Lawsuit Charges St. Vincent's Execs Fleeced Failing Hospital

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Volume 80, Number 12 $1.00 West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Hudson Square, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933 August 19 - 25, 2010 Chess man plots his next moves to citizenship BY AIDAN GARDINER out of legal limbo and into Saravuth Inn crooked his proper citizenship. He’s hand over the board and let been making a living play- it hang for a moment. He ing chess in Union Square slapped his knight down and for the past two years. After as suddenly, snatched up the Christmas, he plans to fi nal- enemy pawn. ly visit the Department of “I love chess,” he said. Homeland Security to get “To be able to be omnipo- a naturalization number, tent. To be able to do many which will enable him to things in one shot. Freedom. get a steady job. However, Control. Flexibility. he fears offi cials may deport “Chess allows you to do him to Cambodia instead. that when in life, you can’t,” “I will not accept that he added. as an option,” said Inn, Inn, 49 and Cambodian- born, is fi ghting his way Continued on page 5 Governor O.K.’s Squadron’s bill Photo by Aidan Gardiner Saravuth Inn playing chess in Union Square. on problem bars

BY ALINE REYNOLDS enable the State Liquor Lawsuit charges St. Vincent’s Governor David Paterson Authority to crack down signed a bill sponsored harder and more effective- by state Senator Daniel ly on bar and club owners Squadron into law last who are frequently unable execs fl eeced failing hospital Sunday that will tighten the to control disorderly con- reins on nightlife operators duct, who violate noise BY ALBERT AMATEAU was a transition plan for Mt. Sinai lion to its top executives over the two who routinely break the law. laws and who repeatedly Attorney Yetta Kurland fi led a free- Hospital, not a closing plan,” Kurland years preceding the second bankruptcy, But Paterson vetoed another require police assistance at dom of information lawsuit on Monday told members of the Coalition for a which was fi led on April 14. of Squadron’s bills, a piece their premises. The law will demanding that the New York State New Village Hospital, gathered at Foley “They spent nearly $300,000 on a of housing legislation that enable the S.L.A. to pull a Department of Health and its commis- Square outside of State Supreme Court golf outing as the hospital was going would have assisted a vul- liquor license after a prob- sioner, Richard Daines, make public on Monday morning. The negotiations under,” charged Kurland. “They have nerable and needy popula- lem spot has incurred six or “any and all documents” relating to the for Mt. Sinai to take over administra- not accounted for $100 million in tax- tion. closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital. tion of the hospital fell apart shortly payers’ money,” she added. The nightlife bill will Continued on page 14 Kurland and her law partner, Tom before St. Vincent’s closed. The suit contends that the state Shanahan, challenged the legality of the “We question the number of admin- Department of Health has not fur- April 6 vote by the St. Vincent’s board istration employees and hospital con- nished documents that the coalition of directors to close the only remain- sultants and the expenses involved in requested. EDITORIAL, ing Catholic hospital in Manhattan, two bankruptcies,” Kurland said. “We “It’s a shame that we have to go to LETTERS founded 160 years ago. know that $63 million was spent on the court to get documents that belong to PAGE 12 The suit also challenges the validity fi rst bankruptcy, and St. Vincent’s still the people,” said Mark Taylor, a lawyer of a hospital closing plan submitted hasn’t paid for the second bankruptcy. taking part in the lawsuit. to the state Department of Health in There are still people working it.” “We’re going to hold all our elected FRINGE February. The suit also seeks documents relat- offi cials accountable for the fate of FAVES “I was told that the Feb. 17 plan ed to the coalition’s complaint that St. PAGE 17 submitted to the Department of Health Vincent’s has paid more than $10 mil- Continued on page 4

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hoping the situation might change. He was paid a bit before. SCOOPY’S He wasn’t paid what the time was worth.” THE RAY REPORT: (Attention reader Michael Gottlieb: Please skip this item!) We were biking by Ray’s Candy Store NOTEBOOK last Sunday afternoon — yes, using the Avenue A bike lane, for all you bike-lane haters! — when we saw the man him- HUDSON PARK GOINGS AND COMINGS: Matthew self stepping outside for a moment and got the latest news. Washington has left the Friends of Hudson River Park as Ray informed us that progress is, in fact, being made on his deputy director to become executive director of Friends fi re-protection system for his Belgian fries: A chimney pipe of the High School for Environmental Studies, his alma all the way up to the roof, as well as a hood over his deep Home of the NFL Sunday Ticket, mater. Washington is also chairperson of East Harlem’s fryer have been installed. All that’s needed now is the actual, Community Board 11. The parks advocacy group will be foam-spraying Ansul system. But the guy installing all of this College Football, Premier League honoring him at their annual Fall Fling on Tues., Sept. for Ray always seems to disappear for two or three weeks at Soccer, MLB Playoffs + World Series 28, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Frying Pan, at Pier 66A, a time, before fi nally showing up to do the work. Speculation Private Party Room avail. / happy hour 4 -7 Mon. - Fri. W. 26th St. and the West Side Highway. Also honored at is he’s focusing on more lucrative jobs in the meantime. At 63 Carmine St., Greenwich Village. the Friends’ Fling will be Rich Caccappolo, president of any rate, it sounds like Ray will be a’fryin’ again pretty soon. Tel. 212 - 414 - 1223 • www.MrDennehys.com the Greenwich Village Little League. Tickets start at $75 Before we go on any further, we’d like to note that a number and go all the way up to $5,000, which earns the title of readers were rubbed the wrong way by Michael Gottlieb’s of “Underwriter,” plus 40 tickets and recognition in the recent letter in which he accused us of giving Ray too much Friends’ annual report. With ticket prices like that, maybe coverage. A typical response was (of Gottlieb), “Who is the Friends really will be able to raise the funds to fi x up this guy???!!!” Pro-Ray readers say the egg cream maestro Pier 40 at West Houston St. and keep it — and its $5 mil- deserves all the coverage he can get since he’s an East Village lion in annual parking revenue for the park — from falling institution of so many years. Speaking of longevity, although into the river. Ray generously gives away hot dogs and coffee to the needy, he hasn’t lasted on Avenue A since 1974 without playing MUCHO DINERO FOR ABC NO RIO: Susan Howard, a hardball when necessary. He said he’s still seeing long lines board member at the ABC No Rio arts collective, on Rivington outside the new NYC ICY store across the street. So, in his St. between Clinton and Suffolk Sts., tells us they’re elated latest strategy against the upstart, Ray said he’s planning that they’ve just received another $800,000 in government to paint a NYC ICY sign of his own on his store’s canopy. funds for their rebuilding project: Borough President Scott He said he knows a trademark rights expert and asked him Stringer allocated $400,000 and the Department of Cultural to check out if Suzie Leeds of NYC ICY and her husband Affairs and City Councilmember Margaret Chin each gave actually own the name. Ray said he found out they don’t, so IN THE HEART OF GREENWICH VILLAGE — Recommended by Gourmet Magazine, Zagat, Crain’s NY, Playbill & The Villager — $200,000. This adds to the $1.65 million ABC No Rio it’s going to go up on his storefront, which could cause some “Gold Medal Chef of the Year”. — Chefs de Cuisine Association previously got from local elected offi cials, plus a $1 million icy confusion that could benefi t him. “I AM NYC ICY!” Ray .ORTHERNITALIAN#UISINEs#ELEBRATING/VER9EARS anonymous donation and $850,00 that they’ve raised them- declared. Maybe he’s taking this a bit personally? Ray asked 69 MacDougal St. (Bet. Bleeker & Houston St.) s selves. “We’ve still got a million dollars to go” to totally fund one of his usual sign painters to go ahead and do the deed, /PEN-ON 3AT PMsWWWVILLAMOSCONICOM the project, Howard noted. The added government green, but she declined, apparently having qualms. This icy stand- she said, helps ensure that the project, which is being eyed off is not for the faint of heart. We left a message for Leeds as a two-phase job, doesn’t get stuck after the fi rst phase, at her store, but didn’t hear back by press time. Perhaps, she leaving only a one-story building. was busy working on her top-secret recipe for the world’s fi rst-ever dog icy, which — if she’s able to pull it off — would ARCHIVES AWAIT HIS ORGANIZATION: L.E.S. ratchet up the Avenue A icy stakes even further, not to men- Slacktivist John Penley is psyched that 100 photos from his tion, revolutionize icies as we now know them. copious photo archives have been put online by N.Y.U.’s Tamiment Library. And the site’s been getting hits, with more than 1,700 people having visited it in the couple of months it’s been up. The Keith Haring Foundation has linked to it. Of course, Penley wishes more of his work was posted — or at least properly archived and captioned — since he gave the library nearly 30,000 negatives. He said he’s got “everybody” in his collection, from Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Hell’s Angels founder Sonny Barger, to David Dinkins and Jesse Jackson. The longtime activist said he’d personally like to archive more of his work at the Tamiment — which would allow more of it to be posted online — but can’t do it for free. “Nobody can do it but me,” he said. “It’s all negatives. You’ve got to go through it step by step. The last time, they told me to pick out 100, and I archived 200. I’d do it for minimum wage.” Dr. Michael Nash, head of the Tamiment Library, said what they’ve posted online of Penley’s work is technically called “an exhibition.” He said Penley’s collection fi ts in well along with the Squatter Archives, which have been housed at the library for the past half-dozen years. “John captured so much about the squatters move- ment,” Nash said of the activist’s archives. “It really refl ects Penley’s interest in the Lower East Side over a 20-year Photo by Tequila Minsky period. His work really captures the era. Things like the Tompkins Square massacre [sic] and all the political and cultural upheavals of that era.” If there actually had been Monarch magnet a bloody Tompkins Square massacre — as opposed to the At an Aug. 4 rally at City Hall to save the gardens, a bloody park riots — we’re sure Penley would have docu- Lower East Side boy brought along a tomato plant — mented that, too! As for Penley’s wanting moulah to archive, which attracted a monarch butterfl y (in circle), which alit Nash said, “I understand that. Obviously, he deserves to be on the plant. The boy’s mother is a gardener, but had to paid, and I wish I had the funds to do it, but I don’t. I’m work, so her son came as her stand-in. 4 August 19 - 25, 2010 Lawsuit charges that execs fl eeced failing hospital

St. Vincent’s cardiac intensive-care unit. Continued from page 1 When St. Vincent’s closed we lost both those centers.” St. Vincent’s,” said Kurland, an unsuccess- Noah Pfefferblit, Community Board 1 ful primary candidate last year for the City district manager, recalled that St. Vincent’s Council seat of Council Speaker Christine was the Downtown designated trauma cen- Quinn. Kurland had filed a lawsuit in ter during the World Trade Center attack. April, seeking to block the hospital clos- The district should not be left without a ing. That suit is moot and is now in limbo. Level 1 trauma center, he said. Kurland on Monday said she has filed Ed Ma, a member of Community Board 72 complaints with the state Attorney 2 and the coalition, said he was very suspi- General’s Office seeking an investigation cious about the proposal, now inactive, of the St. Vincent’s closing. for residential condo development of the “St. Vincent’s loss is a vital health St. Vincent’s property. He also said New and safety issue for Lower Manhattan,” York University should have taken over St. said Paul Newell, Democratic district co- Vincent’s as part of the university’s N.Y.U. leader in Lower Manhattan and a member 2031 expansion plan and prevented the of the coalition. “We demand that the hospital closing. state attorney general investigate any Miguel Acevedo, president of the Robert crime that contributed to the closing of Fulton Houses tenants association, said he St. Vincent’s,” Newell declared. though recent deaths in the Chelsea pub- Jean Grillo, Democratic district co- lic housing development might have been leader for Lower Manhattan and a coalition prevented if St. Vincent’s were operating. member, noted that Community Boards 1 “People are telling me they’re not and 2 — covering Lower Manhattan and going to the hospital until they’re really Greenwich Village/Soho, respectively — bad,” Acevedo said. “It’s a long way to both passed unanimous resolutions about Bellevue or Beth Israel.” their districts’ need for a hospital with a Eileen Dunn, a coalition member who Level 1 trauma center like St. Vincent’s. was president of the New York State “When my daughter was in school, Nurses Association union at St. Vincent’s she had an accident that crushed her when she worked at the hospital, said, shoulder and she went to the pediatric “Seven hundred fifty nurses lost their Photo by Albert Amateau center at St. Vincent’s,” Grillo said. “My jobs. We have to find out if St. Vincent’s Attorney Yetta Kurland on Monday at Foley Square, center, announcing her freedom husband had a heart attack and went to was closed legally.” of information lawsuit on St. Vincent’s Hospital.

