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but chilled H2O BY ALBERT AMATEAU be banned statewide. State and city elected Offi cials and activists offi cials joined environmen- demanded that the state tal activists on the steps of withdraw its draft supple- City Hall on Monday brav- mental generic environmen- ing subfreezing temperatures tal impact statement for to demand that Governor hydrofracture drilling in the Paterson scrap plans for Marcellus Shale formation hydrofracture drilling for — which lies 3,000 to 6,000 natural gas in New York feet beneath the surface of State’s Southern Tier. 27 Southern Tier counties Elected offi cials, who at — and conduct an entirely previous hearings focused new study. their opposition on gas drill- The 800-page study ing in the six Upstate coun- issued in September propos- ties of the es rules intended to minimize watershed, which supplies the environmental impact of 90 percent of the city’s drink- wells tapping the natural gas ing water, suggested at the in the rock formation. Jan. 4 rally that the radical new drilling method should Continued on page 3 Developer on track with low-cost units

Photo by Rebecca Pearson at rail yards site Perusing paintings at the fall 2009 Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit. BY PATRICK HEDLUND Council last month O.K.’d The city has sealed the the revamped scheme to deal on a development plan rezone the sprawling West Outdoor art show exhibits for the Hudson Yards that Side rail yard. includes far more afford- The goal of creating a able housing than ini- mixed-use development plan renewed sense of purpose tially expected. In a near- unanimous vote, the City Continued on page 14

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK He was joined by his equally desperate Exhibit, which takes place Memorial “One balmy spring day in 1931, friend and fellow Villager Willem de Day weekend and the weekend follow- EDITORIAL, in the heart of the Depression,” the Kooning. The Uptown art establish- ing, and Labor Day weekend and the LETTERS Washington Square Outdoor Art ment took notice of the Downtown subsequent. PAGE 12 Exhibit Web site relates, Jackson outsiders, and shortly thereafter, This spring marks the art exhibit’s Pollock, in dire fi nancial straits and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder 79th year and 159th show. The new facing imminent eviction, schlepped of the Whitney Museum, and Alfred executive director, John Morehouse, A LEGEND some of his paintings down the stairs H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum who took the helm last January and has LEAVES of his Greenwich Village apartment/ of Modern Art, organized the fi rst two shows under his belt, is hoping to OFFICE studio and set them up on the side- art show that evolved into the twice- PAGE 11 walk near Washington Square Park. yearly Washington Square Outdoor Art Continued on page 4

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD: Deputy Inspector Dennis De Quatro, commanding offi cer of the East Village’s Ninth Precinct for the past four and a half years, has been promoted to inspector and transferred to the Midtown South Precinct, where he takes over as C.O. De Quatro’s last day at the Ninth was Monday, the same day Deputy Inspector Kenny Lehr started as the precinct’s new commander. Lehr formerly head- Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas ed Transit Division 33, in Brooklyn South. Asked his thoughts Rock legend Patti Smith leaving the Bowery Ballroom on De Quatro’s tenure at the East Village precinct, Detective on Delancey St. last week after one of her three per- Jaime Hernandez, the Ninth’s community affairs offi cer, said, formances there. A new documentary about the singer “He’s very well liked — excellent boss. He was well liked by and Downtown resident, “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” Home of the NFL Sunday Ticket, the community — that makes it easier.” aired on PBS on Dec. 30. She also has a new book College Football, Premier League out, “Just Kids,” about her close friendship with the KURLAND ASSAULTED: Yetta Kurland, the attor- late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Soccer, MLB Playoffs + World Series ney who ran unsuccessfully for the City Council seat of Private Party Room avail. / happy hour 4 -7 Mon. - Fri. Speaker Christine Quinn in November, was the victim 63 Carmine St., Greenwich Village. of an apparently random assault by a young man during EXTRA! EXTRA! Josh Rogers, associate editor of our Tel. 212 - 414 - 1223 • www.MrDennehys.com the early hours of New Year’s Day. Her assailant, one of sister paper, Downtown Express, and his wife, Sarah a group of several youths, punched her in the back of the Wolff, had a baby boy Tuesday morning. Named Isaac head several times as she was standing on the south side Nathan, he weighed in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces. The delivery of 14th St. between Seventh and Eighth Aves. The 3:50 was at 8:56 a.m. at N.Y.U. Medical Center, at 32nd St. and a.m. assault was painful but the injuries were not serious First Ave. Mazel tov! and Kurland refused medical attention. “I was waiting with a friend for someone to come out of a building when THE MOSAIC AWARDS: Things are really looking up we saw about six guys coming up the street,” she told for Jim Power, the East Village’s “Mosaic Man.” First of all The Villager. “One of them ran up and pummeled me in — getting him off the hard streets and out of the cold — he the head. He seemed hopped up — strung out — and it now has a place, with three hot meals a day, up in Harlem looked like he didn’t even see me. It seemed like he would at Kelly House, a facility run by Common Ground. He said have attacked anyone who was standing in that spot at the the program is for the “chronic homeless,” and that for an time,” Kurland said. The suspect, who was no older than individual to be accepted, outreach workers must spot the 20 and might have been younger, could have been swing- person fi ve times living on the street. After a few months up ing wildly as he was walking up the street, she added. on 127th St., he said he might transition to Common Ground’s “It made me ask myself what we are doing about youth Times Square residence, and then to their new project at East IN THE HEART OF GREENWICH VILLAGE violence and what we are doing to get drugs off the street Houston and Pitt Sts., at the former Boys’ Club site — assum- — Recommended by Gourmet Magazine, Zagat, Crain’s NY, Playbill & The Villager — to make sure that young people can celebrate New Year’s ing it ever gets built, hopefully. Jesse Jane, Powers’s canine “Gold Medal Chef of the Year”. — Chefs de Cuisine Association or any other occasion peacefully and responsibly,” she companion, was dozing comfortably by his side when we .ORTHERNITALIAN#UISINEs#ELEBRATING/VER9EARS added. Kurland said she and her friend followed the sus- called “Mosaic” Monday night. Power, who is in his 60s, noted 69 MacDougal St. (Bet. Bleeker & Houston St.)   s   pect and his group to the subway station at Seventh Ave. that Jesse Jane is 9 — that’s 63 in dog years — and that she’s /PEN-ON 3AT PMsWWWVILLAMOSCONICOM and 14th St., where she told them she was calling police. been leading a rough life with him for 8 1/2 years, so she really One member of the group of white Hispanic youths tried needs this break. However, Power’s hips are going, and he Steaks - Lobsters - Seafood to persuade her not to call police, but a Transit worker needs to fi x at least one soon, or he’ll really be in trouble: And dialed 911 and the group dispersed. there’s no way he’ll ever be able to repair his mythic “Mosaic Trail” of 80 tile-covered street lampposts unless he gets a hip BANQUET POLITICS: Following our item two weeks replacement. So he and friends are planning a big fundraiser Happy Valentine’s Day ago on the new Downtown Democratic political club at Theatre 80, on St. Mark’s Place, Tues., Feb. 16, from 7 fi nally coming up with a new name for itself — Lower p.m. to 11 p.m. The details are still being worked out, but “Old-fashioned in every way”, Democrats — Sean Sweeney, president of Power said several historic fi lms about the East Village will be this Chelsea “trip back in time” Downtown Independent Democrats, fi red off an e-mail to shown — including the 1989 movie “Mosaic Man,” not seen purveys “hearty” Americana put the upstart club in its place. Celebrating her impending for 20 years — and that there will be musical performances. in a “Waterford-and-wood- buring-fireplace” setting; add in entrance into the City Council, Margaret Chin, Sweeney Power also will be handing out awards — in the form of his “accommodating” staffers who wrote, had had a big banquet at Jing Fong in Chinatown trademark mosaic-encrusted plaques — to several individuals “pour a great Guinness” and the on Dec. 23, and D.I.D. was out in force, as opposed to the who have, for a long time now, been contributing to the com- “whole is definitely equal to more than the sum of its parts.” other guys. “D.I.D. had three tables with 10 people at each munity and making a difference. Among these will be Ray - ZAGAT 2008 table,” Sweeney crowed. “Reading Scoopy’s column about Alvarez, of Ray’s Candy Store on ; a police offi cer David Reck’s new club, it seems that selecting a name is the whose last name Power said is something like “Persellie” Seating everyday noon to midnight about the only thing they’ve accomplished. In fact, the only (though we couldn’t fi nd anyone with that name at the Ninth Private parties for 10 to 400 - Reservations Suggested person from the new club who attended [Chin’s banquet] 146 Tenth Ave. at 19th St. 212-627-3030 was Bill Love.” Continued on page 15 January 6 - 12, 2010 3 Pols, activists usher in new year with chilled water state,” the federal agency should take the Continued from page 1 lead in creating nationwide regulations on hydrofracture gas drilling. But Congressmember Jerrold Nadler Congressmembers Eric Massa and told the crowd outside City Hall on Michael Arcuri, who represent districts in Monday that the study was “not adequate the state’s Southern Tier and Adirondack and the proposed drilling rules would regions, also called for a statewide drill- subject the water systems of the entire ing ban, along with City Councilmembers state to risk.” Nadler acknowledged the James Brennan and William Colton, both potential economic benefit of natural gas of Brooklyn, and former Councilmember drilling to the state, but said, “It must not Tony Avella of Queens. Martha Robertson, be done at the risk of the state’s water Tompkins County legislator, said, “If it systems.” [hydrofracture drilling] is not safe for Joe Levine, head of NYH2O, a leading New York City, it’s not safe for Tompkins state pure-water advocacy organization, County.” She noted that much of the coun- said the environmental impact statement ty’s water comes from individual wells. was “the best that money could buy — Alex Matthiessen, president of written by the gas drilling industry.” Riverkeeper, said Paterson could go down He recalled that the city Department of in history as the governor who destroyed Environmental Protection conducted its the New York City watershed if hydrof- own study of hydrofracture drilling and racking were allowed. He also said that submitted a finding in November that the in the worst-case scenario, if drilling process posed a risk to the city water sup- were permitted, the state should impose ply and recommended banning drilling in an excise tax to raise money for D.E.C. the watershed. Villager photo by Albert Amateau enforcement of drilling regulations. Assemblymember Deborah Glick said At Monday’s press conference at City Hall on the hydrofracking issue, City Representatives of other environmen- the proposed drilling would impact the Councilmember James Genarro gave remarks. Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, tal groups at the rally included Annie entire state and threaten “clean drink- standing to the left of Gennaro, spoke before him. Wilson, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter ing water…the scarcest resource on the Energy Committee; Deborah Goldberg, planet.” again from square one on a new study. tion in November also called on the state Earthjustice; Kate Sinding, National Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh Quinn noted that the city has spent Department of Health to weigh in on the Resource Defense Council lawyer; Wes noted that hydrofracture drilling uses millions of dollars to acquire land in the E.I.S. Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper; and “millions and millions of gallons of water watershed counties to insure the purity Nevertheless, Gennaro said at the Jan. Joel Kupferman, New York Environmental with added chemicals pumped into the of the city water supply. Referring to the 4 rally that in addition to “lecturing the Law & Justice Project attorney. rock to release the gas, but it’s not clear study’s estimate that hydrofracture drill- where that water goes once it is used.” ing would provide more jobs in the state, Quinn said that the jobs would come “when we have to build an $8 million- to-$10 million filtration system when our ‘Clean drinking water is water is no longer drinkable.” Gennaro, a geologist by profession, the scarcest resource on said the hydrofracture drilling is “not your ordinary gas drilling. It’s gas drilling the planet.’ Rambo style.” He said New York State would find itself “in dire trouble if it Deborah Glick puts its resources on the table [for sale].” Gennaro said the Bloomberg administra- tion deserves credit for opposing the pro- Kavanagh also said the state envi- posal to drill in the watershed. ronmental impact statement does not The draft environmental impact state- adequately call for information about the ment has gone through several hearings chemicals, many of which are toxic in since the fall and the deadline for sub- high concentrations, that are used in the mission of written comments was mid- process and their impact on the environ- night Dec. 31. The federal Environmental ment. Protection Administration submitted its Assemblymember Richard Gottfried testimony on Dec. 30, saying the agency submitted a statement saying that natural had “serious reservations about whether gas drilling in the New York watershed gas drilling in the New York City water- would be “colossal madness” and would shed is consistent with the vision of endanger the water supply of more than long-term, high-quality, unfiltered water half the state. supply.” The E.P.A. statement called for “There have already been pollution “a very cautious approach in all water- incidents in hydraulic-fracturing opera- shed areas.” tions,” Gottfried said. “At the very least, The federal agency recommended that the draft environmental impact statement the state Department of Environmental must be withdrawn and redone to fully Conservation, the lead agency in the take stock of the danger to life, health environmental impact statement, join and the economy of the region and to fully with the state Department of Health, evaluate alternatives.” which governs safe drinking-water stan- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, dards, and with the state Public Service newly elected Councilmember Margaret Commission, which regulates construc- Chin and Councilmember James Gennaro tion of natural gas pipes, to come up with of Queens also called for the state to start a final E.I.S. The Bloomberg administra- 4 January 6 - 12, 2010 Outdoor art show exhibits renewed sense of purpose A retired textile executive, Morehouse Continued from page 1 is the event’s only paid employee, and he works part time. He is also chairperson inject an infusion of youth and vigor into the of the Salmagundi Library at the historic long-running outdoor exhibit. Salmagundi Club, at 47 Fifth Ave. at Ninth In its 1960s heyday, 1,200 artists partici- St., a longtime sponsor of the exhibit, where pated in the event; in the fall 2009 show there the art is juried and where this interview were 100. Morehouse explained that back in took place. He explained that the show’s the day, there weren’t many outdoor art shows expenses are almost $20,000 annually, which or indoor galleries, the show was open to all and covers advertising, publicity, promotion and had a no-censorship policy — except for what free program guides. The organization pays was deemed objectionable, including nudity. 20 percent of the gross booth fees to the In the 1970s, standards were imposed; works city, half in advance and the balance after. In are now juried by artists, via submission of addition, they pay several thousand dollars slides or digital images — and a $20 fi rst-time to New York University for liability insur- jury fee. Nudity is permissible, and the show ance, “and they keep asking for more,” noted opened up to include photography and crafts, Morehouse. provided each craft piece is one of a kind and Even though the city owns the sidewalks, handmade. N.Y.U. is responsible for everything that hap- “We want our show to be quality as much as pens in front of their buildings: for example, Photo by Rebecca Pearson we can control it,” Morehouse said. “We con- if an onlooker trips on the sidewalk, or a tent sider ourselves a family show — no pornogra- Works at the fall 2009 Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit ran the gamut from collapses on someone. phy, cruelty or disrespect of people’s religion.” abstract to Obama. “N.Y.U. was more lovable in those years Another explanation for the decline in when they were struggling, but over all, I exhibitors, Morehouse offered, is that the art “They make art that will appeal to the great- are no provisions for people to park, and artists would say we are in harmony with them,” community has spread out across the country. est number of people rather than pursuing their have to fi gure out how to grab a spot where Morehouse said. “Maybe in the 1930s, this is where you had own unique vision. The guy next to me had stuff they are allocated to set up, “a nightmare,” she Butler claimed that the artists in the fall to be. It’s where museums were buying. There in every style. ‘You like abstract expressionism, recalled. show were disappointed with the sales. were no other shows,” he said. “It got very here it is. You like still life, it’s here. Tourist pic- “Some go out at 6 a.m. and hope to get a “They put out so much money and people strong in the ’50s to the end of the ’60s. It has tures, got it,’ It’s gone from a place where avant- spot near their setup even though the show who come to the exhibit don’t want to spend had its ups and downs. We hope we’re starting garde artists showed their work, to much more doesn’t start till noon,” Melvin noted. “And you much,” she noted. to climb again.” commercial artists,” explained Butler, who is an have to set up and take down every day. It’s But Morehouse stated that a strong nucle- Formerly, most of the artists were local, pri- M.F.A.-trained abstract artist. backbreaking.” us of artists come back year after year and marily from Greenwich Village and across the Morehouse stated that he would love to wouldn’t return if it weren’t lucrative. Brooklyn Bridge. Nowadays, only about one- fi nd a place for artists to store their work, but “The last show garnered a lot of compli- quarter are from the Village area. The majority it would be cost prohibitive. As for parking, ments,” he said. “The show has to remain come from the Eastern Seaboard and are circuit ‘Maybe in the 1930s, he said, “The police used to give out a ‘no- enjoyable. We don’t want it to look like Union artists; that is, they make their living traveling hit plaque,’ but not anymore because people Square. from show to show. Because of the recession this is where you had to were counterfeiting them. I have police in my “We hope to do better publicity, fundrais- and high travel costs, their number is down. But family, so I have connections. I made a show ing for prizes, merchandizing and make our in last fall’s show, there were about half a dozen be. There were no other ID for parking purposes and it’s worked. In exhibitors happy,” Morehouse said. “We’re more local artists, noted Morehouse. the last two shows the only tickets were to not creating a revolution here. The core of it In 2009, the board introduced prizes for shows. … It got very strong people who foolishly parked in the middle should stay the same. It’s a tradition, which abstract and contemporary art, replacing the of bus stops or obstructed a fi re hydrant,” we want to keep going.” catchall acrylic-and-oils category. Morehouse is in the ’50s to the end of he noted. also approaching art schools and shows, plead- Members of the exhibit’s board of direc- The Washington Square Outdoor Art ing with them to give young artists exposure. the ’60s. It has had its ups tors, mostly Villagers who are nonartists, con- Exhibit, Memorial Day weekend, May For the spring show, the Art Students League tribute money for the prizes; at one time, the 29-31, and June 5-6, 2010; University Place, will sponsor four new artists in one booth and downs.’ show was wealthy and had many sponsors, from E. 10th St. south along the east side after a competition to choose them. (Except but that has mostly dried up. When people of Washington Square Park to W. Third St., for nonprofi t teaching entities, the standard John Morehouse complain to him about the high exhibit fees, noon to 6 p.m. daily. For more information, requirement is one artist/artisan per booth.) Morehouse responds, “When this show was visit the Web site www.wsoae.org or call The school will pay the exhibit fee, which is $25, gasoline was 25 cents.” 212-982-6255. $300 for the three-day Memorial Weekend and Butler observed the marked difference in $250 for the second two-day weekend, or $425 aesthetics and tastes in New York and else- for all fi ve days. where. “The time isn’t bad for that because the “The people who go to the exhibit are naive to add high school galleries are hard pressed and many are closing in terms of art. It’s a tourist attraction. They or cutting back,” Morehouse said. “Those that want to buy pictures of the Washington Square has announced it enroll in selected courses. don’t have galleries will have to wait awhile to Arch. They are different from the New York will open a high school division in 2012. “We have seen a strong and growing demand get them.” gallery-going public,” she said. The school has leased space on the fi rst and for more high school seats,” said George Sharon L. Butler, who wrote a detailed his- Morehouse countered that the outdoor art second fl oors of 38-50 , cur- Davison, head of school. “We believe that the tory of the art exhibit for the September 2009 exhibit has a great clientele from around the rently occupied by New York University, for academic strength and the values embodied Brooklyn Rail and has a blog, Two Coats of world. the high school, which will have a capacity in the mission of Grace Church School will be Paint, participated in the most recent fall show. “Who knows what they want?” he said. of 80 students per grade. a major addition to the secondary education However, she asserted that the art shows down “Sure, many want to buy paintings of New York According to a press release, the program market in New York City. Additionally, we now south and even in Des Moines, Iowa, are much City. But we have six or seven abstract artists, will be organized around seminar-style teach- support 22 percent of our students with fi nan- more interesting than in New York. like Butler, Ben Georgia and Atsuko Okamoto, ing, and all students will participate in an cial aid, and we plan to provide the same level “Here, they are outsider artists and self- who won the prize for abstract art.” international exchange program modeled on of support in the high school.” taught, or have taken some classes at art cen- Also, the show has always been very phys- the existing program in the present school; Grace Church School, at E. 11th St. ters or with private teachers, are retired and ically demanding, said East Village painter the high school will also take advantage of the and Fourth Ave., offers junior kindergarten not career artists,” Butler said in a telephone Patricia Melvin, who exhibited on and off for colleges and universities in the neighborhood through eighth grade, with an enrollment interview. more than 20 years, the last time in 1992. There by providing students with the opportunity to of 413. January 6 - 12, 2010 5 A Quiet Revolution

