BY LINCOLN ANDERSON A Greenwich Village loca-

tion where famed fashion design-er Donna Karan holds her Urban Zen Foundation events is causing some very un-Zen-like effects among neighbors, basically driving many of them to distraction on a semi-regular basis.

The Urban Zen Foundation has three missions: patient advocacy and well-being — such as using yoga to

help cancer patients — empowering children and preserving cultures.

The Dalai Lama has visited the space, at 711 Greenwich St. at Charles St. Earlier this year, Gwyneth Paltrow, Christy Turlington and Moby headlined a “Bent on Learning” ben-efit there for yoga in New York City public schools. There was an African rainforest fundraiser.

But the place also hosts major pri-vate parties that do not fall under the

banner of Urban Zen, and one event two weeks ago — Def Jam’s show-case for its new music releases — did not exactly put residents into a meditative state of mind. In fact, one neighbor, so distraught over the disruptions, allegedly threatened to come over and “start shooting.”

The neighbor — who denies mak-ing the threat — said the booming

BY ALBERT AMATEAUIt has been said that a

person whose daily routine is predictable is a person of great character. The story goes that neighbors of the 18th-century philosopher Emanuel Kant in Königs-berg, East Prussia, would set their watches by his com-ings and goings. Down in the East Village, residents and people whose business brought them to Seventh

St. between Avenue A and First Ave. had their own lodestar, a white cat named Pretty Boy who walked the south side of the street for more than 20 years.

Pretty Boy died on Tues., May 19, leaving a small hollowness for those who had felt his inescap-able presence.

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Cyclists ‘pup their rides’Laurie Mittelmann got ready to roll with Princess at Sunday’s Doggie Pedal Parade. The ride highlighted bicycles adapted to transport pets and promoted the adoption of homeless animals. Sponsored by Time’s Up!, the parade started at Tompkins Square’s dog run, stopping at several animal hospitals and community gardens along the way, before ending at the Washington Square dog run.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSONUnveiling what will be

New York University stu-dents’ future on-campus faith facility — plus a fl ex-ible, multiuse space for classrooms and music per-formances and rehearsals — N.Y.U. released plans on Tuesday for its new Center for Academic and Spiritual Life. The building, to be built at Thompson St. and Washington Square South, will replace the former N.Y.U. Catholic Center, which was recently razed to make way for the proj-ect.

The proposal is for a

building of 61,000 square feet, 89 feet tall with six stories. Notably, N.Y.U.’s design doesn’t use all the space allowed under the property’s zoning. Zoning permits a structure with a fl oor area ratio, or F.A.R., of up to 6.5, but N.Y.U.’s plan only uses 4.9 F.A.R. Roughly speaking, by forgoing 1.6 F.A.R. — which translates into 18,000 square feet — the building would be about one story lower.

Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president of govern-ment affairs and community

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TOAST OF THE TOWN: Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomi-nation for the Supreme Court by President Obama last week rocked sleepy Bedford St. “She lives right across the street at No. 3. Who knew?” marveled Livvie Mann, president of the Bedford-Downing Block Association. When paparazzi descend-ed on the street last Wednesday, neighbors at fi rst thought the photographers were there to cover Drew Barrymore, who also lives on the block. Mann said it turns out that a past boyfriend of Sotomayor’s once came to one of the block association’s early meetings about 11 years ago, shortly after the association’s founding. He had a map and “it had something to do with traf-fi c,” Mann said, though she couldn’t recall further details. “I think he was from Connecticut,” she said. Sotomayor is well known at the Blue Ribbon Market on Bedford St. The sand-wich station crew there, Efren Perez, Milcar Cruz and Sasha Acosta, chat with her when she comes in on weekend mornings to buy her usual: sturgeon on toast, a couple of bread sticks and a decaf coffee. “We actually didn’t know she was a judge until one or two months ago,” Perez said. “It came up in conversa-tion.” Cruz said, “She talks in Spanish and she talks about the weather. She tells me, ‘Hey, como estas? I’m fi ne.’ ... I mean, she’s a normal woman. One day, I asked her what she did for

a living and she told me she was a federal judge on the Court of Appeals Second Circuit.” Cruz said that often Sotomayor is accompanied by a friend, an older blonde woman. “I think they work together, because when they come here, they’re usually talking about work,” he noted. It was a whirlwind week at the sandwich station, Cruz said. “The fi rst week, it was crazy,” he said, “like CNN, Daily News, New York Post. Actually, a lady from the Washington Post came in and asked me some ques-tions. It was intense, because I’d never been in front of the camera before. They took pictures of me and Sasha making the toast and it was fun — but I was scared. ... I’m rooting for her,” Cruz said. “She’s Hispanic, I’m Latino, and I’m proud of her. I think she’s going to be great.” Meanwhile, Andrew Berman, director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said Sotomayor’s building, while generally speak-ing, is in the area of the proposed South Village Historic District, is actually not technically in the district because it’s

too modern, having probably been built in the ’80s. Yet, he said, even if her building’s not in the district, he’s proud of her, even more so because, like Sotomayor, he grew up in the Bronx. ... And as if Sotomayor’s nomination wasn’t already causing enough hoopla, Obama and the fi rst lady, of course, ate at Blue Hill restaurant on Washington Place early Saturday evening before taking in a Broadway show. How much federal political excitement can one neighborhood take? What’ll be next — Joe Biden playing guitar by the Washington Square fountain?

SO-VIL VOTE: As for the South Village Historic District, Berman said it now looks like the Landmarks Preservation Commission may be voting on June 23 on whether to calen-dar the district for a designation hearing. He said G.V.S.H.P. just hopes no irreplaceable historic buildings are demolished or savaged before then.

STOP THE VIOLENCE: As shock continues to mount over the images of bloody violence depicted on Bob Arihood’s Neither More Nor Less blog, East Villagers have banded togeth-er to identify the suspects in a series of attacks on Tompkins Square Park “crusties,” homeless people and others. A group called Alphabet City Neighbors have posted a blog, abc-neighbors.blogspot.com, and are asking residents to report the suspects to the authorities. The site contains a poster that people can print out and paste around the neighborhood that announces: “Warning Thugs: We Are Watching!” Meanwhile, there’s still no update from the city’s medical examiner on the cause of death of Lesia Pupshaw, 26, who died at her E. Sixth St. home on the morning of May 9 after having been assaulted by a band of local youths the night before. Pupshaw was also reportedly a heroin user. On Tuesday, Ellen Borakove, an M.E. spokesperson, said there were no preliminary indications from tissue and toxicology tests, and even if there were, the M.E. would not release them publicly. But police are privy to things. Shortly after Pupshaw’s death, Deputy Inspector Dennis De Quatro, the Ninth Precinct’s commanding offi cer, told The Villager, “The medical examiner is indicating that the injuries that they believe [Pupshaw] sustained were not the cause of her death. The only thing we have at this point is that her death is not [attributable to violence].”

BACK ON THE STREET AGAIN: Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man,” is homeless again, unfortunately. He thought he had a great deal on a place that was advertised as being in Park Slope — only to fi nd out it was in a construction site way out in Canarsie. It was too far a commute from the East Village, so he had to give it up. He’s hard up right now, and is really getting impatient waiting for The New York Times to do its promised profi le of his interior mosaic-tile work, which could give him a needed boost. He’s all ready for the Times photo shoot, wearing his T-shirt with a photo on it showing Obama gesturing by Power’s “N.A.A.C.P. light pole” by Cooper Union. It sort of looks like Obama is wav-ing at someone in the distance, but Power assures that he is in fact pointing at and admiring Power’s pole artistry. For those who would like to help out a struggling street artist in need, and of course his loyal canine companion Jesse Jane, Power notes he has a Pay Pal account set up under “Jim Power.”

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUMore verbal fi reworks broke out on Monday

in the battle over private use of public space regarding the pavilion at the north end of Union Square Park.

Members of the Union Square Community Coalition who are still trying to prevent the Department of Parks from seeking a seasonal restaurant concession for the pavilion renewed their demand at the June 1 Community Board 5 Parks Committee meeting.

Geoffrey Croft, president of NYC Park Advocates and a U.S.C.C. board member, told the committee on June 1 that the coali-tion wants the pavilion to be used strictly for community recreation on the model of a simi-lar pavilion recently renovated in Columbus Park in Chinatown.

Supporters of the project, however, insisted that a seasonal restaurant in the pavilion would contribute to the liveliness of the park at night. Parks offi cials have noted that revenues from concessions are signifi cant. However, oppo-nents at the Monday meeting said they feared that a luxury restaurant would keep people of modest means out of the pavilion.

The battle is being renewed three years after the city and Community Board 5 approved the redesign of the park, pavilion and plaza and at the north end of Union Square. Construction on the project began a year ago and is expected to be completed in the autumn.

Moreover, State Supreme Court Justice Jane S. Solomon last month dismissed most of the issues in the coalition’s lawsuit to block the reconstruction of the 1932 pavilion and pre-vent its proposed use as a restaurant conces-sion. The judge declined to rule on the legality of a concession only because Parks has not yet granted a concession.

The department is about to draft a request for proposals, or R.F.P., for a con-cessionaire for the pavilion.

Joe Hagelmann, chairperson of the C.B.5 Parks Committee who conducted the Monday meeting, recalled that Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Bill Castro, the Manhattan borough Parks com-missioner, three years ago agreed that C.B. 5 would be involved in the R.F.P.

Charles Kloth, Parks Department director of concessions, replied that he was there to get input from the committee on what the com-munity would like to see in the R.F.P. But Kloth added that, according to bidding procedure, the R.F.P. would not be made public and copies would be issued only to responding bidders.

Lisa Kaplan, chief of staff for Councilmember Rosie Mendez, said that Mendez had called for the concession to include moderately priced takeout food. Mendez supported the reconstruction plan three and a half years ago because the playground at the park’s north end was expanded about three times to nearly 15,000 square feet.

Luna Park, a private outdoor restaurant concession, was operating for several sum-mers on the south side of the pavilion in an open space that became part of the expanded playground.

Former City Councilmember Carol Greitzer, a longtime opponent of a pri-vate restaurant in the pavilion, noted that Greenmarket farmers back their trucks into the north plaza in view of the pavilion.

“I don’t think diners paying high prices would want to look at the back of farm trucks,” she said. Teen skateboard enthu-siasts use the north plaza at night and res-taurant patrons would have to endure their noise, Greitzer added.

Nevertheless, Parks offi cials have long noted that concessions are nothing new in parks, and revenues from those concessions are signifi cant. Those revenues, however, go into the city’s gen-eral fund and are not automatically designated to the park where they are generated or to the Parks Department.

Joyce Matz, a C.B. 5 member for many years, recalled that hers was the lone vote in 2006 against the board’s approval.

“I voted that way because the pavilion is public property and should be used by the pub-lic and not for a private restaurant,” she said.

Hagelmann indicated that the committee would not draft a resolution on the pavilion until at least one more public meeting on the issue.

By Emma DeVito

More Choice with New Medicaid Assisted Living Program

Overwhelmingly, I’m told, older adults have a common ground when it comes to aging – they want to stay in their own homes for as long as possible.

Ideally, they say, that’s where they’d like to stay right up until the day they pass on.Because of that desire, a whole structure has emerged over the past two decades built

around services such as home care, which enable those who are frail, or becoming frail, to continue to live in familiar surroundings.

There often comes a time, however, when remaining at home just isn’t an option any longer. That time can arrive for many different reasons, and it’s often tied to a family’s concern for the safety and well-being of someone living alone with chronic health issues.

For many years, the only solution people could find when confronted with this need was placement in a nursing home. Alternative solutions, especially for those with few resources to begin with or whose resources have been depleted in paying for caregiving, have been hard to come by.

One of the responses that New York State has embraced is the creation and expansion of the Medicaid Assisted Living Program (ALP), which provides residential care and services for persons whose only other option would be a nursing facility.

Four years ago, Village Care of New York was selected by the State for a long-term care demonstration program to “develop, evaluate and implement programs to test new models” for the delivery of long-term care. We gave the name “SeniorChoices” to the demonstration effort, which has a number of components, one of which is the development of a Medicaid ALP.

The state Department of Health has approved 80 “beds” or “slots” for our ALP, and we will be opening the first 40 this summer at our senior residence, The Village at 46th & Ten, which is located in the Clinton neighborhood.

Our Medicaid ALP at 46th & Ten will serve two purposes. First, it will expand the availability of this needed option to more individuals in the communities we serve in Manhattan. It will also provide a safety net for those living at the residence who are using up their own resources and would otherwise have to find alternative living and care arrangements.

In Village Care’s demonstration to the State, we are “rightsizing” our institutional capacity by replacing the aging 200-bed Village Nursing Home with a new, state-of-the-art, 105-bed center that will open next year on West Houston Street. In exchange for the reduced nursing home capacity, the State has encouraged and allowed us to develop more “user friendly” options such as the Medicaid ALP and a Long-Term Home Health Care Program, among others.

Based in part on our experiences, the Health Department is expanding the underlying concept of our SeniorChoices demonstration, having announced in this year’s state budget that it will expand the Medicaid ALP statewide by 6,000 new beds over the next five years, while reducing nursing home capacity by the same number.

Services provided by a Medicaid ALP, besides residence and meals, can include personal care, home health aide care, personal emergency response services, nursing services, medical supplies and physical, occupational and speech therapies.

The Medicaid Assisted Living Program is part of Village Care’s service reconfiguration that reduces reliance on more costly and more intensive care options in favor of services that offer greater independence and choice while still meeting the health and well-being needs of older adults, no matter how considerable those needs might be.

Even in the case of the replacement we are building for Village Nursing Home, patients and residents can expect big changes. The new Village Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing will break in major ways from the traditional concept of a nursing home, with intimate and home-like areas that will function as neighborhoods, with all dining and recreational experiences taking place in these “neighborhoods” on each floor.

No longer will we see the nursing home as an “end point” in long-term care. Instead, it will be just one of a number of integrated care opportunities offering the right service in the right place at the right time.

We want to make growing old a better proposition, with services and supports that are responsive and safe, effectively combining medical and non-medical interventions in the most appropriate setting, all with the goal of offering our community the best means to better health and well-being.

(Ms. DeVito the president and chief executive officer of not-for-profit Village Care of New York.)

Man on stage, for P.S. 122Philippe Petit dazzled the crowd at Performance Space 122’s Spring Gala at the Abrons Arts Center at 466 Grand St. on May 27. Petit, whose incredible 1974 World Trade Center tightrope walk was the subject of the Oscar-winning docu-mentary “Man on Wire,” got his start in New York juggling and performing in Washington Square Park.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU A jazz band played funky old tunes and the crowd

cheered as water shot into the air at the formal opening of Washington Square Park’s phase-one renovation last Thursday. The sky was cloudy but the mood was sunny under the tent that the Department of Parks and Recreation erected near the restored fountain.