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Continued from page 1 who was brought to the United States during Operation Babylift in 1975. “I’m an American. This is my home.” Inn’s father taught him chess as a boy, before the Khmer Rouge killed his family when he was 13. He was living in an orphanage when American soldiers found him and took him to the U.S. A family in New Jersey adopted him, but then began abusing him. Inn played the tournament chess circuit throughout high school. He later attended Rutgers University between 1984 and 1987 and studied literature and classics. “Ulysses is hilarious. Back then I didn’t think so. But now — oh God, I’m laughing!” he said, leaning back, grinning, with his eyes wide. “It’s the way he mastered everything and expressed it the way he does. It’s wonderful.” Inn comes to Union Square every day and perches over his chess mat rolled out fl at on a piece of plywood. Usually, he’s sur- rounded by a crowd. Some are his supporters who come to keep him company. Others are passersby looking to watch a quick game. Though his daily revenue varies, Inn’s supporters, mostly students, always come play and donate about $5 each. He said it’s enough to pay his modest rent. Two years ago, border agents temporarily detained Inn during his return from Montreal. Photo by Aidan Gardiner He had been making a living playing guitar on Saravuth Inn inviting a player to a chess game in Union Square. the street after his wife left him, citing their worsening fi nancial situation. A bag containing vacation,” Inn said. all Inn’s most important belongings had been They drove for an hour to an area outside stolen from him sometime before, so he had no Oudong. When his family exited the truck, the documentation proving his citizenship. troops shot each of them. Saravuth was the only “I was captured by Calypso,” Inn said, person to survive. referring to “The Odyssey” and Ulysses’s, Inn is covered in bullet holes, like pink fi n- a.k.a. Odysseus’s, journey. “Except I don’t gerprints all over his body. have a dog to recognize me coming back.” “I can’t even count them all anymore,” he After some questioning, agents handed said. Inn also has a piece of shrapnel lodged in Inn a slip of paper, and let him in. He pock- his brain that causes him to suffer occasional eted it, not knowing what it was for, and seizures. forgot about it. Brother Mike, a monk, found Inn wandering A.J. Abucay, a documentarian making the streets and brought him to an orphanage. a fi lm about Inn’s life, said that the paper “Unfortunately,” Inn said, “I’m the character allowed Inn’s re-entry on the condition that of my own story.” he turn himself over to Homeland Security at Inn leaned back in his chair, took a drag Newark Airport’s Terminal B by the following from his cigarette, and let the smoke dribble month. out of his mouth. “It was not until he allowed me to look “Chess is a war game,” he said. “You’ve got through all the documentation he had in his to have that conniving and crushing instinct 993 possession that I discovered this piece of in you. I have a lot of anger and I express it in paper,” Abucay said. “It was already late 2008 that. or early 2009, way past the date he was sup- “I use a defense when I’m playing as a posed to appear.” black,” Inn added. “It’s very aggressive. It YOU MAY NOT SEE THE When Inn consulted Ana Pottratz, a pro- expresses a lot of emotion, a lot of anger. It’s bono lawyer, she told him not to go because called Sicilian Dragon. And I’m good at that he might be deported back to Cambodia. in the game chess, but in life I need to slow Inn said that he’s tired of scraping together down.” a living and would like to go into teaching. Inn leaned forward and quickly pushed “I don’t want to continue this,” he said. “I his rook forward two squares knocking Before one of our Fit Specialists finds you the perfect shoe, another specialist has want to have rights, to at least be able to work over an enemy bishop. For him, the board already had a chance to shine. The American worker. The Men’s and Women’s 993 at McDonald’s.” is a playground, a space to move freely and is cut, stitched and packaged right here at home. Which is good news for our Inn seldom discusses life in Cambodia, dance with power, even while he’s caught in factories, our economy, and thanks to American craftsmanship, your feet as well. but still remembers his family’s death. They a bureaucratic maze. were living in Phnom Penh, the capital, when “I used to be vicious,” Inn said. “Now, Foot Gear Plus Village Kids Footwear Cambodian troops forced his family into a I just enjoy chess. Like with Ulysses, I was 131 First Avenue, NYC 117 First Avenue, NYC truck. too academic. Now I look at it and I’m “They gathered us like we were going on laughing.” (212) 777-2629 (212) 254-2172 FOOTGEAR PLUS 6 August 19 - 25, 2010

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ON NEXT PAGE August 19 - 25, 2010 11 Cafe and poetry are an appetizing couplet on Bowery BY CYNTHIA ROMERO Inside the cafe is the Dorothy Day Miladys Ramirez remembers not having a Community Table, on which people can dine, place like the Lower East Side Girls Club to and wall art, including a permanent sculpture go to when she was a youngster growing up in installation by Karl Mann and a collection of the neighborhood. poets painted on paper plates by Ilana Simon. The mother of three — who now works On the outside of the cafe is a neon sign as a manager at the Celebrate Cafe located that reads, “Eat Here, Not There,” which lures inside the Bowery Poetry Club — remembers passersby — like Lower East Sider Joanna the fi rst time she heard about the Lower East Ruperts — to stop and support a local busi- Side Girls Club. ness. “It all started when I was looking for some- “At fi rst, I thought the Bowery Club had where my daughters could hang out during closed,” Ruperts said. “But I came in and saw the day,” she said. “We found out about the this cute cafe and soon found out that they club and they’d come home and tell me how make everything themselves, and I really liked much they loved going there. Soon after, I got that.” involved.” The cafe’s relationship with the Bowery Ramirez and her daughters participated in Poetry Club is what has made it an ideal place the leadership program at the Lower East Side to unwind for some. Girls Club, which provides teenage girls with “I think it’s really cool whenever I come job training and skills they can use in their here on my break,” said Joseph Beller, another future careers. satisfi ed customer. “I can drink my tea and “We really want to give these girls the also catch a bit of improv of whatever poets or hands-on experience of what it’s like to have a musicians are practicing onstage. I prefer com- job. So we train them with the skills necessary, ing here than any other place because of the so that they gain a sense of self and pride,” atmosphere, honestly.” said Sierra Fromberg, the club’s volunteer and The cafe sells a variety of locally grown program coordinator. organic foods, fair-trade coffees and teas, grilled “The cafe has been open for about fi ve sandwiches, farmers’ market salads, fruit pies, months now, but we offi cially had our soft organic hot dogs, popcorn and more. opening for it in June,” Fromberg said. “Our The cafe is open on Mondays from 5 p.m. to goal here is to really have a place where people 11 p.m. and Tuesdays through Sundays from 11 can come in and feel like they are at home, a.m. to 11 p.m. Photo by Cynthia Romero while supporting a great cause at the same For more, information, visit www.girlsclub. Muffi ns, cookies, scones…the Celebrate Cafe’s menu offerings are sheer poetry to time.” org/store . noshers in the know.