By Emma DeVito

Quietly, a revolution in long-term care has been occurring here in New York City. During the decade just ended, care providers once solely identified by their nursing homes have redirected resources to create greater access to home and community-based alternatives. This doesn’t mean that skilled nursing facilities have, or will, cease to exist, but it does mean that the nursing home most all of you remember is fast becoming a thing of the past. It also means, that as you age and need services, there is a far greater chance that what you require will be available in ways that will allow you to remain living in the community, sustaining and nurturing your continued independence. Many services have been created here in the metropolitan area over the past ten years, with the help of the New York State Department of Health and the state Legislature, that have been designed to forestall nursing home placement or, even, to eliminate it completely. This revolution can trace its roots to the mid-1990s and earlier, when aging consumers started to demand care that would allow them to choose where they would live and allow them to determine the way the services they need are delivered. People also wanted quality services. Many responses sprung up across the nation – the Eden Alternative and the Pioneer Network, for example, which envision long-term care not in an institutional setting but in more integrated and appropriate home-like settings – as well as a movement called “culture change” that places the individual at the center of care with his or her needs and desires the paramount concern. Culture change, which is practiced now at Village Care’s Village Nursing Home, turns the “old way” on its head and has staff and caregivers working in non-traditional ways. Many new community services for those who once could have found care only in a nursing home have sprung up throughout the metropolitan area – adult day health centers, PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), Medicaid Assisted Living Programs, Long-Term Home Health Care Programs as well as expansive home care networks, and short-stay rehabilitation. Any of you who have had to seek out services at Village Care during the first decade of this century have no doubt discovered the many alternatives that have been created to help those in our own community. You’d be surprised to know, I’m sure, that the majority of those who enter the nursing home now are discharged back home, or to some other community setting such as assisted living. Nursing homes have ceased to be the last stop for someone whose decline in health or increasing frailty once left them with no alternative. Instead, skilled nursing facilities for many are places where individuals can go to recover from a bout of intermittent or progressive frailty and be helped to better health and well-being so they can return to a life at home, in familiar surroundings. In 2006, New York State authorized Village Care to launch a long-term care demonstration Villager photos by Clayton Patterson effort, which we called “SeniorChoices.” Our goals were to show that institutional capacity A woman and the bike she rode lay covered by a blanket, top, as the bus that fatally can be reduced by increasing home- and community-based services, and that nursing home hit her was parked 50 feet away, above. dependence and use can actually be reduced through innovative efforts. In the three years of this demonstration program, Village Care successfully reconfigured much of its residential system, doubling the number of short-stay beds in the nursing home Woman cyclist killed by bus to 80 while adding in the community 125 Long-Term Home Health Care Program “slots” and opening a Medicaid Assisted Living Program that can serve 80 individuals. BY LINCOLN ANDERSON located nearby on Rivington St. — went to In the nursing home, through an enhanced therapy program and with the use of electronic A woman riding a bicycle was fatally the scene after the accident and reported medical records, we’ve achieved amazing results in getting people in rehabilitation to struck by a school bus at Delancey and that the victim was an older woman, and recover better and faster. Over three years, the average length of stay dropped from 44 days Ludlow Sts. late Tuesday afternoon. The that her head had been crushed under one to 30 days. People are getting home faster…and better. cyclist and bus were on the eastbound side of the bus’s real wheels. By rebalancing our resources and directing them away from long-stay institutional care of Delancey St. The accident occurred just “We’ve been trying to get a bike lane on in favor of home- and community-based care, Village Care has also been able to serve more after 4 p.m., and the woman was declared that street,” di Paolo said. people – at virtually the same overall cost. In the first year of the demonstration, our long- dead at the scene by responders, police It wasn’t known if the cyclist had been term care programs for older adults served 956 individuals. Three years later that had said. heading for the Williamsburg Bridge bike increased to 1,396. Police did not provide further information path to ride to Brooklyn. The bridge approach What’s next? about the woman by press time. According ramp is four blocks from the accident scene. That comes later this year with the opening of the new Village Care Rehabilitation and to WABC news, authorities said the bus was While cyclists love the bridge path, Delancey Nursing Center. This modern, state-of-the-art, 105-bed facility will focus on short-stay care operated by Atlantic Express. St. with its fast-moving traffi c and trucks is and services, with space set aside for those who have longer-stay needs. “No criminality is expected at this time,” frightening and dangerous, they say. a police spokesperson said. Photographer Clayton Patterson reported The Center is now under construction on West and will open this coming After the accident, the woman’s body that, at fi rst, he thought the old-style school fall. and bike were by the curb under a blanket, bus looked like the type that Hassidic Jews That’s a story for another day, however. and the bus was stopped about 50 feet to sometimes drive. But he said the driver was the east. at the scene, and had a Caribbean accent. (Ms. DeVito is president and chief executive officer of not-for-profit Village Care Bill di Paolo, director of Time’s Up! — the The driver was just standing there normally, of New York.) bicycle advocacy and environmental group, Patterson said. 6 January 6 - 12, 2010 Horrible movie aims to be the new ‘Rocky Horror’