The revelers came from near and far. Davidson, 70, a Soho resident who gave only one name, recalled that he fi rst saw Washington Square Park when he was 20 years old and had come to New York to be the youngest man on the sports desk of United Press International.

Gil Horowitz, a resident of Fifth Ave. just north of the park, said, “I’ve waited for this for 20 years. I was a member of the Community Board 2 Parks Committee and we tried to get some restoration, but to no avail — so we accepted it. Adrian Benepe fi nally brought it home for us.”

“Everybody’s here!” declared Parks Commissioner Benepe in his opening remarks. “I’ve lived to see the day,” he added, recalling the often-contentious redesign process that began seven and a half years ago. “Along the way there were legal challenges — fi ve lawsuits, fi ve victories,” Benepe noted.

Everyone got a mention and some said a few words or even more. Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Councilmember Alan Gerson spoke.

“It took longer than anyone anticipated. But when we see Washington Square Park packed with people, it’s clear all the yelling was worthwhile,” Quinn said. Gerson, born, raised and still residing three blocks from the park, said it was a great day for Washington Square Park and the Village com-munity. “This is the third renovation that I lived through,” Gerson said, and recalled that he successfully fought for a restored play area and for no spikes on the fence around the park in the new renovation.

Benepe hailed Brad Hoylman, chairperson of Community Board 2, as a peacemaker among the contending factions.

“If we can solve issues in Greenwich Village, we can have peace in the world. I’m nominating Brad for the Nobel Peace Prize — maybe he can share it with Tobi Bergman,” said Benepe, referring to the C.B. 2 Parks Committee chairperson.

Former community board chairpersons Jim Smith and Maria Passannante Derr were also among the notables. Henry Stern, the Parks commissioner who preceded Benepe, came in for special mention.

The restaurateur Mario Batali, who lives a few steps from the park, was on hand and provided free Italian ices at the event. Cake and cookies were from Crumbs, Amy’s Bread, Le Pain Quotidien, Fat Witch Bakery and Otto.

Neighbors and supporters Ric Bell, of the American Institute of Architects, and Adelaide Polsinelli, of the Lower Fifth Ave. Washington Square Block Association, were also honored guests.

Benepe thanked George Vellonakis, who designed the new Washington Square Park.

“You took a lot of criticism but you stood tall,” said Benepe.

The commissioner paid tribute to New York University and Lynne Brown, N.Y.U. senior vice president, for the university’s fi nancial support of the park. The Tisch family, whose $2.5 million donation four years ago helped fund the conservation and rebuilding of the fountain, was also honored.

Anne-Marie Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association, the oldest civic association in the city, said that the Vellonakis design was magnifi cent.

“Passion and participation brought us a stunning park. …. Yet with this fabulous public resource comes increased responsibility to maintain its beauty,” Sumner said.

Honi Klein, president of the Village Alliance business improvement district, who raised signifi cant funds for the Washington Square Park renovation, declared the phase-one completion a resounding success.

But traces of bitterness from the past lingered. Elizabeth

Ely, a stalwart supporter of the redesign, wondered where the opponents were.

“It was the same 20 people, over and over, who got all the attention. They were the only people who protested,” Ely observed.

On the other side, Robert Reiss, a die-hard opponent of the redesign, said, “Vellonakis is a wannabe Baron Haussmann, who paved over half of Paris in the 19th cen-tury. Here, he’s paved over democracy.”

But good feeling and a retro vibe of another sort prevailed in Washington Square Park. The eight-piece Baby Soda jazz band called the tunes. Chance Bushman and Amy Johnson, extreme ballroom dancers from New Orleans who perform

with Baby Soda, did the Charleston, Lindy and tango.The phase-one renovation covering the northwest quad-

rant and the central plaza of the 9.75-acre Washington Square Park cost $13 million.

Phase two, which will begin soon, will cover the other three quadrants, including an upgraded playground in the northeast corner and a new play area in the southwest quadrant, incorpo-rating the mounds, which will be covered with synthetic turf. Phase two will also have a new performance stage, relocated and expanded dog runs, a restored and relocated Garibaldi monument and the restoration of the two petanque courts.

Phase three will include a new park house with space for the park maintenance staff and new public restrooms.

Photos courtesy Department of Parks and Recreation

Pitching pennies into the restored and centered fountain, from left, Anne-Marie Sumner, of the Washington Square Association; Bill Castro, Manhattan borough Parks commissioner; restaurateur Mario Batali (face obscured, but orange Crocs visible); Councilmember Alan Gerson; Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, and Brad Hoylman, Community Board 2 chairperson. Videotaping them in background is Matt Davis, who documented the renovation’s entire long and tortured process.

Extreme ballroom dancers from New Orleans, right, performed with the Baby Soda jazz band at the offi cial open-ing of the park’s phase-one renovation.

It’s offi cial: Park’s phase one is formally opened

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BY ALBERT AMATEAULandmarks Preservation Commission

Chairperson Robert Tierney told the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce that he sees the Village as “the epicenter of historic preservation.”

At the chamber’s monthly lunch meeting last month, Tierney spoke about the most recent Village issues before the commis-sion, although he said he had to be “some-what circumspect” about the St. Vincent’s Hospital redevelopment because it was still pending.

The hospital project proposed for the Greenwich Village Historic District has been on the L.P.C. agenda for the past 16 months, and like all issues before the commission, requires careful consideration, Tierney said.

The Village historic district, the fi rst in the city — established in April 1969, four years after the L.P.C. was created — has 2,500 buildings, and demolition or altera-tion of any of them must be approved by the commission. Tierney noted that the commission had confi rmed on May 12 the demolition of the St. Vincent’s O’Toole building to make way for the new hospital. L.P.C. is now considering whether the resi-dential conversion of the present hospital site is appropriate.

“We cannot freeze the built environment, but it has to change in an appropriate way,” said Tierney. He noted that L.P.C. recently gave fi nal approval to the changes involved in the redesign of Washington Square Park. And he pointed with pride to the designa-tion last year of the West Chelsea Historic District with 24 industrial buildings between

25th and 28th Sts. between 10th and 12th Aves.

Tony Juliano, the chamber’s new presi-dent, urged Tierney to protect the 19th-cen-tury buildings between 333 and 359 W. 29th Sts., known in the 1800s as Lamartine Place, by putting them on the designation hear-ing calendar. The row of houses were way stations on the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad and are threatened with demoli-tion, Juliano said.

At a meeting of business leaders and property owners, the issue of the burden of landmarks designation was bound to arise. Rocio Sanz, who runs Tio Pepe restaurant on W. Fourth St. with her husband, Jimmy, and owns several buildings in the Greenwich Village Historic District, said the cost of repairing a historic-district building is four times that for ordinary buildings. She also said it took her a year and a half to get L.P.C. approval for replacing windows. The pro-posal to extend the Village historic district into the South Village would put more pres-sure on landlords, she added.

Tierney said the length of time for the windows approval was unusual and that he would look into it. He added that L.P.C. staff tries to fi nd ways for landlords to make appropriate changes as low cost as possible, but the commission cannot give fi nancial assistance or loans to repair landmark prop-erties. But Tierney said he believes there should be more tax benefi ts at the city and state levels for repairing designated his-toric buildings. He noted that the nonprofi t Landmarks Conservancy has loan programs for landlords.

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A 2005 Audi driven by Brandon Connelly, 32, of Valley Stream, Long Island, crashed into the rear of a 2001 Chevrolet driven by Jamil Aljabal, 42, of Henderson, N.C., at about 4:41 a.m. Sat., May 30, on the southbound F.D.R. Drive near Catherine Slip, police said. The Chevrolet plowed into the concrete median and Connelly’s car struck a third car, police said. An Emergency Medical Services team declared Aljabal, who was driving without a license, dead at the scene in the Chevrolet. Four passengers in the Chevrolet were taken to Bellevue Medical Center in stable condition. Robert Bradley, 38, driver of the third car, a Dodge minivan, was also taken to Bellevue in stable condition. Police charged Connelly with vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated.

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A New Jersey man, 20, was walking on Varick St. at Vandam St. around 6 p.m. Thurs., May 28, when a stranger punched him in the mouth, grabbed his cell phone and ran, police said. The victim gave chase and his yell for help alerted fi refi ghters at the fi rehouse on Houston St. and Sixth Ave., who apprehended the suspect and held him for police. Allam Lawrence, 18, of Irvington, N.J., was charged with robbery and was being held in lieu of bail pending an Aug. 26 court date.

6th Precinct reinforced

In the wake of a series of street robberies and assaults in the Village, the Sixth Precinct last week received 18 extra offi cers and two sergeants. In addition, between two and four mounted police, depending on conditions, have been assigned to weekend duty on the Christopher St. corridor. Two lighting tow-ers, one on Christopher and Hudson Sts. and the other on West Fourth St. at Sixth Ave., illuminate the street. A mobile command center is posted on Christopher St. between Washington and Greenwich Sts. to coordi-nate area anticrime efforts.

‘Gimme your stuff’

Two suspects came up behind a Queens woman, 21, who was walking and talking on her cell phone on Christopher St. near Bedford St. at 12:15 a.m. Wed., May 27, police said. The suspects put a metal object that she thought was a gun to the back of her head and said, “Gimme your stuff,” accord-ing to police. The suspects took her cell phone and fl ed, but three days later police

arrested twin brothers, Jerome and Tyrone Bush, 17, of Newark, N.J., for robbery in connection with the incident. The broth-ers were being held pending a June 6 court appearance.

‘Follow that cab!’

Three young men grabbed a wallet with $80 from the hand of a woman on the northwest corner of Washington Place and Broadway, jumped into a cab and headed down Broadway, police said. The victim stopped a motorist and followed the cab and told 911 the cab’s license number. Police fi nally stopped the cab at Flatbush Ave. and Willoughby St. in Brooklyn, arrested the suspects and recovered the victim’s wallet and money in the back seat, according to the charges. Manning Messina, 19, and Billy Eidtson and Timothy Hayes, both 22, were charged with robbery. Messina and Eidtson were held, and Hayes was paroled pend-ing a June 3 arraignment, according to the Manhattan district attorney.

E. 14th St. robbery

A disturbed suspect snatched an unde-termined sum of cash from the hand of a man in a news shop on E. 14th St. near First Ave. around 9 p.m. Tues., May 26, and fl ed, police said. The suspect punched the victim, 35, in the face after grabbing the cash and also snatched his cell phone before fl eeing.

Hard kiss

A Bayonne, N.J., man accidentally bumped into another patron in Kiss and Fly, the bar at 415 W. 13th St. in the Meatpacking District, around 3:30 a.m. Mon., May 25, and the stranger turned and punched him in the face, police said. The victim, 25, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital with a cut lip and a broken tooth. The suspect Daniel Malik, 19, was charged with third-degree assault.

Mugs 91-year-old

A man, 91, who lives in a W. 12th St. building near Greenwich Ave. was mugged in the elevator on Friday afternoon May 29, police said. The robber followed the victim into the elevator at about 1:40 p.m., took the man’s wallet and removed $400 from it that the victim had just withdrawn from the bank, then threw back the wallet and fl ed at the next fl oor.

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bass from 711 Greenwich St. shook a painting off his apartment wall. Another neighbor said he was shocked to see that the water in a glass on his table was vibrat-ing to the music beats. A Community Board 2 member said — not water in a glass — but his chest was vibrat-ing when he walked past the place during the Def Jam bash.

Issy Sanchez, who runs a marketing company, and was at the Def Jam event, described it as “a who’s who of the music industry.”

“It was the major label showcase of the year,” he said.

Among the stars at the May 20 affair were Rihanna, Babyface, Pete Wentz, drummer ?uestLove of the Roots and a raft of rappers. There was a live performance by

a U.K. pop band called the Noisettes — a name noise-aggravated neighbors would no doubt find fitting. Kanye West’s and Mariah Carey’s new songs were played.

Basking in the afterglow of the A-list event, Sanchez stood outside on the sidewalk and described the goings-on as the crowd was dispersing around 9:45 p.m.

“There’s Jeremih, the hottest rapper in the country — he did ‘Birthday Sex,’” Sanchez pointed out, as the chart-topper got into a waiting white S.U.V.

Karan herself was at the party, as shown by a photo of the designer posing with Rihanna posted online with other photos from the night.

Sanchez said there wasn’t dancing inside; rather, the

crowd would intently watch each music video or live per-formance, then discuss it animatedly among themselves.

Although the space’s doors and windows had report-edly been kept closed during the festivities — and the rooftop Japanese garden was not used — neighbors com-plained they were still subjected to noise and vibrations for two days — from sound checks beforehand to the actual event.

The location was formerly the sculpture studio of Stephan Weiss, Karan’s late husband. Weiss, who is fondly remembered in the neighborhood, died of lung cancer in 2001.

In 2004, Karan gave a 6,000-pound bronze apple sculpture by Weiss to Hudson River Park; the artwork sits in the park on prominent display near the end of Charles St. Before it was Weiss’s sculpture studio, the building was a private garbage-carting company’s garage, as many buildings in the neighborhood once were.

Ed Pietkiewicz (pronounced pyet-kyeh-vich) lives at 720 Greenwich St. on the third floor, diagonally across the intersection from the Karan space. He said the noise from 711 Greenwich St. has worsened over the past five years. The events occur erratically — sometimes just once a month, but at other times several times a week.

“Stephan Weiss built it as a sculpture studio — she turned it into a disco,” Pietkiewicz said. “You can hear it a block away.”

Pietkiewicz says he has repeatedly called the Sixth Precinct about the building over the years. But he claims the police tell him they “have other priorities,” notably the Meat Market, where they regularly deal with noise from the Hotel Gansevoort’s rooftop bar and street-level, outdoor restaurant.

Tensions boiled over during the Def Jam event. Pietkiewicz said on Tues., May 19, security offi-cers threatened to have him arrested unless he got off the sidewalk in front of Karan’s place, and later bumped him off the pavement when he tried to speak to the head of security — whom Pietkiewicz mistakenly thought was a police officer responding to Pietkiewicz’s noise complaints.

The Village resident said he never threatened to shoot anyone.

“I don’t make threats I can’t come through with,” he stated. “I did say I would come back with Sixth Precinct officers — which I did.”

However, Michelle Jean, who runs the space’s private events, stated, “He said, ‘I’m going to come back and

start shooting’ — and that’s a problem.”From inside Pietkiewicz’s apartment on the evening

of May 20, the throbbing bass and drum beats from the Def Jam party were clearly audible. Outside on the street, black cars, S.U.V.’s and catering vans filled both sides of Greenwich St. — including completely blocking the bicycle lane.