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Mosque site’s long landmark limbo It’s not wimpy or naive to want a society that holds out for Two weeks ago, Adrian Benepe, the city’s Parks the most inclusive tent. Rather, it’s hardheaded realism to fi nd a Department commissioner, assured community garden To The Editor: way other than endless attack, blame, revenge and retaliation. advocates that the proposed new rules for governing Re “Fanning the fl ames” (editorial, Aug. 12): We grieve our losses, we live our gratitude for the gift of life, the nearly 300 gardens currently under Parks’ jurisdic- The very relevant detail of historic signifi cance has been and we thank those leaders and organizations that would point tion would not threaten the green spaces’ existence. lost amid the political maelstrom surrounding 45 Park us in a more rational direction — toward hope and the future. However, garden advocates — especially in the East Place. While the Landmarks Preservation Commission now Village and Lower East Side where there are 35 com- believes the building does not merit individual designation, K Webster munity gardens — remain anxious about the rules that 21 years ago the same Landmarks Commission proposed are being drafted to replace a 2002 city-state agree- the elegant, cast-iron structure for designation as an individ- ment that expires Sept. 17; they fear the new guidelines ual landmark. In September 1989, a public hearing held by will leave the gardens open to development. the commission elicited public testimony overwhelmingly in Take pressure off Pier 40 Most troubling, the proposed new rules omit ref- favor of the commission’s proposal, with Community Board erence to “preservation” of the gardens, which is 1 voting nearly unanimously to support the designation. Yet, To The Editor: included in the agreement about to expire. Advocates, until their recent vote, the commission failed to act on their Re “Hudson River Park Trust moves to create fundraising in fact, hoped that the new rules would designate the own proposal, leaving the building as one of many “heard group” (news article, Aug. 5): gardens with the word “permanent” — but Benepe says but not designated” structures languishing in limbo. I was surprised to read Diana Taylor’s assertion that, “We it’s not possible to do that. The unprofessional practice of holding public hearings are not making enough money in the park…because we’ve Holding out some some hope, City Council Speaker but failing to vote on a designation must end. Such inac- been unsuccessful in developing Pier 40. So that’s left a huge Christine Quin has suggested that the Council would tion fails to protect historic resources the commission is hole in the budget.” consider legislation to protect community gardens. charged with overseeing while subjecting it to the political Currently, Pier 40, which is 15 acres, generates $5 million While Benepe and Parks offi cials continue to try — manipulation so clearly evident now. a year, approximately 40 percent of the revenue for the entire unsuccessfully — to reassure local green thumbs not to park. Meanwhile, Chelsea Piers, which is 30 acres, renegoti- worry, the New York State Department of Environmental Hal Bromm ated a sweetheart deal during the Pataki administration and Conservation is also raising questions about the proposed pays less than half of that amount. regulations. D.E.C. offi cials think that there is, indeed, Revenue from Pier 40 has been remarkably steady very good reason to worry about them. throughout the park’s history, even during economic down- Specifi cally, Chris Amato, assistant commissioner of May cooler heads prevail turns. As one of creators of the Hudson River Park Act, I can D.E.C.’s Offi ce of Natural Resources, stated in a letter say unequivocally that we never envisioned Pier 40 generat- to Parks and the Department of Housing Preservation To The Editor: ing the majority of the park’s operating budget. — which is co-authoring the new regulations along Re “C.B. 3 backs fellow board after threats over mosque” with Parks — that the new regulations “could have the (news article, Aug. 5): Deborah Glick effect of signifi cantly diminishing some of the protec- My gratitude to Community Board 1, the Landmarks Glick is assemblymember for the 66th District tions currently afforded to GreenThumb gardens.” Preservation Commission and Mayor Bloomberg for holding fi rm Amato, in fact, was the state’s lead attorney in the regarding the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan — in my opin- lawsuit fi led against New York City to prevent the sale ion, the mayor’s fi nest hour. And thank you, Community Board 3 of more than 100 community gardens, which resulted and particularly Susan Stetzer for backing C.B. 1’s right to make Glick tells it like it is in the 2002 agreement that has protected the gardens decisions about their community without threat of violence. until now. According to Amato, the agreement eight All of us have the feelings we have about 9/11, and all To The Editor: years ago, in no uncertain terms, provided for the of us are entitled to them. They are what they are and can’t Re “Test scores were ‘a sham’” (letter, Aug. 12, by “permanent preservation” of nearly 200 GreenThumb be adjusted to suit, if inconvenient. But none of our feel- Deborah Glick): gardens. And yet, according to Amato, “[T]he pro- ings are a sound basis for action or for policy. We are in Thank you, Assemblymember Glick, for enumerating the posed regulations appear to eliminate the permanent deep trouble when we allow feelings to determine how we difference between what Mayor Bloomberg promised to do to protection for approximately 198 GreenThumb gar- decide to conduct ourselves. Historically, it has gotten us in improve public education and what he actually delivered. Will the dens provided under the Agreement.” trouble — the internment camps for U.S. citizens of Japanese mayor now fi nally take responsibility, which he claimed would be The 2002 agreement states that these so-called heritage, McCarthyism, Sacco and Vanzetti, anti-Semitism, his and his alone under mayoral control of the schools? “Offer for Preservation” gardens are either to be offered almost every war, etc. to the Parks Department for permanent preservation as The 9/11 hijackers were guided by feelings of revenge for A.S. Evans community gardens or open space, or to one or more wrongs infl icted. They felt entitled to take that action based nonprofi t land trust organizations to do the same. on those feelings, and added to a world of pain here and Continued on page 25 “Unfortunately,” Amato wrote, “the [proposed] regulations appear to eliminate this important protec- EVAN FORSCH tion by subjecting all GreenThumb gardens, regardless of their status under the Agreement, to potential sale or development.” It naturally would be expected that the City’s refusal to hold up its end of the agreement would end up in yet another lawsuit over the gardens. Which begs the question: Why must the community gardens continue to be a battleground? Clearly, these green oases have become such integral parts of our communities. They provide so many benefi ts — to our health and nutrition (cleaning our air, yielding fruits, vegetables and herbs), to our sanity, to our quality of life and the very livability of our neighborhoods. All of that must surely be abundantly clear by now to our mayor and our Parks commissioner. Hands off the gardens! Honor the agreement. The new regulations must be revised and rewritten without an ounce of ambiguity or the slightest trace of a loop- hole regarding the gardens’ complete preservation and permanence. August 19 - 25, 2010 13 K-Rod as ‘spoiled priest’; Mixed thoughts on mosque boringly introspective, one might add), and his name is Alex anti-Mosque switcheroo from the traditional, basic A.D.L. prin- TALKING POINT Rodriguez, headline-shortened long ago to A-Rod. ciples of freedom of religion. (Can’t you just imagine the ugly The more particular Rodriguez, the domestically entangled big-money pressure that led to that about-face?) BY JERRY TALLMER one, is a Mets relief pitcher who strikes out a lot of hitters Hey, A.D.L., how do you like being on the same side, The late James A. Wechsler, editor, columnist, liberal die- when he’s on his game. Strikeouts are charted as K’s in base- ideologically, as all the know-nothings out there who want hard and baseball enthusiast, once said to me that a skinny ball shorthand. Ergo: Striker-out Rodriguez. K-Rod. Get it? to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment, not to mention all the new young Mets pitcher named Gary Gentry looked to him Father K-Rod, as it were. other Amendments? like nothing so much as “a Yeshiva grad student.” A certain Louise, also now gone, once, when I got her to * * * glance televisionwise at a new young Mets outfi elder named Darryl Strawberry, stood transfi xed in admiration before she The Villager’s Lincoln Anderson said: “What can I do for I wish to God they had planted their said: “I didn’t know he’d be as beautiful as a ballet dancer.” you?” Yeshiva grad student, ballet dancer — why not a priest? I said I thought I could write a piece about Francisco mosque just a few blocks farther A spoiled priest. Rodriguez. It was, I think, the adhesive-tape strips that started me “Do you have any thoughts about The Mosque?” said away from Ground Zero. on this wild-goose chase. Graham Greene would surely have Lincoln. noticed those adhesive-tape strips. Thoughts? About The Mosque? That Mosque? I have lots Graham Greene noticed everything — false teeth, for of thoughts, dozens of thoughts, all contradictory. That said, there is, however, also the small matter of instance — no, the obscured absence of teeth — in a very Let’s see. forms of worship that are dedicated to the destruction of the minor character in “The Power and the Glory.” There’s this thing called the Fourteenth Amendment. United States of America and all its people. Maybe they aren’t adhesive tape. But whatever they are, There’s this other thing called the First Amendment. There’s The promoters who want to put that mosque and com- they’re manifestly there to plaster the temples of his eyeglasses this overarching thing called the Constitution of the United munity center down there should have been — should be — to — well, K-Rod’s own temples — as he peers with white-hot States of America. sensitive enough to not stoke the fi res of bigotry, ignorance religious intensity through those lenses to detect how many If one believes in any of that, and I happen to believe in and ethnic hatred by cocking that ostensibly peacemaking fi ngers the catcher is fl ashing at him. all of that, then there’s no way you can legally oppose any- gesture right on the sorest snook — unhealable wound — in Baseball on television is remarkable these days in taking body’s right to worship whatever he or she wishes to worship this nation’s history. you, the viewer, straight and astonishingly close up into the anywhere in this country, be it two blocks from Ground Zero It’s as if — someone said to me yesterday — the Mosque- face of the pitcher — any pitcher, every pitcher — as he’s or 52 blocks. ites are thumbing their noses at the very Constitution that mulling what pitch to throw next. The thing is, whenever So I’m with the president on this, slow as he’s been to get protects them. Francisco Rodriguez of Caracas, Venezuela, and Queens, New to where he’s at. In short, I wish to God they had planted their mosque York, was doing his mulling, I kept seeing him as one of those And I am — surprisingly, because I don’t much like the just a few blocks farther away from Ground Zero. But, as spoiled priests out of Graham Greene and Bernard Shaw and man or a lot of his ideas — with Michael Bloomberg on this. the old malarkey goes, I will defend to the death their right the novels and plays of various other great writers. And I’m really quite shocked — well, not shocked, but sort of not to do that. You remember the one in Shaw’s “Saint Joan” — that blood- revolted — by the Anti-Defamation League’s out-of-the-blue, Father, you may now say Mass. thirsty little bastard toward the end of the play who couldn’t wait for the torch to be put to the branches surrounding Joan at the stake; but then, when she was actually burning to death, was too horrifi ed by her agony to be able to keep looking. That was a spoiled priest. And so was the priest-on-the-run from anti-clerical Mexican revolutionaries, an all too human “whiskey priest,” father of an illegitimate child, in that haunting Graham Greene work fi rst published in England in 1940 as “The Labyrinthine Way” (title SCENE borrowed from Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”) I don’t say Francisco Rodriguez ever wanted to see any- A determined green body burned at the stake or pursued through the byways and thumb held up a painted family lounges of Citi Field, unless it was someone who might paddle before the Aug. someday hit a home run off him. Or, mayhap, the chastising 10 public hearing in grandfather of Francisco’s 11-month-old, common-law twins. Chelsea on proposed I’m just saying that for some time before the present brou- new rules for community haha I have regarded this Francisco, while he stares blazingly gardens. through his beardlet toward home plate, as some latter-day variety of spoiled priest. Why do they call him K-Rod? That, too, is ridiculous. There’s this other ballplayer, see? A fellow right here from Washington Heights, once a shortstop, now a third base- man, a homerun slugger as introspective as any priest (more Photo by Tequila Minsky

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Lounge, 547 W. 27th St., on Sun., Aug. 8, bail pending a Sept. 14 court appearance. at 4 a.m., she discovered that her bag, which The victim, 24, identifi ed Davis, who was she had placed under her table, had been arrested on Greenwich Ave. two blocks from POLICE BLOTTER stolen. She lost her cell phone, camera, ID the scene. Davis, a Linden, N.J., resident, and $250 cash. She discovered later that the was carrying the $94 that he took from the thief had taken photos of her and download- victim, according to the complaint fi led by ed them to the victim’s Facebook page. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. walking through Chelsea Market at Ninth Hudson grocery trio Ave. and W. 15th St. around 10:15 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 5, when he discovered that One of three suspects who walked into the Nike gym bag that he had been carrying Lost at peep show Assault arrest the Hudson Gourmet grocery, 514 Hudson that morning was gone. He lost his laptop St. near W. 10th St., around 11:53 p.m. computer, iPod, iTouch, Sony digital camera A visitor from Trinidad was looking Police arrested Dennis McCarvill, 25, Mon., Aug.16, grabbed a bottle of beer and and $299 cash. at a video in a viewing booth in Rainbow on Fri., Aug. 6, and charged him with fi rst- tried to walk out without paying for it, police Station, the adult merchandise store at 207 degree assault and fourth-degree criminal said. After a store employee, 22, confronted Eighth Ave., near W. 20th St., around 4 a.m. possession of a weapon in connection with the shoplifter and took back the bottle, the Thurs., Aug. 12, when someone made off the May 31 beating of a victim in front of the three suspects punched him in the face, cut- Club larcenies with his BlackBerry cell phone and his iPod, Two Rivers bar, 10 Murray St., in the City ting him above the eye, and fl ed west on 10th police said. Hall area. McCarvill grabbed a stick during St. on foot. The victim said two of the three A visitor from Sweden told police she an argument at 12:30 a.m., beat the victim were transvestites. One of the transvestites was about to leave 1 Oak, 453 W. 17th St., about the face and seriously injured him, was described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall around 1 a.m. Fri., Aug. 13, when she dis- according to the complaint fi led by D.A. and weighing about 200 pounds. covered that her wallet was gone from her Hold mugging suspect Vance. McCarvill pleaded not guilty and was bag. The victim, 21, said she had not put freed on $10,000 bail pending a Nov. 4 court the bag down while she was at the club and Tyrone Davis, 26, arrested on Aug. 9 appearance. A New York Post item said the did not remember being jostled. She lost her for robbing a victim on Seventh Ave. at W. victim underwent two surgeries and received Bag was gone Swedish credit card and ID and $90 cash. 12th St. and threatening to shoot him, was 14 stitches as a result of the injuries. A Connecticut woman, 24, told police arraigned on a third-degree robbery charge A Brooklyn man, 25, told police he was that as she was leaving Suzie Wong Saki last week and was in jail in lieu of $25,000 Albert Amateau August 19 - 25, 2010 15 16 August 19 - 25, 2010 A tiki oasis glows brightly on E. 7th St.; Who knew?

