s side streets daily since the early 1990’s, will discontinue its service at the end of June due to funding shortages.

“I think everybody is concerned about sanitation,” said Councilmember Chin. “We don’t want the streets to go back to what they were before, with garbage spilling out of garbage cans, and wind blowing it all over. Whether or not you need a BID to supervise the cleaning, though, is up for debate.”

Some people in the neighborhood, how-ever, feel there are alternatives to a BID to

Tired of being ‘malled,’ residents reject Soho BID;

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Ricardo James, right, a salesperson at Boys and Chicks on Broadway, said he’s tired of giving visitors — like the couple above — directions all the time, and would welcome a Soho BID providing such services.

‘It’s a pretense to set up a quasi-governmental agency within Soho.’

Sean Sweeney

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get similar services, such as encouraging local retailers to voluntarily clean their sidewalks.

“The pretense of street cleaning is a sham,” declared Sweeney. “What this intends to do is bring more tourists into Soho.”

Forming a BID in order to keep Broadway dirt- and litter-free, Lindsay echoed, is “like building a chandelier to fi x a light bulb that’s out.”

“The city is supposed to clean the streets,” she said. “If they don’t clean them enough, the stores will have to get somebody on their own to clean.”

Property owners and tenants are required by city law to clean the sidewalks in front of their lots, though sources say this is not suf-fi cient to keep the streets devoid of garbage.

“They don’t understand that there’s more to it than sweeping up in front of your store,” said Jim Martin, executive director of ACE. Countless Soho visitors, he said, stroll along Broadway each weekend, many throw-ing trash onto the streets or in the trash bins, which quickly overfl ow. The city is solely responsible for collecting the trash bags.

“If those garbage cans aren’t turned and bagged,” Martin said, “you’re going to have a disaster.” The garbage problem gets even worse during Fashion’s Night Out and other special outdoor events. (City Planning dis-couraged the BID’s organizing of such large

public events in the neighborhood to avoid crowds and litter.)

Several BID opponents, mainly resi-dents, attended the steering committee’s Jan. 19 meeting to voice their concerns and make suggestions.

“It was a very good meeting,” said Chin, who has been fi ghting for more resident feedback to be heard on the BID. “A lot of people from the area came and expressed their interests.”

In a phone interview last week, Chin said that she would not support the BID until she sees more resident involvement in the modifi ed plan.

The councilmember said she looks for-ward to examining the fi nal proposal.

“We want to make sure the residents’ concerns are addressed, and that they will have a say,” she said.

The BID steering committee will hold its next meeting at Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 32 Prince St., on Tues., Feb. 22, to “fi nalize the district plan according to everyone’s sat-isfaction,” according to Steinwurtzel, who is holding out hope that, the more Soho resi-dents learn about the BID, the more they’ll realize its benefi ts.

“When you don’t know what something is, you get a little worried,” he said. “It’s not our intention to make the neighborhood worse. We’re trying to make it better. We’re trying to make this work for everyone in the community.”

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BY WICKHAM BOYLEAt 10 minutes to 10 on Monday morning

Feb. 7, a lone robber came into the Capital One Bank branch at Sixth Ave. at W. Fourth St. In the bank at the time was Efrain Aquino Jr., known as Junior to his clients. For 16 years Efrain has managed the Two Boots Pizza at 75 Greenwich Ave., and he makes this money run regularly to deposit the weekend cash and get coins for the next few days.

This past Monday was no different. Aquino waited in line.

“There were very few customers in the bank, and only one teller,” he recalled. “When I got to the head of the line, the teller asked the man behind me what he wanted and he responded, ‘A roll of quarters.’ She had already seen that I required 846 bucks in coins in a variety of forms. I had it all written out on slips of paper. The teller said she had no coins and left for the vault.”

Aquino went on excitedly, “I was at the head of the line with my cash on the teller’s desk when a guy dressed all in black bursts in holding his hand inside his shirt. It looked like a gun sticking out. I thought at fi rst he was another crazy person, until he started yelling for everyone to lie down. Then I saw he meant business. All the back-offi ce people lay down, and I did too.”

“He kept screamin’, ‘Where’s the f---ing money? Where’s the f---ing money?’ and get-ting more agitated because there was none

and no teller. When he walked over to me, I was worried he would shoot me. Then I said to him, ‘Take whatever you want from me, take my money on the counter.’”

In an incredible, cool moment, Aquino directed the robber to take his deposit and he did. But the robber dropped the money and began yelling at everyone again until he gathered the cash together and ran out

the door.Aquino explained, “I thought if he didn’t

get any money he would turn violent on all of us out of frustration, and so I said, Take anything.”

Initially, for his cool head, Aquino was told by the bank management that because he hadn’t offi cially deposited the money Capital One Bank was not responsible. Capital One,

of course, is the bank whose credit card profi ts rose on a commercial showing other banks to be rapacious Visigoths ready to pick people’s wallets, while the benign Capital One was ready with low fees and a helping hand.

Capital One Financial Corp. posted fourth-quarter profi ts that leaped 85 per-cent. The Virginia-based bank posted net income of $697 million for the last three months. The biggest improvement came in its well-advertised credit card segment, from which the company derives about a third of its earnings.

Two Boots Pizza, a local hangout featur-ing a pizza cuisine fusion of two geographic boots, Italy and Louisiana, doesn’t have profi ts anywhere nearly as stratospheric as Capital One. A call to the Capital One corporate headquarters assured a reporter that rather than the answer given Aquino after the robbery, that, in fact, the bank was reconsidering its response.

Speaking the day after the robbery, Aquino said the pizza shop’s accountant received a phone call from the bank asking for the amount that had been taken from the teller’s ledge. Aquino said it’s hard times that would make a man come into a bank in broad daylight and try to make off with a little money. It’s heartening to see that some-one who had been victimized can share in the perpetrator’s plight, and more heartening that a major fi nancial institution can quickly decide to do the right thing.

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Neighbor saved her

Fire in a 10th-fl oor apartment at 77 Columbia St. in Masaryk Towers on Wednesday morning Feb. 2 critically injured a 97-year-old woman who was pulled from the blaze by a neighbor.

The neighbor, Wanda Camacho, 53, opened her door around 5:30 a.m. to fi nd smoke pouring into the hall from the apart-ment of her neighbor, Wei Chee Hu, who was sitting immobile at a coffee table. Camacho dragged Hu out of the fi re and into her own apartment, where they remained until fi re-fi ghters arrived.

Hu was taken to the burn center of New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition. Camacho was treated for smoke inhalation at Beth Israel Hospital, and 11 other residents of the fl oor were treated for minor injuries.

Subway attack

An off-duty woman M.T.A. worker was attacked in the East Broadway F train station at 6:15 p.m. Fri., Feb. 4, and knocked onto the tracks by a deranged man who fought with a man who had come to her rescue. The attacker chased the victim, Sabrina Scott, around the station, repeatedly asking, “Are you scared of me?” and grappled with the man who responded to her cries for help, according to reports. Scott, however, was knocked onto the tracks during the fracas, but her rescuer managed to bring her back onto the platform. The deranged man fl ed, and the rescuer, described as a tall black man wearing headphones and a baseball cap, also disappeared. Scott had head injuries but was reported in stable condition.

Dog dies in boat fi re

Fire broke out in a 46-foot catamaran berthed at Pier 59 of Chelsea Piers at W. 17th St. around 2:30 a.m. Fri., Feb. 4, injur-ing the owner, who escaped with his life. The fi re spread to an adjacent boat in the Pier 59 marina but no one was injured. The injured owner of the catamaran, Mark Stoss,

42, was taken to Bellevue Hospital with lung injuries from the heat. He was unable to save his 4-year-old German shepherd, Chloe, who perished in the fi re. A month ago, a police scuba diver had rescued the animal after she had fallen into the water.

Firefi ghters brought the fi re under con-trol around 4:30 a.m. but the catamaran sank and the adjacent boat was destroyed in the fi re. A space heater on the catamaran was cited as a possible cause of the fi re.

D.W.I. on F.D.R.

Police charged a motorist with driving while intoxicated after a two-car accident on the southbound F.D.R. Drive at Clinton St. around 7:10 a.m. Sun., Feb. 6. The suspect, Rodney Gripper, 43, of the Bronx, was iden-tifi ed as an off-duty Transit employee. He was freed on his own recognizance pending an April 6 court appearance.

Busted for burglaries

Surveillance tapes at a W. 26th St. res-taurant and at a building at 20th St. at 10th Ave. led to the arrest on Feb. 1 of William Cullen, 32, on charges of burglary. The tape from Pars Restaurant, 249 W. 26th St., between Seventh and Eighth Aves., showed a man matching Cullen’s description remov-ing money from a cash register around 4:45 a.m. Jan. 14, according to the charges. A surveillance tape from the lobby of 460 W. 20th St. at 10th Ave. showed a man match-ing Cullen’s description forcing the door and entering the lobby of the building and leaving a short time later with a coat in his hands, according to the charges fi led with the Manhattan district attorney. Police said Cullen also admitted to taking a laptop com-puter and keys from the closet.

Robbers try boutique

Police arrested one of two men who grabbed the woman working at the Emile Lafaurie boutique, at 199 Prince St., around 4 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 2, and tried to drag her

to the basement and bind her hands. Albert Anderson, 48, was charged with robbery, but his accomplice, identifi ed as Anthony Gilman, 49, escaped, police said.

Foils phone snatch

A Queens man, 58, was walking on Canal St. between Wooster and Greene Sts. around 1 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 3, when a stranger punched him in the chest and grabbed his cell phone from his coat pocket. The victim grabbed the phone back and police grabbed the suspect, Rumako Manwaring, 28, and charged him with robbery.

CD’s hard sell

Three strangers stopped a man, 19, on Broadway in Soho around 4 p.m. Sun., Feb. 6, and sold him two CD’s for $100, police said. The strangers followed the customer to the corner of Spring and Thompson Sts. and shouted, “Hey, take our phone number and let us know how you like the CD’s.” When the customer took out his cell phone, one of the trio grabbed it and another told him, “Give me your wallet. I have a knife and I’ll poke you.” The three fl ed with the victim’s cell phone and his wallet with $2,000 in cash, police said.

Gallery theft

Two men walked into Pom Gallery, 133 Greene St., around 3:25 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5, and after one of them engaged the attendant with questions, both walked out. The atten-dant told police that he discovered his digital camera had been stolen from his desk.

Rabbits hole entered

A woman working at Rabbits Cafe, 142 Sullivan St., told police she was in the rear of the place around 11:50 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5, after it was closed and spotted a man exiting. She discovered that her handbag, which she had left on a counter in the front, had been stolen.

Wallet was gone

A woman told police that she discovered her wallet, containing her Taiwan passport, $170 in cash and credit cards, was gone from her backpack when she emerged from the Prince St. subway station at Broadway around 2:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5. The victim, 43, said she had bought a MetroCard with cash from the wallet a short time earlier.

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BY JERRY TALLMERIn the fall of 1988, Crystal Field, the dyna-

mo at the center of First Avenue’s Theater for the New City, begged me to come see a play there called “Heathen Valley” by a writer with the wonderful name of Romulus Linney — or more exactly, Romulus Zachariah Linney IV.

I thought, “What the hell, hillbilly drama,” but I went. There were a lot of hillbillies in it, sure enough, but also — and interestingly — an anti-establishment, crusading, 19th-century Episcopal bishop of North Carolina who is determined to convert the rough-hewn

populace of a forgotten pocket of Appalachia (Linney’s boyhood territory) to belief in the Good Word.

Some three years later I went to James Houghton’s Signature Theater on West 42nd Street to see a truly fascinating play by Romulus Limney called “The Sorrows of Frederick,” starring Austen Pendleton (won-derfully) as a half-tyrannical, half-humane, and altogether most oddly poetic Frederick II, king of Prussia in the 18th century.