BY CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE woman!” in impressive unison. Fans of “The Room,” who endure long lines outside the The fi lm’s creator and star, Tommy Wiseau, seems to have Village East Cinema, call the fi lm the “Citizen Kane” of awful intended for the fl ick to be taken seriously when it was fi rst movies — and greet the low-budget fl ick with “Rocky Horror released in 2003. Now, he calls it a black comedy. Picture Show”-like enthusiasm at monthly midnight show- Midnight showings are playing to sold-out houses across ings. the country — starting in Los Angeles, where “The Room” Set in San Francisco, “The Room” is the convoluted tale barely survived its initial two-week limited run but now of a love triangle between a too-good-to-be-true banker, his draws celebrities such as David Cross, Paul Rudd, Cameron devious fi ancée and his handsome best friend. The movie Diaz and Alec Baldwin. The Village East Cinema has hosted a features lost subplots (a character’s cancer is mentioned at the monthly Friday midnight showing since March — the next one beginning and never again), actors who appear and disappear is Jan. 29 — and the movie has attracted crowds in London without reason, and a mishmash plot involving drugs, guns and Toronto. and tapped phones. The movie opened in 2003 to scathing reviews that cited the implausible script, the wooden acting and cheesy special effects that would make Ed Wood cringe. “It’s the worst movie in the world, and that makes it fan- ‘It’s the worst movie in the world, tastic,” Brian Penney, a New York University student, said to the cheers of his friends, as he stood outside the Village and that makes it fantastic.’ East Cinema, at 12th St. and Second Ave., before a recent screening. “It is the most hilarious thing you will ever see in Brian Penney your life.” Penney, like most of the crowd, had seen the fi lm numer- ous times at home on DVD. But it’s more fun to watch in a packed theater, as fans from Los Angeles to Ohio to Toronto Wiseau, an émigré of foggy Eastern European origin, and London are fi nding. embraces the attention his fi lm is getting. Despite the mock- “The Room” plays to jeers and cheers, with bits of dialogue ery, he insists that audience members are connecting with his spoken in chorus. A random, framed picture of a spoon spurs vision. moviegoers to rise and throw plastic spoons at the screen, to “The bottom line is ‘The Room’ relates to human behav- a chant of “Spoon! Spoon! Spoon!” More-daring members of ior,” he said during a recent phone interview. the audience dress like the fi lm’s characters. Laughter under- There’s something in “human behavior” that keeps fans scores the excruciating sex scenes. coming back for more. When the heroine’s mother tells her daughter that she “I think it’s going to be a tradition for me and my friends,” had better respect her fi ancé because he is able to give her Tommy Wiseau, the lead actor in and writer, director said Alyson Semigran, 25, the fi rst person in line at a recent fi nancial security, the audience responds, “Because you are a and executive producer of “The Room.” showing. “I think we are going to do this for a while.”

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complaints fi elded by the District Manager’s Offi ce, along with problems regarding trans- FLASHBACK portation. A Jan. 3, 1980, Villager article headlined Reporter Beth Knobel wrote that the hard- “A Master Chef in a Bureaucratic Kitchen” working “48-year-old Libran” could not even profi led Rita Lee, Community Board 2’s dis- fi nd a Village apartment for herself, her two trict manager. Lee received calls on a daily cats and her two daughters on the salary that eWaste Recycling Event basis from residents and businesspersons her position paid, and resided in Washington alike that consisted of complaints, questions Heights at the time. Bring your old computers, printers, televisions, and comments — but sometimes people just A news item in the same issue report- and other unwanted electronics to Tekserve on called to chat. ed that the New Village Democrats were Saturday, January 16th for our eWaste Recycling Lee asserted that sanitation was the major the fi rst Downtown club to endorse Ted problem facing the Village at the time, and that Kennedy for president, and launched a vol- Event, hosted by Tekserve and the Lower East the fi gures didn’t always match the facts. unteer drive to help his candidacy. The Side Ecology Center. “There are 20 trucks and 101 men Village Reform Democratic Club endorsed assigned to the Village. But 15 to 30 of President Carter the week before, and the All participants: them are permanently detached to Queens, Village Independent Democrats voted “no • Can enter to win a MacBook Air – one of the some are out sick, some are on leave, and endorsement,” but a 25-signature petition to world’s greenest notebooks others have time coming to them,” said Lee. repeal that vote requested that V.I.D. reopen “Besides that, many trucks are broken at any the issue. • Receive a coupon for $25 off a new Mac or iPod* one time.” (Speaking to The Villager this week, Ed Lee felt that a study of sanitation hab- Gold, a founding member of V.I.D., said he its could solve the problem, and that they had a vague recollection that New Village Saturday, January 16th 10AM - 4PM could, “come up with things that they [the Democrats was just a club formed to give Sanitation Dept.] have never thought of.” more support to Kennedy at the time, and Environmental issues, such as noise pol- soon after went out of existence.) In Front of Tekserve 119 West 23rd St lution, sewer backups, broken hydrants and between 6th & 7th Ave air pollution, were at the top of the list of Helaina N. Hovitz

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something more than half a century. It must MEMORIAL be in the hundreds, including a hitch of some years as David Merrick’s press agent, which is BY JERRY TALLMER like being a press agent for Jed Harris, not to In the days when there was still some mention Satan. But Max stayed the course. modicum of Yiddish theater at various ven- In later years, the Broadway contracts ues south of , there was also a tapered off, and eventually (for Max) culture of little old press agents who special- died off almost completely, leaving him to ized in Yiddish shows. What I remember throw all his efforts into Off- and Off-Off about them is they all wore hats — gray Broadway events. This he did against great fedoras. But one who did not wear a hat, odds, including the mounting dis-attention, and was at the time not so very old, was Max I regretfully and guiltily say, of persons like Eisen, graced then and always with a thriv- myself. He also had to fi ght a lifelong stam- ing head of platinum-gold hair. mer which got worse and worse. The New York Post, where I was new at But he kept at it, at the well-worn electric the time, chose to send me, as a reviewer, typewriter up there in his offi ce in the Sardi’s to any Yiddish plays or musicals that came building on West 44th Street. His most loyal along. But, as I one day awkwardly revealed client may have been the nearby Milford to Max Eisen when one such assignment Plaza Hotel, for which he turned out weekly loomed before me, I didn’t know one word release after release after release for as long of Yiddish except “schlep” — and that only as I can remember. because of a famous incident in my fam- His parents ran a candy story in the ily when one of my mother’s Budapest-bred Bronx, the borough in which Max was born aunts had, upon entering her limousine here Photo courtesy the Eisen family in 1918. It is only last week that I learned in New York, said to the chauffeur: “Schlep Max Eisen at work. Max had died — at home, in his sleep, on me to , James.” November 23 — at age 91. Who would have “Don’t worry,” said Max — for the pro- whisper, in English, whatever from the stage though he once brought smiles by what was thought he was 91? duction I had to cover was one of his had, in Yiddish, sent the whole house into more than just a stunt, picketing The New He leaves a son, a daughter, fi ve grand- accounts — “I’ll be there, I’ll help you.” laughter or silence or tears. Yorker magazine for not reviewing Yiddish children and his lovely wife, Barbara. Indeed, as I settled into my seat at a ven- My baptism, you could call it. Or my theater, Max Eisen was far, far more than a I am bitterly sorry that, as time passed, he erable playhouse on the Lower East Side, somewhat-delayed bar mitzvah. press agent for Yiddish stuff. had to try so hard, and so repeatedly, to get me Max settled into the seat immediately next Though it was Max who fi nally forced If you bring him up on Google you cannot to write about one or another of his shows. to me, on the right, and into my right ear he The New York Times to include Yiddish count the number of on-Broadway and Off- Occasionally, I gave in. He was, you see — he proceeded throughout the performance to works in its entertainment listings, and Broadway efforts for which he gave his all, for still is — whispering into my right ear. wntown Day Cam Do NOW K-8th Grade p Bus service available below 23rd street

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Villager photos by J.B. Nicholas A legend leaves offi ce

On Dec. 31, Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney for the last 35 years, left the D.A.’s 1 Hogan Place offi ce the last time as the borough’s top lawman. Among the high-profi le cases Morgenthau, 90, oversaw were the prosecutions of “Preppie Killer” Robert Chambers; Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer; and Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco C.E.O. convicted of fl eecing his company of more than $150 million. There were also several notable wrongful convictions during Morgenthau’s tenure: Five men served more than 10 years jail time in connection with the “Central Park Jogger” rape before their sentences were vacated in 2002; a pair of men spent 14 years behind bars for the 1990 murder of a bouncer at the Palladium dance club on E. 14th St. before it was proven another man had shot the victim; and Fernando Bermudez, just recently released, was unjustly imprisoned 18 years for a 1991 murder on 13th St. stemming from a fi ght at the nearby Marc Ballroom. “Morgy” was also the model for the district attorney for the fi rst 10 years on the TV show “Law & Order.” 12 January 6 - 12, 2010 EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks, Alan Sternfeld’s — but only with Sternfeld’s permission, of course After eight years in offi ce serving Lower Manhattan, Let it snow, let it snow… — to show the contrast between the “virgin-snow” High Alan Gerson is, as of this week, no longer the city Line and the “path-gashed-through-the-snow” High Line. councilmember for the First District. That honor now To The Editor: That said, we do sincerely thank Drogin for his letter — belongs to Margaret Chin, who defeated him in the Re “Rant restraint” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Dec. 30): and his photos — which raised yet another point about the primary election in the fall. Gerson voted to extend The following is the verbatim letter to the editor I sent to High Line and its operation: namely, that it is a park where, term limits without a voter referendum, the backlash The Villager: “Keep It Wild: The founders of the High Line for safety reasons, after a heavy snow, paths will fi rst be over which undoubtedly partly contributed to his being illegally snuck a professional photographer up there to show cleared before people are allowed up. Also, although we did unseated. Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker the world the wild beauty they wished to preserve. As one not run Drogin’s photos, they were pretty good! Christine Quinn were able to weather that backlash, of those founders enjoys a European hiatus, Parks employ- but Gerson could not. ees kept visitors away until they had gashed at the natural We did strongly endorse Chin. Nevertheless, it beauty of a fresh snowfall for safety reasons. After waiting doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate all the work Gerson six months, I would have gladly signed an insurance waiver Yo, Adrian — it’s the law! did for his district over the years. for a chance to see the High Line in the snow before it was In the Tribeca, Financial District and Municipal left scarred and ugly for its fi rst legal strollers.” To The Editor: areas, Gerson had success in forcing the city to commit A key word in this original letter is “see.” The Villager Re “Parks reverses its tracks; Now lets artists sell on the to agreements for new schools and community facili- — which should know that the key element in getting the High Line” (news article, Dec. 16): ties, notably the Beekman School, the annex for P.S. High Line park built was an illegal photograph — through The proposal by Parks Commissioner Benepe of just 234 and the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community the anonymity of a dead cat called Scoopy, turns me from a three spots on the High Line for First Amendment-protected Center — the latter including a swimming pool, for local resident into some photography wannabe. Scoopy even vendors tells me that the gentleman really does not under- which Gerson fought hard to ensure it was part of the ignores my insurance waiver comment in order to make a stand the law, and may be a bit simple. Could he imagine an project. lawsuit joke at my expense. Then he returns to the scene of amendment to the U.S. Constitution which only applied to Concerned about construction impacts from the the crime a week later to quote another anonymous ranter. three individuals? World Trade Center rebuilding, Gerson spearheaded I pulled out my cell phone and snapped a few blurry, badly Local Law 77, requiring construction vehicles to use composed shots — in the spur of some seasonal spirit, I used Thelma Blitz ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, now a citywide regulation. one as a holiday e-mail card to my friends. A few others I sent He was also was the co-leader of the City Council to The Villager as a photojournalist gesture. I am not, nor have E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to effort to revamp the city’s noise code. I ever been, a photographer. On my frequent strolls on the High [email protected] or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The He helped establish two housing funds with monies Line, often the only other people up there are photographers. Villager, Letters to the Editor, 145 Sixth Ave., ground fl oor, from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation My original comments were a subtle combination of NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confi rma- and also from developers seeking support for their irony, humor, social commentary and disbelief. I didn’t fume, tion purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters projects. One fund — for the Lower East Side and I didn’t write anything about photographic purposes, and I for space, grammar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not Chinatown — is being used to assist Knickerbocker was completely aware of safety concerns. publish anonymous letters. Village and Masaryk Towers, and is getting an infusion The only outrage I have is over being turned into one of of $10 million to help keep neighborhood tenements Scoopy’s straw dogs. For that damage, no apology or correc- affordable. The other fund is districtwide. Working tion is suffi cient. right up to the end of his fi nal term, Gerson recently helped broker an agreement to keep the Grand St. Barry Drogin Guild Houses affordable. Gerson took a particular interest in local cultural Editor’s note: Scoopy did not intend to “make a lawsuit institutions, and many thrived thanks to his help. The joke” at Drogin’s expense, but merely pointed out — accu- Sound off! Poets’ House is up and running in its new home; ABC rately — why, after the recent big snow, the park’s operators No Rio — which received a signifi cant allocation from chose to keep the High Line closed until paths had been WRITE A LETTER TO Gerson and the Manhattan Council delegation — has cleared: safety. all the fi nancing for its phase-one reconstruction; and Although Drogin’s letter submission did only say he wanted an agreement with a developer recently was made that to “see” the High Line in the snow and made no mention of could see a Chinatown performing arts center in the his photography, his e-mail contained fi ve photos he took of the The Villager former Loew’s Canal St. Theater. High Line in the snow a few weeks ago, plus fi ve photos of the Also on education, Gerson was instrumental in cre- High Line in the snow that Joel Sternfeld took in 2001. ating the New York City Space and Science Education Drogin suggested that if we didn’t want to run his letter, Center in the formerly troubled Middle School 56 build- we could just run one or more of his photos and also some of ing. Geared toward economically disadvantaged youth, this center is inspiring a future generation of engineers, and hopefully even astronauts. He also worked to help IRA BLUTREICH seniors, notably creating a program to install free bath- tub grab bars for all seniors in his district. One of Gerson’s skills was as a mediator, an ability he used in connection with a Lower East Side arts cen- ter, Clemente Soto Velez, to bring the divided building together. The other major mediation project, of course, was the Washington Square Park reconstruction, the end result of which — as seen in the completed phase one — Gerson today is extremely proud of. “Those were the two roughest mediations,” Gerson refl ected. On New Year’s Eve — as Gerson was packing up and moving out of his Council offi ce — in his “last act,” he helped respond to a serious fi re: Four apart- ments at 77 Monroe St. had to be vacated, and the tenants needed emergency housing; the building had no heat and a 90-year-old woman’s family were wor-