BY DAVID MCCABE Barry Kushelowitz’s apartment door doesn’t show much indication of what’s inside. Save for a few tiki stickers on the olive green door, the entryway is identical to the fi ve others on the second-fl oor landing. But open the door, and you enter a tropical paradise that is the result of Kushelowitz’s years of col- lecting tiki memorabilia. Inside the 140-square-foot apartment, which features a small bathroom (also decked out in tropical style), the fl oors and walls are lined with straw mats and the ceiling is painted with pink, green, orange and blue stars. Much of the painted objects in the apartment, including the stars, are painted with black-light paint, which turns bright when lit with a black light. Kushelowitz has placed a number of the purple lights around the space, so when he turns off the “normal” lights, the apartment is lit by a few low-power tiki lamps and the neon colors of the painted objects. The most striking objects in the room are the tiki statues themselves, which stare at visitors with a gaze that never wavers. In order to accentuate the tikis, Kushelowitz, with help from a neighbor, paints their details with the same black-light paint that lines the ceiling. While he can’t say exactly how many items he has in his collection, his apartment is full all the way to the door and he has a storage unit fi lled with tiki items. Kushelowitz said he believes he has “the most tiki per square inch in the world.” Kushelowitz’s interest in tiki culture was started with a visit to a shop — he doesn’t remember which one — 12 to 15 years ago, when he heard a distinctive song playing over the sound system. As he approached the owner to inquire about the music, another patron cut in front of him and asked, “My Photos by J.B. Nicholas God, what’s this song?” It was a track off of Martin Denny’s Clockwise from below right, the hall of Barry Kushelowitz’s apartment, cluttered with authentic tiki masks high- album “Exotica,” and Kushelowitz became infatuated with the lighted with black-light paint; Kuselowitz, a.k.a. “Captain Kush; tiki fi gurines. music genre of the same name, which evokes faraway islands with sounds meant to replicate what it would be like to be at a “party in the Amazon rainforest,” Kushelowitz said. Sometime after he was introduced to exotica, he was walking by the now-closed East Village store Love Saves the Day on Second Ave. when he noticed a set of tiki statues in the window. He paid $700 for the set and brought them home. They were original tiki statues made in the 1950s by the Witco company and designed by William Westenhaver, who designed many popular tiki items. Kushelowitz painted one of the statues, but after some research, realized he had a collectible. So he colored the rest by putting black-light paint on white tape, and then pasting the tape in the statues’ grooves — so that he’s not painting directly on the wood. He said that he has yet to see other collections with the kind of Witco items he has. Since then, Kushelowitz has grown his collection, with items from eBay, as well as his travels, such as a painting he picked up in Thailand and some beads he found in Vegas. Some of the pieces have stories behind them. Once, Kushelowitz said he went out to the desert to buy a Witco waterfall piece, but the seller stiffed him. “So I ended up buying this mannequin from this maniac in the dessert with three daughters,” he said. The mannequin now sits next to his desk, glowing in the black light and dressed in a fl ower skirt. She even has a name: Monica. He has also been to a number of famous tiki bars around the country, including the famous Mai Kai in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He said that while East Village bar Otto’s Shrunken Head is great, they don’t quite have the whole tiki experience, and need to improve the music they play. Does he have any interest in opening up his own tiki-themed establishment? Yes, he says, but real estate in New York is too York, saying that although he has the requisite skills, he doesn’t attended Cornell after a childhood in Forest Hills, Queens — expensive and the city has become too “sterilized.” One idea DJ often. one would escape the outer boroughs by going to Manhattan. he has is to use his collection to turn Ray’s Candy Store, on E. “The music I would play is obviously too interesting Now, to fi nd a decent Saturday night, you have to go to Seventh St. and Avenue A, into a tiki bar, with Ray Alvarez, the for today’s audiences. I don’t play hip-hop, techno or rap,” Brooklyn. store’s owner, as emcee. Kushelowitz said, adding that he has 11,000 songs on his But despite the fact that the East Village, as he says, is “ster- “Ray could come down at night and tell stories,” Kushelowitz external hard drive — one of a few pieces of modern technology ile,” “corporate” and “homogeneous,” Barry Kushelowitz will said. “He’s got a million stories.” hidden among the tiki elements of the apartment. always have his 140-square-foot island paradise on E. Seventh He bemoans what he sees as a lack of creativity in New He laments that back when he got out of college — he St. to escape to. August 19 - 25, 2010 17 VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENT FringeNYC shows (mostly) shine FringeNYC FringeNYC REVIEW REVIEW BUTTERFLY, BUTTERFLY, THE BATTLE OF SPANKTOWN KILL KILL KILL! Written by Jeffrey Pfeiffer. Directed by Heidi Produced by Depth Charge. Written by Patrick Handelsman Harrison. Music by Dave Harrington. Directed 1 hour, 40 minutes (comedy/drama) by Patrick Harrison. Choreographed by Adam Aug. 22, Noon / Aug. 25, 10 p.m. / Aug. 27, Scott Mazer & Ian Picco. 10:45 p.m. 60 minutes (performance art) At Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St., btw. Aug. 19, 2 p.m. Rivington & Delancey) At The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa (74A E. For info, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866- 4th St., Second Ave. & Bowery) 468-7619 For info, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866- Visit www.thebattleofspanktown.tumblr.com 468-7619 Visit www.depthcharge.us ence. The show traces the adventures of one Hobbledehoy (Chris Bannow) — a sort of apprentice to Mole (Ari Vigoda), an actual Float like a butterfl y, sting tunnel-digging rodent. The year is 1777. Mole is a patriot in the like a B-movie infant revolution, now feuding with his former friend Badger (Adam Laupus) — who BY SCOTT STIFFLER happens to be a Tory. This is just the begin- All’s fair in love and war — and, appar- ning of the unassuming Hobbledoy’s woes, ently, adaptations. as he becomes drawn into personal strife Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” Photo by Alana Jacoby between the two mammals. That strife takes begged, borrowed and stole from Asian Margaret Odette Perkins and Patrick Harrison in “Butterfl y, Butterfl y Kill Kill Kill!” the form of a political intrigue involving cinema (see, for starters, Ringo Lam’s “City Benjamin Franklin (pere et fi ls), a religious on Fire”). So it’s only fi tting that the Kabuki- maybe even advance him in the all-important company that boldly declares itself dedi- war between Christianity and paganism, faced, sunglass-wearing, black-suited assas- numerical pecking order of professional cated to “surprise and sensation that values and his own star-crossed pursuit of Badger’s sins in Depth Charge Production’s “Butterfl y, assassins (the identity of the “No. 1 Killer” entertainment and confrontation over and adopted daughter (Patricia Lynn) — who, Butterfl y, Kill Kill Kill!” should do some fi gures large in the story’s convoluted plot). above Art.” at one point, goes in disguise as a boy like a borrowing of their own from the global pop Throughout, episodes of violence and Fortunately, Depth Charge makes good heroine in a Shakespeare comedy. culture reservoir. stabs at making love are augmented by a few on that lofty ambition by presenting a high- Needless to say, viewer are well-advised The title recalls Russ Meyer’s 1965 scenes in which “puppets” (objects on long octane hour-long experience that’s clever, to sit back and let it wash over them rather jiggle-crazed breastploitation fl ick “Faster, wires, really) dance to the accompaniment of thoughtful, entertaining and packed to the than try to follow the silly parody of a nar- Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” — and the show itself hypnotic live music by Dave Harrington. In rafters with violent confrontation. Sure, you rative. In addition to the obsessive convolu- references everything from fi lm noir to indie one sequence, a butterfl y puppet (metaphor could say you expected more — but by the tions in Jeffrey Pfeiffer’s script, the dialogue grit to stark Japanese cool. And — in alert!) perches on the top of a gun barrel, time the curtain comes down, your protests is written in an invented patois full of coin- the spirit of coming full circle — there’s then does a slow motion dance alongside a would amount to little more than geekish ages and misuses that may or may not be an exceedingly generous amount of hyper- just-fi red bullet en route to its target. In this nitpicking. intentional. Old words are pressed into new stylized gunfi ghts recalling the work of Mr. dense and effi cient moment, the production meanings. A portrait becomes “ a portrai- Tarantino. Chatty killers who’ve crafted says just as much about the inevitable con- ture” and “doth” is used where “dost” would their own moral code and femme fatales who sequences of violence as it does in countless Infectious clowning gives be more correct. These are the tip of the rescue then corrupt also fi gure into the mix. gunfi ghts. iceberg, but it doesn’t matter. It’s all very familiar. One not so minor quibble: Before the ‘Spanktown’ its slapstick The production’s real charm is in the That’s OK with us, though, because it’s show — for what seems like an eternity — playing — and here, it scores big. Director all in the service of a frenzied tribute to two cast members stand stoically, holding a charm Heidi Handelsman has drawn from her cast Japanese B-movie director Seijun Suzuki’s banner with something written in Japanese. a dozen boffo turns in a style that owes a “incomprehensible” 1967 masterpiece Who can say whether it’s a welcome, a warn- BY TRAV S.D. lot to the art of the clown. This gang is hav- “Branded to Kill” — a fi lm that contributed ing or an insult? Those who speak or at least “The Battle of Spanktown” is the per- ing a lot of fun, and it’s infectious. At one to his being fi red that very same year by his read Japanese, I suspect. fect sort of show to catch in a fringe fes- point, we encounter a man who is hopping employers at Nikkatsu Studios (who said his As this happens, the rest of the cast paces tival setting. A mash-up of “The Wind in a thousand miles on one foot and pronounc- fi lms “made no money and no sense”). back in forth in an ominous manner. One the Willows,” the American Revolution, ing the every letter “s” as an “f” in order to “Butterfl y, Butterfl y Kill Kill Kill!” is, of them occasionally mutters some funny Shakespeare and fairy tales, the show is protest a tax. Someone should point him in among other things, the story of a Japanese improvs — but their presence telegraphs a playful lark that will be appreciated by the direction of the modern day Tea Party, hitman on a million-yen mission that will, the look and the feel of the play. That’s the theatre lovers yet entertaining enough to if he survives it, cement his reputation and wrong way to go when you’re a theater be embraced (perhaps) by a broader audi- Continued on page 18 18 August 19 - 25, 2010 FringeNYC: Something for everyone?

