Holiday event
guide, p. 19
Volume 80, Number 28 $1.00
“You’re staying where you are!” Borough President Scott Stringer told the LaGuardia statue Sunday. From
left were Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, state Senator Tom Duane, Stringer, CAAN’s Terri Cude and C.B. 2
Chairperson Jo Hamilton.
Pols and park lovers make
a stand on the ‘super’ strips
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Braving freezing weather last
Sunday, nearly 150 superblocks resi-
dents and activists — backed up by a
unified front of the area’s politicians —
gathered around the Fiorello LaGuardia
statue on LaGuardia Place to tell New
York University one thing: to keep its
hands off the treasured parkland strips
on the edges of the university’s two
South Village superblocks.
The behemoth blocks are ground
zero for the university’s massive,
20-year expansion plan. N.Y.U. wants
to add around 2 million square feet
of new space for faculty and student
housing — including a 1,400-bed dorm
— on the two supersized blocks, which
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Hudson Square, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933
are bounded by Houston and W. Third
Sts. and Mercer St. and LaGuardia
Place.
As part of its development scheme,
N.Y.U. wants ownership of the strips
of open space along Mercer St. and
LaGuardia Place, as well as Bleecker
St. — and would also narrow W. Third
St. These streets were all to be widened
in the 1950’s by planning czar Robert
Moses as part of traffic improvements
for the Lower Manhattan Expressway
— but community activists, led by Jane
Jacobs, sank the hated crosstown high-
way plan. The leftover strip areas were
taken over by the city’s Department of
Transportation, and have since become
home to community gardens, a dog run,
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Auction is bidder
end for historic
Village hospital
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
From bedpans to X-ray
machines — everything must
go!
Sphygmomanometers,
reloadable vascular staplers,
cryo microtomes, fibri-
notherms — you name it,
they’ve got it.
By order of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, a four-
day auction of the entire
contents of St. Vincent’s
kicked off Tuesday morn-
ing at the former Greenwich
Village hospital at 12th St.
and Seventh Ave. If needed,
Curry worries
as a project may
Photo by Helayne Seidman
drive off cabbies
BY LILLY O’DONNELL
Punjabi Grocery & Deli,
a hole-in-the-wall place
down a flight of stairs on E.
First St., has been serving
simple, hearty, vegetarian
Indian food at no more than
$3 a bowl for 19 years.
However, E. First St.
between First Ave. and
a playground and the Time Landscape, Avenue A is currently under
meant to evoke a primeval Downtown construction, prevent-
forest. ing parking in front of the
Three weeks ago, Community Board 24-hour cabstand restau-
2 passed a resolution strongly opposing rant, which makes most of
the university’s bid to annex this pub- its money from taxi driv-
lic property. The resolution calls on
N.Y.U. to remove the strips from any
land changes it will request, and for the
city to transfer all seven strips to the
Parks Department, noting, “the best
way to preserve open space is to keep
it in the public domain.” The resolu-
tion is C.B. 2’s first official position on
N.Y.U. 2031, the university’s 20-year
expansion plan.
Continued on page 14
December 9 - 15, 2010
a fifth day will be added.
The money raised by the
sales will go toward helping
pay off the shuttered hos-
pital’s whopping $1 billion
debt to creditors.
The auction is being con-
ducted — on various floors
throughout the hospital, as
well as via Web cast — each
day from 10 a.m. to about 4
p.m. or 5 p.m.
Day 1 saw lab and surgi-
cal equipment on the block.
Day 2 featured radiology,
Continued on page 11
ers. Surinder Singh, who
has worked at Punjabi for
14 years and is the owner’s
younger brother, estimated
that their customers are “70
percent cab driver, 30 per-
cent everybody else.”
Harsh Vardhan, a hack
who has been going to
Punjabi for lunch since
he started driving a taxi
in 1993, admitted that he
would probably stop going
there if he couldn’t park out
Continued on page 7
EDITORIAL,
LETTERS
PAGE 12
RANA SANTACRUZ:
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Keeping the grassroots green

Executive Director Anne Frederick, far right, with other representatives of the
Hester Street Collaborative, above, and Executive Director Juana Ponce de León, left,
with Communications Manager Jehangir Khatta, right, of the New York Community
Media Alliance, below, celebrated being honored as Union Square Award recipients
at a ceremony at Riverside Church last Friday. Based in Chinatown, Hester Street
Collaborative — which was awarded a $35,000 grant — joins architects and artists
with students, teachers and community residents to improve and transform neglected
public spaces. With offices in Chelsea, New York Community Media Alliance — which
received a $50,000 grant — promotes the ethnic and community press and elevates
the voices of low-income, immigrant and communities of color in the media. In all, 13
New York City grassroots, nonprofit organizations were honored, receiving a total of
$545,000 grants. The Union Square Awards is a project of the Tides Center, whose
mission is to promote change founded on principles of social justice, equal economic
opportunity, a democratic process and environmental sustainability. “Union Square
-69(33;/05.:(773, Award recipients make extraordinary contributions to the city in spite of their limited
financial resources,” said Iris Morales, Union Square Awards executive director. “The
award supports these efforts by covering operating expenses, seeding new programs,
expanding existing services and leveraging additional funding.” Since 1998, the group
has distributed $16 million — funded by an anonymous donor — to hundreds of grass-
roots organizations. The award is named after Union Square Park for its history as a
place to speak out about major social issues.

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were in the city of Verona, Italy (not New Jersey!) this summer
during our pregnancy and thought it was appropriate.”

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! BLOGGER ON THE MEND: East Villagers might not

see Bob Arihood in front of Ray’s Candy Store on Avenue
A for a while, or see updates to his blog, Nadie Se Conoce
(http://nadieseconoce.blogspot.com/), because Arihood was
hospitalized early last Friday for an ongoing condition he’s
had for years. On Sunday, doctors started running some tests
and they should soon have a clearer diagnosis and be able to
formulate a plan of treatment.

BABY ON BOARD (2): Congratulations to Brad ROOF WATCH: Old P.S. 64 watchdogs have recently
Hoylman and David Sigal on the birth of their daughter, noticed some action on the rooftop of the empty, turn-of-
Silvia Verona Hoylman-Sigal, above. Hoylman, a leading the-century school building. Specifically, some “mock-ups”
member of Community Board 2, said he and Sigal, co-produc- — orange netting and two-by-fours — have been constructed
er of “Fair Game,” the new movie about outed C.I.A. agent
Valerie Plame, made the decision to have a child several years Continued on page 27
ago. Silvia Verona was born on Nov. 26 in San Diego, Cal.,
weighing in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Hoylman told us in an
e-mail: “We used a gestational surrogate (who has two kids of Leaving Town?
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not know it, “both donated to the process” is another way of
saying they mixed their sperm. As for why the delivery was in
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before 4 a.m. Sun., Dec. 5, and charged him
with robbing a man at knifepoint on the
northeast corner of Eighth Ave. and 14th
St. The suspect forced the victim, 22, to
surrender his book bag and a shopping bag
containing trousers, a shirt, briefs, cologne
and DVD’s. All the items were recovered.
N.Y.U. burglary Sleazy riders
A man who walked into the New York
University building at the southeast corner of
Washington Square South and Washington
Square East at 1 p.m. Fri., Dec. 3, managed
to go up to the seventh floor without ID,
where he stole a laptop, police said. A secu-
rity guard in the lobby stopped the suspect
and held him for police, who charged Jeffrey
Redcross, 48, with burglary.
Hot over salad bar
A woman who loaded her tray at the steam
table of the North Village Delicatessen, at 78
Eighth Ave. at 14th St., at 1:47 a.m. Mon.,
Nov. 11, after a night of clubbing, became
Snooze and lose
A Queens man who fell asleep on an E
train during the early hours of Sat., Dec. 4,
woke up at Canal St. at 3:30 a.m. and dis-
covered his left front pants pocket slashed
and his wallet missing, police said. He lost
his credit cards, New York driver’s license
and his Dominican Republic private avia-
tion license.
A man trying to hail a cab at 10th Ave.
and W. 14th St. around 4 a.m. Sun., Nov. 28,
was offered a lift by three men in a passing
car, police said. The man declined the offer
and started to walk uptown to a more likely
location. However, the trio followed him, got
out of their car and robbed him, taking his
cell phone and two credit cards before driv-
ing away, police said.
Ice-pick robber
A man wielding an ice pick robbed
two Styuvesant Town women residents on
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out the door, the patron threw a bottle at
the entrance and damaged it. However, the
bouncer and the manager held the suspect,
A Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., man went to Tauro
restaurant, 284 Hudson St. in Hudson
Square, for lunch shortly after noon Fri.,
Nov. 19, and left with a friend in deep con-
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Five Columbia University fraternity members, including Adam Klein, 20, were led into Manhattan Supreme Court for their arraignment on drug-dealing charges on Tuesday
afternoon.

Columbian dealers were supplied out of Village View

BY ALBERT AMATEAU
A resident of the Village View co-op, on E. Sixth St.
between First Ave. and Avenue A, was identified as one of
three people charged with being the suppliers to the five
Columbia University students who were arrested Tuesday
for dealing cocaine, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs
out of fraternity houses and dormitories on the Columbia
campus.
Miron Sarzynski, the Village View resident, and Megan
Asper, identifi ed as his girlfriend, were arrested in
Sarzynski’s apartment on Oct. 27 more than a month
before the Columbia students were apprehended as part of
a five-month sting operation. Sarzynski is also accused of
being involved in a kidnapping attempt for trying to hire
one of the undercover sting officers to grab a rival drug
dealer at gunpoint to satisfy a $4,000 debt. Sarzynski is
said to have told the officer that he wanted to torture the
rival by dosing him with LSD.
At a news conference on Tuesday announcing the
Columbia students’ arrest, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
said, “The fact that a supplier to the Columbia students was
willing to kill his rivals should demolish any argument that
drugs on campus is a victimless crime. This is no way to
work your way through college.”
Another man accused of supplying drugs to the five
Columbia students, Roberto Lagares, was arrested Sun.,
Dec. 5, at his home in Brooklyn.
The students, Adam Klein, a member of the Ivy League
school’s fencing team; Stephan Vincenzo, a poet; Michael
Wymbs, a member of the Columbia University Student
Council; Harrison David, an engineering student who was
salutatorian of his high school class; and Christopher Coles,
all 20 years old, pleaded not guilty and were held pending
Columbia student Jose Stephan Perez a.k.a. Stephan Vincenzo at his arraignment on Tuesday. He was sporting a
bail ranging from $30,000 to $75,000.
bandage on his face after having scuffled with arresting narcotics officers, according to court papers.
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Curry worries as a project may drive off cabbies

Continued from page 1
front anymore.
“Taxi drivers are looking for somewhere
to park,” he said with a shrug. “If there’s
nowhere to park, we’ll go somewhere else.”
Rakash Roy, another cabbie and Punjabi
regular, agreed that no matter how much
drivers might like a place and want it to stay
in business, at the end of the day, it comes
down to where they can park to eat.
“Nothing else we can do,” he said. “It’s
not a lunch break if we are driving while
we eat.”
“Construction is expected to take three
years and be completed in the summer of
2013,” said Craig Chin, a spokesperson
for the city’s Department of Design and
Construction. Chin explained that the proj-
ect was undertaken “to improve pedestrian,
vehicular and bicyclist circulation and safety
mains and sewers, and the crosswalk will be
made more distinct from the street at this
previously dangerous intersection.
With parking limited, the cabstand will
have to rely more heavily on their other
customers, the “30 percent everybody else.”
Locals often buy bowls of rice and curry or
samosas, then sit eating them outside on the
adjacent stoops — but during the winter
that’s a less viable option. Seating inside is
extremely limited (two stools at a narrow
counter next to the bathroom), making it
difficult to buy food from Punjabi without
having somewhere warm to sit and eat it —
like a taxicab, for example.
“For my business it’s a very big problem,”
said Singh, clearly concerned.
Punjabi’s bottom line hasn’t been as
affected by the recession as much as most,
since cheap meals are in even higher demand
than usual. But now, with the long-term
project disrupting the street, they’re bracing Photo by Lilly O’Donnell

while also making infrastructure improve- themselves for a drastic drop in business Street construction on E. First St. has taken away parking for cab-driving customers
ments.” In short, work will be done on water over the next three years. of Punjabi Grocery & Deli, at right.