About eight months ago, parking regulations were quietly changed, with “No Standing” signs added on either side of Greenwich St. outside Karan’s building, apparently to ensure that spaces for black cars and S.U.V.’s would be available for the events.

Charles Amann, Pietkiewicz’s partner, said of Karan’s space, “It’s become a bar, a club, in a residential neigh-borhood. I don’t want to get into her moral and green things that she does... . The point is that she’s a major, major noise maker in an upscale area.”

Amann shot down Jean’s accusation that Pietkiewicz said he’d shoot — though he admitted he wasn’t there at the time.

“We’ve never owned a gun, we’ve never seen a gun. Never, ever. We’re all for gun control,” Amann said, call-ing the charge a “heinous accusation.”

The Saturday after the Def Jam party, among the dog walkers and others out and about in the neighborhood, it wasn’t hard to find people unhappy about the building’s impact on the quiet neighborhood.

Robert Bentley’s personal peeve is the dumpster that is emptied thunderously at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. after the parties.

“Last year, there would be a major event like once a month,” he said. “Now it looks like she rents it out to club promoters. It’s really changed the character of the neighborhood. ... I live in an 1826 building, and I’ve got this f---ing nightclub next door — in this cobblestoned, landmarked neighborhood.”

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Donna Karan neighbors aren’t feeling the urban Zen

Photo by Getty Images Entertainment/Theo Wargo

Rihanna and Donna Karan at the May 20 Def Jam Spring Collection party at Karan’s 711 Greenwich St.

Villager photo by Lincoln Anderson

Karan’s 711 Greenwich St. — known as the Stephan Weiss Studio — includes a spacious, two-level event space and a Japanese-style rooftop garden. At right, in an attached building, is Karan’s Urban Zen boutique.

‘I don’t want to get into her moral and green things that she does.... The point is that she’s a major, major noise maker in an upscale area.’

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BY JULIE SHAPIRO Politicians and activists opposed to the

city’s plan for Chatham Square rallied last Wednesday afternoon to prevent the project from getting funding.

City Comptroller Bill Thompson, City Councilmember Alan Gerson and others want the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to withhold the $31 million the city plans to use for the $50 million project.

“Everyone has stood up and said this is a bad idea,” Thompson said at a press conference outside of the L.M.D.C.’s offi ce. “I urge the L.M.D.C. to hear the voices of the community, because the city is ignoring those voices.”

The community has many objections to the content of the city’s plans, but last Wednesday, Gerson focused on the process instead. He said the city has not put the project through enough public review, so the L.M.D.C. should withhold its contribution, which is earmarked for city transportation projects. Specifi cally, Gerson said the city failed to make the Chatham Square plan available in public libraries and hold a public comment period on the plan, as is required.

“The city has a lot of leeway, but not total leeway,” Gerson said, regarding how the administration spends L.M.D.C. money. “The input that was required has not been fulfi lled.”

The city Department of Transportation declined to comment on Gerson’s charges.

Mike Murphy, an L.M.D.C. spokesper-son, said that so far, the city is in com-pliance with the terms of its agreement with the L.M.D.C. on the money. But that process is not complete, and the city has not received any money yet, Murphy said. Work on Chatham Square is scheduled to start sometime this summer with the instal-lation of a water main. City offi cials have said previously that adjustments to the plan could be made after work begins.

The Chatham Square reconstruc-tion is widely reviled in Chinatown, and Community Boards 1 and 3 both opposed it. The city wants to realign the seven-way intersection to connect East Broadway to Worth St. and the Bowery to St. James Place, essentially cutting off Park Row, which has

been closed to traffi c since 9/11. The community objects to the project

because it makes the Park Row closure more permanent. Local residents are also concerned about how small businesses in Chatham Square will fare during the three years of construction, and they are uncon-vinced that the plan will bring about the traffi c and pedestrian improvements the city has promised.

Gerson also called on the L.M.D.C. to hear a presentation on the community’s alternative Chatham Square plan at an upcoming board meeting. The city present-ed its plan to the L.M.D.C. board earlier this year.

Murphy declined to comment on Gerson’s request.

The community plan for Chatham Square would leave the intersection largely unchanged, except for a new one-lane road directly connecting St. James Place to East Broadway. Norman Siegel, the civil liber-ties lawyer who is a candidate for public advocate, said the community plan would improve traffi c fl ow and pedestrian safety while minimizing the impact on the neigh-borhood.

Scott Gastel, a D.O.T. spokesperson, said in an e-mail that the community plan would not work.

“Chatham Square is in need of signifi cant changes that will mitigate traffi c congestion and improve safety,” Gastel said. “The pro-posed changes will not accomplish that,” he said, referring to the community plan.

Siegel said the L.M.D.C. had a history of ignoring the community. But Gerson and the others focused criticism on the admin-istration, and said the L.M.D.C. now has a chance to serve as the check and balance on what they call the city’s largely unilateral policy.

During the press conference, Gerson stood alongside two of four challengers for his Council District One seat in this fall’s primary. Margaret Chin and P.J. Kim did not speak during the press conference, though Chin briefl y took the mic after-ward. Gerson acknowledged them during his speech, keeping it friendly.

“This is about a community united,” Gerson said.

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BY PATRICK HEDLUND

City moves on eyesore

The city has begun the process of fi ling a lawsuit against the owners of a South Village property that has been wilting for years on an otherwise idyllic stretch of MacDougal St.

The vacant three-story building, at 43 MacDougal St. at the corner of King St. in the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District, has remained an eyesore for decades with increasing problems related to vermin, mold and squatters on the premises.

Earlier this year, the 1846 property had its window broken and excrement smeared across the building before the Department of Housing, Preservation and Development stepped in to make the necessary repairs at the urging of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation.

G.V.S.H.P. followed up with an inquiry to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which began fi ning the owners $5,000 per month for failure to voluntarily make the repairs. The owners, described as an elderly couple, have amassed a total of $15,000 in fi nes since February for failing to appear before the Environmental Control Board to address the situation, with another $5,000 penalty expected to follow.

“At this time, due to the absence of any apparent effort by the owner to make repairs, the owner’s complete nonresponsiveness to multiple L.P.C. violations and large fi nes, the L.P.C. has begun the process of initiat-ing a demolition-by-neglect lawsuit against the owners,” stated the commission’s deputy counsel, John Weiss, in a letter to G.V.S.H.P. The letter notes, however, that this type of lawsuit entails a lengthy process, includ-ing visits to the site, evaluation of existing conditions and the drafting of multiple legal documents.

“That’s really the strongest civil legal tool that they have at their disposal to get an unwilling owner to restore a landmark proper-ty,” said Andrew Berman, the society’s execu-tive director, about the commission’s action. “Demolition-by-neglect cases have certainly had some pretty powerful results in the past.”

By levying substantial fi nes, the lawsuit’s goal is to either force the owners to make the appropriate repairs or sell the property. Berman said the owners have thus far not been receptive to selling, though the loca-tion would command top dollar. He added the owners have continued to pay real estate taxes despite disregarding legal obligations, creating some question over their apparent competence in adhering to city laws.

Nearby residents have been particularly active in the process, Berman added, since the building’s deteriorating conditions have affected them the most.

“Nobody wants this more than the poor people who live on that block,” he said. “They have had to deal with the vermin and smell.”

Downtown in the dumps

A recent rental market report comparing Manhattan home prices over the past two years shows that most Downtown neighbor-hoods have come back to earth following the highs of the boom years.

According to the Real Estate Group New York’s May Manhattan Rental Market Report, the East Village, Greenwich Village, Soho and Chelsea all experienced drops since 2007, with the Lower East Side pro-viding the only bright spot among the lot.

The East Village took the hardest hit, with average rents for all doorman and non-doorman units falling 9.56 percent over the two-year period, including a 17.44 percent average drop in doorman one- and two-bedroom prices.

In Greenwich Village, average rents for all unit types decreased by 4.91 percent over the two-year period, including a 17.42 dip in the price of non-doorman two-bedrooms.

Soho suffered a 5.77 percent falloff from 2007, including an 11.21 increase in the price of non-doorman two-bedrooms. Chelsea also slipped, posting a 4.52 overall decrease including a 14.41 drop in the price of doorman studios.

On the Lower East Side, however, aver-age rents increased a total of 4.57 percent since 2007, including a 21.53 spike in door-man two-bedroom rents and a 15.33 jump in doorman studio rents.

High Line manicure

Fans of the city’s graffi ti-splashed aes-thetic created a minor stir when workers on the High Line recently painted over a piece of urban history.

In April, the work in question — a massive graffi ti tag covering the side of the former Roxy nightclub building at 18th St. and 10th Ave. — was covered in gray paint in advance of the elevated park’s debut this month.

The graffi ti stood out for years on the building’s upper portion abutting the former railway, and many observers counted the large lettering as an artistic reminder of the city’s gritty past.

“I thought it enhanced it,” said Robert Hammond, the park’s progenitor and co-founder of the Friend of the High Line, acknowledging that he would have liked the scrawls to stay.

But the city Parks Department did not agree, forcing crews to cover the spray-painted portion in accordance with its no-tolerance policy on graffi ti.

In other High Line news, the project just received a $10 million donation from media magnate Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, who both have offi ces near the park. According to The New York Times, the gift brings the project’s fundraising total to $34 million as part of a $50 million capital campaign. The donation reportedly ranks among the four largest ever presented by individuals to city parks.

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The Zen of quietNew York City is the city that never sleeps. But when

New Yorkers are at home and it’s nighttime, many of them do, in fact, actually like to sleep. And when we’re at home during the day, most of us don’t like to be disturbed by loud noises, either. That’s the dilemma of living in a chaotic, energetic, noisy city like New York.

“Noise From Neighbor” is one of the most common-ly called-about conditions to the city’s 311 complaint line, and results in more police action than any other 311 call. Our zoning laws work to lessen clashing uses: for example, a large disco or nightclub would not be allowed right in the middle of a quiet, residential neigh-borhood. Thus, the use of the Stephan Weiss Studio at Greenwich and Charles Sts. as a major private event space — even though the events admittedly seem to be fairly intermittent — has been an aggravating quality-of-life headache for neighbors for several years now.

The building was formerly the sculpture studio of Stephan Weiss, late husband of fashion designer Donna Karan. Neighbors recall him warmly as a “lone artist type,” engrossed in his creative process, quietly working on his sculptures, not bothering anyone. Neighbors are also thankful he cleaned up and renovated the building — aformer garbage garage that was fi lled with rats.

It’s now a beautiful, airy space on two levels, painted all white inside, with large windows, lit with hundreds of candles during events.

Although Weiss, who died of lung cancer, hoped Karan would live in the building, she instead has taken it in a different direction entirely, using it for her Urban Zen benefi ts, letting it be used for free by some local nonprofi t groups and renting it out for private events. While some say the Urban Zen events and yoga sessions can be a bit loud (incessant bongo playing is cited) it’s the private events — like the recent Def Jam Spring Collection extravaganza — that are apparently pushing neighbors over the edge. Indeed, one neighbor allegedly threatened to come over to the place and “start shooting.” He denies it — but readily admits to being maddened by the relentless noise.

Karan is doing much good work through her Urban Zen Foundation, which helps patients and pro-motes well-being, empowers children and preserves world cultures. A longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation, Karan contributed $850,000 to Beth Israel Medical Center to bring yoga therapy and a new kind of caregiving to the cancer wing.

However, Karan — and those who run the private events at her space — should be more considerate of their neighbors. Even though the events generally don’t go too late, loud noise on this level is irritating at any time of day or night. It does sound like the doors and windows of the place were kept shut during the Def Jam bash; yet there was obviously a serious sound system being blared, since this was a major label showcase for the recording indus-try’s top artists and music moguls. Just on the face of it, it doesn’t sound like the sort of event that should be held in residential areas of the West Village.

Police certainly have their hands full with all the activity after dark in Greenwich Village’s Sixth Precinct, one of the world’s busiest nightlife and entertainment destinations. But even though the private events at Karan’s place aren’t every night, they should receive the same level of enforcement as any other complaint.

The precinct needs to make sure its sound gun is in working order and that offi cers are trained to use it, so that if a party at Karan’s place — or anyplace else — is literally rocking the neighborhood, they can take an accurate reading.

Again, Karan is doing a world of good through her Urban Zen Initiative. But to be a considerate neighbor, she has to “pump down the volume.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORSquare’s benches of shame

To The Editor: Re “Fountain fl owing, fl owers blooming, restored square

bursts back to life” (news article, May 20): Last Tuesday evening, as I took my dog out for a walk, I

was surprised to see the core portion of Washington Square Park open again. The park looks enchanted — that people are allowed to remain on the grass makes it doubly so. Yet my heart grew heavy when I noticed that all around me, almost every bench was comprised of rainforest wood, logged from the Amazon.

Despite the twin catastrophes of climate change and tropical deforestation, New York City agencies use rainfor-est wood for tens of thousands of benches, 12.5 miles of boardwalks, subway track ties, the South Street Seaport, the Brooklyn Bridge promenade and the docks of the Staten Island Ferry. In fact, New York City is the largest consumer of tropical hardwood in North America.

It’s too late to prevent the tragedy that occurred in Washington Square Park. But, right now, city agencies are proposing projects — including three new marine-transfer stations and renovations of Hudson River Park and the Staten Island Ferry docks — that call for tens of thousands of board feet of rainforest wood, logged from the Amazon and the largely intact rainforests of Guyana.

Our city can do better. We can institute a smart, respon-sible procurement policy that protects pristine rainforests — and that doesn’t fund the criminal syndicates, forced labor and land theft associated with much of this logging.

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Park is boring and generic

To The Editor:Re “Fountain fl owing, fl owers blooming, restored

square bursts back to life” (news article, May 20):After the initial euphoria of just having the park

opened and reveling in the perfect spring day, I refl ected on where the $13 million went, and now realize what disturbs me.

I miss the sunken fountain, so beautifully set apart from the street. Now the fountain is an extension of the street, instead of the beginning of something completely

different. You felt drawn down — invited into the foun-tain. Now it’s more like the fountain is an object you are supposed to look at instead of being drawn into, to experience.

The redesigned park looks like something imposed on the Village, boring and uneventful: fl attened out. The fountain area, bland and generic, instead of exciting and unique, looks more like a corporate plaza than a park. The huge walkway with the gigantic planters in the middle looks like an outdoor mall in Wisconsin. And that poor tree around the fountain, died of a heartache.

Now linear — before idiosyncratic; there was an off-centeredness that was deliberate. It represented people who live in the Village who march to a different drum-mer.

