The public is being asked to come up with ideas for a figure to represent the city agency, and cartoonish creations have already begun to flood into the department’s Central Park headquarters.

“Who — or what — should be the official mascot of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, and what is its name?” the agency asks on its Web site.

“Is it Nutty the Squirrel, Hudson the Hawk or Parker the Leaf? Is it another animal, person or object, or a previously unknown creature that emerged from the depths of New York City’s 29,000 acres of parks, gardens and forests?”

The ritzy watering hole, where generations of celebs from Frank Sinatra to Keith Richards have performed and partied, got an eviction notice Friday.

The Cipriani family announced last week that its restaurant operation at the Rainbow Grill would be suspended Monday due to the recession – but the bar would remain open and the dance floor would keep revolving.

But in canceling its lease with Cipriani, landlord Tishman Speyer Properties said there will be no more anything at the legendary nightspot as of Monday.

Tishman said it lowered the boom because the Rainbow Room was four months behind in $500,000-a-month rent.

“We want to be the wedding destination of the world,” said First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris.

And it’s not just the $25 wedding fee the city is selling. Forget the wedding band? No problem. The new bureau offers an elastic faux-diamond band for $9. No flowers?

They are available as well — $4 to $7 for a single stem and $25 to $50 for a bridal bouquet. There is also hairspray ($4), disposable digital cameras ($16.25) and tissues, at $1.75 a pack, for the weepy types.

The $12 million project, overseen by the designer Jamie Drake, who did Madonna’s Los Angeles home and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s Upper East Side town house, involved the renovation of an old Department of Motor Vehicles office up the street from City Hall.

Mr. Drake created two separate wedding chapels off the building’s central rotunda. In the east chapel, the sofa and walls feature apricot and peach colors; the west chapel is done in purple and lavender. Each chapel has an abstract painting that matches the walls and hangs next to the lectern from where the clerk performs the ceremonies.

Nearby bathrooms were turned into expansive dressing rooms, with full-length mirrors and long vanity counters lit by the soft hue of recessed wall fixtures.

The city has even set up an oversize photograph of City Hall to be used as a backdrop for pictures.

Bloomberg administration officials declined to estimate how much money the weddings would generate. But the city’s marketing agency, NYC & Company, has already struck a partnership with TheKnot.com, a Web-based wedding clearinghouse, to create travel packages that would include a ceremony at the bureau followed by a weekend in a hotel.

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After playing Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” on her iPod, Valentine told the professionals who paid the $20 admission to relax their way to riches.

“Go on a journey to your inner self, your inner being,” the busty Valentine said, circling the room in her Louboutin pumps.

“Just allow your inner you to relax. Allow your whole body to relax.”

Financial adviser Amal Gawle, 30, said the meeting interested him because he’s trying to start off the new year with a professional edge.

“My job is performance related, and 2008 was a terrible year in the financial markets,” he said. “I’m trying to stay ahead of the game in 2009 so that I can outperform those around me.”

To better look the part of a millionaire, Gawle said he was wearing his “Donald Trump” suit. Hypnosis was not an act of desperation, he insisted.