‘Total victory’ on dangerous L.E.S. sidewalks is finally declared

Lower East Siders held a “victory press
conference” at Columbia St. near Delancey
St. last Friday to celebrate the repair
of the long-neglected sidewalks outside
the Masaryk Towers retail strip. Speakers
included neighborhood resident and activ-
ist Samuel Vazquez, Bishop Cortez of
COMPAS and Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver.
A five-year struggle to fix the danger-
ously deteriorated pavement culminated
in a July 2010 press conference to demand
the repair of what were dubbed “the worst
sidewalks on the Lower East Side.”
“We have the pleasure of announc-
ing our total victory,” Vasquez said in a
press release. “The sidewalks have been
fully repaired. No more broken bones will
occur. The people united will never be
defeated!”
8 December 9 - 15, 2010

The ‘Pontiff of Soho’ and his Christmas-trees cult

BY ALINE REYNOLDS
On Sunday two weekends ago, tree vendor Scott Lechner
was busy juggling two or three delivery calls at a time in his
cluttered, smoke-filled R.V. parked on Sixth Ave. near Spring
St. at Soho Square.
It was opening week of his company, SoHo Trees, which
is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from now through
Christmas Day.
SoHo Trees began as a seasonal, neighborhood tree vendor
in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
“It was 1982,” Lechner said. “We were just a few young
Brooklyn boys from the streets.”
He had no idea then that the small-scale business venture
would turn into a competitive citywide operation. Today,
SoHo Trees operates 12 locations around Manhattan, includ-
ing one at Hudson and Clarkson Sts., not far from Soho
Square, as well as at 20th St. and Second Ave.
The company delivers the trees to the customers’ homes,
and installs and even decorates the evergreens, with the cost
ranging from $39 to $2,000.
Like most vendors nationwide, SoHo Trees has struggled
in recent years as the costs of fuel, shipping, labor and rent
have escalated and profits have steadily dwindled.
“We’ve been treading water,” said Lechner of their busi-
ness in recent years.
But the company has managed to stay alive, running on Photo by Aline Reynolds
the sales pitch of providing great-quality trees for reasonable Financial District residents Kelly Connelly, left, and her college roommates found a lush 6-footer at SoHo Trees.
prices.
“To offer these services is expensive. The customers have Parents with children and young couples perused the Soho Daniel Kirby explained that these are premium plants that last
a right to be demanding,” Lechner said as he flicked the ash Square location, several stopping by with the intent to buy. five to six weeks, rather than the typical two or three.
from his cigarette onto the floor of the R.V. Of course, the price has to be right for each customer. “This one was cut three days ago,” Lechner said, pointing
He works there on average 21 hours a day, calling the job “I’m not spending $200 on a Christmas tree,” said Wall to a pine in a large stack of wrapped-up trees.
a “cult-like dedication.” His co-workers refer to him as “Willie St. resident James Fegarty, who is accustomed to paying $150 Fegarty, who bargains for a living in the insurance busi-
the Hat: Pontiff of Soho.” maximum in London, his hometown. SoHo Trees supervisor ness, managed to haggle down the price to $175 for a tree
and a Fraser Fir wreath.
“I’m basically giving you the wreath for free,” Kirby said,
hoping the short-term financial loss in the sale would turn
Fegarty into a repeat customer next season.
The wreaths, like the trees, are mostly hand-sheared with

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Top cops collar awards from Chamber of Commerce

BY ALBERT AMATEAU
The Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
on Wednesday honored eight police officers in four precincts
covering Greenwich Village, the East Village, Chelsea and the
Flatiron District with its 2010 Cops of the Year Awards.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. presented the
awards at the seventh annual Safe City Safe Streets event,
sponsored this year by Capital One bank at the Manhattan
Penthouse, at 80 Fifth Ave.
Assemblymember Deborah Glick paid tribute to the sac-
rifice that police officers and their families make to protect
the public.
The 2010 Cop of the Year in the Sixth Precinct, covering
Greenwich Village, is Officer Robert Jackson, who served
in the precinct for all of his 17 years as a policeman and is
credited with more that 1,000 career arrests.
In the Ninth Precinct, covering the East Village, Cop
of the Year Awards this year went to Officers Edward
Thompson and Officer John Sivori, who both have done
tours of duty in Iraq as Marines.
In the 10th Precinct, covering Chelsea, members of the
precinct’s Community Policing/Conditions Team share the
Cop of the Year Award for 2010. Led by Sergeant Robert
Delaney, the team includes Officers Kevin Darzinski, Robert
Turbiak and Michael Miller. The team concentrates on 10th
Precinct quality-of-life issues.
In the 13th Precinct, which covers the Flatiron District,
Officer Leonardo Nimo, a member of the Anticrime Unit
who made over 100 arrests, is the 2010 Cop of the Year.
Jackson was credited with helping solve a citywide series
Photos by Albert Amateau
of commercial burglaries that began in December 2009,
when he and Sergeant Broderick recognized a wanted District Attorney Cy Vance Jr., above right, presented G.V.C.C.C.’s Cop of the Year Award to the 10th Precinct’s
burglary suspect on University Place on May 7. They fol- Community Policing/Conditions Team, which is led by Sergeant Robert Delaney, at the line’s right end, and
lowed the suspect for a few blocks into an adjacent precinct includes Officers Kevin Darzinski, Robert Turbiak and Michael Miller.
before stopping him. They found the suspect in possession
of burglary tools and a laptop computer. Jackson learned
that Crumbs bakeshop on University Place had been broken
into earlier and a laptop was stolen. The suspect, Charles
Carrillo, was indicted and 26 burglary cases over nine pre-
cincts, including six in the Village, were closed.
Thompson and Sivori, assigned to a Ninth Precinct plain-
clothes detail working on a series of nighttime commercial
burglaries in the East Village, spotted a suspect checking
the doors of businesses that were obviously closed. The offi-
cers came upon the suspect without being noticed, stopped
and questioned him and found he was carrying a loaded
.22 Smith & Wesson semiautomatic with one round in the
chamber and eight more in the magazine. The suspect was
also carrying another loaded magazine, a silencer and eight
daggers. After an interview with the suspect, Thompson and
Sivori obtained a search warrant for a storage facility he
rented and found a 9-millimeter Glock semiautomatic, two
silencers, a Taser and more ammunition.
The 10th Precinct Community Policing/Conditions Team
made more than 150 arrests this year, plus 50 arrested
individuals wanted on outstanding warrants. Delaney, ser-
geant of the team, has been a police officer for 21 years and
sergeant of the precinct Conditions Team for eight years.
The team’s other three members have been N.Y.P.D. officers
since 2005.
Nimo, who has 324 career arrests to his credit, received
his third Cop of the Year award for the 13th Precinct on
Wednesday. On Feb. 22 of this year, Nimo observed a sus-
pect stealing items from several stores and fencing them
to another merchant. He arrested the thief and the fence. Tony Juliano, G.V.C.C.C.’s president, left, with Officer Leonardo Nimo, who received the Cop of the Year Award
On April 15, he apprehended a man he recognized from a for the 13th Precinct.
wanted poster in the precinct station and arrested him for
robbery. On May 20, he arrested a suspicious couple trying a man who was concealing merchandise in a handbag. Nimo burglary and was found in possession of a stolen laptop. On
to make a purchase with a stolen credit card. found the suspect in possession of a laptop that he had stolen Oct. 18, Nimo responded to a robbery a minute earlier in
On June 8, Nimo followed a suspect who had run from him from a woman in the Ninth Precinct several weeks earlier. On which two suspects simulated a gun, stole money from a vic-
several days earlier and arrested the man entering a residential June 12, Nimo recognized a man sleeping on a park bench as tim and then fled. Nimo ran after them into a subway station,
building. Nimo recovered lock picks and a stolen laptop, cam- matching the description of a suspect wanted for a residential saw them on the opposite platform, crossed the tracks and
era and jewelry from the suspect. On June 10, Nimo arrested burglary. Nimo arrested the suspect, who confessed to the arrested them, recovering the stolen money.
10 December 9 - 15, 2010

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around the country. They are delivered to the
sites by 18-wheeler trucks, as needed.
“We demand that our trees be as market-
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“It feels like a community place,” said
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tree shopping at the Soho location has turned
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out time for.
“Decorating is part of the experience of
it all,” said Kelly Connelly and her college
roommates, who sported matching Santa
Claus hats, a shopping cart and above-aver-
age bargaining skills. The students got their
$115 tree reduced to $90.
SoHo Trees’ decorators account for a small
chunk of the company’s profits. Lechner hires
young freelance artists, like Alice Grant and
Billy Gonzalez, to dress the trees with lights
and ornaments for an additional cost of $50
to $100.
“We’ll talk to the customer, and they’ll give
us a few key words” — on things like color
theme or lighting pattern — Grant explained.
Other members of the “cult-like” team,
like Kirby, work 18-hour shifts. SoHo Trees
is like a brotherhood, Kirby said, and, for
him, an escape from a quiet life in Wasilla,
Alaska.
“I feel like part of the family — he’s kind
of like an older brother figure,” Kirby said
of Lechner.
Scott Gartland, nicknamed “Little Scott,”
has been doing this annual work since he
was 14 years old. He’s grown accustomed to
not seeing his wife and children back home
in Upstate New York for a whole month,
including Christmas Day.
“This is what Christmas is to me,” he
said. “It’s indoctrinated into me since I was
a young age.”
Gartland added it hurts a little more
each year not to open Christmas gifts with
his family.
Yet, like Kirby, he returns every year.
“It’s a labor of love for us,” Lechner
chimed in, between sales calls. “The money’s
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Bidder end for historic Greenwich Village hospital

Continued from page 1
cardiology, anesthesia and labor-and-delivery
equipment, plus beds and stretchers. The
defunct facility’s Day 3 offerings were slated
to include the emergency room’s contents,
physical therapy equipment and, according to
the online brochure, a “FULL WAREHOUSE
OF CATHETERS, OR SUPPLIES, SUTURES
AND SO MUCH MORE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO LIST!!” Scheduled for bidding on Friday,
Day 4, were cafeteria equipment, computers,
vehicles — including four, fully equipped Ford
ambulances (with 32,000 to 89,000 miles on
them) — and the hospital’s backup generator.
It was expected that about 80 to 100 lots
of items would be sold per hour, and 1,200
to 1,300 lots per day.
A St. Vincent’s spokesperson said the
auction location was not open to the press.
She said she couldn’t predict or give a ball-
park figure as to how much money the sale
of the hospital’s contents would raise.
The medical sell-fest was touted by ads
stating, “State-of-the-art 500-bed facility!
Equipment as new as 2010!”
But Eileen Dunn, a former longtime St.
Vincent’s nurse who is on the board of the
New York State Nurses Association, said not
to believe the hype.
“That’s all junk — beds that don’t work,
I-med [intravenous] pumps that don’t work,” she
said. Dunn recalled that during the hospital’s first
bankruptcy, the place was so under-equipped
that staff members didn’t even have insulin
needles during overnight shifts, and would have
to go to the drug store to buy them.

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EDITORIAL
End the L.M.D.C.
On Friday, David Emil announced he would no
longer be able to serve as the president of the Lower
Manhattan Development Corporation. He will, how-
ever, remain with the corporation, in a part-time role,
with the sole responsibility of seeing the demolition of
130 Liberty St., the former Deutsche Bank building,
through to completion.
His departure presents an opportunity to take stock
as it pertains to the agency’s future. David personally
told us he indeed believed the agency was very close to
being able to wave the “mission accomplished” banner,
and we wholeheartedly agree. David’s decision is a sig-
nal for the city and the state to devise a plan that would
allow the L.M.D.C. to close up shop. Now is the time
to begin planning for the future, or in other words, to
develop a sunset timeline for an agency whose impact
will go down in history.
The rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, would have been much more
difficult without the focus, guidance and leadership of
the L.M.D.C., particularly in its earliest phases. Their
task was nearly impossible to comprehend when then-
Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudy Giuliani con-
ceived of the city-state agency shortly after 9/11. The
L.M.D.C. was invested with nearly $3 billion in federal
money to aid Manhattan south of 14th St., thus tying
much of Lower Manhattan’s successful recovery to the
success of the agency.
Today, the L.M.D.C.’s mission is almost complete,
minus the allocation of a small portion of the original
funds and the demolition of a single building. We do
not believe David Emil should be replaced. We believe
there is no longer a need for the position. Once the
remaining funds are allocated — most importantly,
the $17 million slated for the cultural and community
enhancement grant program — the L.M.D.C. and its
board should dissolve.
We are grateful to the board members who served on
a volunteer basis, who put in countless hours to make
sure the community’s needs were met and who kept a
watchful eye over the billions allocated by the federal
government. Their service to the Lower Manhattan
community, the city and the nation, and the hard work
of the L.M.D.C. staff, should be commended.
True, there will still be some funds remaining,
money allocated but not yet spent, and there are legal
and compliance issues that must be acknowledged. But
those factors alone are not reason enough to keep the
L.M.D.C. staffed at the present level. Such responsi-
bilities could be absorbed by either city or state agen-
cies that already exist. A small staff can be retained to
implement city and state decisions.
The L.M.D.C. has done an admirable and com-
mendable job navigating the choppy waters of political
change both here in New York City and in Albany.
What remains of the L.M.D.C.’s mission can be
accomplished before the leaves return to the trees in
Zuccotti Park across the street from the World Trade
Center site. We urge the city and state to be transparent
in this winding-down process, to give the community a
thorough accounting of how much money is remaining,
where the funds are going, and how it will serve Lower
Manhattan. That would only be a fitting tribute to the
legacy the L.M.D.C. will leave behind.
Find it in the archives
www.THEVILLAGER.com
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BID’s been well publicized
To The Editor:
Re “In Chinatown, groups battle over a proposal for new
BID” (news article, Dec. 2):
The Chinatown Partnership has a long and collab-
orative relationship with the Chinatown Working Group.
One person claiming to speak for the C.W.G. claimed
at a Community Board 3 meeting on Nov. 23 that the
Partnership had not contacted the C.W.G. about efforts to
form a Chinatown Business Improvement District.
That is just not the case. Several Partnership leaders
serve on Working Group committees. We have held many
C.W.G. Economic Committee meetings at the Partnership
office over the last two years, and a Partnership leader
arranged for the C.W.G. to conduct its larger meetings at
the American Legion.
As part of the public outreach required by New York City
as part of the BID approval process, we have mailed more
than 50,000 pieces to people in the Chinatown community,
held 27 public meetings, press presentations or presentations
for local civic and business groups, and presented more than
1,000 minutes of radio or TV information. We have paid
for 27 print media advertisements, and there have been 200
articles about the BID proposal in print media.
The proposed BID is an effort to bring everyone togeth-
er, specifically, to keep Chinatown clean and litter free.
Surveys conducted by several groups over the years have
found sanitation is the top priority for people who live and
work in this community. Community Boards 1, 2 and 3,
which cover Chinatown, all list sanitation as a priority.
It’s that simple. A BID is the best way for everyone
to come together and get the job done. The people of
Chinatown just ask for the opportunity to let us help our-
selves.
Deborah Chan
David S. Chen
Chan is chairperson and Chen is Finance Committee
chairperson, respectively, Chinatown Partnership Local
Development Corporation
Investigation is needed
To The Editor:
Re “Correcting some misperceptions post-St. Vincent’s”
(talking point, by Christine Quinn, Jerrold Nadler, Tom
Duane and Richard Gottfried, Nov. 25):
EVAN FORSCH
I agree with all you say, Christine, but what’s needed is a
post-facto investigation on how St. Vincent’s Hospital came
to be $1 billion in debt over such a long period of time.
From all that I read, it had an antiquated billing system,
and often did not even bother to bill. It was top-heavy in
high-paid management, and become a revolving door for
C.E.O.’s who left with overgenerous packages.
A lot of money was just thrown away as St. Vincent’s
cash flow was cut. It didn’t help, too, that the Catholic
Diocese prohibited any birth-control counseling or abor-
tions. The people who could afford or desired those pro-
cedures simply went elsewhere. And there were the real
estate developers perpetually circling like vultures over any
vulnerable piece of real estate. I believe that St. Vincent’s
property became more important financially than from a
medical standpoint. Once again, the people were screwed
by financial interests.
Lastly, our lovely mayor stood by and watched all this
happen without raising a finger, as did the governor in
Albany. Though, at that point, the financial condition was
terminal like a metasticized cancer. So it goes. Keep up the
good work in any case, Christine. It is appreciated by all.
I was born in St. Vinny’s in 1938, and my father in
1912, not to mention the list of other family members who
crossed the hospital’s various entrances.
Jerry Mazza
Still haunted by Poe House
To The Editor:
Re “Theater rehab drama” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Dec. 2):
The reference to a “Poe House approach to preservation” is
right on. Regarding the Poe House, New York University had
agreed to restore the original facade, with the original bricks,
and re-create “what the house would have looked like when
Poe lived there.” And then as the new Law School building
went up, N.Y.U. started backing down on what it had agreed
to, one item at a time.
First, the stoop couldn’t be restored because the entrance
had to be accessible to the handicapped — funny, because
nobody uses the W. Third St. door.
Then, the original bricks couldn’t be used, so the facade
ended up being made of a prefab brick panel, which isn’t even
of the right design. The original bricks were laid in a Flemish
bond pattern, as was common at the time the house was built in
the 1830’s. But the faux-brick panel N.Y.U. installed is designed
Continued on page 27
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Threading the suture: Life and death in the Village

