BY LINCOLN ANDERSONWhile it’s been fi rmly established

by now that there’s no such concept as “land locking” in New York City zoning regulations, it’s also been estab-lished that some people are simply unwilling to accept that fact.

Shouting, “Land lock now!” four protesters were arrested inside the for-mer St. Vincent’s Hospital after they had staged a demonstration there for more than an hour on Feb. 8. “Land lock” advocates Melvyn Stevens, Alan Bounville, Evette Stark-Katz and Iana Di Bona were themselves locked up and held overnight down at The Tombs

in what Stark-Katz later called, “hor-rible conditions.”

The four activists are members of Hands Off St. Vincent’s, which seeks to get a new hospital offering Level 1 trauma care in part of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital facilities. However, the property — in the heart of upscale Greenwich Village — is the chief asset for paying off the bankrupt former Catholic hospital’s colossal $1 billion debt to its creditors.

Jonah Price, a Hands Off St. Vincent’s member, said the four activ-ists pleaded not guilty to the charge of trespassing, claiming, “the hospital was

closed illegally to begin with.” Meanwhile, it’s been hard to fi nd

out much about what’s actually going on with the shuttered Greenwich Village hospital. Before St. Vincent’s closed for good last April, the Rudin Organization had a plan in place to res-identially redevelop the hospital’s main campus on the east side of Seventh Ave. between 11th and 12th Sts.; in turn, the property’s sale to Rudin would have helped fund construction of a new, state-of-the-art St. Vincent’s hospital tower on the avenue’s west

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BY SCOTT STIFFLER A luncheon/launch

event on Feb. 1 for a new-concept school drew a capacity crowd in Chelsea, but the focus went far beyond the Lower West Side locale.

I nv i t ed commun i t y members, parents and education advocates — including former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein; Teach for America C.E.O. Wendy Kopp; and CUNY

Chancellor Matthew Goldstein — politely lis-tened and occasionally nodded affirmation as leaders of Avenues: The World School put forth their plan for fall 2012. That’s the preordained time when 259 10th Ave. — a 1928 former ware-house that bears the mark of renowned architect Cass Gilbert — will make its

Shoppers give love,and bucks, to helpailing stores’ healthBY LINCOLN ANDERSON

Trying to inject some much-needed fi nancial aid into local businesses hard hit by the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital last April, the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce and local politicians teamed up last Saturday to host a shop-ping fest and raffl e event dubbed “A Valentine for the Village.”

The event lasted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., during which time participants made pur-chases from merchants and restaurants in the triangular

area bounded by Greenwich and Sixth Aves. and 14th St.

The shoppers got a sendoff from local elect-ed offi cials — including Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler and state Senator Tom Duane, along with Tony Juliano, the cham-ber’s president — reminding them of the importance of revitalizing the neighbor-hood’s economy through their dollars.

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Eye on Bosnia, 15 years later On Feb. 9, at New York University’s Kimmel Center for Student Life on Washington Square South, former President Bill Clinton gave remarks, above, at the Clinton Foundation’s panel discussion “America at a Crossroads: The Dayton Accords and the Beginning of 21st Century Diplomacy.” Below, ABC News anchor Christiane Amanpour interviewed Bakir Izetbegovic, left, the Bosniak member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Signed in December 1995, the Dayton Accords was the general peace agreement putting an end to the three-and-a-half-year-long war in Bosnia. Other panelists on Feb. 9 included Madeline Albright, former U.S. secretary of state; former General Wesley Clark; Ivo Josipovic, president of the Republic of Croatia; and Catherine Ashton, European Union high representative.

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MOOSE DOES SINATRA FOR DORIS: Friends threw Doris Diether of Community Board 2 a party for her 82nd birthday earlier this month at fellow board member Keen Berger’s home in the West Village. The highlight was David Marin and his Moose puppet serenading Diether with Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft.” The veteran community activist loves watching Marin perform with his “Castle Critters” puppets in Washington Square Park, the Moose being her favorite. On C.B. 2 since 1964, Diether is Manhattan’s longest-serving com-munity board member. Sharon Woolums organized the party.

BOYZ ’N’ GIRLZ N THE HOOD(S): The hot item at this year’s Greenwich Village Little League Opening Day on Sat., April 9, at Pier 40 will be new offi cial G.V.L.L. hoodies. Thanks to sponsorship that has gone through the roof for this year’s season, Dan Miller, the league’s president tells us, everyone will be sporting a cool hoodie.

OOPS! The Web address given in our issue two weeks ago for people to vote for the Lower Eastside Girls Club to win $50,000 in the DVF Foundation’s People’s Choice Awards, unfortunately, did not go to the right page, but to a porn chat room! We’re sure that someone we spoke to at the girls club over the phone gave us that address, but whatever. Predictably, the blooper produced a mixture of shock and hilarity. The last day of voting was Feb. 15.

IN THE ZONE: Our breaking-news story about Trinity Real Estate’s plans to rezone Hudson Square in last week’s issue should have noted that the 3,000 to 3,500 new residents Trinity predicts will be added to the neighborhood under the rezoning would be over a 10-year period. In addition, residential projects would get a bonus of F.A.R. (fl oor area ratio) for adding afford-able housing, but would not get extra height, since building heights would be capped. Also, while building heights would be capped on both narrow streets and midblocks at 185 feet, or

about 18 stories, the F.A.R. would be lower on the midblocks. Finally, the article should have stated that Hudson Square’s retail — not commercial — vacancy rate is 30 percent. … Interesting to note, at last Thursday’s presentation of the plan to Community Board 2’s Land Use and Business Development Committee, the slide showing the rendering of the school to be included in the tower Trinity hopes to build at Duarte Square was renamed P.S. 100. The tower would be 429 feet tall, and the school’s previous name on the rendering we had seen was P.S. 429 — apparently, a sort of architects’ inside joke.

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The clinic, with physicians, surgeons and supporting staff bilingual in Chinese and English, brings specialty medical services treating heart, vascular, lung, chest, gastrointestinal and cancer conditions to Chinatown residents.

“The opening of this new group demonstrates another strong union between New York’s Asian community and Beth Israel,” said Dr. Harris M. Nagler, president of Beth Israel Medical Center. Beth Israel’s Asian Services Center, which includes the Chinatown Multispecialty Group, has a long track record of working with local Chinese-American physicians and community leaders to provide quality health-care to the community, Nagler said.

The group aims to work with local physicians to pro-vide outpatient needs in Chinatown by bridging the gap and to provide a continuity of care throughout the entire process from outpatient evaluation to hospital treatment and intervention, to post-operative care and follow-up, said Martin S. Karpeh Jr., chairperson of Beth Israel’s Department of Surgery.

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Dead in Baruch elevator

Police responding to a 911 call at 4:58 a.m. Sat., Feb. 12, found a woman with mul-tiple stab wounds to her back in the elevator of a Baruch Houses building at 555 F.D.R. Drive. The victim was pronounced dead on arrival at Beth Israel Hospital. Police with-held the identity of the victim, described only as a 30-year-old Hispanic woman, pend-ing family notifi cation. The case is under investigation.

Sway stabbings

First Precinct police responded to a report of a brawl at Sway lounge, 305 Spring St., at 2:36 a.m. Tues., Feb. 8, and found one man bleeding from a laceration of his scalp. An Emergency Medical Service team took the injured man to Bellevue Hospital, where he was described as being in stable condi-tion. Police learned that a second man, 25, had been stabbed in the stomach earlier and made his way on his own to New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he was said to be in stable condition. A third man in the

brawl walked into Downtown Hospital on Gold St. with a laceration to his ear, police said. There were no arrests and the case is under investigation.

East Village bag bandit

Hector Diaz, 46, was arrested Wed., Feb. 9, and charged with four muggings in the East Village between Dec. 5 and Feb. 6. On Dec. 5 at about 4:30 p.m., Diaz grabbed a woman walking on E. Seventh St. between Avenues A and B, demanded her bag and fl ed with it, according to charges fi led by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.

On Dec. 19, the suspect followed a woman into her building near E. Sixth St. and First Ave. around 4 a.m., put a letter opener to her neck and grabbed her bag and fl ed, the complaint says.

On Jan. 3, Diaz tackled a woman walk-ing near E. 13th St. and First Ave. around 4 a.m., grabbed her bag and fl ed, police said.

Diaz followed a woman into her building on E. Sixth St. near Avenue C around 2:26 a.m. Sun., Feb. 6, grabbed her bag, stabbed her thumb with a pen when she resisted and made off with the bag.

Bogus bellhop

A woman visitor checked into the Sheraton Four Points, 66 Charlton St., Mon., Feb. 14, and saw a man she thought was a bellhop taking her bags from the front desk to the conference room shortly after noon, police. She left for two hours and returned to learn that her bags were missing. The hotel surveillance camera showed a man who was not a hotel employee picking up the luggage and walking off, police said.

Arrested again

Matthew Francis, 21, who is awaiting trial for beating and attempting to rob a gay man last Oct. 3 inside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher St., was arrested with an accomplice on Staten Island on Mon., Feb. 7, for beating a homeless man and assaulting two offi cers.

Francis and Lattea Tate, 19, were charged with beating the victim, who was trying to buy drugs from the suspects during the early morning hours on Monday. Police arrested the pair near the scene in Port Richmond, S.I., where Francis resisted being handcuffed and kicked the arresting offi cer, police said. Later, Francis punched another cop in the shoulder who was putting him in a holding cell in the 120th Precinct, according to reports. Francis is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Party out of bounds

The Queen of Hearts, a Hudson River party boat berthed at Pier 40 during the summer, was reported adrift in the Hudson River around 10 a.m. Tues., Feb. 8, after high winds blew her from her winter moor-ing in Lincoln Harbor in New Jersey. A police harbor unit tied up to the unoccupied vessel to stop it from drifting, and held it until a tugboat arrived to tow it back to its berth in New Jersey, police said.

East River DOA

The N.Y.P.D. Harbor Unit pulled from the East River the body of a man who jumped from the Manhattan Bridge on Thursday morning Feb. 10. A witness who spotted the man jumping phoned 911 at around 7 a.m. The victim was not identifi ed pending family notifi cation.

Boutique robberies

Police arrested Anthony Gilliam, 49, and Albert Anderson, 48, for robbing shops in Chinatown and Soho and on the Upper East Side between Jan. 21 and Feb. 3, and tying up and beating the employees. Gilliam, who was arrested Feb. 9, was charged with robbing a shop at 199 Prince St. on the afternoon of Feb. 3 with Anderson. They

threatened to kill the woman attendant and attempted to tie her hands behind her back, police said. She managed to escape after the pair fl ed, police said.