That was 1991. Only now, 20 years later and Romulus Linney three weeks cold in the ground — January 15, 2011, of cancer, age 80 — do I suddenly see Linney’s Frederick II as, among other things, a doppelganger for the larger-than-life good and bad persona of, yes, none other than our own Lyndon Baines Johnson.

You think I’m crazy? Well, Romulus Linney, not only a writer and playwright, but for many years a teacher of writing at Columbia, Princeton, Hunter, Brooklyn College and many another fount of learning, was one of the most cultured and cross-cultured men you might ever want to meet. His peers — the men and women he drew on, or dug into, or adapted from, or transformed, or multiplied by some other person or per-

sons — were the truest of artists: Chekhov, Strindberg, Dickens, Wilde, Tolstoy, Anna Akhmatova, plus maybe an ax murderer here or there just for salting, along with the Vietnam War.

He was an elegant man, but not too ele-gant. He was a diffi dent man but not too dif-fi dent. I only learned that Laura Linney was his daughter, not when he and I fi rst talked but when I saw it in some newspaper some-where. (On the other hand, I interviewed her — at the brilliant far Off Off Broadway start of her career years ago, and she didn’t men-tion her father either. More recently, when the Signature honored playwright Linney with a lifetime award, actress Linney was lovingly on hand, as was the Edward Albee who has always drawn more spotlight than the no-less-deserving honoree).

Diffi dent? Crystal Field remembers the day of the big New York City blackout of 1977 when, in an elevator, in the candlelit dark, a fellow tenant suddenly said: “Hello. I’m a playwright” and stuck out his hand. What came out of that initiative was, fi rst, the 1978 production of a play called “Just Folks” — the folks being Jesus Christ and his family — followed by the commissioning by Theater for the New City of half a dozen plays by Romulus Linney and the production there of those and more by him, often directed by him, over the years from then to now.

Cultured and courteous, even courtly, Romulus less Remus may have been, but remember: The milk of the wolf ran through his veins.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUJohannes Somary, organist, composer, conductor and

founder of the Amor Artis Choral, who made his U.S. conducting debut in July 1960 with the Washington Square Music Festival, died Feb. 1 at age 75.

His most recent appearance at the annual music festi-val was in December 2008 at St. Joseph’s Church in the Village in a program that included his own compositions as well as works by Bach and Haydn.

“After his auspicious debut in Washington Square, Maestro Somary achieved a prominent international career as a conductor, choirmaster and organist,” said Peggy Friedman, the festival’s executive director. “He was a well-known and respected figure in the New York music scene. We will all miss him and his joyous approach to music.”

Johannes Somary also had a distinguished career as a teacher. He lectured at Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. In 1971, he began teaching at the Horace Mann School and served as chairperson of the school’s arts and music department.

“He was at the top of his game when he had a stroke on Dec. 27,” said his wife, Anne. “We kept hoping for a miracle but it was not to be.” Several hundred col-leagues, friends and former students attended his funeral Sat., Feb. 5, at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Ave. at 84th St. “He planned all the music and readings seven years ago,” his wife said of the service.

A native of Switzerland, Johannes Somary came to the U.S. at age 5 with his mother, brother and sister. His

father, Felix Somary, a banker and economic adviser, was working in Washington, D.C., at the time. His mother, May Demblin, was an Austrian countess.

“They left on the last ship to the U.S. from Spain in 1940. Bela Bartok happened to be on the same ship,” his wife said.

Johannes attended the Albany School, a prep school in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. from Yale in 1957. He continued at Yale to earn a master of music degree in 1959.

Somary founded Amor Artis in 1961, led its repertory of baroque music, and continued as the group’s musi-cal director. He led the U.S. premieres of little-known oratorios of George Frideric Handel, “Esther” in 1961, “Theodora” in 1963 and “Susanna” in 1965. He was also a guest conductor for the English Chamber Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony and London’s Royal Philharmonic. His participation in international music festivals includ-ed Dubrovnik, Madeira, Israel and Greece.

James Adler, a composer, pianist and longtime Village resident, recalled his friendship with Hannes, as friends knew him.

“I first met him when he conducted my AIDS requiem in 2000,” Adler said. “Being Swiss, he loved pastry, so we’d get together periodically and laugh, cry, schmooze and eat pastry. We were planning a joint recording ses-sion before he died. He wrote five bagatelles for piano for me. They are charming — fanciful, elegant fun,” Adler said.

Johannes Somary made more than 50 recordings. His latest is “Three Is Company,” the name of one of his com-positions on the disc. He received critical acclaim for his recent recording of Handel’s organ concertos.

In addition to his wife, he leaves two sons, Stephen and Geoffrey, and a daughter, Karen. A brother, Wolfgang, of Switzerland, and a sister, Maria Theresa Twaalfhoven, of Hilversum, Holland, also survive.

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BY DAVID A. GARFINKEL After years of medical testing and coun-

seling, women can fi nally rejoice: Lack of consistent orgasms during sex is normal, not a disease. That may not be the best news, since 70 percent of ladies can’t reach the fi nish line from sex alone. But Liz Canner’s fi rst feature documentary, “Orgasm Inc.,” exposes pharmaceutical companies’ treat-ment of female sexual dysfunction (F.S.D.) and problems in the search for a cure. The movie, which Newsweek called a “desperate-ly needed antidote” to excessive hype from drug companies pursuing a female Viagra, premieres in the United States at Greenwich Village’s Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th St., from Feb. 11 to 17.

“Orgasm Inc.” follows the research of creams, pills and probes, all aiming to help satisfy the millions of women struggling to climax. Companies have been trying to cash in on a female love drug for years, though

many argue that the disease they hope to treat is a myth. Canner fears that this misrepresentation of female sexuality hurts women.

“It really puts women at risk of being mis-informed and taken advantage of,” Canner said in a special advance press screening at New York University.

Currently, the fi lm has been shown across Europe, South America, Japan and Canada. But activists protesting drugs purporting to treat F.S.D. have had diffi culties raising awareness, just as Canner has had diffi cul-ties distributing the fi lm in the United States. Canner believes her troubles fi nding U.S. distribution stem from the pharmaceutical industry’s outsized infl uence in television advertising, along with the sexual content of the movie.

“God forbid there’s a fi lm that features female pleasure,” Canner said.

The documentary, which took Canner 11

years to make, begins when a pharmaceuti-cal company testing a vaginal orgasm cream hires her to create female-friendly pornog-raphy to use in their clinical testing. In the ultimate reality show, Canner drags along a camera to fi lm her as she learns tidbits such as the female preference for steamy scenes with story lines. Meanwhile, she slowly realizes that drug companies are not actu-ally treating an already-recognized disease, but creating it in the search for a new rev-enue stream. The California-based company, Vivus, Inc., she comes to see, is actually trying to adapt its drugs — initially used to treat erectile dysfunction — for women. After tests consistently fail, the company abandons the effort, but other corporations continue the search.

The leading contender ends up as Procter & Gamble’s Intrinsa, a testosterone patch

said to increase the female libido. However, opponents argue that the dangerous side effects of increased testosterone — including breast cancer — are too great a risk.

“When you talk about sex drugs, you’re talking about millions and millions and mil-lions of people going on these drugs,” said Canner, 42, whose face barely shows her age and whose ideas fi rmly resonate with the col-lege crowd decades younger. “We’re talking about a tremendous number of women in the population going on them,” she said.

Canner, who grew up in Groton, Mass., and now lives in Vermont, is a veteran fi lmmaker whose previous work addressed darker topics. In 1993, Canner’s “State of Emergency: Inside the LAPD” focused on police violence just after the Rodney King incident. Two years later, her fi lm “Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund” critiqued the effects of globalization.

Canner wanted to move on because these fi lms were giving her terrible nightmares. Though “Orgasm Inc.” seems like a major departure from those earlier fi lms, she believes the subject is comparable.

“The reason I feel that this is a human rights issue,” Canner said, “is because when you have something like the pharmaceutical

Film on ‘female Viagra’ takes on the drug companies

BY ALBERT AMATEAU John Krevey, a waterfront entrepreneur

and activist who brought historic ships to Chelsea and ran Pier 66 Maritime, a popular gathering place, died Fri., Feb. 4, at age 62 while on a vacation with his son in Santo Domingo.

The cause appeared to be a heart attack and came as a surprise to his devastated fam-ily, friends and colleagues.

The Working Harbor Committee, a non-profi t civic association, honored Krevey last September for helping to revitalize the for-merly decaying Hudson River waterfront.

“He was the waterfront before the water-front was cool,” said his friend and colleague John Doswell.

Krevey was one of the earliest members of Friends of Hudson River Park, the civic group advocating for the 5-mile-long water-front park. He was a member of the Friends’ board of directors until last year.

An electrical contractor by profession, Krevey ran his company, R 2 Electric, from rented space on Pier 63 at W. 23rd St. for more than 30 years. A lifelong enthusiast for historic ships, he bought the decom-missioned U.S. lightship Fryingpan, which was lying in the mud in Chesapeake Bay in the early ’80’s. At great expense and with a group of a half-dozen like-minded enthusi-asts, Krevey got the ship afl oat, installed a truck diesel engine and started a legendary coastal sea voyage to the Hudson River in 1983. They encountered storms, engine fail-ures and short rations before they brought the limping vessel into the Hudson.

The Fryingpan had several berths over the next few years, including Pier 25, at North Moore St., in Tribeca; Chelsea Piers; and the Intrepid pier at W. 46th St. The ship was even moored in the middle of the Hudson River at one point. In 1995, Krevey acquired an old railroad barge that had been used to ferry railroad cars across from New Jersey to Manhattan and tied it up on the north end of Pier 63, at W. 23rd St.

With Fryingpan as an attraction, Krevey turned the 350-foot-long barge into a public-access boat landing, Pier 63 Maritime, with

a small bar and restaurant that became a neighborhood gathering place where boat owners could tie up.

In 2000, Krevey and friends put in a bid to buy the John J. Harvey, a decommissioned fi reboat, from New York City. The Harvey found a home at Pier 63 Maritime. And on Sept. 11, 2001, the vessel helped evacuate Battery Park City residents during the World Trade Center attacks and then, under radio direction from the Fire Department, trained its powerful, functioning water pumps on the blazing towers.

Four years ago when the Hudson River Park Trust acquired Pier 63, Krevey was able to convince the Trust to designate the former railroad fl oat bridge at W. 26th St. as the new site for the barge. It became Pier 66 Maritime and the new neighborhood gather-ing place.

Plans for Pier 66 Maritime are uncertain at this point.

Krevey leaves his wife, Angela, a son, Kyle, and a daughter, Kyra. Funeral arrange-ments are pending.

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Bunnies strutted with pride at the Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown last weekend. After all, it is their year — the Year of the Rabbit. While there were auspicious and fi erce-looking lions and dragons aplenty, the man below was never actually at risk of losing his head. On Thursday, the Lunar New Year, young lion-dance crews paid their respects to local merchants, getting a red envelope with cash in return. Alan Ong, executive offi cer of the 54-year-old, nonprofi t New York Chinese Freemason Athletic Club, one of the lion-dance units, said it’s all about good luck and prosperity. “Asians believe in that — good luck,” he said. All the money will go the club, he said, so that it can continue its activities and “keep the kids off the streets.” The lion dancers’ signature move is “double-stacking,” he said, when they hoist their lion head up high. They’re also available for weddings, birthdays and bat and bas mitzvahs, he added.

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present the rezoning concept plan to Community Board 2’s Land Use and Business Development Committee. Three days earlier, Trinity gave The Villager an exclusive advance presentation.