Our park embodied democracy, now transformed undemocratically. This brand-spanking-new park is one architect’s vision to satisfy the minority.

I’ve heard many an adjective for the lamps: “faux retro Victorian,” “a cheap imitation of something that was bad to begin with.” The landscaping is prissy, organized patches of vegetation not unlike that found in the garden-ing section of any Home Depot.

But it all goes so well with N.Y.U.’s Kimmel Center. The park now looks like another N.Y.U. project, with the two telltale plaques on either side of the “Tisch! Fountain.” I can’t bring myself to say that. Too bad the fountain hadn’t been auctioned off to the highest bidder. It seems a $2.5 million advertisement for perpetuity is just dirt cheap.

Wouldn’t advise sitting on those black granite seats around the fountain for more than half a minute in the summer sun. Ouch! The most important seating in the park is hot as hell; in the winter, cold as ice, not exactly people friendly! This replaced our three-tiered seating beloved by musicians and their audiences.

The walls that surrounded the theater in the round cre-ated an acoustical fi eld for the music; sound bounced back out, radiating from behind. Now there is nothing to defl ect the music, it all gets meshed together with the competing sound of gushing water.

With the stroke of an architect’s pen, the park was forever stripped of its bohemian character, wiping away decades of history. We hope this sacrifi ce of comfort and possible clamoring for a conservancy (the privatization of our public park) will not kill the spontaneous creativity that happened naturally here, once upon a time. We hope that glorious time will not die like the tree in the circle.

Sharon Woolums

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Budget cuts would cripple local community boardsBY SUSAN STETZER AND BOB GORMLEY

Community boards play a vital role in the city’s gov-ernmental process and provide community members their best opportunity to influence decisions that will impact their lives at a local level. Community boards assist individuals, families and businesses in resolving a litany of quality-of-life complaints and also in getting city regulations enforced. In addition, the City Charter and state agencies mandate that community boards weigh in on a range of issues, including applications for liquor licenses, street fairs, sidewalk cafes and a variety of land-use applications, as well as making recommendations to the mayor and City Council on budget expenditures within the district.

The proposed draconian budget cut to community boards would make it impossible for our boards to func-tion in an effective and efficient way. The result would be a stifling of the voice of the people. In addition, especial-ly with cuts at all the city agencies, community members would have less help in obtaining city services.

The preliminary budget proposed by the mayor that is currently on the table would cut each community board’s budget by approximately 18 percent, or about $36,000 out of a total $205,000. We recognize that the city is facing a severe fiscal crunch and that virtually all city agencies are being asked to accept cuts to their budgets. So, why do we ask to be exempted? It is because, unlike all other city agencies, our operating budgets have not seen any increases for almost 20 years! In fact, we are still working with a deficit of almost $23,000 due to a previous unrestored cut. While other agencies saw their budgets expand to develop new programs, provide new services or merely to meet the cost of inflation, commu-nity boards have been forced to continually do more with less. Until now, we have been able to meet this challenge. However, we have stretched our resources as far as they can go, and we are at the breaking point.

In the grand scheme of things, a cut of $36,000 may not seem like an awful lot of money. Unfortunately, it would result in the laying off of staff at community boards around the city. Since most boards have only three individuals on staff, this would constitute a 33 percent reduction. This is grossly unfair and we defy the mayor to identify any city agency that could function after so deep a staff cut.

If the volume of work being performed by our boards was stagnant or lessening, perhaps a case could be made for a cut. However, the exact opposite is true. At Community Board 2, during the past two years, the number of resolutions passed by the board’s Landmarks Committee has increased by 59 percent, from 94 to 149, and the number of resolutions passed by C.B. 2’s Sidewalk Committee on sidewalk cafe applications

increased by 33 percent, from 80 to 106. In addition, in 2008, the C.B. 2 S.L.A. Licensing Committee held pub-lic hearings and passed resolutions on 127 on-premise liquor license or beer and wine license applications,

while the board’s Street Activities Committee reviewed and passed resolutions on 110 street fair applications. C.B. 2 also has been dealing with several other large issues within its district, including the plan to rebuild St. Vincent’s Hospital; the redevelopment of Pier 40; the

renovation of Washington Square Park; the construction of the Trump Soho Hotel; and the proposed Sanitation garage on Spring St.; as well as issues relating to the expansion of New York University and The New School.

Community Board 3 has had increased applications for licensed businesses (liquor licenses and sidewalk cafes) every year from 2006 to the present, increasing over all from 278 to 341. Block party and street fair applications have also increased every year from 2006 through 2008. Last year C.B. 3 completed rezoning 111 blocks of the board’s district, and is now studying possible rezoning of significant areas outside the newly rezoned area. The board is working with the city to reconstruct and rede-sign its waterfront, as well as with C.B. 2 to redesign the Astor Place area. Board 3 works with the Mayor’s Office and production companies to ease the impact of filming in the district. The community board has worked with the Department of Transportation on a number of signifi-cant projects where community input was critical.

All of these actions and issues are of deep concern

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Most community boards would lose one of three staff members — a 33 percent reduction. This is grossly unfair.

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to our board members and our constitu-ents. The public hearings and meetings at which these issues, as well as many other issues, were taken up by our various com-mittees are often the best, and sometimes the only, way for community residents and merchants to make their voices heard by City Hall. In order to support our board members in addressing these concerns, our staff people work extremely hard to make sure that notices go out in a timely manner, resolutions get copied and sent to relevant parties, and that the unending stream of questions from the community get answered. In addition we work with agencies and City Hall to ensure city ser-vices and enforcement and follow-up on individual problems. We also implement board votes for policies and services. We coordinate service delivery for our area and make recommendations for overall service issues to better meet our com-munity needs. To ask us to cut staff at this time would ensure that it would be impossible for us to do the work that we currently do, much of which is required by the City Charter.

The community board provides a struc-ture for community members to participate in decision-making for the community. Board members are selected from among

active, involved people of each community with an effort made to ensure that every neighborhood is represented. Community boards do signifi cant outreach to the com-munity, hold monthly committee meet-ings, full board meetings and hold public hearings and town hall meetings on topics of signifi cant interest to the community. Community boards offer a tremendous bang for the buck. Each of the 59 boards have 50 volunteer members with many dif-ferent skills. Each board is supported by a very small offi ce staff who also facilitate the delivery of city services and enforce-ment of regulations.

The proposed cut to the community board budget would be counterproductive and would shut people out of City Hall. It is also simply unfair. It is imperative for the mayor and the City Council to restore our funding so that we can continue to serve our communities.

We need the support of our commu-nities. There will be a rally to restore the proposed cuts to the community board budgets on the steps of City Hall on Tues., June 9, at 11 a.m. Please come and help us cover the steps to City Hall with people protesting community board cuts.

Stetzer and Gormley are the respective district managers of Community Boards 3 and 2.

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A Salute to Volunteers

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BY JOHN BAYLESChelsea Scott knew what she wanted

but didn’t how to get it. She had vol-unteered before, delivering food to the elderly, but she was looking for more inter-action. Three years ago she found that and more when she signed up to be a mentor with the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

“I had read an article about something they were doing,” said Scott. “I went to a women’s college, and I loved the idea of teaching these young women life skills and how to be of the world rather than just in it.”

When Scott, who works at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, found out about the Lower Eastside Girls Club’s Museum Club, it was a “no-brainer” and she signed up to take a young girl from the Congo named Justine to a museum for the fi rst time. Three years later, Justine is now 16 years old and the two of them are as close as sisters.

“I think she’s someone I will stay in touch with for a long, long time,” said Scott.

Justine’s parents fl ed the Congo as refugees when she was 6 and immigrated to New York to establish a home while Justine and her four older siblings stayed behind in South Africa. Before they could make it over, though, Justine’s father died.

“The Girls Club is, for most of the girls, all about having an adult who is solely

focused on them,” said Scott. “It’s about having someone outside of your family you can turn to for advice.”

Scott said she knows what it’s like to

grow up in a large family. While she main-tains that her childhood was for the most part trauma free, she said she does remem-ber feeling left out on occasion.

“I’ve been forgotten, like at a dance class before, when I was standing outside calling my mom from the pay phone,” said Scott.

Scott also said the Girls Club is dif-ferent because it’s not an academic-based mentoring program and because it’s “real-istic.”

“We defi nitely emphasize doing well in school,” said Scott. “But, we’re teach-ing them about life — how to be a good leader. We’re not going to train you to go to Harvard; we’re going to teach to be a leader wherever you are.”

Scott said she’s gotten everything she expected from the experience, and more. Scott’s relationship with Justine has blos-somed into daily e-mails and phone calls. Currently, Scott is guiding Justine through the college application process.

The program’s goal is to use the muse-um trips as a vehicle to explore differ-ent neighborhoods. Scott saw its effects when she took Justine to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the fi rst time.

“She looked around and said, ‘This is so different. I’ve never been up here before,’” recalled Scott.

Scott said it might “seem silly” that a girl who lives only a train ride away, would have never been to the Upper East Side. But, with a single mom who works all the time, upon second thought, it’s very understandable. Over the last three years the two have traveled to museums or gal-leries from Brooklyn to Chelsea, and lately, Scott has noticed her commitment to the relationship extending beyond the manda-tory once-a-month art excursions.

“It began with the museums one Saturday a month. Then all of a sudden, Justine is reading her poetry at the Girls Club, so you got to see that. Or the girls have put out a book and there’s a party and you go to that,” said Scott. “It’s like hanging out with your friends, only they are 16.”

Scott’s most pleasurable moments, though, come when the mentor relation-ship is turned on its head and it’s Justine who is teaching Scott. Justine recent-ly traveled with the Girls Club to San Francisco for an event where she met the playwright and activist Eve Ensler. The “Vagina Monologues” author invited the group to New Orleans last year for her annual V-Day conference, a celebration of all things women.

“I didn’t know anything about that,” said Scott. “Sometimes, she teaches me.”

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BY JOHN BAYLESFor some, volunteering is strictly a choice.

But for Stephanie Phelan the decision to fi rst become an auxiliary police offi cer and now a member of her local Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, was born somewhat out of necessity.

Like any longtime former resident of the East Village she remembers a time when the streets were not as safe. In the late 1960s, before a brief stint on Martha’s Vineyard, Phelan was a victim of multiple muggings, and when she returned to an apartment on Christopher St. in the ’70s she decided to take her safety into her own hands.

Not six months after being back, she was sitting in a cab stuck in traffi c when she watched a man with a gun break a jewelry store window, grab some jewelry and start running toward the cab.

“I thought to myself, I’d do anything to stay here and be comfortable,” Phelan said.

The burglar did not get into Phelan’s cab. However, the cab driver happened to have a brochure in the back seat that read, “Want to Fight Crime? Become an Auxiliary Police Offi cer.”

So Phelan did, and since 1981 she’s had a locker at Greenwich Village’s Sixth Precinct on W. 10th St., where she keeps her night-stick and uniform. But recently Phelan has decided to volunteer in another capacity as well; as a CERT member who, in the event of a catastrophe, can “handle initial emergency recovery” until the professional emergency responders arrive.

CERT was also less a choice for Phelan than it was a calling. After 9/11 she was compelled to help.

“It was such a life-altering event,” she recalled, “something one never gets over. I wanted to do more in the local community.”

It wasn’t easy though for Phelan to give

back in her newest volunteer role. When she reached out to CERT she was told that auxiliary police offi cers could not also be CERT responders, particularly due to pos-sible overlap of services.

“I was told that if there was a disaster, then the auxiliary wanted us in uniform,” she said.

But Phelan reached out to the pow-ers that be and was eventually allowed to participate in the CERT training program, which lasts 11 weeks and covers everything from disaster preparedness to basic response skills. Phelan said different scenarios call for different responses, and they were develop-ing guidelines for what sort of events would determine which role she would fi ll.

Phelan admits that her chosen vol-unteer efforts may not be a good fit for everyone; she said one must have the time and the physical capabilities for both. Regardless, she said, there are certain things anyone can do to help out their neighbors in a time of need. If someone is unable to actually help an elderly person out of his or her apartment during a fire emergency, one can certainly be alert and tell the first responders there is an elderly person in the building in need of assis-tance, she said.

Phelan once read a sci-fi novel, the typical post-apocalyptic scenario, in which a group of survivors made their way to Manhattan and everyone was living underground.

“There were these people who were armed, acting as vigilante police, protecting everyone,” said Phelan. “I thought, I’m going to be one of those people.”

Apocalypse or not, however, Phelan is volunteering for another reason.

“I don’t want to die knowing that I didn’t give something back,” said Phelan. “And, I love New York.”

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BY JEFFERSON SIEGELIn the 1960s President John F. Kennedy

made public service a cornerstone initiative of his administration. And, to underscore the importance of volunteering, poet Maya Angelou once said, “You shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”

A prime example of volunteerism was on display last Saturday morning when members of BAMRA, the Bleecker Area Merchants’ and Residents’ Association, eschewed sleep-ing late or taking a beach day. Instead, a group of concerned locals met under the mar-quee of the old Circle in the Square theater, where they were given scrapers, paintbrushes and bagels. Their mission, which they chose to accept, was to rescue several Village blocks from an onslaught of graffi ti and stickers.

“It’s my home,” said Judith Callet, BAMRA’s resident chairperson and a Village resident since 1972. “If we can keep the area clean, that helps business, and people will come back.”

The West Village has long been a popular tourist destination but late-night crowds often leave behind more than just money in area cash registers. Graffi ti and a plague of stickers have found their way onto almost every lamppost and wall. Because of this unsightly invasion, BAMRA decided to fi ght back, starting a yearly cleanup in 1993.

Norma Jimenez, who lives in Queens, was up bright and early this sunny morning,

scraping detritus off the base of a lamppost on Bleecker St. at Sixth Ave.

“I have a lot of friends in this area and I spend a lot of time in this area,” Jimenez

said as the last remnants of a sticky fl ier fell in shreds to the street.

A Sixth Precinct volunteer auxiliary police offi cer, Jimenez described a bond she feels with the neighborhood.

“I love the bars and the restaurants,” she said.

Taking a break from scraping, she admit-ted her efforts go beyond fi nding the perfect mai tai.

“With Barack Obama as president, I want to give back,” she explained. “That was his advice and I really took it to heart. If you have children, be an example to them, it makes a difference,” she said before lifting her scraper to attack another sticker-fi lled surface.

Nearby, Marlo Rivera, a West Village building superintendent for 18 years, slowly applied a fresh coat of silver paint to a lamp-post.

“It’s support; we’re a part of the com-munity,” he said.

At this early hour there were few local merchants around to express their apprecia-tion, but BAMRA’s Callet said the group has many new merchant members.