On Jan. 25, the suspects entered a shop at 75 Baxter St. at 4:50 p.m., where one of them punched the woman attendant in the face, dragged her to the bathroom in the store’s rear and bound her hands with plastic ties, according to the charges.

On Jan. 21, the suspects entered a bou-tique at 533 Third Ave. at E. 35th St., where one of them grabbed the woman attendant by the neck. The two suspects bound the vic-tim’s hands and legs and took her bag before fl eeing, according to the charges.

The suspects are being held pending a March 1 court appearance, according to a spokesperson for Manhattan D.A. Vance.

French Connection bust

Police arrested Bradley Jones, 53, on Feb. 4 and charged him with larceny for stealing three jackets with a total value of $1,104 from the French Connection boutique, 435 West Broadway near Prince St., on Jan. 5. Jones shoplifted the three jackets at 3:15 p.m. and fl ed with them. His arrest was attributed to a surveillance tape.

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Gerald Degerolamo, 65, was sentenced on Feb. 8 to fi ve-and-a-half years in prison for the Dec. 26, 2009, Macing and mugging of a man in the vestibule of a building at 125 Christopher St. Degerolamo had lured the victim to the building on the pretext of buying an expensive engage-ment ring that the victim had advertised on Craigslist. At the rendezvous, Degerolamo blast-ed the victim with a can of Mace, grabbed the ring and fl ed. A New York Post item said that, despite being temporarily blinded, the victim, 31, followed Degerolamo and wrested the ring from him. The Post item identifi ed Degerolamo as a Luchese crime family associate.

Wild man attacks PEP

A disturbed man who ran around Washington Square Park on Thursday after-noon Feb. 10 screaming at people, knocked down a female Parks Enforcement Patrol offi cer who had asked him to calm down. The man kicked the PEP offi cer as she lay on the pavement and fl ed.

Work-site burglar

Police arrested Matthew Miller, 34, around 2 a.m. Sun., Feb. 13, when they caught him in the closed construction site at 341 Bleecker St. Miller entered the building by breaking the glass front door, according to the charges of commercial burglary fi led by D.A. Vance.

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Baby food ’n’ briefs

The manager of the CVS at 20 University Place apprehended a suspect who walked out at 4:30 p.m. Tues., Feb. 1, without paying for four packages of infant milk formula and two packs of men’s briefs, with a total value of $95, tucked into a shopping bag, police said. The manager wrestled the suspect, David Kelly, 27, to the ground and held him for police, who charged him with larceny. A neighbor who was entering the store at the time said she heard the suspect admit that he had stolen the items but asked to be released because he had “given them back.”

Fake tickets

Police arrested Alphonso Clark, 39, for pos-session of a forged instrument on Sat., Feb. 12. The suspect is charged with selling false concert tickets to a teenage girl in front of 40 E. 14th St. at University Place. Police discovered the

suspect also had six other fake concert tickets.

Auto stripper

Police arrested Carlos Manuel, 43, at 7:30 p.m. Tues., Feb. 8, after two witnesses told police they saw him breaking into a rear passenger-side window of a car parked at the curb in front of 496 LaGuardia Place between Houston and W. Third Sts. Police said Manuel has been convicted of several auto-stripping charges in the past fi ve years.

Funny money

Wilfred Robert, 30, was arrested on Sat., Feb. 5, for trying to buy DVD’s from a store at 813 Broadway between 11th and 12th Sts. with counterfeit $20 bills. He was also in possession of three stolen credit cards, police said.

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side on the site of the O’Toole Pavilion. After the hospital went under, Rudin,

understandably, was still seen as having the inside track on getting the property. Rudin had already developed a plan for the site, incorporating several of the hospital’s historic buildings for reuse, as required by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. Having to keep some of the former hospital’s build-ings, while pleasing to preservationists, low-ered the property’s sale value, since it would be more desirable to developers to raze the entire

site and build anew. Clearly, Rudin still covets the prime real estate location.

Back in early December, John Gilbert, Rudin’s C.O.O., told this newspaper, “The Rudin family is in negotiations with St. Vincent’s to develop a solution that benefi ts creditors and the community, while ensuring the delivery of healthcare to the people of Greenwich Village.”

It was unclear whether Gilbert meant Rudin planned to incorporate some health-care feature into its new building, or would do something health-related off-site.

At that same time, a St. Vincent’s spokes-person indicated that the former hospital

might be seeking to get out of the deal with Rudin.

Speaking in early December, the spokes-person told this newspaper: “St. Vincent’s has a contract with Rudin Management dat-ing from 2007 for $305 million. The Rudin organization has proposed material changes to that contract and we continue to negoti-ate with them. However, St. Vincent’s fi ling for bankruptcy allows for the rejection of any contracts, and material changes could be the basis for such a rejection. Our reten-tion of CBRE is to assist us to explore all of the options. We are hopeful we can reach an agreement with Rudin Management that maximizes the most value for our creditors and, ideally, would provide a healthcare solution for the community.”

“CBRE” refers to real estate brokerage CB Richard Ellis, which the Bankruptcy Court — about a week after the above state-ments were made — granted permission to market the former St. Vincent’s buildings.

Neither Rudin nor St. Vincent’s spokes-person, Veronica Sullivan, responded when asked for specifi cs as to what the “material changes” to Rudin’s plan might be that could be used as potential grounds for breaking the contract — though some speculate it’s that Rudin probably now simply wants the property for a lower price.

As of earlier this month, however, it sounded like talks between Rudin and St. Vincent’s had warmed up and the two were

once again trying to work something out: On Feb. 1, Sullivan said in an e-mail, “St. Vincent’s continues to negotiate with Rudin Management for a viable solution.”

On Wed., Feb. 16, asked if there was any change to the situation and how things were going with the marketing of the property, Sullivan responded in an e-mail, “I have no update for you. Will keep you posted.”

After the hospital closed, some insiders had speculated that Bankruptcy Court would order the St. Vincent’s property put up for auction and that it would be sold quickly. So far, though, there has been no word of an auction of the hospital’s physical campus — though an auction of the hospital’s entire contents was held in December.

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Parker fi ghts povertyGary Parker has been appointed deputy direc-

tor of New York University’s McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy, Practice and Research. The institute was launched by N.Y.U.’s Silver School of Social Work in late 2009. Through the institute, Parker will develop partnerships with area social-service agencies to undertake broad, complex, in-depth efforts to address issues sur-rounding poverty. Parker’s new position will utilize his training as a social worker, advocate and community organizer. He will continue as director of N.Y.U.’s Offi ce of Government and Community Affairs through Feb. 25.

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BY JOHN BAYLES Last week, state Senator Daniel Squadron

was recognized by United Neighborhood Houses, a nonprofi t organization that pro-motes and advocates for settlement houses and their communities throughout New York City.

As the inaugural recipient of the Settlement House Champion Award, Squadron was honored specifi cally for his role in securing $9 million in state funding for settlement house programs and for his overall dedica-tion to the issue since he arrived on the scene in Albany two years ago.

The roots of his advocacy on behalf of these communities, 38 of which exist as members of U.N.H., can be traced to their high concentration in the district Squadron represents, which includes the East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Lower Manhattan and part of Brooklyn.

Among local settlement houses that received funding thanks to Squadron’s efforts were the Chinese American Planning Council, the Educational Alliance, Grand

Street Settlement in Chinatown, Hamilton-Madison House, Henry Street Settlement and University Settlement.

The settlement housing model focuses on vulnerable populations, including young chil-dren, senior citizens and the homeless, as well as people with mental illness. Each settlement house community has programs designed to nurture individuals from childhood through adulthood and into old age by providing ser-vices geared to their specifi c needs.

“We thought Senator Squadron to be an extraordinary example of commitment, tenacity and generosity when it came to these communities,” said Nancy Wackstein, U.N.H. executive director.

“We didn’t even need to lobby for this money,” said Wackstein. “Senator Squadron’s efforts were assisted greatly by Assembly Speaker Silver. Their districts overlap and they both share the commitment to the cause.”

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BY ALINE REYNOLDSA new facility for recovering alcoholics

and substance abusers will open on West Broadway in August, and the community is giving its support.

The Hazelden Foundation, a private addiction treatment organization based in Minnesota, will offer lodging, counseling and mentorship to young adults ages 18 to 29 for six to 12 months at a time. The foundation purchased a six-story building at 283 West Broadway in December that was recently gutted and transformed into a brand-new living space.

Manhattan is starved for centers that cater to addicts working toward sobriety, according to Mark Mishek, president and chief executive offi cer of Hazelden, who pre-sented the plan to the Community Board 1 Tribeca Committee last week. A survey that Hazelden sent out to some 85 universities and colleges in the tri-state area showed a strong need for the facility in the borough.

“It’s a huge opportunity to be able to make a difference with a population that really has a need here,” he said. “We have to provide them with an environment where they can be successful, healthy and produc-tive citizens who are sober.”

The center will target youths that are enrolled in nearby colleges. Though the facility will not serve as an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting spot, it will offer coun-seling, a 12-step abstinence program and

other services for addicts on the road to recovery.

The group counseling sessions will also be open to community members from Downtown and around the city.

The center will forge partnerships with mental-health service providers, accord-ing to Mishek, since alcoholism is often coupled with anxiety, depression and other mental disorders. It will also collaborate with schools’ health-service departments to help evaluate and treat the resident youths.

The foundation will be announcing a partnership with a nearby major medical center in the next week, Mishek said.

Youths will be encouraged to stay at the residence over the summer to participate in internships or fellowships, and, down the line, the center hopes to help them secure full- and part-time jobs.

The former addicts will face tremendous temptations to drink and do drugs, both on and off school grounds.

“With the support and sobriety life they’re going to be living, they’ll have to be comfort-able walking by the bar when they come home,” said Mishek.

“This is a badly needed facility,” said Jean Grillo, a Tribeca Democratic district leader and public member of C.B. 1. “We need the ability to treat young people who have drug and alcohol addiction issues.”

Treating college students in the neighbor-

hood they live in, she said, is ideal. “We could all be sober on a desert

island,” she said. “It makes sense to have treatment in the community so you can deal with the temptations.”

It also saves families the typically high costs, she said, of sending the youths to out-of-state facilities.

Security cameras inside the building will monitor activity, there will be a curfew, and at least one staff member will be on site 16 hours a day, seven days a week. The staff will also conduct periodic searches for booze

and drugs to make sure the young adults are staying sober.