Trinity offi cials who showed the plan asked not to be quoted by name in this article.

In short, Trinity feels there’s “a strong desire” for some residential use in the district.

In addition, Trinity is seeking height caps for new con-struction in Hudson Square — with residential projects eligible for a height bonus if they include 20 percent afford-able housing. The caps are being described as “a modest downzoning.”

Along wide streets, like Canal, Hudson and Varick and Sixth Ave., there would be a height cap of 320 feet, or 32 stories. For commercial use, the maximum fl oor area ratio, or F.A.R. (which determines how much square footage can be built.) would be 10, with current height bonuses for including public plazas and arcades eliminated.

On these wide streets, residential F.A.R. would be 9, which would get a bump up to 12 F.A.R. with the inclusion of 20 percent affordable housing.

Currently, the whole district’s F.A.R. ranges from 10 to 12. Plus, there’s no height limit — which is how the Trump Soho condo-hotel could be built to 490 feet, equivalent to 49 stories, by acquiring air rights from adjacent buildings and using a plaza bonus.

On midblocks and narrow streets, like Greenwich and Spring Sts., and other east-west streets, the F.A.R. would be lowered from the current 10 to 6.5, but could rise to 8.5 F.A.R. with affordable housing included. The height cap would be 185 feet — around 18 stories.

On Broome and Watts Sts., however, the F.A.R. would be even lower, 5.4, but could rise to 7.2 with the affordable-housing bonus. The height cap would be about 12 stories.

The tower Trinity hopes to build at Duarte Square — at

the wide-streets intersection of Canal and Varick Sts. and Sixth Ave. — at 429 feet would be taller than other new con-struction. The public school in it would occupy four stories and be 100,000 square feet, and would not count toward the project’s F.A.R. Trinity would build out the school’s core and shell — and then give the space to the city for free — and rent free, for perpetuity.

Trinity is also obligated to build a park on part of the property at Duarte Square as part of the development.

A prime concern of Trinity is to preserve the jobs of current commercial tenants. Under the scheme, existing buildings of more than 50,000 square feet could not be resi-dentially converted. If a commercial building of more than 50,000 square feet were demolished, then there would have to be a “1-to-1 replacement” in the new building — meaning it would have to have at least 50,000 square feet of com-mercial space. Buildings less than 50,000 square feet could be residentially converted, and the expectation is that many would be. According to Trinity, under the rezoning, about 90 percent of the existing square footage in the neighborhood would be preserved as is.

Also, under the proposed change, new nightclubs would not be allowed to open in Hudson Square. Big-box stores would be banned, as well, with an exception for supermarkets.

Bounded by Sixth Ave. on the east, the Hudson River

on the west, Houston St. on the north and Canal St. on the south, Hudson Square was formerly known as the Printing District. Located west of Soho and north of Tribeca, it lacks both those neighborhoods’ renowned cachet. Yet, in recent years, as new businesses have moved into the area, Hudson Square increasingly has become an energetic and hip, media and creative hub. Foot traffi c — at least during the day — has shot up.

Trinity Real Estate wants to increase, not only residential occupancy, but also retail in Hudson Square. Right now, the neighborhood turns quiet with empty streets at night and on weekends. Lunch options are few. Trinity would like to make it a “24-hour community.” Residential use would increase foot traffi c, helping sustain retail. However, luring chain-store-type or high-end retailers is defi nitely not the goal.

Specifi cally, Trinity is seeking a rezoning for the area north of Canal St., east of Sixth Ave. and Varick St. over to Hudson St. and then across Spring St. over to Greenwich St. and up to Houston St.

Trinity is, unquestionably, the area’s major stakeholder; it owns 40 percent of the neighborhood’s buildings and 50 percent of the land. (The Saatchi & Saatchi building, at 375 Hudson St., for example, is on Trinity property but is owned by Tishman Speyer.)

Meanwhile, Hudson Square’s commercial vacancy rate, 30 percent, is very high, despite having one of the lowest retail rents in Manhattan. Other areas, like the World Trade Center and the Hudson Yards, have commercial subsidies, but Hudson Square does not. As a result, property owners are turning to hotels — a number of nondescript ones hav-ing recently popped up in the neighborhood, along with the towering new Trump Soho condo-hotel at Spring and Varick

Sts. Yet, hotels generate a lot of traffi c, which is a concern of Trinity Real Estate.

In addition, Trinity had a bad experience with a hotel project on one of its own properties: The planned Viceroy hotel, to be built atop the gutted shell of a warehouse at 330 Hudson St., never panned out. At great expense, Trinity itself had to seal up the vacant shell.

And SEIU is reportedly having trouble fi nding a buyer for its former union headquarters building at Sixth Ave. and Grand St. Without residential use, converting the building into another hotel might be the only option.

Under the proposed rezoning, a special permit would be needed for new hotels with more than 100 rooms.

Trinity doesn’t want to attract so-called destination retail — like Soho’s glitzy boutiques and the large stores lining Broadway. Rather, Trinity hopes to attract small and mid-sized retailers and restaurants — mainly to service its own commercial tenants and the increased number of residential tenants that would populate the neighborhood due to the rezoning.

Currently, Hudson Square’s residential occupancy is about 4 percent. With a rezoning allowing residential use, Trinity hopes to boost this fi gure to 25 percent. Two mixed-use neighborhoods that Trinity sees as comparable to Hudson Square, Park Ave. South and the Flatiron District, have resi-dential rates of 38 percent and 29 percent, respectively.

All of Trinity’s profi ts go to support Trinity Church as well as Trinity’s charitable mission throughout the city, focused on neighborhoods like Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Harlem, the South Bronx and the Upper West Side. Except for its actual church building, Trinity pays property taxes on all its real estate holdings.

Trinity unveils new rezoning idea for Hudson Square

A map showing the area Trinity is proposing rezoning to allow residential use. The rezoning would also add height caps for new construction.

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Trinity feels the current zoning is producing nondescript new hotels.

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Back in the 1980’s, when tattoo parlors were illegal in New York City, skin art fl our-ished on the Lower East Side among a core

group of ink artists. Documentarian Clayton Patterson photographed them, and even formed a club, Tattoo Society, to help him to better do so. Tom DeVita, below left — at an early-’90’s show of his work at Patterson’s Essex St. gallery — was a central fi gure. “He started on the Lower East Side in 1961, the day after tattooing had become illegal,” Patterson noted. “He was at Fourth and D for years.” Also in the photo are bohemian scenester Bill Heine’s original tarot cards. Mike Bakaty, inking Pat Storm, above, on the Bowery in the ’80’s, still does needle work in the nabe, at Fine Line Mike, at First St. and First Ave. As for Storm — then a popular, spoken-word, performance artist — he disappeared, Patterson said. Cat, at right, seen at a Tattoo Society contest, sported a blue, tattooed right ear (not shown) and an abstract bird wing on her left arm. She ran an E. Fifth St. basement tattoo studio with Mike McCabe, in photo at top right. Californian Ed Hardy, bottom right, was a big supporter of DeVita and frequently visited. Today, Hardy’s Japanese and traditional American tattoo patterns are worldwide, everywhere, “shower curtains, underwear, energy drinks,” noted Patterson. Tattoo Society, of which Patterson was president — “with Elsa Rensaa as vice president,” he noted of his wife — met at places like CBGB and Pyramid. In 1997, fearing a crackdown by Mayor Giuliani, Patterson, then-Councilmember Kathryn Freed and Canal St. tattooist West Wood successfully worked together to legalize tattoo parlors in New York. That effort spawned the New York City Tattoo Convention, at Roseland each May, of which Patterson is an organizer. A few months ago, Bob Baxter, Skin and Ink magazine’s former editor, ranked Patterson No. 46 among the “101 Most Infl uential People in Tattooing.”

Original skin: Eighties inkPhotos by Clayton Patterson

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Where’s the real Park51?Last May, Daisy Khan, who heads the American Society

for Muslim Advancement, approached a Community Board 1 committee about appearing at its upcoming meet-ing to share plans for an Islamic community center.

The wording on the meeting’s agenda stated that the presentation would be made by the Cordoba Initiative, an established organization focused on interfaith relations whose founder was Khan’s husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, an internationally recognized religious scholar and imam.

Nine months later, that original presentation seems like a mischaracterization, at best. At worst, it seems like nothing more than the jump-off point for a public-relations spin campaign. The message we applauded and the project this community center has become are now murky and muddled.

Since that fi rst introduction to our community early last May, the project has been called by three different names, has had two different spiritual leaders, two different blogs and now a Facebook page that is serving as the major method of promoting the project’s mission. And disturb-ingly, it is becoming harder and harder for the constituency that supported this project from day one, including those in the press, to communicate with the shifting leadership.

Our sister paper, Downtown Express, interviewed Rauf in early December and it was then that we began to ques-tion his motives about the project he had for so long been the face of. At that moment, he brought up for the fi rst time his notion of the Cordoba Movement that, in his own words, had taken root right here in Lower Manhattan.

We were surprised, to say the least, when the rift that is all but crystal clear now, began to materialize between Rauf and Sharif El-Gamal, the president of SoHo Properties, who is spearheading the project’s development. Rauf hired his own publicists, and El-Gamal, his. The project soon adopted a new nick-name: Park51, also the name of a mysterious nonprofi t group that, according to SoHo Properties, would run the future community center. The group, consisting of El-Gamal and others, began holding “public infor-mation sessions” at their Downtown offi ces, which, strangely enough, were not open to the press.

The aim was to clarify the project’s goals. But their myriad attempts to demystify things only led to more confusion. Rauf and El-Gamal seemed to be contradict-ing rather than reinforcing each others’ apparent shared vision when publicly describing the project.

“The Cordoba Movement and the Cordoba Initiative are separate nonprofi t entities from Park51 with different mis-sions and leadership,” El-Gamal said in a press release.

El-Gamal also recently announced that neither Rauf nor Khan would be speaking on behalf of Park51, nor would they be raising funds for it.

Weren’t “Cordoba” and “Park51” one in the same last spring? Wait, no — wasn’t the original name of the project “Cordoba House”? Were Khan’s and Rauf’s philosophies not the inspiration for the proposed community center?

Enter a new spiritual advisor, Imam Adhami, who espouses some controversial views on homosexuality very much at odds with the planned center’s original vision that embraced openness and inclusion. Days later, Adhami exits the project.

We embraced this project from the very beginning, as did C.B. 1, most of our elected leaders and the Lower Manhattan community. It would be a shame if the very cause we rallied behind turns out to be some-thing altogether different.

And while we hope that this is not the case, and we understand that all nonprofi ts encounter growing pains, we implore the real people behind Park51 to step forward once again and show the same level of trans-parency and openness to dialogue and inclusion that impressed and inspired us.

EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORPark smoking ban smells funny

To The Editor:I’m not a cigarette smoker, but what public safety

purpose is achieved by banning cigarette smoking in New York City parks while actively soliciting for hundreds of food-vending carts and trucks to set up in the exact same parks, many of which are using toxic fuel for cooking and are running their diesel engines for 10 hours a day? There is far more pollution and smoke from one such truck than 10,000 cigarette smokers might cause in the same location.

Likewise, the Greenmarket in Union Square Park runs gasoline generators, as well as having the diesel engines of many trucks running all day while parked right inside the park. And the Holiday Markets that run huge fuel-powered generators for more than a month straight in various city parks — are their fumes supposed to be a healthy addition to the experience of our public parks?

Just wondering where the consistency is in such a policy.

Why is it artists — who by law cannot even use a battery-powered light — that must be eliminated? Could the answer be that the Parks Department gets $100 million a year from concessions and food trucks, but nothing from cigarette smokers or First Amendment-protected artists?