sive e-mail list of folks demanding a new hospital. Yetta’s us a hospital; but neither is “in your face” grandstanding
TALKING POINT approach as the de facto Coalition spokesperson and strate-
gist, has been to attack everyone else who insists on taking
by a candidate and a relatively small number of people she
whips up. This is December 2010, ground zero to an era
BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ a careful measure of how to move forward. She derides the defined by budget deficits, House Speaker John Boehner, a
I care about St. Vincent’s. Not because I am running for “needs assessment” as a waste of time since — “We all know Republican New York State Senate and a Governor Cuomo
office. Or because I need a new cause to prove that I have that a hospital is needed.” As for the funds needed, she whose mantra is not compassion for the poor or the need for
mojo. I care because St. Vincents has indelibly touched my public works.
life, and because I know what it means to stare death in the In fact, as we celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas and
face. I had a daughter born at St. Vincents 20 years ago. Kwanzaa, the governor-elect is out raising money to take on
In 2006 I pushed another daughter, 3 years old, into the Passive studies aren’t in and of the annual effort by Local 1199 and the New York Hospital
emergency room at midnight, in her stroller, because her Association to protect healthcare funding in New York. A
appendix was about to burst. My mom, at 83, stayed there themselves going to get us a hospital new hospital is going to cost millions of dollars. Although
for two weeks with a broken leg while she healed. Add to the money should be paid by the state — a point I am argu-
that a broken arm, lacerations, a 107-degree fever, a concus- — but neither is ‘in your face’ grand- ing in a little-publicized lawsuit being pursued by the Fulton
sion and “Big Brother” classes. By the time it closed, I could Houses Tenants Association — it is as likely to be paid as
have served as a tour guide. standing by a candidate. the funds that the courts have ordered the state to pay to
When it was open, the hospital was a mess. The nurses support quality education.
and doctors were nice, but the place was falling apart. A private-sector hero, or amalgam of heroes, is going to
I wasn’t thrilled about the real estate deal St. Vincent”s have to be found, be it Long Island Jewish, or Mt. Sinai or
wanted, with its 20-story condos, but I was convinced, first, says that the money is available from the State Dormitory someone else, in an era of hospital retrenchment. That hero
that we would lose the hospital without a deal; and, second, Authority. The location she favors — at the old St. Vincent’s will need to be convinced with lots of facts and figures that
that our community needed the deal because we needed a Hospital site — is controlled by a Bankruptcy Court judge a modern, state-of-the-art, medical facility of some sort will
better hospital. When the hospital closed, precipitously, looking to pay off $1 billion in creditors, who Yetta says, make a profit. And they are going to need government sup-
I was as angry as anyone at the hospital’s board, and at doesn’t have the power to determine what gets built on the port of some sort — probably not direct grants (because the
the State Health commissioner, who apparently scuttled old hospital site.
a takeover being considered by Mt. Sinai. I was pissed at Passive studies aren’t in and of themselves going to get Continued on page 27
our local elected officials, who seemed powerless to keep
St. Vincents’s open and who misfocused our attention on
an effort to get funds for an urgent-care facility to replace
St. Vincent’s, a facility we later learned was a fancy name
for a clinic.
Since then we have seen two poles emerge in an effort
to get a hospital reopened on the Lower West Side. One,
led by the elected officials, has promoted a “needs assess-
ment” — a scientific study about who was serviced by St.
Vincent’s and what their health needs were. They have put
together an impressive study showing — lo and behold —
that close to a majority of people in the Central and West
Village, Chelsea, and Lower Clinton used St. Vincent’s as
their primary hospital. Much of their data simply updates
data found in the Berger Commission Report published in
2006, which was supposed to have the force of law. The pub-
lic officials supporting the assessment efforts keep repeating,
“Trust us,” “We’ll get you a hospital.” Brad Hoylman, former
Community Board 2 chairperson, Village Democratic dis-
trict leader and the incumbent-favored candidate to replace
Christine Quinn in the City Council in 2013, is the public
spokesperson for this effort.
On the other side is the Coalition for a New Village
Hospital, which has signed up 5,000 people on its Web
page. Perennial City Council candidate Yetta Kurland, who
had been criticized for running without having roots in any
community struggle, jumped into this one right after the
hospital’s closing, filed two meritless lawsuits, which got her Photo by Milo Hess
a lot of publicity, and has used her considerable talents as an
organizer to pull off a rally, bring people to several public
meetings (often chaired by Hoylman), and build an expan-
SCENE Singer Katy Perry — or at least a poster of her — got ripped on Lafayette St in
Nolita.

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Politicians, park lovers make a stand on the strips
Continued from page 1
N.Y.U. has said it will start moving
forward on the required city ULURP, or
uniform land-use review procedure, for the
superblocks plan early in the new year.
‘HALT THE ASSAULT’
Speaking at Sunday’s rally, Terri Cude,
co-chairperson of Community Action
Alliance on N.Y.U. 2031, or CAAN, thanked
the elected officials for supporting C.B. 2’s
resolution.
“We look forward to your continued sup-
port as we face N.Y.U.’s upcoming assault
on our lives and our desperately needed
open areas,” Cude told the five gathered
politicians.
“We, the more than 30 community
groups that comprise the Community Action
Alliance on N.Y.U. 2031, remind N.Y.U. that
every one of these strips is not theirs, will
not be theirs and cannot be negotiated with
during ULURP,” Cude continued. “N.Y.U.’s
stewardship and adherence to commitments
are woefully apparent in the padlocked and
unusable playground and reflecting garden
north of the dog run, and in the sterile Gould
Plaza — and in the playground on the top of
Coles gym that N.Y.U. committed to, created
and quickly closed, but never replaced.”
Cude said N.Y.U. should focus on expand-
ing in areas where the community actually
supports it — like the Financial District.
“Whatever you do, there’s no more room
for you to do it here, and there’s no way we’ll
let you take away our open space,” she said.
‘CO-EXIST, DON’T OVERWHELM’
Borough President Scott Stringer said,
“I’m here to support the resolution that
says, ‘Leave these strips alone,’ and to sup-
port the Greenwich Village tradition of open
space. We believe that N.Y.U. must learn
how to co-exist with, not overwhelm, this
community.”
Stringer said preserving the parkland
strips as open space was a key finding
of his Community Task Force on N.Y.U.
Development — which brought together
community members and university repre-
sentatives to discuss N.Y.U.’s growth plans.
“N.Y.U. must do more than just show up
at meetings,” the borough president chided.
“A campus plan is about more than just put-
ting up big buildings — it’s a way of life,”
he stressed.
“You are going to win this fight, I guar-
antee,” he told the Villagers. Referring to the
legendary mayor on the pedestal behind him,
Stringer said, “Mayor LaGuardia said he
couldn’t be moved.” Pointing to the statue,
he said, “I’m telling you right now — you’re
staying exactly where you are!” as the crowd
cheered.
N.Y.U. has said it would move the statue
so that one of two, large, infill buildings
planned for the Washington Square Village
superblock could poke out onto the strip a
bit.
In addition, the new “Zipper Building,”
containing the 1,400-student dorm, under
N.Y.U.’s plan, would occupy the strip area
currently home to the Mercer-Houston Dog
Run. The dog run would be moved to anoth-
er area on the block.
‘VEGGIES, KIDS, DOGS, SPACE’
Congressmember Jerrold Nadler called
for the strips to be transferred to the
Parks Department, so that any “taking” of
them would require a review by the state
Legislature.
“The vegetable and fruit gardens,”
Nadler said, “the space for dogs to run,
space for kids to stretch their legs and
run — they’re an integral part of the
community. I will work to assure that the
growth plans of N.Y.U. work for N.Y.U.
and the residents of Greenwich Village,”
he stated.
Assemblymember Deborah Glick lik-
ened N.Y.U. to the Sheriff of Nottingham
“that constantly changes the rules on the
serfs.”
“Years later, N.Y.U. wants to relitigate
what has already been determined,” she
said of the superblocks plan, which also
needs key zoning changes to allow the new
development. “We won’t let that happen,” Photos by Helayne Seidman
Glick said. “We’re not fooled. We’re here The 150 people at Sunday’s rally on LaGuardia Place included kids, dog owners, par-
to say, ‘Open space forever.’ ” ents, gardeners, preservationists and neighborhood activists.
State Senator Tom Duane told the crowd
that open spaces are “gathering spaces —
what we are doing right now. Look at us
here,” he said. “This is democracy — and
democracy happens in open spaces.
“We need open space so we can breathe,”
Duane said, telling everyone to take a deep
breath. All savored inhaling the crisp, cold
air, infused with oxygen by the LaGuardia
Garden’s greenery.
City Councilmember Margaret Chin
stated, “These strips need to remain as
public parkland.” Saying she supports C.B.
2’s resolution on the strips, she added,
“There are other places for N.Y.U. to
grow.” Having been waiting for the new
councilmember to come out with a strong
position on the superblocks plan, the
Villagers applauded her comments.
‘PARKLAND — SO, PARKS DEPT.’
Tobi Bergman, chairperson of C.B. 2’s
Parks Committee, said, “Neither N.Y.U.
nor the Department of Transportation is
equipped to manage these important pub-
lic areas for the best benefit of the neigh-
borhood, N.Y.U. and the city. It requires
cooperative stewardship under the leader-
ship of the agency that knows how to man-
age parkland, our Parks Department.”
David Gruber, chairperson of C.B. 2’s
Institutions Committee, said, “We under-
Continued on page 16

Archbishop Timothy Dolan helped longtime former St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral pastor Monsignor Nicola Marinacci, 100, to his seat at Sunday’s basilica ceremony, as Edward
Cardinal Egan and other assembled clergy applauded.
Pope brings Old St. Pat’s under basilica umbrella
BY DAN MILLER
On Sunday, Archbishop Timothy Dolan was
joined by Edward Cardinal Egan, a cavalcade
of priests and more than 1,000 worshippers to
celebrate the designation of St. Patrick’s Old
Cathedral on Mulberry St. as the New York
Catholic Archdiocese’s basilica church.
Dolan first visited “Old St. Pat’s” in
June 2009 — eight weeks after taking over
from Egan as head of the archdiocese — to
help celebrate the venerable house of wor-
ship’s 200th anniversary. At that time, he
announced he was so proud of the old cathe-
dral that he would ask Pope Benedict to
elevate it to a basilica, which means it would
be the pope’s “home church” on visits.
“I just think it deserves it,” Dolan
said then, citing “endurance” and “faith.”
Mentioning the early cathedral community’s
“tenacity,” he had recalled how the Ancient
Order of Hibernians defended the church
in the face of nativist mobs who sought to
burn it down.
Dolan was persuasive, because this
March, Pope Benedict decreed the church
basilica worthy.
The old St. Patrick’s was the first seat of
the Catholic Church in New York, but ceded
that role to the larger, new St. Patrick’s
Cathedral on Fifth Ave. when it was com-
December 9 - 15, 2010 15
Photos by Dan Miller and Victoria Canore / DMD Images
pleted in 1879. It was also the setting for the
church scene in “The Godfather.”
Sunday’s celebration took place during
vespers, the evening prayer.
Gail Frohlinger, a Bayside, Queens,
resident who teaches adult education at
Garden City High School, created one
of the two symbols included in the ser-
vice, the umbraculum. In pre-Popemobile
days, the umbraculum, basically, a large
umbrella, sheltered pontiffs as they trav-
eled though Rome and was decorated with
that city’s official colors, red and yellow,
and adorned with the Holy See’s insignia.
The other symbol of a basilica, the tintin-
nabulum, a bell, in the old days was rung
to announce the pope’s approach.
At the service, Dolan thanked govern-
ment officials in attendance, including City
Comptroller John Liu, Police Commissioner
Ray Kelly and Francesco Maria Talo, the
Italian consul general, who attended with his
wife, Ornella.
Monsignor Donald Sakano, the cathe-
dral’s pastor, said, “The basilica is not just
a name that is a relic from the past, but a
mandate to face the future and the current
needs of our community.”
Da Nico Ristorante contributed the food Standing near the newly installed umbraculum, Cardinal Edward Egan read Pope
for the after-vespers reception. Benedict’s edict designating St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral a basilica.
16 December 9 - 15, 2010