Meshik plans to attend the next First Precinct Community Council meeting to present the plans for the new Downtown center and address any safety or security concerns residents have.

Lodging fees have yet to be determined, Mishek said, but the costs will parallel the average prices of off-campus college dorm rooms. Students will be able to pay using college loans and other means of fi nancial assistance.

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The section under evaluation is bounded by Houston St. to the north, Chambers St. to the south, and the Hudson and East rivers.

The fi rst CATS study, conducted in 2002, led to the city’s adding higher-visibility crosswalks to Canal St.; the renaming of traffi c signals and repairing of streetlights along the boulevard; and addressing traffi c-sign problems at the Holland Tunnel and

Manhattan Bridge. Data compiled for the study includes

traffi c and pedestrian counts, travel time and delay information, parking surveys and accident data, according to the report.

Based on the study’s results, N.Y.M.T.C. recommends widening sidewalks in the area; the continuation of truck restrictions for the Holland Tunnel; and keeping Canal St. as a two-way thoroughfare with left-turn restric-tions at certain intersections.

N.Y.M.T.C. also suggested adding a num-ber of features, including high-occupancy vehi-cle lanes on the Manhattan Bridge; real-time signs encouraging the use of alternate routes to Canal St., such as the West Side Highway; and a park management plan for the area.

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than $10 was good for one raffl e ticket at raffl es held every half-hour at the Lesbian and Gay Center on W. 13th St. Free T-shirts — with “Love the Village” printed on the front and “Live Here, Love Here, Shop Here” on the back — were given to the fi rst 100 participants to show receipts totaling $10 or more from three stores.

According to Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s Offi ce, receipts totaling more than $2,500 were collected. About 50 people par-ticipated in the shop-a-thon. Local merchants donated 26 raffl e prizes, among them Tea & Sympathy, Murray’s Cheese (“lunch-sack specials” coupons), Whole Foods Market in Chelsea, Bee Deserts and Cafe, Magnolia Bakery (two gift coupons for a dozen cup-cakes each), Partners & Crime bookstore, Chelsea Piers, the McBurney YMCA (a free six-month membership), Tio Pepe restau-rant, Citarella, Rizza salon, Roasting Plant Coffee Company (mugs, coffee, hats and T-shirts) and the Fire Store (sweatshirts).

Two raffl e prizes remain — as do a few bags of T-shirts. Not everyone took T-shirts on Saturday, including some Community Board 2 members and other activists, who said others should get them.

Glick is reportedly thinking of organizing a bigger event along similar lines, but details were not available at press time.

To enter the raffl e for the two remain-ing prizes, send receipts from three busi-nesses within the designated area totaling

at least $10 (people may enter more than once) by Feb. 28 to Glick’s offi ce, either by mail: Assemblymember Deborah Glick, 853

Broadway, Suite 1518, New York, NY 10003; fax, 212-674-5530; or e-mail, parsonl@nysa.us . The drawing will be March 1.

Showing love to stores ailing after hospital closing

Photos by Norman Borden

Assemblymember Deborah Glick explaining how “A Valentine for the Village” worked before the event’s start on Saturday. At far left is Congressmember Jerrold Nadler and at far right is Tony Juliano, Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce president.

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Douglas Woessner, left, an owner of The Roasting Plant Coffee Company at Greenwich and Seventh Aves., with G.V.C.C.C.’s Juliano, during Saturday’s shopping-support event. Woessner — who also has a Roasting Plant on Orchard St. on the Lower East Side — said he opened the Greenwich Village location six months before St. Vincent’s announced its closing. He’d been expecting the new hospital’s new tower to be built up the block.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Genevieve Philactos, a resident for more than 50 years

in the Village where she was a former board member of her LaGuardia Place co-op and active in St. Joseph’s Church, died Wed., Feb. 9, at age 91.

She had been on dialysis for the past fi ve years and col-lapsed at home, said her daughter, Angela. She was rushed to Beth Israel Hospital where she died in her daughter’s arms.

“Life was hard for her these past few years but she didn’t give up; she did not go gentle into that good night,” her daughter said. “She was a great cook and cooked regularly until a year ago. She was over 90 and never mentioned her age. We had to whisper whenever we spoke about it.”

Born in Belleville, N.J., to Angelina and Nicola Scaperotta on Aug. 21, 1919, Genevieve — known as Gina — gradu-ated with honors from Belleville High School. In the years surrounding World War II, she worked as a secretary in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where she met her husband-to-be, George Philactos, a young Navy offi cer. They married in 1949 and soon settled in Greenwich Village, on Bank St. where they raised four children.

“She shared her enthusiasm for New York with all of us,” her daughter said. “She took us to the New York World’s Fair in 1964, to St. Anthony’s Feast and Broadway plays. She introduced us to the array of art, music and dance in the Village and throughout the city.”

As her children grew up, Gina took short-term secre-tarial posts with various companies in Manhattan, including Tiffany and Mottahedeh porcelain. She also worked for the Center for Peace and Justice on Washington Square North and the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, whose

meeting minutes she wrote.Gina founded the Brownie Girl Scouts troop at St.

Joseph’s Church in 1958 and served as the troop leader for several years. She was also a devoted member of the St. Joseph’s Rosary Society. She served as secretary of her co-op board when she was 80.

When her husband was unable to walk, she would take him around Manhattan on the No. 5 bus in his wheelchair, Angela recalled. George Philactos, an electrical engineer who worked for Western Electric and served in the Naval Reserve, which recalled him to active duty in 1950 during the Korean War, died in 2005.

At Gina’s funeral Mass at St. Joseph’s on Sat., Feb. 12, Father John McGuire paid tribute to her and her husband’s rich contribution to the history of the parish. In addition to Angela, she leaves another daughter, Judy Philactos, two sons, Gregory and George, four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Her sister, Elsie Scaperotta, also survives.

Perazzo Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. She will be buried beside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Genevieve Philactos, 91; Active in co-op and church

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debut as Avenues’ flagship campus.Presented as “A new school with global

ambitions whose Chelsea location will be a template for things to come,” Avenues will school its students in the shadow of the High Line and mere steps from Chelsea Piers. Organizers frequently referenced a mutually benefi cial relationship between the school and these two neighborhood institutions — also foreseeing synergy between artistically inclined students and local galleries. As for the school itself, renderings portrayed a space whose 10 fl oors and 215,000 square feet have been refi tted to fl ood every classroom with natu-ral light. Holding forth in those classrooms will be teachers whose annual pay/benefi ts package totals $110,000. In coming weeks, information sessions will be held for parents considering early enrollment. In 2012-2013, Avenues will have classes from nursery school to ninth grade. Grades 10, 11 and 12 will be added over the next three years. Avenues’ fi rst graduating class will be in spring 2016.

“As the fi rst truly global network of pre-K-to-12 schools, Avenues is uniquely equipped to prepare students to excel in the highly competitive and networked 21st-century world,” declared Benno Schmidt, Avenues’ chairperson. A former president of Yale University, who currently chairs CUNY’s board of trustees, Schmidt is only

one of the major education names who’ve signed on to the ambitious Avenues vision of a 15-grade educational cycle to produce bilingual world citizens of the world.

Others include Avenues co-head Tyler T. Tingley, who led Phillips Exeter Academy for 12 years; Robert “Skip” Mattoon, Jr., also co-head of the school and former headmaster of the Hotchkiss School; and Nancy Schulman, head of Avenues’ early learning center and director of the 92nd St. Y’s Nursery School since 1990.

At the luncheon, Avenues C.E.O. Chris Whittle — who founded Edison School, now known as Edison Learning, in 1992 with Schmidt — equated the new school’s 2012 launch to Victor Hugo’s declaration that “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

In a telephone interview later, Whittle described the kind of student, and person, Avenues intends to nurture.

“We believe that, increasingly, life is going to get more and more international,” he explained. “Schooling is getting more international, and so your capabilities to navigate in other cultures are going to be helpful — whether you’re in the art world or banking.”

Whittle also emphasized the importance of fl uency in at least two, preferably three, languages. Avenues will require all its stu-dents to make an early decision to study either Spanish or Mandarin. With an eye on things to come, Whittle pointed out, “America is destined to become the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world in relatively short order.” As for the reason behind their other second language of choice, Whittle stated, “The most spoken language in the world is Mandarin.” Currently, those who speak it are studying English at a rate 30 times that of those who are learning Mandarin. This discrepancy, Whittle noted at the luncheon, has immense cultural and economic implications.

Preparing them to compete in an increas-

ingly global market, Avenues graduates will be urged to study abroad in Europe, China and the Third World. Beginning in middle school, Whittle assured, “Each student will be encouraged to participate in overseas learning experiences, with particular empha-sis on China, India, Latin America, Africa and Europe.” Those experiences will take place in the 20 or more planned indepen-dent schools that Avenues plans to open during the next decade — in cities such as Shanghai, London, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Abu Dhabi and Sydney. All Avenues stu-dents, Whittle stressed, will benefi t from highly individualized instruction and a con-sistent educational philosophy regardless of which campus they’re attending.

“We need new models of schools that break away from the centuries-old para-digm,” Whittle said.

But before Avenues realizes its grand global ambitions, it must fi rst successfully get the Chelsea campus up and running — and, in the process, become the good neighbor it promises to be. At least one local group, Friends of the High Line, is optimistic. Joshua David, the organization’s co-founder, said, “Avenues has been a good neighbor to the High Line, and the school’s leadership is eager to become active and engaged mem-bers of this community.” As for the school’s basing its fi rst, and fl agship, campus in the shadow of the High Line, David said, “As we understand it, the proposed design is respectful of the building’s original design by Cass Gilbert and relates well to the West Chelsea Historic District.”

One luncheon attendee, Kathy Shea, executive director of the Parents League of New York, said, “I thought it was a fabulous concept,” adding she liked Avenues’ stan-dard of fl uency in at least two languages. “It’s in an area of the city that needs more schools,” she noted. “There’s a growing population in that part of town.”

Avenues has not set tuition for the 2012-’13 school year, but, according to school offi -cials, it will be consistent with other K-to-12 New York independent schools, which aver-age around $35,000. At least $4 million has been budgeted for fi nancial assistance, and about 10 percent of students will receive some tuition aid.

School offers avenue to bilingual global education

Image courtesy of Avenues: The World School

Avenues’ classrooms will be fi lled with natural light, as depicted above.

‘We believe that, increasingly, life is going to get more and more international.’