Robert LedermanLederman is president, ARTIST (Artists’ Response to Illegal State Tactics)

Teachable moment for Black

To The Editor:Re “Parents see red after Black makes birth-control quip”

(news article, Jan. 20):It’s obvious from the recent verbal gaffes of new Schools

Chancellor Cathie Black that she is in a new culture, that of parents and educators, and that while she is used to a quick-paced and perhaps clever-tongued corporate milieu, she doesn’t understand the sensibilities or lingo of her new environment, yet. By her accounts, she was not serious.

While just listening might be a challenge, until she knows the language of her new job, she should lay low on her meta-phors and jokes.

Tequila Minsky

Gold was one of a kind

To The Editor:Re “Ed Gold, C.B. 2 elder statesman, dies at age 84”

(obituary, Sept. 16, 2010):Ed Gold considered me his oldest friend. We met in third

grade at P.S. 70 on Weeks Ave. in The Bronx. We stayed in the same class together during elementary school and gradu-ating from P.S. 117/Joseph H. Wade Junior High School. We attended DeWitt Clinton High together for one semester until residential geography separated us. Ed transferred to Taft High School and I went on to Christopher Columbus High. I live in Austin, Texas, and did not hear of his passing.

Ed was a wonderful friend and a wonderful man. One of a kind. Ed, I will miss you!

Gabriel Nossov

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BY CATHERINE L. FLECKOn Oct. 15, 2010, an article by Dan Barry was published

in The New York Times entitled “Death of a Fulton Fish Market Fixture,” in which he sketched that bit of the life of “South Street Annie” — also known as “Shopping Cart Annie” — that he knew. In his article, Barry wondered just who this person really was, and presented what he character-ized as an “incomplete, partially hidden” portrayal of Annie, whose given name was Gloria Wasserman, an account which had been cobbled together from “old photographs, faint remembrances and snippets of things once said to make sense of the life lived.”

In one of the memories brought forth in his sketch, Barry tells of how in the summer of 1947, Gloria, at the age of 22, accompanied a World War II veteran — her future husband, my father — Fred Fleck, on a bicycle trip to Alaska. But we are left wondering about this trip, about “Annie,” and about the person who accompanied her on that bicycle trip to Alaska.

Fred Fleck has now also died — on Jan. 19, 2011, at the age of 92. Like Annie’s, his is a story worth telling — that of another New Yorker who lived a very interesting life, during interesting and diffi cult times. In telling his story, a bit more of the lives that crossed with his become less hidden, and more of the history of those lives lived is revealed. What fol-lows is another cobbling together of a life now passed, drawn from the memories of lifelong friends, and family.

Frederick Samuel Fleck was born in the Bronx on Nov. 15, 1918, four days after the end of World War I. Fred spent the next 24 years living and working in New York City. Graduating from Morris High School in 1935 — in the middle of the Depression — Fred’s jobs included working as a shipping clerk in a factory, selling butter and eggs door-to-door, selling coffee and sandwiches for 5 cents each from a truck to W.P.A. workers, and working as a porter in the New York City subway system. By 1942, he felt he had it made: He was working at a civil service job as a trolley motorman in Brooklyn.

In December of 1942, Fred was inducted into the Army’s Signal Corps. Earlier, during the fall of 1942, Fred had read a news story in the Bronx Home News that had piqued his inter-est; the Army had a need for a mountain division of ski troops, and was calling for applications. Fred applied, and after a month of basic training in the Signal Corps, at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., Fred was transferred to Camp Hale, Colorado. He had made it into the Ski Troops, the 10th Mountain Division. As Fred told it, “There, a life of excitement, adventure, travel, families, and different careers began.”

At Camp Hale in 1943, Fred became the squad leader in the fi rst platoon, Company B, 86th Regiment, where he met and became friends with Ed Fancher. They were in the same barracks and the same company, and later served together in Italy. Fred earned several medals for his service, including the Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star Medal with one oak leaf cluster. The friendship between Fred Fleck and Ed Fancher

that began at Camp Hale in 1943, lasted 68 years. In a personal communication, Ed Fancher describes the

time he and Fred spent in Italy: “We were fi rst quartered with about ten partisans in

a stone farmhouse on a hill looking out over a valley to German positions on Mount Belvedere and Riva Ridge,

soon to be our combat objectives. … A few weeks later, we made our famous night assault in the snow on Riva Ridge. Our company took our objective in our sector with only one casualty that night, but the next day, a group of our men were shelled by German artillery resulting in several casual-ties. Fred rushed down to help the wounded and he was himself wounded in the arm with shrapnel [Feb. 21, 1945]. Although wounded, he insisted on walking down the moun-tain alone to the fi rst aid station. Luckily he made it down the mountain before shock set in too badly. The day Fred was

hit I was sent down the ridge to Campiano, where we fought off counterattacks for fi ve days.”

In this same communication, Ed Fancher recalls the sum-mer of 1947, when both he and Fred were again living in New York City, after the end of the war.

“Fred and I and another 10th Mountain man, Rolland Osgood, were living in a tenement on Pitt Street on the Lower East Side. Fred and I had planned to go to the University of Alaska that summer, but I backed out at the last minute. Fred then decided to go anyway. …”

This was when Fred Fleck met Gloria Wasserman. Fred was visiting his brother-in-law, who worked for Harry Winston in the Diamond District of New York City, and, as Fred told the story, an acquaintance of his brother-in-law, Gloria, showed up to say she wanted to accompany him to Alaska. Taken aback, Fred said he’d have to test Gloria’s stamina for such an arduous trip; he later recalled that Gloria, after the two of them had vigorously bicycled about on their test of her stamina, had actually shown more than he had. So the two of them headed out for Alaska. As Ed Fancher described it, “[Fred] and Gloria set out from Pitt Street for Fairbanks on bicycles, while a family of Gypsies watched their departure in disbelief.”

Dad’s memory of bike trip with Gloria never faded MEMORIAL

Fred Fleck and Gloria Wasserman in Fairbanks, Alaska, at the end of their bicycle odyssey that had started on Pitt St. on the Lower East Side.

Fred Fleck was the subject of the Village Voice’s fi rst lead story.

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industry, which is so powerful and so well funded, it really starts to undermine our understanding of sexuality.”

The movie contains striking images cer-tainly suggesting human rights abuses. One woman recounts her vaginoplasty — essen-tially a vaginal facelift — that bled and drained her body of one-third of its blood and nearly killed her. “Orgasm Inc.” also addresses inse-

curity and shame. Many of the women in the fi lm feel diseased because they don’t know that their lack of steady, instant orgasms is actually quite usual. But pharmaceutical companies, the fi lm argues, hope to profi t by recasting the norm into a medical dysfunction.

“Basically, if you can defi ne a disorder in a really broad way, then you are going to have a lot more people fall into that category,” Canner said, referring to newly created names for com-mon problems, like restless leg syndrome or social anxiety disorder for shyness.

A main fi gure in “Orgasm Inc.” is Leonore Tiefer, a professor of psychiatry at both New York University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Tiefer organized the New View Campaign (N.V.C.), which seeks to “expose the deceptions and consequences of industry involvement in sex research, profes-sional sex.” Although Tiefer said skepticism of pharmaceutical companies is high in the United States, she also recognizes the trouble Canner

has had in marketing “Orgasm Inc.” to U.S. TV stations, which are reluctant to show the fi lm.

“The question is getting out our message,” said Tiefer in a telephone interview. “A com-mercial fi lm and an activist campaign have different places in society and different ways of interacting with institutions. In order to get people to see Liz’s fi lm, she has to get it into theaters and that requires the cooperation of distributors.”

And Canner has not had that cooperation. The fi lm has been shown to several American TV stations and she was turned down each time. Canner feels that the amount pharma-ceutical companies spend on advertising has hindered her chances, because the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that permits direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertis-ing. (The other country is New Zealand.) After the major U.S. rules change in 1997 that permitted direct-to-consumer broadcast advertising, pharmaceutical spending soared to nearly $5 billion in 2007 from $220 million in 1997, according to reports by the journal of Minnesota Medicine and marketing research fi rm Research and Markets.

With the release of “Orgasm Inc.,” Canner hopes to start a greater conversation in America about the growing infl uence of the pharmaceu-tical industry. The fi lm is opening in New York, Chicago and Coral Gables, Fl., in February, and in Los Angeles in March.

In addition, Canner is traveling on a col-lege tour and speaking against the treat-ment of female sexual dysfunction with potentially harmful drugs, such as Intrinsa. Although banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Intrinsa was made available in Europe in 2007 for “post-menopausal women with diagnosed sexual problems,” according to the Daily Mail.

Canner is desperately searching for a vaca-tion from 11 diffi cult years of production, but it may still be awhile before “Orgasm Inc.” can be seen throughout the country, allowing Canner some fl eeting freedom from the fi lm she has invested so much of her efforts in.

By Emma DeVito

“Redesigning” Medicaid – It Shouldn’t Be Just About the Money

D o e s n ’t i t s e e m l i k e e a c h y e a r yo u h e a r f r o m fo l k s l i k e m e w i t h d i r e w a r n i n g s a b o u t t h e i mp a c t o f t h e s t a t e b u d g e t o n h e a l t h c a r e , a n d l o n g - t e r m / c h r o n i c c a r e i n p a r t i c u l a r .

T h i s h a s b e c o m e t h e a n n u a l d a n c e i n A lb a n y fo r m o r e y e a r s t h a n w e ’d l i k e t o c o u n t : T h e g ov e r n o r p u t s fo r t h h u g e c u t s , a n d t h e s t a t e L e g i s l a t u r e g e t s l o b b i e d t o e l i m i n a t e t h e m , o r s i g n i f i c a n t l y s o f t e n t h e b l o w.

I n t h e p a s t , b o t h s i d e s h a v e “d a n c e d w i t h w h o b r u n g ‘e m .” T h i s y e a r , o f c o u r s e , i s i n m a ny w ay s n o d i f f e r e n t . Ye t , a t t h e s a m e t i m e , i t i s m a s s i v e l y d i f f e r e n t : A n d r e w C u o m o s we p t i n t o o f f i c e o n a p l a t fo r m

o f g e t t i n g t h e s t a t e ’s f i s c a l h o u s e i n o r d e r , r e d u c i n g t h e t a x b u r d e n a n d m a k i n g N e w Yo r k a b u s i n e s s - f r i e n d l y s t a t e .

F o r t h e n e w l y i n s t a l l e d G ov e r n o r, t h a t m e a n s c u t t i n g e x p e n d i t u r e s . I n M e d i c a i d s p e n d i n g , h e u p p e d t h e a n t e e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y. F o r M e d i c a i d , a l w ay s a h a n d y t a r g e t

fo r b u d g e t c u t t e r s , G ove r n o r C u o m o w a nt s t o s l a s h s p e n d i n g b y m o r e t h a n $ 3 . 5 b i l l i o n . T h a t ’s d o ub l e t h e t o t a l a m o u nt o f M e d i c a i d c u t s a m a s s e d ove r t h e p r e v i o u s fo u r s t a t e b u d g e t s . F o r l o n g - t e r m c a r e p r ov i d e r s , t h e i r s h a r e o f t h e c u t s i n t h e C u o m o E xe c u t i v e B u d g e t i s e qu a l t o t h e a g g r e g a t e i mp a c t o f c u tb a ck s t h e y h ave e n du r e d i n t h e p a s t n i n e y e a r s .