Politicians, park lovers make a stand on the strips

Houston Dog Run Association; Larry
Continued from page 14 Goldberg of Friends of LaGuardia Place;
Enid Braun of LMNO(P), the group that
stand that N.Y.U. is part of Greenwich advocated for Mercer Playground’s creation;
Village and a neighbor, but it is inappropri- and Alyson Beha of New Yorkers for Parks.
ate for them to take what little public space After the rally, Goldberg said, “I do not
we have and privatize it for reasons which believe that you transfer public property for
seem unclear and unnecessary.” The com- private use.” He said he’s looking forward
munity is calling on N.Y.U. not to include to this time next year, when a new chil-
the parkland in its ULURLP application, dren’s playground named for his late wife,
Gruber said. Adrienne’s Garden, is planned to open just
Also speaking in support of C.B. 2’s north of the LaGuardia statue.
resolution were Ellen Horan of LaGuardia Goldberg said N.Y.U. officials have told
Corner Garden; Beth Gottlieb of the Mercer- him, if the university’s plans are approved,
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Little Flower” either toward W. Third St.
or Bleecker St. The new infill building’s
entrance would be right where Adrienne’s
Garden will be, he said he was told.
“They can’t move Fiorello. They can’t
take Adrienne’s Garden,” Goldberg said.
“They can’t take this community garden.”
N.Y.U. AS NEW MOSES
The Greenwich Village Society for
Historic Preservation is a member of the
CAAN coalition. Andrew Berman, the soci-
ety’s director, handed out a statement that
recalled the community’s defeat of Robert
Moses’ superhighway plan.
“These pieces of public land are not
only a precious piece of open space in a
park-starved neighborhood, they are a pre-
cious piece of our history as well,” Berman’s
statement said. “Much as we defeated Moses
50 years ago, we will defeat N.Y.U.’s plan
to overbuild and overwhelm our neighbor-
hood.”
In C.B. 2, Stringer and Chin, three of the
four levels of the ULURP review process
were present at the rally, and all of them are
now on record opposing N.Y.U.’s takeover
of the strips. The City Planning Commission
also has to weigh in on the plan as part of
ULURP. Given that sort of overwhelming
opposition, several people at the rally won-
dered why N.Y.U. still is even including the
strips in its superblocks plan.
Alicia Hurley, vice president of
N.Y.U.’s Office of Government Affairs and
Engagement, issued a statement on the Dec.
5 rally on the strips:
“For the past three years, N.Y.U. has
been engaged in a dialogue with the com-
munity. As we proceed with refining our
plans and preparing our submission for
approval through the city’s uniform land-
use review procedure (ULURP), we will
continue these conversations on a broad
range of topics, including how best to
improve publicly accessible open spaces.
We remain committed to seeking a path
forward that balances the needs of the com-
munity, N.Y.U. and the city.”
Last month, in an embarrassing setback
for the university, N.Y.U. scrapped plans to
build a 400-foot-tall tower — including fac-
ulty housing and a hotel — in the landmarked
Silver Towers complex on its southern super-
block. N.Y.U. had claimed it had I.M. Pei’s
support for the project. But Henry Cobb,
partner of Pei — who designed Silver Towers
— in November wrote the city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission, saying he and Pei
felt the fourth tower would be “profoundly
destructive” to the landmarked complex.
As a result, N.Y.U. is now planning a
shorter, 17-to-20-story, as-of-right tower on
the Morton Williams supermarket site at the
block’s northwest corner.

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VILLAGER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Suitable for Contemplation
Exhibits & Events Sure to Conjure Up Questions & Inspire Answers
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
THE WEST AT SUNSET
The Abrons Arts Center presents “The
West at Sunset” — a multidisciplinary group
exhibition in response to a masterwork of
spiritual literature: Rene Daumal’s 1952
novel “Mount Analogue.” The title of the
exhibition refers to the particular alignment
of the travelers’ ship that allows it to access
the mountain, bridging the invisible and
material worlds. Multiple installations in the
exhibition are likewise modified by the shad-
ows and the light created by the changing
position of the sun, forging a living environ-
ment that shifts from day to night and back
again. As for the novel the exhibit is based on,
“Mount Analogue” is a surrealist allegory of
an expedition to the top of a holy mountain.
It garnered Daumal considerable recognition
then definitely for a good cause. New
York artists are banding together with
the Episcopal Church of the Holy
Apostles for the first annual “Christmas
Spectacular” — a fundraiser for the Holy
Apostles Soup Kitchen. Featured artists
include funny lady and actress Susan
Campanaro (seen on “The Sopranos”),
Thomas Cahill (author of “How the Irish
Saved Civilization,” reading from a select-
ed work) and Broadway actor Michael
Cumpsty (recently seen as Richard III
in the Classic Stage Company’s produc-
tion). He’ll be presenting W.H. Auden’s
classic Christmas poem, “For the Time
Being: A Christmas Oratorio.” Jazz artist
Eddie Allen and his band will play their
“Jazzy Brass for the Holidays” — original
arrangements of holiday favorites. To
help make your donation (also known as Photo courtesy of Trinity Wall Street

in France as a poet and student of mysticism.
Unfinished due to his death from tuberculo-
sis, the text notably provided the premise for
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 film “The Holy
Mountain.” Dec. 9 through Feb. 20. Opening
reception: Thurs., Dec. 9, 6-8pm at Abrons
Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement (466
Grand St. at Pitt). Visit www.abronsartscen-
ter.org or call 212-598-0400.
FUNDRAISER: “CHRISTMAS
SPECTACULAR”
It’s a match made, if not in Heaven,
your purchased ticket) go further, Holy Here’s one way to get somewhere while walking in circles. See “Labyrinth Walk.”
Apostles has received a matching grant LABYRINTH WALK AT ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL
from the Peter J. Sharp Foundation — so On the third Thurs. of every month (from 2-6pm), the labyrinth at St. Paul’s Chapel
every dollar raised will double in value is open to the public for walking, prayers and meditation. A labyrinth walk is a symbolic
to the Soup Kitchen. Thurs., Dec. 16, pilgrimage — a cathartic act that (if done with sincerity?) leads to salvation, enlightenment
6:30pm at the Episcopal Church of the or consolation. Free. At St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway and Fulton St.). For info, call 212-602-
Holy Apostles (Ninth Ave. & 28th St.). 0800 or visit www.trinitywallstreet.org.
For tickets ($20), order online at www.
tinyurl.com/spectacular1 or purchase at
the door. Reserved tables are $1,000.
Yeah, that’s a little steep — but unless you
skimmed through this listing, you know
it’s for a good cause!

Photo by Leo Sorel

The Trinity Choir: In demand, December and beyond.

Image courtesy of the artist
John Bradford’s “The Drunkenness of Noah” (2009; oil 30x40 in.)
PAINTING THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE
This exhibition of oil paintings, created by John Bradford from 2009-2010, marks a return
for the artist to the Bowery Gallery (of which he was a founding member in 1969). “Painting the
Biblical Narrative” is said by the artist to be neither irreverent nor pious — but they do imply a
political intent “by celebrating the radically unadorned, disconcerting Hebrew Bible as a foun-
dational ethos onto which we continue to cling, however precariously.” Bradford accomplishes
that mission statement by creating images inspired by the Old Testament through a process of
reworking each painting’s surface with a full brush “until composition and interpretation emerge
as one.” Through Dec. 31, at Bowery Gallery (532 W. 25th St., 4th floor). Gallery Hours: Tues.-
Sat., 11am-6pm. For info, call 646-230-6655 or visit www.bowerygallery.org.
THE TRINITY CHOIR
The 2010-2011 concert season is distinguished by the debut of Julian Wachner — prin-
cipal conductor of the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. The Choir’s annual
destination event, on Dec. 12 and 13, is a presentation of Handel’s “Messiah.” On Feb. 3,
European contemporary choral music is performed under the direction of guest conductor
Grete Pedersen (Artistic Director of the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir). For Easter, Johann
Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” is performed on April 14. The season concludes
on May 19. With the exception of the April event, concerts will be presented on Thurs.
evenings.
Can’t make it? They’ll also be available for viewing via live webcast at www.trinitywall-
street.org. The Trinity Choir will also perform free preview concerts at 1pm on most show
days. Concerts begin at 7:30pm, (except for “Messiah” on Dec. 12, which starts at 3pm).
At Trinity Church (Broadway, at Wall St.). Season tickets are $100. For individual concerts,
$20 general admission. $10 student/senior tickets are available only at the door. Tickets for
“Messiah” range from $30 to $50. To purchase, visit www.trinitywallstreet.org/tickets or
call 212-602-0800.
18 December 9 - 15, 2010

Supreme Court decision angers, then inspires show

‘Corporate Personhood’ fest is free — for all!
THEATER
CORPORATE PERSONHOOD
FESTIVAL
A Horse Trade Theatre Group and Subjective
Theatre Company joint presentation of short
plays by nine writers
December 14, 15
At the Kraine Theatre (85 E. 4th St.)
Free Admission
For reservations, e-mail: reservations@subjec-
tivetheatre.org
Visit www.horsetrade.info
BY JERRY TALLMER
Jesse Alick, the artistic director of
Off-Off-Broadway’s Subjective Theatre
Company, was idly scanning the day’s
news on his computer early last year when
one dispatch made him bolt upright in
shock.
The Supreme Court of the United
States had just voted 5-4 to declare corpo-
rations to be persons, individuals, human
beings — with the same rights of all other
persons, individuals, human beings in this
vast nation to contribute as much moolah
as they wished to the election campaigns
of any politicians they (the corpora-per-
sons) chose to favor.
“My first reaction was anger,” Jesse
Alick says. “At first I got very, very upset.
To me, that decision was clearly not in
the best interest of democracy. But, to
be honest, my reaction immediately after
that was how silly this ruling was, how
absurd.
“So out of that combination of anger
and absurdity, something stirred in the
recesses of my mind.”
That something was to crystallize
in the wonderfully baptized Corporate
Personhood Play Festival of nine short
works (10 minutes each) now on stage
— admission free! — as a Subjective
Company presentation at the Kraine
Theatre, a Horse Trade Theatre Group’s
corral at 85 East 4th Street in the East
Village.
And if the majority of those nine play-
lets would seem to this auditor to have
no more than a peripheral relationship,
at best, to the Supreme Court’s lamen-
table edict, the one written by Leegrid
Stevens (delivered by actor Michael Sean
Cirell, directed by Rachel Wohlander) The rainbow: five females, four males, two
quite sharply hits the mark.
Target:
blacks, one Asian, one Latino, ages 25-35.
“Young folk,” says Subjective’s 29-year-old
artistic director. “I teach college students
Well, I guess it started in high school. who make me feel old every single day.”
That’s the case for everybody, I suppose? Jesse Alick, one of the eight children of
Old high school scars. I got picked on a lot. novelist C.C. Alick, was born November 2,
I wasn’t like other kids at school. Obviously, 1981 in Missoula, Montana, but grew up in
right? I mean, I wasn’t really a kid, you
know, I was…well, I’m not saying I agree
with the distinction, I mean, but technically,
yes, I was a corporation. So, yeah, I was the “My first reaction was
target of their ridicule, no pun intended.
If I had been older, more confident, it anger,” Jesse Alick says.
probably wouldn’t have bothered me as
much as it did but I was still so young. Still “At first I got very, very
finding myself. Only forty or so locations,
all in the Midwest…It wasn’t like now, not upset. To me, that decision
with all the brand recognition and the great
marketing, everybody says it’s great…“Life’s was clearly not in the best
a moving target.” Slogans and such. 1,500
stores nationwide. Big success. interest of democracy. But,
Anyway, back then I was still trying to
find myself. I was socially awkward. I looked to be honest, my reaction
goofy. My logo was different, too many rings
on the Target. I grew out of those awkward immediately after that was
years but, boy, those kids at Skyline sure
wouldn’t let me forget it. They made fun of how silly this ruling was,
the way I spoke. “Welcome to Target, how
can I help you.” I was very polite but the how absurd.”
kids said I sounded phony.