Chris Whittle,

C.E.O., Avenues: The World

School

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Februar y 17 - 24, 2011 13

BY CARL ROSENSTEINIn The Villager’s front-page article last week concerning

the Soho business improvement district, there were several key omissions and inaccuracies. The most glaring exclusion is the vital role Councilmember Margaret Chin plays in the scenario. She is the linchpin, nobody else. Your article states correctly that the mayor’s subservient City Planning Commission rubber-stamped the proposal, which now “only awaits approval by the City Council.” This is an extremely noteworthy “only,” because approval by the whole Council rests entirely with Councilmember Margaret Chin. In land-use decisions and district matters such as this that arise before the Council, members will always defer to the inclination of their colleague whose district is affected. If Chin opposes the BID, so will the others. End of story. End of BID.

So why, in spite of the unanimous opposition by the 14 residential artist co-ops along Broadway, overwhelming oppo-sition by Community Board 2 and opposition by the Soho Alliance and the Soho community at large, is the BID proposal still alive? Why doesn’t Councilmember Chin publicly and unequivocally state: “I oppose the BID because my residen-tial constituents are against being double-taxed by a private, undemocratic and unaccountable government made up of big real estate executives whose interest is clearly greed-making greater profi ts at the expense of the community. Soho doesn’t need a BID. It’s a wildly successful area that can’t withstand the strain of any more tourists with a map pinned to their lost faces. It can’t bear one more tour bus or motor vehicle; traffi c is already intolerable at all times. It doesn’t need Christmas lights or signage that will cheapen the incredible character of New York’s most famous historic district.

“What’s more, it is unacceptable and morally shameful that the big real estate entities that have put together a fund of $250,000 to develop their BID have been unable to con-tribute anything to ACE, which has given hope and employ-ment to more than 1,000 homeless people over the years. If I am unable to persuade these big real estate empires along Broadway, such as Vornado and Thor Equities, to contribute their fair share so ACE can continue cleaning Broadway, I will request sanitation enforcement to ensure Broadway property owners maintain their sidewalks and curbs and keep them free of debris, as required by law. If needed, I will allocate $25,000 from my Council budget to ACE to be sure that this self-empowerment program for the homeless will continue.

“As councilmember of District 1, which includes Soho, I will ask for an audit by Comptroller Liu of the sales tax and real estate taxes generated in Soho to demonstrate how woefully short-changed this amazing neighborhood is. Surely, Soho produces more sales tax than any locale in the city, save for perhaps Times Square and Herald Square. If we need an additional trash pickup

along Broadway, I will meet with Sanitation Commissioner Doherty, and pound my shoe on his table if called for. We cer-tainly don’t require a private government funded by my middle-class constituents so real estate executives can pay themselves limousine salaries to manage the 24 wastebaskets on the corners from Houston St. to Broadway. The BID stops here.”

So why hasn’t Councilmember Chin made this speech? Why have she and her staff spent scores of taxpayer-funded hours keeping the BID afl oat? In her own words, according to your newspaper’s report, she will support the BID when “she sees more resident involvement.” Which letter in the word “no” doesn’t she understand? The community is ada-mantly against the BID, period! Having a minority vote on a board of powerful real estate interests will not make the BID more palatable to anyone in Soho, plain and simple. Chin reminds me of candidate John Kerry, who was against the Iraq War while simultaneously being for the Iraq War.

Maybe this speech hasn’t been made because, in con-

trast to what you actually reported, Chin has been an active supporter of the BID from its onset, and at an initial meet-ing with the BID proponents at the Scholastic building last summer, prior to having done outreach to any residential constituents, Councilmember Chin endorsed the BID.

One can only surmise that Councilmember Chin has made a cold political calculation that potential campaign donations by big Soho real estate that will expand her power base far outweigh the votes that she will lose in a potential 2013 primary by selling out the relatively small residential Soho community.

If this is the case, Chin marches lockstep with our uber-mayor and obedient, politically ambitious Council speaker, who consistently enrich developers and this city’s elite at the expense of the beleaguered middle class. The truth will unfold in short time. There’s no hiding from this outcome. Either you’re with your residential constituents or you’re against them. No BID!… OMMMMMMMM.

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Happy Presidents’ Day.

The buses are comingThe clock is ticking for the involved parties to come

up with an acceptable plan for how Lower Manhattan is supposed to accommodate a monumental infl ux of people and buses, not just for this year’s critical open-ing of the 9/11 Memorial, but for the next two years.

We are slightly more than 200 days away from the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and the opening of the National September 11th Memorial. This is no small event. All of our agencies need to go into planning overdrive to make this opening a success.

The presentation given at Monday’s Community Board 1 W.T.C. Redevelopment Committee by the city’s Department of Transportation left much to be desired. We were told that the “working group” that had been meeting to come up with the solution to the immense problem that could result when several million people descend on Lower Manhattan, had not reached out to the local community board. This is unwise.

Last September Luis Sanchez, D.O.T. commission-er for Lower Manhattan, attended a Lower Manhattan Marketing Association meeting and said, “The D.O.T. is working with all interested parties to prepare for the expected infl ux of tourists and buses.” But apparently the community board that represents Lower Manhattan did not qualify as an interested party.

The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is projected to bring an additional 80 to 90 tour buses each day to Lower Manhattan, as Sanchez estimated months ago. We believe that’s probably a low-ball fi gure. Since the Vehicle Security Center will not be fi nished until 2012 at the earliest, these buses could very well be parking anywhere. Sanchez’s presentation on Monday cited Greenwich St. as one area for pickups and drop-offs. We trust that Sanchez and his team have walked down Greenwich St. in Lower Manhattan. It’s one of the nar-rower avenues in the city and we question how many buses this street can actually accommodate.

Lower Manhattan is already plagued on a regular basis with idling tour buses that take up parking on almost every Downtown street. This is only going to get worse after 9/11/11 until the Vehicle Security Center is fi nally built — and D.O.T. needs a better interim solution.

This is why we can’t understand why the commu-nity has not been more involved in this process. D.O.T. needs to realize that there is enormous expertise from those that live and work Downtown, and D.O.T must ensure that, moving forward, all stakeholders are included and that their opinions are taken into consideration. This is how you build a plan that has legitimacy in the eyes of the community.

EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORLiberation

To The Editor:

When Facebook was in Egypt’s land, Let thy people go!Oppressed so hard they could not stand, Let thy people go!

Go down, Twitter, Way down to Tahrir Square;Tell Pharaoh Mubarak, age 82: Let thy people go!

“Thus saith the Lord” (saith bold thougtful Barack), Let thy people go.While for eighteen incredible days they cry Let our freedom ring.

Go down, old Mubarak, Way down to Sharm el-Sheikh,Plenty of time there to refl ect Why thy people are no longer thyne.

Jerry Tallmer

BID would usurp control

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam business district

plan” (news article, Feb. 10):As a Soho resident since 1979, I’m for the street cleaning

and our building has been contributing to the ACE organiza-tion for more than 10 years. That said, to ask me to vote for the BID because ACE’s service will expire seems unreason-able. Most important, it will put wonderful needy men and women out of work.

If the BID had the power to reverse the Department of Transportation’s decision to make Broadway one lane through Soho, I might consider voting for it. If the BID could reinstate the M.T.A. buses that used to serve the residents of lower Broadway, the No. 6 or No. 1, I might vote for the BID.

Otherwise, to ask me to vote for an organization that will take control of our neighborhood out of Soho residents’ hands, and cost us more money — I will not be voting for it.

Ronnie Wolf

Soho doesn’t deserve this

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam business district

plan” (news article, Feb. 10):This BID is a terrible idea. Broadway is already thriving.

The rents are on par with Madison Ave. Most of the stores in Soho are the same national companies that are in every mall in the country. We, as residents, do not need more conges-tion. Soho already has a very good nonprofi t organization employing homeless workers who keep the streets clean.

Barry Holden

We’ll beat back BID

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam business district

plan” (news article, Feb. 10):I live at 152 Wooster St., an artists’ co-op founded in

1970. Everyone in our building is opposed to the BID. We have seen our neighborhood overrun by tourists. You can be stampeded on Prince St. on a Saturday afternoon! The qual-ity of our lives has deteriorated yearly. The city’s infrastruc-ture, already pressed, cannot support this move.

We will fi ght to see the BID defeated.

Joyce Kozloff

Don’t need it; Don’t want it

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam business district

plan” (news article, Feb. 10):I have been a resident of Soho at 515 Broadway since

1979 and am opposed to BID.The BID has repeatedly stated it will expend more money

on tourism and marketing than on street cleaning, the alleged pretense for the BID.

BID’s are intended for blighted business districts that need improvement, like the old Times Square, Union Square and Herald Square. Business is booming in Soho; it isn’t blighted. A BID is simply going to make our congestion, crowds and clutter even worse.

EVAN FORSCH

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BY VICTOR J. PAPASan Gennaro’s lore as a martyred saint under Emperor

Diocletian, indeed Gennaro’s life and his miracles, have imbued the soul of Naples and her people for centuries. This is the same Neapolitan soul that was borne by a poor and noble immigrant people over the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Mulberry St. during the great immigration phase of 19th-century American history. Thus, the San Gennaro Feast, fi rmly established in his name and consistently celebrated since 1926, is a public manifestation of an Italian immigrant group’s reverence for celebrating their saint’s day on Sept. 19.

So how come Community Board 2 doesn’t necessarily see it that way? Why have some local residents lost toler-ance for it? Why do some of the merchants along Mulberry St. agonize over its duration? Some say it’s a question of authenticity — a feast affl icted with serious defi ciencies as hard to defend as they are easy to exploit by anyone who, for whatever reason, chooses to take issue with it.

I derive a right to say these things. I am a Catholic, an Italian-American and a New Yorker. I live and work in Downtown Manhattan. And I work every day in the interests of the Little Italy merchants and tenants toward furthering tenant rights, economic recovery and the historic preserva-tion of what is now a neighborhood quite near extinction, in spite of the fact that it is a major tourist and visitor destina-tion. It is a historic neighborhood important to understand-ing the Italian immigrant experience in American social history. Intrinsic to its unique ethnic identity is the San Gennaro Feast — a boon to New York City and an icon to Italian-Americans all over the nation. But the fate of this very vulnerable neighborhood must not be forsaken and left to the risks of an annual event increasingly bereft of the imagi-nation, reverence and soul upon which it was founded.