Callet also admitted the obvious. “After we paint it up, it’ll be graffi tied

again within an hour,” she lamented. “But, it’s still my home,” she added as another volunteer arrived and took a paintbrush and a donut.

BAMRA is a nonprofi t community organi-zation representing residents and merchants of the Bleecker St. area, bounded by W. Third and Houston Sts. between Mercer St. and Sixth Ave. In addition to the cleanup, they plant greenery, organize street fairs and are active in local issues.

BAMRA meets the second Wednesday of every month at the AIA Center at 536 LaGuardia Place. They can be reached at bamranyc@yahoo.com.

Also sponsoring Saturday’s cleanup was the Sixth Precinct Community Council.

Home to the “Children’s Garden”The Friends of LaGuardia (Place) takes this opportunity to recognize the extraordinary efforts by its volunteers and wish to extend a well deserved “thank you” to each of them.

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Lending a hand, and some elbow grease, on Bleecker

Villager photos by Jefferson Siegel

Above, Norma Jimenez, a Sixth Precinct auxiliary police offi cer, scraped debris off the base of a lamppost at Bleecker St. and Sixth Ave. on Saturday as part of BAMRA’s cleanup. Opposite page, left, West Villager David Danzig cleaned stickers and tape off an emergency call box at Bleecker and Thompson Sts.; right, Marlo Rivera, a West Village building superintendent, applied silver paint to a newly cleaned lamppost on Bleecker St. at Sixth Ave.

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who owned Pretty Boy. The white cat walked into Mikey’s Pet Supply store at 130 E. Seventh St. in 1988 and made it his home base on the block, where the cat became known as The Mayor of Seventh St.

Michael Diaz, operator of Mikey’s Pet Supply for the past several years, said Pretty Boy slept at the store but hung out mostly at Salon Seven, the hair salon at 110 E. Seventh St. run by Mark Dolengawski.

“Pretty Boy loved Mark, that’s where he spent the most time,” said Diaz. “Sometimes he walked over to 7A, the restaurant at the end of the block in the evening and would sit in the sidewalk cafe watching people eat. Some of the customers at 7A loved him but some did not,” Diaz said.

At Salon Seven, there were a couple of photos of the white cat on a shelf last week and a vase of more than a dozen creamy white tulips. A 6-year-old girl who lives next door had been bringing fresh white tulips to the salon since Pretty Boy died the week before.

“She liked Pretty Boy so much she went out on Halloween like Pretty Boy all in white,” Dolengawski said.

He recalled that Pretty Boy was a great favorite of supers on the block who worked out of a basement offi ce and watched the cat walk by.

“One of them said, ‘I wish I had a cool walk like that.’ It really was a cool walk, especially as he got older, it was a Zen-like stroll. It was so serene. I like to think of him as my sensei — my Zen master. I hope to be as cool and serene as that when I get old,” said Dolengawski, who is 55.

Amy Gross, owner of two cats and until last week a resident of the block, learned of Pretty Boy’s passing several days after the

death when Diaz told her about it. “He told me that Herbie, the other cat in

the store, had stopped eating for a few days,” Gross said. She recalled that a few years ago a member of a crew fi lming on Avenue A asked her about “that white cat that walks around like he owned the place.” She told him the cat was the mayor of the block.

When Pretty Boy fi rst came to the block, Dolengawski recalled, they took him to the vet for a checkup.

“The vet said he was between 1 and 1½ years old. That would make 22 or 23 years old when he died,” Dolengawski said.

“We’re getting his ashes from the vet sometime this week,” Dolengawski said. “We might scatter them on the block where everyone knew him. I think he was a karmic blessing, he came in here and made everyone feel good.”

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Bruce Kingsley, board president of 720 Greenwich St., said he was awakened at 8:45 a.m. on May 20 by noise from 711 Greenwich St. The racket continued through the day and into the evening.

“I was trying to work,” he said. “The water in my glass was vibrating — it was just hideous.

“I went to the police station twice. I called 311 and...they didn’t do a thing about it.”

Another sore spot is how large trucks load into Karan’s building before the events — parking perpen-dicularly to Greenwich St., dangerously blocking traffic. According to Kingsley, one time a man driving a stolen car veered around a truck loading into the building, then smashed into three cars on Greenwich St. and struck a poodle, which survived.

“This is like a Spielberg movie,” Kingsley lamented.Phil Mouquinho, a Community Board 2 member who

lives nearby on Hudson St., said his “chest vibrated” when he walked by the Def Jam party on his way home.

“In effect, they’re running a commercial venture without any license or necessary paperwork, to my knowledge,” Mouquinho said. “What’s going on there is noncontextual. This organization is operating above the law.”

But not everyone was upset. Suri Beiler, who lives in a historic, single-family home across Charles St. that was moved there on a flatbed truck from the Upper East Side in 1978, said she didn’t hear any Def Jam din. Beiler liked Stephan Weiss and recalled how the former garage was rat infested before he converted it into his studio.

“I think they do a very reasonable job,” she said. “They have security. They’ve done only very positive things to this neighborhood.”

Bob Morris, a former New York Times style columnist who lives on Perry St., said neighbors are being prima donnas.

“F--k these people for not understanding something as high-end and good as this,” he said of Karan’s events as he walked his mini-Dachshund, Zoloft, past the Christopher St. Pier last Saturday evening. “Those par-ties are over by 11:30. This neighborhood has a very entitled, foolish idea of what they’re owed and not owed. She’s a good woman. She’s a New Yorker. There’s a lot of crackpots — I live in the West Village Houses.”

The Villager asked Linda Gaunt, an Urban Zen pub-lic-relations spokesperson, for a statement from Karan on the noise complaints and the alleged shooting threat. But Gaunt said Karan would not be issuing one.

“Of course we’re concerned about these complaints and we’ll look into them,” Gaunt said. “But we’d prefer to speak to the people directly, instead of communicat-ing through the newspaper. They can start with me and I’d put them in touch with the appropriate people in the organization.”

The Villager gave Gaunt’s phone number to Pietkiewicz. He said he’d give it a try and would call her.

Andy Stimus, a Sixth Precinct community affairs offi-

cer, said, “We haven’t had any complaints about noise over there. Nothing through our office here. No com-plaints that we know of. If people have complaints, they could call the Sixth Precinct with specific complaints and also call 311, so we can have a police car there and deal with the complaint.”

Pietkiewicz, however, seems to make most of his calls to Lieutenant Keith Maresca, who heads the Sixth Precinct’s cabaret unit.

Maresca said, “on numerous occasions” when he’s gotten calls from Pietkiewicz about 711 Greenwich St., he’s walked down to the premises, only to find it quiet. However, he said, he was on vacation the day of the Def Jam party, and took his wife out for dinner and shopping in the Village that night, and happened to walk past the building, which, he said, was actually the first time he’s ever heard it noisy.

Asked if the cabaret unit has its sound gun and is using it, Maresca said it might have been in the shop for calibrating recently, plus officers need to be trained on how to use it.

“We do use it — on the street to see how loud it is on the street,” he said.

Detective Jimmy Alberici, another Sixth Precinct community affairs officer, said if Karan’s place was a commercial nightclub, police would be able to go in and check for any number of alcohol law-related vio-lations. However, he added, “If we get there and it’s completely unreasonable, we can do something.” He said Karan recently told him she would be doing additional soundproofing of her building. Alberici also suggested neighbors and Karan try mediation.

Bob Gormley, Community Board 2 district manager, said he’s going to check into what happened with the parking regulations on Greenwich St.

“It would appear to be an anomaly if it didn’t come through the board,” he said. “Either we did not review it and it came through the board, or it never came through the board — and the question is why did it not come before us?”

As for the noise, Gormley said Sixth Precinct officers once knew how to use their sound gun, using it on the former Manor nightclub at Eighth Ave. and 13th St.

“Back then, they used to use the gun regularly — and they got hits,” Gormley said. As for 711 Greenwich St., he said, “The precinct’s only a block and a half away. You need a working decibel meter, someone who can use it, and then walk a block and a half and use it. That doesn’t sound burdensome to me.”

In an article in USA Today this April, Karan said her husband wanted her to live in his studio after he died.

“I told him the space belonged to the community,” Karan told the newspaper.

David Gruber, head of the Carmine St. Block Association and a board member of Open House New York, said Open House wanted to use Karan’s space, but was put off by the fee.

“It was astronomical,” he said. But the Greenwich Village Society for Historic

Preservation recently held a benefit there and wasn’t charged to use the space.

When it comes to Chocolate...

Father knows best!Happy Father’s Day from Lilac

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Karan neighbors not feeling Zen but hearing a lot of Din

Villager photo by Lincoln Anderson

Charles Amann listened at his window from across the street during the Def Jam event.

It takes a Villager

YOUR DOWNTOWN

NEWS SOURCE

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BY JERRY TALLMERNo, this is not Burma or Vietnam, and

the man who is about to drench himself with gasoline is not a monk. He is a 35-year-old unemployed Italian named Giulio, and the sign he has hung around his neck reads: “I LOST.”

For “unemployed” you could also say laid off, or fi red, along with everyone else (except the bosses — “those bastards!”) at a factory that’s gone bankrupt during the fi nancial crisis which hits Italy well before it will smack the United States.

The air is soaked with the stench of gaso-line from the can that Giulio has brought with him. Before he can douse himself with the stuff — while he is waiting for the press and TV cameras to arrive — along comes Carlotta, a nervy, pretty girl of 17 who, asking a series of nosy questions (“Did you lose a bet?… Are you a terrorist?”), sniffs the pervasive gasoline and promptly lights a cigarette.

“Aren’t you too young to smoke?” he asks her.

“Aren’t you too young to set yourself on fi re?” she ripostes.

She repeatedly lies about her name — as does Giulio about his. For the next 50 minutes of this strangely sweet yet scorchingly short play, Carlotta, who has never before met Guilio — or he her — tries one tactic after another to jolt him out of his intended self-immolation. As for instance:

“Did you know that at the end of the 70s, American Airlines saved $40,000 and balanced the budget by taking away an olive from the fi rst-class meal? I’ve read it in a magazine.”

Or:“Did you know Mussolini wrote poems?”How true are either of those citations, a

journalist asked Alessandro Corazzi — the utterly charming young man from Rome who, hardly himself looking old enough to smoke (despite sprouts of a coal-black beard), wrote “Blue Day” (L’ora della perla”) and many another play and song plus a couple of movies.

On the airline-and-olive-economy item:“I don’t know how true, how much cred-

ibility, but it was on the Internet, where the guy who made the search for me, Federico Vergari, found it, and it’s funny.”

The journalist, who has had a number of personal experiences with corporate restructur-ing, as well as with airline repast, said he found the olive scoop quite plausible.

“Yes, a joke and a thing for truth.”On Mussolini as poet:“Yes, he wrote rhetorical poems. No, they

were not very good.” But he made the trains run on time.

“In Italy,” the playwright says, “we have this situation, factories closing, since 2005. But the newspapers didn’t talk too much about it.”

GIULIO: This is the crisis — the Crisis. They call it the Crisis. Negative bal-ances, accounts do not balance, and those great minds, The only thing they can do is lay off people like me.

It is Alessandro Corazzi himself who directs the American premiere of “Blue Day” — in an English translation by assistant director Celeste.

This is not the fi rst time at La MaMa for 27-year-old Alessandro Corazzi, who since 2003 has intermittently come from Rome to serve as assistant director himself to Dario D’Ambrosi — the onetime youthful profes-sional football (soccer, to us) star turned pro-lifi c actor-playwright and founder of a Teatro patologico (Pathological Theater) that believes the mentally backward or slower or scrambled are often a good bit saner than the sane.

“Blue Day” sprang into Corazzi’s mind “when I read in a newspaper,” he says. “a very few lines on an inside page” — he spreads thumb and forefi nger one inch to show how few lines — “about a man in Puglia, in the south, who killed himself, yes, immolated him-self, because he lost his job,

“Then the playwright is a magician. He invents another character, this girl, to save the man’s life, and invents the man’s past life.”

Alessandro, have you ever lost a job? “Not me, but some people I interviewed.

One woman in particular who’d worked for a telephone company that started to fi re people.”

Corazzi, who graduated from Rome’s La Sapienza (“means when you know things, knowledge”) University a year ago this month, works at a Rome TV channel as a writer of commercials.

“But my real work is writing plays and assisting Dario D’Ambrosi” both on stage and in the making of fi lms.

“The thing I do,” he says like a happy, out-going kid, “is to write. I love to write. So many possibilities to write a play, a movie, a song. Unfortunately, I am not a good singer.”

He was born September 3, 1982, in Rome, youngest of the two sons of Paulo (“works for the Ministry of Finance”) and Anna (“was a

shoe salesman”) Corazzi.“I played football too, but not as big a team

as Dario,”They fi rst met, D’Ambrosi and Corazzi,

“when I had just fi nished high school, and a friend of my father gave my fi rst play to Dario to read. It was called, Un respiro lungo un sono, ‘A Breath as Long as a Dream’—like ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ you know.

“Dario said: ‘Too many words and no action. But he’s so young and full of energy, I want to meet him.’ ”

Too many words and no action. One can almost hear Ellen Stewart, the mama of La MaMa, saying precisely that. It’s almost her

lifelong creed, and a long life it has been. But ask Alessandro Corazzi about Ellen and he just says: “She was kind to me from the fi rst” and touches his heart.

Giulio, the would-be self-immolator of “Blue Sky,” lives with a woman he doesn’t dare go home to with the bad news of his fi ring. They inhabit a mortgaged house — “The house is small, the mortgage is huge” — and were about to be married within a month.

Alessandro Corazzi, too, is about to be married, at the end of September, “We buy a little house in Rome. The girl Is Irene Rossi, “a teacher of very young children,”

How do you like that, Signorina Carlotta?

VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENTJob loss and self-immolation, Italian styleSweet, scorching play packs a timely punch

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

Jessica Kuhne (as Carlotta) & Ira Lopez (as Giulio)

BLUE DAYWritten and directed by Alessandro Corazzi

Translated into English by Celeste Moratti

Through June 14th at La MaMa E.T.C., 74-A East 4th Street

(212) 475-7710, or www.lamama.org

THEATER

“OWL AND THE SPARROW” (-) Regrettably, this fi lm did not come close

to providing an enjoyable evening of enter-tainment at the theater.

I wanted to see the picture because, like most Americans, I am fascinated with Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, my sister took care of a Vietnamese child who had been injured in that war. He lived with her and her family in their Orange County, New York home for about a year before returning to Vietnam. Not long ago, she visited him in Vietnam where he

now has his own family. When I was a mem-ber of the City Council (1966-1968), I pro-posed a bill that would allow some Vietnamese children from the North and South to receive medical care in New York City’ municipal hospitals. It never became law.