Continued from page 17 FringeNYC where his idiosyncrasies would make just as REVIEW much sense. FAYE LANE’S BEAUTY SHOP NYC gal reveals her Texas STORIES Written by Faye Lane and directed by Jay beauty shop roots Rogers 55 minutes (solo show/musical) BY SCOTT STIFFLER New York City sure is full of it — if by Aug. 19, 3 p.m. / Aug. 21, 9:45 p.m. / Aug. 23, “it” you mean people who grew up as small 8:45 p.m. town misfits secretly plotting for the day they’d move to the island of Manhattan At The Club at La MaMa (74A E. 4th St., 2nd and become fabulous. Inevitably, some Floor; Second Ave. & Bowery) of them not only make good on that self- For info, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866- fulfilling prophecy — they also put on a 468-7619 show recounting their journey from back- Photo by Stephen Mosher water dreamer to big city resident. Visit www.BeautyShopStories.us Faye Lane (be)dazzles in “Beauty Shop Stories.” Add Faye Lane to that excruciatingly long but rarely distinguished list. What shows. makes her take on this hoary old hest- lessons are as corny as the cornbread OK, y’all. So, it’s 1975. Chubby little nut unique is not what she brings to the that our hero’s southern mentors washed Rhonda Faye Gunnels is growing up in a FringeNYC table, but what she chooses to leave off down with gossip and tall glasses of but- small Texas town, marking time by sitting the menu. termilk. on the front porch of mama’s Casa Vale REVIEW “Beauty Shop Stories” is not hip or What “Beauty Shop Stories” is, how- Beauty Salon. When not chatting with dripping with irony or fast-paced or ever, is sweet, self-aware and remarkably her imaginary friend Jesus, she licks her SHINE: A BURLESQUE MUSICAL mean-spirited or self-congratulatory or void of the ego trip down memory lane wounds from schoolyard taunts about her Written by Cass King, John Woods (The Wet too clever for its own good. Its narrative we’ve come to expect from these “grow- weight as she glues shiny silver glitter Spots) and Sam Dulmage. Directed by Roger arc isn’t particularly original, and its life ing up was tough for me” one-person on her Burger King crown and dreams of becoming a beauty queen who works Benington as a stewardess by day. At night, she’s a 120 minutes (musical) famous singer who plays sold-out gigs at Madison Square Garden. Aug. 23, 9:45 p.m. / Aug. 26, 2 p.m. / Aug. 28, That such an insecure, hurting little 2 p.m. girl could still manage to aim so high At The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La Mama (66- —and end up achieving an acceptable ver- sion of her dreams in a very roundabout 68 E. 4th St.; Second Ave. & Bowery) way — is what makes this familiar tale For info, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866- such an endearing experience. 468-7619 Like the ladies who sit underneath a row of dryers in mama’s beauty shop, Visit www.shinemusical.com we’re a captive audience for Lane’s star- making songs and heartfelt routines. At the show I saw, it didn’t take long for the audience to understand why the Burt ‘Shine’ dulls the burlesque Reynolds-lovin’ good old gals at Casa Vale became, as Lane recalls, a gang world it depicts of “overly-indulgent grandmothers” (who kept guns and MoonPies in their purses). BY TRAV S.D. If the show has any noticeable flaw, it’s A dark cloud of dilettantism hovers the lack of improvisation. A performer over “Shine: A Burlesque Musical” — the who thoroughly engages her audience title of which promises so much, but the from word one, Lane squanders that pow- reality of which disappoints with a boom, erful connection by sticking to the script boom-boom boom. like glue — except for a brief audience Penned and produced by a musical sing-along (that song, by the way, features burlesque act known as The Wet Spots, a miraculous cameo from her imaginary the show feels very much like a bunch of friend). strong individual comic production num- The press kit touts plans for adapting bers developed for their normal night the show into a memoir. I hope she stops club act, strung on a very weak strand there. “Beauty Shop Stories” could be fun of a book. The experience is like going to watch as a movie, a play, a cartoon or a for a drive, and constantly being forced sitcom — but one gets the impression that to alternate between a Maserati and a Lane hasn’t begun to tap into the rich, full Yugo. life she’s led. Here’s hoping she moves The songs (co-written by The Wet on to other projects that fill in the gap Spots’ Cass King and John Woods) suc- between leaving Texas and residing for the past 20 years in the Chelsea Hotel. Continued on page 19 August 19 - 25, 2010 19 Mac to school A few FringeNYC shows, for your consideration

Continued from page 18 FringeNYC ceed for the most part. Written in a wide variety of styles, catchy, well-staged and REVIEW well -choreographed, they generally hit their mark. While most of the lyrics are PICKING PALIN intelligent and clever, some of them stoop Written and directed by Stephen Padilla to the lowest common denominator. If the word “cum” is all it takes to make you 1 hour, 40 minutes (comedy/drama) laugh, feel free to sing right along. Aug. 21, 9:45 p.m. / Aug. 25, 9:35 p.m. / Aug. But it’s at the level of story and dialogue that the show just tanks. The 28, Noon premise is a cocktail of vagueness, his- At the Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th St., btw. torical ignorance and illogic. The plot is Avenues A & B) “We’ve got to save our theatre from the What’s to think about? creditors. 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One can’t help some, so ultimately I guess it doesn’t but feel the playwright is giving the pro- really matter that what the characters say cess too much credit for even-handedness, and do doesn’t make any sense. It will sell however 7(.6(59( out anyway. Still, Padilla’s fantasy is a satisfying New York’s Shop for All Things Mac one — gripping in the tradition of the Mac Sales | Service | iPod | iPad | Accessories | Seminars | Training 1964 film “The Best Man.” Staged with Rentals | AppleCare | Data Recovery | On-Site Service Spartan simplicity, it moves along at a Professional Systems for Video, Audio, and the Graphic Arts Palin gets the Greek swift pace in a series of blackouts that tragedy treatment take us deeper and deeper, step-by-step, 119 West 23rd Street between 6th & 7th Ave into a very dark hole. The quartet of Open Mon – Fri 9am to 8pm actors is solid in this backroom debate. In Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun noon to 6pm BY TRAV S.D. the end, we are left with but one conso- The outcome of “Picking Palin” is a lation: Republicans might have won the 212.929.3645 tekserve.com forgone conclusion, so what’s the point of election. 20 August 19 - 25, 2010 Truths in the true story of ‘Vertias’ shall make you free Script’s ‘self-immolating badinage” is smartass, gripping, exhausting half-gripping “Veritas” — everything’s Edward Albee during a tribute to Albee The university had “redacted” the names FringeNYC doubled in spades. at CUNY. of all those involved, but the Crimson used “Veritas” is Latin for truth, and it’s “I was kind of speechless,” says their real names, as does Richardson in the single word that appears on the Great Richardson — but not too speechless “Veritas.” After all, truth is truth. REVIEW Seal of Harvard University — an institu- to get out of his mouth the words: “Mr. The two young men taken back into tion of higher learning somewhat to the Albee, I want to study with you.” Albee Harvard were somewhat interesting fig- VERITAS north of Van Cortlandt Park. said: “Send me a play,” and Richardson ures in later life. One was Federal Judge Written by Stan Richardson. Directed by Ryan The whole first, scene-setting half of did so. Joseph Lumbard, Second Circuit Court J. Davis. the play is an exercise in, to use its own “Three months later, the phone rang. of Appeals — who had a distinct dislike favorite word, bitchery — the dramatic It was Edward. Albee. He said: “ ‘Pus’ of pornography. The other was Stanley 1 hour, 40 minutes (drama/comedy) great-grandson of Mart Crowley’s Albee- is spelled with one s, not two.’ But he Gilkey — a showbiz type who years later Aug. 20, 7 p.m. / Aug. 22, 8 p.m. / Aug. 24, tinged tell-all “The Boys in the Band” of started coming to see my plays at NYU, went from being a Broadway producer to April 1968 (six years after “ Van Cortland and then invited me to come and study general manager of the Lincoln Center 4:15 p.m. / Aug. 27, 5:15 p.m. / Aug. 28, 8 Park?”). It’s clever, all this acid self-immo- with him at the University of Houston.” It Theater Company in the early Kazan- p.m. lating badinage, in its many ways, shapes, was there that young Richardson turned Whitehead-Clurman days of that outfit. I At HERE Arts Center- Mainstage Theater (145 and forms. Trouble is, it’s also more than his efforts to what Albee calls “the play may have once interviewed him myself. a little exhausting. But hang in. that hurts,” but those efforts were all All things considered, it seems to this Sixth Ave. — enter on Dominick, 1 block S. of Half-gripping? Yes, because the whole basically autobiographical until “Veritas” auditor, the bitchy first half of “Veritas” Spring) last half of “Veritas” truly grabbed me, came along. is more than a little tough on this gaggle For info, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866- as trial scenes always do — in this case, “I think most people start out with the of bright, show-offy, homosexual-trending the heavy-handed grilling of some nine or kill-your-parents play,” says Richardson. young men. 468-7619 ten interconnected homosexual or quasi- For Albee, of course, it hadn’t stopped “Yeah,” says our playwright. “These Visit www.VeritasThePlay.com homosexual undergraduates by a “Secret there. He was all of 66 years old when are guys in their twenties. There’s no puri- Court” of five Harvard deans in May and he brought forth his brilliant, matricidal ty, there’s no impurity. There’s just…You. June of 1920 — shortly after the real-life “Three Tall Women.” What’s tragic is when people are under BY JERRY TALLMER (i.e., real death) suicide (by gas) of a Harvard’s kangaroo trials of 1920 were the radar, neither gay nor straight — and Anyone who as an undergraduate was rather fragile expelled boy named Cyril buried in obscurity for 82 years until, then that film is ripped out of the camera, ever cross-examined by a dean, or a fac- Wilcox, at his and his parents’ home in sometime in 2002, a student journalist and they’re fixed, exposed.” ulty bigwig, or a phony-baloney campus Fall River, Massachusetts. named Amit R. Paley — a reporter on After a moment: “I didn’t want to write chaplain (as I once was, for political/ The five real-life inquisitors were the Harvard Crimson — while searching a play about heroes.” religious reasons) will know what it is to appointed by A. Lawrence Lowell him- through university archives for something Stan Richardson was born April 13, be The Creature Caught, as helpless as a self, legendary 1909-1933 president of else entirely, stumbled upon a box labeled 1977, in St. Louis, Missouri. “April 13, fox with its leg in a trap. Harvard. Their interrogations generally “Secret Court.” Opening it, he discov- also the birthday of two of my favorites, At one end — for some young men and absurdly began, case by case, with ered 500 pages of cryptic documents — Samuel Beckett and Lanford Wilson.” ninety years ago — lies suicide. At the “State, the last time you masturbated… everything from transcripts of the entire Stan’s mother “is a nurse who works other, expulsion from school amidst the and how frequently you do it...” proceedings to descriptions of the wild with suicidal teenagers — a lot of gays scorn — indeed the hatred — of acquain- Heterosexual young men evidently parties in dorm room “Perkins 28” to let- and lesbians trying to come out.” His tances and/or classmates you may have never masturbate. ters from the families of the nine expelled father, an accountant, is “the office come- advertently or inadvertently betrayed. If Stan Richardson was in his senior term undergraduates, begging for mercy. Two of dian.” the betrayed are lovers, or ex-lovers — as a theater major at NYU’s Tisch School, the nine were readmitted to Harvard the Their son says he has known since he as in Stan Richardson’s half-smartass, some ten years ago, when he bumped into next year, the other seven were not. 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JOONSAM LEE TRIO THE Walk by 12 St. Marks Place on Saturdays and Sundays MUSIC from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and you’ll almost always see COMPILED BY some foot traffic stopped dead in its tracks — to enjoy SCOTT STIFFLER the live jazz coming from Hirai Mong. That phenomenon [email protected] LIST A has been especially apparent this summer, as the Korean-Chinese fusion restaurant opens its windows and lets the music flow into the outdoor ether. Inside, READINGS at the bar area, your $5 cover charge goes directly to the musicians (at the outside patio and in the dining hall, donations are voluntary). No matter where you sit or stand, $5 or free is a pretty good deal for the privilege of enjoying any of the high-quality trios and quartets who play on a rotating basis. Our favorite is the Joonsam Lee Trio — appearing every third Saturday of the month, and led by soulful Seoul-born bassist/ composer Joonsam Lee. Their style is distinguished by mellow but complex riffs that just might make converts out of jazz genre skeptics (we’ve seen it happen!). To access the live music schedule, call 212-475-7101 or