The feast’s sponsors need to come to terms with this fact — and also acknowledge that criticisms about the feast are sentiments shared by many Italian-Americans. And because they come from within the Italian-American community, these critiques might hold more validity than anyone else’s. And because they come from within that community, they cannot easily be summarized as bigotry or as anti-Catholic. For how can anyone who takes issue with the feast be char-acterized as “anti-Catholic” or as “anti-Italian” if there is hardly anything about the feast that is Catholic or Italian to offend? The feast sponsors are responsible for protecting Catholic identity and Italian heritage, as the nature of the event implies. They can only assume that role by being more authentically Catholic and more authentically Italian in their obligation to restore to the feast the best that those two traditions have to offer. That means restoring the feast to its rightful religious and ethnic authenticity — or, I fear, there goes the feast, along with its symbiotic partner, Little Italy.

Also important is the idea that the feast is not the exclu-sive domain of anyone: not the sponsors, not the community board, not the residents or merchants of Little Italy, and not

the city of New York. The feast is also to be reclaimed by Italian-Americans at large. They, too, are major stakeholders and have a rightful voice to re-imagine the feast, insisting that it become an educational and cultural enterprise of

a civilization worthy of imparting on Mulberry St. (sorry, Diocletian) Dante’s poetry, Rossini’s never-ending overtures, or the wonders of Michelangelo’s incomparable, sculptured marble — a bold display of a heritage that goes beyond offensive caricatures. What an opportune time, as well, to mark in a moment of solemnity the tragedy of 9/11, and the centennial of the Italian Republic, or to consider the feast as

an opportunity to invite the city of Naples — and its arch-bishop, Cardinal Sepe — to participate.

And yes, the feast should be extended all the way to Houston St. But certainly not at the cost of the debacle that merchants and residents there had to endure last year. If the novelty of caged animals and unregulated A.T.M. machines was the creative answer to fi lling the gap between Kenmare and Houston Sts., then what could be said of the spon-sors affronting the ennobled basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, and the nearby residents and merchants, with such a display?

The need for a dialogue within the community is all too obvious and urgent and it should be initiated by the feast sponsors now. It must be a dialogue that engages elected offi cials, community board members and the basilica, and that includes the residents and merchants of Little Italy and Nolita and, not least, Italian-American organizations. It should be an open and welcoming dialogue, creative and resolute toward resolving the hard questions about the feast itself, with a clear focus and vision to restoring its relevancy and its authenticity to a level worthy of San Gennaro’s enduring patronage of Naples and Little Italy.

The Feast of San Gennaro must return to its rootsTALKING POINT

Photo by Battman Studios

Overhead decorations and vendors’ signs festooned Mulberry St. during the 2009 Feast of San Gennaro.

The need for a dialogue is obvious and urgent and the feast’s sponsors should initiate it now.

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‘Bitchin’’ (cool) artists and cartoonists, then and now

Robert Williams is known as the godfa-ther of Southern California Lowbrow art and the founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture

Magazine, as well as a member of the Zap Comix collective. His painting “Appetite for Destruction” was notably used on the cover of the Guns N’ Roses album of the same name. The screening of a new movie about him, “Robert Williams: Mr. Bitchin’,” brought his illustrator and artist friends to MoMA on Feb. 7. Back in the 1980’s, Williams’s fi rst major New York art show, at the Psychedelic Solution gallery, at Eighth and MacDougal Sts., brought the Zap Comix crew from California to the Village. Above right, Williams, at left, being interviewed after the fi lm’s screening on Feb. 7 by Carlo McCormick, the Lower East Side art critic and writer. Above left, Zap Comix members 20 years earlier at Williams’s Psychedelic Solution show, from left, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Rick Griffi n (who later died in a motorcycle accident), Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb and Victor Moscoso. “That show was huge,” documentar-ian Clayton Patterson recalled. “There was a lineup around the block to get into that show.” Below left, New York City friends at the “Mr. Bitchin’” screening, from left, Adam Alexander, who specializes in computers and fractals; his wife, illustrator Leslie Sternberg; artist Joe Coleman; Axel, a jewelry designer who famously made Keith Richards’s skull ring; and Coleman’s wife, Whitney, with back to the camera. At right, Coleman in the ’80s. Coleman currently paints large canvases featuring obsessively detailed miniature scenes, “kind of like an anthill,” Patterson said. “His friends are in there…serial killers — it’s kind of like Joe Coleman’s world.”

Photos by Clayton Patterson

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Carl Weisbrod, below, former head of Trinity Real Estate, now a consultant, outlined Trinity’s rezoning proposal for Hudson Square — the former Printing District — at Community Board 2’s Land Use and Business Development Committee meeting last Thursday. Trinity wants to increase the manufacturing-zoned area’s residential occupancy from the current 4 percent to 25 percent over a 10-year period. Adding up to 3,500 new residents would increase vitality and foot traffi c, supporting more retail stores in the underserved area. The plan’s cen-terpiece is a 429-foot residential tower — a basic massing study of which was shown last week, at right — slated for Duarte Square, at Canal St. and Sixth Ave. In the building’s bottom four stories, Trinity would provide the city with space free of charge — and rent-free in perpe-tuity — for a 100,000-square-foot public school. “What we’re offering is, frankly, a huge amount of lost revenue for Trinity,” Weisbrod said of the plan to give the school space to the city for nothing.

Shape of things to come? Trinity unveils its tower

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

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Getting a leg up in SohoAn artist who calls himself Leghead, for obvious reasons, was displaying his man-nequin art on Prince St. in Soho over the weekend, above. His friend, also an artist, posed with some of Leghead’s mannequins, below.

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VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

BY JERRY TALLMERIt just slipped out. A Freudian slip, you

might say.“Psychoanalysis doesn’t profess the arro-

gance of religion, thank God.” — declares the bearded 79-year-old free-thinking pat-tern-smasher who will lose his own long, frightful battle with oral cancer before the Luftwaffe’s bombs stop falling on hapless Poland.

“What did you say?” asks Professor Sigmund Freud’s visitor, 41-year-old writer C.S. Lewis, who has fought and lost (or won, depending upon how you look at it) a long battle of another kind: with God.

“A bad habit,” confesses Dr. Freud. “I’ve tried to break it all my life. ‘Thank God.’ ‘With God’s grace.’ ‘God help us.’ I was raised by a devout Roman Catholic nanny who dragged me to church every Sunday. I learned to genufl ect, make the sign of the cross, all the obsessional neuroses.”

It is at this point, early in the evening, that we realize we’re in for a sparkling fenc-ing match — a debate over the existence or non-existence of God — by way of “Freud’s Last Session,” a play that has returned for an open-ended engagement at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (where it sold out all last season).

Mark St. Germain has set this imagined event in Freud’s study, Hampstead, London, on September 3, 1939 — two days after Hitler’s invasion of Poland and 26 days before Freud’s death on September 29 of that year.

Want a further taste of the rapier’s give and take?

LEWIS: The wish that God doesn’t exist can be just as powerful as the belief He does. I’d even say choosing to disbelieve may be stronger evidence for His existence, since you have to be aware of what you’re denying.

FREUD: I deny the existence of Unicorns.

Therefore, they exist?

If you can take that in without laughing out loud, you’re made of sterner stuff than I am.

Playwright St. Germain — a husky, genial and thoughtful man in his mid-50s (bearded, not like Freud, but like Santa Claus) found his inspiration for this two-character clash of beliefs in a book called “The Question of God” (Simon & Schuster, 2003), by a Harvard Medical School professor named Armand M. Nicholi Jr. It drew upon the sepa-rate writings of Freud and Lewis on God, sex, existence, and other such matters.

“I don’t think the two men ever met in real life,” says St. Germain. “It was a dreadful time for Freud. Himself near death. The start of World War II.”

Why not bring the two men face to face on stage? T’aint what you do, it’s the way that you do it.

FREUD: I’m convinced. Christ was a lunatic.

LEWIS: That was my fi rst option….FREUD: Which of Christ’s “teachings”

are even realistic? Love our neighbor as our-selves? It’s a foolish impossibility! Turn the other cheek? Should Poland turn the other cheek to Hitler?

To this auditor, St. Germain’s dramatiza-tion comes down a bit more on Freud’s side than Lewis’s. May one ask, sir, if you were raised in any particular faith?

“Sure,” says the playwright. “I was raised

Roman Catholic, but I no longer have any-thing to do with the Church.”

If, Mr. St. Germain, you met — had ever met — C.S. Lewis, would you argue with him?

A nod that says Yes. After a moment: “I’d argue with both of them. I think Freud really liked to stir people up. When he fi rst fl ed Germany for England, people thought of him as this lovable old man. But then he wrote ‘Moses and Monotheism’ — in which Moses is murdered by the Jews in their religiosity — and people said: ‘Don’t publish it.’ “

But Freud did. It came out the year he died and caused a commotion.

May one further ask a playwright if he’s ever been shrunk?

“Beg pardon?”Seen a psychiatrist.“Oh, sure. A number of times. I wouldn’t

say I’m a strict Freudian, but….”The play “raises issues,” St. Germain

feels, “that you don’t normally think about until something enormous happens in your own life.”

Such as?“When my wife and I were fi rst mar-

ried, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Fortunately, Maggi came through it — we’ve been married 30 years this year — but that was something that forced me to do a lot of thinking about life and values.”

And when there is no happy ending?

FREUD: My daughter Sophie died of Spanish Flu at twenty-seven. A mother, a wife, snatched from her family! But this

was God’s plan if only I was smart enough to understand it? My grandson Heinele was killed by tuberculosis at fi ve years old! Five! What a brilliant plan of God’s to murder him! I wish cancer attacked my brain instead. Then, perhaps, I could hallucinate there is a God and seek vengeance.

Well, old Sigmund, you have your ven-geance here and now, in an Off-Broadway theater in a YMCA on West 64th Street, New York City.

“Freud’s Last Session” had a world pre-miere by the Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfi eld, Massachusetts, in June 2009. It became the longest running show in that company’s history.

“People came either through word of mouth or because of their fascination with Freud. We got one letter from a young couple who had seen the show, gone to dinner and during dinner had switched sides. Before that evening the wife had believed in God.”

The play opened here at the Marjorie S. Deane on July 22 of last year, and had to go on hiatus in November only because of a prior booking at that

venue. It is now back, in an open-ended run directed by Tyler Marchant, with the same two actors as always: Mark H. Dold as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Sigmund Freud.

“Every time we do the play, they bring something new to it,” says Mark St. Germain. Also something that may change a mind or two.

God willing.

Lewis & Freud team up, for takes on GodPlay sees icons spar over the ultimate question

Photo by Kevin Sprague

L to R: Mark H. Dold as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Sigmund Freud.