Continued on page 16 Will the state Legislature trip up Governor Paterson? January 6 - 12, 2010 13 Mad memories of sexcapades of Mad Men and Women

ever the professional, waited until unhappy TALKING POINT hour was over, and was home in bed. Of course, nowadays, many places have BY DOTTIE WILSON strict or specifi c rules about offi ce dat- News headlines about work-related ing, but still, it’s a “sticky” situation. Yet I romances only come out when it’s about remember when there were hardly any work- some idiot celebrity — you hardly ever hear place policies about either staff romance or about the little people, the average employ- sexual harassment; you basically had to put ee. There’s massive coverage about Woods, up or shut up. At the time, however — and Letterman, former governors and the like. basically throughout most my life — I felt Yet most crazy “crimes of the heart” go com- certain credos like this did not apply to pletely unreported. You’d think these kind of me. One busy day on Madison Avenue in affairs only occurred with sports and media the early ’80s, I was (slightly!) bent over stars, or silly politicians, but this nonsense my upside-down offi ce chair trying to fi x a can take place in any fi eld. wheel, when some pompous/pig “executive It isn’t strictly a female and/or hetero- sexual thing either. Whether you’re a man or a woman, not only must you be good at your job, you need to “romance” a poten- I was fi xing a wheel on tially threatening “love interest” on the side in order to move ahead and stay alive. You’re my chair, when some simply not playing the game, or even in the game, if you don’t follow this rule. Kiss pompous/pig ‘executive ass, or you will be penalized. Anytime a co- worker took up with the boss — or similar creative director’ pinched high-level person in power — my life became a living hell, and I suspect I am not alone. my butt. I went feral. One clue you’re about to become the casualty of another person’s disturbing offi ce affair is when there’s a change in the quality of jobs you’re assigned (for better or worse). creative director” ambled by and pinched For instance, I was once sent out to the West my butt. I went feral. Tossing the chair aside, Coast for a really cool fi lm shoot in the middle I ran after this animal and punched him of a nasty New York City winter, and then later as hard as I could in the center of his (no found out that it was only because “the boss” doubt very hairy) back. I used to take karate; didn’t want my co-worker to be away (snuggle, I made the Presidential Physical Fitness cuddle, goo goo). Somehow, the employee Award twice. (Nixon signed the fi rst one.) found out about my primo gig, he was in Dammit, I had a college degree! Long story the doghouse — and so was I! I thought I’d short, I certainly made an impact/statement, received this work based on my professional whatever. Ah, the good old days. abilities. NOT. I felt like crying... . There were no eyewitnesses to what I If another employee and your employer assume are now “dismissible” offenses (for hook up, you must constantly walk around both parties), not that I needed or wanted on eggshells and stay “buddy buddy” with them. (Lawyers hadn’t started to specialize said dangerous person — who on a full-time in this fi eld yet.) But several months later, basis has your client’s ear, as well as other I had to deal with this same butthead again body parts. At one company, my boss took on a completely different issue. A sales me and a “special” co-worker to a Midnight representative from a major fi lm company/ Oil concert. He and I totally rocked out, famous director needed a videotape cued but this totally out-of-touch (and profes- up for a presentation with my boss, but for sionally inept) fellow employee hated our some reason our department’s screening shared enthusiasm, and her resentment was room was locked. obvious. Another time, I was even made to I got the key, opened the door and a loud Villager photo by Milo Hess lower my day rate after a particularly snoopy porno was playing on the monitor for a small Before New Year’s Eve last Thursday, a pair of boots freelance “love interest” saw my (competi- group of employees on their lunch break. (I SCENE in the snow on Greenwich St. gave a mailbox a human tive) invoice on the desk, and threw a major touch. tantrum. I defi nitely cried after that — yet, Continued on page 16

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for the 26-acre Western Rail Yard that would include enough permanently affordable housing to appease the community was achieved through 11th-hour negotiations between elected offi cials and developer The Related Companies leading up to the Dec. 21 vote. Feeling pressure from community groups and local rep- resentatives like City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Related agreed to a series of concessions in the plan that will bring the amount of affordable residential units associated with the mega-project to 20 percent of the total. The developer’s original proposal for the Western Rail Yard, which stretches between 30th and 33rd Sts. and 11th and 12th Aves., did not include a single unit of permanently affordable housing on site. However, work- ing off a more community-conscious blueprint drawn up through years of work by Community Board 4, Related consented to add 431 units of on-site permanently affordable housing to be spread over both the Western and Eastern rail yards. A total of 312 affordable units — about half of which will be two or more bedrooms permanently affordable for middle-income tenants — will be built off site at two locations in Hell’s Kitchen. Another 600-plus afford- able units associated with project will become available at off-site locations, including 75 units of new con- struction, 150 units of single-room-occupancy housing acquired by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and 400 more units of existing affordable Photo courtesy William Alatriste/NYC Council housing that will be unlocked through the project. From left, Jay Cross, president of Related Hudson Yards; City Council Speaker Christine Quinn; Mayor Mike In another score for the community, the developer Bloomberg; Assemblymember Richard Gottfried; Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, and Community Board 4 decided to double the amount of cultural space related Chairperson John Weis gathered above the Western Rail Yard after the City Council voted to rezone the massive to the project — from 8,000 square feet to 16,000 development site. square feet — increasing the likelihood that smaller, neighborhood-based organizations can benefit from the in a statement, calling the amended plan “a victory for of developmental potential would only be tenable with a space. The Department of Environmental Protection also our community.” guaranteed affordable housing program.” agreed to create new green space on a parcel of land it “Soon, thousands of New Yorkers will have the oppor- Related now has until Jan. 31, 2010, to make its first owns off site. tunity for new affordable housing and cultural space payment for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority- “This rezoning reflects years of conversations, out- right in their neighborhoods,” Quinn said. “A rezoning owned rail yards. The two parties agreed to postpone the reach and input from community members,” Quinn said of this magnitude that unlocks an unprecedented amount deal a year ago due to the ailing economy.

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BY PATRICK HEDLUND

A popular fi tness center’s illegal place- ment of an oversized billboard on a Greenwich Village building has drawn the ire of residents and preservationists. Sometime last week the Equinox Fitness Club at the corner of Greenwich and W. 12th Sts. erected the giant advertisement, which rises about three stories on both facades that front the street. However, the property lies within the Greenwich Village Historic District, and the building did not receive permission from the city Landmarks Preservation Commission or Department of Buildings to add the signage. Billboards are generally prohibited in historic districts, but the fact that Equinox did not even apply to erect the street adver- tisement concerned Andrew Berman, execu- tive director of the Greenwich Society for Historic Preservation. “We really want to encourage [L.P.C. and D.O.B.] to move on this as quickly as possible, because it’s such a highly egregious fl outing of the law,” said Berman, who noted that the property’s zoning does not allow for billboards either. In a letter to both city agencies, he urged them “to send a strong message that such clear and unambiguous violations of landmarks and buildings rules will not be tolerated.” One annoyed neighbor explained that an employee at the gym assured her that the advertisement had received the required per- mits and that the billboard’s screen-like mate- rial becomes more transparent during the day. Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas “I don’t think that excuse is going to The Equinox gym on Greenwich Ave. was clad in a giant billboard last week. The building is located in the Greenwich Village get them anywhere,” added Berman, whose Historic District. organization has vigorously fought against illegal billboards. “It is still signage that cent for all its unit types combined, including of these years. We will miss You!” After this coming Friday, Theodoro will must get approval from the Landmarks an 8.6 percent dip for doorman studios. Theodoro explained that while the end know for sure the fate of the Bleecker St. Preservation Commission and is explicitly On the other hand, Soho and Tribeca, of the eatery’s run at its current spot is property. forbidden in the historic districts.” the city’s most expensive neighborhoods for “defi nitely a done deal,” there might be a “1 “I’m defi nitely looking for a new location renters, both fared well in 2009, posting or 2 percent possibility” he could keep the in the area,” he said. gains of 8.1 percent and 14.4 percent over restaurant open on Bleecker St. He wouldn’t It took Gus two years to fi nd the new loca- EAST SIDE SLIDE all, respectively. Soho saw its non-doorman, go into the reasons for the closure — saying tion after undertaking a fundraising effort to one- and two-bedrooms rise by 33.7 percent he’s shuttering “for personal reasons” — but relaunch the restaurant in early 2007. The East Village and Lower East Side and 29.2 percent, respectively. Tribeca’s non- did express a desire to fi nd a new space if the experienced the steepest residential rent doorman studio, one- and two-bedrooms current situation can’t be resolved. [email protected] drops of any Downtown neighborhoods last came in up 37.6 percent, 31.5 percent and year, making them among the most desir- 23.2 percent, respectively. able areas across Manhattan for discount- All units in Chelsea and Gramercy Park driven renters. decreased by an average of 1.9 percent and According to the Real Estate Group 3.1 percent, respectively. SCOOPY’S NOTEBOOK New York’s year-end rental market report, the East Village and Lower East Side saw — besides the fact we’re friends. ... They’re average decreases of 5.98 percent and 6.25 GOODBYE, GUS Continued from page 2 meant to be community awards for people percent, respectively, for all doorman and who have really gone the distance,” Power non-doorman unit types combined in 2009. Beloved Greek restaurant Gus’ Place in Precinct); Photographer/blogger Bob Arihood said. The evening’s emcee will be musician Jay Doorman studios led the downward trend in the West Village has closed after more than of Neither More Nor Less — who will get the Wilson, who ran for City Council some years both neighborhoods, with such units falling two decades in the neighborhood. “Best Local Blog” award; and Brian Shebairo back. As for performers, Power is in talks by 12.1 percent in the East Village and 22.4 The Mediterranean-style eatery, which of Crif Dogs. The honors, Power said, as much with local punk rock legend Bobby Steele, percent on the Lower East Side over the spent 17 years on Waverly Place before suc- as anything else, are for sheer “endurance.” and also with the East River String Band past year. Over all, the East Village recorded cumbing to high rents, moved to a space on Alvarez is deserving, he said, “because he has and sax player Charles Gayle, though the drops for each one of its unit types, while the Bleecker St. near MacDougal St. about three been dealing with the public for 35 years,” and latter two acts are going on tours right after L.E.S. saw modest gains for non-doorman years ago. yet, somehow, can still tolerate them. “Ray’s a the date of Power’s bash, so it’s not clear if studios and two-bedrooms only (up 1.1 per- Owner Gus Theodoro posted a simple pretty rare guy,” Power said. Arihood deserves they’ll be able to make it. Ticket price for the cent and 1.7 percent, respectively). message on the restaurant’s Web site, reading: his honor because, as Power put it, “He’s event is still being worked out. Asked if it Greenwich Village experienced less-seri- “To All of Our ‘Gustomers’ we thank you for completely dedicated. He does investigations. will be a black-tie affair, Power said, “More ous losses by plunging an average of 3.1 per- your patronage, loyalty and friendship for all His form of reporting is extremely dangerous like a black-eye affair — just kidding!” 16 January 6 - 12, 2010 THREE KINGS Mad memories of Mad sexcapades this nature was never the norm, thank good- CELEBRATION Continued from page 13 ness, but a horrible and extremely stressful exception. Yet I can attest to having suffered believe some of them might even have been both emotionally and fi nancially. And anyone doing lines/’twas the season). I immediately who’s ever experienced this type of hostile fi gured out who the ringleader was — yep, butt- work environment knows full well that it can IKD:7O" head — and went ballistic, totally Krakatoa. His feel be like spending a day at Willowbrook. @7DK7HO'&" audience scattered like rats, while I continued To my knowledge, there’s no cure for (&'& with the riot act. Several of my co-workers even abused employees dealing with a creepy started chanting “Go Dottie, Go!’ offi ce affair, be it large- or small-scale — yet And just then, several major-agency big- taking matters into your own hands sure wigs and their high-profi le clients started to does feel good! As Kathy Bates said in the come back from some really important/stupid movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Sometimes luncheon and “experienced” the entire fi asco. bein’ a bitch is all a woman’s got left.” The amused and shocked looks on their nor- I’m tired of hearing salacious details mally stoic/millionaire faces were hysterical, about celebrity scandals exclusively. Surely, so out of character. They simply didn’t know there must be other, more important sto- what to make of me. Yet this incident actually ries besides theirs, and mine (that aren’t as ended up making my boss look good; and violent/insane). Because even if it doesn’t the “pain in my ass” was eventually fi red for involve a famous person, there’s no excuse an even more egregious crime, and escorted for bad behavior in any business. 11: 0 0 A.M. Holy Eucharist from the premises by security. Note to one pizza place and a certain Though I’ve worked for many different newsstand in the East Village: Don’t call me Featuring Richard Witt from Rural and Migrant Ministries corporations, dysfunction and madness of Honey! 3:00 P. M. Three Kings Pageant Featuring the Hudson Vagabond Puppets and the Los Tres Reyes Band and Choir EDITORIAL: Thanks, Alan Food and gifts...for children of ALL ages! local school board, while his father, Herman, Continued from page 12 was a district leader. Alan quipped that poli- tics for him may be a “genetic liability,” so IJ$C7HAÈI9>KH9>?D#J>;#8EM;HO ried about her. Gerson called the Offi ce of we expect he’ll stay in public service in one '&j^Ijh[[j(dZ7l[dk[š('(#,-*#,)--šmmm$ijcWhaiXem[ho$eh] Emergency Management and sent his staff form or another. J^[H[l$M_dd_[LWh]^[i["Fh_[ij#?d#9^Wh][ to the building to assist; the senior woman Gerson’s time in offi ce certainly wasn’t got temporary housing. “We made sure no perfect, but when we asked him what one slipped through the cracks,” Gerson advice he would give to Chin, he said: “You assured. We’re grateful for Gerson’s fi nal act do your best when you listen to people Family Owned by Pre-paid funeral of concern — and, similarly, for all the posi- in the district and are open to ideas and third generation trust funds tive work that he did in his eight years. input.” We think Gerson did endeavor to funeral director FDIC insured Gerson comes from a political family. do that, and that he did try his best. And His mother, Sophie, was president of the we thank him for it.