The “Owl and the Sparrow” is a poorly concocted fairy tale involving the lives of three Vietnamese individuals. Ten-year-old Thuy (Pham Thi Han) who has no parents, works for her uncle making bamboo trin-kets. Feeling abused, she runs away from his home. Lan (Cat Ly) is a 26-year-old air-line stewardess who is having an affair with a married man. The third main character, Hai (Le The Lu), takes care of an elephant at a local zoo. He is distraught by the news

KOCH ON FILM

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BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN Between 1942 and 1943, Piet Mondrian

painted one of his most famous works: “Broadway Boogie Woogie.” It was his hom-age to New York City, where he saw his passion for the dynamics of modern life realized. American Jazz, and traffi c infi ltrat-ing the urban landscape in a way that was reminiscent of his painted grids, prompted him to rethink his signature style.

In New York, he broke away from his more austere patterns of black lines on white ground and replaced them with colored bands. On a postcard from 1943, addressed to James Johnson Sweeney (the curator for the Museum of Modern Art at the time), Mondrian wrote: “Only now, I become con-scious that my work in black, white, and lit-tle color planes has been merely ‘drawing’ in oil color…In painting, however, the lines are absorbed by the color planes.” “Broadway Boogie Woogie” features a yellow grid on white ground, which is rhythmically inter-sected with red, blue, and grey elements. It is a refl ection of the syncopated beat found in boogie-woogie and the blinking lights that characterized Broadway then as much as today. With its radical use of abstraction, “Broadway Boogie Woogie” would become a landmark within Mondrian’s oeuvre. It also became a tribute to the last chapter of his

life — the New York years.In September 1938, Mondrian, who

had been based in Paris, left the city just before the Nazis’ invasion and moved to London. After the invasion of his native The Netherlands and the fall of Paris in 1940, he headed further West to New York City. On borrowed money, he arrived in New York in October. Local artist Harry Holtzman, whose own work was strongly infl uenced by Mondrian, sponsored Mondrian’s immi-gration to the United States, paid for his apartment and studio, and introduced him to his circle of friends. In return, Mondrian made Holtzman the sole heir to his estate. Optimistic for the future, Mondrian began working on several new paintings, such as “Victory Boogie Woogie.” Begun in 1942, it which remained unfi nished as he rather sud-denly succumbed to pneumonia on February 1, 1944 at the age of 71.

Though already considered one of the leading abstract artists by his contempo-raries, Mondrian’s critical acclaim never translated into prosperity. His works might have signifi cantly shaped the course of art history, but they nevertheless remained hard to sell. As an idealist, Mondrian stayed true to his vision and pursued an art that could offer a pure and spiritual experience; but in the end, he died in poverty and solitude.

This is surprising when considering that the memorial service held two days later at the Universal Chapel on Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street was very well attended. Among the attendees were American artists such as Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell, as well as European expatriate artists — includ-ing Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, and Fernand Leger.

An even bigger surprise — even to those who know that Mondrian spent the last three-and-a-half years of his life in New York — should be that the famous Dutch painter was buried in Brooklyn. Last month, two New York based artists and friends, the abstract British painter Paul Pagk and the internationally acclaimed sculptor Leonardo Drew, made it their mission to search for Mondrian’s grave in. It was after Pagk visited Drew’s new studio in Cypress Hills that both men decided on their quest. Pagk recalls: “I went out to see Leonardo without any intention of seeing Piet Mondrian’s grave let alone the one of Harry Houdini, which is in the nearby Machpelah Cemetery. Two magi-cians: Harry Houdini freed his body from chains and strait jackets, and Piet Mondrian freed minds through paint.”

Even with map in hand, it proved a dif-fi cult task to locate what Drew described as “the fi nal resting place of one of our very own, art god Piet Mondrian.” He remem-bers: “It was hot and we began to realize as we walked up and down the rolling hills of tombstones that this could take a while. So we thumbed a ride (from within the cemetery believe it or not) from another lost soul. After getting him thoroughly lost, we got closer to our goal…” Pagk remembers that the girl at the front desk of the cemetery said that Mondrian was buried in a “very old part of the cemetery,” adding: “Old I thought; 1944 isn’t that old, maybe she meant poor?”

Labeled number 1191, on plot block 51, Mondrian’s grave turned out to be marked by a bland headstone. It was one among many identical ones, which are arranged in long rows. “It certainly wasn’t very exuberant,” Pagk explains. “Every stone was the same in rows similar to his paintings, organized in a grid. All that there was inscribed was ‘Piet Mondrian 1872 – 1944.’ No paint brushes were left for him, nothing, not even a tube of lead white or lamb black. Missing were also the primary colors — no one came.”

While Mondrian himself might have appreciated the grid-like arrangement of the gravestones and the simplicity of this sec-tion, Pagk and Drew found themselves awed by the insignifi cance of the graveside. One cannot help but wonder if Mondrian was to be buried in The Netherlands or Paris, would his grave be more signifi cant? Pagk sums it up: “Thousands pass in front of his paintings at MOMA and here, no one. If you didn’t know, who Piet Mondrian was, you certainly wouldn’t pay much attention to this specifi c headstone. It’s too plain.” But there is something well worth discovering here. Pagk explains: What really struck me here were his dates. When one thinks about Piet Mondrian’s work, one thinks of his signature style — which came about between the late 1910s and 1921. That means he was already 48. Beautiful!!!”

It is depressing to know that the grave of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century has almost vanished into anonymity — but it should be encouraging that great-ness is not necessarily something that needs to be achieved as a younger adult.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 7pm

The Museum of Jewish HeritageThe celebration continues immediately

following the performance with Cocktails, Dinner, Raffle and Revelry

at Battery Gardens Restaurant.

To purchase tickets or for more infomation, visit www.newshul.org or call 212-284-6773.

10th Anniversary Leap of Faith Performance and Gala

Remembered at MOMA, forgotten at the cemeteryTwo NY artists track down the grave of Piet Mondrian

Photo by Paul Pagk

Mondrian’s lonely, nondescript headstone

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that the zoo intends to sell the elephant to a zoo in India in order to reduce its expenses.

The storyline of how the lives of the three individuals intertwine and how their issues are resolved is crudely portrayed, and the fi nale is unbelievable. One truly enjoyable aspect of the fi lm is the performance of Pham Thi Han. She is a wonderful actress and indeed could be the Shirley Temple of Vietnam in the making. On the other hand, some of the kids who did a wonderful job in “Slumdog Millionaire” are not doing so well in India. (In Vietnamese, with English subtitles.)

“O’HORTEN” (-)The fi lm’s principal character is Odd

Horten (Baard Owe). After 40 years of ser-vice as an engineer on the Oslo-Bergen line railroad in Norway, Horten reaches manda-tory retirement at 67. I did not fi nd his adventures following that departure to be

exciting, nor did I draw any inner meaning from them that audiences might fi nd useful in conducting their daily lives.

In his New York Times review, A.O. Scott eloquently described “O’Horten” as “made up of meticulously constructed, dead-pan scenes that turn on Keatonesque visual jokes,” adding the fi lm “shows some affi nity with other recent fi lms of similar geographic provenance. The slightly anachronistic mood and décor, as if we had wandered into a neighborhood untouched since sometime in the middle of the 20th century, shows clear affi nities with the work of Aki Kaurismaki of Finland, many of whose characters are more dissolute versions of Horten.”

I’m either like the boy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” or I’m simply unable to appre-ciate a thoughtful story that most fi lm critics seemed to enjoy. As I watched the movie I thought of the old axiom — this is like watch-ing grass grow. For me, “O’Horten” was an hour and a half of absolute boredom.

(In Norwegian, with English subtitles)

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Great Jones Repertory Company - AsclepiusWritten & Directed by Ellen Stewart

June 4-14, 2009 / Thursday-Sunday at 7:30

BLUE DAY Written & Directed by Alessandro Corazzi

June 4-14, 2009 / Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm / Sunday at 2:30pm

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BY TRAV S.D.Frequently, an actor is called upon to

carry a picture; less often, is he asked to be the picture.

Such is the case with Sam Rockwell in “Moon,” a sci-fi one-hander in the tradition of “THX-1138.” “Countdown” and long stretches of “2001: A Space Odyssey” — not to mention the song “Space Oddity” by writer-director Duncan Jones’s father: David Bowie.

Rockwell plays Sam Bell, the lone human inhabitant of a lunar mining facility (aside from an infuriatingly calm robot named GERTY, voiced by Kevin Spacey). We are already suspecting that Sam is going a little space-happy when he has an accident that seems to push him over the edge. He wakes up in the base’s infi rmary only to discover another version of himself now inhabiting the station. Is this second edition of himself a clone? The result of a time warp? A hal-lucination? GERTY will never tell. But the suspicion that Sam’s greedy bosses back on earth are somehow behind it all is never far away.

Rockwell acquits himself admirably in the sink-or-swim role,

by turns heartbreaking and hilarious as he interacts with what is essentially

an empty room. Equally rewarding, though, is the world he is given to inhabit

— which in the tradition of Ridley Scott’s “Alien” is more plausibly mundane than fantastical, casting an illusion of realism over a world that has never existed. Sad-sack Sam’s lunar workspace is the ultimate corporate cubicle (one with a fourth wall), rife with coffee mugs, post-its, and pictures of the family. In one of the more delightful touches, he watches old (now very old) episodes of “Bewitched.”

Combined with Jones’s realization of the silvery-grey, dusty lunar surface (a vision which seems to have benefi ted from more than a few hours of research in the NASA archives), the recognizable work environ-ment conspires to trick us into believing we are watching our own future. That — and the political vision of an affl uent society being built on the backs of workers cruelly used beyond your wildest imagination.

Lonely lunar worker: gone looney?Son of Bowie creates his own space oddity

Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures

Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell

Koch on fi lmContinued from page 25

MOONopens: June 12th at AMC Empire and Sunshine Theaters, NYC

Directed by Duncan Jones

FILM

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BY GREGORY MONTREUIL“Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image

of the American West,” an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art running through June 8, reveals much about the American psyche and incorporates an astonishing range of photographs. The trajectory por-trayed is sweeping, despite a relative brief 140-year span, and swings from idealization to disillusion. The juxtaposition of these wide-ranging images provides clues about the role of photography in Americans’ fas-cination with the West.

Timothy O’Sullivan’s “Desert Sand Hills near Sink of Carson, Nevada” (1867), which shows a lonely wagon pulled by four horses traversing the desert, conveys the courage of early pioneers in braving such vast, challenging terrain. One hundred years later, Irving Penn, in “Hell’s Angels, San Francisco,” (1967) portrays another sort of pioneer who has conquered the roads.

Andrew J. Russell’s photograph “Construction Train Bear River” (1868) points to the entrepreneurial spirit of the intrepid pioneers and the lure of resources and riches. Pristine images of a plentiful Eden give way to Daruis Kinsey’s ” Felling a Fir Tree, 51 Feet in Circumference” (1906). As organized transport made it possible to extract resources and move people, the

West’s transformation inevitably advanced.Many of the photos show the hardscrab-

ble nature of the West, pitting man against overwhelming nature. Stacy Studio’s image of “Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and the entire Wild West Show and Far East troupe, in front of tents” (1909) spread the West’s allure by bringing its myth on the road to those who couldn’t be there.

People who inhabit Western photos — including outlaws, miners, native peoples, religious sects, and adventurers — embody a common theme that this is a land of sur-

vivors. Graciela Iturbide’s “Cholas I, White Fence, East Los Angeles” (1986) portrays a group of four Hispanic women with one child and no lack of tough attitude.

Other sections of the exhibition focus on unbridled development — cars, end-less highways, housing developments, and parking lots by masters Edward Weston, Edward Ruscha, and William Garnett. One wonders if paradise is lost. But there are also contemporary dreamers, misfits, and Hollywood starlets and wannabes. Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Still #43”

(1979) and Richard Prince’s “Untitled (Cowboy)” (2003) explore the myth of the West with self conscious intent.

When we turn our view westward, all is not majestic. The lure of the West remains constant, yet it is hard to imagine how quickly it has developed with seem-ingly little thought of planning for the larger good. The triumph of white civili-zation coupled with photography’s role in the quick and astonishing transformation of the West created more questions than answers.

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IN THE SILENCE OF THE HEARTWritten & Directed by JOANNA CHANThursday - Sunday, June 4 - 14

Thu-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pmAll Seats $20 $15 Students & Seniors

BELLE OF THE BALL BEARINGSConceived & Performed by ELIZABETH BATTERSBY

Directed by CAROLINE MURPHYMusic by YOUN YOUNG PARK

Thursday - Sunday, June 4 - 21Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm $10/tdf

ANONYMOUSWritten by

ANNA LISA MCCLELLANDDirected by ALEX MARINOThurs - Sat,June 4 - 6

All Performances 8pm $10/tdf

NEW CITY, NEW BLOODTNC’s Play Reading Series

“AUTO GRAPHIC NOVEL”by Johnny Klein

Monday, June 8th 7:00pm Tickets $5

Manifest DestinyWhen America headed west, where did it arrive?

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Still #43” (1979) gelatin silver print, 7 9/16 x 9 7/16 in., offers a contemporary and self-conscious interpretation of the myth of the West.

INTO THE SUNSET: PHOTOGRAPHY’S IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN WESTMuseum of Modern Art

11 W. 53rd St.

Wed., Thu., Sat.-Mon., 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Fri., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Jun. 8 until 8 p.m.

Through Jun. 8 $20; $16 for seniors; $12 for students

www.moma.org

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LOVE ARMORThe traveling exhibi-tion “Love Armor” began as a way to show compassion and concern for those (ours and theirs) in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. Like most good ideas, though, the project quickly morphed into “a profound message of hope” meant to expand its timely message into a timeless meditation on the lasting power of com-munity. Proving that the best defense is an offense backed by love, artist Shirley Klinghoffer and collabora-tive partner Sarah Hewitt have transformed a war icon (the Humvee) into a symbol of peace and comfort — by rendering the destructive behemoth with mate-rials and techniques which reference feminist textile and anti-war art of the 1960s and 70s. Through June 27th, at Brenda Taylor Gallery, 511 W. 25 Street, #401. Call 212-463-7166 or visit www.brendataylorgallery.com.

STUCKJune 3rd through June 14th, catch the world premiere of John Bale’s “Stuck.” As the title implies, it’s all about the holding patterns we get into when we lose our professional ambition around the same time our will to go on dissipates. Claude Canny (Michael Sorvino, of the Sorvino family acting dynasty) is a sculptor and cartoonist who’s lost the desire to create. Jacqueline Brookes (known for her signature soap opera roles) is next door neighbor Uta. A Holocaust survivor and homeopathic healer, Uta tries to broker the marital confl ict between Claude and wife Connie. When her touchy feely intervention fails, Claude shows Uta the door and shows Connie the bedroom. The result? A set of triplets who grow up to become artists with issues and struggles of their own. June 3rd through 14th; At Center Stage NY, 48 W. 21st Street, 4th Floor. $18 general admission, $13 for students/seniors. For tickets, call 347-230-2388.