U n d e r l y i n g t h i s , o f c o u r s e , i s t h e s t a t e ’s h o r r i b l e ( t h e r e ’s n o o t h e r w o r d , r e a l l y ) f i n a n c i a l s i t u a t i o n , w i t h m o n u m e nt a l d e f i c i t s s t r e t c h i n g o u t b e fo r e u s : $ 10 b i l l i o n t h i s y e a r ; m o r e t h a n $ 15 b i l l i o n t h e n e x t ; a l m o s t $ 18 b i l l i o n t h e n e x t , a n d , i n 2 014 -15 , $ 21.4 b i l l i o n . U n l e s s s o m e t h i n g i s d o n e ab o u t i t .

G ov e r n o r C u o m o h a s t a k e n t h e c a r r o t - a n d - a - s t i c k a p p r o a c h t o t h o s e w h o p r ov i d e c a r e a n d s e r v i c e s fo r t h e p o o r a n d fo r d i s ab l e d i n d i v i d u a l s w i t h M e d i c a i d f u n d s . H e s a y s h e w a n t s t o r e fo r m M e d i c a i d a n d a d d r e s s i t s i l l s , a n d h a s e s t ab l i s h e d a M e d i c a i d R e d e s i g n Te a m t h a t r i g h t n o w i s r u n n i n g a r o u n d t h e s t a t e l i s t e n i n g t o p e o p l e . H e w a n t s t h i s t e a m t o c o m e u p w i t h w ay s t o r e d u c e s p e n d i n g , w i t h o u t p r e s u m a b l y h av i n g a n u n d u e i mp a c t o n t h o s e w h o n e e d v i t a l s e r v i c e s .

T h a t ’s t h e G ove r n o r ’s c a r r o t .T h e s t i c k i s t h a t i f t h e r e ’s n o w o r k a b l e p l a n i n t h e e n d , G ov e r n o r C u o m o s ay s h e w i l l t a k e

t h e c u t s a ny w a y t h r o u g h a c r o s s - t h e - b o a r d r e d u c t i o n s . T h e a m o u nt t h a t t h e M e d i c a i d t e a m i s s up p o s e d t o “s ave ” t h r o u g h r e d e s i g n o f t h e s y s t e m , r e p r e s e n t s m o r e t h a n t wo - t h i r d s o f t h e e n t i r e $ 3 b i l l i o n - p lu s t h e G ove r n o r w a n t s t o c u t f r o m M e d i c a i d .

M a k e n o m i s t a k e , I b e l i e ve i n r e fo r m i n g M e d i c a i d a n d i t s s p e n d i n g . I t ’s n e e d e d . We c a n d o b e t t e r – w e c a n s p e n d l e s s , b e m o r e r e s o u r c e f u l , a n d s t i l l p r ov i d e e s s e n t i a l s e r v i c e s w h i l e r e du c i n g t h e e c o n o m i c b u r d e n o n t a x p aye r s . G e t t i n g t h e r e , h owe ve r, r e qu i r e s s o m e d r a s t i c c h a n g e s i n h o w t h e s y s t e m w o r k s . T h e M e d i c a i d R e d e s i g n Te a m h a s a g r e a t o p p o r t u n i t y b e fo r e i t t o a c h i e ve a s y s t e m t h a t p r ov i d e s n e e d e d c a r e a n d s e r v i c e s m o r e e f f i c i e n t l y a n d e f f e c t i v e l y.

A t t h e s a m e t i m e , t h e r e a r e t h i n g s t h a t t r o ub l e m e . B e fo r e g e t t i n g t o t h e m , i t m i g h t b e h e l p f u l t o l o o k a t t h e w o r d s o f a n o t h e r C u o m o , f r o m m o r e t h a n 2 5 y e a r s a g o :

“ P r e s i d e n t R e a g a n a d m i t t e d t h a t a l t h o u g h s o m e p e o p l e i n t h i s c o u n t r y s e e m e d t o b e d o i n g w e l l n o w a d ay s , o t h e r s w e r e u n h ap p y, e ve n w o r r i e d , a b o u t t h e m s e l v e s , t h e i r f a m i l i e s , a n d t h e i r f u t u r e s . T h e P r e s i d e n t s a i d t h a t h e d i d n ’t u n d e r s t a n d t h a t f e a r . H e s a i d , ‘ W h y, t h i s c o u n t r y i s a s h i n i n g c i t y o n a h i l l . ’ A n d t h e P r e s i d e n t i s r i g h t . I n m a ny w ay s we a r e a s h i n i n g c i t y o n a h i l l .

“ B u t t h e h a r d t r u t h i s t h a t n o t e ve r yo n e i s s h a r i n g i n t h i s c i t y ’s s p l e n d o r a n d g l o r y…t h e r e ’s a n o t h e r c i t y, t h e r e ’s a n o t h e r p a r t t o t h e s h i n i n g c i t y. T h e p a r t w h e r e s o m e p e o p l e c a n ’t p ay t h e i r m o r t g a g e s , a n d m o s t yo u n g p e o p l e c a n ’t a f fo r d o n e ; w h e r e s t u d e n t s c a n ’t a f fo r d t h e e du c a t i o n t h e y n e e d , a n d m i d d l e - c l a s s p a r e n t s w a t c h t h e d r e a m s t h e y h o l d fo r t h e i r c h i l d r e n e v ap o r a t e .

“ I n t h i s p a r t o f t h e c i t y t h e r e a r e m o r e p o o r t h a n e ve r , m o r e f a m i l i e s i n t r o ub l e , m o r e a n d m o r e p e o p l e w h o n e e d h e l p b u t c a n ’t f i n d i t . Eve n wo r s e : T h e r e a r e e l d e r l y p e o p l e w h o t r e mb l e i n t h e b a s e m e nt s o f t h e h o u s e s t h e r e . A n d t h e r e a r e p e o p l e w h o s l e e p i n t h e c i t y s t r e e t s , i n t h e g u t t e r , w h e r e t h e g l i t t e r d o e s n ’t s h o w. T h e r e a r e g h e t t o s w h e r e t h o u s a n d s o f yo u n g p e o p l e , w i t h o u t a j o b o r a n e du c a t i o n , g i v e t h e i r l i v e s a w a y t o d r u g d e a l e r s e ve r y d ay. T h e r e i s d e s p a i r , M r. P r e s i d e n t , i n t h e f a c e s t h a t yo u d o n ’t s e e , i n t h e p l a c e s t h a t yo u d o n ’t v i s i t i n yo u r s h i n i n g c i t y.

- - M a r i o M . C u o m o , 19 8 4 D e m o c r a t i c c o n v e n t i o n k e y n o t e a d d r e s s

W h i l e I f u l l y s up p o r t t h e c o n c e p t o f M e d i c a i d r e fo r m , I f e a r s o m e o f t h e d i r e c t i o n s w e m i g h t t a k e . I f i n d k i n s h ip i n t h e wo r d s o f t h e e l d e r C u o m o , w h o u n d e r s t o o d , a t l e a s t , t h a t w e n e e d t o h o l d o u t o u r h a n d s t o h e lp o t h e r s .

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F o r t h e p o o r w h o n e e d h e a l t h c a r e – i n a s t a t e b u d g e t t h a t ’s fo c u s e d a l m o s t e n t i r e l y, a n d c o l d l y, o n t h e h a r s h r e a l i t i e s o f a d d r e s s i n g t h e s t a t e ’s m a s s i v e b u d g e t d e f i c i t – w h o s p e a k s fo r t h e m ?

F o r f r a i l o l d e r a du l t s w h o n e e d h o m e c a r e a n d h o u s i n g - - w h o s p e a k s fo r t h e m ?F o r t h e t h o u s a n d s o f p e r s o n s l i v i n g w i t h H I V/A I D S – t h e p o o r, b l a ck s a n d H i s p a n i c s , a n d

m i n o r i t y w o m e n l i v i n g i n c o m mu n i t i e s w i t h f e w s e r v i c e s – w h o s p e a k s fo r t h e m ?Ye s , N e w Yo r k s t a t e n e e d s a l a r g e d o s a g e o f f i s c a l r e s p o n s ib i l i t y, a n d , t o h i s c r e d i t , G ov e r n o r

C u o m o i s i n t e n t o n g e t t i n g u s t h e r e .B u t we n e e d t o b e c a r e f u l . We s h o u l d d o a l l w e c a n t o a vo i d d e ny i n g c a r e a n d s e r v i c e s t o p e o p l e s i m p l y b e c a u s e t h e y

a r e p o o r.I f w e d o n o t f i n d a w ay t o a c h i e ve f i n a n c i a l s t a b i l i t y i n t h i s s t a t e w h i l e a t t h e s a m e t i m e

p r e s e r v i n g v i t a l s e r v i c e s t h a t t h e p o o r n e e d – e s p e c i a l l y f r a i l e l d e r l y a n d p e r s o n s l i v i n g w i t h H I V/A I D S – t h e n w h a t h ave we r e a l l y a c c o mp l i s h e d?

( M s . D eV i t o i s p r e s i d e n t a n d c h i e f e x e c u t i v e o f f i c e r o f n o t - f o r - p r o f i t V i l l a g e C a r e , w h i c h s e r v e s s o m e 12 , 0 0 0 p e r s o n s a n n u a l l y i n c o m m u n i t y - b a s e d a n d r e s i d e n t i a l c a r e p r o g r a m s f o r o l d e r a d u l t s a n d t h o s e l i v i n g w i t h H I V/A I D S . )

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BY SCOTT STIFFLERPut on your Sunday best, lay down a modest cover charge

and step through the doors of Birdland Jazz Club on any given Monday night — and it’s as if you’ve set the Wayback Machine for a lost era when well-dressed guys and gals sat at candlelit tables mere steps from household names who’d belt out standards between the amiable patter of a much-loved host.

That host is Jim Caruso — and that Monday night destina-tion event for Broadway babies, journeyman jazz musicians, cabaret veterans and chummy regulars is “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party.” Now in its eighth year, the popular music-themed open mic is a sweet-natured yet occasionally catty throwback to the days of kitchen sink Vaudeville, when a beefy roster of performers would get just a few short minutes to wow you.

Most of the time during any given night’s three-plus hours, the folks who make it onto the Birdland stage deliver. But a few do mange to fall fl at (usually because the mate-rial doesn’t suit the room or their interpretive abilities). When that happens, Caruso just winks and smiles and keeps shoveling coal into his runaway train — schmoozing with the band about an unrelated and often surreal topic, then brining up the next act.

A few months ago, shortly after Oprah gave away those cars to her audience, Caruso turned the notion of ego cloaked in generosity into a scathing running joke that didn’t wear out its welcome despite the fact that he trotted out subtle variations of the same basic zinger way into the wee hours. Even when he’s cutting you down, Caruso never strays too far from the “Cast Party” mission of lifting per-formers up and making sure the audience knows his shtick is all in the service of good, (mostly) clean cabaret fun. It’s that polite safety net that keeps audiences and performers coming back week after week. Despite being the frequent recipient of coveted air kisses from the likes of Liza and Chita and any number of special guests in attendance, Caruso retains a genuine aura of gee-gosh wonder which lets you know he’s as thrilled to be here as you are. It’s a thing to see.

Chelsea Now recently had a long, dishy phone conversa-tion with Caruso. It began with a mutual pity party during which we was fi rmly established that both this intrepid cabaret reporter and his interview subject were basically decent, driven men who worked themselves like show ponies without the benefi t of schemingly ambitious yet competent interns. While this humble scribe speculated he’d gladly deal with an “All About Eve” scenario in exchange for somebody who didn’t mind making copies, Caruso allowed himself to

only pine momentarily for outside help. And girl, the boy clearly needs it. In addition to his hosting duties, Caruso does all of the PR outreach for “Cast Party” and promotes the “Broadway at Birdland” series. There he goes again, doing unto others what somebody should be doing unto him. Such altruism — it makes you sick!