Photo by Heather Golde visit www.hiraimong.com (Hirai Mong also has R&B on Schoolbus poser: “Unexpectedly, Milo” author the first and third Thursday of the month). For more on Matthew Dicks the Joonsam Lee Trio, www.joonsamlee.com. Photo by Wei Xiang Tan UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO Joonsam Lee’s got base (bass?) level talent to burn. Matthew Dicks (author of “Something Missing” and 2005’s West Hartford’s Teacher of the Year) will be reading from — and signing — his new comedic novel “Unexpectedly, Milo.” Upon witnessing the rapid disso- BOOK LAUNCH lution of his marriage, our hero (who is NOT the author in disguise) embarks on a cross-country trek to find a FISH OUT OF AGUA mysterious girl who may be the answer to his relation- Years ago, at the Puerto Rican Day parade, an ship prayers. When you get that book signed, be sure announcement came over the loudspeaker: “Will to ask Mr. Dicks about the status of his “enormous, the family who brought the little redheaded white slightly insane house cat, Owen.” Tues., Aug. 24, 7 p.m. girl please come to the bandstand to pick her at Posman Books (at Chelsea Market — 75 Ninth Ave. up?” That little freckle-faced Puerto Rican girl btwn. 15th and 16th Sts.). For info, call 212-627 0304 grew up, lived in all five boroughs of NYC, settled or visit www.posmanbooks.com. back in the Bronx, became a much-loved member of our city’s comedy and storytelling communities, J&R MUSICFEST led an eventful life and wrote a book about it. & TECH EXPO Published by Citadel Press (in our current month The “J&R MusicFest & Tech of August 2010), that book is “Fish Out Of Agua: Expo” is a FREE event that deliv- My Life On Neither Side Of The (subway) Tracks.” ers good music and good times The author is the multi-talented, luminously fabu- to lower Manhattan — specifi- lous Michele Carlo — and you can meet her at the cally, to City Hall Park. Make the Manhattan launch party for “Fish Out Of Agua.” trek there on Fri., Aug. 27 (from It happens Wed., Aug. 25, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 5 p.m. until around 8 p.m.), p.m. at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and you’ll see musical perfor- (97 Orchard St., off Delancey St.). The event is Photo courtesy of Concord Music free. Drinks, snacks and some of Carlo’s infamous mances from 4Troops, J Cole Leela James performs and Marsha Ambrosius. On Sat., for you, for free, on Triple X Coquito will be provided. Visit www.tene- Aug. 28 (from Noon until around August 28. ment.org and www.michelecarlo.com. 3:30pm), Marcus Johnson, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and Leela James will perform. What’s more, MUSIC (from Noon to 5 p.m. on Aug. 26, 27 & 28), the Park Row area in front of J&R will be lined with booths offering musical instrument clinics, giveaways and computer demonstrations —