“So what I did,” says Jesse Alick, “was
send off e-mails to nine of my favorite play-
wrights. I guess I ranted a little. I asked them
whether they would be interested in writing
about this.
“I expected them all to be too busy, but
much to my surprise, they all nine e-mailed
me back and said they would write a play
about this. Then I met with them one-on-
one, individually. After that it was just a mat-
ter of scheduling the Festival. These were
writers I trusted implicitly, so I left them off
the leash. Whatever goes, goes.”
The other eight: James Comtois, Fernanda
Coppel, Jerome Parker, Lucille Baker Scott,
Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Julia Holleman,
Patricia Ione Lloyd, Melisa Tein.
and is in fact a citizen of Grenada, the small
West Indian island (pop. 100,000-150,000)
invaded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan & Co.
“The U.S. bombed us. Reagan thought
we were Communists. Where there was
nothing but mango trees and beautiful
beaches. Why would you bomb that? There
are more Grenadans in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn, where I live, than in all of
Grenada itself.”
Alick made it to New York at 17, deter-
mined to become an actor. It is as an actor
that he became a founding member of
the Subjective Theatre Company — the
“Subjective” being mostly political, he says
— “and the subject of many a joke” within
that company.

Michael Lydon & Friends

Nowadays, Michael Lydon has carved a nice
niche, and reputation, as a popular East Village
songwriter. But back in the day, did you know
he was a founding editor of Rolling Stone and
wrote the definitive biography of Ray Charles
(“The Handsomest Man in the World”)? Show
this local legend some love — and get to
know his well-honed take on pop-jazz — when
Lydon and his friends light up the Cornelia
St. Café for one show only. Those friends, by
the way, include longtime collaborator Ellen
Mandel (piano & vocals), Curtis Fowlkes (trom-
Michael Lydon
bone), Dave Hofstra (bass), Rudy Lawless
(drums), Gennaro Kravitz (vocals) and Amy of 6th Ave., off Bleecker). For tickets ($10),
Fitts (vocals). Tues., Dec. 14, 8:30pm, at the call 212-989-9319. Visit www.michaellydon.
Cornelia Street Café (29 Cornelia St., west com and www.corneliastreetcafe.com.
 December 9 - 15, 2010 19

Holiday events that’ll deck your halls

COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
EAST VILLAGE TREE LIGHTING
A trio of Village organizations — the
Tompkins Square Park Neighborhood
Coalition, the East Village Parks
Conservancy and the Third Street Music
School Settlement— are joining forces to
bring you the 19th annual “Tree Lighting at
Tompkins Square.” Although that fleeting
flip of the switch is the marquee moment,
there’s stuff to do before the lights are
turned on. The musicians of the Mandel &
Lydon Trio (sponsored by Third School) will
join carolers from Theater for the New City
to lead everyone in songs of the season. East
Village eateries Veselka Restaurant and Life
Cafe will provide hot chocolate, cider and
other refreshments — free for all! Sun., Dec.
12, 4-5pm, in Tompkins Square Park (near
the southeast corner of the central lawn;
park entrances along Aves. A&B, btw. 7th
and 10th Sts.).
THE NUTCRACKER, AT PERIDANCE
CAPEZIO CENTER
Is Peridance Capezio Center up to the chal-
lenge of delivering an original take on that
much-produced seasonal favorite? It’s a
good sign that their “Nutcracker” is choreo-
graphed by Igal Perry. Peridance promises
this is the start of a new annual tradition —
so get in on the ground floor this first time
around and you’ll have December bragging
rights for years to come. Sat., Dec. 18,
8:30pm, and Sunday, Dec. 19 at 2:30pm &
7:30pm. At Peridance Capezio Center (126
E. 13th St.). For tickets ($40 to $20) and
info, call 212-505-0886.
Photo by Joan Marcus
Christian Adam Jacobs & Betsy Lippitt — as a randy elf and Mrs. Claus. See
“Looking at Christmas.”
THE SABBATH VARIATIONS: THE
SPLENDOR OF SPACE
24/6 — New York’s first Jewish theater
company dedicated to Sabbath-observant
artists — presents a workshop perfor-
mance of this diversity-minded brave new
interpretation of what the Hanukkah sea-
son means to Jews, gentiles, ladies, gentle-
man and every possible permutation of
human one can imagine. Inspired by the
writing of theologian and civil rights activ-
ist Abraham Joshua Heschel. “The Sabbath
Variations” explores the concept of work
by riffing on the premise of a mystic who
emerges from a cave after more than a
decade in hiding, and finds himself con-
founded by the worldly realm. 24/6 draws
on this ancient story to create six radically
new, 10-minute pieces influenced by every-
one from Samuel Beckett to Lady Gaga.
What do a Japanese salaryman and a fam-
ily drama played out in a hospital have to
do with the true meaning of Hanukkah?
There’s only one way to find out. Sat.,
Dec. 11 and Sun., Dec. 12, 6pm, at The
Sixth Street Community Synagogue (325
E. Sixth St.) in the East Village. Suggested
donation, $10. For reservations, email:
twentyfoursix@hotmail.com. Include your
name, number of tickets and date of per-
formance.
ELEANOR REISSA CELEBRATES
HANUKKAH
Humor, pathos and inclusiveness get equal
sharing on a bill headlined by Tony nominee
and international artist Eleanor Reissa — in
her only NYC appearance this season. Hailed
as one of the world’s most gifted interpreters
Continued on page 21

LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS
Steven Banks, head writer of SpongeBob
SquarePants, is the creator of this holi-
day-themed tale — but leave the kids at
home, because its self-proclaimed “offbeat”
(Dirty? Dark? Sexy?) nature makes this
one suitable only for those ages 15 and
over. Set on Christmas Eve, “Looking at
Christmas” finds an unemployed writer and
a struggling actress meeting while looking
at the famous holiday windows along Fifth
Avenue. What they don’t realize is that the
windows are looking back. This produc-
tion features The Bats (The Flea’s resident
company of actors). Through Dec. 30 at
The Flea Theater (41 White St. btw. Church
& Broadway, three blocks south of Canal).
Tues.–Sun. at 7pm, Sat/Sun at 3pm, Fri.
at 10pm (added show Dec. 27, 7pm; No
performances Dec. 23-26). For tickets, call
212-352-3101 or visit www.theflea.org. All
Tues. performances are Pay-What-You-Can,
subject to availability at the door (1 ticket
per person).
HOLIDAY SEASON AT THE WORLD
FINANCIAL CENTER
You’ll never be bored this December —
if it’s holiday activities you’re in the market,
and mood, for. The World Financial Center
has all the Yuletide bases covered with a
Photo by Stephen Kunken
See “Eleanor Reissa celebrates Hanukkah.”
variety of events. Dec. 13, 14, 15, 17 & 22
from 12:30pm to 1:30pm — and Dec. 18 &
19 from 12-2pm — The Big Apple Chorus
performs a cappella versions of holiday
tunes. On Thurs., Dec. 16 at 12:30pm, the
Niall O’Leary Irish Dance Troupe performs
“Celtic Christmas.” Holly and mistletoe
get the thistle-and-shamrock interpreta-
tion, when O’Leary and his dancers blend
Irish and American influences to create a
unique take on holiday songs and tunes.
Tues. Dec. 21 at 7pm, America’s premiere
postclassical string quartet — “Ethel” — is
joined by vocal legend Ron Kunene and his
South African choral group (“Themba”).
Celebrate Kwanzaa with a performance
illustrating The Seven Principles — pre-
sented by Forces of Nature Dance Theatre.
It takes place Wed., Dec. 29, at 12:30pm.
All events are free and can be found at the
World Financial Center Winter Garden (200
Vesey St.). For info, call 212-417-7000 or
visit www.worldfinancialcenter.com.
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Just Do Art!
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
SAINT MISBEHAVIN’: THE WAVY
GRAVY MOVIE
Those who aren’t children of the 60s may
not know the name “Wavy Gravy.” Heck, they
might not even remember his namesake Ben &
Jerry’s ice cream flavor (retired in 2001). The
documentary “Saint Misbehavin’ ” is a cool,
breezy way for the uninitiated to learn about
— and come to appreciate — the Woodstock
emcee, peace activist, shameless jester and
aging hippie. After spending 88 minutes cruis-
ing the highlights of his life, you’ll understand
why Gravy’s still fighting the good fight and
turning folks on to the notion that humor and
compassion are the best ways to get through
the day and sleep well at night. Archival
footage from the counterculture movement
— juxtaposed with contemporary testimonials
from the era’s surviving participants — are
what makes the film click and tick. Directed
by Michelle Esrick. Unrated. December 8-14,
at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave., at W.
Third St.). For screening times, call 212-924-
7771 or visit www.ifccenter.com. Wavy Gravy
& director Michelle Esrick will appear, in
person, Dec. 9 — at the 6:25pm & 8:30pm
screenings.
18TH ANNUAL AFRICAN DIASPORA
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Through Dec. 14, this film fest pres-
ents an eclectic mix of foreign, indepen-
dent, classic and urban films representing
the global Black experience — through an
extraordinary range of subjects and artistic
approaches.
Sun., Dec. 12 at 4pm & 8:30pm — and at
8pm on Tues., Dec. 14, it’s the NY premier
of Yousry Nasrallah’s “Scheherazade, Tell
me Story.” A box office hit in Egypt, the plot
concerns a female talk show host researches
and discusses women’s stories that reveal
the human condition of women in Egypt.
Sun., Dec. 12 at 6:45pm and Tues., Dec. 14
at 6pm, it’s “Josephine Baker, Black Diva in Photo by Mauri Forsblom
a White Man’s World.” Both “Baker” and
Foreground: Rana Santacruz.
“Scheherazade” screen at the Symphony
Space Thalia Theatre (2537 Broadway, at RANA SANTACRUZ: MEXICAN BLUEGRASS
95th St.). Rana Santacruz — a Mexican musician steeped in the Brooklyn music scene — is the
Fri., Dec. 10, 6pm it’s the panel discussion originator of “Mexican Bluegrass” (also known as “Irish Mariachi”). Santacruz says it’s a
“A Conversation with Ingrid Sinclair.” At 8pm, sound originating in Ireland, running through Appalachia, swinging through New Orleans
and careening across most of Mexico. The acoustic instrumentation includes the cajon,
upright bass, accordion, guitar, banjo, jarana, violin and trumpet. Hear it for yourself
when Santacruz returns Downtown with an 8pm performance at BMCC Tribeca PAC (199
Chambers St.) on Fri., Dec. 17 at 8pm. Tickets are $15 (with a Spotlight FIVE subscrip-
tion, patrons receive five tickets for $50). Use the tickets all at once or spread out over the
remaining Tribeca Spotlight events during the 2010-11 season. To order, call 212-220-1460.
Visit www.tribecapac.org.