ACQUA!Cornelia Street Café further solidifies their reputation for the funky, entertain-ing, informative and eccentric with June’s edition of their “Entertaining Science” series — curated by Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann. “Acqua! The Sounds and Science of Water” delivers entertainment and experiments from a downtown duo who explore the unusual acoustic prop-erties (and musical potential) of wind, water, earth and metal. Pablo Debenedetti of Princeton (an expert on fluids and amorphous solids) collaborates with Katie Down and Matt Darriau (the musicdal duo who comprise “Lyrebyrd”). What happens when art and science collide is anybody’s guess; but it’s virtually impossible to theorize that the results will be anything other than utterly unique and uniquely entertaining. $10 cover; Sunday, June 7th, 6:00p.m., at Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street. Call 212-989-9319 or visit www.cor-neliastreetcafe.com.

IN THE SILENCE OF THE HEARTCreated for the inmates in Sing Sing Correctional Facility (and first produced there by Rehabilitation Through The Arts), this family drama penned by Joanna Chan is presented in English/Spanish with Chinese subtitles. Yangtze Repertory Theatre’s Production boldly tackles the murky moral issues surrounding revelation, conflict and kinship. Ten years ago, a Chinese boy was adopted by an African American family (whose patriarch worked with the boy’s father — who was killed on duty). Soon after that tragic accident, the patriarch leaves home. He finally returns on Labor Day weekend, 2008 — throwing the tightly knit family into turmoil. Thursday through Saturday, 7:30p.m. and Sundays at 3:00p.m., through June 14th; at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue. $20 general admission; seniors/students: $15.00. To purchase tickets, 212-254-1109; visit www.theater-forthenewcity.net and www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org.

PROTEST AND CELEBRATION“On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC” is an insanely compre-hensive, lovingly researched, beautifully rendered work which deserves a summer-time place on your coffee table and a per-manent place of honor on your bookshelf. The authors, Janet Braun-Reinitz (pred-sident of Artmakers Inc) and writer Jane Weissman will be joined by Amy Goodman (host of Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now”) for “Protest and Celebration: Community Murals in New York City.” It’s an evening which promises to delve deep into how NYC’s murals educate, organize, beautify and motivate action. Tuesday, June 9th, at Bluestockings; 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington); call 212-777-6028 or vist www.bluestock-ings.com.

Photo by Dan McCarthy

Cafe owner Robin Hirsch, left, demonstrates the effect of soda water on Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann

Photo by Suzanne Trouve Feff

Bruce Li, left, as the adopted son and Hector L. Hicks as the grandfather

Courtesy of CITYarts Inc.; photo by Eva Cockcroft

“History of Chinese Immigration to the United States” by Alan Okada (1972)

The Humvee, reimagined as a weapon of love

ALISTTHECOMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER Scott@thevillager.com

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Jacqueline Brookes, left, as Uta; Roberta MacIvor as Connie

30 June 3 - June 9, 2009

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CLIMATEONE, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/18/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: ClimateOne, 307 east 18th st. Suite 3-B, New York, New York, 10003. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 4/29 – 6/3/09

LIMA SKY LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/11/2008. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Igor Pusenjak 447 W. 22ND ST. #3 New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

EVEN CONCEPTS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/25/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 2297 7TH Avenue Apartment 2 New York, NY 10030. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

BUHLER LAW PLLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/27/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC 11 Broadway, Suite 615 New York, NY 10004. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF W & E SEAFOOD

WHOLESALE LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 03/18/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Jeung Hing Lam, 47 Essex St., NY, NY 10002. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF GRAND

CENTRAL CAPITAL MAN-AGEMENT, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/08. LLC formed in DE on 06/03/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 230 Park Ave., Ste., 539, NY, NY 10169. DE address of LLC: NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. fi led with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Dover DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RZ RESTAURANT

GROUP LLC

Art. of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/11/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Michael Russell, 401 E. 34th St., Apt. 20A, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activi-ties.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF NEW YORK INVES-

TORS COUNCIL, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal offi ce of LLC: 317 Madison Ave., Ste. 1400, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AMANDA ROSS LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal offi ce of LLC: 833 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10021. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to Attn: Amanda Ross at the principal offi ce of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF STONE KEY

GROUP LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/7/09. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 9/23/08. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF CANTILLON

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY L.P.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 2/23/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 2/19/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr. of the LP: c/o Cantillon GP LLC, 40 W. 57th St., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilming-ton, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TF CORNERSTONE

(CHLP GP) L.L.C.

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal business location: 290 Park Avenue South, 14th Fl., NY, NY 10010. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 290 Park Avenue South, 14th Fl., NY, NY 10010, Attn: Gen-eral Counsel. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 4/29-6/3/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SUPREME REALTY

MANAGEMENT, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/15/2009. Offi ce location, County of New York. The street address is: none. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Cilmi & Associates, PLLC, 39 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10006. Purpose: any lawful act.

Vil 5/6 – 6/10/09

PARK LAW FIRM PLLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/22/2008. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE PLLC 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5715 New York, NY 10118. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

ARES GROUP PART-

NERS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/11/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to David Sajous 150 East 83RD Street #1B New York, NY 10028. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

BLARGWARE LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/18/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mark Schmit 36 ST. Mark’s Place Apt. 18 New York, NY 10033. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

PRESCIENCE INVEST-

MENT GROUP, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/14/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mr. Eiad S. Asbahi 228 Park Avenue South #28130 New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ESTCO LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/2006. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/23/1997 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC 445 Park Avenue Ste 900 NY, NY 10022. Address of Principal offi ce: 445 Park Avenue Ste 900 NY, NY 10022 Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19908. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SULLIVAN

DEBT OPPORTUNITY FUND GP, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/26/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 08/11/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 825 Third Ave., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ENDURA PROPER-

TIES LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/17/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal offi ce of LLC: 120 11th Ave., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10011. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Attn: Mary Beth Werner Lee, Esq., 2 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WIN TEMP, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/16/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Principal offi ce of LLC: the LLC, Attn: President, 122 E. 42nd St., NY, NY 10168. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the address of its principal offi ce. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ETF CONSULTING

GROUP LLC

Art. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/14/09. Offi ce Location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o The LLC, 140 Charles St., 14E, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Robert Jaeger and Daniel Jaeger. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

GOLDEN DOORWAYS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/21/09. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 51 MacDougal St., Ste 103, NY, NY 10012, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any law-ful purpose.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF STEWARTSOFT, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/10/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been des-ignated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Cor-poration Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE M. A. SULLIVAN

GROUP LLC

Art. Of Org. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to M. A. Sullivan, 155 E 4 St., NY, NY 10009. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF D. E. SHAW

REAL ESTATE PORTFO-LIOS 12, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 3/2/09. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/23/07. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin, General Counsel, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF D. E. SHAW

REAL ESTATE PORTFO-LIOS 19, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 3/2/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/3/07. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., 120 W. 45th St., 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036, Attn: John Liftin, General Counsel, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF KURTZMAN

CARSON CONSUL-

TANTS, LLC.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/16/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2335 Alaska Ave., El Segundo, CA 90245. LLC formed in DE on 5/24/01. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 5/6-6/10/09

GREAT CATERERS LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/19/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 50 West 34TH Street, 3B7 New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

PARK AVENUE PSY-

CHOLOGY PLLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/31/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Dr Sedighe Flugelman 445 Park Ave 10TH FL New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

MY NYC LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/17/2007. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 1 Maiden Lane 5Th Flr NY, NY 10038. Purpose: Any law-ful activity. Registered Agent: Spiegel & Utrera, PA PC 1 Maiden Lane 5Th Flr NY, NY 10038.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NEW YORK HALLELU-

JAH COMPANY LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/26/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 2173 Third Ave #5 NY, NY 10035. Purpose: Any lawful activ-ity. Registered Agent: Kyoko Uchiki 2173 Third Ave #5 NY, NY 10035.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

BACKLIT PICTURES LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/12/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Guillermo Suescum 209 East 25TH Street, STE 3A New York, NY 10010-3022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF HARMONY FILMS,

LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on

02/23/09. Offi ce location:

NY County. SSNY has been

designated as an agent upon

whom process against the

LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Har-mony Films, 165 W. 18th St., 8C New York, NY 10011. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF NAMYAC PROPER-

TIES LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on

10/24/07. Offi ce location: NY

County. SSNY designated as

agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be

served. SSNY shall mail

process to: Raymond Fares Jr., 130 E. 72nd St., NY, NY 10021-4233. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF RAW US LLC

Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 875 Ave. of Americas #501, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF INDIGGO TWINS LLC

Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 236 E.74 St., #3R, New York, NY 10021. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF MANHATTAN RESTO-

RATIONS LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/11/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, 154 Orchard Street, #3, New York, NY 10002. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF BLACKSTONE REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SITUATIONS (ALBERTA)

II GP L.P.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/8/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 4/1/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom pro-cess against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business addr. of the LP: c/o The Blackstone Group L.P., 345 Park Ave., NY, NY 10154. Regd. agt. upon whom process may be served: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LP: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF EXTRA SPACE

PROPERTIES THIRTY SIX LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/27/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2795 E. Cotton-wood Pkwy. #400, Salt Lake City, UT 84121. LLC formed in DE on 4/23/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Fed-eral St., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ATLANTIC UKUS, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Jocelyn White, 273 W. 12th St., NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEXTILES SOURCING

AND SERVICES LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 1410 Broadway, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BOTSARIS MORRIS REALTY LLC AMENDED TO BOTSARIS MORRIS

REALTY GROUP, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Attn: Guy Morris, 358 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/13-6/17/09

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF NB ALTERNA-

TIVES HOLDINGS LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 02/19/09. Prin-cipal offi ce of LLC: 605 3rd Ave., NY, NY 10158. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE address of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Jeffrey W. Bullock, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

XIV RIVER CONSULT-

ING LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/5/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 200 Riverside Blvd #10A New York, NY 10069. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

TEN90 SOLUTIONS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/16/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O David Schanoes 150 Thompson Street, Apt. 3C New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

TRIPLE T 143 HOLDINGS

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/24/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mark Friedland-er Esq 15 Maiden Lane Suite 2000 New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

GARY G. VENTER, FCAS,

CERA, ASA, MAAA, LLC

Company Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/12/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Gary Venter 5 West 91ST Street Suite 6E New York, NY 10024. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

TULLY’S BAKERY LLC

Company Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/17/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Helen Tully Lewis 201 West 11TH Street, APT #3G New York, NY 10014. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF AQUA ROSA

ADVISORS, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/25/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/17/2009. SSNY des-ignated as /agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Oded Lev-Ari 327 E 12TH Street-Ground Floor NY, NY 10003. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Road Suite 400 Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal ST, Suite 3 Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LITTLE APPLES PHO-

TOGRAPHY, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/10/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Little Apples Photography, 160 Riverside Blvd., Apt 32A New York, NY 10069. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 143 PROPERTIES LLC

Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/04. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: 875 Ave. of Americas #501, New York, NY 10001. Present name of LLC: 143 Development Partners, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GO PRETTY LLC

Art. of Org. fi led w/ Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 888C 8th Ave. #106, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

247 REALTY ASSOCI-ATES LLC

Arts of Org fi led with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 02/26/08. Offi ce: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o Redi Management Corp., 4 Wash-ington Ave. South, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF REALM PART-

NERS FUND LP

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 5/5/09. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 390 Park Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. LP formed in DE on 1/22/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LP: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NAME OF LLC: MY FAIR

ROSES, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State: 4/24/09. Offi ce loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-

CATION OF FLEXIBLE

OPPORTUNITIES, LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 3/4/09. NYS fi cti-tious name: Flexible Opportu-nities Fund, LLC. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 2/26/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the prin-cipal business addr.: 522 5th Ave., NY, NY 10036. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF REALM PART-

NERS SUB-FUND LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 5/5/09. Offi ce loca-tion: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 390 Park Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 4/30/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Regd. agt. upon whom process may be served: CT Corpora-tion System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilm-ington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF ASTAR 325

ROUTE 17M - MONROE

LLC

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/29/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1114 Ave. of the Americas, 39th Fl., NY, NY 10036. LLC formed in DE on 3/31/09. NY Sec. of State des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt, upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: real estate investments and fi nance.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF O-CAP GP, LLC

App. For Auth. fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 4/23/2009. Offi ce loca-tion: New York County. LLC formed in DE on 4/21/2009. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 140 E. 63rd St., Apt. 17C, New York, NY 10065, Attn: Michael Olshan. DE address of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. fi led with DESS, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: to engage in any act or activity lawful under the NY LLC Law.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CAPOSALDO 37TH STREET, LIMITED PART-

NERSHIP

Certifi cate fi led with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 1/8/09. Offi ce location: New York County. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Davis & Gilbert LLP, 1740 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 1/8/2089. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/20-6/24/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Lucille Barco LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail on a vessel. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at New York Skyport Marina 2430 FDR Drive East Service Road NY, NY 10010.

Vil 5/27/09 & 6/3/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Jewel Barco LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail on a vessel. For on premises consump-tion under the ABC law at New York Skyport Marina 2430 FDR Drive East Service Road NY, NY 10010.

Vil 5/27/09 & 6/3/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a license, #TBA has been applied for by Peace and Love Hospitality Inc. d/b/a Destination to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 211 Avenue A NY, NY 10009.

Vil 5/27/09 & 6/3/09

NAME: STONE LANE PICTURES, LLC

Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. Of State of NY 02/05/09. Off. Loc.: New York Co. Corpora-tion Service Company desig-nated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, C/O CSC, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 5/27 – 7/1/09

MANGALA NAIK, PHYSI-

CIAN, PLLC,

Articles of Org. fi led N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 7th day of April, 2009. Offi ce in New York Co. at 630 1st Avenue, Suite 31D, New York, New York 10016. SSNY design. agt. Upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 630 1st Avenue, Suite 31D, New York, New York 10016. Reg. Agt. Upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-1100 Purpose: Medicine.