FREUD’S LAST SESSIONWritten by Mark St. Germain

Directed by Tyler Marchant

Open-ended run

At the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (10 W. 64th St.)

Tues. at 7pm, Wed.-Fri. at 8pm. Sat. at 2 & 8pm. Sun. at 3 & 7pm.

For tickets ($65), call 212-352-3101

Visit FreudsLastSession.com

THEATER

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BY MARTIN DENTON Every year, graduates from theatre

departments all over the country pour into New York City, ready to make it big in the Big Apple. Things really haven’t changed all that much since the legend got laid down in “42nd Street” — kids come here from every-where, ready to become stars on Broadway.

Of course, nowadays, most of these young people are too pragmatic — and maybe even cynical enough — to know that overnight success doesn’t just happen. Instead, they’re prepared to work hard in hopes that the elusive big break will come their way. Some of these folks are ready to dedicate themselves to making important art, with dreams of fame only secondary. Among this latter group are Julie Congress, Mitchell Conway, Ryan Emmons and Jen Neads (who collectively are No.11 Productions — a the-atre troupe now in its fourth year in NYC). Because one of its co-founders happens to be my niece, I am perhaps better equipped to write about their history and development than any other journalist — though unable to write about them in any kind of critical context.

All four met at Skidmore College, where they worked together in the theatre depart-ment. While there, they determined to follow in the footsteps of Fovea Floods — another company that originated at Skidmore before making a splash in New York City.

No.11 Productions followed the same track — and when the foursome graduated from college in 2008, they headed to NYC to make their mark in the indie theatre com-munity. They made their offi cial debut here in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival in a new drama called “We Three” by Will Goldberg. Since then, they’ve pro-duced another show in FringeNYC — an outdoor production of “Lysistrata” in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side, as well as two productions in the FRIGID New York Festival — a revival of Antonin Artaud’s presumably unproduceable “Jet of Blood” at UNDER St. Mark’s in 2009 and a revival of “Medea” at the Kraine Theatre in 2010. AND they’ve produced a revival of Jeff Hylton & Tim Werenko’s parody “The

Elephant Man — The Musical” at a former clothing store near South Street Seaport, along with a ten-part reading series celebrat-ing New York Theatre Experience’s “Plays and Playwrights” anthologies. That series took them to venues in Queens, Brooklyn and every corner of Manhattan. They’ve done two shows at The Bushwick Starr (one of them an original puppet play called “Claire and the Ornithological Shadow,” the other a new short puppet theatre piece inspired by a song by David Bowie).

They’ve also appeared in the Capitol Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. three years in a row; and in SaratogaArtsFest, a springtime celebration of the arts held in Saratoga Springs, New York (Skidmore’s hometown), three years in a row as well (with

a fourth appearance planned for later this year). Last year they made their fi rst music video with musician Nat Osborn (youtube.com/watch?v=Fbf-ZqcqeDA) [change web address to black print] — and did I men-tion that Julie and Ryan are the co-Chapter Directors for the New York State of the Educational Theatre Association?

These No.11’ers are nothing if not ambi-tious.

They’re embarking this year on perhaps their most challenging assignments yet. In January, they launched a six-part monthly soap opera for the stage called “Places” — about the trials and tribulations of a young indie theatre company in New York City. Performances are on Sunday nights, every month except March, until July, at UNDER St. Marks. For this proj-ect, they’re working with a number of artists they’ve frequently collaborated with, along with a brand-new playwright who will be mak-ing her NYC debut with their second episode. In this and all their original work, they adhere to their company mission of creating what they call Theatre of the Unexpected: “To approach theatre from varying perspectives in order to bring about a higher level of acceptance and understanding.”

This month, No.11 will produce a brand new one-act musical at FRIGID New York called “The Oregon Trail: Quest for the West!” — which is inspired by the computer game that everyone in the world younger than me seems to know all about. For this piece, which begins performances at the Kraine on February 23, Julie, Ryan, and Jen co-wrote the book with Zachary Fithian; Ryan is directing; and the songs are by Rebecca Greenstein and

Danny Tieger, both of whom have worked with the core team on previous projects. Julie is designing and sewing all the costumes and performing in the show, Jen is making the props and Ryan is building a covered wagon! No.11 subscribes to the DIY aesthetic of indie theatre in a big way.

As the roster of their shows clearly dem-onstrates, this is a company that is unafraid to try just about anything. They’ve been learn-ing as they go, experimenting with different approaches to classical material and creating

brand new work that’s all their own. Their energy and enthusiasm and obvious love for craft and form propel all their work and carry it through rough waters.

Trust me, no one has been a tougher critic of their work than me — but I am always excited by what they’re going to come up with next, and not just because of my closer-than-normal ties with them. No.11 is an emerging force to be reckoned with in NYC’s indie theatre world, and their current work this winter and spring at UNDER St. Marks and the Kraine will hopefully push them one step further toward taking that world by storm.

Martin Denton is the founder, editor, and chief reviewer of nytheatre.com. He is the Executive Director of nytheatre.com’s non-profi t parent organization, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc.) — and also edits NYTE’s annual “Plays and Playwrights” anthologies (along with the collections “Playing with Canons” and “Unpredictable Plays”). Denton is also the founding pro-ducer of “nytheatrecast” — NYC’s fi rst origi-nal, regularly scheduled theatre podcast. He received an OTTY (Our Town Thanks You) Award for contributions to the community in 2008; and with NYTE’s Managing Director Rochelle Denton, he was honored with the 2008 Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.

For No.11 Productions, making a mark is job #1In 2011, challenging assignments await

Photo by Christopher Walsh

Kate Villanova in “Jet of Blood.”

As the roster of their shows clearly demonstrates, this is a company that is unafraid to try just about anything. They’ve been learning as they go, experimenting with different approaches to classical material and creating brand new work that’s all their own.

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BY SCOTT STIFFLERYou know how it is. You work six days

a week, pouring your heart and soul and blood and sweat — and occasionally, on command, your tears — into everything you do. When you finally get a day off, all you want to do is…work.

Linda Lavin’s life would make for a very sad story indeed — if the work in question were some Dickensian task per-formed amidst deplorable conditions and bereft of thanks for a job well done.

Fortunately, the veteran stage enter-tainer is busy beyond comprehension (by choice). Her sweet reward — applause — is one that all of us should experience when we’ve shown up for work and done well what we’ve been hired to do. But until the day when everybody gets a standing ovation upon punching the clock at 5pm, we’ll just have to be happy for Lavin.

That’s not a very challenging sentiment to muster — especially if you grew up or grew old watching her for nine seasons on the 1976-1985 CBS sitcom “Alice.” Lavin’s portrayal of the title character still resonates, in reruns and on DVD — because over 30 years later, there remains something admi-rable and reassuring about the notion of a widow with a young son who takes a job as a waitress at a greasy spoon and in short order manages to charm the crusty boss with her brassy, ballsy, sweetly cynical take on life. Admirable trace amounts of those qualities were still much in evidence during a recent phone interview.

Currently starring in “Other Desert Cities” at Lincoln Center (through February 27), Lavin spoke with The Villager from the glamorous splendor of a laundry room at an undisclosed Manhattan location. Whether she was waiting for the rinse cycle or fresh from feeding quarters into the dryer, Lavin did not say — but she did offer some insights regarding her upcoming one-night-only cabaret gig at Birdland.

That gig is meant as the launch event for “Possibilities’ — her album of jazz stan-dards. Selections include “Hey, Look Me Over,” “There’s A Small Hotel,” “Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)” and “Walk Between Raindrops” (at press time, we were pretty sure that’s the beautiful Donald Fagen-penned tune; and if it is, in Lavin’s hands that’ll be worth the price of admission).

Lavin will also perform the CD’s title track — “You’ve Got Possibilities” — a song she sang in the 1966 Hal Prince-helmed Broadway show “It’s a Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman.” Still a friend, Prince wrote the liner notes for the CD. At Birdland, Lavin will be accom-panied by pianist/arranger/singer Billy Stritch, Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, Aaron Weinstein on violin, Steve Bakunas on drums and Steve Doyle on bass (sub-bing for the CD’s bassist John Brown). Bakunas, by the way, has the enviable gig of being married to the featured singer.

“What a band I have,” exclaimed Lavin — glowing, among the fl uorescents of the laundry room — in anticipation of a rehears-

al booked for later in the day. “I’ve been preparing with my fabulous musical direc-tor, Billy Stritch, for a couple of weeks now; going over song selections, most of which are on the CD, and deciding on a few new tunes to add to the show. I’ll do an homage to Bobby Short and to Margaret Whiting, who was a big infl uence of my life.”

Asked what she hopes to accomplish in the intimate setting of Birdland, Lavin says her primary goal is to share a moment with the audience — and the strategy for achiev-ing that doesn’t alter much just because she happens to be singing a song or telling a personal story or delivering the words of a playwright: “The material I choose tells

my story; what I want to say about myself — the frustrations, the drama. That’s what songs do. They tell the story of us. People identify with songs the way they do with any art. It’s about connecting with the audi-ence. I try to let them know me through the material and through the moment.”

Of course, cabaret is a different bird than work that’s being delivered through the TV or from the stage. You know immediately if you’ve bonded or alien-ated your audience when you can see the whites of their eyes. So the key, she notes, is, “You approach it with hope. You say the gift is mine to give. This is what I’m here to do, and I hope you like it.”

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DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS Mimi Stern-Wolfe, artistic director

presentsEast Village Concert Series

St Marks in the Bowery131 East 10th St. (near 2nd Ave.)

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2011 AT 3pm

What would Linda Lavin do — with a night off?Cabaret performance & new CD are labors of love

Photo by Bill Westmoreland

Something to sing about: Linda Lavin, poised to release “Possibilities.”

LINDA LAVIN, IN “POSSIBILITIES”Monday, February 21

7pm

At Birdland (315 W. 44th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves.)

Cover: $30-$40, $10 food/drink minimum

For reservations, call 212-581-3080

Visit birdlandjazz.com

CABARET

“It’s about connecting with the audience. I try to let them know me through the material and through the moment.”

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Dance programs inspire and illuminateMovement provides antidote for winter doldrumsBY WICKHAM BOYLE

Most of us are fed up with cold, snow and slush — but there’s no better antidote for the winter doldrums than dance. Watching others twirl, spin, glide and leap takes our breath away and gives us a renewed sense of possibil-ity. We are transported and illuminated — and often inspired to move and shake our own legs or derrieres.