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BY TRAV S.D. Some people begin their New Year with prayers for world peace or solemn resolutions to stop overeating. Having little confidence in the success of either of those projects, I have merely committed to informing readers about the most interesting or notable (the two don’t always overlap) shows happening in downtown theatres. The month of January should disabuse anyone of the notion that downtown theater festivals are strictly sum- mer affairs. No less than four will be kicking off this month, two of them on January 6. The biggest and most established is the Under The Radar Festival, now in its sixth year. Produced and founded by Mark Russell, the former artistic director of P.S.122, Under the Radar bills itself as a “crash course in theatre that is exciting, independent, and experimental.” This edition features some 20 shows at 11 different downtown venues, an eclectic mix ranging from established New York institu- tions like the Martha Graham Company and Ping Chong and Company (hardly “under the radar” but we’ll let that pass) to international guests from Poland, France and the United Kingdom. The festival takes a “big tent” approach as to what constitutes theatre, and this year’s menu includes dance, puppetry and theatrical music groups, including two personal favorites of mine, both performing at the Public Theatre’s LuEsther Lounge: Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, a hilarious combination pirate-puppet show and rock group Photo by Pig Iron (Jan. 11) and the delightfully obnoxious Stumblebum Brass Chekhov Lizardbrain Band (Jan. 16). Four of this year’s Under the Radar shows are being co-presented by another new-ish annual event, P.S. 122’s cinatory soundscape “Assember Dilator” is about “x-ray Masoch (from whom we get the term masochism). Ives, fi ve year old COIL Festival, an “annual winter festival vision and its consequences”. More dope at: ontological. initially best known for crazy comedies like “Polish Joke” of contemporary performance featuring hits from past, com/otherforces. It runs through Jan. 16. and his collection of one acts (:All in the Timing”) has present and future seasons.” (Why it’s called “COIL” Not to be outdone, HERE Arts Center lets its resident recently applied his comic talents to more mainstream is a tightly guarded secret – I gather it has more to do artists strut their stuff in their annual Culturemart festi- Broadway fare like his recent adaptation of Mark Twain’s with the potential energy of artists than with dog poop.) val (January 11-31). This is a festival of emerging artists Is He Dead? And his current show “Irving Berlin’s White Their co-productions with Under the Radar this year presenting works-in-progress in two-day runs, so don’t Christmas.” One can only imagine what he’ll do with include “Ads” by Richard Maxwell and his NYC Players; go expecting polish or pizzazz, although I wouldn’t rule the cruelties and perversions of Sacher-Masoch, whose the National Theatre of the United States of America’s out some shows displaying either or both. Particularly novel he has transplanted to a setting “backstage at “CHAUTAUQUA!;” Jerk (a glove-puppet show about a promising-sounding are Johari Mayfield’s burlesque/ an audition”. The CSC run is from January 13 through serial killer), and an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s dance piece The “Venus Riff,” inspired by the real life February 21. Rope called “Gin & ‘It’,” taking place at 3LD Art and story of the Venus Hottentott, an African woman dis- Lastly, I would be remiss in my duty to humanity if I Technology Center. played as a sideshow freak in 19th century England; and did not send you in the direction of Arlene’s Grocery on But more exciting to this correspondent by far is the Kamala Sankaram’s “Miranda” — “a multi-media cham- January 14, for that is the date one of my favorite neo- festival’s revival of Axis Theatre’s “East Tenth Street: ber opera where the audience becomes detective, judge vaudevillians, ventriloquist Carla Rhodes is debuting Portrait with Empty House,” a solo piece by the incom- and jury” in a format where “pop opera meets reality her new full-length show, aptly named “The Continuing parable Edgar Oliver, one of my absolute favorite actors. TV”. Go to HERE.org for more info. Story of Carla Rhodes.” In my view, Rhodes is the In “East Tenth Street,” a monologue about his many January 7 marks the premier of “Lear” — the much- Savion Glover of vents, almost single-handedly injecting decades in a rather legendarily decadent apartment build- talked about version of the classic story (which predates a notoriously uncool and backward-looking performance ing, Oliver manages (as always) to be at once hilarious, Shakespeare) by avant-garde playwright Young Jean branch with a badly-needed kick in the ass. Don’t get me endearing, moving and creepy — just as I imagine God to Lee, opening at Soho Repertory Theatre. Lee’s radical, wrong; Carla is PLENTY old school — but she also has at be. Both festivals run until Jan. 17, and you can get more non-linear stage technique has made a lot of waves in a least one of her dainty feet planted firmly in the current info at undertheradarfestival.com and ps122.org. short time with downtown hits like her most recent, ‘The century, or at least the tail end of the last one (which is Opening on January 7 is a smaller but (pound for Shipment.’ Fans of Lee’s style will not be disappointed more than you can say about just about any other vent). pound) undoubtedly stranger festival put on by Richard to learn that “Lear” is in the vein of her past work, tell- Carla is, in short, a rock and roll ventriloquist. Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre at the com- ing its story (though Lee doesn’t really “tell stories” in The current piece purports to tell her life story, but pany’s home base in St. Mark’s Church. While the newly the conventional sense) without the actual presence of we won’t be stinted on bits with her favorite “partners”, minted Other Forces festival only consists of three the title character in the play. “Lear’ will be at Soho Rep including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and another dirty shows, it bodes well that among the presenters are the through January 31. old Englishman, Cecil Sinclaire. She also promises to Brooklyn-based Sponsored by Nobody (whose new show One of the more eagerly-anticipated downtown events unveil her new rock band The Extravaganzas and a new “Behind the Bullseye”) is based on the experience of this month (if only be me) has to be Classic Stage character with the enticing name Herschel Ragbottoms. shopping at the Atlantic Avenue Target store); as well as Company’s production of David Ives’ “Venus in Furs” — Unless I have pneumonia or a pulmonary embolism, I Ryan Holspopple’s 31 Down company whose new hallu- based on the eponymous novel by Leopold von Sacher- will be there. See you next month. 18 January 6 - 12, 2010 CHICANERY, CORRUPTION, MURDER AND ‘Look Ahead’ with THE AMERICAN DREAM Stephanie Buhmann Noteworthy January exhibitions not to be missed

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN This January not only marks the start of a new year, but of the next decade. In the art world, the past ten years surely had their ups and downs. While the economic aftermath of 9/11 forced many smaller galleries to their knees, the recession beginning in late 2008 forced several to shut their doors. In-between, the art market soared and the big auction houses fetched record sales results for many Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artists. Art fairs — in particular Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach — became the most popular and fashionable way of expe- riencing art in the new century. In an effort to keep up with globalization, some of the largest galleries opened branches in Beijing, Brussels, Greece and Berlin. In the context of these developments, it feels refreshing to start 2010 by exploring what our city’s galleries have in store. On

a monthly basis, this newspaper will pub- Photo by Christian Hellmich lish “Look Ahead” — a discussion of local “Transfer-Domino” / 2009; oil on canvas exhibitions that are not only noteworthy, but / at Lehmann Maupin should not be missed. This January — a slow month in which group shows traditionally dominate — sees means of abstracted forms, texture and more solo shows than in recent years. geometry. Although his style reminds is 303 Gallery (547 W 21 St., Jan. 23 – Feb. reminiscent of fellow countryman Thomas 20, Reception: Jan. 23, 6 - 8 p.m.) will inau- Scheibitz, Hellmich stands his ground. This gurate the season with one of its most promi- new body of work continues Hellmich’s nent artists, Inka Essenhigh — one of the focus on exterior and interior spaces, and few fi gurative painters besides Will Cotton his exploration of what divides the two. and John Currin to emerge on the NY art The exhibition title, “The Array/Transfer- Tickets scene in the late 1990s. Since then, her work Domino,” (which was inspired by pictorial has consistently fused Surrealist with Realist sources such as in the news, advertisements, $10 - General elements and captured a cyber-aesthetic that entertainment or literature) is somewhat refl ects our digital age. Infl uences and associ- cryptic. Hellmich is primarily interested $5 - Students & Seniors ations range from 19th century caricatures, to in communicating through defi nitions and Arabic miniatures, cartoons, illustrations and terms, and the exchange process of these Japanese animation. The slick compositions terms. Though Hellmich’s work is devoid of often depict fi gures engaged in obscure sce- romance or sentimentalism, this new exhibi- narios — their limbs elongated, fl exing and tion will prove that his vocabulary leaves slightly distorted. Essenhigh’s otherworldly plenty of room for mystery. Jan. 14th 7:30 Jan. 21st 7:30 fantasies are more futuristic than alien, as if Sue Scott Gallery (1 Rivington St., Jan. she was to foreshadow a world which is still 23 – Feb. 26 / Reception: Jan. 23, 6 – 8 Jan. 15th 7:30 Jan. 22nd 7:30 to (but certainly will) come. p.m.) will start the year with a survey of the This will be her third exhibition at the conceptual video artist Elisabeth Subrin, Jan. 16th 3:00 & 7:30 Jan. 23rd 3:00 & 7:30 gallery (the previous one was in 2006) and which spans almost twenty years of the art- its focus will be on landscapes and explora- ist’s work. Besides a selection of fi lms, vid- tions of the seasons. Maybe it is a comment eos and photographic stills, the exhibition on the sad fact that in a time when our lives will feature the premiere of Subrin’s new are increasingly consumed by cyber realities, video installation “Lost Tribes and Promised An Equity Approved Showcase nature has become more surreal. A mysteri- Lands” as well as a two-channel projection ous view of a dark forest not only evokes the “Sweet Ruin” from 2008. Press Representative: beginning of almost every Brother Grimm In general, Subrin’s work is layered and fairy tale, but can certainly serve as a potent reveals a deeply emotional take on docu- Jonathan Slaff and Associates symbol for the greater unknown. mentary and conceptual art practices. She Focusing on painting, Lehmann Maupin tackles her subject matter by means of reple- For more infornation visit us online at (540 W 26 St., Jan. 14 – Feb. 20) will pres- tion, revisiting and re-analyzing. To Subrin, ent the second New York solo show of the the past not only informs the present, but www.strudelproductions.com German artist Christian Hellmich. Hellmich’s paintings explore architectural structures by Continued on page 21 January 6 - 12, 2010 19

THE KNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER MUSIC ORCHESTRA FEATURING NEIL GAIMAN THE We’re letting you know now so you can get in line in plenty of COMPILED BY time to see science fiction and fantasy cult figure/legend Neil SCOTT STIFFLER Gaiman — while soaking up some equally credible culture of [email protected] LIST a different kind. Arts World Financial Center — currently in A its 22nd season of presenting free visual and performing arts — presents the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra featuring THEATER Gaiman. The “Coraline” author will almost certainly give new life to Sergei Prokofiev’s children’s classic. Also featured: acclaimed Broadway tenor Jason Danieley in “And Bold to Fall Withal – Henry Hudson in the New World” — a world premiere composition by Knickerbocker founder and conductor Gary S. Fagin. FREE. 7:00 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 16 at World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street). For information, call 212-945-0505. Visit www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com. Neil Gaiman