Caruso’s pom poms and cabaret cheers will be out in full force on February 17. That’s when “Cast Party” moves to Town Hall for one night only — for an amped up evening that will have cabaret and Broadway fans worked up into a complete and total tizzy. Here’s a partial list of who’s on the bill: The legendary Liza Minnelli (whose 2008 show “Liza’s at the Palace” marked the Broadway debut of Caruso). Broadway icon Chita Rivera. Country music superstar Larry Gatlin. Lucie Arnaz. Marilyn Maye. Tony nominee Christopher Sieber. Tony nominee Sally Mayes. Jazz singer Hilary Kole. R&B tenor William Blake. Nightlife Award-winning jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein. Klea Blackhurst (star of the new IFC Comedy Series “The Onion News Network”). Composer Andrew Gerle — and Countess Luann de Lesseps (from “Housewives of New York City”).

Although the lineup is heavy on star power, Caruso says it won’t stray too far from the Birdland formula — then quickly adds, “I’m doing something with the Mark Stuart Dance Theatre. It’s going to be a full-on production number. We

just added Hinton Battle, the Tony winner. Karen Ziemba, who won the Tony for “Contact,” is singing an Andrew Gerle song, because so much of what we do is about new com-posers.” Invoking his frequent collaborator, the great Billy Stritch, Caruso says, “Billy will be at the piano. Neither of us plan to talk about what we’re going to say, so our casual take on hosting will help keep the freshness and improv quality alive.”

Circling back around, Caruso adds, “I want to make it clear that Billy will be at the piano and I’ll have my ‘Cast Party Symphony Orchestra’ as we call it.” That means Billy Stritch (musical director), bass player Steve Doyle and drummer Daniel Glass.

Sprinkled throughout the starry night will be a few selections from Caruso’s new CD. “Jim Caruso: The Swing Set” is a 13-track collection (12 of which are fi rst-time covers for the singer). Only one tune, “If I Only Had A Brain,” is from the Caruso repertoire. A parallel world away from the silly/stupid scarecrow version you know from “The Wizard of Oz,” this take is downbeat, with only the slightest lemon twist of hope. It’s a melancholy punch to the gut full of doomed “if only” moments punctuated by Warren Vaché’s sad coronet and slow licks from iconic

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Swing time: Caruso’s CD shines.

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Hot property in the Baltics lands at La MaMaState violence collides with secret violence against loved ones

BY JERRY TALLMERAliide speaks. She is a weather-worn

woman of 70, looking back on when she was a girl of 20 in this same house in what was then Soviet-occupied Estonia. Her lover, Hans, in those days of her youth — her sister Ingel’s husband, an Estonian who’d fought the Russians and lost — is still asleep in his hideaway in the basement behind a heavy chest of drawers, when the Stalinist security thugs come looking for him.

ALIIDE: Hans didn’t even wake up when they came to get us, agreed to go quietly. We didn’t want him to know. We’d been woken by the dogs barking even before they came to the door and we knew exactly what it meant. By the time they knocked we were standing in the kitchen all ready to go.

It was our first time and they took us straight to headquarters — to the Town Hall. Me, Ingel and Linda [the 10-year-old]. There was a young boy with them, a boy from the village. He couldn’t look at us. We’d been in the same school. In the cellar of the Town Hall there were two naked lamps [light bulbs] hanging from the ceiling. A soldier was eating bread and drinking vodka. Knocking back his glass. Wiping his mouth on his sleeve the way the Russians do. He offered us some. We declined.

SOLDIER 1 (voice only): We know that you know the whereabouts of Hans….

SOLDIER 2 (voice only): You have such a charming daughter.

ALIIDE: We said we didn’t know anything about Hans….

SOLDIER 2 (voice only): What’s your daughter’s name?…The girl’s almost a woman….

And that’s where the nightmare begins.It’s all in the skillful telling, old Aliide

talking about the days of — remembering the days of — young Aliide, a woman who will survive in the face of anything, at the cost of anything and anybody. All this in a jolting piece of theater that’s by a young woman who herself has hit the ripe old age of 33.

Her name is Sofi Oksanen. She was born in Finland to a Finnish father and an Estonian mother. Her play is called “Purge” (“Puhdistus”), and it’s a very hot prop-erty indeed in the Baltic countries of Eastern Europe and elsewhere abroad. Its author liked it so much — was so fascinated by its characters, who wouldn’t leave her alone — that she then further explored it as a novel, which in itself has turned into a best-seller. Some share of play and novel, comes out of the memories of Oksanen’s Estonian grand-mother.

This I learn from another remarkable young-minded woman, Zishan Ugurlu — the Turkish-born director of the English-language version of this play (translated by Eva Buchwald) that runs February 10-20 at the late Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa E.T.C.

La MaMa regulars will surely remember actress Ugurlu from her 2004 performance as Helen of Troy in Andre Serban’s staging of “The Trojan Women.” Well, now she is not only the director of “Purge” and of the Actors Without Borders resident company that’s staging it, but also the set designer and the person who persuaded Oksanen to have the play come to New York.

“Instead of a conscious and naturalistic set,” Ugurlu said over some blueberry pan-cakes last week, “I’m trying for a set that is both conscious and subconscious — the landscape of Aliide’s body and soul.”

And some body and soul this is. The Aliide of “Purge,” I hazarded, has much in common with Bertolt Brecht’s eternal survi-vor, Mother Courage.

“Why yes!” exclaimed Ugurlu, who per-haps had been too busy to think of that. She sees Aliide also as a Medea-like fi gure, “living on the edge; at the last moment she betrays everything and everybody, her husband, her sister, her granddaughter. At one point she becomes a sandwich in bed between her husband, Martin, and her lover, Hans, her sister’s husband.

“It’s like a thriller,” said the director. “Like a Hitchcock movie.” She took a breath before saying, “I love this play for the issues it deals with — sex, politics, and power.”

Also as it happens, rape, torture murder, and other such Stalinist and non-Stalinist pleasantries.

“Torture,” said Ugurlu. “Everybody does it on one level or another. We do violence against our loved ones on an almost uncon-scious level. And then the violence of the state collides with the secret violence against loved ones. The discourse of Aliide’s hus-band Martin is almost like the discourse of Stalin. ‘You are my comrade.’ ‘You are my Motherland.’”

MARTIN: All right, all right, Aliide.

You did the right thing. You did your duty. You acted as a progressive, social-ly aware person should act. That’s a noble thing. Your driving force is your devotion to your community, to your Motherland. That’s admirable. You are guided by natural class instinct. That’s what I fi rst admired in you. The very fi rst time I saw you at the party meet-ing. I sensed at once, there’s something special about that girl!…Finally when I saw you sitting in the corner, reading your Lenin — you looked like a picture or a painting — I could tell you had what it takes to rise above the class you were born into….

Stop! Stop! Can’t someone please stop him? I’d betray the crashing bore myself, if only to stop him. Of course I’d have to marry him fi rst.

Fortunately for this production, the role of Martin is being carried by the distin-guished Finnish movie actor Peter Franzén. The Aliide — old Aliide — is Jillian Lindig. Young Aliide is Maren Bush. Grant Neale is Hans.

Ugurlu says she owes everything to Ellen Stewart for bringing her here seven years ago, giving her a place to live, work to do, getting her a Green Card.

The English of this young artist from Istanbul is not only quite good but quite colorful.

“That too is thanks to Ellen,” says Ugurlu.

PURGEWritten by Sofi Oksanen

English translation by Eva Buchwald

Directed by Zishan Ugurlu

Presented by Actors Without Borders

February 10-20

At La MaMa E.T.C. (74-A East 4th St.)

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Maren Bush with Peter Franzén.

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superstar jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. Fans know the man can pick at a furious pace — but here, like Caruso, his restraint packs an unexpected wallop.

Asked what’s up with this very unusual interpretation, Caruso traces its origins to an early failure: “I auditioned for the role of the Scarecrow once, but I didn’t get it. It went to a local hairdresser/makeup art-ist. So the anger and sadness of not getting that role stayed with me. I was telling Billy this pathetic story, and he said ‘you need to sing that song.’ And I said I couldn’t just stand there and sing it, so he started play-ing these hip, jazzy, contemplative chords. It refreshed the song for me and took it to a whole other place.”

Don’t get the wrong idea from that “Brain” origins anecdote. “The Swing Set” is full of upbeat, irony-free covers (including “Avalon” with Hillary Kole and Stritch; “Gotta Be This or That” with Michael Feinstein; and “The Doodlin’ Song” with Stephanie J. Black). Solo Caruso numbers include the snarky “I’m So Happy,” the not too saccharine sweet “Pick Yourself Up,” and an affectionately rendered “Manhattan.”

In addition to Vaché and Pizzarelli, other musicians lending their talents to the Caruso cause include Harry Allen (tenor saxophone), Tedd Firth (piano), Steve Doyle (bass), Jon Burr (bass), Warren Odes (drums), Kristy Norter (sax-ophones), Dave Trigg (trumpet) and Ross

Konikoff (trumpet). Not familiar names? Google them and you’ll be sufficiently impressed.

High praise from the CD’s vocalist goes to Aaron Weinstein — the 24-year-old who served as musical director, played violin and created the musical arrangements (which have an inspired purity that’s both sparse and complex). Caruso says the concept for the CD has been percolating for quite some time. Crediting its success to a sound cre-ated by Weinstein, Caruso notes, “It’s all in the arrangements. Aaron is a genius. He has an incredible capacity to interpret these songs. All the musicians would come in and say how gorgeous the charts were. These are guys who are in the studio every day playing for someone. They see it all, and the fact that they were fainting at the arraign-ments was just beautiful.”

It’s at this point that Caruso goes back into that gee-wiz mode that shoots out of him like happy ectoplasm when he’s hosting “Cast Party.” He’s clearly tapping into that golden era of popular music, when collaboration came not in the form of a few distant studio musicians, but massive ensembles of backup singers, cho-rus boys and multi-member orchestras. Finding strength in numbers suits him just fi ne. “I’ve always been lucky to surround myself with brilliant talent,” says Caruso — who grew up watching variety shows and wanting to be an Osmond brother. He’s achieved that dream in a roundabout but very satisfying way, creating on the stage and off a Mormon-sized family of friends who became collaborators.

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Sublime collaborators Billy Stritch (L) and Jim Caruso (R).

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COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLERIf you’re a true romantic, and lucky enough to be in love,

every day is Valentine’s Day — so good for you. But if you’re not the type to wear your heart on your sleeve by gifting that signifi cant other with grand and frequent gestures, pulling out all the stops for this annual articulation of love is a no-brainer.This year, in addition to lavishing them with the usual fl ow-ers and candy, think about employing some of these unique options. In the end, the effort you take just might equal the love you make. As for our single readers: Suck it up and let your coupled friends have their day in the sun — and remember, there’s no shame in sending fl owers to your-self. We all deserve love!

VICTORIAN VALENTINE’S DAY PARTYTonight you’re gonna party like it’s 1865 — and maybe

make love sweet love when once you’ve ripped the corset or bodice or top hat off your smartly-dressed date or lover or forbidden paramour. Theater company Stolen Chair has crafted a celebration with some serious Downtown bite. Their “Victorian Valentine’s Day Party” (suitable for couples as well as singles) encourages you to come in costume, try Victorian-themed drink specials and have your fortunes told by a master of Regina Victoria tarot. Proceeds from the event (including those generated from a silent auction) will help fund Stolen Chair’s 14th original work — “Cut Paste Corset Perfect” — a site-specifi c play inspired by the art of Victorian photocollage (premieres in mid-June). Sun., Feb. 13, 7-9pm at the Dove Parlour (228 Thompson St. btw. W. 3rd & Bleecker). $10 admission does not include drinks. For info, visit stolenchair.org.

BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE: LETTERS OF LOVE ON RIPPED PAPER

Buglisi Dance Theatre’s got the love bug this week, and they’re looking to spread it around — by way of a world premiere piece. Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi’s “Letters of Love on Ripped Paper” was inspired by the many forms of love expressed on the written page (romantic love, love of country, love of self). The choreography is stamped with the infl uence of letters from Pliny to Calpurnia; Queen Victoria to Prince Albert; Napoleon to Josephine; and Zelda to Scott.

Expressionistic and highly theatrical, Buglisi’s dancers are accompanied by an original score by Daniel Brewbaker (whose works have been performed by the likes of Yo-Yo

Far beyond fl owers and candyThings to do with your love

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Stolen Chair’s “Victorian Valentine’s Day Party” takes you back…way back.

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Photo by Paul B. Goode

Buglisi Dance Theatre’s latest takes its inspiration from love letters.

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Ma and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra). Completing this tribute to classic gestures of love: “Requiem” — a sensual work of Buglisi’s inspired by the 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (who used her brushes to express herself as an independent woman). Feb. 15-20 (Tues./Wed., 7:30pm; Thurs./Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2pm & 8pm; Sun., 7:30pm). A “Dance Chat” talk follows the Feb. 16 performance. At The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.). For Tickets ($10-$39), call 212-242-0800 or visit joyce.org. Also visit buglisidance.org.

BERGINO BASEBALL CLUBHOUSEIt’ll soon be spring — when a young man’s

fancy turns to thoughts of love…and baseball. Down two birds with one very memorable stone when you surprise the one you love with this unique, decorative and functional love-themed baseball. This handmade baseball is only $20 (includes a gift box and turf base stand). Available for purchase at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse (67 E. 11th St., in the landmarked Cast Iron Building). For info, call 212-226-7150 or visit bergino.com.

LOVE IN THE PARLORS: A VALENTINE IN CONCERT

The Merchant’s House Museum — NYC’s only family home preserved intact from the

mid-19th-century — offers an authentic fro-zen-in-time glimpse into the customs, morals and mindset of old New York. Their “Love in the Parlors” Valentine’s Day concert rec-reates the 19th-century tradition of “salon music” with vocal chamber works performed in an intimate parlor setting. The composi-tions, which address themes of love in all of its triumphs and failings, were chosen from repertoire written between 1801-1900. The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (MHM’s arts group in residence since 2004) provides the vocal talent. Mon., Feb.14, at 7pm (snow date Thurs., Feb. 17). At the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. Fourth

St. btw. Lafayette & Bowery). Tickets are $25 ($20 for students/seniors, $15 for MHM members). Reservations required. Call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/cal-endar.

FREE TANGO LESSONS & DANCINGReturn those tickets to Buenos Aires and

save yourself a trip to the airport. Arts World Financial Center has a better way to get a con-sensual pat-down — courtesy of free tango les-sons and dancing the night away to the sounds of the Hector Del Curto Tango Orchestra at the Winter Garden. The 10-musician ensemble will transform the glass-vaulted atrium into a grand

dancing ballroom. From 7pm to 9pm, couples will fuse at the hip to the jazzy, festive rhythms inspired by the traditional Argentinean style. A group instructor will provide tango lessons from 6pm to 7pm for those looking to brush up on their footwork. FREE. Mon., Feb. 14. At the World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey St.). For info, call 212-945-0505 or visit artsworldfi nancialcenter.com. Also visit hectordelcurto.com. Got plans for the eve-ning? Get a little afternoon delight with “The Winter Garden Milonga: Free Lunchtime Tango Performances and Lessons” — from 12-2pm on Feb. 14 (same address and contact info as the evening event).

Photo by Bergino

Get to fi rst base and beyond with this unique gift. See “Bergino.”

Far beyond fl owers and candyContinued from page 24

Most people know 80-year-old Jonathan Winters from his Maudie Frickert character — whose frequent appearances on Laugh-In gave the show a surreal bite that its political content couldn’t begin to match. Despite being idolized by comedians (and given his due as an early recipient of The Mark Twain Prize for Humor), Winters doesn’t enjoy the icon status of others from his golden era of performing. Perhaps that’s because his cerebral, improvisational, eccentric riffs are somewhat impenetrable on the fi rst viewing. So many cogs and gears are fi ring before his mouth opens, Winters’ comedy often comes across as the work of a truly, deeply mad genius.

That hint of insanity is brought out into the light of day in the new documentary “Certifi ably Jonathan.” Between various tes-timonials to his utterly unique comic chops, we see how Winters (a gifted painter) dreams of having his paintings hang in the Museum of Modern Art. After failed exhibitions in Beverly Hills and Las Vegas, he’s about to give up. Then in walk the fi lmmakers, who hunt down an infl uential art critic who believes Winters is “the missing link between Miro and Dali” and convinces the Museum of Modern Art to give him a show if he paints three new paintings. Many great artists thrive on deadlines, but some become para-lyzed by the imposed quest to produce great work. When his favorite painting is stolen, Winters loses his comic and artistic mojo, then goes on a quest to get it back. Helping

him on the road to Oz are Sarah Silverman, Howie Mandel, Nora Dunn, Ryan Stiles, Gary Owens and others. Running time: 1:20. Opens Fri., Feb. 11, at the Quad Cinema (34 W.13th St. btw. Fifth & Sixth). For screening times, call 212-255-2243 or visit quadcin-ema@aol.com. Filmmakers Jim Pasternak and Richard Marshall will be present for a Q&A session following the 7:40pm shows on Feb. 11 and 12.

FILM: CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN

Photo © Certifi ably Jonathan LLC

Crazy insane, or crazy clever…or a little bit of both?

LANTERN FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONThere’s more to celebrate than the fact that the days are getting longer. The H.T.

Chen & Dancers’ “Lantern Festival Celebration” will lighten your mind and spirit by providing food for thought (plus refreshments for the physical body). Appropriate for the whole family, the dances will range from the long-unseen romantic duet “Nocturne” to H.T. Chen’s “Big Brother” (performed by long-time Company dancer Renouard Gee) to the Chinese Lion Dance-inspired “Heart of Grace.” Also scheduled to be performed is “Warriors of Light” — a piece from Chinese Opera, which concerns the journey towards enlightenment. So brave the tail end of winter and get to know (or rediscover) what the Chen Dance Center has been doing right — and doing very well — since 1988. Thurs. through Fri., Feb. 17-19. Pre-show activities at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. At the Chen Dance Center (70 Mulberry St., corner of Mulberry & Bayard). For tickets ($15; $10 for stu-dents/seniors), call 212-349-0126. Seating is limited; reservations required.

Photo by Eddie Chen

H.T. Chen & Dancers, in the Lantern Festival Celebration.

26 Februar y 10 - 16, 2011

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NOTICE 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Maxi-mopino Café 1 LLC & Trust 3 Hospitality LLC to sell Beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 604 6th Avenue aka 68-70 West 13th Street NY, NY 10011.

Vil 1/27-2/3/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Hot Talk LLC d/b/a Horses to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 168 Elizabeth Street NY, NY 10012.

Vil 1/27-2/3/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF AIA HOLDINGS I LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/16/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 12/15/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: Averell H. Mortimer, 375 Park Ave., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10152. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Cen-terville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF ZLPI HOLDINGS, LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/1/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: Stuart Zim-mer, 535 Madison Ave., 6th 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 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF PACIFIC GATE ASIA, LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/10/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 8/9/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: Jeremy Reifer, 1350 Ave of the Americas, 4th Fl., NY, NY 10019. 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 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF

TREMBLANT ELS FUND

LP,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/1/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LP org. in DE 11/30/10. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Attn: Brett Barakett, 767 Fifth Ave., Fl. 12A, NY, NY 10153. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp.: any lawful activities.

1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUAL. OF

GREEN 28W44 MEZZ

LLC,

Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Offi ce loc.: NY County. LLC org. in DE 11/10/10. 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, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities.

1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF RELATED DIS-

TRESSED OPPORTUNITY

FUND I GP, L.P.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/11/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 06/01/10. Princ. offi ce of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpo-ration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19910. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF ELLERY HOLD-

INGS LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/12/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 11/18/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF R & J HANDBAGS,

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/17/10. 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, United State Corpora-tion Agents, Inc., Suite 202 7014 13th Avenue, Brook-lyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BECOME YOUR GREATNESS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. was fi led with SSNY on 11/10/10. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave. #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Pur-pose: all lawful activities.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CSRSL LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/23/10. 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, 6 East 43rd Street; New York, NY 10017. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION INTERJEWEL REALTY

LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 11/18/10. Off. loc. in New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o Mitchell J. Devack, PLLC, 90 Merrick AVe, Ste 500, E. Meadow, NY 11554. Purpose: Any lawful purpose, managed by man-agers.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION SYZYGY ADVISORS, LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 7/9/10. Off. loc. in New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o Frederic A. Nelson III, 325 W 76 St, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful purpose, managed by managers.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THOTH HOLDINGS

CO LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/11. Offi ce location: NY Co. SSNY designated 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 Ave. of the Americas, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10019, Attn: R. Adam Smith. Purpose: any lawful activi-ties.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ARMADALE RESIDENTIAL LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/6/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 4/15/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. Principal offi ce address: 224 E. 52nd, #PH, NY, NY 10022. Address to be maintained in DE: 16192 Coastal Hwy, Lewes, DE 19958. Arts of Org. fi led with DE Secy. Of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF EAST RIDGE

PROPERTIES LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/6/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 10/8/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, PO Box 64, Waccabuc, NY 10597, Attn: Kevin J. Boyle. DE address of LLC: c/o Unit-ed Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BLEECKER SPAGHET-

TO, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/7/10. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 232 Bleeck-er St., NY, NY. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MADISON/PUTNAM

DEVELOPER LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 3/2/10. 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 addr.: c/o CPC Resources, Inc., 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF TERROIR

GLOBAL, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 1/10/11. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 412 E. 12th St., NY, NY 10009. LLC formed in DE on 1/6/11. 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: all lawful purposes.

Vil 1/27-3/3/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Pub 138 Inc. d/b/a Local 138 to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 138 Ludlow Street NY, NY 10002.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Artichoke Mac-Dougal, LLC to sell beer only at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 111 MacDougal Street (South Store) NY, NY 10012.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Barraza Foods Inc. d/b/a Taqueria Lower East Side to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 198B Orchard Street NY, NY 10002.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Ottoman’s LLC d/b/a Peri Wine Bar to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 181 Essex Street NY, NY 10009.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by VSC Operat-ing Company d/b/a Union Square Cafe to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 19-21 East 16th Street NY, NY 10003.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by GT Operating Company d/b/a Gramercy Tavern to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 42 East 20th Street NY, NY 10003.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, no. 1250800, has been applied for by KIGS 508, LLC dba The Albert Hall to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at a restaurant located at 508 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10018, for on-premises con-sumption.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, no. 1250601, has been applied for by Gravy New York LLC dba Gravy to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at a restaurant located at 32 East 21st St., New York, NY 10010, for on-premises consumption.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, no. 1251383, has been applied for by L&D Hospitality Manage-ment LLC dba Kings Club to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at a restaurant located at 5 King St., New York, NY 10012, for on-premises consumption.