same venue, a panel of independent African
American Filmmakers asks “Is making a film
easier today?” — and on Sat., Dec. 11, 2pm,
it’s a “Subtitled Cinema Panel Discussion.”
The panel series concludes Sat., Dec. 11,
4pm, with the topic “The Future of African
Film Distribution in the US.” For a com-
plete schedule and list of venues, visit www.
AfricanDiasporaDVD.com, www.AfricanFilm.
com and www.NYADIFF.org. Follow NYADIFF
at: www.twitter.com/NYADFF.
CITY WINERY
Every Sunday, the Klezmer Brunch Series
pairs top tier musicians with top tier lox
and bagels. At 155 Varick St. at Vandam.
Call 212-608-0555 or, for a full schedule of
upcoming events, visit www.citywinery.com.
HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFÉ
Proceeds pay for Housing Works’ services
for homeless and low-income New Yorkers
living with HIV and AIDS. Housing Works
Bookstore Café is located at 126 Crosby St.
For info, call 212-966-0466, x1104 or visit
www.housingworksbookstore.org.
POETS HOUSE
Their Battery Park City home has a
50,000-volume poetry library, a children’s
room, a multimedia archive, a program-
ming hall and a reading room. Most events
Image courtesy of Ripple Effect Films are $10, $7 for students/seniors and free to
The man, the legend, the retired Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor: “Wavy Gravy.” Poets House members. At 10 River Terrace,
at Murray St. Call 212-431-7920 or visit
www.poetshouse.org.
THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE
At this unique museum, a series of con-
templative exhibits and talks educate and
enlighten people of all backgrounds — by
giving them a glimpse of Jewish life before,
during and after the Holocaust. On view
through Sept., 2011: “The Morgenthaus:
A Legacy of Service” and through Feb. 27,
“Project Mah Jongg.” At the Museum of
Jewish Heritage (at Edmond J. Safra Plaza,
36 Battery Place). For general museum info,
call 646-437-4200. For ticket info, 646-437-
4202. Hours: Sun.-Tues. and Thurs.: 10am
to 5:45pm. Wed., 10am to 8pm. Fri.: 10am
to 3pm. Eve of Jewish Holidays: 10am to
3pm. For a complete schedule of events, visit
www.mjhnyc.org.
ST. BRIGID SCHOOL FLEA MARKET
FUNDRAISER
Yeah, as if YOU need another excuse
to shop around this time of year. But it
never hurts to have a really GOOD reason,
right? Do that shopping with a clean con-
scious and a clear agenda, at the St. Brigid
School Fleamarket Fundraiser. Proceeds
from vendors who rent tables will go to St.
Brigid. The vendors get to keep all of their
profits, and you get to keep some of their
stuff. So shop in the comfort of St. Brigid’s
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of Yiddish song, Reissa is accompanied by a
band of musical luminaries under the direc-
tion of Frank London (of the Klezmatics).
Marty Confurius on the upright bass, Rex
Benincasa on percussion and drums, slide
trombone player Brian Drye and pianist/
accordion player Patrick Farrell bring their
talents to the table, as Reissa breezes through
an afternoon of Hanukkah songs and musical
gems from the Yiddish theater — including
Abe Ellstein’s “Abi Gezint” and “Oy Mama
Am I in Love.” Those who aren’t fluent in
Yiddish (and aren’t even Jewish) won’t be left
in the dark: Reissa will intersperse Yiddish
selections with songs like “Que Sera, Sera,”
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and even
“Yankee Doodle.” Sun., Dec. 12, 2:30pm,
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (Edmond
J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place). Tickets are
$18 ($15 for Museum and National Yiddish
Book Center Members). To order, call the
box office at 646-437-4202 or visit www.
mjhnyc.org.
HOLIDAY RECORD & CD SALE
The ARChive of Contemporary Music’s
Holiday Record & CD sale helps support the
ARChive — a not-for-profit music library
which collects, preserves and provides infor-
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warm basement as you buy clothes, books,
electronics, jewelry, art, crafts and furni-
ture (food and beverages, also available
for purchase, will give you the necessary
stamina). Sat., Dec. 11, 9am to 5:30pm,
at the St. Brigid School (185 E. 7th St.,
corner of Ave. B). For info, visit www.
stbrigidschoolny.com
PENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS
Penny Jones & Co. Puppets present their
own friendly, funny take on two classic tales.
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” tells the familiar
tale of an apprentice whose attempts to have
others do his work results in predictable chaos
when he tries magic instead of muscle. “The
Fisherman & the Genie” has a humble fisher-
man catching a genie who grants a wish that
soon finds the fisherman and his wife missing
their frugal, simple life. There will also be a
participatory Whale Game — in keeping with
the nautical theme! Sun., Dec. 12, 11am &
1pm at the Westbeth Community Room (155
Bank St. btw. Washington and West Sts.). For
tickets ($5), call 212-924-0525. Visit www.
pennypuppets.org.
YOUNG ARTISTS’ CONCERT
TO SUPPORT DOWNTOWN ART
What better way to follow up your
charitable visit to the St. Brigid School
mation on popular music from 1950 to
the present (ARC keeps two copies of all
recordings released in America, and their
collection numbers over two million sound
recordings). There will be over 20,000 items
for sale — but don’t worry about depleting
the permanent collection. The items are
new donations from record companies and
collectors, and there’s not a used, returned
or defective product in the bunch. What
you will find, though, will be mostly pop
and rock recordings, collectible LPs priced
below book value, hundreds of CDs priced
at $1 to $5 each and cassettes 4 for $1.00.
Not enough? There will also be many hard to
find 7” singles, shelves of new music books,
African, reggae & world-music releases,
classical LPs (most for 50¢ or LESS), vid-
eos, 60s psychedelic posters, and Sony Yule
log DVDs (just released by Johnny Cash,
Mariah Carey and Kenny Chesney, for $5
each). For the dis-en-vinyled, ARChive’s
newly-departed food stylist neighbors left
behind “TONS of high-end and everyday
kitchenware.” Support the ARChive mis-
sion by becoming a member, and you’ll
shop the sale before the general public and
be welcomed at their Dec. 9 cocktail party.
For membership details and other info, call
212-226-6967, visit www.arcmusic.org and
check out their blog (arcmusic.wordpress.
com). The sale takes place Sat., Dec. 11
Fleamarket Fundraiser (see previous list-
ing) than to enjoy a concert the very next
day that will help support the coming
Downtown Art season (tied to the his-
tory of the Lower East Side)? The “2nd
Annual Young Artists’ Concert to support
Downtown Art” is performed by members
of the company, under the leadership of
Music Director Mike Hickey. Proceeds
will fund Downtown Art’s season of arts
programming with youth. Sun., Dec. 12,
4pm at University of the Streets (130 Ave.
A; entrance on E. 7th St.). Tickets: For
adults, $30. For students & seniors, $25.
For reservations, visit www.downtownart.
org/final_pages/tickets_final.
RABBIT A LA BERLIN AND LOSS
If there’s such a thing as a ‘humor-
ous metaphor for the East German
Experience,” it’s to be found at Film
Forum. That’s where “Rabbit A La Berlin”
is currently screening (one of two films
on a bill exploring the post-war German
experience).
“Rabbit” is a 50-minute documentary
short which recalls a very different take
on the unexpected consequences of The
Berlin Wall. Built in 1961, the “wall” was
actually two walls with a “death zone”
in between. A handful of rabbits were
trapped in this geographical, and political,
wilderness. For the next three decades,
they multiplied like, well, rabbits. Told
in the style of a nature documentary, the
through Sun., Dec. 19, daily from 11am to
6pm. At 54 White St. (3 blocks south of
Canal, btw. Broadway & Church. Take the 1
train to Franklin, or any train to Canal).
HOLIDAY EVENTS AT THE
MERCHANT’S HOUSE MUSEUM
Do you pine for a holiday experience that
harks back to those days of old — as in, say, the
mid-19th century? If so, look no further than
the Merchant’s House Museum. Built in 1832,
MHM exists year-round as a lovingly curated
time capsule offering a glimpse into the lives
— and mindset — of the prosperous merchant-
class Tredwell family (whose various members
occupied the house for nearly a century).
Through Jan. 10, the exhibition “Christmas
Comes to Old New York” uses recreated scenes
of holiday preparation to reveal how modern
holiday customs came to be. Included with
regular museum admission ($10, $5 for stu-
dents/seniors). On Fri., Dec 10 at 7pm, “To All,
Wassail: A Concert of 19th-Century Holiday
Songs & Stories” features The Bond Street
Euterpean Singing Society (MHM artists-in-
residence) in a concert of vocal quartets, solos,
holiday readings and sing-alongs ($25, $15 for
MHM members). Reservations required. On
Dec. 17, 18 & 19, “An Old Fashioned Christmas
in New York: Tours by Candlelight” offers tours
beginning every 20 minutes, Fri., 6-9pm, Sat. &
Sun., 4-8pm. The halls will be decked and the
film shows us life from a rabbit’s point of
view — which becomes an amusing but
potent metaphor for the lives of postwar
East Germans.
The companion film — “Loss” — is a
much more sober examination of German
angst. It uses Sigmund Freud’s definition
of mourning (which says loss of father-
land and freedom is just as traumatic as
the loss of a loved one) to explore how
20th century German history (and the
loss of Germany’s Jewish population) has
influenced its citizens’ speech and thought
patterns.
Through Dec. 21, at Film Forum (209
W. Houston St., west of Sixth Ave.). For
December 9 - 15, 2010 21
rooms lit by flickering candlelight as costumed
actors relate the Christmas tradition of mid-19th
century New York ($20, $15 for children 12 &
under, $10 MHM members). All events take
place at the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E.
Fourth St. btw. Lafayette & Bowery). For info
and reservations, call 212-777-1089 or visit
www.merchantshouse.org.
A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
AT THE IRISH REP
The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its
23rd season with Dylan Thomas’s holiday clas-
sic. Adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore,
this re-invention of Dylan Thomas’s iconic
tale features both Irish Repertory favorites
and Broadway veterans, and both traditional
and contemporary Christmas music interwoven
within the classic story of that famous snowy
day. Kerry Conte and Ashley Robinson star
along with Broadway favorites Victoria Mallory,
Martin Vidnovic and Simon Jones. Musical
direction is by John Bell. Through Jan. 2 at The
Irish Repertory Theatre (132 W. 22nd St. btw.
Sixth & Seventh Aves.)Wed.-Sat., at 8pm; 3pm
matinees on Wed., Sat. & Sun. (exceptions:
added 8pm performances on Tues., Dec. 21
and 28; 3pm matinee on Fri., Dec. 24; no 8pm
on Christmas Eve; no December 25; no 3pm on
Sat., Jan. 1). For tickets ($55 and $65), call 212-
727-2737 or online at www.irishrep.org.
screening times, call the box office at 212-
727-8110 or visit www.filmforum.org.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR
EVENT LISTED?
Listing requests may be sent to scott@
thevillager.com. Please provide the date,
time, location, price and a description of
the event (at least three weeks in advance
of the event date). Information may also
be mailed to 145 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10013-1548. Requests
must be received three weeks before the
event is to be published. Questions? Call
646-452-2497.
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CHEF WANG’S HOUSE,
LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 8/30/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 88 7th
Avenue New York, NY 10011.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF TAMOBO VENTURES
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 8/4/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
500 W.43 St. #35D, NY, NY
10036. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF KISSING CLUB, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
05/25/09. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: KISS-
ING CLUB LLC, 30 Bank
Street, New York, NY 10014.
Purpose: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF PRINCIPIA
PARTNERS LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/20/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 12/20/94. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC, 156
William St., 11th Fl., NY, NY
10038. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, Div. of
Corps., PO Box 898, Dover,
DE 19903. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF PUNCHCUT
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
8/12/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Cali-
fornia (CA) on 9/13/02. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 170
Maiden Lane, 3rd Fl., San
Francisco, CA 94108, also the
address of the principal office
and the address to be main-
tained in CA. Arts of Org.
filed with CA Secy. Of State,
1500 11th St., Sacramento,
CA 95814. Purpose: any law-
ful activities.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SK GREENWICH
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/8/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 2/14/06. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: c/o Phillips
Lytle LLP, 437 Madison Ave.,
34th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE
address of LLC: Diversified
Corporate Services Inter-
national, Inc., 508 Main St.,
Wilmington, DE 19804. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Secy.
of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover,
DE 19903. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 427 FULTON RETAIL
REALTY LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
3/18/09. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: The LLC, 39 W. 37th
St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10018.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF RIOS & MCGAR-
RIGLE, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/28/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o Michael D. Parker,
Esq., 1391 Main St., Ste. 610,
Springfield, MA 01103. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF LG GP, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/18/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/7/10. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 150
E. 58th St., NY, NY 10022.
DE address of LLC: Stellar
Corporate Services LLC, 3500
South DuPont Hwy. Dover,
DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALI-
FICATION OF THE
BROADSMOORE GROUP,
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/10.
Office location: NY County.
LLC formed in Delaware (DE)
on 7/23/10. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: 711 Fifth Ave.,
Ste. 405, NY, NY 10022. DE
address of LLC: 615 South
DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE
19901. Arts. of Org. filed with
DE Secy. of State, Townsend
Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 30 W 89 REALTY, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
9/21/10. Office 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, 30 W
89th St., NY, NY 10024. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HOTEL 57 UNIT
III, LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 10/18/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 280 Chestnut,
Westmont, IL 60559. LLC
formed in DE on 9/21/10.
NY Sec. of State designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o CT Corporation
System, 111 8th Ave., NY,
NY 10011, regd. agent upon
whom process may be
served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Sec. of State, P.O.
Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/4-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF PARK 185TH
LLC.
Appl. for Auth. Filed w/
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/4/08. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 10/4/07.
SSNY designated as agent
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail process to: 16192
Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE
19958. DE address of LLC:
16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes,
DE 19958. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ROSA PRIME PRO-
DUCTIONS LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/1/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 75 West End Ave.
#C10M, NY, NY 10023. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF PARK 18 WEST
LLC.
Appl. for Auth. Filed w/
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/4/08. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 10/4/07.
SSNY designated as agent
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail process to: 16192
Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE
19958. DE address of LLC:
16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes,
DE 19958. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BRONX PARK-
ING GROUP LLC.
Appl. for Auth. Filed w/
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 4/15/08. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 3/17/08.
SSNY designated as agent
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail process to: 16192
Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE
19958. DE address of LLC:
16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes,
DE 19958. Cert. of Form. filed
with DE Secy. of State, 401
Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 164TH BX PARKING,
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/19/03. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 2 Sherman Ave.,
NY, NY 10040. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF S3 CAPITAL
HOLDINGS, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/22/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/06/10. Princ.
office of LLC: 590 Madison
Ave., NY, NY 10022. 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. filed
with DE Secy. of State, Div.
of Corps., John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
12PT PRINT LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/20/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of pro-
cess to 1675 Richmond Rd.,
Staten Island, NY 10304. Pur-
pose: Any lawful purpose.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF COVALENT, LLC
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
NewYork (SSNY) on 10/01/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY has been designated
as an agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. The address to which
SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
is to: The LLC, 245 W. 55TH
ST STE 1104, New York, NY
10019. Purpose: To engage in
any lawful act or activity
Vil 11/11-12/16//10
JANET MOY, M.D., LLC
Notice of the formation of
the above named Profes-
sional Limited Liability Com-
pany (“PLLC”) Articles of
Organization filed with the
Department of State of NY
on 7/29/2010. Office Loca-
tion: County of New York. .
The Secretary of State of NY
(“SSNY”) has been designat-
ed as agent of the PLLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
a copy of any such process
served to: Wormser, Kiely,
et al.., Attn Thomas L. Fuerth,
Esq., 825 Third Ave., 26th Flr.
NY NY 10022. Purpose: to
practice medicine
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
SNAP CLEANING, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/12/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Robert Wittish
646 Long Island Ave Deer
Park, NY 11729. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF SAVANNA
FUND II REIT, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/28/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 09/23/10. Princ.
office of LLC: 10 E. 53rd St.,
37th Fl., NY, NY 10022-5056.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
c/o Corporation Service Co.,
80 State St., Albany, NY
12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC:
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with Div.
of Corps., Secy. of State, DE,
John G. Townsend Bldg., 401
Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF GOOD MOOD
RECORDS, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 9/21/10.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to the principal business
addr.: 251 W. 95th St., #3S,
NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF FMS NIAGARA,
LLC.
Authority filed with NY
Dept. of State on 10/22/10.
Office location: NY County.
Princ. bus. addr.: 920 Win-
ter St., Ste. A, Waltham, MA
02451. LLC formed in DE on
10/19/10. 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. Arts. of
Org. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF WARBURG PIN-
CUS PRIVATE EQUITY
(E&P) X-B, L.P.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 10/6/10. Office
location: NY County. LP
formed in DE on 10/5/10.
NY Sec. of State designated
agent of LP upon whom pro-
cess against it may be served
and shall mail process to
the principal business addr.:
c/o Warburg Pincus LLC,
450 Lexington Ave., NY, NY
10017, Attn: General Coun-
sel. DE addr. of LP: c/o The
Corporation Trust Co., 1209
Orange St., Wilmington, DE
19801. Name/addr. of genl.
ptr. available from NY Sec.
of State. Cert. of LP filed with
DE Sec. of State, Townsend
Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: any lawful activity.
Vil 11/11-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PAPA STANLEY LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/29/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to c/o Jerome J.
Caulfield, Carter Ledyard &
Milburn LLP, 2 Wall St., NY,
NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: SHEF-
FIELD FIFTY M ONE P
ONE, LLC.
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 10/15/10. Office location:
New York County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, c/o Levy
& Halperin, LLP, 381 Park
Avenue South, Suite 713,
New York, New York 10016.
Purpose: For any lawful pur-
pose.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY. NAME: 70
BROAD LLC.
Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 10/13/10. Office location:
New York County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, c/o 142-03
37th Avenue, Flushing, New
York 11354. Purpose: For any
lawful purpose.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
CHRISTINA CARRAD,
CREATIVE ARTS THERA-
PY, PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/20/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of PLLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The PLLC 250
West 22nd St 4D New York,
NY 10011. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
ADVENT INVESTIGA-
TIONS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/1/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 15 W
39th St 11th Fl New York, NY
10018. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
SOHO 2205 LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/12/2010.
Office 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 Street, 11th Fl New York,
NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
SOHO 1905 LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/12/2010.
Office 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 Street, 11th Fl New York,
NY 10005. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
FOUR HUNGRY STOOG-
ES LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 9/16/10.
NY Office location: New York
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC served upon him/her
to David Lincoln Ross, 445
W. 23rd St., Apt. 5A, NY, NY
10011. General Purposes.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF MAKIRAN
PROPERTIES LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/25/10. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed in
Delaware (DE) on 06/03/10.
Princ. office of LLC: c/o Key-
Ventures, Inc., 445 Park Ave.,
NY, NY 10022. SSNY desig-
nated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to c/o Corporation
Service Co. (CSC), 80 State
St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.
DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC,
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State, Div. of Corps., 401
Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE
19901. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SHERIFF LUCY LLC,
a domestic LLC. Art. of Org.
filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)
9/30/2010. NY office location:
NY County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to 156 Ludlow St.,
5th Fl., NY, NY 10002, Attn:
J. Glancy, princ. ofc. address
of LLC. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PROPOINT CLAIM
SERVICES LLC.
Articles of Organization filed
with Secretary of State of
NewYork (SSNY) on 09/28/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY has been designated
as an agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. The address to which
SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
is to: ProPoint Claim Services
LLC, 111 N. Canal St, Ste 801,
Chicago, IL 60606. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BOP 245 PARK
LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/18/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/12/10. Princ.
Office of LLC: 200 Vesey St.,
11th Fl., NY, NY 10281-1021.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
the LLC at the Princ. Office of
the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Cor-
poration Service Company,
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert.
of Formation filed with DE
Secy. of State, Div. of Corps.,
401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PXA LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
09/02/10. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, 330 E 75th Street, #5B
NY, NY 10021. Purpose: To
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ENTIOLE LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 8/2/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
15 W.72 St. #19F, NY, NY
10023. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF (BE) MUSED ENTER-
TAINMENT, LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
5/27/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 80 State St., Alba-
ny, NY 12207. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10

NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MORK CONSULTING,
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
6/10/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: PO Box 20094,
NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF MANHATTAN SNOR-
ING AND SLEEP CENTER
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/22/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: c/o The LLC, 262
Central Park West, Ste. 1H,
NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 247 AVENUE U PART-
NERS LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/6/06. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o Wachtel & Masyr,
LLP, 110 E. 59th St., 28th Fl.,
NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/18-12/23/10
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given, pur-
suant to law, that the NYC
Dept. of Consumer Affairs
will hold a Public Hearing
on Wednesday, December
8, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66
John Street, 11th floor, on
a petition from Sunflower
Restaurant Associates, Inc.,
to continue to, maintain,
and operate an unenclosed
sidewalk café at 361 Green-
wich Street, 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 Consumer Affairs,
42 Broadway, New York, NY
10004 Attn: Foil Officer
Vil 11/25-12/2/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF AG CORE PLUS
REALTY III EMPLOYEE
INVESTMENT PRO-
GRAM, L.P.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/01/10. Office location: NY
County. LP formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/15/10. Princ.
office of LP: c/o Angelo, Gor-
don & Co., L.P., 245 Park Ave.,
26th Fl., NY, NY 10167. SSNY
designated as agent of LP
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the LP at
the addr. of its princ. office.
Name and addr. of each
general partner are available
from SSNY. DE addr. of LP:
c/o Corporation Service Co.,
2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-
ington, DE 19808. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State
of DE, Dept. of State, Div.
of Corps., John Townsend
Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF KORTRIGHT
OPPORTUNITY FUND LP.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/05/10. Office location: NY
County. LP formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 11/03/10. Princ.
office of LP: 399 Park Ave.,
39th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY
designated as agent of LP
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to the Partner-
ship at the princ. office of
the LP. The regd. agent of
the company upon whom
and at which process against
the company can be served
is Matthew B. Taylor at the
princ. office addr. 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. filed with
Secy. of State of the State of
DE, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HIGH 10 MEDIA LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
07/12/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
590 Madison Ave., NY, NY
10022. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to c/o Pavia & Harcourt
LLP, Attn: John R. Firestone,
Esq., 600 Madison Ave., 12th
Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF GERSON GLOB-
AL ADVISORS, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/12/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 11/09/10. Princ.
office of LLC: 70 E. 55th St.,
21st Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to c/o The Ger-
son Group, LLC at the princ.
office of the LLC. DE addr. of
LLC: c/o Corporation Service
Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste.
400, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of the State of DE,
Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898,
Dover, DE 19903. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ORANGE KITCHEN
ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
09/23/10. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: 233
W 77th Street #10E, New
York, NY 10024. Purpose:
To engage in any lawful act
or activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
SOLEDAD O’BRIEN
PRESENTS LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/4/2010.
Office in NY Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of pro-
cess to 142 W. 26th St., Apt.
5, NY, NY 10001, which is
also the principal business
location. Purpose: Any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF RL ORGANIZATION
LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
10/19/10. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: The
LLC, 888c Eighth Avenue,
Suite 355, New York, NY
10019. Purpose: To engage
in any lawful act or activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
RICHARD SHUBACK,
LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 9/22/10.
NY Office location: New York
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC served upon him/her
to Feuer & Orlando, LLP, 350
Fifth Ave., Ste. 7116, NY, NY
10118. General Purposes.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF GLOBAL DIRT MOVIE,
LLC.
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
9/24/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to: 300 W. 106th St.,
NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF VISION REAL ESTATE
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. Of
State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail process to: 304
Mulberry St. #LE, NY, NY
10012. Purpose: Any lawful
activity. Present name of LLC:
James Joseph Real Estate
LLC.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 625 GIFTS LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/4/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
701 7th Ave. #4W, NY, NY
10036. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF 123 WAVERLY AVE
LLC,
Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 3/7/03. Office
location: NY County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to 331
W. 57th St., #301, NY, NY
10019. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SERIN CAPITAL, LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
12/11/06. Office location:
NY County. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to: Serin
Capital, LLC, 156 5th Ave, Ste
1234, NY, NY 10010. Pur-
pose: To engage in any law-
ful act or activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
ASCOT CAPITAL LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with
the Sec of State of NY on
7/29/10. NY Office 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 Amarjit S.
Bhalla, Ascot Properties, Ltd.,
46 Trinity Pl., 2nd Fl., NY, NY
10006. General Purposes.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF SGRC 1482 LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/21/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Bettina Equities
Company, LLC, Attn: Legal
Dept., 230 E. 85th St., NY, NY
10028. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF PH8 PLANTATION2,
LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on
10/26/10. 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 Cooley LLP,
1114 Avenue of the Ameri-
cas, NY, NY 10036, Attn: Peter
Mansbach. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NIGHTSHIFT LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/5/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: United Corporate
Services, Inc., 10 Bank St.,
Ste. 560, White Plains, NY
10606. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMA-
TION OF THE JACKSON
GROUP HOLDINGS LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/7/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC, 1407
Broadway, 38th Fl., NY, NY
10018. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NEISHA REALTY, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY
Dept. of State on 10/26/10.
Office location: NY County.
Sec. of State designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: c/o DeGaetano &
Carr, 488 Madison Ave., 17th
Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF CANDLEWOOD
INVESTMENT GROUP,
LP.
Authority filed with NY
Dept. of State on 10/8/10.
Office location: NY County.
LP formed in DE on 6/4/10.
NY Sec. of State designated
agent of LP upon whom
process against it may be
served and shall mail pro-
cess to: The LP, 777 Third
Ave., Ste. 19B, NY, NY 10017,
Attn: Michael Lau. DE addr.
of LP: c/o National Corporate
Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont
Hwy., Dover, DE 19901.
Name/addr. of genl. ptr. avail-
able from NY Sec. of State.
Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec.
of State, 401 Federal St.,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Vil 11/25-12/30/10
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given, pur-
suant to law, that the NYC
Dept. of Consumer Affairs
will hold a Public Hearing
on Wednesday, December
22, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66
John Street, 11th Floor, 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 con-
sent may be addressed to
Dept. of Consumer Affairs,
42 Broadway, New York, NY
10004 Attn: Foil Officer
Vil 12/2-12/8/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Vai Enterprises
LLC to sell beer and wine
at retail in a restaurant. For
on premises consumption
under the ABC law at 105
Thompson Street, NY, NY
10002.
Vil 12/2/10-12/8/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Gong Hey
Fat Choy LLC to sell beer,
wine, and liquor at retail in a
restaurant. For on premises
consumption under the ABC
law at 245 Bowery (entrance
on Stanton Street) NY, NY
10012.
Vil 12/2-12/8/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF NORTH PARK PRES-
ERVATION CLASS B LIM-
ITED PARTNER, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/16/10. Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of LLC:
60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY
10023. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail pro-
cess to c/o Corporation Ser-
vice Co., 80 State St., Albany,
NY 12207. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 12/2/10-1/6/11
KMR LLP
Notice of Reg. filed 11/17/10
NY Sec. of State (SSNY).
Office in NY Co. SSNY desig.
agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served.
SSNY to mail copy of pro-
cess to 440 Park Ave. S., NY,
NY 10016, also the princi-
pal business loc. Purpose:
To practice Certified Public
Accountancy.
Vil 12/2/10-1/6/11
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that license number 1249507
been applied for by the
undersigned to sell liquor at
retail in a restaurant under
the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
trol Law at 233 5th Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10016 for
on-premises consumption.
Mosex Exhibit 1 LLC d/b/a
Museum of Sex
Vil 12/2-12/9/10
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF FIND. EAT.
DRINK. LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/9/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 4/29/10. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: Nicholas
Bumstead, 161 W. 16th St.,
Fl. 7, Ste. H, NY, NY 10011. DE
address of LLC: Capitol Ser-
vices, Inc., 615 South DuPont
Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts.
of Org. filed with DE Secy. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful act or activity.
Vil 12/2/10-1/5/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF YUSON & IRVINE,
LLC
Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
10/22/10. Office location: 24
W 45th St., 5th Floor, New
York, NY 10036, 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: Yuson & Irvine
c/o The Company Corpora-
tion, 2711 Centerville Road,
Suite 400, Wilmington, DE
19808. Purpose: To engage
in any lawful act or activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
December 9 - 15, 2010
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF ELADIAN PART-
NERS LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/22/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 10/01/10. Princ.
office of LLC: 750 Third Ave.,
Ste. 2300, NY, NY 10017.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to c/o Peter R. Kent at the
princ. office of the LLC. DE
addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville
Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington,
DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE Secy. of State, Div.
of Corps., John G. Townsend
Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF 188 E. 76TH
STREET, LLC,
Application for Authority
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on
11/12/2010. Office Location:
New York County. The Prin-
cipal Business Address of
the LLC is 404 South Beach
Road, Hobe Sound, Florida
33455-2701. SSNY has been
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. The
address to which SSNY shall
mail a copy of any process
against the LLC is to:The LLC
c/o Gunster, Yoakley & Stew-
art, P.A., Attn: Lisa Schneider,
Esq., 777 South Flagler Drive,
Suite 500E, West Palm Beach,
Florida 33401. LLC formed in
Florida on October 13, 2010.
Certificate of LLC filed with
Florida Secretary of State,
2661 Executive Center Circle,
Tallahassee, Florida 32301.
Purpose: Any lawful act or
activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Brown Stew
LLC d/b/a Miss Lilly’s to sell
beer and wine at retail in a
restaurant. For on premises
consumption under the ABC
law at 132 W. Houston Street
NY, NY 10012.
Vil 12/9-12/16/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #TBA has been
applied for by Eastville Com-
edy Club to sell beer and
wine at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at 85
E. 4th Street NY, NY 10003.
Vil 12/9-12/16/10
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a license, #1240807 has
been applied for by AE Hos-
pitality Group LLC d/b/a Lina
Frey to sell beer, wine and
liquor at retail in a restaurant.
For on premises consump-
tion under the ABC law at
201 East Houston Street NY,
NY 10002.
Vil 12/9-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
EYELEVEL RETAIL SOLU-
TIONS, L.L.C.
art. of org. filed Secy. of State
NY (SSNY) 10/8/10. 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: The LLC, 6040 N.
Cutter Cir, ste 309, Portland,
OR 97217. Purpose: Any law-
ful purpose.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
23
NOTICE OF QUALIFI-
CATION OF CLINTON
LENDER LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/17/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Dela-
ware (DE) on 11/16/10. Princ.
office of LLC: c/o Coalco NY,
505 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10017.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to
the LLC at the addr. of its
princ. office. DE addr. of LLC:
c/o Corporation Service Co.,
2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts.
of Org. filed with Secy. of
the State of DE, Corp. Dept.,
Loockerman & Federal Sts.,
Dover, DE 19901. As amend-
ed by Cert. of Correction filed
with SSNY on 11/23/10, the
name of the LLC is: PARK-
SIDE LENDER LLC. Purpose:
Any lawful activity
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
VIRTUOSO RESOURCES
LLC,
a domestic Limited Liability
Company (LLC), filed with the
Sec of State of NY on 9/29/10.
NY Office location: New York
County. SSNY is designated
as agent upon whom pro-
cess against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of any process against
the LLC served upon him/her
to Harold Hagopian, 303 W.
66th St., #5JE, NY, NY 10023.
General Purposes.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that a Liquor License (# Pend-
ing) has been applied for by
Golden Abcus INC d/b/a Bon-
chon to sell liquor, under the
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Law at 957 2nd Ave., New
York City, NY for on-premises
consumption.
Vil 12/9-12/16/10
NOTICE OF FORMATION
CUCINELLI RETAIL SCP
LLC
art. of org. filed Secy. of State
NY (SSNY) 10/13/10. 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: att: Palma Settimi,
7 Sutton Pl, Brewster, NY
10509. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF CHIC ACCESSORIES
& DECOR LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
10/7/10. Office 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 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF EMYS CAPITAL LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. Of
State of NY (SSNY) on 5/5/10.
Office location: NY County.
SSNY designated as agent
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail process to: 556
State St. #2DN, Brooklyn, NY
11217. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
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NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF HEARTS OF PALM
(ASIA), LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
Of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/3/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated as
agent for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to:
1411 Broadway, 23 Fl., NY,
NY 10018. Purpose: Any law-
ful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF ADKO PARTNERS
LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
4/14/10. Office location: NY
County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: 450 E.86 St. #26D,
NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
FL CAPITAL LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 12/10/2009.
Office in NY Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to Ron Hollands-
worth 225 W 35th 8th Floor
New York, NY 10018. Pur-
pose: Any lawful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF YOMA, LLC.
Authority filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
11/19/10. Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in Texas
(TX) on 11/12/10. SSNY des-
ignated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Capitol Services,
Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste.
100, Albany, NY 12205. TX
address of LLC: 3418 Lovers
Lane, Dallas, TX 75225. Arts.
of Org. filed with TX Secy. of
State, 1019 Brazos, Austin,
TX 78701. Purpose: any law-
ful act or activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF BLACKROCK
CORE ALTERNATIVES FB
PORTFOLIO LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 11/15/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 40 E. 52nd St.,
NY, NY 10022. LLC formed
in DE on 11/19/09. 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: 100 Bellevue Pkwy.,
Wilmington, DE 19809. Cert.
of Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any law-
ful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-
TION OF HPM ADVI-
SORS LLC.
Authority filed with NY Dept.
of State on 11/17/10. Office
location: NY County. Princ.
bus. addr.: 6 E. 43rd St., NY,
NY 10017. LLC formed in
DE on 10/20/10. NY Sec. of
State designated agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
shall mail process to: c/o CT
Corporation System, 111 8th
Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd.
agent upon whom process
may be served. DE addr. of
LLC: The Corporation Trust
Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilm-
ington, DE 19801. Cert. of
Form. filed with DE Sec. of
State, 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: any and
all lawful activity.
Vil 12/9-1/13/11
PUBLIC NOTICES
PROBATE CITATION
FILE NO. 2010-3693
SURROGATE COURT NEW
YORK COUNTY
CITATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK
By the Grace of God Free and Independent
To the heirs at law next of kin, and distributees
of Kitty Weiss, deceased, if living, and if any of
them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin,
distributees, legatees, executors, administrators,
assignees and successors interest whose names
are unknown and cannot be ascertained after
due diligence. Public Administrator and Attorney
General of NewYork State.
A petition having been duly filed by Leo Vaz,
who is domiciled at 117-01 Park Lane South, Apt.
C4K, Kew Gardens, New York. You are hereby
cited to show cause before the Surrogate Court,
New York County at 31 Chambers Street, Rm.
503, New York, NY on January 21, 2011 at 9:30
am on the fore noon of that day, why a decree
should not be made in the estate of Kitty Weiss
lately domiciled at 222 East 93rd Street, Apt. 38K,
New York, New York 10128 admitting to probate
a Will dated January 19, 2006 a copy which is
attached, as the Will of Kitty Weiss deceased,
relating to real and personal property, and direct-
ing that letters testamentary issue to Leo Vaz.
Dated, Attested and Sealed November 5, 2010
Surrogate
Hon. Nora S Anderson
Deputy Chief Clerk
Jana Cohn
Attorney for Petitioner
Jon C. Biondo, Esq.
Attorney for Petitioner
Telephone Number 212-532-2456
222 East 31st Street, Main Level, NewYork, New
York 10016
Address of Attorney
(Note: This citation is served upon you as
required by law. You are not required to appear.
If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do
not object to the relief requested. You have a
right to have an attorney appear for you.)
ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING
FILE NO. 1683-09
CITATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
By the Grace of God Free and Independent
TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York, New
York – Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College And to the heirs
at law, next of kin and distributees of Cecilia Scott, if living and if any of them
be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors,
administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places
of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained
by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees,
devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Cecilia Scott,
deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 405 E. 63rd Street,
New York, New York. A petition having been duly filed by Ethel J. Griffin,
Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31
Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY
CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at
31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on January 4, 2011, at 9:30 A.M.
in Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a
copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public
Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chat-
tels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account
be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named person(s) be cited to show
cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that a hearing be held
to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to
SCPA Section 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance
of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of
New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that the
claim of New York – Presbyterian Hospital in the amount of $ 660.00, and the
claim of Weill Cornell Medical College in the amount of $ 650.00, be allowed;
(v) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as
reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attor-
ney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (vi)
that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be
cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vii) that an order
be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or directed; and
(viii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
Dated, Attested and Sealed. November 5, 2010 (Seal). Hon. Nora S. Ander-
son, Surrogate. Jane Passenant, Chief Clerk.
Law Offices of Peter S. Schram, P.C., Counsel to the Public Administrator,
New York County, 350 Broadway, Suite 515, New York, New York 10013 (212)
896-3310
Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not
required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not
object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law
appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full
account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.
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SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT,