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Offi ce location: NY Sec. of State designated Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. OF HUDSON GREEN NY County. SSNY has been Siano, Esq., 379 W. Broad- County of New York. SSNY it may be served. SSNY shall CRAFT LLC. County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom mail process to the LLC at the of State of NY (SSNY) on designated as an agent upon way, 5th Fl., NY, NY 10012. R.W. Kern, Inc., 211 W. 56th 7/19/10. Offi ce location: NY Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. whom process against the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be princ. offi ce of the LLC. DE St., 20J, NY, NY 10019. SSNY County. SSNY designated as of State of NY (SSNY) on PLLC may be served. The DE offi ce addr.: CSC, 2711 process against it may be served and shall mail pro- addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville designated as agent of LLC agent of LLC upon whom 5/12/10. Offi ce location: NY address to which SSNY shall Centerville Rd., Wilmington, served. SSNY shall mail process to the principal business Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, upon whom process against addr.: Judd Foundation, 101 process against it may be County. SSNY designated mail a copy of any process cess to: c/o Nadborny & Brin- DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on it may be served. SSNY shall Spring St., NY, NY 10012, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led served. SSNY shall mail pro- as agent of LLC for service against the PLLC is to:11 berg LLP, 420 Lexington Ave., with DE Secy. of State, Div. of of process. SSNY shall mail Gavin Road, West Orange, fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., mail process to c/o Corpora- Attn: Flavin Judd, regd. agent cess to: The LLC, 475 Park Ste. 2300, NY, NY 10170; Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. process to: 7014 13 Ave. NJ 07052. Purpose: To Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any tion Service Co., 80 State St., upon whom process may be Avenue South, 18th Fl., NY, #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. engage in any lawful act or Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Attn: Todd M. Brinberg, Esq.. served. Purpose: any lawful 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: NY 10016. Purpose: any law- Purpose: Any lawful activity. activity. lawful activities. Real estate holdings. Purpose: any lawful act. activity. Any lawful activity. ful activity. Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/22-8/26/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/29-9/2/10 Vil 7/29-9/2/10 Vil 8/5-9/9/10 Vil 8/5-9/9/10 August 19 - 25, 2010 23 PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMA- MUSE DANCEWEAR NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE OF FORMATION NAME OF FOR. LLC: HR PUBLIC NOTICE IS NOTICE IS HEREBY NOTICE OF FORMATION TION OF WASHINGTON LLC. TION OF LONG POND OF LIMITED LIABIL- SP, LLC. HEREBY GIVEN, GIVEN OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: THE HEIGHTS PEDIATRICS ITY COMPANY (“LLC”). App. for Auth. fi led NY Dept. TWO PLLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. CAPITAL, LP. PURSUANT TO LAW, that that a license, #TBA has EDELSTEIN FAMILY, LLC. NAME: OLR ECW DEVEL- of State: 7/9/10. Jurisd. and of State of NY (SSNY) on the Dept of Consumer Affairs been applied for by United Articles of Organization were Arts. of Org. fi led with Authority fi led with Secy. date of org.: DE 7/8/10. Cty 4/7/10. Ofc in NY Cty. SSNY OPERS, LLC. will hold a Public Hearing on Chicken Fingers, LLC d/b/a fi led with the Secretary of NY Dept. of State on of State of NY (SSNY) on off. loc.: NY Cty. Princ. bus. 6/25/10. Offi ce location: NY designated agent of LLC Articles of Organization fi led Sept 1, 2010 at 2:00 pm, 66 The Hurricane Club to sell State of New York (SSNY) 07/26/10. Offi ce location: NY loc.: 535 Madison Ave., 27th on 07/21/10. The latest date County. Sec. of State desig- upon whom process against with the Secretary of State John St, 11th fl oor, on a peti- beer, wine, and liquor at retail nated as agent of PLLC upon County. LP formed in Dela- Fl., NY, NY 10022. Sec. of of dissolution is 12/31/2110. it may be served. SSNY shall of the State of New York tion from Potato Farms LLC in a restaurant. For on prem- whom process against it may State designated as agent Offi ce location: New York mail process to C/O Olubayo ware (DE) on 07/21/10. Princ. (“SSNY”) on 7/27/10. N.Y. of foreign LLC upon whom to establish, maintain and ises consumption under the County. SSNY has been des- be served and shall mail pro- ignated as agent of the LLC cess to the principal business Evans, 243 W 70th St Apt offi ce of LP: 1370 Ave. of the offi ce location: New York process against it may be operate an unenclosed side- ABC law at 360 Park Avenue County. The SSNY has been served. The Sec. of State walk cafe at 53 Park Place, in upon whom process against addr.: 600 W. 149th St., NY, 9D, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Americas, 29th Fl., NY, NY South aka 48 E. 26th Street it may be served. SSNY shall NY 10031. Purpose: practice General. 10019. SSNY designated as designated as agent of the shall mail copy of process to: the Borough of Manhattan, NY, NY 10010 mail a copy of process to the medicine. LLC upon whom process 535 Madison Ave., 27th Fl., for a term of 2 years. Request Vil 8/12-9/16/10 agent of LP upon whom pro- Vil 8/19-8/26/10 LLC, 25 Central Park West, Vil 8/5-9/9/10 against it may be served. NY, NY 10022. Addr. of for- for a copy of the proposed Suite 7S, New York, New cess against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy eign LLC in DE is: National revocable consent may be York 10023. Purpose: For any NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- COHESIVE GP, LLC. Corporate Research, Ltd., NOTICE IS HEREBY lawful purpose. SSNY shall mail process to of any process to OLR ECW addressed to Dept of Con- TION OF DIRECT EDGE 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, GIVEN THAT Vil 8/19-9/23/10 Authority fi led with Secy. the Partnership at the princ. Developers, LLC, c/o Omni sumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, ECN LLC. DE 19901. Auth. offi cer in DE of State of NY (SSNY) on offi ce of the LP. The regd. New York LLC, 885 Second a license, #TBA has been NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Authority fi led with NY Dept. where Cert. of Form. fi led: NY, NY 10004. of State on 7/14/10. Offi ce 07/21/10. Offi ce location: NY agent of the company upon Avenue, 31st Fl., Suite C, NY, Vil 8/19-8/26/10 applied for by Justifi ed, LLC TION OF LONG POND DE Sec. of State, Townsend CAPITAL FUND, LP. location: NY County. Princ. County. LLC formed in Dela- whom and at which process NY 10017. Name/address of Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur- to sell beer, wine, and liquor bus. addr.: 545 Washington Authority fi led with Secy. ware (DE) on 07/06/10. Princ. each member available from pose: any lawful activity. at retail in a restaurant. For Blvd., Jersey City, NJ 07310. against the company can be NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- of State of NY (SSNY) on offi ce of LLC: c/o Cohesive SSNY. Purpose: any lawful Vil 8/12-9/16/10 on premises consumption LLC formed in DE on 4/19/05. served is John Khoury, at the TION 07/26/10. Offi ce location: NY Capital Partners, 650 5th Ave., activity. under the ABC law at 102 County. LP formed in Dela- NY Sec. of State designated princ. offi ce addr. Name and of C-III Commercial Mort- 31st Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY Vil 8/12-9/16/10 NOTICE OF FORMATION First Avenue NY, NY 10009 ware (DE) on 07/21/10. Princ. as agent of LLC upon whom gage LLC. Authority fi led process against it may be addr. of each general partner OF BENEFICIAL 21 PARK- Vil 8/19-8/26/10 offi ce of LP: 1370 Ave. of the designated as agent of LLC Americas, 29th Fl., NY, NY served and shall mail pro- with NY Dept. of State on upon whom process against are available from SSNY. DE NOTICE OF FORMATION ING LLC. 10019. SSNY designated as cess to: c/o CT Corporation 7/23/10. Offi ce location: NY it may be served. SSNY shall addr. of LP: 874 Walker Rd., OF PROMONT ADVI- Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. agent of LP upon whom pro- System, 111 8th Ave., NY, County. Princ. bus. addr.: VITAL STEEL NYC, LLC of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on cess against it may be served. NY 10011, regd. agent upon mail process to the LLC at Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. SORS LLC Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. 7/13/10. Offi ce location: New 200 Whitsett St., Greenville, SSNY shall mail process to whom process may be the addr. of its princ. offi ce. of Org. fi led with Secy. of Articles of Organization fi led York County. SSNY desig- SC 29601. LLC formed in DE of State (SSNY) 7/15/2010. the Partnership at the princ. served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corpora- offi ce of the LP. The regd. State of the State of DE, 401 with Secretary of State of nated as agent of LLC upon on 6/9/10. NY Sec. of State Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY The Corporation Trust Co., tion Service Co., 2711 Cen- New York (SSNY) on 07/29/10. agent of the company upon 1209 Orange St., Wilming- Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. whom process against it may designated as agent of LLC design. Agent of LLC upon whom and at which process terville Rd., Wilmington, DE Offi ce location: NY County. ton, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. Purpose: Any lawful activity. be served. SSNY shall mail upon whom process against whom process may be against the company can be 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with SSNY has been designated fi led with DE Sec. of State, Vil 8/12-9/16/10 process to: c/o Icon Park- it may be served and shall served. SSNY shall mail copy served is John Khoury, at the 401 Federal St., Dover, DE Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of as an agent upon whom pro- ing Systems, 211 East 38th mail process to: c/o CT Cor- of process to The LLC 310 princ. offi ce addr. Name and addr. of each general partner 19901. Purpose: any lawful State, Div. of Corps., John cess against the LLC may Street, New York, NY 10016. poration System, 111 8th East 70th St. Apt. 3H New are available from SSNY. DE activity. Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE NOTICE OF FORMATION be served. The address to Purpose: any lawful activity. Vil 8/5-9/9/10 Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. York, NY 10021. Purpose: addr. of LP: 874 Walker Rd., which SSNY shall mail a Vil 8/12-9/16/10 19901. Purpose: Any lawful OF LAUREN COSENZA agent upon whom process Any lawful activity. Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. copy of any process against NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- activity. BEAUTY, LLC may be served. DE addr. of Vil 8/19-9/23/10 of Org. fi led with Secy. of TION OF 2010 SILVER- the LLC is to: Promont Advi- NOTICE OF FORMATION State of the State of DE, 401 Vil 8/12-9/16/10 Articles of Organization LLC: Corporation Trust Co., STEIN FAMILY LLC. sors LLC, 111 N. Canal St, OF BRP VYSE LLC. Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. 1209 Orange St., Wilming- Purpose: Any lawful activity. fi led with Secretary of State Arts. of Org. fi led with NY IDEAL HOME RENOVA- Authority fi led with NY Dept. NOTICE OF FORMATION Ste 801, Chicago, IL 60606. ton, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. Vil 8/19-9/23/10 of State on 7/22/10. Offi ce of New York (SSNY) on Dept. of State on 12/11/09. TIONS LLC OF COSMOS (EAST) LLC. Purpose: To engage in any fi led with DE Sec. of State, Offi ce location: NY County. location: NY County. Princ. 06/25/10. Offi ce location: lawful act or activity. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. NOTICE IS HEREBY bus. addr.: 250 Greenwich St., Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Princ. bus. addr.: 18 E. 41st St., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE NY County. SSNY has been Vil 8/12-9/16/10 of State (SSNY) 4/28/2010. GIVEN THAT NY, NY 10007. LLC formed in of State of NY (SSNY) on Ste. 1201, NY, NY 10017. Sec. 19901. Purpose: any lawful DE on 7/21/10. NY Sec. of designated as an agent upon activity. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY license number 1246369 07/27/10. Offi ce location: of State designated agent has been applied for by the State designated as agent NOTICE OF FORMATION design. Agent of LLC upon NY County. Princ. offi ce of whom process against the of LLC upon whom process Vil 8/12-9/16/10 undersigned to sell wine at of LLC upon whom process OF REINA BOAZ LAW, whom process may be LLC: Attn: Mory Amaro, 75 LLC may be served. The against it may be served and retail in a restaurant under against it may be served and served. SSNY shall mail copy PLLC, shall mail process to: c/o CT NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- the alcoholic beverage con- shall mail process to: c/o CT Greene St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY address to which SSNY shall trol law at 753 Washington a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. Corporation System, 111 8th of process to The LLC 230 Corporation System, 111 8th 10012. SSNY designated as mail a copy of any process TION Avenue, New York, N.Y. Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. fi led with the SSNY on Ave., NY, NY 10011. Regd. West 55th St #8B New York, agent of LLC upon whom against the LLC is to: The agent upon whom process of JC2 Partners, LLC. Authori- 10014 for on-premises con- agent upon whom process 06/21/2010. Offi ce location: NY 10019. Purpose: Any law- sumption. 753 Washington process against it may be may be served: Katten ty fi led with NY Dept. of State may be served. DE addr. of LLC, 301 Elizabeth Street 4F NY County. SSNY has been ful activity. Trattoria Inc. d/b/a Malamar- LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm- served. SSNY shall mail pro- Muchin Rosenman LLP, 575 on 7/28/10. Offi ce location: New York, NY 10012. Pur- designated as agent upon Vil 8/19-9/23/10 ket ington, DE 19801. Arts. of cess to the LLC at the addr. of Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, NY County. LLC formed in DE Vil 8/19-8/26/10 pose: To engage in any law- Org. fi led with DE Sec. of whom process against it may Attn: Andrew L. Jagoda, Esq. on 7/26/10. NY Sec. of State its princ. offi ce. Purpose: Any NOTICE OF FORMATION State, 401 Federal St., Dover, ful act or activity. be served. SSNY shall mail Purpose: any lawful activity. designated as agent of LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION lawful activity. OF MULLAN-MEDIA LLC, DE 19901. Purpose: any law- Vil 8/12-9/16/10 a copy of process to: 154 Vil 8/12-9/16/10 upon whom process against OF 1189 OCEAN PARK- ful activity. Vil 8/12-9/16/10 WAY VENTURES LLC. Grand Street, NY, NY 10013. it may be served and shall a domestic LLC. Arts. of Vil 8/5-9/9/10 Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Purpose: To Practice The Pro- NOTICE IS HEREBY mail process to: 111 8th Ave., Org. fi led with the SSNY on NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE OF FORMATION fession Of Law. Dept. of State on 7/28/10. NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- GIVEN THAT NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Cor- 05/21/2010. Offi ce location: TION OF LONG POND OF SWITCHED DESIGNS Offi ce location: NY County. TION OF TAG ENERGY Vil 8/12-9/16/10 a License # (pending), has poration System, regd. agent NY County. SSNY has been Sec. of State designated as CAPITAL QP FUND, LP. LLC. PARTNERS, LLC. been applied for by Single upon whom process may be designated as agent upon agent of LLC upon whom Authority fi led with Secy. process against it may be Authority fi led with NY Dept. Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. of NOTICE IS HEREBY Mind Untouched Inc, dba served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 whom process against the of State on 7/22/10. Offi ce of State of NY (SSNY) on Zen Palate, to sell wine, beer, served and shall mail pro- State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/10. GIVEN Orange St., Wilmington, DE LLC may be served. SSNY cess to the principal business location: NY County. LLC 07/26/10. Offi ce location: NY & Liquor under the Alcoholic Offi ce location: NY County. that license number (pend- 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with shall mail a copy of process addr.: Trans Global Equities formed in DE on 7/21/10. NY County. LP formed in Dela- Beverage Control Law at 239 Sec. of State designated as ing) has been applied for by DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed- to: 350 East 13th St. Apt 9, Inc., 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste. ware (DE) on 07/21/10. Princ. SSNY designated as agent W. 105 Street, New York, NY, 2000, NY, NY 10111, Attn: agent of LLC upon whom the undersigned to sell wine 10025, for on premises con- eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur- NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any offi ce of LP: 1370 Ave. of the of LLC for service of process. Michael Stern, CEO. Purpose: process against it may be at retail in a restaurant under sumption. pose: any lawful activity. Lawful Purpose. SSNY shall mail process to: all lawful purposes. served and shall mail pro- Americas, 29th Fl., NY, NY the Alcoholic Beverage Con- Vil 8/19-8/26/10 Vil 8/12-9/16/10 Vil 8/19-9/23/10 Vil 8/19-9/23/10 cess to: 111 8th Ave., NY, 10019. SSNY designated 536 E.79 St. #4O, NY, NY trol Law at 131 West 23rd NY 10011, Attn: CT Corpo- as agent of LP upon whom 10075. Purpose: Any lawful ration System, regd. agent Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 upon whom process may be process against it may be activity. for on-premises consump- served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 served. SSNY shall mail pro- Vil 8/12-9/16/10 tion. Eatery 131 LLC Orange St., Wilmington, DE cess to the LP at the addr. Vil 8/12-8/19/10 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with Need to place a legal ad of its princ. offi ce. The regd. DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed- NOTICE OF FORMATION agent of the company upon NOTICE IS HEREBY eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur- OF COFFEE IN A BOX pose: any lawful activity. whom and at which process GIVEN Vil 8/5-9/9/10 against the company can be LLC. for your business? that license number 1245927 served is John Khoury, at the Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. has been applied for by the NOTICE IS HEREBY princ. offi ce addr. Name and GIVEN of State of NY (SSNY) on undersigned to sell liquor at addr. of each general partner that a license, #TBA has been 7/23/10. Offi ce location: NY retail in a hotel under the are available from SSNY. DE Call 646-452-2471 applied for by 174 Bleecker County. SSNY designated Alcoholic Beverage Control addr. of LP: 874 Walker Rd., Street Restaurant LLC d/b/a as agent of LLC for service Law at 370 Canal Street, Village Pourhouse to sell Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. New York, N.Y. 10013 for of process. SSNY shall mail beer, wine, and liquor at retail of Org. fi led with Secy. of on-premises consumption. Jason Sherwood / Senior Marketing Consultant in a restaurant. For on prem- process to: 308 E.92 St. #2W, State of the State of DE, 401 FC-CANAL OPERATING LLC ises consumption under the NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Any ABC law at 174 Bleecker Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. d/b/a SHERATON TRIBECA [email protected] Street NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity. lawful activity. 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SURROGATE’S COURT – LEGAL NOTICE NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION SUPREME COURT, STATE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NY, COUNTY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK INDEX NO. 303168/10 SHERIFF’S SALE By the Grace of God Free and Independent Probate Citation File No. 0311/09 XING DONG WANG V. BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY, in favor To Mary Poskowsky and Frank Bujewich if living and if SAI XIAN ZHAO, Defendant of HSBC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as assigned to CADLEROCK JOINT VENTURE, L.P., judgment dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees creditor, and against MEL COOPER, judgment debtor, to me directed and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC whose names and places of residence are unknown and Summons with Notice in Divorce Action. Basis AUCTION, by WILLIAM MANNION, DCA# 796322, auctioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their of venue & trial is CPLR Sec. 509 13th day of OCTOBER 2010, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon, at: THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, 66 John Street, 13th executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees Floor, in the county of New York all the right, title and interest which MEL COOPER, the judgment debtor, had and successors in interest whose names and places of To the above-named defendant: YOU ARE on the 7TH day of MAY 2007, or at anytime thereafter, of, in and to the following property: residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next HEREBY SUMMONED to appear in this action of kin and distributees of Anne Poppo aka Ann Poppo by serving a notice of appearance on Plaintiff’s SCHEDULE A the decedent herein, whose names and places of resi- Attorney within 30 days after service is com- LEGAL DESCRIPTION dence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be plete and if you fail to appear, judgment will be ascertained. A petition having been duly fi led by George taken against you by default. This summons ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, Lee who is domiciled at 323 Court Street, Hoboken, NJ is served upon you by order of publication lying and being The Residential Unit (the Unit) known as Unit No. 45-K in the premises known as Trump 07030. by order of Judge D. H. Kaplan, Justice of Tower Condominium and by the street numbers 721-725 Fifth Avenue, Borough of Manhattan, City, County YOU ARE HREEBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the this Court, dated July 28, 2010, on fi le in the and State of New York, said Unit being designated and described as Unit No. 45-K in the declaration (the Surrogate’s Court, New York County at 31 Chambers New York Co. Clk’s offi ce. Plaintiff’s Attorney: Declaration) establishing a plan for condominium ownership of said premises under Article 9-B of the Real Street, New York, on SEPTEMBER 14, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. in Geleen Rose Ortiz, Esq., 11 East Broadway, Property Law of the State of New York (the New York Condominium Act), dated February 24, 1983, and room 509 why a decree should not be made in the estate 10A, NY, NY 10038. (212) 587-1508. recorded in the New York County Offi ce of the Register of the City of New York (the City Registers Offi ce) of Anne Poppo aka Ann Poppo lately domiciled at 215 Notice: The nature of this action is to dis- on March 23, 1983, in Reel 674, Page 848, and also designated as Tax Lot 1128 in Block 1292 of Section 5 of Park Row, NY, NY 10002 admitting to probate a Will dated solve the marriage between the parties on the the Borough of Manhattan on the Tax Map of the Real Property Assessment Department of the City of New February 23, 2003 a copy of which is attached, as the Will grounds of DRL Sec. 170(2) – Abandonment. York and on the Floor Plans of said building, certifi ed by Swanke Hayden Connell & Partners, Architects, on of Anne Poppo aka Ann Poppo deceased, relating to real Notice of Automatic Orders: Pursuant to February 2, 1983 and fi led in the City Registers Offi ce on March 23, 1983, as Condominium Plan No. 86. The and personal property, and directing that Domestic Relations Law Sec. 236 Part B, Sec premises within which the Unit is located are more particularly described below. All capitalized items herein 2, The parties are bound by certain automatic which are not separately defi ned shall have the meaning given to those terms in the Declaration or in the Letters of Testamentary issue to: George Lee orders which shall remain in full force and By-Laws of Trump Tower Condominium (said By-Laws, as the same may be amended from time to time, are effect during the pendency of the action. For hereinafter referred to as the ABy-Laws). HON. further details you should contact the clerk of Date, Attested and Sealed, July 19, 2010 the matrimonial part, Supreme Court, 60 Cen- Together with an undivided .3124948% interest in the Common Elements. Surrogate Nora S. Anderson tre St., NY, NY 10007, Tel (646) 386-3010. SAID PREMISES also being known as 721 Fifth Avenue, Unit 45K, New York, New York. Jane PLEASE BE ADVISED that once the judgment Passenant______of divorce is signed in this action, both parties LINDSAY EASON must be aware that he or she will no longer be Sheriff of the City of New York Chief Clerk covered by the other party’s health insurance DEPUTY SHERIFF BERNARD WAITES Chun W. Wong 212 226 5353 plan & that each party shall be responsible for (212) 361-1234 Attorney for Petitioner Telephone Number his/her own health insurance coverage & may CASE# M10-019403 15 Division Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10002 be entitled to buy health insurance on his or (Note: This citation is served upon you as required by Vil 8/12-9/22/10 her own through a COBRA option, if available. law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. Vil 8/12-8/26/10 You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public BUSINESS CARD Public Hearing on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, Hearing on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at on a petition from Lupe’s East L.A. Kitchen, 2:00 p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on a peti- Inc., to establish, maintain and operate an tion from Tecton Café Inc., to establish, maintain, unenclosed sidewalk café at 110 Sixth Avenue, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 460 SECTION in the Borough of Manhattan, for the term of Greenwich Street, in the Borough of Manhattan two years. Request for a copy of the proposed for a term of two years. Request for a copy of the revocable consent may be addressed to Dept. proposed revocable consent may be addressed of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New NY 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer York, NY 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer Call 646-452-2496 Vil 8/19-8/26/10 Vil 8/19-8/26/10