HORSE TRADE ENCORES Some sad artists make a career out of THEATER living off the good will generated from Photo by Carol Rosegg their earlier, more successful works. James McMenamin as George and Jennifer Grace as Emily Others with a seemingly endless capac- ity to create simply forge ahead and OUR TOWN never look back. The prolific folks at “Our Town” — the Thornton Wilder classic that’s been Horse Trade Theater Group have found given nine new lives courtesy of a long-running NYC a respectable middle ground which production by David Cromer, just got granted a tenth. Set just might be reason enough to venture to close in February, it’s been extended through (at least) out into the January chill. “Encores” March 14. If you’ve seen the play mentioned on virtually brings back full performances of criti- every major Top 10 list from 2009 but have yet to see it, cally acclaimed shows from the fall. well; “walk, don’t run” seems a bit cliché — but this is “Hostage Song” is an indie rock musi- one of those rare cases where it seems appropriate. Why cal in which two hostages take refuge are you still reading this? Go buy a ticket! For tickets in music, memory and each other. “The Photo by Photo credit goes to Cedar. The insanely talented Hanna Cheek, of “The Pumpkin Pie Show” ($49.50 and $69; $20 for students day of at the box Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement” office), call 212-868.4444 or visit www.smarttix.com. explores the bond formed between three women in the wake of a high school massacre. Radiotheatre’s “Frankenstein” At the (27 Barrow Street at 7th adapts Mary Shelley’s classic for the stage with an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects! “Hostage Avenue South). Song” plays Jan. 6 and 11 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 9, 13 at 8 p.m.; “The Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement” plays Jan 7, 8 at 9 p.m. and Jan. 12 at 7 p.m.; “Frankenstein” plays Jan 7, 8, 10 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 9 at 6 p.m.; all shows are at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th St. btw. 2nd Ave and Bowery). For Tickets ($18), visit www.horseTRADE.info or call DANCE GOTHAM 212-868-4444. Gotham Arts Exchange presents “Dance Gotham” — the annual POÈME ÉLECTRONIQUE ART dance festival dedi- “Poème Électronique” is a virtual reality rendering of the his- cated to expanding the toric multimedia spectacle created by Iannis Xenakis, Edgard boundaries of aesthet- Varèse and Le Corbusier for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels ics and artistry. From 1958 World’s Fair. This pioneering use of architecture, fi lm, light post-modern athleticism and music to create a totally immersive experience impressed to seasoned theatrical- back then, and promises to dazzle today — when it’s recreated ity, the featured works Photo by Julieta Cervantes “Battle” from Battleworks via algorithmic design/computations and presented to through multiple are sophisticated, witty, Dance Company (Jan. 9) screens and surround sound. This show is the fi rst of a series of live per- wonderfully intelligent formances (“Iannis Xenakis in New York”) organized around the Drawing and revealing. Even the Center’s exhibition which opens on Jan. 14 (“Iannis Xenakis: Composer, DANCE pickiest of dance patrons will likely be pleased, Architect, Visionary”) — and showcases the work of this revolutionary com- given that 30 dance companies will be per- poser/architect. $1 per person. Jan. 15 at Judson Church (55 Washington forming over the course of three nights. Jan. Square South). The 15-minute long show will start every 30 minutes on the 8, 9 and 10; at the Jack H. Skirball Center for half hour, beginning at 7:30 p.m. with the last show at 9:30 p.m. For more the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place, at information, visit www.emfproductions.org or call 888-749-9998. For the Washington Square South). For tickets ($10), Photo courtesy of Electronic Music Foundation Philips Pavilion from the Brussels 1958 full schedule of Iannis Xenakis performances in New York City, visit www. call 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111. World’s Fair emfproductions.org. 20 January 6 - 12, 2010 Going wild on oft-told Wilde tale Irish Rep’s earnest ‘new salting of frivolity’ pleases

BY JERRY TALLMER THEATER LADY BRACKNELL: Now to minor mat- ters. Are your parents living? ERNEST IN LOVE JACK: I have lost both my parents. Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” LADY BRACKNELL: Both? To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, can be regarded as a Music by Lee Pockriss misfortune; but to lose both — that seems like Book and lyrics by Anne Croswell carelessness. Directed by Charlotte Moore Surely as laughter-triggering a line as ever Through January 31 graced the English-speaking stage, unless you’re the Marquess of Queensberry — who on open- At the ing night at the St. James Theatre (February 132 West 22nd Street 14, 1895) — sought entry for the purpose of throwing vegetables at the playwright, but was Call 212-737-2737 denied admission. He then set about bringing down Oscar Wilde another way. Broadway production of this very musical, At the brilliant little Irish Repertory Theatre “Ernest in Love” — yes, by that same Lee on West 22nd Street you won’t get John Gielgud Pockriss and Anne Croswell — at a now long as Jack Worthing or Maggie Smith imperially since defunct Gramercy Arts Playhouse on delivering the above chastisement or freezing East 27th Street. So far as Charlotte Moore the whole house into shuddering silence with knows, and so far as the Internet can trace, the trumpeting of just one word, or name — there has been no production of it since in [ITAL] Prism! — [UNITAL] but you will get this city — until now. somewhat more music than Wilde bargained Well, Ms. Moore, why now? for, along with a light topping of youthful fri- Photo by Carol Rosegg “Tony Walton had done [i.e.,, directed, volity. Katie Fabel (Cecily Cardew) and Ian Holcomb (Algernon) very ably] ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’ The show is “Ernest in Love,” which is here [at Irish Rep] some years ago. ‘Ernest Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” in Love’ has a charm that the original can’t given a certain new salting of frivolity via The playgoer mentioned a piece he’d written LADY BRACKNELL: Found! quite accomplish. Another element of style. interworked music by Lee Pockriss set to lyrics a few years ago that spot-lit the naked racism An enhancement of the original. To me, a (or vice versa) by Anne Croswell. The director, of O’Neill’s drama about a big dumb tyranni- JACK: The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an romantic aspect that the original doesn’t as so often at this venue, is multi-gifted and cal spook-fearing black man on some faraway old gentleman of a very charitable disposition, have — and we’ve added some very romantic tireless Charlotte Moore, who with Ciaran tropic island. found me and gave me the name of Worthing, sounds with harp, cello, violin, and piano.” O’Reilly launched the Irish Rep 23 years ago “Well,” said the director of “Ernest in Love,” because he happened to have a fi rst-class ticket Charlotte Moore has herself always been and are both energetically still at it, Erin be “this is anything but racist. It’s — pause —“ for Worthing in his pocket at the time. Worthing a very busy actress, on both stage (Broadway, praised. Anglophilicesque.” is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort. among other places) and screen. She now Her (artistic) partner was in fact the other Ah, Charlotte. let it drop that she had, as an actress, done day wrapping the Irish Rep’s hit production LADY BRACKNELL: Where did the chart- Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest” no of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” that LADY BRACKNELL: Who was your able gentleman with the fi rst-class ticket for this fewer than fi ve times. he, O’Reilly, had directed, and which was father? seaside resort fi nd you? “Me, myself. Four times as Gwendolyn, now about to move to the SoHo Playhouse on once as Cecily” — those delicious young Vandam Street. JACK WORTHING: I am afraid I really JACK: In a handbag. ladies who fl ash from mutual sugar-sweet Quite a back-to-back contrast, the O’Neill don’t know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said politeness to wanting to scratch one anoth- and the Wilde, this playgoer remarked to I had lost my parents. It would be nearer the LADY BRACKNELL: A handbag! er’s eyes out over the question of which Charlotte Moore. truth to say that my parents seem to have lost “Isn’t it, though,” she cheerily replied. me…I was, well, I was found. Long, long ago (1960) there was an Off- Continued on page 21

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Follow Cupid’s arrow to us. Happy Valentine’s Day - from Lilac! January 6 - 12, 2010 21 Wild Wilde FOR GRLS ADORE AN OXFORD Continued from page 20 CREST. of them is in fact engaged to marry Mr. ALGY: Ernest. Worthing, the dissolute (imagi- A BUNBURYING I WILL GO. nary) younger brother of (the real) Mr. I’VE BUNBURY OATS TO SOW… Jack Worthing. And then there is that other cheerful LANE: rogue, Cecily’s guardian, Mr. Algernon AND I WILL TAKE THE LADY’S MAID Moncrieff, who whenever he wants to ON SOME SECLUDED COUNTRY go off on a hunt for, shall we say, fresh GLADE. female companionship, disguises it as a farewell visit to the deathbed of his friend BOTH: Bunbury. AND WE WILL OWE EVERY KISS TO MR. BUNBURY. ALGY [singing]: SO IT’S OFF WITH CUSTOMARY SPATS This is, as noted, Irish Rep’s hard-won AND ON WITH SUMMER HATS 23rd year. AND POLKA-DOT CRAVATS. “I never know where I am in any season,” said a breathless Charlotte Moore. LANE [Algy’s man’s man, singing]: Never? IN YOUR WHITES, WITH CREASES “Never. Don’t ask me about rehearsal NEATLY PRESSED, AND COAT OF BLUE, schedules. I just show up.” YOU’RE BOUND TO CHARM THEM And off she went, in obedience to Woody ON THE FARM, Allen’s precept, to do just that. January exhibitions collaboration with Raffaello D’Andrea and Continued from page 18 Matt Donovan), who both have not shown in New York before — as well as a selection also vice versa. Developments in the pres- of photographs and video by Brian Knep. ent, if seen side-by-side with images of the Knep is an artist in residence at Harvard past, help to clarify the latter’s reality. In her Medical School, whose main subject here latest installation “Lost Tribes and Promised will be microscopic worms that are cre- Lands,” Subrin — who though raised in ated and researched in the laboratory. His Boston lives and works in Brooklyn — has work follows the “Caenorhabditis elegans, brought together views of Williamsburg, which is one of the simplest, most studied Brooklyn. The work consists of twin projec- multi-cellular organisms in the world, as it tions which were shot on 16mm fi lm. One maneuvers through fabricated, labyrinthian was made in the days following September structures that appear as intergalactic as 11, 2001, while the other shows the same they seem serene. locations on the same date seven years later. Simone Jones will be represented with The work is partially an analysis of the “Perfect Vehicle” (2003-2006). It’s a three- changes that have occurred, but it also offers wheeled, 11-foot long machine which Artists & Writers an emotional contemplation of the passing contains sensors to monitor its occupant’s of time in general. Also on display will be breathing — which, in turn, controls the one of Subrin’s most critically acclaimed speed of the machine. A video of its journey Residencies works: a trilogy comprised of three bio- across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah will graphic documentaries (which won a Los stress the surreal nature of the matter: por- Angeles Film Critics Award in 1998). traying an alien structure as it inches across www.vermontstudiocenter.org At Ron Feldman Gallery (31 Mercer St., a landscape seemingly devoid of life. Jan. 9 – Feb. 13, Reception: Jan. 9, 6 – 8 “The Robotic Chair” (1984-2006) by Max p.m.), a group exhibition entitled “One Part Dean, features a generic wooden chair, which Human” explores how computer science and in sequence (and without any human interven- the tension between human and technologi- tion) collapses in full force before putting itself cal capabilities in today’s scientifi c society back together with seemingly undeterred per- have informed contemporary art. sistence. Here the functional object has been The exhibition will include motorized infused with “nature” — and one wonders if sculptures by the Canadian artists Simone the art of this new decade will increasingly Jones and Max Dean (the latter working in search for a redefi nition of this term.