Downtown, across town, in the Village East and West then looping up to Chelsea, audi-ences can fi nd toe tappers, modern interpreters and gloriously delirious dancers.

DIXON PLACE

Ellie Coven’s old living room is now a glorious space for dance theater, cocktails and inspiration. All shows are $15 general admis-sion, $12 for students/seniors. At 161 Chrystie St. (btw. Rivington & Delancey). Call 212-219-7581 or visit dixonplace.org.

“BODY BLEND” — See a collection of new dancers and choreographers and pick your own favorites. Curated by Niles Ford Trebien Pollard Eddie Brito. Tues., March 1, 7:30pm.

“THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE” — Rachel Klein’s stylized movement-based theater piece with live-action cartoon aesthetic pulls from circus imagery, silent horror fi lms. Wed., March 2, 7:30pm.

“CROSSING BOUNDARIES” — Curated by Marcia Monroe Regina Miranda Regina Nejman. Tues., March 29, 7:30pm.

DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM

Season performances take place Thurs., Fri., Sat. at 8pm and Sun. at 3pm. At 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers). For info on all the below performances, call 212-625-8369 or visit dnadance.org.

“OBJECT.OBJECT” — Ximena Garnica, Jennifer Nugent and Adrienne Westwood, take to the stage. The season concludes with viv-idly theatrical world premieres by Artists in Residence. Feb. 17–20:

“SPLICE: JAPAN” is the winter season clos-

er. This shared bill features up-and-coming cho-reographers (and DNA Artists in Residence) Mana Kawamura and Makiko Tamura. Both

of their works were inspired by life experiences in NYC and their native Japan. The choreog-raphers received time and resources to create unique experiential work, which represents a fusion trend in contemporary dance (by meld-ing traditional non-western dance with the the-atrical and modern aesthetic). Feb. 24–26. A post-performance talkback moderated by Yoko Shioya, Artistic Director of Japan Society, will take place on Thurs., Feb. 24.

DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP

The New York premier of Norway-based Verdensteatret’s “And All The Question Marks Started to Sing” — a fusion of sound art, visual pieces, theater and dance. Feb. 24-27, 7:30pm (matinee, Feb. 27, 5:30pm). At Dance Theater Workshop (219 W. 19th St. btw. 7th and 8th Aves.). Call 212-691-6500 for info on this

event and many other performances, lectures and event. Also visit dancetheaterworkshop.org/performances.

PERIDANCE CAPEZIO CENTERThere are rarely performances here — but

there are dancers galore, and over 250 classes each week. If you want to warm up and rub shoulders and toes with dancers, then dip your toe into a beginner class. At 126 E. 13th St. (btw. 3rd and 4th Aves.) Call 212-505-0886 or visit info@peridance.com.

PUNCHDRUNK

British theater company Punchdrunk will present “Sleep No More” — in a site-specifi c production, billed as the former McKittrick Hotel (530 W. 27th St.). However, many will remember it as Club Twilo. Based on “Macbeth,” “Sleep No More” is devised and directed by Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle and the company. The show is mostly dance (there is no spoken dialogue and the producers are calling it “an immersion experience as the audience chose where and what it watches”). During the course of the show, theatergoers move through the venue (which has been converted for the production), experiencing events in an intimate and often surprising manner. For tickets ($75), call 212-352-3101 or visit sleepnomorenyc.com. Opens March 7.

AT THE JOYCE THEATERAt 175 8th Ave., at 19th St. For info on all

the below performances, call 212-691-9740 or visit joyce.org.

ELISA MONTE DANCEElisa Monte has been breaking barriers

(by crossing between dance and spoken word and theater) for 30 years. The company will celebrate its 30th anniversary with new and beloved work. The gala opening is March 1. “Monte’s Dialogue with Vanishing Languages” opens the run. As well, the company will host over twenty special dance events — from master classes to website launches and video interviews with the artistic team and dancers. Most events are open to the public, at low-cost — and some are FREE. Through March 6.

BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE

Choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi, a passion-ate descendant of Martha Graham, moves us with sublime images that touch the heart and embrace the soul. In the world premiere of “Letters of Love on Ripped Paper,” Buglisi reveals the rapture and human complexity underlying human relationships through a labyrinth of love letters: Pliny to Calpurnia; Queen Victoria to Prince Albert; Zelda to Scott. Feb. 15-20.

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

Celebrating its 15th anniversary season, the company performs an exhilarating program of contemporary dance exemplifying its com-mitment to commissioning groundbreaking work by both world renowned and emerging choreographers. Feb. 22-27.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY

After electrifying audiences with its fi rst solo Joyce season in 2010, KEIGWIN + COMPANY comes back with the world pre-miere of Dark Habits, an evening-length work, which examines fashion and drama. March 8-13.

Photo by Bill Hebert

“Splice: Japan” double bills you. See “Dance New Amsterdam.”

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Just Do ArtCOMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER

EAST SIDE CONCERT SERIESUnder the guidance of artistic direc-

tor Mimi Stern-Wolfe, Downtown Music Productions presents the latest installment of their East Side Concert series. This time up, it’s cellist Dave Eggar and percussionist Chuck Palmer — with special guests Karate champion James Luk and Attack Theatre Contemporary Dance. Sun., Feb. 20, 3pm, at St. Marks in the Bowery (131 E. 10th St., near Second Ave.). Suggested donation: $15 ($12 for students/seniors, $8 for the unemployed).

THEATER: A WORLD APARTLeading a monastic life doesn’t neces-

sarily free you from the pitfalls of the human condition. In “A World Apart,” Mother Augustina doubts her ability to lead her nuns into the future, given that she’s been contemplating a return to the outside world. In walks Father Byrne, who’s wondering if he can do more for that world if he ventures beyond cloistered walls. While sharing their doubts, both become seduced by what’s outside and what’s inside. This tough nut is written by multi-disciplinary theatre artist Susan Mosakowski (co-artistic director, with Matthew Maguire, of Creation Production Company). Wed. through Sat., at 7pm. Through Feb. 26, at The Flea Theater (41 White St. btw. Broadway & Church). For tickets ($18), call 212-352-3101 or visit theatermania.com. Also visit thefl ea.org and creationproduction.org.

PREVIEW: FARENHEIT 451In collaboration with Preview of the Arts,

the American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life series (a performance-based program offering verbatim adaptations of signifi cant literary works) takes on Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451.” Visionary and cau-tionary in 1953 (when it was fi rst released amidst the Cold War), this tale of fi remen tasked with burning books resonates in an age of unfettered access to information for some and censorship for others. Emmy-nominated actor Rich Orlow, as protagonist Montag, spans the full breadth of the novel in just sixty minutes — time enough for debating the implications at dinner or just going home and curling up with a good book while you still can. Wed., Feb. 23, 7pm, at Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette St.). For tickets ($20), call 212-967-7555 or visit pre-viewnyc.com. Dinner reservations must be made separately (212-539-8778). For more info, visit previewnyc.com, literaturetolife.org/451 and joespubcom.

DADDY’S BLACK AND JEWISHBlack? Jewish? It’s enough to make

a gal go “Oy!” No word on whether or not Lian Amaris will invoke that iconic Yiddish expression; but her upbringing just might inspire some new slang to add

to the lexicon. Amaris, who was raised in a Kosher Jewish household by a black father and a feminist mother, was given the greatest gift a performance artist could hope for — an identity inspired by gender-play, racial ambiguity, mental illness and cultural tensions. That’s more than enough ground to cover in one show. That show, “Daddy’s Black and Jewish,” brings it all home through a hybrid of monologue, music, Brechtian storytelling and visual language wrapped in a comfortable but confi ning blanket of pop culture neuroses. Feb. 23-26, 7pm, at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (236 E. 3rd St. btw. Aves. B & C.) Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. To order, call 212-780-9386 or visit nuyori-can.org.

THE PINK ROOM: DAVID LYNCH BURLESQUE

Over two decades after she washed up on the shore and created the most fren-zied buzz since TV audiences tried to fig-ure out who shot J.R., the death of Laura

Palmer still resonates. “The Pink Room: David Lynch Burlesque” takes place on the eve of Palmer’s death — and serves as a reminder of how the unblemished odd-ity of “Twin Peaks” inspired innovation and challenged our notion of what the old idiot box was capable of. It also, as it turns out, put its stamp of beauty and damage on the current generation of Downtown artists. The inaugural edition of burlesque performer, singer and producer Franny Flüffer Nütter’s new “Pink Room” series is all about the world of Dale Cooper, the Log Lady, and owls that are not what

they seem. Future installments will delve into other aspects of Lynch’s influential output. On our wish list — the equally strange “Peaks” follow-up “On the Air.” This time around, though, the proceedings are hosted by Bastard Keith. The featured performers include Amelia Bareparts, Calamity Chang, Franny Fluffer, Gemini Rising, Grace Gotham, Tansy Tan Dora — and go-go dancing by Foxy Vermouth. Wed., Feb. 23, 9:30pm at the Parkside Lounge (317 E. Houston St. btw. Aves. B & C). Cover: $10. Visit parksidelounge.net and frannyfluffer.net.

Photo courtesy of Franny Flüffer Nütter

Who gives a hoot about who killed Laura Palmer? See “The Pink Room.”Photo by Jonathan Slaff

Burn, baby, burn: See “Farenheit 451.”

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Lian Amaris lays it out — and maybe works it out. See “Daddy’s.”

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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.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF RHOP, L.P.

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

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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.

Vil 1/20-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EUREKAFACTS LLC.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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

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

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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

Vil 2/10-2/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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.

Vil 2/10-3/17/11

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

26 Februar y 17 - 24, 2011

P U B L I C N O T I C E SPUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing in Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a petition from Union Square Cater-ing Facility Inc., to continue to maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 29 Union Square West, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the proposed revocable consent may be addressed to Dept. of Con-sumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. Attn: Foil Offi cer.

Vil 2/17-2/24/11

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing in Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a petition from Meath Trails, Inc., to continue to maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 61 Second Avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the proposed revocable consent may be addressed to Dept. of Con-sumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. Attn: Foil Offi cer.

Vil 2/17-2/24/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, number which is pending, for beer and wine, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine, at retail in a restaurant under the Alco-holic Beverage Control Law at 666 Third Ave., G/FL, New York, NY 10174 for on prem-ises consumption. MY MAKI LLC DBA MY MAKI

Vil 2/17-2/24/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that license numbers # 1243820 and 1243821 have been issued to Corner Shop, LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 643 Broadway New York, NY 10012.