Vil 5/27 – 7/1/09

MIHARO GAMES LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/6/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Orcun Koro-glu 88 Edgecombe Ave Ap 2 New York, NY 10030. Pur-pose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

LAZ RESOURCES, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/4/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 205 W 57TH ST. 6AD New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

BULLSEYE VENTURES

LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/26/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jonathan Bull 56 Perry ST. APT. 1R New York, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NANDITA KHANNA

ASSOCIATES LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/24/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LLC 160 East 38TH Street, #28H New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF DCMF LIQUI-

DATING COMPANY LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/22/2009. Offi ce location: NY Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/8/2009. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to THE LLC 461 Fifth Ave, 10TH Flr NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: Corpo-ration Trust Center 1209 Orange Street Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. Of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State John G. Townsend Building P.O. Box 898 Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF NB ALTERNA-TIVES ADVISERS LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 02/19/09. Prin-cipal offi ce of LLC: 605 3rd Ave., NY, NY 10158. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corpora-tion Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE address of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Jeffrey W. Bullock, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFI-CATION OF CARBON VISUAL EFFECTS LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/07/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 04/30/09. Prin-cipal offi ce of LLC: 180 Varick St., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Design and produce graphics for com-mercial broadcasting.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF SUITE ACCESS,

LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/13/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 05/01/09. Princi-pal offi ce of LLC: c/o Suite 850 LLC, 230 Park Ave., Ste. 850, NY, NY 10169. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Marc Adel-man at the principal offi ce of the LLC. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SUPER LAW GROUP,

LLC

Art. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/23/09. Off. Loc.: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and shall mail process against the LLC to the principal business addr.: 156 William St, Ste 800, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF ANTIPODEAN DOMESTIC PARTNERS,

LP

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/25/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP org. in DE 3/23/09. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 499 Park Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10010. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF TOCQUEVILLE GOLD PRIVATE EQUITY

GP, LLC

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/8/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC org. in DE 7/23/07. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Attn: John Hathaway, 40 W. 57th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF TOCQUEVILLE GOLD PRIVATE EQUITY

FUND, L.P.

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/8/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP org. in DE 7/23/07. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Attn: John Hathaway, 40 W. 57th St., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF METROPOLI-

TAN REAL ESTATE PART-NERS GLOBAL III, L.P.

App. for Auth. fi led Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/2/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LP org. in DE 2/26/09. SSNY desig-nated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Attn: Felipe Dorregaray, 135 E. 57th St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE offi ce addr.: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GF INVESTORS, LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/01/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Emanuel Gerard, 1 E. End Ave., NY, NY 10075. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SHANY LANDMARKS

LLC

Arts. Of Org. fi led with Sec. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 05/01/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LLC, 12 E. 86th St., #727, NY, NY 10028. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF GRAND CEN-TRAL OPPORTUNITIES

FUND, LP

Authority fi led with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/08. LP formed in DE on 06/03/08. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: The LP, 230 Park Ave., Ste. 539, NY, NY 10169. DE address of LP: 160 Green-tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. The name & address of each general partner is available from SSNY. Cert of LP fi led with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Dover DE 19901. Purpose: any law-ful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

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

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at 66 John Street, 11th fl oor, on the petition from Riomar Corp., to continue to maintain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 324 Spring Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of two years. Request for copies of the proposed Revocable Consent Agreement may be obtained by submitting a request to: Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, Atten-tion: Foil Offi cer.

Vil 5/27/09 & 6/3/09

32 June 3 - June 9, 2009

Oh, so now you like it

To The Editor:Re “A park is reborn” (editorial, May 20):“Fantastic.” The design that was shown in

the plan is almost the same as the one you say is now “fantastic.” Shame on you for poor civic leadership. There wasn’t a moment during the design phase when you did not discourage the supporters and encourage all dissenters. Isn’t it easy to climb aboard the wagon now.

Elizabeth Ely

Veggies edgy about photo

To The Editor:Re “Goth and gluten in the mix at the

Veggie Pride Parade” (photo, May 20):Thank you for the captioned photo in

The Villager showing the Veggie Pride Parade. We greatly appreciate the expo-sure.

I’m a little perplexed, however, why there was mention of the Greenmarket. We are not affi liated with them, and, of course, the Greenmarket regularly features vendors that sell chicken, cheese, fi sh, lamb, lobster

and eggs. We don’t see meat of any kind (organic or not) as being “green,” by any stretch.

Regarding the photo, one person in our parade wore a goth getup (old Halloween costume?) and you decided to run it. We naturally have little control over how people dress for our parade. Perhaps next time you can publish an image that tells people what we’re actually about, namely, bringing an end to factory farming; more consciousness about the connection between livestock — i.e. meat — and global warming; and veggie options in the public schools.

In any case, thank you for covering our event.

Pamela RiceRice is organizer, Veggie Pride Parade

Standing up to cyclists

To The Editor: Re “Sidewalk ‘road warrior’” (Scoopy’s

Notebook, May 20): Sean Sweeney is my hero. I admire him

for standing up to one of the many bicyclists who think they can illegally ride on the side-walk as well as ignore every traffi c law when they ride in the street. Bravo, Sean!

Paul Piccone

Sweeney’s dilemmaTo The Editor:

Re “Sidewalk ‘road warrior’” (Scoopy’s Notebook, May 20):

I was very distressed to see the photo of Sean Sweeney with the black eye as a result of being punched by a cyclist he confronted. If the cyclist was “barreling down the sidewalk toward him...at a rapid rate,” it’s obvious the cyclist was in the wrong. And striking someone physically, except in self-defense, is also wrong.

What puzzles me is that Mr. Sweeney, as Scoopy notes, is “a vocal critic of the Grand St. bike lane.” Seems to me that bike lanes encour-age cyclists to avoid riding on the sidewalks. Bike lanes also, verifi ed by statistics, reduce cycling fatalities.

I believe it’s in the interest of both cyclists and pedestrians to have bike lanes.

Michael Gottlieb

Look! It’s Soho-Man!

To The Editor:“Scoopy’s Notebook” in your May 20

issue (“Sidewalk ‘road warrior’”) led with a literally unbelievable piece, saying that Sean Sweeney confronted “a young cyclist...bar-reling down the sidewalk toward him,” and “the two came face to face, with the rider still racing at a rapid rate. Sweeney abruptly grabbed the bike’s handlebars,” and follow-ing that, the cyclist gave him a black eye.

Since Sweeney clearly possesses superhu-man speed, strength and agility, in order to

do what you describe, clearly the cyclist could never have punched him, unless Sweeney deliberately allowed him to.

Perhaps Superman Sweeney wanted to create some anti-bicyclist propaganda, to fi t your agenda?

Or maybe you’re just lying, and the cyclist was going slowly, which is the only way some-one could grab the handlebars and stop the bike instantaneously.

“Rapid” means “fast.” No way an ordinary human can grab the handlebars of a speeding bicycle and bring it to a dead stop. Obviously, the bicyclist was going slowly. To pretend he was speeding — and thus endangering pedestrians — you ran a patently false story. Yes, obviously, Sweeney got punched — he grabbed a stranger, which is highly aggressive. The stranger proactively defended himself. He gave a verbal warning, which allowed the aggressor, Sweeney, a chance to back off, which he declined.

Bottom line, attacking bicyclists isn’t justi-fi ed.

Sean could have yelled at him, for example.

Steve Freed

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORContinued from page 12

P U B L I C N O T I C E SNOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LOCUST VALLEY, LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with NY Dept. of State on 4/22/09. Offi ce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to the principal business addr.: c/o Jacobson Family Investments, Inc., Carnegie Hall Tower, 152 W. 57th St., 56th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Pur-pose: all lawful purposes.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-

TION OF KONDAUR

VENTURES VIII OFF-

SHORE REO 1, L.L.C.

Authority fi led with NY Dept. of State on 5/12/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 4/30/09. NY Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail pro-cess to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corpo-ration Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. fi led with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Pur-pose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LEAD LLC

Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/2006. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail pro-cess to: Scott Martel, 245 East 54th Street, Ste 29B, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Vil 5/27-7/1/09

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN

that a Liquor License, Serial #1226113, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 435 Park Ave. South, New York City, NY 10016 for on-prem-ises consumption. Toon Thai Inc.

Vil 6/3/09 & 6/10/09

NOR JEWELRY LLC,

Articles of Org. fi led N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 5th day of February 2009. Offi ce in New York Co. at 72 Bowery, New York, New York 10013. SSNY desig. agt. Upon whom pro-cess may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 72 Bowery, New York, New York 10013. Reg. Agt. upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-1100 Pur-pose: Any lawful purpose.

Vil 6/3 – 7/8/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF SPYE DESIGN STU-

DIO, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/02/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: The LLC, PO Box 1150, New York, NY 10037. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Vil 6/3-7/8/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF BOTTOM LINE CON-

CEPTS LLC, A DOMESTIC

LLC.

Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 04/01/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o Feffer & Feffer, LLC, 440 E 57th St. #18 C-D, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Vil 6/3-7/8/09

MARTIGNETTI PLANNED

GIVING ADVISORS, LLC

Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/30/2009. Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Anthony Martignetti 900 Park Terrace East 4TH Floor NY, NY 10034. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: Robert B. Moy 575 Lexington Avenue, 23RD FLR NY, NY 10022.

Vil 6/3-7/8/09

NOTICE OF FORMATION

OF TEMPEST CAPITAL

ADVISORS, LLC

Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/20/09. Offi ce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is to: Tem-pest Capital Advisors, LLC, 520 West 19th Street #5B, New York, NY 10011. Pur-pose: To engage in any law-ful act or activity.

Vil 6/3-7/8/09

NOTICE OF QUALIFICA-TION OF T&L SPORTS

AND ENTERTAINMENT, LLC

Authority fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/15/09. Offi ce location: NY County. LLC formed in Dela-ware (DE) on 04/24/09. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 275 Madison Ave., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. offi ce of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilm-ington, DE 19908. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law-ful activity.

Vil 6/3-7/8/09

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engagement, said the university is building smaller than the zoning allows as part of its new, more conscientious approach to development under its N.Y.U. Plans 2031 initiative.

“It’s a commitment to try to preserve the [view of the] sky and working to build a building that was the right building for the spot,” she said.

Like N.Y.U.’s Kimmel Center just to its east, the Center for Academic and Spiritual Life will be visible through the Washington Square Arch when viewed from Fifth Ave., though it will only be about half as tall as Kimmel. The new center, as proposed, will be about equal in height to the Judson Church campanile.

N.Y.U. will need a variance from the Board of Standards and Appeals to build the design, since it doesn’t conform with current setback and open-space require-ments. A so-called as-of-right building under zoning would be impractical for N.Y.U., since, with the required setbacks, it would become increasingly narrow as it went up, leading to fl oor plates that would be so small they would be unusable for N.Y.U.’s purposes. The wider fl oor plates in the lower and squatter building in N.Y.U.’s design are better suited to the university’s program needs.

The proposed design extends the build-ing out to the street wall, which is consis-tent with many of the other buildings on Washington Square South, the university notes.

N.Y.U. purchased the cleared site from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York in May, after the archdiocese had fi nished demolishing the building. Construction is scheduled to start this fall and fi nish in summer 2012. The end result will be an energy-effi cient LEED Silver-rated building, which will also be connected on most fl oors to the adjacent Kimmel Center.

On the building’s fi rst fl oor will be a new Catholic Center at N.Y.U., owned and operated by the archdiocese. As Hurley described it, it will be “an open, public church.”

The new center will also house N.Y.U.’s four chaplains — Jewish, Protestant, Catholic and Muslim — together for the fi rst time at the same location.

Hurley said the basic idea of the build-ing’s multiuse design is to provide space for prayer, but also not to have this space sit idle at other times. The project will have fl exible spaces, but also take into consider-ation various users’ specifi c needs.

“We do know that our Muslim popu-lation does have certain requirements,” Hurley said. “They need to wash their feet, so they need different structures, not just a bathroom. The site will be sensitive to that. … Large orchestra rooms will be sound-proofed.” However, Hurley added, “It’s not going to be just like loft space — there will be many rooms per fl oor.”

A unique feature of the building’s exte-

rior — which Hurley said isn’t really con-veyed fully in the current renderings — is that it will be scrim-like.

“It’s meant to be terra cotta with leaf-like cutouts,” she explained. The current computer renderings make the building’s exterior seem more opaque than it actually will be, she said.

“It should end up looking a bit more open, transparent,” Hurley said.

Over all, the design is intended to be “subtle and elegant,” Hurley said. The look was infl uenced by and intended to be contextual with Judson Church, and not Kimmel, she noted.

The plan will be submitted to the B.S.A. this month, and also presented for review at the Tues., June 16, meeting of Community Board 2’s Arts and Institutions Committee. Next month, C.B. 2’s Zoning Committee will review the proposal.

Giving his initial reaction to the project, Brad Hoylman, C.B. 2 chairperson, said, “I’m glad that N.Y.U. apparently recog-nizes that proposing a new building on the perimeter of Washington Square Park is an extremely sensitive issue to the community. After the battle over Kimmel Center, which was a low point in N.Y.U.-community rela-tions, I think the community can appreciate the fact that the university is proposing to build a smaller building than it could have otherwise.

“N.Y.U. is also discussing factors, such as views through Washington Square Arch and context to Judson Church, that they wouldn’t have years ago,” Hoylman added. “I’m sure the community will have thoughts about the design, materials and other fea-tures of the proposed building that I am looking forward to hearing.”

Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said his society’s preserva-tion and design committees have to review N.Y.U.’s design more thoroughly, and that he was withholding his verdict till then. However, he said he thinks N.Y.U. is try-ing to “sweeten the pot” by forgoing some F.A.R. in order to get a variance from the B.S.A. to build a squatter building with larger fl oor plates.

“A lower, fatter building may be in the community’s interests, as well,” he noted. “The as-of-right design is not a good fi t for the neighborhood or N.Y.U. Here is the rare case where N.Y.U. needs public approval to build what it wants to build. It may be a case where N.Y.U.’s self-interest and the interests of the community may — and I want to emphasize ‘may’ — intersect.”

Berman said he hopes N.Y.U. will make a binding commitment to never use the unused F.A.R. from the Spiritual Life center in the future, “that they won’t come back in a few years to add stories” on top of the building.

As for the new building’s design, Berman said, “It’s got the Kimmel Center next door, which could make anything look good. But it’s also got the Judson Memorial Church across the street, which is one of the city’s great historic landmarks.”

N.Y.U. reveals plan for spiritual center on the square

N.Y.U.’s proposed Center for Academic and Spiritual Life would have a Catholic Center on its fi rst fl oor and a scrim-like terra cotta exterior, above. The site has an F.A.R. of 6.5. An “as-of-right” option, below left and bottom left, with a 5.5 F.A.R. would require a narrow building with many setbacks. (A 6.5 F.A.R. option would be so nar-row, N.Y.U. didn’t even include a design of it.) N.Y.U.’s preferred option, below right and bottom right, at 4.9 F.A.R. is squatter.

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