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SSNY shall mail also the registered agent ware (DE) on 7/21/09. SSNY or activity. (“SSNY”) on 11/23/09. N.Y. of NY 09/22/09. Off. Loc.: 12/9-1/13/2010 TION OF EVENTWIST, process to THE LLC 10 W. address. Purpose: For any designated as agent of LLC Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 offi ce location: New York New York Co. SSNY desig- LLC 33RD Street NY, NY 10001. lawful purpose. upon whom process against NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE County. The SSNY has been Vil 12/2-1/6/10 nated as agent upon whom Authority fi led with Secy. designated as agent of the it may be served. SSNY shall process against it may be NOTICE OF FORMATION TION OF ALLIED FIBER, Secy. of State, PO Box 898 mail process to: 150 E. 58th OF ROSENPHIL LLC. LLC of State of NY (SSNY) on Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: LLC upon whom process served. SSNY to mail copy 12/3/2009. Offi ce location: NY against it may be served. NOTICE OF FORMATION St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10155. DE Authority fi led with NY Dept. any lawful activity. of process to THE LLC C/O, Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. Co. LLC formed in Delaware The SSNY shall mail a copy OF 44-02 VERNON MEM- address of LLC: The Corpo- Of State of NY (SSNY) on of State on 10/23/09. Offi ce Vil 12/16-1/20/10 BER LLC. Susannah Perlyn, 211 East location: NY County. LLC (DE) on 10/1/2009. SSNY des- JSBARKATS LLC of any process to OMP Capi- ration Trust Company, 1209 10/27/09. Offi ce location: NY tal Investors, LLC, c/o Omni Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. 70th Street, New York, NY formed in DE on 6/18/08. NY ignated as agent of LLC upon Orange St., Wilmington, DE County. SSNY designated Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. New York LLC, 885 Second of State of NY (SSNY) on 10021. Purpose: Any lawful Sec. of State designated as whom process against it may 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with as agent of LLC for service of State (SSNY) 12/7/2009. Avenue, 31st Fl., Suite C, NY, 11/13/09. Offi ce location: NY act or activity. agent of LLC upon whom be served. SSNY shall mail DE Secy. of State, PO Box of process. SSNY shall mail Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY NY 10017. Name/address of County. SSNY designated Vil 12/9 – 1/13/10 process against it may be process to THE LLC 30 W 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur- process to: 230 W. 105 St. design. Agent of LLC upon each member available from as agent of LLC upon whom served and shall mail pro- 37TH ST., STE. #902 NY, NY pose: any lawful activity. #14A, New York, NY 10025. whom process may be SSNY. Purpose: any lawful process against it may be NOTICE OF FORMATION cess to the principal business 10018. DE address of LLC: Vil 12/3-1/6/10 Purpose: Any lawful activity. addr.: c/o Corinthian Capital served. SSNY shall mail activity. served. SSNY shall mail OF BEHOLM, LLC 2711 Centerville Rd Ste 400 Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Group, LLC, 601 Lexington Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. copy of process to THE LLC Vil 12/16-1/20/10 process to c/o Rosenberg Articles of Organization fi led 2071 Flatbush Ave Suite 189 & Estis, P.C., Attn: Michael NOTICE OF FORMATION Ave., 59th Fl., NY, NY 10022, Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of OF BIG VOICE UNLIM- with Secretary of State of FAIRWAY FUND X LOTS Attn: Rory J. Cutaia. DE addr. State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE Brooklyn, NY 11234. Pur- 166 PERRY 4D HOLD- E. Lefkowitz Esq., 733 Third of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: ITED LLC. New York (SSNY) on 10/23/09 LLC 19903. Purpose: any lawful pose: Any lawful activity. INGS LLC Offi ce location: NY County. Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Any lawful activity. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. activity. a domestic Limited Liabil- SSNY has been designated fi led with DE Sec. of State, Vil 12/2-1/6/10 of State of NY (SSNY) on of State (SSNY) 12/2/2009. 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, Vil 12/16-1/20/10 ity Company (LLC) fi led with as an agent upon whom pro- 75 CLINTON HOLDINGS 10/28/09. Offi ce location: NY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY DE 19901. Purpose: any law- the Sec of State of NY on cess against the LLC may LLC WAN AI JEWELRY LLC County. SSNY designated as design. Agent of LLC upon ful purpose. 653 EAST 182 LLC 10/28/09. NY Offi ce location: be served. The address to New York County. SSNY is Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. agent of LLC upon whom whom process may be Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. which SSNY shall mail a served. SSNY shall mail designated as agent upon of State (SSNY) 11/02/2009. process against it may be of State (SSNY) 5/28/2008. of State (SSNY) 7/16/2009. copy of process to Kriss & whom process against the Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY served. SSNY shall mail pro- copy of any process against NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Feuerstein LLP C/O Kenneth TION OF ANCHORAGE design. Agent of LLC upon LLC may be served. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon cess to: 20 W. 23rd St., 3rd Fl., the LLC is to: 210 E 118 St design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be #303 New York, NY 10035. P Horowitz 360 Lexington ILLIQUID OPPORTUNI- whom process may be shall mail a copy of any pro- NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any whom process may be cess against the LLC served served. SSNY shall mail copy Purpose: To engage in any Ave 12TH Fl New York, NY TIES, L.P. served. SSNY shall mail lawful activity. served. SSNY shall mail copy upon him/her to Howard of process to THE LLC 343 lawful act or activity. 10017. Purpose: Any lawful Authority fi led with NY Dept. of process to THE LLC 1775 copy of process to Foote & Canal Street 1 FL New York, Vil 12/3-1/6/10 activity. of State on 11/20/09. Offi ce Associates LLP 2 Overhill Rd Hershberg, 420 Lexington Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Broadway Ste 532 New York, Ave Rm. 2620, NY, NY 10170. NY 10013. Purpose: Any law- Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 location: NY County. LP NY 10019. Purpose: Any law- Ste 425 Scarsdale, NY 10583. NOTICE OF FORMATION General Purposes. ful activity. formed in DE on 11/10/09. NY ful activity. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION Sec. of State designated as Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Vil 12/2-1/6/10 OF LHG SERVICES LLC. Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Vil 12/16-1/20/10 OF SIMPLICITY DB LLC, TOASTING THE TOWN, agent of LP upon whom pro- Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. LLC FUNK-TIONAL ENTER- Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of cess against it may be served NOTICE OF FORMATION of State of NY (SSNY) on Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. and shall mail process to the SZEKELY LLC REVEL INSPIRED, LLC PRISES, LLC State (SSNY) 11/13/09. Offi ce OF L.R.Z.S. REALTY LLC. 10/27/09. Offi ce location: NY of State (SSNY) 11/2/2009. principal business addr.: 610 Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. location: NY County. SSNY Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. County. SSNY designated as Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Broadway, 6th Fl., NY, NY of State (SSNY) 11/19/2009. of State (SSNY) 11/16/2009. of State (SSNY) 6/3/2009. designated as agent of LLC of State of NY (SSNY) on agent of LLC upon whom design. Agent of LLC upon 10012. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY process against it may be upon whom process against Corporation Trust Co., 1209 10/8/09. Office location: design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be design. Agent of LLC upon design. Agent of LLC upon Bronx County. SSNY desig- served. SSNY shall mail pro- it may be served. SSNY Orange St., Wilmington, DE whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail whom process may be whom process may be nated as agent of LLC for ser- shall mail copy of process 19801. Name/addr. of genl. served. SSNY shall mail copy cess to: The LLC, c/o Blue copy of process to Joseph served. SSNY shall mail copy served. SSNY shall mail copy vice of process. SSNY shall Ridge Capital, L.L.C., 660 to John Albert Novotny, 70 ptr. available from NY Sec. of process to Katelin Shea Karcinell 117 East 71ST of State. Cert. of LP fi led with of process to David A. Szeke- of process to Greg Baker 165 mail process to: PO Box 453 East 14TH Street #5H Madison Ave., 20th Fl., NY, Haven Ave., Apt. 5E, NY, NY Street Apt. 5E New York, NY DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box ly 41 West 72ND Street, Apt. West End Ave. Suite 3B New 151, Paramus, NJ 07653. New York, NY 10009. Pur- NY 10065. Purpose: any law- 10032. Purpose: any lawful 10021. Purpose: Any lawful 898, Dover, DE 19903. Pur- 16G New York, NY 10023. York, NY 10023. Purpose: Purpose: Any lawful pose: Any lawful activity. ful activity. activities. activity. pose: all lawful purposes. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Any lawful activity. activity. Vil 12/2-1/6/10 Vil 12/3-1/6/10 Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Vil 12/9-1/13/2010 Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Vil 12/16-1/20/10 January 6 - 12, 2010 23 PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- MAGGY AMES HAND- OVER THE TOP MUFFIN NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE IS HEREBY OF TEKONOMI LLC. OF COOKIE CAPITAL, TION OF MAK CAPITAL TION OF ROBECO SAM MADE LLC COMPANY, L.L.C. TION OF 805 MADISON GIVEN CLEAN TECH III GEN- Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. LLC. TWO LLC, Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. AVENUE OWNER LLC. ERAL PARTNER, LLC. that a license, serial number# Of State of NY (SSNY) on Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State (SSNY) 12/9/2009. of State (SSNY) 11/4/2009. Authority fi led with NY Dept. App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of Authority fi led with Secy. 1229853 for Restaurant Wine 11/19/09. Offi ce location: NY of State of NY (SSNY) on Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY of State on 12/3/09. Offi ce County. SSNY designated State (SSNY) 12/7/09. Offi ce of State of NY (SSNY) on License has been applied 9/3/09. Offi ce location: NY design. Agent of LLC upon design. Agent of LLC upon location: NY County. Princ. as agent of LLC for service location: NY County. LLC 12/08/09. Offi ce location: bus. addr.: 295 Madison Ave., for by the undersigned to County. SSNY designated as whom process may be whom process may be of process. SSNY shall mail org. in DE 12/4/09. SSNY NY County. LLC formed in served. SSNY shall mail 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10017. LLC sell wine and beer retail in agent of LLC upon whom served. SSNY shall mail copy process to: 7014 13 Ave. designated as agent of LLC Delaware (DE) on 12/01/09. copy of process to Margery formed in DE on 12/2/09. NY a restaurant under the Alco- process against it may be of process to THE LLC 186 #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. upon whom process against Princ. offi ce of LLC: 909 Third E. Ames 201 East 28TH Street Sec. of State designated as served. SSNY shall mail pro- Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY Riverside Drive APT 2C New holic Beverage Control Law Purpose: Any lawful activity. it may be served. SSNY New York, NY 10016-8538. agent of LLC upon whom Vil 12/16-1/20/10 cess to: c/o Ethan O. Notkin, designated as agent of LLC York, NY 10024. Purpose: at 2534 Broadway, New York, Esq., Kane Kessler, P.C., 1350 shall mail copy of process Purpose: Any lawful activity. process against it may be upon whom process against Any lawful activity. NY 10025 for on-premises Avenue of the Americas, NY, Vil 12/23-1/27/10 served and shall mail pro- to Attn: Michael Kaufman, it may be served. SSNY shall Vil 12/23-1/27/10 consumption of Thai Lemon NOTICE OF FORMATION NY 10019. Purpose: any law- mail process to the LLC at the cess to: c/o CT Corporation OF JOVANOVIC MEDI- 590 Madison Ave., 9th Fl., System, 111 8th Ave., NY, Grass on Broadway Inc. ful activity. addr. of its princ. offi ce. DE MY FABULOUS VEN- CAL LLC. NY, NY 10022. DE offi ce NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: Vil 12/30/09 & 1/6/10 Vil 12/9-1/13/10 addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation TURES, LLC AM DIAMONDS OF addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville The Corporation Trust Co., Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Service Co., 2711 Centerville Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. EDEN LLC Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. 1209 Orange St., Wilming- Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, of State (SSNY) 7/7/2009. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. NOTICE IS HEREBY 08/14/09. Offi ce location: NY NOTICE OF FORMATION Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, New Castle Cnty., DE 19808. ton, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. County. SSNY designated as OF THE MYSTERIOUS Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY of State (SSNY) 9/14/2009. fi led with DE Sec. of State, GIVEN Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. design. Agent of LLC upon agent of LLC upon whom PRESS LLC. of State of State of DE, Corp. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY 401 Federal St., Dover, DE that a license, #TBA has 19901. Purpose: any lawful whom process may be process against it may be Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Dept., Townsend Bldg., design. Agent of LLC upon 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. served. SSNY shall mail copy been applied for by Rubin served. SSNY shall mail pro- of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: whom process may be activity. Vil 12/23-1/27/10 of process to THE LLC 45 W Museum of Art to sell beer, cess to: The LLC, 930 5th 8/27/09. Offi ce location: NY Any lawful activity. served. SSNY shall mail Vil 12/23-1/27/10 60TH ST. #6K New York, NY wine and liquor at retail in a Ave., Ste. 3, NY, NY 10021. County. SSNY designated as Vil 12/23-1/27/10 copy of process to THE LLC Purpose: any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION 10023. Purpose: Any lawful NOTICE OF FORMATION restaurant. For on premises agent of LLC upon whom activity. 41 West 47 Street #501 New Vil 12/16-1/20/10 process against it may be OF LADDINS ROCK LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION York, NY 10036. Purpose: OF ANNAN INSPIRA- consumption under the ABC OF INTERNATIONAL Vil 12/23-1/27/10 TIONAL MEDIA, LLC. law at 150 West 17th Street served. SSNY shall mail pro- Articles of Organization Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMA- SYSTEM PROJECTS, NY, NY 10011. cess to: The LLC, c/o Mr. Otto fi led with Secretary of State Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. TION OF STRATEGIC LLC. PANGA PROPERTY, LLC of State of NY (SSNY) on Penzler, 58 Warren St., New of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/09 & 1/6/10 58 ENTERTAINMENT York, NY 10007. Purpose: any Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. 10/14/09. Offi ce location: NY 10/16/09. Offi ce location: of State of NY (SSNY) on of State (SSNY) 11/30/2009. BLIND EAR MUSIC, LLC GROUP, LLC. lawful activity. County. SSNY designated as 12/09/09. Offi ce location: NY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. NOTICE IS HEREBY Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Vil 12/9-1/13/10 NY County. SSNY has been agent of LLC upon whom Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on designated as an agent upon County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: design. Agent of LLC upon of State (SSNY) 3/31/2009. process against it may be GIVEN Felix Nihamin & Associates, 10/21/09. Offi ce location: NY whom process against the whom process may be Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY served. SSNY shall mail NOTICE OF FORMATION PC, 65 W. 36th St., NY, NY served. SSNY shall mail copy that a license, #1236282 has County. SSNY designated as OF GP DEVA NEW YORK, LLC may be served. The design. Agent of LLC upon process to: Scott Annan, 252 10018. SSNY designated as of process to Corporation Seventh Avenue, NY, NY agent of LLC upon whom LLC. address to which SSNY shall agent of LLC upon whom whom process may be been applied for by Inovative process against it may be Service Company 80 State served. SSNY shall mail 10001. Purpose: any lawful Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. mail a copy of any process process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro- Street Albany, NY 12207- copy of process to C/O Cor- activity. Restaurants LLC to sell beer, of State of NY (SSNY) on against the LLC is to: The served. SSNY shall mail pro- 2543. Purpose: Any lawful cess to: C/O Strategic Group, cess to the LLC at the addr. of poration Service Company Vil 12/23-1/27/10 10/28/09. Offi ce location: NY LLC, 60 E 12th St, 8E, New activity. Registered Agent: wine and liquor at retail in a Attn: Noah Tepperberg, 49 its princ. offi ce. Purpose: Any 80 State Street Albany, NY W.27th St., 5th Fl., NY, NY County. SSNY designated as York, NY 10003. Purpose: Corporation Service Com- lawful activity. 12207. Purpose: Any lawful NOTICE OF FORMATION restaurant. For on premises 10001. . Purpose: any lawful agent of LLC upon whom pany 80 State Street Albany, To engage in any lawful act Vil 12/23-1/27/10 activity. Registered Agent: OF ALPHA METRICS consumption under the ABC activity. process against it may be or activity. NY 12207-2543. AND CONSULTING, LLC. Vil 12/16-1/20/10 served. SSNY shall mail Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Corporation Service Com- Vil 12/23-1/27/10 NOTICE OF FORMATION Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. law at 133 Ludlow Street NY, process to: Corporation Ser- OF EVIL MASTERMIND, pany 80 State Street Albany, of State of NY (SSNY) on NY 10002. NOTICE OF FORMATION vice Company, 80 State St., LLC. ROGERS ECKERSLEY NY 12207. OF ASEISMIC, LLC. NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Vil 12/23-1/27/10 8/14/2009. Offi ce location: NY Albany, NY 12207, registered Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. DESIGN LLC 12/30/09 & 1/6/10 TION OF JAMAY LIMITED CARRIE SIPP PHOTO. LLC County. SSNY designated as Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. agent upon whom process Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. agent of LLC upon whom Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on may be served. Purpose: any PARTNERSHIP. 10/22/09. Offi ce location: NY of State (SSNY) 9/22/2006. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. process against it may be NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- 10/26/09. Offi ce location: NY lawful activity. Authority fi led with Secy. County. SSNY designated as Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY of State (SSNY) 11/23/2009. served. SSNY shall mail pro- County. SSNY designated as Vil 12/9-1/13/10 of State of NY (SSNY) on agent of LLC upon whom design. Agent of LLC upon Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY cess to: 418 E. 59th St., #33A, TION OF FLINTLOCK agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be 6/29/09. LP formed in Dela- whom process may be design. Agent of LLC upon NY, NY 10022. Term: until CAPITAL ASSET MAN- process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail NOTICE OF QUALIFI- served. SSNY shall mail copy whom process may be 12/31/2059. Purpose: any served. SSNY shall mail pro- ware (DE) on 04/15/98. Offi ce process to: The LLC, 372 AGEMENT, LLC CATION OF MOVING of process to THE LLC 86 lawful activity. cess to: Dennis Goodhart, location: New York County. 5th Ave., #4L New York, NY served. SSNY shall mail copy MUSEUMS, LLC. Walker Street 4TH Floor New Vil 12/23-1/27/10 32 Concord Rd., Ardsley, NY SSNY designated as agent 10018. Purpose: any lawful of process to THE LLC 268 Authority fi led with Secy. Authority fi led with Secy. York, NY 10013. Purpose: 10502. Purpose: any lawful of LP upon whom process activity West 12TH Street – 3W NYC, of State of NY (SSNY) on activity of State of NY (SSNY) on Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Any lawful activity. NY 10014. Purpose: Any law- NOTICE OF FORMA- against it may be served. TION OF GOLDEN GATE 9/25/2009. Offi ce location: NY Vil 12/16-1/20/10 1/22/09. Offi ce location: NY Vil 12/23-1/27/10 ful activity. SSNY shall mail process to REALTY CO. LLC. County. LLC formed in Dela- NOTICE OF FORMATION Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Co. LLC formed in Delaware ware (DE) on 11/3/08. SSNY 5 Richards Ave. Dover, NJ DREXEL GRANDE LLC Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JEVA LLC. (DE) on 7/17/2009. SSNY des- designated as agent of LLC 07801. Principal address of Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on OF ANALYTIC RECRUIT- Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. NOTICE OF FORMATION ING-CONSULTING SER- upon whom process against LP: 5 Richards Ave. Dover, of State (SSNY) 12/4/2009. 10/8/1998. Offi ce location: NY ignated as agent of LLC upon Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on OF ZANDERFERREIRA VICES, LLC. it may be served. SSNY shall NJ 07801. List of the names 11/18/09. Offi ce location: NY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY County. SSNY designated as whom process against it may LLC. agent of LLC upon whom Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. mail process to: c/o Loeb and business or residence County. SSNY designated as design. Agent of LLC upon process against it may be be served. SSNY shall mail Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on & Loeb, LLP, 345 Park Ave., addresses of all general part- agent of LLC upon whom whom process may be Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy NY, NY 10154, Attn: Stefan served. SSNY shall mail copy served. SSNY shall mail pro- 11/06/09. Offi ce location: NY ners is available from the process against it may be of State of NY (SSNY) on process to THE LLC, Attn: Schick. DE address of LLC: served. SSNY shall mail pro- of process to THE LLC 206 10/13/09. Offi ce location: NY cess to: c/o Leemar Manage- County. SSNY designated as SSNY. Cert. of LP fi led with David Walker 1285 Ave Of agent of LLC upon whom c/o National Corporate cess to: Snow Becker Krauss 17TH ST, APT.6C New York, County. SSNY designated ment Corp, 175 North Cen- Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of tral Ave., Valley Stream, NY process against it may be Research, Ltd., 615 S. DuPont P.C., Attn: Mark Borten, 605 NY 10003. Purpose: Any law- as agent of LLC for service The Americas 35TH Flr NY, State of the State of DE, Div. 11580. Purpose: any lawful served. SSNY shall mail pro- Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. 3rd Ave., 25th Fl., New York, ful activity. of process. SSNY shall mail NY 10019. DE address of LLC: cess to: C/O E. Daniel Raz, of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of of Corporations, 401 Federal NY 10158. Purpose: any law- Vil 12/23-1/27/10 activity. process to: 328 E.25 St. #3, 1209 Orange St Wilmington, 144 E. 44th St., 3rd Fl., NY, State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE St., Ste.4, Dover, DE 19901. ful activity. Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Vil 12/23-1/27/10 New York, NY 10010. Pur- NY 10017. Purpose: any law- 19903. Purpose: any lawful Purpose: Any lawful activity. LITTLE SHOES PUBLISH- DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led pose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION ful activity. activity. ING COMPANY OF NEW Vil 12/23-1/27/10 Vil 12/23-1/27/10 OF WEST 96TH STREET with DE Secy. of State, PO Vil 12/16-1/20/10 Vil 12/9-1/13/10 NOTICE OF FORMATION YORK, LLC OF PASTAHHH, LLC. LLC. Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE OF FORMATION Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF APPL. FOR Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/4/2009. Purpose: any lawful activity. OF EUSTACE LLC. TION OF CREDIT SUISSE Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on OF GERRY VOS, LLC. of State of NY (SSNY) on AUTH. OF SIXTH AVE- Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Vil 12/30-2/3/2010 Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. NUE OWNER LLC, PRIME SECURITIES SER- 11/27/09. Offi ce location: NY Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. 12/2/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as design. Agent of LLC upon County. SSNY designated as Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on VICES (USA) LLC. whom process may be Of State of NY (SSNY) on a foreign limited liabil- agent of LLC upon whom agent of LLC upon whom NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- 11/18/09. Offi ce location: NY ity company (LLC).Appl. Authority fi led with Secy. served. SSNY shall mail 12/3/09. Offi ce location: NY process against it may be process against it may be TION OF FLINTLOCK County. SSNY designated as for Auth. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on served. SSNY shall mail pro- copy of process to C/O County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom served. 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Villager fi le photo by Jefferson Siegel Kayakers might not be able to return to the Pier 40 dock this spring because it is in disrepair, and the new Pier 26 boathouse in Tribeca will not open until 2011. A stroke of bad luck as kayakers might miss season