Vil 2/17-2/24/11

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN T

hat a license, #TBA has been applied for by Music Story Inc to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at 34 West 32nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10001.

Vil 2/17-2/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAVISON DESIGN

LAB LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/11. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 100 W.72 St. #4E, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIFORIUM LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/19/09. 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 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF L.E.S. RECORDS, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/8/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DUCKS ON THE

POND LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 324 E.66 St. #22, NY, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 347 EAST 85TH PART-

NERS, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/1/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 347 E.85 St., NY, NY 10028. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF GROUND FLOOR

MANAGEMENT LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/11. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 875 Ave. of Americas #501, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF BONDI PIES LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/2/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: Steven Williams, One Market St. Level 36, San Francisco, CA 94105. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF DAVE ARNOLD, LLC.

Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/10. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 208 E. Broadway #J302, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CHAOS TRADE PRO-

DUCTIONS, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

12/02/10. 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 Corporation Service

Co., 80 State St., Albany,

NY 12207, regd. agent upon

whom and at which process

may be served. Purpose: Any

lawful activity

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF ELANUS

CAPITAL MANAGEMENT,

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

11/30/10. Offi ce location: NY

County. LLC formed in Dela-

ware (DE) on 11/5/10. SSNY

designated as agent of LLC

upon whom process against

it may be served. SSNY shall

mail process to: c/o Matthew

M. Moniot, 300 East 56th

St., Apt. 4H, NY, NY 10022.

Address to be maintained in

DE: c/o National Registered

Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree

Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE

19904. Arts of Org. fi led with

DE Secy. Of State, 401 Fed-

eral St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE

19901. Purpose: any lawful

activities.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF NEW MOUN-

TAIN GUARDIAN ADVI-

SORS BDC, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

01/14/11. Offi ce location: NY

County. LLC formed in Dela-

ware (DE) on 10/12/10. Princ.

offi ce of LLC: 787 7th Ave.,

49th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY

designated as agent of LLC

upon whom process against

it may be served. SSNY shall

mail process to the LLC, c/o

New Mountain Capital, L.L.C.

at the princ. offi ce of the LLC.

DE addr. of LLC: Corporation

Service Co., 2711 Centerville

Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,

New Castle Cnty., DE 19808.

Arts. of Org. fi led with DE

Secy. of State, Div. of Corps.,

John G. Townsend Bldg., P.O.

Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 2/17-3/24/11

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF G2MB HOLDCO,

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy.

of State of NY (SSNY) on

1/24/11. Offi ce location: NY

County. LLC formed in Dela-

ware (DE) on 9/28/10. 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: 142 West 57th

St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10019.

Address to be maintained in

DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste.

101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts

of Org. fi led with DE Secy. Of

State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,

Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:

any lawful activities.

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J&Y ALLIANCE LLC

Articles of Organization were

fi led with the New York Sec-

retary of State on 01/04/2011.

The offi ce of the LLC is in

NEW YORK County. The

New York Secretary of State

is designated as agent of the

LLC upon whom process

against it may be served. The

Secretary of State shall mail

a copy of such process to

P.O.BOX 943, NEW YORK,

NEW YORK, 10002. The LLC

is organized to engage in any

lawful activity for which an

LLC may be formed under

the NY LLC Law.

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DIEVAS, LLC,

a domestic Limited Liability

Company (LLC), fi led with

the Sec of State of NY on

1/19/11. 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,

401 W. 56th St., #6A, NY, NY

10019. General Purposes.

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EMYS MANAGEMENT

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec.

of State (SSNY) 12/9/10.

Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY

design. Agent of LLC upon

whom process may be

served. SSNY shall mail copy

of process to Andrew Glaze

546 5th Ave 14 FL New York,

NY 10036. Purpose: Any law-

ful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

ATEX TRADE & EXPORT

LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 8/3/10. 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: 100 W 121st St, #42, NY, NY 10027. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

ANDREW GORDON PHO-

TOGRAPHY LLC

art. of org. fi led Secy. of State NY (SSNY) 8/27/10. 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: 48 W. 22nd St, 5th fl , NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TRUE NORTH TYLER

STREET, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 2/9/11. 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 ME AT THE ZOO, LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/11. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard, LLP, 41 Madison Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF SUNCAP CEN-

TRES FE ROCHESTER,

LLC.

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/11. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Flor-ida (FL) on 12/21/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10022. FL address of LLC: 9130 S. Dadeland Blvd., 1528, Miami, FL 33156. Cert. of Form. fi led with FL Secy. of State, P.O. Box 6327, Tal-lahassee, FL 32314. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF CHRISTOPHER J.

ACITO & ASSOCIATES

GP LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/10/2010. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 130 E. 59th St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom pro-cess 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. Term: until 12/31/2110. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF ALLIANCE-

BERNSTEIN AIS - LONG/

SHORT EQUITY STRATE-

GIES LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/21/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/17/10. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal busi-ness addr.: 1345 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10105. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF POOCHCLUB

FOODS LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 12/17/10. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 6/7/10. 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.: PH C-D, 136 E. 56th St., NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given pur-suant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing in Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a petition from Peckslip Restaurant Corp., to continue to maintain, and operate an unenclosed side-walk café at 22 Peck Slip, 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.

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Soho is home to 10,000 residents. It is not a central business district or a suburban mall in need of more tourists! The BID will be run by uptown people not from Soho, and they care little what happens to its residents.

Once BID’s are established, it is practi-cally impossible to put them out of business. BID’s have tremendous power, and a Soho BID will be a voice for large real estate corporations to drown out our opinion and efforts at keeping Soho livable.

Let the stores sweep their sidewalks the way stores everywhere else do! We don’t need a BID taxing us $700,000 annually to sweep our sidewalks. Soho generates incred-ible income and taxes for the city. We pay for sanitation. Let’s get what we pay into, not more taxes for a BID.

Claude Samton

Impact would be dramatic

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam busi-

ness district plan” (news article, Feb. 10):We are writing as residents of Soho

for 40 years to let you know that weand our entire co-op building are opposed to the formation of a BID in Soho. This would only increase tourist traffi c and congestion in what is a residential neighborhood whose streets are already overcrowded with tour-ists, especially on weekends.

Richard ForemanKate Manheim

Soho works fi ne now

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam busi-

ness district plan” (news article, Feb. 10):My husband and I bought our loft on Grand

St. in the late 1970’s. We have lived, worked and raised our family in Soho. The fi rst year our co-op was established, Soho was a dark and dan-gerous, very dirty place. As the fi rst president of the co-op, I often cleared the industrial debris off our sidewalk and street on our block.

The changes to Soho in the intervening 30-plus years have been extraordinary. As an artist, I miss the trucks and galleries. However, as a resident, I am always happy to give directions to lost or confused tourists. As a co-op owner, we pay our taxes and keep our sidewalks clean.

We strongly oppose a business improve-ment district. Soho does not need a BID. It is not a blighted area. It is a solid, residential and commercial neighborhood, with 10,000 resi-dents. Co-ops do not need to pay more taxes. We do not need an outside special-interest agency occupying a position of power in our community. Community Board 2 recommend-

ed “unconditional denial” of the BID.The business owners on Broadway and

other streets can sweep their own sidewalks. Their employees can happily give directions to tourists — shoppers, in fact. If the city Department of Sanitation is not cleaning the corner bins in a timely manner, then the busi-ness owners can call D.O.S. Soho works. It doesn’t need special interests to “fi x” it.

Please support our opposition to the Soho BID.

Debrah and Harris Feinn

Area’s already overcrowded

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam

business district plan” (news article, Feb. 10):

I am writing this letter to voice my opposi-tion to a BID for Soho. My family has lived in Soho for eight years, and we have watched as traffi c and congestion have progressively taken over the neighborhood. Many days it is impos-sibly dangerous to cross in the crosswalk with my daughter in her stroller. We avoid walking down Broadway due to the sidewalk over-crowding with tourists and street vendors.

I don’t believe that the residents of our neighborhood should have to pay additional taxes to support a BID.

Alison Lille

‘I oppose the BID’

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam

business district plan” (news article, Feb. 10):

As an owner of a fi rst-fl oor commercial space in Soho, I oppose the BID proposal.

Ed McGowin

No to ‘Sohosploitation’

To The Editor:Re “Soho residents strike back, slam busi-

ness district plan” (news article, Feb. 10):As a Soho resident for more than 30

years, I wish our representatives would remember that actually a lot of people live in the neighborhood. And though I am not opposed to tourism, I am against this type of neighborhood exploitation.

Pamela Morgan

Trigger is strange, but…

To The Editor:Re “ ‘It’ll never happen again,’ bar owner

tells protesters” (news article, Feb. 3):Trigger has a reputation for being strange

but I do not believe him to be in the slightest bit racist. Haven’t been to Continental since the mid-’90’s. Never seen an “all white” (or all-anything for that matter) event there.

These protesters are misguided. Upper East Side, that’s where the problem is! (Or was... . I don’t go out much these days.)

Davide Gentile

Signs were slightly off

To The Editor:Re “Cooper Sq. at ‘tipping point’ as 1825

building faces demo” (news article, Feb. 3):Thank you so much for publishing this! It

was really appreciated by all the people that took part in this rally. I do have some correc-tions to this article. I was the fi rst researcher on this project, and thankfully many more have joined in to help. But the initial research, as was sent to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, has been altered a bit as a result of so many reading through the history.

These may seem like minor points, but

to myself and the people I have quoted, they are big. First, it was the actor Joel Grey, who starred with Liza Minnelli in “Cabaret,” who rented a room from J. Forrest Vey in the late 1940’s or early ’50’s. Second, the Diane diPrima quotes are from her “Recollections of My Life as a Woman” (2001, Penguin Press). Third, it was Henry (not Herbert) Marshall’s Tavern or Porter House that was established in 1850 and continued until 1875 or ’76.

The article reported everything correctly as it was presented at the rally. Unfortunately, some of the information that was printed on the rally signs was not correct, and on behalf of the people I originally quoted, I would like to make these corrections. Thanks again for a great article.

Sally Young

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Will Soho BID replace ACE?In July 2008, a participant in the Soho Partnership’s Project Comeback pro-gram worked a street-sweeping shift at Broadway and Prince St. The Soho Partnership, Tribeca Partnership and Noho/Bowery Partnership are all under the umbrella organization called Association of Community Employment Programs, or ACE, which seeks to help get homeless people back on their feet and leading productive, self-suffi cient lives. Local stores, however, don’t want to pay ACE for the cleaning services anymore, but instead are backing the proposed new Soho business improvement district.

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