The heirs-at-law, next-of-kin and distributees of Mary McCardle, deceased, if living, and if any of then be dead, to their heirs-at-law, next-of-kin,

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distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successor-in-interest, whose names and post office addresses are unknown
and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, A petition and account having been filed by the Public Administrator of the County of NewYork,
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YOU ARE HERBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York, County of New York, at the Surrogate’s
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your business?
Administrator of the County of New York, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the Estate of Mary McCardle,
deceased, who at the time of her death was a domiciliary of 225 East 81st Street, Apt. 8, New York, New York 10028, should not be judicially
settled; why the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney of the
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Note: This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear; however, if you fail to appear it will be assumed
you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy
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DJ’ing at the affair, at Kiehl’s flagship
store at 13th St. and Third Ave., was night-
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atop the old school, at 605 E. Ninth St. “That’s the sort of
thing one does when wanting to add a floor and measure
the sky exposure plain and then apply to Landmarks,” our
source said. “Word is the owner says these are cooling tower
mock-ups, which would need Landmarks approval as well.”
The building has sat vacant since December 2001, when
developer Gregg Singer evicted the CHARAS/El Bohio
community and cultural center. Most recently, it was being
marketed for dormitory and school uses.
CANDIDATE ON BIG SCREEN: “Excuse Me, Mr.
Speaker...,” a new movie on Paul Newell’s Democratic
primary campaign against Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver two years ago, will screen at 8:30 p.m. on Tues.,
Dec. 14, and at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 15,
at The Tank, 354 W. 45th St., between Eighth and Ninth
Aves. A Q&A with filmmaker Justin Sullivan and Newell
will take place after each 8:30 p.m. screening. According
to a press release, “With brisk pacing, cinema-verité
style and a light touch, the 75-minute ‘Excuse Me, Mr.
Speaker…’ captures the campaign in a close-up way that
captivates the audience as well as illuminates the peculiar
dysfunction of Albany’s ‘Three men in a room.’”
CORRECTIONS: An article on the effort to create a
Chinatown business improvement district in last week’s
issue referred to “C.B. 3’s Chinatown Working Group.”
However, the Chinatown Working Group is not an exten-
sion of Community Board 3. All three Downtown boards,
— C.B.’s 1, 2 and 3 — are founding and voting members of
C.W.G., which now includes 52 voting member organiza-
tions. Also, Rob Hollander was incorrectly identified in the
article as a C.W.G. member. While Hollander is an active
participant in the working group’s meetings, he does not Brad Hoylman, left, and David Sigal with their new baby
represent a C.W.G. voting member organization. daughter, Silvia Verona Hoylman-Sigal.

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money just is not there), but some form of
tax credits, government-backed loans (the
right collateral money these days comes with
low interest rates).
And to get government support, those of
us who want a new hospital are going to have
to activate a lot more of our neighbors than
we have to date; and we are going to have to
work with the affected community boards,
and our state senators, Assembly members
and City Council members, and our activist
borough president and public advocate and
city comptroller; and the healthcare unions,
and the building trades unions, and the block
associations, and win over our new, progres-
sive attorney general to take up our cause.
We are going to need those updated facts
and figures that hopefully will come out of the
needs assessment. And our “leaders” need to
stop running a City Council campaign for an
election that is nearly three years away. The
needs assessment needs to be promoted, sup-
ported, and if anything, expanded into a tool
that helps create popular support.
Next time one of my kids has an emer-
gency, or next time I do, I am going to have to
travel too far to get emergency care. If squab-
bling, or political posturing, is responsible for
prolonging that situation, we will have been
done a disservice. Earlier this week, a town
hall meeting on the needs assessment ended
with nurse Eileen Dunn, chairperson of the
St. Vincent’s Chapter of the New York State
Nurses Association, calling on everyone to stop
the infighting and work together to broaden
the effort. She talked about her love for our
community and the tremendous need she saw
for the work she did during her many years as
a nurse at St. Vincent’s. She was right.
There is too much to do and too little
known about how to move forward for any-
one to declare that he or she can definitively
differentiate “myth from reality,” as one flier
declared at Monday evening’s forum. The
only reality we have right now is diminished
healthcare for our community, particularly
those with lesser means.
Schwartz is the male State Democratic
Committee member for Greenwich Village,
Soho and Tribeca, and a member, Community
Board 2. The views he expresses are his
own.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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to resemble running bond. This experience alone illustrates just
how far we can trust New York University’s promises!
Marilyn Stults
Hang it up, N.Y.U.
To The Editor:
Re “N.Y.U.’s towering blunder inspires us to fight on”
(talking point, by Miriam Kaplan, Nov. 25):
It is time for N.Y.U. to put its expansionist plans to rest
— not only for the real space, light, air and density issues,
which are overwhelming — but also because N.Y.U.’s plans
reflect misjudgment and a frightening lack of foresight, as
Miriam Kaplan so eloquently expresses in her column.
Rhoma Mostel
Band shell would be golden
To The Editor:
Re “East Side, West Side, park improvements all around;
It’s a green golden age” (Progress Report article, by Adrian
Benepe, Nov. 18):
How about a new band shell for Tompkins Square
Park?
John Penley
Analysis of ‘Tea’ swill
To The Editor:
Re “Tea Partier takes on Glick” (letter, by Eric Dondero,
Dec. 2):
I would like to thank Mr. Dondero for his letter to the
editor. If there is any doubt as to the intentions of the Tea
Party group, Mr. Dondero’s letter clears it up nicely.
Mr. Dondero writes that “Tea Partiers did not say we
don’t want government to touch our Medicare,” yet that
is the verbatim quote from quite a few town hall meet-
ings during this last year’s healthcare debate. These sort
of over-the-top, totally outrageous quotes (death panels?)
about health reform are on tape and have been played on
cable news ad nauseam. Hard to imagine Mr. Dondero has
missed them.
However, Mr. Dondero then surpasses this obviously
false statement by making one that is simply flat-out stun-
ning. He writes that they (Tea Partiers) want the govern-
ment to “abolish” Medicare and Medicaid and privatize
This coldhearted political agenda is plainly counterpro-
ductive, budget-busting and ignorant — but that misses the
point. In reality, the Tea Party agenda is downright danger-
ous for American citizens who depend upon these facets
of our government for their lifelines. Perhaps the yellow
flags that Tea Partiers so proudly display at their rallies
should read, “LET THEM EAT CAKE” instead of “DON’T
TREAD ON ME.”
However, the most ironic of all of Mr. Dondero’s
statements comes at the end of his letter. He writes that
the U.S. should “fund defense against radical Islamic
terrorists, run the post office, take care of the national
parks, secure our borders and that’s about it.” Even
though Mr. Dondero’s letter does not mention police
departments, fire departments, the V.A., roads, bridges
and so on, his unmistakably “socialist agenda” places
him on the left side of his own group. By Tea Party
standards, Mr. Dondero is really a red commie. Now
that is ironic.
Thanks again for your letter, sir. You really made my
day.
Lawrence White
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