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So, the meetup will be in Jackson and elected offi cials to maintain the current LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Square Park across from the bakery at 6 zoning and use. It’s not complicated and it p.m. Mon., Aug. 30. It can give people is possible. Stop trying to discredit Yetta a chance to share information and their Kurland and the Coalition for a New Village read so much of what I felt about the bakery feelings about the bakery and its loss. My Hospital. Continued from page 12 and its closing. hope is that this will give us some sense of You printed a notice about my exhibit comfort and closure. Susan Howard of cupcake paintings at Sweet Heart Bakery Sweet Heart Bakery was one of the few Give bike lanes time in Scoopy’s Notebook (“Sweet Show,” June remaining places in the West Village that still 16), the day before the exhibit started. I called up the Village as it once was: friendly, To The Editor: was due to take down the show July 15. But informal, quirky, a place where you wanted Fedora welcomed us Re “More spin and counter-spin on pro- on July 12 when I passed by the bakery to talk to your neighbors. Its feeling was so tected bike lanes” (news article, Aug. 12): in the morning it was empty. In addition different from that of the places that resulted To The Editor: I’m sure that after the initial adjustments to being concerned about how I would from the development of the Meat Market, “Fedora was more than just a place to to the situation, safety will improve. I also retrieve my paintings, which were still just a block away. We’ll never have anything hang your hat” (news article, July 29): see a need for improved enforcement of hanging on the empty bakery’s wall, I was like it again. When I first arrived in New York City, rules — warnings at fi rst, tickets if compli- devastated to fi nd that this place that had For more details on the meetup or for I moved into a nice apartment on W. ance with the law doesn’t improve with the meant so much to me had, totally without people who can’t come that day but want Eighth St. and used to frequent Fedora’s new bike lanes. warning, vanished. to stay in touch, I can be reached at donna- quite often. Then, when I moved uptown, New things take adjustment and educa- I did get my paintings back because [email protected] . I came there less often, but still enjoyed tion on how they are supposed to be used. the door was unlocked. I recalled that in a Fedora’s warm greeting. She always made I’m sure the fi rst traffi c light in New York conversation some weeks earlier, Eric had Donna Gould us feel special — but she was the special City didn’t have perfect compliance imme- told me that business had declined a lot and one. diately — as if people don’t run red lights he didn’t know how long they could hang now. on. The owners left no message for their Larry Lincoln customers when they departed. But I posted So what, if word’s made-up? John Clary a note, with my e-mail, on the bakery door, mourning the shop’s loss and telling people To The Editor: E-mail letters, not longer than 250 that I was planning a get-together at the end Re “Urgent-care delay as ‘land lock’ fray words in length, to [email protected] of August for neighbors who enjoyed Sweet rages at C.B. 2” (news article, Aug. 5): or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Parting’s such sweet sorrow Heart over the years. This is such a one-sided article. Yes, Villager, Letters to the Editor, 145 Sixth I kept posting this note, and it kept get- “land lock” is a made-up word used here to Ave., ground fl oor, NY, NY 10013. Please To The Editor: ting torn down. I did hear from a number mean the ULURP, zoning and use and occu- include phone number for confi rmation Re “This one hurts in my Sweet Heart” of people who were very upset about the pancy regulations. At present, St. Vincent’s purposes. The Villager reserves the right (notebook, by Kathryn Adisman, Aug. 5): closing and were wondering what had hap- is zoned for community facility use, with to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity Kathryn Adisman’s piece on Sweet Heart pened. A number of them wanted to be able use and occupancy for hospital and medi- and libel. The Villager does not publish Bakery really hit the spot. It was great to to reconnect with the bakery owners. cal offi ces. We asked Community Board 2 anonymous letters.

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Just another Thursday night, around 8 o’clock, outside the sushi place on St. Mark’s Place at Avenue A. Will industrial ping-pong table be Tompkins tough?

BY CYNTHIA ROMERO At fi rst glance, the ping-pong table in Gulick Park doesn’t look like anything but a ping-pong table. But it’s gray, not green and the net is made of steel, not nylon mesh and upon closer inspection, one can come to appreciate the table for its sleek design and durability. The ping-pong table is a project of Henge, a company that specializes in building and placing durable and stylish concrete ping-pong tables in public spaces. “When I started looking into this project, I realized there aren’t that many ping-pong tables in the city,” said Henge president Alan Good. “Other places, like China and Barcelona, there are ping-pong tables everywhere and I wanted to bring some of that here. I know Susan Sarandon has a table-tennis club in the Flatiron District.” The fi rst table, which is made of smooth concrete and a steel net, was permanently placed in Gulick Park, at Bialystoker Place and Delancey St., on June 22. The next ping-pong table will be placed in Tompkins Square Park in October. Good said he received the support of Lower East Side residents and the Parks Department for the fi rst installation. A concrete-and-steel ping-pong table like this one is coming to Tompkins Square in a few months. “I originally proposed the idea to the Gulick Park community last year,” he said. “I actually compiled around 300 space where it’s put in.” Brandon Burgos, who were trying out the Gulick Park table. signatures from the public housing residents in favor of the Good worked closely with a designer, Jeff Melin, to create “It’s my fi rst time playing ping-pong, but I’m quite liking table.” the two-piece concrete ping-pong table. it,” said Will. “I think we’re going to be spending a lot of time The table was presented at a New York trade show and “I told him what my vision was and he ran with it,” Good down here.” received many accolades, something Good hopes sparks the said. “The base is a whole other story: Its shape is made Good smiled as he approached the ping-pong table, intro- attention of potential sponsors. out of four tunnels which is based on a tilted circle, which ducing himself to a couple of Lower East Side residents. “We have the support of a couple of sponsors right now, is known as an ogee, which is a form you see in math and “I really love this community, I do,” he said. “There’s just but we could always use more,” he said. “Each table comes physics.” such vibrancy and history here. I couldn’t think of a better place at about $4,500, but you have to understand that it’s going The design has already caught the attention of sev- to place these tables.” to last for a very long time and it’s going to benefi t the public eral Lower East Side residents, like Will Burgos and his son For more information, visit www.hengetable.com . 28 August 19 - 25, 2010

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