BY JULIE SHAPIRO the damn dock,” Wetteroth told Connie stop dead in their tracks while [the pier] is the city,” said Bob Townley, chairperson of It looks like free kayaking on Pier 40 will Fishman, president of the Trust. “It’s sitting not completed.” C.B. 1’s Waterfront Committee. not return next season. there and people can’t use it.” Louis Kleinman, who does outreach for The Trust plans to bid the boathouse The wooden dock that Downtown Fishman replied that the Trust needs to the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, said contract in January and award it in March. It Boathouse has been using for years to launch use that part of Pier 26 for construction stag- he was sorry to hear about the loss of any is important to move quickly this fi scal year, New Yorkers into the Hudson River is on ing to build the boathouse and restaurant on program in the city’s rivers. just in case the state and city try to take away its last legs, the boathouse’s founder Jim the pier, along with the upland area between some of the Trust’s money in tough budget Wetteroth said. Laight and N. Moore Sts. times, Fishman said. The state and city have “It’s probably not going to last the winter,” Downtown Boathouse will not be able to each put $6 million in this year’s budget for Wetteroth said at a meeting of Community move back to Pier 26 until 2011, Fishman The Hudson River Park the restaurant and boathouse construction. Board 1’s Waterfront Committee two weeks ago. said. (There may be a formal request for pro- Pier 26 is also slated to get a maritime “It’s [defi nitely] not going to last next season.” posals, or R.F.P., to run a kayaking program Trust plans to bid out the education center called an estuarium, but Wetteroth used to run the free kayaking there, but Downtown Boathouse is assumed it does not have enough money or a design, program on Pier 26, at N. Moore St. in Tribeca, to be the operator.) boathouse contract this and it is unclear whether it will ever be built. before that pier was demolished in 2006. That Noreen Doyle, vice president of the Trust, Fishman said a steering committee of half year, Wetteroth moved his dock and the kayaks later said that Downtown Boathouse could month. a dozen public agencies is meeting to talk up to Pier 40, at West Houston St., where they build a new dock at Pier 40, as long as it about the estuarium’s future. have been housed ever since. Staffed by volun- was not any bigger than the old one, but it Townley, who is also executive director teers, Downtown Boathouse offers free kayak seems unlikely that Wetteroth would invest But Fishman did have some good news of Manhattan Youth, used to run programs rentals during the summer at Pier 40, Pier 96 in a new dock for just one season. for the community board when she made the on the adjacent Pier 25, which the Trust also (W. 56th St.) and W. 72nd St. Wetteroth said last year, about 10,000 presentation on Dec. 21: After complaints demolished and is rebuilding. Complete with As Wetteroth recently searched for a people used the free kayaks at Pier 40, while from Wetteroth and others about the planned a miniature-golf course and sand volleyball way to keep the Pier 40 program running in 7,000 each used the kayaks at Pier 96, at W. size and confi guration of the new boathouse courts, Pier 25 is scheduled to reopen in fall 2010, he looked back to Pier 26, which the 56th St., and W. 72nd St. on Pier 26, the Trust made some adjustments. 2010, Fishman said. Hudson River Park Trust has since rebuilt. “It’s a real shame,” said Julie Nadel, a The Trust added room for another 36 kayaks, After the meeting, Doyle said that the A new dock is already in place on the new Tribeca resident who used to serve on the bringing the boathouse’s total capacity to 120 milder this winter is, the better the chance Pier 26, although the pier remains fenced off Trust’s board. Given that construction takes long kayaks and 108 shorter ones. The facil- that the new sections of the park will open because nothing else is complete. Wetteroth such a long time, Nadel said she wished the ity, which includes a shower, will open for the on time. hopes to change that. Trust could allow for interim uses like kayak- 2011 season, Fishman said. “We’re hoping for a good construction “The fi rst thing you built there was ing on the pier, “as opposed to having things “This is such an incredible amenity for winter,” she said. 26 January 6 - 12, 2010 BUSINESS CARD SECTION Advertise Your Business Here It’s Affordable and Delivers Results! Call 646-452-2496

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