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CENTRAL PARK

CYCLING LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 33 Gold St. #612A, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LANE MAURER LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 537 MUSIC LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13 Ave. #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF MND, LLC

fi led with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on JANU-ARY 07, 2011. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Barton Barton & Plotkin LLP, 420 Lexington Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, New York. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

DREW DOGGETT PHO-TOGRAPHY, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/21/2010. 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 261 West 28th Street #3A New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

FAIRWAY CLINTON LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/2/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kriss & Feuerstein LLP C/O Kenneth P. Horowitz 360 Lexington Ave, 12th FL NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

MGCM I GP LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/17/2010. 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 38 E 61st Street New York, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF IACQUIRE, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/20/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 12/31/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Ste. 3083, Phoenix, AZ 85028. 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, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF MDG BENEFIT SOLU-

TIONS, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/29/ 2010. 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: MDG Benefi t Solutions, LLC, 1575 Boston Post Road, Guil-ford, CT 06437. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

INDOCHINE CAFÉ, LLC,

Arts, of Org. fi led with SSNY on 01/12/11. Off. Loc.: NY County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 70 Little West St., New York, NY 10004. Purpose to engage in any lawful act.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a peti-tion from Radiante LLC, to continue to, maintain, and operate an unenclosed side-walk at 131 Duane Street, in the Borough of Manhat-tan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the proposed revocable consent may be addressed to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broad-way, New York, NY 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF 360 EAST 88TH ST.

26C LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/14/10. 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: 360 East 88th St. 26C LLC, 8 Madonia Court, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

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

28 Februar y 10 - 16, 2011

P U B L I C N O T I C E SNOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that license number 1250939 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 174 Bleecker Street, First Floor and Base-ment, New York, N.Y. 10012 for on-premises consump-tion. CMB Restaurant Group, LLC d/b/a The Mussel Pot

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that license number 1251196 has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 529 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 for on-premises consump-tion. RF HUDSON (DE) LLC d/b/a RedFarm

Vil 2/3-2/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF JP SOUTHWAY LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/10. 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 Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, Attn: Melissa Singer Bernard, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ARCHITECTURAL

HOLDINGS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/04. 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, Attn: James Dolan, 135 W. 27th St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RYDER MADISON

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 9/16/10. 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 Mitchell Holdings LLC, 41 E. 60th St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BBSC NEW YORK

CITY, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 6/11/10. 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, 31 Jane Street, Apt 2C, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF FULBROOK MANAGEMENT, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 1/11/11. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1185 Ave of the Americas, 30th Fl., NY, NY 10035. LLC formed in DE on 1/10/11. NY Sec. of State des-ignated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o National Regis-tered Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 875 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 501, NY, NY 10001. DE addr. of LLC: c/o NRAI, 160 Green-tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 2/3-3/10/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a Liquor License (# Pend-ing) has been applied for by B&R SORRENTO CORP., dba La Nonna, to sell, liquor, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 134 Mulberry Street, New York City, NY for on-premises consumption.

Vil 2/10-2/17/11

LUCKY 128 MOTT LLC

Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 01/12/2011. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 139 Centre Street, Suite PH# 138, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SSD WEBSITE, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/11. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 29 W. 36th St., NY, NY 10018. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/10-3/17/10

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF GP & GM CAPI-

TAL, LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/26/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 01/21/11. Princ. offi ce of LLC: Attn: Raphael Rabin-Havt, 509 W. 110th St., 4E, NY, NY 10025. 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 Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

ALPA LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 11/5/10. Off. loc. in New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o With-ers Bergman LLP, 157 Church St, 19th Fl, New Haven, CT 06510. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

FARMERSWEB LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/29/2010. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Dave Ross 10 W 15th St Apt 815 New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF FROGS CONSULT-

ING LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 165 Christopher St. #5D, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF STRATEGIC PHYSI-

CAL THERAPY, PLLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/14/2011. Offi ce location: Queens 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: Strate-gic Physical Therapy PLLC, 84-54 250th Street, Belle-rose, NY 11426. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN THAT

license number 1251081 has been applied for by the under-signed to sell liquor retail in a restaurant under the Alco-holic Beverage Control Law at 316 Columbus Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10023 for on-premises consumption. PAP-PARDELLA REST CORP d/b/a PAPPARDELLA

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF 308-340 WEST 49TH

STREET, LLC

amended to CSAI LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/01. 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 princ. bus. loc.: The LLC, 6 Grace Avenue, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF BBH REAL

ESTATE INCOME SERIES

FUND II, L.P.

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 12/6/10. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 140 Broadway, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LP: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 615 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.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF BLDG BLEECK-

ER LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

1/20/11. Offi ce location: NY

County. LLC formed in Dela-

ware (DE) on 1/18/11. SSNY

designated as agent of LLC

upon whom process against

it may be served. SSNY shall

mail process to: c/o Bldg.

Management Co., Inc., 417

Fifth Ave., 4th Fl., NY, NY

10016. DE address of LLC: c/o

United Corporate Services,

Inc., 874 Walker Rd., Ste. C,

Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org.

fi led with DE Secy. of State,

Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE

19901. Purpose: any lawful

activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LION EQUITIES L.L.C.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY

Dept. of State on 2/18/10.

Offi ce location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served and shall mail pro-

cess to the principal business

addr.: c/o DeGaetano & Carr,

488 Madison Ave., NY, NY

10022. Purpose: any lawful

activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF GEORGETOWN

434 LESSEE, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept.

of State on 1/19/11. Offi ce

location: NY County. Princ.

bus. addr.: 667 Madison Ave.,

23rd Fl., NY, NY 10065. LLC

formed in DE on 11/12/10.

NY Sec. of State designated

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served and shall mail pro-

cess to: c/o Corporation Ser-

vice Co., 80 State St., Albany,

NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC:

2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,

Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert.

of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of

State, 401 Federal St., Dover,

DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful

purposes.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF SERVCO LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept.

of State on 1/13/11. NYS fi cti-

tious name: ServCo (NY) LLC.

Offi ce location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 7/14/09.

NY Sec. of State designated

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served and shall mail pro-

cess to: 645 Fifth Ave., NY,

NY 10022. DE address of LLC:

c/o Corporation Service Co.,

2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,

Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert.

of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of

State, 401 Federal St., Dover,

DE 19901. Purpose: any law-

ful activity.

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More than 50 years later, in a personal communication in 1998, Gloria tells of that trip to Alaska, and of her long friendship with Fred Fleck, which survived well after they had divorced:

“We bicycled for nearly three months across the U.S. — up to Canada — the Yukon Territory, White Horse, and 3,000 miles of Alcan Highway. The American Army built that high-way in the wilderness in 9 months during the 2nd World War.

“When twilight would fall we would put up a small nylon tent by the side of the road. Fred would recite poems from the ‘Leaves of Grass’ and ‘The Waking’ by Theodore Roethke and also read from Gibran’s ‘The Prophet.’ It was a happy and exciting time.

“Finally, we rolled into Fairbanks, 2nd largest city in Alaska. Only two streets were paved. It was truly the ‘last frontier’ in 1947. Fred went on to enroll in the University of Alaska, high on a hill, where he spent his free time skiing.

“He traded in our trusty bicycles for a small room in John and Lotti Pace’s house. The house must have been at least 150 years old. You had to be brave to get out in the minus 10 degrees weather to use the ‘outhouse.’ There was no modern plumbing. Another feature of that warm, loving home was an old fashioned wood stove in the kitchen. We enjoyed many a delicious meal with the Pace family.

“Fred and I have kept in touch throughout the years. He has helped me from time to time in family matters and I am proud and glad he is still in my life.”

The years following that trip to Alaska with Gloria, Fred traveled a fair bit, working and living in various places — from New York City, to the Alaskan tundra, to Arizona. From 1948 to 1953, he worked with Ed Fancher as a trucker in New York City, while attending the New School for Social Research. He worked as a school maintenance man in an Eskimo village in Kasigluk, Alaska, from 1951 to 1952. In the summers of 1951 to 1953, he worked as an Alaska tugboat cook on the Kuskokwim River, and as a longshoreman. During 1951 to 1953, Fred also worked as a social worker in Arizona, in Holbrook and on the White River Apache Indian Reservation.

Ed Fancher recounts this period in Fred’s life in a per-sonal communication in 1998, when friends and family contributed to a book of memories, to be presented to Fred on his 80th birthday:

“When Fred returned from that Alaska adventure he went to Fordham where he fi nished his B.A. and then to the New School for Social Research, for his M.A. in psychology. We were both living on the $150 a month from the G.I. Bill of Rights, so we needed a little extra income. I had a 1937 Plymouth pickup truck at the time, so Fred and I started the Fancher and Fleck Trucking Company, shortened to F & F Trucking, to supplement our income. We did light moving in the Village mostly, but much of our business seemed to be moving 18-year-old girls from their families in Brooklyn or Queens to Village tenements where they could become ‘liberated’ and Bohemian.

“By 1955, after further adventures in Alaska, Arizona, etc., Fred returned to New York and became a student at the School of Social Work of Columbia University, where

he succeeded in persecuting the school to the point of get-ting himself kicked out. While he was suing Columbia over his dismissal, Dan Wolf and I were planning to launch the Village Voice. Fred was our fi rst employee.”

The fi rst issue of the Village Voice, Vol. 1, No. 1, carried as its lead story, “Village Trucker Sues Columbia,” which told of Fred Fleck’s battle with Columbia:

“A 36-year-old Village trucker, expelled from the New York School of Social Work of Columbia University in March, claims that his expulsion was improper and is suing the University for $50,000. Papers in the suit were served Monday.

“Frederick Fleck of Christopher Street was expelled from the school on March 23rd of this year — the day after a signed editorial critical of the school’s training methods appeared in a student publication of which he was editor. Fleck claims — and the school’s spokesmen deny — that he was expelled because of his editorial criticism. …”

In 1956, while living in Greenwich Village, Fred met and married Judith Parke White, daughter of Margaret Marshall and Hal Saunders White. Fred and Judy drove across the country to Short Creek, Arizona/Utah (Short Creek spanned both sides of the border between the states) in the summer of 1956. In this polygamist village, Fred worked as a social worker and a teacher. Across the next decade, he continued to work as a school teacher in six different school districts in the four corners of Arizona, including such places as Ft. Huachuca, Naco, Douglas and Chinle. From 1965 through 1966, Fred studied at the University of Arizona in Tucson, receiving an M.A. in education.

In 1966, Fred and his family moved to Southern California, where he remained until his death. Fred worked as a reading specialist at Ontario High School until 1985, when he retired to take care of his son, who had A.L.S.

After moving to Southern California, where Fred and his family had somewhat “settled,” they continued to travel dur-ing the summers — across the country and to Mexico — for the next couple of decades. In the 1990’s, in his 70’s and 80’s, with his children grown, Fred maintained his pattern of traveling to visit family and friends — crossing the country to New York, driving to Mexico and traveling to Europe. Living independently until he was 87, Fred then moved to an apartment four blocks from his son’s house, where the fam-ily could help care for him. At 90, Fred moved into his son’s

house in Granada Hills, Cal., where he spent the last two years of his life. Over the years, the memories that remained the most vivid, and which stood out the most, were those of that bicycle trip to Alaska and the time he had spent in the 10th Mountain Division.

Frederick Samuel Fleck outlived at least three of his four wives — Gloria, Judy and Ethel — and one child, Daniel. Fred is survived by his sisters, Sophie and Adele; his children, Barbara, Annie, Catherine, Mika, Carol and David; and his grandchildren, Nicolas, Ellie, Nathan, Zoe, Elliot and Ian.

On Sat., Jan. 22, 2011, a funeral service was held for Fred Fleck in Granada Hills. At this service — which was held in the home he had lived in for the last part of his life — Fred’s long, adventurous and well-lived life was celebrated, as was his passion for life, and his extraordinary and deep commitment to family and friends. He will be missed by many.

The story of the man who rode with ‘South St. Annie’Continued from page 19

Gloria and Fred on the Alcan Highway in Canada during their cross-country ride.

Fred Fleck at age 91.

The 1950’s saw him working in Alaska as a school maintenance man in an Eskimo village and asa tugboat cook.

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